Overseers
of the Poor Rate Books
1756 - 1757
Ref
PE/PTD – OV1/1
1756-1757 covering:
The Poor of Powerstock: November 1756 – April 1757
The Poor of Nettlecombe: May 1756- April 1757
The Poor of Milton: May 56 – April 1757
The Poor of Poorton & Loscombe: May 1756 – April 1757
PAID THE POOR OF POWERSTOCK (POORSTOCK)
November 21st 1756
Pd Susannah Meadway £ 0 4 s 0 d
Pd Mary Travers £ 0 4 s 0 d
Pd for keeping Elizabeth Maby’s child £ 0 6 s 0 d
Pd Robert Brown £ 0 5 s 0 d
Pd Mary Barber £ 0 4 s 0 d
Pd George Gale’s wife £ 0 7 s 0 d
Gave George Miller in sickness £ 0 8 s 6 d
Pd Elizabeth Maby’s house servt £ 0 2 s 6 d
Pd for keeping Accounts £ 0 1 s 0 d
Pd for making oath to the list of Juries £ 0 1 s 0 d
Gave Willm Greening £ 0 1 s 0 d
Gave Geo Miller’s wife £ 0 2 s 6 d
Pd Anne Gale for Slade’s Bastard child £ 0 4 s 0 d
Total £ 2 10 s d
December 19 th 1756
Pd Susannah Meadway £ 0 4 s 0 d
Pd Mary Travers £ 0 4 s 0 d
Pd for keeping Elizabeth Maby’s child £ 0 6 s 0 d
Pd Robert Brown £ 0 5 s 0 d
Pd Mary Barber £ 0 4 s 0 d
Pd George Gale’s wife £ 0 7 s 0 d
Pd for keeping accounts £ 0 1 s 0 d
Gave Robert Greening £ 0 8 s 0 d
Gave George Miller £ 0 5 s 6 d
Gave William Greening £ 0 1 s 9 d
Pd Henry Slades child £ 0 4 s 0 d
Total £ 2 10 s d
January 16th 1757
Paid Susannah Meadway £ 0 4 s 0 d
Pd Mary Travers £ 0 4 s 0 d
Pd for keeping Elizabeth Maby’s child £ 0 6 s 0 d
Pd Robert Brown £ 0 5 s 0 d
Pd Mary Barber £ 0 4 s 0 d
Pd George Gale’s wife £ 0 7 s 0 d
Pd for keeping accounts £ 0 1 s 0 d
Gave William Greening last month £ 0 2 s 6 d
Gave Robert Greening last month £ 0 2 s 6 d
Paid Anne Maby’s House Rent £ 0 2 s 6 d
Gave William Greening coat £ 0 10 s 0 d
Gave William Greening half a bushel of barley £ 0 1 s 9 d
Gave George Gale’s wife £ 0 4 s 0 d
Gave Mary Barber £ 0 1 s 0 d
Gave Robert Greening £ 0 1 s 6 d
Paid the County rate money £ 4 15 s 2 d
Total £ 7 11 s 11 d
February 13 th 1757
Pd Susannah Meadway £ 0 4 s 0 d
Pd Mary Travers £ 0 4 s 0 d
Pd for keeping Elizabeth Mabey’s child £ 0 6 s 0 d
Pd Robert Brown £ 0 5 s 0 d
Pd Mary Barber £ 0 4 s 0 d
Pd George Gale’s wife £ 0 7 s 0 d
Pd for keeping accounts £ 0 1 s 0 d
Gave Willm Greening for last month £ 0 2 s 6 d
Gave Robt Greening last month £ 0 2 s 6 d
Gave Geo Miller last month £ 0 2 s 6 d
Pd to Slade’s bastard for 2 months £ 0 8 s 0 d
Gave Geo Miller £ 0 4 s 7 ½ d
Gave Robt Greening £ 0 4 s 0 d
Gave Mary Barber £ 0 1 s 0 d
Gave Geo Gale’s wife £ 0 1 s 0 d
Gave Robt Brown for sweeping of chimneys £ 0 1 s 0 d
Tho Changer on taking up of Christopher Garlent £ 0 2 s 5 d
Total £ 3 0 s 6½ d
March 13th 1757
Paid Susannah Meadway £ 0 4 s 0 d
Pd Mary Travers £ 0 4 s 0 d
Pd for keeping Elizabeth Mabey’s child £ 0 6 s 0 d
Pd Robert Browne £ 0 5 s 0 d
Pd Mary Barber £ 0 4 s 0 d
Pd Geo Gale’s wife £ 0 7 s 0 d
Pd to keeping accounts £ 0 1 s 0 d
Gave Mary Barber £ 0 1 s 0 d
Gave Mary Barber a Quarter of a hundred of wood £ 0 3 s 0 d
Pd to Slade’s bastard £ 0 4 s 0 d
Pd to Anne Gale extraordinary £ 0 1 s 3 d
