Another of the Somerset commutations, the instrument of apportionment refers to this as a provisional agreement but it appears that no new agreement was made subsequently and it is in this form it was confirmed by the Tithe Commission. Martin undertook the apportionment jointly with the splendidly named Hezekiah Bartlett Guy. Once again the Earl of Ilchester owned a substantial amount of land in the parish.

The map is cropped so there are no signatures but it was clearly drawn by Martin. There is a note that plots 349-253 were wrongly included in the parish and belonged to Stourton [1]. This may have been important as there is no commutation for Stourton; it must have been a tithe free parish. Although the agreement was provisionally agreed in 1842 the work for the apportionment had begun much earlier in 1838 as the diaries show. Although the entries are not unambiguously about the commutation the entries cannot have been about anything else as the parish had been inclosed in 1821 [Kain makes no attribution for this].

The instrument was agreed in 1844 but Martin was still at work in 1845 although again it is possible this was Poor Law work.

Mr William Heal Bigings was a local landowner, both a freeholder and a leaseholder, presumably under Lord Ilchester. Edwin was by now Steward to Lord Ilchester and whose wife Mary also held land in the parish.

List of Commutations under the Tithe Commutation Act