Great Harwood Past

Poor Law Accounts 1769 – 70

Fair Poor Book 1769
Disburst by Wm. Aspden and James West Overseers of the poor for Great Harwood for the year 1769
May
To paid John Livesey as apprentice Fee with James Green£0 12s 6d
To Indr’s & Signing 5s/6d Exp’s 1s/6£0 7s 0d
To Shurts making£0 0s 9d
To Phebe Mercer Badley£0 1s 6d
7To Richard Mercer£0 7s 0d
To Wid Rishton£0 7s 0d
To Phebe Mercer£0 3s 0d
To Wid Mercer£0 4s 0d
To Peter Green£0 5s 0d
To Sarah Barret Single woman 3 Weeks£0 12s 0d
To Duckworth Dr. [daughter] with Mary Giles£0 5s 0d
To Thos. Smalley of Liverpool£0 6s 0d
To Peter Whalley Coln£0 3s 0d
To Jeremy Spencer Wife£0 3s 0d
10To Henry Whittaker Padiham£0 2s 6d
To a hat for James Bradshaw£0 1s 2d
23To Shifts and brats for Wid Rishton£0 5s 9d
£4 6s 2d
June
4thTo Wid: Rishton£0 7s 0d
To Richd. Mercer£0 7s 0d
To Wid Mercer£0 4s 0d
To Jeremy Spencer Wife£0 3s 0d
To Phebe Mercer£0 3s 0d
To Sarah Barret since the first of Last Month£0 16s 0d
To Peter Green£0 5s 0d
To Duckworth Child£0 5s 0d
To a Shift for Phebe Mercer£0 2s 8d
To a Shift for Heny: Whittaker Wife£0 2s 9d
To James Smith of Preston Paid the overseer of Preston 5 Weeks£1 4s 0d
To Horse hire & Exp’s. going to preston to see Smiths Family£- 2s 6d
11To Thos. Smalley Liverpool badly£- 5s 0d
To Jas. Smith by Chrs’tr. Hindle Farmer£- 4s 0d
To House Rent for Wid: Riley£1 12s 6d
£6 3s 5d
July
2dTo Wid: Rishton£0 7s 0d
To Wid Mercer£0 4s 0d
To Rich’d. Mercer£0 7s 0d
To Jeremy Spencer Wife£0 3s 0d
To Phebe Mercer£0 3s 0d
To Sarah Barret£0 16s 0d
To Peter Green£0 5s 0d
To James Smith£0 5s 0d
To part of Wm. Shuttleworth house Rent£0 10s 6d
To Wid Mercer Rent£0 15s 0d
To Phebe Mercer Do£0 9s 0d
To James Smith£0 3s 0d
To Will: Smith Wife when he lay dead£0 2s 0d
To Paid Dr. Garvis for James Smith’s Wife£0 17s 0d
To Thos. Smalley£0 4s 0d
To Duckworth Child£0 5s 0d
£5 15s 6d
Sunday Augst. 6th
To Wid: Rishton£0 7s 0d
To Rich’d Mercer£0 7s 0d
To Wid Mercer£0 4s 0d
To Jeremy Spencer Wife£0 3s 0d
To Phebe Mercer£0 3s 0d
To Peter Green£0 5s 0d
To Sarah Barret 5 Weeks£1 0s 0d
To Duckworth Child£0 5s 0d
To Wid Oldham£0 2s 0d
To James Smith£0 4s 0d
To a Shift for Martha Duckworth£0 2s 3d
£3 2s 3d
Sunday Sep.r 3d
To Phebe Mercer£0 3s 0d
To Rich’d Mercer£0 7s 0d
To Wid Mercer£0 4s 0d
To Wid Rishton£0 7s 0d
To Jeremy Spencer Wife£0 3s 0d
To Peter Green£0 5s 0d
To Wid: Oldham£0 6s 0d
To Sarah Barret£0 16s 0d
To Duckworth Child£0 5s 0d
a Letter from preston£0 0s 1d
£2 16s 1d
To a Wa– Ag’- Thurstan Hoskin£0 4s 0d
£3 0s 1d
October 1s
To Phebe Mercer£0 3s 0d
To Rich’d Mercer£0 7s 0d
To Wid Mercer£0 4s 0d
To Wid Rishton£0 7s 0d
To Jeremy Spencer Wife£0 3s 0d
To Peter Green£0 5s 0d
To Wid Oldham£0 6s 0d
To Sarah Barret£0 16s 0d
