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DocRefNoDR0914/1
LevelItem
TitleOriginal bundle of records relating to the act of 2 Wm. IV cap LX, entitled "An Act for the better Regulation of Vestries, and for the Appointment of Auditors of Accounts in certain Parishes in England and Wales" and dispute as to whether Holy Trinity parish should adopt the act or not
Date1833
DescriptionDR914/1/1-2 - Two copies of the act, 1831 (Printed)
DR914/1/3-7 - Appeal from the resident rate-payers to the churchwardens "to ascertain and determine the Adoption or Non-adoption" of the act, signed by the rate payers, February 1833 (manuscript and printed copies).
DR914/1/8 - Response from the vicar and churchwardens stating that the vestry as now constituted consists of all persons who have served as churchwardens and that no advantage is likely to result from throwing it open, February 1833 (Printed).
DR914/1/9 - Notice of parish meeting in the vestry of the church to appoint the assessors of the Vicar's rate, March 1824
DR914/1/10-13 - Four volumes containing original voters' papers for and against the adoption of the act in alphabetical order of voters' names Two volumes entitled "Votes", another two "Votes not Qualified". In all 1104 persons participated, March 1833
DR0914/1/14 - Memoranda of events, in connection with the voting (small notebook), 14 Mar 1833
DR0914/1/15 - Five unused forms respecting examination of persons making the declaration under the said act Mar 1833
Places
CodeSet
NA696/Holy Trinity/Coventry/Coventry
NA745/Coventry/Warwickshire
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