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Volume parish churchwardens and bailiffs accounts. :8 Pages churchwardens accounts. Covered major part of the Interregnum, Charles 1st executed 1649 and Charles 2nd restored 1660.
Great deal of repairs to the Church, its walls, windows and bells – several technical terms including “quarrells” which are panes of glass.
Bell ringers rang for 5th November every year, 50 after the Gunpowder Plot.
Many payments to poor people including Irish, man’s ransome in Turkie, poor traveller taken by ye Hollanders, poor seamen and soldiers back from Ireland.

Years: 1650 – 1656

Pages: 8

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