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Office
and Functions of the Incumbents
D\P\sta.d/1 The Incumbent and
his Assistants
D\P\sta.d/1/2 Licencing
of Assistant Curates
D\P\sta.d/1/2 1824 Licence of James Edward de Visme (1
paper)
D\P\sta.d/2 Service of the Church and Parish
D\P\sta.d/2/1 Registers of Baptism, Marriages and
Burials
D\P\sta.d/2/1/1 1654-1765 Births,
baptisms, marriages and Burials.
Births 1654-1662
Baptisms 1668-1698, 1703-1715,
1720-1765.
Marriages 1653-1658, 1670-1698,
1703-1715, 1720-1754.
Burials 1654-1659, 1668-1698, 1703-1715,
1720-1765.
Note of Lyde family entries 1661-89
Note
on payments due to incumbent, n.d.
List
of vicars, 1341-1592
A
copy of Bishop’s transcripts, 1607, 1614-17,
With note by transcriber that one entry probably
relates to an ancestor of President Truman.
[On
microfiche]. (1 volume)
D\P\sta.d/2/1/2 1740-1752 Baptisms
1740-1752,
Marriages
1752
Burials
1744, 1750-1752
Probably
a rough volume from which D\P\sta.d/2/1/1 was compiled.
(?)Surveyors
of the highways – account of lands and horses, n.d. Observations on phases of the moon, January-August
1819
[On
microfiche]. (1 volume)
D\P\sta.d/2/1/3 1765-1812 Baptisms
and Burials. [On
microfiche]. (1 volume)
D\P\sta.d/2/1/4 1754-1812 Marriages [On
microfiche]. (1 volume)
D\P\sta.d/2/1/5 1813-1850 Baptisms [On
microfiche]. (1 volume)
D\P\sta.d/2/1/6 1813-1837 Marriages [On
microfiche]. (1 volume)
D\P\sta.d/2/1/7 1813-1881 Burials [On
microfiche]. (1 volume)
D\P\sta.d/2/1/8 1881-1948 Burials [On
microfiche]. (1 volume)
D\P\sta.d/2/1/9 1851-1983 Baptisms [On
microfiche]. (1 volume)
D\P\sta.d/2/1/10 1839-1983 Marriages [On
microfiche]. (1 volume)
D\P\sta.d/2/1/11 1949-1992 Burials (1
volume)
D\P\sta.d/2/2 Registers
of Banns
D\P\sta.d/2/2/1 1858-1868 Banns (1
volume)
c.1890-1891
D\P\sta.d/2/2/2 1901-1971 Banns (1
volume)
D\P\sta.d/2/3 Original
Marriage Licences
D\P\sta.d/2/3/1 1808 Marriage
licence of George Snook and Grace Fowler (1
paper)
D\P\sta.d/2/5 Registers
of Divine Service
D\P\sta.d/2/5/1 1901-1912 Service
Register (1
volume)
D\P\sta.d/2/5/2 1912-1924 Service
Register with parochial register of finances, (1
volume)
1913-1921
D\P\sta.d/2/5/3 1963-1971 Service
Register (1
volume)
D\P\sta.d/2/5/4 1971-1980 Service
Register (1
volume)
D\P\sta.d/2/9 Miscellaneous
D\P\sta.d/2/9/1 n.d. 20th List of members of the Church; at back list of (1 volume)
Century children’s books
D\P\sta.d/2/9/2 1905 n.d. Table
of Fees (3
documents)
20th
Century
D\P\sta.d/2/9/3 1931, 1932 ‘Parochial
Statistics’ returns (3
documents)
D\P\sta.d/2/9/4 1868-1912 Copies
of London Gazette with Orders in Council relating (4 documents)
to:
Provision
of a Parsonage House, 1868
Stipend,
1884, 1912
Order
in Council separating the Parishes of Pensford
and
Publow from
D\P\sta.d/3 Property and
Income of the Benefice
D\P\sta.d/3/1
D\P\sta.d/3/1/1 1884-1886 Correspondence
etc. re. purchase of additional glebe (7
documents)
D\P\sta.d/3/2 Tithe
D\P\sta.d/3/2/1 c. 1925 Printed
papers re. Tithe Rent Charge (1 bundle)
Office
and Functions of the Churchwardens
D\P\sta.d/5 Property
Administered by Churchwardens
D\P\sta.d/5/1 Deeds
D\P\sta.d/5/1/1 1903 Conveyance
by the Churchwardens et. al. of land adjacent (1
document)
to
the churchyard, including the Druidical Stones,
(with
plan).
