| Description | Includes, mainly, working papers drawn up by James Fish, the Commissioners and others, drawn up pre-enclosure calculating the quantity and quality of the lands with a view to their subsequent allotment and redistribution by the Award. Consequently there are many rough workings and draft surveys and valuations
Comprises: Lord Brooke: survey of Lord Brooke's Lands and the Glebe Lands in Lillington Common Fields, 1730 (DR0426/96/1-2); `The Quality and Valuation of the Lord Brooks Lands and Meadowing etc.' (DR0426/96/3), ?details re the allotment to Lord Brooke (DR0426/96/4); former survey and valuation of Lord Brooke's Estate at Kington and Lillington endorsed and ?revised by the Commissioners (DR0426/96/5); note of Brooke's tenants in the surveys of 1619 and 1710 endorsed with abstracts from Bridgman's survey re several landowners (DR0426/96/6).
Henry Wise: valuation of Wise's Old Inclosure according to Bridgman's survey with jottings of calculations for various landowners (DR0426/96/7); rental of Wise's estate, pre-inclosure (DR0426/8); Wise's lands - "valuation to the tenants", ?Mr. Buckerfield and Mr. Dawks (DR0426/96/9) John Buckerfield: details of the allotment of lands to Buckerfield from the "New Inclosure", signed by Fish, 1731 (DR0426/96/10)
Glebe Lands: "The content of Lillington Glebe Land with the Commissioners Valuation... Measured and set out by me James Fish", 1730 (DR0426/96/11); survey of glebe land (DR0426/96/12); ?list of incumbent's sources of income ?drawn up in connection with inclosure (DR0426/96/13)
General: survey of "all the Fields with the Roads and Commons etc "( DR0426/96/14); an "Estimate of the Number of Acres of each Quality in every Field at Lillington" (DR0426/96/15); the "first survey of all the Furlongs in all the Fields" (DR0426/96/16); survey and valuation of "the Demean Lands and Brownes Cottage Lands "( DR0426/96/17); copy of the 1610 survey of Nether Field, Ham Field, Upper Field, Rye Field and "the thorough faire street" including numbers of bays of buildings, ?copied in connection with inclosure (DR0426/96/18); copy extracts from "ye first draughts made Anno 1711" of the furlongs and commons in the fields (DR0426/96/19); papers connected with the drawing up of the Inclosure (or ?drafts for 1711 plan) ?illustrating previous inclosures and jottings re ?computation of the relative quality of the lands (DR0426/96/20-22); numbered draft plan of certain inclosed areas endorsed with a later survey of Francis Robbins' Farm, Dec 1809, amended 16 Oct 1810 - "This Farm is now occupied by Mr. Thomas Court and the tythes were look'd over by Mr. Handley (DR0426/96/23)
Commissioners: drafts of Orders and Agreements re roads and fields and other rough valuations, June - Sept 1730 (DR0426/96/24-26); an "Account of business done in Surveying at Lillington Inclosure", (DR0426/96/27).
N.B. The surveying was done by James Fish and others and these papers have become dissociated from others which can be found in CR0556/196 (papers relating to the inclosure of Lillington including, correspondence from and to Fish and a copy of the Commissioners Award, 1730, 1828) Other papers and plans by Fish appertaining to his 1711 survey can be found in CR0556/180 (survey and rental made by Fish of Henry Wise's estates at, inter alia, Lillington), CR0556/197-200 (plan of the manor, uncoloured by Fish and large-scale rough drawings, drafts and working papers relating to the 1711 survey), CR0556/269 (survey of the common field lands, meadows and pastures in the manor by Fish, 1711; amended draft and copy of the printed inclosure act and rough working papers of Fish re inclosure, 1730; attested copy of the Inclosure Act). |