---

Commons Bill [HL]

I thank the noble Baroness for that information. This does seem very hardboiled indeed when commoners with registered rights in their title deed have probably had to pay rent of something in the order of £80,000 to £90,000 over a period of 35 years. We are not asking for retrospection or reimbursement of those moneys, but what the noble Baroness has said is that they will continue to pay rent because of their ignorance of certain specific points of law. I am sure that 35 years ago when people saw the word ““Crown”” used in the context of the ownership of common land and couched in the kind of language that these people would not normally use—