Catalogue description Court of Augmentations and successors: Accounts of Sales of Woods

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Reference: E 325
Title: Court of Augmentations and successors: Accounts of Sales of Woods
Description:

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.

Date: 1507-1676
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Physical description: 1 bundles, files and volumes

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