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[288] Baker, _Mere Acc'ts (Wilts Arch_, [etc.] _Mag_.), 33 (12d. for seats for a man and his wife, ”which before were his ffather's.”

1561). In a sale to a paris.h.i.+oner in 1556-7 it is expressly stated that she is to hold the seat during ”here lyfe Accordynge to the old usage of the parishe”: _ibid_., 24. At St. Edmund's, Sarum, the sale was sometimes for life, sometimes for a lesser period. A fine was paid for changing a pew, _Introd_., p. xxi. Cf. order made at Chelmsford in 1592, _Ess.e.x Arch. Soc_., ii, 219-20. See in St. John's, Glas...o...b..ry, Acc'ts, _Notes and Quer. for Somer. and Dor_., iv, 384, _s.a._ 1574, and _op. cit_., v, _s.a._ 1588, many receipts from the sale of seats.

Cf. Pittington Vestry order, 1584, _Surtees Soc_., lx.x.xiv, 13. _St.

Michael's in Bedwardine Acc'ts_, Introd., p. xvi. Fletcher, _History of Loughborough_, Acc'ts, 24 ff.

[289] See, _e.g_., in _St. Martin-in-the-Fields Acc'ts_, 214, the long list of receipts ”for burialls, knylles and Suche Lyke,” _s.aa_.

1563-5. At St. Edmund, Sarum, burials with christenings and banns netted 8 5s. 2d. in 1592-3 (_Acc'ts_, 141). At Kingston-upon-Thames in 1579 burials totalled 39s. 8d.: _Surrey Arch. Coll_., viii, 75. In _St. Michael's, Cornhill_, London, _Acc'ts_ (ed. W.H. Overall & A.J.

Waterlow), 178-9, the receipts from knells and peals alone were 44s.

8d. in 1589-90.

[290] J.V. Kitto, _St. Martin-in-the-Fields Acc'ts_ (1901), 106, _note_.

[291] One of the most systematic tariffs I know of is that of St.

Alphage, London Wall (G.B. Hall, _Records of St. A_., 28-30) drawn up in 1613. First there are _The Parson's dutyes for Paris.h.i.+oners_, for bann-askings, weddings, churchings, etc., as well as a percentage on offerings. Then the burial fees due him, without or with a coffin, in churchyard or in church, etc. Then comes the heading, _The dutyes belonging to the Parrish for Parris.h.i.+oners_, a catalogue of fees for burial under various conditions. Then follow _The Parrishe's dutyes for the Bells_ (knells, peals, with small or large bells). Finally, _The Clarke his dutyes for Paris.h.i.+oners_ (Bann-askings, weddings, churchings, grave digging, tolling the bells for funerals in various ways, and on specified occasions, etc.). All the above fees are doubled in case of non-paris.h.i.+oners. See also the Salehurst tariff of 1597, most comprehensive and minute also: _Suss.e.x Arch. Coll_., xxv, 154-5. Also parish order in _St. Martin's, Leicester, Acc'ts_ (ed.

Thos. North), 19 and 128, _s. aa_. 1570-1 and 1584-5, as to duties for bells. These are regulated according to the rank of the person. _St.

Margaret, Lothbury, Vestry Min., 2_ (Order regulating fees for ”weddinges, cristeings, churchinges and berrialls” of 1571). See also the tariff of St. Edmund, Sarum (_Acc'ts_, 194), of 1608.

For receipt items for palls in the acc'ts, see _St.

Martin's-in-the-Fields Acc'ts_, 317 (1580), where ”best cloth” nets 20d. on each occasion, the ”worst” but 2d. See also Stepney vestry regulation of 1602 concerning fees to be paid for palls: _Memorials of Stepney_, 41-2.

For expenses for making parish coffins see _St. Martin's-in-the-Fields Acc'ts, s. a_. 1546. Cf. _St. Edmund and St. Thomas, Sarum, Acc'ts_, introd., p. xx. _St. Helen, Bishopsgate, Acc'ts_ (ed. J.E. c.o.x), 103 (Ordinance of 1564 that those buried within the church are to be confined). Also the other acc'ts _supra_. At St. Edmund, Sarum, the wardens sold tombstones for the benefit of the parish (_Acc'ts_, 135.

1587-8).

[292] _Memorials of Stepney_, 39-40.

[293] See W.G.D. Fletcher, _Hist. of Loughborough (Acc'ts)_, 24: an order regulating fees for marriage peals in 1588. In _St. Edmund, Sarum, Acc'ts_, 127, are receipt items, being money turned over to the wardens by the s.e.xton, for banns, christenings, etc. Cf. _Introd_. to _St. Edmund and St. Thomas, Sarum, Acc'ts_, p. xix. Cf. also _St.

