Bentley and Arksey (Yorkshire, West Riding) inclosure, allotment of lands and tithes exoneration Act 1827

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Citation1827 c. 16
ANNO SEPTIMO & OCTAVO
GEORGII IV. REGIS.
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Cap.
16.
An Act for dividing, allotting, and inclosing, and
for exonerating from Tithes, Lands within the
Townships of
Bentley
and
Arksey,
in the Parish
of Arksey in the West Riding of the County of
York.
[28th
May
1827.]
W
HEREAS there are within the Townships of
Bentley
and
Arksey, in the Parish of Arksey in the West Riding of the
County of
Tork,
divers Open and Common Fields, intermixed
Inclosures, Ings, Meadows, and Pastures, and also divers Commons,
Wastes, and other Commonable Lands and Grounds, containing together
by Estimation One thousand eight hundred
Acres,
or thereabouts: And
whereas Sir
William
Bryan
Cooke
Baronet is or claims to be Lord of the
several Manors of
Bentley
and Arksey, within the Townships of Bentky
and Arksey in the Parish of Arksey, and as such seised of or entitled to
the Soil of the Commons and Waste Grounds within the said Manors,
and of all Mines and Minerals within and under the same Commons and
Waste Grounds: And whereas the said Sir
William Bryan Cooke
Baronet
is Lay Impropriator or Owner of all the
Tithes,
both Great and Small,
arising, issuing, increasing, renewing, or becoming payable upon, from,
or out of all the Lands
and
Tenements within the said Parish of Arksey
subject or liable to the Payment of Tithes: And whereas the said Sir
[Private.'] William
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CapM.
William
Bryan
Cooke
Baronet, Richard
Fountayne Wilson
Esquire, William
Wrightson
Esquire, the Trustees of the late Peter
Tbelluson
Esquire,
Nathan
Workman,
William
Lilleymarii
Charles
Ellis>
Richard fValker,
William
Broughton,
and divers other
Persons,
are respectively the Owners
or Proprietors of Lands and Grounds in the Open and Commonable
Fields, intermixed Inclosures, Ings, Meadows, and Pastures within the
said Townships of
Bentley
and Arksey in the Parish of Arksey, and such
Persons* and also divers other Persons, are respectively Owners or Pro-
prietors of Messuages, Cottages, Tofts and Toftsteads, Lands and #Sne-
ments within the said Parish, and in respect of their respective Interests
are or claim to be severally entitled to Rights of Common and other
Rights and Interests in, over, and upon the said Ings, Commons, Wastes,
and other Commonable Lands and Grounds within the said Townships
and Parish : And whereas an Act was passed in the Forty-first Year of the
41G.3.C.109. Reign of His late Majesty King
George
the Third, intituled An Act for
consolidating
in
One Act certain Provisions usually
inserted
in Acts
oflnclosure,
and for
facilitating
the
Mode
of
proving
the several
Facts usually required
in
the passing
of
such
Acts: And whereas another Act was passed in the First
and Second Years of the Reign of His present Majesty King
George
the
1
& 2
G.
4.
Fourth, intituled An Act
to amend the
Laws
respecting the inclosing
of
Open
c.
23.
Fields, Pastures, Moors,
Commons,
and
Waste
Lands, in England : And
whereas the Lands and Grounds of the respective Proprietors within the
said Townships and Parish lie much intermixed, and dispersed in small
Parcels, so as to render the Cultivation and Management thereof in their
present State inconvenient; and the same, and the Commons and Waste
Grounds within the said respective Townships and Parish, are in their
present State incapable of any considerable Improvement; and
it
would be
of great Benefit and Advantage to the several Persons interested therein
if all the said Open and Common Fields, intermixed Inclosures, Ings,
Meadows, and Pastures, and also all the said Commons, Wastes, and
other Commonable Lands and Grounds within the said Townships and
Parish, were divided and inclosed, and specific Shares thereof allotted to
the several Owners and Proprietors
thereof,
and Persons interested therein,
in specific Shares, in proportion to their several and respective Estates,
Interests, and Properties in, upon, and over the same; and it would also
be advantageous to the Parties interested if, in consideration of ah ade-
quate Compensation and Equivalent, all the Lands and Grounds within
the said Townships and Parish (as well open as inclosed) were exonerated
from Tithes j but the several beneficial Purposes aforesaid 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 Par-
Recited Acts
liament assembled, and by the Authority of the
same,
That the said recited
to
extend to
Act, passed in the Forty-first Year of the Reign of His late Majesty, and
1 1S ct' all and every the Powers, Provisions, Exemptions, Penalties, Forfeitures,
Payments, Remedies, Matters, and Things therein contained, save and
except such Parts thereof as are expressly varied, altered, or repealed
by the said recited Act passed in the First and Second Years of the Reign
of His present Majesty, (and also the said recited Act passed in the First
and Second Years of the Reign of His said present Majesty, and all and
every the Powers and Provisions therein contained, shall respectively, so
far as the same respectively are applicable to this Act, and as are not-
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hereby

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