| Description | Apparently these accounts were kept for the rector by his brother, Robert Boyse, who possibly lived in the parsonage house at Barston; there are occasional memoranda written and signed by "Rich: Boyse"; the volume is paginated 69-90, 311-316, 349-352, 399-392, 395-430, 435-442, 447-[459], the pages at front and intervening having been cut or torn out and missing.
Pp. 69-90, 349-352 give lists of tithes, great and small, 1743, 1744, 1745 and various memoranda relating to tithe; pages 314-316 have a heading in a different hand "Annotationes quadam in Vetris Testamentum", with notes in Latin on the book Genesis; p.389 is headed "Decbr ye 10th 1743 An Account of what Plate & Goods I have here at Barston of my own" and a list follows of silver, china and household goods; p.390 has accounts headed "Novbr. ye 1st 1738. A Mdn of money Layd out by me on Repairs at ye Kings' Head Warwick 1738. For which I am to be Repay'd out of ye Rents of ye said House, as they shall become Due" p. 391 gives in a different hand "A Riddle" of some length; p.392 has receipts, 1737-44 and p.395 receipts 1739, 1746; pp. 396-409 give rents, 1732-47 (scattered); pp. 410-427 give "Tythe Letts" and receipts for corn, Easter dues and surplice fees (include marriages by licence, with parties named); pp.428, 429 are disbursements 1740-45 (include "Repairs at Barston 1745"); p.430 gives tithes agreements (two), 1736, 1738 pp. 435, 436 have memoranda on receipts and other matters, 1739-42; pp.437-442 (upper half) give theological notes, n.d.; p.442 (lower half) has memoranda of fish put in pools to stock them, 14 March 1744, and a list of Eastcoat and Barston poor, n.d.; pp. 447-449 are disbursements 1737-39; pp. 450, 451 have accounts for coal, 1734-44 and pp. 452, 453 various accounts and receipts, 1735-44; pp. 454-456 give agreements for tithe, 1733-36; p.457 has various accounts and receipts, 1732-36; p. 458 has a copy of Bishop Pearson's Analysis of the Creed; p. [459] gives various memoranda, n.d., mostly relating to fish put in a pool, and recipes, 1737, 1738. |