Reference
Z937/36/4
Title
Two copies (in different hands) of a Quarter Sessions order, Hertfordshire, for a surveryor's rate of 4d in the pound before Thomas Herbert Noyes esq, Sir Richard Chase, Thomas Plumer Byde esq.
Surveyors: Carolus Nicholls Field, William Wiltshire junr, Nathanial Saunders, William Law.
Complaint by Carolus Nicholls Field, one of the surveyors of the highways for Hitchin, that the highways, bridges, streets, etc are in such a bad state they can't be repaired without the financial help of the court, and he requests a rate assessment of 4d in the pound on all owners and occupiers in Hitchin. The court orders the churchwardens, surveyors of the highways and others usually present at the making of parish rates to give notice in the parish church on the Sunday before they hold their usual meeting, and the surveyor to collect the rates.
Dated 30 April 1764.
Signed "Thorowgood."
To one copy has been added "Aprill 30th 1764 - Paid to Mr Throwgood, Clerk of the Peace, for a copy of the order 5s, the Cryer of the Court 4d = 5s 4d"
Date free text
1764
Production date
From: 1764 To: 1764
Exent
2 sheets folded, 4 pages altogether, No. of pieces: 2
Handwritten
Format
sheets of paper
Two copies, different hands, one badly faded but has an additional note, as above. Seems Thorowgood copied one for Field, and Field then did a copy of that.
Level of description
item