| Description | Has a note at end "This Booke given by Edward Pittway 1602" and is probably the volume, first referred to in 1625, in the inventory in the accounts of the churchwardens as "The Regester booke of Edw Pittways gifte to the poor". The memoranda include a note of the apprenticing of William Pittway 1637, the new casting of the church bells 1695, rebuilding of the south part of the church 1697, a new font 1707, building of the gallery 1707; copy and "fairer" copy of the will of William Hobbins made 4 February 1729; details of the charities of Edward Pittway 1602, William Stocke 1602, Town Money 1602-66, William Willington 1678, William Waring 1704, Eleanor Harris 1728, William Hickes 1699, Sarah Halford 1719; will (copy) of John Pittway, with legacy for a charity school, made 9 July 1706; seats in the gallery 1729, and in the chancel 1736; and miscellaneous memoranda relating to the church and parish 1882-1955. |