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Attachments, there have been several consecutive
years in this century, during which no such Court
whatever has been held J and even at those which
have been held no business appears to have been
transacted.
" In connection with this subject it will be proper
to notice that the majority of the Forest Officers,
those bound to hold the Courts and to enforce the
law, are alleged to be among the persons most
interested in the disuse of the Courts and in breaches
of the apparent law.
" In the first place, the private interest of the
Lord Warden, as Lord of several Manors in the
Forest, appears to be directly antagonistic to the rights
and interests both of the Crown and the Commoners.
Every enclosure from the wastes of his Manors that
he can make, to the limitation of the Forestal Rights
of the Crown and the pasture rights of the commoners,
is a source of revenue to him in the shape of rents,
fines, &c.
" In the second place, the Steward of the Lord
Warden, who is also Steward of the Verderers' Court
there, as also of several private Manors in the Forest,
is said to have a direct pecuniary interest in en-
couraging what are alleged to be similar breaches of
the supposed law. It also appears that on the recent
presentment of an alleged encroachment at the
Verderers' Court, the Steward of the Forest and of