"Meeting on the Cholera." Sept. 3rd, 1832. A Board of Health is appointed, and Mr. Jaques "requested to provide medicines according to a prescription of Mr. Hey of Leeds," and "a certain quantity is entrusted to the following gentlemen for a supply in their respective districts—till medical aid in any case can be procured." Mr. Long is "appointed Medical Practitioner."
1832. Sept. 22. A Church Rate of 4d. in the Pound is laid.
1834. July 4. Paid for letters to and from Holbeck, 1s. 2d.
Letter from London, 9d. Paid coach fare from Leeds to Barnsley, 4s.
1835. "John Batley fee for his apprentice, £10. Mrs. Long one year's salary, £10 10s."
1835. Postage of a letter from Rochdale, 10d. Church Rate of 2d.
1836. "John Charlesworth, Assistant Surveyor, salary, £40 a year."
1836. Tenpence per cubic yard per mile to be paid for 'leading' road materials.
1838. "The four guineas which has been allowed for the Singers to be continued to whom the Rev. A. M. Parkinson appoints to sing in Church."
Among sundry Parish Papers at the Vicarage, there is one dated December, 1838, in which William Stayton, George Ashton, George Greenwood, Thomas Stayton, and John Cooke sign their names to an agreement with the Minister and Congregation that they "will faithfully observe the following Rules" After Rules about their constant and regular attendance, and their never all absenting themselves at once without permission, it is stated that "the singers are to endeavour as much as possible to select the easiest and most simple tunes, in order that the Congregation may join in the singing." These singers here mentioned would be official successors of the well-known "Cawthorne Musicians" at the end of the last century, of whom a man called Jacob Scarf sang, "and how they go on." Billey Clegg played the fiddle, George Schofield the Bass, Jont
