Published online by Cambridge University Press: 17 February 2024
DUNKESWELL
One rate survies for this parish located five miles north of Honiton. Its Cistercian abbey was dissolved in 1539. Tristram Risdon wrote ‘its ruins now lie low in the dust’ but more can be seen today than he had suggested nearly four hundred year ago.
112. Dunkeswell, Church Rate, 1610
DHC, Diocese of Exeter, Principal Registry, Dolton Church Rates, 1610
Note: This rate was written on single sheet of folded paper which measures 12 inches by 16 inches.
Dunkeswell In the year of our Lord 1610 9
A rate made by the Churchwarden, sydemen & others of the parishe of Dunkeswell in the countye of Devon for the repayring of theire church, to be gathered yerely & as often as neede shall require every yere by the Churchwarden made the 13th daye of June in the yere of our Lord God 160 1610, made by those whose names are hereunder written Anthony Philip, Rafe Deman, John Rawe, Richard Maunsell, Andrew Whitehorne, Robert Gally, Thomas Burrowe, Ellis Phillip, Alexander Richardes, William Asheforde, William Bruford, Richard Phillip, Thomas Horwoode, & Ambrose Pringe, as followeth.
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