Reference
P22/5/1
Title
Churchwardens' account book (detailed disbursements and summary receipts)
Date free text
1722 - 1779
Production date
From: 1722 To: 1779
Scope and Content
Brief abstract of contents:
"This Book ought to be preserved for among other Things, it contains an account of the Expenses of repairing the Church after the Fall of the Tower; and the Money received for the Bells. F. Pawsey"
Causeways, bridges and workhouse mentioned all through.
Usual references to washing surplice, vermin, visitations, bread and wine, ladder in the steeple, basses at the font and elsewhere [sometimes about 4d. each].
1737 "Paid to Jn Turfnayle When Bennets house was Mogged 2s"
1736-7 "Paid for going a preambellasion round the parish 16s"
1738 tassel and fringe for the chshion in the church
1743 account of sale of bells and rubbish when tower fell, with cost of rebuilding
1756 at bishop's visitation "30 Young People Dinners and beer £1"
1758 "witles and Drink for the plumer" 1761 "The painters Bill for painting the Kings arms £2 10s"
1763 "Paid James Odell for Blackthorn Bushes to Lay in the Drayne in the Church Yard" - probably this was the year the drain was first made
1765 "paid the painters Bill for painting of the ten Comandments and The other 2 sentences" "paid for new Collarin of the Surpless" 1769 "paid for a New pare of Stocks 15s 3d" "paid Mr. Sharp for Oltering the pall for silk to sew it"
1771 "Paid for a peece of oke for the school Chimvey"
1773 "paid for the Caridg of a waggin load of ston from Bidnham and paid the Bridg" "paid Mr. Sanders of Bidnham for a waggin Load of stepin Stones for the Church ways"
1775 "Paid Jn Bass for a Doz and half of Civered Basses"
1760: a church rate
interleaved 2 bills, 1788 and 1787(Thos. Course's bill for 2 long basses 12 ft. each; and 2 ten feet each, and one dozen basses).
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