INDEX 



Abbey of Chertscy, and Tooting Gi-aveney, 

 84 ; and Coulsuon Manor, 174 



Abbey of Waltham Cross, 108 



Abbot of Westminster and Wandsworth 

 Manor, 99 



Acreage of inclosures, made from the fall 

 of the Stuarts to 1846, 20 ; between 

 1845 and 18(39, 23 ; since the Com- 

 mons Act of 1876, 286 



Act, the first Inclosure, 12 ; for the 

 Bounds of Forests (Charles I.), 113; 

 Commons (1866) (nee Metropolitan 

 Commons Act) ; Commons, of 1876, 

 5, 278-281, 312, 313. (For other 

 Acts and motions in Parliament on 

 Common Lands, see Parliament.) 



Acton Common, Extent of, 327 



Acts, Inclosure, between the fall of the 

 Stuarts and 1846, 20 



Agricultural Department (we Board of 

 Agriculture) 



Alcock, Mr. Thomas, and Banstead Manor, 

 190, 192; purchases the rights of 

 commoners, 195 ; suit against, 198- 

 209 



Alfarthing, Manor of, 100 



Althorpe, Viscount, and Earl Spencer, and 

 the Manor of Mortlake, 92 



Amherst, Lord, his interest in Hackney 

 Commons, 319; the Metropolitan 

 Board loses the action against, 320 ; 

 purchase of his interest in Hackney 

 Downs and London Fields, 32 1 ; pur- 

 chase of his interest in Hackney 

 Marshes, 322 



Anderida, Forest of, 161 



Anne, Queen, legislation to facilitate in- 

 closures in the reign of, 19 



Arbitrator of Epping Forest, 151 



Area, of commons near London, 3 ; of 

 Epping Forest, 3 ; of commons in 

 England and Wales, 4, 5 



Arundel, Lord, and the Manor of Tol'ard 

 Farnham, 214 



Ascot, Inclosures of roadside wastes at, 

 293-296 



Ashdown Forest, remaining portion of the 

 Forest of Anderida, 161 ; early owners 

 of, 161-166; surveys under ttie Com- 

 monwealth of, 162 ; disafforestation 

 by Charles II., 163; inclosures made 

 by Lord Bristol of, 163; iuclos ires 

 made by Sir Thomas Williams of, 

 164 ; decision of the Court of the 

 Duchy of Lancaster respecting in- 

 closures in, 165 ; curtailments made 

 by the Dorset family of commoners' 

 rights in, 166, 167 ; result of the suit 

 of Lord de la Warr against the 

 commoners of, 168-170; regulation 

 of, 329 



Ashridge, Demesne of, 58, 59 



Ayrton, Mr., his Bill for dealing with 

 Epping Forest, 140, 141; his motion 

 for the appointment of a Commission 

 of Inquiry into the condition of 

 Epping Forest, 143 



Bacon, Vice-Chancellor, his decision in 

 the suit of Lord de la Warr against 

 commoners of Ashdown Forest, 168, 

 169 



Baldwin, Mr. Christopher, and Clapham 

 Common, 324 



Banstead Commons, 3 ; and Mr. Doulton's 

 Committee, 32 ; lengthened litigation 

 concerning, 188 ; extent of, and views 

 from, 188; Mr. Alcock's proposals 

 regarding, 191, 192; Sir John Har- 

 topp's attempt to inclose, 193 ; pur- 

 chase by Sir John Hartopp of 

 commoners' interests in, 195, 196: 

 Sir John Hartopp's encroachments 

 on, 196 ; the litigation between the 

 commoners and Sir John Hartopp 

 respecting, 198-2J9; scheme of the 

 Agricultural Department for the 

 regulation of, 209, 210; conservators 

 of, 210 ; regulation of, 324 



Banstead Commons Protection Societv, 

 197 



Banstead Down, 189 



