| Museums display a few French cast iron mortars, and in the 17th and 18th centuries fine decorated firebacks were cast in the Sussex and Kentish Weald. |
| Clearance of woodland and heath continued, especially in the Weald of Kent and Sussex, in the Chiltern hills, and in the Arden district of Warwickshire. |
| It has long been an important industry in the Weald, supplying the essential fuel for ironworking in the area. |
| These woods are locally supposed to be the extreme fringe of the great Weald forest, which thins away until it reaches the northern chalk downs. |
| The message-ship, ordering the Darian fleet away from Weald, had been sent off long since. |
| I suspect they are a strictly local phenomenon, hanging around in festoons in The Weald. |
