376 
Banstead Heath, 189 
Banstead Manor, extent of and early 
owners of, 189, 190 
Banstead Paik, 189 
Baring, Mr. Francis, and Banstead Com- 
mons, 201 
Barnes Common, 3; and Mr. Doulton’s 
Committee, 32, 33; extent of, 423; 
regulation of, 323; proposed coal- 
siding and cemetery on, 337 
Baston, Manor of, and Hayes Common, 
315, 316 
Battersea, Manor of, 99 
Bayeux, Bishop of, and Plumstead Manor, 
78; and the Manor of Mortlake, 90; 
and the Manor of Banstead, 189 
Baynes, Adaw, Manor ot Mortlake bought 
by, 91 
Beachy Head, downs on, 4 
Bedford, Mr. Deputy, his activity in the 
preservation of Epping Forest, 159 
Berkhamsted, 58; charter of incorpora- 
tion granted by James I. to, 69; its 
incorporation rights, 75 
Berkhamsted Common, 38; inclosure of, 
39, 42; extent and beauty of, 58: 
formerly the property of the Crown, 
58; leased to the owners of Ash- 
ridge, 59; Lord Brownlow’s trustees 
erect fences round, 61; measures 
taken by Mr. Augustus Smith to 
remove the fences round, 64, 65; 
ancient history of, 67-73; fences re- 
moved by Edlyn on, 70; decision of 
the House of Lords (1641) respecting, 
71, 72; inclosure again pulled down 
trom, 72; Edlyn’s success during the 
Commonwealth in preventing the in- 
closure of, 73; Lord Romilly’s de 
cision in the case of Mr, A. Smith 
against Lord Brownlow respecting, 
74 
“Betterment” principle, The, as applied 
to the maintenance of Wimbledon 
Conimon, 98 
Betts, Mr., and Tooting Graveney Com- 
mon, 42, 85 
Bidder, Q.C., Mr., and Mitcham Common, 
326 
Birch, Captain, and the works for char- 
ring coal in the Forest of Dean, 257 
Birkett, Mr. Percival, 41; and Wigley 
Common, 186; and the Banstead case, 
206; and the Birmingham water- 
supply scheme, 340 
sisley Common, 99 
lack Book of Canterbury, 93 
INDEX. 
Blackheath, 8; and Mr. Doulton’s com- 
mittee, 32; regulation of, 318 
Board of Agriculture, formerly the In- 
closure Commissioners, 44, 286; its 
scheme for the regulation of Banstead 
Commons, 209, 210; its action with 
regard tu the regulation of Commons, 
318, 314; powers of, 356, 357 
Bodleian Library, Copy of survey of 
Waltham Forest in, 110 
Bolingbroke, Viscount, and the Manor of 
Wandsworth, 100 
Bondsmen, emancipation of, 14 
Bostal Common, 3; inclosure of, 39, 79; 
view from, 77; purchase by the Board 
of Works of the interest of Queen’s 
College in, 83; regulation of, 323; 
extension of, 363 
Boughton, Sir Edward, and Plumstead 
Manor, 78 
Bournemouth Common, 329, 341 
Bowen, Lord, and the Tollaid Farnham 
case, 219 
Brabourne, Lord, and the Inclosure Bill 
of 1869, 274 
Brett, Lord Justice, and the Ashdown 
Forest case, 169 
Briagewater, Earls of, and the domain of 
Ashridge, 59, 69 
Bristol, Earl of, and Mortlake Manor, 91 ; 
and Ashdown Forest, 162, 163 
Brockwell Park, 364 
Brownlow, Lord, and the inclosure of 
Berkhamsted Common, 42; his deed 
of gift of a portion of the Common 
for the benefit of the town, 61; Mr. 
Smith’s action against, 67, 74, 75; 
his friendly relationship with the 
people of Berkhamsted, 75 
Brunner, M.P., Mr. J. T., and inclosures 
of roadside wastes near Northwich, 
297 (note) 
Bryce, Mr., 40, 41; and the Commons 
Bill of 1876, 281; and the Standing 
Committee on Commons, 283; and 
the Epping Forest Railway Bill, 337 
Buckhurst, Lord, and Ashdown Forest, 
162 
Buller, Mr. Justice, on the custom of 
playing on village greens, 301 
Bulwell Common, 341 
Burgh Heath, 189, 196 
Burney, Mr. George, 41, 149, 154 
Burnham Beeches, beauty of, 264; the 
poet Gray on, 264; extent of, 265; 
Lady Grenville’s arbitrary pro- 
ceedings with regard to, 267-270; 