Gave Geo Miller last month Sunday £ 0 2 s 6 d
Gave Geo Miller this month £ 0 4 s 6 d
Gave William Greening last M Sunday £ 0 3 s 0 d
Gave Robert Greening last M Sunday £ 0 2 s 6 d
Gave Robt Greening this month £ 0 1 s 10 d
Gave Andrew Gale £ 0 4 s 0 d
Gave Geo Gale’s wife £ 0 2 s 0 d
Pd for the Way Warden Warrant £ 0 2 s 0 d
Total £ 3 2 s 7 d
April 8th 1757
Pd Susannah Meadway £ 0 6 s 0 d
Pd Mary Travers £ 0 6 s 0 d
Pd for keeping Eliz Maby’s child £ 0 6 s 0 d
Pd Robert Brown £ 0 5 s 0 d
Pd Mary Barber £ 0 6 s 0 d
Pd Geo Gale’s wife £ 0 8 s 0 d
Pd for keeping accounts £ 0 1 s 0 d
Pd Geo Miller £ 0 9 s 10 d
Pd Anne Gale’s bastard child £ 0 4 s 0 d
Pd half of years house rent for George Miller £ 0 7 s 6 d
Gave Robert Brown a pair of shoes £ 0 4 s 6 d
Spent at the vestry at Easter £ 0 3 s 4 d
Gave Andrew Gale £ 0 4 s 0 d
Pd for signing of the book £ 0 2 s 0 d
To a journey to the bottle £ 0 2 s 0 d
Pd the Lord’s rent for John Riglar £ 0 1 s 0? d
Pd Mary Travers extraordinary 2 ? month for 2
months which was not accounted for £ 0 1 s 0 d
Gave Edith Palmer £ 0 0 s 6 d
Total £ 4 ? s ? d
April 10th 1757
Paid Susannah Meadway £ 0 4 s 0 d
Pd Mary Travers £ 0 4 s 0 d
Pd for keeping Elizabeth Mabey’s child £ 0 6 s 0 d
Pd Robert Browne £ 0 5 s 0 d
Pd Mary Barber £ 0 6 s 0 d
Pd George Gale’s wife £ 0 9 s 0 d
Pd to keeping accounts £ 0 1 s 0 d
Pd for Drawing the Rates on the Book £ 0 2 s 0 d
Gave Robert Greening to save? His house £ 0 7 s 6 d
Paid William Greening £ 0 3 s 0 d
For answering a Warrant at ? Geo Gale’s Wife fetched £ 0 3 s d
For answering a Warrant at ? Anne Gale fetched £ 0 3 s 0 d
Gave Mary Travers last month Sunday £ 0 2 s 0 d
Pd Thos Rigler’s House Rent for Mary Barber £ 0 10 s 2 d
Pd Elizabeth Maby’s House Rent £ 0 2 s 6 d
Pd for keeping? Geo Gale’s Children £ 1 5 s 0 d
Pd the Funeral Charges of William Greening £ 0 15 s 8 d
Pd ? John Cousin in the Small Pox £ 0 5 s 0 d
Pd the Changes of John ? while in the Small Pox £ 0 15 s 0 d
? Anne Gale gave a Bed £ 0 10 s 6 d
? George Gale’s Wife’s Hand £ 0 2 s 0 d
Pd Wm Symes for ? Robert Greenings Throat £ 0 3 s 6 d
Pd Anne Gales Bastard Child £ 0 5 s 0 d
Gave Anne Gale £ 0 1 s 0 d
Gave Robert Greening £ 0 1 s 0 d
Total £ 7 15 s 2 d
(The following payments made at Powerstock are shown in the original further on in the rate book because there was not room to put them in here)
April 10th 1757
Gave Willm Greening a bushel of barley £ 0 4 s 0 d
Gave Wm Greening £ 0 2 s 0 d
Gave Wm Greening a faggot of wood £ 0 0 s 1½ d
Gave Susannah Meadway £ 0 2 s 0 d
Total £ 0 8 s 1½ d
April 11th 1757 The Old Overseers gave in their Accounts for the Year last past
Received by Collecting 40 Poor Rates over the
Parish and Deductions allowed £ 162 3 s 4 d
Received with the Book £ 1 16 s 0 d
£ 163 19 s 4 d
Disbursed £ 138 3 s 9½ d
In pocket £ 25 15 s 6½ d
April
11th 1757 We approve the above Account and do nominate and appoint
overseers for the Parish of Powerstock for the year ensuing
Geo Burt
Thos Chuchill
Thos Palmer
Elias Lawrence
Simon Hansford
John ?
