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Of course interdiction temp. Elizabeth was no longer the terrible punishment it used to be. At Shrewsbury. Shrop. Arch, and Nat. Hist. Soc. Tr., i , 62. R.W. Goulding, Records of the Charity known as Blanchminster's Charity , Stockwardens Acc'ts, 68. Except in the city of London and some few other places, the chancel was at the charge of the rector or other recipient of the great tithes.
He cites other examples in Norfolk parishes, viz., "Constable Acre" in Stuston, "Constable Pasture" in Fralingham, "Dog Whipper's Land" in Barton Turf. Cf. In an early year temp. Hist. MSS. Com. Rep., v, Pt. i , 596a. See also Shrop. Arch. and Nat. Hist. E. Freshfield, St. E.g., St. St. Thos. Examples among many are the Edenbridge, Kent, lands. These bridgewardens held lands in three parishes.
In this year the 39 Eliz. c. 3 was enacted which instituted overseers of the poor nominated by the licence of the justices, and placed wholly under their supervision. See, e.g., Manchester Deanery Visit., 57, 59, 60, 62, 63, 64, 68, etc. Also Warrington Deanery Visit., 184, 186, 187, 191, etc. Cf. the item in the Ludlow Acc'ts, Shrop. Arch.
"Lord Polwarth, whose very fine breed of Border Leicesters is famed throughout Britain, and whose knowledge on the subject of breeding is great, says that 'In sheep we always consider that if a ewe breeds to a Shrop ram, she is never safe to breed pure Leicesters from, as dun or colored legs are apt to come even when the sire is a pure Leicester.
Martin's Leicester, Acc'ts, 98, where the times of collection are named. See, among others, Ludlow Acc'ts, Shrop. Archit. Also St. Edmund's, Sarum, Acc'ts, Wilts Rec. Soc. for 1896, p. 141 . E.g., at St. Edmund's, Sarum, or at St. Martin's, Leicester. See, e.g., J.E. Foster, St. Offerings of the masters of arts and of the bachelors form a distinct feature here. See pp. 41 ff. and 59 supra.
At Pittington, Durham, landlords were to answer for their cottagers for a yearly fee of 2d.: Surtees Soc., lxxxiv, 29 . Cf. ibid., Houghton-Le-Spring Acc'ts, 269. In the Abbey Parish Church Estate Acc'ts, Shrewsbury, every "gentleman" is to pay 6d. yearly to the wardens for bread and wine; "the second sorte" of the parishioners 4d. each; "the third or weaker sorte," each 2d.: Shrop. Arch.
See Queen's Inj. of 1559, art. xviii. Also art. xviii of Archbp. Also Cardwell, Doc. Ann., i, 337, etc. Other examples in Hale, Crim. Cf. Canterbury Visit., xxv, 15, where three parishioners are presented for covering up a parish procession linch . Melton Acc'ts in Leicest. Archit. and Arch. Soc., iii, 192 . Ludlow Acc'ts in Shrop. Arch. Soc., 2nd ser., i, s.a. 1601-2, etc.
Leverton, Lincoln, Acc'ts, s.a. 1579, Archaeologia, xli, 365. Under 1595 the Leverton wardens have the entries: "pd. to the apparitor for fallts in the churche ijs. viijd.," and: "for playing in the churche iijs. viijd." The last is explained by a third entry: "to the apparator for suffering a plaie in the church." Abbey Parish Acc'ts, s.a. 1600, Shrop. Arch.
A typical one is given in Barnes' Eccles. Proc., 25, entitled "The furnitures, implements and bookes requisite to be had in every churche, and so commaunded by publique aucthoritie" . Cf. Cardwell, Doc. Ann., i, 287 ff. Warrington Deanery Visit., 184. Harding. Barnes' Eccles. Proc., 116. J.L. Glasscoek, The Records of St. Michael's, Bishop Stortford , 63. Shrop. Arch, and Nat. Hist. Soc.
The churchwardens accounts are full of items for horse hire and other expenses for long journeys, for ecclesiastical courts were held at all kinds of places at the pleasure of the judges. See Mr. Bruce's remarks on the Minchinhampton Acc'ts, Archæologia, xxxv, 419 ff. Cf. the Ludlow Acc'ts, Shrop. Arch.
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