ANCIENT AND MODERN FORESTRY 53 
unto some of them even now have gotten readie 
passage, and taken up their innes in the greatest 
merchants parlours. . . . Certes every small occa- 
sion in my time is enough to cut down a great 
wood, and everie trifle sufficeth to laie infinite 
acres of corne ground into pasture.’ 
How strange now seems this early reference 
to ‘seacole,’ as then apparently only beginning to 
supplant the use of wood as fuel! By Evelyn’s 
time its use in London had become so general, 
that in his treatise Fumifugium (1661) he wished 
the London smoke nuisance to be rectified by 
immediate Act of the Parliament then sitting. 
As a matter of fact, coal became an article of 
trade under Henry III., while in Scotland the 
first charter giving the right to dig for coal dates 
from 1291. But it did not become a common 
article of fuel till a very much later and com- 
paratively recent date. 
A statute of Henry VIII.’s reign enjoined the 
‘replantation of forest trees to cure the spoils 
and devastations that have been made in the 
woods,’ while in Scotland the planting of woods 
was also encouraged about the same time, in 
the reign of James V. (1513-1542). It had 
