Chronological Tables of the Private and Personal Acts

Acts of the Parliaments of Great Britain

Part 15 (1766-1767)

1766 (6 Geo. 3).

c. 1 Great Doddington (Northamptonshire) inclosure.

c. 2 Naturalization of Hieronymus Burmester, John Wienholt, Julius Ridder and Peter Duval.

c. 3 Enabling James Oswald and Lord George Sackville to take, in Great Britain, the oaths of office of Vice Treasurer, Receiver General and Paymaster General of Ireland and qualifying them for the enjoyment of the said offices.

c. 4 Bladon (Oxfordshire) inclosure.

c. 5 Great Tew (Oxfordshire) inclosure.

c. 6 Haselton (Gloucestershire) inclosure.

c. 7 Maugersbury (Gloucestershire) inclosure.

c. 8 Confirming articles of agreement concerning Heddington (Wiltshire) inclosure.

c. 9 Thenford or Fenford (Northamptonshire) inclosure.

c. 10 Bidford (Warwickshire) inclosure.

c. 11 Steeple Aston (Oxfordshire) inclosure.

c. 12 Waltham or Waltham in the Wolds (Leicestershire) inclosure.

c. 13 Braunston or Branston (Leicestershire) inclosure.

c. 14 Croxton or Croxton Kerial (Leicestershire) inclosure.

c. 15 Winslow (Buckinghamshire) inclosure.

c. 16 Stillington (Yorkshire) inclosure.

c. 17 Enabling Francis Duke of Bridgewater to extend a branch of his canal upon Sale Moor to Stockport (Cheshire).

c. 18 John Matthews' divorce from Ann Matthews, and other provisions.

c. 19 Naturalization of John Pierre Michel.

c. 20 Repton (Derbyshire) inclosure.

c. 21 Haselor and Walcot (Warwickshire) inclosure.

c. 22 Cuddington with Bryn (Cheshire) inclosure.

c. 23 Willington (Derbyshire) inclosure.

c. 24 Upper and Nether Heyworth (Durham) inclosure.

c. 25 Little Horwood (Buckinghamshire) inclosure.

c. 26 Bessingby (Yorkshire) inclosure.

c. 27 Keddington (Lincolnshire) inclosure.

c. 28 Beeford or Beeforth (Yorkshire) inclosure.

c. 29 Bradnop (Staffordshire) inclosure.

c. 30 Hinton in the Hedges (Northamptonshire) inclosure.

c. 31 Grimoldby (Lincolnshire) inclosure.

c. 32 Hatherop (Gloucestershire) inclosure.

c. 33 Marston (Yorkshire) inclosure.

c. 34 Sir John Chetwode's estate: sale for payment of incumbrances.

c. 35 Charles Aldcroft divorce from Sarah Shewell, and other provisions.

c. 36 Robert Brice: change of name and arms to Kingesmill.

c. 37 Enabling William Duke of Devonshire to take, in England, the oath of office of High Treasurer of Ireland and to qualify himself in England for the enjoyment of the said office.

c. 38 Dean and Chapter of Canterbury's estate: power to grant leases of property in St Olave , Southwark.

c. 39 George Viscount Middleton's estate: vesting part in trustees to be sold for payment of debts, incumbrances and legacies mentioned in his will; executing several contracts for sale and demise of farms and lands in Ireland and making the exemplification of his will evidence in law and equity.

 

excl.in pt.- Viscount Middleton's estate and will Amdt. 1771 (c. 10), s. 21.

c. 40 Sir William Clayton's estate in Surrey: sale and purchase and settling another with the proceeds.

c. 41 Robert Henley's estate: sale for payment of debts, incumbrances and legacies under direction of the Court of Chancery and for laying out surplus money in the bank of England subject to further court orders.

c. 42 Ann Blagrave's copyhold estates: sale and purchase and settling others with the proceeds.

c. 43 John Maryon's estate: empowering John and Margaretta Maria Jones, Margaretta Maria Weller and others to make leases of lands and the manor of Charlton and lands in Woolwich and Plumstead (Kent).

c. 44 John Smith's estate: sale of part for payment of incumbrances.

c. 45 George Forster Tufnell's estate: granting leases of estates in Middlesex devised to him by Sir William Halton.

c. 46 Arncliff (Yorkshire, West Riding) inclosure.

c. 47 Naburn (Yorkshire, East Riding) inclosure.

c. 48 Blaby (Leicestershire) inclosure.

c. 49 Countesthorpe (Leicestershire) inclosure.

c. 50 Hexton, except the common pasture called The Cow Common (Hertfordshire) inclosure.

c. 51 Walsworth (Hertfordshire) inclosure.

c. 52 Bourn (Lincolnshire) inclosure.

