Scope and Content
Misc. insertions 1705-1719 1660-1759
Folio vol., somewhat damaged, modern binding, lettered "Bucks. QM collections 1660-1759";
At end, misc. papers bound in; total 120 pp.
Accounts:- pp. 1-100 1705-19
Collection lists (about 10 contributors, 6d. 5s., include Tho. How;)
Rent for close (p.99) 8s.p.a.
Disbursements in varying detail:
Meetinghouse etc., window tax, wood & felling, turf cutting; 1705 new deeds prepared by Amb. Reddall; bread & beer; repairs; hedging; mending the horse block; "Place for the ministers to sit in in the mtgho.", 1706; individuals (probably poor); nursing (p.43); coffin (p.47); books (Fox p.13).
QM; Friends' horses; hiring a horse to go with Friends to guide.
Minutes, brief, interspersed:-
Routine matters: QM representatives; Removal (rare, e.g. pp. 37, 43) Marriage (rare, e.g. pp. 45, 67, 79) Sufferings (rare, e.g. p. 76)
QM:
p. 17 QM minute on tithes, mixed marriages etc.: Tho. Cooke & Jn. Harvey to look into tithe, 1708
p. 61 QM letter stuck in - relates to general collection, 1709
Organisation:
p. 27 places for which collectors are appointed: 1709 Bow Brickhill, Wavendon, Aspley, Woburn, Lt.Brickhill
p. 19 Ric. King & Jn. Bedford are apparently overseers, 1708 (though word not used)
p. 25 First Day mtg. 11th hr., Fourth Day 12th hr., 1709 Friends should be more zealous to come at hr.apptd.
p. 87 letter sending 2 reps. to discuss (subject not given) 1716
Meetinghouse:
p. 25 some have buried at this meeting without consent of Fds., 1709
p. 75 mtgho. to be ceiled, 1715
Discipline:
pp. 57, 59, 69 marriage out of Society
isiting Friends: families:
pp. 17, 19, 33 to visit Jn. Partridge & w., 1708
p. 19 to visit Tho. Taylor
Books: e.g. pp. 55, 57, 96
Poor: e.g. p.38
Misc. papers inserted in mtes. & accts. 1660-1759
p.101-5 Bucks. sufferings (extract from Besse) 1660-5
p. 108 YM minute about publication of Besse 1734
p. 109 letter from London about printing Fox's "doctrinal books" 1703
p.111 letter from (Bucks.) QM to MMs, very detailed and high-flown, about marriage out of Soc. Friends are "a little remnant, here ones, there ones, at it were of a great city." Each PM in brotherly love and Christian care, should watch over one another... as soon as ever they shall discover... any letting out of affection, in any professing truth, to any not settled in the profession... tenderly bring to a sense of right, or bring before MM 1708
p. 113 letter from Jer. Law (?) to Ric.King, Aspley, about Fra. Coleman's low condition; apparently in debt; help by MM? 1709
p.115 letter (copy) YM to Bucks. QM, arbitrating in dispute between Tho. Story & Jn. Gurney relating to Ann Gouch dcd. 1726
p. 117 letter Hogsty End MM to Bucks. QM: the MM has been remiss over discipline, and acknowledges being to blame; but joining to another MM "will not be acceptable to us". However, MM is prepared to accept QM visit, & regrets d. of ancient Friend, Hen. Smith, 8 sigs., incl. Ric. How. 1739-40
p. 119 letter Bucks. QM to MMs: YM needs general collection. 1759