Here begynneth a ryght frutefull mater: and hath to name the boke of surueyeng and improume[n]tes

¶Of parkes and demeyne woodes / the whiche the lorde maye assarte and to do his profyte / & howe many acres they cōteyne and what the vesture of an acre is worthe / and what the groūde is worthe whan the vesture is fallen. &c. Cap. v. (Book 5)

ITem inquirendum est / de parcis et dn̄i cis boscis / que ad volūtatem suam pos∣sunt assertare / et excolere et quot acre in se continētur. Et quantum vestura cu∣iustibet acre possit app̄ciari / et quantū fuudus in se contineat et valeat quando prostratus fuerit / et quantum valeat quelibet acra per se per an¦num. It is to be enquered / of {per}kes and of demeyne woode / the whiche at the lordes wyll may be asserted and plucked vp or fallen downe / And howe many a∣cres are conteyned in them / and for howe moche the vesture of euery acre may be solde / and howe moche the grounde in hym selfe conteyneth whan the wode is fallen / and howe moche euery acre is worthe by it selfe by the yere. This is to be vnderstande / of par¦kes and demeyne woode that be inseueraltie / wher∣of the lorde at his pleasure / may assert / stocke vp by the rootes or falle by the erthe / plowe and sowe to his moost profyte as he wyll / And howe many acres of woode are conteyned in the same. For in a parke or woode may be two hundred acres and more / and yet nat past a hundred acres therof woode / lytell more or lytell lasse / and what the vesture / that is to say / the woode of euery acre is worthe by hym selfe / for one

acre maye be worthe .xx.s. or .xl.s. and another acre dere ynoughe .ii.s.vi.s. or .x.s. and howe moche the whole grounde conteyneth whan the wode is fallen / And that is to be vnderstāde / all the grounde within pale or hedge / aswell the laūde groūde as of the wode grounde where the woode growed / and what euery acre is worthe by the yere / as well of the one maner as of the other.