...statute of Henry VIII., c. 35., appears to be the first on record which enjoins the " replantation of forest trees, to cure the spoils and devastations that have been made in the woods ;" and the plantations thus made appear to have been enclosed, as Tusser says in his directions for...

...been the Radnor Great Forest in South Wales. After Magna Charta was drawn up, the Charta de foresia (1216) removed some of the most glaring oppressions...land James I. in the early part "of the seventeenth century gave an immense impulse to the national movement in this direction, whilst subsequently d1aries...