List of acts of the Parliament of Great Britain from 1768

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This is a complete list of acts of the Parliament of Great Britain for the year 1768.

For acts passed until 1707, see the list of acts of the Parliament of England and the list of acts of the Parliament of Scotland. See also the list of acts of the Parliament of Ireland.

For acts passed from 1801 onwards, see the list of acts of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. For acts of the devolved parliaments and assemblies in the United Kingdom, see the list of acts of the Scottish Parliament, the list of acts of the Northern Ireland Assembly, and the list of acts and measures of Senedd Cymru; see also the list of acts of the Parliament of Northern Ireland.

The number shown after each act's title is its chapter number. Acts are cited using this number, preceded by the year(s) of the reign during which the relevant

Arabic numerals
in citations (thus "41 Geo. 3" rather than "41 Geo. III"). Acts of the last session of the Parliament of Great Britain and the first session of the Parliament of the United Kingdom are both cited as "41 Geo. 3".

Acts passed by the Parliament of Great Britain did not have a

short title; however, some of these acts have subsequently been given a short title by acts of the Parliament of the United Kingdom (such as the Short Titles Act 1896
).

Before the Acts of Parliament (Commencement) Act 1793 came into force on 8 April 1793, acts passed by the Parliament of Great Britain were deemed to have come into effect on the first day of the session in which they were passed. Because of this, the years given in the list below may in fact be the year before a particular act was passed.

8 Geo. 3

The seventh session of the

12th Parliament of Great Britain
, which met from 24 November 1767 until 10 March 1768.

Public acts

Short title, or popular nameCitation
Forth and Clyde Navigation Act 1768
8 Geo. 3. c. 63
8 March 1768
An Act for making and maintaining a Navigable Cut or Canal from the Firth or River of Forth, at or near the Mouth of the River of Carron, in the County of Stirling, to the Firth or River of Clyde, at or near a Place called Dalmuir Burn-foot, in the County of Dumbarton; and also a collateral Cut from the same to the City of Glasgow, and for making a Navigable Cut or Canal of Communication from the Port and Harbour of Borrowstounness, to join the Said Canal, at or near, the Place where it will fall into the Firth of Forth.
  1. 5 Geo. 3
    . c. 1)
  2. Worshipful Company of Mercers
    .

