| Description | Includes memorandum, 20 Apr 1795, of a Vestry agreement to borrow £100 for present use upon the credit of the parish and to authorize the overseers of the poor to "take up the same as it may be wanted". (see note below also).
N.B. Entries in the Rate books after 12 Nov 1795 with columns and headings give brief descriptions of land and property (e.g. "house, shop and stable"; "cottage"; "brick kiln close"; house, tenement, yard and garden"; "Shoulder Mutton Inn out buildings and garden"; "Whitebread Close"), notes of the assessed value of the property (land and houses usually given separately) and a note of the amount to be collected ("sum assessed" etc.). In the later volumes occupations/professions of the ratepayers are often given and there are pencilled rate collector's marginalia and annotations etc. |