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Here’s the link, although I’m afraid it doesn’t add much to answer your question. At this point he was probably working on the land but not a tenant himself - he doesn’t appear on earlier lists of those paying rates, although the names are not included for 1713.

http://www.rootschat.com/links/01tt5/

I suppose the broader question is under what circumstances would the parish pay for a certificate - I can see they needed to pay for declarations when they appointed new overseers, for example, but Shilo (my family member) doesn’t appear in these accounts again, so it’s difficult for me to imagine what he was doing to benefit the parish. Maybe I should post this as a more general question.

Thanks to a very useful text search tool which coombs posted recently (https://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=891814.0) I have been looking through the overseer accounts for Foulsham, Norfolk. Foulsham suffered from a smallpox epidemic in 1711-14 and various parishioners, including my ancestor, received temporary parish support while they were sick and unable to work. The accounts also itemise specific items and services the parish covered and in the list for the same quarter is this entry:



What do you think he received? It cost 3/6 in 1712. I can’t find anybody else who received one of these.

Thanks, Helen

 Q4 1947 Pearl A Hanson mmn Smith

Patricia, do you know what Aunt Doll’s middle name was?