D\P\sta.d/5/1/2 1919 Copy
conveyance of the Lyde Chapel by Lord Strachie (1
document)
to
the Ecclesiastical Commissioners.
D\P\sta.d/6 Alterations and
Additions to the Church Fabric
D\P\sta.d/6/1 Faculties
D\P\sta.d/6/1/1 1889-1965 Faculties
re: (5
documents)
Seating
and internal alterations 1889
Removal
of the Organ 1923
Re-interment
in family grave 1956
New
Screen 1965
D\P\sta.d/6/2 Accounts,
Agreements etc.
D\P\sta.d/6/2/1 1887 Agreement
for new belfry steps with plans and (2
documents)
Specification
D\P\sta.d/6/2/2 1907 Church
heating, plan, printed subscription list (5
documents)
D\P\sta.d/8 Building – repair
of churches etc.
D\P\sta.d/8/1 Deeds
D\P\sta.d/8/1/1 1847 Charge on the church rates for
securing £500 (1 document)
for
repairs of church.
D\P\sta.d/8/4 Miscellaneous
D\P\sta.d/8/4/1 c. 1848 Ground
plans of church showing proposed re-arrangement
of
seats, pulpit etc.
Civil
D\P\sta.d/13 Office and Functions
of Overseers of the Poor
D\P\sta.d/13/3 Settlement
Orders, Certificates etc.
D\P\sta.d/13/3/1 1697, 1753 Removal orders from Pensford to Publow (2 documents)
(Bready
and Hooper families)
D\P\sta.d/13/3/2 1686-1698 Settlement certificates (4
documents)
D\P\sta.d/13/5 Bastardy
orders etc.
D\P\sta.d/13/5/1 1718 Bastardy
examination of Susanna Flower (1
document)
D\P\sta.d/13/6 Apprenticeship
indentures etc.
D\P\sta.d/13/6/1 1696, 1755 Apprenticeship indentures of Thomas Wathen (2 documents)
And
William Fifoot
D\P\sta.d/13/10 Miscellaneous
D\P\sta.d/13/10/1 1728 Summons
to Thomas Hodges and Robert Brodripp
To
attend Wells Sessions concerning the settlement of
Antony
Purnell, with covering letter from
D\P\sta.d/13/10/2 n.d.c. 1860 List of Poor Rate books 1839-1855 (1 document)
Settlement
papers
Waywardens’
accounts, n.d. now lost.
Parochial
Charities
D\P\sta.d/17 The Poor
D\P\sta.d/17/3 Account
books and Accounts of Trustees
D\P\sta.d/17/3/1 1861-1863 Accounts of Richard Jones’ Charity for Stanton Drew (3 documents)
Apprenticeship
Fund and Schoolmaster, Chew Magna and
Stowey
poor,
D\P\sta.d/17/5 Schemes
in Chancery or by Charity Commissioners etc.
D\P\sta.d/17/5/1 1878 Charity
Commissioners Scheme for Richard Jones’ (2
documents)
Charity
with schedule of property.
D\P\sta.d/17/5/2 1907 Copy
of Charity Commissioners’ Scheme for Coates (1
document)
Charity.
D\P\sta.d/17/7 Miscellaneous
D\P\sta.d/17/7/1 1864-1870 Plans and specifications for barn and cottages at (6 documents)
Bere
Farm, High Ham, property belonging to
Trustees
of Richard Jones’ charity.
D\P\sta.d/18 Schools
D\P\sta.d/18/1 Extracts
from Wills, Trust Deeds etc.
D\P\sta.d/18/1/1 1850 Assignment
of £100 upon Trust towards education of (1
document)
six
poor female children (reciting earlier gift of 1772)
D\P\sta.d/18/3 Accounts.
D\P\sta.d/18/3/1 1862-1863 School accounts (1
document)
D\P\sta.d/18/3/2 1879-1891 Accounts of payments from the Lyde Charity for pupils (1 bundle)
at
D\P\sta.d/18/3/3 1892-1893 Vouchers paid from the Lyde Charity for the sewing school ( 1document)
D\P\sta.d/23 Miscellaneous
D\P\sta.d/23/1 1862-1863 Accounts of Pensford Church lands feoffees. (1 document)
D\P\sta.d/23/2 1723 Extract from Itinerarium Curiosum by Dr. M
Stukeley, (8 documents)
describing
the Stanton Drew standing stones
(‘The
Weddings’) with prints.
D\P\sta.d/23/2 1872 Map of Stanton Drew Standing Stones (1 map)
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