The Sun.
London, England, 1828-03-28 00:00:00

LENT ASSIZES.

OXFORD CIRCUIT:—StIREWSBURY,
DOE, ON TILE DEMISE OF THE EARL or SHREWSBURY AND
LORD BERWICK, V. GEORGE TICKERINC. AND OTHERS..
Mr. TALFOURD opened the pleadings.
Mr. CAMPBELL stated the ease. This was an
action of ejectment brought by the noble plaintiffs to
recover from George Pickering and 66 other de-
fendants, the surface of a certain portion of land,
situate in this county, in the parish and manor of
Rockwardine, known by the name of Rockwardine
Wood, or the Moss. It was admitted that Lord
Shrewsbury and Lord Berwick were entitled to
two-thirds of the minerals beneath this surface, its
undivided moieties, the remaining third belonged to
Mr. Charlton. The defendants set up no claim, to
the minerals : the only question was file right
to the surface; and as the sixty-six other de-
fendants held under George Pickering, he (Mr.
Campbell) would treat him as the sale defendant.
and was ready to admit that he was tenant in
common, with the plaintiffs, of a portion •of
the land claimed. The Learned Course' then prr,
ceeded to describe that Rockwardine-wood consisted
of 80 acres of land, and was formerly known by the
names of the Moss, Lunta, and Crumps. It came
into the possession of the Talbot family, together
with the manor of Rockwardine, in the reign of
Richard 11., and into the family of Shrewsbury in
the reign of Queen Elizabeth. Gilbert, Earl of:
Shrewsbury, by marriage settlement in 1516, limited
the manor in tail male to Ins eldest son, Gilbert„
with remainder to Ins other sons in succession, and.
on failure of issue, to his daughter. The sons hav-
ing died without male issue, the daughters took a'a
tenants in common, and by marriage a portion of the
property was acquired by the Jrrningham family„
who sold it in 1715 to Mr. Hill, the ancestor of Lortk
Berwick. The manorial rights were subsecuently
sold to a gentleman named Charlton, and the mine-
rals separated from the surface and sold to a person
of the name of Batter, who assigned his interest-in
them to three individuals of the names of Pemba-
ton, Bevil, anti Dull. "'De Learned Counsel trim
entered into a detail of the pedigree of the Pickering.
family, showing how they first got into possession
of the property in question, and referred to several
wills and other documents, proving that they had no
interest in it beyond one-third, except that which
they derived from Lord Shrewsbury and Lord Ber-
wick, to each of whom they had always paid a rent
of 54 14s. per annum.
A number of witnesses, agents of Lord Berwick
and Shrewsbury, were called, who proved the pay,
merits of the 51. 14s. on behalf of the Pickering
family, and also the request of the defendant George
Pickering to be included in the rent-roll, and his sub-
sequent refusal to acknowledge the tide of the Noble,
Lords. A considerable quantity of documentary
evidence was also produced, which oecepied the
Court till eleven o'clock at night.

111Aant 25.

Mr. TAUNTON (with whom was Mr. Sergeant
RUSSELL and Mr. lIOLI oYD), on behalf of the de-
fendants, this morning commenced his address to the
jury, contending that the payments made by the
Pickering family were chief rents, and not conven_
tionary rents ; that when the Shrewsbury Canal was
cut through a part of Rockwardine-wood, the pay,.
ments for that portion of the land were made to
George Pickering's family; and that, in consequenci-,
of an Act of Parliament conveying the estates of
Lord Shrewsbury to certain trustees therein named,
his Lordship was divested of the legal estate, or right
of entry.
Several leases by the Pickering family of the pro,
perty in question were then put in, as well as other•
documentary evidence.
Mr. CAMPBELL. having replied, and the Learned
Judge recapitulated the evidence, the Jury found a
verdict for• the plaintiffs.

HEREFORD, MARCH 24.

The commission was opened here yesterday by
Mr. Justice Park, Mr. Baron Vaughan having been
detained at Shrewsbury to a late hour, with the trial
of the above cause. There 53 prisoners for trial,
and 40 causes entered.

NORFOLK CIRCUIT.—BURY, MARcii

James Pei hey, aged 27, William Alexander, 2G,
and George Leabon, 22, pleaded '6 guilty " to two
indictments for burglaries committed is the housei
of Philip Hicks, of Wetherden, and of James Hari,
of Yoxley, and stealing therein a very large quantily
of property.
The Learned Judge, after a suitable exhortation,
passed upon the prisoners the awful sentence of the
law,

tiItRiVALS AT CHELTENHAM.—Sir Lottii,
Rev.Nnj:poiritir:Cilnra. and Mrs. Stevenson, Mr. anti Mrs.
Otway, Afajor Davies, Major Campbell, Rev. James Sau-
g, Rev. Mr. Sitwell, Capt. Robin-
pt. Hodson, Capt. Worsley, Capt.
J. C. Johnson, Nt
-..r. and Mrs. Wyndham, Mr. and Mrs.
Dario, Mr. Mrs. and Miss Chambers, Mrs. and Miss
Duncan. Messrs. Russell, Hamilton, J. Allen, Marsd,:ii,
uasinon.nadir,?ariiiii,thvg
e:C;arsp.t. Stewart,
and family, Fender, Ellis, Campbell,
Allan, Williams, Gordon, E. Burroughs, T. G. Knox,
Hamlin, Clayfield, Goodlake, R. J. Chambers, Latimer,
Rodney, J. B. Naylor, Daniell, Mrs. J. Anstey, Mrs.
Bromfield, &c. Ric. - '

Soon after the arrival of Don MIGUEL at
Lisboa, the Constitutional Hymn wa+ sung at the Royal.
Theatre, and a person in the boxes immediately afterwards
called out, "Rey, Rey," which is the usual call among
the Portuguese for our " God save the King." lie was
arrested on leaving the theatre, and confined by the police
till the following morning.

Two sons of Hibernia being a ducking,
bedof duck:, close by the shore.
levelledAfter
for about five minutes, his corn! a-
nion discovers a
piece large
why he did not fire ; the other replii d„
‘
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swim'y ijs—rkei?ll hi
it between him and me."