Parish of Holwell
Tithes 1776, 1789
PE/HOW IN 2/1 original document, Dorset History Centre
Book entitled ‘ Tithe Book Holwell 1759-1789’
Inside cover:
N.B. The Tithes of Holwell are let from Lady Day to Lady Day, but may be demanded every half year, or Quarter. Mr Hobson died October 11th 1777: His Widow received the half year’s Tithe due at Michaelmas; and his Successors received the next half year’s Tithe at Lady Day following 1778. R.R. (Richard Radcliffe)
The book starts with individual entries in the form following:
May 5th 1759 I hereby promise to pay to Mr Hobson four Guineas a year for the Tythe of my Estate in Holwell, late Thorn’s and Hopkins’s, and three Guineas and a half a year for the Tythe of my Estate at Woodbride, late Mr Henley’s, at two equal half yearly Payments, during the time that Mr Hobson continues Rector of Holwell.
Witness my Hand
Benj: Coombes
Apr 5th 1768
I hereby promise to pay to Mr Hobson eight Pounds twelve shillings and sixpence a year for the Tythe of my Estate at Buckshaw and for the Ground called Smith-Croft at two equal yearly Payments during the Time Mr Hobson is Rector of Holwell.
Witness my Hand
Benj: Coombes
Also included are yearly lists:
Tho. Burt for Miss Herbert’s Farm £12.12.0
Ben. Coombs for Thorns and Hopkins £4.4.0
Ben. Coombs for Woodbridge and Parkers £4.13.6
John Coombs for Potter’s, late Downton’s £2.5.0
Ben. Coombs for Part of Downton’s £1.5.0
Willm. Coombs for Buckshaw and Smith Croft £8.12.6
Wm. Coombs senr for Ridouts Farm £4.4.0
Jonathan Cadie for his own £4.4.0
Jonathan Cadie for Lane’s £3.3.0
Charles Cadie for his own £4.4.0
Charles Cadie for Gillingham’s £3.3.0
Charles Cadie for Part of Downton’s, West-Row £2.10.0
James Cadie for his own £2.17.6
James Cadie for Cooper’s £4.4.0
James Cadie for Part of Castleman’s £0.16.6
David Cadie £0.2.0
George Clench £0.15.0
Edith Cuff £0.3.0
Tho. Crocker for Nash and Dolliver’s £3.8.0
Tho. Crocker for Darks £0.2.6
Sarah Coombs for Loder’s £4.4.0
Sarah Coombs for Newhouse, Coat and Collins’s £4.4.0
John Downton for Part of West-Row £2.10.0
John Downton for Rapley’s £0.5.0
Tho. Ears for Woodbridge Farm £25.0.0
Edward Frost for his Orchard £0.7.6
Edward Frost for Ground at Pulham Lake £0.6.0
Richard Gillingham £0.2.0
John Gilbert £0.2.0
Tho. Goddard for Lydlinch Poor’s £0.17.0
Miss Herberts £0.10.6
Edmund Hayward £7.10.0
Mrs Hayward £1.15.0
T. Hobson Langham’s Orchard and Little Mead £0.15.6
James Kingman £0.2.0
Wm. Loder his own and Father’s £0.4.6
Geo. Loder £0.3.0
Geo. Lyne and Son £0.2.6
Mor. Geo. Lyne £0.5.0
Richard Langhorn £0.15.0
Eliz. Langhorn £0.2.6
John Lodge £0.2.0
Mary Loder’s £0.2.0
William Miller for Madgwick’s £7.0.0
William Miller by fetching a load of Coals £1.5.0
Charles Moses for his Farm £4.4.0
Charles Moses for Buckshaw and Rap £0.8.0
Edward Melmor £0.2.0
John Miles £0.3.0
Wm. Mullett £0.15.0
Anthony Notley for the Glebe £39.0.0
John Penny for Spicer’s £1.17.6
Tho. Paris £0.8.6
Tho. Ridout for Holwell Farm (no amount given)
Tho. Ridout for Mullets “
Sarah Richards £0.2.6
Tho. Styles £0.2.6
William Styles £0.5.0
Samuel Style £0.2.0
John Sergeant £0.9.0
Eliz. Styles £1.5.0
John Toop for Castleman’s £1.10.0
William Trim for his Own £2.2.0
William Trim for Peddimore £3.0.0
John Tuck for Kiddle’s £3.13.0
John Tuck for the Orchard £0.7.0
