By Sir Charles Hob house, Bart. 



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Churchwardens. 



The following is a list of churchwardens, very imperfect, no doubt, 

 but the best I can get : — 



1372. William le Boteler. John Spakeman, senior. 



John de Lewes. John Spakeman, junior. 

 1553. Anthony Woodward. John Walter. 

 1626. John Walter. William Baker. 

 1636. William May. Richard Batterbury. 

 1641. John Butler " ye elder." 

 1659. James Barrett. John Deverell. 

 1700. William Cottle. 

 1754. John Lee. 



1783. Thomas Cottle. Daniel Taylor. 

 1798. William Cottle. Joseph Blinman. 

 1811. Joseph Blinman. Thomas Bull. 

 1829. Richard Clarke. John Crooke. 

 1850-1876. John Moon. Whyatt Cottle. 

 1877-1880. John Moon. Sir C. P. Hobhouse. 

 1881. Sir C. P. Hobhouse. 



Church Rates, Collections, and Expenditure. 



Taking an average (from 1836 to 1859) of twenty years, excluding 

 those years during which there was an extraordinary expenditure 

 for the re-building of the Church, I find that the usual Church rate 

 amounted to about %d. in the £, and produced as nearly as possible 

 £20 a year. 



I give a summary of our Church expenditure for the year ending 

 Easter Day, 1881, and it will be seen from this, which is a good 

 average year, that our Church expenses are, as nearly as possible, 

 what they always were. 



So also is the incidence of them ; for now, as before the abolition 

 of the compulsory Church rate, it is the principal ratepayers who 

 supply the funds. We are therefore practically, and I may add 

 cheerfully, exactly where we were in this parish, so far as this rate 

 only is concerned. 



