| Description | Mainly concerning poor rate, election of parish officers and passing of accounts.
Also contains:
Cottenham Rent Charge Statement of Account, 1868 to 1872 (at front);
Proposal carried to cover church furniture with black cloth, 1853;
Estimate of expenses for the coming year, May 1853;
Case put as to whether the vestry wishes to punish the previous churchwarden for selling the pews and stove without the vestry's consent, 1854 (?);
Gas Company's appeal against poor rates, April 1857 to December 1858;
Water Works Appeal against the poor rate assessment, December 1857;
Motion to remove the church gallery carried, 1859;
Cutting of 'The Times' law reports concerning poor rate assessment, November 1860;
Copy of letter and meeting concerning burial of non-parishioners, 1862;
Alteration of parish boundary, November 1863;
News cutting and meeting concerning appeal of the overseers to Quarter Sessions against the valuation lists of the parish, December 1863 and January 1864;
Proposal to paint the interior of the church and prepare the North wall as advised by Mr. Holman Hunt, September 1864;
Proposal carried to sell parish property in Gifford Place, August 1869, but further proposal carried in November to let the property on a repairing lease;
Appointment to a Perse Almshouse 1869 to 1871 and opinion sought of the Charity Commissioners;
Appointment of committee to consider removal of iron railings in front of Church, April 1870;
Appointment of committee to consider Alterations to church and their report with the recommendations of Mr. Giles Gilbert Scott, April 1871;
Beamont Memorial Committee, 1871;
Alterations to the church and new fittings, 1871 to 1884;
A refusal of the parish meeting to allow Corporation's application for the loan of picture of King Charles I, and resolution to have the picture restored, 1881;
Repair of churchyard wall, February 1883. |