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Detailed minutes of Feoffees chamber meetings. Regular items include: management of land and properties, leases and financial affairs, settlement of disputes, grants, individual gifts and support for local institutions and services like the water supply. Samuel Snook Bailiff. 150 apple trees purchased for Lovehayne. Rebuilding of Colyton Shambles contracted for 100 guineas. Flax bought for Joseph Restorick with wife and nine children to prevent him becoming a “parish charge”. Payment for inoculating the “poor people”. Large recruitment drive for Feoffees and Twentymen. Payment of seventy seven pounds for copying and translating the Charter Deed. Suggestion that Samuel Palmer should correct errors subsequently discovered in original charter and deeds.

Years: 1785 – 1793

Pages: 20

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