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parliament feldom interferes in a longer ex- 

 tenfion, except on particular occafions. 



Befides thefe defalcations arifmg from the 

 bounty of the crown, the foreft is continually 

 preyed on by the incroachments of inferior 

 people. There are multitudes of trefpafTers, 

 on every fide of it, who build their little 

 huts, and inclofe their gardens, and patches 

 of ground, without leave, or ceremony of 

 any kind. The under-keepers, who have 

 conftant orders to deftroy all thefe in- 

 clofures, now and then aflert the rights of 

 the foreft by throwing down a fence ; but 

 it requires a legal procefs to throw down a 

 houfe, of which porTeffion has been taken. 

 The trefpafler therefore here, as on other 

 waftes, is careful to rear his cottage, and 

 get into it as quickly as poffible. I have 

 known all the materials of one of thefe ha- 

 bitations brought together the houfe built 

 covered in the goods removed a fire 

 kindled and the family in pofTeflion, during 

 the courfe of a moon-light night. Some- 

 times indeed, where the trefpafs is incon- 

 fiderable, the pofTeflbr pays his fine in the 

 court of Lyndhurft, and the trefpafs is often 

 winked at. But thefe trefpaffes are generally in 



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