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also all those lands and tenements in Walton aforesaid, therein-after particularly mentioned and expressed, that is to say, one close called Dodd Croft, containing by estimation 6 acres inclosed together, &c.; and one close lying near Hill Croft in Waltona aforesaid called Pollard, containing by estimation 3 acres, and one close called Russels, containing by estimation 4 acres; and one close called Barn Close theretofore adjoining to a certain tenement then demolished and purchased of the said Tho. Driver; and all those lands in the field called Hill Croft in Walton aforesaid, containing by estimation 84 acres of arable land; and all that close of wood called Little Lee, lying in the common field in Walton aforesaid; and all those arable lands in the field called Winkmeershill, containing by estimation 6 acres, &c.; and also one parcel of land in Walton aforesaid, called an Eyte, containing by estimation half an acre of meadow, &c. And whereas his said present majesty, by other letters patent bearing date the 7th March, 1770, for the considerations therein mentioned, did demise, grant, and to farm let, unto Sarah Hodges and Susannah Hodges, spinsters, all that messuage, tenement, or farm house, called or known by the name of Brooklands, in the county of Surry, and all barns, stables, outhouses, &c. to the said messuage, &c. belonging, containing by admeasurement 3 acres, 1 rood. and 12 perches or thereabouts; and also those 11 several closes or parcels of arable, meadow, and pasture land situate together and lying round the said messuage, containing in the whole by admeasurement 169 acres, 1 rood, and 35 perches; and also all those two several closes or parcels of meadow sitnate together between the river Waye on the west and certain lands therein after mentioned on theeast, containing together 25 acres, 2 roods, and 9 perches, and also all those two several closes or parcels of arable land situate together between Walton common on the east, and the lands therein-after mentioned on the north and west, containing together 20 acres and 17 perches or thereabouts; all which said several closes or parcels of land and premises, containing in the whole 218 acres, 1 rood, and 33 perches, belonged to and were to be held with the said messuage, &c. and also all that new built messuage or tenement called the Eight Acres, adjoining to the lands first therein above described, &c. and all those 11 several closes or parcels of land situate together and lying round the said last mentioned messuage, and containing 59 acres, and 27 perches, all which said premises are situate together within the parish

of Weybridge, and were then in the tenure or occupation of George Payne, esq. together with all ways, passages, waters, rivers, streams, fisheries, &c. to hold the said messuage, &c. first therein above mentioned to be demised and granted with the several parcels of land thereto belonging, &c. unto the said Sarah Hodges and Sesannah Hodges, their executors, &c. for a reversionary term of 12 years, to commence from the 5th January, 1788, and to hold the said new built messuage with the appur tenances and the several parcels of land thereto belonging containing 59 acres and 27 perches with the appurtenances unto the said Sarah Hodges and Susannah Hodges, their executors, &c. for a reversionary term of 31 years and the half of another year to commence and be computed from the said 5th January, 1788, at the yearly rent of five pounds eight shillings and sixpence for the first thirty-one years of the said last mentioned reversionary term, and at the rent of two pounds fourteen shillings and threepence, &c. And whereas his said present majesty, by other letters patent bearing date the 3d May, 1785, for the considerations therein mentioned, did demise, grant, and to farm let, unto the right hon. George earl of Tyrconnel and John Johnston, esq. all and singular the said messuages, lands, &c. comprised in and demised by the said letters patent of the 7th March, 1770, with their and every of their appurtenances (except as in the said letters patent excepted), to hold the said messuage, &c. with the said several closes or parcels of land thereto belonging, and above-mentioned 218 acres, 1 rood, and 33 perches with their appurtenances (except as before excepted), unto the said George earl of Tyrconnel and John Johnston, their executors, &c. from the 5th July, 1800 (at which time the term then in being would expire), for a reversionary term of 15 years, at the yearly rent of £16. 10s. 2d. and to hold the said new built messuage lastly therein described with the said several closes or parcels of land and premises there. to belonging and above-mentioned to contain 59 acres and 27 perches with the appurtenances (except as before excepted), unto the said George earl of Tyrconnel and John Johuston, their executors, &c. from 5th July, 1819 (at which time the terin then in being would expire,) for a rever sionary term of 15 years, at the yearly rent of £9. 14s. 8d. And whereas his said present majesty, by other letters patent bear ing date the 8th April, 1785, for the considerations therein mentioned did demise, grant, and to farm let, unto Nicholas Elcock, all

that parcel of land with the appurtenances upon which then lately stood a house abutting towards the east upon the highway leading to the common of Weybridge by the town there, upon the orchard then or late of

