CHURCHWARDENS, VESTRY AND PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL

Registers - The Parish Church of All Saints', South Lynn

101. Parish Book 1605-1677; Minutes and memoranda of church congregations or assemblies, including orders regulating Commons, Alehouses and Church Land, summary accounts, and appointments of Churchwardens, Questmen, Surveyors of the highways, Overseers of the poor and Pinders 1605-1677 with 18th century selective list of contents.  Memoranda include one by Thomas Valenger of South Lynn, Town Clerk of King's Lynn, concerning between the Mayor and Burgesses of King's Lynn and the inhabitants of South Lynn as to the liability for repairing a decayed bridge over Whitefriar's Fleet in South Lynn and his voluntary contribution to the cost 1605; memorandum regarding the overcharging of South Lynn in an assessment of previous subsidies 1608; list of contributions to repair of the church pews 1616; two notices by the Mayor relating to the collection of poor rates 1619; memorandum of apprenticeship indentures 1629; deleted memorandum regarding a suit of the inhabitants of South Lynn William Davy and others regarding defaults in payments to the Feoffees of Valenger's Almshouses 1630; copy licence to a woman in child bed to eat flesh meat in Lent 1633; Vicar's appointment of a parish clerk in 1641; memorandum of the temporary deposit of the title deeds to Mary Wilkok's house in the church chest 1639; list of collections authorised by briefs 1660-1662; agreement for maintenance of a child 1666; inventory of the goods of John Wells, late of South Lynn, labourer 1666; extract from the will of William Bland of South Lynn relating to bequests to the poor and the Church 1668; list of the families in the parish with the rental valuations for those who paid church and poor rates 1668, church and poor rate assessments with notes regarding the method of assessment 1668, legal rules of rating 'extracted out of a good author' 1668; list of duties of the surveyors 1668, appointment of a committee to treat with the Mayor and Burgesses for the repair of the Long Bridge over Sandringham Eau, or Whitefriars Fleet, previously repaired by the Mayor and Burgesses except when it was disabled by them in 1644-5 during the siege and for some time after 1669; inventory of church plate, books and furnishings 1669; agreement for ringing the great bell morning and evening, there being no clock nearby 'to tyme the daie' 1669; survey of owners, occupiers and acreages of lands in South Lynn 1669; poor rate assessment 1669; rental of houses in South Lynn 1669; extracts from letters patent of Edward VI granting to the Mayor and Burgesses of King's Lynn lands in King's Lynn, South Lynn and elsewhere in order  to meet the costs of sea defences, banks, bridges etc. and of Phillip and Mary,1557, annexing South Lynn to the Borough 1670; memorandum regarding South Lynn Common abutting on land of the Mayor and Burgesses called Whitefriars to the south and on Whitefriars Fleet to the north, the east head abutting on the highway to the South Gates and the west head on a lane leading to Whitefriars (the Common having been rendered partly useless for 37 to 38 years by the falling down of a high wall on the boundary of the Mayor and the Burgesses' ground, part was to be let by Thomas Hugins to Phillip Moody of South Lynn, ship's carpenter, to lay plank and timber on, and a committee was appointed to request the Mayor and Burgesses to make good the fence and pay compensation) circa 1670; and copies of two letters from 'Philocrates' to the Reverend Mordant Webster relating to the delivery from London of two large silver flagons and a silver paten anonymously donated to the parish, 1670, and to a similar silver paten anonymously donated to the parish, 1670, and to a similar donation of a purple cloth for the Holy Table 1672; memoranda by Thomas Hugins detailing the progress of a dispute between between the inhabitants of South Lynn and the Mayor and Burgesses regarding the liability for the repair of the Long Bridge (the County Quarter Sessions and Assizes at Thetford -  both found for South Lynn) and the subsequent repair of the bridge (by the Mayor and Burgesses) with accounts of costs awarded to South Lynn 1674 and regarding the agreement with the Mayor and Justices of King's Lynn concerning the duties payable on coals in South Lynn bought from Mr. Freeman 1672; memorandum that the perambulation of the parish bounds was to be made only every other year 1675. FRAGILE

