Catchpole
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catchpole-228-1505393
title:
Catchpole
text:
Catchpole is a surname and type of tax collector in medieval England. It is a combination of Old English and medieval Latin and derives from the idea that people who owed tax were as difficult to catch as farmyard hens. The Catchpole name is from Dorset, southern England. At that time, tax-gathering was contracted out in a system called tax farming. The catchpole paid a lump sum for authority to collect taxes from a given area or population, and was then able to keep whatever he could, using alm
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Surname list
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catchpole
date created:
2005-08-30T21:48:59Z
date modified:
2024-09-15T02:25:26Z
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