Laurence Pountney Acc'ts_ (Wilson, _Hist. of St. L_.), 124 (A marriage offering going to the parish. 1582). Usually marriage and churching dues went to minister and clerk (see tariffs, p. 221 _supra_).

Chrisoms, _i.e._, white robes put on children when baptized, and given as an offering at churching, occasionally figure in the wardens'

receipt items. See, _e.g_., J.E. Foster, _St. Mary the Great_ (Cambridge) _Acc'ts_, 156 (1565-7), _et pa.s.sim. St. Thomas, Sarum, Acc'ts_, 282 (Chrisoms farmed out by the parish in 1562-3. In 1567-8 the value of the chrisom offerings is 40s.). See _Introd_. to _St.

Edmund and St. Thomas, Sarum, Acc'ts_, p. xix.

[294] See p. 27 _supra_. Also p. 35 _supra_.

[295] _Provision for the poore now in penurie Out of the Store-House of G.o.ds plentie, Explained by_ H. A[rth], London, 1597 (No pagination). ”Wednesday suppers” refers to fasting nights appointed by proclamation or by statute. A not uncommon entry in the act-books is ”no levy of the fyne of 12d.” See, _e.g., Manchester Deanery Visit_., 57, _et pa.s.sim. Barnes' Eccles. Proc_., 119, _et pa.s.sim_. Hale, _Crim.

Prec., pa.s.sim_. Cf. in _Bishop Stortford Acc'ts_ (J.L. Gla.s.sc.o.c.k, _Rec. of St. Michael, B. S_.), 64, the rubric: ”Rec. of defaultes for absence” (9 names follow, each for 12d., except one for 3s.). _Dean of York's Visit_., 215 (Hayton wardens report to commissary that they have a small sum from absentees yet undistributed to the poor: ”But it shalbe shortlie”. 1570).

[296] See examples in note 32, pp. 19 _supra_.

[297] _Warrington Deanery Visit_., 189 (Penance of three days standing in white sheet for fornication commuted--the offender ”_humiliter petens_”--to 13s. 4d. to be paid to vicar and wardens of Ormschurch to be distributed to poor, etc.). Hale, _Crim. Prec_., 232-3 (Commutation of a penance for having a b.a.s.t.a.r.d into 5 to be paid for the repair of St. Paul's, London, and also into 34s. 4d. to be paid to wardens of Horndon-on-the-Hill for the poor. 1606). See also _Chelmsford Acc'ts_, 212 (20s. received in 1560 ”toward the pavynge of oure churche for part of his penance”). _Abbey Parish Church Estate Acc'ts, s. a_. 1578 (20s. received for a ”purgation” to go to parish poor and to church).

[298] For some interesting receipt items see _The Westminster Tobacco Box_, Pt. ii, _Overseers Acc'ts_, 18 ff. (Fines in 1569 from a player beating a drum in service time; for selling coals on Candlemas day; for selling wood on Sunday; for driving a cart on that day, etc. In 1570 fines are received for retailing during service time, from proceeds of forfeitures of pots and dishes, etc., etc.). Wandsworth Acc'ts, _Surrey Arch. Coll_., xviii, 146 (Receipts for 1599 from fines for bricklaying on Sunday; for being in ale-house at service time--a number).

[299] See John Hawarde, _Les Reportes del Cases in Camera Stellata_.

1593-1609 ed. W.P. Baildon (1894), _pa.s.sim. E.g_., p. 91 (Offender fined 10 to use of poor for not laying sufficient ground to his cottages). _Ibid_. (Ed. Framingham, of Norfolk, fined 40 to use of poor for same offence. Oct. 14th, 1597). _Ibid_., 71 (Council commend a justice of the peace for condemning a Wilts engrosser to sell his corn to the poor 8d. under the price he paid for it).

[300] Some examples taken from many are North, _St. Martin, Leicester, Acc'ts_, 119 (Agreement in 1571 by mayor and brethren to fine one refusing to be warden for the first year 10s. to the use of the church). _Ibid_., 142 (This fine raised in 1600 to 20s.). _St. Edmund and St. Thomas, Sarum, Acc'ts, Introd_., p. xi, and _St. Edmund's Acc'ts_, 121, 129. _Mere Acc'ts, 26_ (Parish order of 1556-7). _St.

Margaret, Lothbury, Minutes_, 33 (An offer from a paris.h.i.+oner in 1595 of 10 for church repair, ”condicynellie that the parish wowld dispence with him for the church warden, Officers and cunstable...”).

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