450 A Remarkable Parochial Agreement of the Eighteenth Century. 



within the severall tythings of Lavington Rector and Lavington Dauntesey 

 within the parish of Markett Lavington in the county of Wilts whose hands 

 & seals are hereunto sett & subscribed AND WE the severall owners and 

 occupiers of houses land & tenements lying in Easterton within the said 

 parish of Markett Lavington whose hands and seals are hereunto also sett 

 and subscribed do mutually Article and Agree to and with each other in manner 

 following that is to say : FIRST. — WE the said owners and occupiers of 

 houses lands «fe tenements within the aforesaid severall tythings of Lavington 

 Rector & Lavington Dauntesey do for ourselves severally and for our severall 

 heirs exec'^ and adm" article grant and agree to and with the owners and 

 occupiers of houses lands and tenements in Easterton aforesaid and to and 

 with their heirs exec™ & adm" That from and after the 24"' day of June instant 

 the poor of the said two severall tythings of Lavington Rector and Lavington 

 Dauntesey shall be for ever relieved and maintained by the inhabitants of the 

 said two severall tythings and shall be wholly exempted & discharged from all 

 costs and charges any ways incident unto the inhabitants of Easterton in 

 respect of such poor AND that from & after the said twenty fourth day of June 

 if any inhabitant or inhabitants of either of the said tythings ot Lavington 

 Rectoror Lavington Dauntesey shall be willing or minded to reside or dwell in 

 Easterton aforesaid That then and in such case the churchwardens and overseer 

 of the poor of Markett Lavington aforesaid shall give a lawfull and effectuall 

 certificate to the officers of Easterton aforesaid to receive back such inhabitant 

 or inhabitants and all lawfully deriving under him or them in case he or they 

 shall in any wise become chargeable to the inhabitants of Easterton aforesaid. 

 ALSO. — In consideration of the aforesaid p'^misses We the owner and 

 occupiers of houses lands and tenements within Easterton aforesaid do for 

 selves severally and for our severall heirs executors and adm'^ article grant 

 and agree to and with the owners and occupiers of houses lands and tenements 

 in the two severall tythings of Lavington Rector and Lavington Dauntesey 

 aforesaid and to and with their heirs exec" and adm" That from and after 

 the aforesaid 24th day of June the poor of Easterton aforesaid shall be for ever 

 relieved and maintained by the inhabitants of Easterton aforesaid and shall 

 be wholly exempted and discharged from all costs and charges any ways 

 incident unto the inhabitants of the tythings of Lavington Rector and Laving- 

 ton Dauntesey aforesaid for or in respect of such poor And that from and 

 after the aforesaid 24th day of June if any inhabitant or inhabitants of 

 Easterton aforesaid shall be willing or minded to reside or dwell in the Town 

 of Markett Lavington aforesaid That then and in such case the church warden 

 and overseer of the poor of Easterton aforesaid shall give a lawfull and effectuall 

 certificate to the Church wardens and overseer of Markett Lavington aforesaid 

 to receive back such inhabitant or inhabitants and all lawfully deriving under 

 him or them in case he or they shall in any wise become chargeable to the 

 inhabitants of the Town of Markett Lavington aforesaid AND it is further 

 agreed that all persons now out on certificates and (sic) shall be brought or 

 return home shall be received and provided for by such of the said places 

 as they went from, that is to say, those and their familys that went from 

 Market Lavington to be received and provided for by Market Lavington and 

 those that went from Easterton to be received and provided for by Easterton 



