Section V Forester, Keeper, &c. browsing or lopping any Oak or Beech Tree,

Penalty £10. and Incapacity.; Charcoal not to be made in the Forest within 1000 Paces of any Inclosure, &c; Coal Hearths to be fenced with Heath, &c; Penalties; 32 H. VIII. c. 13. § 6.

And for further preservation of the Timber now growing or that at any time or times hereafter shall or may grow in the said Forest or any part thereof be it enacted That if any Forest Keeper or Under Keeper or other Officer or any Person by the Order Direction or Procurement of the said Forester Keeper or Under-Keeper or other Officer or any other Person whatsoever shal top lop or browse any Tree of Oak or Beech in the said Forest such Officer Keeper or Under Keeper X1for every such Offence shal forfeit and lose the Sum of Ten Pounds and be utterly incapable of being a Keeper Under Keeper or Officer in any Forest, Chase or Park belonging to His Majesty nor shal any Collier presume to make or any Keepers or Under Keepers suffer any Coal-Hearths or Coal-Fires for making Charcoal within the said Forest to be made (as hath of late been practiced contrary to Law) X2 except in the wast Ground of the said Forest to be then appointed by one or more of the Verderers and two or more of the Regarders and the Surveyor or Woodward and not within One thousand Paces of any Inclosure to be made by this Act nor shal any of the said Coal-Hearths or Coal-Fires be fenced with Bushes but with Heath or Furse only but every Collier making such Coal-Hearths or Coal-Fires and every Forester and Under Keeper or other Officer permitting the same to be made within the said Forest shal forfeit and lose for every Offence the Sum of One hundred pounds and the said Under Keeper or Foresters respectively shal also forfeit and lose the Sum of Twenty pounds for every neglect in not making the Drifts of the said Forest (for preventing Surcharges and uncommonable Cattle) as directed by the Statute made in the Two and Thirtieth Year of the Reign of King Henry the Eighth in that behalf.