  The assessment for a rate made at Norwich in Jan. 1642/3 in order to relieve the poor and to raise a stock for setting them to work (Add. MSS. Brit. Mus. No. 22619, f. 11). The accounts for this rate are given in full for seven parishes of Norwich, and a summary is also made of the accounts received from all the parishes of the city. The whole sum together with contributions from a few private gentlemen amounted to £105. 5s. The part of the account here printed relates to the parish of S. Benedict. It is printed on a separate sheet of paper and is endorsed "St Benedict's." "St Benedict's.
The rate abouesaid made by vs the churchwardens and ou(er)seers of the said parishe whose names are aboue written for releiffe of the poore of or said parishe and for rayseinge a stocke to sett them on worke in theise necessitous times to be forth We haue perused the rate abouesaid and doe consent vnto ratefie and confirme the same and doe hereby require you the said ou(er)seers forth wth to collect the same and pay the same to Mr Adrian Parmenter Ald(erman) by the 14th of this instant January to be imployed for the vse aforesaid this 4th of January 1642. Will(ia)m Costlin, Maior.
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