EXHIBIT 23.3

              [LETTERHEAD OF MILLER AND LENTS, LTD. APPEARS HERE]

                                 March 28, 2003

Cross Timbers Royalty Trust
P.O. Box 830650
Dallas, TX 75283-0650

     Re:  Cross Timbers Royalty Trust
          2002 Annual Report on Form 10-K

Gentlemen:

     The firm of Miller and Lents, Ltd., consents to the use of its name and to
the use of its report dated March 4, 2003, regarding the Cross Timbers Royalty
Trust Proved Reserves and Future Net Revenues as of December 31, 2002, in the
2002 Annual Report on Form 10-K.

     Miller and Lents, Ltd., has no interests in the Cross Timbers Royalty Trust
or in any affiliated companies or subsidiaries and is not to receive any such
interest as payment for such reports and has no director, officer, or employee
otherwise connected with Cross Timbers Royalty Trust. We are not employed by
Cross Timbers Royalty Trust on a contingent basis.

                             Yours very truly,

                             MILLER AND LENTS, LTD.

                             By /s/ R. W. Frazier
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                                R. W. Frazier
                                President