Mary Tuck for Weech’s £1.11.6
Mary Tuck for Langham’s at Corn-Hill £0.17.6
William Vardy £0.3.0
Tho. Young of Wotton £0.6.0
Benjamin Young £13.10.6
Tithes due at Lady Day 1789
Thos. Birt for Mr Daubeny’s £12.12.0
John Baker, Pulham, for Holmes’s £0.6.0
Daniel Baker, late Lodge’s £0.2.0
Benj. Coombs for Thorns and Hopkins £5.0.0
Benj. Coombs for Part of Downton’s £1.5.0
John Coombs for Potter’s, late Downton’s £2.5.0
John Coombs for Smith Croft £0.15.0
Joseph Coombs for his own £4.10.0
Joseph Coombs for Parker’s £1.0.0
Wm. Coombs for Grundy’s £8.14.0
Wm. Coombs for Linghorn’s £0.17.6
Wm. Coombs for Stount’s £1.5.0
Wm. Coombs for Ridout’s £4.4.0
Jonathan Cadie for his own £4.4.0
Jonathan Cadie for Lane’s £3.3.0
James Cadie for his own £2.17.6
James Cadie for Cooper’s £4.4.0
James Cadie for Part of Castleman’s £0.18.6
James Cadie for Rapley’s and Perres’s £0.6.0
James Cadie for Charles Cadie’s £4.4.0
James Cadie for Gillingham’s £3.3.0
Thos. Crocker for Nash £2.7.6
Thos. Crocker for Dolliver’s £1.3.6
Thos. Crocker for Trim’s £0.7.6
Thos. Crocker for Dark’s and Young’s £0.5.6
Geo. Clench for Part of Tizzard’s £0.15.0
Mr Daubeny, late Herbert’s £0.10.6
Josuah (sic) Drake, late Young’s £0.7.6
John Downton for his own £2.10.0
John Downton for Part of West-Row £2.10.0
(Note – Mr Downton owes a year’s Tithe and an old arrear of ?£1.16.0 [crossed through]
pd Octbr 17, 1789)
Thos. Ears for Woodbridge £25.0.0
John Eyres and Betty Cadie for Mitchel’s £0.2.6
James Gartrel £0.2.0
John Gilbert £0.2.0
Robert Goddard, late Tollerville’s £4.12.0
Richd. Gillingham, two Orchards £0.5.0
George Gould £0.2.6
Thomas Grimes for Kiddle’s £0.3.0
Thos. Hayward £10.15.0
Wm. Jewkes, for Loder’s, Newhouse, Coat and Collin’s,
late Mrs Coombs’s £10.10.0
Thos. Loder £0.6.6
Wm. Loder sr. £0.3.6
Wm Loder jr. and Eliasaph Loder £0.2.6
Mary Loder £0.2.0
Morris Geo. Lyne £0.5.0
Widow Lyne £0.2.6
Richd. Linghorn £0.15.0
Richd. Linghorn Part of Castleman’s £1.10.0
Wm. Millar for the Farm £8.5.0
James Martin, late Frost’s £0.7.6
Widow Mullet, part of Tizzard’s £0.15.0
Edwd. Melmor £0.2.0
John Mills/Miles £0.3.0
John Mills/Miles for Little Mead £0.5.0
Anthony Notley, Part of the Glebe £36.0.0
(Mrs Notley pd. Half a years Rent Sepbr 22, due last Michaelmas £18.0.0
remainder - ? 27, 1790, due last Lady Day £18.0.0)
John Penny for Spicer’s £1.17.6
Thos. Perris £0.2.6
Thos. Ridout for ye Farm and Sanders £15.4.0
Thos. Ridout for Mullet’s £2.0.0
Thos. Ridout for Widow Styles’s £1.5.0
Thos. Ridout (for) Kiddle’s £3.13.6
James Ross £0.3.0
R.R. Part of ye Glebe £10.0.0
John Sergeant for his two Orchards £0.5.0
Wm. Styles £0.5.0
Wm. Styles for Lydlinch Poor Land £1.0.0
Thos. Styles Sr £0.2.6
Thos. Styles Jr., late Cuff’s £0.3.0
Elizabeth Styles £0.2.0
Wm. Toop, Woodbridge £0.2.0
John Tuck, monsier’s and Weech’s £2.2.0
W. Trim no amount given
Thos. Young, Wootton £0.6.0
Thos. Young, alias Sanders £0.2.6
Mrs Coombs for Peddimore, late Trim £3.0.0
Mrs Coombs for Pope’s £2.10.0
Mrs Coombs for Clark’s Orchard and Wrench’s £0.6.0
Mrs Coombs for Lingham’s Orchard in ye Borough £0.10.6
N.B. W. Trim pd 3s 6d Tithe for Clark’s Orchard wch must be deducted from Mrs Coomb’s Tithe
At the end of the book
House, Garden, Orchard, Barton 8a 0r
Two South Fields 38a 0r
Sandy Close 7a 1r
Dole 5a 3r
?Lent Crofts 28a 0r
Nine Acres 7a 2r
