Reference
FR4/2/2/1
Title
Women's minutes & accounts. Hogsty End/Hogsty End & Sherrington MM
Date free text
1761-1770
Production date
From: 1761 To: 1770
Scope and Content
4to vol., 66 pp. (several loose)
Loose at front: printed sheet of queries for women as at 1791:
1. attendance
2. love
3. children
4. tithes etc.
5. drinking, gaming
6. punctual engagements
7. admonition against marr. out of society
8. poor
9. two or more overseers
(1-7 are 1755; 8-9 added 1787 - see p.116)
& also advices for men & women
Indications as to organisation:-
YM
p. 3 1755 statement on women's meetings: although strongly recommended by previous YMs, QM & 2-weeks mtgs., yet a deficiency in sundry counties; where women's meetings exist, they are of gt. service. Women should be encouraged & assisted, "that our sisters in the truth, whom Providence hath endued with spiritual gifts, may come up to the help of their brethren."
p. 4 queries 1-7; for 8-9 see p.116
QM
p. 5 at Wycombe: since no women's meeting in some MMs, strongly recommended they be established in all 7/4/1761
Women's meeting:
First meeting 1/7/1761: present Mary Brook, Mary Exton, Eliz. Walduck, sr. & jr., Hannah Ward, Martha Walduck (clerk EW) Attendance varies 4-11 (names given): Elders (on request of men) Eliz. Walduck sr. & jr., 1761 routine business: Queries Marriage Reps. to QM p.10 1761 "no one can attend with tolerable conveniency, but any Friend who can make a way to go recommended to do so;" also p.23; (places noted: Shipton, Wycombe)
Discipline: (marriage out feared)
p.7 Mary Wells to be visited by Mary Brook & M. Exton, 1761 - "v. kindly tender good disposition, but still persisted in her resolution" p. 27 Eliz. Brown visited by 3 Friends C "could get no 1770 p.34 satisfactory answer"
Poor:
p. 13 unhappy situation of Margt. Whitlock (see accounts)
Accounts:
pp.36-66 collection (subs. vary 3d. to 4s.)
p. 65 disbursements:
Poor: sheet for Margt. Whitlock; Washing Mary Butler's linen. Firing: Eliz. Balding, Jn. Baldwin, Hannah Ward
Meetinghouse: cleaning; brush; 2 pots; Pitcher, tin pot, glass; 1 pint rum for accommodation of strangers
Level of description
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