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Mem. Wooley Farm has Inclosed from the Common of Bulbeck Lordship about 16 ½ Acres of Land many Years agoe, it is Supposed Time Immemorial for which a Rent of 5/6d per Ann has been p[ai]d to the Lord. Since that time about 34 Acres of Common has been Inclosed for which as well as 38 Acres part Freehold & part Common (the 16 ½ Acres above mentioned) the Lord of the Mannor Claims 4s per Acre. It was tho[ugh]t proper that the Tennant of Wooly pay the antient Rent of 5/6d per Acre as usuall & 4s per Acre for the 34 Acres of New Inclosure. But on Mr Bakers threatening the Tennant to pull down the new Inclosure if he did not pay 4s per Acre both for the 38 Acres and 34 Acres the Ten[an]t has Imprudently Submitted thereto. The Lord is now Inclosing before the Front of Wooly Farm which the Com[missioners] of the Hospital thinks a Great Hardship & hope Mr Baker will desist or they must order it to be pulled down. And they expect likewise that he will order the Extraordinary Rent recd. of the Tennant for Wooly Freeh[ol]d Lands to be returned [verso, in a different hand:] Mr Walton’s Memo abt.Wooley Farm with Mr Baker.
ZC4/1/1. Undated. Evidently pre-dates the Parliamentary Inclosure of Bulbeck Common in 1771, but otherwise difficult to date for the Bakers were Lords of the manor from the 17th century. It is found amongst other papers dating from the late 1730s so is completely arbitrarily assigned a date here of 1 Jan 1740.
