10 INTRODUCTION. 



to remove by money. The most powerful 

 man in the land cannot enter the cottage of 

 the poorest person without his consent ; un- 

 less^ indeed^ that poor man happen to be a 

 criminal or a debtor. When^ for any public 

 work_, such as a canal or a bridge/ private 

 estates are w^anted^ an Act of Parliament must 

 be procured, and their full value must be paid ; 

 and when even a forest, or a wilderness is to be 

 enclosed for cultivation, the same process must 

 be gone through." 



And were there, in the reign of this Wil- 

 liam the Norman, no poachers, who would 

 hunt his game, in spite of his laws T inquired 

 Harry. 



There were persons, certainly, who stole 

 his deer ; but it was at the peril of having 

 their eyes put out, a limb cut off, or of being 

 hanged upon the spot. The forest laws were 



