Enclosure of 11 Acres at Stourfield, 1781

[transcribed from Meyrick Archive Tin box 38]

Grant of waste ground by George Ivison Tapps esq and others to Edmund Bott esq. The deed is intended to allow Edmund Bott to enclose two parcels of one and ten acres making eleven acres in all of land in Stower Field, belonging to the manor of Westover, for the growth and preservation of timber or underwood, paying to G I Tapps 5s 0d yearly at Michaelmas. This was agreed to by the “Major part in number and value of the owners and occupiers of tenements who have right of common of pasture in the wastes of the said Manor”. The list of the commoners who signed is as follows :

Allford, Thomas
Allner, James
Allner, John
Barnes, Thomas
Bennett, Samuel
Bert, Simon
Bolton, William
Brice, George Tito
Burbidge, Reuben
Butler, William
Butler, William
Cook, John
Corbin, John
Dale, Henry
Dale, Richard
Dale, William
David, John
Daw, Ambrose
Dean, John
Dean, William 		Edwards, John
Harvey, Benjamin
Harvey, Robert Holloway
Hobby, John
Hooper, Edward
Kerley, John
Kerley, Robert
King, Thomas
Kirley, John
Knapp, James
Lane, William
Lane, William
Lockyer, James
Mantle, Elizabeth
Meake, George
Metten, Charles
Metten, William
Miller, Josiah
Mooring, Henry
Pain , Henry jun. 		Pain, Henry
Peek, John
Plowman, Ambrose
Purbeck, John
Reeks, Robert
Reeks, Robert
Rickman, John
Rogers, John
Scott, John
Sibley, James
Stickland, Thomas
Strong, John
Sweetapple, William
Tarrang, Charles
Trim, Henry
Vallence, John
Waterman, James
Wert, Thomas
West, John

All of the signatures are witnessed by John Oake

The deed was duly inrolled [sic] among the records of the General Quarter Session of the Peace for the County of Southampton pursuant to the Act of Parliament dated 8 Apr 1781