Parish of wadhurst

living near Church Settle, his wife and family

who is ill and cannot maintain his wife and family

now sick and ill of an ague

grown so old that he cannot maintain himself

who is with child an cannot maintain herself

so old and infirm that she cannot maintain herself

so reduced by sickness that they cannot provide for themselves

her husband is very ill and poor and unable to provide for his family

has sworn her settlement at Lenham in Kent but she cannot maintain her daughter, born 6 Feb 1758, who belongs [to Wadhurst]

Batchelor is to hire for £10 a year the house now occupied by William Atkins, with the three adjoining fields and as much of the barn as he needs. Goatley reserves to his own use the wagon way to the barn by the hedge next Burchin Green and 'to have the benefit of letting the grass to the Welch Men till Charing (Charon) Fair'

Subscribed with note that Henry Batchelor declared at a vestry that he had entered the premises on 29 Sep 1736; 19 Mar 1738

See PAR498/37/1/5

to pay £1 to the churchwardens and overseers in instalments

on payment of £27 for the bastard daughter of Ann Luck of Wadhurst, spinster, of which TF was adjudged the father

to Richard Walter Burgis and his sisters Ann Burgis and Jane Burgis

Endorsed: paid 16 Jul 1757

to apprehend 'all idle and disorderly persons having no legal calling or who do not follow industriously the same, between the age of 17 and 45 years of age and 5 feet 4 inches high without shoes' and to bring them to the Chequers in Maresfield on 6 Feb 1758 in obedience to orders of the justices and land tax commissioners of 7 Jan and 23 Jan 1758

Endorsed: instructions to take any persons 'that you think too long to keep' before George Courthope esq; continuation of the warrant, which is to be returned at Maresfield 6 Mar 1758

to ensure the appearance of seven persons before them at the Chequers in Maresfield on 4 Jun to answer for their refusal to pay the poor rate

Endorsed: details of the amount owed by the Revd Samuel Bush with a receipt, 13 Aug 1759

John Sivyor of Wadhurst

Henry Rochester of Wadhurst with wife and children

Edward Stephens of Wadhurst, whose shilling a week has been withdrawn

subscribed: query whether his name was not Thomas as such a person is missing

John Baker of Mayfield, esq, lord of the manor of Mayfield, to Gregory Dyne, Joseph Dunmoll, gent, Richard Lucke yeoman, David Holland mercer, John Barham of Shoesmiths gent, John Lucke (son and heir apparent of Richard Lucke), John Holland (son and heir apparent of David Holland) and Nicholas Puxty the younger yeoman, all of Wadhurst, for £4

messuage in two dwellings and two little gardens adjoining, occupied by Thomas Wood and Alexander Leefe, erected at the charge of the parishioners on the waste of the highway at Riseden

W: Edward Warnett, John Houghton, Robert Foster

Endorsed: lease of the almshouse at Riseden

giving details of the owner, occupier, name of estate and acreage; probably compiled from the tithe apportionment in connection with rating; watermark 1845