PROCEEDING OF PARLIAMENT

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Horsington, Enclosure Bill.

 

Horsington, Enclosure Bill. 21st May 1773

Hodie 1a vice lecta est Billa, intituled, “An Act for dividing and enclosing the Open and Common Fields and Commonable Lands, within the Manor and Parish of Horsington, in the County of Lincoln.”

 

Horsington Enclosure Bill. 24th May 1773

Ordered, That the said Bill be committed to the Consideration of the Lords Committees aforenamed:

Their Lordships, or any Five of them, to meet on the same Day, at the same Place; and to adjourn as they please.

 

Horsington Enclosure Bill. 27th May 1773

The Lord Viscount Wentworth made the like Report from the Lords Committees, to whom the Bill, intituled, “An Act for dividing and enclosing the Open and Common Fields and Commonable Lands, within the Manor and Parish of Horsington, in the County of Lincoln,” was committed.

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Horsington Enclosure Bill: 27th May 1773

The Question was put, “Whether this Bill shall pass?” It was resolved in the Affirmative.

 

Bills passed by Commission.

 

The Lord Chancellor acquainted the House, “That His Majesty had been pleased to issue a Commission to several Lords therein named, for declaring His Royal Assent to several Acts agreed upon by both Houses of Parliament.”

The House was adjourned.

 

The House was resumed.

Then Three of the Lords Commissioners, being in their Robes, and seated on a Form placed between the Throne and the Woolsack, the Lord Chancellor in the Middle, with the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury on his Right Hand, and the Earl of Dartmouth on his Left, commanded the Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod to signify to the Commons, “The Lords Commissioners desire their immediate Attendance in this House, to hear the Commission read:”

Then the said Commission was read by the Clerk, as Follows:

“George the Third, by the Grace of God, of Great Britain, France, and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, and so forth; To Our Right Trusty and Right Well-beloved the Lords Spiritual and Temporal... (Abridged)... Morvill Barrow, Much Wenlock, and Astley Abbots, in the County of Salop.” “An Act for dividing and enclosing the several Parcels of Fen and other Commonable Lands, within the Parish of Swincehead, in the County of Lincoln, and also a certain Plot of Land called Wigtof Marsh, in and near to the said Parish of Swineshead.” “An Act for dividing and enclosing the Open and Common Fields, and Commonable Lands, within the Manor and Parish of Horsington, in the County of Lincoln.” ... (Abridged)... Dissolution of this Our Parliament, or any other Use, Custom, Thing or Things, to the contrary thereof notwithstanding. In Witness whereof, We have caused these Our Letters to be made Patent.

 

Witness Ourself, at Westminster, the Twenty-eighth Day of May in the Thirteenth Year of Our Reign.

 

By the King Himself, signed with His own Hand.