Stogumber's Poor: 1601-1834

John How 1 shilling

Laid out to ye widow

Attawell in sickness 1/6

paid out for a shroud for ye wid attawell 3/6

For making of her grave 1/0

For drink to ye ringers 6d

Laid out unto Joane Terrill in need 6d

 Laid out for mending of Harwerds shoes 8d 

Laid out unto ye Huntsmands in sickness 2/0 

Laid out unto ye Huntsmans and Quicks in sickness 2/6

 Laid out unto Dorothy Witch in necessity 1/0

 Laid out unto Henry Stephens in sickness 2/6 

Laid out to James Tuck in necessity 2/0

Laid out to ye widow Crocker in sickness 6d

Laid out for a blanket for Mary Greenslade 6/6

For carrying of James Worth to Minehead to the Irish Doctor and for a short coat for him 4/0

Laid out for a pair of mittens for George Smart and Morgan Leeche 1/0

For taking up of George Smart and sending him to the house of correction 7/2

Mr Doddington for the curing of Elizabeth Almonds child's head

Laid out unto William Brice in his need 1/0

laid out for a pair of shoes William Brice 3/6

paid our for a shirt for William Brice 3/8

paid out unto David Pleace for a piece of pork for William Brice 6d

For cloth to make a coat for William Brice 4/11

paid out for buttons and for making of a coat for William Brice 1/3

Paid Mary Boshe for tending William Brice 6d

Paid out unto Mary Besley for ye paynes and charges there was about William Brice in his sicknesse

laid out for a shroud for William Brice and for his funeral 4/10

1669

pair of stockings for Joan Terell

pair of shoes for Joan Hagley

to the almshouse people to buy wood in the snowe

paid for a key for one of the almhouse doors

To Jon Ingram for carrying him to Bath and for expenses

1670

to Liz Uppington for keeping of Crockers children

for making of a shirt and smocks for Crockers children

John Pippin being sick

Elizabeth Uppington for keeping of Mary Crocker's two children

Jo Pippin and his children being sick

Jo Thomas his wife being sick for four years

David plea for wood

for making of a grave for widow Osmond's child

tending Joan Terril and making her a mat

1675

A pair breeches for James Stevens

1681

Edith Goodman when she went to Bath

for a man and a horse for Mr Lewes

a woman for tending George Lewes 3 days and a night

2 women for stretching forth of him

2 women for going to the justice

for writing the affadavit

for a man and a horse to send to the surgeon that the man was dying

for a man and a horse to fetch the coroner

for a man and a horse to send to the court of ye hundred with the coroners warrant

for a joint of meat for the coroner and ye court of the hundred

for half a bushel of wheat for his widow Joane Stickey

1683

A blanket for joan smart

a pair of stockings for prescotts boy

mending his shoes and for clothing him

1684

John Whitts famaly allbeing sick in the small poxe; in attendance and other nessysaryes two weeks

for soap and candles

a seam of wood

a peck of peas

a shroud and shrouding for his daughter

for making her grave

and carrying of her to her grave and ringing and for making and writing the affadavit

for washing of Mary Clouters bed cloathes

for removing her bed and beadstead and setting it up in ye church house

for a pair of trousers for prescotts younger boy

a shift and trousers for prescotts eldest boy

John Commans daughter being bad and to go to Mr Greens for his advice towards her cure.

Simon middeltons charges in his sickness in meate and drinke and candells and wakeing wth him and for ringing and makeing his grave and stretching him forthe and for makeing affidavitt

ffrancis prescotts boy having the smalle poxe

humphrey webber being sick in the small poxe his intendence and things nessysary

payd unto Mrs Lanisse for plasters and salve and hir coming over to Stogumber concernign John Welshmans wifes ledgs and honnor whitts

John selyes daughter having bad eyes charges att crekharne

payd hugh sweetting for tape to swath john greedys neck boane

Jane Warmoths childs shroud

hir grave

in beere and ringing hir knell

for stretching hir forth

for makeing of affadavitt

Cristyane Weslake having a bad hand

John Whitts family a blanket