Disburst by Wm. Aspden Overseer of the Poor of the Higher Town of Great Harwood the Year One Thousand seven Hundred and Seventy three
Out of Pockett last year £1 3s 0d
Sunday May 2nd 1773
To Richard Mercer Kirkham £0 8s 8d
Widow Mercer Do. £0 6s 6d
Henry Whittacre £0 8s 0d
Abraham Shaw Senr. £0 10s 0d
Wm. Shuttleworth £0 6s 0d
Widow Riley £0 5s 0d
Thos. Smalley Liverpool £0 8s 0d
Wm. Roscow Preston £0 10s 0d
repairing School Windows £0 1s 10d
22 Widow Smith Preston 4 Weeks £0 16s 0d
Giles from Prescott £1 1s 0d
John Duckworth badly £0 2s 0d
26 Widow Smalley house Rent £1 0s 0d
£6 3s -d
Sunday June 6th 1773
To Rich’d Mercer £0 8s 8d
Widow Mercer £0 6s 6d
Abraham Shaw £0 10s 0d
Wm. Shuttleworth £0 8s 0d
John Riley £0 8s 0d
A Note Publishing £0 0s 2d
Widow Riley £0 5s ?d
13 Thos. Smally for June & July £0 16s ?d
Nich’s Dawson House Rent £1 12s ?d
21 John Duckworth Do Do £1 5s ?d
Wm. Roscow £0 8s ?d
£6 8s 6d
Sunday July 4th 1773
To Richd: Mercer £0 8s 8d
Widow Mercer £0 6s 6d
Wm. Roscow £0 8s 8d
Abraham Shaw £0 10s 0d
Wm. Shuttleworth House Rent £1 1s 0d
15th Wid: Smith since May 22d 8 Weeks £1 12s 0d
Wm. Roscow House Rent £3 5s 0d
Widow Smith Do. £1 15s 0d
Expences when Settled with James Fielden abt. James Rileys Children £0 2s 5d
Do. with Thos. Dewhurst about his Mother £0 0s 6d
£9 9s 9d
Sunday Aug.t 1st 1773
To Rich’d Mercer £0 8s ?d
Wm. Roscow £0 8s ?d
Widow Mercer £0 6s ?d
Abraham Shaw £0 10s ?d
Wm. Shuttleworth £0 8s ?d
John Leeming £0 10s ?d
James Riley Child £0 2s ?d
James Bentley Wife £0 8s ?d
John Duckworth £0 10s ?d
John Riley £0 8s ?d
To part of the appt’ce Fee w’th Jas. Riley £2 2s ?d
Exp’s at binding £0 2s ?d
Indr’s and Signing £0 5s ?d
28th Wid: Smith 6 weeks £1 4s ?d
Thomas Smalley £0 8s ?d
John Leeming & Widow Mercer Rents £2 0s ?d
£10 2s ?d
Sunday Sept.r 3 1773
To Richard Mercer £0 8s 8d
Widow Mercer £0 6s 6d
Widow Duckworth £0 10s 0d
Wm. Shuttleworth £0 8s 0d
James Riley Child £0 2s 4d
Wm. Roscow £0 8s 8d
Abr’m Shaw £0 10s 0d
a Poor Book Signing £0 2s 0d
Publishing Do. in the Church £0 0s 2d
10th Widow Brogding from Good ffriday last to the 10th Inst. £1 2s 0d
Part of my Exps: to Manchester £0 2s 0d
14 A Messenger from Keighley in Yorkshire ab’t a Settlement £0 1s 0d
My Expences at Blackburn in looking after the Settlement of the above person £0 1s 6d
£4 2s 10d
Sunday Octb.r 1773
To Rich’d Mercer £0 8s ?d
Widow Mercer £0 6s ?d
a Letter from John Livesey Manchester £0 0s ?d
Abraham Shaw £0 10s ?d
James Riley Child £0 2s ?d
Wm. Shuttleworth £0 8s ?d
Wm. Roscow £0 8s ?d
Widow Duckworth £0 6s ?d
8th Widow Smith 6 Weeks £1 4s ?d
Widow Baron Rent £2 12s ?d
Sarah Riley Indr’s & Signing £0 5s ?d
£6 12s ?d
Sunday Nov.r 7th 1773
Richd Mercer £0 8s 8d
Widow Mercer £0 6s 6d
Abraham Shaw £0 10s 0d
Wm Shuttleworth £0 8s 0d
James Riley Child £0 2s 4d
William Roscow £0 8s 8d
Adam Shuttleworth Badly £0 1s 0d
Wid: Duckworth £0 6s 0d
Clogs Ironing for John Riley Child £0 0s 5d
£2 11s 9d
Sunday December 5th 1773
Richd Mercer £0 8s ?d
Widow Mercer £0 6s ?d
Wm Roscow £0 8s ?d
Abraham Shaw £0 10s ?d
Wm Shuttleworth £0 8s ?d
James Riley Child £0 2s ?d
Widow Duckworth £0 6s ?d
Thos Smalley for Sept3 Oct6 Nov? December £1 12s ?d
A War.t [warrant] for Robt Calvert for Martha Anderton Child £0 4s ?d
Exps twice to the Justice and Attendance waiting officer £0 4s ?d
£4 10s 0d
Sunday Jany. 2nd 1774
To Richd Mercer £0 8s 8d
Widow Mercer £0 6s 6d
Wm Roscow £0 8s 8d
Abraham Shaw £0 10s 0d
Wm Shuttleworth £0 8s 0d
Jas Riley child £0 2s 4d
