The Society's MSS.—Chisledon. 



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under speoial acts, removed the absurdity, while creating, for the 

 most part, those rural beauties of timbered hedgerows contrasted 

 with the green pastures they surround, which we are long since 

 accustomed to regard as peculiarly our own. 



No. 8. 



[A.D. 1747 and A.I). 1780.] 

 Badbury and Chiseldon 



The common Field lands, in the East and West Fields within the Hamlet of 

 Badbnry. were by agreement dated 1st Dec. 1747 enclosed and the agreement 

 was confirmed by an act of Parliament of the 21st Geo. 2nd (1747-8), entitled 

 " An act to confirm and establish an agreement for enclosing and dividing certain 

 common Fields in the Hamlet of Badbmy in the County of Wilts." 



The commissioners appointed by the act were Robert Carter of Purton Stoke, 

 gent.. Thomas Brown of Overtown, gent., Anthony Southby of South Marston 

 esq., Michael Haines of Hannington, gent. John Withers of Bishopstone, gent, 

 and Jonathan Wirdnam of Shrivenham, gent. 



The principal proprietors of estates in the tithing at that time were John Stone 

 of Badbury, esq., lord of the manor, Walter Hardyman of Shaftesbury, esq., 

 Theodosia Morse, widow of the Rev. Anthony Morse, clerk, and William Morse 

 her son, then an infant, and others. 



The commissioners' award was by the Act directed to be enrolled with the Clerk 

 of the peace of the County of Wilts. 



The Common Field and waste lands within the East and West Tithings of the 

 Parish of Chiseldon, and in the tithing of Hodson in the same Parish, called the 

 North and South Fields in the East Tithing and the Upper Field and Lower 

 Field in the West Tithing of Chiseldon, and the Upper and Lower Field in the 

 Tithing of Hodson, which with the waste lands contained altogether 1242 acres, 

 or thereabouts, were enclosed by an Act of Parliament passed in the 19th Geo. 

 3rd (1779), intitled " An Act for dividing allotting and enclosing certain open 

 and common fields, common pastures, and other commonable lands, meadows, and 

 waste lands, within the Parish of Chiseldon in the County of Wilts." 



The commissioners appointed by the act were Richard Richardson, junior, of 

 Devizes, John Grant of Manningford Bruce, and John Mitchell of South Weston, 

 gentlemen, and the principal proprietors of estates in the parish were Thomas 

 Browne Calley, esq., the lord of the manor, the Revd. William Rich Stock, the 

 then Vicar of the Parish, Samuel Hawkes, Thomas Herring, John Brown, John 

 Phelps, William Dyke, Richard Webb, William Morse. William Bailey, Stephen 

 Lambert, and others. 



The commissioners' award is dated 14th January, 1780, and wae enrolled with 

 the Clerk of the Peace on the 29th of June following. 



The next document is the record of a duty unostentatiously 

 discharged : — 



No. 9. 

 [A.D. 1757.| 



Whereas William Calley of Burderop in the County of Wilts Esquire Hath 

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