PD THE POOR OF NETTLECOMBE
May 9th 1756
Pd Susannah Richards £ 0 4 s 0 d
Pd Sarah Trooper £ 0 1 s 0 d
Pd Margaret Paul £ 0 4 s 0 d
Pd Sarah Miller £ 0 5 s 6 d
Pd Elizabeth Gale £ 0 1 s 0 d
Pd John Greening £ 0 4 s 0 d
Gave Henry Riglar £ 0 1 s 3 d
Gave Thomas Trooper £ 0 3 s 0 d
Total £ 1 3 s 9 d
June 6th 1756
Paid Susannah Richards £ 0 4 s 0 d
Pd Sarah Trooper £ 0 5 s 0 d
Pd Margaret Paul £ 0 4 s 0 d
Pd Sarah Miller £ 0 5 s 6 d
Pd Elizabeth Gale £ 0 1 s 0 d
Pd John Greening £ 0 4 s 0 d
Gave Sarah Trooper £ 0 1 s 6 d
Gave Jean Riglar £ 0 2 s 6 d
Total £ 1 7 s 6 d
July 4th 1756
Paid Susannah Richards £ 0 4 s 0 d
Pd
Richard Trooper
£ 0 5
s 0
d
Pd Margaret Paul £ 0 4 s 0 d
Pd Sarah Miller £ 0 5 s 6 d
Pd Elizabeth Gale £ 0 1 s 0 d
Pd John Greening £ 0 4 s 0 d
Pd the funeral charges of Sarah Trooper £ 0 16 s 0 d
Pd Thomas Trooper for 2 months £ 0 7 s 6 d
Gave Jean Rigler £ 0 2 s 6 d
Total £ 2 4 s 6 d
August 1st 1756
Paid Susannah Richards £ 0 4 s 0 d
Pd Margaret Paul £ 0 4 s 0 d
Pd Sarah Miller £ 0 5 s 6 d
Pd Elizabeth Gale £ 0 1 s 0 d
Pd John Greening £ 0 4 s 0 d
Pd Thomas Trooper £ 0 4 s 6 d
Pd for drawing a rate to collect by £ 0 0 s 6 d
Gave Anne Rigler £ 0 4 s 0½ d
Total £ 1 10 s 5½ d
August 29th 1756
Paid Susannah Richards £ 0 4 s 0 d
Pd Margaret Paul £ 0 4 s 0 d
Pd Sarah Miller £ 0 5 s 6 d
Pd Elizabeth Gale £ 0 1 s 0 d
Pd John Greening £ 0 4 s 0 d
Pd Thomas Trooper £ 0 4 s 6 d
Pd Henry Rigler’s wife £ 0 4 s 0 d
Total £ 1 7 s 0 d
September 26th 1756
Paid Susannah Richards £ 0 4 s 0 d
Pd Margaret Paul £ 0 4 s 0 d
Pd Sarah Miller £ 0 5 s 6 d
Pd Elizabeth Gale £ 0 1 s 0 d
Pd John Greening £ 0 4 s 0 d
Pd Thomas Trooper £ 0 4 s 0 d
Gave Elizabeth Gale a change £ 0 3 s 0 d
Gave Thomas Trooper a Shirt £ 0 3 s 4 d
Pd for a list of juries £ 0 4 s 0 d
Total £ 1 9 s 10 d
October 24th 1756
Paid Susannah Richards £ 0 4 s 0 d
Pd Margaret Paul £ 0 4 s 0 d
Pd Sarah Miller £ 0 5 s 6 d
Pd Elizabeth Gale £ 0 1 s 0 d
Pd John Greening £ 0 4 s 0 d
Pd Thomas Trooper £ 0 4 s 0 d
Gave Sarah Miller a change £ 0 3 s 0 d
Total £ 1 5 s 6 d
November 21st 1756
Paid Susannah Richards £ 0 4 s 0 d
Pd Margaret Paul £ 0 4 s 0 d
Pd Sarah Miller £ 0 5 s 6 d
Pd Elizabeth Gale £ 0 1 s 0 d
Pd John Greening £ 0 4 s 0 d
Pd Thomas Trooper £ 0 4 s 0 d
Total £ 1 2 s 6 d
December 19th 1756
Pd Susannah Richards £ 0 4 s 0 d
Pd Margaret Paul £ 0 4 s 0 d
Pd Sarah Miller £ 0 5 s 6 d
Pd Elizabeth Gale £ 0 1 s 0 d
Pd John Greening £ 0 4 s 0 d
Pd Thomas Trooper £ 0 4 s 0 d
Gave Elizabeth Gale £ 0 1 s 0 d
For Answering a Warrant against Thomas Farthing £ 0 3 s 0 d
Gave Anne Riglar £ 0 1 s 0 d
Total £ 1 7 s 6 d
January 16th 1757
Paid Susannah Richards £ 0 4 s 0 d
Pd Margaret Paul £ 0 4 s 0 d
Pd Sarah Miller £ 0 5 s 6 d
Pd Elizabeth Gale £ 0 2 s 0 d
Pd John Greening £ 0 4 s 0 d
Pd Thomas Trooper £ 0 4 s 0 d
Paid Henry Riglar’s wife for 5 months £ 1 0 s 0 d
Gave Anne Rigler Goods £ 0 16 s 0 d
