| Title | Wymeswold: Articles of agreement regarding the stocking of Wymeswold Commons between William Barratt of Wymeswold gent., William Shuttlewood of Wymeswold, gent., William Burrowes, William Fox, the elder, William Fox the younger, Richard Leake, Joseph Franke, William Franke, Richard Lacer, Richard Fisher, William Hickling, John Burrowes, John Fox, William Blunt, Edward Langley, Joshua Fox, Thomas Corner, Edward Fox, John Blunt, Robert Leeke, Thomas Fox the elder, Thomas Fox the younger, Francis Crutchley, Edward Blunt, William Langley, John Fittens, Robert Franke, Elijah Dores, Edward Bolton, Henry Defraine, William Lacer, of all Wymeswold, husbandmen, William Dickerson, William Corner, Edward Fox, John Leake, William Marshall, Edward Linfield, William Shittlewood, William Tinfield and William Forsoke, labourers, and William Leeke of Wymeswold, gent., by which it is agreed:-
(a) that they shall not keep above 9 beasts for every three score acres of arable, ley and meadow belonging to Wymeswold nor above 20 sheep for every 20 acres or arable, ley and meadow, and also all their lambs without dames which shall be brought into commonable places of the fields of Wymeswold shall go into account for old sheep after St James' Day in every year.
(b) they shall not keep above six horses for every 60 acres of arable, ley and meadow.
(c) that the occupant of every ancient cottage within the said liberties shall keep two beasts or five beasts in ancient commonable places.
(d) for every 60 acres of arable there shall be 3 acres thereof.
(e) that if any of them shall keep any beasts in tether upon their known grounds in the common fields, then he shall abate of their beasts upon the common pasture and that he shall not keep above two beasts for 60 like acres or three beasts for 80 like acres, and that none of them shall tether any beasts within Wymeswold after 1 August
(f) that they shall not tether at large before the harvest be all "inned", nor shall they break any field or common psture withou the consent of the commoners.
(g) that all of the parties shall proportionately contribute towards the sufficientditching and scouring of the common cow pasture from Willoughby at or before the 26th March
13 May |