from one shilling
to two shillings per acre." As to the latest encroachments, they gave
their opinion that "their possessors should have terms varying from
fourteen to twenty-one years, paying rents varying from four to eight
shillings per acre; the condition as to building dwelling-houses to apply
to these classes also." The following table, showing the acreage of the
encroachments, classed as stated above, with the number of houses situate
in the six "Walks" of the Forest, serves to exhibit the localities of the
population of the district for the last hundred years.

Name of Houses. Previous Between Since
"Walk." to 1787. 1787 and 1812.
1812.
A. R. P. A. R. P. A. R. P.
Worcester 404 324 1 38 160 2 3 0 1 19
Park End 304 473 0 18 43 3 34 14 2 6
Blakeney 249 180 2 25 62 0 35.5 2 0 9.5
Little 196 174 1 6 104 0 33 4 3 26
Dean
Speech 0 2 7
House
Ruerdean 290 353 0 26 199 3 36 2 1 11
Hillier's 17 5 3 39 1 2 22
Lane
Yorkley 2 1 0 0 0 1 18
Lane
--- ----- ----- --- ---- ---- --- ---- ---- ----
1462 1510 2 32 573 0 10.5 24 2 9.5

During the greater part of September this year the Dean Forest
Commissioners were engaged either at Newnham, Westbury, or the
Speech-house hearing evidence "as to forming the Forest into a Parish,"
and respecting "Rights of Common." With the design of eliciting the
opinions of the neighbourhood on the first head, for civil purposes only,
"a circular was drawn up on the subject of enclosing lands on the outward
boundaries of the Forest, with a view of relieving the conterminous
parishes from the support of the Forest poor." It was sent to the
parishes bo