Reference
AN29/13
Title
Articles of agreement regarding inclosure of Little Barford
Date free text
20 December 1764
Production date
From: 1764 To: 1764
Scope and Content
Parties:
(i) Thomas Lee of Arlesey, esquire;
(ii) Rev Thelwall Salusbury, Rector of Little Barford;
(iii) Henry Tingey of Little Barford, gentleman and Thomas Adams and Richard Saunders, both of Little Barford, husbandmen
Reciting:
- there were several common fields in Little Barford;
- (i) was seized of Manor and advowson of Little Barford as well as divers farms and lands;
- (ii) was seized of his parsonage house and glebe and all tithes;
- (iii) were seized of divers farms, cottages and lands;
- (i)-(iii) had right of common for cattle and sheep;
- (i)-(iii)’s lands were intermixed in small parcels and “found very detrimental and inconvenient … and has often occasioned disputes between them”;
- the common fields “being kept in constant tillage and by reason of the great difficulty and expense of carrying compost and manure to so many different and distinct places are for want of inclosing the same greatly impoverished”
Operative Part:
- (i)-(ii) agreed that before 29 September 1765 and at the expense of (i) and (iii) the common fields, meadows and grounds of Little Barford would be allotted by William Freeman of Priors Marston [Warwickshire], gentleman and John Sellis of Blunham, gentleman, who were appointed inclosure commissioners
Witnesses:
- John Townsend;
- Francis Gilby;
- John Radcliffe;
- Richard Marriott;
- John Pedley;
- Richard Tristram
Level of description
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