Hornchurch, Romford and Havering Inclosures Act 1811
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1811 c. clxxxvii |
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An Act for inclosing and dividing the Commons and
Waste Lands in the Parishes of Hornchurch, Rom-
ford,
and Havering, within the Manor and Liberty
of Havering-atte-Bower, in the County of Essex.
[15th June 1811,]
W
HEREAS the Manor or Lordship of Havering-atte-Bower in
the County of Essex is of ancient Demesne of the Crown of
England, as appears by a certain Charter made and granted by
King Edward the Fourth in the Fifth Year of His Reign, whereby several
Privileges and Immunities were granted to the Tenants and Inhabitants of
the said Manor ; and, amongst other things, it was granted to the Tenants
and Inhabitants, that the Steward of the said Manor for the Time being,
and One of the discreetest and honestest Tenants or Inhabitants aforesaid,
to be from Time to Time chosen by them the said Tenants and Inhabitants
and their Successors, should be Justices of the Peace within the said Manor,
so that the Justices of the Peace in the said County of Essex should not in
.anywise meddle with any thing committed or arising within the Manor
and Lordship above named, nor should take or make any Inquiry
thereof:
And whereas the said in part recited Charter was afterwards
ratified and confirmed by divers Charters subsequently granted, and par-
ticularly by a Charter made and granted by Queen Mary in the First Year
of Her Reign, whereby several additional Privileges and Immunities were
granted, and whereby it was ordained that the Deputy Steward of the
said Manor for the Time being should be a Justice of the Peace within
the said Manor or Lordship, together with the High Steward, and with the
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other Justice of the Peace by the Tenants and Inhabitants chosen and to
be chosen as aforesaid; and also by a Charter made and granted by Queen
Elizabeth in the Thirteenth Year of Her Reign, whereby it was, amongst
other things, ordained, constituted, and declared, that the Tenants and In-
habitants of the same Lordship or Manor of Havering-atte-Bower in the
County of
Essex
should be One Body Corporate and Politic of themselves,
by the Name of The Tenants and Inhabitants of
the
Lordship gfHavering-
atte-Bower in the County of Essex : And whereas the said Manor or
Lordship of Havering-atie-Bower is divided into Seven Wards; that is
to say, the Wards of Havering,
Collier
Row, Harroid's
Wood,
Noak Hill,
Romford Town, Hornchurch North, and Hornchurch South ; of which Seven
Wards, the Wards of Havering,
Collier
Row, Noak Hill, Part of Harrold9s
Wood,
and Part ot Romford Town Ward, are situate on the North Side of the
high Road leading from London to Colchester; and the Wards of Horn-
church
North and Hornchurch South, together with a Part of Romford Town
Ward, and also a Part of Harroid's
Wood
Ward, are situate on the South
Side of the same Road: And whereas there are within the said Manor of
Havering-atte-Bower, as well within the Wards on the North Side as with-
in the Wards on the South Side
thereof,
divers Commons, Heaths, Waste
Grounds, and Commonable Lands: And whereas the King's most Excel-
lent Majesty, in right of His Crown, is Lord of the said Manor of Haver-
ing-atie* Bower, and as such is entitled to the Right of Soil and Royalties in
and over the Commons, Heaths, Waste Grounds, and Commonable Lands
within the said Manor ; and Richard
Benyon
Esquire is Lessee of the said
Manor : And whereas the King's most Excellent Majesty, as Lord of the
said Manor, and the Wardens and Scholars of St. Marfs College of Win-
chester in Oxford commonly called New
College
in
Oxford,
and Dame
Jane Saint John Mildmay, Sir
William
East Baronet, Sir Richard Neave
Baronet,Dame Margaret
Burgess,
Benjamin
Cooke Griffinhooffe
Esquire, John
HeatQn'TLscpme,
Alexander BlackEsquire,
William Sheldon
Esquire, Edward
Russell Howe Esquire, Thomas
Theophilus Cock
Esquire, Thomas Harding
Newman Esquire, Burchet
Wennell
Esquire, Daniel
Ximenes
Esquire, William
Prior Johnson Esquire, William
Jacobs
Esquire, William Tolbut Esquire,
BamberGascoyne
Esquire, Elizabeth Grafton Dare Widow, William Hilton
Esquire, John Tyler Esquire, Christopher Tyler, and divers other1 Persons,
are or claim to be entitled to Right of Common in and upon the said Com-
monSj Heaths, Waste Grounds, and Commonable Lands: And whereas
an Act was passed in the Forty-first Year of the Reign of His present
41G*3.e.l09. Majesty, 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 passim of
such
Acts : And whereas
it .would be of great Benefit to all the Persons interested in the said Com-
mobs,
Heaths, Waste Grounds, and Commonable Lands, and entitled to
Right of Common thereon, and of public Utility, if the said Commons,
Heaths, Waste Grounds* and Commonable Lands were divided and in-
closed, and specific Parts thereof allotted to and amongst the King's most
Excellent Majesty and the several Persons respectively entitled to Right of
Common thereon, according to their several and respective Rights and In-
terests therein ; but inasmuch as such Division, Inclosure, and Allotment
cannot be effected without the Aid and Authority of Parliament, May it
therefore please Your Majesty that it may be enacted; 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 Parlia-
i ment
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