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To the Right Honourable the Lords Cornmiffioners 

 of His Majefty' s Treafury. 



THE THIRD REPORT of the Commiffioners appointed 



by His Majefry's Commiffion, in purfuance of an Aft of Parliament, 

 paffed in the 46th year of His reign, ch. 143. intituled, " An Aft 

 " for enquiring into the State of Windfor Foreft, in the County of 

 " Berks, and for afcertaining the Boundaries of the faid Foreft, and 

 " of the Lands of the Crown within the fame;" which Adi was 

 varied by an Acl pafled in the 47 th year of His Majefty 's reign, 

 ch. 46. 



IN purfuance of your Lordfhips 1 authority, fignified to us by Mr. Secretary 

 Harrifon, in his letter of the 24th of November 1808, wherein he ftates, that 

 he is commanded by your Lordfhips to authorize us to propofeto the Lords of 

 Manors and Proprietors of Lands interefted in the Waftes of the faid Foreft, the 

 Plans we have formed for acquiring to the Crown any portions of thofe Waftes for 

 the protection, increafe, and fupply of Timber in the laid Foreft, and for renderr 

 ing the fame more productive and advantageous to His Majefty and to the Public, 

 in purfuance of the i2th feftion of the 46th of the King, ch. 143, and defi ring 

 that we would report to your Lord/Lips the terms on which the Parties interefted 

 may be difpofed to confent to the accomplifhrnent of that object. 



Considering the great extent of the Foreft, and the various interefts as well as 

 feelings prevailing in the many Parifhes and Manors extending over its Waftes, 

 we judged it beft for our purpofe to divide the Foreft into two parts; the firft con- 

 flfling of Clewer, and the five Parimes in each of which His Majefty or his 

 Truftee claims to be Lord of the Paramount Manor, namely, Old and New 

 Windfor, Sunninghill, Winkfield, and Binfield, all of which are iituated in the 

 northern part of the Foreft, leaving for future negociation the Parifhes to the 

 fouth, which, upon a variety of confederations of locality, the Crown's iutereft in 

 them, and other circumftances, we conceived, would only embarrafs any Aft in 

 which it might be attempted to include them with thofe named above. We 

 thought it expedient to caufe, as early as poflible, a general view of our Plan for 

 'the Improvement of the Foreft, to be circulated among the Lords of Manors and 

 Proprietors within the Foreft, for their information, previous to meeting them on 

 the fubjeft. Accordingly, on the 1 2th December, we iffued the Paper marked 

 lS T o. i. in the Appendix hereto annexed ; and on the i6th of December we caufcd 

 perfonal notice to be given to the principal Proprietors in the Pan/lies of New and 

 Old Windfor, Sunninghill, Winkfield and Binfield (the Manors in which Parifhes 

 are vefted in the Crown, except Winkfield, which is in a Truftee for His Ma- 

 jefty) that we mould be ready to meet the Proprietors of Lands therein at Sun- 

 ninghill Wells on the 3oth and 31 ft of December 1808, and the 2d, 3d and 4th of 

 January 1809, on the fubjeft of our Plan for the Improvement of the Foreft, and 

 alfo caufed public notice to be given of fuch Meeting in the London Gazette and 

 two other newspapers publifhed in London, and in the Reading Paper^ purfuant 

 to the directions of the firft-mentioned Aft. 



We accordingly met the Proprietors in the feveral Parifhes before-mentioned, 

 on the feveral days appointed, and further explained to them our Plan, and the 

 expectations we had formed of the proportion of Wafte Land the Crown fhould 

 acquire in each Parifh for the Manorial Right, Foreftal Right, and in refpeft of 

 inclofed property of the Crown in each Parilh, in common with private Proprie- 

 tors. Thefe expectations we ftated to be principally grounded on inflances of 

 the compenfations for fimilar rights which 'had been given by Parliament, three 

 of which came within our knowledge ; the firft,. on the inclofure of an open Foreft 

 ' Country, called Broyle Park, in Suflex, in 1767, in which cafe the Duke of Dorfet 

 ms Lord of the Park or Foreft, in purfuance of an Aft of Parliament pafled for 



that 



