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