Description:Amongst printed material relating to Stone is an account of the receipts and disbursements of the Parish from 1828-1829. This document provides an insight into life in Stone during the early nineteenth century, telling us about manufacturing, money spent on agricultural provisions and the distribution of goods to the poor.
The ‘Receipts’ include almost thirty pounds which was received by the Parish for ‘fat Cows’ and ‘fat Calves’. Further down the page are listed ‘Manufactory Receipts and Disbursements’ which state that manufacturing in the parish made a profit of fifteen pounds, six shillings and two and a half pence.
The list of ‘Disbursements’ made by the Parish include money which was given out for ‘weekly pay’ and almost five hundred pounds which was spent providing pensions on the ‘Pension Roll’. Money was also expended by the Parish in payments made to the poor, including eight pounds, six shillings and six pence which was paid out in ‘Rewards to the Poor in the House’. The Parish also contributed money to local medical facilities, paying out five pounds and five shillings’ in an ‘Infirmary Subscription’ and over twenty pounds to the ‘Lunatic Asylum’.
Payments were made to the blacksmith, the shoemaker, the tailor and also for leather and ‘hats’. Food provisions were also purchased, including pigs and cows, cheese, potatoes and ‘Flour, Oatmeal, Salt and Wheat’. The Parish also paid for maintenance to buildings in Stone, with expenditure on ‘Bricklayers, Whitewashing, Plaistering, &c’ amounting to six pounds, eleven shillings and fourpence. An additional one pound, eleven shillings and ten pence was spent on ‘slating’.