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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.
The fact that Elizabethan poor laws were based on the best-approved parish customs made them perdurable. For a model administration of parish stock according to the poor laws see the Cowden Overseers Acc'ts, Sussex Arch. Coll., xx, 95 ff. E.g., in St. Robt. Brayne paid the 50s. to the wardens in Sept., 1595. St.
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.
Great Witchingham Acc'ts, Norfolk and Norwich Arch. St. Hale, Crim. St. Churchwardens accounts are pretty reliable evidence, for they were subject to the scrutiny of those who had to foot the bills. See Mr. Mr. Clark's notes and illustrations drawn from other contemporary sources are most valuable.
Soc., i, 65 . See Great Yarmouth Acc'ts, East Anglian, iv , 67 ff. Also St. St. Edmund and St. St. Thos. See E. Freshfield, St. J.V. Kitto, St. D., Vestry Order of 1590. Parish order of Salehurst , Sussex Arch. Coll., xxv, 153. St. Margaret's, Westminster, Overseers Acc'ts in Westminster Tobacco Box, Pt. ii, 18 . E.g., at St.
Here are 25 groups of houses and certain individuals charged with making and keeping the churchyard bounds. Early History of Kingston-upon-Thames, Surrey Arch. Coll., viii, 74. St. Mary the Great Acc'ts, 148. Hist. and Antiq. of Leicestershire, by John Nichols , i, Pt. ii, 569 ff.
This has already been mentioned on p. 33, note 102. In the Leverton, Lincoln, Overseers for the Poor Acc'ts, there occurs, s. a. 1574 an item of 7s. given to John Towtynge "for the discharge of ... his excomynacion," and the next year a sum of 2s. 6d. given to a woman for a like discharge. Archæologia, xli, 369-70. Whereby any but a perjured man would be forced to incriminate himself. Cf.
See John Hawarde, Les Reportes del Cases in Camera Stellata. 1593-1609 ed. W.P. Baildon , passim. Ibid. Framingham, of Norfolk, fined £40 to use of poor for same offence. Some examples taken from many are North, St. St. Edmund and St. Thomas, Sarum, Acc'ts, Introd., p. xi, and St. Edmund's Acc'ts, 121, 129. St. Clifton Antiq. Stephen's, Bristol, vestry, 1524. Clifton Antiq. St.
For the form and wording of such a licence see Parish Registers and Documents of Kingston-upon-Thames, etc.: Surrey Arch. Coll., ii , 92 . The fee according to royal proclamation was 6s. 8d.: St. Margaret, Lothbury, Vestry Minutes, 9. For receipts from this source see St. Ethelburga-within-Bishopsgate Acc'ts, 5, et passim, as well as the other London acc'ts already cited. Cf. Cardwell, Doc.
Arch. Cant., xxi , 110 ff. Also Burton's Charity lands at Loughborough. The "bridgmasteres" here in 1570 collected £33 18s. 6d., and disbursed £16 12s. 11d. Fletcher, Hist. of Loughborough, 41-2. Legge, North Elmham Acc'ts, 87-90. So too at Eltham, Kent, where the "Fifetene peny Lands" have special wardens who account for their revenue. Archaeologia, xxxiv, 51 ff.
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