Bits, Bobs and Oral History

Abstracts from Church Register:

• 1772 1/-  paid to Thomas Sherman

• 1766 4d paid to Daniel Perratt for killing a polecat

• 1738 4d paid to Robert Thomas for killing a hedgehog

• 1739 2d for a pint of ale for man repairing Church clock

• 1799 6d for making a shirt for poor women

• 2d to destitute Sailor in distress

• 3/- per week to John Haggett for teaching children to read

• 1/- given to poor widow with 5 children in distress.

By kind permission from Nigel Coombes

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The following PDF is taken from a fantastic Wordpress blog which explores old Somerset and goes back to the Roman development in the area I have collated and PDf'd the main sections HERE but I would like to acknowledge the main source for this blog as HERE