120 EPPING FOREST. 
of London. Their action was greatly facilitated and 
promoted by that of the Commissioners of Woods and 
Forests, who, in pursuance of the recommendations of 
Lord Duncan’s Committee, and without any authority 
from Parliament, offered to sell to the Lords of Manors 
the forestal rights of the Crown over the waste lands of 
Epping Forest, at the rate of about £5 per acre. The 
effect of this was to extinguish these rights, and to leave 
the Lords of Manors, who bought them, free to deal with 
their Commoners, or to inclose in spite of them—a 
process which was practically impossible so long as the 
Crown rights were enforced. 
The Lords of Manors of about a half of the Forest 
availed themselves of this offer, and bought up and 
extinguished the forestal rights of the Crown over their 
respective Manors. The more sales of this kind that 
were effected, the greater became the difficulty of main- 
taining the Crown rights, where they still subsisted in 
law. The Department further directed that the deer 
should be killed down; and, although the deer were 
never quite destroyed, the district ceased practically to 
be a forest in the legal sense of the term. ‘The sale 
of the Crown rights over 3,513 acres produced £15,793. 
The process of inclosure was further facilitated by 
the fact that, some years previously, the hereditary office 
of Lord Warden had, through his wife, the last repre- 
sentative of the Earls of Tylney, fallen to Mr. Wellesley 
Pole,* later Lord Mornington, a dissolute spendthrift, 
* This person, whose memory still survives in the well-known 
line of “ Rejected Addresses ”— 
«“ Long may Long Wellesley Tylney Long Pole live,” 
