Box, Haselbury and Ditcheridge Rate & Valuation, 1628
Reproduced from WANHS Vol XLIII
A rate and valuation of every livinge in the parishes of Box, Haselbury and Ditcheridge agreed upon and made, and likewise consented unto, by us the inhabitants of the parishes aforesaid and whose names are under subscribed this 12th day of August 1628 for to remain in the Church coffer of the parish Church of Box, as also one copy indented therewith, with George Speke of Haselbury, Esq and those to be residents whereby to gather and collects what every man's part shall be proportionally to their livings for which they are liable, towards any payment that these parishes or livings or any of them shall or may be charged withall.
Box / £George Speke for the parsonage / 110
John Pinchin for the parsonage house and stitchings / 15
George Speke, Esq for the farm and diverse other lands in Box / 157
Mr Coren for his vicarage / 80
Mr Henry Long for his lands / 140
Mr Zacharias Pouer for Rudlowe farms / 80
Peter Webb for his farms and land in Box / 72
Thomas Pers of fford for his grounds / 36
William Sumption for his mill and grounds thereunto belonging / 36
William Pinchin for his mills and grounds thereunto belonging / 36
Gifford Hulbert for Slade livings / 36
John Taylor for Mr Hunts Wormwood and the grounds and land belonging / 36
Mr John Long for his lands / 34
Thomas West for Week and Hardings / 30
John Pinell for Hill House / 28
Widow Curtise for her tenement / 28
Thomas Broade for his tenement and diverse other lands besides / 24
Lorance Cottell for Beasars tenement / 22
John Smith for Simons tenement / 21.10s
Widow Fisher for her lands / 20
Richard Filx for Butlers tenement of Rudloe / 20
Anthony Baldwine for his tenement / 18
William Butler of Middlehill for his tenement / 18
[Wormclift] William Sandall for Coxes tenement / 16
William Butcher of Rudloe for his tenement / 15
William Jeffery for his tenement / 14
[Ducket] Michell Cuffe for Vinsies tenement / 14
[Joseph Baylie] William Rawlins for his tenement / 13
[William Eyre] Klement England for his tenement / 13
[Henley] Thomas Adia for Joanses tenement / 12
John Moxa for his land / 11
John Pers for his grounds / 10
Robert Butcher for his tenement / 10
Robert Reynolls for his house and grounds / 10
[Dr Harris] Widow Newman for her tenement at Kingsdoune / 10
Anthony Balden & Richard Flix for Cottels Bargayne / 10
Henry Butler of Rwd for his tenement / 10
[a collets] Thomas Ford for his tenement / 9
[Henslows] John Head for his house and grounds / 7
Thomas Hillier for Mr Hunts tenement at an greene / 7
Widow Harden for her tenement / 7
Thomas West Junior for Coxes tenement and diverse other grounds / 6
John Bolwell for his mill / 6
William Nicholls for his tenement / 6
John Newman of Foga for his tenement / 6
John Pinchen for Bur yate and 2 grounds / 5
John Jeffery for his tenement / 5
Anthony Moxa for his tenement / 5
Gills Bayly for his tenement / 4
John Woodman for his grounds / 4
William Nowell for his tenement / 4
John Love for his tenement and the ground under Cleeves / 4
Thomas Blanchard for his bargayne / 3
Michaell Bolwell for his Meade / 3
William P...ell for his ground / 2
The Lady Cornwallis, her tenants for her lands in Box / 2
The sum of Box / 1360
The sum of the Parsonage / 125
The sum of the Vicaridge / 80
George Speke for Haselbury / 63
Ditcheridge
The parsonage / 24.10s
Michael Bolwell and Richard Chapman for their farms / 34
William Klement for his fare / 27
Michaell Chelnam for his tenement / 20
William Klement for Wests / 18
Peter Webb for Filx / 8
Gifford Hulbert for Hollies / 7
The sum of Ditcheridge parsonage / 24
The sum of the rest of the parish / 114
The total sum of Box / 1360.10s
The sum of Haselbury / 63
The sum of Ditcheridge / 18.10s
Suma totalia / 1562
Signed
George Speke
Zacharias Power
Anthony Balden his mark
William Clement his mark
William Pinchen
[Note - The marginal annotations were doubtless made subsequently to the valuation, and give the names of the then owners of the lands in question.] [Transcribed by A St Story Maskelyne]