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Churchwardens' accounts of sacrament offerings 1724-37
These accounts are written in the parish register after the 1739 marriages. Sacrament money, collected four times a year, was "disposed of to such pious and charitable uses, as the Minister and Church-wardens shall think fit" (Codex Juris Ecclesiastici Anglicani p.392).
An Account of Sacrament Offerings
Rec(eive)d | Disposed | |||||||
1724 | 1724 | |||||||
Easter | 0 |
19 | 10 | Clothed the W(i)d(ow) Cox Girl | ||||
Whitsuntide | 0 |
8 | 7½ | Twelve Common Prayer Books | ||||
Michalmas | 0 |
14 | 4 | Eighteen Common Prayer Books | ||||
Christmas | 0 |
15 | 7 | Twenty " " " | ||||
1725 | 1725 | |||||||
Easter | 0 |
14 | 10 | Eighteen Common Prayer Books | ||||
Whitsuntide | 0 |
16 | 1¾ | Twenty One " " " | ||||
Michalmas | 0 |
5 | 8 | Seven Common Pray(e)r | ||||
Christmas | 0 |
17 | 9½ | Twenty Two " " " | ||||
1726 | 1726 | |||||||
Easter | 0 |
16 | 2¾ | Eleven Whole Duty of Man | ||||
Whitsuntide | 0 |
5 | 11½ | Four Whole Duty of Man | ||||
Michalmas | 0 |
6 | 8½ | To Mrs Rice | 0 | 0 | 11 | |
To W(i)d(ow) Allen | 0 | 0 | 6 | |||||
To W(i)d(ow) Cox | 0 | 2 | 0 | |||||
To Sarah Mitchell | 0 | 0 | 6 | |||||
W(i)d(ow) Norris | 0 | 0 | 6 | |||||
To John Burrell Sick | 0 | 2 | 6 | |||||
Christmas | 0 |
12 | 7½ | Six Whole Duty of Man | 0 | 1 | 6 | Each |
One Common Prayer | 0 | 1 | 6 | |||||
Ten Answers to all Excuses | 0 | 0 | 3 | Each | ||||
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0 | 13 | 0 | ||||||
1727 | ||||||||
Easter | 0 |
15 | 3¼ | Ten Whole Duty of Man | 0 | 1 | 6 | Each |
Two Answers to all Excuses | 0 | 0 | 3 | Each | ||||
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0 | 15 | 6 | ||||||
Whitsuntide | 0 |
5 | 11½ | To W(i)d(ow) Cox | 0 | 5 | 0 | |
W(i)d(ow) Warr | 0 | 1 | 0 | |||||
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0 | 6 | 0 | ||||||
Michalmas | 0 |
5 | 6 | To Mrs Rice | 0 | 5 | 0 | |
W(i)d(ow)Warr | 0 | 0 | 6 | |||||
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0 | 5 | 6 | ||||||
Christmas | 0 |
7 | 5½ | Twenty One Answers to all Ex | 0 | 5 | 3 | |
To Wid(ow)Cox | 0 | 2 | 6 | |||||
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0 | 7 | 9 | ||||||
[p.2] An Account of ye Offerings at Sacrament | ||||||||
Rec(eive)d 1728 | Disposed | |||||||
Easter | 0 |
10 | 5 | To Wid(o)w Cox & Norman | 0 | 5 | 5 | |
To Mrs Rice | 0 | 5 | 0 | |||||
Whitsuntide | 0 |
3 | 8½ | To Widow Cox | 0 | 2 | 0 | |
To Mrs Rice | 0 | 1 | 8½ | |||||
Michalmas | 0 |
4 | 9 | To W(idow)s Cox & Norman | 0 | 4 | 9 | |
Christmas | 0 |
10 | 0½ | To John Daniels Daughter | 0 | 10 | 0½ | |
Rec(eive)d 1729 | Disposed | |||||||
Easter | 0 |
16 | 7½ | To Hamps Wife | 0 | 5 | 0 | |
Easts Wife | 0 | 5 | 0 | |||||
J(oh)n Daniels Daughter | 0 | 5 | 0 | |||||
W(ido)w Cox | 0 | 1 | 7½ | |||||
Whitsuntide | 0 |
8 | 3 | To Tho(mas) Bences Wife | 0 | 8 | 3 | |
July 13th | 0 |
8 | 2 | To Tho(mas) Bences Wife | 0 | 8 | 2 | |
Michalmas | 0 |
8 | 5 | In bread to W(illia)m Easts Wife | 0 | 8 | 5 | |
Christmas | 0 |
13 | 0 | In bread to W(illia)m Easts Wife | 0 | 13 | 0 | |
Rec(eive)d 1730 | ||||||||
Easter | 0 |
16 | 0¼ | In bread to Easts Wife | 0 | 17 | 6 | |
Whitsuntide | 0 |
7 | 1½ | To Gurneys Widow | 0 | 10 | 0 | |
Michalmas | 0 |
5 | 11 | To Gurneys Widow in Bread | ||||
Christmas | 1 |
11 | 9½ | To W(i)d(ow) East | 0 | 5 | 0 | |
To Mrs Kelsey | 0 | 5 | 0 | |||||
To Tho(mas) Bences Wife | 0 | 5 | 0 | |||||
In Bread & Candles to Gurney Widow | 0 | 16 | 9½ | |||||
Rec(eive)d 1731 | ||||||||
Easter | 0 |
16 | 4½ | To Gurneys Widow in Bread & Candles | 0 | 16 | 4½ | |
Whitsuntide | 0 |
13 | 2½ | To Wid(o)w Kelsey in Bread | 0 | 14 | 0 | |
Michalmas | 0 |
