Norfolk: Baconsthorpe - Churchwardens' Collections

Appeals for loss by Fire and at Sea and to help Distressed Protestants (in Holland) 1703-1704

Baconsthorpe raised money at various times, to either support its poor (from the Overseers' Rate) or to pay for other parish expenses (from the Churchwardens' Rate).
Occasionally appeals were made via a brief (which was issued by royal mandate) to raise money for disasters and other events. This was read out in church and a collection made in the church (and sometimes later in the parish) for the good cause.

For more information on these records see the Parish Accounts page.

This is one item from a Norfolk Record Office document [with the reference NRS 21142 and microform MF 969/6] which contains the Churchwardens' accounts book for 1663-1713.

Other accounts available


- Churchwardens' Accounts -
Rates	1768	1790	1810	1827-29
Payments	1711-12	1723-28	1768-82

Collections for special appeals	1670 (Turkish Slaves appeal)	1703-04 Wapping and Gt Massingham Fires, Distressed Protestants (Holland)
- Surveyors' Accounts -
Rates	1773
- Land Tax Accounts -
Payments	1800-01

Baconsthorpe December 5th 1703
Collected then upon a Brief Published in the Church of Baconsthorpe for the Loss by Fire at Wapping near London as follows

	£ s d
Viz Given by Valent Haywood Rector	00 01 00
By M^r Edmund Britiffe gent	00 02 00
By Richard Paul	00 00 06
By Edmund Wornes	00 00 02
By John Allison	00 00 02
By Edward Bull	00 00 02
{ Given by W^m Robins at his own { house upon a Weekday { December 30th 1703	00 00 06

Sum Total	00 04 06

Baconsthorpe December ---(1703)
Collected upon a Brief Published in the Church of Baconsthorpe for a Loss by Fire at Great Massingham in the county of Norff as follows

	£ s d
Viz of Valent Haywood Rector	00 00 06
of Edmund Britiffe Esq	00 01 00
of John Lang Gent	00 00 06
of M^r Paul	00 00 04
of Thomas Yarham	00 00 04
of John Allison	00 00 02
of Edmund Wornes	00 00 02
of John Pleasants	00 00 02

In All	00 04 02

February 27th 1703
Collected then upon a Brief Published in the Church of Baconsthorpe for the distressed Protestants of the Principality of Orange as follows

	£ s d
Viz of Valent Haywood Rector	00 05 00
John Lang Gent	00 15 00
Edmund Britiffe Esqr	00 05 00
Madam Britiffe	00 02 00
Madam Newman	00 02 06
Richard Paul	00 02 00
John Allison	00 00 06
Edward Bull	00 00 06
Edward Stimpson	00 00 06
Thomas Yarham	00 00 06
John Fairfax	00 00 06
James Broadwood	00 00 06
John Moor	00 00 06
John Redgrave	00 00 06
Robert Priest	00 00 06
Thomas Gogney	00 00 06
Richard Gogney	00 00 04
Gregory Clackson	00 00 02

Collected likewise from House to House
upon a Weekday as follows Viz.

(February) 28th 1703	£ s d
John Spurrell	00 00 06
Susanna Spurrell	00 00 06
Richard Frankland	00 00 04
Hellen Beare	00 00 03
Edmund Wornes	00 01 00
Christopher Spencer	00 00 06
Urs_lay Bucke	00 01 00
Hannah Jennys?	00 00 03
Feb 29th 1703
Given by W^m Robins	00 03 00
March the 1st 1703
Given by W^m Newman Esqr	00 05 00
March the 5th 1703
Given by Tho^s Browne	00 00 06
Given by Will Chapman	00 00 04

Sum Total	02 10 02

Baconsthorpe July the 31st 1704
Collected then upon a Brief for Seamen's Widows and Children for a Loss sustained by them from a violent storm and Tempest that happened the 26th of November 1703 as follows

	£ s d
Viz Given by M^r Haywood Rector	00 01 00
Given by M^r Lang Gent & Patron	00 01 00
Given by M^r Paul Churchwarden	00 00 06
Given by M^r Robins	00 00 06
Given Aug 1st by John Spurrell	00 00 06
Given by W^m Chapman	00 00 02
Given by Edward Bull	00 00 02
Given by Edmund Britiffe Esqr	00 02 00
Given by Tho. Browne	00 00 02
Given by John Allison	00 00 03

Sum Total	00 06 03

[End of Document]

Notes

In other documents the following alternative spellings have been seen which appear to refer to the same people/places:-
Clackson/Claxton

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