Private acts

Short title, or popular nameCitationRoyal assent (or the start of session)
Long title
8 Geo. 3. c. 1
21 December 1767
An Act for dividing and enclosing the Open and Common Fields and Meadows of Stow, within the Parish of Threckingham, in the County of Lincoln.
8 Geo. 3. c. 2
21 December 1767
An Act to enable James Shuttleworth the younger Esquire, and his Issue, to take and use the Surname and Arms of Holden, pursuant to the Will of Robert Holden Esquire, deceased.
8 Geo. 3. c. 3
21 December 1767
An Act to enable James Swinsen (lately called John Grundy), and his Issue, to take and use the Surname and Arms of Swinsen.
8 Geo. 3. c. 4
21 December 1767
An Act to enable the Reverend Ralph Drake Clerk, and his Issue, to take and bear the Surname and Arms of Brockman, pursuant to the Will of James Brockman Esquire, deceased.
8 Geo. 3. c. 5
21 December 1767
An Act for naturalizing William Aubert.
8 Geo. 3. c. 6
21 December 1767
An Act for naturalizing Dirk Willem Van Dam.
8 Geo. 3. c. 7
21 December 1767
An Act for naturalizing John Francis Rossier, Charles Augustus Rodolph Lewis de Willermin, Nicholas Freeze, John James Schlapsser, and Lewis Reminder.
8 Geo. 3. c. 8
29 January 1768
An Act for dividing and enclosing the Open and Common Fields, Common Meadows, Common Pastures, and other Commonable Lands and Grounds in the Parish of Loughton, in the County of Bucks.
8 Geo. 3. c. 9
29 January 1768
An Act for continuing, establishing, and confirming the Surname and Arms of Wallinger unto John Wallinger, formerly called John Arnold, and his Issue, pursuant to the Will of John Wallinger, his late Uncle, deceased.
8 Geo. 3. c. 10
29 January 1768
An Act to enable Judith Paul, and her Issue, to use and take the Name of Saint Paul.
8 Geo. 3. c. 11
29 January 1768
An Act for naturalizing David Peyer lmhoss.
8 Geo. 3. c. 12
24 February 1768
An Act for dividing and enclosing several Open Fields and Commons Within the Lordship and Liberty of Rempstone in the County of Nottingham.
8 Geo. 3. c. 13
24 February 1768
An Act for dividing and enclosing the Open and Common Fields, Meadows, and Pastures within the Township of Hotham, in the East Riding of the County of York.
8 Geo. 3. c. 14
24 February 1768
An Act for dividing and enclosing the Open and Common Fields, Common Meadows, and Commonable Lands, oh the South and West Parts of the River Leam, in the Manor and Parish of Le mington Priors, in the County of Warwick.
8 Geo. 3. c. 15
24 February 1768
An Act for dividing and enclosing the Open and Common Fields, Meadows, and Common Fen, within the parishes of Billingborough and Birthorpe in the County of Lincoln; and for draining and improving the said Fen.
8 Geo. 3. c. 16
24 February 1768
An Act for dividing and enclosing the Open and Common Fields, Common Pastures, Commons, and Wastes, within the Township of Millington in the County of York.
8 Geo. 3. c. 17
24 February 1768
An Act for dividing and enclosing the several Open Fields, Lands, Grounds, Meadows, Pastures, Commons, and Wastes, within the Township of Bridlington in the East Riding of the County of york, and for extinguishing the Right of Common or Average upon certain ancient Enclosures within the same Township.
8 Geo. 3. c. 18
24 February 1768
An Act for dividing and enclosing the Common Fields, Meadow Grounds, Sheep Downs, Commons, Common Heaths, and other Waste Grounds, in the In-Parish of winfrith Newburgh in the County of Dorset.
8 Geo. 3. c. 19
24 February 1768
An Act for dividing and enclosing the several Open Common Fields, Meadow Grounds, Heath, and Commonable Lands, in the Parish of Ketton in the County of Rutland.
8 Geo. 3. c. 20
24 February 1768
An Act for dividing and enclosing the Open Common Fields, Marshes Waste Grounds, Commons, Carrs, Pasture, and Moor, within the Manor of Hook, in the Parish of Snaith, in the County of York; and for maintaining the Banks within the said Manor and Township.
8 Geo. 3. c. 21
24 February 1768
An Act for dividing and enclosing the several Commons, Common Heaths, and Waste Grounds in the Manor of Morden, in the County of Dorset.
8 Geo. 3. c. 22
24 February 1768
An Act for dividing and enclosing several Stinted Pastures within the Township of Litton, in the Parish of Armcliffe, in the County of York.
8 Geo. 3. c. 23
24 February 1768
An Act for dividing and enclosing the Common and Waste Ground, within the Township and Manor of Cononly, in the Parish of Kildwick, in the West Riding of the County of York.
8 Geo. 3. c. 24
24 February 1768
An Act for dividing and enclosing the several Open and Common Fields, within the Manor or Lordship of Tilsworth in the County of Bedford.
8 Geo. 3. c. 25
24 February 1768
An Act for dividing and enclosing the Open and Common Fields, Common Meadows, Common Pastures, and other Commonable Lands and Grounds, in the Parish of Woughton on the Green, in the County of Bucks.
8 Geo. 3. c. 26
24 February 1768
