Description:Extract from Vestry Minutes of St Mary's Church, Handsworth.
"At a Vestry Meeting held in Handsworth Church on the 22nd April 1794. It was resolved that Mr Bishton and Mr Fowler, the Commissioners appointed to Survey and assess the Parish of Handsworth be directed to prepare for the use of the Parish a fair and correct copy upon parchment or vellum, of their survey and that the same be kept in the parish chest for the use of the inhabitants."
The Survey cost the Parish the sum of £301 pounds and 12 Shillings