1805-1806: The accounts of Peter Jackson churchwarden for Warford:
To postage of a letter informing of the Reverend Ralph Carrs resignation and sequestration 4½d
Edward Wynne for painting £1 8s 1¾d
John Thornton for ditto £5 4s 0½d
Treat to Mr J. Lucas about the organ 8¼d
Thomas Massey as per bill for work done in the churchyard 1s 10½d
Paid Mr Philip Henshall clerks salary for 1 year 13s
Thomas Antrobus bill for glazing and painting £2 17s 5¾d
John Dumvile saddlers bill 3s 3d
John Twiss organist’s salary from 1 January 1805 to Easter Sunday [6 April] 1806
Miss Ann Norbury’s bill for washing and mending surplices 4s 8¼d
Philip Lowe’s bill for new coat for sexton, bread, candles, &c. 9s 2½d
James Mottram blowing bellows same time as the organist 13s 6d
John Holburt for clerking to Easter Tuesday [8 April 1806]
John Henshall for smith work as per bill 8s 6d
Edward Wainwright for carpenter work 16s 3d
Thomas Owen for whitewashing and plaistering £1 14s 4¼d
Nathaniel Dumvile for repairing and cleaning clock 5s 10½d
John Swindells cleaning church, opening church doors and care of clock 17s 6d
Mr Lean’s bill for whiteing glue &c 5s 3d
J. T. Stanley esquire bill for timber, lime &c. 10s 3¾d
George Germain for a pair of shoes for sexton 2s 9d
Thomas Owen and his men liquour when working at church 2s 11d
Samuel Jepson for ditto 1¾d
Edward Wainwrights allowance when working in the church 2s 9¼d
John Holburts allowance when clerking 1s 5½d
John Antrobus and his men when working at church 1s 9¼d
Thomas Massey and John Swindels when working in church yard 4d
William Hambleton for coals and making fire for painters 6¾d
Mr Johnson for wine on 4 sacrament days 16s 9d
Mr Whittle’s bill for hair 3s 9d
Ditto for drawing 1 load of slate 2s 6d
Mrs Broadhurst for gravelling churchyard 2s
Robert Foden for repairing house 4½d
Mr Bailey for parchment 9d
William Dale’s bill 2s 4½d
Samuel Jepson’s bill 1s 7d
Wardens, singers and parishioners treat when the Reverend Edward Stanley came to Alderley 7s 0¼d
A treat to Knutsford ringers by Mr Jackson 6s
Mr Downes leading sand &c ½ day 1s
£30 7s 5d; received by a lay, £32 2s 5d: £1 15s