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they term the mark) to be ten inches about 3 of two cast, fourteen inches, chap.and to be marked (unlefs for the private use of the owner) within sixinches of the middle 3 of one cast, within four inches of the end, &c.
Every bound faggot should be three feet long; the band twenty-fourinches in circumference, besides the, knot.
In the 43 d Eliz. the same statute (which before only concerned London and its suburbs) was made more universal, and that of Edw. VI. explainedwith this addition: For such Taleshides as were of necefsity to be made ofcleft-wood, if of one mark, and half round, to be nineteen inches about;if quarter-cleft, eighteen inches and an half: Marked two, being round,it shall be twenty-three inches compafs ; half-round, twenty-seven ; quar-ter-cleft, twenty-six: Marked three, round, twenty-eight 3 half-round,thirty-three; quarter-cleft, thirty-two : Marked four, being round, thirty-three inches about3 half-round, thirty-nine 3 quarter-cleft, thirty-eight:Marked five, round, thirty-eight inches about3 half-round, forty-four 3quarter-cleft, forty-three. The measure to be taken within half a foot ofthe middle of the length mentioned in the former statute.
Then for the billet, every one named a single, being round, to haveseven inches and an half circumference 3 but no single to be made ofcleft-wood : If marked one, and round, to contain eleven inches compafs 3if half-round, thirteen 3 quarter cleft, twelve and an half.
If marked two, being round, to contain sixteen inches 3 half-round,nineteen 5 quarter-cleft, eighteen and an half3 the length as in the statuteof Ring Edward VI .
Faggots to be every stick of three feet in length, excepting only onestick of: one foot long, to harden and wedge the binding of it 3 this toprevent the abuse, too much practised, of filling the middle part and endswith trash and short sticks, which had been omitted in the former statute.Concerning this and the dimensions of wood in the stack, see Coppices ,chap. i. book iii. to direct the lefs-instructed purchaser : And I have beenthe more particular upon thij> occasion, because nothing is more deceitfulthan our fuel brought in billet by the notch, as they call it in London 3for by the vile iniquity of some wretches marking the billets as theycome to the wharf, Gentlemen are egregiously cheated. I could produce
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