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The Feoffee was a charity which owned several properties and
provide aid to the poor from the income derived from these properties. |
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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. |
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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 |
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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. |
