Mon 25 Mar 1776
House of Commons Votes pp515-523
The vote for the Stroudwater Navigation Act is at the head of page 518
(515) Numb. 72.
V O T E S
OF THE
House of Commons.
Lunae, 25° Die Martii, 1776,
A BILL for dividing, allotting, and inclosing, of the Common Fields,
Half-Year Inclosures, Heaths, Brooms, Breaches, Commons, and
Waste Lands, within the Parish of Coney Weston, in the County of Suffolk ;
was read a second Time, and committed.
A Bill for dividing, allotting, and inclosing, the Open and Common Fields,
Common Pastures, Common Meadows, and other Commonable Lands and
Grounds, of and within the Manor and Parish of Yardley Hastings, in the
County of Northampton, was read a second Time, and committed.
A Bill for dividing and inclosing the Open and Common Fields, Common
Pastures, Common Meadows, and other Commonable Lands and Grounds,
of and within the Manor and Parish of Walgrave in the County of
Northampton, was read a second Time, and committed.
( 516 )
An ingrossed Bill from the Lords, intituled, An Act to dissolve the Marriage
of Charles Horneck Esquire, with Sarah Keppel, his now Wife; and to
enable him to marry again; and for other Purposes therein mentioned, was read
the first Time, and ordered to be read a second Time.
An ingrossed Bill from the Lords, intituled, An Act to dissolve the Marr-
iage of john Eliot, Doctor in Physic with Grace Dalrymple his now Wife;
and to enable him to marry again; and for other Purposes therein mentioned,
was read the first Time, and ordered to be read a second Time.
An ingrossed Bill for lighting and watching the Villages of Camberwell
and Peckham, in the County of Surrey and certain Roads therein mentioned
leading thereto ; and for establishing a Foot Patrole between Peckham and
Blackman Street, in the Borough of Southwark, was read the third Time.
Resolved,
That the Bill do pass.
Ordered,
That Sir Jofeph Mawbey do carry the Bill to the Lords, and desire their
Concurrence.
An ingrossed Bill from the Lords, intituled, an Act for vesting several de-
tached Parts of the settled Estates of Sir James Ibbetson, Baronet, in Trustees,
to be sold, and for the Application of the Money ts arise by such Sale, and other
Purposes therein mentioned, was read a second Time, and committed.
A Message by Sir Francis Molyneux, Gentleman Usher of the Black
Rod.
Mr. Speaker,
The Lords, authorized by virtue of His Majesty's Commission for declaring His
Royal Assent to several Acts agreed upon by both Houses, do desire the immediate Attendance of this Honourable House in the House of Peers, to bear the Commission
read.
Accordingly Mr. Speaker, with the House, went up to the House of
Peers.
And being returned ;
Mr. Speaker reported, That the House, at the Desire of the Lords authorized by Virtue of His Majesty’s ‘Commission aforementioned, had been at
the House of Peers, where a Commission under the Great Seal was read,
giving, deciaring, and notifying, the Royal Assent to the several Public and
Private Bills therein mentioned, and also impowering the lord Archbishop
of Canterbury, the Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain, the Lord President of the Council, the Earl of Dartmouth, and several other Lords, to declare and notify the Royal Assent to the said Bills ; and that the lord Archbishop of Canterbury, the Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain, the
Lord President of the’ Council and the Earl of Dartmouth, did accordingly
declare and notify the Royal Assent to the said Bills Which Bills are as followeth, viz.
An Act to enable Elis Majesty ta make Leases, Copies and Grants, of Offices,
Lands, and Hereditaments, Parcel of the Duchy of Cornwall, or annexed to the
same ; and for other Purposes therein mentioned.
(517)
An Act to continue an Act, made in the last Session of Parliament, intituled,
" An Act to amend, and render more effectual, in His Majesty's Dominions in
" America, an Act passed in the present Session of Parliament, intituled, An Act
" for punishing Mutiny and desertion, and for the better Payment of the
" Army and their Quarters ; and for extending the Provisions of the said Act
" to His Majesty's Marine Forces in America."
