BRO: D/P 118/5/1

f 41 (27 April–13 April) (Receipts)

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Item gayned at the neighboures meetinge in the whitsuntyde vj li. xij s. viij d.

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Item of Walter Baker for ij poales xxij d.

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  • Footnotes
    • whitsuntyde: 8–10 June 1606
  • Endnote

    Walter Baker registered his will on 10 August 1645. He left 10s to the poor and 6s 8d to the church. His will was probated 9 June 1651, at which time his total estate was valued at £51 (from the will now deposited in Berkshire Record Office – no shelfmark or other designation).

  • Document Description

    Record title: St Denys' Churchwardens' Accounts
    Repository: BRO
    Shelfmark: D/P 118/5/1
    Repository location: Reading

    This is a very tidy and well-kept book. On the end-papers are various handwritten notes about the church and a printed version of the inventory made for Edward VI's commissioners. Written on the inside cover are the words 'for Chr. Wordsworth DD | vicar of Stanford-in-the-Vale | Gt Faringdon | Diocese Oxon | County Berks | to be kept in the Parish Chest.' The book proper begins with a mid-sixteenth–century inventory of vestments and books (including the paraphrases of Erasmus). Then follow several cancelled folios of names with sums and fees attached from the 1560s. There are also two other unusual sections: the first is a rent roll of all the lands owned by the parish; the second is, apparently, a communion register. The churchwardens' accounts proper then occupy the rest of the book. The dating is not tied to any feast day. The accounts were rendered for the most part in April.

    1552–1725; English; paper; ii + 131 + ii; 412mm x 140mm; modern foliation, first 11 ff unnumbered; bound in tooled brown leather, title stamped in gold on spine: 'Stanford | in the | Vale | Church- | Wardens | Accounts | 1552–1725.'

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