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authorising the disafforestation of, 

 172; recent encroachments in, 172; 

 decision of Judge Kettle in the Lakin 

 case respecting, 173 ; settlement for 

 the control and regulation of, 173, 

 329 



Manisty, Mr. Justice, and the preservation 

 of Epping Forest, 159 



Manor Courts, Disuse of, 25, 78 



Manors, Common lands the wastes of, 1 ; 

 origin of, 9 ; trustees of, 25 ; rolls of, 

 25, 52, 78, 86, 175, 185, 204; of Ep- 

 ping and Hainault Forests, 107, 108 



Mansfield, Lord, opposes Sir Thomas 

 Wilson's application to Parliament 

 regarding Hampstead Heath, 49 ; 54 ; 

 and Ken Wood, 55 



Martwood's definition of a royal forest, 

 104 



Mapes, William, and William the Con- 

 queror's formation of the New Forest, 

 229 



Marlborough, Sarah, Duchess, and the 

 Manor of Mortlake, 91 



Martin, Baron, his decision on an ob- 

 struction of roadside wastes, 290, 291 



Maryon family, The, and Hampstead 

 Manor, 47 



Massy, General, Sir John Winter's rights 

 in the Forest of Dean assigned to, 

 252 



Maurer, Von, on the origin of common 

 lands, 7 



Maurice, Mr. C. E., 55 



Maynard, Sir John, Tooting Graveney 

 granted to, 84 



McClymont, Mr., 365 



Meath, Lord, and his motion affecting the 

 Statute of Merton, 347 



Mcllish, Lord Justice, on the rights of 

 commoners in Epping Forest, 136, 



187 



Melville, Mr., and commoners' rights in 



Ashdown Forest, 168 



Metropolitan Board of Works, Scheme for 

 dealing with commons proposed by, 

 34, 37 ; transference of Hampstead 

 Heath to the, 53, 315 ; and Wimble- 

 don Common, 97 ; its apathy with 

 regard to public rights, 159; purchase 

 of rights of Lords of Manors by the, 

 314; Tooting Bee and Tooting 

 Graveney Commons purchased by, 

 315 ; its purchase of parks, etc., 364 



Metropolitan Commons Act, carried in 

 1866, 44 ; powers under the, 45 ; and 

 the price asked by Sir Thomas Wilson 

 Z 



for Hampstead Heath, 50 ; and the 

 purchase of Parliament Hill and 

 land belonging to Sir Spencer Wil- 

 son, 56, 57, 192 ; its proposed exten- 

 sion (1871), 276; regulation of 

 commons under the, 312, 314, 315 ; 

 its extension throughout the country 

 desirable, 360 

 Michel, Mr. John, and Plumstead Manor, 



78 

 Miles, Sir C, and Walton Common, 308 

 Military service under the feudal system, 



Military Lands Consolidation Bill, The, 

 and common lands for rifle ranges, 

 245 



Mill, John Stuart, 40 ; on Mr. Ayrtons 

 Bill, 142; influenced by Mrs. Grote 

 regarding the opening of commons 

 to the public, 270 



Miller, Q.C., Sir A. E., and the Tollard 

 Farnham arbitration case, 213 



Minerals of the Forest of Dean, 248, 251 



Minet, Mr., and Dartford Heath, 42, 179 



Mitcham Common, 3 ; and Mr. Doulton's 

 Committee, 33 ; regulation of, 324 ; 

 area of, 324 ; former neglected con- 

 dition of, 325 ; early records of, 325 ; 

 inclosures on, 326 ; Mr. Bidder's 

 movement to restrain inclosures on, 

 326 ; manorial rights to, 325 ; placed 

 under the control of ratepayers, 327 ; 

 proposed branch railway line through, 

 336 ; proposal for a sewage farm on, 

 337 



Monastery of St. Augustine, Canterbury, 

 and Plumstead Manor, 77 



Montagu, Lord, moves for a Select Com- 

 mittee to inquire into the condition of 

 the New Forest, 241, 347 



Moors and deer forests of Scotland, The 

 public prohibited from, 6 



Morgan, Mr. Augustus, and Dartford 

 Heath, 42, 178; suit of Mr. Minet 

 against, 179 



Mornin^ton, Lord, Inclosuro of portions 

 of Epping Forest by, 121 ; 120 (note) ; 

 158 



Morrison, Mr. George, 241 



Morten, Mr. Garrett, 197 



Mortlake, Manor of, 90-92 



Mount-Temple, Lord, 40 ; and the Metro- 

 politan Commons Act, 45 ; his motion 

 in Parliament on Epping Forest, 142, 

 143 ; and the New Forest Committee, 

 242 ; chairman of tho Inclosuro Com- 

 mittee of 1869, 275 ; his motion for 



