WHERE THE GREEN LEAVES QUIVER. 209 
following August, a chancery suit against those 
who had wrongfully enclosed the forest lands was 
begun; and this suit took cognizance of all such 
enclosures made since the year 1851. Parliament 
also, in 1871, appointed an Epping Forest Com- 
mission of Enquiry. In November, 1874, the 
Court of Chancery decided that the enclosures, 
which were the subject of the Corporation suit, 
were illegal; and the joint effect of all the pro- 
ceedings taken in the public interest has been 
shown in the passing of an Act of Parliament— 
The Epping Forest Act of 1878—securing the re- 
storation to the public of about two thousand 
acres of land, which had been illegally taken from 
a woodland so precious to the vast population 
of the metropolis, and to all lovers of woodland 
scenery. 
