The Express.
London, England, 1848-07-29 00:00:00

ISSIZE INTELLIGENCE.

NORFOLK CIRCCIT.
On Wednesday, the cemmission tor these assize, was
opened at Norwich by Mr. Baron•Parki?, in the presence f
the High Sheriff and others. There are 30 prisoners for
trial, three ot whom are for attempting to murder. 01 the
four burglaries there is one at Ssirstfliam in which several of
the rural wince are impl t
he C instigators.
Mr. Justice Maule sat in the Cro n Court and charged the
grind jury.
ktol,AltY AT SWATFIIAM.-J. Eves, 18, J. Orton, 18,
and C. Calf", 27, wire indicted for having broken into the
house of Mr. Spanton, at Swaffnain, anti stolen therefrom a
variety of articles. The evidence
wan not conclusive, and
the jury returned a verdict of Not ulley.

WESTERN ClRCUlT.—Exwries, JVLT 27.
Nut Pstue.—Before Mr. Justice Coleridge.
EILCIMENT.-111.8 'SLANG Ok gOIVISEA.
Doe Dku. Papules: v. SKINNER.—At two o'clock the
special jury summoned in this case was called neer ; only five
answered; atter lining the non attendants '2Ol. each, the
panel was completed from the common jury list, and the
Case proceed,.d. It was an action of ejectment to recover
possession of a hon=e and premises in the parish of Perigee,
occupied by the defer dant, George Skinner. The counsel
for the lessor of the plaintiff wrre Messrs. Crowder, Q C.,
Cockburn, Q.C., Barstow, M. Smith, and Greenwood; for
the defendant, Mr. Butt, Q.C., Mr. Serjeant Kinglake, and
Mr. l'oldon.
Mr. Crowder stated the case to the jury. The real plaine -
tiff was Mr. William Padwick, a entleman, possessing plat-
tiff
inland of Heyling, iu the county of Southampton, and the
nefendant, &baker, occupied a house in the island of Pon-
ies, which was formerly part of the town fields, and wait
known at one time, before certain houses were built, as
Howard's Furlong. This action was brought by Mr.
Padwick to recover poaes..ion of that house, which,
with the whole of Howard's Furlong, he altered
was a portion of the manor of Heyling. In 1826,
upon the sale by the Duke of Norfolk of a large po
of rtion
his property, Mr. Padwick purchased the manor of Hey-
ling, with the island and rectory, for 38,0001., which was
paid on the 10th of May, 1827; and it was not until recently
be ere this action was commenced, which was just before the
expiration of twenty years, that it was discovered that this
property formed a part of that purchased with the manor:
and the point to be established was that the property in the
occupation of the
oftefendant in a portion of the island of
Portsca was part the manor of Etyling, which belonged
to the Duke of Norfolk. At the date of the purchase
1825 an act of parliament was passed to enable the Duke of
Nair
to convey the manor of Heyling to Mr. Padwick, as
the Dukes of Norfolk and Earls of Arundel could only sell
under this peculiarity ; that by an act of parliament passed in
1627, in the reign of Charles the First, the whole of the
Arundel property was entailed in such a manner as to be
inalienable, and no person who might be in possession could
under any circumstances dispose of it. Therefore it be-
anie necessary to obtain an act of the legislature to
sanction the sale, and from that remarkable peculiarity
it was incumbent to go back to a very ancient period, for the
purpou, of tracing the history of the island of Ileyling, be-
cause, ii he could show them that the particular spot in
question did belong to the Earl of Arundel in 1627, no lapse
of time from that period—the twecentu Il
ea that were gone—
Could remove his right and title to hat property. It
wluld be necessary to slow that the manor of Heyling Led
been part of the possessions of the Earls of Arundel down to
the period when an alienation was prevented. The manor
extended over the whole of tke island of lieyling, and, as
was not uncommon, several outlying spots, and it would be
the question for ~he jury whether the house occupied by the
defendant in the island of Portsea was situated in one of the
outlying spots of the manor of Heyling. In ancient times,
very probably. there was little water between the island of
Heyling and the twenty two acres, known as " Howard's
Furlong," in the Wand of Porten, and the plaintiff asked
to recover a part ofgthat land, which was so laid out in the
manor of Ponies. By an entry in." Domesday-book," in the
reign of William the Conqueror, when an account of all the
lands in England were taken, it appeared that originally the
manor of ileylieg was held of the crown by the Abbe
Juliege, chief of a foreign monastery situated in Normand.
It seemed to have been so, wed until the suppression of (o.
rigs monsaterim, when the manor 01 Heyhng was added to

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