384 
Kyrle Society, and Burnham Beeches, 
271, 272 
Labourers, agricultural, ancestors of, 14; 
their rights unrecognised between 
1689 and 1846, 21; ettect of the Act 
of 1845 on the interests of, 23; regard 
shown between 1860 and 1870 for the 
interests of, 24; their interests in 
relation to the Bill of 1876, 280 
Lakin, Mr. Henry, his suit respecting in- 
closure on Malvern Hills, 172, 173 
Lambert, General, Manor of Mortlake 
bought by, 91 
Lammas Lands, 9; wrongful dealing in 
sixteenth century with, 17; and 
Hackney Commons, 319, 321 
Land, Collective ownership of, 7; equal 
division of, in ancient times, 8; its 
distribution under the feudal system, 
10; the Norman confiscation of, 11; 
additions, from the fall of the Stuarts 
to 1846, to cultivated, 20 
Land Commission, 286 
Lantrane, Archbishop, and the Manor of 
Mortlake, 90 
Lawrence, Mr. Philip Henry, and the 
Report of the Committee on Commons, 
34; suggests the formation of the 
Commons Preservation Society, 39; 
40, 42, 43; and the Plumstead in- 
closures, 79: 93 
Lennard, Sir John, and his inclosure on 
West Wickham Common, 315; sells 
his interest in a portion of West 
Wickham Common, 317 
Lewis’s ‘‘History of the New Forest,” 
Allusion to, 231 (note) 
Tiincoln, Bishop of, and the Manor of 
Burnham, 265 
Little Ilford, Estate of the Corporation of 
London at, 131 
Local Government Bill, Amendment for 
the protection of roadside wastes to 
the, 297 
Locke, M.P., Mr., chairman of Committee 
on Commons, 30; and the Inclosure 
Bill of 1869, 275 
London, Commons in the neighbourhood 
of, 2, 3; threatened inclosure of 
commons of, 29 
London County Council, 53; makes an 
addition to Bostal Heath, 83; and 
Hackney Marshes, 322 
London Fields, 318; purchase of Lord 
Auherst’s interest in, 321 
INDEX. 
Lopper’s Hall, its origin, 156; laying the 
foundation stone ot, 156, 157 
Lopping in Epping Forest, Custom of, in 
Queen Elizabeth’s time, 124; plan of 
a Lord of the Manor to prevent, 125, 
126; penalty on the Willingales for, 
126, 127; suits on the question of, 
127-180; declared illegal, 152; the 
question of compensation for the 
withdrawal of the right of, 152, 153; 
last occasion of, 158, 154 
Lord Warden, The, of Epping Forest, 
106, 119, 120 
Lords of Manors, prevented from en- 
closing commons for building pur- 
poses, 2; creation of, 6, 10; their 
treatment of common lands at the 
Norman Conquest, 11; powers given 
by the Statute of Merton tv, 16; 
their neglect in supervising commons, 
25; their attempts to appropriate 
commons, 25, 26; their rights versus 
rights of commoners, 32-37; their 
measures for inclosing commons, 39; 
suits against, 42-44; in the Epping 
Forest case, 132-137, 145-147, 150; 
payments made by railway companies 
to, 331; effect of the Commons Law 
Amendment Act on the claims of, 
357, 358; perversion of the functions 
of, 359 
Lot, Distribution of common lands by, 8 
Loughton, Manor of, Inclosure of 1,000 acres 
in the, 124; the question or lopping 
in the Forest at Loughton, 153-156 
Lovell, Thomas, and the decree concerning 
Cadnam Manor, 185 
Lowe, Mr., and Forest Crown-rights, 138 
Lydney House captured by the Parlia- 
mentary forces, 252 
Maidlow, Mr., winner of Sir Henry Peek’s 
first prize, 45, 83 
Maine, Sir Henry, on the origin of 
common lands, 7 
Maitland, Rev., Inclosure of 1,000 acres 
in Loughton by, 124; injunction 
against, 127; the case of Willingale 
and, 126-130; and Lopper’s Hall, 157 
Maltby Common, Proposed inclosure of, 
283, 284; left open to the public, 285 
Malvern Forest, its  disafforestation 
authorised by Charles I., 114 
Malvern Hills, 4; extent of, 170; earliest 
references to, 170, 171; attempt at 
disafforestation by Coinelius Ver- 
muyden, 171; Act of Parliament 
