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enclosures on their own lands or encroachments con-
trary to law ; that these enclosures or encroachments
by them have prevented their interfering to prevent
similar ones being made by the lords or stewards of
other Manors, and have also made them not anxious
to hold the Courts at which such enclosures might be
presented. The Steward of the Forest and Forest
Courts there also distinctly stated : ' Again the Ver-
derers cannot act as a Court in preventing these
enclosures; take Mr. Conyers, Mr. Conyers cannot
sign a warrant to throw down a fence, when he himself
is putting up fences in other parts of the forest within
his own Manor;' while one of the Verderers himself
admitted that he had voted against complying with
the directions of the Statute, 10 Geo. IV., cap. 50,
sec. 100, as to certifying to the Attorney General the
presentment of one such enclosure or encroachment in
the Forest, because he thought it hard to put a Lord
of a Manor, who alleged a right against the Crown,
to the expense of a law suit with the Crown whereby
to establish that right.
" In the fourth place, it appears that one at least of
the Verderers is a Master-keeper, and as such is
apparently bound to prevent his own enclosures or
encroachments, and to present them when made at the
Forest Courts.
" In the fifth place, it should seem that one or two
of the Master-keepers are also Lords of Manors within