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Snargate Cobbler 1748

Submitted by Ruiha Smalley on 6 December 2021

Here is a transcripton from one of the items in our collection. This document is the account of a cobbler, John Hall, who lived in Snargate in 1748. The account was rendered to the Overseer of the Poor Law. The document can be found in the Gordon Ward archive ref: Snargate 014.

 

Cobbler bill 1748

 

A Bill of shoumakers work don[e] by ye order of Mr aBraham doul oversere of The parris of Snave in ye year of 1738

 

March ye 16 day 1738 for 4 pises ov large on yleeds boy shous                 00:00: 5

Aprill y8 day 1738 a payer of sous for The foord boy                                 00:  3: 8

Aprill ye   19 day 1738 for soling and helping of dorrity leeds shos               00:00:11

Aprill ye  15 day 1738 a payer of shous for ye  leeds boy                               00:  2: 9

May ye  19 day 1738 for 2 pises and for sowing of dorrity leeds shos           00:00: 3

August ye  24 day 1738 a payer of shous for dorrity leeds                             00:  2: 8

August ye  4 day 1738 for [illegible/illegible] dorrity leeds shou                  00:00: 4

October ye  24 day 1738 for mending of ye  Leeds boy shous                       00:00: 2

October ye  28 day 1738 a payer of shous for dorrity leeds                           00:  2: 8

October ye  29 day 1738 a payer of shous for yleeds boy                           00:  2: 9

                                                                                                                      {00:16:10

 

March 28 1739 Then rec[eive]d of <mr> Edward Tibdenham

Oversere The full contents of This bill & say

Rec[eive]d by mee john Hall      

 

(Transcribed by Peter Titley December 2021.)