2 | 7 | To Mrs Kelsey in Bread | 0 | 2 | 7 | |
[p.3] Christmas | 1 |
3 | 11 | To Sarah Shaw for Bences Child | 0 | 8 | 0 | |
To Mrs Kelsey in Bread | 0 | 16 | 0 | |||||
Rec(eive)d 1732 | ||||||||
Easter | 1 |
11 | 7 | To Mrs Kelsey in Bread | 0 | 16 | 7 | |
To Tho(mas) Bences Wife | 0 | 10 | 0 | |||||
To Mary East | 0 | 5 | 0 | |||||
Whitsuntide | 0 |
7 | 10 | To Mrs Kelsey | 0 | 7 | 10 | |
Michalmas | 0 |
6 | 11 | To Bences Wife | 0 | 6 | 11 | |
Christmas | 1 |
3 | 3½ | To W(i)d(ow) Kelsey | 1 | 3 | 3½ | |
Rec(eive)d 1733 | ||||||||
Easter | ||||||||
Whitsuntide | 0 |
5 | 7½ | To old W(i)d(o)w Shelton | 0 | 5 | 7½ | |
Michalmas | 0 |
7 | 7 | To J(oh)n Sheltons Widow | 0 | 4 | 0 | |
To J(oh)n Mains Widow | 0 | 3 | 7 | |||||
Christmas | 1 |
0 | 1¾ | In Bread To W(i)d(o)w Kelsey | 0 | 13 | 0 | |
To J(oh)n Mains Widow | 0 | 4 | 1¾ | |||||
To W(i)d(ow) Shelton | 0 | 3 | 0 | |||||
Rec(eive)d 1734 | ||||||||
Easter | 0 |
18 | 3½ | To Dame Shaw | 0 | 18 | 3½ | |
Whitsuntide | 0 |
13 | 10½ | To Dame Shaw | 0 | 13 | 10½ | |
Michalmas | 0 |
2 | 7 | To Dame Shaw | 0 | 2 | 7 | |
Christmas | 1 |
4 | 8 | To Mrs Kelsey | 1 | 4 | 8 | |
Rec(eive)d 1735 | ||||||||
Easter | 0 |
13 | 7½ | To W(i)d(ow) Herbert | 0 | 1 | 7½ | |
To W(i)d(ow) Crockat | 0 | 2 | 0 | |||||
Dame Shaw | 0 | 10 | 0 | |||||
Whitsuntide | 0 |
13 | 9 | To W(i)d(ow) Crockat | 0 | 1 | 0 | |
To W(i)d(ow) Herbert | 0 | 1 | 0 | |||||
Edw(ar)d Redals Wife | 0 | 1 | 3 | |||||
Dame Shaw | 0 | 10 | 6 | |||||
Michalmas | 0 |
4 | 2½ | To John Wrights Wife | 0 | 5 | 0 | |
p.4 | ||||||||
At Christmas Sacrament Money | To W(i)d(ow) Crockat | 0 | 1 | 0 | ||||
0 |
19 | 8½ | To W(i)d(ow) Herbert | 0 | 4 | 6 | ||
Edwa(rd) Redings Wife | 0 | 1 | 2½ | |||||
Mary East | 0 | 2 | 0 | |||||
To W(i)d(ow) Topping | 0 | 1 | 6 | |||||
Dame Shaw | 0 | 10 | 0 | |||||
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0 | 19 | 8½ | ||||||
At Easter 1736 | 0 |
19 | 6 | To J(oh)n Worsely | 0 | 2 | 0 | |
To Crofts | 0 | 1 | 6 | |||||
Edward Redal | 0 | 1 | 0 | |||||
To Dame Shaw | 0 | 15 | 0 | |||||
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0 | 19 | 6 | ||||||
At Whitsuntide | 0 |
13 | 6 | To Mrs Wright | 0 | 5 | 0 | |
The Daughter of Dr Crofts | 0 | 1 | 6 | |||||
To Dame Shaw | 0 | 7 | 0 | |||||
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0 | 13 | 6 | ||||||
At Michalmas | 0 |
3 | 10¾ | To Dame Shaw | 0 | 3 | 10¾ | |
At Christmas | 1 |
5 | 10 | To W(i)d(ow) Scot | 0 | 0 | 6 | |
To Dr Crofts Daughter | 0 | 1 | 10 | |||||
To Mrs Wright | 0 | 4 | 6 | |||||
To Dame Shaw | 0 | 19 | 0 | |||||
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1 | 5 | 10 | ||||||
1737 | ||||||||
At Easter | 0 |
13 | 6 | W(illia)m Worsleys Wife | 0 | 2 | 6 | |
At Whitsuntide | 0 |
9 | 0½ | Sarah Shaw | 0 | 16 | 6 | |
W(i)d(ow) Day | 0 | 0 | 6 | |||||
W(i)d(ow) Scot | 0 | 0 | 6 | |||||
W(i)d(ow) Cox | 0 | 2 | 6 | |||||
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1 | 2 | 6 | ||||||
Notes
Whole Duty of Man: An anonymous devotional work first published in 1658.
Answers to all Excuses: An Answer to All the Excuses and Pretences which Men Ordinarily Make for Their Not Coming to the Holy Communion, by Edward Synge, published in many editions from 1709 onwards.
Gurneys widow: Joseph Gurney died in 1728; his widow Dorothy does not appear to have been badly off.
Bences Child: Mary, daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth Bence, was bap. 28 Aug 1731 and buried 2 Feb 1731/2.
J(oh)n Mains Widow: John Main was buried on 7 July 1732
W(i)d(ow) Herbert: Probably Elizabeth, widow of Walter Herbert (d.1702).
Crofts: John Croft the vicar died in 1716. Deborah his widow was buried on 22 Oct 1738. The daughter mentioned was probably Hannah Snow.