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 THE CHURCHWARDENS' ACCOUNTS 
 
 OF 
 
 ST. MICHAEL'S IN BEDWARDINE, WORCESTER. 
 
 FROM 1539 TO 1603. 
 TRANSCRIBED AND EDITED FOR 
 
 THE WORCESTERSHIRE HISTORICAL SOCIETY, 
 
 WITH AN INTRODUCTION, 
 
 BY 
 
 JOHN AMPHLETT, OF CLENT. 
 
 TO WHICH ARE PREFIXED THE CHURCHWARDENS' ACCOUNTS 
 
 OF THE CHURCH OF ST. HELEN, WORCESTER, 
 
 FOR THE YEARS 1519 AND I52O, 
 
 WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY 
 
 THE REV. A. S. PORTER, 
 
 VICAR OF CLAINES, AND HON. CANON OF WORCESTER. 
 
 IJrtntrlf for tf)f (HHorrrstrrsljirc Kiltstoriral Sorirtu, 
 
 By JAMES PARKER AND CO., OXEORD. 
 
 1896.
 
 
 sa 
 
 INTRODUCTION. 
 
 IT has somewhere been said that the man who keeps his accounts 
 upon a good system has no need to keep a regular diary, the 
 various items being quite sufficient to bring to his mind the several 
 incidents of his life. In the same way the accounts of the church- 
 wardens of a parish not only reflect in many aspects the history of 
 the parish to which they relate, but also the history of the country, 
 as far as regards at least its ecclesiastical affairs. The accounts of 
 St. Michael's in Bedwardine are no exception to this rule. 
 
 St. Michael's in Bedwardine was a small parish lying round the 
 Cathedral of Worcester. In the third year of Elizabeth's reign, 1 562, it 
 contained 48 families, and in later days, in 1776, 60 families 1. Green, 
 however, says that in 1779 it possessed 99 houses and 623 inhabi- 
 tants 2. It included the Cathedral churchyard, the episcopal palace, 
 now the Deanery, and the charnel-house on the north of the Cathe- 
 dral ; and on the south the castle (the Keeper of the Castle and his 
 wife paid for seats in 15G9) and its hill, reaching down as far as the 
 river. The church, at all events, was not within the limits of the 
 city, sharing in this the circumstances of the Cathedral, so close to 
 which it stood. To an inquiry made as to the privileges of the 
 Church of Worcester, and held on January I, 167^?, the Dean and 
 Chapter answered, " The Corporation of the City hath no jurisdiction 
 within the precincts of the Cathedral, for the said Church lies in the 
 County of Worcester and not within the city." That St. Michael's 
 was within the county is a.sserted at the head of the accounts for 
 many of the years ; " being within the County and Diocese of 
 Worcester," the heading usually runs, and in some years the words 
 are added, "near the City of Worcester." An engraving of the 
 Church is given in Valentine Green's History of Worcester, which 
 shews that it consisted of a nave and a chancel, the former possess- 
 ing a large west window, while by the south wall of the chancel 
 stood the clocherium or bell-tower, which was taken down in 1647 
 and sold for £6x7 14^. 2d. Nash calls this the "famous leaden 
 steeple 3," but the engraving shews a house-like tower of three 
 • Nash, II. 319. = History of Worcester, 47. 3 Nash, II. 319. 
 
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 iv INTRODUCTION. 
 
 Stories, with a turret in the centre of the roof, plain windows, and 
 a door on the ground floor. 
 
 The accounts in this book are neither quite continuous nor 
 consecutive for the years they cover, and there is some little diffi- 
 culty in ascertaining accurately the particular years to which the 
 several items refer. To simplify reference I have in nearly all 
 cases taken the year in which the accounts were rendered, marked 
 by thick figures at the head of them in this book, as the year of 
 the payment of the several sums mentioned, though necessarily 
 they must often belong to the previous year. Nor is it easy to see 
 in all cases for which years the churchwardens were acting, since 
 there seems to have been no regular date for rendering the accounts, 
 and in some years such a laxity prevailed that not only are the 
 accounts themselves very meagre, but they are sometimes entirely 
 wanting, while the churchwardens appear often to have continued 
 in office for some years together. The date of rendering the ac- 
 counts seems to have steadily retrogressed, getting later and later 
 each year ; for the first ten years the date was some time in Novem- 
 ber, and for ten years more it occurred near the end of the old or the 
 beginning of the new year, as we now reckon it. Then began the 
 march backwards. They were rendered from 156S to 1574 in 
 March, till 15S1 in April, in 1582 in May, in 1584 and 15S5 in June, 
 then till 1596 in July, in 1599 in August, and in i6oi in September. 
 In this year an entry gives the procedure on such occasions at some 
 length, from which it appears that they were considered in the 
 church upon a Sunday after notice given in the church tlie pre- 
 vious Sunday, "according to the ancient custome." In two or 
 more of the later years the words " stylo Angliae," or " juxta stylum 
 Angliae," are added to the date. This is doubtless because the 
 Gregorian calendar, though adopted in the Roman Church at the 
 end of the sixteenth century, was not in use in England, where it 
 did not obtain till the jear 1752. I must at once confess that 
 I have not added up nor verified the various figures, and am in no 
 way responsible for the totals set down, which are those found in 
 the original accounts. It is interesting to notice the gradual dis- 
 placement towards the end of the century of Roman numerals by 
 Arabic figures. With the exception of the year, which is in Arabic 
 figures in 1550 and from 1556, when the practice of denoting the 
 year solely by the year of the sovereign's reign was abandoned.
 
 INTRODUCTION. V 
 
 these first occur in the accounts for 1595. At first they are mixed 
 up with Roman numerals, but afterwards these are retained only 
 for the more important totals, which themselves also are in Arabic 
 in the payments in 1601, thougli Roman numeration was afterwards 
 resumed for this purpose. At the end of this Introduction I have 
 given a list of the churchwardens for the several years, which may 
 be taken I hope as fairly accurate. 
 
 The book in which these accounts were kept is of folio size, con- 
 sisting of 122 leaves, on the back of the last of which they terminate 
 abruptly, and doubtless at the end several leaves have been lost. 
 The twelfth leaf is a piece of parchment, probably from a manuscript 
 missal, to which the 28th leaf corresponds, and the object of this 
 insertion is not clear; and while the accounts for 1554 precede this 
 leaf, those for 1553 follow it. The accounts run from 1539 to 1603, 
 the last year being imperfect. The greater portion of the writing 
 is in the hand of Roger Foliott, who was possibly a draper, as blue 
 satin for a vestment was bought of him in 1554, and there are 
 several entries of sums he received for recording the accounts; for 
 instance, in 1561, "for his paynes in writing in this book heretofore," 
 5 J., and in 1567, "for writing and keeping our accounts divers 
 times," 6s. Sd. Possibly earlier entries of this nature refer also to 
 him. In 1 591 a dispute as to certain sums of money arose between 
 him and the parishioners, which being referred to the arbitration of 
 the Dean ended in his having to pay 50^-. to the churchwardens. 
 After this his handwriting appears no more, and the entries to the 
 end were made by Guthlake Foliott, probably his son, who was 
 allowed, in 1598, 4s. gd. for keeping the books for five years. He 
 was, no doubt, the grandfather of the Guthlake Foliott who entered 
 his pedigree at the Visitation of Worcestershire in 1682 \ and claimed 
 descent from the Foliotts of Pirton, but whose pedigree was found 
 not to join to tliat family. Indeed, among the numerous members of 
 that family given in the pedigree recorded in the Visitation of 1569"^ 
 hardly a Christian name common to the two families occurs ; and 
 Guthlake P^oliott in 1682 appears not to have known the name of 
 his grandmother, nor that his great-grandfather was Roger Foliott 
 of St. Michael's. Roger was churchwarden for seven of the years 
 in this account, the earliest 1548 and the last 1583. His name 
 does not occur in the list of those assessed to the poor in 1599. He 
 • Metcalfe's Vis. of Wore, 1682-3, 47. • Harl. Soc. xxvii. 53.
 
 VI INTRODUCTION. 
 
 seems to have been an active member of the community. He 
 conducted negotiations for the sale of the church plate in 1573, ^"d 
 in the same year was concerned in getting payment for a debt due 
 to the church from Mr. Fisher when he died. In the same year also 
 he had a licence from the Dean and Chapter to present John 
 Wilkinson to the living of St. Martin's, in their patronage. He paid 
 1 2d. for a seat for his wife in 1569, and, like many parishioners, was 
 not above borrowing the church money from time to time. Guthlake 
 Foliott was warden in the years 1595, 1596, and 1602. 
 
 The accounts open in the 31st year of the reign of Henry VHI., 
 1539- The Act of Supremacy vesting authority over all ecclesi- 
 astical matters in the Crown had been passed in 1534 ; two years 
 later followed the suppression of the smaller monasteries and nun- 
 neries, and in 1539 the dissolution of the larger monasteries, and the 
 disappearance of mitred abbots from the House of Lords occurred. 
 In this year also John Bell succeeded Hugh Latimer, who after- 
 wards was burnt at the stake, as Bishop of Worcester ; and in this 
 year Henry Holbeach, the last prior of the monastery, became the 
 dean of the new Cathedral establishment. The Act known as the 
 " Six Articles " had been passed in this year, which declared that 
 transubstantiation, communion in one kind, celibacy of the clergy, 
 monastic vows, private masses, and the binding powers of vows of 
 chastity, were agreeable to the law of God. Burning was the penalty 
 fixed for the denial of transubstantiation, and for a second offence 
 against either of the other five doctrines. In 1547 a copy of this Act, 
 then called a " book of the six articles," cost the parishioners of St. 
 Michael's ^d. In 1538 the royal license was given to Coverdale's 
 translation of the Bible; and in 1540 Cranmer's Bible, known as the 
 Great Bible, was appointed by royal command to be read in churches. 
 In 1545 the parishioners gave ^d. for a "chain to tie the Bible." 
 
 Nash says* the church is a peculiar, subject to the juris- 
 diction of the Dean and Chapter of Worcester. The ordinary 
 meaning of this would be that the church had no other eccle- 
 siastical superior than the Dean and Chapter, and that the Bishop 
 had no right to include the church in his visitations. But in the 
 case of St. Michael's, with that of other peculiars in the Diocese of 
 Worcester, such as Alvechurch, Hanbury, Hartlebury, Stratford, 
 and other parislies, all being manors which with their advowsons 
 
 • II. 320-
 
 INTRODUCTION. VU 
 
 belonged to the Bishop of Worcester, this would not free it from 
 the visitations of the Bishop, though it would from those of the 
 Archdeacon ; and in these accounts there is no record of any pro- 
 curations being paid to him. Accordingly, many entries relate to 
 the visitations of the Bishop ; and moreover the Archbishop of 
 Canterbury visited the church on two occasions, in 1562 and 1573. 
 The first visitation mentioned is in 1552, when the parish ap- 
 peared and paid its procurations at St. Helen's church. Payments 
 for procurations, usually is. 6d., and other expenses connected with 
 the function, occur at intervals to the end of the accounts. Tlie 
 same sum was paid in 1559 on the "Queen's visitation," whatever 
 that may mean. It was the first year of her reign. In 1592 the 
 parishioners treated themselves to a dinner on the occasion, for 
 which they paid 3J. 4^. ; having been satisfied in 1580 with a break- 
 fast. In 1594 the visitation took place on 15 July; the bells were 
 rung at the coming of the Bishop, who was then Richard Fletcher, 
 the visitation probably being conducted in person ; and the Sides- 
 men or Six Men of the parish had a dinner provided for them. 
 The parishioners paid the Apparitor for his fees 2d. on the occa- 
 sion, and bought a book of Articles for is. 6d. Again in 159S the 
 Bishop, Gervase Babington, personally visited the church, and the 
 parish provided him with wine at a cost of y- 8d., no small quantity. 
 The churchwardens and sidesmen had a dinner, and specially bought 
 for the feast a pound of sugar for is. 8d. This time also the 
 Apparitor was ready with a book for the parish to buy ; they paid 
 him lod. for a Prayer Book. In four of the last years for which ac- 
 counts exist the Bishop, then Gervase Babington, gave sums of money 
 at Christmas time for the relief of the poor; 13^. 4^. in the first of 
 these years and afterwards 20s. ; possibly on account of his position 
 as possessor of the chief house in the parish. It is probable that St. 
 Michael's was included in the peculiar jurisdiction of the Cathedral. 
 Still the Dean and Chapter had some authority in the parish, 
 the precise nature of which cannot be said. Whitson farthings were 
 paid to them possibly every year, though the entries are irregular ; 
 the payments are in some instances for arrears. The sum was 5^/. ; 
 in 1546 Edward Porter was the receiver, in 1567 one Clent, and in 
 1581 and 1584 Roger Clarke; and the S<^- paid on Trinity Sunday, 
 1559, was possibly of this nature. In the dispute between Roger 
 Foliott and the parishioners in 1591 the Dean arbitrated, and
 
 viii INTRODUCTION. 
 
 in 1593 an old woman was relieved with parish money at his request. 
 The authority, too, was of such a nature that it was possible for the 
 parish to quarrel with the Dean. One such quarrel seems to have 
 occurred in 1596, but what it was about there is no positive indi- 
 cation, though possibly it had to do with the parish property. In 
 1 591 a petition concerning Mr. Chance's house had been made 
 to the Dean, and in 1593 a sum of 10s. was paid to the Dean "for 
 Mr. Cyrell for making a release concerning Ballard's house ; " and 
 in 1603, for a deputation under the common seal of the Dean and 
 Chapter concerning the house Dr. Hare gave to the parish, which 
 was Ballard's house, and the rent of which Mr. Chance paid in 1594, 
 and for other expenses about the business, the parish paid 22s. 6d. 
 Whatever the dispute wjis about, the parish tried persuasion first ; 
 they sent a petition, for the "making" of which they paid \2d., 
 to the Dean and Chapter in 1 593 ; and this apparently being 
 ineffectual, they " sett proces " against the same body in the follow- 
 ing year. The process was served at Hereford, and the Dean and 
 Chapter met at Bewdley, where the churchwardens and other 
 parishioners also attended. A number of items connected with this 
 business appear in the accounts for this year, including legal advice, 
 sealing the writ, replying to the Dean's defence, and the personal 
 expenses of the parishioners, which amount in the whole to the sum 
 oi £\ los. gd. The suit was heard before the Council of the Marches 
 of Wales, and after all the parish was not successful, as may be 
 gathered from the fact that they were ordered to pay 20s. towards 
 the Dean's costs, which were handed to Dr. Lewis, the receiver of 
 the Cathedral, sometime after 2 June in 1594. 
 
