Reference
Z268/37
Title
‘A True Copy of ye Orders for the feoffees in trust for the Lands of the Poor in Ampthill .. ’
Orders of 1623, amended 1719
Date free text
1719
Production date
From: 1623 To: 1719
Scope and Content
... leases to be for 12 years
... rents payable half yearly to overseers and churchwardens, and to account for the disposing of the money to the J Ps after Easter each year
... churchwardens and overseers to meet in Parish Church once a month on a Sunday after evening prayer, calling to them 4 or 6 best subsidy men and the Parson, to decide how to dispose of the money
... lands to be let for most improved value which can be obtained in relation to the ability of the tenant. Premises to be kept in repair
... as soon as six feoffees shall be dead or leave Ampthill, then the remaining 4 shall enfeoff ‘six other persons of ye best qualitye’ to replace them
... 2 feoffees to be chosen each year to be ‘rentor and gatherer’ of the issues and profits and to dispose of them. No [one] to have the job for longer than a year. Accounts to be submitted to the other feoffees on the day after Christmas
with names of the feoffees (12 including the Earl of Aylesbury, Lord Bruce and the Rector)
Level of description
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