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parlHies, ad incrementiim pauper u?n. When a 

 ftranger therefore rears one of thefe fudden 

 fabricks, the parifh-officers make him provide 

 a certificate from his own parifh, or they 

 remove him. But the mifchief commonly 

 arifes from a parifhioner's raifing his cottage, 

 and afterwards felHng it to a ftranger, which 

 may give him parifh-rights. Thefe incroach- 

 ments however are evils of fo long ftanding, 

 that at this day they hardly admit a remedy. 

 Many of thefe little tenements have been fo 

 long occupied, and have pafTed through fo 

 many hands, that the occupiers are now in 

 fecure poffefTion. 



Where the manor of Beaulieu-abbey is 

 railed from the forefl, a large fettlement of 

 this kind runs in fcattered cottages, at leafl 

 a mile along the rails. This neft of in- 

 croachers the late duke of Bedford, when 

 lord-warden of the foreft, refolved to root 

 out. But he met with fuch fturdy, and 

 determined oppofition from the forefters of 

 the hamlet, who amounted to more than 

 two hundred men, that he was obliged to 

 defift-f- — whether he took improper meafures. 



t Mr. Samber's MS. 



as 