An Act to dissolve the Marriage of Thomas Brooke Doctor in Physic, with Harriet Nelthorpe his now Wife, and to enable him to marry again; and for other Purposes therein mentioned.
8 Geo. 3. c. 27
24 February 1768
An Act for exemplifying or enrolling an Indenture of Settlement of Elizabeth Bridges, and the Will and Codicils of Brooke Bridges Esquire, and making the same Evidence as well in Ireland as Great Britain.
8 Geo. 3. c. 28
24 February 1768
An Act to enable Thomas Kilborn and his Issue Male, to take and use the Surname of Burrowes, pursuant to the Will of John Burrowes deceased.
8 Geo. 3. c. 29
24 February 1768
An Act to enable Thomas Jenner an Infant, and his Issue, to take and use the Surname of Worge only, pursuant to the Will of George Worge deceased.
8 Geo. 3. c. 30
8 March 1768
An Act to enable the Most Noble John Duke of Bedford, and the Most Honourable Elizabeth Marchioness of Tavistock, and the Survivor of them, and such Person or Persons as they or the Survivor of them shall, by any Deed or Writing, or by his or her last Will and Testament, nominate or appoint, to make Leases of the Real Estates, late of the Most Honourable Francis Russell, called Marquis of Tavistock, deceased.
8 Geo. 3. c. 31
8 March 1768
An Act for vesting several undivided Parts of divers Baronies, Lands, and Hereditaments, late the Estate of Brice Fisher Esquire, deceased, situate in the Provinces of South Carolina and Georgia, in America, in Trustees, to be sold, discharged of the Uses of the Will of the Said Brice Fisher; and for vesting the Money arising by such Sale in the Purchase of Lands and Hereditaments in that Part of Great Britain called England, to be settled to the Uses of the Said Will.
8 Geo. 3. c. 32
8 March 1768
An Act for establishing and confirming Articles of Agreement, dated Thirty-first of March One thousand seven hundred and fifty-seven, between the Honourable William Edwardes, Rowland Edwardes, John Owen Edwardes, Esquires, and the Right Honourable Henry Lord Holland, concerning the Manor of Abbots Kensington, and divers Messuages, Lands, and Hereditaments in the Parish of Kensington, in the County of Middlesex, and for vesting such Manor, Lands, and Hereditaments in Trust, to sell and convey the same to the Said Henry Lord Holland; and for other Purposes therein mentioned.
8 Geo. 3. c. 33
8 March 1768
An Act for vesting an undivided Moiety of certain Manors, messuages, Lands, Tenements, and Hereditaments, situate and being in the County of Berks, late the Estate of Charles Lord Viscount Fane deceased, and which upon his Death became vested in Possession in, Dorothy Countess of Sandwich, in Trustees and their Heirs, in Trust, to be sold, and for applying the Money to arise by the Sale thereof in the Manner therein-mentioned.
8 Geo. 3. c. 34
8 March 1768
An Act to enable William Tuffnell Joliff Esquire, Lord of the Manor of Barners, otherwise Barnersbury, in Islington, in the County of Middlesex, to grant Building Leases of the Demesne Lands thereto, and to rate and assess Fines on certain Copyhold Lands within the Said Manor, for encouraging the Tenants to build thereon.
8 Geo. 3. c. 35
8 March 1768
An Act for Sale of the Freehold Estate late of Roger Drake Esquire, deceased, and for laying out the Money arising thereby, for the Benefit of Roger Drake, an Infant, his eldest Son and Heir at Law.
8 Geo. 3. c. 36
8 March 1768
An Act for making a Building intended for a Chapel, lately erected by William Wright Esquire, in the Township of Stockport, and County and Diocese of Chester, a perpetual Cure and Benefice, and for endowing the same.
8 Geo. 3. c. 37
8 March 1768
An Act or dividing and enclosing Common and Heath called Navestock common and Heath, within the Manors of Navestock and Lofthall, in the County of Essex.
8 Geo. 3. c. 38
8 March 1768
An Act for selling Part of a Green, called Nuns Green, in the Borough of Derby, in the County of Derby, and for applying the Money arising from the Sale thereof in the Improvement of the remaining Part of the Said Green, and for other Purposes therein mentioned.
8 Geo. 3. c. 39
8 March 1768
An Act for dividing and enclosing certain Open Common Fields, Lands, and Grounds, in Welwick and Wecton, in the Parish of Welwick in Holdernesse, in the East Riding of the County of York.
8 Geo. 3. c. 40
8 March 1768
An Act for dividing and enclosing the several Fields, Meadows, Waste and other Commonable Lands, lying within the Manor or Liberty of Little Sheepy, in the County of Leicester.
8 Geo. 3. c. 41
8 March 1768
An Act for dividing and enclosing the Open Common Fields, Meadow Grounds, and Common Fen, in the Parish of Morton, in the County of Lincoln; and for draining and improving the Said Fen.
8 Geo. 3. c. 42
8 March 1768
An Act for dividing and enclosing several Open and Common Fields, Meadows, and Commons, within the Lordship or Liberty of Ashby de la Zouch, in the County of Leicester.
8 Geo. 3. c. 43
8 March 1768
