of the House of Commons had been appointed and was inquiring into the subject. He moved a resolution confirming the injustice which the law inflicted on the parish. This was duly seconded and carried. Another resolution was moved by the Mayor and seconded by Ald. Ticehurst, appointing the parish officers and Guardians, with Mr. Phillips (vestry clerk) as a committee to confer with an All Saints Committee and empowering them to take such measures as were deemed necessary. A note of thanks was passed to Mr. Brown for the pains he had taken in getting up the figures and statements.
A vestry meeting for All Saints was afterwards held and a committee formed for the same object. At the Castle parish meeting in March, Robt Burchell and Rich' Edwards Chandler were named for overseers, and Alfterd Vidler & C. W. Chandler reappointed assessors. George Clement and John Hayward, surveyors of highways.
For Holy Trinity parish, Hy Polhill and Alfred Shotter, were recommended for overseers, T. P. Langham elected Vestry clerk.
At the St. Clements' Vestry, Joseph Amoore were elected churchwardens; Joseph Brown and G. B. Poole, sidesmen Jas Cox parish clerk; John Hide, sexton; A Harwood & W. Smith (chemist) assessors; Wm. Smith (bakers) G. A. Thorpe, overseers. An addition of £6 voted to Mr. Ives as assistant overseer.
All Saints Vestry chse C Moore, E. Welfare, E. Lord, W. White & A Newberry for overseers to be selected from: Joel Richardson & E Lord, assessors. G. Meadows, Vestry-Clerk, J. Lettine, parish Clerk; Jas White, sexton and beadle; W. Giles, organist: Edw. Wingfield declined to render any further assistance to the overseers in consequence of the Rector and churchwardens permitting the interment of strangers in the new burial ground, whereby the parishioners would soon have to be exhumed, and contrary to the work of Lady Waldegrave, who had purchased the additional ground from the trustees of the Milward estate.
At a St. Michael's Vestry eeting held at 7 o'clock on the morning of the 7th of April, a poor rate was agreed upon, and persons were named from which to select overseers.
A St. Clement's Vestry was held on Oct 14, and a tenpenny rate called for.
At the Castle parish, a 6dy rate for inbounds and 3dy rate for the outbounds were recommended. (St. Leonards and St. Mary Magdalen Vestries noticed in preceding chapter).
Cottage Improvement Society
On the 7th of April the report of the Cottage Improvement Society showed an expenditure of £5,590 and a paid-up capital of £5,600. The -
