1862. V. Overseers of : the county of Hertford. In one order of maintenance The QUEEN in bastardy, signed by the Rev. J. T. Drake, the late rector of Amersham, Coleshill is called the parish of Coleshill, but in this order " Coleshill" has been inserted in a printed form, in which the word " parish" is printed. Meetings for the transaction of the above named separate business have been held separately in each of the places the meetings for Amersham proper in the vestry, and after notice posted as above stated for vestry meetings at which church rates were made: the meetings for Coleshill in an inn in Coleshill. These meetings have been called by the overseers of Coleshill ; and notices relating thereto have been posted on the door of the inn, and also on the church and chapels. Ratepayers of Coleshill resident in Amersham attended and voted at these meetings for Coleshill. In the following instances business which related exclusively to Amersham proper was transacted at vestry meetings, at which business relating to both places was also transacted, that is to say— 1839. April 4th. 1st. Churchwardens chosen. 2nd. A poor rate made. 3rd. Church rate proposed and the question adjourned. 1839. April 19th. 1st. Churchwardens' accounts passed. 2nd. Church rates made. 3rd. Highway rate made. 4th. 107. voted for making out the poor and police rates. 5th. List of persons excused from poor rates revised and renewed. 6th. Ordered that the churchwardens get the church and market clocks repaired. 1841. Dec. 4th. 1st. Church rate made. 1862. The QUEEN V. Overseers of 2nd. An overseer chosen. 1843. May 13th. 1st. Accounts of churchwardens allowed. 2nd. Church rate made. 3rd. Highway rate made. At this last meeting a resident ratepayer of Coleshill, not rated in Amersham proper, was present and signed the allowance of churchwardens' accounts, but the vestry minute book is signed by the chairman only. This same resident ratepayer of Coleshill also signed the allowance of churchwardens' accounts, made at a meeting held the 10th of May, 1845, at which business relating to the church only was transacted. 1845, July, 16th. 1st. Church rate made. 2nd. An overseer chosen. 1846, 5th December. 1st. Poor rate made. 2nd. Resolution that where the rateable value under 51. be rated to poor, church and highways, but that the collector apply for payment to the owners. The precepts of the high constable requiring the payment of the general county rate for Coleshill are headed "county of Hertford," and in some of these Coleshill is called "the parish of Coleshill." Among the records deposited in the Public Record Office, London, to wit, Land Tax Book, 1693, it is thus contained : 1862. THE QUEEN V. Overseers of "Extracts." "An account of the duplicates brought into their Majesties Remembrancer's Office, for the first ayd of 4s. in the pound, how much every duplicate amounts unto, and the name of every division, hundred and place in every county within England and Wales, Being for the yeare By an order of the Queen in council, dated 21st July, 1855, it was ordered that burials should be discontinued from and after the 1st August, 1855, in certain burial grounds and places for burial in the said parish of Amersham, that is to say: in the portion of the parish church yard lying on the south of the church as far as the footpath on the east side; also in and 1862. V. Overseers of the old part of the old meeting house burial ground The QUEEN adjoining the day school, also in the upper meeting house and in the burial ground attached to the same; from and after the 1st January, 1860, wholly in the parish church yard, in the vault beneath the chapel attached to the church, and in the catacombs in the building adjoining the church. The old meeting house and upper meeting house are two of the three dissenters' chapels before named. By a further order of the Queen in council, dated the 13th August, 1855, it was ordered that an exemption be made from the said first mentioned order in favour of the catacombs in the buildings adjoining the church of Amersham, of the vault beneath the chapel attached to the church, and of all the family brick-graves and vaults in the churchyard: provided that in the catacombs leaden coffins be used as heretofore, and that the vaults and graves, when required, be opened without disturbing ground that has been already buried in; and that in the catacombs, as well as in the vaults and graves, each coffin be imbedded in a layer of powdered charcoal not less than four inches in thickness, and be covered over with brickwork properly cemented. After the passing of the Act 20 & 21 Vict. c. 81., to amend the Burial Acts, that is to say, on or about the 26th September, 1857, the following requisition in writing, of more than ten of the ratepayers (no one of whom was an actual resident in Coleshill), was delivered to the then "churchwardens of the parish of Amersham in the counties of Buckingham and Hertford." "We, the undersigned rated inhabitants of the parish of Amersham, in the counties of Buckingham and Hert ford, do hereby request you the churchwardens of the said parish to convene a general vestry meeting of the ratepayers of the said parish for the special purpose of determining whether a burial ground shall be provided (under the provisions of the several Acts of Parliament made and passed to amend the laws concerning the burial of the dead in England beyond the limits of the metropolis, and to amend the Acts concerning the burial of the dead in the metropolis, and to make further provision for the burial of the dead in England beyond the metropolis), for the said parish of Amersham. Dated the 22d September, 1857." (Here followed several names.) In pursuance of this requisition the following notice was drawn up and signed by the churchwardens of Amersham. "Parish of Amersham, "Bucks. "Notice is hereby given that, in pursuance of a requisition in writing, dated the 22d September inst., signed by more than ten of the ratepayers of this parish, and directed to us the undersigned as churchwardens of the parish of Amersham, in the counties of Buckingham and Hertford, a general vestry meeting of the ratepayers of the said parish will be holden at the vestry room of the church of the said parish, on Friday, the 9th October next, at ten o'clock in the forenoon, for the purpose of determining whether a burial ground shall be provided for the said parish of Amersham under the provisions of the several Acts of Parliament made and passed to amend the laws concerning the burial of the dead in England beyond the limits of the metropolis, and to amend the Acts concerning the burial of the dead in the |