Parish of Holwell

Tithes 1776, 1789

PE/HOW IN 2/1 original document, Dorset History Centre

Book entitled ‘ Tithe Book Holwell 1759-1789’

 

Inside cover:

N.B. The Tithes of Holwell are let from Lady Day to Lady Day, but may be demanded every half year, or Quarter. Mr Hobson died October 11th 1777: His Widow received the half year’s Tithe due at Michaelmas; and his Successors received the next half year’s Tithe at Lady Day following 1778.                    R.R. (Richard Radcliffe)

 

The book starts with individual entries in the form following:

May 5th 1759 I hereby promise to pay to Mr Hobson four Guineas a year for the Tythe of my Estate in Holwell, late Thorn’s and Hopkins’s, and three Guineas and a half a year for the Tythe of my Estate at Woodbride, late Mr Henley’s, at two equal half yearly Payments, during the time that Mr Hobson continues Rector of Holwell.

Witness my Hand

Benj: Coombes

Apr 5th 1768

I hereby promise to pay to Mr Hobson eight Pounds twelve shillings and sixpence a year for the Tythe of my Estate at Buckshaw and for the Ground called Smith-Croft at two equal yearly Payments during the Time Mr Hobson is Rector of Holwell.

Witness my Hand

Benj: Coombes

 

Also included are yearly lists:

Tythe due at Lady-Day 1776

 

Tho. Burt for Miss Herbert’s Farm                                                   £12.12.0

Ben. Coombs for Thorns and Hopkins                                             £4.4.0

Ben. Coombs for Woodbridge and Parkers                                    £4.13.6

John Coombs for Potter’s, late Downton’s                                      £2.5.0

Ben. Coombs for Part of Downton’s                                                 £1.5.0

Willm. Coombs for Buckshaw and Smith Croft                               £8.12.6

Wm. Coombs senr for Ridouts Farm                                                £4.4.0

Jonathan Cadie for his own                                                                £4.4.0

Jonathan Cadie for Lane’s                                                                 £3.3.0

Charles Cadie for his own                                                                  £4.4.0

Charles Cadie for Gillingham’s                                                          £3.3.0

Charles Cadie for Part of Downton’s, West-Row                             £2.10.0

James Cadie for his own                                                                    £2.17.6

James Cadie for Cooper’s                                                                 £4.4.0

James Cadie for Part of Castleman’s                                               £0.16.6

David Cadie                                                                                         £0.2.0

George Clench                                                                                    £0.15.0

Edith Cuff                                                                                             £0.3.0

Tho. Crocker for Nash and Dolliver’s                                                £3.8.0

Tho. Crocker for Darks                                                                       £0.2.6

Sarah Coombs for Loder’s                                                                £4.4.0

Sarah Coombs for Newhouse, Coat and Collins’s                         £4.4.0

John Downton for Part of West-Row                                                £2.10.0

John Downton for Rapley’s                                                               £0.5.0

Tho. Ears for Woodbridge Farm                                                        £25.0.0

Edward Frost for his Orchard                                                            £0.7.6

Edward Frost for Ground at Pulham Lake                                        £0.6.0

Richard Gillingham                                                                             £0.2.0

John Gilbert                                                                                          £0.2.0

Tho. Goddard for Lydlinch Poor’s                                                     £0.17.0

Miss Herberts                                                                                      £0.10.6

Edmund Hayward                                                                               £7.10.0

Mrs Hayward                                                                                       £1.15.0

T. Hobson Langham’s Orchard and Little Mead                             £0.15.6

James Kingman                                                                                 £0.2.0

Wm. Loder his own and Father’s                                                      £0.4.6

Geo. Loder                                                                                           £0.3.0

Geo. Lyne and Son                                                                             £0.2.6

Mor. Geo. Lyne                                                                                    £0.5.0

Richard Langhorn                                                                              £0.15.0

Eliz. Langhorn                                                                                    £0.2.6

John Lodge                                                                                          £0.2.0

Mary Loder’s                                                                                        £0.2.0

William Miller for Madgwick’s                                                            £7.0.0

William Miller by fetching a load of Coals                                         £1.5.0

Charles Moses for his Farm                                                               £4.4.0

Charles Moses for Buckshaw and Rap                                            £0.8.0

Edward Melmor                                                                                   £0.2.0

John Miles                                                                                            £0.3.0

Wm. Mullett                                                                                          £0.15.0

Anthony Notley for the Glebe                                                             £39.0.0

John Penny for Spicer’s                                                                     £1.17.6

Tho. Paris                                                                                             £0.8.6

Tho. Ridout for Holwell Farm                                                             (no amount given)