Amborne towards the north and west, and upon Fathers Grove towards the west, and upon the lands called Cobbetts towards the south and east, containing by estimation 3 roods, and also all that close of arable, called Nearer Hatchers, abutting upon the aforesaid way towards the north and east, and upon the river of Weybridge aforesaid towards the west, and upon a close called Further Hatchers towards the south, containing by estimation 6 acres; and also all that close or pasture commonly called Further Hatchers, abutting upon the aforesaid close called Nearer Hatchers towards the north and west, and upon the aforesaid rivet towards the west, upon certain lands then or late of Aniborne towards the south and east, and upon Hatcher's Grove towards the south, containing by estimation 8 acres, and also all that wood called Hatcher's Grove, abutting upon certain lands called Cobbetts towards the south, upon the aforesaid close called Further Hatchers, towards the north and west, and upon a close called the Three Acres towards the west, containing by estimation 3 acres, more or less; and also all that close of pasture called the Three Acres, abutting upon the aforesaid close called Further Hatchers towards the north, upon the river aforesaid towards the west, upon a close called the Sand Lands towards the south, and upon Hatcher's Grove towards the east, containing by estimation 3 acres, more or less; and also all that parcel of meadow called Sand Lands, abutting upon the river aforesaid towards the west, and upon one part of a certain meadow called Great Mil. lets towards the north, upon a close called the Three Acres aforesaid, and upon another piece of land called the Sand Lands towards the east, containing by estimation 5 acres, more or less; and also all that close of pasture called Sand Lands, abutting upon the aforesaid meadow towards the west, upon a close called Mallbrooke towards the south and west, upon certain lands called Cricketts towards the south and east, and upon the lands called Cobbetts towards the east, containing by estimation 14 acres, more or less; and also all that close of pasture called Waller's Brook, abutting upon a certain piece of meadow belonging to a farm called Brooklands towards the east, upon Crickett's Hill towards the south, upon a certain meadow called Sett's Meadow towards the north, and upon the aforesaid close called Sand Lands, to-

wards the east, containing by estimation 12 acres, and also all that close or parcel of meadow called Sett's Meadow, abutting upon a meadow called the Great Meadow of Weybridge aforesaid towards the north and east and towards the south and east, upon the aforesaid close called Waller's Brook towards the south, and upon the aforesaid river of Weybridge towards the north and east, containing by estimation 10 acres, and also all that parcel of arable land then divided into two closes called Cobbetts, abutting upon the common of Weybridge towards the south, upon the close called Sand Lands aforesaid towards the west, upon Hatcher's Grove towards the north, and upon the aforesaid way leading from the common of Weybridge unto the river of Weybridge aforesaid towards the east, con taining by estimation 10 acres, and also all that parcel of meadow called Millett's Grove, upon a meadow called Great Millett towards the west, upon the aforesaid river towards the south, and upon a parcel of land lying near the bridge of the aforesaid river towards the east, containing by estimation 3 acres and 2 roods, and also all that parcel of meadow lying and being in Weybridge Great Mead (amongst other lands there) known by the name of Child's Part, then or late in the Tenure of W. Porter or his assigns, containing by estimation 2 acres, which said parcels of land contain in the whole by estimation 77 acres and 3 roods, more or less, together with all ways, passages, easements, commodities, and profits whatsoever to the said closes or parcels of land in any manner belonging or appertain ing; all which said premises are situate at Weybridge in the county of Surry; (excepting and always reserving thereout all. great trees, woods, underwoods, mines, and quarries growing and being in and upon the premises, other than and besides the woods and underwoods therein-before mentioned), to hold the same (except as thereinbefore was excepted) unto the said Nich. Elcock, his executors, &c. from the 10th Oct. 1791 for the term of 23 years at the yearly rent of £7. 17s..44d. And whereas H.R.H. Frederick duke of York and Albany has purchased and is now possessed of or entitled to the whole of the leasehold manor or manors, park, messuages, mills, lands, tenements, and premises comprized in the said several recited letters patent, of the 11th June 1760, the 30th Oct. 1773, the 7th March 1770, and the 3d May 1785, and his said royal highness has also purchased and is now possessed of or entitled to one. undivided third part of the leasehold manor,

