COMMISSIONERS ON WINDSOR FOREST. 9 



The particulars of the Hundreds, Parities, and principal Manors, and in whom Appendix, 

 they are now veftcd, are ftated in the Appendix. No. i. 



The whole quantity of Land in the Foreft, according to the Survey and Map 

 before-mentioned, taken in the years 1789 and the three following Acres. R. P. 

 years, amounts to - 59,600 o o 



Of which the inclofed property of the Crown amounts to 5,454 2 6 

 The private inclofed property of Individuals - 29,025 2 36 



Open Wood Lands on the Waftes of different 

 Manors - 



Open Heath and Commons, the Waftes of dif- 

 ferent Manors 



Land covered with water - 



Total inelofed Land - - 34,480 i z 

 2,230 o 28 



Total Open Foreft Land 



- 22,233 o 39 



165 i 9 



- 2J,628 2 36 



Encroachments inelofed by individuals from different Waftes, 

 but claimed bv the Crown - - - 



24,628 2 3$ 



491 o j, 



59,600 o o 



Appendix, N* to 

 N 1 8, both in- 

 clufive, 



The quantity of Land in each Parifh and principal Manor, diftinguifhing the 

 inelofed property of the Crown and of individuals ; the proportion of Wood and 

 Waiie, with an account of the mefne or fubordinate Manors ; the Rights erf Free 

 Warren, Commmonab'te and other Rights claimed in each Pari/h within the Foreft ; 

 are ftated in a particular Account of each Parifh, in the Appendix, numbered from 

 2 to 1 8, both ir.clufive, comprising the 12 whole Pa rimes and parts of 5 other 

 Parishes within the Foreft. 



The whole quantity of Land in the feveral Parifhes, and the nature thereof, 

 appears in a fnmmary of the contents of all the Parifhes, in the Appendix, No. 19 ; Appendix, N 

 to which is added the Population of each Parifh, according to the Return made to 

 Parliament in 180.1, and the amount of the fums received for the Poor in each, 

 Pariih, according to the rates made in 1806. 



The Courts appertaining to this and all other Forefts are, the Swainimote 'Court, 

 the Courts of Attachments, and the Courts of Jufticc Seat or Court of Eyre. The 

 firft Court was anciently held three times a year ; the laft Court of Swainimote 

 held for Windfor Fon 'ft was in the year 1728. The Court of Attachments was an- 

 ciently held every 40 days, and is on that account called frequently the Forty Days 

 Court. The Court of Attachments for many years paft has been held only twice in 

 a year in Windfor Foreft. No Conrt of Juftice Seat or Court of Eyre has been 

 held for this Foreft fmee the 8th of Charles the Firft. 



The nature of t-hefc Courts, and the ancient exercife of their powers, are defcribed Manwood, p. 

 in Mr. Juftice Manwood's treatife on the Foreft Laws, firft published in the latter 

 end of the reign of Queen Elizabeth, and again published, with confiderable addi- 

 tion- and ! 'gal determinations of the Courts of Law, in the year 1717. 



Sir William Black ftone in his Commentaries has alfo deferibed thefe Courts, 



and ftutes " tiu't no Jnftiee Seat has been held fince that in the reign of Charles 



Fi'ir, or-; i 'f ])( after the Reftoration another was held pro forma only before 



' the Earl of Oxford." That Nobleman was Chief Juftice in Eyre South of Trent, 



and to that- extent the learned Judge is correct ; but in the 1 5th Charles the 



Second a Court of Juftice Seat was held for Sherwood Foreft, before the Marquis of 



Newcaitle Chief Juftice in Eyre North of Trent, at which Court important bufinefs 



Ava> tranfacted. The learned Judges afll-rtion, that " fince the time of the Revolu- 



* tion in 1688 tlte Fopcft laws have fallen'into total difufe," muft alfo be under- 



i in a qualified i'enfe, as it is contradicted by the practice in many of the 



.ui'i'.'ipul Forefts, where the Courts ofSwainimote and Attachments are yet held. 



It lias with great truth been obferved by another legal Character, ftill more im- 

 mediately of our own-times, that their proceedings have fallen into difufe becaufe 

 they luiv;; been found to be in a great degree ufe'efs, " a Rod more mocked 

 than Fraud." They were enveloped in form?, and eafify evaded, like a lawcd 

 log, too mutilated to catch their game. 



Blaekftone Com* 

 vol. iii. p. 73. 



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 Land Revenue. 



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