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bread and wine; "the second sorte" of the parishioners 4d. each; "the third or weaker sorte," each 2d.: _Shrop. Arch. Soc_., i, 65 (1603). [281] See Great Yarmouth Acc'ts, _East Anglian_, iv (1892), 67 ff. (An item for purchase of 1000 tokens. 1613-14). Also _St. Margaret, Lothbury, Vestry Minute Books_, 14 (1584). Also _Archaeologia Eeliana_, xix (1898), 44 (Ryton, Durham, Book of Easter offerings. 1595). [282] _St. Edmund and St. Thomas, Sarum, Acc'ts_, 288 (Muscatel and claret). _Abbey Parish Church Estate Acc'ts_, 62 (same). _St. Martin's, Leicester, Acc'ts_ (ed. Thos. North), 100 (Malmsey and claret). [283] Rubric Sec. 144 of the First Edwardine Prayer Book directs that as ministers are to find the elements, the congregations are to contribute every Sunday at the time of the offertory the just value of the holy loaf. See E. Freshfield, _St. Christopher-le-Stocks Vestry Minute Book_, p. vii, _et passim_. Stanford, Berks, Acc'ts, _Antiquary_, xvii, _s.a._ 1582 (2d. collected every Sunday for holy loaf). Mere Acc'ts (_Wilts Arch_. (etc.) _Mag_., xxxv, 38), _s.a._ 1568, _et passim_. [284] J.V. Kitto, _St. Martin's-in-the-Fields_ (London) _Acc'ts_, append. D., Vestry Order of 1590. Parish order of Salehurst (1582), _Sussex Arch. Coll_., xxv, 153. St. Margaret's, Westminster, Overseers Acc'ts in _Westminster Tobacco Box_, Pt. ii, 18 (1566). [285] _E.g._, at St. Laurence Pountney, London, the "clerk's wages" amounted in 1598 to nearly L30 in the wardens receipt items, but in the expense items to L8 plus various dues for lighting, bell-ringing and church-linen washing, in all L12 12s. Wilson, _History of St. Laurence_, 125. In the _St. Christopher-le-Stocks Acc'ts_ (ed. E. Freshfield), p. 4, the receipts in 1576 for "Clarkes wagis" are L9 6s. 5d., but we read: "Pd. to J.M. Clarke his whole yeares wagis [etc.] ... iij li." In _St. Margaret, Lothbury, Vestry Minutes_ (p. 13) it was decided in 1581 to raise the "clarkes rolle" to L8 a year, but expressly stated that the clerk is to be paid as before, "but That [the] overplus Shall remayn For astocke to the churche to beare owtt such charges as shalbe nessesarye for the same." In _St. Bartholomew, Exchange, Vestry Minutes_ (ed. E. Freshfield) in 1583 it is agreed (p. 27) that the clerk is to pay out of his wages the statutory assessment of 2d. weekly on the parish for maimed soldiers and mariners. Same stipulation at St. Alphage's, London Wall: G.B. Hall, _Records o
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