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and Woven all of it within this parish within . . . Months
last past ye sd Summe to be Distributed to the severall persons
who shall Soe produce ye Linnen Cloth as below Expressed
according to the Goodnesse and Fynesse of ye sd Severall and
Respective Cloaths (viz') For ye Finest Cloath for
ye Second finest for ye third Finest
That it be Referred to Mr. Hill and ye Church Wardens to
Informe themselves what Linnen Spinrs and Weavers there
are in this p'sh and Speake with the most Expert and Active
of them And make Report unto the Vestry at theire next
Sitting how they doe find them Inclined as to ye Advanceing
of A Linnen Manufacture in this parish.
Maitland, vol. 2, p. 1347 gives the following
particulars relating to the parish officers and
servants in the City and Liberties of Westminster in 1772,
together with the respective sums paid annuallv bv the
several parishes to the raker ior cleansing the streets and
removing the ashes :—
PARISHES.
Burgesses.
Assistants.
Constables.
Headboroughs
Scavengers.
Surveyors of
Highways.
Inquests.
Beadles.
Watchmen.
Raker.
£
St. Ann's
2
2
6
0
4
2
0
4
20
330
St. Clements
1
1
8
0
16
0
20
2
28
535
St. George
0
0
4
1
6
4
0
4
4
900
St. James
2
2
7
0
14
4
0
4
54
900
St. J ohn Baptist(Savoy)
0
0
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
14
St. John Evangelist
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
St. Margaret
7
7
15
1
16
2
32
6
36
451
St. Martin
3
3
8
0
18
0
0
8
32
731
St. Mary-le-Strand
0
0
2
0
2
0
0
1
6
66
St. Paul
1
1
4
0
4
0
0
2
2
200
16
16
55
2
80
12
52
31
236
4127
According- to the same historian there were in the
o
above area in 1772, 20 Churchwardens, 46 Overseers,
£11,870 8s. 9£c/. paid to the Church Accounts; £20,723 176\2fd.