Deddington Scrapbooks compiled by George Coggins (1846-1920) Volume 2 (of 3) Bodleian Library shelf mark G. A. Oxon 4o 786 Section A - Index Folio Source Description Date no. [Loose documents inside front cover (787/3).] Front Report Annual Report (4 pages) of the Managers of the 10 Apr Cover Deddington and Clifton National Schools to 1895 subscribers for the year ended 31 December 1894. Average attendance from Deddington 214, from Clifton 30. School roll 296 (-18). Brief reports on school inspections (very satisfactory), drawing examination and new cloakrooms (cost £106). List of 39 voluntary subscriptions, and income and expenditure account (footings £486 13s. 5¼d.). See transcript in Section B. Partic- Particulars of sale by auction of The Mill, 27 May ulars & Deddington, comprising a water corn mill, 1926 plan dwelling house, cottage and 7 acres. Also large scale colour plan. See transcript in Section B. ii Cutting [756.] MIDLAND RHYMES. - Four villages in the Undated neighbourhood of Banbury are thus described:- "Aynho on the hill, Clifton in the clay, Drunken Deddington, And Yam Highway." Yam is a corruption of Hampton, a hamlet of Deddington. NEVILLE'S CROSS iii Handbill Timetable for Viggers' Omnibus, Banbury to 1840 London and Banbury to Oxford (Vine Tavern, Banbury - Deddington - Fox, North Aston - Hopcroft's Holt - Sturdy's Castle - Fox Office, High Street, Oxford). See transcript in Section B. iv Banbury Resolution to re-open Deddington National 13 Dec Guardian Schools. Sources of funding. Voluntary 1855 subscriptions to date £57 10s. 0d. https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewe r/BL/0001523/18551213/063/0003?browse=true Printed 'Extract from a Parish Receipt Book - How to 1851 sheet make Churchwardens after the newest Deddington method.' Cheeky recipe for Vestry meeting to appoint churchwardens by 'An Old King's Arms Cook' per Deddington Sparrow Club Supper Night. See transcript in Section B. Card Invitation (manuscript) to Deddington Reading 19 Jul Room anniversary meeting. Tea at 4 o'clock. See 1859 transcript in Section B. 1 Oxford (1) Report on lecture in Reading Room and 15 Feb Chronicle Lending Library. 1862 (2) Report on 6th Oxon Rifle Volunteers parade. (3) Letter from 'A Commercial Traveller' criticising ugly wooden pump erected in Market Place, which likened to a whipping-post. "That eyesore and nuisance, "The Town Pool," had been done away with, and the Market Place properly levelled and macadamised." https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewe r/BL/0000989/18620215/106/0008?browse=true Banbury Letter listing recent improvements and praising 20 Feb Advertiser new ornamental town pump in place of old cess- 1862 pool. https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewe r/BL/0001551/18620220/041/0004?browse=true Banbury Self-deprecating letter purporting to be written by 13 Mar Advertiser 'The Town Pump'. 1862 https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewe r/BL/0001551/18620313/051/0004?browse=true Oxford Confusing conduct of morning service at 29 Mar Chronicle Deddington. Sermon delivered in wrong order. 1862 https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewe r/BL/0000989/18620329/083/0007?browse=true Oxford Burial of male Hempton resident; coffin inscribed 5 Apr Chronicle for female. 1862 https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewe r/BL/0000989/18620405/093/0008?browse=true Cutting Middlesex Sessions report: W.H. Brogden Undated sentenced to 2 years' hard labour for robbery. 2 Oxford No morning service at Deddington despite bells 22 Mar Chronicle being rung. Neglect of damage to two pinnacles. 1862 https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewe r/BL/0000989/18620322/104/0007?browse=true Oxford (1) Thinly attended 'Pudding Pie Fair'. 30 Nov Chronicle (2) First concert by Deddington Minstrels. 1867 (3) Riddle for the Deddington Minstrels. (4) Market Place full of rubbish and filth (e.g. rotting vegetables and fruit) one week after fair. https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewe r/bl/0000987/18671130/073/0008 Oxford (1) Death of E. Fletcher (28), printer. 7 Dec Chronicle (2) Another riddle for the Deddington Minstrels. 1867 https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewe r/BL/0000987/18671207/102/0008?browse=true Oxford (1) Deddington tradesmen Boxing Day holiday. 14 Dec Chronicle (2) Batch of riddles for the Deddington Minstrels. 1867 https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewe r/BL/0000987/18671214/085/0008?browse=true Cutting Last riddle of season by Deddington Minstrels. Undated See transcript in Section B. Oxford A New Year's riddle by the Deddington Minstrels 4 Jan Chronicle and a verse after 'The Vicar of Bray'. 