160 EPPING FOREST. 



proceedings before the Epping Forest Commission, 

 and in the great suit, by the conspicuous tact and 

 ability and untiring care with which, in the position 

 throughout of leading Counsel, he conducted the case. 

 The late Mr. W. E. Fisher acted also most ably 

 throughout as Junior, and has left a valuable and 

 exhaustive treatise on the Forest of Essex, as a lasting 

 memorial of his connection with the case, and to which 

 I have been largely indebted in my short account of 

 the history of the Forest. None of the above, however, 

 would have been able to achieve success if it had not 

 been for the great experience in such cases of Mr. 

 Robert Hunter, and the extraordinary care and ability 

 with which he collected and sifted all the facts and 

 evidence relating to the Commoners from the earliest 

 times, by means of which their rights over the Forest 

 were finally vindicated in so complete a manner, and 

 the greatest of all the Commons suits was brought to 

 a successful conclusion. 



It may be confidently affirmed that never in the 

 past experience of the Law Courts was there a de- 

 cision by which upwards of 400 persons were compelled 

 to disgorge 3,000 acres of land wrongfully inclosed, and 

 by which there was secured for ever an area of double 

 the size for the enjoyment for all time to come of the 

 people of London. 



