Transcript fo.3r: Great Dunmow's collection for the church steeple (part 3)

Transcription of Tudor Great Dunmow’s churchwardens’ accounts (1525-6)

	1. Item Wyllem barcar	viijd [8d]	[William Barker]
	2. Item John hrady(??)	iiijd [4d]	[John ??]
	3. Item mother hotte	iiijd [4d]	[Mother Hot]
	4. Item John Maryou	iiijd [4d]	[John Mayor]
	5. Item Thom[a]s myllett	ijd [2d]	[Thomas Millet]
	6. Item John Scoryar \nichell/	[blank]	[John Scoryar]
	7. Item Cateryn Lott	viijd [8d]	[Catherine Lot]
	8. Item Wyllem Davy	iiijd [4d]	[William Davy]
	9. Item Mother Longe	xxd [20d]	[Mother Long]
	10. Item Jone palgrave wedow	id [1d]	[Jane/Joan Palgrave, widow]
	11. Item Wyllem baysy	xijd [12d]	[William Bass?]
	12. Item Robard Fest	iiijd [4d]	[Robert Fest]
	13. Item baldwyn tyler nichell	[blank]	[Baldwin Tyler]
	14. Item Thomas Farethe[??]	iiijd [4d]	[Thomas ??]
	15. Wyllem Nyghttyngale	iiijd [4d]	[William Nightingale]
	16. Item Robard bothe	ijd [2d]	[Robert Both]
	17. Item Stevyn Sturt[o]n	ijd [2d]	[Steven Sturton]
	18. Item Wyllem Sewerd	viijd [8d]	[William Seward]
	19. Item Edmund Fuller	iiijd [4d]	[Edmund Fuller]
	20. Item Nycolas Aylett	xvid [16d]	[Nicholas Aylett]
	21. Item Nycolas parcar	viijd [8d]	[Nicholas Parker]
	22. Item Wyllem p[ar]son	iiijd [4d]	[William Parson]
	23. Item John Exylby	iiijd [4d]	[John Exilby?]
	24. Item Jamys Stowte	iiijd [4d]	[James Stout]
	25. Item Wyllem mede	iiijd [4d]	[William Mead]
	26. Item Rychard Cokke	xijd [4d]	[Richard Cook]
	27. Item Wyllem tayler glover	viijd [8d]	[William Tayler, glover]
p[ar]sonage downe	28. Item Thomas Dygby	iiijd [4d]	[Thomas Digby]
	29. Item John Alyn	iiijd [4d]	[John Allen]
	30. Item Thom[a]s kyng	iiijd [4d]	[Thomas King]
	31. Item George owr nychell	[blank]	[George Ower?, none]
	32. Item John Weste	iiijd [4d]	[John West]
	33. Item Thom[a]s Thake	ijd [2d]	[Thomas Thake]
	34. Item John Harvy	iiijd [4d]	[John Harvey]
	35. Item Robard mason	iiijd [4d]	[Robert Mason]
	36. Item Rychard storyer	iiijd [4d]	[Richard Story?]
	37. Item mother bowyer	iiijd [4d]	[Mother Bowyer]

Commentary
Line 3, 9, & 37: Mother = ‘old woman’ ie local aged woman, probably a widow as this is a list of heads of households.

Line 6, 13, & 31: Nichell – Latin for ‘none’ ie this household did not contribute any money towards the collection.

Line 28: Parsonage Down, an area of the parish next to St Mary the Virgin parish church.

Notes
Text in square [brackets] are The Narrator’s transcriptions. Line numbers are merely to assist the reader find their place on the digital image.

The early-modern spellings of the inhabitants of Great Dunmow have been transcribed into modern English so that family historians and other researchers can pick up these names via internet search engines. Please leave a comment if you can improve the modern-day spelling or transcribe any of my question marks. The other hundred or so names written within this list will appear over the next few days, followed by an analysis of the names on the list and the reason for the church collection.

Notes about Great Dunmow’s churchwarden accounts
Great Dunmow’s original churchwardens’ accounts (1526-1621) are kept in Essex Record Office (E.R.O.), Chelmsford, Essex, D/P 11/5/1. All digital images of the accounts within this blog appear by courtesy of Essex Record Office and may not be reproduced. Examining these records from this Essex parish gives the modern reader a remarkable view into the lives and times of some of Henry VIII’s subjects and provides an interpretation into the local history of Tudor Great Dunmow.

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Transcript fo.3r: Great Dunmow’s collection for the church steeple (part 3)

Transcript fo.3r: Great Dunmow’s collection for the church steeple (part 3)

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