CONTENTS. 



PAOH 



Chapteb IV. — Conservation, Replenishing, and Extension, 



of Forests, 189 



In the 16th century (p. 189) ; in the 17th century (p. 190) ; 

 substitution of Coal for Firewood (p. 192) ; devastation 

 occasioned by browsing animals (p. 191) ; and changes 

 consequent on change of habit relative to hunting (p. 

 197) ; expense of planting (p. 199). 



PAET III. — Forest Legislation. 



Chapter I. — Summary of Forest Legislation in England, 200 

 Light thus thrown on the state of Forests and Forestry 

 (p. 201) ; Summary (p. 202); and inferences deduced 

 (p. 205)1 



Chapter II. — Forest Legislation anterior to the '■ Gharta 



Foresta," 207 



Laws of Canute (p. 207) ; Laws of the Normans (p. 210) ; 

 Extracts from Magna Gharta (p. 212) ; Charta Foresta 

 (p. 215) ; technical terms relating to the Chase (p. 220); 

 to Wood (p. 222) and to Forest Officers (p. 223). 



Chapter III. — Forest Legislation subsequent to the 

 " Charta Foresta " till the close of the Eighteenth 

 Century, 227 



Chapter IV. — Former Game Laws, 237 



Chapter V. — State of Crown Forests in the Eighteenth 



Century 242 



PART IV. — FoRESTAL Literature Previous to the 



Sixteenth Century, ^ 246 



Notices of Manwood's Forest Laws (p. 246) ; Spelman'a 

 List of English Forests (p. 247) ; Hearne's Collection of 

 Curious Discourses, and the Academy for the Study of 

 Antiquity and History, founded by Queen Elizabeth 

 (p.. 247); Agarde's Antiquity of Forests (p. 249); 

 Broughton on The New Forest (p. 252) ; Lee on Old 

 Forest Laws (p. 253) ; Standlish'a Commons' Complaint 

 (p. 257) ; Evelyn's Silva (p. 258) ; Cook's Manner of 

 Raising, Opening, and Improving Forest and Fruit Trees 

 (p. 260) ; Watkin's Treatise on Forest Trees (p. 262) ; 

 Gilpin's Forest Trees and Woodland (p. 262). 