An Act for dividing and enclosing the Open Fields, Meadows, Pastures, and Commonable Lands, in the Parish of Willoughton, in the County of Lincoln.
8 Geo. 3. c. 44
8 March 1768
An Act for dividing and enclosing the Commons, Waste Grounds, Open Fields, Common Meadows, and Common Pastures, in the Liberty of Littleover, within the Parish of Mickleover, in the County of Derby.
8 Geo. 3. c. 45
8 March 1768
An Act for dividing and enclosing the Open Commons and Town Fields, within the Township of East Ayton, in the parish of seamer, in the county or York.
8 Geo. 3. c. 46
8 March 1768
An Act for dividing and enclosing the Open Fields, Common Meadows, and Common Pastures, in the Parish of Normanton, next Derby, in the County of Derby.
8 Geo. 3. c. 47
8 March 1768
An Act for draining and preserving certain Fen Lands, and Low Grounds, in the Parishes of Lakenheath and Brandon, in the County of Suffolk.
8 Geo. 3. c. 48
8 March 1768
An Act For dividing and enclosing the Common Fields, and other Commonable Lands and Grounds, in the Parishes of Lilley and Offley, in the County of Hertford, except a certain Sheep Down commonly called Lilley Hoo, in the Parish, of Lilley, and certain Lands, Part of the Said Common Fields lying South-east of West Lane End, The Mill House, and Cold's Cross, and North-east of the Town of Offley.
8 Geo. 3. c. 49
8 March 1768
An Act for dividing and enclosing the Open Fields, Lands, and Grounds, within the Township of North Burton, otherwise Burton Fleming, in the County of York.
8 Geo. 3. c. 50
8 March 1768
An Act for dividing and enclosing the open Fields, Meadows, and Commonable Lands, within the Liberties of Epperstone, in the County of Nottingham.
8 Geo. 3. c. 51
8 March 1768
An Act for dividing and enclosing several Commons, and Waste Grounds, within the Manor of Wavertree, in the Parish of Childwall, in the County Palatine of Lancaster.
8 Geo. 3. c. 52
8 March 1768
An Act for dividing and enclosing the Open Fields, Meadows, Common Pastures, and other Commonable Lands, within the Parish and Liberties of Burton Joyce and Bulcoate, in the County of Nottingham.
8 Geo. 3. c. 53
8 March 1768
An Act for making the Exemplification of the last Will of Richard Fitz Gerald Esquire, deceased, Evidence in all Courts of Law and Equity in Great Britain and Ireland.
8 Geo. 3. c. 54
8 March 1768
An Act to enable Reynold Thomas, an Infant, and his Heirs, to take and use the Surname of Deere, pursuant to the Will of Reynold Deere deceased.
8 Geo. 3. c. 55
10 March 1768
An Act for enabling and empowering the Mayor and Commonalty and Citizens of the City of London, and their Successors, to sell and convey to the Right Honourable George Earl of Pomfret, the Lordship and Manor of Oxenforde, with the Messages, Lands, and Hereditaments thereto belonging, and for applying the Purchase Money to the Purposes therein mentioned.
8 Geo. 3. c. 56
10 March 1768
An Act for the more effectually carrying into Execution An Act, made in the Sixth Year of the Reign of His present Majesty, intituled, "An Act for vesting in Trustees the settled Estate of Washington Earl Ferrers, in the County of Derby, to be sold for satisfying the Incumbrances and Portions affecting the same, and the rest of his settled Estates; and for other Purposes therein mentioned."[a]
8 Geo. 3. c. 57
10 March 1768
An Act for rectifying a Mistake in the Name of One of the Trustees in the Settlement made of the Estates of the Right Honourable William Earl of Harrington, previous to his Marriage with the Right Honourable Caroline Countess of Harrington, his Wife.
Subjecting and charging a competent part of Tottenham Hall or Tottenham Court manor and lordship (Middlesex) with the payment of a perpetual yearly rent charge to Richard Browne and divesting the fee simple and inheritance of said premises out of him and his successors and vesting the same in trustees to the use of Ann and Charles Fitzroy and their issue, with such powers and authorities as therein are mentioned.
8 Geo. 3. c. 58
10 March 1768
An Act to subject and charge a competent Part of the Manor and Lordship of Tottenham Hall, otherwise Tottenham Court, in the County of Middlesex, and of the Lands and Hereditaments thereunto belonging, with the Payment of a perpetual yearly Rent Charge to Doctor Richard Browne and his Successors; and for diverting the Fee Simple and Inheritance of the said Premises out of him and his Successors, and for vesting the same in Trustees to the Use of Charles Fitzroy Esquire, and Ann his Wife, and their Issue, with such Powers and Authorities as are therein mentioned.
8 Geo. 3. c. 59
10 March 1768
An Act for vesting in Trustees and their Heirs an entailed Estate in the County of Lincoln, of Sir Thomas Gage Baronet, Dame Lucy his Wife, and their Issue, in order that the same may be sold, and the Purchase Money applied for the Purposes in the said Act mentioned, and for settling an Estate in the County of Suffolk of the said Sir Thomas Gage, of greater Value, in lieu thereof.
