Quinton papers

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Papers in Case in Exchequer of Pleas between Magdalen College, Oxford, and John Hiatt in dispute over land at the Green, Upper Quinton, awarded to the College at Enclosure 1773 as Lords of the Manor and partially enclosed by John Hiatt in 1863. He gave up the enclosure at the College's insistence and they in 1868 instructed their tenant Cotterell Corbett to enclose the same, which he did (except the pool), dividing and letting the same as gardens. In 1872 William Rogers, tenant of John Hiatt, broke down the fences and committed trespass, for which he was fined at petty sessions. Rogers claimed Magistrates had no right to hear case as he acted in assertion of a claim of right. Hiatt subsequently went with group of men and broke down all fences, claiming that land was village green and common. Land in dispute has always formed part of acreage included in leases of farm at Upper Quinton by College. Present tenant Cotterell Corbett has always paid rent to include open land.