a rate made 25.9.1746 by the churchwardens and overseers of the parish of Earls Colne for the relief of the poor to be gathered at fifteen quarters as followeth Jn Whale esq and for two thirds of Chalkney Wood and Hancers Hedge 3s10d same for land late held by mr Sewell 2s4d same for land late held by Jn May 5s11d madam Biddulph 6d mr Stringer 9d mr Sewell for madam Cressner's land 7s9d same for his house in the street 7d mr Johnson 6s2d mr Newton and for Malleries 5s7d same for late Bullock's 2d mr Harrington 6s1d same for Bridgemans 1s2d same for Jn May's land 1s mr Hatch 7d mr Robinson for his house 6d same for Gilberts 2s same for Buroughs 1s mr Sam Smith surgeon 1s same for mr Sewell's land 2s Jn Tiffin 5s6d Jn Leaper 6s9d Jn Williamson and for Cressener's land 3s2d Jn Osborn 2s Thos Hales 1s Wm Root 2s8d and for madam Grimston 6d total 3s2d mr Unwin 1s9d same for the house where London lived 4d Edw Wash 2s Jas Brabrooke 1s10d same for Lowfields 1s Sam Halls for Highfields and Kiln Croft 1s6d same for Harvey's land 1s4d Thos Man and for Kiln Field 3s6d same for the fens 7d Thos King for The Lyon 11d mr Fromont 6d Wm Harvey and for the hopground 3s7d Math Moul 2s mrs Abbot 3d Sam Shelley junior 2d Jn Whendon 1d Sam Perkisson 9d Ben Crabb 10d Edw Crabb 1s Wm Crabb 2d Rich Pratt 5d Edw Johnson for Lowfields 6d mr Morris or Johnson Frith 6d Jn White 2d Hen May and for Spriggs Marsh 4d 1s4d Jos Bott 9d Dan Gibson 6d Geo Wall 1d Sam Fitch for Tiffen's 9d Sam Tunbridge 8d Jn Betts 1s Jeff Cooke 3d Page's executors or Day 4d and Mulberry Croft 3d total 7d mrs Harris 3d Thos Smith 3d Wm Long for The Malting 4d Jos Pond 3d same for the house joining to Fitch's 2d Wm Harvey shopkeeper 4d mr Angier's house 6d Dan London senior 2d Dan London junior 4d widow Rayner and for Stebbing's land 6d Plampton Wendon 2d Jn Brasier 4d Edw Marvin 2d Thos Rayner 2d Jehu Shave 6d Jas Rayner 2d Abraham Dugard 2d Wm Gladwin 2d Jas Savil 3d Isaac Potter 2d Wm Ellis 2d Wm Benson 4d late Abraham Hart and for Crow's 8d Jarvis Williston 2d mr Snelling's house 2d Jn Buck junior 1d1h Thos Sexton 3d Edw Spells or Johnson Frith 2d Thos Brewster 4d Wm Peartry 2d Sam Guyon senior 4d mr Harris's house late old Shelley's 2d Sam Guyon junior 5d Wm Wagstaff 2d out leets mrs Eldred for one third of Chalkney Wood 1s6d Robt Tweed esq for The Boar 4d1h mr Morley for mr Helderson Jacobs 9s7d Jn Lay 1s6d Robt Lay 5d Phil Lugar 2d Peter Weavers 5d mr Sewell for Kemball Meadow 1s6d Rich Dutton 6d Jn Smith 7d Robt Prentice 6d Rich Bridge 1d