Reference
HA535-1128
Title
Shillington Enclosure papers
Date free text
1795-1823
Production date
From: 1795 To: 1823
Scope and Content
Commissioners:
Appointed by Act:
Joseph Eade [refused to act 14 July 1802] Joseph Pawsey appointed in place of Joseph Eade 17 July 1802 [resigned 1807].
1802 Thomas Thorpe [died c. 1813]
1802 Joseph Truslove [resigned 1816]
Appointed in place of Joseph Pawsey: John Maugham
Appointed in place of Thomas Thorpe: Thomas Brown of Hitchin
Appointed in place of Joseph Truslove: Alexander Watford
Final commissioners: John Maugham of Luton, gent, Thomas Brown of Willian, gent, Alex Watford of Cambridge, gent.
Surveyors:
Appointed by proprietors in 1802:
Thomas Brown senior, John Maugham and Thomas Brown junior, of Luton land surveyors and co-partners for district of Shillington Township Pegsdon and Lower Stondon to be settled by commissioners and to comprize one half of the land there.
Thomas Times of Hitchin, land surveyor, for Holwell and for that part of Shillington intermixed therewith including Holwellbury Farm.
By 1807 some progress in exchanges of land but Pawsey had resigned Proprietors appointed John Maugham of Hitchin. By 1813 Thorpe was dead. Lord of Manor (George Musgrave) appointed Thomas Brown of Hitchin, gent a commissioner in his place. Truslove refused to act, Master Fellows and Scholars of Trinity College therefore nominated Alex Watford of Cambridge, gent to be commissioner in 1816.
Total cost of Award was £10,862-3-3.
As alloted acreage: 5,256 acres 3r 20p (Shillington) Open Fields, meadows, pastures, wate = 3681a allotted. Old enclosures = 1,476a 1r 14p. Public and private roads, drains and town streets = 101a 2r 6p. (Holwell) = 568a 38p.
Rates (further) 12 May 1808 - £2358-19-11.
Rates (further) 8 July 1814 - £576-17-6
Survey estimated 11 Feb 1808: £1734-3-9 (Maugham 531-14-6; Brown 430-10-6; Jackson say £300; Times 471-18-9) Commissioners £800.
Level of description
sub-fonds