INDEX. 
authorising the disafforestation of, 
172; recent encroachments in, 172; 
decision of Judge Kettle in the Lakin 
case respecting, 173; settlement for 
the control and regulation of, 173, 
829 
Manisty, Mr. Justice, and the preservation 
of Epping Forest, 159 
Manor Courts, Disuse of, 25, 78. 
Manors, Common lands the wastes of, 1; 
origin of, 9; trustees of, 25; rolls of, 
25, 62, 78, 86, 175, 185, 204; of Ep- 
ping and Hainault Forests, 107, 108 
Mansfield, Lord, opposes Sir Thomas 
Wilson’s application to Parliament 
regarding Hampstead Heath, 49; 44; 
and Ken Wood, 45 
Manwood’s definition of a royal forest, 
104 
Mapes, William, and William the Con- 
queror’s formation of the New Forest, 
299 
Marlborough, Sarah, Duchess, and the 
Manor of Mortlake, 91 
Martin, Baron, his decision on an ob- 
struction of roadside wastes, 290, 291 
Maryon family, The, and Hampstead 
Manor, 47 
Massy, General, Sir John Wintevr’s rights 
in the Forest of Dean assigned to, 
252 
Maurer, Von, on the origin of common 
lands, 7 
Maurice, Mr. C. E., 55 
Maynard, Sir John, Tooting Graveney 
granted to, 84 
McClymont, Mr., 365 
Meath, Lord, and his motion affecting the 
Statute of Merton, 347 
Mellish, Lord Justice, on the rights of 
commoners in Epping Forest, 186, 
137 
Melville, Mr., and commoners’ rights in 
Ashdown Forest, 168 
Metropolitan Board of Works, Scheme for 
dealing with commons proposed by. 
34, 37; transference of Hampstead 
Heath to the, 58, 315; and Wimble- 
don Common, 97; its apathy with 
regard to public rights, 149: purchase 
of rights of Lords of Minors by the, 
314; Tooting Bee and Tooting 
Graveney Commons purchased by, 
315; its purchase of parks, etc., 364 
Metropolitan Commons Act, carried in 
1866, 44; powers under the, 43; and 
the price asked by Sir Thomas Wilson 
Z 
385 
for Hampstead Heath, 50; and the 
purchase of Parliament Hill and 
land belonging to Sir Spencer Wil- 
son, 56, 57, 192; its proposed exten- 
sion (1871), 276; regulation of 
commons under the, 312, 314, 315; 
its extension throughout the country 
desirable, 360 
Michel, Mr. John, and Plumstead Manor, 
78 
Miles, Sir C., and Walton Common, 308 
Military service under the feudal system, 
2 
Military Lands Consolidation Bill, The, 
and common lands for rifle ranges, 
245 
Mill, John Stuart, 40; on Mr. Ayrton’s 
Bill, 142; influenced by Mrs. Grote 
regarding the opening of commons 
to the public, 270 
Miller, Q.C., Sir A. E., and the Tollard 
Farnham arbitration case, 213 
Minerals of the Forest of Dean, 248, 251 
Minet, Mr., and Dartford Heath, 42, 179 
Mitcham Common, 3; and Mr. Doulton’s 
Committee, 33; regulation of, 324; 
area of, 32£; former neglected con- 
dition of, 325; early records of, 325 ; 
inclosures on, 326; Mr. Bidder’s 
movement to restrain inclosures on, 
326; manorial rights to, 325; placed 
under the control of ratepayers, 327 5 
proposed branch railway line through, 
336; proposal for a sewage farm on, 
337 
Monastery of St. Augustine, Canterbury, 
and Plumstead Manor, 77 
Montagu, Lord, moves for a Select Com- 
mittee to inquire into the condition of 
the New Forest, 241, 347 
Moors and deer forests of Scotland, The 
public prohibited from, 6 
Morgan, Mr. Augustus, and Dartford 
Heath, 42, 178; suit of Mr. Minet 
against, 179 
Mornington, Lord, Inclosure of portions 
of Epping Forest by, 121; 120 (note); 
158 
Morrison, Mr. George, 241 
Morten, Mr. Garrett, 197 
Mortlake, Manor of, 90-92 
Mount-Temple, Lord, 40; and the Metro- 
politan Commons Act, 45 ; his motion 
in Parliament on Epping Forest, 142, 
143; and the New Forest Committee, 
242; chairman of the Inclosure Com- 
mittee of 1869, 275; his motion for 
