Oakham (Rutlandshire) inclosure and exoneration from tithes Act 1820
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1820 c. 25 |
| Year | 1820 |
ANNO PRIMO
GEORGII IV. REGIS.
Cap.
25.
An Act for inclosing, and exonerating from Tithes,
Lands within the Parish of
Oakham,
in the County
of
Rutland.
[8th July 1820.]
W
HEREAS there are within the Parish of Oakham in the
County of Rutland, several Open and Common Fields,
Meadows, Pastures, Wastes, and other Commonable Lands,
containing together by Estimation One thousand nine hundred Acres,
or thereabouts; and also several inclosed Lands and Grounds: And
whereas the Right Honourable George Earl of
Winchelsea
and Not-
tingham is Lord of the Manor and Castle or Lordship of
Oakham
within the said Parish, and as such is entitled to the Soil of all the
Waste Lands within the said Manor: And whereas the Dean and
Chapter of the Collegiate Church of Saint Peter Westminster are
Lords of the Lordship and Manor or Honour of Oakham, other-
wise Okeham, within the said Parish, and as such are entitled to the
Soil of all the Waste Lands within the said Manor: And whereas the
said Dean and Chapter of Westminster are the Impropriate Rectors
of the Rectory and Parish Church of
Oakham
aforesaid, which they
have demised to the said Earl of
Winchelsea
for Three Lives; and the
said Earl as such Lessee is entitled to all the Great Tithes (including
One undivided Moiety of the Tithes of Hay) arising within the se-
veral titheable Parts of the said Parish: And whereas the said
George
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Earl of Wrnchehea and Nottingham is in his own Right the Patron
of the Vicarage and Parish Church of Oakham aforesaid; and the
Reverend Heneage Finch Clerk is the present Vicar
thereof,
and as
such Vicar is entitled to certain Glebe Lands lying dispersedly in
the said Common Fields and Meadows, and also to all the Vicarial
or Small Tithes arising within the titheable Parts of the said Parish,
or to certain Compositions or Moduses in lieu of some of the said
Small Tithes, and as such Vicar is or claims to be entitled to the
other undivided Moiety of the Tithe of Hay within the several tithe-
able Parts of the said Parish: And whereas the said George Eari of
Winchelsea and Nottingham in his own Right, and as such Lessee as
aforesaid, and the said Vicar in Right of his said Vicarage, and divers
other Persons, are severally entitled to Lands and Grounds in the
said Common Fields and Meadows, and also to certain Rights of
Common in, over, and upon all or some of the said Common Fields,
Meadows, Pastures, Wastes, and other Commonable Lands in the
said Parish; and the same Lands and Grounds are intermixed and
lie dispersed, in small Parcels, and are otherwise inconveniently si-
tuate for Occupation; and the said Common Fields and Meadows,
and also the said Common Pastures, Wastes, and other Commonable
Lands, are in their present State incapable of much Improvement;
but if they were divided and allotted unto and among the Proprietors
thereof,
according to their respective Rights and Interests, in
order that such Allotments may be inclosed and held in Severalty,
and if, in consideration of an adequate Compensation, all the Lands
and Tenements, as well open as inclosed, within the said Parish of
Oakham (except within the respective Hamlets or Districts of
Flitteris, Gunthorp, Brook, and Langham), were discharged from
Tithes, such Division, Allotment, Inclosure, and Exoneration from
Tithes, would be of great Advantage to the respective Proprietor*,
and an Improvement to their respective Estates; which several bene-
ficial Purposes cannot be effected without the Aid and Authority of
Parliament: And whereas an Act was passed in the Forty-first Year
41G.3.C.109. of the Reign of His late Majesty King George the 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 : 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 Con-
sent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this
present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same,
Commission- That
j0/jra
Bonner of Langton near Horncastk, in the County of
ers
appoint-
_££nco/«, Gentleman, John Burcham of Coningsby, in the said
County of Lincoln, Gentleman, and
Charles
Berkeley of Biggen, in
the County of Northampton, Gentleman, shall be and they are hereby
appointed Commissioners for dividing, allotting, inclosing, and other-
wise improving all the Open and Common Fields, Meadows, Pastures,
Wastes, and other Commonable Lands within the said Parish of
Oak-
ham,
and for exonerating from Tithes all the said Commonable
Lands, and also the inclosed and other Lands in the said Parish of
Oakham, except within the Hamlets or Districts of
Flitteris,
Gunthorp,
Brook, and Langham aforesaid, and for carrying the several other Pur-
poses of this Act into Execution; subject to such Rules, Orders,
Regulations
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