Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Preface
- Introduction
- Editorial Conventions
- The Lists
- Appendix 1 Letter regarding financing church repairs at Colyton, 1 June 1606
- Appendix 2 Letter from to the churchwardens and overseers of the poor of St Saviour, Dartmouth, 6 March 1610
- Appendix 3 Dartmouth electors, 1626
- Appendix 4 Account of the head wardens of Dean Prior, 1580
- Index
- Devon and Cornwall Record Society
Dodbrooke, Poor Rate, 1613
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 17 February 2024
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Preface
- Introduction
- Editorial Conventions
- The Lists
- Appendix 1 Letter regarding financing church repairs at Colyton, 1 June 1606
- Appendix 2 Letter from to the churchwardens and overseers of the poor of St Saviour, Dartmouth, 6 March 1610
- Appendix 3 Dartmouth electors, 1626
- Appendix 4 Account of the head wardens of Dean Prior, 1580
- Index
- Devon and Cornwall Record Society
Summary
DODBROOKE
Only one rate survives for this parish which was divided by a stream from Kingsbridge. It makes up one half of Kingsbridge in a manner similar to Newton Bushel regarding Newton Abbot. Of Dodbrooke it was later noted by Polwhele that ‘the custom of this place [has been] to pay a tithe to the clergyman in white ale’. Another writer observed it was ‘a liquor peculiar to this part of Devonshire’ and that the tithe was paid by the landlords of every public house. Dodbrooke, which historically comprised one street, had become a borough by 1319 and was later incorporated into Kingsbridge. It was at the time of this rate that a poor man of the parish was excommunicated after the church bell was cracked during his ringing. A few years after this rate John Markell, who was listed in 1613 as paying sixteen pence for the rate, allegedly called the rector a knave, arrant knave, dissembling knave and a ‘shit breech knave’. About 11 per cent of the parishioners contributed to the rate.
108. Dodbrooke, Poor Rate, 1613
DHC, Diocese of Exeter, Principal Registry, Dodbrooke Church Rates, 1613
Note: This rate was written on a single sheet of folded paper which measures 12 inches by 16 inches.
Dodbrooke (114)
The Ratemente there made for the releife of the poore the 6th daie of Aprill in the year of our Lord 1613.
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- Devon Parish Taxpayers, 1500-1650 , pp. 302 - 303Publisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2023