Reference
P45/8/1
Title
Vestry Minute Book.
Date free text
1847-1922
Production date
From: 1847 To: 1922
Scope and Content
Pasted inside front cover, notice re proposal of Earl de Grey to divert Wadd Ground Hill Road. 29 Sept. 1855.
1847-50 Meetings re building new church.
1854 Details of charity property.
April Common Rights property.
1855 Record of new boundary made to an old enclosure of Dearman's Trust property.
June-Oct. 1855 Earl de Grey's diversion of road.
Sept. 1855 Resignation of Sunday School Master, Mr. Doggett.
1858 re taxing corn rent for poor rate.
1862 Loose in book: signed petition to Trustees of Dearman's land to let it as an allotment and to hold a meeting.
1879 Repairs to church and putting up of texts.
1884 Page inserted re gravel account.
1890 Petition drawn up to Earl Cowper re allowing a road to be made through Town Shot for funerals.
1901 End of system by which Sunday School boys rang bells: salary to Jn. Hare instead. Also: all sittings to be free at evening service "directly the bells stopped and the voluntary began".
1906 Question of a Church Council raised.
1908-11 Discussions on state of road to old church.
1909 All seats to be free before the bell stopped.
1911 Protest against disestablishment of Church of Wales.
1916 re memorial tablet to John Geo. Maddams, who died in France.
1920 Church walls cracking; roof in poor state.
Reverse end:-
Gravel Account 1879-1894.
Chronology of Clophill 1787-1886.
References to sand pits: 1854, 55, 56, 57, 67.
Loose at back: List of gifts to church. Unused British and Foreign Bible Soc. posters, newscuttings re concerts in Clophill. No date.
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