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The following entries in Feoffee accounts for 1766 to 1866 mention James Boot.

Date	Name	Type	Description	Amount (£ s d)		Building link
13/7/1779	James Boot	income	Paid James Boot for weeding the Quick	0 - 15 - 00		none
2/3/1780	James Boot	income	Paid James Boot for quicking 103and a half Peech at one shilling per peach and for sixteen thousand of quicksets at five shillings per thousand	9 - 04 - 00		none
16/5/1780	James Boot	income	Paid James Boot	2 - 12 - 06		none
17/3/1781	James Boot	income	Paid James Boot for mending and sets and work	2 - 08 - 04		none
30/4/1782	James Boot	income	Paid James Boot	1 - 07 - 06		none
27/6/1782	James Boot	income	Paid James Boot	1 - 10 - 00		none
15/1/1783	James Boot	income	Paid James Boot	1 - 04 - 04		none
24/1/1784	James Boot	income	Paid James Boot's bill	1 - 00 - 04		none
30/7/1786	James Boot	income	Paid James Boot Bill	0 - 07 - 06		none
15/6/1871	James Boot	income	Paid James Boot for back ditching etc	2 - 05 - 06		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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