Florum; and also by sarculus, which is usually translated " may therefore be concluded that hooking-board was bendingI believe, called scantling.

The next two entries are also interesting, as denoting the 1539 between a bier and a hearse, which in 1617, the date bread entry, had come to be sometimes synonymous. The announcing the feast of All Souls to the town's folk of Bunga one penny, and four pence was paid to the parish priest fo then burning about the herse. This herse was still, as it centuries, a mere frame-work for tapers, such as is even now churches of the Roman communion.

For takyn mesure of ye chyrche wyndows for chynglyn, ijd. requires explanation.

For iiij oz yumalls, xvjd. I should certainly prefer the gimmalls, suggested in the note. They were probably four la rings of brass, required for "the curtain-hangings before the mentioned in the preceding entry.

Towards the end of the entries in p. 425, there seems to be where they are printed :—

Itm. payd to Robt pu'ffrett to helpe to onlade ye led aftsed when the war wasched

Itm. payd to the same Wrot for iij come charekole

Is not the first composed of the confused parts of two entries required for new leading the south aisle had been the subject ceding items; so perhaps aftsed is to be interpreted "afore the rest seems to refer to the operation of washing something does the money paid "the same Wrot," who is not before m the extracts, for three coomb of charcoal.

Perhaps Mr. Baker will kindly take the trouble to look ag items; and by the assurance that his researches are appreciated

to pursue them, which will, I have no doubt, gratify many other of your readers, as well as your's faithfully,-J. G. N.

P.S. I would suggest that Richard Jones, who went about in 1623, gathering subscriptions for the ransom of thirty prisoners who had been taken captive by the Turks, and received vjd. from the Churchwardens of Weybread (p. 411), was "permitted to pass" from parish to parish, "by warrant with the king's arms,"—not irons as printed; whether a document at all different from the ordinary brief, I cannot say.-J. G. N.

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1626

1627

1629

1630

1633

1634

1635

EXTRACTS FROM CHURCHWARDENS' BOOKS.-No. 6.

Weybread, Suffolk, 1587-1738.

Itm. received for the old iron coffer in the steeple chamber, and for anr old coffer in the steeple, and an old skinner, a gridiron and a grate

Itm. for drawing of flaggs, carryinge of them and makinge of the Butte

Item. received for Mr. Thomas Heigham's buriall in the church

Pd for two littel prayer books

Pd for Ann Maymans absolution
Imprimis, paid to Mr. Martyn collector for
the subsidies or lone moneys lent to the King
for the Town land

Itm. received of Mr. Tostood for the bury-
all of his wife in the church

Imprimis laid out for a carpet for the Commn table

Item. for the Pulpitt

Itm. rec of James Meene the your for the buryall of his brother in the church

Item. to the coroner about the man that was found dead in the Towne

Itm. for eleven yards and halfe of holland
cloth at iijs. iijd. a yard for a Surplice and
Communion cloth

Item. laid out for making of them
It. received of John Hobart, Esquire, for
the buriall of his child in the church

It. received of Gregorie Meene for the head
of the old pulpit

Item. for the prayer for the Queene, her safe deliverance

Item. for writing the sentences upon the church walls, being fourteen yards and a half, at two shillings a yard

iiij.

ping up the passage un Damen Deligut,

his seat, and for a lock to the other dore

Item. for a Patten for the bread at the Comn Item. for taking away a toome stone in the church yard defaced

Item. for half a yard of holland cloth to sett the bread vpon

Itm. laid out for the Towne Corslet a sword and a pike

Item. to Joseph Rising, appointed to goe in the said armor by the command of the Captain of our band

Itm. for a Knapsake for the said Rising to
carry with him

Item. his presse money, a horse for him to
Mellis, two dayes and his dinner

Item. received of Mr. John Hobart, for the

burial of his child in the church
[The like entry]

iijli.

vli.