102.  Parish Book 1676-1730; minutes and memoranda of parish meetings including orders regulating Commons, Almshouses etc., summary accounts and appointments of churchwardens, sidesmenoverseers, pindars and surveyors 1676-1730, with a survey of commonable houses (naming owners and occupiers) 1695 with amendments to 1777; lists of overseers and churchwardens 1676-1795; selective list of contents of volume 1720; inventories of church goods 1685, 1706,1709 and 1723, and copy terriers 1709 and 1723; memoranda of collections for briefs 1685-1711 (including detailed contribution lists 1686 and 1687); church and highway rate assessments and valuations 1687 (including a list of persons unable to pay church rates); an agreement to resist the practice by the Corporation of King's Lynn of imposing the poor children of the town on the parish of South Lynn 1712; agreement of the parishioners of St. Margaret's and of South Lynn in settling disputes concerning the maintenance of bank, fleet, road etc. and exemption of the Vicarage House from rates 1714; agreements for the purchase of a church clock 1717 and its' removal 1725.

103.  Parish Book 1731-1793: minutes of parish meetings, including orders regulating Commons, letting of church lands etc., summary accounts, and appointments of churchwardens, overseers and surveyors 1731-1793; churchwarden's accounts 1736-7 and 1747-1793; extracts from the will of Thomas Vallenger 1610 and of Thomas Cooke 1810 relating to Vallenger's Almshouses; church rate assessment 1746; memorandum regarding the liability for the maintenance of the churchyard ditch and fence 1747; agreement between the parishes of South Lynn and North Runcton apportioning the liability for the repair of the road on the Hardwick Causeway 1759; agreements for the removal and sorting of building materials following the collapse of the steeple and to make estimates for repairs to the west end of the church 1764; agreement to petition against James Culham's serving as a churchwarden 1765; case and opinions concerning the proposed consolidation of the parishes of St. Margaret and South Lynn for the maintenance of the poor 1780-1781.

104.  Churchwarden's Book 1793-1873; Churchwarden's Accounts 1792-1873; minutes of parish meetings 1794-1871, of subscribers to church services 1856, of seatholders 1864-1872, and (at the back of the volume) minutes of the Feoffees of Vallenger's Almshouses 1806-1877, including a vestry agreement and list of contributions for the re-building of the Almshouses in Finkle Row 1806.

105.  Churchwarden's account book 1872-1922, with minutes of seat-holder's meetings 1873-1879, parish meetings 1877 and 1878, and vestry meetings 1879 and 1895; memorandum regarding Elsedon's Almshouses in Friar's Street built in 1866, 1877.

106.  Churchwarden'svouchers and rough notes 1881, 1895-1920, including insurance policies 1913 (fire) and 1915, 1916, 1919 (aircraft); printed engraving of the interior of the church from the west end; newspaper cutting regarding the decision of a PCC meeting to obtain a new church organ 1926. (Found loose in PD607/105). 

107.  Receipt of Henry James Hillen for four volumes of Churchwarden's books loaned to him 1900.  (Found loose in PD607/102)

108.  Church subscriptions book 1902-1906 with (loose) related papers.

109.  Church Council cash book 1902-1907.

110.  St. Michael's Church accounts 1901-1922.

111.  St Michael's Church vestry minutes book 1911-1921, with (loose) letter from Alice Cunnell, Tonbridge (Kent) regarding the return of the volume to South Lynn and a note of its' receipt by the Rector 1958.

112.  Church Council minute book 1916-1926 (Parochial Church burial from 1920)

113.  PCC and Vestry minute book 1926-1936

114.  PCC and Vestry minute book 1936-1947

115.  PCC and Vestry minute book 1947-1956

116.  Miscellaneous PCC papers: electoral roll applications 1947 and 1949; nominations to the PCC (not dated); correspondence, mainly regarding dilapidations 1951-1957.