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the Corporation, mainly because it secured to them the 
management of the Forest. 
The scheme, sanctioned by the Government measure, 
vested in the Corporation of London the future 
control and management of Epping Forest; it directed 
that the Forest should remain open and uninclosed, for 
all time to come, for the enjoyment and recreation of the 
people. It put an end to the Crown rights, to the 
Forest Courts and officers, and to any burthensome 
customs or Forest Laws. It directed that all the 
illegally inclosed land—that is, land inclosed within 
twenty years before the commencement of the Corpora- 
tion suit—whether in the hands of the Lords of Manors 
or their grantees, should be restored to the Forest, 
except so much of it as, on the 14th of August, 1871, 
was already built upon, or was used as gardens and cur- 
tilages for such houses. The Corporation were required 
to purchase such of the wastes of the Forest as lay 
open, or would be thrown open, and which had not 
already been acquired by them. They were directed to 
keep the Forest unbuilt upon, and to protect and 
manage it. Queen Elizabeth’s Lodge was made over to 
them, and any deer existing in the Forest were also 
transferred to them. 
The Queen was empowered to appoint a Ranger, in 
whom certain formal duties were to be vested, such as 
the issue of bye-laws for the police of the Forest. An 
Arbitrator, Lord Hobhouse, was appointed, with power 
to decide many questions left unsettled by the Act. 
He was to determine what land should be thrown back 
