Regular business includes election passing accounts, rates and rating,
poor law business and leasing of "Constable's land" or parish estate.
|
Year
|
Occasional business includes: |
1835
|
Adaptation of vestry room for meetings and "for the relieving office to pay the poor in" etc. |
1836-7
|
Carriage of highway materials |
1837
|
Agreement for letting the parish lands (9 acres in the open fields known as The Constable's Land) to William Wylde, shopkeeper, with clauses for tenancy etc., 7th April |
1843
|
Repairs to the church ordered by the Archdeacon |
1844
|
Sale of poor law property - a building containing two tenements in the occupation of Elizabeth Boswell and Ann Chamberlain, widows |
1846
|
Agreement for letting the Constable's land to Joseph Rootham, carpenter, 2nd April |
1847
|
Estimate for repairs of church leads [roof] |
1847
|
Emigration of John Smith and his family, Susannah Smith, and George Knight to Australia |
1852
|
Parish pound to be erected by the Lord of the Manor |
1854
|
New churchyard fence - dispute with adjoining landowners |
1855
|
Agreement for letting the Constable's land to Joseph White, 2 April |
1864
|
Agreement for letting Constable's land to Thomas Wagstaffe, 25 April |
1869
|
Congregational collections to be made "instead of the accustomed Church Rate now abolished" |
1873
|
Agreement for letting the Constable's land to George Shelton, 29 April |
1875
|
Gift of a church clock by the late Peter Bunting Esq., on the condition that the parish should wind it up and keep it in good repair |
1880
|
Agreement with George Shelton re Constable's land to be cancelled. |
1880
|
New agreement with John Wagstaffe of Yelden, 27April |
1882
|
Church tower to be examined and reported on [see P 199/1/1 f.37d] |
1887
|
New roads in the parishes of Yelden and Newton Bromswold - resolution that they should be maintained by the Sharnbrook Highway Board District Fund |
1888
|
Constable's land (9a. 3r. 3lp.) to be let to parishioners in roods |
1892
|
Construction of and organ chamber and removal of the organ
[see P 119/1/1 f.38d and P 119/2/2/1-2] |
1896
|
Retirement of J. Holyoak as Sexton |
1899
|
Payment of ringers - 4 ringers to be paid 10s. each a year to chime for service and for ringing on special occasions |
1901
|
Discontinuation of payments to ringers |
1905
|
Increase in salary to sexton |