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INDEX. 



wealth in preventing the inclosure of 

 Berkhamsted Common, 73. 



Edmund, Earl of Cornwall, 67 



Edward I., Survey of Waltham Forest 

 under, 110 



Edward III. and Berkhamsted Manor, 58 



Edward VI., his proclamation concerning 

 the forest laws, 110, 111 



Edward, the Black Prince, and Berk- 

 hamsted Manor, 58 



Edward the Confessor, The feudal system 

 under, 11 ; and the Manor of Mort- 

 lake, 90 



Egmont, Earl of, and Banstead Manor, 

 190; accepts Burgh Heath as com- 

 pensation for his rights as commoner 

 of Banstead, 196 



Egmont (the present), Earl of, joins the 

 commoners in the Banstead case, 201 



Elizabeth, Queen, hardships suffered 

 through inclosing lands under, 17 ; in 

 Epping Forest, 111 



Elton, Mr., and the suit of Lord de la 

 Warr against the commoners of Ash- 

 down Forest, 168 



England, Common-field system in, 8, 9 ; 

 parcelling out of ground under the 

 feudal system in, 9 ; military service 

 under the feudal system in, 9 ; acres 

 inclosed from the fall of the Stuarts 

 to 1846, 20 



Epping Forest, Area of, 3, 103 ; its dis- 

 afforestation recommended by a Com- 

 mittee of the House of Commons, 24 ; 

 and Mr. Doulton's Committee, 32, 

 122; fencing of portions of, 39; and 

 the Corporation of London, 42 ; the 

 trees in, 104 ; formerly a part of 

 Waltham Forest, 104 ; the forest 

 laws and Forest Courts in the control 

 of, 104-106; the Lord Warden of, 

 106 ; Manors of, 107, 108; grants by 

 various sovereigns of Manors of, 107, 

 108; right of lopping trees in, 109; 

 earliest description of, 109 ; surveys 

 of, in the reigns of Henry III. and 

 Edward I., 109, 110; the favourite 

 resort of sovereigns, 110; described 

 by Sir Bobert Heath, 110 ; proclama- 

 tion by Edward VI. respecting, 110, 

 111; Queen Elizabeth in, 111; James 

 I. hunting in, 111; money raised by 

 Charles I. from, 112; concession of 

 Charles I. concerning the bounds of, 

 112, 113; survey of, under Charles 

 I. , 113; threatened during the 

 Commonwealth, 114; Oliver Crom- 



well's ordinance concerning, 114; 

 area in 1793, 116 ; abuses of, in 1813, 

 116 ; inclosures from 1793 to 1848 in, 

 116 ; reduction of area in 1848, 117 ; 

 Lord Duncan's Committee respecting, 

 117, 118; Royal Commission of 1849 

 on, 118; sale of Crown rights in, 

 120; reduction of area in 1851, 121 ; 

 large inclosures made in, 121 ; the 

 Homage- juries and grants of wastes 

 of, 123; reduction of area by, 1869, 

 124 ; the Willingale case, and the 

 custom of lopping in, 126-130; the 

 case of the Corporation of London 

 against the Lords of Manors of, 

 131-137, 145-147, 150 ; purchase by 

 the Corporation of the interest of 

 Lords of Manors in, 151 ; provisions 

 of the Government measure for the 

 control of, 151-153 ; the last occasion 

 of lopping in, 153, 154; the question 

 of lopping finally decided by award- 

 ing compensation to cottagers in the 

 Manor of Loughton, 156 ; thrown 

 open to the public by the Queen, 157 : 

 additions made by the Corporation to. 

 158, 159 ; threatened by railways, 337 



" Epping Forest," by Mr. E. N. Buxton, 

 quoted, 108 (note) 



Epsom Commons, 3 ; and Mr. Doulton's 

 Committee, 32 ; extent of, 327 

 scheme for inclosure of, 328 ; litiga- 

 tion with reference to, 328 



Epsom Downs, Scheme for inclosure of, 

 327, 328 



Essays, Prizes offered by Sir Henry Peek 

 for, 45, 46 



Evelyn's " Svlva" quoted, 250, 251 



Eyre, Mr. Briscoe, 41, 181, 241, 243 



Eyre family, The, and the Manor of 

 Burnham, 265 



Falkland, Lord, Impeachment of Sir John 

 Finch by, 112 (note) 



Farthingdown, 174 



Fawcett, Mr. , 40 ; moves an address to 

 the Crown on the Crown rights in 

 Epping Forest, 139; his motion on 

 the New Forest, 240 ; and the in- 

 closure Bill of 1869, 273-275; an^. 

 the Commons Bill of 1871, 277 ; ana 

 the Amendment Bill of 1876, 280 

 and the Standing Committee on 

 Commons, 282 ; his persistent efforts 

 to prevent inclosures, 287 ; allusion 

 to the " Life " of, 287 (note) 



Ferard, Mr., 295 



