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| Archive Reference / Library Class No. | D1197/A/PW/34 |
| Title | Parish Book |
| Date | 1710-1806 |
| Description | containing: churchwardens', overseers' and constables' account including accounts for weekly allowances and coals for the poor notes of Doveridge charities notes of annual appointments of parish officers agreement for repair of church clock 1721 (see Transcript) agreement for whitewashing the church 1725 agreements for pointing the steeple notes of settlement certificates issued 1721-1725 notes of persons nominated to have parish apprentices 1729-1731 agreement for prosecution of felons 1749 poor rate assessments 1781 land tax assessments 1754 rules for regulating and executing the office of overseer of the poor 1788 Dr Franklin's remarks concerning the relief of the poor 1788 West Broughton assessment 1796 Agreement for a survey and valuation of the parish to regulate the taxes and rates 1796. Microfilm M 319 vol 1 |
| Level | File |
| Repository | Derbyshire Record Office |
| Archive Creator | Parish of Doveridge St Cuthbert |
| Term | Land tax |
| Transcript or Index | 26 March 1720 [1721] Memorandum: That it was then concluded on and agreed Between Lewis Shutt of Uttoxeter in the County of Stafford Blacksmith and John Woolley and John Matthews Church-wardens of the Parish of Doveridge in the County of Derby and their successors in the said office for the time being That the said Lewis Shutt for the consideration of the summe of Fourteen shillings of good money in hand paid him by the said church-wardens at and before the signing hereof the Receit whereof is hereby acknowledged And of the Annual summe of Two shillings and six pence to be paid him yearly for the terme of Seaven years next to be accounted from the date hereof on every Michaelmas-day next ensueing the date hereof Hath contracted and undertaken to amend repair and to put into good and perfect order the hour Clock belonging to and being in the parish Church of Doveridge aforesaid on this side and before the first day of May next comeing And in such repair and good and perfect order constantly to uphold and keep the same at his own cost and charge during the time of Seaven years aforesaid and shall then in such plite and order leave the same Witness our hands the said Six and twentyeth day of March in the year of our lord God one thousand seaven hundred and twenty |