1681 : George Pluckrose and the Gilston Churchyard Fence

Source: Home Counties Magazine vii
Title: Life in a Hertfordshire Parish in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries. By C. E. Johnston , 1905, London, 32
Date: 1681
Place: Gilston

It was a custom that the larger landholders in the parish should each maintain a portion of the churchyard fence: in 1681 the rector made a list of those who had to do this:

The Parsonage is to maintaine the upper Gate.
George Pluckrose the Upper Stile and near five foot more of Pale.
The Little Gate over against the Church Porch, being taken out, belongs to Sr. Humphry Gore, Kt.
...

This is probably the George Pluckrose, (PL2043), who can be found in Tree 1011.

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