EPPING FOREST. 115 
The Commissioners—Widdrington, Whitelocke, 
Sydenham, and Montagu— recommended that the 
forest rights of His Highness should be restored, and 
the Courts re-established. They reported to the 
Council that the forests being already by Act of 
Parliament vested in trustees to be sold for certain 
uses, there was a doubt as to the title, and a difficulty 
either in selling or leasing. It was therefore suggested 
that four forests should be sold by way of experi- 
ment, and as to the rest, that ‘“ Lawnes and Inclosures 
belonging to His Highness should be let from year 
to year at the best rates that could be got for them ; 
that fellable coppice woods should be preserved till fit 
for sale and then sold; and that for finding out and 
restoring His Highness’ rights in Forests, preservation 
of timber, punishments of wastes, spoiles, encroachments 
and other trespasses committed within the Forests, 
officers should be supplied.”* They also recommended 
that the Forest Courts should be re-established for the 
enforcement of the forestal rights. 
Nothing, however, was done in pursuance of these 
recommendations during the remaining years of the 
Commonwealth. On the restoration of the Monarchy 
the Forest Courts were re-constituted. Charles IT. 
occasionally hunted in the district ; but after his time it 
does not appear that the Forest was ever again resorted 
to by Royalty for sport. It was probably due to this 
that, by degrees, the forestal rights of the Crown, over 
other lands than the waste of the Forest, were allowed 
* Fisher’s “Forest of Essex,” p. 50, 
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