REPORT OF MEETINGS FOR 1901 63 



Of Fences. 



I began the ditch, and laid the first turflf within 



half a foot of the ditch, with the grass side down. Upon 

 that I laid quicks or white-thorn at eighteen inches distance 

 from others, having cut them so that about an inch of them 

 lay beyond the turff. When this was done another turff was 

 raised and laid upon its edge, with the grass side outwards, 

 just upon the quicks, and laid on another row of quicks at 

 the same distance, so as to point out betwixt the middle of 

 the row below. Then I raised another turff and laid it above 

 the second row of thorns, on its edge, with the grass side 

 outmost. On that I laid the third row of quicks, just above 

 the first row. Then I threw the earth out of the ditch, the 

 best upon the plants and the rest behind them. I did so 

 on the other side, but sometimes left forty, fifty, or sixty 

 feet betwixt the ditches, which I stuck full of trees and 

 called them strips of planting. I then tried another way. 

 I drew two lines, at 9 feet distance, the length of a field, 

 lifted the turff, without the lines, laying them edge-way 

 with the grass side outwards ; raised banks, filling in the 

 earth in the middle, betwixt the two rows of turlf, till I 

 raised it betwixt five and six feet high, green on both sides, 

 nine feet broad at bottom, drawn into three and a half at 

 top. On this, hollowed a little to keep in the moisture, 

 I set hollys upright. It has long been a handsome and 

 secure fence to the roadside 



Tynningham, 



22nd December 1733. 



