Hello All,
Wondering if someone could help me in transcribing part of a 1638 account for a Henry Fricker of Nippred, Tisbury, Wiltshire (full account available on ancestry Wiltshire wills) and help work out what the wages may have been for?.
From what I can understand it is as follows:
Item paid by this accountant for wages due unto the * * * folkes which he hired and * * * * all somes of money followinge * by * * * by and of his (?) * Viz.
The above is then followed by a list of 16 people and amounts. If not mentioned what the wages are for in the account, would any know of a reason why a person would owe wages to 16 people?
I assume based on other wills of the family that Henry was a yeoman, so 16 people seems a little excessive unless the land held was large and required that many to work.
From what I have read, Nippred was a manorial estate/farmstead between Fonthill Gifford and Tisbury that is now lost. I assume the lands mentioned as 'certain grounds held and rented' from Lord Cottington (owner of Fonthill Gifford) in the account was the or part of the Nippred estate.
How large do people think on their experience of the time the land would be if rent owed (according to the account) was over 110 pounds or, was this amount due for a period of time, say over many years (not sure if rent is paid back then weekly, monthly or yearly)? I know he did pay rent of 12d for a copyhold tenement/cottage in nearby ridge until surrendered in 1622.
Thanks for the help,
Drayke
