LAST PAGE OF COLLECTORS' OR OVERSEERS' ACCOUNTS, 1568.

The marks on the right hand side are opposite the payments or Badges and Licenses or those authorised to beg.

Payments

1568 To John Standleye for helynge of Thomas Gybbonses
legge

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Ffor helynge of Henry Morgan

Receipts

1569 Hanns Hunter a benevolence for a poor woman and her
childe that leye in the market place helyinge her
and for her childes nersinge

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[Candlemas Day was thus strictly observed in obedience to a Proclamation of 30 Henry VIII., a copy of which is in the archives of the Society of Antiquaries. The proclamation declares " that the bearynge of candels is done in the memorie of Christe, the spirituall lyghte, when Simeon dyd prophecye, as it is redde in the churche that daye." Fuller, in his Church History, p. 222, says that the observance was ordered by a decree of Convocation. The ceremonies, and church decorations in connection with them, are referred to by Herrick in his Hesperides.]

Item. of a bargeman sellynge wodde on the Saboath
Daye

Item. Received of Mr. Lawton for his cartes goying on
the saboath daie

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xijd.

...

iijs. iiijd.

[These, with the entries in the years 1570, 1574, 1586, 1590, and at other times in this reign, indicate the strictness with which religious observances were enforced under Elizabeth.]

Received of the churche Wardens out of the poore folke
cheste

Payments

For caringe a deed corps to Church oute of the Palace... Receipts1570 Received more of the churche wardens for certayne stresses taken of those that do rittaile in service tyme Recd. of Mr. Johnson for the castynge of one hundred lode of sand in totill

... iij li. viijs.

iiijd.

iijs.

xxd.

ijd.

ijd.

Fforfets for Sonday's servyce :—

John Henes for one quart pot

Roger Menilow for a doblet

Payde too goodwyffe frenche for the keepynge of a poure
chylde xij weekes

xijd.

Tow vij poure women yt. Rcd. the comunion

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xiiijd.

Receipts

1571 Item, of John Dod for his lisense for kylling of flesh in

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lent
Item, of Mr. Harye dudle for his lisense for etynge of
flesh

vjs. viijd.

vjs. viijd.

[See the note against the year 1618 at page 94.]

of

xvjd.

For the noursynge of chyldren

Item. payd to Edithe Coten for the kypynge a poure
childe iiij monts at xd. the weyke

Payde to mother Crone In the tyme of the infection
of her housse at dyvers tymes

Payd to Sybyll Darley and to Margarett Mymse for
ther paynes takyne in the visitynge of the same
housse
Item. for paper for to macke up our bouckes for thys hole
yere

Receipts-
1572 Ffirst recyved from the right honourable the Lord Bur-
leighe L. Treaserer of England the xth day of Januarie,
1572, for the reliefe of the poore of St. Margarett of
Westmr. vj score peces of beiffe by estimacion a stone a
pece vj castes of breade and xliijs. iiijd. in money the
which was gyven the same daye to fyve score of the
poore aforesaid by us the collectors and master Baylise

[An Act was passed in 14 Eliz. (1572), cap. 5, for the provision by the justices "convenient habitacons and abydinge places" for the poor; but the earliest mention of a workhouse in the Vestry Minutes is in 1664.]

Item of the said Deane to gyve unto the poore uppon
Alhalland Daye

Item of the Justices of the comon place by the handes
of Mr. Deane at ij severall tymes to the use aforesaid
Item recyved the xxiijrd daye of Februarie, 1572, of the
right honorable the Erle of Derbye

Item of the Earle of Hertford the xvth of Februarie...
Item of the Lorde Dacres of the southe and my Lady
his wife the xvij of Ffebruarie
*Item. of the Lorde Crumwell at dyvers tymes
*Item of Mr. Thomas Crumwell at sundrie tymes
Item of Sr. Henrie Cates the same day
Recyved by the appoyntment of the Deane of Westm.
every Sonday sithence the vijth daye of September,
1572, xl messes of meatt of the almes of the colledge
to distribute the same amongest the aforesaid poore
weekly that is to say for the xxiiij weekes endinge
the xxijth daye of Ffebruarie, 1572, every messe valued
in breade and meatt with jd. in money at iiijd. which
doth amounte unto

+Payments-

vs.

