Many thanks to David, Lyn, Richard and Roy for their comments on this subject. ~~ Keith Griffiths

Hello Keith I was going to reply to this message too but am having a lot of bother with my computer but here goes. Our parish church as a large parchment document giving details of the lays charged for all the eligible rate payers. This was for the poor relief and was collected by the "people's" church warden (or should have been, there are references to lax behaviour in the vestry minutes). The relief was then dole out by the vestry at their meetings to the applicants as the vestry felt was fitting. The date of the document was some time in the 18th century but the select vestry minutes began with the elevation of the vestry to this estate in accordance with the 1819 Act. Audrey ----- Original Message ----- From: "Keith Griffiths" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, December 08, 2006 3:24 PM Subject: Re: [OEL] Ecclesiasitical property and land > Many thanks to David, Lyn, Richard and Roy for their comments on this > subject. > ~~ > Keith Griffiths > > ================= > Web Page: http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~oel/ > ================= > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >