Appleton (Berkshire) allotment of lands Act 1828
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1828 c. 17 |
| Year | 1828 |
ANNO NONO
GEORGII IV. REGIS.
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Cap.
17.
An Act for dividing, allotting, and laying in severalty
Lands in the Parish of
Appleton
in the County of
Berks. [23d May 1828,]
W
HEREAS there are in the Parish of
Appleton
in the County
of Berks divers Open and Common Fields, Commonable
Lands, Commons, and Waste Grounds, containing in the
whole, by Estimation, One thousand five hundred Acres or thereabouts:
And whereas the said Parish of
Appleton
consists of Two Tithings or
Townships, that is to say,
Appleton
and Eaton; and
John Thomas Wasey
Esquire and
John
Hawkins Gentleman, as Guardians of Robert Southby,
an Infant, are Lords of the Manor of
Appleton,
and as such claim to be
entitled to the Right of Soil of and in the Commons and Waste Grounds
lying within the Tithing or Township of
Appleton;
and the President and
Scholars of Saint John Baptist
College,
in the University of
Oxford,
are
Lords of the Manor of
Eaton,
and as such claim to be entitled to the
Right of Soil of and in the Commons and Waste Grounds lying within
the Tithing or Township of
Eaton
: And whereas the President and
Scholars of the College of Saint Mary
Magdalen,
in the University of
Oxford,
are Patrons, and the Reverend
James Williams Hoskins
Doctor of
Divinity is Rector of the Rectory and Parish Church of
Appleton,
and as
such is entitled to certain Glebe Lands lying dispersed in the said Open
and Common Fields, and to certain Rights of Pasturage and Common
belonging thereto, and the said President and Scholars of Saint John's
College,
Oxford,
their Copyholders and Lessees, the said John Thomas
Wasey
and
John
Hawkins as such Guardians as aforesaid, Richard
Southby
[Private.'] 5 n Esquire,
418 9°GE0RGII IV. CapAl.
Esquire, Ann Matthews Widow, and others, are the Proprietors of or
Persons interested in the Residue of the Lands and Grounds by this Act
directed to be divided and allotted, and the Rights of Common and
Pasturage in, upon, and over the same : And whereas an Act was passed
in the Forty-first Year of the Reign of His late Majesty King
George
the
41G,3.c.l09. Third, intituled An Act for
consolidating
in
One
Act certain
Provisions
usually inserted in
Acts of
Inclosure,
and for
facilitating
the Mode of proving
the
several Facts usually required on the passing
of
such
Acts: And whereas
an Act was passed in the First and Second Years of the Reign of His
1 & 2
G.
4.
present Majesty, intituled An Act
to amend the
Law
respecting
the
inclosing
c.23.
of
Open
Fields,
Pastures,
Moors,
Commons,
and
Waste
Lands, in England:
And whereas the Lands of the respective Proprietors in the said Open and
Common Fields lie intermixed and dispersed in small Parcels, so as to
render the Cultivation thereof inconvenient; and it would be beneficial to
the several Proprietors and Persons interested, and of public Utility,, if
the said Open and Common Fields, Commonable Lands, Commons, and
Waste Grounds were divided, allotted, and laid in severalty unto and
amongst the several Proprietors and Persons interested therein, according
to their respective Rights, and certain Parts thereof inclosed, except the
Wood Land called the
Upper
Common,
and
such
Part of
the
Lower Common
as adjoins the said Upper Common, and is situate between that and the
Road which leads from the Milking
Place Gate
in the Lower Common to
an inclosed Meadow Land called the
Thames
Meadow,
belonging to the
said
Richa7'd
Southby,
in the Occupation of
Deodatus Stone
; and it would
be a considerable Improvement and Advantage to the several Proprietors
and Persons interested in the said Woodlands herein-before excepted, if
theRights of Common in and over the same
were
abolished or extinguished;
but the respective Improvements aforesaid cannot be effected without the
Aid and Authority of Parliament: May it therefore please Your Majesty
that it may be enacted j and be it enacted by the King's most Excellent
Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and
Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by
Commis- the Authority of the same, That Daniel Trinder of
Cirencester
in the
sioners. County of
Gloucester,
Gentleman, and
Henry Dixon
of the City of
Oxford,
Gentleman, and their Successors, to be elected in manner herein-after
mentioned, shall be and they are hereby appointed Commissioners for
valuing, setting out, dividing, allotting, and laying in severalty the said
Open Common
Fields,
Commonable
Lands,
Commons, and Waste Grounds
(except as herein-before mentioned), and for otherwise carrying this Act
and the said first-recited Act into Execution, subject to such Directions
and Provisions as are herein-after contained in that
Behalf,
and also with
and subject to such Powers, Authorities, Directions, and Provisions con-
tained in the said recited Acts as are not repugnant to the Powers and
Provisions of this Act.
Por appoint- II. And be it further enacted, That ih case the said Commissioners, or
ingnewCom- either of them, shall die, neglect or refuse to act, or become incapable of
missioned. actmg as a Commissioner by virtue of this A^t and of the said recited
Acts,
then and in every such Case a new Commissioner or Commissioner**
not being in any Manner interested in the said Allotment, shall and may
he nominated, elected, and appointed in manner following; (that is-te*
say,) if the said
Henry Dixon
shall die, neglect or refuse or become-»-
capable to act as aforesaid, it shall be lawful for the said President and
o Scholars
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