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The following booklets are available for purchase by members of the John & Frances West Family Group. If you are a member and wish to purchase any of the following booklets, please apply in writing to: Claire Edwards Please enclose a cheque payable to "John & Frances West Family Group" Prices shown are for UK members and include postage. A discount is available at the Gatherings. Current prices inc. P&P in UK. Overseas members will be subject to a small additional charge to cover extra postage. Members and their outline pedigrees.(Updated annually) Cost by post £3.75 Cost at annual Gathering £2.50 Volume 1 - The will of John West, (1721).(Edited and reprinted by D.Baker 2002) Cost by post £3.75 Cost at annual Gathering £2.50 Volume 2 - The will of Frances West, (1723 and 1724).(Edited and reprinted by D.Baker 2002) Cost by post £3.75 Cost at annual Gathering £2.50 Volume 3 - Miscellaneous wills associated with the families of John and Franes West.(Edited and reprinted by D.Baker 2001) All clearly transcribed with indices of names and details of the odd terms used in old wills.
Cost by post £3.75 Cost at annual Gathering £2.50 Volume 4 - Arts Improvement or short and swift writing by Simon West.(Edited and reprinted by D.Baker 2000) Written by John West's father and published by Jo. Langley in 1647. This booklet has been transcribed and electronically processed to give a clear copy of the original book, which is now over 350 years old. Cost by post £5.00 Cost at annual Gathering £3.75 Volume 5 - Act of regulation of the John & Frances West's charities 1806.(Edited and reprinted by D.Baker 2001) It took an act of Parliament to alter the charities as originally laid down by John & Franes West. By 1806 the estates and other properties, which had been left by John & Frances, had become in a very poor state of maintenance and could no longer support the charities as detailed by John & Frances in their original wills. Part of this decline was due to the short term leases required by the original wills. This term was extended to 61 years by this act of Parliament making them more profitable. Cost by post £3.75 Cost at annual Gathering £2.50 Volume 6 - Report of the Charity Commissioners 1823.(Edited and reprinted by D.Baker 2002) The Charity Commissioners inquiring into the charity of John & Frances West, showing:
Cost by post £3.75 Cost at annual Gathering £2.50 Volume 7 - Extracts from the parish books and registers.(Edited and reprinted by D.Baker 2001/2) Includes the parish record of the burial of Robert Mickell, John West and Frances West.
Cost by post £5.00 Cost at annual Gathering £3.75 Volume 8 - The first 100 years.(Edited and reprinted by G.Kimber 2001) An alphabetical listing of the West Charity pensioners and apprentices receiving benefit from the charity. Cost by post £3.75 Cost at annual Gathering £2.50 Volume 9 - A report on the West's charities(Edited and reprinted by D.Baker 2001/2) A small book of the report of the charities and their association with the town of Reading. Cost by post £3.25 Cost at annual Gathering £2.00 Volume 10 - Transcript of Documents relating to West held at New College, OxfordCost by post £3.75 Cost at annual Gathering £2.50 Volume 11 - Of Kings & Taxation(By Jean Fothergill 2004) Cost by post £3.75 Cost at annual Gathering £2.50 Volume 12 - John West 1641-1723Cost by post £3.75 Cost at annual Gathering £2.50 |