Reference
P48/26/1
Title
Opinion of Mr.Truslove on intended inclosure:
- inclosure contrary to interests of Trinity College, Cambridge regarding corn tithes as a fifth of the arable land was of very heavy soil;
- no glebe or right of common of any consequence attached to the Rectory to be improved by inclosure;
- composition to be offered in lieu of tithes nowhere near what Trinity College received before inclosure;
- College to be put to great expense in purchasing and erecting a farm homestall to occupy their new allotment, currently having just a barn and a cottage;
- fear that proprietors would inclose without the consent of the tithe owners should the tithe owners not accept a fifth arable, an eighth grass land and a tenth woodland in lieu of tithe;
- advice that Trinity College should ask for a fifth of all open fields and old inclosures and three quarters of one eighth of all meadow and grass land used for hay should be allotted to them in lieu of tithes with the other quarter of on eighth together with an eighth residue of inclosed grass land, open field, grass, commons and waste and one tenth of all woodlands should be allotted to the Vicar in lieu of tithe;
- advice to Mr.Welstead (agent for Mr.Crawley, chief lessee from the college who had three quarters of the land in the parish) that Mr.Crawley should sell to Trinity College the farm homestall adjoining the Tythe Barn and assign over all manure arising from 400 acres occupied with the homestall to the college as well as resigning his lease to the college and receive a new one
Date free text
23 Jan 1803
Production date
From: 1803 To: 1803
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