Norfolk: Baconsthorpe - 1768-1782 - Churchwardens' Payments

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). This rate was levied on the occupiers (who may not have owned the land) and based upon the value of the property (which was usually a rental valuation). Both occupiers and owners are found living in and outside the parish.

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

This is one item from a Norfolk Record Office document [with the reference PD 334/15 and microform MF 969/2] which contains the Churchwardens' accounts book for 1722-1838.

Note that only extracts have been transcribed but this includes most items which mention surnames. Common events eg. bread/wine, some non-specific trade bills etc. have for the most part been excluded.

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

Oct 10^th 1768
The Disbursements of John Springall Churchwarden from Easter to Michaelmas 1768

Date	[Disbursements]	£/s/d
May 22	To a labourer 2 days work in Church Steeple and the Churchyard	2/4
June 15	The Carriage of 32 Flagstones from Cromer	5/0
	More to Hammond's bill for work and lime	2/2/11½
	to a bill for Flagstones	1/17/4
	to a bill for Hair	8/0
	Mr Browns bill for the Vestry	5/4/4
	more his bill for gateposts and painting	1/3/8½
	Mr Warns's bill	6/2
	To Mr Fisher old Churchwardens Disbursements	5/6

The Disbursements of Robert Ives and John Springall Churchwardens from Michaelmas 1768

Robert Ives disbursements 1769

Date	[Disbursements]	£/s/d
Jan 14	To Bread and Wine	0/2/0
March 26	To Bread and Wine	0/2/0
March 27	To the Clerk	1/10/0
	To the Surplice Washing	0/2/6
May 13	To Bread and Wine	0/2/0
May 26	Paid at the General 5^s my Journey to Aylsham 2^s 6^d	0/7/6
	To the Apparitor	6d
Decem: 29	To Bread and Wine	0/2/0
Octob^r: 20	To my Journey to Aylsham	0/2/6

	Total	2/11/0

Mr Springall's disbursements 1769

Date	[Disbursements]	£/s/d
1769 May 2	To the Apparitor	6d
26	my Journey to Aylsham	0/2/6
July 7	To the Visitors	0/5/0
Oct 20	To Mr Morphews at the Generals	0/6/0
	To my Journey to Aylsham	0/2/6

	Total	0/16/6

Date	[Disbursements]	£/s/d
	The plumbers bill - Mrs Hadden
1769 Oct 25	To 1/2 days work uncovering the Church	2/6
	To new casting (of lead) c(wt)17. 3 Q(uarters). 9l(bs)	4/0/3
	To C(wt) 11:3Q(tr):13l new sheet lead at £1 1s (per cwt)	12/9/5¼
	To 16¾ pound of Sorder at 9d	12/6¾
	To 2 days work 3 men laying the lead	15/0
	To 1 days work 2 men	5/0
	To a hundred nails	2/6
	The carpenter John Brown
	To 8 deals	13/4
	To 20 Square feet of Scantlings?	2/0/0
	To 4 1/2 pounds of nails (4d per lb)	1/6
	To 2 pounds of spikes	8d
	To 6 Flagstones	7/0
	carriage of Lead	5/0
	Bricklayer, Brick, Lime and Carriage

Allowed by us
[signed]W^m Hewitt Rector
Robert Fisher
John Springall
John Warns
Peter Wilson x his mark
John Pell

The Disbursements of 1771

Date	[Disbursements]	£/s/d
	To 750 hard burnt bricks	13/6
	To Mr Reeve for half rounds and Bricks	6/7/0
	To Carriage of D^o	1/11/6
	To Hammond bricklayer	1/6/10

Disbursements of 1772 and 1774/5 contain references to Bricklayers/Carpenters/Plumbing.

1775 - Mr Warns the Blacksmith

1776 - More Repairs
Willm Hadden - Plumber
John Brown - Carpenter

Dec 18 - 1776
Carriage of 1000 pavements from Wood-Bastwick

Date	[Disbursements]	£/s/d
1776 - July 22	To the Grand Visitor Mr Nichols	5/0
1778	Mr Seamans bill for pavements	9/0/0
	Mr Cremers bill for 3000 bricks	2/5/0
	900 hard burnt D^o at 18/-	16/-
	8 flagstones at 15d	10/0
	5 Quarters of lime from Gresham (2/- per qtr)	10/-
	5 D^o of D^o from Bayfield	11/3
	Mr Pages - Stone Mason bill	3/4/0
	To Starlings D^o Carriage of Ston(e)s from Norwich	14/8
1777	Hammond Bricklayer - Overtime	1/6
	Haddon the plummers bill
[Income]	Old lead 10 stone 8 pounds	1/1/2

The Disbursements of Robert Ives and John Springall Churchwardens from Easter 1778 to Easter 1779

Date	[Disbursements]	£/s/d
	To Woolmer for Citation	6d

The Rev^d Mr Hewitt's disbursements from Easter 1778.
[Note that the church was partly destroyed by the fall of the steeple in 1739 and was repaired mostly at the expense of Mr Hewitt - hence these accounts]

Date	[Disbursements]	£/s/d
	[Bills for] Lime/Sand
	To 6 Bunches of Lath	6/0
	To 6lbs of Lath-nails	4/0
	To Starling Carriage of Stone	5/4
	To Page - Stone Mason's bill	17/6
	To Massingham - Smith's bill	16/5
	To Booth - Plumber's bill	11/11/2
	To Hammond - Bricklayers bill	12/14/6
	To Warns - Smiths bill	17/0
	To Read's bill for hair	1/10/0
	To Thursby - Carpenter's bill	33/9/0
	To 1500 bricks	1/2/6
	To Carriage of D^o	7/6

		68/6/2

Disbursements for Baconsthorpe Church repairs between Easter 1779 and Easter 1780

Date	[Disbursements]	£/s/d
	M^r Thomas Thursby's bill Joiner	110/9/8
	John Thursby's bill Carpenter	54/10/3
	Horth's upholster	4/4/9
	Hammond's d^o plaisterer	25/2/6
	Booth's d^o Glazier	36/8/8
	Capons d^o Painter	20/0/0
	Reads d^o for hair	2/8/0
	Warn's d^o for irons	6/5/0
	Clark's d^o for d^o	5/10/6
	Bricks Lime and Flagstones	6/19/6
	a Lock for the North Door	1/1/0

		272/19/10

Disbursements 1780

Date	[Income]	£/s/d
	a gift from Mrs Martha Rush	100/0/0
	other Contributions	160/19/10

The Disbursements of John Springall and Robert Ives Churchwardens from Easter 1779 to Easter 1780

Date	[Disbursements]	£/s/d
	To Woolmers fee 6^d My Journey to Aylsham 2^s 6^d	3/0

The Disbursements of John Springall and Robert Ives Churchwardens from Easter 1780 to Easter 1781

Date	[Disbursements]	£/s/d
Aug 11	To Mr Burrel as Visitor	4/6
Oct 9	To Mr Morphew at the General 5^s my Journey to Reepham 2^s 6^d	7/6

The Disbursements of John Springall and Robert Ives Churchwardens from Easter 1781 to Easter 1782

Date	[Disbursements]	£/s/d
	To half the Kings Arms	3/3/0

[End of Document]

Notes

In other documents the following alternative spellings have been seen which appear to refer to the same people/places:-
Burrel/Burrell, Hadden/Haddon