191 1.] Inclosure Awards. 163 
Inquiries are frequently addressed to the Board for information as 
to the whereabouts of Awards under Inclosure Acts passed prior to the 
General Inclosure Act of i8zU. 
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2. All awards under the Act of 1845 are 
the Custody ot in the custody of the Board, and copies 
Inclosure Awards. thereof are deposited with the Clerk of the 
Peace for the County concerned, and also with the Churchwardens of 
the parish or their successors in title. A list of all such Awards made 
up to the year 1893 is contained in a House of Commons Return (455 
of 1893). Awards made under Acts passed between the General In- 
closure Act, 1801, and the Inclosure Act, 1845, were m tne absence of 
other provision in the authorising Act, to be enrolled in one of his 
Majesty's Courts of Record at Westminster, "or" with the Clerk of 
the Peace for the County, and inquiries as to their present place of 
deposit and as to opportunity of inspecting them may be addressed to 
the Public Record Office, Chancery Lane, London, W.C. The place 
of deposit of Awards made under Acts prior to, or not governed by, 
the General Inclosure Act, 1801, can be discovered only from examina- 
tion of the particular provisions of each Act. In many cases these 
private Acts were not printed, and it would probably be difficult to 
discover any existing- copy of the Act. Lists of local Inclosure Acts 
from 1727 to 1834 are contained in George Bramwell's Analytical Table 
of Private Statutes (2 Vols., London : 1813 and 1835). Reference to 
the Index of Local Acts, 1801-1899 (H.M. Stationery Office : 1900) 
may also be useful in an endeavour to trace information. 
3. It will be seen that considerable difficulty may be experienced 
in tracing the Awards of Inclosure bearing date prior to 1845. Many 
of them are included in the House of Commons Return (No. 50 of 
1904) of Inclosure Awards deposited with Clerks of the Peace or 
Clerks of County Councils, who may possibly in certain cases be in 
a position to supplement the information contained in that Return. 
Where this source of information fails, it may sometimes be possible 
to obtain particulars from the Steward of the Manor or from the 
Parish Council or Incumbent of the Parish concerned, or from Diocesan 
Registrars or Chapter Clerks. 
4. A certain number of Inclosure Awards, or copies thereof, are 
in the custody of the Public Record Office, the Duchy of Lancaster 
Office, his Majesty's Commissioners of Woods and Forests, and the 
Ecclesiastical Commissioners. At the Public Record Office are kept 
those Awards which were transferred from the Royal Courts of 
Justice, as well as those transferred with the Land Revenue Records 
from the Office of Woods and Forests. The Commissioners of Woods 
and Forests have information only as to the whereabouts of such 
Awards as affect Crown property. , 
5. A very few Awards relating to lands in Middlesex are in the 
keeping of the Land Registry, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, W.C, 
as successors to the Middlesex Registry of Deeds ; and many relating 
to lands in Yorkshire (East, North, and West Ridings) are at the 
Registries of Deeds at Beverley, Northallerton, and Wakefield respec- 
tively. There is reason to believe that some Inclosure Awards have 
found their way into private hands, while a small number are under- 
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