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DocRefNoDR0409/25
LevelItem
TitleAccount book of the Churchwardens and Overseers of the Poor.
Date1788-1812
DescriptionVellum.
Includes a table of churchwardens and overseers 1788-1808 and, on pastedown, a letter from Dr. T. W. Brushfield (1890) to the then rector of Stoke asking if the latter wished to purchase the vol. from him which he picked up at a Birmingham auction in 1882 and pr. newspaper cutting of the auction entry.
Also contains reports of certain vestry meetings including:

DR409/25/(i)
Offering of the rent of a parcel of land (`Grove Lane') to the Masterwardens and Fellowship of the Drapers of Coventry (March 1803)

DR409/25/(ii)
Establishment of filiation bonds for the maintenance of bastard children (Sept. 1805)

DR409/25/(iii)
Discontinuation of supply of rents and clothing to the poor (March 1807)
Places
CodeSet
NA634/Stoke/Warwickshire
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