 When these accounts begin Roger Hughes was the parson of 
 the parish. Nash does not mention his institution, but says Owen 
 Lloyd was instituted incumbent in 1534; and after him he gives 
 no other till 1551, when William Hunt was instituted^; but his 
 name does not occur in the accounts. At this time Nash says the 
 patronage lapsed to the crown, and Green - in his History of Wor- 
 cester continues this by saying, " and has so continued ever since, 
 it not being worth while to pay the expense of the seals, &c., on 
 account of the smallness of the Rectorj-. It is therefore held 
 by license." There are many entries in the accounts relating to 
 payments to clergymen, the first two being in 1545 and 1546 to the 
 • Nash, II. 323. ■ History of Worcester, 47.
 
 INTRODUCTION. Jx 
 
 parson, unnamed, for two quarters of a year 13J. 4^/., and three 
 quarters of a year, 20s., and the next one to Sir Richard Wale in 
 1554, for half a quarter's service at the communion board, 5^. ; 
 possibly the payment to Master VVycho in 1543 was one to the 
 parson. There seems to have been no reguhir clergyman paid by 
 the parishioners till 1561 ; previously to that year John Dyckyn, 
 John ]5irkcn, Richard Wale and Richard Warrett received small 
 sums at various times for their services. From 1561 to 1573 the 
 regular clergyman seems to have been Henry Ilimbleton, whose 
 stipend appears to have been 13J. 4^. a quarter, or £2 13J. 4^. a year. 
 The entries of payment to him are not regular ; in some years 
 the parish paid all the quarters, in others one or more, in some 
 none. The incumbent seems necessarily to have had some other 
 source from which he received his " wages," as his emolument is 
 called, even if his stipend only amounted to the sum mentioned 
 above. And this source, from the entry in 1591 of an award in 
 a dispute between Roger Foliott and the parishioners, appears to 
 have been the Church of Worcester, otherwise the Dean and Chap- 
 ter, who had paid to Foliott a yearly pension for the use of the 
 parson of the church, the whole of which had not been accounted 
 for. The amount of the pension, however, is not stated. After 
 1573 there is no entry of the kind till 1579, when Mr. Bell, whose 
 Christian name is not given, was paid at the same rate for a quarter 
 due at Michaelmas in that year. There was a parsonage house 
 belonging to the church, for Mr. Bell was given tw-o several sums of 
 5J. towards its repair. He seems to have held the cure till 1582, 
 when Edward Slough, afterwards in 1585 presented by Edward 
 Dalton of Holbury by license from the Dean and Chapter to 
 Bredicote, was curate of the church. No other clergyman is named 
 till 1 591, when Mr. Fisher was the minister, the first payment to 
 him being the usual 13^-. 4^/. for a quarter's service. Afterwards 
 some agreement as to stipend was entered into between him and the 
 parishioners. Nothing more is to be seen of quarterly payments, 
 but 22 July, 1594 he was given, "according to agreement," lOs.; 
 and in following years \os. or \2s., "by consent of the whole parish," 
 for some such reason as this, "to augment his small commodity for 
 serving the cure among us." On 2 Sept. 1601, " Richard Hill our 
 minister" was paid 24^-. "on account of the smallness of his living 
 and benefit among us," for his services for the two years then last
 
 X INTRODUCTION. 
 
 past, when he was present and signed the account. Three clergj*- 
 men are mentioned in the Taxation list for 1601. 
 
 Besides these payments, the incumbent received also half the 
 money paid by the communicants at Easter for bread and wine. 
 In Mr. Himbleton's time this seems to have crystallised into 
 a fixed sum of 8/., but when Mr. Bell and Mr. Slough were in- 
 cumbents, the exact half was again paid to them. In 1597 this 
 payment was made "according to ancient custom." ]Mr, Bell was 
 possibly a man of more than usual energy ; a key to the chancel 
 door was provided for him ; he it was who discovered that the 
 parsonage house was in need of repair, and he asked for and got 
 special sums given him for distribution among the " poorest of the 
 parish." It may be that he was the Mr. Bell who spoke an oration 
 to Queen Elizabeth on her visit to Worcester on 18 Aug. 1574^ 
 In the accounts rendered on 8 July, 1596, is an item of 8d. for 
 a quart of claret fetched for Mr. Thornhill the day he preached at 
 the church, who on a like occasion, on 12 Jan. in the previous year, 
 had a quart of muscadell given him, price is. 2d. 
 
 How the parish clerk was paid does not appear. There is no 
 regular entrj^ of sums paid to him. In the very early years of 
 the accounts he seems to have had 6s, Sd. a quarter, and his name 
 was Vulfray, but afterwards nothing was given him beyond very 
 small sums, and these at very scattered intervals. But there are 
 several entries concerning him. In 1 562 William Ferecliffe was the 
 clerk, who paid 4^. for a seat in that year ; in 1577 Dixson ; in 1583 
 William Heywood, who was given 6s. Sd. towards his expenses 
 in coming from London to take up the office. He, however, did not 
 hold the office long, for in 1584 Richard Jackson was "our clerk." 
 An entry in this year seems to shew that Jackson had had lent to 
 him the large sum of ;^i8 6s. lod., of which 20s. was repaid, and 
 6s. 2>d. was forgiven, and the rest was to be received by the church- 
 wardens at the rate of 6s. a year out of the rent of the clerk's house, 
 in which Christopher the underkeeper lived. There must be an error 
 in the figures, as the debt would not be repaid in 56 years ; and 
 there is no entr}' of the receipt of the 6j. in any of the following years. 
 His wife, as had the clerk's wife in 1580, washed the church linen 
 in 1592. In the same year, his wife and daughter being sick, he 
 had I2d. given him, and he received other sums of money at odd 
 
 ' Nash, App. 97.
 
 INTRODUCTION. xi 
 
 times as one of "our parish poore." He possibly died before 1598, 
 since in that year widow Jackson was one of the recipients of charity 
 money; and 16 Sept. 1599, she had 4^. given her "in her sickness," 
 and three days afterwards iier daughter received I2ci. towards her 
 burial. In 1598, 4^d., the surplus of the accounts, was given to the 
 clerk for his "extraordinary attendance ;" and in 1599 and the fol- 
 lowing years to the end, Robert Creswell was the clerk. In 1 590 the 
 parish clerk had is. given to him as one of the poor. In 1545 the 
 wardens bought a pair of gloves " for the clerke's ease " for 2c/., and 
 he had another pair the next year. In 1553, he and two women were 
 paid IS. for cleaning the church after the roodloft was taken down. 
 In 1580, the washing of the church linen was done by the clerk's 
 wife. He wore a surplice, for it is mentioned in the list of church 
 goods in 1552, and was mended at a cost of 2d. in 1568. lie was 
 provided with a psalter in 1584 at a cost of 2s., and took especial 
 pains about something on 18 Aug. 1598, for which he was re- 
 warded by IS. He had charge of the bells, for he paid 4^/. to 
 the warden for ringing in 1598, possibly fees for the use of bells 
 on private occasions, and to him was paid, in later years at least, 
 the money for ringing on the Queen's coronation-day. In 1599 
 and 1603, he received 2s. each time for ringing on the day of the 
 Queen's coronation, and entries of payments on this account occur 
 regularly, but it is not elsewhere said that the sum went to the 
 clerk. In 15S1, los. was given to the clerk towards building his 
 chimney, and in 1590 there was paid i.r. 4d. for mending the clerk's 
 house. 
 
 Not much was spent during these years upon the fabric of the 
 church, except upon the roof and windows. The church was white- 
 washed in 1551 and 1553 and again in 1571, at which latter date 
 they used in the business Sd. worth of Bristol lime. The tower was 
 repaired at a cost of 2s. ii(/. in 1558 ; and if the .steeple and the 
 tower were the same, as was probably the case, it required a ladder 
 in 1567, the stairs in it were repaired at the same time, and the lock 
 on the steeple door mended and had a new key provided for it. 
 A bar was fixed to the church door in 1547. The walls were 
 mended in 1580 and 1593 ; and in 1594 10s. was spent in painting 
 the church ; and in 1596 the gallery was coloured, after an alteration 
 to the stairs. The following year the gallery was benched. In i 580 
 the choir was paved. The whole church was cleaned down in 1580,
 
 xii INTRODUCTION. 
 
 and again in 1596. The walls of the church and chancel were 
 decorated with sentences from Scripture in 1596, and the same had 
 previously been done in 154S, when the church was plastered and 
 whitened, and i^s. 4^. spent in painting. The roof required more 
 attention. It was mended in 1551 ; in 1566 it took a man two days 
 to stop up holes between the rafters to keep out pigeons. In 1559, 
 1566, 1571, 1580, 15S4, 1590, 1594. and 159S the tiling of the church 
 was repaired, and on two of the occasions 500 tiles were used ; the 
 lead was repaired in 1594. The church had a door at the "nether 
 end," for which a key was bought in 1553. In 1594, a penny was 
 spent on besoms, and in 1596, 8^. on brushes "for clean keeping 
 the church." 
 
 Repairs to the church windows were a continual expense, items 
 relating to tliem appearing regularly all through the accounts. In 
 1580, the south window was boarded up, and possibly it was this 
 same one that required mending in 1598. In 1596 and 1598, 
 extensive repairs were carried out by George Shewesmith the 
 glasier ; in the former year three new panes containing i6j^ feet 
 of glass were provided by him, and 20 pieces of original glass reset, 
 and in the latter 36 new squares were used in the windows of the 
 church and chancel, and the high window on the south side was 
 extensively repaired. In 1596 all the windows were cleaned down — 
 " scoured " it is called — for Christmas. 
 
 The bells of the church afford numberless entries. How many 
 there were does not appear ; three men received refreshment for 
 ringing in 1547. At least 36 new bellropes were provided during 
 the period the accounts cover, and 19 baldricks. This, spelled 
 variously baldericke, bawdrick, balrick, balryche, badricke and ball 
 ryck, was the leather strap that attached the clapper to the bell, 
 and besides being frequently replaced was often repaired. The 
 " stirrop " mended in 1599 was another name for tlie baldrick. And 
 there are numerous entries also of repairs to the bells and the bell 
 wheels, from the year 1543 onwards to the end. In 1548 two small 
 bells weighing 61b. were sold for gd. In 1566 the little bell was 
 recast and more weight put to "him" at a cost of lys. ; but 14 
 years after it was possibly done away with, for there is an entry 
 of 6d. paid to " men to help down with the frame where our little 
 bell hanged." The "sance" bell was mended and had a new bald- 
 rick in 1595 ; this was the bell rung at the elevation of the Host
 
 INTRODUCTION. XJ'i 
 
 at the parish Mass, and was fixed outside the church, frequently 
 on the apex of the eastern gable of the nave. If it were not for 
 this entry and another in 1582, which shews that the sance bell was 
 still used, though certainly not for its original purpose, one would 
 have imagined that the previously mentioned framework which was 
 taken down in 1580 was that connected with the "sanctus" or 
 "sance" bell. A penny was spent at the "waying" of this bell, 
 when the stock was repaired with new ironwork in 1543 ; and in 
 1598, "lycker," probably oil, of a like value was purchased for the 
 bells. Only one entry, that in 1547, mentions ale or food given to 
 the ringers, but there are several which give the sum paid to them 
 for ringing. In 1547 the bells were rung "at the procession for the 
 victory in Scotland," that is, at the battle of Pinkie, near Mussel- 
 burgh, fought 10 Sept. 1547, when the Scots were defeated with 
 great slaughter. In the accounts for 1555 there is an entry of 
 payment for ringing at the " bondfires for the Queen," possibly 
 rejoicing at Queen Mary's marriage with Philip, 25 July, 1554. After 
 this the only entries of money paid to the ringers, with one ex- 
 ception, refer to the day of the Queen's " cntring," the Queen's 
 " renewing of her reign," on her " Holy day," 17 Nov. in each year, 
 the day on which Elizabeth came to the throne. The exception is 
 ringing at the Bishop's coming to visit the church in 1594. No 
 doubt there was tumultuous bell-ringing when the news of the 
 defeat of the Armada came to Worcester, but accounts for this 
 period do not exist in detail. The amount paid for ringing in later 
 years was 2S. ; and for a considerable time Richard Jackson had 
 the management of the bell-ringing, for this was one of the func- 
 tions of the parish clerk. 
 
