This document concerns Robert Colthurst of North Petherton and the Land Tax paid on two properties, a farm called Currants in Moorland and a house in Mill Street. For more on the Land Tax, see here.
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20 June 1799 / 49862 (1151)
County of Somerset
Mr Robert Colthurst
Certificate of the Contract for the Redemption of Land Tax
Handwritten endorsement
1799 August [..] Received of the within named Robert Colthurst the sum of thirty pounds 10/1/- the consideration of the within contract / Hugh Tilly, deputy receiver to John Coles Esq.
Duly Registered the 9th day of September 1799 / William Radcliffe
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No.1151
Know all Men. That we Jeffrey’s Allen and John Tyndale Warre Esquire two of the commissioners appointed for the Purpsoses of an Act, intitled “An Act for making perpetual, subject to Redemption and Purchase in the Manner therein stated, the several sums of Money now charged in Great Britain as a Land Tax for one Year, from the Twenty-fifth Day of March One Thousand Seven Hundred and Ninety-Eight”, for the County of Somerset, do hereby certify, that in the Execution of the said Act, and of two other Acts for extending the Powers of the said Act, and for explaining and amending the same, we have contracted with Robert Colthurst for the Redemption by him of the sum of one pound six shillings Land Tax, being the Land Tax charged upon
A tenement and farm called Currants situate in the parish of North Petherton in the said County aforesaid in the assessment made for the Tithing of Moorland for the year 1798 as follows, viz: Mr Thomas Colthurst, proprietor himself, occupier £1 4s 0d sum assessed and upon a dwelling house and garden in Mill Street called New House situate in the same parish assessed in the appointment made for the Tithing of Woolmersdon for the year 1790 as follows, viz: the tivett proprietor Charles Pitman occupier £0 2s 0d sum assessed.
The consideration for the Redemption is declared to be so much of lawful Money of Great Britain to be paid to the Receiver-General, or his Deputy, for the said County of Somerset as according to the Current Price of Stock, transmitted to such Receiver-General, will be sufficient to purchase forty seven pounds thirteen shillings and four pence Capital Stock in the Three Pounds per Century consolidated Bank Annuities, on the first Day of August next such Price to be estimated according to the Current Price of Stock transferred in the Weed preceeding the said first day of August
Dated at Bridgwater this twentieth Day of June 1799.
Witness our Hands and Seals: J.T. Warre. Jeffreys Allen.
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