messuages, lands, tenements, rents, and premises comprized in the said recited letters patent of the 7th August 1780, for all the residue now to come and unexpired of the said several existing terms of years granted or demised by the said letters patent respectively And whereas his said royal highness is desirous to purchase and is now in treaty for the purchase of the said leasehold messuage, lands, tenements, and premises comprized in the said recited letters patent of the 8th April 1785, for all the residue now to come and unexpired of the term of 21 years granted or demised by the same letters patent: And whereas his said royal highness is in the possession of, and holds as tenant under the crown from year to year, two Coney warrens in or near Byfleet and Weybridge aforesaid with the appurtenances; and also a close or parcel of land now or heretofore called Millett Meadow in Weybridge aforesaid, containing ten acres or thereabouts, be the same more or less; and also divers closes or parcels of land now or heretofore called Hones in the parish of Chertsey, in the said county of Surry, containing together 25 acres or thereabouts, be the same more or less, which said last mentioned premises were heretofore held under lease from the crown, but the lease or leases whereof hath or have lately expired: And whereas his said royal highness has lately purchased and is seised or entitled in fee simple, of or to the freehold capital messuage or mansion house and park of Oatlands, and divers other freehold and copy hold messuages, lands, tenements, and hereditaments, situate and being within the several manors or parishes of Byfleet and Weybridge, Walton-upon-Thames, Walton Leigh, and Chertsey, or some of them: And whereas under and by virtue of two several inclosure acts passed in the 40th year of his present majesty, divers separate and distinct parcels of land or ground within the parishes and places aforesaid have been allotted and awarded to his said royal highness and other persons respectively, as well in respect of the several leasehold premises herein-before mentioned, including the said premises whereof his said royal highness is tenant under the crown from year to year, as in respect of his said royal highness's said free. hold and copyhold hereditaments and estates in the manors or parishes aforesaid; and his said royal highness has also purchased and contracted to purchase from different proprietors thereof several other lands or hereditaments in the same manors or parishes, which have been allotted and awarded to them in fee simple under the said inclosure

acts and whereas his said royal highness has been put to a very great expence, and has laid out several considerable sums of money respecting the said inclosure acts, and in making the necessary inclosures and improvements in consequence thereof; and the commissioners acting under the said acts have, with a view to the convenience of occupation and improvement intermixed and laid together, or as contiguous as may be, the several allotments which have beea made to his said royal highness, as well in respect of his aforesaid leasehold premises, as of his said freehold and copyhold hereditaments and estates: and inasmuch as oa account of the situation and intermixture of the several allotments which have been made in respect of the said several leasehold premises, including the said premises whereof his said royal highness is tenant from year to year, and in respect of his said royal highness's said freehold and copyhold hereditaments and estates, and from the situation and intermixture of the said allotments which he has so purchased and contracted for in fee simple as aforesaid, the same several allotments cannot be occupied and improved to the advantage they are capable of, unless they are held and kept together and enjoyed as one estate; and in regard that at the expiration of the present leases or demises of the said leasehold premises, it would not only be difficult to ascertain and distinguish the said leasehol allotments from the said freehold and copyhold allotments, but would also be very prejudicial and injurious to his said royal highness's mansion-house, park, and estate at Oatlands aforesaid, if the said leasehold allotments were separated and taken away from the said freehold and copyhold allotments and inasmuch also as the said several leasehold manors and premises herein-before mentioned lie contiguous to, and are very desirable and convenient to be held and enjoyed with or by the proprietors of the aid mansion house, park, and estate of Oatlands, H. R. H. the said Fred, duke of York and Albany, is desirous of purchasing the inheritance of the whole of the said leasehold manors and premises respectively, including the said premises whereof H. R. H. is tenant from year to year, with all the timber and other trees, woods, under. woods, mines, and quarries, growing or being on or in or about the same manors and premises; and his said royal highness has made his suit to his majesty, that he would be graciously pleased to give leave that a bill may be brought into parliament to enable his majesty to grant to his said