 Before 1548 there were three altars in St. Michael's church, 
 a high altar and two side altars. In the accounts rendered i Nov. 
 in this year, the second of Edward VI., are entered the expenses 
 of taking them down, of paving where they stood, and mending 
 the wall under the chancel window, in all 8s. -jd. It seems to have 
 been a sudden order that they should be removed, since earlier in the 
 same account is entered an expenditure of 4^-. for painting the three 
 of them. On each of them stood a table, which was sold, that 
 on the high altar fetching u., the others 4^/. less. Over the high 
 altar was a "trimmer," probably a canopy, and it, two ends, and 
 two frames were also disposed of. Two forms for the communion to
 
 XIV INTRODUCTION. 
 
 be received at and a " table to be set in the church " were purchased 
 in the same year, the latter costing los. " Stolls," probably hang- 
 ings, were bought for the "tabell" in 1551. When Mary came 
 to the throne a brick altar was built to replace the "communion 
 horde" mentioned in the same account, that for 1554; the three 
 quarters of a hundred of brick necessary, and other expenses, 
 costing Qj. 2\d. Five ells of cloth to make altar-cloths were bought 
 in 1554, and the altar-cloths were washed in 1559; but this altar 
 had no long existence, nor was it probably verj' strongly built, for 
 the cost of its removal in the accounts for 1559, the second year 
 of Elizabeth, was only y. Sd., and there was " rubbell " to be 
 " ridded ; " another communion-table was bought in this year, this 
 time for 6s. There is a mention of the communion board in 1566 ; 
 in 15S0 the " carpet for the communion table " was mended, and the 
 holes in the cloth for the table ; and in 1595 a desk was provided 
 for it at a cost of lod. 
 
 There are several mentions of the pulpit. It was moved in 1546, 
 and the seat where " he " stood was mended. A desk and ironwork 
 was pro\nded in 1548, and the same year the top was sold for 2^. 
 and the "fob" for 2d. In 15S0 the pulpit was moved again and 
 a seat made where it was taken from ; and there occurs also an 
 imperfect entry about some pillars that were connected with it. 
 Possibly the two cushions mentioned this year, lined with two red 
 skins and stuffed with feathers, were for the pulpit. In 1599 it was 
 painted at a cost of 2s. 6d., and also mended, the total amount spent 
 about it being \\s. 2d. The roodloft was taken down in 1553 and 
 sold for 1 5 J. 2d., and more of the old timber belonging to it in 1560 
 for 35. St. Michael's was one of the churches in Worcester that 
 possessed an organ. A hundred and a half of lead pipes belonging 
 to it were sold in 1548 for \d. a pound, and some pewter pipes 
 at 2d. a pound. The case and coffer of the " organs " (the word was 
 at that time alwaj^ used in the plural) were sold at tlie same time. 
 A font is never mentioned throughout the accounts. 
 
 We now come to deal with the seats in the church. The first 
 entry relating to them is in 1546, when \s. lod. was paid for making 
 doors for them, so it is clear they had bj' that time taken the form 
 of pews. Another entry in the same year relates to mending 
 Mr. Borne and his wife's seat. From this it might be gathered that 
 although the men and women were separated generally in the church.
 
 INTRODUCTION. XV 
 
 a man and his wife could sit together ; it would be a curious co- 
 incidence that in long ranges of seats in different parts of the church 
 the two belonging to a man and his wife should at the same time 
 alone require repair. Other entries would lead one to suppose that 
 the sexes were not rigidly separated. In 1567 Mistress Bland paid 
 12^. for a seat that her husband had for her friends to kneel in, the 
 sex of the friends being unspecified ; and the same year Dr. Hare, 
 who afterwards at his death left his house to the parish, had a seat 
 allotted to his house for ever, for which he paid $s., and which cost 
 6s. 8d. to construct. In this seat no doubt persons of both sexes 
 could sit. Still as a rule men and women did sit in different parts 
 of the church. An entry in 1595 mentions five seats for women 
 on the north side of the church, and men's seats in the middle of 
 the church. From an entry in the next year it can be gathered 
 that there were eight long seats for women on the north side, each 
 4 yards in length, and that the middle row of the men's seats was 
 as long. Here also are two mentions of doors to seats, so that 
 unless each individual kneeling possessed a door, which is hardly 
 likely, those seats must have been pews. Seats were made in 1589 ; 
 seats on the south side of the church are mentioned in 1596, and 
 scats for minister and clerk in 1597. There were also scats in the 
 choir, and in 1597 the wardens so little respected the fabric of 
 the chancel that they " hewed the wall " to accommodate them. 
 A new seat in the chancel was constructed in 1598, three new seats 
 having been placed there in 1581. Seating accommodation was 
 getting limited in 1599, for in this year some alterations were carried 
 out by which "one whole new seat" was gained in the middle row 
 in the body of the church, and some seat doors that were broken 
 down repaired. There are several entries of "gemelles " or hinges 
 provided for the doors. In 1584 are some curious entries relating 
 to Mrs. Bullingham's seat. She had one allotted to her for i2c/., 
 and it was built at a cost of 12^. 2d., shewing that this probably also 
 was a pew. But the curate interfered, the word indicating the nature 
 of his interference being absolutely undecipherable. Whatever 
 it might have been, the seat was removed at a cost of 8^. ; curiously 
 small when the expense of constructing the seat is considered. Her 
 husband apparently had bought a seat in 1579. 
 
 The prices of seats remained about the same from first to last 
 of these accounts, ^d., 6d., Sd. or I2(/. being the general prices.
 
 xvi INTRODUCTIOX. 
 
 no doubt according to position in the church. In 1599 the payment 
 of 6d. for a removal is entered. Apparently as a rule the payment 
 was a payment down and not a rent ; but in one or two instances 
 a person seems to pay a second or even a third time in after years. 
 Ralph Symons paid in 1562 and 1568; Humphrey Peryn in 1567, 
 1579 and 15S2 ; William Ford in 1568 and 15S2 ; and Timothy Ford 
 and his wife in 1595, and he again 1599. Possibly, however, these 
 were for additional members of their families. If, as is now always 
 said, the church was open free to all parishioners, any one of them 
 who wanted a fixed seat to go to had to pay for it ; and if that was 
 the case, it implied that some one had power to keep unauthorized 
 persons out of the allotted seats. In the later years which the ac- 
 counts cover, payments for seat money become very numerous, in 
 the years 1595 to 1602 no less than 116 persons being allotted seats 
 upon payment. This extensive allotment entailed considerable 
 alterations. In 1595 £1 2s. Sd. was spent upon the seats, in 1596 
 £1 OS. od., in 1597 £l 2s. ^d., and in 1599 ;£'i us.; in 1599 also 
 a special entry is made of a whole seat being gained. With all 
 these seats that were paid for there would be but little room in 
 a small church like St. Michael's for the free worshipper. 
 
 There is no trace in these accounts of the jurisdiction of the 
 Ordinary in this matter, the supreme authority in the matter of 
 seats, as in all other matters of Church government, according to 
 the present interpretation of the Church law. The parishioners, 
 either at their meetings or through their wardens, with whom it 
 appears from an entrj^ in 1 566 were joined for the purpose the si.x 
 men or sidesmen of the parish, seem to have allotted seats with 
 a free hand, assuming to themselves power not only to allot a seat 
 to a person possibly for his life, but, as in the case of Dr. Hare's 
 house, to a house for ever. It is said in books that the custom of 
 paying for seats took its rise after the Reformation. In the accounts 
 for St. Helen's, in this book, are items for seat money as early as 
 1 5 19. It was no new custom when all these payments were made at 
 St. Michael's. Xow-a-days it is said that pew rents are illegal : they 
 cannot be recovered in law for lack of consideration. But it can 
 hardly be supposed that when this dictum was laid down that the 
 immense body of custom, which numberless churchwardens' accounts 
 shew existed from early times, was duly considered. Pews were 
 paid for universally in the old parish church, and though these
 
 INTRODUCTION. xvii 
 
 payments might not have been wliat arc now known as rents, at 
 all events tlicy were money payments. 
 
 The parish possessed a bier and a hcrse, the latter being a 
 framework set up over the coffin to support the pall. At the 
 death of Henry VIII. in 1547, a special " Dirige," a funeral service 
 so called from the first words of the hymn used on such occa- 
 sions, Dirige grcssHS vicos, and Mass were held. The service appears 
 to have been in the nature of a mock funeral, for they used the 
 herse, and set upon it two papers of the " King's Amies," for which 
 they paid 3^'. In this year not only is there an entry for mending 
 the bier and herse, but another to the effect that they bought a new 
 bier and herse which with the ironwork cost 4^-. 8^. The bier 
 was mended in 1559, 1580, 1594, and 1599. There was a desk 
 in the chancel which was mended in 1599, perhaps the one bought 
 for dd., 8 Nov. 1579. A board was set on the church door in 1547, 
 costing \d. ; and they bought a poor men's chest, possibly incited to 
 do so by Archbishop Cranmcr's Visitation Articles, one of which 
 runs to this effect : " Item. Whether they have provided and have 
 a strong chest for the poor men's box, and set and fastened the 
 same near to their high altar." The chest cost 6j. Zd., and by the 
 year 1551 appears to have been the means of collecting y. /^d., and 
 in 1554, of IS. 4^. The church box, from which 2>s. was taken 
 at Easter in 1555, is possibly this one. In the year 1547 there is 
 an entry of 2d. spent " for the pane of the Pater noster, the Articles 
 of our Faith, with the Ten Commandments of God," which entry 
 has afterwards been struck out. If this was a board on which these 
 subjects were set out even in brief, the sum seems very little ; and at 
 any rate the meaning of the entry being struck out is obscure. In 
 1562 a table of the Commandments cost \s. ^d., and in 1581 they 
 purchased a frame for the Ten Commandments for ^d. Those in 
 office seem to have possessed a special faculty for losing keys ; 
 the purchases of at least nine new ones are entered at various 
 times. In 1592 the subject is disguised thus, "Item for Akey for 
 a coffer," ihd. 
 
 There are three inventories of church goods, in 1552, in 1561, 
 and in 1594. They differ considerably in their characteristics. The 
 first contains several church ornaments, that is adjuncts to the 
 services of the church, with some vestments ; the second consists 
 nearly entirely of vestments ; and the last, of books, vestments, and 
 
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 xvlii INTRODUCTION. 
 
 two articles of communion plate. Previous to 1552 there would 
 appear to have been considerable peculation throughout England 
 in the matter of church goods. Ornaments had come to be con- 
 sidered as idolatrous and superstitious, and in many cases parish- 
 ioners and other persons seem to have taken advantage of this 
 change of feeling to dispose of the goods to themselves or others, 
 and to use the money for the benefit of their parish, or perhaps 
 sometimes of themselves. It was to meet this peculation that 
 the Commissions to inquire into what church goods remained to 
 the parishes throughout England were issued in the last year of 
 Edward VI., 1552. There was no question of enforcing any parti- 
 cular ritual ; it appears that the lists were made merely to prevent 
 any more ornaments being disposed of, and that those that remained 
 might be preser\-ed to be dealt with in the future in any way the 
 Crown might think fit. In 1548 the wardens of St. Michael's had 
 disposed of church goods to the value of ;{J2 4s. 11^., including a lamp 
 and censer weighing 20 pounds, brass standards, a copper cross and 
 platter, and the pipes of the organ. That there had been some sort 
 of an inquiry into church goods this year is pretty clear, since 8^/. 
 was spent in writing two inventories for the King's Commissioners 
 in that respect, and 2d. was paid to the goldsmith for weighing 
 the plate. In 1566 the holy water-pot of lead weighing 15 pounds 
 was sold for i6ci. 
 
