COLDRIDGE

Six rates survive for this parish located ten miles north-west from Crediton. It was renowned for its park, described in 1630 as having once been ‘garnished with goodly woods and timber’. In 1567 it was alleged that it was under one of the oak trees in Coldridge Park that for several successive Sundays Sir Thomas Stukley ‘had to do’ with Wilmot Berry, named then as ‘a whore’. The population of the parish was some 360 persons in 1642. Approximately 14 per cent of the parish contributed to the church rates and marginally more in Ship Money.

29. COLDRIDGE, Church Rate, early 1600s

DHC, Diocese of Exeter, Principal Registry, Coldridge Church Rates

Note: The rate, a fair copy, was written on a sheet of paper which measures approximately 8 inches in width and 12 inches in length. All the figures are Roman except for the number 101. There is some water and possibly fire damage.

30. COLDRIDGE, Church Rate, 1613

DHC, 272A/PO6

Note: This rate was written on a piece of paper which measures nearly 12 inches in width and 15 inches in length. Part of the document is illegible due to fire and having been covered in part with rat urine. The remainder of the document, which lists disbursements, has not been transcribed because of this illegibility. The numerals are Roman.

Colrudge parish

31. COLDRIDGE, Poor Rate, 1619

DHC, 272A/PO8

Note: The rate, a fair copy, was written on a sheet of paper which measures approximately 16 inches in width and 12 inches in length. The numerals are Roman except for those of the year.

The accompte of William Darte and Henry Dier collectors for the poore in the yeere of our Lord god 1619

Our Rts

32. COLDRIDGE, Church Rate, 1621

DHC, 272A/PW6

Note: This rate was written on a piece of vellum some 11 inches in width and 28 inches in length. It recorded parishioners in thirty-eight named places in the parish. In 1708 this rate was reproduced alongside a new one.

Coleridge A Rate Made for the Reperacion of the Church of Coleridge and other ornaments and necessaries belonging to the same, Made by George Radford Gent. Thomas Callard Gent.