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In the "Rolls of the Court of Attachments'" there are several 

 entiies of leave having been given from time to time to cut the wood 

 in the " Sale." For instance, in the records of a Court held on 

 November 19th, 1720, it was 



" Ordered that Wm. Row, Esq'", have leave to fell a Grove called the Sale 

 in Waltlianistow Walk at 3 several! falls, it appearing to be of full growth 

 cont. 80 acres." 



And on the 3rd July, 1786, is recorded the following protest 

 against the attempted enclosure of this wood : — 



" At this Court Sir James Tylney Long Bart. Lord Warden presented two letters 

 the one wrote b^-Himself to Governor Hornby owner of the Wood called the Sale 

 in the Forest of Waltham concerning His beginning to enclose the same & 

 Govr. Hornby's ansr. to the same ; which being read to the Court, The Court 

 are of opinion that it is necessary for the preservation of the Forest that the Wood 

 call'd the Sale cannot lawfully be enclosed." 



And again on 30th July, 1787, " Bamber Gascoyne, John Con- 

 yer, and Eliab Harvey, Esq'"'*- Verdurors," report : 



" We have viewed the Wood called the Sale in the Parish of Walthamstow 

 and part of the said Forest of Waltham at the request of William Hornby Esq"' 

 Proprietor of the said Wood called the Sale. And we do declare that if the said 

 Wood is inclosed by Pale as now begun and intended to be carried on by the said 

 William Hornby Esq"-- that the same will be injurious to the rights of the Forest 

 and the Ruin and Destruction of the Red and Fallow Deer of the s"* Forest - 

 and thereby that part of the Forest called the Walthamstow Walk will be as dis- 

 afforested and we do not think that the present Proprietor or those from whom he 

 claims has or had any Right by Pale to inclose the same. And we do also present 

 that there ancientl}- were one or more Roads and Ridings through the said Wood 

 called the Sale which have lately been and are still shut up and that the same 

 ought to be opened." 



Action seems to have been taken at this Court to abate the enclo- 

 sure, for it is recorded : — " Note the Failing taken down and the com- 

 munication bet" the Wood called the Sale and the other part of 

 the Forest opened." In spite of these presentments, " Wm. Hornby 

 Esq""" persevered in his attempts to enclose the Sale, and on 

 19th May, 1788, there is another record: — 



"John Laver Underkeeper of Walthamstow Walk presents William Hornby 



1 "The Rolls of the Court of Attachment of the Royal Forest of Waltham in the County of 

 of Essex, from the 31st October, 1713, to the 6th December, 1848," printed by order of the 

 Epping Forest Commissioners, 1783. The Court of Attachments, anciently the Woodmote, 

 whatever may have been its original nature and jurisdiction, was held under the Charter of the 

 Forest, which directed that the foresters and verderers should meet every forty days to see the 

 attachments of the forest, both for " greenhue and hunting" by presentments of the foresters. 

 There are no early records of this Court in the Forest of Waltham, although they appear to 

 have been duly kept. There are a few of the time of Elizabeth in the British Museum. In 

 the reigns of James I. and Elizabeth the Court was held at Chigwell, and in 1713 and afterwards 

 its sittings were always " apud le King's Head in Chigwell." 



2 Licences to enclose lands on the forest were only granted, as a genera! rule, on the under- 

 standing that the ditch or hedge should be low enough to allow a doe with her fawn easily to sur- 

 mount it, certainly not more than about four feet high. 