To Duckworth Child£0 4s 0d
£2 15s 0d
Nov 5
To Phebe Mercer£0 4s 0d
To Rich’d Mercer£0 7s 0d
To Wid Mercer£0 4s 0d
To Wid Rishton£0 7s 0d
To Jeremy Spencer Wife£0 3s 0d
To Peter Green£0 5s 0d
To Wid Oldham£0 5s 0d
To Sarah Barret 5 Weeks£1 0s 0d
To Duckworth Child£0 4s 0d
To Smith Wid from preston£0 2s 0d
To Duckworth Child Cloggs£0 0s 4d
To a Wheel for Do£0 1s 10d
To a Coffin for Wid Moorhouse£0 5s 0d
£3 8s 2d
Decbr. 3d
To Phebe Mercer£0 4s 0d
To Wid: Oldham£0 5s 0d
To Wid Duckworth Child£0 4s 0d
To Wid: Mercer£0 4s 0d
To Sarah Barret£0 16s 0d
To John Leeming£0 2s 0d
To Wid: Rishton£0 7s 0d
To Rich’d Mercer£0 7s 0d
To Jeremy Spencer Wife£0 3s 0d
23dTo James Smith Rent£2 10s 0d
31To Phebe Mercer Badly£0 2s 0d
To Peter Green£0 5s 0d
To Part of my Exp’s. to preston abt. James Smith£0 1s 0d
£5 10s 0d
Sunday Jany 7 1770
To Peter Green£0 5s 0d
To Jeremy Spencer Wife£0 4s 0d
To Rich’d Mercer£0 7s 0d
To Widow Rishton£0 7s 0d
To Widow Mercer£0 4s 0d
To Duckworth Child£0 4s 0d
To Phebe Mercer£0 4s 0d
To Wid Oldham£0 5s 0d
To Sarah Barret 5 Weeks£1 0s 0d
10To an apprentice fee to Thos. Lister with Duckworth child£2 10s 0d
To Indr’s and Exps.£0 7s 0d
12To School house Glaizing£0 4s 3d
To Ann Bradshaw for waiting of Phebe Mercer£0 1s 0d
16To Phebe Mercer 3s 23rd 3s£0 6s 0d
To a Removal order for Grace Butterworth 4s Exp 1s given her 6d£0 5s 6d
25Bread & Drink at P. Mercer Burial£0 5s 2d
To Church Dues£0 3s 10d
To Coffin£0 5s 6d
£7 8s 3d
Sunday Feby. 4th
To Jeremy Spencer Wife£0 4s 0d
To Rich’d Mercer£0 7s 0d
To Wid: Rishton£0 7s 0d
To Wid Oldham£0 5s 0d
To Wid Mercer£0 4s 0d
To Sarah Barret£0 16s 0d
To Peter Green£0 5s 0d
To Widow Riley£0 3s 0d
To John Leeming£0 2s 0d
£2 13s 0d
Mar 4
To Jeremy Spencer Wife£0 4s 0d
To Richard Mercer£0 7s 0d
To Wid Rishton£0 8s 0d
To Wid Oldham£0 5s 0d
To Wid Mercer£0 3s 0d
To Sarah Barret£0 16s 0d
To Peter Green£0 5s 0d
To Wid Riley£0 5s 0d
To Exp’s in bind Jas. Mercer£0 3s 0d
Indres. & signing£0 5s 6d
Church dues for Sarah Barret£0 2s 10d
Ale and Bread£0 8s 0d
Coffin for Do.£0 5s 0d
To Dr. Sale for Sarah Barret & others£3 3s 0d
20To John Leeming£0 2s 0d
£7 2s 4d
Sunday April 1st
To Rich’d Mercer£0 7s 0d
To Jeremy Spencer Wife£0 4s 0d
To Wid Rishton£0 8s 0d
To Wid Oldham£0 8s 0d
To Wid Mercer£0 3s 0d
To Sarah Barret 2 Weeks£0 10s 0d
To Peter Green£0 5s 0d
To Wid Riley£0 5s 0d
To John Leeming£0 2s 0d
To Poor Book Signing£0 2s 0d
To a Note Publishing to Acc’t£0 0s 2d
To Paper£0 0s 6d
£2 14s 8d
An Abstract of each Months payments
May£4 6s 2d
June£6 3s 5d
July£5 15s 6d
Aug’t£3 2s 3d
Sept’r£3 0s 1d
Octb’r£2 15s 0d
Nov’r£3 8s 2d
Decb’r£5 10s 0d
January£7 8s 3d
February£2 13s -d
March£7 2s 4d
April£2 14s 8d
Whole Town poor£53 18s 10d
Constable£17 18s 2d
Supervisor£16 4s 8d
