. Essex naturalist: being the journal of the Essex Field Club. on the Common Council on the 25th of September, theCorporation resolved to grant the ^3,000 required. The DrapersCompany contributed ^210, Mr. Warner ^100, the CommonersCompensation Fund ^100, and the balance was made up by smallercontributions. The quantity of land proposed to be acquired under the originalscheme was, as above stated, 27I acres. During the course of thenegotiations carried on by the City Solicitor, this was increased bythree acres, and the exact measurement of the land and water addedto the forest is 30 a. 2 r. 39
. Essex naturalist: being the journal of the Essex Field Club. on the Common Council on the 25th of September, theCorporation resolved to grant the ^3,000 required. The DrapersCompany contributed ^210, Mr. Warner ^100, the CommonersCompensation Fund ^100, and the balance was made up by smallercontributions. The quantity of land proposed to be acquired under the originalscheme was, as above stated, 27I acres. During the course of thenegotiations carried on by the City Solicitor, this was increased bythree acres, and the exact measurement of the land and water addedto the forest is 30 a. 2 r. 39 p. The shady avenues, and the lakewith its tributary stream, the Ching, are exceedingly picturesque, andthe whole forms a most valuable addition to the open lands of theforest. The evidences of human handiwork proper to a parkcombine charmingly with the natural luxuriance of a piece ofprimitive woodland, the tract having been at one time forest land, orwas at least land subject to the forestal rights of the king. This isevident from the following facts :—. MOKK KIMlNd FOkRSr. I4I In the Rolls of the Court of Attachments there are severalentiies of leave having been given from time to time to cut the woodin the Sale. For instance, in the records of a Court held onNovember 19th, 1720, it was Ordered that Wm. Row, Esq, have leave to fell a Grove called the Salein Waltlianistow Walk at 3 several! falls, it appearing to be of full growthcont. 80 acres. And on the 3rd July, 1786, is recorded the following protestagainst the attempted enclosure of this wood :— At this Court Sir James Tylney Long Bart. Lord Warden presented two lettersthe one wrote b^-Himself to Governor Hornby owner of the Wood called the Salein the Forest of Waltham concerning His beginning to enclose the same &Govr. Hornbys ansr. to the same ; which being read to the Court, The Courtare of opinion that it is necessary for the preservation of the Forest that the Woodcalld the Sale cannot lawfully be enclosed. An
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