Tho. Ridout for Mullets                                                                       

Sarah Richards                                                                                   £0.2.6

Tho. Styles                                                                                           £0.2.6

William Styles                                                                                      £0.5.0

Samuel Style                                                                                        £0.2.0

John Sergeant                                                                                     £0.9.0

Eliz. Styles                                                                                           £1.5.0

John Toop for Castleman’s                                                                £1.10.0

William Trim for his Own                                                                     £2.2.0

William Trim for Peddimore                                                               £3.0.0

John Tuck for Kiddle’s                                                                        £3.13.0

John Tuck for the Orchard                                                                  £0.7.0

Mary Tuck for Weech’s                                                                       £1.11.6

Mary Tuck for Langham’s at Corn-Hill                                              £0.17.6

William Vardy                                                                                      £0.3.0

Tho. Young of Wotton                                                                         £0.6.0

Benjamin Young                                                                                  £13.10.6

                                                                                                              

Tithes due at Lady Day 1789                                                         

Thos. Birt for Mr Daubeny’s                                                                £12.12.0

John Baker, Pulham, for Holmes’s                                                    £0.6.0

Daniel Baker, late Lodge’s                                                                £0.2.0

Benj. Coombs for Thorns and Hopkins                                            £5.0.0

Benj. Coombs for Part of Downton’s                                                £1.5.0

John Coombs for Potter’s, late Downton’s                                      £2.5.0

John Coombs for Smith Croft                                                            £0.15.0

Joseph Coombs for his own                                                              £4.10.0

Joseph Coombs for Parker’s                                                            £1.0.0

Wm. Coombs for Grundy’s                                                                £8.14.0

Wm. Coombs for Linghorn’s                                                              £0.17.6

Wm. Coombs for Stount’s                                                                  £1.5.0

Wm. Coombs for Ridout’s                                                                 £4.4.0

Jonathan Cadie for his own                                                                £4.4.0

Jonathan Cadie for Lane’s                                                                 £3.3.0

James Cadie for his own                                                                    £2.17.6

James Cadie for Cooper’s                                                                 £4.4.0

James Cadie for Part of Castleman’s                                               £0.18.6

James Cadie for Rapley’s and Perres’s                                           £0.6.0

James Cadie for Charles Cadie’s                                                     £4.4.0

James Cadie for Gillingham’s                                                            £3.3.0

Thos. Crocker for Nash                                                                      £2.7.6

Thos. Crocker for Dolliver’s                                                               £1.3.6

Thos. Crocker for Trim’s                                                                    £0.7.6

Thos. Crocker for Dark’s and Young’s                                             £0.5.6

Geo. Clench for Part of Tizzard’s                                                      £0.15.0

Mr Daubeny, late Herbert’s                                                               £0.10.6

Josuah (sic) Drake, late Young’s                                                       £0.7.6

John Downton for his own                                                                 £2.10.0

John Downton for Part of West-Row                                                £2.10.0

(Note – Mr Downton owes a year’s Tithe and an old arrear of ?£1.16.0 [crossed through]

pd Octbr 17, 1789)                                                                              

Thos. Ears for Woodbridge                                                                £25.0.0

John Eyres and Betty Cadie for Mitchel’s                                        £0.2.6

James Gartrel                                                                                      £0.2.0

John Gilbert                                                                                          £0.2.0

Robert Goddard, late Tollerville’s                                                      £4.12.0

Richd. Gillingham, two Orchards                                                      £0.5.0

George Gould                                                                                      £0.2.6

Thomas Grimes for Kiddle’s                                                              £0.3.0

Thos. Hayward                                                                                    £10.15.0

Wm. Jewkes, for Loder’s, Newhouse, Coat and Collin’s,

late Mrs Coombs’s                                                                             £10.10.0

Thos. Loder                                                                                          £0.6.6

Wm. Loder sr.                                                                                      £0.3.6

Wm Loder jr. and Eliasaph Loder                                                    £0.2.6

Mary Loder                                                                                           £0.2.0

Morris Geo. Lyne                                                                                £0.5.0

Widow Lyne                                                                                         £0.2.6

Richd. Linghorn                                                                                  £0.15.0

Richd. Linghorn Part of Castleman’s                                               £1.10.0

Wm. Millar for the Farm                                                                      £8.5.0

James Martin, late Frost’s                                                                  £0.7.6

Widow Mullet, part of Tizzard’s                                                          £0.15.0

Edwd. Melmor                                                                                     £0.2.0

John Mills/Miles                                                                                   £0.3.0

John Mills/Miles for Little Mead                                                         £0.5.0

