An area of 2R 27P (2 Rods 27 Perches or Poles), managed by a body of Trustees, is to be let for the use of good husbandry and grazing only. The tenant is responsible for the upkeep of the hedges and ground.
From the recital in a feoffment, bearing the date 11th January 1710, it appears that a “little piece or quillet of land, containing by estimation half an acre, called the Poor Man’s Piece, lying in the borough of Week St. Mary, given by John Clark, was conveyed, in trust, for the use of the poor, decayed, lame, impotent and decrepid people of the same parish for ever. The profits to be taken by the collectors and overseers of the poor for the uses of the aforesaid.”
This land is let yearly and produces a rent of variable amounts which is then distributed among the poor, in small sums, by the churchwardens at Michaelmas and Christmas.
