Don't know if it's relevant but you can get the 32-page full text of the 
relevant 1787 and 1789 Local Acts online (from most university/college 
networks) at
http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&res_dat=xri:hcpp&rft_dat=xri:hcpp:rec:pb-003892
http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&res_dat=xri:hcpp&rft_dat=xri:hcpp:rec:pb-004058

The first
("25 October 1787 An Act For Dividing and Inclosing the Open Fields, 
Common Pastures, Common or Moor, and Waste Grounds, within the Hamlet or 
Liberty of Spondon, in the County of Derby ")

begins:

Whereas there are, within the Hamlet or Liberty of Spondon in the County 
of Derby, Three several Open Arable Fields, called respectively Derby 
Field, Brook Field, and Burrow Field, Two Common or Stinted Pastures, 
called The Leys and Waste....


All best wishes,
Peter Higginbotham



>     -----Original Message-----
>     *From:* From: Local-History list
>     [mailto:[log in to unmask]]*On Behalf Of *Steven John May
>     *Sent:* 18 November 2008 14:55
>     *To:* [log in to unmask]
>     *Subject:* Spondon Early Enclosure
> 
>     I have been trying to find the original documents relating to the
>     enclosure of Spondon, Derbyshire mentioned in these extracts from
>     the Victoria County History, Derbyshire volume 2 page 172 for years.
>     I have recently gone back to the pages 172-175 and come to the
>     conclusion that they must be referring to the Duchy of Lancaster
>     Pleadings and Depositions. Now that the National Archives are online
>     I have searched through these for references to Spondon and the
>     search found 7: DL4/107/16; DL4/84/3; DL4/59/6; DL4/67/75;
>     DL4/11/15; and DL4 25/47. I am still left wondering which of these,
>     if any is relevant to the paragraph below. Does anyone on the list
>     know any more? I would really like to solve the mystery and get hold
>     of a copy of the relevant document pertaining to this paragraph.
>      
>      
>     Records of the Duchy of Lancaster[1]
>     <wlmailhtml:{5414713B-056E-4F84-A809-B0D97A694130}mid://00000017/#_ftn1>
>     contain cases from the reign of Henry VII to the end of the Stuart
>     period.
>      
> 
>     These suits in the Duchy Court today closures continued during the
>     reigns of Edward VI, Mary, and Elizabeth.
> 
>      
> 
>     There were enclosures at Belper, Duffield, Scropton, Alderwasley,
>     Bowden, Spondon, Mellor, Parwich, Buxton, Fairfield, Tunstead,
>     Bonsall, Priestcliff, and Wirkesworth. They all appear to refer to
>     the enclosure of common land as separate pasture, while the evidence
>     of the enclosure of arable land, or the conversion of pasture to
>     arable its very small. The court rolls of Ashford for the year
>     1608[2]
>     <wlmailhtml:{5414713B-056E-4F84-A809-B0D97A694130}mid://00000017/#_ftn1>
>     contain entries which indicate clearly an enclosing operation of
>     that kind in progress.
> 
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> 
>     [2]
>     <wlmailhtml:{5414713B-056E-4F84-A809-B0D97A694130}mid://00000017/#_ftnref1>
>     Printed in Pym Yeatman’s Feud. Hist. of Derb. sect. viii, 283 et seq.
> 
> 
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> 
>     [1]
>     <wlmailhtml:{5414713B-056E-4F84-A809-B0D97A694130}mid://00000017/#_ftnref1>
>     Duchy of Lanc. Plead. and Depositions (P.R.O.)
>