At a Meeting of the Committee for the Removal of
Some Part of the Poor on Thursday 31st. May 1798

Present Mr. Willm. Walton< no role >
Mr. Robt. Scratton< no role > } Church Wardens

Mr. Francis Cooper< no role > Mr. Thos Ayres< no role > , Mr. Wm. Lampkin< no role >
Mr. George Rutt< no role > Mr. John Wilkinson< no role >

The Minutes of the last Vestry being read, Mr. Church-
Warden Walton produced a Certificate of the Character
of Willm. Mc. Kensie< no role > Signed by Sir Willm. Staines< no role > , and
Several of the Parish Officers and Inhabitants of the
Parish of Cripplegate , which was also read and the
Matter being taken into consideration, the Committee
came to the following Resolution

Removal of
Poor

That Twelve of the Poor of this Parish be removed
within Seven days to the House of Wm. Mr. Kensie at
Islington in the County of Middlesex

St. Dionis Backchurch

Church Rate

At a Public Vestry held for this Parish on Tuesday
the Eleventh day of September 1798 in the Vestry Room of
the Said Parish pursuant to public notice given in the
Church for that purpose It is agreed by the Parishioners
and Inhabitants present that a Rate or Assessment be
made upon the Parishioners Inhabitants and other Occupiers
of Houses Lands tenements shops stalls & in the said
Parish for the necessary Repairs of the Church and other
necessary Expences and disbursements concerning the
same for one year commencing from Easter last past to
Easter not exceeding at Seven pence in the Pound to be
computed according to the Land tax books and it is
directed that the Church Wardens do get Such Rate
made and Confirmed as necessary

Wm. Walton< no role >
Rob. Scrattors< no role >