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<NAME>TCP Staff (Michigan)</NAME>
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<HEAD>Rea&s;ons humbly offered to the Con&s;ideration of Parliament, again&s;t the pa&s;&s;ing of a Bill, Intituled, <HI>An Act for the better Pre&s;ervation of the Wood in</HI> DEANE-<HI>Forre&s;t, &s;o far as it relates to the Inclo&s;ure of the Moori&s;h Land, called</HI> Wall+moore.</HEAD>
<P N="1">I. BEcau&s;e many of the Free-holders within the Perambulation of the &s;aid Forre&s;t, who&s;e Habitations are adjoyning to <HI>Wallmoore,</HI> and who&s;e right of Common there is undeniable; as al&s;o many other Per&s;ons who time out of mind have enjoyed Common of Herbage there, will be greatly prejudi|ced, and many of them who now live well, if <HI>Wallmoore</HI> be Inclo&s;ed mu&s;t inevitably be ruined, and nece&s;&s;arily fall upon the Pari&s;hes adjacent for maintenance; which will be an in&s;uperable burthen to the Hun|dred of St. <HI>Brevill</HI>'s, in which there are above Forty Families (that borders upon <HI>Wallmoore,</HI> and have no other Common within four miles of them,) that will be great &s;ufferers if the Inclo&s;ure de&s;ired &s;hould be per|mitted.</P>
<P N="2">II. The Inclo&s;ing of the &s;aid Lawn is contrary to the main &s;cope and intent of the late Act of Parlia|ment, Intituled, <HI>An Act for the Increa&s;e and Pre&s;ervation of Timber within the Forre&s;t of</HI> Deane, <HI>and for the Inclo&s;ing of</HI> 11000 <HI>Acres thereof,</HI> which expre&s;&s;es that &s;uch ground &s;hall be Inclo&s;ed as is mo&s;t apt and meet to produce Wood and Timber for the future benefit of the Kingdom, and may be be&s;t &s;pared from the u&s;e of the Commoners. For, fir&s;t, This Act declares this Lawn altogether unfit for the producing of Wood or Timber. And &s;econdly, This <HI>Wallmoor</HI> cannot be &s;pared from the u&s;e of the Commoners, without the grea|te&s;t mi&s;chief to them imaginable, &s;ending them above five miles for Common, who have it now lying at their doors, and taking from them more in value by Inclo&s;ing this 250 Acres than the taking away of 1000 Acres in any other part of the Forre&s;t (more proper to an&s;wer the de&s;ign of the former Act) will do. Be&s;ides, there are the Free-holders and Tenants of the Manour of <HI>Rodleigh,</HI> who have undoubted right of Common in all parts of the &s;aid Forre&s;t. And although <HI>Prima facie</HI> the Inclo&s;ure of <HI>Wallmoore</HI> &s;eems only to concern a few borderers thereon, yet duly con&s;ider'd it will appear prejudicial to the whole Forre&s;t for above 1000. head of Gattel, as Hor&s;es, Oxen, Cows, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> now kept upon that Moor, will be thrown upon the Forre&s;t if <HI>Wallmoor</HI> be Inclo&s;ed.</P>
<P N="3">III. It is conceived altogether unnece&s;&s;ary to enclo&s;e the &s;aid Lawn for the u&s;es in the Bill mentioned: For that the Act for Inclo&s;ing the 11000 Acres hath in expre&s;s words made Provi&s;ion for defraying the Charge of making and maintaining the &s;aid Inclo&s;ures, And the Provi&s;ion thereby made is &s;ufficient for ever (if duly ordered) to rai&s;e 150 <HI>l. per Ann.</HI> for the u&s;es in this Bill mentioned. There being va&s;t quantities of old de|cay'd Wood and Timber (no way fit for Shipping), that prudently managed and carefully cut by degrees every year, will ea&s;ily rai&s;e the money de&s;ired by this Bill without doing any prejudice.</P>
<P N="4">IIII. There is &s;ome Rea&s;on to &s;u&s;pect a de&s;ign of &s;ome Per&s;ons to make a private advantage of this Inclo|&s;ure de&s;ired. For that this Lawn (when Inclo&s;ed) will be worth at lea&s;t double the Rent of 150 <HI>l. per Ann.</HI> Intended to be re&s;erved; be&s;ides, will rai&s;e money to An&s;wer all the Charge of the Inclo&s;ure. And it would be very hard to take from the Country 400 <HI>l. per Ann.</HI> to An&s;wer the Charge only of 150 <HI>l. Per Ann.</HI></P>
<P>Upon the whole matter, It will be &s;omewhat &s;evere upon the Country if after 11000 Acres of their Common is enclo&s;ed by their Con&s;ent for a National good; the &s;ame Parliament (that took Care &s;uch Inclo|&s;ure &s;hould be with lea&s;t prejudice to their Common) &s;hould now by a &s;ub&s;equent Act without their Con&s;ent take away the be&s;t of their Common: e&s;pecially,</P>
<P N="1">I. Becau&s;e the &s;ame is not fit for Timber which was the end of enclo&s;ing the &s;aid 11000 Acres.</P>
<P N="2">II. Becau&s;e it is &s;uppo&s;ed the full 11000 Acres is already enclo&s;ed, were the enclo&s;ure mea&s;ured by the Pole mea&s;ure.</P>
<P N="3">III. For that there is a way already provided for An&s;wering the Charge of Maintaining the Inclo&s;ures.</P>
<P N="4">IIII. If there were not &s;uch provi&s;ion yet is there no nece&s;&s;ity of Inclo&s;ing <HI>Wallmoore;</HI> for there are other Lawns within the Inclo&s;ures made (to wit) in <HI>Kannop, Wttewood</HI> and other places, on which no Timber will ever grow, which if &s;eparated would rai&s;e the 150 <HI>l. Per Ann.</HI> de&s;ired, without prejudice to any mens right of Common or the Kings Inclo&s;ures.</P>
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