Questions addressed by the Commissioners of the Land Revenue
to the Chairman of the Quarter Sessions of the County of Middlesex .

1.

Whether the quantity of large Oak Timber
in general fit for the use of the Navy
growing in the County aforesaid is increased
or diminished within Memory?

2.

Whether particularly the quantity
of such Timber growing in Woods is
increased or diminished: And

3.

Whether there is an increase or decrease
of the quantity of such Timber growing
in Hedge Rows?

4.

Whether the growth of oak Timber in
Hedge Rows is generally encouraged, or
whether the grubbing up of Hedge Rows for
the enlarging of Fields and improving
Arable Ground is become Common in
that Countyl.

5.

Whether in such Oaken Woods as are
Cut at stated Periods in Succession it is
Customary to leave Young Sapling at each
Cuttingl. And if so, Whether they are
generally barked at the second fall, and
Cut down for County Uses, or preserved
for Timber?

6.

Whether the improvement of Roads and
the Navigable Canals made during the
last thirty Years have not by reducing the
expence of Carriage been the means of
bringing large Supplies of Timber to the
Dock Yards which could not otherwise have
been brought there?