A list or duplicate made the twenty fourth day of August one thousand seven hundred & fifteen of the names of those who are chargeable to foot arms and also of those who are charged to the horse w[i]thin the p[ar]ish of Woodley is as followeth viz
Name (and title) | Further details | Amount (£) | Type/Liability | Notes |
Imp[rimi]s Walter Elford Rector | 50 | one foot arm | ||
The occ[upie]r of Mr [no forename] Parnells | tenem[en]t | 28 | one foot arm | |
The occ[upie]r of Edmund Hurrells | tenem[en]t | 22 | ||
The occ[upie]r of Lower Dale | 28 | one foot arm | ||
The occ[upie]r of Rich[ar]d Hurrells | tenem[en]t | 22 | ||
The occ[upie]r of Lavers's Halstow | 28 | one foot arm | ||
The occ[upie]r of Chelly | 14 | |||
Roger Clarke | for Harris's tene[men]t | 02 | ||
Rog[e]r Clarke | for Tooleys | 01-10 | ||
Mary Prowse | 02-10 | |||
The occ[upie]r of Willmott Leighs | cott[age] | 02-00 | ||
John Camp | 18-05 | one foot arm | ||
Roger Hurrell Gent | 14-10 | |||
Robert Symmons Gent | 14-10 | |||
Joane Hurrell | 01-10 | |||
The occ[upie]r of Camp's tenen[en]t | 02-00 | [the total for this fifty is £50-15s] | ||
Sum totall | 250-15 | |||
A list of those Gentlemen who are chargeable to the horse within the parrish aforesaid, and are as followeth | ||||
John Fortescue Esqr | 100-00-00 | horse | ||
Edmund Fortescue Esqr | 034-00-00 | horse | ||
John Hurrell Gent | 070-00-00 | horse | ||
John Shapley Esqr | 030-00-00 | horse | ||
Courtenay Crocker Esqr | for Morcombe | 007-00-00 | horse | |
Edmund Southcott Esqr | for Luscomb's | 035-05-00 | horse | |
Sum totall | 276-05-00 | |||
John Scobble | a Comicon officer | 035-00-00 | officer | |
and more for Clarks tenem[en]t | 008-00-00 | |||
[Total] | 043-00-00 | |||
John Campe | Con[sta]ble | |||
Gabriel Woodmason | Con[sta]ble | |||
assisted by Roger Horrell | [endorsed on back 'Woodleigh 5 men'] |
[In the documents, the amounts recorded are arranged in groups normally adding up to £50 (or multiples of £50), and known as 'fifties', each responsible for providing one or more soldiers; in the transcript, the fifties are separated by grey bands; see Section 2 of the Commentary, The documents described.]