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Description: | Volume begun by Samuel Partridge, vicar of Boston, as a record for the use of the vicar - expenditure and income of the vicar and copies of documents and other memoranda have been entered.
At front:
Expenses incurred on the vicarage, 1785-1794.
Instructions on how to make black ink, 1794.
Form of confirmation certificate.
Poem on the death of Right Hon. Spencer Percival by the vicar of Boston, 1812 (printed, newscutting).
Fees received, 1785-1821.
At back:
Forms of parish register baptisms and burials (guidance on how to complete the entries).
Report that there had been no offenders before the Court of Quarter Sessions at Boston, 1816 (printed, newscutting).
Order of the Enclosure Commissioners relating to lands allotted to Boston vicarage, 1813.
Copies of documents:
p.1: Letter of the Vicar and Lecturer of Boston to Revd W Muscutt, Master of the Grammar School, concerning the vicar's pew.
p.5: Terrier, 1708.
p.10: Note from the vicar of Boston to Mr Rutter concerning the payment of tenths, 1777.
p.11: Terrier, 1724.
p.17: Order of the committee appointed to consider the present high price of provisions that every minister of parishes must return answers to questions, with a list of the questions and answers relating to Boston West and Holland, 1801.
p.20,23: Petitions of Samuel Partridge, vicar of Boston, to the Mayor, Aldermen and Common Councilmen of Boston Borough relating to the state of disrepair of the vicarage, Sep 1800, Aug 1801, Sep 1801.
p.22: Reply of the Mayor, Aldermen and Common Councilmen of Boston Borough relating to the repair of the vicarage, Aug 1801.
p.25: Table of lands and legacies given for the use of the poor, 1708.
p.33: Answers to Lord Pelham, Whitehall, relating to acreages and crops in the parish, 1801.
p.35: List of all charitable donations given by deed or will for the use of the poor, Jul 1786.
p.44: List of vicars of Boston, 1555-[1838 - date obtained from "Alumni Cantab."].
p.45: Form of certificate for confirmation.
p.46: List of Schoolmasters of Boston, 1585-[1838 - date obtained from "Alumni Cantab."].
p.49: Letter of Samuel Partridge, vicar of Boston, to the Bishop of Lincoln, requesting advice on the matter of charging fees for baptisms and burials of the inhabitants of Holland Fen by the vicar of Boston, 19 May 1806.
p.50: Notice, approved by the Bishop of Lincoln, stating the fees to be charged for christening, churching and burying inhabitants of places other that Boston by the vicar of Boston.
p.52: Letter of "A Magistrate" to the editor of the Boston Gazette suggesting remedies for the relief of the poor in the neighbourhood, 12 Nov 1816 (printed, newscutting).
p.53: Letter of "A Magistrate" to the editor of the Boston Gazette including an abridgement of the Report of the National Vaccine Establishment addressed to Lord Sidmouth, Principal Secretary of State, 22 Apr 1813 (printed, newscutting).
p.53: Extract from the Boston Gazette reporting on the erroneous printing of all the new parish register books throughout England, whereby the year has been given in figures rather than words, and advising that every parish minister draw his pen across the figures and insert the year in full, 1 Mar 1814 (printed, newscutting).
p.54,57: Answers by Samuel Partridge, vicar of Boston, relating to the numbers of baptisms, marriages and burials in response to a questionnaire issued under "An Act for taking account of the population of Great Britain...", 31 Mar 1801.
p.55: Account of the population of the Borough and Parish of Boston and parishes within the hundreds of Kirton and Skirbeck, according to the returns delivered by the overseers of the poor persuant to Acts of Parliament made 31 Dec 1800.
p.61: Petition of Samuel Partridge, vicar of Boston, to the Mayor, Aldermen and Common Councilmen of Boston Borough, requesting the grant of an additional stipend to meet the expense of another curate, 8 Jun 1815.
p.62: Extract from minutes of the Assembly of the Mayor, Aldermen and Common Councilmen of Boston Borough, granting £75 to be paid to the vicar for the expense incurred as stated in his petition, 31 Jul 1815.
p.63: Letter of thanks of Samuel Partridge, vicar of Boston, to the Mayor of Boston for the increase in salary, 1 Aug 1815.
Enclosed: Form of nomination of a curate. | Subjects: | Country Estates Church Of England Parishes Religion & Beliefs | Temporal: | c1785-1821 | Source: | Lincolnshire County Council | Identifier: | http://www.lincstothepast.com/Records/Re... | Go to resource |
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