Norfolk: Baconsthorpe 1790 - Churchwardens' Rate

Baconsthorpe raised money at various times, to either support its poor (from the Overseers' Rate) or to pay for other parish expenses (from the Churchwardens' Rate). This rate was levied on the occupiers (who may not have owned the land) and based upon the value of the property (which was usually a rental valuation). Both occupiers and owners are found living in and outside the parish.

For more information on these records see the Parish Accounts page.

This is one item from a Norfolk Record Office document [with the reference PD 334/15 and microform MF 969/2] containing the Churchwardens' accounts book for 1722-1838 and this is the rate for 1790.

Other accounts available


- Churchwardens' Accounts -
Rates	1768	1790	1810	1827-29
Payments	1711-12	1723-28	1768-82

Collections for special appeals	1670 (Turkish Slaves appeal)	1703-04 Wapping and Gt Massingham Fires, Distressed Protestants (Holland)
- Surveyors' Accounts -
Rates	1773
- Land Tax Accounts -
Payments	1800-01

April the 5^th 1790 We Nominate and appoint Churchwardens for the year ensuing
John Springall
Rob^t Ives
by us
T Girdlestone Rector
T Elwin
Francis Means

Baconsthorpe April 5^th 1790
A Rate made by the Churchwardens Overseers and other the Chief Inhabitants of the said parish for presentments & Disbursments about the Church at a rate of 1^d per pound.

Valuation £:s	[Occupiers' Names]	£	s	d
052:10	Mr Thomas Elwin	0	4	4½
108:0	John Springall	0	9	0
002:5	More for Philip Cranfiels	0	0	2¼
126:0	Robert Ives	0	10	6
036:0	Marker Fisher	0	3	0
008:0	More for Brown's	0	0	8
121:0	Francis Means	0	10	1
002:0	More for John Massingham	0	0	2
064:0	Peter Wilson	0	5	4
035:0	John Smith	0	2	11
020:0	John Spurrell	0	1	8
024:15	John Warns	0	2	0¾
027:0	William Grand	0	2	3
016:15	Robert Mayes	0	1	4¾
006:0	James Ford	0	0	6
002:5	Epher Silence	0	0	2¼
	Out Setters
063:10	William Craffer	0	5	3
033:10	Peter Parnal	0	2	9½
008:0	Thomas Frankland	0	0	8
048:0	Thomas Bishop	0	4	0
003:0	Thomas Cooper	0	0	3
009:0	John Rump	0	0	9
005:0	Robert Partridge	0	0	5

821:0	Total	3	8	5

April the 25^th 1791 These Accounts on both sides are this day allow'd & agreed to by us
[signed] T Girdlestone Rector
Tho^s Elwin
John Warns
Rob^t Mayes
Marker Fisher

[End of Document]

Notes

In other rate documents the following alternative spellings have been seen which appear to refer to the same people/places:-
Cranfiel/Cranefield, Parnal/Pernol
T Girdlestone is Theophilus Girdlestone incumbent from 16/May/1788 to 1832 (buried 27/7/1832 aged 73 years).

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