The following anecdote is given in “Lettres tres sur l’Angleterre par A. de Stael Holstein.”  “King George III. once gave directions for closing up a gate and a road in his own park at Richmond, which had been free to foot passengers for many years.  A citizen of Richmond, who found the road convenient to the inhabitants of that village, took up the cause of his neighbours.  He contended, that, although the thoroughfare might have been originally an encroachment, it had become public property by the lapse of time, and by prescriptive right, and that he should compel the king to re-open it.  He brought his suit, without hesitating, into a court of justice, and gained his process.”

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