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Churchwardens' Collections: Briefs: 1659-1663
Hargham raised money at various times, to either support its poor (from the Overseers' Rate) or to pay for other parish expenses (from the Churchwardens' Rate).
Occasionally appeals were made via a brief (which was issued by royal mandate) to raise money for disasters and other events. This was read out in church and a collection made in the church (and sometimes later in the parish) for the good cause.
For more information on these records see the Parish Accounts page.
These items are from a Norfolk Record Office document [with the reference PD 96] from the Baptisms, Marriages, Burials registers for Hargham covering the period 1561-1812. Amongst these records are interspersed these Briefs.
These are available on the "familysearch.org" website and the "Frame Numbers" given are a reference to the online images which range from 1 to 102.
Note that most of the entries were preceded by "Collected at Hargham by the Churchwardens" and these words have been omitted here.
Other accounts available
| - Churchwardens' Accounts - | |||||
| Payments | 1835-48 | ||||
| Collections for special appeals | Briefs 1659-1663 | ||||
| - Land Tax Accounts - | |||||
| Payments | 1767-68 | 1781-82 | 1782-83 | 1784-85 | 1796-97 |
| 1800-12 | 1812-33 | ||||
[Transcription copyright © Mike Bristow]
| Date | Disaster | Amount collected |
|---|---|---|
| [The following entry - "Ane wife of John Dowe was buried 26th March 1683" precedes the Southwold entry.] | ||
| [Next page - frame 55 of 102] | ||
| 1659 | Burning at Southwold at Soulbay (Solebay)[Suffolk] | 4/- |
| Richard Pilgrime, John Pinner - Churchwardens | ||
| 1659 | Burning of Metheringham (Lincolnshire) | 2/9 |
| Ro(bert) Master - Curate Richard Pilgrim - Churchwarden | ||
| 1660 | Burning of Fakenham in Norfolk | 2/2 |
| Ro(bert) Master - Curate Richard Pilgrim - Churchwarden | ||
| 1660 | Burning of Little Melton in Norfolk | 1/2 |
| Ro(bert) Master - Curate Richard Pilgrim - Churchwarden | ||
| [followed by] | ||
| 1665 | Marriage of Thomas Collins of East Harling and ___? Wissen of E__? | |
| [Next page] | ||
| 1638 | Marriages follow - John Juby .... | |
| Date | Disaster | Amount collected |
|---|---|---|
| [Entries for 1681 precede briefs namely - John Markham and Richardus (Richard) Smith.] | ||
| [Following are from frame 54 of 102] | ||
| 1661 | Burning at Chertsey (Surrey) | 1/-? |
| Samuel Leader - Rector John Atkins and Thomas Howse - Churchwardens | ||
| 1661 | Burning at Milton Abbas (Dorset) | 1/- |
| Samuel Leader - Rector John Atkins and Thomas Howse - Churchwardens | ||
| 1661 | Repairing of a Church at Pontefract (Yorkshire) | 10d |
| Samuel Leader - Rector Thomas Howse and John Atkins - Churchwardens | ||
| 1661 | Scarborough Church (Yorkshire) | 4d? |
| Samuel Leader - Rector John Atkins and Thomas Howse - Churchwardens | ||
| 1661 | Fire at East Hagborne (East Hagbourne - Oxfordshire) | 6d |
| Samuel Leader - Rector John Atkins and Thomas Howse - Churchwardens | ||
| These all paid to John Jones servant to Edmund Case/Cole? by Samuel Leader - Rector | ||
| 1661 | Repairing Church at Rippon (Yorkshire) | 1/8 |
| Samuel Leader - Rector John Atkins and Thomas Howse - Churchwardens | ||
| 1661 | Burning in St Bartholomews Exchange and Bennet finck? in London (Churches of St Bartholomews', Exchange and St Benet's Finke) | 9d |
| Samuel Leader - Rector John Atkins and Thomas Howse - Churchwardens | ||
| 1661 | Relief of Mr Richard Dutton? who sustained a loss by fire in the County of Chester (Cheshire) | 1/8 |
| Samuel Leader - Rector John Atkins and Thomas Howse - Churchwardens | ||
| 1661 | Repairing Collegiate Church at Rippon in Yorkshire ___? | 8d |
| John Atkins and Thomas Howse - Churchwardens | ||
| 1661 | for loss by fire at Fleet Street London | 5d |
| Samuel Leader - Rector John Atkins and Thomas Howse - Churchwardens | ||
| 1661 | Loss by fire at Elmley Castle (in Worcs) | 4d |
| Samuel Leader - Rector John Atkins? - Churchwardens | ||
| [Next page] | ||
| 1662 | for the --- Christopher Spice and John __? __? Watringbury (Wateringbury) in Kent who sustained? a loss by fire | 6d |
| Samuel Leader - Rector Thomas Howse and John Atkins - Churchwardens | ||
| Collected for Briefs | ||
| 1662 | for St Martins in the Fields (London) | 5d |
| 1662 | for Anne Walter of Redriffe? [Redriffe Surrey? - loss at sea] | 6d |
| 1662 | for Watchet in Somerset (houses damaged by sea) | 6d |
| 1662 | for Gravesend in Kent | 4d |
| 1662 | for Condover in Salop | 5d |
| 1662 | for Fleete Streete London | 5d |
| Samuel Leader - Rector Robert Steward - Churchwarden | ||
| 1663 Jul 5th | for John Ellis of Milton who sustained a loss by fire | 2/- |
| Samuel Leader - Rector William Gall and Thomas Harword? - Churchwardens | ||
| 1663 Oct 18th | Collected for Joh. Jones of St. Clement Danes in the liberty of Westminster for a loss by fire | 5d |
| [Now follows 1682 7th Sept Burial of Roger Butterill] | ||
[End of Document]
See also the Hargham parish page.
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December 2015