Assessment of rates, Beccles, Suffolk

  • This material is held at
  • Reference
      GB 12 MS Doc.113
  • Dates of Creation
      15 July 1771
  • Language of Material
      English .
  • Physical Description
      1 item(s) vellum vellum

Scope and Content

General Quarter Sessions held at Beccles. Order of the Court assessing the parishes of the division in rates for the repairing of bridges and gaols, the relief of poor prisoners, providing material for setting prisoners to work and for passing rogues etc. There follows a list of parishes with the amount of each assessment, divided into the hundreds of Blything, Wangford and Mutford and Lothingland.

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Acquisition Information

Bought from G. David, Market Place, Cambridge, from the Hodgson Sale 23 November 1916 Lot 522/3, 24 November 1916

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