INTRODUCTION.
As the question of Epping Forest is at this moment prominently
before the public, it is thought that those who take an interest
in this important playground of London should be informed,
as concisely as the circumstances admit of, what that question
now is, with a view to a right judgment being formed upon
the principal point in dispute, namely, whether the deter-
mination of the House of Commons, again and again
expressed, that Epping Forest "shall be preserved as an
open space for the recreation and enjoyment of the public"
is to be defeated by the legalisation of proceedings, which the
Master of the Rolls, in delivering the judgment of the Court
of Chancery, described as "the taking of other persons pro-
perty without their consent and appropriating it to their own
use" (i.e. the use of the takers.)