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Refusal to admit patient from Addenbrooke's Hospital into workhouse, and consideration of plan for employing poor children, 1805;
Parish indicted for state of the cross road from the Conduit Head House to Stonerake Bridge, Gogmagog Road, 1806 - 1807;
0pposition to inclosure of St. Andrew the Less, 1806;
Arrangements to exonerate from liability for militia service upon payment, 1807;
Decision on rating newly built theatre, 1808;
Question on rating new buildings of Downing College, 1809;
Pulpit to be moved, 1812;
Volunteers to be engaged to serve in militia, 1812;
Former Parish Clerk having been excused parish rates, new Clerk to receive £2 p.a. in lieu, 1814;
Rates of wages fixed for labouring poor of various conditions who work for parish or are out of work, 1816; Gravel land to be purchased for employing poor, 1816;
Church plate etc. to be deposited with Mr. Cory; licence of the White Horse to be transferred 1817;
Plan for draining town by sewers to be opposed. Fowls to be kept out of churchyard; Tower, steeple and exterior of church except chancel to be repaired, 1818;
Gallery to be built by subscription, 1822;
Church to be whitewashed and painted, Six tenements in St. Andrew the Less to be purchased for use as a workhouse. .Agreement with St. Andrew the Less for poor of St. Benedict to be admitted to their workhouse. 1823.
Plan to be made of parish boundaries adjoining King's College by Mr. Watford; night watchman for parish not to be appointed; gift of £100 by Gilbert Ives for annual distribution to poor; vestry to be repaired etc. 1824;
Cracked fourth bell to be replaced at cost of £16; Parish to be reassessed; Minister to receive extra £5 in appreciation of establishment of evening service, 1825;
Committee appointed to consult with St. Andrew the Great concerning liability to repair Regent Street Road, Request for increased contribution by Hauxton and Dunsbridge Turnpike Trust, land given for workhouse to be let, Question about large amount of High Constable's Rate. 1826;
Organ to be purchased from Mr. Gray for £200; Nothing to be paid in future towards churchwardens' dinner; Miss Eliza Lydia Challice appointed organist at £10 p.a., and £10 allocated for providing singers. 1827;
Protests at proposed exclusion from renewal of Hauxton and Dunsbridge Turnpike Trust of parts of roads in the parish and in other parishes; Contribution made to expense of paving road from north to south end of Addenbrooke Place by the Paving and Lighting Commissioners. 1828;
Repairs to be made to corner roof on north side of church, earth to be cleared away outside chancel, vestry floor and roof to be repaired and ivy to be removed from churchyard wall; Rates of Downing College to be remitted in respect of unoccupied rooms. 1829;
St. Andrew the Great to be consulted on repair of Regent Street Road, and Wort's Charity to be asked to pay for repair. 1829 - 1830;
'Lighting and Watching Act' not to be adopted. Objection made to iron gate erected by Corpus Christi College across passage to western entrance of church. 1830 - 1831;
Church to be insured against fire; £180 saved in expenditure during the year. Walls of the aisles to be cleaned and whitewashed. Erection of workhouse on land given by Gilbert Ives considered, and reduction in contribution to St. Andrew the Less workhouse requested.. Subscription to Addenbrooke's Hospital to be increased to four guineas. Committee appointed to co-operate with Board of Health and particulars to be given of sickness or distress not adequately provided for. 1831.
Complaint to Paving Commissioners about damage to roadway in Regent Street caused by narrowing pavements and diverting water channel. Church to be repaired, whitewashed and coloured. Responsibility for Regent Street to be apportioned with St. Andrew the Great. Names of persons to serve as surveyors sent to magistrates. Terms for medical attendance on pauper. 1832;
Claim by Paper Mills Turnpike for contribution. Thanks to the Minister, Master of Corpus Christi, for returning to practice of reading prayers in afternoon instead of evening service. 1833;
Support for parish of St. Mary the Great in appeal by Gas Company against rating. Two officials dismissed for irregularities Parish clerk ordered to prepare sacremental table on sacramental Sundays. 1835.
Interior of church to be whitewashed and pillars to be painted stone-colour. Paving Commissioners to pay £10 to parish towards repair of road in Regent Street, necessitated by new drain. Benefaction of Gilbert Ives, given in 1816, invested for poor. 1836.
Addenbrookes Hospital to be asked to provide their own burial ground in view of the overcrowded state of churchyard. 1837, 1839. Plan of parish to be made by Mr. Harwood of Cambridge. John O'Hara, a deserting husband, to be pursued by a Cambridge police sergeant for reward. Permission sought to sell land in St. Andrew the Less given for a workhouse site. 1837
No new brick graves to be made in churchyard. Seven additional pews to be made in church . Bequest of £800 by Gilbert Ives for founding almshouses made void by 'Statute of Mortmain', but bequest of £100 to be invested for poor accepted. 1839.
Proposals by Cambridge Camden Society for removing rough cast from tower of church etc. at their own expense. Protection for parish sought to be inserted in 'Poor Law Amendment Bill' against charges for patients in Addenbrooke's Hospital who have no settlement in the parish. Two Arnott's stoves to be boughte for church. 1840.
Protest to Corpus Christi College about making of drain along the passage leading to Bene't Street to the College, being originally part of the churchyard; dispute referred to Archdeacon but later dropped since the drain was then finished. Mr. Harvey, clerk, admonished for frequent absence from duty on Sundays. Lack of accommodation in church reported. 1841
Windows broken by hailstorm repaired. 1843.
Additional 2,302 sq. yds. in Mill Road burial ground allotted to parish. 1846.
Return to Poor Law Board on method of assessment, and to guardians of non-assessed property. Hobson's Bible to be entrusted to Minister for safe-keeping. Rejection by St. Andrew the Less of responsibility for repair of part of East Road, now in an awful state, 1848 - 1849.
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