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been made to them, there may be an opportunity of refuting it, and if the evil 

 itftually exifts, that it may be checked. The account of the Underkeepcr of 

 BigfhotWalk, fluted in the Appendix, No. will explain what is here al- 



luded to. 



The Lodges in the Foroft (except thofe occupied by the Under Keepers, which 

 are mere cottages) are Cranbourn Lodge, New Lodge, Swinley Lodge, and 

 Bigfhot Lodge; and it appears by the return of Lord Cranley, in the explanation 

 of his office of Out Ranger, in the Appendix, No. that there is a Lodge annexed 

 to his office, called Trys Lodge, near Chertfey (which is out of the Foreft) now in 

 the occupation of Admiral Sir Richard Onflow, Baronet. 



Cranbourn Lodge was occupied by his late Royal Highnefs the Duke of 

 Glouceller, when Lord Warden of the Foreft; it has fince his death been com- 

 pletely repaired and fitted up, and is now in the occupation of the Honourable 

 George Villiers, by permiflion of His Majefly, but who does not hold anv office 

 within the Foreft. 



New Lodge was granted by His Majefly, with the office of Ranger of New 

 Lodge Walk, for life, to Her Highnefs Princefs Sophia of Gloucefler, by letters 

 patent in the year 1798. This Lodge, as Her Highnefs ftates in her 

 planation of her office, in the Appendix, No. is in fuch a dilapidated flati: 

 that it is fcarce habitable by the Servants who arc put in to take care of it. Then* 

 are about 20 acres of grafs land attached to this Lodge. 



Swinley Lodge, with its inclofures, containing about 190 acres, is always occu- 

 pied by the Mafter or Keeper of His Majefly 's Stag 1 lonnds, who is at the fame 

 time Ranger and Keeper of Swinley Walk, and Circuitor Bailiff and Chief Foreft er 

 of Battels Bailiwick. 



The ftate of Bigfhot Lodge is much more ruinous than that of New Lodge, 

 and is in no degree whatever habitable ; there is a large quantity of building 

 belonging to it, and was for many years inhabited !>v the late Major General 

 Cox and his family, but has been long defcrted. The land attached to t 

 Lodge is all arable. To the north of it, a piece of wafie land has been inclofed 

 with a bank and rail, but no pains have ever been taken to redeem it from the 

 fwampy ftate occafioned by a ftream-head immediately in it. The Comniiffioners 

 cannot avoid recommending thefe buildings to be immediately taken clown, and 

 the materials difpofed of, otherwife great. part of them mull foon become of no 

 value whatever, and only give encouragement in winter feafon to thieving. 



The Lodge belonging to the Out Ranger the CoiumiiTioners have not feen; thev 

 -cannot however avoid obferving, that it appears to them to be entirely ufelefs to 

 the Crown in the prefent ftate of the Foreft; and though the office of an Out 

 Ranger might in former times be neceffary, they do not conceive that fuch an 

 Officer, confidering the number of Deer in the Foreft, and its prefent ftate in 

 other rcfpefts, is now of any ufe whatever, and that the duties ftated by the Out 

 Ranger, in his explanation of his office to be performed by feven Drivers, mis-lit 

 be very reafonably performed by the Keepers of the feveral Walks. The Corn- 

 miffioners alfo feel it their duty to remark, that the falary of . 600. per annum, 

 flated by the Out Ranger to bo allowed for the duties performed by himfelf and 

 his Drivers, exceeds by near .. 100. per annum the amount of the falaries of all 

 the other Officers and Keepers of the Foreft of every defcription, being twent v- 

 feven in mimber, as will appear by a Lift of thofe Officers and their refpeft 

 falaries. The whole amount of the falaries of thofe twenty-feven Officers (exclu- 

 five of an allowance of . 80. per annum for Hay for the Deer in Bigfhot and 

 S\vinley Walks) amounting only to ..511. %s nd. per annum. 



The Steward of the Foreft Courts appears to have had no falary whatever ; and 

 he ftates, that his emoluments, arifing from fees from that office, do not exceed 

 thirty millings per annum. He ftates, that he has reafon to believe, two annual 

 allowances of .2$. 6s. Sd. and ..54. os. od. were formerly made for the 

 duties of thofe offices that he performs, but that he has never received either of 

 them. The Commiffioners conceive, that he would not be overpaid if thofe 

 allowances were made to him; and they cannot avoid recommending that a com- 

 penfation mould be made to him for his paft fervices, and fome proper provifion 

 made for compenfating him for fuch trouble as he may have in any future regu- 

 lations that may be made in the Foreft ; it being in their opinion abfolutely 

 jaeceflary, that a perfon of that defcription ihould be refident in the Foreft, to 



whom 



