| Title | Account book: Edward Willes, prebendary of Westminster, previously of Welton Painshill, Lincs.
1724 "Iusjurandum decani Collegii Westmonasterii", Westminster Abbey.
1725-1743 Accounts: receipts and disbursements. Memo of Edward Willes' institution to Deanery of Lincoln, May 13 1730 and expenses involved.
Receipts of rents 1730, received for Lincoln Deanery.
Fines, fees, etc. received for Lincoln Prebend.
Also contains personal memoranda, e.g.:-
May 1st 1727. 'This Day the Dean and Chapter appointed me Housekeeper at Chiswick'.
Dec. 19th 1727. 'This day ye Dean and Chapter, elected me Steward'.
Oct 4th 1732. 'Upon resignation of ye Treasurer's Key, I was ys Day made Subdean'.
June 25th 1734. Mem. "This Day I resigned the office of Archdeacon".
[Some accounts and memoranda may relate to Westminster Abbey as Willes appears to have held preferments at Lincoln and Westminster simultaneously].
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