Forest of Salcey (Northamptonshire and Buckinghamshire) inclosure Act 1826

JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
Citation1826 c. 16
Year1826
ANNO SEPTIMO
GEORGII IV. REGIS.
Ca f. 16.
An Act for subdividing, allotting, and inclosing the
AHotment directed to be set out by an Act of the
last Session of Parliament, for inclosing the
Forest of Safoey in the Counties of Northampton
and Buckingham, to the several Owners and Pro-
prietors of Lands claiming Rights of Common
in and over the said Forest. [5th May 1826.]
W
HEREAS by an Act made in the Sixth Year of the Reign
of His present Majesty King
George
the Fourth, intituled
An Act for dividing, allotting, and
inclosing
the
Forest
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of Salcey, in the
Counties
of Northampton and Buckingham, and of
certain
Lands in the Parisb of Hartwell in the said
County
of North-
ampton, it is amongst other Things recited, that the King's most Excel-
lent Majesty, in Right of His Crown, was seised to
Himself,
His Heirs
and Successors, of the Forest of
Salcey,
in the Counties of
Northampton
and
Buckingham,
and that the said Forest was computed to contain, in
the whole, One thousand eight hundred and forty-seven Acres and
Twenty-three Perches, or thereabouts, of which One thousand one
hundred and twenty-one Acres Three Roods and Twenty-four Perches
were cultivated as Coppice Land, and planted with Coppices, and Four
hundred and seventy Acres Three Roods and Thirty-seven Perches con-
sisted of open Plains and Ridings, the Soil and Timber
whereof,
and
the Right and Herbage, and Feed for Deer therein, were the Property of
His Majesty, in Right of His Crown, and the remaining Part of the said
Forest, comprising Two hundred and fifty-four Acres One Rood and
Two Perches, was laid out as Lawns and Lodge Grounds, and with the
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Messuage, Buildings, Timber, Trees, Wood, and Underwood standing
and being thereon, were the Property of the King's Majesty, and was
not subject to any Right of Common, or any other Rights whatsoever
(save and except the Claim of the Ranger of the said Forest therein as
thereinafter mentioned); and it is further recited, that the Most Noble
George Henry Fitzroy
Duke of Grafton, under and by virtue of certain
Letters Patent of His late Majesty King
Charles
the Second, made in the
Twenty-fifth Year of his Reign, was seised of and entitled to all the Un-
derwood and Bushes growing and renewing and renewable in the saidCop-
pice Lands and Coppices, open Plains and Ridings in the said Forest, and
that
Henry
Earl of
Euston,
the eldest Son and Heir Apparent of the said
George Henry
Duke of Grafton, under and by virtue of certain Letters
Patent of His late Majesty King
George
the Third, made in the Forty-
first Year of his Reign, held and enjoyed for the Term of his natural
Life the Office of Warden or Ranger of the said Forest, and was
entitled to certain Rights and Benefits, Privileges and Patronage over
the said Two hundred and fifty-four Acres One Rood and Two
Perches, comprizing the said Lawns and Lodge Grounds, and within
and over the other Parts of the said Forest; and the said Henry
Earl of Euston was desirous that the Compensation thereinafter
directed to be made for such his Rights and Interests should be
allotted to the said Duke of Grafton and the Heirs Male of his
Body, and should be held and enjoyed by him and them in the same
Manner as the Allotment to be made to the said Duke in lieu of his Right
to Underwood and Bushes, under the before-mentioned Letters Patent
of the Twenty-fifth Year of the Reign of His late Majesty King
Charles
the Second, was to be held and enjoyed; and it is further recited, that
the Owners and Proprietors of Lands in the Parishes, Townships, Liber-
ties,
Hamlets, or Precincts of
Hartwell,
Ashton,
Quinton,
Piddington,
and
Hackleton,
in the County of
Northampton,
and
Hanslope
in the County of
Buckingham,
claimed to be entitled to certain Rights of Common in,
over, and upon the said Coppice Lands and Coppices, open Plains and
Ridings, in the said Forest; it is enacted, that certain Persons therein
named should be and they were thereby appointed Commissioners for
carrying the Purposes of the said Act into Execution, in the Manner
therein provided and directed ; and it is further enacted, that the said
Two hundred and fifty-four Acres One Rood and Two Perches, com-
prizing the said Lawns and Lodge Grounds, and which were not subject
to any Right of Common, or any other Rights or Claims (save as there-
in mentioned), should not be deemed or taken to be Part of the Lands
by the now reciting Act to be divided, allotted, and inclosed, further
than was thereinafter directed; and it is further enacted, that the
Commissioners thereby appointed should and they were thereby author-
ized and required to set out and allot unto and for the King's Majesty,
His Heirs and
Successors,
ashis and their own proper
Demesne,
Lands,
and
Estates, togetherwith all and singular theBuildings, Timber,Trees, Wood,
and Underwood standing and being thereon respectively, Three füll Fourth
Parts in Value of the said Coppice Lands and Coppices, and
Two
füll Third
Parts in Value of the said open Plains and Ridings, by the now reciting
Act to be divided and inclosed, which said Allotments should, from
and after and so soon as the same should, be fenced in and severed
from the Lands adjoining thereto, become and remain the absolute Pro-
perty of His Majesty, His Heirs and Successors, freed, exonerated, and

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