Reference
P48/8/1
Title
Vestry Minute book
Date free text
1841 - 1916
Production date
From: 1841 To: 1916
Scope and Content
Regular business includes:
the election of parish officers, passing of accounts, rates and rating, and highway matters.
Occasional business includes:
1841 Debt on Bedford Union workhouse to be settled
1842 Removal case - Sansom family of Great Catworth.
Purchase of sparrows to be discontinued
1843 Sum of 7s. 6d. only to be allowed for cleaning the church and washing linen
Estimates for church repairs - bellchamber floor, recasting leads of North aisle and chancel, and renewal of clerestory gutter 1847 Sale of provisions to the poor [Board of Guardians scheme]
1848-50 Substantial pound to be erected on the ancient site 1850 Allowance of beer to carters and road workmen to be discontinued Charles Page appointed keeper of the parish pound
1854 Clerk's salary and duties [full details given]
Emigration of Eli Hardwick and family to Australia
1856 Order re cost of carting road materials & stone picking
1857-8 Sale of parish property at Church End - land (1r. 13p.) with five tenements and a blacksmith's shop
1858 Property at Keysoe Row to be let on repairing lease - cottage divided into three tenements with a garden (1r.), and an allotment of arable land adjoining (3a. 1r.)
Remission of rent on Church End property on account of dilapidated condition of premises
1859 Discontinuation of salary to Highways Surveyor
1860 Proceeds of sale of parish property to be applied to restoration of spire, damaged by lightning, and for erection of a lightning conductor
1861 Restoration of spire and church roof following gale on 21 February 1861 1863-4 Custody of parish sand pits and use of sand 1865 New valuation to be made
1866 Repairs to lane at Hatch End Loan of £64 required to pay for cost of valuation
1867 Purification of William Linger's house after smallpox
1873 Allotment for sand pits
Sale of premises in Keysoe Row, late in occupation of George Gillett
Formation of a school board for the District
Water supply
1882 Rating of the Chequers Inn
1884 Lease of Village Pound to Edward Stapleton on condition that the ground be properly fenced
1891 Closure of sand pits
1896 Recasting of broken bells and rehanging the whole ring.
Choral services to be held on 1st and 3rd Sundays.
Level of description
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