Record

Finding NumberF2001
TitleRegister of parochial memoranda and vestry minutes, began in 1574
DescriptionScope and Content
Containing:
- Copies of letters of Henry VIII to the vicar and churchwardens and to the abbot of Westminster, as to the limits of the parish
12 November 1534 (ff 8, 9)
- Presentment of former arable open fields, enclosed since 1 Henry VII, with a petition to the king that they should be re-opened, and the names and ages of the deponents.
1549 (f 2)
- Extracts copied and examined 19 June 1593, from the will of John Harvie
1 September 1569 (f 1)
- Orders, agreements, elections and payments made by the vicar, churchwardens, and persons of variously described as parishioners, worshipful of the parish or masters of the vestry.
11 July 1574 - 6 September 1599
(ff 4-12, 14-22, 24-43)
- Copy of a survey of former arable open fields, with the names of surveyors
2 September 1575 (f 13)
- Beginning of a survey of the former commons, and a petition of the poor inhabitants (f 23)
- List of the contents of a book of orders 1573 - 1593 (f 4v)
- Memorandum of a warrant to the constable to take twelve men for the Queen's service.
17 February 1593 (f 170)
- Names of persons chosen to receive weekly payments
22 July and 14 October 1593 (f 1v)
- Memoranda of "Masters of the Vestry chosen bie the Vestry", and the allocation of the three keys of the great chest.
15 October 1598 (ff 172, 178v)
- Memoranda as to the finances of the parish
13 May 1599 - 19 June 1606 (ff 89, 95-99)
- Vestry minute on the appointment of a vestry clerk
5 February 1603 (f 170v)
- Vestry minutes
10 November 1606 - 15 Dececember 1623
(ff 44-88, 90-94, 100-169, 171-173)
- Vestry minutes
4 June and 12 November 1640 (ff 174, 175)
Date1534-1640
Access StatusOpen
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