Poor Rate (ERO D/P209/8)

23.11.1740 (Sunday 23 November 1740)

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whereas at a vestry meeting it was agreed by the persons under written to employ maintain and keep with necessary food and lodging Wm Waite during the space of one month or to give and allow any of the said persons with whom he shall agree the sum of 2s for keeping him the said month and to serve the months as under according to their several lots number one with Jn Leaper two with Ambrose Wright three with mr Harrington four with mr Newton five with mr Sewell six with mr Robinson seven with mr Stringer and Jeff Cook eight with Thos Man nine with dr Smith and Sam Burton ten with Jn Unwin eleven with Sam Smith farmer