160 EPPING FOREST. 
proceedings before the Epping Forest Commission, 
and in the great suit, by the conspicuous tact and 
ability and untiring care with which, in the position 
throughout of leading Counsel, he conducted the case. 
The late Mr. W. R. Fisher acted also most ably 
throughout as Junior, and has left a valuable and 
exhaustive treatise on the Forest of Essex, as a lasting 
memorial of his connection with the case, and to which 
I have been largely indebted in my short account of 
the history of the Forest. None of the above, however, 
would have been able to achieve success if it had not 
been for the great experience in such cases of Mr. 
Robert Hunter, and the extraordinary care and ability 
with which he collected and sifted all the facts and 
evidence relating to the Commoners from the earliest 
times, by means of which their rights over the Forest 
were finally vindicated in so complete a manner, and 
the greatest of all the Commons suits was brought to 
a successful conclusion. 
It may be -confidently affirmed that never in the 
past experience of the Law Courts was there a de- 
cision by which upwards of 400 persons were compelled 
to disgorge 3,000 acres of land wrongfully inclosed, and 
by which there was secured for ever an area of double 
the size for the enjoyment for all time to come of the 
people of London. 
