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DocRefNoDRB0100/20
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Title"A Book for ..... Church..... Thomas Cotterell and James Ireland were Churchwardens and caused this booke... to bee bought and some remarkable thinges in a former booke to bee (with theire Accompts) transcribed and Inserted for future memorie and precedent : till 1658":
Date1657-1825
DescriptionA list of those paying acre money and church rents, 34 Eliz (1592) and various memoranda copied from an earlier volume, including a perambulation of the parish walked in 1572, 1585 and 1598.
Levies, 1657 and 1658.
Detailed accounts, 1657, 1658, 1659, of the churchwardens. After this date only totals of receipts and expenditure are recorded for churchwardens, overseers and constables until the end of the 17th century, after which only the churchwardens' totals were recorded.
Vestry minutes recording appointments of parish officials (only churchwardens after 1700) and memoranda respecting seating, repairs, the clock, the lease of the room called the Church Parlour in the Angel Inn, church plate etc., including a memorandum in 1699 that in future all the acts and orders of the minister, churchwardens and inhabitants shall be written down and subscribed by the major part of the inhabitants and that three separate volumes be kept, one for registering the acts, orders and matters relating to the churchwardens, one for the overseers of the poor and one for the constables; a long memorandum on the work of beautifying the church which had been long neglected, and so was very squalid and ruinous, 1700-1706; orders respecting allowances paid to officers for the escort of criminals etc., 1718/9.
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NA506/Coleshill/Warwickshire
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