INDEX. 
“Ranges Act” of, 244; the Military 
Lands Consolidation Bill of, 245; the 
Forest of Dean Bill of 1668 of, 255; 
Inclosure of the Forest of Dean Bill 
(1875) introduced and withdrawn in, 
261, 263; the Inclosure Bill of 1869 
in, 2738-275; Commons Bill of 1871 
rejected on the motion of the Duke of 
Northumberland, 278; measure intro- 
duced by Lord Cross (1876) for 
amending the Inclosure Act of 1845, 
278-281; appointment of a Standing 
Committee for considering schemes 
relating to commons, 282; carrying 
of amendment to Local Government 
Bill for the protection of roadside 
wastes, 297; provision in Parish 
Councils Bill for the protection of 
roadside wastes, 297; the Commons 
Act of 1876, 5, 312, 313; and the 
invasions of railways on commons, 
334, 335, 336, 337; motions for the 
repeal of the Statute of Merton, 346, 
347 ; the Copyhold Act of 1887, 351- 
353; the Commons Law Amendment 
Act of 1893, 354, 355 
Parliament Hill, 45, 54; purchase of, 56, 
57; thrown open, and added to 
Hampstead Heath, 57 
Parr, Catherine, and the Manor of Mort- 
lake, 90 
Paulton’s Common, a name for Wigley 
Common, 186 
Peacocke, M,P., Mr., and the sale of 
forestal rights in Epping Forest, 122 
Peckham Rye Common, Extension of, 363 
Peek, ‘Sir Henry, chairman of the 
Wimbledon Common Committee, 29 ; 
and the case against the Lord of the 
Manor of Wimbledon, 42, 96, 97; 
offers prizes for essays on the Preser- 
vation of Commons, 44; 95; buys the 
freeholds at Burnham Beeches, 272 
Pelham, Mr., and the proposed ranges in 
the New Forest, 245 
Pembroke, Earl of, and the Manor of 
Tollard Farnham, 214; grant for 
digging coal in the Forest of Dean 
made by James I. to, 256 
People’s Land, The, 8 
Pepys, Mr. Secretary, and the Spanish 
intentions regarding the Forest of 
Dean, 251; and Sir John Winter’s new 
lease for the Forest of Dean, 254; und 
the coal in the Forest of Dean, 256 
Pevensey, Castle of, granted to John of 
Gaunt, 161 
387 
Pitstone Common, 62 
Plumstead Common, 3; inclosure of, 39, 
42; its extent, 77; its ownership in 
early times, 77, 78; its present 
owners, 78; encroachments on, 79; 
action taken against the owners, and 
the decisions of Lords Romilly and 
Hatherley, 79-82; addition by the 
County Council to, 83 
Plumstead Manor, mentioned in Domes- 
day Book, 77 
Poaching in the New Forest, 233 
Polr, Cardinal, and the Manor of Mort- 
lake, 90 
Pole, Mr. Wellesley. 
Lord.) 
Pollock, Mr. Justice, 40, 95 
Poor, the, Advantages of commons to, 3 
Popple, Captain, sells the Manor of Burn- 
ham to Lord Grenville, 265 
Porter, Mr., and an inclosure on Wands- 
worth Common, 100 
Portman, Lord, and the Royal Commission 
on Crown Lands of 1849, 118 
Poulett, William, and Wigley Common, 
181, 183 
Powell, Sir John, and Ashdown Forest in- 
closures, 166 
Press, the, Influence of, in the commons 
struggle, 363 
Public opinion, Influence on judges of, 
362 
Putney Heath, Proposed sale of, 28; 92 
(See Mornington, 
Queen Elizabeth’s Lodge, Epping Forest, 
104; made over to the Corporation of 
London, 151 
Queen’s College, Oxford, Manor of Plum- 
stead bequeathed to, 78; inclosure of 
Bostall Heath and Shoulder of Mutton 
Green by, 79; action brought by 
Messrs. Warrick, Goldsmid, and 
Jacobs against, 80-83 
Railways, Attacks on commons by, 29, 33, 
100, 193, 831-342; payments made to 
Lords of Manors by, 331; the oppo- 
sition of the Commons Society to the 
invasions of, 333 
Ranger of Epping Forest, 151 
“ Ranges Act,” The, 244 
Ravenscourt Park, 364 
Recreation on commons, 2 
Recreation grounds, Acreage set apart for, 
between 1845 and 1869, 23 
Red Hill Common, 329 
Regulation of Commons, the, Two schemes 