An Act for defraying the Charge of the Pay and Cloathing of the Militia, in
that Part of Great Britain called England, for one Year, beginning the Twenty-
fifth Day of March, One Thousand Seven Hundred and Seventy-six.
An Act for making perpetual so much of an Act, made in the Eighth Year of
His present Majesty’s Reign, intituled, “An Act to continue and amend an Act
“ made in the Fifth Year of the Reign of His present Majesty, intituled, An Act
" for Importation of Salted Beef, Pork, Bacon, and Butter, from Ireland, for a
" limited Time; and for allowing the importation of Salted Beef, Pork, Bacon,
and Butter, from the British Dominions in America, fo a limited Time," as
relates to the Importation of Salted Beef, Pork, Bacon, and Butter, for Ire-
land ; and also another Act made in the Fifth Year of His present Majesty's Reign,
intituled, “* An Act to permit the free Importation of Cattle from Ireland."
An Act for rectifying Mistakes in the Names of several of the Commissioners,
appointed by an Act, made un the last Session of Parliament, to put in Execution an Act made in the same Session, intituled. " An Act for granting an Aid to His
" Majesty, by a Land Tax, to be raised in Great Britain, for the Service of the
" Year One Thousand Seven Hundred and Seventy-five ;” and for appointing
other Commissioners, together with those named in the first mentioned Act, ta put in Execution an Act of this Session of Parliament, for granting an Aid to His Majesty, by a Land Tax, to be raised in Great Britain, for the Service of the Year
One Thousand Seven Hundred and Seventy-six.
An Act to continue, for a further Time, an Act, made in the Seventh Year of
His present Majesty’s Reign, intituled, ** An Act to discontinue, for a limited
" Time, the Duties payable upon the Importation of Tallow, Hogs Lard, and
“ Grease.
An Act for enlarging the Term of Letters Patent, granted by His present
Majesty, to Elizabeth Taylor, of the Town of Southampton, Widow, for the
sole Use and Exercise of certain Engines, Tools, Instruments, and other Apparatus, for making Blocks, Sheavers, and Pins, used in the Rigging of Ships.
An Act for the better securing a Fund belonging to certain, Persons of the
Theatre Royal ia Drury Lane, applicable to charitable Uses; and for other
Purposes therein mentioned.
An Act for enlarging ithe Term and Powers granted by Three. Acts of Parlia-
ment, for laying a Duty of Two Pennies Scots upon every Pint of Ale and Beer
brewed and vended within the Town of Dundee, and the Liberties and Suburbs
thereof, for the Purposes in the said Acts mentioned.
An Act far the better Relief and Employment of the Poor within the Hundred of
Forehoe, in the County of Norfolk.
An Act for the better maintaining, regulating, and employing, the Poor, within
the Parish of Saint George, in the County of Middlesex ; and for cleansing and
lighting the Squares, Streets, Lanes, Alleys, Courts, Yards, and other Open
Passages and Places ; and for keeping and regulating a Nightly Watch within such Parts of the said Parish as are not within the Liberty of the Tower of London.
An Act for building a Bridge across the River Severn, from Benthall, in the
County of Salop, to the opposite Shore, at Madeley Wood, in the said County;
and for making proper Avenues or Roads to and from the same.
( 518 )
An Act to amend an Act, passed in the Third Year of His late Majesty's Reign,
intituled, " An Act for making navigable the River Stroudwater in the County
" of Gloucester, from the River Severn, at or near Framiload, to Wallbridge,
" near the Town of Stroud in the same County;" and for giving other Powers
for the Purpose of making a Navigation from Framiload to Walbridge afore-
said.
An Act for continuing the Term, and varying the Powers, of Iwao Acts passed
in the Third and Seventeenth Years of His laie Majesty King George the Second,
for repairing the Road from that Part of Chatham which lies next to the City of
Rochester, to Saint Dunstan’s Cross, near the City of Canterbury, in the County
of Kent; and for amending and widening the Road from the present Turnpike
Road at or near a Place called Makenade Corner, in the Parish of Preston, to
Bagham Cross and Shalmsford Lane End, in the Parish of Chilham, in the said
County.
