The following have been extracted from the above document which can be found in the Wiltshire & Swindon Records Office - ref WRO 831/9
As well as the following, the book also contains many lists of both rate payers and receivers in the parish.
1766 - there are 13 monthly payments of 3/- (15p) made by John Head to Sarah Taylor for her boy.
"A memoramdum that I Thomas Church sells to my Son John Church to [2] seats in the North Isle of the Parish Church of Burbage for the sum of Eighteen Shillings and the said Thomas Church is to have liberty to set in one of the Afoesaid During his life. Witness my Hand - Tho. Church. Churchwardens Wm. Gale & John Noas [Noyes?]. Witness also Thomas Durnford & William Hilliard"
On January 28th, 1782, John Church sold the seats to Richard Tilley [?] for £1/15/0d. It was witnessed by John Church, William Durnford and Thomas Hohues [Hughes?]
Of the following, does anyone know what sin
George Wroughton had committed?
"May ye 20th 1766. We the principale
Inhabitance of the parish of Burbage at a Vestry a journ’d to Mr.
Cole’s at Burbage. Unimastly a Greed to Try ye cause against Geo.
Wroughton Esq. Of Wilcott relating to Thos. Nutley of our parish as Witnesses
one Hands
John Durnford - Churchwarden
Wm. Hilliard
Wm.
Scarlett
Wm. Gale
John Clark
W. Baden
Wm. Westbury
John
Church
Hugh Neale
James Highett
Tho. Durnford"
A list of some of the field names mentioned in 1760 include:
South Grove; Woolfals; Platts; Hunt of Dulls; Marrants; News; Waters; Long Mead; Sower Heath; Webbs; Hayers; Betts; East Sands; Lower Heath; Tarrants; Severals; Stibb; Horners; Broomcroft; New England; Courts; Waters Lye; Fritheys; Warren.
©Colin Younger 2001