Reference
BO1337
Title
AGREEMENT made between the owners and occupiers of messuages, cottages,
and land in Stanbridge, Leighton Buzzard, concerning the commons of the
hamlet.
For the next twelve years from 5th April 1798 (Old Lady Day)
i) commoners shall have 1 sheep for 1 acre arable, meadow or lammas
ground, and 1 horse or mare for every 20 acres arable
ii) half the sheep to be dry, other half ewes and lambs.
lambs brought in without sheep taken as Commoners immediately.
lambs bred with the sheep deemed commoners on 12th Nov each year.
sheep and lambs not to be driven over the Cow Commons to fold
longer than 1 week after 5th April yearly.
iii) Meadows: the Great Meadow, the Mead called Gosbell and Great
Pease Mead shall be ''hained'' or shut up on 25th March each year
iv) Arable Fields: sheep and lambs not to be allowed on them as
follows:
Muggindon Field until the end of three days after the same is
cleared and the grain carried away, whether wheat, barley or
beans;
Noldwick Field, if wheat or barley, sevendays after the same is
cleared and the grain is carried as far as Meadway. If beans,
14 days after the same is cleared;
Langfurlong Field, as soon as the same is cleared and the grain
removed;
Mill Field seven days after the same is cleared and grain
carried, whether wheat, barley or beans;
Twenty Acres Field if wheat and barley, seven days after same
is cleared. If beans, fourteen days after clearing;
East Field, England and Paddock on 10th October yearly, and
to be hained on 25th March yearly;
Further Field, Pease Mead, Gosbel and the Great Meadow on
12th November yearly
v) In the East Field, the great cattle (horses and cows) shall be
kept as soon as the corn and hay is carried, and it shall be
hained on 25th March yearly.
vi) for every 20 sheep commons, each person can common one horse or
mare, or 2 cows, and these can be leased.
vii) When the following lands lie fallow, the owners can sow each year
for every 20 sheep on half acre of vetches, providing they are
eaten off by Old Lammas day (12th August) and the same to be
several until eaten off.
in Muggindon Field: West Way Furlong
in Mill Field: the Furlong that shoots to Tillsworth Hedge
in Noldwick Field: Hayton Furlong
viii) every occupier of any cottage in the hamlet of Stanbridge shall
have common for 2 cows and a breeder, or one horse or mare at
hay time, and 6 sheep.
ix) not hogs, pigs or swine be kept on any of the above fields before
the corn and grain be wholly cleared.
x) fine for breach of regulations 3/4d to be paid to churchwardens
and overseers, of which 4d be paid to the Hayward, and the rest
to the Poor.
xi) this rate to be kept in the Church Chest.
signed: Wm. Ellingham, Jn. Olney, Wm. Capp, Wm. Thickpenny, Henry
Wells, Jn. Tearle, Jos. Eames.
Date free text
11th May 1798
Production date
From: 1798 To: 1798
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