Gave Robert Paul a sack of barley £ 0 0 s 10 d
Pd Jean Rigler £ 0 4 s 0 d
Total £ 3 4 s 4 d
February 13th 1757
Paid Susannah Richards £ 0 4 s 0 d
Pd Margaret Paul £ 0 4 s 0 d
Pd Sarah Miller £ 0 5 s 6 d
Pd Elizabeth Gale £ 0 2 s 0 d
Pd John Greening £ 0 4 s 0 d
Pd Thomas Trooper £ 0 4 s 0 d
Pd Henry Rigler’s wife £ 0 4 s 0 d
Gave Henry Hounsell a bushel of barley £ 0 3 s 8 d
Total £ 1 11 s 2 d
March 13th 1757
Pd Susannah Richards £ 0 4 s 0 d
Pd Margaret Paul £ 0 4 s 0 d
Pd Sarah Miller £ 0 5 s 6 d
Pd Elizabeth Gale £ 0 2 s 0 d
Pd John Greening £ 0 4 s 0 d
Pd Thomas Trooper £ 0 4 s 0 d
Pd Henry Riglar’s wife £ 0 4 s 0 d
Pd Joan Rigler for 2 months £ 0 8 s 0 d
Gave Susannah Richards for 2 months £ 0 2 s 0 d
Gave Elizabeth Way £ 0 1 s 0 d
Gave
Henry Hounsell a bushel of barley
Gave Thos Gale a shirt £ 0 3 s 0 d
Gave Thos Gale £ 0 3 s 0 d
Pd for the Waywardens Warrant £ 0 2 s 0 d
Total £ 2 6 s 6 d
April 6th 1757
Pd Susannah Richards £ 0 5 s 0 d
Pd Margaret Paul £ 0 4 s 0 d
Pd Sarah Miller £ 0 5 s 6 d
Pd Elizabeth Gale £ 0 2 s 0 d
Pd John Greening £ 0 4 s 0 d
Pd Thomas Trooper £ 0 4 s 0 d
Pd Henry Riglar’s wife £ 0 4 s 0 d
Pd Anne Riglar £ 0 5 s 0 d
Gave Margaret Paul a change £ 0 3 s 0 d
£ 1 16 s 6 d
Pd Hannah Richards a shilling last month which
was not charged £ 0 1 s 0 d
Total £ 1 17 s 6 d
April 10th 1757
Paid Susannah Richards £ 0 4 s 0 d
Pd Margaret Paul £ 0 4 s 0 d
Pd Sarah Miller £ 0 5 s 6 d
Pd Elizabeth Gale £ 0 2 s 0 d
Pd John Greening £ 0 4 s 0 d
Pd Thomas Trooper £ 0 4 s 0 d
Pd Henry Rigler’s wife £ 0 4 s 0 d
Pd Jane Rigler £ 0 4 s 0 d
Paid charges of the marrying of Eliz Way and gave in money £ 8 0 s 8 d
Total £ 9 12 s 2 d
PAID THE POOR OF MILTON
May 9th 1756
Paid Thomas Knight £ 0 7 s 0 d
Pd William Symes £ 0 4 s 0 d
Pd Elizabeth Gale £ 0 5 s 6 d
Pd Joan Mills £ 0 5 s 0 d
Pd William Langford £ 0 3 s 0 d
Pd Richard Wrixton £ 0 2 s 0 d
Pd Joan Watson £ 0 4 s 0 d
Gave Elizabeth Gale £ 0 0 s 6 d
Total £ 1 11 s 0 d
June 6th 1756
Paid Thomas Knight £ 0 7 s 0 d
Pd William Symes £ 0 4 s 0 d
Pd Elizabeth Gale £ 0 5 s 6 d
Pd Joan Mills £ 0 5 s 0 d
Pd William Langford £ 0 3 s 0 d
Pd Richard Wrixton £ 0 2 s 0 d
Pd Joan Watson £ 0 4 s 0 d
Pd for drawing a collecting rate £ 0 0 s 6 d
Gave Simon Cousins a pair of ?? £ 0 4 s 3 d
Gave John Gale £ 0 2 s 0 d
Gave Simon Cousins £ 0 1 s 0 d
Gave Richard Wrixton Jnr £ 0 2 s 6 d
Gave Elizabeth Gale £ 0 0 s 6 d
Total £ 2 1 s 3 d
July 4th 1756
Paid Thomas Knight £ 0 7 s 0 d
Pd William Symes £ 0 4 s 0 d
Pd Elizabeth Gale £ 0 5 s 6 d
Pd Joan Mills £ 0 5 s 0 d
Pd William Longford £ 0 3 s 0 d
Pd Richard Wrixton £ 0 2 s 0 d
Pd Joan Watson £ 0 4 s 0 d
Gave John Gale £ 0 1 s 10 d
Gave Joan Watson for mending of shoes and washing £ 0 0 s 5½ d
Gave Simon Cousins £ 0 1 s 0 d
Gave Elizabeth Gale £ 0 0 s 6 d
Total £ 1 14 s 3½ d
July 4 1756 This day we who have under set held a Vestry to consult about the poor
John Conway
Geo ?
