INDEX. 



381 



Feudal system, Effect on proprietorship of 

 waste grounds of, 9 ; at tho Norman 

 conquest, 11 



Field, Mr. Justice, his decision in the 

 Wigley Common case, 186 



Finch, Sir John, Attorney-General to 

 Charles I., 112 (and note) 



Fisher, Mr. W. R., 88, 160 



Fisher's " Forest of Epping " quoted, 107, 

 111 : " Forest of Essex " quoted, 115 



Fitzmaurice, Lord E., 41 ; and the Com- 

 mons Bill of 1876, 281: and the 

 proposed inclosure of Maltby Com- 

 mon, 284 ; moves for the repeal of 

 the Statute of Merton, 346 



Fixity of tenure in the time of Henry 

 IV., 13 



Fletcher, Mr. Hamilton, chairman of Ban- 

 stead Commons Protection Society, 

 197, 198 



"Folk-land," 8 ; vested in the Lord of the 

 Manor, 10 



Fordyce, Sir William, and an inclosure 

 on "Wandsworth Common, 100 



Forest Courts, and the control of Epping 

 Forest, 105; reconstitution of, under 

 Charles II., 115 



Forest of Dean, The, its disafforestation 

 threatened, 24 ; its disafforestation 

 contemplated by Charles I., 113; its 

 extent, 247 ; minerals of, 248 ; William 

 the Conqueror in the, 249 ; enlarged by 

 Norman kings, and reduced by Henry 

 III. and Edward I., 249 ; King John 

 hunting in, 250 ; the earliest per- 

 ambulation of, 250 ; war-ships made 

 from the timber of, 250 ; instructions 

 of the Spanish Government with 

 reference to, 250 : number of trees in 

 1638 in, 251 ; Charles I. sells the 

 mineral rights and trees in, 251 ; 

 General Massy acquires the rights 

 in, 252 ; inclosures under the Com- 

 monwealth resisted by the commoners 

 of, 252, 253 ; Sir John Winter, at the 

 Restoration, regains his rights in, 

 253 ; petition to Charles II. against 

 Sir John Winter's inclosures, by the 

 commoners of, 253 ; proposals made 

 to the Parliamentary Committee by 

 the commoners of, 254, 255 ; Act of 

 1668 for the regulation of, 255; the 

 cutting of trees by Sir John Winter 

 in, 255 ; maintenance of the rights of 

 miners in, 255 ; number of acres in- 

 closed after the Act of 1668, 256 ; coal 

 in, 256 ; works for charring coal set 



up in, 257 ; the rights of free miners 

 in, 257-259 ; the present outputs of 

 coal and of iron in, 259 ; the present 

 extent of, 260 ; villages built upon, 

 260 ; Parliamentary Committee ap- 

 pointed (1874) to inquire into the 

 condition of, 260 ; Mr. W. H. Smith's 

 Inclosure Bill for, 261 ; indignation 

 meetings against Mr. Smith's Bill in, 

 261 ; intervention of the Commons 

 Society on behalf of the commoners 

 of, 262; withdrawal of the Bill for 

 inclosing, 263 ; its preservation en- 

 sured, 263 



" Forest of Epping," Fisher's, quoted, 107, 

 111 



"Forest of Essex," Fisher's, quoted, 115, 

 160 



Forest laws, and Epping Forest, 104 ; and 

 the New Forest, 230 



Forests and moors of Scotland, Rights 

 over, 4 



France, Common lands in, 359 



Free miners of the Forest of Dean, 257- 

 259 ; and the committee of the House 

 of Commons, 260, 261 



Free trade, Ideas respecting inclosures 

 before the adoption of, 20, 22 ; its 

 influence on the question of inclosures, 

 24, 25 



Freeman, Mr., the historian of the Nor- 

 man Conquest, and William the Con- 

 queror's formation of the New Forest, 

 229 



Fry, Lord Justice, and the Banstead case, 

 205 



Frye, Rowland, and Banstead Manor, 190 



Game Laws, Enforcement at Burnham 

 Beeches of, 266 



Garden allotments, Acreage set apart 

 between 1845 and 1869 for, 23 



Gardens in village communities, 8 



Gateward's case, The decision of judges in 

 the, 14, 15, 257 



Gaultres, Forest of, Disafforestation of, by 

 Charles I., 113 



General Inclosure Act of 1845, 5 



Gladstone, Mr., on Forest Crown-rights, 

 138, 140 



Gloucester, Earl of, and Malvern Forest, 

 171 



Goldsmid, M.P., Mr. Frederick, 79 



Goldsmid, Sir Julian, and the suit against 

 Queen's College, Oxford, 42, 79 ; sells 

 a portion of his property for tho ex- 

 tension of Bostall Heath, 83 