royal highness such inheritance: and whereas his majesty hath been graciously pleased to assent thereto; 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 parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, that it shall and may be lawful for his majesty, his heirs or successors, at any time or times hereafter, by letters patent or indenture or indentures under the great seal, to grant the fee simple and inheritance of and in all and singular the manors, park, messuages, mills, warehouses, storehouses, lands, tenements, rents, hereditaments, and premises, comprized in and demised by the said herein-before recited letters patent, 11th June 1760, or any of them respectively, with their and every of their rights, royalties, members, and appurtenances; and also of and in the two coney warrens, lands, and premises thereof H.R H. is tenant from year to year as aforesaid, with their and every of the appurtenances, and likewise of and in all and singular the lands, grounds, and hereditaments whatsoever, which by virtue of or under any inclosure act or acts of parliament, have been or shall or may be allotted or awarded to any person or persons whomsoever, for or in respect of the said leasehold manors, park, messuages, mills, &c. or any of them, including the said premises held from year to year; and also all and every the timber and other trees, woods, underwoods, royal and other mines and quarries, growing or being on or in or about the same leasehold manors, hereditaments, and premises respectively; and all rents, issues, and profits, of the premises so to be granted, and particularly the rents reserved by the said recited letters patent unto and to the use of H. R. H. his heirs and assigns, or unto such person or persons in trust for his said royal highness, his heirs and assigns, as he or they shall nominate or appoint for a full and adequate consideration in money; to be valued and ascertained by the proper officers of the crown for the time being, who are hereby authorized to value and ascertain the same accordingly.-II. And be it further enacted, that the price or consideration in money to be valued and ascertained as aforesaid shall be paid into the bank of England in the name of the lord high treasurer of England, and shall be forthwith laid out by the order of the surveyor-general of the land revenue for the time being in the purchase of £3. per cent. consolidated bank annuities, in the same manner and to and

for the same uses and purposes as the monies arising or to arise by the sale of fee farm rents are directed to be laid out by an act, passed in the 34th of his majesty, intituled, An Act for the better manage

ment of the land revenue of the crown, and for the sale of fee farm and other unimproveable rents; and that all and singular the annuities to be purchased by virtue of this Act shall be and remain invested, and the interest or yearly dividends thereof shall be from time to time received, answered, accounted for, applied, and appropriated in such and the same manner as by the said last before-mentioned Act is directed and enacted in respect of the annuities to be purchased in pursuance of that Act.-III. And be it further enacted, that such grant of the said premises, or any part thereof, as shall be made by his said majesty, his heirs or successors, or any such letters patent, indenture or indentures as aforesaid in pursuance of this act, shall be and is and are hereby declared and enacted to be good, valid, and effectual in the law, according to the tenor and purport thereof in the said letters patent, indenture or indentures to be expressed, notwithstanding any restriction, matter, or thing contained in an act of parliament made in the 1st. of her late majesty queen Anne, intituled, An

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Act for the better support of her majesty's household, and of the honour and dignity. of the crown, or in an Act made in the 1st of his present majesty, intituled, An Act for the support of his majesty's household, and of the honour and dignity of the crown of Great Britain;' or in an Act made in the 34th of his present majesty, intituled An Act for the better management of the land revenue of the crown, and for the sale of fee farm and other unimproveable rents,' or any other law or statute to the contrary, or any misrecital of non-recital, omission, or other defect in the said letters patent, indenture or indentures hereafter to be made in any wise notwithstanding.-IV. Saving always to all bodies politic and corporate, and all other persons whomsoever, and their, his, and her successors, heirs, executors, and administrators (other than and except his most excellent majesty and his heirs and successors), all such estate, right, title, interest, claim, and demand, of, in, and to the premises to be granted in and by the said letters patent, indenture or indentures to be made in pursuance of this Act, as they, every, or any of them had before the passing of this Act, or might or could or would have had, held, or enjoyed; in case is Act had not been made.

