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" The Pariih to have fo much of the Crown allotment in SunninghiH as is 

 " north of the Reading Road, or to conic foulh of it if they wifh. it, giving an' 

 " equui quantity in value near Swinley." 



The snfwer to this luft propofal we propofe to make the fubj eft of a further 

 communication to your Lordfhips, when we ihall be in poftuTion of it, rather than 

 delay laying before your LorcHhips thofe Propositions, which we can now recom- 

 mend for your Lordihips aoeept.anee. 



We have thus {elected for our firft negociation, the Pariihcs in the northern 

 diviiion of the Foreft, neareft to Windfor, in which the Crown is Lord of the* 

 Manor, and a!fo Whikfield, which Manor is vefted in a Truftee for His Majefty, 

 as feveral parts of thofe Parities, with the addition of fuch parts of the Parifhes 

 of Bray and Clewer as are within the Foreft, aribrd a connected chain of Wood of 

 above 1,400 acres, which it will be very dcfirnble to inclofe for the p-.-efervation 

 of the Timber now ftanding there ; while the other paris of the Waftes of thofe 

 Parifhes, which we conceive can be gained to the Crown in feveraity, will form 

 another laroo connected fpace of ground of about 3,600 acres, for the further 

 growth and cultivation of Timber. 



With refpecl to the other or fouthern part of the Foreft, where the Crown has 

 not the Manors, we have already hinted at motives inducing us to make them the 

 matter for a fecond negociation. Among others, it has not been the leaft of mo- 

 tives with xis to fatisfy the expecting minds of the numerous Individuals round 

 the Foreft, taking ncceflarily great intereft in the proceedings under this Com- 

 mifiion. We can with confidence ftatc to your Lordflrips, that this meafure, though 

 delayed to a feafon for effecting it the molt adverfe, has been met with far more 

 eagernefs by all Parties than under any circumltanccs we could have ventured to 

 expect. To meet that difpofition where it was at all exprefied, and to carry our 

 meafure as far as poffible to fome immediate practical conclnfion, has been 

 another principle on which we have limited our prefent negotiation,, as now laid 

 before your Lordfliips. 



In refpect to the Parish of Bray, an application has already been made this- 

 Scllion, by the Pariih, for an Act for the Inelofrire of its. Wafte Lands. 



A Propofal has been made to the Surveyor General of the Woods and Forefts, 

 for appropriating to the Crown the Wood and part of the Open Wafte in that 

 Pariili lying within the Foreft; which Propofal is now r before his Lord/hip. 



In the Pariih of Clewer the Crown has not the Manor, but is entitled to the 

 Timber on the Wafte, and the foil is in the Lord of the Manor. The fniall extent 

 of Wafte in this Pariih, a'.moft wholly covered with Wood, and ill fituated to 

 afford" accommodation of mnch value to the Commoners, though of importance 

 to the Crown and to the Lord of the Manor, induced us to make a propofal to the 

 Lord of the Manor, for the Crown to make a pecuniary compenfation to the 

 Perfons who have Right of Common on fuch parts of the Wafte as lie within the 

 Foreft, on the Lord's ceding to the Crown fo much of that Wafte on which any 

 Timber is now Handing, containing 200 acres, and which will be neceil'ary to 

 keep entire the chain of Wood before alluded to, and adorning that part of the 

 Country, and which is the more valuable as it is completely connected. 



The Lord of the Manor has agreed to the propofal ; and the Perfons having a 

 Right of Common, have, at a Parochial Meeting called for that purpofc, come to 

 the Refutations frated in the Appendix; No. 8, and agrred to accept a pecuniary 

 compeniution for their Right of Common: to which arrangement, both with the 

 Lord and the Commoners, we re-commend to your Lordfhips to accede. 



We have been anxious to make the earlicft Report to your Lordlhips of the 

 refult of our negotiations as far as they have gone, that the prefent Seflion of 

 Parliament may not. be loft in giving cfleft to thofe we have brought to a practi- 

 cable point, or in taking the fenfe of Parliament either on fuch of the Propofals 

 we have ventured to recommend to your Lordfliips adoption, in cafe you mall 

 not .agree with us on the propriety of accepting them, or on thofe Propofitions 

 which we cannot recommend to your' Lord/hips to accept, if your Lordiliips 

 fliall agree with us in the rejection of them. In the cafe of Winkfield Pariih, forti- 

 fied as your Lordlhips will be by the precedents we have mentioned, in none of 

 which (as in the prefent'Cafc) was any great national object to be attained, and 

 which, from the uniformity (almoft to a degree of minutcnefs) which has been 

 obfcrvcd in thorn, as well as the different periods of time (within a fpaee.of 



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