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Grimsworth Hundred1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 December 2009

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The Militia Assessments
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Copyright © Royal Historical Society 1972

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Footnotes

1

The proportions of the hundred charge allocated to the respective parishes are close to, but not the same as, those in 1677.

References

2. Humphrey Berington's real estate in the county was valued in 1646 at £198 a year (Loan 29/15, pf. 2); he was fined ⅙ of his estate, valued at £632; CCC, iii, p. 2000Google Scholar. The largest HT charge in 1664 was on Thomas Berington (8).

3. Rector, FP 1661 (20s paid).

4. The manor had belonged to the marquis of Hertford; Harl. 6726.

5. HT 1664 (7).

6. Chief constable of Grimsworth, 1663; Loan 29/49, pf. 4, no. 69/15.

7. Rector, 1660–1683.

8. Captain of a militia company in the mid-1660s; Loan 29/49, pf. 4, no. 69/15. HT 1664 (8).

9. He paid to the Exchequer a rent of £10 for his lands in Breinton in 1660; PRO, Various Accounts, E.101/630/30.

10. HT 1664 (10).

11. The annual income from all sources of Roger Dansey of Brinsop Court was put at £800 in 1645; Harl. 911. The estimate was made by a visitor to the county and should be taken only as an indication of Dansey's relative standing. In 1646 William Dansey's real estate in the county was more reliably put at £160 a year and his personal estate at £102; Loan 29/15, pf. 2. Sheriff 1670. HT 1664 (13).

12. George Bannaster, vicar, FP 1661 (20s paid).

13. Instituted 27 Oct. 1664 (Bannister, A. T., Diocese of Hereford Institutions, 1539–1900 (Hereford, 1923), p. 35Google Scholar), but he described himself as rector when certifying the transcripts of his register for 1661 and later years (Hereford CRO, Diocesan Archives), and was similarly described in the return of the FP 1661, to which he gave 40s.

14. Dr William Evans, prebendary of Hereford, and John Scudamore owned the two moieties of the manor; Compston, H. F. B., ‘A Brobury Rent Roll’, TWC, xxiv (1922), p. 120Google Scholar. Silas Taylor, however, states that the manor belonged to Evans and to Lord Scudamore; Harl. 6726.

15. HT 1664 (3 each).

16. The largest HT charge in 1664 was on Thomas Carpenter, gent. (9).

17. His income was put at £300 a year in (?) circa 1677; Loan 29/182, fo. 313. HT 1664 (9).

18. HT 1664 (9).

19. Of Little Pyon; will proved 1668 (PCC).

20. HT 1664 (10).

21. Rector, FP 1661 (40s paid).

22. Included Tupsley. The largest HT charge in 1664 was on Thomas Birch, clerk (6).

23. Included Shelwick.

24. JP q 1660.

25. Anne Herring, HT 1664 (6).

26. Chief constable of Grimsworth, 1663; Loan 29/49, pf. 4, no. 69/15. HT 1664 (6).

27. HT 1664 (6).

28. Richard Parry, gent., HT 1664 (6).

29. In 1646 his estate in the county was put at £80 a year; Loan 29/15, pf. 2.

30. Elizabeth Vaughan together with John Presser, HT 1664 (11).

31. Rector, FP 1661 (20s).

32. In 1646 the Herefordshire real estate of Thomas Rodd of Foxley was valued at £42 a year and his personal estate at £29; Loan 29/15, pf. 2.

33. HT 1664 (5).

34. HT 1664 (5).

35. JP q 1660; MP for Hereford 1660 and 1661, but the latter election was declared void. FP 1661 (£20 paid in Hereford); HT 1664 (9). His income was put at £200 a year in (?) circa 1677; Loan 29/182, fo. 313.

36. HT 1:664 (9).

37. JP 1660; DL 1660; MP for Weobley 1660 and 1661; knighted 2 Jan. 1661/2: Shaw, p. 236. In 1645 the annual income of Mr Tompkins of Monnington was estimated to be £1,200 (Harl. 911); in 1649 he compounded at ⅓ on a value of £2,110; CCC, ii, p. 1035; HT 1664 (20).

38. HT 1664 (10).

39. The 1663 Militia Act imposed a penalty of £5 for not providing a foot-soldier when so charged; it seems that, although the previous Act implied that the smaller estates were liable to charge, there was no penalty for refusal.

40. HT 1664 (6). Thomas Prosser was also charged on 6 hearths.

41. John Addis was punished for his Catholicism in 1684; Add. 36452, fo. 190; HT 1664 (4); he was also charged for 4 hearths at the Court of Lide.

42. Vicar.

43. Clerk of the Peace 1649–52 and 1660–70; Stephens, Sir E., The Clerks of the Counties, 1360–1960 (1961), p. 99Google Scholar. He was also treasurer of the militia funds during the mid-1660s; Loan 29/49, pf. 4, no. 69. FP 1661 (£5 paid in Hereford).

44. Probably included Over Letton township. The manor had belonged to the Tomkins family; Harl. 6726. The largest HT charges in 1664 were on William Carpenter and James Rees (7 each).

45. HT 1664 (13).

46. A Catholic, imprisoned 1682/4; Add. 36452, fo. 190.

47. Included Dinmore.

48. The largest HT charge in 1664 was on the widow Wolrich (14).

49. Knighted 14 Aug. 1660: Shaw, p. 231. JP q 1660; DL 1660; MP for Weobley 1660; sheriff 1661. He owned the Haroldston estate in Pembrokeshire, inherited from Sir James Perrot of that county; Grazebrook, H. S., Heraldry of Worcestershire, ii (1873), p. 426.Google Scholar

50. HT 1664 (8); a farm called The Grange; will of Francis Hall of Ledbury, p. 97 infra.

51. The elder, will proved 1666 (PCC).

52. HT 1664 (9).

53. FP 1661 (20s paid).