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The following entries in Feoffee accounts for 1766 to 1866 mention Edward Watts.

Date	Name	Type	Description	Amount (£ s d)		Building link
21/10/1776	Edward Watts	income	Edward Watts Esqr for six years Quit rent Due Michaelmas last	2 - 04 - 02		none
30/10/1783	Edward Watts	income	Paid Edward Watts Esq two years quit rent	0 - 15 - 02		none
21/6/1792	Edward Watts	income	Paid Edward Watts Esq , Church Warden OneYears Rent for Mrs Newmans Land Inclosed Among the Poor's Due April 5 1792	1 - 10 - 00		none
21/5/1793	Edward Watts	income	Paid Edward Watts Esq Church Warden One Year's Rent for Mrs Newman's Land Inclosed amongst the Poor's Due 5,4,1793	1 - 10 - 00		none
24/12/1805	Edward Watts	income	Paid Edward Watts Esq for an Acre of Land	24 - 00 - 00		none
0/0/1806	Edward Watts	income	Paid into the hands of Edward Watts Esq towards Pewing and Paving the Church	27 - 00 - 00		none

Notes:
	The Feoffee was a charity which owned several properties and provide aid to the poor from the income derived from these properties. Two Feoffee ledgers survive for the period 1766 to 1866. They record only payments. During this period, it appears that the Feoffee owned Stafford House which was being run as a work house. There are no expenditures recorded for the support of people in the workhouse. It seems likely that this fell on the trustees for the poor rate. The payment are of two types: - support payments to beneficiaries, occasionally with a brief explanation of why the support was needed - payments for services or taxes, usually connected with the maintenance of feoffee properties, sometimes with an indication of the work Most of the support payments are made in the winter months, presumably because there was insufficient agricultural work to provide employment for everyone in these months.

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