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lands of the Forest were commonable for horses and
cows, and for no other cattle, and they reported to the
House that a considerable extent of ground had
been enclosed in the Forest without any considera-
tion being paid for the forestal rights of the
Crown, and that immediate steps should be taken by
the Crown to assert its rights, and to abate such
enclosures. In a subsequent part of the Report
however, there was a contradictory recommendation
to the effect that the sanction of Parliament should
be obtained for the enclosure of the remaining portion
of the Forest, that the rights of the several parties in-
terested should be ascertained, and that provision
should be made, partly by those means and partly by
purchase, for securing an adequate portion of the
Forest for those purposes of health and recreation
for which as it had been proved to the Committee this
open space had from time immemorial been enjoyed by
the inhabitants of the neighbourhood and the Me-
tropolis.
Neither of those recommendations was however
adopted, and the latter one recommending enclosure,
was so unsatisfactory to the public and to Parliament,
that another Committee of the House of Commons was
appointed in the year 1865, and brought up recom-
mendations, totally different from those made by the
previous Committee.
They are as follows :—