8 Geo. 3. c. 60
10 March 1768
An Act for vesting the settled Estate of William Nedham Esquire, in the Island of Jamaica, in Trustees for the Purposes therein mentioned.
8 Geo. 3. c. 61
10 March 1768
An Act for vesting Part of the settled Estates of the Honourable and Reverend James Yorke and Mary his Wife, situate in Arlington Street, in the County of Middlesex, in Trustees, to be conveyed pursuant to Articles entered into for Sale thereof, and for laying out the Money thereby stipulated to be paid, in the Purchase of other Lands to be settled to the same Uses.
8 Geo. 3. c. 62
10 March 1768
An Act for confirming and carrying into Execution an Agreement dated the Twenty-fifth Day of December, in the Year One thousand seven hundred and fifty-seven, between Walter Waring Esquire, and the Right Honourable Robert Lord Clive; and for vesting certain Estates in the Counties of Salop and Montgomery, in certain Trustees and their Heirs, for that Purpose.
8 Geo. 3. c. 63
10 March 1768
An Act for vesting certain Lands and Hereditaments in the Parish of Warfield, in the County of Berks, with the Appurtenances, in John Hart Cotton, of Warfield aforesaid, Esquire, and for settling and assuring in lieu thereof a Rent Charge of greater Value, to be issuing out of Part of the said Lands and Hereditaments, and also out of a capital Message and Lands in the said Parish of Warfield, and in the Parish of Binfield, in the same County, or One of them, belonging to the said John Hart Cotton, for the Purposes in the Act mentioned.
8 Geo. 3. c. 64
10 March 1768
An Act for empowering Trustees, during the respective Minorities of the Four Infant Sons of Thomas Hawkins Esquire, deceased, to make Leases of Estates in the County of Cornwall, to which they are successively entitled as Tenants in Tail under the Will of Philip Hawkins Esquire, deceased, and for other the Purposes therein mentioned.
8 Geo. 3. c. 65
10 March 1768
An Act for vesting certain undivided Shares belonging to Mary Wright an Infant, of and in several Messages, Tenements, and Lands, in the County of Lancaster, in Trustees, to be sold; and for laying out the Money arising from the Sale thereof in the Purchase of other Lands, to be settled to the Use of the said Infant and her Heirs, on the Part of her Mother, and for other Purposes therein mentioned.
8 Geo. 3. c. 66
10 March 1768
An Act for dividing and enclosing the Common Fields, and other Commonable Lands and Grounds, in the Parish of Shipton upon charwell, in the County of Oxford.
8 Geo. 3. c. 67
10 March 1768
An Act for, dividing and enclosing the Open Arable Fields, Meadows, Pastures, Commons, and Grounds, within the Township of Snainton, in the Parishes of Brompton and Ebberston, in the North Riding of the County of York.
8 Geo. 3. c. 68
10 March 1768
An Act for dividing and enclosing the Open and Common Fields, Cow Pastures, and other Commons and Commonable Lands, in the Parish of Toynton Supra, within the Manor of Horncastle, in the County of Lincoln.
8 Geo. 3. c. 69
10 March 1768
An Act to enable the Right Honourable James Grenville, the Right Honourable Isaac Barre, and the Right Honourable Richard Rigby, to take, in Great Britain, the Oath of Office as Vice Treasurer, and Receiver General, and Paymaster General of all His Majesty's Revenues in the Kingdom of Ireland, and to qualify themselves for the Enjoyment of the said Offices.
8 Geo. 3. c. 70
10 March 1768
An Act to dissolve the Marriage of Frederick Lord Viscount Bolingbroke with Lady Diana Spencer his now Wife, and to enable him to marry again, and for other Purposes therein-mentioned.
8 Geo. 3. c. 71
10 March 1768
An Act to dissolve the Marriage of Charles Daly Esquire, with Anna Statia Daly his now Wife, and to enable him to marry again; and for other Purposes therein mentioned.
8 Geo. 3. c. 72
10 March 1768
An Act for naturalizing Lawrence La Forest.
  1. 6 Geo. 3
    . c. 60

Sources

  • "8 George III - 1767-8". The Statutes at Large. Vol. 28 – via Internet Archive.
  • "8 George III - 1767-8". The Statutes at Large. Vol. 28 – via Internet Archive.
  • Journals of the House of Commons. Vol. 31. London: His Majesty's Stationery Office. 1803. pp. 421–666 – via Google Books.
  • Chronological Table of and Index to the Statutes. Vol. 1: To the End of the Session 59 Vict. Sess. 2 (1895) (13th ed.). London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office. 1896. p. 125 – via Google Books.

8 Geo. 3 Sess. 2

The first session of the

13th Parliament of Great Britain
, which met from 10 May 1768 until 21 June 1768.

Public acts

Short title, or popular nameCitation
30 & 31 Vict.
c. 59))

Private acts

Short title, or popular nameCitationRoyal assent (or the start of session)
Long title
8 Geo. 3. Sess. 2. c. 1
21 May 1768
An Act for naturalizing John Daniel Leautier.

Sources

See also

References