4 SECOND REPORT OF THE 



fifed in tin -apartment in Wmclfor Caftle employed for that purpofc ; and that fuch 

 apartment, or a confiderable part of it, had been afterwards ufed as a guard room 

 for the -foldicrs who kept guard at the Caftlc, and that thofe papers had been feen 

 there iu much diforder for fomc time after the apartment had been fo ufed; that 

 they were afterwards removed from thence, but by whom or to what place they 

 were fo removed has not yet been difcovered. 



The Commiffioners having employed part of the month of Auguft and the 

 whole of September, in gaining the bed information they eould from thefe imper- 

 fect papers, and inch otliers as they could then rcfort to, in that month received His 

 Majefty's Commiffion, which authorized them to proceed in the execution of the 

 Act ; :;nd they forthwith gave notice, as the Aft requires, in the London Gazette 

 and other 'Paper*, of their tirft Meeting to put the Act in execution, which they 

 appointed on the ill October 1806, the earheii day they could appoint after the 

 receipt of the Comminion. 



The Commiffioners met on that day, and devoted it entirely to any explanation 

 that might be required of them, touching the objects of the inquiry, and the courfe 

 they intended to purfue, for the greater convenience of thofe from whom the Com- 

 inifiioners were to gain information, or who had claims to make and rights to 

 fupport ; and then adjourned to a future day, to receive the Claims of Manerial 

 Rights, Rights of Free Warren and Cornmonable Rights, directed by the A6i to be 

 made w-iihin fuch time as the Commiffioners fljould appoint. 



In die meantime the Commiffioners proceeded the next day in the firft object, 

 of inquiry mentioned in the firft feftion of tiie 46 Geo. III. c. 143. to afeertain 

 the Boundaries of the Foreil, according to an Inquiiition taken in the i fill year of 

 King Charles the Firft. 



This inveftigation being made by an actual perambulation of the Bounds of 

 the Forcft by the Commiffioners, and by the examination of "Witnefles on oath 

 as to the identity of the fame, employed the Commiffioners the whole of five 

 fucceffive days. The variations between the Boundaries of this Foreft as afcer- 

 tained in-. 17 Cha. I. and thofe which the Commiffioners have been able to trace, 

 arc noticed in their Proceedings, which (as the Aft direfts) will be returned into the 

 Office of the Surveyor General of HisMajefty's Woods, or fuch other office as your 

 L.ordfhips ihall direct. Thcfe variations, however, are fo few and inconfidcrablc, 

 that they do not here require any further notice or obfcrvation. 



In the courfe of the perambulation, the Commiffioners can fed marks to be 

 made, where it appeared to them -proper that Boundary Stones mould be placed 

 purfuant to the directions of the Act. The Boundary Stones have been pro- 

 cured and marked, and will be put down. Some delay in placing them has 

 arifen-, iirft, from the Commiffioners being requefted to revife the evidence given 

 on the perambulation, and receive fome further evidence in explanation thereof, 

 which the Commiffioners thought it proper to do; and the refill t of fuch revifiou 

 and further examination has proved fatisfactory to all the parties who appeared 

 before the Commiffioner.4, and who could be affected by the Boundary: fecondly, 

 by the doubt ftill undetermined in fome places, as to the property the Crown has 

 in the foil of fuch places. 



On the gth day of October the Commiffioners met, to receive the claims of 

 Mancrial Rights, Rights of Free Warren and Commonable Rights, which by the 

 iiril mentioned Act were directed to be delivered to the Commiilioners at fuch 

 Meeting as they mould appoint for that purpofe, or within fuch further time as 

 the Cmnmiflioners fhonld, under any circumftanecs which iliould appear to them 

 to make the fame neceflary, think proper to allow for that purpofe ; and it was 

 by the .faid Act declared, that every perfon who mould not deliver in fuch claims, 

 or claim iuch rights and privileges Avithin fuch period as aforefaid, mould be 

 barred and excluded from all i'uch claims, rights and privileges. 



The claims made before the Commiffioners were in number 85, many of which 

 comprifed claims of all the dcfcriptions mentioned in the Act ; and feveral of 

 them comprehended claims not mentioned in the Act, but of importance to the 

 individuals \\lio claimed them, if they could be eftabliihed, and materially affect- 

 ing the rights of the Crown in the: Foreft. In all cafes where claims were not 

 made in diftiner, fpecific and intelligible terms, on account of want of preparation 

 or information by the Claimants, the Commiffioners gave further time for a more 

 accurate defeription of the right claimed, and for the production of the evidence 

 in fu;>port of it. 



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