An Act for continuing the Term, and enlarging the Powers, of an Act, made
in the Twenty-eight Year of the Reign of His late Majesty, for widening and
repairing the Road leading from Horsham, in the County of Sussex, through Ca-
pell, Dorking, Mickleham, and Leatherhead, to the Watch House in Ebbi-
sham, in the County of Surrey, and from Capell to Stone Street, in the Pa-
rish of Ockley; in the said County of Surrey.
An Act for amending and keeping in Repair the Road from Doncaster to the
Turnpike Road which leads from Bawtry to Retford, in the Counties of York
and Nottingham.
An Act for enlarging the Term, and Powers of an Act, made in the Twenty-
ninth Year of the Reign of His Majesty, King George the Second, intituled, " An
" An Act for repairing and widening rhe Road from the White Stoop, near the North
" End of the Town of Derby, through the Towns of Duffield and Chesterfield,
" in the County of Derby, to the Town of Sheffield in the County of York, and
" from the said Town of Duffield to the MootHall, in the Town of Wirksworth,
“ in the said County of Derby.”
An Act for enlarging the Term and Powers of Two Acts, made in the Twenty-
second and Twenty-ninth Years of the Reign of King George the Second, for re-
pairing the Road from Wansford Bridge, in the County of Northampton, to
the Town and Borough of Stamford, in the County of Lincoln, and from Stam-
ford to Bourn, in the said County ; and for repairing and widening the Road from
the North End of the Bridge, to a Gate called Scotgate in Stamford and from
the Termination of the Turnpike Road in thé Parish of Bourn to the Market
Cross in Bourn.
An Act for repairing and widening the Road ftom The Market Cross, in the
Tounship “of Clithero, to Salford Bridge, in the Town of Blackburn, in the
County Palatine of Lancaster.
An Act for Vesting certain Messuages, Lands and Hereditaments, in the
Several Counties of Durham, Middlesex, Berks, and Sussex, and in the City
of London (Part of the Freehold and Copyhold Estates devised by the Will of
George Bowes, Esquire, deceased) in Trustees, to be Sold or exchanged, and for
laying out the Money to arise thereby in the Purchase of other Messuages, Lands,
Tenements, or Hereditaments, to be settled to the same Uses.
An Act for Vesting the Advowson of the Rectory of Pewley, in the County of
Wilts ( Part of the Estate comprized in. the Marriage Settlement of Stephen
(519 )
late Lord Holland, deceased) in Trustees and their Heirs, in Trust, to be sold,
and for laying out the Money to arise thereby in finishing and completing a Man-
sion House at Winterslow, in the same County.
An Act for vesting certain Leasehold Pieces of Ground, in the Parish
of Saint George, Hanover Square, im the Gounty of Middlesex, together
with a Capital Messuage built on Part thereof, devised by the Will of Sir
John Hales, Baronet, deceased, in Trustees, in Trust, to assign the same to
Henry Herbert Esquire, pursuant to an Agreement for that Purpose and for
applying the Consideration Maney in such Manner as in the Act is men-
tioned.
An Act to subject and charge the Prebend of Marston Saint Lawrence, in
the County of Northampton, and the Lands, Tenements, and Hereditaments,
thereunto belonging, to and with the Payment of two several perpetual Yearly
Rent Charges to Doctor Everard Buckworth, and his Successors in the said Pre-
bend; and for divesting the Fee Simple and Inheritance thereof out of him and
his Suctessors, and for vesting the same, so charged, in John Blencowe, Esquire,
his Heirs and, Assigns.
An Act for dividing and inclosing the Open Fields, Meadow, Pasture, and other
Commonable and Waste Grounds, within the Liberties of Gunby and North Wit-
ham, in the County of Lincoln.