 Commissioners enquiring into church goods were about again in 
 1573, when 2s. was paid to them, but no inventory of that date is 
 entered in the book. The purpose of the inventory of 1561, pos- 
 sibly the one for the making of which Sd. was paid in 1559, and of 
 1594 does not appear; they may have been lists made by the 
 churchwardens merely as matters of record. Nor is there any trace 
 of a second Commission issued by Edward VI. in 1553^ in which 
 he directed surplus goods to be sold for his own benefit, and surplus 
 vestments and coverings to be distributed among the poor of every 
 parish. Probably a curious history lies under an entry in 1554, in 
 which John Parker, the churchwarden, states that he had received 
 of Mr. Blunt certain church goods. It is pretty clear that these had 
 belonged to the church before the inventory was made two years 
 before. Here we find a pyx restored ; then the church only pos- 
 sessed the cover of a pyx. Mr. Blunt's man had to be placated 
 ■ 7lh Rep. of the Deputy Keeper of the Public Records.
 
 INTRODUCTION. xix 
 
 with Cd. when Parker fetched " the cross and the rest of the church 
 stuff ;" and possibly the cross was the most important piece of it, as it 
 is mentioned in this entry. At all events the goods were not in any 
 very good condition, for the pyx and chrisniatory required mending, 
 and the censer required three chains. 
 
 Apart from these inventories there are several mentions of church 
 goods. Payments for scouring the lamps, or the candlesticks, or the 
 brasen stuff occur during the earlier years. At the Mass at King 
 Henry's death two candlesticks had been coloured black. In 1566 
 the wardens bought a cup and pot for the communion board for 3^., 
 and paid 6d. for the carriage of them from London. In 1571 they 
 sold their chalice for £2 gs. ^d, and bought a communion cup 
 for £2 2s. 2d. ; the case in which it was kept required mending in 
 1597- The paten of a chalice was sold in 1571 for £1 "js. 6d. 
 Two entries of 1548, of which the meaning is doubtful, may be 
 mentioned here. A " Jack, two skuellcs, and a bill " were pur- 
 chased for 9^-., and immediately afterwards, " A nothcr Jack " for 
 SJ. ?>d. The name Jack is applied to so many articles of common use 
 that it is an indefinite term. Skuelles also is a word I don't know. 
 
 Surplices are the vestments most frequently mentioned, usually 
 in connection with their mending. From beginning to ending of the 
 accounts the washing of the "church clothes," the "church gear," or 
 the "church linen" is entered in nearly every year, the sum through- 
 out, with few exceptions, being 2s. The parson's surplice was "col- 
 lored " in 1548. Whether this is "coloured" or "collared" the 
 spelling leaves indefinite. In this year an arras covering which was 
 used for the sepulchre was sold to Mr. Blunt for 6s. 8d., and two 
 " tucking girdles for albes" were bought for 2d. Albes are several 
 times mentioned variously spelled ; in one place no doubt "havvbys" 
 stands for this vestment. In 1554, the first year of Queen Mary, 
 large purchases of stuffs and vestments" were made. Vestments of 
 white branch damask and of blue satin were bought, and also an 
 altar-cloth, cloth for a corporas, dowles for new amices, and ynkel 
 for lace for the same. Two new surplices were made in 1566, one 
 of dowles and one of linen, the former costing ly. and the latter 
 2is. ; and in 1571 an old surplice was sold for 4^. In 1593 another 
 new surplice was bought for i }s. 
 
 A set of Injunctions was issued by Edward VI., one of which 
 ordered the clergy to take down and destroy such images as had 
 
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 3tX INTRODUCTION. 
 
 been abused in their cures with pilgrimage, or offering of anything 
 made thereunto ; and another enjoined them to " destroy shrines 
 and coverings of shrines ; tables, candlesticks ; trindles of wax ; 
 pictures, paintings, and all other monuments of feigned miracles, 
 pilgrimage, idolatry and superstition." An entry of the purchase 
 of the King's Injunctions for 4//. occurs in the accounts for 1547, 
 and the accounts for the next year contain an entry of is. ^d. paid 
 to one John Davies for hewing down the seates of the images in 
 the church, and for covering the destruction with white wash ; and 
 the sayle, possibly saye, or woollen serge, and old clothes that 
 covered the Saints were sold for y. 4//. ; and no doubt the extensive 
 sale of church property recorded in the year 154S was on account 
 of its condemnation in the Injunctions. 
 
 Several purchases of books appear in the accounts. In 1547 the 
 parishioners bought the King's book of Homilies for is. ^d. ; in 
 154S a " paraphrasis in English" for the church : in 1554 a " piece 
 of a Mass book called the Canon and the Christening" for is. ; 
 a portuas for 55. in 1555 ; and in 1560 a Bible for it,s. and a com- 
 munion book for 4J. 2d. Besides the Injunctions procured in 1547, 
 another set cost 6d. in 1 560 ; and in the same year a book of orders 
 for the church cost 2^. There are several entries of the purchase of 
 paper, usually a penny worth at a time. In 1559 ink was included 
 in that sum. Books were bought more frequently in later years. 
 The accounts shew the following purchases; in 1562, a "little 
 book bought of John Gough" for 3^.; 1566, a psalter and a "com- 
 mon prayer"; 1569, a book of Homilies ; 1571, a book of Articles ; 
 15S0, a book of Homilies; 15S0, a book of prayer touching the 
 earthquake; 1581, a prayer book ; 1590, a service book ; and 1594, 
 a book of prayer for the Queen's Majesty, and a book of Articles. 
 In 1582, Edward Heks wrote in the Bible "where it lacked," and 
 new bosses and clasps were put to it at a cost of 5J. 4i/. In 1595, 
 a new " fair English Bible of the last translation authorised for the 
 use of the church" was procured for 16s., and a new large com- 
 munion book for 6s. ^d. In 159S a penny was paid for mending 
 the clasp of the Bible. One Mr. Morrys, Relator to the Council 
 of the Marches of Wales, had agreed to buy the old Bible, and 
 had paid is. in earnest of his bargain ; but he did not carry 
 it out, and the is. was forfeited, and duly accounted for by the 
 churchwarden, while the Bible was afterwards sold to Fowke
 
 INTRODUCTION. XXI 
 
 Broughton for "js. gd. The same gentleman had boutjht the " old 
 communion book" in 1594 for 3J. t^d., while the following year 
 is. 8d. is entered as having been spent on new binding and mending 
 the clerk's psalter and the old communion book, " long before it 
 was sold " being added in brackets. A Prayer-book and a statute- 
 book were bought in 1598. Two Register-books are mentioned 
 in the inventories of 1594. Previously to 1598, parish registers had 
 been kept in paper books, but in that year an order was made that 
 the paper books should be copied into parchment books, and the 
 registers afterwards kept in them. Accordingly we find in the 
 accounts for 1598 the purchase of a register- book for lis., and 
 a payment for copying the old one into it. This work appears 
 to have cost altogether 4SJ., exclusive of S^- ^^ the minister to 
 examine and approve it, and was done by Mr. Abraham Pilkington. 
 In 1597 the churchwardens enter 2d. paid to Mr. Warmstry's office 
 for a " prayer for the church in July, 1 596, then newly set forth 
 upon the then going out of the great fleet." This was a fleet 
 equipped at Plymouth under the alarm of a second Armada, in 
 which were embarked some 7,000 soldiers, to attack the Spanish 
 dominions in Europe, and commanded by Lord Effingham, the high 
 admiral. In the same year 6d. was paid for a brief touching 
 abstinence from certain meals and meats, resort to the church, 
 contribution to the poor, etc. 
 
 The Sepulchre, so frequently mentioned in the early years of 
 the accounts, was a temporary erection of wood, which was draped 
 with the most costly hangings the church could provide, and in 
 which was placed an additional Host folded up in a corporas, a 
 square piece of fine linen, consecrated by the priest for the Good 
 Friday's celebration ; for no consecration took place on that day. 
 Decorated with flowers and lights, people gazed into it from Good 
 Friday till early morn at Easter. Flowers were bought for the 
 "tapers of the Rood light" at a cost of 2d. in 1547. Sometimes 
 a niche in the stonework of the church on the north side of the 
 chancel was prepared for use as a sepulchre. The last mention of 
 the sepulchre in these accounts is in 1555. In years previous to this 
 are entries for dressing the sepulchre, and the pins, thread, naiis 
 and wire necessary for the work. The cost of the lights at this and 
 other ceremonies seems excessive in comparison with the amounts 
 paid for candles in the later years of the account, when they were
 
 xxn INTRODUCTION". 
 
 used only for the purpose of lighting the church in the dark days 
 about Christmas. In 1543 the lights cost ^s. id. and 3^. 4^. ; in 
 1545 7J. id. ; in 1547 6s. 6id. and 2s. si^- ', in the latter case details 
 are given so that it may be seen how the amounts were made up. 
 In 1555 they spent $s. for wax. In the later years from 1571 on- 
 wards an expenditure of 2d. or 4^. for wax candles from time to 
 time sufficed to provide sufficient light for the services of the 
 church. The lights mentioned are the rood light, the paschal light, 
 and the font taper ; and they had lamps also, a pint of oil for 
 them sometimes costing 4d. and sometimes Sd. Frankincense was 
 bought at several times, the last time in 1559. In this year there 
 is a curious entrj'^ of 6d. for "lead and making tokens at Easter." 
 At one time the remains of the wa.x, that which was not used for 
 the tapers at Easter, was melted into little medals and distributed 
 or sold under the name of " Agnus," of which practice this might be 
 a modified sun,-ival^. Six pounds of old wax were sold in 1566. 
 In 1557 there are entries of coals bought at Easter, and in 1559 
 of charcoal; purchased in Lent. An entry of the same kind occurs 
 in the St. Helen's accounts, and is noticed in the Introduction to 
 them at p. 44. The " pair of showes " mentioned in an entry con- 
 nected with tending the rood light in 1543 possibly denotes that 
 the payment is for two usings or "shows" of the light. In 1559 are 
 a series of entries, the only ones of the kind in the book, for sums 
 received for the use of lights at the burials of certain individuals, 
 and the reason for these receipts in this year only is obscure, but 
 in 1546 there is a receipt of 4s. for "light money," perhaps of this 
 nature. Indeed there are no mentions of burials throughout, ex- 
 cept of those of the poor of the parish, and only one entrj' from 
 which it can be inferred that burials in the body of the church 
 took place. This is in 1597, when Mr. Edward Archepole took 
 a gravestone out of the chancel and paved the place where it had 
 been ; for this privilege he paid 3^. 4J. 
 
 The first entrj- for " Housling Bred," that is bread for Holy 
 Communion, is in 1559, and entries for it are only found during 
 the next ten years. Wine for the Communion begins in 1558 and 
 continues till the end of the book. The usual custom was for the 
 bread and wine to be bought with the money collected from the 
 communicants at Easter, which was divided between the clergyman 
 ' Cbarchwardens' Accounts, St. Mary's, Reading, Int. viii.
 
 INTRODUCTION. xxiil 
 
 and the churchwardens, and half the cost defrayed by each party. 
 It is not impossible in the case of St. Michael's, since no entry 
 for the purchase of bread occurs after 1569, that the minister found 
 the bread as part of his share of the expenses. The amount paid 
 for wine varies very much in the several years, and possibly items 
 of this nature are sometimes omitted. In some of the years the date 
 of the payments for communion wine are specifically given, and 
 it may be taken that those were the days on which the sacrament 
 was administered to the parishioners. In 1582, for instance, wine 
 was bought on All Saints' Day, 17 Nov. (the day of the Queen's 
 accession), Dec. 3 (possibly Advent Sunday), Passion Sunday, Palm 
 Sunday, Maundy Thursday, Easter Eve, Easter Day, and Low 
 Sunday. In 1592 on 11 July, 15 August, St. Stephen's Day, Palm 
 Sunday, Easter Day, Low Sunday, and for communion since Low 
 Sunday. In 1593 wine was paid for the first Monday in the new 
 year, and on i, 8, 12, 14, 15 and 22 April, and 10 June. In 1594, 
 23 Sept., 31 Dec, 17, 24, 25, 28, 30 and 31 March, 7 and 21 April, 
 and Trinity Sunday. The quantities purchased vary from ^ pint 
 to a gallon; the kind of wine is once or twice specified as Muscadcll, 
 or Muscadine, or Bastard wine ; and the amounts paid in the several 
 years vary so greatly as to lead one to suppose that sometimes 
 tlie parson's share of the offertory was more heavily drawn upon 
 than at others, though in the later years the sums are more nearly 
 alike. In 1558 the Churchwardens spent is., the next year 3J. O^J., 
 in 1570 9^. S^, and in 1582 4s. 7\d. In 1591 the amount was 
 13J. lod., 1592, gs. \\d., 1593 and the three following years, some- 
 thing over 1 1 J. In 1599 they paid 14^. 3</., and in 1601, lis. 6d. 
 
