a rate made 31.3.1740 by the churchwardens and overseers of the poor of the parish of Earls Colne in the county of Essex to and towards the necessary relief of the poor of the said parish to be gathered at seventeen quarters as follows imprimis Jn Wale esq for two thirds of Chalkney Wood and Hancers Hedge 3s10d for part of the Priory estate late Jn May 5s11d madam Biddolph 6d mr Sewell for the other part of the Priory estate 2s4d for mrs Cressener's land 7s9d Jas Edwards 9d the rev mr Stringer 9d Jn Pratt 5d Hen May 1s Jn Leaper senior for Jn Prat's land 1s7d Jn Leaper junior 6s9d mr Jn Morely or tenant 9s7d Sam Guyon 8d widow Parmenter 4d mr Morris or his landlord 6d mr Newton and for Malleries 5s7d for late Bullock's 2d Thos Mann for his house and field 1s6d Jos Bott 9d Jn Hatch and for Kiln Croft 3s8d Edw Wash 2s Jas Braybrook and for Mulbury Croft 2s1d Jn Tiffin 5s6d Jn Osborn 2s widow Rayner and for mrs Stebbing's land 6d Wm Root 2s8d Plampin Wendon 3d Soll Hitchcock 2d Jn Sillitoe 1d Jn Williamson and for mrs Cressener's land 3s2d Dan Gibson 6d Jas Robinson for his house 6d for his brother's land 9d Jas Vince for mr Robinson's Newman's Harris and Lyon 2s5d Jeff Cook 3d Jn Page 4d Jn Unwin 1s9d Sam Shelley 2d mrs Harris 3d Robt Tweed esq 4d1h Wm Long and for The Malting 9d mr Harrington 5s9d Sam Smith for Adam's 2s6d for The Fenns 7d Geo Wall 10d Jos Pond 2d Sam Fitch 8d Jn Vince and for Tiffin's house 2d and 1d Dan King 2d Thos Smith 3d Wm Harvey 4d Thos King for Lowfields and Lovelands 1s4d Wm Peartree 5d Sam Tunbridge 8d Geo Fromont 4d Thos Hale 1s Ambrose Wright 2s widow Hatch 2d Jehue Shave and Wm Eagleing 6d Thos Rutlidge 1s Hen Wenden junior Jas Rayner 2d mr Johnson 6s2d mr Angier 1s Dan London senior 4d Dan London junior 4d Wm Harvey for Newhouse and hopground 3s7d widow Raven 3d Geo Clitter 2d Jas Savill 3d Isaac Potter 2d Wm Ellis 2d Robt Hum junior 4d Wm Benson 4d Wm Wagstaff 2d Ben Crabb 10d Wm Crabb 2d Ed Crabb 1s Jarvis Williston 2d dr Smith 1s madam Eldred for one third of Chalkney Wood 1s6d widow Brackley 1d1h Thos Sexton 3d Sam Hall 5d Thos Sted 2d Thos Williamson and for Crow's 8d Francis Halliday 2d Wm Willis 2s widow Brewster 4d Geo Rayner 1d Rich Fosset senior 2d out leets mr Jn Lay 1s6d Peter Weaver 6d Jn May 1s Wm Sewell for Kemball Meadow 1s6d Thos Washe 1s2d Rich Dutton 6d Dan Smith 7d Wm Brett 1d Jn Smith 7d Robt Prentice 6d total 6li10s1d