Saint Clement Danes
15 June 1772
Officers and Assistants met pursuant to Notice
Present
Mr. Woodley
Mr. Burnthwaite}Ch: wardens
Mr. Tapp
Mr: Broughton
Mr. Cook
Mr. Bean}Overseers
Mr: Moy-Trear
Mr. Carpue
Mr. Coupland
Mr. Birks
Mr. Henshaw
Mr. Giblet
Mr. Perins
Resolved and Agreed that seventy bedsteads
of the common Size and as many hair mattresses,
and twelve small bedsteads and as many featherbeds,
be immediately provided for the reception & Use of the
Poor in the Workhouse, also three blankets to each
bed, & feather boulsters sufficient for all the beds; and
also that Coppers be provided sufficient for the Use
of Two hundred people, the procuring of which, is left
to the Care of the Churchwardens, who are immediately
to Advertise for proposals to be sent in, in order to get
them on the most moderate Terms.