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INDEX. 



Kyrle Society, and Burnham Beeches, 

 271, 272 



Labourers, agricultural, ancestors of, 14 ; 



their rights unrecognised between 



1689 and 1846, 21 ; effect of the Act 



of 1845 on the interests of, 23 ; regard 



shown between 1860 and 1870 for the 



interests of, 24 ; their interests in 



relation to the Bill of 1876, 280 

 Lakin, Mr. Henry, his suit respecting in- 



closure on Malvern Hills, 172, 173 

 Lambert, General, Manor of Mortlake 



bought by, 91 

 Lammas Lands, 9 ; wrongful dealing in 



sixteenth century with, 17; and 



Hackney Commons, 319, 321 

 Land, Collective ownership of, 7 ; equal 



division of, in ancient times, 8 ; its 



distribution under the feudal system, 



10; the Norman confiscation of, 11; 



additions, from the fall of the Stuarts 



to 1846, to cultivated, 20 

 Land Commission, 286 

 Lanfranc, Archbishop, and the Manor of 



Mortlake, 90 

 Lawrence, Mr. Philip Henry, and the 



Report of the Committee on Commons, 



34 ; suggests the formation of the 



Commons Preservation Society, 39 ; 



40, 42, 43 ; and the Plumstead in- 



closurcs, 79 ; 95 

 Lennard, Sir John, and his inclosure on 



West Wickham Common, 315; sells 



his interest in a portion of West 



Wickham Common, 317 

 Lewis's "History of the New Forest," 



Allusion to, 231 (note) 

 Lincoln, Bishop of, and the Manor of 



Burnham, 265 

 Little llford, Estate of the Corporation of 



London at, 131 

 Local Government Bill, Amendment for 



the protection of roadside wastes to 



the, 297 

 Locke, M.P., Mr., chairman of Committee 



on Commons, 30 ; and the Inclosure 



Bill of 1869, 275 

 London, Commons in the neighbourhood 



of, 2, 3 ; threatened inclosure of 



commons of, 29 

 London County Council, 53 ; makes an 



addition to Bostal Heath, 83 ; and 



Hackney Marshes, 322 

 London Fields, 318; purchase of Lord 



Amherst's interest in, 321 



Lopper's Hall, its origin, 156; laying the 

 foundation stone of, 156, 157 



Lopping in Epping Forest, Custom of, in 

 Queen Elizabeth's time, 125 ; plan of 

 a Lord of the Manor to prevent, 125, 

 126; penalty on the Willingales for, 

 126, 127 ; suits on the question of, 

 127-130; declared illegal, 152; the 

 question of compensation for the 

 withdrawal of the right of, 152, 153; 

 last occasion of , 153, 154 



Lord Warden, The, of Epping Forest, 

 106, 119, 120 



Lords of Manors, prevented from en- 

 closing commons for building pur- 

 poses, 2; creation of, 6, 10; their 

 treatment of common lands at the 

 Norman Conquest, 11 ; powers given 

 by the Statute of Merton to, 16 ; 

 their neglect in supervising commons, 

 25 ; their attempts to appropriate 

 commons, 25, 26 ; their rights versus 

 rights of commoners, 32-37 ; their 

 measures for inclosing commons, 39 : 

 suits against. 42-44 ; in the Epping 

 Forest case, 132-137. 145-147, 150; 

 payments made by railway companies 

 to, 331 ; effect of the Commons Liw 

 Amendment Act on the claims of, 

 357, 358 ; perversion of the functions 

 of, 359 



Lot, Distribution of common lands by, 8 



Loughton, Manor of, Inclosure of l,000acres 

 in the, 124; the question of lopping 

 in the Forest at Loughton, 153-156 



Lovell, Thomas, and the Uecree concerning 

 Cadnam Manor, 185 



Lowe, Mr., and Forest Crown-rights, 138 



Lydney House captured by the Parlia- 

 mentary forces, 252 



Maidlow, Mr., winner of Sir Henry Peek's 

 first prize, 45, 83 



Maine, Sir Henry, on the origin of 

 common lands, 7 



Maitland, Rev., Inclosure of 1,000 acres 

 in Loughton by, 124 ; injunction 

 against, 127; the case of Willingale 

 and, 126-130; and Lopper's Hall, 157 



Maltby Common, Proposed inclosure of, 

 283, 284 ; left open to the public, 285 



Malvern Forest, its disafforestation 

 authorised by Charles 1., 114 



Malvein Hills, 4 ; extent of, 170 ; earliest 

 references to, 170, 171 ; attempt at 

 disafforestation by Cornelius Ver- 

 muyden, 171; Act of Parliament 



