INDEX. 



391 



Wetherell, Mr., Assistant Inclosure Com- 

 missioner, his award respecting the 

 rights of commoners on Banstead 

 Commons, 194, 204 



Whateley, Mr. A. P., 88 



Whetstone, Sir Bernard, L< rd of the 

 Manor of "Woodford, suit against, 106 



White, Colonel, his report to the House 

 of Commons with regard to the de- 

 struction of fences in the Forest of 

 Dean, 253 



White, Q.C., Mr. Meadows, and the rights 

 of commoners on Banstead Commons, 

 205, 206 



Wightman, Mr. Justice, his decision in 

 the Woodford Green case, 302, 303 



Wigley Common, Extent of, 180 ; early 

 owners of Manor of, 180, 181 ; 

 claims of Mr. Sloane Stanley to, 181, 

 186 ; Mr. Eyre's action against Mr. 

 Stanley for encroachments on, 182, 

 186; the " monster "hox containing 

 Lord Chancellor Hatton's decree 

 concerning, 182, 184, 185; called 

 " Paulton's Common," 186 



Wildman, Major, and the works for 

 charring coal in the Forest of Dean, 

 257 



William the Conqueror and his formation 

 of New Forest, 228-230; in the 

 Forest of Dean, 249 



Williams, Q.C., Mr. Joshua, 87, 168 



Williams, Sir Thomas, and Ashdown 

 Forest, 164 



Williams, Mr. William, 95 



Willingales, Case of the, and lopping in 

 Epping Forest, 126-130, 157 



Wills, Mr. Justice, his decision in the 

 Walton Common case, 309, 310 



Wilson, Sir Spencer Mary on, and the 

 Manor of Hampstead, 47 ; transfers 

 Hampstead Heath to the Metropolitan 

 Board of Works, 53 ; and his pro- 

 perty adjacent to Hampstead Heath, 

 54, 55 



Wilson, Sir Thomas Maryon, 42 ; and the 

 Manor of Hampstead, 47 ; assertion 

 of his rights over Hampstead Heath, 

 48 ; makes application to Parliament 

 for power to grant building leases, 

 48, 49 ; declaration of his intentions 



regarding Hampstead Heath. 50 : 

 erects houses on Hampstead Heath, 

 51 ; Mr. Gumey Hoare's suit against 

 him. 51, 52 ; and commoners' rights 

 in Ashdown Forest, 168 



Wimbledon Common, 3; Earl Spencer's 

 proposal of 1864 respecting, 27, 28 ; 

 in Saxon times, 89 ; Cassar's Camp 

 on, 89 ; duels on, 89, 90 ; its early 

 history, 92 ; extent of, 92 : pollard oaks 

 and rights of cutting fuel on, 93 ; 

 rights of turning cattle on to, 93 ; 

 appointment by the Homage of sur- 

 veyors for, 93 ; gravel-digging on, 

 94 ; suit against Earl Spencer re- 

 specting, 95-97 ; conveyed to Trustees 

 for the public, 97 : proposal to erect a 

 sewage farm on, 334 



Wimbledon, Manor of, Earty history of, 

 90, 91 ; and the Spencer family, 91, 

 92 ; Rolls of, 92 



Wimbledon and Putney Bill, The, 97 



Wimbledon, Viscount. (See Cecil, Sir 

 Edward.) 



Winter, Sir John, Mineral rights and 

 trees in the Forest of Dean sold by 

 Charles I. to, 251 ; assignment of his 

 rights in the Forest of Dean to 

 General Massy r , 252 ; regains his 

 rights in the Forest of Dean, 253 ; 

 makes fresh inclosures in the Forest, 

 253 ; his inclosures under a new lease, 

 254 ; destroys the trees in the Forest, 

 255 



Wisley Common, struck out from the 

 Inclosure Bill of 1869, 275; proposal 

 to devote a portion of it to recreative 

 purposes, 278 



Withypool Common, 275, 278 



Woodford Green, Decision of Mr. Justice 

 Wightman on the inclosure of, 302, 

 303 



Woodford, Manor of, 124 



Worcestershire Beacon, The, 172 



Yarranton, Andrew, " The Improvement 

 of England bv Sea and Land," bv, 

 quoted, 248, 249 (note) 



Yeomen, Small, Hardships suffered from 

 inclosure of lands by, 17, 18; ex- 

 tinction of, 20 



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