A Third Poor's Rate Bill, 1848, from the township of Wakefield

Image reference: xl05981

Description: A bill made out to a Mr John Cryer for the 'Third Poor's Rate' at 2 Shillings per pound, due on Monday 18th December 1848 and made out by the Township of Wakefield. The house rate is £1 1s. 6d., the warehouse rate is £1 5s. 10d., with the total being £2 7s. 4d. John Cryer had a bookbinder's shop on Bread Street, then Ratten Row, in Wakefield in the late eighteenth to mid nineteenth century. Internal Reference: WR(XH) Cryer-Wakefield Rate Notes 1797-1859

Keywords: people, house, warehouse, shop, stationer

Place name(s): WF1, Wakefield

Date(s): 1848

Date added to archive: 30/06/2003

Original rights: Unknown

Permission rights: Wakefield Local Studies Library

Digital rights: WMDC Libraries and Information Services

Digital publisher: WMDC, Education and Cultural Services, Libraries and Information Services