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From: Brian Randell <>
Subject: [DEV] East Budleigh Malt Rate
Date: Tue, 5 Oct 2010 18:55:33 +0100
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Hi Joy:

On 5 Oct 2010, at 09:54, Joy Langdon wrote:

> I put "malt" and "Budleigh" in A2A and came up with a Churchwarden's
> Book 1560-75 which has in the contents "rates for malt money 1600".
> It looks as if these malt rates were part of the tithes paid to the
> church (the Woodbury Malt Rates were for the maintenance of the
> church according to the preamble). A Malt Tax was introduced by the
> government later in 1697.
>
> Regards,
>
> Joy

Many thanks - I'd searched on "malt rate" not "malt". The A2A
catalogue entry would indicate that this Churchwarden's Book contains
a number of very interesting-sounding items:

> Churchwardens book 1180 A-2/PW 15 1560 - 1705
> Contents:
> Contains list of churchwardens, 1560-1705;
> List of collectors for the poor, 1591-1690;
> List of charitable bequests, 1599-1657;
> Rates for malt money, 1600, 'lidger rate', 1626, relief of infected
> people of Plymouth and Stonehouse, 1626, general muster and
> billeting soldiers, 1627, relief of infected people of Exmouth etc.,
> 1628, repair of Thorverton bridge and shroud for man dying by the
> hedge, 1630, repair of Thorverton bridge, 1632, general muster and
> making new bridges at Salterton, 1633, soldiers' pay and repair of
> beacons, 1634, general muster and repair of beacons, 1635, powder
> and bullets for his majesty's service, 1636;
> Lists of apprentices, 1623 and 1626

This catalogue entry does not make it clear that the Malt Rate payers
are listed, but the reference to East Budleigh I found at http://nefamilies.com/fam/groupsheetI100001350.aspx
cites the name of a malt rate payer. So it is perhaps fair to assume
that there is a East Budleigh listing of the Malt Rate that is as
interesting/valuable as the Woodleigh one.

The problem is now to find someone who is willing to investigate
further, and if appropriate to visit, or to acquire a copy from, the
DRO and transcribe it.

Any volunteers?

Cheers

Brian Randell



> From: Brian Randell <>
> To: “devon” <>
> Sent: Monday, 4 October, 2010 10:34:46
> Subject: [DEV] GENUKI/Devon - What's New Sep 2010
>
> Hi Everyone:
>
> > Sep 2010
> > No. of pages added/amended: 85
> >
> > Major additions:
> >
> > • Chudleigh: Chudleigh Baptisms/Births 1558-1858 - transcript
> > • Woodbury: Malt Rate 1536 et seq - transcript
>
> So, quite a number of corrected/augmented pages, though only two new
> pages - but both rather noteworthy. (However the Devon Wills Project
> pages continue to grow apace.)
>
> The Chudleigh baptisms transcript (2.1 MB), by Carol Gertner and Gary
> Liddell, covers a very lengthy period indeed. And, thanks to Jean
> Harris, the Woodbury page gives a list of people who had paid a "Malt
> Rate" tax, something I'd not heard of before and which I can't find
> anything more about. It doesn't appear in Herber, or in A2A, for
> example.
>
> Indeed the only relevant references to "malt rate" in the first 50
> results from Google all refer to GENUKI/Devon's Woodbury page. However
> a bit further on Google finds a page referring to payment of malt rate
> in 1600 in East Budleigh (http://nefamilies.com/fam/groupsheetI100001350.aspx
> ).
>
> Does anyone know any more about the "malt rate" - or whether/where
> there might be further parish malt rate listings (e.g. for East
> Budleigh)?
>
> Cheers
>
> Brian Randell


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