• Reference
    FR4/1/1/7
  • Title
    Leighton MM Minutes
  • Date free text
    1828-1837
  • Production date
    From: 1828 To: 1837
  • Scope and Content
    parchment bound. 4to vol., 356 pp; well kept & full; normal routine business, but little discipline; clerk: Sam.Reeve, followed by Jn. Dollin Bassett in 1833 Meetings & meetinghouses: p.7 Sherington: garden can be sold; mtghouse & both cotts. are in much worse state: take down one cottage; pp.12-14 little use made of mtghouse - should be disposed of. pp.99,158-60 p. 49 Olney meeting under consideration; p. 133 Olney & Buckingham women to unite 1831 pp.134,152 Hogsty End not to do so p. 197 Newport: suggest morning Olney, evening Newport 1833 membership: p.224 resignation of Sam., Eliza & Mary Ann Coles on becoming Methodist p. 231 membership report on Sar. Middleton 1834 p. 338 resignation of Wm. Jackson, Aylesbury (Methodism) Discipline: Jn. Mould bankrupt p. 115-7, 135, 142-4, 151 Eliz. & Ann Day: absence pp. 217,247 Jos. Coles bankrupt 1833 pp. 275-9 apprentice absents himself 1835 Slavery: p. 291 £5 for removal of coloured population now in slavery from N. Carolina 1835 Tithes: p. 213 MM sends letter on tithes to MPs: Beds. C.J.F. Russell, Wm. Stewart; Bucks. Lord Chandos, Jn. Smith, Geo.Dashwood enclosing copy of petition of YMto Parlt. 25 sigs. 1833 Misc.: p. 239-42 marriage: girl's parent objects; MM upholds the girl p. 318 subs. to enlarge Devonshire House 1836
  • Level of description
    item