An Act for exchanging certain Lands, in the Parish and Liberties of Spaldwick
with Upthorpe, for other Lands, in the Parish of Long Stow, in the County of
Huntingdon, in, the Manner, and for the Purposes, therein mentioned,
An Act for dividing and inclosing certain Open Common Fields, Ings, Common
Pastures, and other Commonable Lands, within the Townships of Asterby and
Goulceby, in the County of Lincoln.
An Act for dividing and inclosing the Open and Common Fields and also a cer-
tain Parcel or Tract of Common and Waste Land, called The Link, and otheCommon and Waste Land, within the Manor and Parish of Leigh, otherwise Ley,
in the Gounty of Worcester.
An Act for dividing and inclosing the Open and Common Fields, Meadows,
Paftures, Heath, and Waste Grounds, within the Parish of Duston, in the
County of Northampton.
An Act for dividing and inlosing certain Open and Common Fields, Common
Meadows, Commonable Pastures, Common Grounds, and Commonable Lands,
within the Parish of Liddington and Hamlet of Medbourn, in the said Parish
of Liddington, in the County of Wilts.
An Act for dividing and inclosing. the Open and Common Fields, Common Pa-
stures, Common Meadows, and Commonable Lands, within the Township, Hamlet,
Precincts, or Liberties, of Blackthorn, in the Parish of Ambrosden, in the
County of Oxford.
An Act for dividing. and inclosing. the Open and Common Fields, in the Parish of
Desborough, in the County of Northampton.
An Act for dividing, and inclosing certain Open Common Fields, Meadows,
Pastures, Ings, and other Commanable Lands and WasteGrounds within the
Parish of Raithby, near Spilsby, in the County of Lincoln.
An Act for dividing and inclosing the several Commons and Waste Grounds,
within the Manor of Rushton Spencer, in. the Parish of Leek, in the County of
Stafford.
( 520 )
AN Act for dividing and inclosing the Open Fields, Meadows, Pastures, and
Ceommonable Grounds, within the Township or Liberty of Sutton Saint Mi-
chael’s, otherwise Sutton Bonington, commonly called Bonington End, in the
County of Nottingham.
An Act, for dividing and inclosing the Open and Common Fields, and other Com-
monable Lands, Commons, and Waste Grounds, within the Parish of Odel, in
the County of Bedford.
An Act for dividing and inclosing the Open and Common Field, and other Com-
monable Lands and Grounds, lying within the Parish and Liberties of Warming-
ton, in the County of Warwick.
An Act far dividing and inclosing the Common or Waste Ground, called Bore-
ham Wood Common, in the Parish of Elstree, otherwise Idlestree, in the
County of Hertford.
An Act for dividing and inclosing the Open Fields, Meadows, Commons, and
Weste Grounds, in the Parish of Beckingham, in the County of Nottingham.
An Act for enabling the Honourable George Hobart to inclose the Heath
Lands, Field Lands, and Low Commons, or Fen Grounds, in the Parish of Nocton,
in the County of Lincoln; and for vesting the Glebe Lands, Vicarial Tithes, and
Right of Common, belonging to the Vicarage of Nocton aforesaid, in the said
George Hobart, and for making a Compensation to the Vicar of the said Parish
in Lieu thereof.
An Act, for dividing and inclosing the Open Fields, Meadows, Commons, and
Waste Grounds, in the Parish of Upton, in the County of Lincoln.
An Act for dividing and inclosing the several Commons and Waste Grounds,
within the Manor of Lea, in the Parishes of Ashover, Crich, and Southwin-
field, in the County of Derby.
An Act for dividing, allotting, and inclosing, certain Commons and Waste
Lands, called Ashwood Hay and Wall Heath, and several other Parcels of
Waste Lands and Commonable Places, Part and Parcel of Ashwood Hay, situate
within the Manor and Parish of Kingswinford, in the County of Stafford.
