a rate made 20.9.1737 by the churchwardens and overseers of the poor of the parish of Earls Colne for and towards the relief of the poor of the said parish to be gathered at twelve quarters as followeth Jn Wale esq and for two thirds of Chalkney Wood and Hansers Hedge 3s10d Jn May for part of the Priory lands 5s11d for his own land 1s mr Sewell for other part of Priory lands 2s4d for mrs Cressener's 7s9d of him for mr Robinson 9d Rich Stringer clerk 9d mr Angier 1s Jn Pratt 5d Hen May 1s madam Biddulph 6d Jn Leaper the elder for Jn Pratt's farm 1s7d mr Morley or tenants 9s7d Wm Harvey for Newhouse 3s6d of him for the late hopground 1d1h Sam Guyon 8d widow Parminter 4d Johnson Frith 6d Jn Newton and for Malleries 5s7d for late Bullock's 2d Jn Leaper the younger 6s9d Thos Mann 1s Jos Bott 9d Jn Hatch and for the Kiln Croft 3s8d Jas Brawbrook and for Mulberry Croft 2s1d Edw Wash 2s Jn Tiffin 5s6d Jn Osborne 2s widow Rayner and for Stebbing's land 6d Jn Granger 2s8d widow Browley 3d house late widow Parminter's 2d house late widow Wade's 1d Jn Williamson and for mrs Cressener's land 3s2d Dan Gibson 6d Sam Burton for part of Math Fletcher's land 9d Jas Vince and for the Lyon Fletcher's Newmans's and Harris land 2s5d Jeff Cook 3d Jn Page 4d Jn Unwin 1s9d Sam Shelley 2d mrs Harris 3d Robt Tweed esq 4d1h Wm Peartree 5d Wm Long and for the malting 9d Jn Harrington 5s9d Sam Smith for late Adam's 2s6d Rich Barnard and for the fens 11d Geo Wall or tenant 10d mr Johnson 6s2d Rich Morris and Sam Fitch 3d Jn Vince 2d Dan King 2d Wm Harvey 4d Rich Fossett 2d Thos King and for Lowfields and Loveland 2s mr Fromond 4d Thos Hale 1s Ambrose Wright 2s widow Hatch 2d Wm Willis 2s Jehue Shave and Wm Eaglinge 6d Rutlidge 1s Wm Dore 3d Dan London 4d Dan London junior 2d