380 
wealth in preventing the inclosure of 
Berkhamsted Common, 73 
Edmund, Earl of Cornwall, 67 
Edward I., Survey of Waltham Forest 
under, 110 
Edward III. and Berkhamsted Manor, 458 
Edward VI, his proclamation concerning 
the forest laws, 110, 111 
Edward, the Black Prince, and Berk- 
hamsted Manor, 58 
Edward the Confessor, The feudal system 
under, 11; and the Manor of Mort- 
lake, 90 
Egmont, Earl of, and Banstead Manor, 
190; accepts Burgh Heath as com- 
pensation for his rights as commoner 
of Banstead, 196 
Egmont (the present), Earl of, joins the 
commoners in the Banstead case, 201 
Elizabeth, Queen, hardships suffered 
through inclosing lands under, 17; in 
Epping Forest, 111 
Elton, Mr., and the suit of Lord de la 
Warr against the commoners of Ash- 
down Forest, 168 
England, Common-field system in, 8, 9; 
parcelling out of ground under the 
teudal system in, 9; military service 
under the feudal system in, 9; acres 
inclosed from the fall of the Stuarts 
to 1846, 20 
Epping Forest, Area of, 3, 103; its dis- 
afforestation recommended by a Com- 
mittee of the House of Commons, 24; 
and Mr. Doulton’s Committee, 32, 
122; fencing of portions of, 39; and 
the Corporation of London, 42; the 
trees in, 104; formerly a part of 
Waltham Forest, 104; the forest 
laws and Forest Courts in the control 
of, 104-106; the Lord Warden of, 
106 ; Manors of, 107, 108; grants by 
various sovereigns of Manors of, 107, 
108; right of lopping trees in, 109; 
earliest. description of, 109; surveys 
of, in the reigns of Henry III. and 
Edward I., 109, 116; the favourite 
resort of sovereigns, 110; described 
by Sir Robert Heath, 110; proclama- 
tion by Edward VI. respecting, 110, 
111; Queen Elizabeth in, 111; James 
I. hunting in, 111; money raised by 
Charles I. from, 112; concession of 
Charles I. concerning the bounds of, 
112, 113; survey of, under Charles 
I, 113; threatened during the 
Commonwealth, 114; Oliver Crom- 
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well’s ordinance concerning, 114; 
area in 1793, 116; abuses of, in 1813, 
116; inclosures from 1793 to 1848 in, 
116; reduction of area in 1848, 117; 
Lord Duncan’s Committee respecting, 
117, 118; Royal Commission of 1549 
on, 118; sale of Crown rights in, 
120; reduction of area in 1841, 121; 
large inclosures made in, 121; the 
Homage-juries and grants of wastes 
of, 123; reduction of area by, 1869, 
124; the Willingale case, and the 
custom of lopping in, 126-130; the 
case of the Corporation of Condon 
against the Lords of Manors of, 
131-187, 145-147, 150; purchase by 
the Corporation of the interest of 
Lords of Manors in, 151; provisions 
of the Government measure for the 
control of, 151-153 ; the last occasion 
of lopping in, 153, 154; the question 
of lopping finally decided by award- 
ing compensation to cottagers in the 
Manor of Loughton, 146; thrown 
open to the public by the Queen, 157: 
additions made by the Corporation to, 
158, 159 ; threatened by railways, 337 
“Epping Forest,” by Mr. E. N. Buxton, 
quoted, 108 (note) 
Epsom Commons, 3; and Mr. Doulton’s 
Committee, 32; extent of, 327 
scheme for inclosure of, 328 ; litiga- 
tion with reference to, 328 
Epsom Downs, Scheme for inclosure of, 
327, 328 
Essays, Prizes offered by Sir Henry Peek 
for, 45, 46 
Evelyn’s “ Sylva” quoted, 250, 251 
Eyre, Mr. Briscoe, 41, 181, 241, 243 
Eyre family, The, and the Manor or 
Burnham, 265 
Falkland, Lord, Impeachment of Sir John 
Finch by, 112 (note) 
Farthingdown, 174 
Fawcett, Mr., 40; moves an address to 
the Crown on the Crown rights in 
Epping Forest, 139; his motion on 
the New Forest, 240; and the in- 
closure Bill of 1869, 273-275; anu 
the Commons Bill of 1871, 277; ana 
the Amendment Bill of 1876, 280 
and the Standing Committee on 
Commons, 282; his persistent efforts 
to prevent inclosures, 287; allusion 
to the “ Life’ of, 287 (note) 
Ferard, Mr., 295 
