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as deputy, Major-General William Harcourt. In 1830, 

 King William IV. became ranger, with Sir W. H. Free- 

 mantle as deputy; and on his death, in 1850, Major- 

 General Seymour was appointed deputy-ranger. 



In 1850 the Board of Woods and Forests, which had 

 been combined with that of Works and Public Buildings, 

 was separated from this Board, and Windsor Forest and 

 Park came under the sole charge of the Hon. Charles 

 Gore. 



The Prince Consort, immediately after Her Majesty's 

 marriage in 1840, became ranger, and held the office till 

 his death in 1861. The present control of the manage- 

 ment of Windsor Park rests with the ranger, H.R.H. 

 Prince Christian. Colonel the Hon. A. Liddel is deputy- 

 ranger, and the Commissioners of Woods and Forests have 

 charge, on behalf of that Department, of all matters 

 connected with the estate. 



Windsor Park is maintained as a royal demesne for the 

 enjoyment of Her Majesty and her subjects, and with this 

 in view, more attention is given in the culture of the trees 

 to what will minister to pleasure and ornament, than to 

 the procuring of pecuniary profit for the sale of forest 

 products. 



Both in the Park and in the Forest there are numerous 

 trees remarkable for age, for appearance, and for historical 

 associations connected with them. 



There were rights of common enjoyed by many, and it 

 is alleged that during the two hundred years comprised 

 between the commencement of the seventeenth century 

 and that of the present, encroachments were constantly 

 being made ; and what with these encroachments on the 

 one hand, and depredations l>y various persons who claimed 

 rights, the Lord Chief-Justice in Eyre, with whom it lay to 

 prosecute all offenders against forest laws, had no little 

 trouble. 



The claims advanced were of the most extravagant 

 character. The rights were ill-defined, and they seemed 



