with advantage to the miners themselves, or to the
community," connected as they are with a most defective system of
working, productive of incessant disputes and expensive litigation, and
occasioning constant disputes and never-ending jealousy; and they thus
conclude--"Taking all the circumstances of the case into consideration,
we are of opinion that the monopoly and customary workings are
practically at an end, and that, if individual claims were bought up, the
whole coal-field might then be let by the Crown as between landlord and
tenant, defining the limits and regulating the working."

The fifth and final Report of the Dean Forest Commissioners bore the same
date as the preceding. It contains the evidence produced before them as
to "certain claims of common of pasture" made by the inhabitants of the
following parishes bounding the Forest, and paying a small sum annually,
called "herbage money," to the lessee of the Crown of the manor and
hundred of St. Briavel's, and the manor of Newland, as annexed:--

_s._ _d._
Little Dean 3 4
parish
Newnham ,, 3 4
Staunton ,, 2 0
Longhope ,, 3 4
Abbenhall ,, 3 4
Mitcheldean ,, 7 0
Hope Mansel ,, 1 0
Ruerdean ,, 3 4
Bicknor ,, 1 0
Alvington ,, 5 0 will not pay.
Newland ,, 10 0
Huntisham 7 8 will not pay.
tithing
Bledisloe 3 4
Etloe Dutchy 5 0 }
Etloe tithing 3 0 } In Awre.
Box ,, 3 4 }
Hagloe and 5 5 }
Purton
Blaisdon 6 8
Blakeney 4 0
tithing
Awre parish 8 0

It is highly probable that the above claims, and the payments for the
ancient agistments, originated when the limits of the Forest comprehended
the parishes by which they are made. The earliest authentic trace of
them occurs in