1st April 1837

Accident

- On Tuesday evening Mr.Towers, one of the collectors of the Poor rates for the Windsor Union, was driving home from Farnham, in Surrey, in a chaise, accompanied by his wife, by some accident the vehicle was upset and both were thrown out. Mrs.Towers, we are sorry to find, had her collar bone broken by the fall.

Windsor Union

On Thursday the election of Guardians for the Windsor Union took place, when Messrs. S(?), T. Bedborough, Thos. Adams (Peascod street), Wm Ingalton, Thos.Clarke, and Fred. Fowler were elected the five Guardians for the parish of New Windsor with Dedworth.

Windsor Police

On Monday Mary Barrett, a girl of the town who had been remanded from the preceding Thursday on a charge of passing a counterfeit sixpence at the shop of Messrs. Beattie , bakers, was brought up for re-examination when a young man named Morris, from whom she stated she had received the sixpence, was also brought up. There was no additional evidence against the girl, and nothing beyond her own statement to implicate Morris. She persisted in her story that he had given her the sixpence to purchase a penny loaf with, which he denied. Eventually they were both discharged, the girl, who is a stranger to Windsor, being ordered to leave the town, which she promised to do so.

We perceive that the Manor House, at Old Windsor, which was lately advertised for sale by Mr.Tabbott, and which was afterwards disposed of by private contract by the owner J.Sivewright, Esq. , to a tradesman at Hampton, for the sum of £1,000 is now advertised for sale by lots, by Mr. Nawton.

William Street Chapel

On reference to our advertising columns, it will be seen that on Wednesday the Fourth Anniversary of the erection of this place of worship will be held, upon which occasion, sermons will be preached by the Rev.T.Bipney and the Rev.Dr.Redford. The former gentleman is the exceedingly popular preacher of the Weigh House, London.

Vestry Minutes

On Monday a vestry meeting of the parish of New Windsor was held for the purpose of electing churchwardens for the present year, when the chairman (the Rev. Isaac Gosset, Vicar of the parish) again nominated Mr. Adams, sen , as his churchwarden. A letter was read from Mr. Sharman (who was unwell) stating his determination not to serve the office again, and Mr.Twinch expressed his intention not to serve this year. It was then proposed and carried that Mr.Legh and Mr.Bedborough be the other two churchwardens. A short discussion took place respecting the church debt of £3,000 , and one of or two gentlemen expressed a wish to have the legal opinion that Mr.Barton, at the preceding vestry, had been requested to obtain, regarding the validity of the security of the mortgage , and the best mode of paying it off.
Mr.Barton was prepared with the opinion, and was willing to read it, but it was deemed advisable by the chairman and the majority of the meeting to defer entering upon that subject until a vestry was called for the purpose. The chairman also thought that the current expenses of the church were too heavy, and that they ought to be inquired into at the same meeting at which the church debt would be brought under consideration. When the vestry adjourned, it was understood that another meeting would be called on an early day for considering those two subjects.

On Thursday another Vestry was held to pass the accounts of the Surveyors for the past year, when it appeared that the whole of the expenditure of the parish for the year had been £359 16s 3d, and that the amount of uncollected rates was £75 7s. The appeal to the County Sessions against the order of the Justices, for stopping up a footpath near Bachelors Acre, appears to have been rather an expensive job for the ratepayers, for the accounts of the Surveyors show that the solicitor for the appellant, Mr.Beenham, had been paid £111 9s 4d, seven guineas had been paid for surveying and plans, and £15 had been paid to Mr. Long , the respondents solicitor on account; what became of the rest of Mr, Long's demand is not known, as the gentleman has not yet sent in his bill of costs; at all events the parish has already spent £133 16s 4d upon this account !

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