John Palmer
Wm Hallett
Thomas Palmer
August 1st 1756
Paid Thomas Knight £ 0 7 s 0 d
Pd William Symes £ 0 4 s 0 d
Pd Elizabeth Gale £ 0 7 s 6 d
Pd Joan Mills £ 0 5 s 0 d
Pd William Langford £ 0 3 s 0 d
Pd Richard Wrixon £ 0 2 s 0 d
Pd Joan Watson £ 0 5 s 0 d
Gave Grace Wrixton £ 0 3 s 4 d
Gave Simon Cousins £ 0 2 s 0 d
Gave John Gale £ 0 2 s 1½ d
Gave Mary Hine in sickness £ 0 3 s 0 d
Gave Richd Wrixton a coat £ 0 12 s 2 d
Gave George Wrixton a shirt £ 0 2 s 4 d
Gave George Wrixton a pair of breaches £ 0 2 s 6 d
To going to ye justice to answer a warrant Richd Wrixton fetchd £ 0 3 s 0 d
Pd for Wrixton’s Warrant £ 0 1 s 0 d
Pd Elizabeth Gale last month after the book was cast up £ 0 1 s 6 d
Total £ 3 6 s 5½ d
August 29th 1756
Paid Thomas Knight £ 0 7 s 0 d
Pd William Symes £ 0 4 s 0 d
Pd Elizabeth Gale £ 0 7 s 6 d
Pd Joan Mills £ 0 5 s 0 d
Pd William Langford £ 0 3 s 0 d
Pd Richard Wrixton £ 0 2 s 0 d
Pd Joan Watson £ 0 5 s 0 d
Gave Mary Hine £ 0 2 s 0 d
Pd for tending 3 weeks at ? £ 0 7 s 6 d
Gave Thomas Knight £ 0 1 s 0 d
Gave John Gale £ 0 1 s 0 d
Gave Simon Cousins £ 0 0 s 6 d
Gave George Wrixton £ 0 4 s 0 d
Total £ 2 9 s 6 d
September 26th 1756
Paid Thomas Knight £ 0 7 s 0 d
Pd William Symes £ 0 4 s 0 d
Pd Elizabeth Gale £ 0 7 s 6 d
Pd Joan Mills £ 0 5 s 0 d
Pd William Langford £ 0 3 s 0 d
Pd Richard Wrixton £ 0 2 s 0 d
P Joan Watson £ 0 5 s 0 d
Gave John Gale £ 0 1 s 0 d
Gave Thomas Knight £ 0 1 s 0 d
Total £ 1 15 s 6 d
October 24th 1756
Paid Thomas Knight £ 0 7 s 0 d
Pd William Symes £ 0 4 s 0 d
Pd Elizabeth Gale £ 0 7 s 6 d
Pd Joan Mills £ 0 5 s 0 d
Pd William Langford £ 0 3 s 0 d
Pd Richard Wrixton £ 0 2 s 0 d
Pd Joan Watson £ 0 5 s 0 d
Gave John Gale £ 0 0 s 6 d
For swearing in the list of juries £ 0 1 s 0 d
Pd Geo Wrixton for 2 months £ 0 6 s 0 d
Total £ 2 1 s 0 d
November 21st 1756
Pd Thomas Knight £ 0 7 s 0 d
Pd William Symes £ 0 4 s 0 d
Pd Elizabeth Gale £ 0 7 s 6 d
Pd Joan Mills £ 0 5 s 0 d
Pd William Langford £ 0 3 s 0 d
Pd Richard Wrixton £ 0 2 s 0 d
Pd Joan Watson £ 0 5 s 0 d
Pd George Wrixton £ 0 3 s 0 d
Gave John Gale a pair of breaches £ 0 3 s 0 d
Gave Mary Gale in sickness £ 0 2 s 0 d
Gave John Dunn a bushel of barley £ 0 3 s 6 d
Gave Jane Hunt £ 0 1 s 6 d
Gave Elizabeth Gale a change £ 0 3 s 0 d
Gave Richard Wrixton £ 0 0 s 6 d
Gave Joan Mills £ 0 1 s 0 d
Gave Thomas Knight £ 0 1 s 0 d
Paid Wm Bellamy for 8 faggots £ 0 3 s 0 d
Overseer and Churchwarden for
going to the Justice about Jean Hunt £ 0 6 s 0 d
Total £ 3 1 s 0 d
December 19th 1756
Paid Thomas Knight £ 0 7 s 0 d
Pd William Symes £ 0 4 s 0 d
Pd Elizabeth Gale £ 0 7 s 6 d
Pd Joan Mills £ 0 5 s 0 d
Pd William Langford £ 0 3 s 0 d
Pd Richard Wrixton £ 0 2 s 0 d
Pd Joan Watson £ 0 5 s 0 d
Pd George Wrixton £ 0 3 s 0 d
Gave Jane Hunt £ 0 1 s 9 d
Gave Simon Cousins £ 0 1 s 4½ d
Gave Christopher Wrixton £ 0 3 s 3 d
