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The Box Moor Trust is a charitable trust responsible for the management of certain open lands in the parishes of Hemel Hempstead and Bovingdon, in Hertfordshire, England. ==History== In 1574 Queen Elizabeth I gifted certain Hertfordshire lands to the Earl of Leicester. The gift included pastures in the Hemel Hempstead area, at Boxmoor, and these were purchased in secret by three Hemel Hempstead townspeople - John Rolfe, Richard Pope and Willian Gladman - in 1581 for £75. They had feared the common land would be enclosed and townspeople would be denied grazing rights: the price had been raised by secret public subscription. In 1594, ownership of the pastures was transferred to 67 local inhabitants (Feoffes), "''whereby their heirs and assigns might and should for ever thereafter have, hold and enjoy the said meadows and all the commodities that might or should arise thereof''".〔(Four Hundred Years of the Box Moor Trust ), by Joan & Roger Hands, pub by The Box Moor Trust, Hemel Hempstead, 2004 - Accessed January 2007.〕〔Box Moor Trust leaflet: "Managing the Land for the Community"〕 The Trust, a legal entity formed in 1594, has survived over 400 years up to the present day. Twelve of the 67 Feoffes were appointed as Trustees with the powers to make Orders and Bye-laws that they deemed necessary. New Trustee appointments were made in 1659, 1711, 1757 and 1787. The Trust once issued "Pasture Tickets " to its members to allow them to graze a specified number of livestock on its land. On 11 March 1802, highwayman Robert Snooks was hanged at the scene of his crime on Boxmoor for the robbery of a postboy. Snooks was the last man to be executed in England for highway robbery. The Trustees placed a grave marker in 1904. St John's Church in Boxmoor was built in 1874, on land the Trust had provided in 1829. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Box Moor Trust」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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