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the value of the timber, but the five who have
held out may, if this recommendation should become
law, obtain five times that amount.
Now nothing would have been easier for the Com-
missioners if they desired to hold an even balance, than
to have called the Lords of Manors before them, to
have ascertained what each Lord had received from
grantees for the lands which they had thus unlawfully
sold, and to have recommended to Parliament that as the
result of the decision in the Chancery Suit was that all
the lands enclosed within twenty years had to be restored
to the Forest, those Lords should, out of any purchase
money they might receive for their ownership of the
soil, repay to the grantees the sums they had paid
for lands which, as it turned out, the Lords could
give them no title to enclose. When it is known
that very large sums have passed into the hands of
one of these Lords of Manors for lands which he had
no right to sell as enclosed land, it is left to the
judgment of a just and discerning public to say what
hardship there would have been in stopping any
further sums going into this person's pocket until he
had first done justice to those whose money he had
taken for nought, and whether having already re-
ceived this large sum to which he has no right, he is
to have a further large sum from the public for the rest
of his land as building land. All these suggestions
were made to the Commissioners, but the only result has