Free & Voluntary Present 1662 - S.Erpingham

[Geoffers]

The returns for the Free and Voluntary present to Charles II are held in the National Archives at Kew. Those for the Hundred of South Erpingham are in E179/154/664 and dated 14 Chas II (1662-3). The following are the entries for Buxton, Lammas, Hautbois Magna, Stratton Strawless, Hevingham, Marsham, Scottow, Cawston:

Buxton
John SMITH, 5s
Antony TAYLOR, to be paid ye first of October, 5s
To Mr. Edmund CORKE ye receiver in (..?.),
Robert RUMP, 4s

Lammas
Robt SMITH, 5s
Humphrey PRATTANT, 1Pd
Robt CHAPMAN, 4s
Jon LAWES of Lamas cum Hobbis, 2s
Thomas SADLER, 20Pd

Stratton Strawless
Thomas SPARSHAM, gent, 3Pd 6s
William MARSHAM, gt, 1Pd 10s
Henry MARSHAM, gt, 1Pd
Mrs. MARSHAM, 13s 4d
Christopher HARPER, 1s
Richard CHILD, 1s
Robert HARE, 1s

continued.....

[Geoffers]

part 2

Hevingham
John WILLIMAN, 1s
Thomas WIGHTON, 1s
Robert RUST, 1s
Adam GEDGE, 1s
John CROME, 1s
Edward WILSON, 1s
Peter FULLER, 1s
John TOLKE, gt, 1Pd 10s

Marsham
Roger CARTER, 1s
Robert BOSWELL, 1s
Edmund PUTTOCK, to be paid to Mr. Edmund
Cork on ye first of November, 1s
Antony DOBS, 2s

Hautbois Magna
John ALLEYN of Hobbis Magna, 5s

Scottow
John WARNER, 7s
John YEWS, 1s
Adam YEWS, 2s

Cawston
John LAWES, 2s

Geoffers
Charlbury, Oxfordshire