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Reference Numberb496.5 BA9360/E10/Box 2/1 - 2
Hierarchy Browser Number8001/1/2/13/1
TitleHop Market Committee
DescriptionMinutes of the committee. Volume 1 covers 1782 - 1841, volume 2 covers 1841 - 1884. Matters discussed include examining the accounts; distribution of the profits of the Hop Market and Workhouse among the parishes for relieving the poor; election of Guardians of the Poor, with lists of names and parishes; leases, auction, maintenance and insurance of property, warehouses, inn and dwelling houses; checking of the weights and scales used in the market; 1841 overhaul of the procedures of conducting business as a result of complaints, listing the new rules and regulations and establishing a smaller committee to manage the every day business of the market; quantity and supply of hops; and copies of reports and correspondence received by the committee.

The first volume contains a copy of an 1823 Act for better supplying Worcester with water and more effectively paving, lighting, watching and other improvements, and extract of an act circa 1703 for erecting a workhouse in Worcester and setting the poor to work, Acts dated 1727 and 1730 amending it, and a copy of the Hop-Weigher's Oath.

Volumes badly torn with pages loose; not for issue.
Date1782-1884
Access ConditionsWITH CONSERVATOR
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