 

excl.in pt.- Bourn incl. and drainage 1772 (c. 62), s.28.

c. 53 Pattrington (Yorkshire, East Riding) inclosure.

c. 54 Brigham (Yorkshire, East Riding) inclosure.

c. 55 Lubnam or Lubenham (Leicestershire) inclosure.

c. 56 Berkeley Square (Middlesex) inclosure and improvement.

c. 57 Charles Duke of Grafton's estate: sale of a messuage entailed in his will and purchasing and settling another.

c. 58 Earl and Countess of Powis' estate: sale of a mansion house in Albemarle St. and purchasing and settling other lands and hereditaments.

c. 59 John Earl of Portsmouth's estate in Somerset and Devon: sale and purchasing and settling others.

c. 60 Washington Earl Ferrers' settled estate in Derbyshire: sale for payment of incumbrances and portions affecting his estates.

 

see: Earl Ferrers' estate 1768 (c. 56).

 

excl.in pt.- Earl Ferrers' estate 1771 (c. 7), s.23.

c. 61 Enabling Sir Thomas Gooch and his sons, their guardians and their sons guardians to grant building leases on lands in Birmingham (Warwickshire) to exchange lands and grant a piece of land there for building a church and churchyard.

c. 62 Sarah Parsons' estate in Sussex and Surrey: sale of lands and manors and the priory of Rygate for payment of incumbrances.

c. 63 Thomas Lloyd's estate: sale of part for payment of debts and incumbrances and providing an equivalent for his issue.

c. 64 Robert Nedham's estate in Ireland: confirming the sale of part for a term of 500 years to George Needham, for confirming an agreement between his widow and children and sale of another part for payment of debts, incumbrances and legacies.

c. 65 Piggot and Mary Ince's estates in Bedfordshire, Northamptonshire, Leicestershire, Essex and London: vesting in trustees for sale pursuant to agreements for payment of debts, incumbrances and applying residue proceeds to trusts and purposes mentioned.

c. 66 Establishing a proposal made by William Constable to the charity for relief of poor widows and children of clergymen concerning land called Cherry Cobb Sand (Yorkshire).

c. 67 Aston and Wales (Yorkshire) inclosure.

c. 68 Carlton Forehoe and Kimberley (Norfolk) inclosure.

c. 69 Barnetby upon the Woulds (Lincolnshire) inclosure.

c. 70 Bowes (Yorkshire) inclosure.

c. 71 Scothorn and Sudbrooke (Yorkshire) inclosure.

c. 72 Barmby upon Dunn (Yorkshire) inclosure.

c. 73 Corby (Lincolnshire) inclosure.

c. 74 Rendering more effectual an Act concerning Holderness (Yorkshire, East Riding) drainage (1764 (4 Geo. 3) (c.47)).

 

ext.in pt.- Holderness drainage 1832 (c.l), s.1.

 

r.in pt.- Holderness drainage 1832 (c.l), s.3.

c. 75 Harlestone (Northamptonshire) inclosure.

c. 76 Laighton Bromswold or Laighton Ecclesia (Huntingdonshire) inclosure.

c. 77 Kettlethorpe (Lincolnshire) inclosure.

c. 78 Cottingham (Yorkshire, East Riding) inclosure.

c. 79 Ratchiffe Culey (Leicestershire) inclosure.

c. 80 Kingsthorpe (Northamptonshire) inclosure.

 

r.- Northampton 1988 (c. xxix), s. 10, sch. 2.

c. 81 Ryton or Ruyton (Warwickshire) inclosure.

c. 82 Bickar (Lincolnshire) inclosure and drainage.

c. 83 Vesting estates in Lincolnshire in trustees and enabling them to appropriate rents, profits and monies (subject to trusts declared in Sir Michael Wharton's will) for augmentation of revenues of the curacies of St John's church in Beverley (Yorkshire) and for a new organ for the said church.

 

see: St. John's Church, Beverley, Curates and Curates' stipends 1806 (c.cxl), s.1.

c. 84 Richard Burton: change of name and arms to Philipson, pursuant to the will of John Philipson.

c. 85 Naturalization of Godhard Suthoff, John Cornud, Renire Bentinck, Francis Mavit, Justus Blanckenhagen, Francis Menet and John Haldimand.

c. 86 Naturalization of Laurence Charlesson.

c. 87 Naturalization of Peter Facon and John Tourneisen.

c. 88 Edmund Morton Pleydell's estate in Yorkshire and Lincolnshire: sale and purchase and settling another.

c. 89 Balderton (Nottinghamshire) inclosure.

c. 90 Adderbury (Oxfordshire) inclosure.

