Mr. William Aspden
Att.
Read Hall
Disburst upon the Poor and other purposes relating to the Poor in the Township of Great Harwood by me William Aspden Overseer of the Poor the year 1767.
To Cash in my hand belonging to the Higher Town £1 ?s 1d
Sunday May 3d 1767
To Heny Bradshaw children £0 10s 0d
To Richd. Mercer £0 7s 0d
To Wid: Mercer £0 4s 0d
To Jeremy Spencer Wife £0 6s 0d
To pd. Jas. Foster for Mossing School £0 2s 6d
To Richd. Mercer a New coate £0 3s 0d
13th To Phebe Mercer £0 1s 0d
17th To Peter Whalley Family in a faver £0 5s 6d
To 2 Shurst for Jeremy Spencer Lad £0 3s 8d
To Indentures £0 5s 6d
To Expences at several times about Do. and Bonding him at Padiham £ 2s 0d
24th To Peter Whalley £0 2s 6d
28th To Do. £0 2s 0d
To a pair of Breeches for Brad.w Lad £0 4s 8d
30th To Peter Whalley £0 4s 6d
To Wid Rishton £0 7s 0d
£3 12s 2d
Sunday June 7th 1767
To Jeremy Spencer Wife £0 6s 0d
To Do. a fire Iron £0 1s 10d
To Jane Anderton House Rent £0 14s 0d
To an order to Remove Ann Pearson £0 4s 0d
To Phebe Mercer £0 2s 0d
To Richd. Mercer £0 7s 0d
To Wid: Rishton £0 7s 0d
To Heny: Bradshaw Children £0 8s 0d
To Wid: Mercer £0 4s 0d
To part of Peter Whalley House Rent £1 1s 0d
To Do. Dr. Turner for Peter Whalley Daughter dressing her sores £0 13s 9d
25th To an apprentice fee with Jas. Spencer £2 17s 0d
£7 5s 7d
Sunday July 5th 1767
To Wid. Mercer £0 4s 0d
To Jeremy Spencer Wife £0 6s 0d
To Richd. Mercer £0 7s 0d
To Wid: Rishton £0 7s 0d
To Heny: Bradshaw Children youngest badly £0 10s 0d
To Phebe Mercer £0 2s 0d
To 5 bundles of Lime for School House £0 4s 2d
To Slate pointing £0 11s 0d
To Exps. Removing Charles Pearson £0 1s 5d
To Phebe Mercer House Rent £0 9s 0d
To Richd. Mercer Shurts £0 5s 0d
To Wid: Duckworth House Rent £1 1s 0d
To part of William Shuttleworth House Rent £0 10s 6d
To Wid: Mercer’s House Rent £0 15s 0d
To spent about Thos. Kenyon Apprentice £0 0s 2d
£5 13s 3d
Sunday Aug’t 2d 1767
To Wid Mercer £0 4s 0d
To Jeremy Spencer Wife £0 5s 0d
To Rich’d Mercer £0 7s 0d
To Wid: Rishton £0 7s 0d
To Heny: Bradshaw Children £0 10s 0d
To Phebe Mercer £0 2s 0d
To Exp’s about the Settlement of Thos. Lonsdale £0 1s 6d
To paid for Swearing Do. to his examination £ 1s 0d
To 8 yds: of Cloth for Wid: Duckworth @ 10d yd £0 6s 8d
25th To paid Jeremy Spencer Rent £1 5s 0d
To Wid: Bradshaw Children Smallpox £0 1s 0d
To Wid: Moorhouse towards her Loss of her son being Robed £0 4s 0d
To Exp’s Makikng enquirey after the Way £0 2s 0d
To paid Thos. Lister to Bury a Child of Wid Bradshaw’s £0 5s 6d
£4 1s 8d
Sunday Sept’r 6th 1767
To Wid: Rishton £0 7s 0d
To Jeremy Spencer Wife £0 5s 0d
To part of Timothy Grimshaw Rent £1 1s 0d
To Wid: Mercer £0 4s 0d
To phebe Mercer £0 2s 0d
To Rich’d Mercer £0 7s 0d
To Heny: Bradshaw Children £0 4s 0d
To paid Church dues for H Brad.w Child £0 2s 0d
To a Coffin for Do. £0 3s 0d
To a Messenger from Coln about Peter Whalley family £0 0s 3d
£2 15s 3d
Sunday Octb’r 4th 1767
To Widow Rishton £0 7s 0d
To Widow Mercer £0 4s 0d
To Richard Mercer £0 7s 0d
To Phebe Mercer £0 2s 0d
To Wid: Bradshaw children £0 3s 3d
To Horse hire and Expences in going to Carr Hall and Burnley to obey a Sumons from Jeremy Spencer’s Wife £0 2s 0d
To Jeremy Spencers Wife £0 5s 0d
13th To Wid: Duckworth Badly of a Brest £0 1s 0d
22nd To Do. £0 1s 6d
