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A few notes have been made of the action of
Coroner.
the Vestry in relation to the coroner and the
accommodation of his juries :—
Tuesday, 11 th Ma7j, 1708. Ordered that the Churchwardens from
henceforth pay to the Coroner six shillings and eight pence for
the inquest on any Casuall Murder that shall happen in this
parish.
18t/i March, 1727. Ordd That Mr. Cha King Church Warden
1726-8 pay to Mr. John Westbrook parish Surgeon the sume
of Three Guineas in consideration of his great Expence and
care in keeping and preserving the Head of Mr. John Hays
who was most inhumanly Murtherd and decolated by his Wife.
Friday, 26th May, 1780. Resolved That for the future it be left to
the Churchwardens to Pay the Expenses for the use of a room
for the sitting of the Coroner and his Inquest where the Parties
concerned are not of Ability, the same not to exceed the
Allowances made in other Parishes.
standard In reference made at page 24 to the Court
of Burgesses, a passing notice of their duties as
the authority for the maintenance of just weights and
measures in Westminster has already been given. The
following entry relates to the transfer of the set of standard
weights from the Vestry to the Court:—
Wednesday, 10 Aug., 1763.—Resolved that the Weights remaining
in this Vestry which were made in the 30th year of Queen
Elizabeth and Purchased by this Parish, be Presented to the
Court of Burgesses of Westminster upon their Paying as an
Acknowledgement the sum of Twenty Guineas to the Churchwardens
for the use of this Parish.
With the object, it is to be inferred, of interestManufacture.
in8' the workhouse children in the handicraft, the
Vestry occasionally ordered the matron to conduct
them to the linen manufactory in Dean's Yard. The
Vestry also manifested a desire to encourage the industry
in the parish :—
Tuesday, 10th Sept., 1668. For the better Incouraging and
Advancing of a Linnen Manufacture in this p'sh it was this
Day Concluded and Agreed upon by the Vestry That a Summe
of x£ should be once every yeare (on a certain day to be
p'fixed) given to such persons as could p'duce ye best pieces of
Linnen Cloth and make it appeare yl ye Same was Spunne