a rate made 30.3.1741 by the churchwardens and overseers of the parish of Earls Colne for the county of Essex for and towards the necessary relief of the poor of this said parish to be gathered at seventeen quarters as follows Jn Wale esq for two thirds of Chalkney Woods and Hancers Hedge 8s10d for his own estate 8s3d madam Biddulph 6d mr Sewell for mrs Cressener's land 7s9d the rev mr Stringer 9d mr Angier 1s Jas Edwards 8d Jn Pratt 5d Hen May 1s Jn Leaper junior 6s9d mr Morley or tenants 9s7d Sam Guyon 8d widow Parmenter 4d mr Morris or Johnson Frith 6d mr Newton and for Mallaries 5s7d for late Bullock's 2d Thos Mann for his house and field 1s6d Jos Bott 9d Jn Hatche 2s8d Sam Hall and for High Fields 1s6d Ed Wash 2s Jas Brabrook and for Mulbury Croft 2s1d for Jn Harvey's land 1s6d Jn Tiffin 5s6d Jn Osborn 2s widow Rayner and for Stebbing's land 6d Wm Root 2s8d Plampin Wendon 3d widow Algate Jn Sillitoe Jn Williamson and for mrs Cressener's land 3s2d Jas Robinson 6d for his brother's land 1s1d Jas Vince for The Lyon Newman's Harris land 2s Jeff Cook 3d Dan Gibson 6d 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 1d Jos Pond 2d Sam Fitch and for Tyffin's 9d Jn Vince 2d Jn King Thos Smith 4d 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 6d Thos Rutledge 1s mr Johnson 6s2d Jas Reyner 2d Hen Wenden junior 4d Dan London 4d Dan London junior 4d Wm Harvey for New House and for the late hopground 3s7d widow Raven 2d Geo Clitter 2d Jas Savill 3d Isaac Potter 2d Wm Ellis 2d Robt Hum junior 4d Wm Benson 4d Wm Waggstaff 2d Ben Crabb 11d Ed Crabb 1s Wm Crabb 2d mr Sam 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 Math Moul 2s widow Brewster 4d Geo Reyner 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