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LAAD lit,I<LNL,',E, OF L Yi4 CROW.6I,

in this opittion, dirediotis have occorditkely been
given for carrying that thea-sur'e iron t'ii.W. Oa the
expiation of the existing lease of that estate.
But I think it proper here to *state, thatoalthOugh.'
I deemed it necessary, on public grounds, to re. ,
commend that the farm of Whitt:mead Park,' and
the woodlands within the manor of Blatant, should
not be again granted on tease, I did not do so from
any apprehension of mismanagement on the parr •
of the present lessees at these estates, in case they-
had been continued to be granted to them ; fait
,
lam now, in fulfilment of my duty, to lay befote has indeed been certified to me, by 'the surveyors
this Honourable House, an account of my proceeds'o
employed on both estates, that the woods were, at
ings in the management of the. Landed Properly of the time the surveys were taken, in high cultivation
the Crown, since the time of making My Third and preservation.
In the lease to Sir John Shaw, there is likewise
Report, which was presented to His Majesty, and* -
included a number. of houses in Woolwich, near
to both Houses of Parliament, ow the 4th of Alarch,
thearsenal, which the Board
,of Ordnance stated to
Sergi; • and, in stating the progress Which has been
elude within 'that period I shall follow the same me to be required for the public service, as well as
,
.plan and atrangemeat as was adopted in my former the common called Woolwich Cortimoto and two
Reverts. . , other commons adjoining to it, with the buildings '
errs tend thereon; and ehey have desired that the
The part of the business to be first stated, accorde
wholit of these premises and commons should, on
ing to that arrangement; isan ace-stunt of the leases
the expiration of the present lease, be transtesred to
of :the land estates, the particulars of which are given
that Board for the use of the pubic ; and the Lords
In a Schedule in the Appelidiat, distinguishing the
orate Treasury having elsagiven their concurrence
renews which had,'Acu those which had not beets
thereto, diradions have accordingly been given, fur
Wore in lease. .
. Front this Stiltedule, it appears, that since the transferring these premises (a particular description
given in a statement in the date of that, Report, leases have been granted of of which is
Appen-
land estates, which had.been before in lease, of the , dix), into the possession of the Board of Ordoance,
on the expiration of the lease now held by Sir John •
yearly valetsOf 11,9341. 11s. ^.d. according to. the
iteports.df Surveyors a•ding upon oath ; that the Shaw' . . .
In the year I ao6, a. memorial was referred to
rents resteviti
_in, those leases amount to 10,5491.
me, by 'he Treasury, from the Bishop of Oxford,
14s. sd. per anpum.; and that the tiara paid in re-
for a new lease of certain lands within the forests of
sped of built:tinge cOMprieed in those estates amount .
Srowood and Shotover, and praying that,. on ace
to 3,862 L ..Thatthe Value of tote 'same premiseso 4.
the latest surveys' er otheraticandsts, previonslyiee, vomit of the smallness of the income of that bishop..
tie, the old rents et IQOI. only might be, reserved
isting•in pie Surveyor-Growers Otfice, was 5.,4671,
7s. ides that the rents reserved;. in the former
were only '8341, I4s. 7d. and were reduced, in it, instead of reserving, a rent equal to the Iw.looses.'
proved value of the astute ; bat on referring to the.
•
b land-tat,. to- ahout (gi7l. 164'. ad.; and the finel-• I/4 passed in the 34th year of his Majesty, for the
paid for the same were 12,901. 25. al.
y.
. .. beiter 'management of - the land revenue of the
Oldie land estates,. which had not been before l Crown,it appeared to tee doubtful, whether, under
the provisions of that And, which authorises the
in leese,sthe most considerable one is ilea in the -'
county of Sussex, which reverted to the Cnten on
Lordi of the Treasury to grant leases of land, at
such rents as shall be deemed by thems
." to be .a
the death of the late
.Lord Montagu, and is now
granted to William Stephen Poynts, Esq.' and .. reasonable retst or consideration, for such, leases or
teeetsoits Mary his wile; oil which estate a toil . grants, without taking any fine . toe the Utile," a
account was given in my Third Report. The sub. i lease ot' the kind desired by'ilie • BishOp of Oxford,
jeers of the other leases its this class eonsist priticis could legally be. granted, the estate bPitig .esti.
pally of mines and 4oarries, thesennual value of''' mated at the cleat: yearly value of 301. los. (M—
-ilepost *to their
which cannot be easily ascertained ; but this Svhe. lAnd I therelecres in 'a PrerumnarY
dole contains a statement of the rents thereby re- . Lordshi, stated the doubts 'which had occurred
annum; ' to me upon
served, amounting to 1,0161. 85. ad. per the subjed. In onsequence of which,
and other particulars connected therewith. an Att was pined soon afferaiarti, "to enable his
After this general account of the land estates
to mention• the follow. Majesty to grant new leases, on former WAS, for
granted, I think itoecessarythe benefit of els:unable institutions or au,gmenti.
, ..
Mon of ecclesiastical isorporations ;" and, under the
