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, 85-6. [216] _E.g._, the Grasswardens of St. Giles, Durham, who managed the common lands of the parish, and accounted yearly for them. They made disbursements for many parish expenses which elsewhere churchwardens usually paid out (_e.g_., for bridges, houses of correction, poor prisoners, armor and musters), yet were themselves distinct from the churchwardens. See _Surtees Soc_., xcv, I ff. Cf. the bridge wardens of Loughborough, Leicester (W.G.D. Fletcher, _Hist. of L_., 1883, pp. 40 ff). Also the townwardens of Melton Mowbray, _Leicester Archit_. (etc.) _Soc_., iii, 61-2, _note_. [217] Hudson, _Memorials_, etc., 88. [218] That is (apparently) holdings returning L4 of rent annually. [219] Pasture. [220] _Surtees Soc_., lxxxiv, 15. [221] Editor's (Mr. Barmby's) introd., _ibid_., 4. [222] (Dean) G.W. Kitchen, The Manor of Manydown, _Hants Rec. Soc_., 1895, 171. For other examples both of parish cows and sheep: see Hale, _Crim. Prec_., 221 (40 parish sheep of Billericay, Essex, for the relief of the poor. 1599). Littleton, Worcestersh. Acc'ts, _Midland Antiquary_, i (1883), 107 (Purchase of cow for parish in 1556). _Ibid_., 108 (Wintering of a church heifer). Morton, Derbysh., Acc'ts, _The Reliquary_, xxv, 17 (Same as above. 1593). Owen & Blakeway, _Hist. of Shrewsbury_, ii, 342 (St. Mary's had in 1544 ten cows and three sheep renting for L1 1s. 8d. yearly). Rotherfield Acc'ts, _Sussex Arch. Coll_., xli, 26, 46. St. Michael's, Bath, Acc'ts, _Somerset Arch_. (etc.) _Soc_., xxiii, introd., _et passim_. Great Witchingham, _Norf. and Norw. Arch. Soc_., xiii, 207 (Cows in 1604). Hartland, Devon, Acc'ts, _Hist. MSS. Com. Rep_., v, Pt. i (1876), 573a (Custom _circa_ 1601 for poor to leave sheep to church by will). Hudson, _Memorials_, etc., 106-10 (Parish meeting about renting out of cows. Surety bonds given by hirers in 1580 ff.). Many other examples will be found in the wardens acc'ts and elsewhere. [223] See Hudson, _op. cit., supra_, 106. In 1595 two cows were bequeathed to Lapworth to be rented out at 20 d. yearly. The proceeds of one to mend a certain parish road, of the other to support the poor (_ibid_., 109). [224] Art. xxv, Cardwell, _Doc. Ann_., i, 189 ff. So in the Visitation Articles of the same year (_ibid_., 213) we read: "Item, whether the money coming and rising of any cattle or other movable stocks of the church [etc.] ... have not been employed to the poor men's chest." [225] In North
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