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dispute as to each of the plots. The Commissioners'
schedule has been carefully examined, and it appears
by that, that the number of enclosures, the price of
which would be in dispute, is 275, belonging to
147 different owners, but in this respect the accuracy
of the schedule as to the ownership cannot be relied
upon as it may turn out that some of the plots have
been sub-divided, which would increase the number
of cases.
Nor have the Commissioners been thus tender only
to the owners of lands illegally enclosed. They have
even refused to put any limit upon leases which have
been unlawfully granted of parts of the Forest, so that
in every way their leaning has been against, and not for
the public.
The Commissioners apologetically suggest that
the precedent they set in this case will not be an en-
couragement to enclosers in other cases throughout
the country, which shews how little they are able
to see the consequences of their actions. They say
this result cannot be arrived at, because the enclosures
having been determined to be unlawful it will not
form a precedent for enclosures being declared to be
lawful in other cases, but the Commissioners them-
selves set the very precedent. The law has declared
the enclosures to be unlawful and that they should
be thrown out, but the Commissioners, turning the
clemency of the Corporation in favour of houses and