Scope and Content
Vol. 18 x 6", orig. binding, 228 pp.
(arrangement involved):
minutes pp. 64-197, end pp.iii-ix
accounts (Sherington) pp. 2-222, (Sherington-Hogsty End) pp.222-251
at front: cover & p.1:
list of books of MM (Fox, Penn, Bowmas etc.) with withdrawals
note on estate "writings"
at end:
cover QM queries, 1755
i. YM queries
ii. ministers' & elders' queries, 1755
note that QM at Aylesbury next day after Oxford QM (which is Second Day preceding full moon next after 21st of 12th month, unless the moon is full on quarter day)
iii-viii. brief minutes 1750-68
accounts:- pp. 2-222 1750-84
income:- at first collections e.g. p. 2 Newport 3s.6d., Sherington 1s., (1750) Crawley 4s., Chichely, 1s.6d.
later individuals (4-9 names), 1s.-3s.
each hire of hearse, e.g. p.218
expenditure:-
meetings & meetinghouses:
land tax (e.g. p. 53)
estate writings (p.33)
mowing graveyard & making hay, felling trees, orchard
thatching Olney mtgho. (pp.5, 63, 241), mending forms at (p.11) sweeping (p.15)
thatching "the" mtgho. (p.15), sweeping, 6s. p.a., candles, new stable-door
painting hearse
ale, malt, bread; cheese (p.71)
dressing the meat at QM (p.3, 39, 47, 59, 61 etc.)
butter at MM (p.67)
travelling Friends (2 names, dinner at Olney, p.57)
Friends' horses; guide to Dunstable (p.41); guide to Northampton (p.17)
women Friends, 5s. (p.5)
poor: Phyllis Clifton 4s.; "it being cold, gave her for wood 6d"
books: e.g. p.55, 103 (subs. for pamphlet by Jn. Griffith)
(loose) statement of accounts, 1816 file of 10 bills & receipts, repairs etc., 1822-9
minutes (at end iii-viii; interspersed 2-222)
routine:
QM representatives
marriage (v. few) e.g. p.82
sufferings (v. rare) e.g. p.123, end p.ix
removal (rare), p.88, 125
organisation:
YM: minute for estab. women's mtg. for business reported from QM, 1766
QM: recommends women's meeting (p.121)
dispute between brothers remitted to (p.v at end), 1753
representatives did not go (deep snow), p.123
small, p.145 1768
horses at Bull, Olney, p.211, 2s.10d., 1779
provisions £2.5s.8½
MM adjourned because of small attendance, pp. 177, 179, 197
v. small, p.185
omitted, p.192
travelling Friends
Friends' horses at Olney & Newport, turnpikes 9s.3d. 1778 (p.207)
Friends' horses at Saracen's Head, Newport, 1799 (p.233) - Deb. Darby, Reb. Young
meetings & meetinghouses:
Olney meeting 11th & 3rd hour, 1767 (p.125)
Olney meeting 10 2 1768 (p.131)
Sherington meetinghouse, p.125; new trustees, p.151
discipline (see also marriage)
p.v at end: dispute between two brothers
p. 81 Alice Cowley
p. 97 Sar. Coal & others
pp. 105-6 divers who would think themselves as members testimony of disunion agst.: Ric. & Hen. Knight, Robt. Babbington, Sus. Roberson to be drawn up
p. 116 family dispute
pp. 135-7 absence
p. 147 Jn. Watson's two daus. Alice & Hannah will not be ruled by him to come to meeting, 1770
pp. 150-1 Hannah might, Alice will consider
p. 157 disowned, 1771
pp. 164-5 removal of gravestone: two to see M. Tandey about husband's grave, 1772
p. 172 absconding in debt, 1772
marriage:
p.181, 183, 186-7: R. Forster thinks Friends did not use him well, & that he must have somebody with him
pp. 90, 127, 145, 155, 161, 167, 171: marriage out of Soc.
p. 114 keeping company out of Soc.; she said there
p. 117 was nothing in it at present; also p.172-4 94, 96, 113 to be no disorderly behaviour at; decency & good order
visitation of Friends:
pp. 86, 90 (Jn. Carter & Wm. Harrison inclined to visit in compass of our mtg. in company with Jos. Gilkes) 93, 95, 111
women: p.210 received £1.10s.0d. from women Friends, 1779
books: p.192 Mary Brook's Wilent Waiting
America: 207 relief of Friends in