| Description | Containing summary accounts and memoranda of transfer of office of churchwardens, overseers, constables and surveyors, and (with some gaps) names of churchwardens, constables and surveyors appointed, details of annual letting of havens (town lands), accounts of town stock, memoranda concerning charities and charitable bequests.
Including the following:
Memorandum that since James Boyden refuses to have John Smith or any other as his apprentice, he has paid 50s., and the churchwardens and overseers have apprenticed John Smith to John Johnson of Cambridge as a clock-maker, 1632, 1634.
Memorandum of bond by Thomas Cove (?) to maintain until he is 21 Henry Jones, son of Henry Jones, who has been apprenticed to him as a tailor, 1633.
Memorandum of agreement between John Thimble, Humphrey Thimble and Ruth Boyden, for renting from her land in Stonefield and Longfield, in return for providing her with apparel and subsistence, 1635.
Memorandum that William Wilkenson, on refusing Edward Cooke as his apprentice, has paid 40s. and that Edward Cooke has been put apprentice to John Baron of Balonton hamlet, Essex, sayweaver, but that the boy's mother, taking exception to the man, begged that her son be released, and compensated Baron for his loss, etc. 1634.
Copy of order of Quarter Sessions settling proportion of rates, taxes, etc. between Cottenham and Dry Drayton, 1637. Memoranda of money collected on briefs, 1660 - 1662, 1670, 1677 - 1679, 1692.
Memorandum of agreement between churchwardens and Nicolas Rayw, the town clerk, for him to have the town close, paying the lord's rent, in return for keeping the clock, providing linen, wine and oil, and washing the church linen yearly, 1669. Memorandum that all linen for communion table seemed to have been lost for several years, (1679).
Memorandum of apprenticeship of John, son of John Tiplady, to Stephen Simonds of Cambridge, cordwainer, who is to receive rent of Johnhen Tiplady's house, 1688. List of plate belonging to church, 1691.
Appointment of Edward Gifford as parish clerk, 1691. Extract from will of Rev. Henry Haslop, Rector, bequeathing £40 for a charity school, 1728.
At back of book:
Agreement in vestry to have four bells recast to make five new bells, 1746.
Agreement in vestry that nine specified farmers or commoners shall have power to make rules concerning cattle and sheep and all field and town affairs, 1748.
Distribution list of John Anger's charity money, 1641.
Inventories of church goods (books, vestments, linen etc) 1629, 1641.
Written in reverse, part way through book:
Extracts from act book of Bishop of Ely, concerning presentations, institutions etc. to the rectory of Dry Drayton, and licence of a curate, 1666 - 1690.
(Binding loose; some pages detached.) |