 It appears to have been the custom at St. Michael's for the 
 churchwardens to have the assistance of six of the parishioners, 
 as sidesmen, in carrying on the affairs of the parish. They are 
 called the "Six Men," and in 1550, 1551, 1553 and 1566 their names 
 are given, while in 1567 they were to "continue as they are." At 
 the election in 1566 their duties are given as follows, "to be joined 
 with the said wardens for placing of seats, things to be done about 
 the church lands, and necessary affairs about the church." In 1594 
 and 159S a dinner for them was paid for at the visitation in those 
 years. When a regular assessment on the parishioners for the 
 relief of the poor was started 12 Aug. 1599, it was agreed to by the 
 Six Men. There was a parish constable also, but his election is
 
 XXIV IXTRODUCTION. 
 
 never mentioned. In 1559 he was paid for "beacon money" is., 
 and the next year the constable, then William Wright, paid 8d. 
 for a seat in the church. Henry Symons in 1569, Henry Pincer in 
 1573, Humfrey Peryn in 1581 were constables. There is an entry 
 in 15S4, the meaning of which is obscure, and which seems to shew 
 that at that time there were two constables, named Lj'noll and Lye. 
 These men were paid " for the subsidy of Edward Bullinghara " 3J. 
 In 1594 Stephen Rymill was constable, and he seems to have 
 become in some capacity or other mixed up with a little history 
 concerning a certain Fljiit. Flj-tt, I suppose, was ill, and $s. 6d. 
 was given to him, and a further sum of 2s. 6d. was given to Rymill 
 for him. Then we have an entry of is. to " hire women to search 
 Flytt's child ; " and last of all Flj'tt himself died and 6d. was paid 
 towards his burial. In the same j-ear some plague broke out in 
 the parish, for certain homes became infected, and Rymill seems 
 to have had to look after them ; for several weeks 2s. Sd. was paid to 
 these houses, from 8 April to 2 June. Rymill was a plumber, for 5^. 
 was paid to him in this year for mending the lead of the church ; 
 and he paid 8d. for a seat in 1597. In 1599 Thomas Spilsbury was 
 constable, and Sd. was paid to him for " a proclamation for weights 
 and measures." The first year in which the appointment of col- 
 lectors for the poor, the lineal forerunners of the parish overseers, is 
 mentioned is in 1585. One of them was Simon Jones. Now Simon 
 Jones, it appears, was a " tooth drawer," and a loan to him upon an 
 "obligation which remained in the hands of Roger Folliot," on 
 29 Oct. of 20s., to be repaid the next Lady day, seems to have been 
 a bad investment, for four years afterwards, in 1590, there are some 
 entries relating to the tooth drawer's debt. The cost of " entering 
 Mr. Picher " for the debt was ^d. There was money paid for a de- 
 claration and a "capias," which sounds uncommonly like somebody's 
 body being in danger of going to prison, and then one Coterell 
 " yielded to the debt." Finally in the same year Roger Folliot 
 repaid the 20s. "Symons the tooth drawer" paid 6d. for a seat 
 in 1582. Simon Jones fell into poor circumstances, and was a 
 regular recipient of charity money after 1 594. 
 
 Nearly every parochial ceremony formed the occasion of and 
 an excuse for a good drink at the expense of the parish. After 
 the churchwardens had rendered their accounts, they and the 
 parishioners adjourned to the tavern, and though in this case, as
 
 INTRODUCTION. xxv 
 
 in others, the entries are not to be found regularly, it may be 
 supposed that the practice continued all through the years, since 
 the first payment of the kind is in 1547 and the last in 1598. 
 Entries of sums spent in drinking at Easter arc much more frequent. 
 In 1543 3<:/. was spent in drinking, in 1555, iid., and in 1558, on the 
 parson and parish, is. ^d. ; so the parson was not above mingling 
 with his parishioners in the social glass. In 1567 the drinking on 
 Easter Day was in the afternoon, when 3^. 8^/. was spent ; in 1573 on 
 Easter Day, at night, when the cost was i.f. 4^. The sums tended 
 to increase towards the end of these accounts. In 1584 the sum 
 of 6s. is entered as Iiaving been provided for the parishioners by 
 the parish towards the bout, besides, it is naively added, " the money 
 they spent." Possibly it much depended upon the complaisance of 
 those in office whether they spent out of their own pockets much or 
 little ; the sum provided at the election of new churchwardens and 
 the rendering of the accounts of those who went out of office seems to 
 have been a fixed one of 2s. ; but the Easter amounts vary consider- 
 ably. For several years there are entries of money paid for drinking 
 at the " breaking up of the box," which is no doubt the same process 
 as that described in 1590 as "parting the church money," probably 
 the taking stock of and dealing with the money kept in the chest 
 or "coffer," a function at which the curate was present at least in 
 1584, and one attended with the distribution of refreshment. In 
 1593 as much as ^s. ^d. was spent on this occasion. Many are the 
 otlier excuses for the partaking of refreshment disclosed in these 
 accounts. In 1545 the "writing of two inventories," in 1554 "making 
 out the bill for the visitation," and in 1581 "granting a lease to 
 Mr. Patrick," were "excuses for the glass." In 1551 the representa- 
 tives of the parish took a bottle of Malmsey, and in 1573 a bottle 
 of wine to Clifton, and in 1594 a "pottle of sack" to the Court 
 at Severnstoke; in 1566 they spent ?>d. when " we went to survey our 
 church land at Clifton," and in 1569 yi. "before going to Clifton." 
 There is a curious entry in the accounts for 1566, the meaning of 
 which is doubtful, to the effect that the parishioners of St. John's 
 and Whittington met the parishioners of St. Michael's at Mr 
 Dighton's, for the " harvesting of men." Whatever this may mean 
 it was also an occasion for drinking. 
 
 The names of the persons at whose houses the drinking took 
 place are frequently mentioned, and no doubt they were the jovial
 
 xxvi INTRODUCTION. 
 
 landlords of that time, and most of them, since their names occur in 
 other ways in the accounts, landlords of public houses in the parish. 
 In 1554 the parish drank at Andrew Sutton's, in 1555 and 155S at 
 Mr. Bland's. In 1566 Mr. Dighton was the host they honoured 
 with their patronage, but in the same year they patronised also one 
 Kj-dson. In 1569 they went to three houses, Oseland's, Peryn's, 
 and George Cardmaker's ; the next year they went to Richard 
 Alen's. To Mr. Dighton they went again in 1573 and at Easter 
 in 15S2. In later years Walter Walker's appears to have been their 
 favourite hostelry, and there are also mentioned William Bristow's and 
 Nicholas Phillips's. Walter Walker was sufficiently impressed by 
 benefits received to leave the parish five pounds in his will, dated 9^ 
 April, 1603 s in which year the parish drank at his widow's before 
 going to Clifton. Edward, of the same surname, also an Innholder, 
 left another £s to the parish on 2S Sept., 1636. No doubt this 
 was Walter's son -. 
 
 From time to time there are entries which lead one to suppose 
 the parish was in some way responsible for those of its parishioners 
 who went to the wars. Whether they went voluntarily or involun- 
 tarily does not appear ; possibly the latter, since in 1 59S is an 
 entry relating to one John Newesham, who " was pressed into 
 Ireland," no doubt to take part in the suppression of the revolt 
 of Ulster under the Earl of Tyrone, as a " soldier from this parish." 
 He come back the same year, with a " license from his captain 
 by reason of his sickness," and was given 5^. Charges on account 
 of soldiers, usually setting forth to Scotland, and in 1560 to 
 Berwick, occur in the years 1545, 1547, IS53, 1560, and 1569; 
 and in 1581 the sum of 16s. was paid at the "setting out of foot- 
 men into Ireland." John Brabant, or Beaban, was the soldier 
 who went to Scotland in 1547, and towards his expenses each of 
 the churchwardens paid 2s. 6d. The parish possessed at least one 
 suit of harness, which was "scoured" in 1569, "dressed" by Hum- 
 phrey Peryn in 1579, and "scoured" in 15S0 and 1592 ; and they 
 bought harness from John Bland in the former of these years for 
 6s. 8d. They also possessed two swords, which were dressed at 
 the cost of 2s. in 1558, and the same year they purchased a 
 " soldier's coat " for 3^. SJ. They bought a bow for 3^. 4J. in 
 1558, and a sheaf of arrows in the same year for 2s. 6d., and another 
 
 ■ Nash, II. 320. • Ibid.
 
 INTRODUCTION. xxvii 
 
 sheaf at a cost of is. 6d. in 1569. In 1581 is. 4^. was paid for 
 the " training of soldiers." 
 
 The parish had to pay the King's subsidies in respect of their 
 landed property. In 1545 they paid 26s. 2>d. on this account, 
 and in 1546 and 1547 they paid two moieties of another subsidy, 
 6s. 8d. each year, having in the former paid 4^. for making a " bill 
 to the King's Surveyors for our church lands." In 1584 is again 
 a mention of a subsidy, but the word in this case, one would think, 
 must bear another meaning. In fact, it can hardly be surmised 
 what the entry alludes to. The parish constables were paid 3J. for 
 Edward Bullingham's subsidy. It was in this year too that there 
 was the little difficulty with the curate about the seat Mrs. Bul- 
 lingham had paid for, previously mentioned. 
 
 By the common law of England the onus of sustaining the poor, 
 " so that none of them die for want of sustenance," lay upon 
 " parsons, rectors of the Church, and parishioners ^," and by an Act 
 of 27 Henry VIII. a parish that allowed its poor to beg openly 
 was to be fined 20s. a week. Though its neglect was punishable 
 against the parish, to relieve the poor was at first only a voluntary 
 duty on the part of the parishioners, enforceable only by eccle- 
 siastical censure. At the beginning of Elizabeth's reign this spi- 
 ritual persuasion was strengthened by the aid of the Civil power 
 against individuals also. The amount spent on the relief of the 
 poor in St. Michael's parish varied considerably from year to year. 
 Only 2s. seem to have been devoted to this purpose in 1546, 
 while in the two years 1548 and 1549 the sum appears to have 
 been £2 35-. 6J. About twenty years later distributions were made 
 at Easter and Christmas, besides the sums given at other times. 
 At this time the College, that is the Dean and Chapter, contri- 
 buted to the relief at these two terms, the entries usually spe- 
 cifying that so much was distributed, " besides the money that 
 the College gave." A distribution was also made at the " account," 
 the day of passing the accounts and electing the churchwardens. 
 In 1 561 the entry runs thus — "Given in Alms to the poor of the 
 parish at the said account, with 15^. the parish did drink, 4^. 4^." 
 There is a reference to the money given by the College in 1583, 
 when the amount was 8s., but there is no further mention of it. 
 In 1590, Thomas Hare, Doctor of Physic, left his house to the 
 
 ■ EncyclofaUia Brittanica, IXth Ed., xix. 462.
 
 xxviii INTRODUCTION. 
 
 use of the parish, out of the rent of which, I2s. was to be given 
 to the poor yearly, while the wardens were to be allowed is. for 
 themselves. The sum was distributed to 12 persons at the rate 
 of IS. each, and lists of the recipients are afterwards given year 
 by year. Henry Stanton, of Whittington, left 50^. to the poor 
 in 158S, and 5^. annually was paid on account of it by Robert 
 Chadbourne of that parish for several years, and by John Brayne 
 in 1595, and an entry made from time to time that the capital sum 
 was owing by him, till 7 Sept. 1595, v.'hen Brayne paid the 505-. 
 to the wardens. Mr. Gardiner, of Himbleton, gave los. for the poor 
 in 1594, and Mr. Backhouse 4^. in 1598. In 1597 the widow of 
 Thomas Sahvay, who after his death continued tenant of the parish 
 land at Severnstoke, left 10s. to the poor, which Thomas Baker 
 paid. After 1599 the Bishop gave money every Christmas to be 
 distributed to the poor. Mr. Hall's dole, whatever that might be, 
 is mentioned in 1560; and in 1601 Mr. Chance, whose name is 
 frequently mentioned, gave 20J. at his death. 
 
