Francis Popham , reputed son. Somerset County Records FILE - POPHAM ESTATES schedules of income, etc. - ref. DD/103 - date: [circa 1794]-1807 [from Scope and Content] Paper headed 'A Rental of the Estates lately belonging to Mrs Dorothy Popham, widow of Francis Popham esquire deceased, situate in the several parishes of Ramsbury, Chilton-Foliat, Hungerford, Froxfield, and Winterbourne-Monkton in the County of Wilts. and at West Challow in Berks', endorsed 1797, giving names of tenants, names or situation of farms, etc., and annual rents, together with a statement of the annual income from rents and woods in the Wilts., Berks., and Somerset estates, and from the coal-works in Somerset, to which is added the supposed annual value of the mansion houses, etc., at Littlecote and Houndstreet, and from which is subtracted the annual outgoings (including the taxes for a house in Marylebone). Paper headed 'A Rental of the Estates lately belonging to Francis Popham Esq. deceased, situate... [as in the foregoing rental]', endorsed 1804, (with a copy, and various papers bearing calculations), giving names of tenants and of farms, and annual rents including quit rents, against which are set the outgoings. Paper headed '3 Nov. 1806. Petty Rents due to Fras. Popham Esq. acting Extor. of his late father Francis Popham Esq. deced., at Michas. 1804', giving reference to audit book, names of tenants, annual rent, number of years due, allowances, and balance or net received. Two papers, being accounts of petty rents due to General Popham, 1806 and 1807, [giving details similar to the foregoing].
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