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longer in their places on the Bench. Of the eminent 
counsel, by whose advocacy and learning the cases were 
successively presented in their most favourable light, 
and the Courts were brought back to the almost for- 
gotten view of the importance of common rights, Mr. 
Manisty (afterwards Mr. Justice Manisty), Mr. Joshua 
Willams, Mr. W. R. Fisher, and Mr. McClymont 
have passed away.* Of the public-spirited men who 
took upon themselves the burden of fighting against 
the inclosures, Mr. Augustus Smith, Mr. Gurney Hoare, 
Mr. Frederick Goldsmid, Mr. Hall of Coulsdon, Mr. 
Hamilton Fletcher and Mr. Nisbet Robertson of Ban- 
stead, Mr. William Minet of Dartford, and old Willin- 
gale of Loughton, are no longer alive to celebrate the 
final success. Enough, however, remain of the earlier 
and later friends of the cause, to recollect the perilous 
position of Commons at the commencement of the 
movement, to appreciate the revolution which has been 
effected in the relations of Lords of Manors to their 
Commoners and to the public, and to rejoice in the 
conclusion that never again in the future will it be 
said with truth— 
“ Our fenceless fields the sons of wealth divide, 
And e’en the bare-worn common is denied.” 
—Goldsmith’s ‘‘ Deserted Village.” 
* Lord Selborne, who rendered such great services in the earlier 
cases, still happily survives, as does also Mr. P. H. Lawrence, to 
whom the initiation of the movement was largely due, and who, when 
called to the Bar, in 1876, was employed as Counsel in several of 
the later cases. 
