PREFACE.
The Writer of the following Letter, which he
presumes to address to His Majesty's Commis-
sioners of Woods and Forests, and which he
wishes to attract the notice of His Majesty's
Ministers, to whom he is a sincere well-wisher,
begs that it may be understood to be a Prelude
to a Publication in which he has engaged to show
that a partial Enclosure of the Forest of Wal-
tham and Hainault is practicable, without any
diminution either of the interests or enjoyments
of Persons resident in or connected with these
Forests. The Verderor, who is the promoter of
such an Enclosure, has pledged himself to prove
that every interest on these Forests, from the
King to the Peasant, will be materially improved
by it. This pledge would have been redeemed