Is there a Victoria County History volume maybe? Just heard a v good talk about related subject but in Shropshire, presented under the auspirces of VCH S'shire.
Whereabouts in Yorkshire? VCH (ancient) for North Riding unlikely to mention it - such things weren't really in scope at the time - East Riding (modern) most likely will.
sounds like a question I would try to answer first via thirsk and the aghistory of england and wales, I don't recognise the phrase particularly. Maybe James Fisher (agrarian improvements book) would know?
So, having seen it in context, I think she’s saying she only had 20s. a year clear, after all interest payments and other charges (taxes, poor rates, county rates, maimed soldiers and Marshalsea rates, &c.). That would be my interpretation, anyway.
I've not seen the source but in that context using the phrase public charge is interesting to me. Obviously all those things are priced charges, but putting it that way in the c17th seems distinct, interesting.
This prompted me to check the OED, but the only examples of the phrase "public charge" from the 17th century are something/one that is a burden on the state/supported by the state, not charges laid by the state on the public (although I think that that creeps in towards the end of the century).
Hmm, is it definitely sums paid *to* landholders. The only thing I can of is when the tenants paid the taxes and had it allowed to them by their landlords. I’ve never come across the term before.
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