STOKE ST MARY HISTORICAL RECORDS
Information from the 16th and 17th Century is very sketchy.
. . . . .List of villagers who could bear arms -
. . . . .List of villagers who took an oath of allegiance to the Protestant religion -
. . . . . Wills and Probate Inventories from 1530 to 1715
Probate Inventories listed, often with a price, every article owned by the deceased. They give a very vivid picture of what life was like in the late 16th and 17th century. Some of the articles listed have quite strange names and one can only guess at their use.
Siege of Taunton. The Royalist Forces besieging Taunton made their headquarters somewhere in this area. An intruiging document,
[The Perfect Occurrences], suggests that the Prince of Wales [the future Charles II] might possibly have briefly visited
Stoke St Mary or “Mary Stoke” as it was then called.
. . . . . Possible visit of Charles II to Stoke
. . . . . List of villages paying tax