Silva: Or, a Discourse of Forest-Trees, And the Propagation of Timber in His Majesty's Dominions, As It Was Delivered in the Royal Society, On the 15th of October 1662 .. 2

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' K k j254 A DISCOURSE BOOK III. fuel sufficient to feed and maintain all its hearths and fires with sweet and .-^"^V"*^ wholesome billet ? This the ingenious Mr. Nourse seems to demonstrate, and I think not impofsible, whilst my Fumifughm' is long since vanished in Aura. There is no very great store of wood about Madrid, where the winters are sharp, and so very piercing, that there is spent no lefs than four millions of arrobas of charcoal, (every arroba being tlitee quarters of our bushel, an...d pays to the King a Real before it comes into the town, or is sold) : It is charred of the Enzina, or Cork-tree: besides which they use very little fuel-wood, it being exceedingly hard, and consequently lasting and sweet. — But to return to the law.
By the preamble of the statute of 7 Fdward VI. one may perceive (the measures compared) how plentiful fuel was in the time of Edward IV. to what it was in the reigns of his succefsors : This suggested a review of sizes, and a reformation of abuses ; in which it was enacted, that every sack of coals should contain four bushels ; every Taleshide to be four feet long, besides the carf; and if named of one, marked one, to contain six- teen inches circumference, within a foot of the middle ; if of two marks, twenty-three inches ; of three, twenty-eight ; of four, thirty-five ; of five, tbirty-eight inches about, and so proportionably.


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