ing instances of iteviation'irom the usual course of
management. - , provisions contained in that. MI, the lease. was-
Among the.leases applied for, since the data iof t limited to the Bishop accordingly, at the old rent
my last Report, there is one to the Earl of 13erkelay, of 100 h per annum. I, have inserted in the Appen-
of the Cattle.of St. ilrivael's, and lands thereto ad. dix, copies of my Report to the Treasury, on that oc-
joining, in the county of Gloucester, formerly held casion, and of the papers connected with it, which
will explain all 'the circumstances that took place
by his lordship, with an estate called Whitentead
Park, under a lease which expired last year; and i LIP" This subject.
for 3 new lease of both these estates his Loi •ti I ' s itp
Of houses, the particulars
which have been granted, are a lof the new lasses
so given in a Sches
applied,. in the usual manner. But on having a Sur- ' '
dule„ in the Appendix ; from which Schedule it
vey and valuation made thereof, it was certified
appears,. that• the. yearly value of the premises be.
to me, that Whiternead Park was situated within
and was entirely surrounded by, the forest of Dean;' fore iniease, as estimated by surveyors,- 06ting on
that it consisted of 227' acres of land, and that there
yearly rents reserved, amount to 2,9481. Gs. tod.;
oato, amounts to 4,091. as. ed. ; that the clear
was upon it, in the year 1804, when the survey was
and the fines paid, to 8,8921. That the annual
made, timber of the value of above 12,0001. and as
value of the salise premises, .according to tin, latest
two-thirds of that timber was contained in three
preceding accounts -thereof, w a;as , 6361. 1 ts. ad.;
small woods, nut exceeding thirty-nine acres, it al- -
that the rents reserved by the former leases, amount.
forded a strong proof both of the excellence of. the e
soil tot the growth of timber, and of the' benefit 'ed.only to -4321. 18s. 100. , reduced. by allowances
. which might, be derived from appropriating tee., steads in reaped Oland tax, to attikot :2(4(.1. is. iotd.;
and 'that the fines paid ler the same amonnted only to
whole' of the estate to that use, particularly as it is
situated near the Keeper's Lodge, in Park End Walk,
in that Forest, anti at' a distance tram any town or sil- - -
: 1,80513111.06e55e.i6,d0.r enrtilagee to houses, which had not
taw beets before in lease,. no separate ease has betn, and, on that account, not liable to be trespassed '
upon.. I thereinto thought it my duty in my Report granted; but a piece of ground for a cartilage,
falling under this class of property, is comprised in
to the Treasury, on Lord Berkeley's applicaton, to
propose, that the lease of that estate should not be' one
el the leases of premises which had
/been before
in lease, as shewe in this Schedule, ofwhich ground
renewed, but 0* it should ho put under 'the Ina-
w
the annual value, as estimated on gall), is 351. I:2s.
easement of the Surveyor-General of his Majesty's
Woods ; and the Treasury having concurred in that
id. and a, rent of . that amount has. been reserved
opinion, it was excepted its the renewal of the lease . forit'
both land . '.
'..
.. . .
to•his Lordship, and put andel- the management of . clfestates.' and houses', many leases
cite Office of Woods accordiegle. . have also been agreed to be. granted, and are now
in progressunder the authority of , warrants 'from
- But although this estate is thus withdrawn Irons
r the leasehold property of the Crown, and will ,not the Board.of Treasury ; and of these, the particalars
appear in the rentals thereof, it is, not to be consi. . are given, in like manner,, in'
Schedules,inserted in
dered as being, on that account unprodudive of Re. • the Appendix: ' • ,
Prom the Schedule of leases agreed for, of land
seoue. Indeed the transterenca of it to the Office '
of Woods and Forests, will produce a very different estates, it appears,. that the yearly value of such
Of those estates.as have been before m lease is
effeet ;as thericen be no doubt that it will became of
175. as certified by surveyors upon oath ;
much metoveluable and produdive, wilco kept for
raising timbet, theta it' could possibly be, diet ,as 4. that the rents to he reserved for those. estates
farm to enytenante. Aloio,giv, therefore, it can.• amount to 8,2741. l 9s. Id. and that the fives to, be
peid, in reaped .to buildings cOmptised therein,
. not cone into. the Schedules annexed hereto,- either
of leases granted, or Of estates sold, I think it right amount to 2,667.1. and that the yearly value of the
same. premises,. by former accounts,,,arnotinted to
to bring it into the general abstratt of the Crowte"3
3,1341. as. Ltd. that rho rents reserved for the
' landed property vana.l havetlurrein stated it merely
same, in the last leases, amounted tone more than
at thts•reint put upon it by the Surveyor,.on a suPPO- tag 1. sects. tiid. and were-reduced, by 'lend-tax to
' iitibts -Of its being let as a farm, not .having, as
about 5541. 28. and that the.fiues'paid lor.the same
yet, any informatioa. as to the value which it will i
amounted to 6,'
probably, acquire,. when kept rote- the produce of i 8 11' I ta• 3d.
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(To be cputinited.l. T. •"7 •

