REGULATION OF COMMONS. 3823 
Tooting Graveney Commons, and Bostall Heath and 
others, which are within the area of the London Council, 
have been successively dealt with by regulating 
schemes. In the case of Barnes Common, consisting of 
120 acres of most charming scenery, the Dean and Chap- 
ter of St. Paul’s had been in the position of Lords of the 
Manor for upwards of 1,000 years under a grant made 
long before the Norman Conquest. They had always 
treated the neighbourhood with consideration, and had 
allowed the management of the Common to be in 
the hands of a local Committee, supported by voluntary 
contributions; and this Committee had appointed a 
Common keeper, and had expended money on improve- 
ments. In 1876 it was thought expedient to legalise 
this arrangement, by a scheme of regulation, placing 
the Common under the conservancy of the Vestry. 
The Ecclesiastical Commissioners, representing the 
Chapter of St. Paul’s, without insisting upon any pur- 
chase of their rights, gave a ready assent to it. 
The case of Clapham Common was very similar. 
The Manor of Clapham is mentioned in Domesday 
Book as being in the possession of De Manneville. In 
the time of King Stephen it was granted to Pharamus 
de Bolonia, nephew of his wife Maud. The daughter 
and heiress of Pharamus married De Fienes, who was 
slain at Ascalon in the Holy Land in 1190. King 
Richard restored the Manor to the widow of De Fienes, 
and empowered her to marry whom she liked. It then 
passed through various hands till it became the property 
of the Bowyer family. It appears that the Common, 
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