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Debts by Installment

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02/03/1897

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At the Peterborough County Court sitting of this day, a number of orders were made that give us a glimpse of the time. Charles Jenks, a labourer from Water Newton, had debts totalling £21 4s that had accrued due to his loss of work caused by illness. He offered to meet his debts to 8s 6d in the pound at the rate of 3s per month. An order was made allowing this situation. Daniel Monk, a labourer from Eye, was in deeper trouble with debts of £40 10s 4d. He was offering 9s in the pound on the debts - an offer accepted by the court and requiring him to pay at a rate of 6s per month. If my sums are right, that's five years of payments. Among the undefended cases we find that Charles Tebbs, butcher of Midgate, was seeking payment of £26 15s 6d from one W. Chapman of Robin Hood Chase in Nottingham. The claim was upheld and Chapman was required to pay the debt at 10s a month. Tebbs has to wait over four years for settlement of the debt - if he's lucky. (Peterborough Citizen)

Taken from The Peterborough Book of Days by Brian Jones, The History Press, 2014.

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Dame Agnes' Gaze

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Peterborough Cathedral was originally known as Peterborough Abbey and was a home to Benedictine monks. It was also home to the widow Dame Agnes in the final years of her life.

Dame Agnes was said to live in rooms between the choir and Lady Chapel, a building which has been destroyed, but the outline of which can be clearly observed on the walls on the North East side of the cathedral. There existed a passageway between the lady chapel and choir which led to a smaller chapel, and it was above this that Dame Agnes was said to live.

A lady of devotion, she dedicated her final years to listening to services and gazing through a small hole down onto the altar of the Lady Chapel below her. She would only have been able to see the altar and, we can assume, would have spent the end of her life deep in prayer, in a hermit-like existence.

References:

W. D. Sweeting (ed.), Fenland Notes and Queries, A Quarterly Antiquarian Journal for the Fenlands (1891) (online edition at archive.org)

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