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this Kingdom as they were before the late Justice’s 
seat held.” An Act was passed in the same year, 
declaring that thenceforth the limits and bounds of 
all the Forests should be taken to extend no further 
than those commonly reputed in the twentieth year of 
James J.; and all subsequent acts, by which the 
bounds of the Forests were further extended, were 
declared void. 
Almost immediately after the passing of this Act, a 
perambulation of Waltham Forest was made by virtue of 
«a Commission under the Great Seal, directed to the Earl 
of Warwick and forty-four other Commissioners. The 
boundaries shown in the map attached to this survey 
agree almost exactly with those laid down in 1301. 
Thus ended a controversy about the bounds of the 
Forest, which had lasted from the time of King 
John. 
That Charles I. was actuated mainly by the desire 
to raise money, and cared little about the maintenance 
of the Forest, is evident from the fact that he con- 
templated a scheme for wholly disafforesting Waltham 
Forest. There is extant a State paper in the Record 
Office, giving a list of landowners of the district and 
their claims under a scheme for this purpose. Had he 
been able to carry it out, it would probably have re- 
sulted in large gains to him. For the disafforesting of 
the comparatively small Forest of Gaultres, he received as 
his share the sum of £20,000. For that of the Forest 
of Dean, if it had been carried out, he was to receive 
£106,000, and a fee farm rent of £1,600 a year for 
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