108 EFFING FOREST. 



Edward the Confessor and Harold* to Hemw II., to 

 various religious bodies ; six of them to the Abbey 

 of Waltham Holy Cross, three to the Monastery of 

 St. Mary, Stratford, and a single Manor to each of 

 the following bodies : the Cathedral Church of St. 

 Paul, the Priory of Berraondsey, the Abbey of Barking, 

 and the Priory of Christ Church, London. They re- 

 mained in these hands till the dissolution of the 

 religious houses in the time of Henry VIII., when 

 they were appropriated by that Sovereign ; but they 

 were subsequently granted by him or his successors 

 to private owners, from whom they descended 

 to the persons who held them at the time of the 

 great suit of the Corporation of London. The other 

 Manors, not granted to religious bodies, were at a very 

 early period in the hands of private owners, from whom 

 they descended by bequest or purchase to their late 

 possessors. 



All these grants were subject to the right of the 

 Crown, under the Forest Laws, to forbid the inclosure of 

 the waste. The Manors included much land that was 

 not in the waste of the Forest, and where freehold and 

 copyhold tenants had properties, in respect of which 

 they had the right of turning out cattle on the waste, 

 and the right of pannage, that is, of turning pigs 



* King Harold was a great benefactor to Waltham Abbey. 

 Tradition says that he came there to pray before going forth to 

 meet the Normans. After his defeat and death, at the battle of 

 Hastings, his body was brought to the Abbey for burial. His tomb- 

 stone in the chancel was inscribed with the words " Haroldus 

 Infelix." " Epping Forest," by E. N. Buxton, p. 68. 



