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are bounden by oath to notice, have induced me
to appeal to your lordships for your assistance,
and to submit to your lordships the following
publication, which is intended as a prelude to
another, which will show that a partial Enclosure
is practicable without occasioning any inconve-
nience or annoyance to the inhabitants who
reside on them, or in their vicinity; but that
every person, who has an interest in them, from
the Crown to the peasant, will be greatly bene-
fitted by such an enclosure. Without your
lordships' assistance and support, I shall have
some trouble to point out those spots of land
best adapted for the purpose, on the principles I
have mentioned, and in conformity with the Act
lately passed the 1st and 2nd Gul. 4, cap. 59,
intituled, " An Act to enable Churchwardens
" and Overseers to enclose Land for the Benefit of
" Poor Persons residing in the Parish in which
" such Crown Lands are situated."
My Lords, I feel it a duty imposed upon me
by my oath to apprize your lordships, that I have
met with so many instances of partial encroach-
ments on these Forests, and such gross infring-
ments of His Majesty's rights, as to call for
your lordships' speedy investigation. I consider
these Forests as a source of considerable revenue
to the Crown, and at the same time of employ-
ment and provision for thousands of His Majesty's