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1578). Cf. _St. Bartholomew, Exchange, Acc'ts Books_, 3 ff., where in 1598, and regularly in subsequent years, appears the item:
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Alowed to this account for the geft of the Lady Wilfordes xx li for the pore xx[s]. Also another item, likewise of 20s. yearly, on Mr. Nutmaker's £20--in other words, 10 per cent. in each case every year. Cf. Jas. Stockdale, _Annals of Cartmel_ (Lancashire, pub. 1872), 37-8 (£65 6s., money belonging to Cartmel grammar school
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in the hands of various persons, some of whom give pledges, others mortgages, for repayment. The revenue from this is £6 10s. 7d., _i.e._, 10 per cent. in 1598). In 1613, in allowing the overseer's accounts of Swyre, Dorset, the local justices indorse:
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Upon this condition that from henceforth the overseers and Churchwardens do yearlie charge themselves with the some of xxs. for thuse of a stocke of xli [_i.e._, 10 per cent.] giuen to the poore by the testam[en]t of James Rawlinge.