1739

SURREY.            CHOBHAM July the 29th, 1739.

At a General Meeting of the parishioners this day held within their Vestry Room The Several Abuse, and Injurys done contrary to their Ancient rights and priviledges and the late practices introduced by the Turf and peat Cutters were taken into Consideration they having to the great detriment of the parish in General Sold both Turf and peat unto divers persons unknow belonging to the adjacent parishes, And have Connived at their Loading and at their Carrying them away unto their respective Dwelling houses lying and being in other parishes.

And as the Law has provided Severe penalties to be inflicted upon Such Offenders to prevent and effectually to hinder the like prac­tices for the future It is this Day agreed consented and Ordered on the behalf of our Selves and the rest of the parishioners within this parish as an encouragement to every person that can and will upon Oath Con­vict any person or persons of Selling unto any parishioner or parish­ioners of other parishes either Turf or peat or both of them.

That the sum of Forty Shillings be immediately paid unto Such informer by the Churchwardens of this parish for the time being for every Load of Turf and peat he shall prove on hath Sold which shall be repaid them out of any Money Collected or to be Collected by paro­chial Assessment made or shall be made for the use of this parish. That the like sum of Forty Shillings for every Load of Turf and peat he paid by the Churchwardens of this parish for the time being to every person Convicting on Oath any parishioner belonging to any other parish of Loading and of Carrying unto his or her Dwelling house or houses any Turf or peat or both of them excepting such person or persons as the parishioners of this parish may Consent to give leave to Which Forty Shillings per Load shall be repaid to the said Church­wardens out of any Money as before directed.

ORDERED the above agreement and Directions be Inserted in the Book wherein the Concerns and Affairs of the parish are entered. ORDERED that Two or more Copys of the above resolutions be fairly wrote over and posted at the most public places within this parish, and that William Harvest, the parish Clark, do the same who shall be allowed for his time and trouble therein.

W, DI. ABELY    )            Church-Wardens            Richard ESMEAD.

Edward BAILEY)            .                                   Henry DAKINS.

John SLYFIELD.            Ye mark of Henry HEWARD.

John SPONG.            Henry BURCHETT,

Will BEAUCHAMP.         George STOLLMAN.

Wm. PIGG.            Ye mark of Thomas WORSLEY.

Thomas -

1786

At a Vestry held by the Churchwardens and Overseers of the Poor and other Inhabitants of the Parish of Chobham in the County of Surrey, the Seventeenth day of July, 1786, it is Agreed by and between them and Edward Jenkins, of the Parish of Chobham aforesaid, Butcher, that the said Edward Jenkins shall and will provide for and maintain the poor of the said Parish of Chobham, as well casual as ordinary in by and with all planner of necessaries and Beer and pay all expenses and disbursements whatsoever relating thereto (Except such as shall or may arise on account of settlements or any Tryal at the Quarter Sessions or any other Court relating thereto AND also Except for the providing for the family of any man that shall happen to go into the Militia) he the said Edward Jenkins shall and will so maintain the such aforesaid Poor from the Fourth day of September now last past for during and untill the Sixteenth Day of May which shall be in the Year of our Lord One Thousand Seven Hundred and Eighty Nine after the rate of Two Hundred and Ten Pounds a Year the same to be paid by equal monthly payments of Seventeen Pounds Ten Shillings and Sixpence on the First Sunday in every month successively for the whole Term aforesaid (the last month of May excepted). The month's pay to be paid beforehand And the said Parish agree to put all the aforesaid Poor in good and sufficient repair in respect of clothing now at the beginning of the said Term the same to be showed by an Inventory to he taken of the same. AND the said Edward Jenkins agrees to leave them in the like repair -it his leaving them in respect of clothing.            AND it is hereby agreed that the said Edward Jenkins shall and will be subject to and comply with such Orders, Rules and Restrictions as the Churchwardens and Overseers of the Poor of the said Parish of Chobham for the time being and eight of the Inhabitants hereunder named chosen a Committee of any three of them shall upon any monthly or other Meeting, Notice thereof being first given in the Church Direct            or Order either with respect to the taking in, putting out, relieving or not relieving any Poor person either within the Workhouse or without (so as not to increase the expenses by relieving any such Person out of the said House) and also any otherwise respecting the Offices or Duty of the said Overseers

