St Botolph Aldgate Parish:
Minutes of Parish Vestries
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19th May 1690 - 22nd May 1771

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Image 339 of 52316th October 1744


the Prenises Do hereby Report That in Order to Prevent any Disorder or Intermption
of Divine Service at the Opening of to Seat the Inhabitants in the new Church as
much to their convenience and accommodation at was in our Power We have Caused
two Plans (which are here unto Annext) to be made one of the Pews in the Body of
the Church & the other of the Galleries where in are wrote the Names of the Inhabitants
in those Pews in which We are of Opinion they ought to be seated. Or at Least till
such Time as some other Met had be found which may be more for their accommodation
and here We must Observe That by means of the great Number of Inhabitants We
have Placed more in the Pews than they can Respectively Contain and same Perhaps
we have not Placed at all We being apprehensive that all so Placed will not Come
to Church at one, Time but if they should We Recommend it That it be an Instruction
to the Pew Openew That when any of the Pews are filled by some of those Persons
appointed to sit in them that then such other Persons who Come after wards who are
appointed to sit in them be placed in the next or some other Pew as shall be
Suitable for them for that time and that when any such Inhabitant shall come
who does not happen to have any particular seat appointed be also placed in
some Pew Sutable for such Inhabitant and We propose That Tickets be
Delivered by the Beadles to the Inhabitants to Inform them where they are to [..] it
which they are to Produce to the Pew Openers that they may be placed where they
are Appointed by the Plans and We Recommend it That it be a further Instruction
to the Pew Openers that they admit into the Pews no Servants Lodgers on others
to whom the Tickets so to be sent as aforesaid may be given but only such
Inhabitant to whom they are Directed This method which we now offer We
Submit as the best and Properest for the Convenient & Commodins Seating the
Inhabitants at present for the all Inhabitants ought to have Seats yet a sale
as we Conceive will not come at least at once and those who for the most part
Resort to our Church Will soon appear So We Imagine that after this
particular Appointment & the Church be opened a few Weeks any alteration
or further Regulation will not be Attended with that Disorder or Bustle
which might other wise be at first which we hope by this means to prevent
and We are of Opinion that or one of the Pews ought to be Lined or any addition
or Alteration be made to the Fronts backs or other Parts of them which may
any way Obstruct the Sight of others Sitting near or Spoil the present Order
or Term of them And We conceive the following Rules concering the
Vaults or Church Yard & the Burying in them to be proper & Necessary
to be Observed for the Benefit & Advantage of the Parish Vizt. That nobody
be buryed in that Part of the Church Yard which fronts the Church next




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