Reference
P44/5/3
Title
Churchwardens' account book (summary receipts and detailed disbursements)
Date free text
1775 - 1829
Production date
From: 1775 To: 1829
Scope and Content
The general contents of this volume are similar to those in the earlier volumes described in P44/5/2 but in the opening period the accounts were very badly kept.
Occasional expenditure:
1775-8 Repairs to the bridges and causeways, purchase of stone etc.
1780 Mending the church way at Church Close and Church Bridges
1785 Confirmation at Ampthill - ten dinners Paid for the fife for the same singers, 4s.
1786-7 Paid for the Hautboy & reeds etc., £2 2s.
1788-9 Paid for Ringing Beer at Illumination, 12s. 6d.
790-1 Pd for a New Wheelbarrow Wheel & Mending Do, & Iron Work, 6s.
1791-2 Brushes and mop to the Church, 7s. Paid for two Locks one to the Vestry Door & one Do to the Church Yard Gate, 2s. 6d. 1794-5 Paid a Mann Cleaning Street, 2s.
1795-6 Paid Mr. Thrussell Mending Church Bridges, 8s. Paid Fisher Cleaning Street & Shovelling High Ways, 2s.
1800-1 Paid the Man that Came with the Sequestration, 1s. 6d. Paid for a new surplis, £4 8s.
1804-5 Paid going to Sandy about the Men for the Additional force, 7.
1806-7 Glazier's bill, £26 7s., carpenter's bill, £7 19s. 8d. [no other details given]
1807-8 Pd for a new Church Prayer Book, £1 8s. Purchase of gravel
1813-4 Purchase of an iron register chest for £5 5s.
1814-5 Purchase of new register books for baptisms and burials
1815-6 Payment for 4 clarinet reeds, 2s.
1816-7 Carpenters bill, £32 14s. 9d., paid to Mrs. Dear
1819-20 Gravel for the church paths
1821-2 Mention of "the engine" - probably a fire engine - painting the engine house, and "playing it first time" Purchase of new burial ropes, 6s. 8d.
1822-3 Making a new terrier of the Church lands Repairs to the engine and "carrying of engine ball to & from London". New clarinette £3 7s., purchase of music 4s.
1823-4 Repairs to engine pipes "Paid for a letter of the Agricultural Meeting" 14d.
1824-5 Six clarinet reeds, 2s. Note on letters concerning Mr. Musgrave's pew
1825-6 Repairs to the church windows and door by Mr. Pollard, the cost being £73 8s. 5d., and payments to Mr. Betts for work at the church, £ 20 and £33 19s. 4d., and to Mr. Francis, £21 8s. 11d. Purchase of a tin case for the Inclosure Award, 16s.
1826-7 Paid Mr. Paternoster for Binding the Bible and Prayer Book, cost £2 7s. Paid Mr. Warren for moving the Font etc. as per Bill, £2 14s. Paid Mr. Miller for a New Flagon and Cover as per Bill, cost £3 16s. 6d. Paid Mr. Betts, Glazier, as per Bill, £25 14s. 1d.
1828-9 A new inkstand, Ink and pens, 4s
At back: Copy receipt to the Company of Cloth Workers of the City of London for £6 7s., being half a year's Pilsworth Charity money due to the Parish, 28 October 1807. Also: Form of application for admission of Distemper patients to Bedford Infirmary, c.1810., and notes on various rules of the infirmary etc.
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