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- W2034696777 abstract "T tHIS essay is concerned with those men who were given by Statute an allbut-absolute authority to enclose and redistribute common and open fields between about I745 and the General Act of i845. It deals with Commissioners as professional men tackling problems which were novel in the first generation, and only slowly evolving standards of procedure. Criticism of the partiality (as apart from the cost) of a Commission was rare, so that the questions of proper or improper motive which surround the discussion of many enclosure problems will not arise here. The materials for this investigation are the minutes, accounts, letters and working papers of Commissioners in several Midland counties,1 and a study of the Commissioners named in all the Acts for Warwickshire, Worcestershire and Staffordshire. The private diary of one Commissioner 2 and the personal account book of another 3 have survived to yield details of work' before and after the meetings recorded in the Minutes. The scarcity of these minutes has been frequently commented upon.4 The earliest Commissions (I 730-6o) were very large, and often local, giving something of the appearance of a grand jury of umpires seeing fair treatment of their fellow landowners. When the pace of enclosure quickened, and anxious eyes were cast on the expense of a Commission, a smaller appointment became the rule and the paid professional Commissioner appeared. If landowners could have agreed, an Act and a Commission would have been superfluous. The multiplicity of Acts may be read not only as evidence of dissension on the issue of enclosure5 among the gentry who flew to Parliament as an arbiter, but perhaps as showing that many who agreed that enclosure was necessary could not agree on the details of property redistribution. A Commissioner disinterested in the lands to be enclosed, but trusted by the owners who had nominated him, might produce an Award about which there might be individual complaints, but which could be accepted as being at the worst equally unfair to everyone. A Commissioner described his powers in I 766 in these terms: A Commissioner is appointed by Act of Parliament for dividing and allotting common fields and is directed to do it according to the respective interests of proprietors ... without undue preference to any, but paying regard to situation," @default.
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- W2034696777 title "COMMISSIONERS OF ENCLOSURE" @default.
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