John Duckworth widow £0 6s 0d
A message To Whalley abt getting pay for Ramsbottam Bastard child £0 0s 6d
Widow Smith since ? 8th Octr last being 14 weeks £2 16s 0d
A pair of Breeches for Richd Mercer £0 4s 0d
A Waste Cote £0 7s 4 1/2d
Poor Book Signing Lower Town £0 2s 0d
Wm. Sale For Henry Baron son and John Riley Child see his Bill £0 6s 0d
£6 6s 0 1/2d
Sunday Feby. 6th 1774
To Richd Mercer £0 8s 8d
Widow Mercer £0 6s 6d
Abraham Shaw £0 10s 0d
James Riley child £0 2s 4d
Wm Shuttleworth £0 8s 0d
Ann Baron Widow for 1/2 year Rent £2 12s 6d
Widow Duckworth £0 6s ?d
Paid Roger Wensley for going to enquire abt Thos Hindle Indenture £0 1s ?d
22d Widow Smith from Jany 13th to the 24th Instant 6 weeks £1 4s ?d
£5 19s ?d
Wm. Roscow £0 8s ?d
£6 7s ?d
Sunday March 6th 1774
To Richd Mercer £0 8s 0d
Wid: Mercer £0 6s 6d
Abraham Shaw £0 10s 0d
James Riley child £0 2s 4d
Wm Shuttleworth £0 8s 0d
Widow Duckworth £0 4s 0d
William Roscow £0 8s 8d
A … : from John Livesey of Manchester £0 0s 1d
Thos Smalley for March and April £0 16s 0d
£3 4s 3d
Sunday April 3d 1774
To Richd Mercer £0 8s 0d
Wid: Mercer £0 6s 6d
Wm Roscow £0 8s 8d
Abraham Shaw £0 10s 0d
Wm Shuttleworth £0 8s 0d
Jas Riley Child £0 2s 4d
Wid: Duckworth £0 4s 0d
7 Filliation Order Martha Anderton £0 6s 0d
Exps to sessions £0 2s 0d
14 Widow Mercer £0 4s 0d
A mess.r going to John Riley £0 0s 2d
Widow Smith from 24 Feby to April 21 st £1 8s 0d
Jas: Riley son with P: Brennand 36 weeks £3 7s 6d
Wid: Brogdin from April 10 to May 1st 33 w £1 13s 8d
Note publishing 2 d paper 10d £0 1s 0d
£9 9s 10d
To Peter Green for Part of his last Recit. £0 18s 0d
£10 7s 10d
Brought from the Abstract £122 3s 6d
Pd Thos Rishton lower town overseer to Balance £1 14s 4d
£123 17s 10d
Collected 22 Leys at 4..19..71/2 109..11..9
Recd from Tythe 1..16..0
Recd to Ball.c from lower town
Constable 2..6..11 1/2
£113 14s 8 1/2d
£10 3s 2 1/2d
April 30th 1774 Seen and allowed by us
William Hindle
William Mercer
John Dugdall
Thomas Hindl
Nathaniel Aspden
An abstract of each Months payment
May £6 3s 6d
June £6 8s 0d
July £9 9s 9d
Augt £10 2s 0d
Septm £4 2s 0d
Octr £6 12s 4d
Novr £2 11s 9d
Decm £4 10s 4 1/2d
Jany: £6 6s 0 1/2d
Feby: £6 7s 8d
Mar £3 4s 3d
April £10 7s 10d
£76 6s 4d
Constable 23 24 2
Surveyor 16 10 0
My wages 4 10 0
Out of pocket last year 1 3 0 £43 17s 2d
£122 3s 6d
Disburst upon the Constable Acct by Wm Aspden 1773
9th May 1773 Sessors instructions Land tax £0 2s 2d
Expenses attending 2 Militia meetings £0 2s 0d
Assessing Land and Windows as usuall £0 5s 0d
14th May A gang of passengers £0 1s 0d
June 25 A Sunday War.t [Warrant] £0 2s 1d
Mr Bulcock a precept 14 16 7 I paid part £9 11s 9 1/2d
Aug.t 17th By part of a precept £2 12s 6d
Sept.t 9th A vagrant War.t [Warrant] £0 2s 1d
Wood for repairing stocks £0 1s 6d
Ale 6d Bradshaw for job 6d £0 1s 0d
A note publishing to return surveyor £0 2s 2d
£13 1s 3 1/2d
Passengers all night billeted £0 1s 5d
Spent when surveyors was returned a second time £0 2s 0d
Supervisor instructions £0 2s 2d
Receiving Gaugers land tax as usual £0 5s 0d
2 notes publishing about the highway £0 0s 4d
Oct 30th By a precept £2 8s 7 1/2d
Decb.r 11th 4 summs ? for poor ley £0 4s 0d
Jany 18 1774 A Militia list as usual £0 3s 6d
Feby 7th A letter from Wm Abbott Att.y [attorney] to Brackels for damage in the highway £0 0s 6d
Joseph Dewhurst £0 0s 6d
12th Passengers £0 0s 6d
March 1st To a Precept £6 19s 8d
April 7th To Overseer instruction £0 2s 7d
Sunday warrant £0 2s 1d
£23 14s 2d