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Wells sessions. JPs. Yeovil.

Catalogue reference: Q\SPET/1/163

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Q\SPET/1/163
Title
Wells sessions. JPs. Yeovil.
Date
1646
Description

Petition of the overseers of Yeovil. During the late infection [plague] the overseers had kept those infected confined to their houses. The Justice, Mr WHITBY, made an order that all things necessary for those infected should be provided out of the hundred or county rate. The overseers had expended about £20 about that business, allowed £12 weekly to be raised out of the hundred of Stone. £4 for the town and £8 for everyone else. This being the sum ordered by the County Committee; in the absence of Mr WHITBY. John HAWKINS, constable of the hundred of Stone.

Stone was where the hundred courts were formerly held, Collinson, III, p. 203.

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Somerset Heritage Centre (South West Heritage Trust)
Language
English
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/6c8a659f-a5e1-4c0b-93a7-e303f9665cb1/

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Wells sessions. JPs. Yeovil.