| Description | Mainly setting of rates, approval of accounts and appointment of parish officers but also responses to question regarding annual sums expended on the poor, 16 October 1776; report of the distress and improper state of the poor in the workhouse and breaking of contract to maintain and employ the poor of All Saints and St Benedicts by Benjamin Drake Hill, now residing in a public house in Fenstanton, 27 October -10 November 1789; John Jenkins to be employed to take a plan of the premises down Priory Lane now in the occupation of John Perkins and such other premises as belong to the parish, 20 April 1797; lease to be drawn up for Alderman Perkins for premises in Priory Lane called the Cockpit in return for which he will lay out £300 in erecting a coachhouse and stables to be left on the premises at the expiration of the lease, 9 June 1800; dismissal of Robert Ayres, keeper of the Workhouse, for misconduct, 11 April 1809; sharing of expense with St John's parish of taking a piece of land for enlarging the church yard, 4 June 1816; meeting concerning the repair of the outside of the Church, 7 May 1821.
At back: certificates issued by the Parish of All Saints, 1779-1789; agreement by parishioners of St Benedicts and All Saints that the poor of both parishes be kept in one House and a proper person appointed to maintain and clothe 20 persons, 9 February 1784; committee appointed to inspect the management of the Master and Mistress of the Workhouse, 2 April 1788; Overseers of All Saints, St Benedicts and St Marys to advertise for a master to maintain the poor of the united parishes, 12 April 1799; agreement to give 20 guineas, a blue jacket, a pair of striped trousers and a hat and cockade to any able bodied man to serve in the Navy. Jacob Mitchell, a shepherd born at Holywell cum Needingworth came forward and was sworn in by the Mayor of the Borough, 6 April 1795. |