The Account of John Bentley Surveyor and Woodward of all the Kings and Queenes Majesties Forrests, Chases, Parkes, Mannors and Lands, within the Counties of Kent, Sussex, Surry, Hampshire, Berks, and Middlesex, and by authority from the right Honourable the Committee of Lords and Commons for His Majesties Revenue sitting at Westminster, of all Woods, Timber and Trees, felled and sold, within the limits aforesaid, by Order or warrant from the said Honourable Committee, either severally by himselfe or jointly with any other betweene Midsummer 1644. and Midsumer 1648.
SIr Tho. Wilsingham never felled or caused to be felled any timber in the manner of Eltham, or in any of the parkes there, but what hath been felled, hath been felled by [Page 2] me according to Order of the Committee of the Mannor.
Imprimis by Order from the said honourable Committee bearing date 8 of Novem. 1644 made unto Sir Tho. Walsingham Knight and the said accountant, was sold unto Tho. Foster of Mottingham in the County of Kent, and Thomas Wiley of Eltham in the said County Yeoman, forty nine Acres of Coppice wood, lying within the Mannor o [...] Eltham, viz. One Coppice called by the name of Hasell wood, and parcell of two other Coppices neer thereunto, called by the name of Shephards Leaye, and Oxe Leaye, containing together, the said quantity of 49 Acres statute measure, after the rate and price of 3li. per Acre, five Acres of the said forty and nine, being allowed them without price, in lew and respect of div [...]rs wasts and spoyles made therein by the poor people in those parts, and certaine Lanes and Cart pathes therein, which did amount unto the sum of 132li.
Of which sum there was paid unto Tho. Fawconbridge Esq; receiver Generall for His Majesties revenue at Westminster, on the sixt [Page 5] day of Decem. 1644 According to the said Order, the sum of 80li.
And the remainder thereof was paid unto him on the 14 day of Sept. 1645 being 52li.
Item by one other Order from the said honourable Committee bearing date 25th day of Sept, 1645 made unto the said Sir Thomas Walsingham and the said accountant, was sold unto the said Thomas Foster, and Thomas Wiley, the remainder of Shephards Leaye, and Oxe Leaye, which being since measured, did amount to 88 Acres, at the rate and price of fifty shillings per Acre, at 18 foote pole, and came at the price aforesaid to the summe of. 220li.
Whereof paid to the said receiver Gen [...]r [...]ll on the 24th of March 1645 the sum of 6 [...] li.
And on the 14th Novem. 1645 the sum of, 50li.
And on or about the 24 day of June [...]6 [...]8 the sum of, [...]0 [...]i.
Disburst by the said accountant for the Coppices before named containing, Rods as by the workemens bills may appear the sum of 7li. 2s. 2d.
Remaining in the said accountant hands the sum of 2li. 17s. 10.
Item, by the like Order from the said honourable Committee bearing date 7 day of Decemb. 1644. made unto the said Sir Thomas Walsingham, and the said Accompt was sold unto one Richard East of Lambeth, one Coppice or Spring of Oake and Aspe, containing about twenty six Acres, being within Horne Parke, alias Lee Parke, in the Mannor of Eltham aforesaid, for the summe of 220li.
Whereof paid unto the Receiver Generall on the 13. day of March 1644. the summe of 100li.
And on the 21 day of Septem. following the summe of 120li.
Item, by the before mentioned Order of the 25 of September 1645, was sold unto the aforesaid Richard East, and one David Powell a Fletcher in Grubstreet London, one other Coppice of Oake and Aspe in Horne Parke aforesaid after the rate and price of ten pound per Acre, which did containe [...] Acres, and doth amount to the summe of 100li.
And the said David Powel became bound to the said Receiver Generall, as part thereof for the payment of 40 li.
Paid unto the Receiver Generall on the ninth day of Janu. 1645. the summe of 40 li.
Received of them since by the said Accomptant, 60 li.
The charges of fencing of the said Coppice, was by the said Order to bee defraied out of money arising thereby; and there was disbursed as followeth:
Unto John Spicer Carpenter for the rayling in thereof, containing a 130 Rods, with gates for the same, at 20 d. per Rod, as by his Acquittance appeares, 10li. 16s. 8d.
Unto Thomas Glyn for the carriage of stuffe, and for the ditching and hedging thereof, and for Iron worke for the same, the summe of 7li. 15s.
More paid unto Thomas Glyn on the 28 of June 1648, for and towards the new repaying and replenishing of the hedges and ditches of the two Coppices in Horne Park, formerly fenced, but since broken downe by the Deere, and therefore of necessity to be [Page 6] againe repaired the summe of 3li.
Remaining in the said Accomptant hands the summe of 18li. 8s. 4d
The totall of all the wood sales within the Mannor aforesaid, and time limited as aforesaid, doe amount unto the summe of 602li.
Whereof paid in to the receipt as aforesaid, the summe of 602li.
Due, and owing by David Powell, Fletcher, as aforesaid, the summe of 20li.
Disbursed for the fencing of the said woods as aforesaid, the summe of 28li. 13s. 10d
Remaining in the said Accomptant hands the summe of 21li. 6s. 2d.