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that piirpofe, had full one half of that Foreft or Park allotted to him as a com- 

 pcnfation for his Manorial and Foreftal Right, and the other part of it was allotted 

 to the perfons having Right of Common thereon. On the inclofure of En field 

 Ghace in 1777, the Crown, in purfuance of an Aft of Parliament for that pur- 

 pofe, had an allotment of nearly one half (after providing forTylhe and forne 

 peculiar Rights) as a compenfation for the Fore Hal Right, independently of the 

 Manorial Right in two out of 'three of the Manors within the Chace, Avhich be- 

 longed to the Crown, for which feparate compenfations were given by two fubfe- 

 quent Afts of Parliament, making in the whole for the Manorial and Foreftal 

 Right nearly one half of the quantity of land within the Chace, which extended 

 into four Parifhes. The third inftance of compenfation for fimilar rights is in an 

 AftpaflTedin 1801 for the inclofure of Needwood Foreft, over which 22 Town- 

 fhips had Rights of Common ; and on which occafion, after providing 'for the 

 Tythes, one moiety in value of that Foreft was allotted to the Perfons having 

 Right of Common thereon, and the Crown paid them' i - 1 oth of the value of all 

 Oak Trees above fix inches girth, and all under that girth that were ftanding on 

 the allotment belonging to the Commoners were declared to be their property, and 

 the other moiety of that Foreft and all other Trees thereon were allotted to the 

 Crown. Conceiving thefe Afts afford a general authority, if not a principle, on 

 which to aflert the value of Foreft Rights in the Lord of a Foreft, we propofed, 

 in thofe Parimes in which the Manorial and Foreftal Rights were united, that the 

 Crown, as a compenfation for thofe two rights, mould have one half of the Wafte 

 Land in quantity at the greateft diftance from the inclofures, without entering 

 minutely into the quality, propofing thereby an advantage to the private Pro- 

 prietors in point of quality, and alfo a convenience in point of locality, by having 

 their Common neareft to the inclofures, which in general is much the beft in 

 quality: We alfo propofed, that all Lands remaining to the Parishes, whether 

 inclofed or in open Common, ihould be wholly difaftbrefted to all intents and 

 purpofes ; and, as further inducement for their ready acquiefcences in the meafure, 

 and as an additional advantage to the Proprietors, mould they be defirous of in- 

 clofing theif own allotments, that we mould recommend to your Lordmips to 

 admit into the Aft necefiary to make valid any agreement that may be concluded 

 on between your Lordmips and thefe Parimes, fuch provifions for each of them as 

 they may federally deem neceflary to be made for that purpofe, without any ex- 

 pence to them. We adjourned our Meeting from the 4th of January to the i4th 

 of February, in order to give the Proprietors an opportunity of further confider- 

 ing the propofitions we had made, and to provide for fomc local accommodations 

 in feveral of the Parifhes, particularly as to leaving certain fpots from whenc'e the 

 Poor derived fuel, which we exprefied not only our readinefs to attend to, but 

 confidered as a matter of efiential ncceffity to provide for. 



During this adjournment of feven weeks, Parochial Meetings were called in 

 iill the Parimes ; and we from time to time gave every explanation required of us 

 by any of the Proprietors ; and continued our fittings on the i4th, i5th and i6th 

 days of February, on which days we met the Proprietors in the feveral Pari/hes 

 before mentioned, or deputations from them, and entered into more full difcuf- 

 fions on the fubjcft, all of whom (except thofe in the Parim of Sunninghill) again 

 defired further time to confider of the propofals we .had originally made, and of 

 what had fubfequently paflied: and we accordingly adjourned to the 27th of the 

 fame month. 



The Proprietors in Sunninghill (in which Parim the Crown is Lord of the 

 Manor) have made the Propofal contained in the Appendix, No. 2, which, on the 

 beft confideration we have been able to give rt, we have informed the Proprietors 

 We mall recommend to your Lordihips to accept, though it gives to the Pro- 

 prietors fome advantages which we think are greater than the private Proprietors 

 had in either of the three inftances we have alluded to, in as far as they will 

 have the Pafturage of that part of Afcot Heath which is to be left open for the 

 Race Courfe, containing about 200 acres, and the Peat Bog for fuel, eftimated at 

 112 acres, over and above a moiety of the Wafte of the Manor. However, under 

 the circumftances of this Parim, and confidering that the Proprietors have met 

 the propofals we made to them with a very liberal difpofition to come to an ami- 

 cable adjuftment, and have been the firft to fet an example of public fpirit and 

 liberality worthy of imitation by other Parilhes within the Foreft, we do not think 

 thefe advantages are too much to be granted to them, but are of opinion that it 



will 