XXs. xxs.

xls.

iijs. vjd.

viijs.

xxd.

...

· xvj li.

Item. gyven to Mr. Chaunter to bestowe uppon the
prissoners of the gate house and Convicte house of
Westm. xlviij messes of the almes of the Colledge
valued at iiijd. the messe

These names occur frequently.

+ From 1572 the Receipts and Payments are weekly.

xvjs.

Item gyven to Father Maddocks for keepinge and making
cleane the trenc disshes wherein the alms was served
xxiiij messes of meat valued at iiij the messe
Item. gyven to Robert Chapman by the said Chaunter
for settinge the people in order at the almes and
callinge of them, xxxiiij messes of meat valued at

Receipts-
1573 Item, recd. of my Lorde Graye the xijth of Marche
Item, of Mr. Ffraunces Newdigate the 28 of Aprill
Item, of my Lorde Dudley the 28 Aprill
1574 First of the Byshopp of Rochester almoner to the quenes
matie. for her graces alms at the tyme of the Maundye,
1574

John Gravener for a fyne sett uppon them for sellinge
of stronge ale at ijd. the quart the xxij daye of Marche
Item, of a carter for carrieage with his carte on Sundaye
being the xiiijth daye of Marche for a fyne ...
Item, of Willm. Hutton for fynnes of certayne psons not
kepinge good rulle in ther housses in servyce tyme
levied by the churchwardens and sydmen

Payments

Item, paide for the carrynge oute of the towne towarde
Wicombe a poore sicke mayde in a carte called
Elizabeth Bolton

Item, paide in money for certeyne clothes and lynnen
for a poore wenche called Katherine Welshe

Receipts

1575 Item Rec. of the righte worshippfull Mr. Henrie Knowles
Esquier, the xxviijth daie of Aprill of the benevolence
from the Knights and Burgesses of the parliament
house

Item, Rec. of the quens maties. Almes for the said yeere iij li. vijs.

1576 Item, rec. of Mr. Savadg wche was taken of one
yt. sowld rotten mutton in ye market

xijd

1577 Received of the Gifte of Mrs. Newins, to be gyven in
bred at the Burriall of Thomas Newins, hur husbande
Item, more of John Johnes Baker in bred taken as forfett
in ye markett and gyven to the poore

xls.

xijd.

[This is one of many evidences of the survival from distant antiquity of the custom of distributing arval or arvil bread at funerals-a modification of the burial feasts referred to by Shakespeare (Hamlet, act 1, sc. 2), in Hornman's treatise de Miraculis Mortuorum, cap. 36, and Gough's Sepulchral Monuments.

1578 Thes Persons ffollowinge are not asseassed by the justices
aforesaide But have paide voluntarilye by the laboure
of the said Collectors

Item, recd. of a Certen gentilman unknown wche came
into the churche and wche gave money by adventure
out of his purse the v daie of may
Receaved the xvj daie of January, of Mr. Deane of
Westmr. and the Steuarde there xvj dusson and
v pence of Bred founde by ye jury to want assisse and
be unlawful wche was gyven to dyvers poore people
by us the collectors

iiijs. iiijd.

xvjs. vd.

ijs.

Recd. of the Gifte of the Ladye Dacres the xxx of mche,
1578, the some of iiijli. wche was immediately Dis-
tributed amongest the poore and prissoners in Westmr.
by one of my ladies gentlemen and we the Collectors iiijli.
Item, received the xxvjth of Aprill two dozen of cakes and
bunnes taken from a baker and distributed presently
in the churche amonges the pore
Recd. of the bequeste of Mr. Patenson the Somme of
xlij li. or thereabouts wche was delivered by Mr. deane
of Westmr. seled in a bagge to Mr. Ffisher to be by him
kepte until the same may be bestowed upon somme
good bargaine as a lease or somme other suche like
commodite wch may yeelde a yerely rente to the
pore

Payments

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· xlij li.

xls.

xv li.

vijs. viijd.

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