| From 50–100 acres | 4 | Above 10 acres | 21 |
| From 30–50 acres | 7 | ||
| From 10–30 acres | 10 | ||
| 21 | |||
| From 1–10 acres | 42 | ||
| From ½ acre-1 acre | 22 | Below 1 acre | 67 |
| From ¼ acre-½ acre | 10 | ||
| Below ¼ acre | 35[499] | ||
| 67 | 130 | ||
The smallest allotments are, Ann Metcalf, Spinster, 14 perches, which she must fence on the N. and W. sides; Ann Hubbard, Widow, 15 perches, which she must fence on the S. and W. sides.
These, like the other small allotments, are in lieu of Right of Common and all other Interest.
APPENDIX A (9)
Simpson, Bucks.—Enclosure Act, 1770
Area.—Not specified anywhere. The annual value unenclosed is stated to be £773, so the acreage was probably over 1500.
Nature of Ground.—Open and Common Fields, Lammas Grounds and Pastures.
Parliamentary Proceedings.—
First Attempt, December 13, 1762.—Petition from Walden Hanmer, Esq., Lord of the Manor, William Edge, Gentleman, and other owners and proprietors, stating that the holdings are at present intermixed and dispersed, that the land in its present state is in great measure incapable of Improvement, and that if it were divided and inclosed great Benefit would accrue, and asking for leave to bring in a Bill to enclose. Leave was given, and the Bill passed its second reading and was sent to Committee. On March 16, 1763, came a petition against it from John Goodman and Nicholas Lucas, Gentlemen, and other owners and proprietors against the bill, ‘alleging that the Petitioners are Owners and Proprietors of Four Fifth Parts, and upwards, of the said Fields, Grounds, and Pastures, so intended to be inclosed, and of several Rights and Privileges incident thereto,’ stating that the bill would be greatly detrimental to all of them and ‘tend to the Ruin of many of them,’ and asking to be heard by Counsel against the bill. Petition to be heard when the bill was reported.
Report and Enumeration of Consents.—March 25, 1763.—Mr. Lowndes reported from the Committee, that the allegations were true and that ‘the Parties concerned had given their Consent to the Bill, to the Satisfaction of the Committee (except Michael Woodward, Nicholas Lucas, senior, Lewis Goodman, who, being asked to sign a Bill testifying their Consent, and whose Interest in the said Lands and Grounds amounts to £31 a Year, or thereabouts, but the Witness could not ascertain the Interest of the said Lewis Goodman and Thomas Goodman, said that they had no Objection to the Inclosure, but did not care to sign, and also except Luke Goodman and Edward Chad, whose Interest in the said Lands and Grounds is £16 a Year; Edward Chad said he was by no means for it, and Luke Goodman said, he would neither meddle nor make; and also except Joseph Etheridge, a Minor, whose Interest in the said Lands and Grounds is £38 a Year; and Mary Etheridge, his Guardian whose Interest in the said Lands and Grounds is £16 a Year, said, she never was for it, as being a Woman, and having nobody to look after her Fencing; and also except —— Loughton, John Goodman, and Son, whose Interest in the said Lands and Grounds is £24 a Year; John Goodman said, he would lose his Life before he would lose his Land; his Son said, he did not care to meddle; and also except John Goodman, who, being asked to sign a Bill, testifying his Consent, and whose Interest in the said Lands and Grounds is £55 a year, said he would not sign it; and except Sear Newman, whose Interest in the said Lands and Grounds amounts to £30 a Year, who said he had no Objection to it, but did not care to meddle or make, upon Account of his Father being so much against it; and it appeared to your Committee, by Articles of Agreement, dated the 31st Day of December, 1761, that the said John Goodman and Sear Newman did thereby consent and agree to an Inclosure of all the Open and Commonable Fields, Lands, Cow Pasture, and Fields, within the said Parish of Simpson, and to pay their respective Proportions of the Expence of an Act of Parliament; and other the necessary Expences attending the same; and also except John Newman, whose Interest in the said Lands and Grounds is £30 a Year, who said he would not sign it; and also except Nicholas Lucas the younger, whose Interest in the said Fields is £36 a Year, who said he had no Objection to sign, if the Cow Pasture had been left open; and also except Daniel Lucas, whose Interest in the said Lands and Grounds is £25 a Year, who refused signing; and also except George Wilkes, whose Interest in the said Lands and Grounds is £1, 10s. a Year, who said he had no Occasion to sign, because he had agreed with Mr. Hanmer for the Purchase of his Commons; and also except Richard Goodman, Edward Ashwell, for a Minor, Edward Cooke and John Fox, whose Interest in the said Lands and Grounds together amounts to £5, 10s. a Year, who were not applied to; and also except Sarah Hawes, Widow, who is lately dead; and also except George Stone, whose Interest in the said Lands and Grounds is £3 a Year, who was not applied to, because he had sold his Interest to Mr. Hanmer, who has consented to the Bill; and also except Six out of Eight of the Feoffees of Lands belonging to the Poor of Simpson, which Lands are of the yearly Value of £24: and also except the Feoffees of certain Charity Lands and Grounds, of the yearly Value of £16; William Cooper, one of the Feoffees, being asked to sign a Bill testifying his Consent, said he was against it; and that the yearly Value of the said Lands and Grounds, in the said Fields, Cow Pasture, Common Meadows, Lammas Grounds, and Waste Grounds, amounts to Seven Hundred Ninety-nine Pounds, Fifteen Shillings, or thereabouts;)....’