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parliament feldom interferes in a longer ex- 

 tenfion, except on particular occafions. 



Belides thefe defalcations arifing from the 

 bounty of the crown, the foreft is continually- 

 preyed on by the incroachments of inferior 

 people. There are multitudes of trelpallers, 

 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 

 conflant orders to deflroy all thefe in- 

 clofures, now and then aflert the rights of 

 the forefl by throwing down a fence ; but 

 it requires a legal procefs to throw down a 

 houfe, of which poffefhon has been taken. 

 The trefpafler therefore here, as on other 

 waftes, is careful to rear his cottage, and 

 get into it as quickly as poflible. 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 pofiefhon, during 

 the courfe of a moon-light night. Some- 

 times indeed, where the trefpafs is incon- 

 fiderable, the poileflbr pays his fine in the 

 court of Lyndhurfl, and the trefpafs is often 

 winked at. But thefe trefpafles are generally in 



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