. Essex naturalist: being the journal of the Essex Field Club. ober, 1713, to the 6th December, 1848, printed by order of theEpping Forest Commissioners, 1783. The Court of Attachments, anciently the Woodmote,whatever may have been its original nature and jurisdiction, was held under the Charter of theForest, which directed that the foresters and verderers should meet every forty days to see theattachments of the forest, both for greenhue and hunting by presentments of the are no early records of this Court in the Forest of Waltham, although they appear tohave been duly kept. T
. Essex naturalist: being the journal of the Essex Field Club. ober, 1713, to the 6th December, 1848, printed by order of theEpping Forest Commissioners, 1783. The Court of Attachments, anciently the Woodmote,whatever may have been its original nature and jurisdiction, was held under the Charter of theForest, which directed that the foresters and verderers should meet every forty days to see theattachments of the forest, both for greenhue and hunting by presentments of the are no early records of this Court in the Forest of Waltham, although they appear tohave been duly kept. There are a few of the time of Elizabeth in the British Museum. Inthe reigns of James I. and Elizabeth the Court was held at Chigwell, and in 1713 and afterwardsits sittings were always apud le Kings Head in Chigwell. 2 Licences to enclose lands on the forest were only granted, as a genera! rule, on the under-standing that the ditch or hedge should be low enough to allow a doe with her fawn easily to sur-mount it, certainly not more than about four feet MOKK KPIIXG KORKST. I43 Esq for inclosing and stubbing up part of the Sale adjoining to his P^ields alsofor securing or making up the remainder of the fence round the cover called theSale so as to prevent the Deer passing the said cover. Notwithstanding the efforts of the verderers to enforce the lawand prevent these encroachments on the open forest, money or Courtinfluence appears to have prevailed, and at a Court held on July 24th,1797, a licence was entered on the Rolls to permit John Harman, ofHigham, in the parish of Walthamstow, to enclose the Sale, but notso as to prevent the deer leaping over the fences, and with no rightsof building on the enclosed lands. The record is interesting, becauseit shows that the lake forming part of the recent purchase is in realitythe Ching stream, artificially widened out, and also that the acquiredland is, in a sense, a restoration, it having been formerly land underforestal rights.
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