Reference
ST1689/8
Title
Statutory Declaration by John Tansley of Aspley Guise, labourer that:
- he was 59 and had been born in Salford;
- he knew the Wesleyan chapel, erected in 1814, all his life and had attended services there;
- a window existed on the north side of the chapel with shutters opening outside;
- until a month or two previously a piece of waste ground 10 feet wide existed between the chapel and an adjoining brick wall to the east and that this ground had been taken into a rick yard and a fence erected close to the chapel;
- he had passed over the piece of waste ground every Sunday and week nights when services were held for the past 14 years to fasten back the shutter
- sworn at Newport Pagnell [Buckinghamshire] before Henry Rogers Butt
Date free text
28 Aug 1889
Production date
From: 1814 To: 1889