a rate made 5.9.1740 by the churchwardens and overseers of the poor of the parish of Earls Colne in the county of Essex for and towards the necessary relief of the poor of the said parish to be gathered at fifteen quarters as follows Jn Wale esq and to two thirds of Chalkney Wood and Hancers Hedge 3s10d for part of his own estate late Jn May 5s11d madam Biddulph 6d mr Sewell for the other part of the Priory estate 3s4d for mrs Cressener's 7s9d the rev mr Stringer 9d mr Angier 1s Jas Edwards 9d Jn Pratt 5d Hen May 1s Jn Leaper for Jn Pratt's farm 1s7d Jn Leaper junior 6s9d mr Morley or tenant 9s7d Sam Guyon 8d widow Parmenter 4d mr Morris or Johnson Frith 6d mr Newton for Malleries 5s7d for late Bullock's 2d Thos Mann for his house and field 1s6d Jos Bott 9d Jn Hatch 2s8d Sam Hall and for High Fields 1s5d Edw Wash 2s Jas Braybrook and for Mulbury Croft 2s1d Jn Tiffin 5s6d Jn Osborn 2s widow Rayner and for Stebbing's land 6d Wm Root 2s8d Plampin Wenden 3d the house late Hitchcock's 2d Jn Sillitoe Jn Williamson and for mrs Cressener's land 3s2d Jas Robinson 6d for his brother's land 9d Jas Vince for The Lyon mr Robinson's Newman's and Harris land 2s5d Jeff Cook 3d Jn Page sum Jn Unwin 1s9d Sam Shelley 2d mrs Harris 3d Robt Tweed esq 4d1h Wm Long 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 and for Tiffin's 9d Jn Vince 2d Jn King Thos Smith 5d Wm Harvey 4d Thos King for Lowfields and Loveland 1s4d Wm Peartree 5d Sam Tunbridge 8d Geo Fromont 4d Thos Hale 1s Ambrose Wright 2s widow Hach 2d Jehue Shave 6d Thos Rutledge 2s mr Johnson 6s2d Jas Rayner 2d Hen Wenden junior 3d Dan London 4d Dan London junior 4d Wm Harvey for Newhouse and for the late hopground 3s7d mrs Raven 3d Geo Clitter 2d Jas Savill 3d Isaac Potter 2d Wm Ellis 2d Robt Humm junior 4d Wm Benson 4d Wm Wagstaff 2d Ben Crabb 10d Ed Crabb 1s Wm Crabb 2d dr Smith 1s Jarvis Williamson 2d madam Eldred for one third of Chalkney Wood 1s6d widow Brackley 1d1h Thos Sted 2d Thos Sexton 3d Thos Williamson and for Crow's 8d Francis Halliday 2d Wm Willis 2s widow Brewster 4d Geo Rayner Rich Fossett 2d out leets mr Jn Lay 1s6d Peter Wever 6d Jn May 1s Wm Sewell for Kemball Meadow 1s6d Thos Wash 1s2d Rich Dutton 6d Dan Smith 7d Wm Brett 1d Jn Smith 7d Robt Prentice 6d total 6li10s1d