While skimming through the oldest surviving account book of St. Catherine's chapel in Eskdale [Whitehaven Record Office, ref. YPR 4/14] to make a list of chapel wardens (also on this website), I couldn't resist making occasional notes on the actual expenditure. This temptation grew to the point where, towards the end of the book, I was noting down almost anything of interest.

• 1722-23: Accounts include 6d for "fetching slate from Ulpha", 1s for "two dayes gettinge Moss", 14s 3.5d to John Nicholson "towards ye Repairing ye School".
  
• 1723-24: Accounts include 5s 6d for "Mossing Church". 1s expenses were payable for journeys to Whitehaven or Ulverstone, 6d to Ravenglass, Ulpha 4d at this time., 1s 2d rent was payable for Beckfoot
• 1747-48: Largest item in accounts at this time is "Comassary fees", 11s 4d in 1747-48; Bread and wine 6s 3d; Beckfoot rent 6s 5d (apparently covers several years- only 1s 2d in 1749 & 1750 accounts); Whitehaven journeys now 20d each, Ravenglass 9d. Also in each year's accounts is answering the questions in the "book of articles": 1s 6d in 1748.
• 1750-51: Travel costs: to Whitehaven 2s; Ravenglass 1s
• 1764-65: Travel costs: Ravenglass 1s 6d; Whitehaven 3s
• 1768-69: Now 3s per journey to Whitehaven, 1s 6d Ravenglass; Beckfoot rent still 1s 2d
• 1784-85: Expenditure includes "Putting a New Window into Chapel", £3/8/4; "Iron sneck and nails", 6d; "Lime and carriage", 1/6; "Work done by Thos. Hartley & Crispin Pharaoh", 4/0
• 1785-86: Expenditure inc.: "Putting a New Window into Chapel", £2/8/0
• 1786-87: Expenditure inc.: "Joiner's work", 13/0; "Painting Pulpit", 4/6; "Rough casting, whitewashing, lime and getting sand", £1/8/1
• 1788-89: Expenditure inc.: "a Charity Box", 4d; Beckfoot rent still 1/2. Commissary fees this year (including Apparitor fee) 11/10. No journeys to Ravenglass mentioned over next few years, but still some to Whitehaven, at 18s.
• 1789-90: Expenditure inc. "Painting" 13/2
• 1794-95: Expenses include Biercloth 8/0 + making ditto 8d
• 1795-96: Expenses include "pulpit's cushion" 2/9
• 1796-97: Expenses inc. "Printing or lettering" £1/13/0 + "Lettering Board" 8/6
• 1797-98: Expenses inc. "Wright & Mason Work" 11/11
• 1802-03: Payments inc. £1/0/0 mason's wages; 8/9 lime; 3/0 laths, hair & nails; 2/4 iron cramps & lead; 13/6/ "Men's and Horse's Work"
• 1805-06: Expenses inc.: "2 3/4 yds. of Linen Cloth 5/6, Cotton 2 1/4 yds 3/10", "making said Linen and Cotton into Table Cloths" 1/6; "Geo. Tyson for repairing the Organs" 3/0
• 1806-07: Expenses inc. "Mason's Work 3/0, 3 Days Work at Steeple 6/0", "Carrying & fetching Ladders 1/0, Repairing Do. 1/0"
• 1810-11: Cost of journeys to Whitehaven now £1/10/0. Beckfoot rent still 1/2, commissary fees & apparitor typically around 13-19 shillings at this era.
• 1813-14: Cost of journeys (destination unspecified) increases to £2 for this year only
• 1816-17: Expenditure includes "Chrispin Pharaoh's Bill" £3/19/0; "Organ repaired and organist" £3/6/6; "Robert Clark's Bill" 13/10; Clerk's wage £1; journeys £1/5/0. Collected for this year £14 (rate of 3/6 per room, compared to normally under 2/0)
• 1817-18: Expenditure includes "Flaggon New" 14/6; "Robt. Clerk" 12/4; "Clerk's wages" £1 (ditto subsequent years, but with addition of 1-2s for "sweeping church") "6 journeys" £1/7/0
• 1818-19: Expenditure includes: "To Jenkinson for Windows" £1/0/3; "Jos. Hartley" £2/18/7; "Chrisp. Pharaoh" £2/16/6; journeys back to £1/10/0
  Memo: "Be it remembered that in the year 1819 Geo. Tyson of Paddockwray received the sum of 10s 6d from Isaac Heartley of C House for repairing that part of the Church yard wall from the Eskd. Gate to a Quoin at the Church end and that the said wall belongs to Isaac Heartley aforesaid".
• 1819-20: "Journeys" reckoning, still £1/10/0, specifies "at 5s each"
• 1821-22: Expenditure includes "Church painting" £3/15/0; "Robt. Clerk New Gates &c." £2/4/10; "Jos. Heartley" 15/0; "Chrispin Pharaoh" 15/0; "Velvet and linnen" 17/9; "Prair Book New" £2/18/0; "Organ" 7/6; "Taylor" 2/0. £17/6/8 collected at 4s 4d per room.
• 1825-26: 10 journeys claimed for (still 5s each). Other expenditure includes "Whitewashing & Cleaning Ch." 11/9; New Window £1/8/0; "Refreshments to Children Confirmed" 13/4
• 1826-27: Expenditure includes 1 journey to Wabberthwaite at 3/0; wages to John Viccars (apparently equivalent to wage for a clerk in other years) £1/1/0. Poor stock accounts include "Gift by the Revd. Robt. Powley" £1/3/6; ditto "by the Parish at Sacrament &c" 15/0; "Charity as before" £4/0/0 [no sign of "charity" in immediate earlier years' accounts]
• 1827-28: Expenditure includes to John Viccars "for Repairing Organ" 7/0 and "for something no one knoweth" 1/5; "A New Iron Chest" £4/0/0. This year's payment for bread and wine is specified as "4 times" (£2/13/6)
• 1829-30: Expenditure confirms that John Viccars holds post of clerk; also includes "Survey of the Chapel by Workmen" 3/9.
• 1830-31: Expenditure includes £3 for clerk's wages; "Ceiling the Chapel Roof & Porch" £37/14/0; "Organs repairing" 14/0; "New Altar Table and Windows Repaired" £1/10/9; "New Coat of Arms by Jas. Tyson" £2/0/0; "Painting Commandments &c" £2/14/0; "Plan & Specification for New Ceiling" 4/0; "Old Ceiling taken down" £1/16/0
• 1831-32: Expenditure inc. "Repairing Organ by Wm. Leech" £6/10/0; "White Washing and Cleaning Chapel" £1/5/3; "New Pitch Pipe, & Books Binding" 9/9; "New Surplice &c" £1/19/2
• 1832-33: Expenditure inc. "Isaac Wilson's Sallary" £3/0/0 [+ later years]; "Refreshments to Children at Confirmation" 15/0
• 1833-34: Expenditure inc. "Repairing Church Books" £1/14/6
• 1834-35: Expenditure includes "Jos. Heartley New Window" £4/10/0; "Jas. Tyson Whitewash &c" 19/0