E 3251507-1676Court of Augmentations and successors: Accounts of Sales of Woods
Records of timber sales from Crown woods acquired by the Tudors in consequence of the dissolution of the monasteries or attainder.
Among the more specific items are a manual of regulations for the royal stud, for which certain parks were reserved; a book of presentments by 'regarders and preservators' of royal woods for 1570-1573; books of sales for specific forests, such as Wychwood, Rockingham and Chute, 1545-1546, and Whittlewood, 1595; and 60 petitions from Crown copyholders to the Trustees of 1653 to safeguard their rights (of pasture, pannage, and turbary) in the forests of Waltham and Windsor.