An Act for extinguishing the Right of Soil and Right of Common upon certain
Pieces or Parcels of Common or Waste Land, in the Manor and Parish of Clewer,
in the County of Berks; and for vesting the same in his Royal Highness the Duke of Gloucester, his Heirs and Assigns, upon thé Conditions therein mentioned.
An Act for dividing and inclosing the Open and Common Fields, Common Mea-
dows, Pastures, and Commonable and Waste Lands, within the Manor and Pa~
rish of Dorfington, in the County of Gloucester.
An Act for dividing and inclosing the Commons, or Waste Grounds, within the
Vill, Hamlet, or Township of Little Harwood, in the Parish of Blackburn, and
County of Lancaster.
An Act for dividing and inclosing the Open and Comman Field, and other Com-
monable Lands aud Grounds, lying within the Parish and Liberties of Alkerton,
in the County of Oxford.
An Act to Enable Francis Ferrand Moore, Esquire, now called Francis Fer-
rand Foljambe, and his Heies Male, to take and use the Surname and Arms of
Foljambe, pursuant to the Wills of Francis Foljambe and Thomas Foljambe,
Esquires, deceased.
An Act to Enable Edward John Andrews Cockayne and his Issue, to take and
ufe the Surname and Arms of Frith only, pursuant to the will of Neighbour
Frith, Esquire, deceased.
( 521 )
An Act for naturalizing Charles Godfrey Wolff and John Adam
Hecker.
An Act for nattitalizing John Liardet.
An Act for naturalizing Lewis Vialetes Bastide.
Ay Act for naturalizing John Hoffman.
Resolved,
That this House will upon Wednesday Morning next, resolve itself into a
Committee of the whole House, to consider of allowing further Time for the
Exportation of, or Payment of the Duties upon, Bugles, when warehoused,
upon Importation into this Kingdom.
Ordered,
That it be an Instruction to the said Committee, that they do consider of
the Bonds which have been given, relative. to the Revenue of Cuftoms, and
upon which no Prosecutions have been had, for the Space of Five Years.
Ordered,
That it be an Instruction to the said Committee, that they do consider of
the Duties payable upon Feather Beds imported into this Kingdom,
Sir Richard Worsley presented to the House (according to Order) a Bill to
continue the Corporation of the Guardians of the Poor within the Isle of
Wight; and to confirm the Powers and Authorities now vested in the said
Corporation, and to provide new Powers and Regulations for the Members
of the same; and to repeal an Act, passed in the Eleventh Year of the Reign
of His present Majesty, intituled, " An Act for eftablishing a House or
" Houses of Industry in the Isle of Wight, for the Reception, Maintenance,
" and Employment, of the Poor belonging to the several Parishes and Places
" within the said Island;” and the same was received, and read the first
Time, and ordered to be read a second Time.
Mr. Lygon reported from the Committee, to whom the Bill for
continuing the Term, and altering, explaining, and enlarging, the
Powers, of an Act, of the 26th of King George the Second, for repairing
and widening the Road leading from Redsfone Ferry, in the County of Wor-
cester, and several other Roads therein mentioned; and for repealing so
much of an Act of the 7th Year of his present Majesty, as relates to the
Road from Knightsford Bridge, to a certain House at Red Marley, in the
Parish of Great Witly in the said County, and for putting the same under the
Management of the Trustees for executing the said first mentioned Act;
and for altering and diverting the Road from The Hundred House to Redstone
Ferry, so as to communicate the same with the West Avenue of Stourport
Bridge, was commited; that the Committee had examined the Allegations of
the Bill, and the same to be true; and that the Committee had gone
through the Bill and made several Amendments thereunto, which they had
directed him to report to the House; and he read the Report in his Place, and
afterwards deliverd the Bill, with the Amendments, in at the Table, where
the Amendments were read, and agreed to by the House.
Ordered,
That the Bill, with Amendments, be ingrossed.
