Reference
W3784
Title
Enclosure Award Potton
Date free text
16 Dec 1775
Production date
From: 1775 To: 1776
Scope and Content
Joseph Cole of Shefford
William Weyman of Wrestlingworth
John Barber of Broom, commissioners
MAP of Windmill Field, with list of proprietors
MAP of Gamlingay Field belonging to George Viscount Torrington
16 Dec 1775
endorsed: memorandum of enrollment
this award and other copy of same produced to and enrolled by Clerk of the Peace of Bedfordshire 13 Mar 1776
original engrossed deed poll parchment 16 Dec 1775
Private copy of the Award (which according to the Act was ‘to be left with’ Lord Torrington as Lord of the Manors for the time being) signed and sealed by the three Commissioners. 7 skins of the Award text with two additional skins being the survey maps/plans accompanying the Award - one for each of Windmill Field and Gamlingay Field - also sewn at the foot and signed by the Commissioners. The first skin includes (affixed) a small piece of parchment containing the Commissioners’ oaths.
Inscribed as inrolled on 13 Mar 1776 (on dorse) and includes a memorandum of inrolment, on the seventh skin, signed by Jeremy Fish Palmer (Clerk of the Peace) and recording presentation of the Parish copy (as above) and this the other duplicate original copy of the Award.
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