One of the items to be found in the parish chest in St James Church, Badsey, was this leather-bound book with beautiful writing, about the restoration of the church in 1885 and subsequent additions of new bells, clock and a memorial cross.  A letter from Julius Sladden to his daughter, Kathleen, on 4th May 1904, confirms that the parchment pages were created in 1904:  "The parchment records of the Church restoration has come it is really beautifully done with illuminated headings altogether it is quite a