 Among the entries of charity-money distributed we find as 
 follows : — Wood was bought for the poor at a cost of 2s. 2d. in 
 1548, and the same year is the following entry, which is possibly 
 of the nature of alms, " delivered to Mr. Bland by the consent of 
 the parish to bring two daughters of the woman of the palace to 
 London to service, 2J." Shrouds were bought for various persons 
 in 1548, 1570 and 1571, the cost being 2s. or 2s. d,d. In 1560 
 a " naked man in the church " was relieved to the amount of ^d. 
 In 1567 a pair of shoes at a cost of i^. id. were bought for Mother 
 Margett. In 1533 the "porter of a hospital" received 4<:/. Six- 
 pence was given in 1581 to a "poor man which came to the church 
 to crave the benevolence of the parish," and 2d on St. Matthew's day 
 in the same year to a " poor boy who came to the church to require 
 alms." In the same year one Posterne, whose name frequently ap- 
 pears as a recipient of alms, had, by consent of the parish, t,s. " to- 
 wards his journey to the buthes," possibly " baths," as in a case 
 afterwards mentioned ; and i.f. was subscribed by the parishioners 
 "at the collection for Portsmouth." In 15S1 Edward Archpole 
 gave 6d. to " my fellow Fletcher's sister ; " she afterwards died, and 
 is. was given by him to a " maid that lay sick " in the same house ; 
 while at the account Fletcher was allowed 20i-. towards the " cure 
 in surgery" of his son Christopher. In 1582 mention is made of
 
 INTRODUCTION. xxix 
 
 sums given to four poor men with licences ; this probably refers to 
 a provision in an Act of Philip and Mary, which enabled justices to 
 license the poor of certain parishes to beg within a certain area, 
 the said beggars wearing a badge both on the breast and back 
 of their outermost garments. In 1591, 2s. was given to John Sherman 
 "to bring him to London." In 1598 widow Hull had her rent 
 paid for her, and 4s. was given to "a poor woman that Henry 
 Conway had taken in as tenant, on consideration that she should 
 depart out of the parish ; " and in i6or, 3 J. 4^. was " laid out when 
 Joan Goodyear was wrongfully put into the parish to be relieved," 
 an early instance of the tricks so frequently resorted to in later 
 years to gain a settlement in a parish by a pauper who did not 
 belong to it. In later years several of the paupers caused con- 
 siderable expense to the parish. In 1599 the curing of Widow 
 Elkyns's daughter cost 13J. 2d., and one Bristowe received 10s. 
 " to bring him to the bath for the recovery of his leg." One wonders 
 if Bristowe was afflicted with rheumatism, and if at this early period 
 the remedial efficacy of Droitwich brine in such cases was a matter 
 of belief. At all events afterwards Bristowe lodged with Symon 
 Jones, and £1 Ss. ^d. was paid for his lodging bill, and in i6or, 
 £1 ^s. Bd. Many years before, in 1584, "William Bristowe's poor 
 children " had been relieved. About this time also the parish 
 became possessed of a "poor child" whose maintenance cost the 
 parishioners no small amounts. In 1598 £1 is. c,d. was paid for 
 his board and lodging at lod. a week, and in 1599 widow Elkyns 
 received £^ "js. od. for the same at 11^. a week. In 1601 the sum 
 was I2d. a week, and the child was taken from widow Elkyns and 
 placed in the care of widow Usherwood. Frieze for a coat and 
 linen cloth for two shirts were bought for him in the same year for 
 4J-., and finally, after staying for six weeks with Christopher Court, 
 he was apprenticed to him, the parish paying lOs. for a premium, 
 and IS. for a "pair of indentures." This is an early instance of 
 taking advantage of a provision in an Act of Elizabeth of the same 
 year, which provided for the formal apprenticing of children instead 
 of merely placing them out for support. 
 
 The appointment of collectors for the poor has already been 
 noticed, and the rendering of their accounts is once or twice 
 mentioned. An Act of 5 and 6 Edward VI. provided for the 
 selection of two or more able persons to gather alms one holiday
 
 XXX INTRODUCTION. 
 
 in Whitsun week openly in the church, and they were to write 
 the result in a book. Persons elected to serve this office were to 
 be fined 20s. if they refused to act. In 1597 these persons were 
 called Overseers, and the churchwardens and four other house- 
 holders were to be appointed yearly by the Justices in Easter week 
 to look after the poor, and there was to be a taxation, weekly 
 or otherwise, of inhabitants and occupiers to provide for them, 
 which was enforceable by distress. Lists of two of such taxations 
 are to be found in these accounts, one made 12 August, 1599, and 
 the other 15 Nov. 1601 ; and these lists are the lineal forerunners 
 of the Valuation Lists of the present day, and may be taken as 
 the very first that were made in St. Michael's Parish ; for though 
 differing in form, as imposing a monthly sum on each inhabitant 
 instead of fixing the amount of the rateable value of his holding, 
 they are the same in substance. In the first list are 27 names ; 
 in the second 36 ; and the sums imposed vary in the first from 
 8d. to id. each month, and in the second from 6ci. to 2d. Four 
 names in the first do not occur in the second, and thirteen names 
 in the second are not found in the first, including that of Thomas 
 Spilsbury, as to whom a note is made after the first list that he 
 came "after this ceasement" but "paid of himself." They may be 
 taken to contain the name of every householder in a substantial 
 position in the parish, and it may be noted an innholder, Walter 
 Walker, was assessed as highly as any other person. Innholding 
 was a lucrative trade, even in those days. Of the first assessment 
 seven persons only paid regularly, while in the other the necessity 
 of doing so seems to have been more forcibly brought home to the 
 parishioners. Of the three persons who paid nothing in the latter 
 list two were in the same position in the former one. Each of 
 these " Ceasements," as they are called, was made by the Six Men 
 appointed for the parish in " the church there." Although the Act 
 of 1 597 made the churchwardens overseers, an office of which they 
 have been relieved only so lately as the Local Government Act of 
 1894, the only connection they then seem to have had with these 
 assessments in St. Michael's parish was to have them duly recorded 
 in their book of accounts. 
 
 Disregarding for the present the sources from which the revenue 
 of the parish was obtained, the accounts disclose the fact that there 
 never was any lack of money for parish purposes, in spite of a rather
 
 INTRODUCTION. Xxxi 
 
 lavish expenditure at times in tlie luxury of law. In only two years 
 does there seem to have been a balance due to the churchwardens, in 
 1579, and in 1599, just after the parishioners had spent ;^io in buying 
 two tenements in Frog Lane. It was the custom to lend out the 
 money to parishioners who each found a surety for its repayment, 
 but this seems to have been not much more than a friendly office, 
 since at the same time borrowers are sureties for others and sure- 
 ties are borrowers themselves. The accounts open with two loans ; 
 sums from borrowers were received in 1 540, and in 1542 there is 
 a long list of moneys owing and an account of possibly a further 
 distribution. In 1547, 1550, 1553, 1554, and 1555, there are lists 
 of moneys owing, and in 1558 of certain repayments. The parish- 
 ioners took stock of the debts remaining unpaid again in 1560, but 
 afterwards there is no other list of this nature, though scattered 
 entries referring to loans and repayments occur. 10 July, 1580, 
 a resolution was come to to forgive and discharge a batch of parish 
 debtors who had been in debt a long time, and of whom many were 
 dead, and many were poor, for these and divers other good reasons. 
 Mr. Richard Fisher was "the keeper of the church stock" for some 
 years. He probably died about 1568; in the previous year he had 
 resigned his position as one of the Six Men ; and when he died it 
 may be gathered that there was some little difficulty about regaining 
 possession of the money then in his hands. In 1568 was paid 
 4s. 8d. for a " process to arrest Mr. Fisher's goods at his death for 
 the church money ;" in 1570 there is a receipt for " charges in law " 
 concerning Mr. Fisher's debt, and in 157 1 Mistress Fisher paid 26s. 
 in part payment of it. John Danks appears to have been his 
 representative; he paid £4 of the money in 1570, and with Roger 
 Coffyn became surety for another ^3, of which he afterwards 
 paid £2, and George Wale, whose connection with the affair is 
 not clear, another 13J. The money was kept after Mr. Fisher's 
 death in a bag in the Communion-chest. Later on it was again 
 placed in private hands; in 1582 Mr. Archbold, in 1583 Roger 
 Folliot, and in 1593 Mr. John Bland, held the church stock. A bag 
 for the church money was bought for 3^/. in 1597. The parishioners 
 were not above doing a little pawnbroking business; in 1586 they 
 lent Thomas Flecher 30J. for a month, as security for which he put 
 in the bag " a gilt salt with a cover." This was on 18 Sept., and on 
 23 December he repaid 20^., took away the salt, and deposited " two
 
 XXXU INTRODUCTION. 
 
 spoons " as securitj' for the remaining los. As well as providing 
 sureties, borrowers sometimes gave a " bill," and the same was done 
 by the incoming churchwardens for that portion of the parish money 
 given to them as cash in hand when they entered up>on their office. 
 In the early portion of the accounts this was lar. each, which was 
 aften\-ards increased to 2CXf., and lastly became £6. In 1573 the 
 one churchwarden had given to him 26s. gd., and the other, Thomas 
 Fydo, i6j. and the Communion-cup. That this latter stood in the 
 place of money is evadent, since Fydo at the next reckoning-day 
 accounted for 26^. received, so that the transaction seems to have 
 amounted to a sale of the cup for lOf. 
 
 The sources of parochial revenue were as follows : rents and 
 receipts from parish propertj-, money received from parishioners for 
 sittings in the church, gatherings in the church, and from things that 
 were sold ; together with the sums received from charitj' and other 
 various small items. Of these the most important source was the 
 land the parish possessed at Clifton in Sevemstoke, which had been 
 given to it by John Robinson, Vintnor, by deed dated 20 Nov., 
 1518^ The parish possessed also a house in the street called the 
 Knowle, in the parish of St. Peter's, which had been " given and 
 employed for the benefit of the church, parish, and poor time out 
 of mind-." By Dr. Hare's will they obtained in 15S9 the house 
 he had lived in, situated in the parish of St. Helen's ; and in 1597 
 they bought a house in Frog Lane in SL Peter's, which was after- 
 wards converted into two dwellings. The land at Clifton appears to 
 have been all pasture, and a terrier of it was made 25 SepL, 1562, 
 and duly copied into the book of accounts. In the accounts for this 
 year is an item of "js. ^d. for expenses of " going to Clifton to sur\ey 
 our church lands," and besides is. ^d. was paid to John Wall for 
 "carr}-ing us down by water." From the number of small pieces 
 mentioned and from their descriptions it would seem that many 
 of them were undivided portions of larger fields, the names of some 
 of these being Cott Meadow, Suffield, Woefield, Lewes Hill, and 
 Hempstead. Many of the names mentioned have now disappeared, 
 but there still remain in the locality, Astmore and Ouadmore, San- 
 ford and Arle, and Hempstead, near Kempsey. It is not known 
 at what date the parish parted with this property, but at the 
 present time it belongs to the Earl of Coventry, and the pieces 
 • Kash, II. 520. • Ibid.
 
 INTRODUCTION. xxxiil 
 
 described in the list are not to be recognised in the broad pastures 
 and fields in the neighbourhood of Clifton, though something of the 
 position of some of them may be made out. The word " farmdell," by 
 which many of the plots are described, is not now known in the 
 locality ; it meant the fourth part of an acre, and was variously 
 called " fardel," " farundel," " farthingdeal '," and in Herefordshire 
 "verndal." 
 
 The land at Clifton was held by lease by Richard Salway of 
 Pirton at a rent of £2 i^s. ^d. a year up to the year 1568, when 
 Thomas Salway began to pay the rent. The old lease possibly ran 
 cut in 1580, for in that year is a mention of certain deeds newly 
 made for the land at Clifton, and of the counterpart of Salway's old 
 lease, while in 1581 Thomas Salway paid, in two instalments, a fine 
 of ;^26 13J. ^d. on account of his new lease. Thomas Salway seems 
 to have died in 1 590, as from that date Mr. Salway's widow was the 
 tenant till 1596, when she also deceased, leaving a legacy of los. to 
 the poor of St. Michael's, which was paid by Thomas Baker ; and 
 from this time to the end of the accounts Thomas Baker paid the 
 yearly rent, which remained at the same sum, namely £2 13J. ^. 
 In 1599 some entries occur relating to this property which shew that 
 about this time a Commission, which included the Bishop, was ap- 
 pointed for the county and diocese of Worcester, to enquire into the 
 employment of lands given in pios Jisiis, the expense about which 
 included a dinner for the minister, churchwardens, and some of the 
 parishioners on the day they appeared before the Commissioners, 
 and a bottle of sack for Mr. Coventry when he wrote the order 
 made concerning the parish lands, which was sent to London for 
 the Commissioners' signatures to it. The order is not set out, but 
 from a later entry it appears that it consisted in raising Thomas 
 Baker's rent from 26s. 8d. for the half year to £^ 6s. 8d. He paid, 
 however, only at the old rate then and afterwards. Whether his 
 persistence in the old course was the breach of the order mentioned 
 directly after its making is recorded does not appear, but this entry 
 tells us that Mr. George Langford was paid 3 J. 4^. to prosecute 
 a breach of the order before " my Lord Keeper in the Chancery." 
 The land at Clifton was copyhold. In 1569 the amount of an 
 amerciament, or fine, at Stoke Court is entered, and 4^/. charges 
 thereabouts were paid in 1583. In the former year a quarrel broke 
 ' Murray's New Eng. Die, s.v. Fardel. 
 C
 
 xxxiv INTRODUCTION. 
 
 out between Mr. Clifton, a member of a family who lived at Clifton 
 in Severnstoke for many years, who was the plaintiff, and the parish- 
 ioners " about our church lands." It was not a manorial question, 
 as Mr. Clifton was not lord of the manor, but its true nature is not 
 disclosed. Whatever it was, it put the parish to considerable 
 expense, and gave its leading men plenty to do. The case was 
 heard before the Council of the Marches of Wales. There were 
 ridings to Bridgnorth and to Ludlow, charges at Shrewsbury and 
 Malvern, and expenses at Clifton, the entries concerning which form 
 a great part of the accounts in the years 1569 and 1570. Mr. Clifton 
 failed in his suit, which is clear from an entry concerning the 
 "ordering and dismission thereof" at Ludlow, probably on the 
 "morrow of St Andrew's day" in 1570, in the accounts for that 
 year. Mr. Scrope received js. for his pains at the Council, and so 
 possibly was the barrister or solicitor employed by the parish. 
 Possibly some charges in 1573 refer to this suit. Nicholas Frend 
 seems to have received altogether £\ for making a new feoffment, 
 which he wrote on parchment that cost the parish 5J., and he had 
 a further sum paid him when it was sealed. Finally the expenses 
 of going to Clifton " when we took possession " are entered as 
 amounting to 3J. 6d. 
 
