1 ACRE equals A FURLONG (220 yards) x A CHAIN (22 yards) equals 4840 square yards
equals 1 strip of a ridge and furrow field
1 ACRE equals 4 ROODS
1 ACRE equals 160 PERCHES
1 ROOD equals ¼ of an ACRE or 1210 square yards
1 ROOD equals 40 PERCHES
1 PERCH equals 30.25 square yards
THOMAS LOWNDES & His Successors Rectors of the Parish Church of North Crawley
In lieu of all GLEBE lands and rights of Common belonging to the Rectory in the open and common fields and commonable lands to be divided and inclosed all these four parcels of land that is to say:
All that parcel of land situate in FIELDS END FIELD containing 14 ACRES – 3 ROOD – 18 PERCHES including all roads and ways bounded on the EAST or SOUTH EAST by lands awarded to JOHN BOLDING on the SOUTH and SOUTH WEST by old inclosures belonging to the RECTOR and RICHARD LOWNDES on part of the WEST or NORTH WEST and by and allotment to RICHARD LOWNDES on part of the NORTH and part of NORTH WEST by an inclosed PIGHTLE belonging to MICHAEL NASH on the small remaining part of the NORTH WEST by RICHARD LOWNDES and on the remaining part of the NORTH and NORTH EAST and on the EAST by old inclosures now or late belonging to THOMAS SMITH
Another parcel of land situate in the MOORS FIELD containing 18 ACRES – 1 ROOD – 33 PERCHES bonded on part of the EAST and part of the NORTH by an allotment to EDWARD SHAW, SARAH MARSHALL, DOROTHY WHITE and ANN MARKS on the other part of the EAST or NORTH EAST by a PIGHTLE at BROOKMEAD belonging to JOHN SMITH and on part of the SOUTH or SOUTH EAST and a small part of the EAST by an allotments belonging to ANN BELSHAM on the remaining part of the SOUTH or SOUTH EAST by an allotment to LORD TREVOR and on part of the WEST by an allotment to the RECTOR in lieu of tithes and part of the NORTH and the remaining part of the WEST by an allotment to RICHARD LOWNDES and on remaining parts of the EAST and NORTH by an old inclosure belonging to RICHARD LOWNDES called NEW PASTURE
Another parcel of land situate on BERRYSTEAD PIECE on the MOORS FIELD containing 2 ACRES – 3 ROODS – 21 PERCHES bounded on the EAST, the NORTH, the WEST and the SOUTH by allotments to RICHARD LOWNDES
Another parcel of land situate in the MOORS FIELD containing 1 ROOD – 1 PERCH including all roads and ways bounded on part of the EAST and part of the SOUTH by old inclosures of LORD TREVOR on the remaining part of the SOUTH and the WEST by allotments to LORD TREVOR on the NORTH by a PIGHTLE belonging to JOHN HIGHTLEY at BROADMEAD and on the remaining part of the EAST by a lane leading through the old inclosures of NORTH CRAWLEY which said four allotments described and set out to THOMAS LOWNDES and his successors Rectors in the judgement of us commissioners adjudge the same to be the amount of Tithes of the old inclosures belong to the said RECTORY being first deducted and added to and comprised in the allotment a full equivalent and compensation for all the GLEBE lands and right of Common now belonging to the RECTORY of NORTH CRAWLEY and bears an improved value or like proportion as near as maybe with the other allotments to the several other proprietors and owners of land lying in the said open common fields, meadows and waste grounds and which said third allotment is set out on purpose to be exchanged with RICHARD LOWNDES for an old inclosure called SMITHS SLIPE and the fourth allotment to the RECTOR is set out on purpose to be exchanged with LORD TREVOR for a SLIPE of ground adjoining the 10 ACRE CLOSE belonging to the RECTOR
Two parcels of land, one parcel of land situate in the MOORS FIELD containing 19 ACRES – 2 ROODS – 1 PERCH bounded on the EAST and SOUTH and part of the WEST by an allotment to LORD TREVOR and on the remaining part of the WEST and on the NORTH or NORTH WEST by an allotment to RICHARD LOWNDES and one other parcel of land