| Description | Book consists of 180 numbered paper folios.
The minutes of individual meetings are unsigned. The back of the volume contains an index. The following charge and discharge accounts are included:
[- September 1762 - 24th November 1763]: folios 62-67
24th November 1763 - 23rd July 1764: folios 68-72
23rd July 1764 - 7th May 1765: folios 91-95
7th May 1765 - 4th April 1766: folios 121-127
Also includes: resolution of 11th April 1763 that toll-collecting shall begin on 1st June next; order to print 250 sheets of tickets (30th May 1763); order to prosecute Brown Gilson at the next Quarter Sessions, for assaulting a tollkeeper (25th July 1763); note of John Cave of Witchford's abusive language and damage to Buggs Pond toll house (17th May 1764); order to stop people sneaking over Stretham Ferry Bridge by night (5th July 1764); note re the erectionof new milestones (26th June 1765); a special meeting to discuss a letter threatening the life and property of Henry Morley of Ely (1st January 1766); proposals by Stretham parishioners to redirect the road (November 1764 onwards); orders re the redirecting of the Stuntney-Soham road (May - September 1763); offer by Trinity Hall College to pave St Giles Lane (29th April 1763).
The minutes of meetings 1st October - 11th December 1770 are duplicated, signed, in T/E/AM2. |