Safe home sought for historical Thame documents

THAME museum and the town council are to investigate where best to keep a set of documents containing the results of the Inclosure Acts, an important part of Thame’s history.
The documents, restored in 1984, are currently kept in a sealed, metal box in the town hall, but the museum would like to take custody of them on a long-term loan basis.
However, at a meeting of the town council’ls Policy and Resources committee on Tuesday (15/01), the Chairman, Cllr David Dodds said that he was not satisfied that the museum currently had anywhere suitable to display and keep the box.
“If the museum could guarantee the appropriate conditions in which these historic documents could be kept in the future, we will consider it,” he said.

NB The Inclosure Acts were a number of United Kingdom Acts of Parliament dating from the 12th century, which inclosed open fields in the country. The Acts removed the rights that people once held, to graze animals on the areas ‘inclosed’ when not planted by crops.

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