East Hoathly parish vouchers and documents associated with Thomas Turner's service...

The parish deposit contains similar material and a volume of accounts 1761 - 1779 (PAR 378/31/1/1) which lists the payments. Accounts were settled both monthly and annually and the volume also records the payment of churchwardens' accounts, in detail for 1762 - 63 but merely as a total for 1776 - 77; vouchers however exist both for the total and its constituent parts (32 - 38 below). Most vouchers include the names of the pauper recipients of the goods or services

The documents have been arranged by the date of payment recorded in the volume, which in the case of the monthly bills often fails to correspond with the date of receipt annotated by the payee

Information in square brackets is derived from PAR 378/31/1/1; documents other than vouchers have been placed at the end of the accounting year to which they belong

Documents given to the Sussex Archaeological Society c1940 and deposited by the Society, 21 June 1982 (Acc 3631)

According to an article in Sussex County Magazine 9.546 - 50 (1935) which was based upon them, these documents were discovered in the roof of a building in East Hoathly which had belonged to Thomas Turner the diarist