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From: "Chris Sackett" <>
Subject: [SACKETT-L] The Sackett Family, William Saket the borsholder, c1290-13??
Date: Fri, 22 Oct 1999 10:50:20 +0100
William Saket the borsholder, c1290-13??
1. WILLIAM1 SAKET was born c 1290, and died Unknown.
Notes for WILLIAM SAKET:
William Saket was, in 1318, included in a list of borsholders of
Southborough, St Peter's in Thanet. [Source: Bird, James, The Story of
Broadstairs and St Peter's]. He is the earliest recorded Sackett found so
far.
William Saket's duties as a borsholder
The duties of a borsholder, or constable, included:
· ensuring the upkeep of means of punishment such as stocks and a cage
· inspecting alehouses and suppressing gaming-houses
· apprenticing pauper children
· supervising the settlement or removal of itinerant strangers and beggars
· seeing to the welfare of the poor
· collecting the county rate and acting as agent for the collection of
special national taxes
· managing the parish economy
· supervising the military arms supply and the provision of training for
the local militia
· convening parish meetings
· assisting the churchwarden in presenting those parishioners who did not
attend church regularly
· caring for the parish bull
· helping at shipwrecks
In 1327, William Saket [it is assumed the same William] and John Sackett
were "assessed for considerable sums" on the subsidy roll of the Ringslow
Hundred. (Source: Lay Subsidy, Kent: pro 123/10 memb. 13a, Archaeologicae
Kantiae, Canterbury Cathedral Library)
The relationship of William Saket to John Sackett is not known.
Birth date is estimated from date of borsholder list.
More About WILLIAM SAKET:
Generation (UK method): Unknown
of: 1318, Southborough, St Peter's in Thanet
Tree #: Unlinked individual
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