After the latter date the presentments at the Courts
relating to the deer almost entirely ceased. The remain-
ing red deer were sent to Windsor about twenty years
after the beginning of the present century, but some have
lately been restored to the Forest. The keepers' returns
of fallow deer show that in 1792 there were thirty-four
brace of bucks in the Forest, fit to serve for warrants ;
and a series of returns to the office of Woods and Forests
show how the fallow deer gradually decreased, and at last
almost became extinct in the present century. There
were about 212 male and female deer in the Forest in
1846, and 209 in 1847 and 1848. In 1849 there were
223 ; but only 9 fit for the Queen's service, for which in
1850 no bucks were available. In 1855, after the dis-
afforestation of Hainault, there were 86 deer in Epping
Forest, of which 6 were bucks and 3 1 does, the rest being
immature. In June, 1856, there were 75 in all, including



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5 bucks and 27 does. In 1857 there were 57, of which
3 were bucks and 19 does; 48, of which 2 were bucks and
20 does, in 1858 ; 32, of which 2 were bucks and 13 does,
in 1859 ; and in 1870 only 5 to 6 brace of deer and but
I buck. They were, therefore, nearly extinct when the
litigation began in 1871.
The times fixed by the Forest laws for hunting were coke, 4th

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