OFFICIAL PAPERS. FRENCH EXPOSÉ.-(Concluded from p. 896.)-One hundred thousand of the grand army leave the Prussian states to occupy the camp at Boulogne, while Denmark, henceforth safe from any English invasion, is evacuated by our troops, which are concentrated and centralizing themselves. Before the end of January, the battalions withdrawn to Spain will be replaced on the banks of the Elbe and the Rhine. Those which quelled Italy, last year, return to their former destination.-Such, Messieurs, is the external situation of France. In the interior, the greatest order in all parts of the administration, important ameliorations, a great number of new institutions, have excited the gratitude of the people.-The creation of titles of nobility have environed the throne with a new splendour. This system creates in all hearts a laudable emulation. It perpetuates the recollection of the most illustrious services paid by the most honourable reward. The clergy have distinguished themselves by their patriotism, and by their at tachment to their sovereign and their duties. Respect to the ministers of the altar, who honour religion by a devotion so pure, and virtues so disinterested!-The magistrates of all classes every where aid, with their utmost efforts, the views of the sovereign and the people, by their zeal facilitate the operation of their authority, and by the manifes tation of the most affecting sentiments, exalt the carriage and ardour of the troops. -Soldiers, magistrates, citizens, all have but one object, the service of the state; but one sentiment, that of admiration for the sovereign; but one desire, that of seeing heaven watch over his days, too just a recompense for a monorch who has no other thought, no other ambition, than those of the happiness and the glory of the French natiuo. SPANISH REVOLUTION -First Bulletin of the French Army of Spain, dated Vittoria, Nov. 9, 1808.

Position of the French army on the 25th Oct.-Head quarters at Vittoria.-The marshal duke of Cornegliano, with his left wing, along the banks of the Arragon and the Ebro. His head-quarters at Rafalla.-The marshal duke of Elchingen is with his head-quarters at Guardia. The marshal duke of Istria has his head-quarters at Miranda, with a garrison in Fort Pancorba.-The general of division Merlin occupies with one division the heights of Durango, and presses upon the enemy, who seem disposed to attack the heights of

Mondragon,-The marshal duke of Dantzic having arrived with the divisions of Sebastiani and Laval, the king was pleased to order the division of Merlin to return.-The enemy being in the mean time in force at Lerin, and having occupied Viana, and several posts on the left bank of the Ebro, the king ordered the duke of Cornegliano to advance against the enemy. General Waltier, commander of the cavalry, and the brigades of generals Habert, Brune, and Bazout, proceeded against the enemy's posts. On the 27th of October the enemy were defeated at all points. Twelve hundred men, who were surrounded in Lerin, at first shewed a disposition to defend themselves; but general Grandjean having made his arrangements, defeated them completely, making prisoners one colonel, two lieutenant-colenels, 40 officers, and 1200 soldiers. These troops formed part of the camp of St. Roque, before Gibraltar. At the same time, marshal the duke of Elchingen marched for Lo grono, passed the Ebro, took 300 of the enemy prisoners, pursued them several miles, and re-established the bridge of Logrono. In consequence of this event, the Spanish general Pignatelli, who commanded the insurgents, was stoned by them.-The troops of the traitor Romana and the Spanish prisoners in England, landed by the English in Spain, with the division of Gallicia, making together a force of 30,000 men, threatened from Bilboa marshal the duke of Dantzic, who, led on by a noble ardour, advanced upon them on the 31st of October, and drove them, at the point of the bayonet, from all their positions. The troops of the Confede ration of the Rhine, and particularly the corps of Baden, distinguished themselves.The marshal duke of Dantzic closely follow. ed up his pursuit of the enemy, the whole 1st of November, as far as Guenes, and entered Bilboa. In that city very considerable magazines were found. Several Englishmen were made prisoners. The enemy's loss, in killed and wounded, was considerable; but we took very few of them prisoners. Our loss consists of only 50 killed and 100 wounded. However praiseworthy this action was, it was to be wished that it had not taken place; the Spanish corps was in a situation to have been completely cut off.-The corps of marshal Victor having just arrived, was detached from Vittoria to Orduna. On the 7th of November, the enemy, reinforced by fresh troops from St. Andero, occupied the height of Guenes.

(To be continued.)

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