Manuscript document relating to the Whittlewood Disafforesting Act of 1855, with 'Extract from Plan of the Forest of Whittlewood in the Counties of Northampton and Buckingham (In Three Parts) Part 2. Wakefield Walk and Hanger Walk'.

Consisting of a manuscript transcription of a document allotting portions of the forest 'for the exclusive pasturage of the Commonable Cattle', and an accompanying coloured map or plan on cloth. The whole folded into a 34 x 12 cm. packet, within a covering leaf docketed: 'Dated 8th. July 1856 | Extract from Award of Commissioners under the Whittlewood Disafforesting Act of 1855 -'. In good condition, on lightly-aged paper, but with the covering leaf heavily aged and discoloured. The transcription consists of 3pp., 4to, neatly written out on three stamped 41.5 x 34 cm. leaves, the last certified and signed by Fearnside. The first page is headed: 'Among the Documents deposited with the Keeper of Her Majesty's Land Revenue Records and Inrolments in Book entitled "Award of Commissioners under the Whittlewood Disafforesting Act 1855" is the following, | To all whom these Presents shall come We William Fry Channell Sergeant at Law George Wingrove Cooke of the Middle Temple and Nathan Wetherell of Lincoln's Inn Esquire Barristers at law being the Commissioners duly appointed under the provisions of An Act of Parliament made and passed in a Session of Parliament held in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth years of the Reign of Her Majesty Queen Victoria intituled "An Act for the disafforesting the Forest of Whittlewood otherwise Whittlebury" hereby send Greeting'. The plan is 89 x 45 cm., on cloth, neatly and attractively presented, in black ink with blue borders and lettering in red. The scale is '3 Chains to one Inch', and a note beneath the title reads: 'This is part Two constituting with parts One and Three the entire Map mentioned and referred to in our Award of even date. | Dated this 8th. day of July 1856. | W. F. Channell | Geo. Wingrove Cooke | N. Wetherell.' (Note that these are transcriptions, not genuine signatures, and that the date given is that of the original, not of this copy.)