Papers mainly concerning the endowment of new churches

c. 1711. Account of the endowment of the following churches built since 1660: St. Paul Covent Garden; St. Paul Shadwell; St. Anne Westminster; St. James Westminster; St. John Wapping; Christ Church Southwark (f.1r-v).

[3 October 1711]. Proposals by Henry Godolphin, Dean of St. Paul's, for the selection of parishes in which new churches should be built on the evidence of the Bills of Mortality, with a list of 23 suitable parishes (ff.3-4).

[1718]. Account of sums granted by Parliament to the commission (f.5).

12 March 1719. Memorial by the commission to the Crown suggesting measures for increasing the income of the new parishes to at least £300 a year. Propose that for this purpose the commission have power to ascertain burial fees; that a pound rate be assessed; that pew rents be set; that parliamentary funds be laid out in purchase of lands and rents; that chapels made parish churches be endowed. Copy (ff.6-8).

1718-26. Notes of surplice fees and of the value of houses for a pound rate for the maintenance of ministers in various parishes, and (f.60) An Account of the endowments by a Pound-Rate, of Churches in London, and of such New Churches within the Bills of Mortality, the Parishes whereof have been taken out of the larger Parishes (ff.10-60).

12 April 1725. Draft and copy of a report by the commission to the House of Commons concerning the maintenance of ministers of the new churches (ff.61-70v).

[1725]. Petition by the Company of Parish Clerks of London that the parish clerks of the new parishes be made members of the Company in any Bill in Parliament (ff.71-4).

[1725]. Summary of 'A Bill for the Maintenance of 50 New Churches by a pound rate by and out of the Moneys granted by Act of Parliament for that purpose and for making the parish clerks of the said Churches Members of the Company of parish clerks and for other purposes therein mentioned' (ff.75-6).

[1725]. 'Answer to some exceptions against the Bill for Maintenance' [by George Stanhope, Dean of Canterbury] (ff.77-78v).

24 July 1727. Abstract of accounts of rents, allowances for repairs, and arrears of tenants of the commission (ff. 79v-80).

24 November 1727. His Majesties Commission for Building fifty New Churches (ff. 82-7).

22 March 1728. 'An Account of the Money remaining for the Building of the fifty New Churches' (f.89).

[3 Geo. II]. A Bill for Uniting the Moieties or Portions of the Rectory of St. Dunstan Stepney, alias Stebunheath, and for making one Rector full Incumbent of the said Rectory; and for converting the Chapel at Poplar into a Parish-Church, and appointing a District for a New Parish for the same; and for the Maintenance of the Ministers of Five New Churches at Stratford Bow, Poplar, Spittlefields, Wapping Stepney, and Limehouse; and for restraining the Churchwardens of the said Five New Churches from disposing of the Pews, and Places in Pews, without the Consent of the Vestry; and for other Purposes therein mentioned (ff.90-5).

[6 Geo. II]. A Bill for Rebuilding the Parish Church of St. George the Martyr, in the Borough of Southwark, in the County of Surrey, as one of the Fifty New Churches directed to be built by two Acts of Parliament, one made in the Ninth, the other in the Tenth Year of the Reign of her late Majesty Queen Anne (ff.96-7).

1737. Issues of newspapers in which the commission advertised for the purchase of estates for the endowment of livings: The Daily Advertiser, 11-21 July (nos. 2015-24) (ff.98-109v): The London Evening Post, 9-30 July (nos. 1506-14) (ff.110-127v); The London Gazette, 5-9 July (no. 7616) (ff.128-131v). Also a letter signed 'A.B.' to Vigerus Edwards, offering to sell houses in Long Acre, 24 August 1737 (f.133).

[14 March 1738]. Rental of estate of Thomas Plampin at Shadwell, Leics. Endorsed, 'Read and rejected it being too far off' (f.134).

[14 March 1738]. 'A Particular of Mr. John Calverley's Estate at Chitney in Essex [Kent]'. Endorsed, 'Read and rejected being too small' (f.136).

[16 Geo. II]. A Bill to make the Hamlet of Bethnal-Green, in the Parish of St. Dunstan, Stepney, in the County of Middlesex, a Separate and Distinct Parish; and for Erecting a Parish-Church therein (ff. 137-41).

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