{6} The number of enclosure bills passed between 1800 and 1814 was
1,448; in the next year they fell off remarkably; and between 1814 and
1830, only 557 passed the legislature. The enclosure bills passed for
Worcestershire in the present century are Astley, Bayton, Ombersley,
Hartlebury, Alton (Rock), Feckenham, Minith Wood, Coston Hackett, Burlish
Common, Stock and Bradley, Hagley, Harberrow and Blakedown, Fladbury,
Yardley. And since the passing of the General Enclosure Act, powers have
been obtained to enclose part of Welland Common, Areley Common, Longdon,
Newbold-on-Stour, and Hatfield (Kempsey).
{65} The ports were opened, at 1s. a quarter duty, from the end of
February, 1818, when some superior white wheat was fetching 102s. a
quarter, to the end of March, 1819.
{90} On the Sunday during or immediately following the Assizes, which
used to be known as Assize Sunday, and kept as a great fair, the keepers
at the county gaol were accustomed to show the prisoners through the bars
to the curious crowd, and collect sixpences in a boot for pointing out
those who were sentenced to be hanged, &c.
{156} The titles of the projects were—Worcester and South Wales
Junction; East and West Junction; Birmingham, Wolverhampton, and Stour
Valley, Midland and Eastern Counties Railway; London, Warwick,
Leamington, and Kidderminster; Direct Birmingham and Leicester Railway;
Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton Branches; Worcester, Hereford, Ross,
and Gloucester; Warwickshire and London; Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and
Worcestershire Junction; Worcester, Tenbury, and Ludlow; Trent Valley,
Midlands, and Grand Junction; Worcester and Leominster; Worcester and
Portdynllaen; Birmingham and Oxford Junction; Birmingham, Wolverhampton,
and Dudley; South Staffordshire Junction; Gloucester and Hereford Canal
and Worcester; Welsh Midland: Welsh Midland Extension; Midland and
Eastern Counties; Oxford and Worcester Extension and Chester Junction;
Birmingham and Bristol; Birmingham, Wolverhampton, and Stour Valley (No.
2); Warwickshire and London (Worcester to Weedon); Birmingham and
Gloucester (branches); Northampton, Banbury, and Cheltenham; Leamington,
Warwick, and Cheltenham; Worcester, Warwick, and Rugby; Shropshire Union;
Dudley, Madeley, Broseley, and Ironbridge; Cambrian and Grand Junction;
Warwick and Worcester; Warwick and Birmingham; Rugby, Warwick, and
Worcester.
{165} Some facts, with regard to currents and the course of running
water, established during the course of the recent alterations in the
Severn, were totally opposed to all the theories previously held by
hydraulic engineers; and when first brought under their notice were
scarcely credited, though backed by the best of testimony.
{171} The present commissioners are Lord Hatherton, The Right Hon. Sir
John Pakington, Bart., M.P., T. C. Hornyold, Esq., John Benbow, Esq.,
M.P., H. E. Strickland, Esq., Thomas Fulljames, Esq., W. H. Hyett, Esq.,
J. W. Lea, Esq., E. Evans, Esq., J. M. Gutch, Esq., E. Webb, Esq., D. M.
Walker, Esq., T. Sturge, Esq., N. P. Price, Esq., M.P., W. H. Barrow,
Esq., M.P., Richard P. King, Esq., S. Tombs, jun., Esq., William
Dowdeswell, Esq., W. R. Anstice, Esq., Richard Blakemore, Esq., J. M. G.
Cheek, Esq., J. Rogers, Esq., J. S. Rutter, Esq., William Mabson, Esq.,
P. Baldwin, Esq., A. H. Jenkins, Esq., John Home, Esq., E. L. Kendall,
Esq., W. Wills, Esq., John W. Hughes, Esq.
{337} The errata have been applied in this Project Gutenberg eText.—DP.