Thoughts on the Proposed Inclosure of Waltham (commonly called Epping) and Hainault Forests / In which a new plan is suggested for disafforesting the same: with the heads of the bill now proposed for that purpose

Transcribed from the 1818 edition by David Price, email ccx074@pglaf.org
SECOND EDITION.
“Is not the separate Property of a Thing the great Cause of its endearment? Does any one respect a Common as much as he does his Garden?” South.
BY AN OLD INHABITANT .
LONDON :
PUBLISHED AND SOLD BY J. M. RICHARDSON, 23, CORNHILL, OPPOSITE THE ROYAL EXCHANGE; And can be had of the Newsmen in the several Parishes of Barking, Chigwell, Chinkford, Dagenham, Epping, East Ham, Great Ilford, Little Ilford, Leyton, Loughton, Lambourne, Nazing, Theydon-Bois, Stapleford-Abbot, Stratford, West Ham, Wanstead, Walthamstow, Waltham Holy Cross, Woodford; and of Messrs. Chalk and Meggy, Chelmsford.
1818.
GENTLEMEN ,
WHEN I took the liberty of addressing you , in January last , on the subject of the projected inclosure of these Forests , I could not foresee that the plan I submitted to general consideration would have been adopted by the Commissioners of Woods and Forests , which it appears , by the Heads of the Bill , they now propose bringing into Parliament has been done ; and the giving effect to a plan , on the mere suggestion of a private individual , whose name was not even known to them , shews , on their part , the strongest desire , in executing the duties of their office , to afford every possible degree of accommodation to the interest and convenience of the persons to be affected by it . Connected as I am with gentlemen who have considerable property in these Forests , I do earnestly hope that the plan I have suggested , and which has been , on the part of the Commissioners of Woods and Forests , so liberally adopted , will be carried into effect ; and , at the request of several friends , I have been induced to re-publish my Thoughts on the subject , in the hope that they may have some weight , with my readers , in convincing them of the expediency of giving their earnest support to the Bill now proposed .
I remain , Gentlemen ,
With great respect .