Burts Ground 13a 0r
Eighteen Acres 14a 3r
Rowden Mill 8a 2r
Furzy Ground 10a 0r
Ewe Close 20a 0r
Seven Acres 6a 2r
North Field 17a 0r
Great Horse Close 13a 0r
Little Horse Close 8a 0r
New Mead and Rick Yard 14a 0r
Kennel Close 15a 0r
Langlands 11a 0r
245a 1r
Parish of Holwell
Holwell Militia List 1799
DRO, MIC/R/1566
A List of Persons residing in the Parish of Holwell and the tything of Buckhorn Weston between the Age of Eighteen and forty five years as are Liable to Serve as Militia Men for the County of Somerset
At this time Holwell, was a detached part of Somerset,
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William |
EARS/EAN |
servant |
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Ricahrd |
HALL |
servant |
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Joshua |
DRAKE |
cordwainer |
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Thomas |
STILES junr. |
labourer |
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William |
ROSS |
schoolmaster |
?cripl'd |
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Thomas |
HAYWARD |
yeoman |
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George |
COOMBES |
yeoman |
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Thomas |
EARS/EAN |
labourer |
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James |
WINTER |
servant |
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William |
TUCK |
labourer |
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Thomas |
?TONERFIELD |
labourer |
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John |
DURANT |
labourer |
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George |
KNIGHT |
yeoman |
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Peter |
KNIGHT |
not given |
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John |
BAKER |
servant |
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William |
GOULD |
labourer |
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Charles |
CROCKER |
daryman |
4 children |
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Henry |
BUGG |
daryman |
? 4 children |
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George |
OSMOND |
servant |
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Tomas |
GARTELL |
cordwainer |
?5/6 children |
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George |
STILES junr. |
carpenter |
6 children |
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John |
LOADER |
carpenter |
4 children |
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William |
GILLINGHAM junr. |
labourer |
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Charles |
GILLINGHAM |
labourer |
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Robert |
STRANGE |
yeoman |
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James |
ROSS |
labourer |
4 children |
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William |
BAKER |
labourer |
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Charles |
CADIE |
labourer |
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Any Person or Persons Think Themselves Aggrieved by having their Names inserted in the Above List Might make Their Appeal on Saturday the 14 day of this Instant September at the Town Hall in Wincanton by Eleven O'Clock in the Forenoon Sept 6th 1799 Jonathan CARTER tythingman