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See Heywood Townshend, Proc. in the Last Four Parl. of Eliz., Debates, passim. J.E. Foster: Ch'wd'ns Acc'ts of St. Thos. North, Chronicle of St. E. Freshfield, Vestry Minutes of St. Christopher-le-Stocks, Append., 71. Ibid., 7. For similar vestry orders see Vestry Minutes of St. Burn, Eccles. Memorials of Stepney, 51. Cf. Op. cit., 43. Art. xxi, Cardwell, Doc. Ann., i, 326. Leicest. Archit.
A not uncommon entry in the act-books is "no levy of the fyne of 12d." See, e.g., Manchester Deanery Visit., 57, et passim. Barnes' Eccles. Proc., 119, et passim. Hale, Crim. Prec., passim. See examples in note 32, pp. 19 supra. Hale, Crim. For some interesting receipt items see The Westminster Tobacco Box, Pt. ii, Overseers Acc'ts, 18 ff. Wandsworth Acc'ts, Surrey Arch.
J.H. Butcher, The Parish of Ashburton in the 15th and 16th Centuries , 42. See also ibid., 40 and 49. Also H.J.F. Swayne, Acc'ts of St. Edmund and St. Hale, Churchwardens' Prec., 4-10, 5th to 8th March, 1607-8. Cf. ibid., 16. Hale, op. cit., 109-110. Canterbury Visit., xxvii, 218. Authorization to tax the land is not asked for in express terms, but seems to be implied.
See Surtees Soc., xcv, I ff. Also the townwardens of Melton Mowbray, Leicester Archit. Hudson, Memorials, etc., 88. Pasture. Surtees Soc., lxxxiv, 15. Soc., 1895, 171. For other examples both of parish cows and sheep: see Hale, Crim. Littleton, Worcestersh. Rotherfield Acc'ts, Sussex Arch. Coll., xli, 26, 46. St. Michael's, Bath, Acc'ts, Somerset Arch. Great Witchingham, Norf. and Norw. Arch.
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.
State Pap., loc. cit. Indictment of Essex jury, Hist. MSS. Rep., loc. cit. supra. Ibid. Information of the Wilts justices against one Dearling, parson of Upton Lowell, loc. cit. supra, 68 . Cf. Chelmsford Acc'ts, Essex Arch. The act-books are full of "detections" for being an "uncharitable person," for "not giving to the poor," etc. See pp. 41 ff., supra.
Ann., i, 370-2, for Council's letter to the archbishop of Canterbury on the observance of Ember Days and Lent. E.g., see in St. Mary the Great, Cambridge, Acc'ts, 227-9 and 240-2, long lists of persons from all parts of England who contributed in the years 1592-4 towards the rebuilding of St. Mary's steeple.
For not presenting their minister when he neglected to catechise on the Sabbath, the wardens of St. Mary Woolchurch Haw, London, had to pay divers fees to the chancellor. Brooke and Hallen, Registers of St. Mary Woolchurch Haw , Wardens Acc'ts, s.a. 1593.
Mary's parish lands with 32 tenants and rental of £6. 7s. 8d. in 1544. St. Michael's Acc'ts, op. cit., vol. xxvi, 129. The wardens of this parish record among their expenditures many items for the repair of the parish tenements and other property. In early times they received 12d. as a salary for management. Later this was changed into an honorarium of varying amount "pro bono servicio suo."
Edmund and St. Thomas, Sarum, Acc'ts, introd., p. xx. St. Also the other acc'ts supra. At St. Memorials of Stepney, 39-40. In St. Edmund, Sarum, Acc'ts, 127, are receipt items, being money turned over to the wardens by the sexton, for banns, christenings, etc. Cf. Introd. to St. Edmund and St. Thomas, Sarum, Acc'ts, p. xix. Cf. also St.
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