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I say then, whosoever shall consicl f r ?! lS ’ ZZalhinZd\\m-Wood to be no contemptible Addition, h f^ sth Z^ZZmiZ-proved, the cooling ot fat and heavy Cattle, keepmg t e *

tious Motions, Disturbance, and running as rey ’

find Shelter from the heat and vexation o ies. w'ood

27 - But I have done, and it is now time to get ^and to recommend this, and all that we have prop , pijah-Trea-

cred Majesty, the Honourable Parliament, th ® . that

hirer, Principal Officers, and Commissioners of y ^;»orousty

where such Improvements may be made, it be pee yprosecuted; and where any Tdefefts appear, they may be duly re

28. And what if for this purpose there were yet ^

fee constituted, which Ihould have a more universe , ~c rifim ;st; ons ?the charge of all the Woods and Forests in his ^aj e j y * _ p *

This might easily be performed by Deputies in every st », ’

Ions judicious and skilful in Husbandry ; and who nug P ; n deed

for advice and direction: And if such there are *our Laws seem to provide) that their Tower be lufficitnt y p stwhere any thing appears deficient ; and as their Zeal excited Jthy Encouragements, so might Neglects be encounter d y 6and industrious Check. It ssiould belong to their Trovince ,such Troportions of Timber, &c. were planted and let out upon ery hundred, or more of Acres , as the Honourable Commissioners avesuggested; or as might be thought convenient, the quality ws .of the places prudently considered: It should be their r

take notice of th 0 growth and decay of TVoods, and or t st}* st Jpublick uses and sale, and of all these to give Advertifemen ,all defect in their ill governing may be speedily remedied ; anperior Officer or Surveyor , Ihould be accountable to the Eor e jrer, and to the principal Officers of his Majesty’s Navy for t e lmcbeing: And why might not such a Regulation be worthy the e a 1ing by some Solemn and Publick Aft of State, becoming our GloriousTrince, SOVEREIGN OF THE 8 E A 8 ; and his pru-dent Senate , this present Tarliament ? ^tervation of

But to Ihevv how this Xilotrophia Stadium for the prese

Timber was Honour’d, .. r Vvfra.ur- -. ;

20. We find in Aristotle's Toliticks, the Constitution of Fabmxm,

b an Magistrates to be SiIvarum Custodes ; and Inch were the C onjutares Silv£, which the Great Ca far himtelf (even in a mi drophoro-

Italy did abound in Timber ) instituted ; and was one ot the very rum, No-things which he did, at the fettling of that vast ^tZlus relates it umZnZ^Civil Wars had exceedingly wasted the Country. Suet S> Ca U d:carh-

in thp T I fe of dalius ; and Teter Crinitus in lus Filth Boon uc no T „«, p mAm the lute 01 ' . . „ s . nu m ateries (seith extant inscnf-

nesta THsciplina, c . 3. gives this Reaion for it, , træfeEluris tiones

he) J*.*, ^

CCuJstj i, Jfor the most part amrex’d and joined to some of the "

greatest themselves; that facetious Sarcasm of the Corned,an gg***

Orfc. Marit. lib, i. cap. 44. , ,

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Tie coll:gils

Comenpum,

etiam Hieron.inscrifto: Morisot.