Reference
FR3/2/2/1
Title
Albans MM Women's Meeting Minutes and accounts
Date free text
1703-1764
Production date
From: 1704 To: 1764
Scope and Content
Folio vol., orig. binding, 172 pp. (pp. 21-26 loose) Only pp. 1-102 and 1-9 at end written;
Cover:
meetings:-
Flaunden & Watford
Chorleywood & Rickmansworth
empstead & Wood End
Albans
p.l Friends for some time have had a concern to set up an MM for west Herts., eventually approved by YM; men met at Hempstead 4/4/1703; MM to be first 6th day monthly; women decide to meet at same time; 18 names appended (4 Neales, 2 Sterridges)
At end:
pp.1-7 collection accounts 1706-34, qtrly for MM poor (1703-5 are at front pp. 2-6 and sporadically thereafter); amounts from each PM at first vary from 1s. to 13s. 6d, but most frequently 1s.6d.; but after about 1714 average for each is 4s., usually listed under Watford, Hemspstead, Albans, Flaunden;
p. 9 QM queries, 1755
p. 10 ptd. prospectus for reprinting Isaac Penington's works, 1759
Attendance: not given till p. 99, when those present vary 2-8 1764
Routine: marriage (at first a number but gradually decreasing till practically none) Otherwise entry "no business"
Organisation:
pp. 2,27,55 treasurers: Hannah Neale jr., 1703; Sar. West; Rachel Neale, 1717; Reb. Dearmer, 1733;
p. 38 consideration of moving women's MM to Albans, 1724 dropped; the meeting rotates Hempstead, Albans, Watford till 1764, when Chorleywood takes the place of Watford.
Poor:
p. 15 Jn. Edmone's wife, 1712
Sufferings
p. 23 "great sufferings" of Wm. & Lydia Pearson of Barton, Beds.: 3 gn., 1716
Level of description
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