disafforested

He "disafforested" several lands about _Peterburgh_, and added them to the possessions of the monastery.

The New Guide to Peterborough Cathedral George S. Phillips

The whole of the inhabitants of the county may be regarded as possessing an interest in the Devonshire Commons, with the exception of the people of Barnstaple and Totnes, the reason being that those districts not having been afforested with the rest of the county, the residents acquired no new privileges when Devonshire was disafforested.

The Customs of Old England

* We shall have similar respite in rendering justice in connexion with forests that are to be disafforested, or to remain forests, when these were first aforested by our father Henry or our brother

The Magna Carta Anonymous

All forests that have been made such in our time shall forthwith be disafforested; and a similar course shall be followed with regard to river-banks that have been placed "in defense" by us in our time.

The Magna Carta Anonymous

Under such circumstances, woodlands would soon become disafforested, and where facilities of transportation and a good demand for timber have increased the inducements to fell it, as upon the borders of the Mediterranean, the destruction of the forest and all the evils which attend it have gone on at a seriously alarming rate.

Earth as Modified by Human Action, The~ Chapter 03 (historical) 1874

Edward the Confessor granted the land to the Abbey of Westminster, and it was disafforested in 1218.

Mayfair, Belgravia, and Bayswater The Fascination of London Walter Besant 1868

The rippling note of the birds he distinguished so acutely seemed a part of this tree-less place, open freely to sun and air, such as rose and carnation loved, in the midst of the old disafforested chase.

Miscellaneous Studies; a series of essays Walter Pater 1866

The earliest record in which this word occurs, so far as I have seen, is in an act of Edward III., quoted by Manwood, and it is there spelt _puraley_; and it relates to the disafforested parts which several preceding kings permitted to be detached from their royal forests.

Notes and Queries, Number 185, May 14, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. Various 1852

Under such circumstances, woodlands would soon become disafforested, and where facilities of transportation and a good demand for timber have increased the inducements to fell it, as upon the borders of the

The Earth as Modified by Human Action George P. Marsh 1841

II., were disafforested, and new perambulations were appointed for that purpose; offences in the forests were declared to be no longer capital, but punishable by fine, imprisonment, and more gentle penalties; and all the proprietors of land recovered the power of cutting and using their own wood at their pleasure.

The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part B. From Henry III. to Richard III. David Hume 1743