Obs. [SALE sb.2] A periodical sale of wood or timber from an estate.
1479. in Catal. Anc. Deeds (1915), VI. 168. The said beches to be drawen on the saide grounde wodmanlyke after the custume of wodsale.
1540. Act 32 Hen. VIII., c. 46 § 10. The said Maistre of the Wardes … shalhave auctoritie … to make wood sales to the Kinges use of al underwooddis.
1562. Leigh, Surv. (1577), D iv. Profites of woodsale, is where sometymes the Lord of a Mannour doeth make a yerely sale of his woodes.
c. 1617. Bacon, Memorial, Wks. 1819, V. 485. What course shall be taken for the rest of the years with the wood sales for supply of this 25,000 l. yearly.
1786. in Jrnls. Ho. Comm., XLIII. 622. Warrants for raising £2,000 … by Wood Sales in Dean Forest.
attrib. 1605. Sylvester, Du Bartas, II. iii. IV. Captains, 243. A sort of lusty bil-men set In wood-sale time to sell a cops.
