Power of Appeal.—To Quarter Sessions only, and not in cases where the Commissioner’s or Arbitrator’s decision is said to be final; or where some other provision is made, e.g. to Recorder of Leeds about allotments.
Award.—Not with Clerk of the Peace or of County Council or in Record Office.
APPENDIX A (2)
Ashelworth, Gloucester.—Enclosure Act, 1797
Area.—Not given in Act. Commonable Land of every kind stated in Petition (see below) as 310 Acres in all.
Nature of Ground.—‘Open and Common Fields, Meadows, and Pastures, Commonable and intermixed Lands, and a Tract of Waste Ground, being Part and Parcel of a Common called Corse Lawn,[490] and also a Plot, Piece, or Parcel of Land or Ground, on the Eastern Side of the said Parish,[491] adjoining to, and lately Part of the Parish of Hasfield ... but now Part of the Parish of Ashelworth’.
Parliamentary Proceedings.—February 21, 1797.—Petition for enclosure from various owners of lands and estates. March 24, Bill read first time.
April 7, 1797.—Petition from various Landowners and Owners of Mease Places, against the bill, stating ‘That there are only about 310 Acres of Commonable Land belonging to Land Owners of the said Parish, of which 148 Acres are Meadow Land, called the Upper Ham, lying in the Manor of Hasfield, the Right of Common upon which belongs exclusively to the Petitioners (and some others) as Owners of Fifty Five Mease Places within the said Parish, and the Petitioners are the Owners of Thirty-four of such Mease Places; and that the Remainder of the said Commonable Land consists of a Common Meadow, called Lonkergins Ham, containing about eight Acres (upon which Six Persons have a Right of Common) and about 150 Acres of Waste Land, Part of a Tract of Land called Corse Lawn, upon which Waste Land all the Land Owners of the said Parish are entitled to a Right of Common; and that the several Estates within the said Parish, lie very compact and convenient, and many of such Estates are exempt from the Payment of Great Tithes; and that of the Remainder of such Estates the Great Tithes (except a Portion of which the Vicar was endowed) belong to Charles Hayward Esq., who is Lord of the Manor of Ashelworth, and Owner of an Estate in the said Parish; and that there is no one Object in the Bill sufficient, under the Circumstances of the Case, to justify the enormous Expences which will attend the obtaining and carrying it into Execution, but that, on the Contrary, it is fraught with great Evil, and will be extremely injurious to the Petitioners,’ and asking that the Petitioners may be permitted to examine Witnesses and to be heard by their Counsel against the bill.
Petitioners to be heard on Second reading.
April 10.—Second reading of bill. House informed that Petitioners did not wish to be heard at that stage. Bill committed. Petitioners to be heard when Bill reported if they think fit.