108 EPPING FOREST. 
Edward the Confessor and Harold* to Henry II., to 
various religious bodies; six of them to the Abbey 
of Waltham Holy Cross, three to the Monastery of 
St. Mary, Stratford, and a single Manor to each of 
the following bodies: the Cathedral Church of St. 
Paul, the Priory of Bermondsey, the Abbey of Barking, 
and the Priory of Christ Church, London. They re- 
mained in these hands till the dissolution of the 
religious houses in the time of Henry VIII., when 
they were appropriated by that Sovereign; but they 
were subsequently granted by him or his successors 
to private owners, from whom they descended 
to the persons who held them at the time of the 
great suit of the Corporation of London. The other 
Manors, not granted to religious bodies, were at a very 
early period in the hands of private owners, from whom 
they descended by bequest or purchase to their late 
possessors. 
All these grants were subject to the right of the 
Crown, under the Forest Laws, to forbid the inclosure of 
the waste. The Manors included much land that was 
not in the waste of the Forest, and where freehold and 
copyhold tenants had properties, in respect of which 
they had the right of turning out cattle on the waste, 
and the right of pannage, that is, of turning pigs 
*King Harold was a great benefactor to Waltham Abbey. 
Tradition says that he came there to pray before going forth to 
meet the Normans. After his defeat and death, at the battle of 
Hastings, his body was brought to the Abbey for burial. His tomb- 
stone in the chancel was inscribed with the words “ Haroldus 
Tnfelix.”—“ Epping Forest,” by E. N. Buxton, p. 63. 