An ingrossed Bill for supplying the Borough and Town of Brecknock,
and Liberties thereof, with Water; and for paving, cleansing, regulating, and
lighting,
(522)
Lighting, the Streets, Lanes, and public Passages there, and for widening and
making commodious some of the said Streets, Lanes, and Passages, was
read the third Time.
Resolved,
That the Bill do pass.
Ordered,
That Mr. Charles Morgan do carry the Bill to the Lords, and deaire
their Concurrence.
Mr Elwes presented to the House (according to Order) a Bill for di-
viding and inclosing certain Open and Uncultivated Lands and Tracts of
Waste Ground, called Crowcombe Heathfield, and Heddon, and Parcel of Quan-
tock Hills, within the Parish of Croweombe, in the County of Somerset ; and
the same was received, and read the first Time, and ordered to be read a
second Time.
The Bill (now ingrossed) for making and maintaining a Navigable Canal,
from or near-the Town of Stourbridge, in the County of Worcester, to
join the Staffordshire and Worcetershire Canal, at or near Stourton, in the
County of Stafford; and also two Collateral Cuts, one from, a-Place called
The Fens, upon Pensnet Chace, to communicate with the intended Canal,
near the Junction of Wordesley Brook, with the River Stour, and the
other from a Place called Black Delph, upon the said Chace, to join the
first mentioned Collateral Cut, at or near certain Lands called The Lays, in
the Parish of King’s Swinfordy, in the said County of Stafford, was (accord-
ing to Order) read the third Time; and several Amendments were made, by
the House, to the Bill.
Resolved.
That the Bill do pass.
Ordered,
That Sir William Bagot do carry the Bill to the Lords, and desire their
Concurrence.
Sir Charles Whitworth (according to Order) reported from th Committee
of the whole House, to whom the Bill for the better Supply of Mariners and
Seamen, to serve in His Majesty’s Ships of War, and on board Merchant
Ships, and other Trading Ships and Vessels, was committed, the Amendments
which the Committee had made to the Bill, and which they had directed him
to report to the Housee; and he read the Report in his Place, and after-
wards delivered the Bill, with the Amendments, in at the Table, where the
Amendments were read, and agreed to by the House.
Ordered,
That the Bill, with the Amendments, be ingrossed.
Ordered,
That the Order of the Day, for the House to resolve itself into a Com-
mittee Of the whole House, to consider further of Ways and Means for railing
the Supply granted to His Majesty, be now read.
And the said Order being read accordingly;
Resolved,
That this House will, upon Wednesday Morning next, resolve itself into
the said Committee.
( 523 )
Ordered,
That the Order of the Day, for the House to resolve itself into a Commit-
tee of the whole House to consider further of the Supply granted to His
Majesty, be now read.
And the said Order being read accordingly ;
Resolved
That this House will, upon Wednesday Morning next, resolve itself into the
said Committee.
The other Order of the Day being read,for the House to resolve itself into a
Committee of the whole House, to consider of a Method for lessening the
Rates now payable for the Relief of the Poor, by imposing a Tax upon all
Persons keeping Dogs, to be applied to that Purpose ;
And a Motion being made, and the Question being put; That Mr. Speaker
do now leave the Chair ;
It passed in the Negative.
Resolved,
That this House will, upon this Day Four Months, rerolve itself into thé
said Committee.
And then the House adjourned till To-morrow
Morning, Ten of the Clock.
By Virtue of an Order of the House of Commons, I do appoint John Whiston;
Charles Bathurst, Lockyer Davis, Benjamin White, and William Bowyer
and John Nichols, to print these Votes ; and that no other Person do presume
to print the same.
FLR, NORTON, Speaker.
LONDON:
Printed for John Whiston, at Mr. Boyle's Head, and Charles Bathurst,
at The Cross Keys, in Fleet-Street ; Lockyer Davis, opposite Grays-Inn-Gate
in Holbourn ; Benjamin White, at Horace’s Head, in in Fleet-Street;
ane Wiliam Bowyer and John Nichols, at Cicero's Head,
Red-Lion Passage, Fleet-Street. 1776.
