ECR 49 279
Reference code
ECR 49 279
Title
Little Tew, Oxfordshire: Petition
Level
Item
Date
9 August 1779
Extent & medium
2 folios
Content description
Petition to the Provost of Eton against the proposed enclosure which will greatly distress the tenants by reason that there is very little timber on the estate, so that they will be obliged to buy the greater part to make posts and rails. And timber is dear and labour is dear. The stones are not suitable for walling. The estates are small and will require small divisions, so that 40s an acre will be greatly short, so that they are unable to enclose. "To be shure the estates will advance but not in proportion to the expenses for we shall be obliged to have our land as nigh home as we con because of our building for we are unabel to erect new building. And perhaps the Commissioners will not value the land fer from home by so much as a third or a fourth as they do the land nigh home which will be as good when there are buildings erected upon it. So that we think the Squire Wiles will gain all the advantage what will arise from the inclouser. First he will have a seventh of the whole field for his tythes. Secondly he will gaina third or a fourth of the rest by taking it fer from home; and when he has erected new building upon it his land will be as good as ours".
Signed by William Taylor, John Robbins (mark), John Manning, Hester Coats; also by William Castle (mark) "possessd of one yard land freeland as much against an inclouser as we".
Little Tew.
Signed by William Taylor, John Robbins (mark), John Manning, Hester Coats; also by William Castle (mark) "possessd of one yard land freeland as much against an inclouser as we".
Little Tew.
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