Vestry Minute Book No.8

2414/4/8

Vestry Minute Book No.8

1851-1863, 1864-1868

With separate Index Book. Note on fly-leaf states 'Lewis v. Lewis. This is the Minute Book marked A ... in affidavit of Eustace Anderson ... 11 January 1871' (In Chancery).

p.2 17 July 1851 cleaning of picture given by Mr Vandergutch.

p.3 14 Aug 1851 report of committee to select new organist, 23 candidates offered, 7 were called and each played for ¼ hour.

p.16 (insert) 1 July 1852 memorial to the Metropolitan Commissioners of sewers concerning sewerage from Richmond.

p.40 2 Feb 1854 Report of Drainage committee.

p.45 30 Mar 1854 plan to form a Fire Brigade.

p.48 Report of Mortlake Charities Committee.

Report of Church Improvements Committee: £599. 10s. 10½d. spent on warming and ventilating the church, gas lighting, stained glass window at East End, stonework, pannelling etc.

p.50 22 May 1854 Report of the Burial Committee: land in Priest Bridge Field.

pp.57-60 reports and correspondence relating to drainage.

pp.67 and 68 Tabulated Statement of Mortlake Charities.

p.70 29 Mar 1855 desirability of an iron safe for parish papers, destruction of papers to be referred.

p.71 28 Mar 1855 Report of Committee on Parish Records: a digest of papers to be prepared and entered in a book with Index. [This book is preserved at the Church.] 'The original chest was probably made in the time of Henry VIII and possesses a key of exquisite workmanship'.

p.102 25 Mar 1856: amendment that no organist be appointed by the Vestry but that the 'Office and the Salary connected with it be left in the hands of Members of the Established Church'. not carried.

p.119 15 May 1856 Further report of Committee on Parish Papers: work of making Register and Index of papers done by Mr W.G. Chapman.

p.142 Surveyor of Highways: Account ending March 1857.

p.143 Parish Stock Account 1856-1857

p.146 14 May 1857 churchwardens to obtain a plan of the new burial ground and keep a list of persons buried with the position of their graves [See 2397/12/1 and 2].

p.153-154 Estimates for 1857/58.

p.167 Surveyor of Highways account 1858.

p.169 Parish Stock account 1857-1858.

p.189 Surveyor of Highways account 1859.

p.191 Parish Stock account 1858-1859

p.200 Churchwardens' account 1859

p.203 Charities account [Parish Stock] 1859

p.219 Surveyor of Highways account 1860

p.225 Parish Stock account 1860

p.247 Surveyor of Highways account 1861

p.253 Parish Stock account 1861

p.263 Churchwardens account 1860-61

p.295 Parish Stock account 1862

p.297 Surveyor of Highways account 1862

p.301 Churchwardens' account 1862

p.317 27 Nov 1862 insufficiency of police

p.333 Parish Stock account 1863

p.337 Surveyor of Highways account 1863

p.343 Churchwardens' account 1863

p.352 Note that the Vestry Minutes from 23 July 1863-12 May 1864 in separate folder [see 2414/4/9]

p.353 Overseers accounts for half years to Sept 1863 and Mar 1864.

p.366 28 Mar 1865 Report of Inspectors on gas lighting.

p.368 Overseers account for half year to Sept 1864

p.376 Overseers account for half-year to Mar 1865.

p.400 Overseers' account for half-year to Sept 1865.

p.401 Parish Stock account 1866

p.403 Surveyor of Highways account 1863

p.407 Churchwardens' account 1866

p.419 Overseers' account for half-year to Mar 1866

p.433 Overseers' account for half-year to Sept 1866

p.437 Parish Stock account 1867

p.442 Overseers' account for half-year to Mar 1867

p.451 Churchwardens' account 1867

p.492 26 Dec 1867 Notice from the Conservators of River Thames to discontinue flow of sewage into Thames.

English