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A History of the County of Oxford
… Tew he was responsible for such things as payments for vermin, and gifts to travelling paupers; usually he drew …
A History of the County of Somerset
… payments were to be made to travellers, for killing vermin, or for briefs. 79 Poorhouses were mentioned in 1683. …
A History of the County of Somerset
… on Whetmoor, and the rewards for the destruction of vermin. 250 In 1744 the vestry agreed to lease the parish …
A History of the County of Oxford
… was in ruins and the pigeons destroyed by crows and other vermin. The herbage sold from various meadows and pastures …
A History of the County of Northampton
… John replied that his serjeanty entitled him to chase vermin in the parks both of the king and of other persons, … dogs for destroying wolves, foxes, cats, and other vermin, as well within parks as without, in the counties of …
A History of the County of Hertford
… timber for hutches and traps for destroying all manner of vermin, and to cover, ditch, plassh, and lay the burrows. He …
A History of the County of Somerset
… interest gradually widened to include the destruction of vermin from 1754, 505 the provision of a ladder 'for the use …
A History of the County of Somerset
… numbers of travellers and until 1847 paid bounties for vermin. 528 Overseers paid relief in cash and kind through … a tract of moor allotted to the poor. 529 From 1847 vermin bounties were payable from the highway rate. 530 …
A History of the County of Oxford
… obligations under the 1598 statute to reward destroyers of vermin. 74 Between 1725 and 1735 there was a town estate, … the churchwardens the job of rewarding the catchers of vermin. In other ways Tadmarton's constable encroached on …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… during the 18th century for the extermination of pests and vermin. Sparrows were the worst sufferers; these were paid …