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Agricultural Capabilities of the New Forest. 
therein burnt and expended. And that every allowance of fuel 
and fuel-wood is an allowance of the (juantity described of good 
fuel-wood yearly from the open and unenclosed parks of the said 
Forest by the view and allowance of the Foresters of the said 
Forest as reasonable and necessary estovers for the necessary 
fire-wood of the messuages mentioned and described in this our 
Register, to be burnt and expended therein. 
" And we do hereby also declare that every allowance of a 
claim of marl is of a right to have, dig, take, and carry away from 
the open and accustomed marl-pits in the said Forest, a Schedule 
whereof is set forth at the end of this Register, by the view and 
allowance of the Foresters of the said Forest, sufficient marl for 
the necessary marling of the lands in respect whereof the said 
marl is allotted and adjudged to be exclusively used thereon. 
And we do hereby also declare that, save as aforesaid, no pay- 
ment or render is to be made to Her Majesty or Her Successors 
in respect of any of the said rights, or in respect of the allowance 
thereof, except such as herein mentioned. 
(Signed) " Charles James Gale. 
"James Barstow. 
"John Duke Coleridge." 
It appears at first sight very singular that in this document 
the power of clearing the Forest of the cattle during a month of 
the summer, for the purpose of fawning the deer, is retained 
when there were no deer left to be fawned, and the more so 
when for many years previously the right had become obsolete 
by non-usage. The .effect of enforcing the right would have 
been to have almost destroyed the value of the right of pasturage, 
and it must have been retained by the Commissioners as a sort 
of rod to be held over the commoners to ensure their good 
behaviour, and perhaps hereafter to lessen the pecuniary value 
of their claims. 
In the Register referred to, mention is made of twenty-four 
accustomed marl pits ; they are mostly situated south of the 
rail, but the most northern is found at Boldrewood. The high 
royalty of Qd. per ton is charged for the privilege of digging 
this marl. 
In a return made to the House of Commons, moved for by 
Mr. Bonham Carter, and ordered to be printed in 1867, some 
interesting particulars are supplied, as well as the map from 
which our own is reduced. The first is a return of all enclo- 
sures made under the Acts of William III. and George III., 
with the dates of enclosure and disenclosure. The enclosure 
under these Acts commenced in 170U and terminated in 1815, 
and are thirty-nine in number, containing altogether 7727 acres, 
