INDEX. 
Wetherell, Mr., Assistant Inclosure Com- 
missioner, his award respecting the 
rights of commoners on Banstead 
Commons, 194, 204 
Whateley, Mr. A. P., 88 
Whetstone, Sir Bernard, Lerd of the 
Manor of Woodford, suit against, 106 
White, Colonel, his report to the House 
of Commons with regard to the de- 
struction of fences in the Forest of 
Dean, 253 
White, Q.C., Mr. Meadows, and the rights 
of commoners on Banstead Commons, 
205, 206 
Wightman, Mr. Justice, his decision in 
the Woodford Green case, 302, 303 
Wigley Common, Extent of, 180; early 
owners of Manor of, 180, 181; 
claims of Mr. Sloane Stanley to, 181, 
186; Mr. Eyre’s action against Mr. 
Stanley for encroachments on, 182, 
186; the “ monster’ box containing 
Lord Chancellor Hatton’s decree 
concerning, 182, 184, 185; called 
“ Paulton’s Common,” 186 
Wildman, Major, and the works for 
charring coal in the Forest of Dean, 
257 5 
William the Conqueror and his formation 
of New Forest, 228-230; in the 
Forest of Dean, 249 
Williams, Q.C., Mr. Joshua, 87, 168 
Williams, Sir Thomas, and Ashdown 
Forest, 164 
Williams, Mr. William, 95 
Willingales, Case of the, and lopping in 
Epping Forest, 126-130, 157 
Wills, Mr. Justice, his decision in the 
Walton Common case, 309, 310 
Wilson, Sir Spencer Maryon, and the 
Manor of Hampstead, 47; transfers 
Hampstead Heath to the Metropolitan 
Board of Works, 53; and his pro- 
perty adjacent to Hampstead Heath, 
54, 55 
Wilson, Sir Thomas Maryon, 42; and the 
Manor of Hampstead, 47; assertion 
of his rights over Hampstead Heath, 
48; makes application to Parliament 
for power to grant building leases, 
48, 49; declaration of his intentions 
391 
regarding Hampstead Heath, 50: 
erects houses on Hampstead Heath, 
51; Mr. Gurney Hoare’s suit against 
him, 51, 52; and commoners’ rights 
in Ashdown Forest, 168 
Wimbledon Common, 3; Earl Spencer’s 
proposal of 1864 respecting, 27, 28; 
in Saxon times, 89; Cresar’s Camp 
on, 89; duels on, 89, 90; its early 
history, 92; extent of, 92: pollard oaks 
and rights of cutting fuel on, 93; 
rights of turning cattle on to, 93; 
appointment by the Homage of sur- 
veyors for, 93; gravel-digging on, 
94; suit against Earl Spencer re- 
specting, 95-97 ; conveyed to Trustees 
for the public, 97 ; proposal to erect a 
sewage farm on, 334 
Wimbledon, Manor of, Early history of, 
90, 91; and the Spencer family, 91, 
92; Rolls of, 92 
Wimbledon and Putney Bill, The, 97 
Wimbledon, Viscount. (See Cecil, Sir 
Edward.) 
Winter, Sir John, Mineral rights and 
trees in the Forest of Dean sold by 
Charles I. to, 251; assignment of his 
rights in the Forest of Dean to 
General Massy, 252; regains his 
rights in the Forest of Dean, 253; 
makes fresh inclosures in the Forest, 
253; his inclosures under a new lIrasc, 
254; destroys the trees in the Forest, 
255 
Wisley Common, struck out from the 
Inclosure Bill of 1869, 275; proposal 
to devote u portion of it to recreative 
purposes, 278 
Withypool Common, 275, 278 
Woodford Green, Decision of Mr. Justice 
Wightman on the inclosure of, 302, 
803 
Woodford, Manor of, 124 
Worcestershire Beacon, The, 172 
Yarranton, Andrew, ‘The Improvement 
of England by Sea and Land,” by, 
quoted, 248, 249 (note) 
Yeomen, Small, Hardships suffered from 
inclosure of lands by, 17, 18; ex- 
tinction of, 20 
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