The Royal Forests Of England Classic Reprint

Author : George Shaw-Lefevre Eversley
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781528085311
Total Pages : 426 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (853 download)

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Download or read book Commons, Forests and Footpaths written by George Shaw-Lefevre Eversley and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-13 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Commons, Forests and Footpaths: The Story of the Battle During the Last Forty-Five Years for Public Rights Over the Commons, Forests and Footpaths of England and Wales The greater part of the following work is a reprint, revised and extended, of a book which I published in 1894, under the title of English Commons and Forests, in which I gave an account of the battle, since 1865, for the preservation of the Common lands and Forests of England and Wales. The immediate cause of the publication was that in the previous year, 1893, two most important results had been achieved. In the first place, Parliament had passed a measure for the virtual repeal of the Statute of Merton, one of the earliest enactments, under the assumed sanction of which all the attempted inclosures of Commons during the period referred to were made. In the second place, after a thirteen years' struggle in the law courts, for the saving of Banstead Commons, Parliament, in spite of most determined opposition before Select Committees of both Houses, had sanctioned a Scheme for the regulation of those Commons, by which they were placed under the control and management of a body of Conservators elected by the ratepayers of the district. Parliament therefore had decided that the control and management of a Metropolitan Common might be practically taken out of the hands of the Lord of the Manor, in spite of his opposition, and transferred to an elective body, in the interest of the district. These two important measures had virtually effected a legal revolution in the relation of Lords of Manors and their Commoners to the public with respect to Commons. It was thought, therefore, that the occasion had arisen for putting on record the history of the movement, and for describing in detail the course of litigation which had so large a part in forming public opinion and in rendering possible this litigation. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.