Note 167 — Chapter II · THE REGALIA, OR RIGHTS OF ROYALTY.
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From a speech of Lord Bacon’s against the abuses of purveyors, it appears that those who were to purvey timber for the king, even as late as the reign of James the First, used to extort money by the threat of felling ornamental trees in the avenues or grounds of mansion-houses. Barrington, Anc. Stat. p. 7, note.