First prize to Peter Park!!
The intro to Tate's opus (P. 17) refers to 22 September as the date
fixed in the 1555 Act (2 & 3 P and M. c. 8.) when the Vestry should
compile the list from which the waywardens were nominated by the
Justices. The date was only changed in 1835.
Nice to get this sorted. I wonder if all Vestrys were as law-abiding as
Chorley after 250 years?
Many thanks for all the suggestions,
John Harrison
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John,
In the three years you mention Sept 22 fell on Sunday.
For the missing years in the series were there meetings at all? If not
did
the surveyors for those years stay in post from the previous year?
Tate in "The Parish Chest" discusses the surveyor and his appointment
and
duties at some length.
Peter Park.
Fulwood, Lancashire
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Thanks for all the thoughtful replies. However I don't think I have
"bottomed" this issue yet. For clarification it might be worth me
giving
the years when Chorley Vestry met to nominate Highway Surveyors on 22
September.They were:-
1786-91
1793-96
1801-3
1806-8
1812-15
1817-21
In 1811,1816 and 1822 the meeting was held on 23 September. This may
have been to avoid Sundays, but I haven't checked.
I hope this inspires some further suggestions.
Many thanks,
John
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