 

see: Duke of Buccleugh's estate 1772 (c. 79), s. 9.

c. 91 Little Ellingham (Norfolk) inclosure.

c. 92 Darley (Derbyshire) inclosure.

c. 93 Draining and preserving Stretham Common (Isle of Ely) (Cambridgeshire), empowering the commissioners for putting in execution execute an Act for the effectual drainage and preservation of Waterbeach level (Cambridgeshire) [1740, c. 24] and establishing an agreement made between the Lord and commoners of Waterbeach cum Denny to raise money for payment of debts owing upon the credit of the said Act.

c. 94 Naturalization of Peter Delaroche and John le Chevalier.

1766 (7 Geo. 3).

c. 1 Enabling James Oswald, James Grenville, and Daniel Barre to take, in Great Britain the oaths of office of Vice Treasurer, Receiver General and Paymaster General of Ireland, and qualifying them for the enjoyment of the said offices.

c. 2 Naturalization of Mary Anne Amelie Burrowes.

c. 3 Naturalization of Christiaan Van Teylingen.

c. 4 Naturalization of Lewis Agassiz, John Schutz, Philip Krauter, Joshua Rougemont, Ferdinand De Mierre and Christian Klein.

c. 5 Making more effectual an Act concerning Samuel Dashwood's estate (1763 (3 Geo. 3) (c. 38)).

c. 6 Kencott (Oxfordshire) inclosure.

c. 7 Chesterton (Oxfordshire) inclosure.

c. 8 Sandford (Oxfordshire) inclosure.

c. 9 Carlisle and Cummersdale Moor (Cumberland) inclosure.

c. 10 Halton East (Yorkshire) inclosure.

c. 11 Bentham Moor in Ingleton (Yorkshire, West Riding) inclosure.

c. 12 Old or Would (Northamptonshire) inclosure.

c. 13 Chorley (Lancashire) inclosure.

c. 14 Yaxley (Huntingdonshire) inclosure.

c. 15 John Scott's divorce from Jane Scott, and other provisions.

c. 16 Sir Thomas Delves: change of name to Broughton.

c. 17 Thomas Hotchkis: change of name and arms to Littler, pursuant to the will of Thomas Littler.

c. 18 Sarah Aylon: change of name and arms to Tyrell.

c. 19 Naturalization of John Rodolph Valltravers.

c. 20 Naturalization of Cristoffel Van Denbergh.

c. 21 Naturalization of Samuel Mandrot.

c. 22 Naturalization of Nicholas Beckman.

c. 23 Naturalization of Theodore Van Teylingen.

c. 24 Naturalization of John Baumgartner and Amable Doct.

c. 25 James Lucy Dighton's estate in Sherborn (Oxfordshire): sale for payment of incumbrances pursuant to directions from the Court of Chancery.

1767 (7 Geo. 3).

c. 26 Pierce Starkie's estate in Yorkshire and Lancashire: enabling the devisees for life named in his will, to fell timber upon freehold, copyhold and customary estates, to grant leases of quarries, mines and minerals and to invest the proceeds in purchase and settling of lands.

c. 27 Annexing Purleigh rectory (Essex) to Oriel College, Oxford.

c. 28 Vesting in Durham dean and chapter grounds adjoining Southshields (Durham) and for providing compensation to the curate of St. Hild's chapel for the same, and to enable the dean and chapter to move fairs and markets out of Southshields and onto said ground.

c. 29 Bibury (Gloucestershire) inclosure.

c. 30 Cosgrove (Northamptonshire) inclosure.

c. 31 Nun Monkton (Yorkshire, West Riding) inclosure.

c. 32 Olney (Buckinghamshire) inclosure.

c. 33 Bishop Burton (Yorkshire, East Riding) inclosure.

c. 34 Ruddington (Nottinghamshire) inclosure.

c. 35 Wixford, Exhall, King's-Broom, and Brunell's Broom (Warwickshire) inclosure.

c. 36 Lenton and Radford (Nottinghamshire) inclosure.