Total £ 2 2 s 10½ d
January 16th 1757
Paid Thomas Knight £ 0 7 s 0 d
Pd William Symes £ 0 4 s 0 d
Pd Elizabeth Gale £ 0 7 s 6 d
Pd Joan Mills £ 0 5 s 0 d
Pd William Langford £ 0 3 s 0 d
Pd Richard Wrixton £ 0 2 s 0 d
Pd Joan Watson £ 0 5 s 0 d
Pd George Wrixton £ 0 3 s 0 d
Gave George Wrixton £ 0 1 s 0 d
Gave Jane Hunt £ 0 2 s 0 d
Gave Christopher Wrixton £ 0 6 s 0 d
Gave John Gale a pair of shoes £ 0 4 s 6 d
Gave Jn Gale a peck of barley £ 0 0 s 10½ d
Gave Joan Watson to buy wood £ 0 2 s 0 d
Gave Joan Mills £ 0 1 s 0 d
Paid Wm Coombs for Jane Hunt House Rent £ 1 17 s 6 d
Gave John Gale a peck of barley £ 0 0 s 10½ d
For going to ? for William Hunt to milb?ey and
Expenses for ? ? Mr Coombs £ 0 10 s 0 d
November the 26 gave Joan Thint? £ 0 0 s 1 d
December the 19 gave Jean Hunt £ 0 0 s 3 d
Gave Joan Wabron? A change £ 0 3 s 0 d
Gave William ? a shirt £ ? ? s ? d
Total £ ? ? s ? d
February 13 th 1757
Paid Thomas Knight £ 0 7 s 0 d
Pd William Symes £ 0 4 s 0 d
Pd Elizabeth Gale £ 0 7 s 6 d
Pd Joan Mills £ 0 6 s 0 d
Pd William Longford £ 0 3 s 0 d
Pd Richard Wrixton £ 0 2 s 0 d
Pd Joan Watson £ 0 5 s 0 d
Pd Geo Wrixton £ 0 4 s 0 d
Pd Jane Hunt £ 0 2 s 0 d
Gave David Cousins in money £ 13 1 s 0 d
Gave Jane Hunt £ 0 1 s 0 d
Gave the stretcher out £ 0 3 s 10 d
Paid for a shroud £ 0 2 s 4 d
Paid for a coffin £ 0 5 s 6 d
Pd for digging a grave and toll the bell £ 0 1 s 6 d
Pd for carrying him to church £ 0 4 s 0 d
For swearing to the Affidavit £ 0 0 s 6 d
Pd for a Quarter of a hundred of wood £ 0 3 s 0 d
Gave John Dunn £ 0 3 s 8 d
Gave Christopher Wrixton £ 0 6 s 10 d
Gave John Gale £ 0 1 s 10 d
Gave Richard Wrixton for mending of shoes £ 0 0 s 10 d
Pd Simon Cousins £ 0 1 s 0 d
Gave Thomas Knight £ 0 1 s 6 d
Gave Joan Watson for wood £ 0 1 s 6 d
Gave William Langford a coat £ 0 12 s 4 d
Gave Simon Cousins for extraordinary trouble £ 0 0 s 6 d
Total £ 5 5 s 3 d
March 13th 1757
Paid Thomas Knight £ 0 7 s 0 d
Pd William Symes £ 0 4 s 0 d
Pd Elizabeth Gale £ 0 7 s 6 d
Pd Joan Mills £ 0 6 s 0 d
Pd William Langford £ 0 3 s 0 d
Pd Richard Wrixton £ 0 4 s 0 d
Pd Joan Watson £ 0 5 s 0 d
Pd Geo Wrixton £ 0 4 s 0 d
Pd Jean Hunt £ 0 2 s 0 d
Pd for eleven months to Richard Wrixton it being set on the book but 2? months when it was ? paid £ 1 2 s 0 d
Gave Joan Watson £ 0 1 s 0 d
Gave Christopher Wrixton £ 0 0 s 6 d
Gave Christopher Wrixton a bushel of barley £ 0 4 s 0 d
Pd for three waywarden warrants £ 0 6 s 0 d
Total £ 3 16 s 0 d
April 6th? 1757
Pd Thomas Knight £ 0 7 s 0 d
Pd William Symes £ 0 4 s 0 d
Pd Elizabeth Gale £ 0 7 s 6 d
Pd Joan Mills £ 0 6 s 0 d
Pd William Langford £ 0 3 s 0 d
Pd Richard Wrixton £ 0 4 s 0 d
Pd Jean Watson £ 0 5 s 0 d
Pd Geo Wrixton £ 0 4 s 0 d
Pd Jean Hunt £ 0 2 s 0 d
Gave John Gale in sickness £ 0 5 s 4 d
Pd for Stretching out Jn Gale and carrying
