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20. RETURN TO PRIVY COUNCIL OF ENCLOSERS FURNISHED BY JUSTICES OF
LINCOLNSHIRE [_S.P.D. Charles I, Vol. 206, No. 7_], _c._ 1637.
_Lincoln._--An abstract of such depopulators as have been hitherto dealt
withal in Lincolnshire, and received their pardon.
The persons in number 9
The sum of their fines 300l.
The number of houses by bond to be erected 33
The time for the erection, within one year
The number of farms to be continued that
are now standing 22
The fines are already paid.
Sir Charles Hussey, knt. Fine 80l.
Bond of 200 marks, with condition to set up in Honington 8 farmhouses
with barns, etc., and to lay to every house 30 acres of land, and to
keep 10 acres thereof yearly in tillage.
Sir Henry Ayscough, knt. Fine 20l.
Bond 200 marks. To set up 8 farmhouses in Blibroughe with 30 acres to
every farm, and 12 thereof to be kept yearly in tilth.
Sir Hamond Whichcoote, knt. Fine 40l.
Bond 200 marks. To set up 8 farmhouses, etc., in Harpswell, with 40
acres to every house; and 16 thereof in tillage.
Sir Edward Carre, knt. Fine 30l.
Bond 100l. To set up 2 farmhouses in Branswell, and 1 in Aswarby with 40
acres to every house, 16 in tillage.
Sir William Wraye, knt. Fine 30l.
Bond 100l. To set up in Gaynesby 2 farmhouses with 2 acres at least to
either, 10 in tillage, and to continue 2 farms more in Grainsby and 3 in
Newbell and Longworth, with the same quantity, as is now used there, a
third part in tilth.
Sir Edmund Bussye, knt. Fine 10l.
Bond 100l. To set up one farmhouse in Thorpe with 40 acres, 14 thereof
in tillage, and to continue 14 farms in Hedor, Oseby, Aseby, and Thorpe,
as they now are, with a third part in tillage.
Richard Rosetor, esqr. Fine 10l.
Bond 50l. To set up one farm in Limber with 40 acres, 16 in tillage, and
to continue 1 farm in Limber, and 2 in Sereby, _ut sup._
Robert Tirwhitt, esqr. Fine 10l.
Bond 50l. To set up one farm in Cameringham with 40 acres, 16 in
tillage.
John Tredway, gent. Fine 10l.
Bond 40l. To set up one farm in Gelson with 30 acres, 10 thereof in
tillage.
[Endorsed.] Lincoln Depopulators fined and pardoned and the reformations
to be made.
21. COMPLAINT OF LAUD'S ACTION ON THE COMMISSION FOR DEPOPULATION
[_S.P.D. Charles I, Vol. 497, No. 10_], 1641.
That upon the Commission of enquiry after depopulation, the Lord
Archbishop of Canterbury and other the Commissioners, at the
solicitation of Tho. Hussey, gent, did direct a letter in nature of a
Commission to certain persons within the County of Wilts, to certify
what number of acres in South Marston in the parish of Highworth were
converted from arable to pasture, and what number of ploughs were laid
down, etc.
Whereupon the Archdeacon with two others did return certificate, to the
Lord Archbishop, etc.
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