Parish Vestry Finances Question Endowments and Debts
A 1830s parish accounts note new bibles and prayer books for church wardens while pews already held funds. Expenditure for 1836 adds to an annual £283 repairs bill, with parish income around £2,000. The article cites vestries in St Sepulchre and St Stephen's Walbrook under scrutiny and calls for endowment protection.
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St Sepulchre
St Stephen’s
Walbrook
Alderman Gibbs
Petition Against Maynooth Grant Draws Londons Protest
Dissenters in Kettering and London mobilize against state endowment of Maynooth College. Petitions flood Parliament as churches urge opposition, with meetings, deputations, and public pledges to vote against endowment.
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Kettering
Commons
Great Britain and Ireland
Northampton
Sheweth
College of Maynooth
House of Commons
Charles Hindley
Dartmouth House
Westminster
Sharman Crawford
Cecil Street
Strand
Pattison
Upper Harley Street
London
Duncombe
Albany
Piccadilly
R. Peel
Reading
West Kent
Lord Holmesdale
King’s Head Tavern
Poultry
J. R. Mills
Messrs Hankey, Griffin
Wire
Conder
J. C. Evans
Apsley Pellatt
Burnet
Hanbury
Ebenezer Clarke
Offer
Stock
Ture
Maynooth
Boroveus
Southwark and
Lambetth
Ireland
Borough Road
Southwark
City of London
Guildhall
T.H. Fry
East London
SunDay ScHool Union
London Tavern
Bishopsgate Street
Endowment of Maynooth Sparks Clergy Opposition
Clergy across the metropolis sign a declaration opposing the grant to Maynooth. Electors from Aiion chapel and St Marylebone memorialize Sir C Napier, denouncing religious endowments and pledging to oppose his re election. The piece urges voters to write to their MPs to express public opinion.
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College of
Maynooth
J. Labouchere
J. Cummins
Moore
D. W. Harvey
Bunting
Farmer
Ireland
Sir R. Peel
John Russell
R. Peel
Harvey
Covent Garden Theatre
R.C.L. Bevan
Barclay, Bevan, and Co
Croly
House of Lords
Anti-Maynooth Committee
T. Wood
Middlesex
Aiion Chapel
St Marylebone
C. Napier