Goodness to his People, is willing to lay down all the new Bounds of his Forests
in this kingdom ; and that they shall be reduced to the same condition as they were
before the late Justice Seat held." An Act of Parliament was passed " for the
certainty of forests" (16 Car. I. c. 16) to give effect to this undertaking, and
immediately afterwards a Perambulation of Waltham Forest was made by virtue
of a Commission under the Great Seal, directed to the Earl of Warwick and
forty-four other Com-
missioners. In accord-
ance there with, an
Inquisition was taken
at Stratford Lang-
thorne on Wednes-
day, 8th of September,
1641 (17th Charles I.)
the C o m m i s s i o n e r s
being "sworn and
charged to inquire into
the metes and bounds,
which were the metes
and bounds of the
Forest in the 20th year