To church £ 0 4 s 0 d
Pd for a coffin £ 0 5 s 6 d
Pd for beer £ 0 0 s 4 d
Pd for a shroud £ 0 2 s 11 d
For going after the shroud £ 0 0 s 6 d
Pd for an affidavit going after £ 0 1 s 0 d
Gave Geo Wrixton £ 0 2 s 4 d
Gave Christopher Wrixton £ 0 12 s 9 d
Gave Thomas Knight £ 0 3 s 9½ d
Gave Joan Watson a pair of stockings£ 0 1 s 1 d
Gave Simon Cousins £ 0 1 s 2 d
Gave Jean Hunt £ 0 1 s 0 d
Total £ 4 4 s 2½ d
For Journey to see Joan Mills £ 0 2 s 6 d
Total £ 4 6 s 8½ d
To a journey to the Bottle £ 0 2 s 0 d
Gave Jean Hunt for tending Jean Watson £ 0 1 s 0 d
Total £ 4 9 s 8½ d
In the ? between John Roper and John Shopland? Complainants the ? and Samuel Furman? ? ? and other Dependants
17 August 1818 at the ? of a ? for the ? in this cause. This Book marked with Letter (C) was exhibited to us and ? to John Baugon? dupell? Isaac Spake Giles Russell ? and by ? deposed to at this time ? ? Examinations on the part of the Complainants.
(The following payments made at Milton are shown in the original further on in the rate book because there was not room to put them in here)
April 10th 1757
Paid Thomas Knight £ 0 7 s 0 d
Paid William Symes £ 0 4 s 0 d
Pd Elizabeth Gale £ 0 7 s 6 d
Pd Joan Mills £ 0 6 s 0 d
Pd William Langord £ 0 3 s 0 d
Pd Richard Wrixton £ 0 4 s 0 d
Pd Joan Watson £ 0 5 s 0 d
Pd George Wrixton £ 0 4 s 0 d
Pd Jane Hunt £ 0 2 s 0 d
Gave Jno Wrixton a bushel of barley £ 0 4 s 0 d
Gave Rich Wrixton a shirt £ 0 3 s 4 d
Gave Thos Knight last month £ 0 2 s 6 d
Gave Thos Knight this month £ 0 5 s 6 d
Gave David Cousin’s wife £ 0 9 s 6 d
Gave David Cousin’s wife wood last month £ 0 4 s 6 d
Pd David Cousin’s wife £ 0 5 s 0 d
Gave Jean Hunt £ 0 1 s 0 d
Gave Christopher Wrixton £ 0 6 s 9 d
Pd Eliz Belringer’s house rent £ 0 8 s 0 d
Pd Willm Landford and Rich Wrixton’s house rent £ 1 10 s 0 d
Pd Eliz Gale’s house rent £ 0 2 s 6 d
Pd Jean Hunt’s house rent £ 0 3 s 9 d
Total £ 6 8 s 10 d
April 28th 1757
Robt Walbridge was sworn to the truth of the above account before us
John Tucker
J ?
PAID THE POOR OF POORTON & LOSCOMBE
May 9th 1756
Paid Elizabeth Gale £ 0 5 s 0 d
Pd Joan Slade £ 0 5 s 0 d
Pd James Gale £ 0 6 s 6 d
For going to Beaminster £ 0 1 s 0 d
Total £ 0 17 s 6 d
June 6 th 1756
Paid Elizabeth Gale £ 0 5 s 0 d
Pd Joan Slade £ 0 5 s 0 d
Pd James Gale £ 0 6 s 6 d
Gave William Farthing £ 0 3 s 0 d
Gave Abraham Oxenbury £ 0 2 s 0 d
Paid Elizabeth Gale’s house rent £ 0 2 s 6 d
Total £ 1 4 s 0 d
July 4th 1756
Paid Elizabeth Gale £ 0 5 s 0 d
Pd Joan Slade £ 0 5 s 0 d
Pd James Gale £ 0 6 s 6 d
Gave Abraham Oxenbury £ 0 1 s 0 d
Pd Hannah Hallett’s house rent £ 0 7 s 6 d
Total £ 1 5 s 0 d
August 1st 1756
Paid Elizabeth Gale £ 0 5 s 0 d
Pd Joan Slade £ 0 5 s 0 d
Pd James Gale £ 0 6 s 6 d
Pd for drawing a rate to collect by £ 0 0 s 6 d
Gave Abraham Oxenbury £ 0 0 s 6 d
Total £ 0 17 s 6 d
August 29th 1756
