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against that of West Hainhault, were presented at the Court of 

 21st Septemher, 1630 ; and the making of such leaps was the 

 subject of one of the enquiries with which the Grand Jury were 

 charged at the judgment seat." 



The duties of the " Foresters " are explained in detail (p. 148), 

 so also are those of the " Eegardors ' (p. 153). These continued 

 to be exercised until 1817, when all the Forest offices were 

 abolished by Act of Parliament passed in that year, from which 

 date, until the disafforestation of Hainhault in 1851, and Epping 

 in 1878, the duties of supervision and general management were 

 vested at first in the First Commissioner of Woods and Forests, 

 and afterwards in the Commissioner of Works and Public 

 Buildings, without salary or fee. The disastrous effect of this 

 change in the government of the royal forests as regards Epping 

 is shown in subsequent chapters. 



The Forest records contain but few notices of the hunting in 

 it by royalty in person, but it is well known that from the time 

 of Edward the Confessor, and probably much earlier, they 

 frequented it for that purpose. The sovereigns mentioned by 

 Mr. Fisher (p. 197) are Edward VI., Queen Elizabeth, and 

 James I. He might have added Henry VIII., concerning whose 

 hunting in Epping Forest there is an anecdote in Nott's 

 1 Memoirs of the Earl of Surrey ' ; and Queen Mary, who, when 

 princess in 1538, used to course with greyhounds in the forest of 

 Waltham, as we learn from her ' Privy Purse Expenses,' edited 

 by Sir Frederick Madden (p. 73). 



The use of the word " buck " in place-names, such as Buck- 

 hurst Hill, raises an interesting question whether the Fallow- 

 deer or the Eoe originally suggested its application. From the 

 circumstance that no fossil-remains of the Fallow-deer have 

 been met with in England (while those of the Eoe and Bed-deer 

 are common), it has been generally inferred that the Fallow- 

 deer was not indigenous to this country, but was introduced by 

 the Bomans, but when and where for the first time there is no 

 evidence to show. The dark-coloured variety of the Fallow-deer 

 in Epping Forest is generally asserted to have been originally 

 introduced there by James I., as stated in Bell's ' British 

 Quadrupeds ' ; but, although James I. undoubtedly imported 

 some Fallow-deer in 1612, which were turned out in Epping 

 Forest and Enfield Chase, it has been conclusively shown 



