Richard Paul (abt. 1650 - bef. 1705)

Born about 1650 in Warwickshire, England

Ancestors

Died before 12 Jan 1705 before about age 55 in Chilvers Coton, Warwickshire, England

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Biography

Richard is shown on the 1684 Chilvers Coton census as a 34 year old labourer, with daughters Ann (12, though baptism suggests she was a little older) and Frances (9).

His twin sons Richard and Jeffery (12) are elsewhere in the village, Richard with a Ralph Cox, and Jeffery with a John Knight.

An article compiled at Yale by Steve Hindle describes Richard's later eviction from his residence:

"In their reply to Newdigate’s article the jurors had not only noted the recent tendency of tenants paying half-yearly to run into arrears but had quoted two specific examples of indebtedness to the landlord resulting in ‘distress’ (in both the emotional and legal HINDLE: ‘The Micro-Management of a Late Seventeenth Century English Landed Estate’ 9 senses of that word). One of these episodes concerned Richard Paul of Coton, a labourer aged 34 in 1684. The jurors noted that until recently he had held a ‘good pennyworth’ as a tenant-at-will in the Woodland with an annual rent of £5, but forfeited it ‘by running in arrear two rents together’. Turned out of his house by Newdigate, Paul subsequently lived in a little house in the Heath End without either garden or common right "

Sources

• Paul Family History of Attleborough:

<http://www.nuneatonhistory.com/uploads/1/8/6/8/18680466/paul_family_history_of_attleborough.pdf>

• The Micro-Management of a Late Seventeenth Century English Landed Estate (Steve Hindle, Yale, 2012):

<https://economics.yale.edu/sites/default/files/hindle-121022.pdf>

• England, Warwickshire, Parish Registers, 1535-1984 (burial):

<https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VHXQ-D1D>