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raising and propagating of wood, till the whole nation 

 were furnish'd for posterity. 



4. Which work if his Majesty shall resolve to 

 accomplish, he will leave such an everlasting obligation 

 on his people, and raise such a monument to his 

 fame, as the ages for a thousand years to come, shall 

 have cause to celebrate his precious memory, and his 

 Royal successors to emulate his virtue. For thus 

 (besides the future expectations) it would in present, 

 be no deduction from his Majesty's treasure, but some 

 increase, and fall in time to be a fair and worthy 

 accession to it ; whiles this kind of propriety would 

 be the most likely expedient to civilize those wild 

 and poor bordurers ; and to secure the vast and 

 spreading heart of the forest, which with all this 

 indulgence, would be ample enough for a princely 

 demesne : And if the difficulty be to find out who 

 knows, or acknowledges what are the bordures ; this 

 article were worthy and becoming of as serious an 

 inquisition, as the legislative power of the whole 

 nation can contrive. 



5. The sum of all, is ; get the bordures well 

 tenanted, by long terms, and easie rents, and this will 

 invite and encourage takers ; whilst the middle, most 

 secure, and interior parts would be a Royal portion. 

 Let his Majesty therefore admit of any willing adven- 

 turers in this vast circle for such enclosures in the 

 precinct ; and rather of more, than of few, though an 

 hundred or two should join together for any enclosure 

 of five hundred acres more or less ; that multitudes 

 being thus engaged, the consideration might procure 

 and facilitate a full discovery of latter encroachments, 

 and fortifie the recovery by favourable rents, im- 

 provements and reversions by copy-hold, or what 



