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

[Transcription copyright © Mike Bristow]

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

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

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

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

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

Notes

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

See also the Baconsthorpe parish page.

Copyright © Mike Bristow.
July 2009