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Reference Number HUGUENOT LIBRARY/J/7
TitleChapel Royal, St James's Palace: Accounts of receipts from poor boxes and payments to the (named) poor and needy
Date1738-1830
DescriptionAccounts of receipts from poor boxes and payments to the (named) poor and needy, January 1738-1809; a short chronicle by M Chirol of events affecting the chapel from its destruction by fire in 1809 to the suppression of the chaplainces in 1830; signed accounts of expenses for the service and upkeep of the church, 1759-1762.
Cover title: 'Comptes pour la Chappale [sic] Royale 1737-1810'. Inside the front cover are sundry memoranda c. 1752 and a note in pencil: 'Given me by M. Chirol J. S. B.' Pasted in are two pages of extracts from the ms. and a note of his contents. The ms. begins: 'Comptes pour les boetes [sic] ... et la distribution... aux pauvres commençant a l'anne 1738'; followed by a statement that the account for 1737 had been balanced on 31 December 1737. It is followed by two pages of memoranda, c. 1752. The accounts proper begin on 1 January 1738.
Extent1 volume
AdminHistoryOn the history of the church see G B Beeman, 'Notes on the sites and history of the French Churches in London', in Proceedings of the Huguenot Society, vol. VIII (1909), pp. 46-47. The registers have been printed in William and Susan Minet, eds., 'Registres des Églises de la Chapelle Royale de Saint James 1700-1756 et de Swallow Street 1690-1709', Huguenot Society Quarto Series, vol. XXVIII (London , 1924).
AccessStatusOpen
AccessConditionsThe papers are available subject to the usual conditions of access to Archives and Manuscripts material, after the completion of a Reader's Undertaking.
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