 There were trees on the parish land at Clifton ; Thomas Salway 
 the tenant bought two elm butts and two trees in 1571 ; and there 
 are other entries about them. A dispute arose with Roger Lode 
 concerning trees which again involved the parishioners in a con- 
 troversy with ]Mr. Clifton about two years after the former one. 
 Probably there had been a gale which had blown down a good deal 
 of timber, and the parish sold it to Lode for 40^., who paid a shilling 
 as earnest money in 1571. But before he could take them away 
 Mr. Clifton seized them, and so he refused to carry out his bargain, 
 and the parish went to law to compel him to do so. The case 
 appears to have been heard at the Assizes at Evesham, though the 
 final order was made at Worcester before the Council of the ^Marches 
 of Wales. In the accounts for 1573 there are numerous entries 
 of payments at Evesham Assizes, many of which ring curiously 
 on modern ears. For "attending on the Jury," ^. was paid, and 
 Button the bailiff had 2s. for "watching the jur>' ; " while the judge 
 himself received ts. SJ. for the "privy verdict." Perhaps this 
 amount was paid for court fees, and the Judge stands here as
 
 INTRODUCTION. XXXV 
 
 representing the court. However the end of it came on lo June, 
 1573, when it was ordered that Lode should pay 39.^. and lo.f. 
 costs, and perform his bargain, while it is especially stated that he 
 could, if he liked, take his remedy against Thomas Clifton, gent., 
 who he said had taken some of the trees from him. Whether 
 Clifton in his action in this case remembered his defeat at the hands 
 of the parish a few years before, Roger Lode himself appears to 
 have borne no malice, for the next year he bought an oak from the 
 wardens for is. Other charges in this matter are entered in the 
 expenditure for the next year. Mr. Trovell probably was the 
 barrister employed, and his fee was 6s. 8J. ; while Mr. I'oughnell 
 the attorney got 2s. only. But other fees were paid. These two 
 suits seem to have exhausted the energies of the parish, since after 
 1573 there is no further entry of any kind in the book of accounts 
 till 1577. In 1580 the deed for the Clifton land was handed to the 
 parish by Walter Walker. 
 
 In 1602 there are entries which shew that another suit in law 
 was set afoot, which entailed a journey to Ludlow ; but it appears 
 to have had but a short run. It was to get Mr. Chance to make 
 a new deed of feoffment for the parish land at Clifton, which he 
 appears to have done at once, and the charges for writing, "effecting 
 and finishing " the new deed immediately follow. Possibly this 
 was the " parish business," on which the advice of Mr. Colles was 
 taken, who in part, at least, was rewarded by a bottle of wine, 
 as appears in the accounts for 1598. What Mr. Chance had to 
 do with the parish property does not appear, but his name is fre- 
 quently mentioned in connection with it. He died this same year, 
 because the distribution of 20s. he left to the parish at his death 
 occurs in the accounts for it. 
 
 The house which had belonged to the parish " time out of mind " 
 at the opening of the accounts was in the tenure of Philip Lechmere, 
 at a rent of 13J. 4(f. a year. In 154S a new " pentyce," or pent- 
 house, was added to it, and weather-boards placed at its "back side." 
 In 1546 Lechmere was allowed ^s. lod. for repairs to his house, and 
 two days' work was spent in repairing it in 1553 ; and in 1555 Robert 
 Kent's name appears as that of the tenant. His payments became 
 irregular in 1563, but he struggled on for ten years, when he appears 
 to have got straight, but at once fell back again, and finally he 
 ceased to be the tenant, and his goods were valued at £2 \ys. 4J.
 
 xxxvi INTRODUCTION. 
 
 and sold in 15S0. In this year the house was pulled down and 
 a new one built, the items relating to which are set forth in detail 
 in the accounts for 1580. It does not appear to have been an 
 expensive process, the whole sum appearing to be ^5 13^. o^tf. 
 The parishioners at this time were well in funds, since they had just 
 received Thomas Salway's fine of £26 13J. 4^. for the renewing of 
 his lease of the Clifton lands. A lease of this house was granted 
 to Dr. Patrick, 30 Aug., 1579, and the attendant expense is entered 
 under 1581. In 1582 there appear some entries concerning this 
 house. To redeem the lease of Kent's house, possibly when he was 
 sold up, the parish had promised to pay William Bacheler £6, at 
 the rate of a mark, i^s. 4^., a year. Three years' payment of arrears 
 of this £2 was made 6 May, 1582, and the receipt was formally 
 written into the books of accounts, William Bacheler, who was 
 a baker, duly making his mark beneath it; and in 1584 a further 
 sum of 2 marks was paid to him. No further entry occurs relating 
 to this arrangement, but £2 i^s. 4<i. was still due to Bacheler. 
 Dr. Patrick lived in the house till his death in 1591, when a person 
 whose surname is spelt variously as Shipsey, Shipley, or Shipside, 
 came to live there. His Christian name was George, and possibly 
 he was the son of George Shipside and his wife Alice Ridley, 
 sister of the martyred Bishop of London, who had property at 
 Redmarley Dabitot*. In 1597 the house was in the tenure 
 of Mistress Thomas Willis, and the next year Mr. Walsingham 
 paid the rent for the house where " Mistress Willis late dwelt." 
 In 1601 Dr. Eager was the tenant. The rent remained the same 
 throughout. Possibly a payment in 1569, when the masons received 
 IS. Sd. for "making the stone walls about the little house at the 
 church end," refers to this property. 
 
 The house left to the parish by Dr. Hare came into the possession 
 of the parishioners in 1594, and the rent they received for it was 
 14J. a year : the litigation with reference to it with the Dean and 
 Chapter has been previously mentioned. No tenant's name is 
 mentioned till 1599. when it was in the tenure of Richard Honyett, 
 and so remained till the end of the accounts. Previously to this 
 mention the parish received the rent from Mr. John Chance by 
 the hands of John Ballard, who possibly occupied it, as it is some- 
 times called Ballard's house. In 1594 the Dean was paid lOJ., 
 
 ■ Nash, II. 304.
 
 INTRODUCTION. xxxvii 
 
 which was to go to Mr. Cyrell for making a release concerning 
 this property. 
 
 The house in Frog Lane was bought for £\o in 1599; Mr. Wyatt 
 drafted the conveyance, for which he received los., and the "books," 
 a deed of feoffment, an indenture of uses, and a bond for further 
 assurance was engrossed on parchment at a cost of is. A further 
 sum of is. was paid for sending the conveyance to be sealed in 
 London, and the money was sent with it, as the payment was to be 
 made there. Afterwards this house was converted into two dwellings, 
 and in 1601 Robert Hussey and John Long were tlic two tenants at 
 a rent of 12s. a year each. Neither of these persons were assessed 
 to the relief of the poor, so their means were probably narrow. 
 
 In 1570 two entries occur relating to gardens, one belonging 
 to John Gough, the other to some one unspecified, possibly also his. 
 The rent of John Gough's garden, is. 8d. a year, was paid to the 
 wardens by William Bristowe towards the payment of "his" debt, 
 but the pronoun leaves it undetermined whose the debt was. The 
 rent of the other, 2s., was possibly applied in the same way, but this 
 is not declared in the entry. The rent of a garden at the latter sum 
 was received in 1571 also, and in 1573 another 2s. for one of Gough's 
 gardens. A Roger Gough was relieved with parish money in this 
 year. 
 
 In 1559 Mr. Bland had in his custody 28 pieces of evidence and 
 writings relating to the parish lands, and in that year he shewed 
 them to the parish at the account, and they were redelivered into 
 his keeping. They were in his possession at his death, and in 1566 
 IS. id. was spent in obtaining them from certain persons, possibly 
 his executors. They were then, when they numbered only 19, put 
 into a chest with three keys, which was given into the custody of 
 Mr. Doctor Hare, and a key given each to Roger Foliott, George 
 Wall, and Nicholas Broke. Three years later a box " to put our 
 evidents in " was purchased at a cost of 6d. 
 
 Several trades are mentioned apart from those of the several 
 persons employed in the regular way by the wardens, and the surnames 
 of several persons are derived from the trades they or tlieir fore- 
 fathers exercised. The earliest trades mentioned are those of pew- 
 tcrer, brotherer or embroiderer, scrivener, bockeler maker, weaver, 
 taborer or drummer, if this can be called a trade, and tailor. The 
 "little tailor by the stair" received alms in 1553, possibly the same
 
 XXXVlll IXTRODUCTION. 
 
 as John Tomson the tailor relieved in 1558. A glover is mentioned 
 in 1595. The tenant of "Anes the chanter" is mentioned in 1554. 
 The surnames taken from trades are more varied. Capper, Pewterer, 
 Putchmaker, sometimes Puchmaker and Porchmaker, possibly Pouch- 
 maker, Cardmaker, Organmaker and Doctor, both women and both 
 named Katherine, Skinner, Baker, Hatmaker, Nayler and Maltman, 
 usually written Malten, occur during the early years. A Spurrier 
 is found in 1573, and persons named Fletcher, derived from the 
 trade of butcher, occur frequently. 
 
 Several entries can hardly be understood. In 1551 "the receipts 
 of the Scott" forms a heading under which are entered payments 
 of small sums by three persons, and following this is an entry 
 of the receipt of "js. id. as "the sum of the offering," what offering 
 being unspecified. In the same year also occurs this, " for loking 
 of a writing to a master of law," 3^. id. In 1559, gd. was paid " for 
 Queen Mary's obit." ; in 1567, 2s. for making an indictment against 
 John Symons "for fighting in the church upon Easter Day," and 
 in 1571, gd. to the "dark of the Commemoration." In 1581, ^s. 
 was " delivered to the goodman Parryes at the minster topte," and 
 in 1594 the wardens purchased "half a strike of beare" or barley, 
 for id. In 1596 the wardens paid 6d. "to the office for fees due 
 upon the exhibiting of our bill touching the enquiry and present- 
 ment of recusants," and on this occasion the wardens and other 
 parishioners who were presentors treated themselves to a dinner 
 at Walter Walker's at a cost of is. 
 
 In a work of this nature it is hardly possible that it should be 
 carried out without errors creeping in, and for these I crave the kind 
 consideration of those who may discover them. One or two 
 I myself have observed, which have escaped notice in reading the 
 proof; but none I think which are of importance enough to warrant 
 especial mention. After the following list of churchwardens I have 
 placed a few remarks which the Rev. A. S. Porter has kindly 
 written upon the fragment of the accounts of St. Helen's prefixed 
 in this book to those of St. Michael's in Bcdwardinc. 
 
 J. A. 
 Clent, 
 Miiy, 1896.
 
 INTRODUCTION. 
 
 XXXIX 
 
 LIST OF CHURCHWARDENS 
 
 Of St. Michael's in Bcdwardiiie 
 their probable years of office 
 
 1539 Roger Bury. 
 W'illiam Pers. 
 
 1 54 1 Mr. Burn. 
 Thomas Go. 
 
 1542 William Burnham alias 
 
 Skinner. 
 
 1543 Daniel Boyce. 
 Richard Wake. 
 
 1544 William Bland. 
 John Malte. 
 
 1545 Richard Fisher. 
 
 John Taylor [? Apowell]. 
 
 1546 Richard Fisher. 
 John Apowell. 
 
 1547 John Hyett. 
 Richard Alen. 
 
 1548 Roger Foliott. 
 John Hastings. 
 
 1549 Roger Foliott. 
 John Hastings. 
 
 1550 Nicholas Burnam 
 
 [} Brooke]. 
 George Wall. 
 
 1 55 1 Nicholas Brooke. 
 George Wall. 
 
 1552 William Bland. 
 John Danks. 
 
 1553 John Parker. 
 Richard Acton. 
 
 1554 Richard Fisher. 
 George Wall. 
 
 1556 Hugh Fletcher. 
 William Wright. 
 
 mentioned in these Accounts, with 
 
 ISS7 
 1558 
 
 1559 
 1560 
 1561 
 1562 
 
 1563 
 1567 
 1568 
 1569 
 1570 
 
 1571 
 1572 
 
 1573 
 1574 
 
 1579 
 
 15S0 
 
 Hugh Fletcher. 
 John Oseland. 
 William Bland. 
 William Grafton. 
 William Lye. 
 Henry Malten. 
 John Parker. 
 Humphrey Stathan. 
 Roger Foliott. 
 Nicholas Broke. 
 Nicholas Broke. 
 Thomas Naylor. 
 Thomas Naylor. 
 Roger Foliott. 
 John Oseland. 
 John Birde. 
 John Birde. 
 Humphrey Peryn. 
 Humphrey Peryn. 
 William Ford. 
 William Ford. 
 Roger Foliott. 
 Roger Foliott. 
 Thomas Mucklowe. 
 Robert Wall[ker]. 
 Thomas Mucklowe. 
 Thomas Mucklowe. 
 Thomas Fydo. 
 Thomas Fydo. 
 Roger Coffyn. 
 Richard Alen. 
 Walter Walker. 
 Edward Archpole.
 
 xl 
 
 INTRODUCTION. 
 
