WHERE THE GREEN LEAVES QUIVER. 207 
in the summer of 1871, a great public meeting was 
held on Wanstead Flats, to protest against the en- 
croachments on the open Forest, and, as the result 
of that meeting an association was formed under 
the name of the ‘ Forest Fund Committee,’ to col- 
lect money, and to carry out measures for the pre- 
servation of the Forest. From the period of its 
formation this committee has laboured untiringly, 
and succeeded in accomplishing a great and good 
work. During the autumn of 1871 a number of 
illegal inclosures were presented by the Forest 
Fund Committee to the newly-resuscitated Court 
of Verderers, under the advice of counsel, who 
were employed by the Committee. The public 
generally have probably little idea of the great 
necessity which existed for the utmost watchful- 
ness in order to defeat the unlawful and un- 
scrupulous designs of those who had unlawfully 
possessed themselves of forest land. One’ case 
will serve as an apt illustration. In one of the 
most beautiful parts of Epping Forest, known as 
Bush Wood, Wanstead, a public footpath had 
been illegally closed for more than two years 
previous to the movement which commenced, in 