1639

1640

1641

Item. to a pore distracted minister

i

1642

1643

It. to Rochester for taking down scandalous pictures in the Church windows and new glaseing the same

Item, for our charges at Laxfield when we received instruction concerning the weekly collection for ye poor

Item. paid to Willm Bakeman, of Mendham, being authorised collector thereof taxed for use of Parliament

[Various sums amounting to

X

1643

1647

1648

1650

1651

1652

Item. to Captain Poe for dragoneers and souldiers

Item. for a sheete of Parchment and for wrighting the covenant in it

Itm. to Mr. Verdon for demolishing and taking away onlawful things upon our church windows, and in other parts about our church being authorised hereunto by the Earle of Manchester

It. for our expences going the bounds of the town

Itm.payed to the rate for Coulchester Alarms Itm. bought 5 comes of wheat at 71. 38. 9d., and 5 comes of rye 51. ixs. 8d., and charges 58. and lost in it by agreet in selling it to ye poore

It. for my expences for giving in the value of the church livinge at Eye

Itm. payed to Brande the bellfounder for
casting the great bell, wth some charges spent
with him

Itm. for taking downe the belle and sheeres
Pd Parliament charges and the rate for
Woster

Delivered to the new Churchwardens
Two brasses wth iijs. vjd., and also for the
littel bell in the chist wh was then sould

It. laid out to take of an indictment upon the Towne for Catlins Pits

Distributed to the poore of Waybred, twenty shillings wch was levied for tiplinge upon a day of Humiliation

(To be Continued.)

JOHN CALVER.

RHYMING WILLS.

The following is transcribed from a common place book, of about the year 1740. The date of Ray's Philosophical Letters (from which it was copied) is not given, but some idea may be formed of its date, from the mention of Sir Edward Walpole.-Z. From Mr. Ray's Philosophical Letters, p. 102.

Sr Phil. Shippon to Mr. Ray.-An humorsome Rhythming Will of one More, who died not long since, about Mershland, in Norfolk, and gave his Estate to his Grand-daughter, now married to one Mr. Shelton, a Gentleman of this County, that hath a good estate near Bury.

In the Name of God Amen. I Thomas More
The 4th Year of my Age above Threescore
Revoking all the Wills I made before,

Making this my last, and First I do implore
Almighty God into his hand to take

My Soul, which not alone himself did make,
But did redeem it with the precious Blood
Of his dear Son; that Title still holds good.
I next bequeath my Body to the Dust,
From whence it came, which is most just,
Desireing yet that I be laid close by

My eldest Daughter, tho' I know not why.
I leave my Grand-child, Martha, her full Due,
My Lands, and all my Cattle, save a few,
You shall hereafter in this Schedule find
To piety or Charity design'd,

Whom I my sole Executrix invest,
To pay my debts, and so take all the rest,
But since that she is under Age, I pray
Sir Edward Walpole, and her Father, may
The Supervisors be of this my Will,
Provided that my Cousin Colvil Still
And Major Spensly her assistants be;
Four honest men are more than two or three.
Then I shall not care how soon I die,
If they'll accept it, and I'll tell you why,
There's not a Man of them but is so just,
With whom almost my Soul I dare to trust.
Provided she do make her con

Heir to my House at least, and half my Land.
If she hath such, and when she hath so done,
She be a Means to let him understand

It is my Will his name be written thus
I. A. B, C. or D. Moore, alias

EPITAPH.

Here lies in this cold monument,

As appears by his last Will & Testament.
He was very rich, his name was More,
Who never knew Poet die rich before?
But to speak Truth, his Verses do shew it;

He liv'd a rich Man, but dy'd a poor poet.

Coats of Arms.-Your correspondent "L's " enquiries respecting an escutcheon in which 2 and 3 are a chev. between 3 mullets Sa. He does not describe the field; but the following description may perhaps help him. In the pedigree of Machell of Crackenthorp, Westmoreland, occurs this shield: Sa., three greyhounds courant Arg., for Machell, impaling, Arg., a chev. between 3 mullets pierced Sa., for Crackenthorp, Alan Machell having married Anabella, daughter of Wm. de Crackenthorp, temp. Ed. II.-W. M. H. C., Hunstanton.