Commutation of Tithes
From Lacey Green History
The Commutation of Tithes was an Act of Parliament
COMMUTATION of TYTHES
12 December 1856 is was recorded for the Commutation of Tithes as owned by Charles Edward Gray as Curate of Princes RIsborough. clerk, on behalf of the Perpetual Curacy of Princes Risborough, containing 79 acres 17 perches
TITHE 3/152 Received by Tithe Office 7th Jan 1857
Know all men by these Presents that I Charles Brown of Princes Risborough in the County of Buckingham, owner & occupier, being lawfully seized in possession of an estate in fee simple of and in all tithes arising from lands known by the name of Smallridge Wood, well known by metes and bounds, which lands are situate in the parish of Princes Risborough in the said Count and contain by estimation in statute measure fifty five acres, three roods and thirty seven perches and which lands are portion of the Woodlands of the said parish which were excepted from the operation of the Award made under the provisions of an Enclosure Act for the said parish passed in the first year of the reign of King George the Fourth, do hereby declare it to be my Will and Intent that the said tithes shall henceforth be absolutely merged and extinguished in the freehold and inheritance of the same lands according to the provisions in that behalf contained in a certain Statute made in the sixth and seventh years of the reign of His late Majesty King William the Fourth cap 71, entitled “An Act for the Commutation of Tithes in England and Wales” In Testimony whereof I have hereto subscribed my name and affixed my seal this Sixth day of January in the year of our Lord One thousand and eight hundred and fifty seven.
Charles Brown
8th January 1857 COMMUTATION of TITHES no. 3/152 (edited) OWNERS JAMES STRATTON & JOSEPH LOOSLEY
James Stratton of Princes Risborough, farmer, and Joseph Loosley of the same place, farmer, owned 47 acres, being Darvills Hill Wood and Cane Field, part of the Parish Woodlands of Princes Risborough, exempted from the Enclosures Award 1823.