Papers of the treasurers and other officers of the commission

Papers of Nathaniel Blackerby, treasurer.

1721-3. Account of the income from the duty on coal (f.1).

7 May 1725. Memorial by Blackerby that his salary be increased to the amount enjoyed by his predecessor John Leacroft (f.3).

1722-5. Treasurer's accounts (ff.4v-9).

1724-5. Account of income from the duty on coal (f.10).

1719-25. Account of sums issued by the Exchequer (ff.12v-13).

August-November 1730. Account of sums laid out for the endowment of livings (f.14).

[25 August 1730]. 'An Account of what sums have been paid out of the Building Fund which ought to be made good to it out of the Endowment Fund' (ff.15v-16).

25 August 1730. Transfer of South Sea Annuities to Blackerby (f.17).

1730. Account of South Sea stock (ff.19v-20).

17 February 1732. Account of sums available for building and endowment (f.21).

[1 February 1732]. Account of Endowment Fund (ff.23v-24).

1731-7. South Sea stock. 'An Account of Annihilation money and by whom received' (f.25).

[-]. Memorandum by John Sherman of sums granted for the endowment of churches (f.26r-v).

1723-37. Treasurer's accounts (ff.28v-31).

Papers of Henry Fane, treasurer.

28 June 1742. Deed authorising Henry Fane to receive £20,858:16:4 South Sea annuity stock from Benjamin and Ann Blackerby, executors of Nathaniel Blackerby (f.32r-v).

1740-3. Rental of tenants of the commission (ff.35-6).

[23 January 1745]. Statement of cash held by the treasurer (ff.37-8).

6 May 1747. Statement of accounts of the treasurer (ff.39v-41).

1742-58. Receipts for dividends paid half-yearly to incumbents of new churches from endowment funds in South Sea annuities (ff.43-108).

25 January 1759. Final account of the treasurer (ff.110v-113).

Papers of John Sherman, agent.

[22 January 1745]. Petition by William Sherman, executor of John Sherman, of St. Margaret Westminster, for payment of sums due (ff.114-15), with (f.116) a copy of an order authorising payment, 23 January 1745.

Papers of Edward Sleech, agent.

[1757]. An Act for Transferring certain South Sea Annuities, standing in the Name of the late Treasurer to the Commissioners for Building Fifty new churches, unto the respective Rectors of Eight of those Churches; and for Vesting certain Sites for Churches purchased by the said Commissioners, in Trustees, in order to sell the same, for the Purposes therein mentioned (ff.118-123v).

1757-8. Bill of Thomas Francis for legal work concerning the same Act of Parliament (ff.125-8).

c. 1757. 'An Account of the Scites purchased by the Commissioners for building fifty new churches which are not built upon' (f.130).

c. 1757. 'An Account of the endowment money allotted by Parliament for the Ministers of the New Churches' (f.132).

1757-8. 'The particulars of the several attendances of E. Sleech and W. Speer, trustees to sell the sites belonging to the Commissioners of Churches' (ff.134-136v).

[21 February 1757]. Petition by Edward Sleech for payment of salary. He was appointed agent in 1744 (f.138).

[1758]. Petition by Sleech and William Speer for reward for selling sites purchased for churches for £1,115 (f.140).

1758. Account of four pieces of land sold by Sleech and Speer for £1,115 (f.142).

1747-58. Accounts of Edward Sleech (ff.144v-145).

15 January 1759. Receipt and certificate of transfer by Sleech and Speer of funds in their names in old South Sea Annuities to the rectors of new churches (ff. 146-7).

Papers of John Day.

1742-55. Accounts for legal business (ff.149-169v).

170 ff.