Stuk 3 - Notebook kept by Henry Venn Elliott, with record of sermons delivered, accounts etc

1 vol.
2 loose sheets.

Pasted to inside front cover, paper scrap: ‘On the 17th Day of August I took possession of St. Mary’s Chapel [Brighton]’… also details about agreement on that day with Mr. Field the builder on payments for completion. Note on front flyleaf: ‘Feb. 26 1826. I began as gratuitous curate at Long Staunton Cambridge, & ended about July 6 1826, not quite 5 months, after that I went to Rouen’. Notes on his ordination as Deacon and Priest. Notes on the opening of St. Mary’s Chapel, Brighton, on 18 Jan. 1827, with some accounts below.

Notebook then continues with heading on right hand of two-page spread: ‘Journal of Sermons delivered in St. Mary’s Pulpit’. Entries record who gave sermons and their subjects/texts, who gave prayers etc; size of congregation sometimes recorded. Journal entries on right hand, recto.

Left hand, verso pages in general kept for accounts and financial notes, for example: size of collections taken at various churches; payments headed ‘Hospital’; names of those at Sunday School; payments for ‘National Schools’; payments to those who took communion when Elliott was absent; charity gifts of coals, blankets etc at Christmas; accounts re Society for Propagating the Gospel. Sometimes printed material is pasted in, for example, receipts and payments for the Hastings and Oare Association; cutting from a letter from the Revd. Sir Francis Lynch-Blosse [9th Baronet], 31 Aug. 1831, in the Mayo Constitution mentioning money sent to him by Elliott from a collection at St. Mary’s for the relief of distress caused by the famine; printed memorial for his father Charles Elliot, d 15 Oct 1832; 2 ff, printed account of the death, 28 May 1835 of 'our dear departed friend' [Charlotte Bevan, nee Hunter, wife of Richard Bevan]. Notes on deaths, marriages etc also on left hand side. Some, such as the notice of the death of Elliott’s father given black ink border.

Totals of various accounts (collections etc; money given to Elliott by individuals for charity) written out at end of book, along with Act of Parliament for endowment of St. Mary’s.

Loose: bill from W. D. Larkman [?], Brighton addressed to Elliott for various cloths, 11 Nov. 1831, and receipt