Reference
P111/25/4
Title
Town Lands Charity Account Book
front cover: 2 receipts for fines of trustees on admittance:
Leighton Buzzard als.
Grovebury Manor 1710, 1712
pp.1 - 139 charity accounts 1687 - 1842
receipts: rents
expenditure: apprenticeship of town children; relief and clothing for poor; care of sick; burial charges of poor; upkeep of property including Town Farm; almshouses; chapel windows and bells; parish clerk's salary and his payments for molecatching and washing church linen; bread and wine for communion services; visitation fees; minister's salary; hayward's earnest; taxes; quitrents; stone and gravel for highways; Greensend bridge.
p.289 resolution that no more visitation expenses to be paid 1817
p.338 appointment of new Trustees 1842
p.340-399 lists of poor receiving their proportion of the charity's income 1842 - 1869
p.401 copy of the Inquisition taken at Dunstable 1650 on Billington Town Lands. Up to that time the income (49 rent) was used by the churchwardens and overseers for salary of the minister (24 p.a.), relief of poor, sick and impotent; residue towards the parish common charges; repair of chapel; repair of minister's house; lord's rents; maintenance of estate. The Order made at the inquisition was that after quit rent and taxes paid, half of what is left to go to the curate, 1/4 to the poor, sick and impotent; 1/4 to repair property, the chapel, the minister's house and to pay certainty money and the lord's fine.
p.408 copy order Charity Commissioners 1869
p.412-4 Trustees' minutes 1869
p.415-450 reports and accounts of the sub-committee formed to deal with the Poor's share of the income 1869 - 1927
p.451 Trustees' minutes 1 1936
p.452-531 blank
p.532-8 Trustees' minutes 1869
and copy correspondence 1868
p.538-44 blank
interleaved poster advertising election of rector 1898
copy appointment of rector after election 1898
poll for churchwarden 1873
Date free text
1687 - 1936
Production date
From: 1687 To: 1936
Level of description
item