disafforesting

Still, for the nine years that the work of 'disafforesting' lasted, the two little girls got a great deal of enjoyment out of the ruined Chase, spending long summer days in its grassy glades, while their father parcelled out the land and marked trees for the axe.

Little Memoirs of the Nineteenth Century George Paston

Still, for the nine years that the work of 'disafforesting' lasted, the two little girls got a great deal of enjoyment out of the ruined Chase, spending long summer days in its grassy glades, while their father parcelled out the land and marked trees for the axe.

Little Memoirs of the Nineteenth Century Paston, George, d. 1936 1902

The first charter affecting the state of the moor was bestowed in 1204, when King John was compelled reluctantly to grant a Charter of Forests, disafforesting the lands that had been gradually appropriated by the Kings since Henry I.

Devon, Its Moorlands, Streams and Coasts Rosalind Northcote

Hitherto in young colonies the disafforesting of districts has been for agricultural and other purposes recklessly proceeded with.

Spinifex and Sand David Wynford Carnegie 1885

The Charter of the Forests had for its object the disafforesting several of those tracts, the prevention of future afforestings, the mitigation and ascertainment of the punishments for breaches of the Forest Law.

The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 07 (of 12) Edmund Burke 1763