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Reference:: D/P 373/1/2
Title:: Register of baptisms, marriages and burials
Level: Category: Parish Records
Level: Fonds: UGLEY, St Peter
Level: Sub-Fonds: INCUMBENT
Level: Series: Service of Church: Registers of Baptisms, Marriages and Burials
Scope and Content:: Baptisms : 1717, 1720-1812
Marriages : 1721-1754
Burials : 1720-1812

At front: list of vicars and patrons, pre 1398-1930; note by Revd Edward Sparkes that through the interest of Dr Simpkins, Vice President of Queens' College, Cambridge 'who was a great benefactor to Christ's Hospital I was presented to this vicarage [1721] and at his request the Governors built me a new house, sending down workmen for that purpose, 20 February 1722 and on 21 June following the tiling was finished'; purchases of Common Prayer Book, 1722, 1752; weights of communion cup and patten, n.d.; note that Governors of Queen Anne's Bounty granted £200 augmentation of living having obtained a grant of £200 from Mary, Dowager Countess Gower out of the estate of her father Thomas Earl of Thanet, 1772; note of purchase of Thorrowgood's Lands (15 acres) in Stansted Mountfitchet following commission and 'view' of Lamb's Farm, Thorley, Hertfordshire, 1776; note that 310 pound barrel of rice sent to parish 1800 by an 'unknown gentleman of London' (signed R.P.) to be distributed to widows and 'poor distressed families' according to numbers of children, and that donor subsequently identified as Thomas Wright son of Dr Paul Wright, late vicar, who sent hand stone corn mill for poor to use to grind their own corn, 1801; note that in 1804 vicarage garden contained a Golden Pippin tree, 3 peach trees, 3 nectarine trees and pear trees given by Revd A.W. Trollope, vicar, and planted by Thomas Dalton, curate, 1803; note that corn mill 'did not answer the good intention of the donor and [was] tumbling to peices for want of use', 1803, and was removed to Orford House, 1807; note of purchase by subscription and partial gift of Samuel Leightonhouse of Orford House of bass viol, 1805, and gift of violin by Revd Thomas Dalton, curate, 1808.
At back reversed: memoranda of induction and 'reading in' of vicar, 1740; copy of extract from will of Robert Buck of London, draper, concerning his charity in Ugley, Stansted Mountfitchet and Manuden, 1620; and copies from Richard Newcourt, Repertorium Ecclesiasticum Parochiale Londinense, vol. 2 (1710), concerning Ugley and Berden.
Dates of Creation:: 1720-1812
Extent:: 1 volume