Landrake with St. Erney - a rural parish in south east Cornwall.
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St Erney Church Rate Book 1704 - 1792
| 1704: | For killing a wild cat | 1/- |
| For killing a badger | 1/- | |
| Washing the church linen | 6d | |
| 1708: | Paid a poor woman that had a pass | 6d |
| Paid to Thomas Roberts for cleaning the church and cutting the churchyard | 3/- | |
| 1710: | For a new Common Prayer Book | 12/- |
| For killing 2 badgers | 2/- | |
| a fox | 1/- | |
| and 3 badgers | 3/- | |
| 1714: | Paid the ringers on the Coronation Day | 8/6 |
| 1715: | Paid to a traveller that had a pass | 6d |
| 1718: | For writing the Comandomants | £2-10-0 |
for bringing them home to St Earny |
1/6 | |
| 1720: | to ye carpenter for 2 days worke | 2/4 |
| The disburstments of Humphry Spillar, Churchwarden of St Erney, for the year 1721: | ||
Gave to 7 seamen which wore cast away |
7d | |
| Gave to 11 seamen which had a pass | 1/6 | |
| Gave to 6 seamen which had a pass | 1/- | |
| Gave to a widow woman and 4 children by ye parish order | 1/- | |
Given to two men which had an order from King and Parliament with a break to travel |
2/- |
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| Given to 2 seamen with a pass | 6d | |
Paid John Rouse for a fitth’s head |
4d | |
| 1722: | gave 1/- to mother of a seaman that ‘was took with the pirates’ |
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| 1724: | Given to a company of seamen their ship was burnt | 6d |
| A pound of candols | 6d | |
| 1792: | Paid William Geak for killing one badger, 3 filthos and 3 kites | 2/8 |
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