| Description | ...this Deponent further said that the said Defendant John Viscount Dudley and Ward hath lately cause to be marked numbered and valued for the purpose of cutting down and sale 240 Oak trees in the Park of Himley of the value of £1050 & upwards... in woods and grounds called Baggaridge and White's Wood... of the value of £1350 and upwards and in... High Arcoll... of the value of £390 and upwards... a great part... are in Rows Lines & Avenues which are laid out in the said Park Woods & grounds & which form Ridings & Vistas to the said Mansion house & Park & other of the said Trees are of great beauty and ornament...' In his view 'there is not now growing on the sd Estate exclusive of such ornamental timber afsd more timber thanis sufficient for the necessary consumption of the Mines & for necessary reparations of the build[ing]s on the sd estate'. |