'Manors and 

 .Hundreds. 



Appendix, "N e i. 



8 SECOND REPORT OF THE 



profits of the Pored of Windfor, the Chafe of Cranbom, and of all the Parks to the 

 iaid Cafile, Honor and Foreft belonging or appertaining. 



The Commiffioners after various fearches at length discovered, that the original 

 of fuch claims as were made at the Court of Eyre in the 8th of Charles the Firft, and 

 are reported bv Sir W. Jones to have been allowed, were depofited in the Tower. 

 On iufpecYmg them, they were found to contain much ufeful information. Copies 

 of feveral of them were procured, and will be depofited with the proceedings of the 

 Commiffioners, as directed by the Aft. 



The claims made to Hundreds and Manors within the Foreft, and the rights 

 alleged to appertain to them, are fo extenfive that the Commiffioners thought it 

 necefiary to direct their attention, to difcover not only the original grant of fuch 

 Hundreds and Manors as had not been produced to them, but any ancient 

 furveys thereof, to lliew the extent of fuch Manors, where no fatisfaetory evidence 

 had been produced to the Commiffioners on that point; ail the principal Manors 

 being alleged to be co-extenfive with the parimes of the fame name, and fome to 

 contain more pari flies than one. For thefe purpofes they have made diligent fearch 

 in the Tower, and in the Office of the King's Remembrancer of the Court of 

 Exchequer, the Auditor of the Land Revenue (from whence much ufeful informa- 

 tion has been collected) at the Rolls Chapel, among the manufcripts in the Britim 

 Mufeum, and in the Augmentation Office. 



The Commiffioners have dated in the Appendix to this Report, No. i. the 

 names of the Hundreds, Parities and principal Manors, within the Foreft, in 

 Avhom the principal Manors are now vcfted, when fuch as are in private hands 

 were lad granted by the Crown, and to whom, with the date of the lad public 

 furvey of each Manor that has been difcovered, and where the fame is now de- 

 .pofited. They have ufed their bed endeavours to make this datement perfect, as 

 they are of opinion that it will be neceflary in the firft place to take an accurate 

 view of the date of the property of this nature within the Fored, before any pracYi- 

 cable plan for its improvement can be formed. Though this datement is not fo 

 complete as the Commiffioners have endeavoured to make it, yet they truft it will 

 be found ufeful to a confiderable extent. 



The Commiffioners difcovered in the Britim Mufeum, amongd the Harleian 

 MS. a furvey of Windfor Fored, taken in the year 1607 by John Norden, in 17 

 maps, which has been ufeful on the prefent inquiry, and may be materially fo 

 in future. It appears from other documents, that John Norden was a Deputy of 

 the then Surveyor General of His Majefty's Woods. 



A modern Map of Windfor Fored, taken in the year 1789 and the three fol- 

 lowing years, under the direction of John Robinibn, Efq. the then Surveyor 

 General of the Woods, is now in the Surveyor General's Office. A copy of this 

 Map is in the hands of the Steward of the Fored Court ; and on the very many 

 occafions the Commiffioners have had to refort to the particular fpots defcribed 

 therein, in the courfe of their inquiry into encroachments, and on other occa- 

 fions, it appears to them to be very accurate. 



The Commiffioners in the courfe of their inquiry have had occafion to examine 

 feveral Witnefles, on different ufages within the Fored, particularly on the Cona- 

 monable Rights, the particulars of which are contained in their proceedings. 

 They have a!fo required from all the prefent Officers of the Fored, an account of 

 their appointments, under what authority they a&, the nature of their duties, and 

 the emoluments they receive; all of whom have made Returns to that requifition, 

 Appendix, :N e 10. which are dated in the Appendix to this Report, No. 20. 



General Account of 

 Windfor Foreft. 



From thefe various fources of information the Commiffioners are now enabled 

 to lay before your Lordmips the following State of WINDSOR FOREST. 



THIS FOREST was formerly of much greater extent than at the prefent time. 

 According to the Inquifition before-mentioned in the time of Charles theFird, and 

 the perambulation made under the authority of the 4th of the King, it extends 

 into the five Hundreds of Ripplefmere, Cookham, Charlton, Wargrave, and 

 Soninge, and comprehends the whole of fome of them, and part only of others. 

 The entire Parimes within the Fored are 12 in number, and it extends into parts 

 of 5 other Parimes. It contains 15 principal or chief Manors, having within 

 them feveral fubordinate or mefne Manors. Of the principal or chief Manors 

 fome are co-extenfive with the Parimes in which they lie, others are not fo, and 

 ;fome of them extend over more Parifhes than one. 



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