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From: "Jean Spradlin-Miller" <[log in to unmask]>
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> Could he have been a jailor . . . received 2d. for every person ("head")
> that he kept under lock and "key"?  It's just a stab!
>
> Jean Spradlin-Miller
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> From: "John Maass" <[log in to unmask]>
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> Sent: Friday, May 06, 2005 11:31 AM
> Subject: question
>
>
> A friend of mine came across this reference to a relative while doing
> family
> history research. It says:
>
> "In 1655 he was chosen to keep the Pound, and is to have 2d. for every
> head
> he turns the key upon."
>
> Any ideas about what this might mean?
>
> Thanks-John Maass
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