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There, too, in all likelihood, Cardinal Wolsey rested in the autumn of 1514, and there Henry VIII., who spoiled the face of England and changed her heart, "paied the wife of the Lyon in Sittingbourne by way of rewarde iiiis. viiid." for the accommodation given. This famous Inn stands in the centre of the town, the road passing to the south of it.

To church, where we observe the trade of briefs is come now up to so constant a course every Sunday, that we resolve to give no more to them. Olave, Hart Street, beginning in 1642, still extant, that the money gathered on the 30th June, 1661, "for several inhabitants of the parish of St. Dunstan in the West towards their losse by fire," amounted to "xxs. viiid."

To church, where we observe the trade of briefs is come now up to so constant a course every Sunday, that we resolve to give no more to them. Olave, Hart Street, beginning in 1642, still extant, that the money gathered on the 30th June, 1661, "for several inhabitants of the parish of St. Dunstan in the West towards their losse by fire," amounted to "xxs. viiid."

In old churchwardens' account-books we find such entries as the following "To the sextin for watching the sepulture two nyghts viiid." "Paide to Roger Brock for watching of the sepulchre 8d." And as the nights were cold we find an additional item "Paid more to said Roger Brock for syses and colles, 3d."