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Frequently, also, funds were raised by means of ales called clerk-ales, sexton-ales, etc., to pay the wages of clerks, sextons and other servants of the parish. Indeed, he continues, since these ales have been abolished "some ministers have complained unto me, that they are afrayd they shall have no Parish Clerks for want of maintenance for them."
Bath and Wells to Canterbury, Prynne, supra, loc. cit. J.E. Binney, Morebath Acc'ts , 86. When in 1651 at St. Thomas', Salisbury, clerk-ales were abolished, "both the clerk and sexton claimed compensation for the loss of income sustained." The same was true of St. Swayne, St. Edmund and St. Thomas Acc'ts, introd., p. xvii. Stubbes, Anatomie, etc., 110.
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