P119/8/1

Vestry minute book

1835 - 1906

From: 1835 To: 1906

Regular business includes election of officers, passing accounts, rates and rating, poor law business, and leasing of "Constable's land" or parish estate. Occasional business includes: 1835 Adaptation of vestry room for meetings and "for the relieving officer to pay the poor in" etc. 1836-7 Carriage of highway materials 1837 Agreement for letting the parish lands (9 acres in the open fields known as The Constable's Land) to William Wylde, shopkeeper, with clauses for tenancy etc., 7 April 1837 1843 Repairs to the church ordered by the Archdeacon 1844 Sale of poor law property - a building containing two tenements in the occupation of Elizabeth Boswell and Ann Chamberlain, widows 1846 Agreement for letting the Constable's land to Joseph Rootham, carpenter, 2 April 1846 1847 Estimate for repairs of church leads [roof] Emigration of John Smith and his family, Susannah Smith, and George Knight to Australia 1852 Parish pound to be erected by the Lord of the Manor 1854 New churchyard fence - dispute with adjoining landowners 1855 Agreement for letting the Constable's land to Joseph White, 2 April 1855 1864 Agreement for letting the Constable's land to Thomas Wagstaffe, 25 April 1864 1869 Congregational collections to be made "instead of the accustomed Church Rate now abolished" 1873 Agreement for letting the Constable's land to George Shelton, 29 April 1873 1875 Gift of a church clock by the late Peter Bunting Esq., on the condition that the parish should wind it up and keep it in good repair 1880 Agreement with George Shelton re Constable's land to be cancelled. New agreement with John Wagstaffe of Yelden, 27 April 1880 1882 Church tower to be examined and reported on [see P119/1/1 f.37d] 1887 New roads in the parishes of Yelden and Newton Bromswold - resolution that they should be maintained by the Sharnbrook Highway Board District Fund 1888 Constable's land (9a. 3r. 31p.) to be let to parishioners in roods 1892 Construction of and organ chamber and removal or the organ [see P119/1/1 f.38d and P119/2/2/1-2] 1896 Retirement of J. Holyoak as Sexton 1899 Payment of ringers - 4 ringers to be paid 10s. each a year to chime for service and for ringing on special occasions 1901 Discontinuation of payments to ringers 1905 Increase in salary to sexton 1835 - 1906

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Wylde, William,
Boswell, Elizabeth,
Chamberlain, Ann,
Rootham, Joseph,
Smith, John,
Smith, Susannah,
Knight, George,
White, Joseph,
Wagstaffe, Thomas,
Shelton, George,
Bunting, Peter,
Wagstaffe, John,
Holyoak, J.

YELDEN, Vestry, accounts, parish rates, general Poor Laws, highways, glebe, church fabric, Australia, emigration, pounds, churchyard, church clocks, Newton Bromswold, church organs, sexton, bellringing