1800 May 

Fuller Receipts

MS. of Andrew Fuller’s record of the receipts from the sale of William Carey’s Enquiry on behalf of the BMS, December 1791 to 21 May 1800.

                  

Rec.d [received] And.w Fuller

 

Mr C’s Acc.t

1792

May 2d                     6 Careys pamphlets[2]

 

Acc.t of Miss: Serm.s

Dec. 23. 1791     Recd 100 f.r North.ton

                                    sent them all to Clipstone—

Jan. 3. 92            Rec.d 100 more—Sent

                                    36 to Arnsby giv.g Mr Blundell[3]

Jan. 10                 Rec.d of Mr Blundell—                              0..13..0

                                —Mr B. 10 Remained with him.

                                —6 Sold at home—                                          3..0

                                —7 Sent to Rev.d Butler[4] —                          3..0

Feb 2. 92             Rec.d of Collins[5] for 8—                                  3..4

Jan. 8. 93            Rec.d of Mr Morris[6]

                                             for 74—                                                    1..17..0

 

N. B. 26 at that time in hand

& 8 M.r Edmonds[7] has unaccounted for.                                  _______

                                                                                                                    2..19..4

         [?] sold [in?] India

         Sermons at home wh

         are not down—   say—                                                                ..3..8

                          161 Disposed of—                                                     3..3..0

 

May 21. 1800  Paid Mr Sutcliff                                                     £3..3..0



Text: Eng. MS. 369, f.50, JRULM. References above include William Carey’s An Enquiry into the Obligations of Christians to Use Means for the Conversion of the Heathens (1792); Thomas Blundel, Sr. (1752-1824), Baptist minister at Arnsby (1791-1804), Luton (1804-12), and Keighley (1812-23). William Butler, Baptist minister at Gretton, Northamptonshire, in the early 1790s; Luke Collins (d. 1805); John Webster Morris (1763-1836), Baptist minister at Clipston (1785-1803) and Dunstable (1803-1810); and possibly John Edmonds (d. 1823), Baptist minister at Guilsborough, Northamptonshire, 1781-1811, or his brother, Edward Edmonds (c.1750-1823), who ministered at the Baptist meeting at Bond Street, Manchester, 1785-1823, or another brother,  Thomas Edmonds, who ministered at Upton-on-Severn, Worcestershire. See Arthur S. Langley, Birmingham Baptists Past and Present (London: Kingsgate Press, 1939) 81-83; Ralph F. 1963), 12.