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The Vestry were taken into counsel by the Commissioners
as to the boundaries of the new parish:—
24th July, 1724—The Comrs for the New Churches having transmitted
to this Vestry a plann of the Parish of St Margaret,
Westminster, wherein ye district of the New Intended Parish
to be taken thereout is Limited, And the said Comrs having
referred the same to the Consideration of this Vestry.
Ordd That the Churchwardens do wait on ye Revd Dr. Nichos
Onley Minister of this Parish with the said Plann and desire
his Opinion thereupon which they are desired to Report at the
next Vestry.
A note in the Minute of the Vestry records the date of
the Consecration of the Church aud of the Burial Ground:—
The Church of St. John the Evangelist was Consecrated the 20th
of June 1728 by Dr. Bradford Bishop of Rochester and Dean
of Westmr and the Burying Ground was consecrated the 29th
of July 1731 by Dr. Wilcox Bp. of Gloucester at ye request of
the Chapter.
H. D. C. V.
(Humphrey Drew, Clerk to the Vestry.)
Although constituted a separate parish, the Vestry of the
senior parish were slow to surrender their regard for the
concerns of the area so long under their jurisdiction:—
6th June, 1733.—That all Moneys arising from ye Pews in ye Parish
Church of St. John the Evangelist in Westmr, or from Burials in
ye said Parish, or that become any otherways paiable to ye hands
of the Churchwdns of St. John's, for the use of the said Parish
and not appropriated be applied in the manner following viz.
In the first place to pay £125 p. Ann. to ye Rector of St. John's
for ye time being, Then to ye Repairs of St. John's Church, and
then to ye paying the Servants Wages, Tradesmens Bills, and
other demands and if there be any overplus that to be paid to
ye Churchwardens of St. Margaret Westmr in order to increase
the publick Stock of both Parishes in ye hands of the Churchwardens
of St. Margarets. But in case of any deficiency that
to be made good by the Churchwardens of St. Margarets in
regard the Churchwardens of St. Margarets have all the publick
mony in their hands to which mony the parish of St. John's is
intituled to a proportionable part And out of that mony all
publick parochial expences are paid.
This may probably make a demand of £15 or £20 p. Ann. upon St.
Margarets for St. John, and 'tis thought not more.
To which proportion this Vestry doth agree in case the Vestry of St.
John do likewise agree to ye same and that a Copy of the
Resolution of this Vestry be delivered to ye Churchwardens of
St. John.