Accounts

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Extracts from the Workhouse Accounts

In 1788 following the fire, Samuel Mumford made the following payments:

Pd. collecting timber and tiles when the workhouse was afire £0. 6. 0

Men putting out the workhouse fire £0. 3. 0 Beer for putting out the workhouse fire £0. 11. 0

In 1790 the workhouse was rebuilt on two acres of the wasteland by grant of an annuity for life; it is not known if the two workhouses were built on the same site.

‘Account of building of a new workhouse alias House of Industry alias Home for the reception of the poor 1790.
James Fladgate, churchwarden, the acting committee and paymaster.

Paid Mose Beauchamp as contract for building new house	£	400.
Mark Stevenson for digging as per bill	£	1.	18.
Robert Mar. as per bill	£	6.	3.
Half the duty for selling same	£	1.	4.
William Searles expenses at the auction	£	2.	5.
Expenses at Rector	£	1.	2.
Mr. Brooker for a new pump	£	6.	17.
Mr. Baldwin for goods for the house	£	4.	10.
Other expenses including 72½ rod hedging	£	0.	12.
54 rod ditching	£	3.	12.
the total was paid as follows.
Borrowed from a Mr. Cummins on a life annuity	£	400.
sold the old workhouse for	£	1680.
Received the bark taken from parish lands	£	1.	10.
Received from the wood etc	£	0.	10.

On 30 April, 1790 Mr. Cummins was paid £20 as the half yearly payment and this was repeated. In 1832 William Stevens was paid £21. 17. 0 on 30 Jan for one month’s paupers.