The Appointment of Commissioners for North Crawley

North Crawley 1773 Appointment of Commissioners

 

To all people to whom these presents shall come we John Lord of Drayton Parslow in the

County of Bucks clerk Thomas Harrison of Stoney Stratford in the County of Bucks and John

Rogers of Carlton in the County of Bedford Gentlemen Commissioners appointed in and by

an Act of Parliament passed in the twelfth year of the reign of His present Majesty King George

the third intitilled. An Act for dividing and inclosing the open or common fields, meadows and

waste grounds within the Manors and Parish of North Crawley in the County of Bucks and also

The Right Honorable Robert Lord Trevor, Charles Chester Esquire Richard Lowndes Esquire

Catherine Lowndes Stone William Lowndes Esquire The Reverend Thomas Lowndes and

Michael Nash Yeoman send greeting and first know ye that we the said Commissioners having

in pursuance of the said Act of Parliament and according to the directions thereof caused Public.

Notice to be given in the Parish Church of North Crawley our first meeting for putting in

execution the power and powers thereby vested in us at least seven days before such Meeting

and having each of us at such our first Meeting before we executed any other such power or

powers taken and Subscribed the Oath by the said Act directed to be by us taken and subscribed

which Oath so by us respectively taken and subscribed is hereunto annexed to the intent the

same may be enrolled in the same place that this our Award or Instrument of Allotment is in

and by the said Act directed to be enrolled and having also caused six days like notice to be

given of all our subsequent Meetings for putting the said Act in execution(Meetings by

adjournment only excepted) and the lands and grounds by the said Act divided to be inclosed

And also the old Inclosures intended to be exonerated from tithes having been qualified valued

and appraised by John Rogers one of the said Commissioners and by John Buckwell of Dunton

in the County of Bucks which said John Buckwell before he proceeded to qualify value or

appraise any of the said lands or grounds did take and subscribe the Oath by the said Act

directed to be taken and subscribed which said Oath so taken and subscribed by the said John

Buckwell is also hereunto annexed to the intent that the same may be inrolled in the same place

that this our Award or Instrument of Allotment is by the said Act directed to be inrolled And

for the more just and regular divisions and distribution of the lands  and grounds intended to

be inclosed a true and perfect Survey and admeasurement having been made of all the said

lands and grounds by James King and Joseph Perks of Daventry in the County of Northampton

Land Surveyors by us appointed for that purpose and such Survey and Admeasurement reduced

into writing and the number of acres roods and perches belonging to each proprietor at the time

of making there same thereon set forth and such Survey having been verified on the Oath of

the said James King and Joseph Perks and laid before us at several of our Meetings held in

pursuance of the said Act and having often viewed the said lands and grounds and upon proper

enquiry evidence and satisfaction heard determined and finally settled all differences and

disputes which have arisen between any of the parties interested in any of the said lands and

grounds and carefully and duly considered the claim of each proprietor and all other matters

and things by the said Act committed to us Have set out ascertains and allotted and by these

present  do set out ascertain allot award and confirm the said lands and grounds so to be divided

and inclosed unto and amongst the several persons intitled to the same or to any rights or

interests therein according to the directions of the said Act and in manner following (that is to say)