Norfolk: Baconsthorpe - 1773 - Surveyors' Rate

Each parish after the great Highways Act of 1555 was responsible for the repair of the roads within its boundaries. This Act with later modifications was in force until a new one in 1835.

Every person who occupied land or kept horses etc. had to provide some of the following:- days of labour, carts etc. People who occupied houses and cottages had also to provide labour in some form either as unpaid labour by themselves or others.

In later years this was commuted to a Surveyors' Rate upon the inhabitants which was then spent repairing its highways. The main roads also saw the introduction of turnpike trusts where those that used them paid for their maintenance.

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

This is one item from Norfolk Record Office document [with reference PD 334/25 and microform MF 969/5] containing the Surveyors' account book (1773-1800) and is the rate and payments for the year 1773.

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

Of the daily highway duty composition and penalty, chargeable on the Occupiers and Inhabitants, between 18 and 65 years of age in the said parish.

Robert Ives and Peter Wilson Surveyors in the parish 1773

Note that only the Names, Rentable values, Duty per day - Teams (of Horses) and Labour to be provided are given here. The columns which have not been transcribed are :-

Composition per Day (consisting of the following columns)
- 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, Amount, Penalty
- Each of the above has "l s d" under it with values filled in where they were chargeable.


			Duty per day in
No	Names	£ s	Teams	Labour
1	Zu(rishaddai) Girdlestone Gent	40.0	0	4
2	William Hewitt Rector	20.0	0	2
3	John Custance Clerk	6.0	0	2
4	John Springall	130.0	2	7
5	Robert Ives	130.0	2	7
6	Robert Fisher	80.0	1	5
7	Francis Means	130.0	2	7
8	Peter Wilson	50.0	1	2
9	John Pell	40.0	0	4
10	John Grand	20.0	0	2
11	John Spurrell	10.0	0	1
12	John Warns	20.0	0	2
13	Robert Mayes	10.0	0	1
14	Richard Frankland	10.0	0	1
15	James Dye	2.10	0	1
16	John Brown	4.0	0	1
17	William Paul	1.10	0	1
18	Thomas Scarfe	2.10	0	1
19	William Lodes	2.2	0	1
20	Robert Wake	1.10	0	1
21	William Everett	1.18	0	1
22	Thomas Fisher	1.8	0	1
23	John Bradfield	1.10	0	1
24	Simon Starling	--	0	1
25	Thomas Cletheroe	--	0	1
26	Thomas Amias	1.10	0	1
27	James Ward	2.0	0	1
28	Epher Silence	3.10	0	1
29	William Arger	1.10	0	1
30	William Walker	2.0	0	1
31	John Massingham	6.0	0	1
32	Paul Adams	2.5	0	1
33	Francis Chaplin	1.10	0	1

Credit	£ .s .d
To Cash paid for Gravel	0. 5. 0
By ditto to 46 Labourers employed on Highways this year at 1^s 6^d per day	3. 9. 0
By ditto to 50 Teams at 6^s per day	15. 0. 0

Oct 12^th 1773
Accounts examined on Oath and allowed before us
Walpole
W. W. Bulwer

[End of Document]

Notes

Some of the names may have alternate spellings as listed in the 1768 census page:-
- Ames/Amias?, Arger/Argier, Lodes/Loads.
A man named Zurishaddai Girdlestone was the Patron of Baconsthorpe and Bodham in 1767 at which time he was a minor.

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