Reference
P8/5/1
Title
Churchwardens' account book
Date free text
1707 - 1824
Production date
From: 1707 To: 1824
Scope and Content
Includes some Vestry resolutions.
Mention of the clock and chimes; payments for fire buckets, 1742;
processioning; resolution about vermin, 1737;
agreements concerning the Clerk's salary and duties; provision of a bier, 1783;
accounts for recasting the bells, 1792;
perambulation of the bounds of the parish, 1767;
Notes on briefs, 1707-8
Also includes Overseers' accounts for 1707, and accounts of a legacy to the poor from 1707 to 1783.
Note: for detailed extracts from the Churchwardens accounts, 1707-1824, and from a volume covering the period 1824-1861, the present whereabouts of which are unknown, see CRT Toddington 130/2, and "Toddington: Its Annals and People", by J.H. Blundell, pp.157-163.
Reference
Level of description
item