60 A P P E N D I X lo the SECOND REPORT OF THE [N 20. 



1 liefe fees I have no hefitation in faying are a very inadequate compeiifnuon to the Steward for tlie 

 ;diie execution of the duties of his office. When I firlt entered upon the office, I was a total ftranger 

 to the emoluments of it, as I could not obtain accefs to the papers of my predeceiibr ; fo that I was 

 entirely unacquainted with any fees or perquifitts attached to the office or received by "him. 



I have (ince been informed, from very good authority, that the Steward is entitled to a fulary for the 

 execution of the duties <>f his office ; and upon a reference which I was directed to make to the 12th, 

 Report of the Commiffioners appointed to enquire into the ftate and conditions of the Woods, Forefts, 

 &c. it appears in the Appendix N 13, page 139, in the column of the account there entered, under 

 the head " Fees and Wages of Auditors, Receivers, Collectors, &c." and in the title " Stewards 

 and Bailiffs," that an annual fmn of .15. 8s. id. was payable on account of Cranbourn Chace. And 

 in the i;th Report of the fame Commiffioners, Appendix N 12, page 99, under the fame title of 

 -" Stewards and Bailiffs," it alfo appears that an annual fum of . 54. was payable on account of the 

 Honour and Caftle of Windfor. Which falaries or wages, if now in exiftence and payable, are, I flumld 

 prefume, the right of the Steward of the Honour and Caftle of Wincifor, who is alib Steward of tha 

 Foreft, in virtue of his office, which comprizes Cranbourn Chace. 



I truft that rn the courfe of your laborious inveftigation of the multifarious affairs of the Foreft, 

 particularly of the nature and duties of my office, you are fatisfied that I am very poorly remunerated 

 for my trouble ; and with a proper conviolion of the truth of the prefent ftatement, and that regard for 

 Juftice which has been manifefled in all your proceedings, you will feel warranted in recommending 

 my fervices to the notice of Government, as meriting much better and more permanent compeiifa- 

 *ion than 1 have hitherto cafually received. 



I have the honour to remain, with much refpeft, 

 To Gentlemen, 



John Mitford, John Vernon and John Your rnoft obedient and faithful fervant, 



VYickens, Efquires, Commiffioners for JOHN SECKER. 



enquiring into the ftate and condition of 



'Windfor Foreft. 



(Copy.) 

 Gentlemen, 'Windfor, 21 ft March 1808. 



I beg to inform you, that in addition to the office of Steward of His Majefty's Foreft of Windfor, 

 which I have the honour to hold, and of which office I made a report to you on the 12th inft. I have 

 the honour to hold two other offices in the Foreft, namely, the office cf Secretary to his Royal High- 

 nefs the Lord Warden, and the office of one of the Meffengers to the Chief Juftice in Eyre, 



I was appointed to the office of Secretary by his Royal Highnefs the Duke of York, as Lord 

 Warden of the Foreft, on the 'id March 1 806, by a warrant of that date under the hand and feal of 

 his Royal Highnefs. The duties of that office are, to prepare the warrants or appointments of the 

 Head and L'nderkeepers of theleveral walks ; the licences for inclofures, and thofe for fporting in the 

 Foreft ; and to attend to all orders which emanate from the Lord Warden, relative to the affairs of 

 the Foreft arifing within his jurifdiftion, which now extends to all the foreftal concerns. 



There is no fixed falary for executing the. duties of the office ; but his Royal Highnefs has been gra- 

 cioufiy pleafed to direct the payment of the annual fum of forty pounds to me, as fome remuneration ; 

 which fum was formerly payable to the Steward for holding Swanimote Courts, out of the office of the 

 Auditor of the Land Revenue, from whence it now ifl'ues, 



I am alfo entitled to and receive certain honorary fees for the making out the feveral licences, which 

 are very cafual, and depending on uncertain events. I have alfo a fee buck and a fee doe yearly in their 

 refpeclive feafons. 



In refpeft to the office of Meffenger to the Chief Juftice in Eyre, to which I was originally appointed 

 by Sir Fletcher Norton, when Chief Juftice, and laftly by the Right honourable Thomas Grenvitfe, 

 by warrant dated loth September 1800, no very heavy duty attaches to it. I am however liable to 

 be called upon at all times by the Chief Juftice, to affift in the difcharge of his duties within the Foreft, 

 and invariably am required to attend the Courts of Attachment, for which I receive an annual falary 

 of twenty pounds, payable at the office of the Surveyor General of the Woods, by virtue of a warrant 

 iliuing from the Treafury. 



I entreat you to have^ the goodnefs to annex the prefbnt communication to my former claim ; and 

 have the honour to remain, with much refpect, 



Gentlemen, 

 To Your molt obedient and faithful fervant, 



John Mitford, John Vernon and John JOHN SECXER. 



Wickens, Efquires, Commiffioners tor 



enquiring into the ftate of VV'imllbr 



Forefr. 