 

r.- S.L.(R.) 1995 (c. 44), s. 1(1), sch. 1 pt. I.

c. 37 Benwick (Cambridgeshire) drainage.

c. 38 Cubbington (Warwickshire) inclosure.

c. 39 Leigh (Wiltshire) inclosure.

c. 40 Adlingfleet and Whitgift (Yorkshire, West Riding) drainage.

c. 41 Richard Bennet: change of name and arms to Coffin, pursuant to the will of Richard Coffin.

c. 42 Thomas Swettenham: change of name and arms to Willis, pursuant to the will of Daniel Willis.

c. 43 Naturalization of Leonard Meyer and Lewis Giles.

c. 44 Confirming a contract between Charles Duke of Queensberry and Dover, on one part, and Patrick and James Crawford and Gilbert Meason on the other and enabling the Duke and heirs to grant leases in terms of said contract.

c. 45 Skipton (Yorkshire, West Riding) inclosure and applying the produce thereof for relief of town poor.

c. 46 Bishop Soil (Yorkshire, East Riding) inclosure.

c. 47 North Anston and Todwick (Yorkshire) inclosure.

c. 48 Layton in Poulton and Bishpam (Lancashire) inclosure.

c. 49 Carlton in Lindrick (Nottinghamshire) inclosure.

c. 50 Cosby and Littlethorpe (Leicestershire) inclosure.

c. 51 Huggate (Yorkshire, East Riding) inclosure.

c. 52 Earl and Countess of Strathmore and Kinghorne: licence to use the name Bowes, only, pursuant to their marriage settlement and the will of George Bowes.

c. 53 Vacating an agreement made on 10 July 1758 between William Duke of Portland, Margaret Cavendishe Duchess of Portland and Thomas Foley concerning a building lease of land in Marybone (Middlesex) and to establish and render effectual another made on 30 January 1767, concerning the premises.

c. 54 Henry Duke of Buccleugh's marriage settlement.

c. 55 Willoughby Earl of Abingdon's estate in Wiltshire: exchange of part for another in Berkshire.

c. 56 Sir Nigel Gresley's estate in Staffordshire: sale for payment of debts.

c. 57 John Bennett's and Ann Spencer's undivided estates in Surrey, Kent and Middlesex: vesting in trustees to effect a partition between their devisees.

c. 58 Confirming a lease made by Louisa Barbara Vernon to Chauncy Townsend.

c. 59 Fleetwood Hesketh's estates in Lancashire: sale of part for payment of debts and incumbrances and substituting in lieu thereof, a recently purchased estate called Burne (Lancashire).

c. 60 John Talbot's estate: vesting part in trustees for payment of debts and incumbrances.

c. 61 Newton (Lincolnshire) inclosure.

c. 62 Donington (Lincolnshire) inclosure and drainage.

c. 63 Wootton (Lincolnshire) inclosure.

c. 64 Langton and Woodall (Lincolnshire) inclosure.

c. 65 Ailestone (Leicestershire) inclosure.

c. 66 Shalstone (Buckinghamshire) inclosure.

c. 67 John Willis (and issue): change of name and arms to Fleming, pursuant to a settlement made by Richard Fleming.

c. 68 Richard Earl of Scarborough's estate: discharging part, settled on his marriage to Barbara Countess of Scarborough, from the uses and trusts of said settlement and settling others.

 

excl.in pt.- Earl of Scarborough's estate 1771 (c. 71), ss. 9, 28.

c. 69 Sir John Dixon Dyke's estates in Oxford, Sussex and Kent: vesting part in trustees for discharging a mortgage.

c. 70 Haydock Hill's estate: sale of leasehold houses, to be applied together with his personal estate for the benefit of his children so entitled under his will and for confirming a sale, leases and contract made by his widow of other parts of estate for the benefit of children.

c. 71 Tomkinson and Ann Cooper's estate: sale and purchase of other lands for their benefit.

c. 72 Deborah and Edward (her infant son) Bunting's estate in Hilborough (Norfolk): vesting in trustees for conveying to Ralph Caldwell and securing money for the same.

c. 73 Mathew and Henry Witham's estate in Yorkshire: sale of part for payment of debts and incumbrances.

c. 74 Empowering the court of chancery to order the personal estate of George Minchin, which is now in the name of the accountant general of said court, to be paid to his children Paul and Henrietta Minchin, without their giving security to refund the same.

c. 75 Susannah Letten's estate: vesting an undivided third part of manors and lands in Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire and London in trustees for sale and applying proceeds to purposes therein mentioned.

c. 76 Impowering Richard Rycroft's and issue, claiming under his marriage settlement, to grant leases of houses and grounds in Clarges St. (Middlesex).

c. 77 John and Mary Bond's estate: sale of part for payment of debts and incumbrances.

c. 78 Fane William Sharpe's estate in Hertfordshire: sale of part comprised in marriage settlement and for purchasing and settling other lands.

c. 79 Executing articles of agreement entered into by George Pitt and tenants and John Pitt for exchange of lands in Purbeck.

c. 80 Thomas Becke's estate: exonerating one part charged with an annuity of £100 from payment thereof and substituting and making liable to payment the other part of said estate.

