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Wells sessions. JPs. Yeovil.
Catalogue reference: Q\SPET/1/163
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- Q\SPET/1/163
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Title (The name of the record)
- Wells sessions. JPs. Yeovil.
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1646
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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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Held by (Who holds the record)
- Somerset Heritage Centre (South West Heritage Trust)
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Language (The language of the record)
- English
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- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/6c8a659f-a5e1-4c0b-93a7-e303f9665cb1/
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Q\Spet
PETITIONS
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This record is held at Somerset Heritage Centre (South West Heritage Trust)
Within the fonds: Q
Somerset Quarter Sessions
Within the sub-fonds: Q\S
The Court in Session
Within the series: Q\Spet
PETITIONS
Within the sub-series: Q\Spet/1
From individuals and parishes addressed to the justices in Sessions and relating...
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Wells sessions. JPs. Yeovil.