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Valuations

Rushden Anno Dom. 1650 August 9th
The Value of Each Mans estate by the year
     
 £.s.d
Mrs Mary POLTNEY for the Imp. & free lands Late Sir Lew PEMBERTON Knight by the year
200.0.0
Sir Ed ALSTON Knight
18.0.0
Hen FREEMAN Esq
16.0.0
Fra GRAY gent
40.0.0
Raffe JENISON gent
105.0.0
Edmond MARGETS
10.0.0
Tho COLSTON
10.0.0
 All these with diverse others not town dwellers.


From a little piece of paper in the Isham Longden Collection at Northamptonshire Record Office - probably dates from the 1660s.
The Ekins family were at this time at Rushden Hall.
Another document found in the collection was Owners of Arms.

The names of those who have estates in our towne of Rushden but dwell not in our towne

Value
per annum

Sir Edward

Alston

20.0.0

Hen:

Freeman Esq.

23.0.0

Mr

Jenison

10.0.0

Mr

Grey

40.0.0

Nathaniell

May

17.0.0

Mr

Ives

7.0.0

Tho

Colson

10.0.0

Joseph

Manning

9.0.0

Sir Thomas

Dacres

8.0.0

besides:

Mr

Ekins his estate

237.0.0

and our

Minister

NRO Ref: IL2635



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