386 
oe repeal of the Statute of Merton, 
6 
Mountainous districts, Common lands in, 
4; regulation of commons in, 329 
Mundella, M.P., Mr., and the proposed 
inclosure of Maltby Common, 284 
Nasse, Professor, on the origin of common 
lands, 7 
National Rifle Association, and Wimble- 
don Common, 97, 99 
Navvies sent to Berkhamsted to destroy 
the fences round the Common, 64, 65 
Navy, Timber for the, from the New For- 
est, 234 ; from the Forest of Dean, 261 
Nelson, Sir Thomas, and the preservation 
of Epping Forest, 159 
New Forest, Small ownerships in the, 21 ; 
its disafforestation threatened, 24; 
created by William the Conqueror, 
228; the devastation said to have 
been made by the Conqueror in the 
formation of the, 229, 230; adminis- 
tration of forest laws in, 231; ex- 
tensions by the Conqueror’s successors 
to, 281; original extent of, 232; the 
deer in, 232, 233; poaching in, 233: 
the trees of, 233, 234; inclosures for 
the growth of timber made in the, 
234; the Act of 1851 for inclosing 
and planting a portion of, 235; claims 
of commoners in, 236, 237; small 
commoners of, 238, 239 ; public move- 
ment of 1865 to resist encroachments 
in, 240; Mr. Fawcett’s motion re- 
specting, 240; Lord Montagu’s com- 
mittee for inquiring into the condition 
of, 241, 242; Act of 1877 with regard 
to, 242; election of verderers for, 
243; non-registered commoners. of, 
248, 244; the ‘Ranges Act” and, 
244, 245; action pending between the 
Crown and the verderers of, 246; 
threatened by a railway, 338 
“New Forest, History of,” Lewis's, Allu- 
sion to, 231 (note) 
Newmarket Heath case, 301 
Nicholls, Mr., historian of the Forest of 
Dean, 251 
Norman conquest, Establishment of the 
feudal system at the, 11 
North, Sir Thomas, and the Manor of 
Hampstead, 47 
Northbourne, Lord, 41 
Northumberland, Duke of, moves the 
rejection of the Commons Bill of 
1871, 276 
INDEX. 
Northwich, Inclosure of roadside wastes 
near, 297 (note) 
Palewell Common, 92 
Palmer, Sir Roundell. 
Lord.) 
Pannage, Right of, in Epping Forest, 108 
Park Down, 189, 196 
Parliament, Report of Inclosure Com- 
missioners in 1871 to, 4, 5; report of 
Inclosure Commissioners in 1873 to, 
5; decision respecting inclosure of 
lands by Henry III.’s, 11; Acts re- 
garding inclosures between 1689 and 
1846 by, 20; Inclosure Act of 1845 
passed by, 22; approves the dis- 
afforestation and inclosure of Hain- 
ault Forest, and recommends the dis- 
afforestation and inclosure of Epping 
Forest, 24, 119; private Bill respect- 
ing Wimbledon Common and Putney 
Heath laid before, 28 ; passing of the 
Metropolitan Commons Act by, 44; 
Sir Thomas Wilson’s private Bills in, 
49; measure empowering the Board 
of Works to purchase Parliament Hill 
and other property passed by, 56; the 
Wimbledon and Putney Bill passes, 
97; andthe Wandsworth Common Act, 
101; and the Act for the Bounds of 
Forests (Charles I.), 113; Forests Act 
during the Commonwealth passed by, 
114; Committee in 1863, to enquire 
into forestal rights, appointed by, 
122; Committee on London Commons 
(1865) appointed by, 122; Act, 
authorising the application of the 
proceeds of duty on grain for the 
preservation of commons, 136; dis- 
cussion of Mr. Ayrton’s Bill in, 140- 
142; Mr. Fawcett’s motion, for an 
address to the Crown on Crown 
rights, in, 139; Lord Mount-Temple’s 
motion in, 142; Mr. Ayrton’s motion, 
for a Commission of Inquiry, in, 143; 
Bill of 1878 for the control of Epping 
Forest passes, 150-153; Act confirm- 
ing the disafforestation of Malvern 
Forest passed by, 172; Act of 1884 
for the regulation of Malvern Hills 
passed by, 173; Act disfranchising the 
chase of Cranbourne, 214, 215; the 
New Forest Act of 1851 of, 285; Mz. 
Fawcett’s and Lord Montagu’s mo- 
tions with reference to the New 
Forest in, 240, 241; the New Forest 
Act of 1877 of, 242, 243; the 
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