c. 81 Vesting lands in Norfolk, devised by John Woodcock and Mary Platfoot, in Mathew Pepper Manby and heirs and settling other lands in lieu thereof.

c. 82 John Osbourne's estate: sale of lands and tenements in Sunbury (Middlesex) and copyhold lands in Hampton to Geoge Earl of Pomfret, pursuant to an agreement and applying proceeds to payment of debts and incumbrances.

c. 83 Enabling the King to grant the inheritance in fee simple of lands and manors in Yorkshire, demised to Constantine Phipps by letters patent under Court of Exchequer's seal, to said Constantine and Constantine John Phipps his eldest son, upon payment of full consideration.

c. 84 Arthingworth (Northamptonshire) inclosure.

c. 85 Distington (Cumberland) inclosure.

c. 86 Hensingham (Cumberland) inclosure.

c. 87 East Barkwith (Lincolnshire) inclosure.

c. 88 Shap (Westmorland) inclosure.

c. 89 Reagill (Westmorland) inclosure.

 

r.- Reagill incl. 1803 (c.lxxvi), s.1.

c. 90 Farndon (Nottinghamshire) inclosure.

c. 91 Adlingfleet, Fockerby, and Haldenby (Yorkshire) inclosure.

c. 92 Willersey (Gloucestershire) inclosure.

c. 93 Castle Sowerby (Cumberland) inclosure.

c. 94 Skelton (Cumberland) inclosure.

c. 95 Koe and Wolff naturalization.

c. 96 Gerrard Goebell naturalization.

c. 97 William Earl of Radnor's estate: sale of lands settled and entailed upon him by Jacob Viscount Folkeston's and Sir Edward Des Bouverie's wills and purchasing and settling others and empowering tenants for life to make leases as are therein mentioned.

c. 98 Confirming a partition between Reverend Erasmus and Mary Saunders and Samuel and Ann Roycroft of estates in Lincolnshire and settling the same to uses and trusts contained in their respective marriage settlements .

c. 99 John Cogan's estate in Leicestershire and Northamptonshire: sale and purchase and settling of others for uses in his will.

c. 100 Richard Williamson's settled estate: sale and reimbursing him with the proceeds .

c. 101 Benjamin Booth's settled estate in Salop.: sale of part and purchasing and settling of other lands.

c. 102 William Hoskins' estate in Surrey and Kent: sale of part for discharge of debts due in a mortgage on Hethenden farm (Kent) and other debts and incumbrances and settling said farm.

c. 103 John Bamber's estate in Essex: sale of part and purchase and settling of others.

c. 104 John Wicker's estate: vesting lands in Surrey, Sussex and Kent in him, his heirs, executors and administrators and settling the manor of Knapp or Knepp (Sussex) in lieu thereof.

c. 105 William Poyntz' estate: sale of part for payment of incumbrances and purchase and setling another with the residue proceeds.

c. 106 Susannah Dowding's estate in Kent and Sussex: vesting in trustees for sale and securing proceeds upon trusts and for purposes therein mentioned.

c. 107 Broyle Park in Ringmer (Sussex) inclosure.

c. 108 Scamblesby (Lincolnshire) inclosure.

c. 109 Shernborn (Norfolk) inclosure.

c. 110 Great Oxendon (Northamptonshire) inclosure.

c. 111 Inclosing grounds in Kirkby in Kendal (Westmorland) for benefit of poor, cleaning and lightening the streets and confirming an order of assize and order of high court of chancery concerning rates and assessments to be raised for poor relief by town inhabitants and owners of park and castle lands.

 

r. (excl. ss. 10, 11, 21, 22)- Kendal Corpn. 1908 (c. lxxxii), s. 4, sch.

 

ss. 10, 11, 21, 22 am.- Kendal Corpn. 1908 (c. lxxxii), s. 4, sch.

c. 112 Holland Fen (Lincolnshire) division.

 

r.in pt.- Holland Fen incl. amdt. 1770 (c. 40), s. 2.

c. 113 Amending and rendering more effectual an Act concerning Wilnecote inclosure and coal mines (1757 (31 Geo. 2) (c. 34)).

c. 114 Joseph Moyle: change of name and arms to Copley, pursuant to the will of Lionel Copley.

c. 115 Naturalization of Henry Heyman.

c. 116 George Duke of St. Albans' estate: vesting in trustees for payment of debts.

 

r.in pt.and superseded - Duke of Albans' estate 1776 (c. 110), ss.49-51.

 

saved in pt.- Duke of Albans' estate 1776 (c. 110), s.53.

c. 117 Naturalization of Sophia Magdalen Lamack.