Award84/2

Houghton Regis: original signed, sealed and stamped Deed Poll ‘parish’ Award. Attached to MA84/2.

26 July 1799

From: 1799 To: 1799

58 numbered skins of parchment (excluding the Surveyor and Commissioners’ oaths which are on separately bound-in skins at the front of the ‘book’ after the map) bound together into a book form with a soft leather cover. The last skin is inscribed with a memorandum of its inrolment as below signed by Theed Pearse, Clerk of the Peace. Commissioners: 1) Thomas Stone of Grays Inn, 2) Thomas Brown of Luton, 3) Charles Bloodworth of Kimbolton in place of George Smallpiece who died Jan 1797. Surveyor Jn Fellowes of Foscott, Bucks, gent. Acreage 3,734a 3r 3p. The Amendment Act of 1803 applied new commissioners a) Richard Gilpin of Hockliffe esq, b) Rev William Mead of Dunstable c) Daniel Parker of Dunstable Esq. By 1799 Fellowes spent and was paid £850, and between 1797-8 Mr Favey, Road Surveyor, spent £700. Act said money had run out. The Roads were to be finished but reduced in number. A road surveyor was to be appointed who was to complete the orads two years after the act. The Commissioners were to keep accounts and there was to be an annual audit. Every £50 received was to be banked.

Parish Council deposit.

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Pearse, Theed,
Stone, Thomas,
Brown, Thomas,
Bloodworth, Charles,
Smallpiece, george,
Fellowes, John,
Gilpin, Richard,
Mead, William,
Parker, Daniel

HOUGHTON REGIS, ENCLOSURE, Inclosure Commissioners