Reference
FR4/1/1/8
Title
Leighton MM Minutes
Date free text
1837-1847
Production date
From: 1837 To: 1847
Scope and Content
bound calf . Folio, 252 pp. index (loose); well kept, v. full; YM minutes pasted in; references to Sufferings etc.
Meetings & meetinghouses:
p.175 Hannah Grant's liberal gift of 3 cottages & meetingho. at Leighton, surrendered to Friends 10.4.1844
pp.160-1 Buckingham burial ground 1843
p. 215 Buckingham meeting discontinued (records, pp.15,19) 1846
p. 177 Whittlebury burial ground 1844
Membership:
p. 2 applications - e.g. 5 infant children of Ric.Edw.White cannot suitably comply; (accepted 1843) 1838
p. 121 W.J. Grimshaw accepted 1846
Discipline:
p. 9 resignation on marriage before priest (Martha Richardson) 1837
p. 45 disownment of Ann Coles, Buckingham, for same 1839
p. 199 another case 1845
p. 229 Sus. Sear's wrathful & envious disposition, of advanced age; "we do not think further labour with her likely to produce desirable result" (she d. 1846)
Poor:
p.7 Eliz.Rogers: stroke; 8s. week
pp. 119,152-3 Alice Coles at Rickmansworth with dau.; she can only be helped at Leighton; visited; she had slipped into bed with clothes on; "deception"
p. 156 medical cert. asked for; 20s. temporarily; 1844
p. 167 she has legacy, needs no more.
p. 174 (dispute with Banbury M 1821 recalled) similar circs; Jn,Biggs in similar circs. 1844
Schools:
Sibford: suggested transfer of dau. of Jos.Barnes, 12 yrs.; she has been long on waiting-list for Ackworth 1842
Slavery:
Funds for Africans (note also p.50: M/S considers sending a few judicious Friends to W. Indies) Leighton £12, Hogsty End £3, Olney £51, Buckingham £3 (total £69) 1839
Registers: being copied (p.76)
(Loose: bill for Sus. Sear's funeral 1846)
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