INDEX. 
Feudal system, Effect on proprietorship of 
waste grounds of, 9; at the Norman 
conquest, 11 
Field, Mr. Justice, his decision in the 
Wigley Common case, 186 
Finch, Sir John, Attorney-General to 
Charles I., 112 (and note) 
Fisher, Mr. W. R., 88, 160 
Fisher's “ Forest of Epping ” quoted, 107, 
111: “ Forest of Essex ” quoted, 115 
Titzmaurice, Lord E., 41; and the Com- 
mons Bill of 1876, 281: and the 
proposed inclosure of Maltby Com- 
mon, 284; moves for the repeal of 
the Statute of Merton, 346 
Fixity of tenure in the time of Henry 
IV., 13 
Fletcher, Mr. Hamilton, chairman of Ban- 
stead Commons Protection Society, 
197, 198 
“Folk-land,” 8; vested in the Lord of the 
Manor, 10 
Fordyce, Sir William, and an inclosure 
on Wandsworth Common, 100 
Forest Courts, and the control of Epping 
Forest, 105; reconstitution of, under 
Charles II., 115 
Forest of Dean, The, its disafforestation 
threatened, 24; its disafforestation 
contemplated by Charles I., 113; its 
extent, 247; minerals of, 248; William 
the Conqueror in the, 249; enlarged by 
Norman kings, and reduced by Henry 
III. and Edward I., 249; King John 
hunting in, 250; the earliest per- 
ambulation of, 250; war-ships made 
from the timber of, 250; instructions 
of the Spanish Government with 
reference to, 250: number of trees in 
1638 in, 251; Charles I. sells the 
mineral rights and trees in, 251 ; 
General Massy acquires the rights 
in, 252; inclosures under the Com- 
monwealth resisted by the commoners 
of, 252, 253; Sir John Winter, at the 
Restoration, regains his rights in, 
253; petition to Charles II. against 
Sir John Winter’s inclosures, by the 
commoners of, 253; proposals made 
to the Parliamentary Committee by 
the commoners of, 254, 255; Act of 
1668 for the regulation of, 255; the 
cutting of trees by Sir John Winter 
in, 255; ma‘ntenance of the rights of 
miners in, 255; number of acres in- 
closed after the Act of 1668, 256 ; coal 
in, 256 ; works for charring coal set 
381 
up in, 257; the rights of free miners 
in, 257-259; the present outputs of 
coal and of iron in, 259; the present 
extent of, 260; villages built upon, 
260; Parliamentary Committee ap- 
pointed (1874) to inquire into the 
condition of, 260; Mr. W. H. Smith’s 
Inclosure Bill for, 261; indignation 
meetings against Mr. Smith’s Bill in, 
261; intervention of the Commons 
Society un behalf of the commoners 
of, 262; withdrawal of the Bill for 
inclosing, 2638; its preservation en- 
sured, 263 
“ Forest of Epping,’ Fisher’s, quoted, 107, 
111 
“Forest of Essex,’’ Fisher’s, quoted, 114, 
160 
Forest laws, and Epping Forest, 104; an1 
the New Forest, 230 
Forests and moors of Scotland, Rights 
over, 4 
France, Common lands in, 359 
Free miners of the Forest of Dean, 257- 
259; and the committee of the House 
of Commons, 260, 261 
Free trade, Ideas respecting inclosures 
before the adoption of, 20, 22; its 
influence on the question of inclosures, 
24, 25 
Freeman, Mr., the historian of the Nor- 
man Conquest, and William the Con- 
querov’s formation of the New Fovest, 
229 
Fry, Lord Justice, and the Banstead case, 
205 
Frye, Rowland, and Banstead Manor, 190 
Game Laws, Enforcement at Burnham 
Beeches of, 266 
Garden allotments, Acreage set apart 
between 1845 and 1869 tor, 23 
Gardens in village communities, 8 
Gateward’s case, The decision of judges in 
the, 14, 15, 257 
Gaultres, Forest of, Disafforestation of, by 
Charles I., 113 
General Inclosure Act of 1845, 5 
Gladstone, Mr., on Forest Crown-rights, 
138, 140 
Gloucester, Earl of, and Malvern Forest, 
171 
Goldsmid, M.P., Mr. Frederick, 79 
Goldsmid, Sir Julian, and the suit against 
Queen’s College, Oxford, 42, 79; sells 
a portion of his property for the ex- 
tension of Bostall Heath, 83 
