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APPENDIX.
Extract from the Report of the Royal New and
Waltham. Forest Commission, 1850.
" Twelfthly, in respect of Forest Courts, after
referring to what has been hereinbefore stated on the
subject generally, it should be noticed that the
judicial administration of the law in this Forest has
fallen into the last stages of debility. The Title of
the Proclamation Tempore Edward VI, from which
a passage was quoted above, appears to be ' for
ceasing the bruit and noise of disafforesting the Forest
of Waltham,' while the letter from Mr. Waldegrave,
A.D. 1603, cited above, obviously implies that
proposals had then been renewed for the same object.
Further, the last Justice Seat for this Forest appears
to have been held A.D. 1670 ; and when the last
Court of Swainmote was held I have not been able to
ascertain. The Steward of the Forest Courts there,
however, intimated to the Committee of the House
of Commons that both these Courts were "gone"
or had ceased to exist. It further appears that with
reference to the only surviving Court, the Court of