PARISH OF BATTLE

Summary of contents:

INCUMBENT

PAR 236/1/1 Early registers; 1609-1812

PAR 236/1/2 Baptism registers; 1813-1941

PAR 236/1/3 Marriage registers; 1813-1951

PAR 236/1/4 Banns registers; 1814-1968

PAR 236/1/5 Burial registers; 1813-1967

PAR 236/2 Records relating to parish registers; [1775]-1931

PAR 236/3 Service registers; 1863-1914

PAR 236/4 Building and property; ?1777-1956

PAR 236/6 Income of the benefice; 1927-1944

PAR 236/7 Other records; c1700-1997

CHURCHWARDENS

PAR 236/8 Rates; 1844-1921

PAR 236/9 Accounts; 1630-1926

PAR 236/10 Property; 1800-c1850

PAR 236/11 Other records; 1817-1926

VESTRY

PAR 236/12 Minutes; 1757-1778

PAR 236/13 Other records; 1832-1844

PAR OCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL

PAR 236/14 Minutes; 1920-1923

STATUTORY DEPOSITS

PAR 236/21 Tithe records; 1858-1927

CHARITY

PAR 236/24 Easton's; Western's; Langton's; Philcox's; 1817-1942

CONSTABLES

PAR 236/28 Accounts; 1809-1810

PAR 236/29 Other records; 1805, 1831

OVERSEERS OF THE POOR

PAR 236/30 Rates; 1824-1835

PAR 236/31 Accounts; 1823-1849

PAR 236/32/2 Removal orders from Battle; 1824-1848

PAR 236/32/3 Removal orders to Battle; 1826-1848

PAR 236/32/4 Settlement examinations; [1793], 1826-1848

PAR 236/32/5 Other settlement records; 1697-1848

PAR 236/34/4 Maintenance orders and related papers; 1828

PAR 236/36 Militia; 1825, 1831

PAR 236/37 Other records; 1804-1841

PAR 236/38 Post-1834 records; 1834-1848

SURVEYORS OF THE HIGHWAYS

PAR 236/40 Accounts; 1821-1832

SPECIAL COMMITTEES, CHURCH GROUPS AND OTHER CHURCH STAFF PAR 236/43 1813-1911

PARISH MEETING

PAR 236/47 Property; 1837-1938

Deposited by the incumbent and PCC, 10 November 1958 (ACC 285), 27 January 1959 (ACC 311), 10 November 1981 (ACC 2765), 9 December 1981 (ACC 2776 and ACC 2780 from Battle Historical Society), 29 August 1986 (ACC 4709).

In 1928 and 1931 Battle Urban District Council, as rating authority, acquired a large proportion of the records of the civil administration of the parish; despite the suggestion in 1934 of W A Raper, Battle solicitor and antiquary, that they be returned to the parish chest, they remained with the local authority and were deposited with the records of Battle RDC (which had absorbed the UDC) on 12 July 1972 (ACC 1513). Many of these documents were listed by ESRO as PAR 236, and remained under that reference until 2005, when they were returned to the records of the local authority with the reference DR.The deans of Battle and the parish charities were represented by the Battle solicitors Raper and Ellman, latterly Raper and Fovargue, and their several deposits at ESRO contain a great deal of material relating to tithes and to the administration of the charities. A major deposit by the dean in 1987 (ACC 4795) has not been listed here as its contents, dating from the 13th century onwards, had only recently been collected from the offices of Raper and Ellman.In the 1960s those offices had also been available to the members of the Battle Historical Society, but it is difficult to establish whether several parish documents deposited by the Society in 1981 (ACCs 2765, 2776 and 2780) had their origins there or at the church. ACC 2780 contained a bundle of records of William Ticehurst, parish clerk and sexton; these have been allocated references within various series (PAR236/2/1/3-4, 29/2, 32/5/1-2, 43/4-5). Several are endorsed 'A G Ticehurst, Bexhill', and may have been passed to the Society by a descendant of their compiler.