1868 https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewe r/BL/0000987/18680104/062/0008?browse=true Reprint Letter from 'One not likely to become a convert to 21 Apr (3pp.) the Church of Rome, or a favourer of the Church 1859 from of Geneva' (a Deddingtonian of some 60 years Banbury standing), complaining of interference by vicar of Guardian Sandford St. Martin in support of incumbency of Rev. J. Brogden, detailing neglect by Brogden (whose living sequestered 3 times because of pecuniary difficulties), recounting greatly improved church and Sunday School attendances under the Rev. John H. Burgess since 1857, and quoting Memorial by 128 parishioners to Bishop opposing rumoured return of Brogden. See transcript in Section B. https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewe r/BL/0001523/18590421/015/0002?browse=true 3 Banbury Annual Easter Vestry [Vicar Rev. James Turner 23 Apr Guardian 1864-1877]. Appointments: Mr. Samuel Field, 1868 solicitor, Vicar's churchwarden, Mr. John Malins, shoemaker, Parish churchwarden. Question by Mr. C. Duffell Faulkner why new choir stalls instead occupied by Vicar and his churchwarden and their families. Faulkner was referred to churchwardens. Vicar then left the room. https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewe r/BL/0001523/18680423/025/0002?browse=true Oxford Vestry meeting to set church rate. £3 voted for 31 Oct Journal repair of unreliable church clock. 1868 https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewe r/bl/0000073/18681031/027/0008 Oxford Dispute over convening Vestry to appoint sexton 12 Dec Journal and restore the lesson desk to its proper position. 1868 https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewe r/BL/0000073/18681212/031/0007?browse=true Oxford Account of Vestry meeting. Disagreement on who 19 Dec Journal entitled to appoint sexton. 1868 https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewe r/bl/0000073/18681219/035/0008 4 Handbill Handbill lampooning contentious seating 13 Feb arrangements in parish church, "the Singers 1869 turned out". See transcript in Section B. (See also f.6.) 5 Banbury Verbatim account of public meeting to launch the 8 Dec Guardian Deddington Subdivision of the Oxfordshire Rifle 1859 Volunteer Corps, in response to fears of a French invasion. (See also ff.101-115.) https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewe r/BL/0001523/18591208/048/0003?browse=true North Summary account of above public meeting. 'A 3 Jan Oxon Call to Oxfordshire Riflemen' (3 verses). See 1860 Monthly transcript in Section B. Times Do Appointment of officers of Oxfordshire Rifles. 1 May Deddington Subdivision seeking to form a Band. 1860 See transcript in Section B. Do List of 112 contributors to expenses of the Post 1 Deddington Subdivision Band (65 from Jun 1860 Deddington). See transcript in Section B. Do Detailed account of 'Celebration of Peace' [end of Post 18 Crimean War] at Deddington, including large Jun 1856 procession with floats etc. Dinner in square at 4 p.m. for the poor (500); tea and cake at 6 p.m. for nearly 500 women and children. Rustic sports. Fireworks. Why 20 special constables with blunderbusses ? Organised by Mr. C. Duffell Faulkner. See transcript in Section B. 6 Banbury Report on the distribution in Deddington and 18 Feb Advertiser elsewhere on St. Valentine's eve of a handbill 1869 lampooning the state of affairs in the parish church. (See also f.4.) https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewe r/BL/0001551/18690218/034/0004?browse=true Oxford (1) Re-appointment of S. Field Esq. and Mr. John 10 Apr Chronicle Malins as churchwardens. 1869 (2) Spoof poem (12 lines) signed 'The New Churchwarden' about plans to start a branch of the Co-operative Society or a "Blue Shop" in Deddington. Concludes "First pay us all our debts." https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewe r/BL/0000987/18690410/084/0008?browse=true Oxford Critical account of the Deddington Deanery 15 May Chronicle Choral Association annual festival. Morning 1869 service a piece of imitation Popery from beginning to end. Satisfaction at the absence of the Vicar and churchwardens. (See also f.7.) https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewe r/BL/0000987/18690515/102/0008?browse=true Oxford Report on declining finances of the Deddington 22 May Chronicle National Schools in 1868 compared with 1866 1869 and 1867. Treasurer, Mr. John Scroggs. https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewe r/BL/0000987/18690522/067/0007?browse=true 7 Oxford (1) Letter from 'R.H.', Oxford, seeking clarification 22 May Chronicle of above account of choral festival at Deddington. 1869 (See f.6.) (2) Letter from "Correspondent" No. 2, Deddington, itemising various failings of church at Deddington (e.g. organ lamentably out of tune, most discordant noise by choir, very worst National Schools in deanery) which do not amount to "imitation Popery". https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewe r/BL/0000987/18690522/022/0002?browse=true Oxford Two letters from John H. Robinson concerning 29 May Chronicle the choral festival, one itemising further examples 1869 of imitation Popery, nurtured by the "Mother of Harlots". https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewe r/BL/0000987/18690529/078/0007?browse=true Oxford Letter in response from Henry Radbone, Oxford 5 Jun Chronicle St. Giles, rebutting Robinson's criticisms. 1869 https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewe r/BL/0000987/18690605/070/0007?browse=true 8 Oxford Letter from 'A Churchman' lamenting the 6 Nov Chronicle disgraceful state of affairs at Deddington church.