1779 Extracts from the Vestry Minute Book

“At a Vestry Court held in the Parish Church of Dunluce on Easter Tuesday the 6th April 1779 it was then and there enacted that the sum of nine pounds ten shillings and eleven pence halfpenny be applotted upon and levied off the inhabitants of said Parish for the following purpose:

	£	S	D
For elements	1
For the Clerk’s salary	5
For the Applotters		10	10
For the Sexton		16	3
Washing the linen		4	4
Churchyard wall		5	5
For a cushion and cover for the reading desk	1	14	1¹/2
	9	10	11¹/2

The half of which sum of £9 10 111/2 is to be levied off the upper Constablewick of the said Parish and underneath is the Applottment thereof....” [Database contains list of Parishioners who contributed] Reproduced with kind permission of the Deputy Keeper of Records, Public Records Office of Northern Ireland. Document reference MIC1/90