Here is the second of Germaine Warkentin's queries.
Regards
Ruth
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Subject: Price of land in Kent, 1699
Subject: Price of land in Kent, 1699
From: Germaine Warkentin <[log in to unmask]>
Date: 2 April, 2012 4:24:24 PM EDT
In a pamphlet, "Penshurst Church and Village" (1970) an anonymous local historian reports that in 1699 Gilbert Spencer of Red Leafe, near Penshurst in Kent, bought 97 acres of land in the neighbourhood for £1700. Spenser was in an excellent position to find good land and purchase it, as he was Receiver-General of Land Taxes in Kent from 1689 to 1701 (TNA E182/429, 430). Was he paying a high price, a low price, or did the unnamed local historian get the figures wrong? Thanks for advice, Germaine.
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