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they found a Vice-Chancellor, fetched up to town a Registrar 
from his sea-side holiday, obtained an injunction, and thereby 
stopped further proceedings for that year. In the meantime 
the old Forest Court of Verderers had been assembled, and 
he had the pleasure of listening to nearly a hundred present- 
ments of illegal enclosures, ranging from one acre by a right 
reverend prelate, to a hundred acres enclosed by the clergy- 
man of the parish,—the shepherd of the flock,—who, in a 
sermon preached by him a few days afterwards, actually took 
for his text—“ The love of money is the root of all evil.” 
There was also a case of enclosing five hundred and seventy 
acres by a noble earl, whose agent afterwards indignantly 
denied the charge, saying ‘he had only enclosed five hundred 
and sixty-three, and left seven for the people. A gallant 
admiral had likewise marked one thousand one hundred and 
thirty trees to be felled at High Beach, the most beautiful 
part of the whole Forest. In 1872 the Corporation Bill came 
on in Chancery, and their usual leading counsel was taken 
away from them on the ground that, being a Q.C., he was at 
the call of the Crown when it chose to exercise its right. 
The result was that he appeared against them, and took the 
only objection on demurrer that was fatal to the Corporation 
Bill, and they had to pay about £580 in costs. Nothing 
daunted they began again, the Government charging them 
with double costs. In the meantime a second Bill was 
introduced into Parliament by the Government, remedying 
the former defect, and empowering the Commissioners to 
issue orders preventing further enclosures, That was intro- 
duced into the House of Lords, but, thanks to Lord Salisbury, 
a clause staying all legal proceedings was altered, so as to 
make the case of the Corporation an exception. Meanwhile 
the second Bill of the Corporation in Chancery came on for 
hearing, and was again opposed on demurrer; but they were 
successful on that occasion, and an appeal to the Lords 
Justices failed to alter the decision. The legal cobwebs 
being now swept away, their cause stood ready for argument. 
When Parliament rose the agents of the lords of the manor 
discovered that, although the Commission had power to issue 
orders forbidding further enclosures and waste, it had no 
power to enforce them. Again the Corporation came to the 
rescue, and in no less than fourteen different cases—by threat, 
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