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Continued Thursday 13th. June 1771
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Day
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At this Court the
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Francis Gwyn
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were Chosen Stewards for the next Election Day who are desired to
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provide a Dinner at their own bien venue for the President Treasure
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and
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to dine together according to Ancient Custom and
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in Case any of the Stewards Elected shall decline in refuse the same
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the Clerk is to supply the same in Counsel
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Upon Reading a Lettd from and an Humble Petition of
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James Conling
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of
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in the County of
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in the words and Figures following
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Vizt. Sir with Submission to you I have presumed to Trouble you with
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the Inclosed Petitions wherein I have mentioned and set forth the Distressed
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Situation I am in And as I have been Advised by most of my Particular
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Friends and Acquaintance to lay my Case before the Worshipful the Govrs humbly
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Intreat the favour of your to be so kind as to deliver the same to them at their next
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Meeting & hope the Worshipful
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will be so kind as to take the Matter into
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their Consideration & will with a great Deal of Pleasure wait on them in Town
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whenever they will please to Order meNortheigh March 16th 1771
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And which Petition sets forth that the Govrs having a Turn to Clat Northleigh in the
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County of Oxford the Petr on 16th. Apr 1761 Entred into a Agremt with
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Henry
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Kynaston Southouse
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on behalf of the Governs to take the same from Lady Dar their
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last past at he Rent of £200 a Year & under the Usual Richd Cheas imposed on Servants and
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that it was agreed on the Govrs. part That there shod be Elected a New Manston House Dairy
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Brewhouse Barns Stables, Cowhowdes, with a Farm Yard, Richd Yard & other Offices
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& Buildings according to a Plan Produced to the Petitioner before Michs 1762. That
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the Farm consists of about 320 Acres neat part of which when the Petr Eastrod was Common
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in a very impoverished State & Condition and the rest (except about 7 Acres of Mendow)
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Consisted of a Fact of Ground called the Heath Allotmt Just taken out of a Poor Adjoing Common
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& which had never recd the least Cathisation whatrThat besides the Agreemt to Besides
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a new Houses & sd offices & Conveniences before stated It was also agreed that the Govrns shod Mound
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& Divide all the Common Field Lands & Heaths Allotmts. either with Ditches & Quicks Hedges
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a Walls & lay the same out in Convenient Grounds as soon as conveniently could be done and
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makes proper and convenient Ponds in the Grounds-That the Petr. in full Considenes of the
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Agreements being performed on the Govrs. part Entred on the Farm & Got a good Stock of Sheep & Cattle
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thereon & hoped not only to pay the Rent Regularly but also to have acaquired a comfortable
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Subsistance for himself and his Family But Petitioner humbly Represents That he was
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put to very great Inconveniences Damages & Expences by the Farm Houses Stables Cowhouses
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& other Offices being neglected to be Compleated according to the Contract and That when the
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Hedges round the now Inclosures were at first set with Quick, they were so unskilfully Plasited
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that great part of them Died by reason whereof & the Dupress of the season most part Miscarried
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& the same were obliged to be Planked again in same Places 3 times over-That the
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Petr. was at the Expence of Carrying all the Bushes & Stakes great part from their Forest of
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Whitwood at 7 or 8 Miles Distance for which he had no Allowance on Satisfaction
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That the Petitioner has Received great Damages in his Corn & Grain the the Defect of
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the Feners as well from his own as his Neighbours Cattle Sheep & Swine & has been obliged
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to keep & employ ten Boys Extraordinary to preserve & like care of the same That
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the Petrs Rent to so high and the Bargain so Dear that with these atmost Labour & Industry he
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has not been able to pay his Rent & by the Poverty & Ill Condn of the Term with the Losses of
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Sheep & Cattle which he has sustained to the amount of above £500 is become greatly in
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Arrear & unable to discharge the same or to make good his farther Payments & is distressed
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& Dejected in his Maid that unless the Govrs take his Case in to bone" the Petr. Apprehends
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it will be his Aller Ruon-Therefore most humbly Prayed the Govrs would Consider
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his Situation & make him such Allowance in respect of the Damages & Expences he has
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