Cyril Hart said that the Dean Forest Act 1667 is "important".

[10] Wood said that the expression "the late forest", in the preamble, no doubt referred to the proceedings taken for disafforesting in the year 16 Cha.

It was probably a question of policy to leave the validity or invalidity of those proceedings undecided; the act rendered them unimportant (see section 5).

[14] Wood said that the effect of this section would seem to be that the lands there referred to, other than the inclosures and wastes, practically ceased to be considered part of the forest, which in time (as would appear from the perambulation of 1788), came to be considered as limited to the "23,000 acres or thereabouts" (see sections 1 and 6), and any lands surrounded by those inclosures and wastes, and the detached wastes of the Hudnalls, Fence, Bearce, Wallmore and Northwoods Green.

The probable meaning was "in any part of the 11,000 acres allotted for His Majesty's inclosure so long as the same shall continue inclosed".