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The Enclosure

The first meeting was arranged at the Green Dragon at Higham Ferrers at 11 o’clock on the 6th April 1778 and there William Pywell & Daniel Eaton & Tresham Chapman swore an oath and were duly appointed as the Commissioners to oversee the Inclosure Award for Rushden.
They had given public notice in Church on Sunday 29th March after divine service and a notice was pinned to the south door of the Church.
The area to be divided was 3425 acres and 32 perches and included roads and the highway.

The Northampton Mercury, 31st August 1778, transcribed by Kay Collins

Rushden Inclosure - The Commissioners give Notice to the Public in general, and Proprietors of Lands and Estates in and near Rushden in particular, That Duplicates of the List and Description of the several Public Roads, by them staked out, in, over, through, and upon, the Open and Common-Field Lands, directed by the Act of Parliament to be Divided and Inclosed, are affixed upon Rushden Church Door, and also lodged at the Swan-and-Dolphin Inn, in Rushden, for their Examination and Inspection. Any Person or Persons, have objection to any of the said Roads, or any Part or Parts thereof, are desired to deliver the same in Writing to the said Commissioners at their Meeting, which will be held at the Green Dragon Inn, in Higham Ferrers, on Wednesday the 9th Day of September next.

By Order of the Commissioners
W York, Secretary.

The Award was finalised on 24th April 1779.

A Schedule of Houses Homesteads and Ancient Inclosure subject to the
Payment of the several Annual Sums of Money for Tythes to the Rector of Rushden.

A Schedule of Houses, Homesteads and Ancient Inclosures Subject to the Payment of the several Annual Sums of Money for Tythes to the Rector of Rushden and his Successors for ever.
        £ s. d. £ s. d.
Thomas WARD   House and Yard           2
Samuel BUSWELL   House Yard and Close           10
--- LYDELL   House and Yard           2
Thomas PRESSLAND   House and Yard           1
Samuel CLARKE   House and Yard           10
John FISHER   House and Yard           4
Henry DARNELL   House Yard and Close         8 6
William BLOSSOM   a Garden           2
William ABBOTT   House and Yard           1
John DENTON   House and Yard           1
Joseph STURGIS   House and Yard next to Mr Wickstead     1      
Joseph STURGIS   House and Yard in Duck Street     2     3
William CLARKE senior House and Orchard in Duck Street     5      
William CLARKE senior House Yard and Orchard in Duck Street   1 5      
William CLARKE senior House and Yard near the Rectory House     1   1 11
William CLARKE junior House and Orchard           4
Elizabeth HOBBS   House and Yard           3
Philip PALMER   House and Yard           3
William CLEMENTS   House Yard and Orchard           10
William MARRIOTT   House and Yard           7
Mary BARRY   House Yard and Garden         1 3
John DARLING tailor House and Garden           1
Martha MACKERNESS   House and Yard           3
James PEARSON   House and Yard           1
Philip ASHTON   House Yard and Orchard         1 5
John MORRIS   House and Yard next Philip Ashton     1      
John MORRIS   House and Yard next Mr Bollard's     2     3
Henry HERBERT   Houses Yards and Close         2 6
William CODGBROOKE   House and Orchard   1 0      
William CODGBROOKE   Crabbs Close   11 2   12 2
Thomas COOPER   House and Orchard           11
John DARLING cottager House and Close         2 2
John DARLING lawyer House and Garden   9        
John DARLING lawyer House and Yard in Little Street   2       11
Henry CORBY   House and Garden           2
Hannah PLOWMAN   House and Yard           2
John BURGE senior House and Garden           2
John BURGE junior House and Garden           2
Elizabeth SAUNDERS   House and Yard in Little Street     1      
Elizabeth SAUNDERS   Houses and Orchard   1 2   1 3
William CORBY   House and Yard           1
Mary SMITH   House and Barn           2
Joseph ILIFFE   House and Yard           2
Samuel ELSTOWE   House and Orchard           5
William KEMSHEAD   House and Close           8
John MASON   House and Orchard   2 0      
John MASON   Small Tithes of the Pightle   1 9   3 9
William EMERTON   House and Yard           1
William YOUNG   House and Yard           2
John HILLS   House and Orchard   1 5      
John HILLS   Small Tithes of the Close   1 10   3 3
Thomas CLARKE   House Yard and Orchard           9
Edward WILLOWBY             2 2
Mary GROOM   House and Yard           1
Isaac ELSTOW   House and Close         1 11
              2 15 3
 
William PYWELL signed & sealed Jonath BAKER signed & sealed
Daniel EATON signed & sealed Thos RICHARDS signed & sealed
Tresham CHAPMAN signed & sealed Willm MALLERY signed & sealed
Ben KIDNEY signed & sealed G PALMER signed & sealed
--- BATEMAN signed & sealed Wm BOLLARD signed & sealed
Eliz BATEMAN signed & sealed Margaret MALLERY mark & seal
Ri WYNNE signed & sealed Place STEVENSON signed & sealed
Geo GERMAIN signed & sealed Saml MEE signed & sealed
Mary PACEY signed & sealed John PENDRED signed & sealed
A FREDERICK signed & sealed Thomas DENTON signed & sealed
Matthias SHIPTON signed & sealed John ACHURCH signed & sealed
Thos FLETCHER signed & sealed John BLETSOE signed & sealed
Thos COX signed & sealed William CLEMENTS mark & seal
Rich'd STEVENS jun signed & sealed      
Award on Rushden Inclosure Inrolled the 17th Day of
September in the 19th Year of George 3rd 1779
By me Chas MORGAN
Clerk of the Peace of the County of Northampton

The map is lost, but was reconstructed by David Hall in 1984.
NRO ref: enrolment Vol F p283
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