to Tilt IgosoutAlst.t TUE. KMJCUr,s. Cur tzliNS. £)D
StriCtittSe 1W tAgt:LAPAttiT A 551.1183.41).
THE FOURTH Rt.:PORT
Of the Surveyor General of the Land Revenue of the Crown,
in obedience to the liirei.titnis or an Mt of Parliament,
passed in the 3.lth year of Hits Majety's Reign, intituled.
" An Ad for the better Management of the Land Revenue,
of the Crown, and for the sAle of tcd Farm and other U -
imprcneablc Rents."

Anoi her case lists' also recently occurred, where I
have thought it my duty to recommend that wood-
lands, which had beers formerly granted op lease,
should be excepted from lease on the renewal. The
Prevent leave of the manor of Eltham, in the.coun-
ty.of Kent, will expire at. Lady-day, le 11 and
Sir John Shaw, the levvee, having made an applica-
tion to th... Treasury fur the renewal, I found, on
having a survey and valuation taken of that estate,
that there were nearly 3UtP acres of woodland within
it, the timber on which (a great
,part whereof was
kitated to be lit for the Wit) use of his Majesty's navy)
was valued at nearly 13,0001. and considering that
the soil is particularly adapted for the growth of
her, and that, from its vicinity to the aim Thames,
much facility is atfortled of coliveying the timber

whieh mil ibe felled there to any of ttic duck-yards
that are Dr may hereafter be there situated, at a mu-

rierate expense, I tbouelbt it my duly to propose to
the Tieabury, that thew woodier-Ws iihould nut be
inducted in. tiro to be granted to Sir Jiriin Shaw,
but stioutd, at the expiration of the prevent lease tit
retruined and managed, dA hall be !Wreaker &ICI'.
wiped, fur the prtAlucit of naval timber, And
tire Board of Treasury having conturrcd with tire