28th To Do. £0 1s 0d
To 3 yds of Blue Frize for a Coate for Wid Rishton £0 5s 3d
£1 19s 0d
Sunday November 1st 1767
To Richd. Mercer £0 7s 0d
To Widow Mercer £0 4s 0d
To Widow Rishton £0 7s 0d
To Phebe Mercer £0 2s 0d
To Heny: Bradshaw Children £0 0s 6d
To Jeremy Spencer Wife by J. Folds £0 5s 0d
5th To 2 Shifts for Wid: Rishton £0 5s 0d
To An under Coate for Wid: Rishton 3 yds. £0 3s 0d
To Wid Duckworth Badly £0 2s 0d
To Wid: Duckworth Badly £0 2s 0d
To Spent with King in Rishton at Different times in healing(?) a marriage £0 0s 6d
To Paid overseer of Blackburn for James Fielden ffamily £0 3s 0d
22d To Wid: Duckworth Badly £0 1s 0d
To Martha Walmsley what Duckworth son in Blackburn had cheated her on £0 1s 0d
£2 3s 0d
Sunday December 6th 1767
To Richd. Mercer £0 7s 0d
To Wid. Rishton £0 7s 0d
To Wid: Mercer £0 4s 0d
To Phebe Mercer £0 2s 0d
To Jeremy Spencer Wife £0 5s 0d
To Heny: Bradshaw £0 1s 0d
To Wid. Duckworth £0 1s 0d
To Mary Mercer Examination in Waiting £0 1s 0d
To Removal order £0 4s 0d
To Horse hire and for James Ashworth Trouble in removing £0 1s 6d
To Exps. in Do. and taking her to Blackburn £0 1s 6d
14 To Wid Duckworth £0 1s 0d
To 2 Bratts for Wid Rishton £0 1s 6d
To paid Peter Nevil Church dues for Fieldens son £0 3s 7d
21 To Wid Duckworth badly £0 1s 0d
24 To a new Waistcoat pd. Mr Bentley for H. Bradshaw son £0 4s 6d
31 To Wid Duckworth £0 1s 0d
£2 7s 7d
Sunday January 3d 1768
To Richd. Mercer £0 7s 0d
To Wid Rishton £0 7s 0d
To Widow Mercer £0 4s 0d
To pd. John Fielden rem.r of Timothy Grm.w part £0 9s 0d
To Phebe Mercer £0 2s 0d
To Jeremy Spencer Wife £0 5s 0d
To Heny: Whittaker son & Family in a favor £0 5s 6d
To Duckworth £0 1s 6d
To Richd. Whittaker of Padiham Badly £0 5s 6d
To Henry Bradshaw Children £0 1s 0d
12th To Wid Duckworth badly £0 1s 0d
13 To Richd. Whittaker badly £0 2s 0d
20th To Wid: Duckworth badly of a cancer £0 2s 0d
To one Shift for Do. and half yd Flannel £0 3s 0d
To Making Bradshaw son a wastcoate £0 0s 9d
To Richd. Whittaker badly £0 2s 6d
21st To New Gown bought of John Wiggen of Whalley for Wid Rishton £0 8s 6d
23 To Wid Duckworth £0 2s 0d
To Whittaker of Padiham £0 1s 6d
£3 10s 7d
Sunday Feby 7th 1768
To John Mercer Banks in a favor £0 1s 6d
To Widow Mercer badly of an arm £0 6s 0d
To Phebe Mercer £0 2s 9d
To Wid. Rishton £0 7s 0d
To Richd. Mercer £0 7s 0d
To Jeremy Spencer Wife £0 5s 0d
To Wid. Duckworth at Different times times badly £0 5s 6d
To Henry Bradshaw Children £0 1s 0d
To Expences abt. Binding Wm. Duckworth £0 0s 6d
14th To Richd. Whittaker badly 3s 17th to do 2s/6d £0 5s 6d
To Peter Whalley Wife breakfast £0 0s 3d
To 2 shifts for Peter Whalley Daughter £0 5s 5d
To Mr. Bleasdel for his Advice about Edw.d Mercer certificate £0 3s 6d
To William Duckworth Consideration to Thos. Mercer tanner £1 16s 0d
To Wm. Duckworth Indentures £0 5s 6d
£4 12s 5d
Sunday March 6th 1768
To Phebe Mercer £0 2s 0d
To Richd. Mercer £0 7s 0d
To Wid. Rishton £0 7s 0d
To Wid. Mercer £0 4s 0d
To Jeremy Spencer Wife £0 5s 0d
To Henry Bradshaw Children £0 2s 0d
To Wid. Duckworth by a messenger £0 2s 8d
7th To a Coffin for do 5s Bread 2s Ale 3s £0 10s 0d
To Church dues 3s/11d £0 3s 11d
To Duckworth Children after the Burial £0 2s 0d
To Paid Board wages for 2 weeks with 2 Girls £0 4s 0d
To Paid Dr. Talbot for Duckworth Wife £0 5s 0d
