Record title: St Peter Chesil's
Churchwardens'
Accounts
Repository:
HRO
Shelfmark: 3M82W/PW1
Repository location: Winchester
The parish of St Peter Cheshil lies just east of the River Itchen, at the foot of St Giles' Hill. Like St John the Baptist a few hundred yards to the north, St Peter Cheshil is outside Winchester's walls in the area known as the 'Soke,' which was under the jurisdiction of the bishop of Winchester. The accounting year sometimes runs from Michaelmas to Michaelmas, other times Midsummer to Midsummer.
1566–1642; English; paper; i + 86 + i; 296mm x 200mm; modern pencil foliation; damaged and repaired, some leaves misplaced; 19th-c. board and parchment cover, title on cover: 'Saint Peter Cheeshill, Winchester, No. 1, Churchwardens' Book, AD 1566 to 1642 eighty seven leaves Sept 21 1870, transcribed October 1895 W Jacob.'