nted on Breem Eaves; triple rows
on Clearwell Meend, by the roads on Coverham, on the Delves. We mended
over the spots that have failed in Oaken Hill, Stapledge, Acorn Patch,
Crab-tree Hill, Sallow Vallets (chiefly by drawing out where the trees
are too thick). Most of the enclosures are now quite filled up." And
under date Nov. 1831, he gives the following statement of the several
plantations:--

Acres.
Land now under plantation in Dean 11,000
Forest, enclosed by Act of
Parliament
Whitemead Park 240
Ellwood 90
Old Keeper's Land (3) 90
------
11,420
High Meadow and Doward 3,288
Planted with single trees 1,114
Young trees of natural growth 150
Old timber 528
------
Total 16,500

CHAPTER VII.
A.D. 1831-1841.

Riots--Sessions of the Dean Forest Commissioners relative to St.
Briavel's Court--Free miners' claims--Foreigners' petition--State of the
woods--Perambulation--Rights of Commonage--Relief of the poor--Free
miners' petition--Parochial divisions--Fourth and Fifth Reports of the
Dean Forest Commissioners--Acts of 1838 and 1842--Award of the coal and
iron mines--Enclosures thrown open, and new ones formed--Provision for
the poor--Mr. Machen's memoranda.

The year 1831 is chiefly remarkable for the riotous destruction committed
on the fences and banks of the enclosures, recorded by Mr. Machen as
follows:--"In May, 1831, several of the single trees planted near
Parkend, and on Breem's Eaves, were wilfully cut off in the night, and no
discovery was made of the offenders. In the end of May a part of the
wall of Oaken Hill Enclosure was thrown down in the night. When the
workmen were rebuilding it, some of the colliers passing by threw out
hints that it would not stand long, and in one or two instances horses
and cattle were turned into the enclosures, and the woodmen were told
that they had been shut u