To an Apprentice Fee with Wm. Duckworth to Thomas Mercer 3s 6 Indrs. and Signing 5s/6 £2 1s 6d
To Exps. In Binding Alice Duckworth £0 1s 0d
To Paid Thos. Royston for Cloths for a Shift a Bed Gown Caps Stockings etc £0 8s 4d
To Exps. at different times about Duckworth family £0 1s 0d
To John Mercer Banks pd. by J. Ashworth £0 7s 6d
£4 6s 11d
Sunday April 3d 1768
To Widow Mercer £0 4s 0d
To Phebe Mercer £0 3s 0d
To Richd. Mercer £0 7s 0d
To Wid. Rishton £0 7s 0d
To Jeremy Spencer’s Wife £0 4s 0d
To 2 Weeks pay with young child £0 3s 0d
To 1 Do. £0 1s 3d
To a pair of Cloggs for Do. £0 0s 11d
To Mary Giles with youngest child of Duckworth £0 5s 0d
To Widow Bradshaw Children £0 1s 0d
To a pair of Cloggs for Duckworth 2nd Child £0 1s 2d
To apprentices fee to Thomas Cunliffe with Betty Duckworth £1 16s 0d
To Indentures & Signing £0 5s 6d
To allote publishing to Acct. £0 0s 2d
To paper £0 1s 0d
To James Ashworth for Board Wages for Jane Anderton Daughter and Attendance in her Sickness £1 11s 0d
To Expences at Making up Accts. as Usuall £0 5s 0d
£5 16s 0d
An Abstract of each Months payments 1768
May £3 12s 2d
June £7 5s 7d
July £5 13s 3d
Augt. £4 1s 8d
Septr. £2 15s 3d
Octbr. £1 19s 0d
Novr. £2 3s 0d
Decbr. £2 7s 7d
January £3 10s 9d
February £4 12s 5d
March £4 6s 11d
April £5 16s 0d
Poor £48 3s 7d
Disburst as Surveyor £15 19s 4d
Constable £12 1s 2d
My wages £4 10s 0d
£80 14s 1d
Collected 13 Leys(?) at £4.16s.10d £62 18s 10d
Rec’d from Lower Town Constable to Ball. £0 2s 8d
In hand last year £1 4s 1d
Rec’d to Ballance of Lower Town overseer poor £16 1s 2d
collected £80 6s 9d
Disburst poor Constable and Surveyor Acct. £80 14s 1d
Town Dr. to officer £0 7s 4d
1768 April 30th 1768 seen and allowed by us
Willm. Turner
Wm. Mercer
William Hindle
Thomas Hindle
1767 Disburst upon the Constable Acc.n by Wm. Aspden
June 6th To Instructions for assess. Land & Windows £0 1s 2d
To assess. of Land and Windows as usual £0 5s 0d
July 7th To door keeper £0 0s 1d
Aug 17th To pd. a precept £12.6s.9d my part £8 4s 6d
Sep 3rd To spent in receivin Gaugers Land Lease £0 6s 0d
Sep 15th To a Sunday Wark £0 2s 1d
Sep 15th To pd. Notes publishing of Tyth £0 0s 8d
Octbr. 24 To a Note publishing to return Surveyors £0 0s 2d
To paid Mr. Bleasdell for a Motion for a respit £0 5s 0d
12 Spt. at Whalley upon the ten Men as turned £0 3s 0d
Instructions and Work Superviser £0 6s 1d
Jany 19th 1768 To pd. with a Return of the Freeholders £0 2s 0d
To Vagarent Wark £0 2s 0d
Mar 1 To a precht £1 16s 0d
To passengers at Different times £0 2s 10d
Mar 18th To Overseer Instructions and Wark £0 4s 7d
£12 1s 2d
William Bertwisle Constable book for the Lowertown of Great Harwood for the year 1767
Agust. 16d one pressop any share £4 2s 3d
September 20d Pitter muny £0 7s 2d
March 1d Another pressop £1 7s 2d
To Paid to Ballance with higher Town £0 2s 8d
£5 19s 3d
Collected 3 Leys £8 0s 9d
In hand £0 1s 3d
Rec’d. £8 2s 0d
P’d. £5 19s 3d
Due to Town £2 2s 9d
April 30th 1768 Seen and allowed by us
Wm. Bentley
Pierce Wolstenholm
[Loose sheet of paper]
James Ashworth overseer of the poor 1767
1767 To paid 1/3 of the whole poor acct. £16 1s 22d
Rec’d. from old officer £1 8s 5.5d
Collected 6 Leys at £2. 13s. 7d £16 1s 6d
£17 9s 11.5d
£16 1s 2d
£1 8s 9d
seen and allowd by us
Wm. Bentley
Pierce Wolstenholm