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" The Forestal Rights of the Crown over Epping
" Forest appear to be little profitable to the Crown,
" and would be far more useful to the public as a
" means of preserving open and unenclosed lands,
" over which they extend, than for any pecuniary
" profit to be derived from them.
" Your Committee have to report that numerous
" inclosures have taken place within the Forest of
" Epping, of land over which the Crown's Forestal
" Rights have not been purchased ; that your
" Committee find with regret that Her Majesty's
" Government have taken no measures to assert the
" Rights of the Crown over such lands so enclosed
" as aforesaid, and recommend that they take
" immediate steps to vindicate the Crown's Forestal
" Rights over such lands, and to abate such
" inclosures.
" Your Committee entirely concur in the first
" alternative presented by the Report of 1863, and
" apply it to all Royal Forests within the Metro-
" politan area, viz.:—'That the Forestal Rights of
" ' the Crown should be vigilantly maintained
" ' without regard to the question of cost, for the
" ' purpose of preventing all future inclosures, and
" ' to preserve the Forest in its present extent and
" ' wild linen closed condition.' "
In the meanwhile, however, and before even the
appointment of the Committee of 1863, the Forest