Three days pay........................................ 0 7 6
half A pound of pouder................................ 0 0 8
for y^e muster master ................................ 0 0 6
for listing money..................................... 0 1 0
for drums and cullers................................. 0 3 0
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2 4 8
Thos Rock Con^{ble} 0 12 8

(IN) A TRUE ACCOUNT OF Y^e CONS^{BL} OF ALDINGTON CHARGES FOR Y^e
YEARE 1716/5 NOV. Y^e 7 & 8 1715 Y^e CHARGES FOR ATENDING AS
CONS^{BL}

_s. d._

bringing in y^e Train souldiers....................... 3 0
spent when y^e soulders whent to Worcester............ 1 6

One can picture the scene in the little hamlet as Thomas Rock
collected his forces at the gossip corner; the little crowd of
admiring villagers and the martial bearing of the one recruit, as
with "cullers" flying and drums beating he marched away, followed by
the village children to the end of the lane.

William Tindal, in his _History of Evesham_, 1794, records the fact
that in 1790 Aldington belonged to Lord Foley, but history is silent
as to local events from that date until modern times, when, in the
first half of the next century, the Manor became the property of an
ancestor of the present owner. There is a tradition that the Manor
House was a small but beautiful old building, with a high-pitched