At a Meeting on St Thomas's Day being the 21st.
December 1755
Present
Mr Thomas Pullen< no role >
Mr Robert Crafton< no role >
} Church Wardens
Mr Charles Ball< no role >
Mr Samuel Littlebury< no role >
Mr James Spackman< no role >
Mr Thomas West< no role >
Mr Samuel Richards< no role >
Mr Anthony Chapman< no role >
Mr Jasper Mauduit< no role >
Mr Thomas Wright< no role >
Mr John Roberts< no role >
Mr Daniel Taylor< no role >
Mr George Maynard< no role >
Mr Robt Scowthroupe< no role >
Mr John Chauntrell< no role >
Mr James Dunn< no role >
& Mr Robert Parnell< no role >
Alderman Abdys Gift
Distributed
This Meeting was Summoned by Mr
Thomas Pullen< no role >
upper Church Warden for the Disposing of, and Distributing the
sum of Seven Pounds ten Shillings the Gift of Mr Alderman Abdy
deced, at which time
Mary Frimling< no role >
Widdow
Mary Hussey< no role >
Abraham Lacey< no role >
and
Richd Moore< no role >
four Poor Householders of
this Parish severally Petitioned for the Sum of Five Pounds
part thereof Given by the Will of the said Alderman Abdy
to a Poor Householder of this Parish and their several Petition
were brought up to the Table and Ordered to be Read and
the same were Read accordingly
Ordered that a Clause in the Will of the said Alderman
Abdy so farr as relates to the Persons therein and thereby
Empowered to be present in Vestry at the Distribution of this
Charity be
now Read And the same was Read accordingly
£5 part thereof given to
Mary Hussey< no role >
Then the gentlemen present took into Consideration
the Case and Circumstances of the several Petitioners, and af
[..]
some time spent thereon It was Ordered by a very great Major
of the gentlemen present that the said Sum of Five Pounds
should be given to
Mary Hussey< no role >
a Poor Householder according
to the Prayer of her Petition and the same was given to her
accordingly And the Remainder of the said Alderman Abdy
Gift being Fifty shillings with the further Sum of Fifty
shillings Sacrament Money was Distributed as follows
that is to say.