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height, to serve for six months from the time of Inlisting
and until the present Rebellion shall be entirely suppressed
and extinguished, at the time of inlisting to bring a creditable
person to vouch for their good characters.
A sum not exceeding Five pounds to be paid to every Man as
Bounty Money.
Any man above five feet six inches high to be assigned to the
Guards.
This proposal was unanimously approved and put forthwith
into execution by the Vestry.
In 1761 the excitement of an election again prevailed.
Sat. 21 Mch., 1761. The Honble Lord Viscount Poultney and
Lieut Gen1 Cornwallis were introduced (by Sir John Crosse
Bart) to this Vestry and offered themselves as joint Candidates
to represent the City and Liberty of Westminster in the next
Parliament and desired the Votes and Interest of the Members
of this Vestry.
Resolved unanimously That this Vestry will support the Interest
of the said Candidates to Represent the City and Liberty of
Westminster in Parliament.
Both these candidates having been returned:—
Fri., 4 Dec., 1761. The Churchwardens acquainted this Vestry that
the Honble Lord Pulteney and Lieut. Gen1 Cornwallis had
generously offered the sum of Fifty Pounds between this Parish
& the Parish of St. John the Evangelist to be disposed of in
such manner as the Vestries should think fit.
A new pulpit cloth of scarlet velvet ornamented with
gold lace was shortly afterwards provided by vote of the
Vestry in St. Margaret's Church.
Viscount Pulteney died in 1763, in consequence of which
the suffrages of the Vestry were solicited by, and unanimously
accorded to Lord Warkworth "to the satisfaction
of all parties ":—
Mon. 2 May, 1763. The Churchwardens acqxminted this Vestry
that the Right Honble the Earl of Northumberland having
been pleased to give One hundred Pounds to be expended in
the Parishes of St. Margaret and St. John the Evangelist
Westminster upon account of the Election of Lord Warkworth,
and there having only been Expended out of the same the Sum
of £44 13s. 10d. the remaining Sum of .£55 6s. 2d. his Lordship
has been pleased to give as his Free Gift to the Parishes
of St. Margaret and St John the Evangelist Westminster to be