N° 13.

Navy Office, 22d August, 1787.

Gentlemen,

In Answer to Your Letter of the 18th of May last, requiring to be furnished with a State of the Quantity of Timber that has been cut for the Use of the Navy, in the several Forests, Parks, and Chases belonging to the Crown, since the Year 1730, to the latest Period, distinguishing

The Date, and the Quantity of the different Kinds, in each Fall,
To what Yard delivered,
The Expence thereto, and,
The Price of the Timber,

We herewith send you copies of the said Accounts, and are

	Gentlemen,
		Your most obedient,
			Humble Servants,
Commissioners of Land Revenue.				CHA^s MIDDLETON,
				J. HENSLOW.
				GEO. MARSH.

The following is an abstract of the Accounts transmitted with the foregoing Letter.

ABSTRACT of Accounts transmitted by the Navy Board to the Commissioner of the Land Revenue, shewing the Quantity of Timber supplied from each of His Majesty's Forests, for the Use of the Navy, from the Year 1730 to 1787, and at what Yards delivered.

From what Forest	Where delivered.	Quantity.		Totals.
	O A K T I M B E R.
		Lds.	Ft.
	Portsmouth	46,525	21
New Forest	Plymouth	512	25
	Woolwich	129	—	Loads.	Feet.
				47,166	45
	Plymouth	17,889	9
Dean Forest	Deptford	921	3
	Woolwich	1,230	—	20,040	12
Windsor Forest	Deptford	210	19	210	19
Wittlewood and Salcey Forest	Deptford	6,758	44	6,758	44
Holt Forest	Deptford	1,863	24	1,863	24
Sherwood Forest	Chatham	1,216	48	1,216	48
			Total Oak	77,256	43
	B E E C H T I M B E R.
New Forest	Portsmouth	15,906	47
Dean Forest	Plymouth	149	10
			Total Beech	16,056	7

The Eleventh Report of the Commissioners Appointed to Enquire into the State and Condition of the Woods, Forests, and Land Revenues of the Crown, and to Sell or Alienate Fee Farm and other Unimproveable Rents, 1792. Appendix Nº 13:

Transcribed by Lars Bruzelius

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