Catalogue description Notes of Dr Bernard Hodgson entitled "Particulars concerning the Vicarage of Tolpuddle,...

Notes of Dr Bernard Hodgson entitled "Particulars concerning the Vicarage of Tolpuddle, 1784"

Originally prepared as a preliminary for a report requested by the Bishop but then continued by Dr Hodgson

Includes: copies of inclosure awards 1794, 1798 (Pp. 127, 152); report to the Dean and Chapter of Christ Church Oxford [patron] 1800 (p. 163); notes on vicarage, crops, tree plantings and population [figures for 1831 and 1841 added]; index Pp. 109-118

NOTES AND EXTRACTS p. 43: number of inhabitants 1784

p. 50: shortening of the vicar's pew

p. 55: copy terrier of 1654

p. 91: burial in the chancel 1784

p. 92: description of the vicarage house and ground

p. 120: river widening 1794

p. 137: price of wheat sold at Oxford market 1784-1794 [for the purpose of valuing the tithes due to the vicar]

p. 142: list of inhabitants, with their occupations 1795

p. 148: average price of wheat 1796-1836

p. 150: land beside the vicarage garden wall 1798

p. 159: wages of labourers: 1s. per day for men, 6d. for women and 6d. for "a good stout lad of about 12 years old" 1800

p. 177: population 1784, 1791, 1795, 1831

p. 185: acreage of different crops in the parish

p. 191: population 1784-1841

p. 193: "Avoid the Piddletown brick, it is ill made, and of bad clay" 1803

p. 195: note on the registers

p. 196: note on the vicarage

p. 197: note on curates

p. 198: military volunteers 1803

p. 201: descent of estate through Squire Hull to the Pitt family and the names of stewards

p. 203: list of householders, their occupations and numbers in the households 1804

Many notes on trees and dates of planting on pages 50, 92, 94, 126, 155, 185, 189, 196, 201, 206, 207