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Volume 1

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Call Number: MS B124

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Accounts of the Trustees of the Poor's Ground

 Collection — Volume: 1
Call Number: MS B124
Overview Account book for a charity issuing bread and a yearly coat for each poor person (presumably of the parish). Recipients are named (in 1685 there are 8; in the 1760's there are about 40; after 1784 they are no longer named). Trustees are named: they usually sign the account yearly. The charity is not named or located; after 1725 the yearly heading is "The Accounts of the Trustees of the Poores Land Devisd by, Richard Hill Gent. Decd." The money is derived from rents from land in Cradley and in...
Dates: 1685-1805[?]