Paid Elizabeth Gale £ 0 5 s 0 d
Pd Joan Slade £ 0 5 s 0 d
Pd James Gale £ 0 6 s 6 d
Gave Elizabeth Gale £ 0 1 s 0 d
Gave Joan Slade £ 0 1 s 0 d
Gave James Gale £ 0 0 s 6 d
Gave Abraham Oxenbury £ 0 0 s 6 d
Total £ 0 19 s 6 d
September 26th 1756
Paid Elizabeth Gale £ 0 6 s 0 d
Pd Joan Slade £ 0 5 s 6 d
Pd James Gale £ 0 7 s 0 d
Gave Abraham Oxenbury a shirt £ 0 3 s 1 d
Paid Joan Gale’s house rent £ 0 2 s 6 d
Total £ 1 4 s 1 d
October 24th 1756
Paid Elizabeth Gale £ 0 6 s 0 d
Pd Joan Slade £ 0 6 s 0 d
Paid James Gale £ 0 7 s 0 d
Gave Joan Slade last month £ 0 0 s 6 d
Gave William Farthing £ 0 3 s 0 d
Pd for swearing to the list of juries £ 0 1 s 0 d
Total £ 1 3 s 6 d
November 21st 1756
Pd Elizabeth Gale £ 0 6 s 0 d
Pd Joan Slade £ 0 6 s 0 d
Pd James Gale £ 0 7 s 0 d
Gave William Farthing £ 0 5 s 0 d
Gave Abraham Oxenbury £ 0 1 s 0 d
Total £ 1 5 s 0 d
December 19th 1756
Pd Elizabeth Gale £ 0 6 s 0 d
Pd Joan Slade £ 0 6 s 0 d
Pd James Gale £ 0 8 s 0 d
Gave William Farthing £ 0 4 s 0 d
Gave Abraham Oxenbury shoes £ 0 4 s 8 d
Gave Abraham Oxenbury £ 0 1 s 0 d
For a journey to Dorchester to answer
a warrant James Gale fetched £ 0 3 s 0 d
Gave Elizabeth Lawrence £ 0 3 s 0 d
Total £ 1 15 s 8 d
January 16th 1757
Pd Elizabeth Gale £ 0 6 s 0 d
Pd Joan Slade £ 0 6 s 0 d
Pd James Gale £ 0 8 s 0 d
Pd William Farthing £ 0 4 s 0 d
Gave Abraham Oxenbury £ 0 2 s 0 d
Gave Elizabeth Lawrence £ 0 1 s 0 d
Paid for the examination of Elizabeth
Lawrence £ 0 1 s 0 d
Total £ 1 8 s 0 d
February 13th 1757
Paid Elizabeth Gale £ 0 6 s 0 d
Pd Joan Slade £ 0 6 s 0 d
Pd James Gale £ 0 8 s 0 d
Pd William Farthing £ 0 4 s 0 d
Pd Elizabeth Lawrence £ 0 5 s 0 d
Gave Abraham Oxenbury £ 0 4 s 0 d
Paid ? for going to Beaminster and pd
for examining of Margaret Symes £ 0 9 s 6 d
Gave to poor Seamen £ 0 1 s 0 d
Total £ 2 3 s 6 d
March 13th 1757
Paid Elizabeth Gale £ 0 6 s 0 d
Pd Joan Slade £ 0 6 s 0 d
Pd James Gale £ 0 8 s 0 d
Pd William Farthing £ 0 4 s 0 d
Pd Elizabeth Lawrence £ 0 5 s 0 d
Pd Abraham Oxenbury £ 0 4 s 0 d
Gave ?Jane Gale & boy a shirt £ 0 2 s 0 d
Total £ 1 15 s 0 d
April 10th 1757
Paid Elizabeth Gale £ 0 6 s 0 d
Pd Joan Slade £ 0 6 s 0 d
Pd James Gale £ 0 8 s 0 d
Pd William Farthing £ 0 4 s 0 d
Pd Elizabeth Lawrence £ 0 5 s 0 d
Ps Abraham Oxenbury £ 0 4 s 0 d
Pd for half hundreds of Read £ 1 1 s 0 d
Pd for thatching and spars £ 0 11 s 5½ d
Pd the carpenters bill £ 0 19 s 4½ d
Pd the masons bill £ 0 7 s 3½ d
Pd for liquor £ 0 2 s 0 d
Pd for carrying 3 pots of earth £ 0 3 s 0 d
For carrying 2 pots of stones £ 0 3 s 0 d
Pd for a quarter of wood £ 0 3 s 0 d
Pd for the waywardens warrant £ 0 2 s 0 d
Gave Joan Gale’s boy a shirt £ 0 2 s 0 d
Pd for a sack of lime £ 0 2 s 6 d
Pd Elizabeth Gale’s house rent £ 0 5 s 0 d
Total £ 5 14 s 7½ d
End
Overseers of the Poor Rate Books
Ref: PE/PTD OV1/1
Date 1756-1758