COMMISSIONERS ON WINDSOR FOREST. r; 



will be beneficial to the Crown and the Public to adopt the propofal they have 

 made. 



We met the Proprietors in Old and New Windfor, Binficld, and Winkfield, on, 

 the ayth February, purfnant to our laft adjournment, and arranged with the 

 principal Proprietors of Old Windfor a Plan for dividing the Wailes and Com- 

 mons in that Parifli, in the manner mentioned in the Appendix, No. 3, which we 

 think it will be beneficial to accept, as it will be feen thereby that out of 1,036 

 acres of Wade Land to be divided, the Crown" will obtain for the Foreftal Right 

 and its private inclofed projjerty 704 acres, independently of the Manorial Right, 

 for which an allotment of 107 acres is propofed to be given, and which will 

 alfo become the property of the Crown, if the right of the Crown to that 

 Manor fliall be eftablimed by a fuit now in profecution, of the refult of whicfc 

 we at prefent entertain the moft confident expectation. 



This arrangement has been made on the principle, that the Crown for its 

 Foreftal Right will have one half of the Wafte, after providing for the Manorial 

 Right, and two thirds of the remainder, being the proportion of the iuc'ofed 

 property' of the Crown to that of private Proprietors within the Parim, according 

 to aftual meafurement. But the inclofed property of the Crown being certainly 

 of inferior value to the other inclofed property in the Parifli, 10 acres of the 

 Crown allotment as well as 10 acres of the Pa ifii allotment have been deducted 

 for fuel for the Poor, and 60 acres more have been thrown into the allotment of 

 the private Proprietors, on account of the inferior value of the inclofed property 

 of the Crown. Thefe deductions are however leflened by the Manorial allotment 

 iu New Windfor, eftimated at about 23 acres, being included in the above it>7 

 acres, which gives an advantage to the Crown to that amount in the divifion of 

 the Wafte of New Windfor. 



We alfo, at the fame meeting, arranged a Plan for the Inclofure of the Wafte 

 In "New Windfor, contained in the Appendix No. 4, by which it will be feen that 

 the landed property in that Parifh, to the extent of full four parts out of five, is 

 vefted either in the Crown or their Majefties, and that the remainder of the landed 

 property entitled to Common belongs to one other proprietor, Mrs. Keppell. We 

 muft however notice a claim that has been made by the Corporation of New 

 Windfor to a fmall part of the Wafte Land in this Parifli, which, if eftabliflied, 

 will in fome degree interrupt that arrangement. We do not however view that 

 claim as having any foiid foundation ; and if it is perfifted in, we think -it may be 

 n>oil properly difpofed of in the manner which difputed claims of that kind ufQally 

 are in common Inclofure A6ts, by permitting the Claimants to try their right 

 againft the Crown in a given time, or to be barred ; and even if the claim of the 

 Corporation fliould be eftabliflied, they have fignified a difpofition to take a 

 certain part of the Wafte, "containing about 19 acres, which will not interrupt 

 materially the gear, al arrangements we have made in this Parifli. Though, if .that 

 claim mould be eftabliflied, it will be defirable for the Crown to purchafe of the 

 Corporation the allotment to which in confequence they will be entitled. 



We received alfo, at thf: Tame Meeting, a Propofal from the Proprietors of 

 Land in Binfield, contained in the Appendix, No. 5. On this Propofal it will be 

 neceftary for us to make fome local inquiries, before we can give any opinion 

 thereon ; and have therefore found it moft expedient not to come to any decifion 

 on it nntil the other divifion of the Foreft is taken into confideration, which; we 

 think, may poflibly aflbrd fome facility to an arrangement with this Parifli. 



At this Meeting of the 27111 February we alfo received a further Propofal from 

 the Proprietors in the Parift] of Winkfield, which, together with fome Refolutions 

 delivered to us at our former Meeting on the i5th of February, are contained in 

 the Appendix, No. 7 and 8. This further Propofal we very fully difcufied with 

 feveral of the principal Proprietors, and informed them we could by no means 

 recommend to your Lordfhips to accede to it ; as the Crown would thereby gain, 

 ut of the 5,750 acres of Open Wood and Waftes contained in that Parifh, only 

 1,655 acres. At the fame time we fuggefted to them, as it would be defirable 

 to leave open Winkfield Plain and a Peat Bog for fuel, eftimated together at 

 a;bout 300 acres, we could not poffibly recommend to your Lordfliips to accept 

 a lower proportion than 2,700 acres, taken in particular fituations which We 

 pointed out, and where it is material for the Crown to have them, and which, on 

 account of their fuperior value relatively to the whole Wafte, we fnppofed 

 might compenfate the Crown for the deficiency in quantity which TVC think it 



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