Scope and Content
Information copied from CRT 130 FLITWICK 6 [now removed]:
Pages 1-2: 1674
Pages 3-121: 1685-1740
[88a terrier of church goods, 6 June 1731]
Page 122: Agreement by Jn. Poulton, Toddington, whitesmith, to keep up the crown staple in the first bell for 20 years, 1740
Income from the rent of town land and meadow and from levies
Payments for fees and charges at visitations; parchment for the register transcripts (“bills) and the writing of them; washing surplice, table cloth and linen; bread and wine for communions, usually three a year at Easter, Whitsun and Christmas; upkeep of church and contents, especially the bells; beer and ale for workmen; beer for the bell-ringers at usual times of national rejoicing and “1735 pay for Rining by a mistake 10s” (105); bricks and lime bought 1714 from Jn. Farmer of Steppingley when Matthew Bishop of Toddington the glazier.
There are many entries to do with the poor, payments to “poor passengers” or travellers, to sailors and soldiers, people with briefs, purchases of shirts and shoes (50) and payment for indentures (79); 1728 “payd to Get away a gret Beled woomane 1s 6d” (82).
Money was paid out for the repair of the pound and bridges, scouring of the brook, and for vermin killed; also for repairs to church house and town house, perhaps the same building.
1712 “payd for Maken the tareyer For the glib Land and Carin in 8s” (40);
“pd for Ingrosing theise Accomptes 1s 0d”;
“1711 paid at the Swon at a towns Meeting 2s 6d” (37).
Each year an entry for the perambulation:
“paid Mr Chase for one pound of tobacco and pipes at the perambulacion in May 1686 1s 6d” (4);
1708 “For the prambelaration For bare and pipes and bred and Cheese 6s 8d” (31);
1713 “For tobacco and pipes When the peshone All was dranck 8d” (42);
1726 “Whitson Ale 9s” (78);
1731 “June the 9th for ale drank at going the Bounds of the Parish 2s 6d. June the 9th for Bread, Cheese, Pipes & Tobacco at drinking the Whitson Ale 3s 7d”
bridge “Hinksley” 84
Jackson’s 13, 20, 25, 45 etc.
Westoning 97
brooks, scouring of 65, 97
church “basses” 31, 58, 73, 83
bells passim
great bell 13
first bell 122
4th bell 38
books passim
common prayer 4, 88a
bible 88a
homilies 88a
brush for 47
candles 87
chalice, silver 88a
chancel 92
chest, locks for etc. 1, 31, 49, 69, 116
coat of arms 86
communion table, new 16
communion bread and wine passim
door, lock for 13, 38, 116
flagon, pewter 88a
gates 1, 7, 25-6, 79, 96
hearse cloth 88a
linen 4 etc.
“maridg tabell” 40
?pews “puseyes” 48
pulpit cloth 36, 39, 49, 58, 66, 88a
cushion 39, 88a
seats 4, 20, 26, 36, 92
steeple 32, 45, 116
surplice, cloth for new 16, 120
old sold 19
mending of 42
washing passim
wall 1, 4
windows 10 etc.
whiting for 44
gates, Ryefield 11, 23, 24
Town 20, 28
house, church 19
chimney 13
glazing 23
thatching 16, 17
town 17, 119-120
inn, the Swan 32, 35, 37, 48, 60, 62, 66, 79, 95
perambulations passim
pound, repair of 4, 13, 20, 28, 31, 34, 35 etc.
vermin (badgers, foxes, hedghogs, polecats) passim