THE OLD TOWN OF MILTON ABBEY. 3 



Chapman, Clerk, Caward, Clapcott, Combs, Clarke, Doggett, 

 Drake, Ellis, Foot, Ford, Gleed, Cover, Ham, Hoare, Hewitt, 

 Harrison, Hawkins, Hart, Hallett, Hicks, Harvey, Jerrard, 

 Kates, Keats, Lovell, Legg, Lillington, Martin, Mate, Muckle, 

 Marsh, Musson, Mearin, Oxford, Osmund, Roll, Riggs, Rogers, 

 Stacey, Sargent, Snell, Serjeant, Shepherd, Symons, Tuck, 

 Vacher, Vincent, Whinnell, Woolridge, Wood, Woolfrey, White, 

 Wald, and Welsted. Many of these families owned the premises 

 which they occupied, and some of the surnames exist in the 

 present village of Milton and in the villages around. 



The old town contained shops of all kinds. The occupants 

 thereof were prosperous, but the "working classes" were very 

 poor. Their staple food was barley cake ; and to keep down 

 expenses they saved every morsel of fat and made their own 

 candles in pewter moulds. Among the tradesmen who issued 

 " tokens" in the iyth century were George Cleeve, draper; 

 Zauchy Haroyn, grocer ; George Reeve, grocer ; William Bissy, 

 mercer. Specimens of these tokens still exist. And among the 

 old parish papers are a number of apprenticeship indentures 

 which bound poor boys of the parish to various tradesmen in the 

 place. An extract from one of these indentures used in the old 

 town may be of interest : " The said apprentice his master 

 shall or will serve, his secrets keep, his lawful commands every- 

 where gladly do : he shall do no damage to his said master nor 

 see it be done of others, but to his power shall let or forthwith 

 give notice to his said master of the same. The goods of his 

 said master he shall not waste, nor the same without licence of 

 him to any give or lend. Hurt to his said master he shall not 

 do, cause or procure to be done : he shall neither buy nor sell 

 without his master's licence. Taverns, inns or alehouses he shall 

 not haunt. At cards, dice, tables, or any other unlawful game he 

 shall not play. Fornication he shall not commit. Matrimony he 

 shall not contract, nor from the service of his said master day 

 nor night absent himself; but in all things as an honest and 

 faithful apprentice shall and will demean and behave himself 

 towards his said master and all his during all the said term." 



