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Show 206 A Difcourfe of Foreft-Trees. Chap.XXXHI. 3 a j eAque -dudls, neer Publiqu -d nee! be Planted i Trees might y fe ris tyes 2 Ne and into, e infiraat ould t ‘ i y margen of Navigable Rivers , Te ae : th - Mls fling toand fro, fhould be hindred , and therefore retinent, fayes the fain “Anes were call’d Rete, quia Naves s oe cone Gigfsind becaule the falling of the leaves allogu ara es ce ee e i So cer within fuch a S ’ ane : ion of Honfes were to pei eas are the Foundat L. priorefi, de bet rds Darhit L, 1. doit. c. de Interdit, Vip.in ound, in neighbour-gr vie pret Trees fpreading their Koots 4 —é se common 3 See Cujas and Paulus ay ar of Trees ic} ae 1 dividend. where more of the Alienation oO ee i. {tanding but with the Funds, as alfo of the el or scanty ¥ Cremia and 3 s Grande the difference ‘twixt Arbores e weil ail which Uipian, Baldas, — aimee e eesy Cones nas what corer Vines and Olive-tr . abe. ee R.R, &c. Nor is it here that we defiga a 8 Sain as thofe who have philologiz d on this occafion er 7 phantis , and othercurious criticifmes 5 but pale peer 3 our own : Parlay liao fine myfelf to the prudent Sandions of Pen y Englifh true ¢ of S p i r t Spirit t andbeft old » o i the to though according ought tobe more powerfully led by his Azajefties ee C La yet j tha fiolent Laws; d reneed of more cogent andviolent it, apn: be as ample, and as little defective as we can render fomething tis fit fhould be {poken concerning nehee ot nances ashave been from time to time eee seen a the Encouragement, and Directionof fuch as do we hee _—s ry y madverfion and eetee tty of thofe who continue refi shi ce in this order. ony 4 : tee is of Edward the fourth, were eee ie oe cellent Lawes for the Planting, fecuring, battery > * a Woods, Copfés, and Under woods, as hghthey — oe 7 "g nf ee pemnties feveral the thems together with efpecially from the 25 of Hen. 8 17: Oe, hy bite : e eee 27,0f Q.Eliz. cap. 25. 19. Oc. which are Wes if oA are — ed, revived, putin execution, and enlarg'd w o ee apparent 5 asin particular the 4& of i c ee pee eee years growth from Tythe, fora longer period , to Ris i pleat, and more effectual to their Leaproniennent : ba y repealed,by which seca toy Oxziers, Ce. whic : ie Weeds. butas reputed are ‘ Sub-bois MS See seupiuate have lately been envas agein’ See Wood-ficalers, deftroyers of young Trees, Ge, » ee ee fome Nation, \ read he forfeited his Hazd , w . ; ee i k without permiffion of theOmner5 and i catinet ayt eyne ashe ones,whenI compare the uM of our mayor& ie ers; nor am byinclinationtheleaft cruel; but do aiirm, " Chap. XXXII. A Difcourfe of Forett-Trees, as well live without A/ares, as without Maft sand Ships, whic h are our wooden butno lefle profitable Horfes, 5- And here we cannot but perftringe thofe Royot ous Aflemblics of Idle People, who under pretence ofgoi ng a Maying (as they termit) do oftentimes cut domx,and carry away fine {traig ht Trees,to fet up before fome Ale-koufe, or Revelling-pl ace » where they keep their drunken Bacchanalias : For though this Cufto m was,l read, introduc’d by the Emperor Anaftafiws , to abolith the Gentil Majana of the Romans at Oftta 5 which was to transf er a great Oaken:Tree out of fome Foreft into the Town,and erect it before their Miftris’s Door ; yet I think it were better to be quite abolith’d amongtt us, for many reafons, befides that of occafioning fo much waft and fpoyl as we find is done to Trees at that Seafon, under this wanton pretence, by breaking, mangling, and tearing downof branches, and intire Arms of Trees, to adorn their Wooden-Ido l. The Imperial Law againft fuch diforders we have in L, ob,id, fl. ad legem Aquill, &in ff. 1.47. Tit. 7, Arborem furtin cafarum : Seeallo Triphon, L. ig, de Bon. off, cont. tab. vel iz ligna focaria, L. Ligni ff, de Lege 3.Cc. TothefeI might add the Laws of our King 7a; or as the Lear ed Lambert calls them, Arxesvyte re prifcis Anglorumlegi n bus , whofe Title is, Be pupu bapneve ; of Burning Trees : The SanGion runs thus. If any one fet fire of a fell'd Wood, he Shall be punifhed , and bea fides pay three pounds , and for thofe who clandeftinel y eut ( of which the very found of the Axe shall be Jufficient Convi Wood Jor every Tree , be fhall be muléed thirty hhillings. A Tree tion) fo fell’ under nhofe Shadow thirty Hoggs can ftand, fall be mulit ed at three pounds, ec, 6. Ihave heard, thatin the great Expedition of 88, it was exprefly enjoyn'd the Spazi/h Commanders of that fignal Arma da 5 that if when landed they fhould not be ableto fabdue our Nation, and make good their Conqueft ; they fhould yet be‘fur e not to leave a Tree ftanding in the Fore/? of Dean It was like Policy of the Philiftines, when the poor Uraelites went down the to their Enemies Svsths to fharpen every man his Tools 5 for asthe faid, left the Hebrews make them Swords, or Spears; fo thele, left the Englifo build them Shipsy and Men of War : Whether this were fo, or not; certain it is, we cannot be too jealous for the prefer vation of our Woods ; and efpecially of thofe eminent, and > with care, inexhauftible Afagaxines : I darenot fuggeft the encourage- ment of a yet farther reffraint , that even Proprietors themf elves fhould not prefumie to make havock of fome of their own Woods, to feed their prodigality, and heap fuel to their vices ; but it 1s worthy of our obfervation, that (in that in-imitable Oration , the fe- cond Philippic) Cicero does not fo tharply reproach his great Antae gonift for anyother ofhis Extravagancies (which yet he there enumerates ) as for his wa/fefid difpofure of certain Wood-lands beJonging to the Common-wealth , amongtt his jovial Bravo's, and Ee2 leud |