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Purchases in 1712
« on: Sunday 10 March 24 14:20 GMT (UK) »
More help needed please with the words I can't transcribe in this section.  Also, is that a blob or a magpie???

One Close in East ffield called Sydeham one acre p an
It has at least 50 _ on it g_   Small _ and
Pollards  It lyes on the road going from Milbourne to Bowden

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Derbys: Ward, Hopkinson, Bradley, Birds, Clarke, Taylor, Daykin, Gent, Vardy, Cotterill, Stocks, Godber, Dronfield, Charlesworth, Bonsall, Purseglove
Notts: Clarke, Freeman, Kitchen, Allcock, Housley, Swanwick, Berrisford, Farnsworth, Antcliffe
Staffs: Nutt, Bowring
Yorks: Holling, Fish, Kay, Hardy
Lincs: Plummer, Broughton, Wellbourne

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Re: Purchases in 1712
« Reply #1 on: Sunday 10 March 24 15:00 GMT (UK) »
I think ...... :-\

It has at least 50 trees on it great & small spire and
Pollards.......

According to the dialect dictionary a spire was a young tree (full definition here https://archive.org/details/englishdialectdi05wrig/page/666/mode/2up?q=spire )
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Re: Purchases in 1712
« Reply #2 on: Sunday 10 March 24 16:19 GMT (UK) »
A magpie  :)
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Re: Purchases in 1712
« Reply #3 on: Sunday 10 March 24 16:24 GMT (UK) »
It does look like a magpie but is actually an ampersand  ;D
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Re: Purchases in 1712
« Reply #4 on: Sunday 10 March 24 19:28 GMT (UK) »
Wonderful, thank you so much
Derbys: Ward, Hopkinson, Bradley, Birds, Clarke, Taylor, Daykin, Gent, Vardy, Cotterill, Stocks, Godber, Dronfield, Charlesworth, Bonsall, Purseglove
Notts: Clarke, Freeman, Kitchen, Allcock, Housley, Swanwick, Berrisford, Farnsworth, Antcliffe
Staffs: Nutt, Bowring
Yorks: Holling, Fish, Kay, Hardy
Lincs: Plummer, Broughton, Wellbourne
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