Feoffee

Feoffee Payment Entries

The following entries in the feoffee payment records mention Shortland.
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Date	Name	Type	Description	Amount (£ s d)
8/5/1774	Shortland	support	Gave to Old Shortland in distress	0 - 05 - 03
11/1/1785	Shortland	support	Stony Stratford	0 - 01 - 06
Transcriber's notes: No first name
11/1/1786	Widow Shortland	support	Stratford	0 - 01 - 00
9/1/1787	Widow Shortland	support	Stony Stratford	0 - 03 - 00
26/12/1788	Widow Shortland	support	CE (Stony Stratford)	0 - 05 - 00
21/12/1789	Widow Shortland	support	Stony Stratford	0 - 04 - 00
21/12/1790	Widow Shortland	support	Stony Stratford	0 - 04 - 00
21/12/1791	Widow Shortland	support	Stony Stratford	0 - 04 - 00
21/12/1792	Widow Shortland	support	Stony Stratford	0 - 03 - 00
21/12/1793	Widow Shortland	support	Stony Stratford	0 - 02 - 06
22/12/1794	Widow Shortland	support	Stratford	0 - 03 - 00
0/0/1796	Widow Shortland	support	Stony Stratford	0 - 03 - 00
0/0/1796	Widow Shortland	support	Stratford	0 - 03 - 00
0/0/1797	Widow Shortland	support	Stratford	0 - 03 - 00
0/0/1799	Widow Shortland	support	Stony Stratford	0 - 03 - 00
0/0/1799	Shortland	support	Stratford	0 - 03 - 00
0/0/1800	Widow Shortland	support	Stratford	0 - 03 - 06
0/0/1801	Widow Shortland	support	Stony Stratford	0 - 02 - 06
0/0/1802	Widow Shortland	support	Stony Stratford	0 - 02 - 00
0/0/1803	Widow Shortland	support	Stony Stratford	0 - 04 - 00

Notes:
	The Feoffee was a charity which owned several properties and provide aid to the poor from the income derived from these properties.
	Feoffee payment ledgers survive for the period 1766 to 1866. During this period, it appears that the Feoffee owned Stafford House and was running it as a work house.
	The payment are of two types: support payments to beneficiaries, occasionally with a brief explanation of why the support was needed payments for services or taxes, usually connected with the maintenance of feoffee properties, sometimes with an indication of the work
	Most of the support payments are made in the winter months, presumably because there was insufficient agricultural work to provide employment for everyone in these months.