Anthony Notley, Part of the Glebe                                                     £36.0.0

(Mrs Notley pd. Half a years Rent Sepbr 22, due last Michaelmas   £18.0.0

remainder - ? 27, 1790, due last Lady Day £18.0.0)

John Penny for Spicer’s                                                                     £1.17.6

Thos. Perris                                                                                          £0.2.6

Thos. Ridout for ye Farm and Sanders                                            £15.4.0

Thos. Ridout for Mullet’s                                                                     £2.0.0

Thos. Ridout for Widow Styles’s                                                      £1.5.0

Thos. Ridout  (for) Kiddle’s                                                                £3.13.6

James Ross                                                                                         £0.3.0

R.R. Part of ye Glebe                                                                           £10.0.0

John Sergeant for his two Orchards                                                 £0.5.0

Wm. Styles                                                                                           £0.5.0

Wm. Styles for Lydlinch Poor Land                                                   £1.0.0

Thos. Styles Sr                                                                                    £0.2.6

Thos. Styles Jr., late Cuff’s                                                                 £0.3.0

Elizabeth Styles                                                                                   £0.2.0

Wm. Toop, Woodbridge                                                                     £0.2.0

John Tuck, monsier’s and Weech’s                                                  £2.2.0

W. Trim                                                                                                 no amount given

Thos. Young, Wootton                                                                        £0.6.0

Thos. Young, alias Sanders                                                             £0.2.6

Mrs Coombs for Peddimore, late Trim                                             £3.0.0

Mrs Coombs for Pope’s                                                                     £2.10.0

Mrs Coombs for Clark’s Orchard and Wrench’s                             £0.6.0

Mrs Coombs for Lingham’s Orchard in ye Borough                       £0.10.6

N.B. W. Trim pd 3s 6d Tithe for Clark’s Orchard wch must be deducted from Mrs Coomb’s Tithe

                                                                                                              

At the end of the book                                                                        

House, Garden, Orchard, Barton                                                        8a 0r

Two South Fields                                                                                 38a 0r

Sandy Close                                                                                         7a 1r

Dole                                                                                                       5a 3r

?Lent Crofts                                                                                          28a 0r

Nine Acres                                                                                            7a 2r

Burts Ground                                                                                         13a 0r

Eighteen Acres                                                                                     14a 3r

Rowden Mill                                                                                          8a 2r

Furzy Ground                                                                                        10a 0r

Ewe Close                                                                                            20a 0r

Seven Acres                                                                                         6a 2r

North Field                                                                                            17a 0r

Great Horse Close                                                                               13a 0r

Little Horse Close                                                                                8a 0r

New Mead and Rick Yard                                                                   14a 0r

Kennel Close                                                                                        15a 0r

Langlands                                                                                             11a 0r

                                                                                                               245a 1r

 

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Parish of Holwell

Holwell Militia List 1799

DRO, MIC/R/1566

 

A List of  Persons residing in the  Parish of Holwell and the tything of Buckhorn Weston between the Age of Eighteen and forty five years as are Liable to Serve  as Militia Men for the  County of  Somerset

At this time Holwell, was a detached part of Somerset,

 

William

EARS/EAN

servant

 

Ricahrd

HALL

servant

 

Joshua

DRAKE

cordwainer

 

Thomas

STILES junr.

labourer

 

William

ROSS

schoolmaster

?cripl'd

Thomas

HAYWARD

yeoman

 

George

COOMBES

yeoman

 

Thomas

EARS/EAN

labourer

 

James

WINTER

servant

 

William

TUCK

labourer

 

Thomas

?TONERFIELD

labourer

 

John

DURANT

labourer

 

George

KNIGHT

yeoman

 

Peter

KNIGHT

not given

 

John

BAKER

servant

 

William

GOULD

labourer

 

Charles

CROCKER

daryman

4 children

Henry

BUGG

daryman

? 4 children

George

OSMOND

servant

 

Tomas

GARTELL

cordwainer

?5/6 children

George

STILES junr.

carpenter

6 children

John

LOADER

carpenter

4 children

William

GILLINGHAM junr.

labourer

 

Charles

GILLINGHAM

labourer

 

Robert

STRANGE

yeoman

 

James

ROSS

labourer

4 children

William

BAKER

labourer

 

Charles

CADIE

labourer

 

 

Any Person or Persons Think Themselves Aggrieved by  having their Names inserted in the Above  List Might make Their Appeal on Saturday the 14  day of this Instant September at the Town Hall in Wincanton  by Eleven O'Clock  in the Forenoon Sept 6th 1799 Jonathan CARTER tythingman

 

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