Reference
P8/12/1
Title
Overseers' account books
Date free text
1713 - 1761
Production date
From: 1713 To: 1761
Scope and Content
Originally consisting of loose sections in an advanced state of decay owing to damp, repaired by the County Record Office and bound up in three sections as follows:
A. 1713 - 1739
B. 1739 - 1746
C. 1746 - 1761
The contents of these volumes include:
Disbursements, 1713-15 and 1722-7;
Lists of Churchwardens (2) and Overseers (3), 1725-52;
List of Settlement certificates, removal orders and apprenticeship indentures in the "town chest in Vestry", 1711-49 [chiefly settlement papers - 46 items listed in all];
Summary accounts, 1727-30;
Detailed disbursements, 1734-1761;
[at end] Contracts for maintanance of the poor and for mutual employment of roundsmen, 1761.
Reference
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