| Description | Licences, institutions, declarations, certificates and receipts relating to Rev William Laporte Payne's clerical career. Includes examination certificate from the London College of Divinity and declarations of his ordination as Deacon in 1881 and Priest in 1882, with various official documentation of his curacies at St Peter, Highgate Hill dated 1881 and Strood dated 1886, and of his incumbencies in Birmingham, Bath, North Finchley, Herne Bay and Woodchester. These include details of repairs to be made to All Saints, Birmingham in 1899 and Christ Church, North Finchley in 1912 under the Ecclesiastical Dilapidations Act, for which Payne was liable. |