At a Vestry held for the whole Parish on Monday the E [..]
day of October 1744 at the Bell Tavern in Church Row
All the Inhabitants who pay to the Church and Poor being
summoned in order to make a Rate for defraying the Ea [..]
of recasting the Bells & adding two more making the Bell [..]
& a Clock & for doing the several other Works & Things app [..]
& ordered to be done at a former Vestry held for this Parish.

Present

Mr. William Myers< no role > Mr. Turgiss Bennett< no role > Mr. Joshua Harle< no role >
Mr. George Ellis< no role > Mr. John Broughton< no role > Mr. William B [..]
Mr. James Sise< no role > Mr. Deputy PycroftMr. Samuel Welburne< no role >
Mr. Casar Casbrook< no role > Mr. Samuel Payne< no role > Mr. Henry Wort< no role > [..]
Mr. Robert Harding< no role > Mr. Richard Wilson< no role > Mr. John Towers< no role >
Mr. Saml. Smith< no role > Mr. Thos. Roberts< no role > Mr. John Ma< no role > [..]
Mr. Benjn. Gardner< no role >

The Churchwardens acquainted this Vestry that in pursuant
the Order made at the last Vestry they have gone from [..]
house & made enquiry of the respective Rents of the same and
informed themselves thereof which they now produced in [..]

It was Proposed at this Vestry that the Rate to be made [..]
defraying the Expence of the above mentioned Works & thing
shall be by a Pound Rate And that One Shilling and [..]
Pence in the Pound shall be charged & rated upon all Inhabitants
Occupiers of Houses Shops Sheds Wharfs Warehouses Lands a [..]
Tenements within this Parish and It was also proposed th [..]
Shilling and Three Pence shall be charged And upon the [..]
being debated the Question was put And it was carried [..]
Rate be made at One Shilling and Four Pence in the