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INDEX. 



within the Metropolitan Police area, 

 37, 38 ; on the regulation of Com- 

 mons, 38 



Common-field system in early England, 8, 

 9, 109 (note) ; at Tollard Farnham, 

 216, 217, 218 



Common fields, Wrongful dealing in six- 

 teenth century with, 17 



Common lands, Variety of ownership of, 

 1 ; rights of turning out cattle on to, 

 1 ; rights of digging turf, etc, on, 1 ; 

 technically the wastes of the Manors, 

 1 ; to be distinguished from private 

 uninclosed lands, 1 ; near London and 

 other towns, 2, 3 ; used for recreative 

 purposes, 2 ; as reservoirs of fresh air 

 and health, 3 ; in the provinces, 4 ; in 

 Surrey, Sussex, and Hampshire, 4 ; in 

 mountainous districts, 4 : total area 

 in England and Wales of, 4, 5 ; area 

 in 1834 of, 5; origin of, 7; ancient 

 distribution of, 8 ; under the feudal 

 system, 9, 10; as effected bv the 

 Statute of Merton, 11-13; the'Stix- 

 wold case, and, 14-16 ; their inclosure 

 in the sixteenth century, 1 7 ; legis- 

 lation under Queen Anne respecting, 

 19; Acts between 1689 and 1846 re- 

 specting, 20, 21 ; Act of 1845 regard- 

 ing, 22 ; acres inclosed between 1845 

 and 1869 ; movements between 1860 

 and 1870 respecting, 24 ; neglect of 

 Lords of Manors in supervising, 25 ; 

 the attempt of Lords of Manors to 

 appropriate, 25, 26 ; Mr. Doulton's 

 Committee on, 30-38 ; measures taken 

 by Lords of Manors for the inclosure 

 of, 39 ; and the work of the Commons 

 Preservation Society, 39-44 ; powers 

 under the Metropolitan Commons Act 

 for the regulation of, 45, 312-330 ; 

 prizes offered by Sir Henry Peek for 

 essays on the preservation of, 45 ; 

 statistics of inclosures since 1876 of, 

 286 ; attacks by railway companies 

 on, 29, 33, 100, 193, 331-342; powers 

 under the Commons Act of 1876 for 

 regulation of, 313; attacks by Cor- 

 porations on, 338-341 ; effect of the 

 Commons Law Amendment Act on 

 claims to, 357, 358 



Commons Act of 1876, 5, 278-281, 312, 

 313 



Commons Law Amendment Act, The, 354, 

 355 



Commons Preservation Society, the, 

 Formation of, 39 ; chairman and 



members of, 40, 41 ; its first labours, 

 41 ; suits instituted by, 42-44; and 

 the Metropolitan Commons Act, 45 ; 

 and the suit of Mr. Gurney Hoare 

 against Sir Thomas Wilson, 52, 53 ; 

 its movement for the acquisition of 

 Parliament Hill and other adjoining 

 property, 56 ; and Plumstead 

 Common, 79 ; and the Willingale 

 case, 127; and the Epping Forest 

 case, 149; and the lopping claims of 

 the people of Loughton, 154 ; and the 

 Malvern Hills, 172, 192; and Ban- 

 stead Commons, 196, 200, 211; and 

 Tollard Farnham Common, 212 ; and 

 Ihe New Forest, 242 ; and the Forest 

 of Dean, 261 ; and Burnham Beeches, 

 271 ; and Rural Commons, 278, 279; 

 and roadside wastes, 291 ; and village 

 greens, 307 ; and West Wickham 

 Common, 315 ; and Hackney Com- 

 mons, 321 ; and the invasions of 

 railways on commons, 333, 338 ; its 

 conflict with Corporations, 338-341; 

 its movement for the repeal of the 

 Statute of Merton, 347 



Commonwealth, Act and ordinance con- 

 cerning forests of the, 114; surveys 

 of Ashdovvn Forest under the, 162 ; 

 plantations made in the New Forest 

 during the, 234 ; inclosures in the 

 Forest of Dean under the, 252, 253 ; 

 Burnham Beeches pollarded for 

 muskets under the, 264 



Communities, village, 7 



Conservators, of Wimbledon Common, 98, 

 99; of Wandsworth Common, 101; 

 of Malvern Hills, 173 



Convent of Burnham, 265 



Copyhold, Act of 1887, 351-354 



Copyholders, Rights over waste lands of, 

 13 ; their rights declared to be for- 

 feited under Henry VIII., 18; their 

 rights over Hampstead Heath, 50, 51: 

 as affected by the Copyhold Act of 

 1887, 350-353 



Corporate bodies, Rights over common 

 lands held by, 1 5 



Corporation of Birmingham, and its 

 water-supply scheme, 339, 340 



Corporation of London, The, and the 

 Lords of Manors of Epping Forest, 

 42 ; their fight for the cause of the 

 Commoners, 132-137, 145-147, 150; 

 purchase of rights of Lords of Manors 

 in Epping Forest by, 150; expenses 

 incurred in the Epping Forest case by, 



