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The Orders of Shrewton, 



the Church with a status amongst the commoners of the parish, 

 even if it were not accompanied by " three acres/' and would entitle 

 the churchwardens to a share of the common fields at their enclosure. 



The ten acres and sixteen perches were situated more than a mile 

 away from the village. In 1883 they were exchanged, with the 

 sanction of the Charity Commissioners, for eight acres of better 

 land near to the Church, now let in allotments. The rent, as hereto- 

 fore, is still applied towards the repair of the fabric of the Church 

 and the expenses of maintaining divine service, which it nearly 

 defrays. 



" Ano Due nre Elizabethe Regine 42. 

 Ano Domini 1599. Marcij 9. 



" Forasmuch as ther hath ben in this pish of Shrewton of Antient tyme out 

 of minde A Courte barron continued and yerlye for the most part houlden and 

 kept w th in the mann\ of Shrewton, wherein orderes were taken and ratified for 

 the better gov'ment and quiet estate of all the frehoulders tenants and other 

 conion's w th in the saide parishe by virtue of the said courte, and all such psones 

 as were Irregular and disordered were then amersed, and paid the amersements 

 and penalties by way of distresse to the Lord royale of the mann r afforsaid vntill 

 that of late in the yeare 1596. 



" The sayd man r was dismembered by sale of the ]ande to divers psones and 

 most pt. to the tenants themselves. Since which tyme divers disorders have 

 been comited to the great hurt and detriment of the greater pt of the frehoulders 

 tenants and comoners of .... breache of christia charitie and peace of 

 the neighborhode, For reformation [where]of and at thernest pswasion of Nicholas 

 Barlowe Gierke, we the freeholders tenants and comoners whose names and 

 m'kes are hereunto subscribed do with one accorde consult determine and ratine 

 that these orderrs following shall be unviolably kept and observed^bindin 

 o'rselves owr heyres and assignes to the due observation thof and of evry pt or 

 parcell thereof from henceforth for ever. And for the better corroboration 

 hereof we have caused these orders to be Ingrossed in this o r register booke to 

 remayne in ppetuall record. 



" Edw : Estcourte. 



" Nicholas Barlowe Clerke. 



" Thomas Tooker. 



" William Goldisborough. 



" Robert Wansborowe p his mke. 



" Jonn Smith £ his marke. 



" William Barlowe. 



" Robert Piercey. R his mke. 



" Nicholas Gilbert + his mke. 



" Agnes Barlowe Widow * her mke. 