Wages£4 10s 0d
In arrear last year£0 3s 0d
To A-ing new –steen£0 5s 0d
£92 19s 8d
Collected 14 Leys at £4 19s 2d£69 8s 4d
Rec’d from The Tyth
Rec’d from Jas. West /3 poor£17 19s 7 1/2d
Rec’d to Ballance from lower Town Constable£0 6s 7 1/2d
Rec’d by by old phebe Goods£0 18s 10d
£88 13s 5d
To brought over£92 19s 8d
To Exps In Making up accts£0 3s 4d
£93 3s 0d
Collected£88 13s 5d
Due to Will. Aspden£4 9s 7d
April 31Rec’d for Tyth Tax from Wm. Turner£1 7s 0d
£3 2s 7d
April 21seen and allow’d by us
the mark of
Thos. Mercer
Chris. Hindle
the mark of John Hindle
William Hindle
Thomas Cunliff
Thomas Hindle
Peter Brennand
Pierce Wolstenholm
Wm. Bentley
Disburst upon the Constable Acc’t. by Wm. Aspden 1769
To assessing Land & Window Taxes as usuall£0 5s 0d
To Instructions 1s door 4d£0 1s 4d
To spent up on the Coroner£0 2s 0d
June 4To a Note Publishing abt. the Land & Wind Appeal£0 0s 2d
July 11thTo a precept £15 2s 1d Paid by us£10 2s 1d
Sep.r 20thTo a Return of the Jurors£0 2s 0d
Octb.r 5thTo Paid Mr. Grimshaw for a Respite 5s — 2d£0 7s 0d
Octb.r 10To Supervisor Instructions and Wan-£0 6s 1d
Octb.r 20To Spent in receiving Gaugers Land tax as usuall£0 5s 0d
To Paid Adam Shuttleworth to remove and make way for the Gauger£0 5s 0d
Deb.r 12thTo a precept £8 2s 1d I paid in part£5 2s 1d
Deb.r 24To a Messenger Fetching the Coroner£0 1s 0d
Jany 9thTo an order for Highway repairing£0 4s 0d
To Exp’s. abt. Alice Roberts£0 1s 0d
To Mr. Barcroft Fee about the Road indicted by Wm. Bradley£0 3s 6d
To Passengers at Different times£0 3s 6d
To a Militia List & door Keeper£0 3s 8d
To Mr Robinson for a Copy of Wm. Bentleys Indictment£0 2s 9d
To Expences going twice to Clitherow abt. —£0 1s 0d
£17 18s 2d
James West
poor book
1769
May 7thRec’d of James West one Pound Eleven shilling & Sixpence on Overseer Acct.£1 11s 6d
H. Aspden
June 4thRec’d of James West one Pound Eleven shilling & Sixpence on overseer Ac’t£1 11s 6d
July 2dRec’d of James West Seventeen shillings£0 17s 0d
Jul-23Rec’d of James West 2 Guineas£2 2s 0d
Aug.t 8Rec’d of James West£1 10s 0d
Nov-25Rec’d more£1 8s 0d
Deb.r 3dRec’d more£1 1s 0d
Jany 7Rec’d more£1 1s 0d
Jany 27£1 7s 0d
Feb 11£1 3s 0d
Feb 27£1 11s 6d
Apr 1st?£1 8s 0d
By old Phebe Goods£ 9s 5d
Apr 21stPaid to Ballance£17 0s 11d
£ 18s 8 1/2d
£17 19s 7 1/2d
Paid in all which is one third of what’s charged on the poor. See the Acct.
Rec’d from old off’r.£0 0s 11d
8 Leys £2 14s 11d£21 19s 8d
Rec’d for Phebe Mercer£ 9s 5d
Rec’d in all£22 18s 0d
paid [after the amount: poor to W. Aspden]£17 19s 7d
due to Town£4 18s 5d
April 21stPd. on May? Acct.£0 1s 8d
£9? 16s 9d
brought over£4 16s 9d
Pd. towards & tyth£2 5s 9d
£2 11s 0d
April 21Seen and allowed by us
Thomas Hindle
Chris. Hindle