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The country through V/ALTHAM ABBEY, SE- 

 WARDSTOND, CHINGFORO, WOODFORD, 

 WALTHAMSTOW, and LEYTCN ; bounded by 

 Epping Foreft on' the eafb, ?.nd; the meadows -which lie 

 along the River Lea upon the weft, confids of a great 

 variety of foil, the leading feature of which is that of a 

 gravelly loam upon a brick and a tile earth, and upon fome 

 yellow clay. 



The adjacent Forefts of Epping and Henhault, are viewed 

 as an intolerable nuifa nee, and are equally regarded as fuch, 

 at CHIGWELL and at LOUGHTON, where the far- 

 mers uniformly declare, that the privilege of commonage 

 is by no means equal to the one tenth part of the loffes 

 they conftantly fuftain from the deer in breaking down theif 

 fences, trefpailing upon their fields, and deftroying their 

 crops either ripe or green. Againft thefe depredators it is 

 further alledged, that there are no fences, however labo- 

 rioufly contrived, expenfive, and formidable againft other 

 animals, that will in any wife avail : add to this, that the 

 evil is continually increafing from the annual increafe in the 

 ftock of deer. 



Thefe forefts, fo near the metropolis, are well known 

 to be thenurfery and refort of the moft idle and profligate of 

 men : here the under graduates in iniquity commence their 

 career with deer ftealing, and here the more finiilied and 

 hardened robber fecrets himfelf from juftice, or retires for a 

 time with his plunder from his haunts in London, where 

 his arreft is certain whenever it is determined by the mafter 

 robber, or the robber catcher, that the a6live and adual 

 robber is to be done. 



The country on the north weft fide of the Roding Riyer, 

 and comprehended v/ithin the pariflies of THEYDON 



BOIS, 



