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INDEX. 



the repeal of the Statute of Merton, 



346 

 Mountainous districts, Common lands in, 



4 ; regulation of commons in, 329 

 Mundella, M.P., Mr., and the proposed 



inclosure of Malthy Common, 284 



Nasse, Professor, on the origin of common 

 lands, 7 



National Rifle Association, and Wimhle- 

 don Common, 97, 99 



Xavvies sent to Berkhamsted to destroy 

 the fences round the Common, 64, 65 



Navy, Timber for the, from the New For- 

 est, 234 ; from the Forest of Dean, 251 



Nelson, Sir Thomas, and the preservation 

 of Epping Forest, 159 



New Forest, Small ownerships in the, 21 ; 

 its disafforestation threatened, 24 ; 

 created by William the Conqueror, 

 228 ; the devastation said to have 

 been made by the Conqueror in the 

 formation of the, 229, 230 ; adminis- 

 tration of forest laws in, 231 : ex- 

 tensions by the Conqueror's successors 

 to, 231 ; original extent of, 232 ; the 

 deer in, 232, 233 ; poaching in, 233 ; 

 the trees of, 233, 234 ; inclosures for 

 the growth of timher made in the, 

 234 ; the Act of 1851 for inclosing 

 and planting a portion of, 235 ; claims 

 of commoners in, 236, 237 ; small 

 commoners of, 238, 239 ; public move- 

 ment of 1865 to resist encroachments 

 in, 240 ; Mr. Fawcett's motion re- 

 specting, 240 ; Lord Montagu's com- 

 mittee for inquiring into the condition 

 of, 241, 242 ; Act of 1877 with regard 

 to, 242 ; election of verderers for, 

 243 ; non-registered commoners of, 



243, 244; the "Ranges Act" and, 



244, 245 ; action pending between the 

 Crown and the verderers of, 246 ; 

 threatened by a railway, 338 



"New Forest, History of," Lewis's, Allu- 

 sion to, 231 (note) 



Newmarket Heath case, 301 



Nicholls, Mr., historian of the Forest of 

 Dean, 251 



Norman conquest, Establishment of the 

 feudal system at the, 1 1 



North, Sir Thomas, and the Manor of 

 Hampstead, 47 



Northbourne, Lord, 4 1 



Northumberland, Duke of, moves the 

 rejection of the Commons Bill of 

 1871, 276 



Northwich, Inclosure of roadside wastes 

 near, 297 (note) 



Palewell Common, 92 



Palmer, Sir Roundell. (See Selborne. 

 Lord.) 



Pannage, Right of, in Epping Forest, 108 



Park Down, 189, 196 



Parliament, Report of Inclosure Com- 

 missioners in 1871 to, 4, 5; report of 

 Inclosure Commissioners in 1873 to, 

 5 ; decision respecting inclosure of 

 lands by Henry III.'s, 1 1 ; Acts re- 

 garding inclosures between 1689 and 

 1846 by, 20; Inclosure Act of 1845 

 passed by, 22 ; approves the dis- 

 afforestation and inclosure of Hain- 

 ault Forest, and recommends the dis- 

 afforestation and inclosure of Epping 

 Forest, 24, 119; private Bill respect- 

 ing Wimbledon Common and Putney 

 Heath laid hefore, 28 ; passing of the 

 Metropolitan Commons Act by, 44 ; 

 Sir Thomas Wilson's private Bills in, 

 49 ; measure empowering the Board 

 of Works to purchase Parliament Hill 

 and other property passed by, 56 ; the 

 Wimbledon and Putney Bill passes, 

 97 ; and the Wandsworth Common Act, 

 101 ; and the Act for the Bounds of 

 Forests (Charles I.), 113; Forests Act 

 during the Commonwealth passed by, 

 114; Committee in 1863, to enquire 

 into forestal rights, appointed by, 

 122 ; Committee on London Commons 

 (1865) appointed by, 122 ; Act, 

 authorising the application of the 

 proceeds of duty on grain for the 

 preservation of commons, 136 ; dis- 

 cussion of Mr. Ayrton's Bill in, 140- 

 142 ; Mr. Fawcett's motion, for an 

 address to the Crown on Crown 

 rights, in, 139; Lord Mount-Temple's 

 motion in, 142 ; Mr. Ayrton's motion, 

 for a Commission of Inquiry, in, 143 ; 

 Bill of 1878 for the control of Epping 

 Forest passes, 150-153; Act confirm- 

 ing the disafforestation of Malvern 

 Forest passed by, 172; Act of 1884 

 for the regulation of Malvern Hills 

 passed by, 173; Act disfranchising the 

 chase of Cranbourne, 214, 215 ; the 

 New Forest Act of 1851 of, 235; Mr. 

 Fawcett's and Lord Montagu's mo- 

 tions with reference to the New 

 Forest in, 240, 2 41 ; the New Forest 

 Act of 1877 of, 242, 243; the 



