Hartley-Kent: Churchwardens' Accounts

Churchwardens' Accounts - extracts 1745-1817

These extracts relate mainly to repairs to the church and churchyard, but churchwardens would have been responsible for a large number of matters that would be the responsibility of local government or the Department of Work and Pensions today.

Date	Item	£
1745	Henry Wood, for work and materials	£0.5.0
	Thomas Rich, for the Jossing block [3]	£1
1747	Fetching sand and ? etc for lime	£0.2.6
	Henry Wood, for work and tiles? at the church	£0.6.6
1748	Day's work a brishing [1] the churchyard	£0.1.6
	Breecks and tiles and lime	£0.4.3
	Fetching the things for the church	£0.3.0
	Thomas Rich for work done at the church	£1.4.0
	Henry Wood, for work done at the church	£0.3.11
1750	Repairs to the pulpit and panelling	£0.15.9
	Making the churchyard hedge and ?	£0.3.6
	For 500 of tiles	£0.8.6
	Fetching the tiles and lime	£0.7.6
	Thomas Chittenden for new shingling	£10.11.9
	22 hundreds of shingles	£5.10.0
	John Wikenden	£1.16.0
	Martin Driver	£2.8.4½
	55 feet of oak timber	£2.15.0
	The sawyer	£1.2.1½
	The blacksmith	£0.6.11
	For lead	£0.9.1
	The bricklayer	£0.11.0
1755	Mr Lovegrove	£13.2.0
	John Wickenden	£1.0.3
	Mr Lovegrove for the windows	£0.19.6
	John Treadwell	£0.1.8
	William French	£2.4.6
1756	Bricklayer	£0.14.6½
	Thomas Rich	£3.6.0
1760	Cleaning the church	£0.3.6
1761	Fetching sand and lime	£0.10.0
	30 bushels of lime	£0.10.0
	Mr Treadwell for 5 bundles of laths	£1.0.0
	Fetching fills	£0.10.0
	Mr Ashdown	£2.15.11
	Hill's bill	£1.12.1
	Wood's bill, bricklayer	£3.12.4½
	Wickenden's bill	£3.13.7
	Martin Driver	£4.0.3½
	Peter Child, plumber	£1.13.11½
	Tiles	£1.16.0
1762	Mr John Colyer for bushes and stakes	£0.4.0
	Mr Small	£0.12.7
	Mr Rich	£3.5.6
1763	Bricklayer	£0.14.3
	Lime	£0.2.6
1765	Blacksmith	£0.0.6
	Carpenter	£0.1.6
	Bricklayer	£0.6.10½
1767	A Shovel	£0.4.3
1768	Brishing [1] the churchyard hedge	£0.0.3
1769	Mr Rich	£1.5.3
1770	Bricklayer	£0.3.6
	Lime and fills	£0.2.0
1771	Bell founder	£9.13.0
	Mr Hodsel	£1.1.0
	Expenses going to London	£0.15.0
	Carpenter	£1.5.6
	Blacksmith	£0.12.0
	Bushes and stakes	£0.5.0
	Lime	£0.8.4
	Fetching lime and sand	£0.5.0
	John Wood, for work done at the church	£1.4.0
	Mr Edmeads, for bricks and tiles	£0.7.9
1772	2 Ropes	£0.1.6
	Bricklayer	£0.11.8
	Blacksmith	£0.2.0
1773	2 bell ropes	£0.9.0
	Mending the windows	£0.9.4
1775	Bricklayer	£0.3.6
1776	Beer for the bricklayer	£0.2.0
	Beer for the Carpenter	£0.0.8
	Carpenter	£3.0.2
1779	200 of tiles	£0.4.0
	Lime and fetching it	£0.7.6
	Bricklayer	£0.8.0
1782	Mending the church steeple	£0.4.0
	Mending the church windows	£0.6.8
1783	Bricklayer	£0.5.10
1786	Sharpe's bill	£2.18.3
	3 deals [2]	£0.7.6
	Blacksmith, for altering the transfer the church gates	£0.6.9
	Carpenter	£2.14.10
1791	Glasier	£0.12.4
1792	Bricklayer's bill for 2 years back	£0.15.8
1795	5 hundred of tiles at 27s per thousand	£0.6.9
	Carriage of same	£0.2.6
	Half a hundred of lime	£0.4.6
	Carriage of lime and sand	£0.2.6
	Bricklayer	£0.11.3
	A feast	£0.3.0
	Glasier	£0.11.8
	5 pots of beer for the bricklayer	£0.1.8
	7 hundreds of stakes and 6 b of rods ??	£0.6.7
1797	Mr Chapman	£2.7.8
	Mr Sharp	£7.3.1
	Richard Treadwell	£7.16.3
	Mr Alchin	£17.17.1
	Beer for the carpenters [4]	£1.10.4
	Beer for the bricklayers	£0.5.6
	The disbursement	£8.3.10½
	Blacksmith	£1.0.4½
1800	Mr Everist for tiles (Oct 2nd)	£3.5.3
	Carriage of the same	£0.5.0
	200 lime (Apr 2nd)	£1.0.0
	Carriage of the same from Dartford	£0.8.0
	Carriage of sand from Longfield Court	£0.3.0
	Carriage of timber from Eynsford	£0.12.0
	Mr Treadwell for cleaning the church	£0.2.6
1805	Bricklayer	£2.7.6
	Cleaning the church this year	£0.5.0
1806	Cleaning the church this year	£0.2.6
1807	Cleaning the church this year	£0.2.6
	Mr Treadwell, for hinge to the door	£0.1.6
1809	Cleaning the church	£0.2.6
1810	Cleaning the church	£0.2.6
1811	Cleaning the church	£0.2.6
1812	Catching the moles in the churchyard	£0.3.2
	Cleaning the church	£0.2.6
	Mr Treadwell for cleaning the church when church was repaired	£0.2.6
1814	Cutting the bushes and making the hedge in the churchyard	£0.8.6
	6 bundles of stakes for churchyard	£0.3.9
	6 bundles of rods for churchyard	£0.3.9
	A set of bell ropes	£0.16.0
	Allowance for bricklayer	£0.17.6
	Mr Bensted for making the churchyard fence the time before	£0.16.0
	Cast iron chest (Mr Rich)	£4.4.0
	Mr Treadwell for mending the clapper of the bell	£0.2.6
1815	Cleaning the church last year	£0.2.6
	Cleaning the church this year	£0.2.6
1816	Cleaning the church	£0.2.6
	New shovel for use of church as the last was stolen by some person unknown	£0.4.6
	Paid Hook for mending church windows	£0.3.2½
1817	Cleaning the church	£0.2.6

[1] Brish is a Kentish dialect word for brush, in the sense of trimming eg a hedge
[2] Deal is a plank of timber
[3] Jossing block is another word of Kentish origin, which is a block or step to assist in mounting a horse.
[4] This probably equates to over 200 pints of beer!