with regard to the Poor of the said Parish.            AND the said Edward Jenkins shall in all things except before excepted at his own cost and charge well and truly pay and do what is incumbent on such Overseers to pay do and Perform in this behalf and in case of non-performance, and particularly in case he doth not relieve and sustenance, then the said Edward Jenkins doth agree that it shall and may be lawful for the said Overseers with the consent and approbation of the said Committee or any three of them to deduct so much money out of the monthly pay­ment of the said Edward Jenkins as the Justices of this Division or any one of them shall in that behalf direct.  AND it is hereby agreed that any Poor Person seeking relief shall first apply to the Officers of the Parish for the time being and be by them first relieved but not to exceed One Shilling to any one Family or single person before the said Edward

Jenkins shall be obliged to relieve them.            AND it is hereby agreed that the goods and chattels belonging to the Poor that seek relief shall be left and remain by the said Edward Jenkins for the use of the Poor of the said Parish for ever.    AND that the said Edward Jenkins shall keep the said Poor to Work.            AND it is hereby agreed that all necess­ary Utensils convenient for the said Workhouse shall be provided at the charge of the said Parish only an Inventory shall be taken thereof and the said Edward Jenkins agrees to keep and maintain the same in sufficient repair during the Term all which shall be left at the end of the said Term for the use of the Parish in            like repair. AND further as to the Linen in the said Workhouse is to be now valued by two indifferent Persons each party to chose one.     AND the said Edward Jenkins doth agree to leave Linen to the like value and by the like valuation at the end of the said Term or Pay the Deficiency thereof-.            AND it is hereby agreed that the said Parish shall not be charged with any Rents except the Workhouse for the dwellings of any Poor during the said Term but the same to be cleared up to him the said Edward Jenkins at the be­ginning and what Rents he shall contract for shall be cleared up by him the said Edward Jenkins at the end of the said Term. AND it is here­by agreed that if in case any Poor Children shall be put out apprentice the said Edward Jenkins shall pay as much to the putting them out as the expenses of the keeping the said Children would be to him if con­tinued in his care to be settled and adjusted by two Indifferent Persons, the one to be chosen by the said Edward Jenkins and the other by the Committee or any three of them.    The Committee are as followeth,­ Stephen Chappell, Richard Chitty, Edward Bailey, Henry Slyfield, George Gosden, James Nesmith, James Woods, John Rogers.

AND LASTLY for the Due Performance of all and singular the Covenant Articles and agreements herein before written, the said Edward Jenkins doth hereby bind himself his Heirs Executors and Administra­tors and every of them firmly by these Presents to the Churchwardens and Overseers of the Poor of the said Parish of Chobham for the time being in the pennal sum of One Hundred Pounds of Lawful money of Great Britain.

IN WITNESS whereof the said Edward Jenkins have hereunto Interchangeably set his hand and seal the Sixteenth day of October in the Year of Our Lord One 'Thousand Seven Hundred and Eighty Six.

Sealed and delivered (being first Duly Stampt) in the Presence of

            EDWARD JENKINS. Wm. BRANSON.

5th May, 1837

It was agreed that a special Vestry should be held on Friday 12th May 1837 respecting the depredations and encroachments on the waste land of the Parish.

12th May, 1837.

It was resolved that as several depredations had been committed on the waste land of the Parish by persons carrying away heath and turf out of the Parish, it was agreed that the Churchwardens who procure the necessary witnesses and take them to Messrs. Clarke and Graysbrook of Chertsey to be examined for the purpose of ascertaining if the evidence is sufficient to prosecute the depradators; and also that a list of the several encroachments on the waste land be made out by the Churchwardens since Michaelmas 1831 and that the same be forwarded to the Rt. Hon. Earl of Onslow for the purpose of obtaining his sactions and concurrence with the Parish for the purpose of putting a stop to the same.