 I5S0 
 
 Thomas Fletcher. 
 
 I5S[ 
 
 John Bland. 
 
 
 Richard Chel marsh. 
 
 1582 
 
 Roger Folliott. 
 
 
 Richard Chelmarsh. 
 
 1583 
 
 Roger Foliott. 
 
 1584 
 
 John Byrde. 
 
 
 \\'illiam Ford. 
 
 1585 
 
 William Ford. 
 
 
 Nicholas Phillips. 
 
 1586 
 
 William Ford. 
 
 
 Nicholas Phillips. 
 
 1587 
 
 Nicholas Phillips. 
 
 
 Walter Walker. 
 
 1588 
 
 W^alter Walker. 
 
 
 Nicholas Chelmarsh. 
 
 1589 
 
 Nicholas Chelmarsh, 
 
 
 William Elvins. 
 
 1590 
 
 William Elvins. 
 
 
 Robert Carrington. 
 
 1591 
 
 Robert Carrington. 
 
 
 Thomas Mynshewe, 
 
 1592 Thomas Mynshewe. 
 Morris Daxys. 
 
 1593 John Bird. 
 Thomas Crompton. 
 
 1594 Thomas Crompton. 
 Nicholas Archbold. 
 
 159s Nicholas Archbold. 
 Guthlake Foliott. 
 
 1596 Nicholas Archbold. 
 Guthlake Foliott. 
 
 1597 Morris Davys. 
 
 1598 Morris Davys. 
 Nicholas Archbold. 
 
 1599 Morris Davys. 
 Nicholas Archbold. 
 
 1600 Morris Davys. 
 Nicholas Archbold. 
 
 1601 Morris Davis. 
 Nicholas Archbold. 
 
 1602 Morris Davys. 
 Nicholas Archbold.
 
 THE CHURCHWARDENS' ACCOUNTS 
 
 OF THE 
 
 CHURCH OF ST. HELEN, WORCESTER. 
 
 ♦♦ 
 
 THOUGH old Worcestershire Churchwardens' Accounts have 
 hitherto been little studied, few documents are more capable 
 of throwing light on the religious customs of our forefathers, and 
 a careful study of them will ever enrich our knowledge of the history 
 of the period to which they belong. Many of the details may be 
 dry, but everything is from its very nature so perfectly reliable that 
 their contents are most valuable for a Society like ours, whose aim 
 is to provide absolutely trustworthy material for the future historians 
 of our County. 
 
 The accounts of the Church of St. Helen in the City of Worcester 
 for the years A.D. 15 19 and 1520 (the tenth and eleventh years of 
 King Henry the Eighth) are a natural introduction to the accounts 
 of St. Michael in Bedwardine, which form the corpus of this 
 volume. 
 
 No earlier accounts are known to exist in the County of Wor- 
 cester, those of Badsey beginning 1529, St. Michael's 1542, Littleton 
 1548, and St. Andrew, Worcester, 1587. Extracts from those of 
 Badsey and Littleton have been published by the late Mr. Wadley 
 in the 'Midland Antiquary.' It is very possible, however, that earlier 
 examples may exist in our Worcestershire parish chests, though we 
 can scarcely hope to vie with the account rolls of St. Michael's, 
 Bath, which extend from A.D. 1349 to 1575, or with the splendid 
 series published by the Somerset Record Society in their volume 
 for 1890. 
 
 We owe the preservation of these St. Helen's accounts to the fact 
 that Richard Mukelow was Churchwarden in both years, that he 
 kept them among his own papers, and that they have been carefully 
 preserved by his descendants. They have been kindly lent to us by 
 Sampson Zachary Lloyd, Esq., of Areley Hall, who is the repre-
 
 xlii THE CHURCHWARDENS' ACCOUNTS 
 
 sentative through the Zachary family of the Mucklovvs, and has 
 inherited their estates and papers. 
 
 Among these latter are several which throw much light on the 
 history of the family. Richard Mucklow seems to have been a part- 
 ner with his father, William Mucklow, as a merchant at Antwerp 
 and Worcester, and he was evidently at Antwerp during part of the 
 time covered by these accounts, for a letter is extant from the father 
 to the son dated Tuesday, July 19, 1519, desiring him to purchase 
 there various articles, among which he specified " a cross bow with 
 "a rack to it, the smallest little rack that can bend the bow." 
 
 They seem to have prospered in their business and bought the 
 manor of Martley, which then included Areley, and to have 
 held property in Worcester, in Kempsey, at Crowneast and at 
 Halesowen. 
 
 Richard is described in the Visitation of 1569 as living at 
 " Hodon in com Worster." This is Holden, or, as it was sometimes 
 called, Howdends, in the parish of Kempsey ; it was sold by his 
 descendant, William Mucklow, on the iith of September, 22nd of 
 James ist, to Sir William Courter of London. 
 
 Our Churchwarden married Catherine, daughter of John Arden 
 of Warwickshire, and had five sons and two daughters, one of whom 
 married Edward Reynales. His relations with his son-in-law do not 
 seem to have been cordial, if we may judge from the following letter 
 dated December, 1548, from Anthony Harecourt to Thomas Ardern 
 at the Lodge, co. Warwick : 
 
 " If any one goes before Christmas to Master Mucklow, you may 
 " send word that it is a mortal shame that he pay not his money 
 " to his son-in-law for he has sent Master Mucklow in pleasures 
 " worth 20 marks and he never sent him again the value of 
 " a cheese." 
 
 The will of Richard Mucklow is dated March 9th, iSSf, he is 
 described as of Howden in the parish of Kempsey. He desires that 
 his body should be buried at Marteley in the parish church, and 
 leaves the greater part of his property to his eldest son Symon. 
 
 The accounts of St. Helen's are well written on fine sheets of the 
 well-known hand paper, which had no doubt been brought by 
 Richard Mucklow from the Low Countries, where that description 
 of paper was chiefly made. Just as foolscap takes its name from 
 the original water-mark, so hand-paper, which was generally 12" by
 
 OF THE CHURCH OF ST. HELEN, WORCESTER. xliii 
 
 8i", took its name from its own water mark, a hand pointing to 
 a five-pointed star. Tliis was one of the oldest marks, and was 
 constantly used by the presses of Germany and the Netherlands in 
 the early days of printing. 
 
 The accounts themselves present few points of difficulty, notes 
 have been added at the base of each page where explanation seemed 
 to be needed, and it is only necessary to refer here to a few points 
 which appear to call for more detailed comment. 
 
 First as to the date when the year was held to begin. The date 
 chosen at St. Helen's was the Feast of the Conception of the Blessed 
 Virgin, December Sth. This choice is unusual, Wardens' accounts 
 being generally presented in January, February or March, though 
 there are instances of the year running from Michaelmas to 
 Michaelmas. 
 
 The evidence as to Seat Money is curious and interesting. It 
 is unnecessary to say much on this matter here, as fuller evidence 
 is forthcoming from the accounts of St. Michael in Bedwardine. 
 It seems certain that money was paid to the Churchwardens and 
 the seat reserved for life or for some term of years with their full 
 knowledge and consent, and it will be observed that at this period, 
 as was the case earlier, the men seldom availed themselves of this 
 privilege. Langland describes Envy as 
 
 " yparoked in puwes 
 " Among wives and wodewes." 
 
 It will be noticed that the " organs " occupied their usual place 
 in the roodloft. The invariable use of the plural form of the word 
 is well explained by Dr. Hopkins in his papers on the " English 
 Mediaeval Church Organ " in the Archjeological Journal, vol. 45. \o 
 mention is made of any stipend for the organist, and there is no trace 
 of the existence of a choir. Only five other parish churches in 
 Worcester had organs, viz., All Saints, St. Andrew's, St. Michael's, 
 St. Martin's, and St. Peter's. They also existed at the Black Friars 
 and the Grey Friars, the latter being in the Choir. There w-ere 
 three pairs of organs at the Cathedral, one in the Chapel of 
 St. Edmund, one in the Chapel of St. George, and one in the 
 Choir. 
 
 Holly and ivy were purchased for the Christmas decorations. 
 The charge not unfrequently occurs in Churchwardens' accounts
 
 xliv THE CHURCHWARDENS' ACCOUNTS 
 
 about this date. Thus we find in the books of the parish of 
 St. Lau-rence, Reading, in A.D. 1505 : — 
 
 Item payed to Makrell for the holy (holly) bush agayn 
 Christmas ijV. 
 
 According to the evidence before us it would appear that the 
 Churchwardens of St. Helen's collected what they could in Peter 
 farthings and made up the balance. Robert Farmer was the Rural 
 Dean of Worcester, and it was through him that the Peter farthings 
 were paid. That this was part of the duties of his office appears 
 from the following Charter of Bishop Simon : — 
 
 •'Ego Symon Dei Gracia Wigornensis Episcopus dono et per- 
 petualiter concedo fratribus et filiis nostris ejusdem nostri sedis 
 Denarios Sancti Petri quos decani nostri de terris eorum exigere 
 solebant." 
 
 The " Waking of the Sepulchre " by two paid men was observed 
 at St. Helen's, it is called in these accounts " waching the light about 
 the sepulchre." In the Yatton accounts we have the same custom 
 mentioned under different forms, e.g. 
 
 A.D. 1455, for the mynde of Wylliam Maleyll and Annese 
 Harris '\]d. 
 
 A.D. 1468, to J. Harnell for ij nygts wakyng the sepulcure \)d. 
 
 The entry for "collis (charcoal) for hallowing the fyre" is worthy 
 of notice. The whole office for the Benediction of Fire on Easter 
 Even is given by Chambers in his " Divine Worship in England," 
 page 201. The full meaning of its symbolism and its early history 
 is very obscure. Chambers states that the rite can be traced back 
 for fourteen hundred years, and some students of ritual have held 
 that it was originally a pagan custom, which was afterwards hallowed 
 to Christian uses. 
 
 Charges are made for the hallowing of a " corperas " or corporal 
 and also of a chalice. The chalices, patens and corporals were never 
 used till they had received a solemn Benediction by the Bishop, 
 and these offices of Consecration form an important part of all the 
 Ancient Pontificals from the time of Ecgbert, A.D. 740 downwards. 
 
 Those who are interested in this matter will find the subject 
 treated in Chambers' book with the utmost elaboration and care. 
 
 This benediction could not have been performed by the Bishop 
 of Worcester, for Silvester Gigles was then in Rome. We find from 
 the Register of Prior Moore that about this time Ralph, Bishop
 
 OF THE CUURCn OF ST. HELEN, WORCESTER. xlv 
 
 of Ascalon, was acting as suffragan, and that he held an ordination 
 in the Charnel House Chapel, it is therefore very probable that it 
 was he who hallowed this chalice and corporal. In some church- 
 wardens' accounts the fact that the suffragan had given the Bene- 
 diction is specially noted, thus at Yatton we find this entry : — 
 
 A.D. 1453 pro consecratione campane, suffraganeo vjs. 
 
 It will be observed that the Wardens charge for the writing 
 of their accounts by a hired hand, and as Bishop Hobhouse has 
 pointed out, they were obliged to trust that hand for spelling, 
 a craft then in its infancy, and enjoying the widest freedom from 
 rule. 
 
 A. S. P.
 
 CHURCHWARDENS' ACCOUNTS 
 
 OF THE 
 
 CHURCH OF ST. HELEN, 
 
 AND OF 
 
 ST. MICHAEL'S IN BEDWARDINE, 
 IN THE CITY OF WORCESTER.
 
 f 
 
 CHURCHWy\RDENS' ACCOUNTS 
 
 OF THE 
 
 CHURCH OF ST. HELEN IN THE CITY OF 
 WORCESTER, FOR THE YEARS 1519 and 1520. 
 
 Sent Helyne Churche. 
 
 Arr: 
 
 Ltix fulgebit^. 
 Pascall money. 
 Whitsonetide. 
 Oiire lady light ^. 
 6". Kathcrine lizht ^. 
 Standing afore the 
 
 Churche. 
 Clark's cvaces. 
 
 Peterfarthings. 
 Pewe money. 
 
 The accompt of John Father and Richard 
 Mukelovv wardens of the Church afore- 
 said from the feste of the Conceptione 
 of Our Lady anno x" unto the same 
 feste anno xj" that is to say for a hole 
 yere complet. 
 
 of money received of the arrears as ap- 
 pereth in the foot of the laste accompt 
 
 viijj. \]d. 
 
 of money received at Crestomas viij^. \'\\d. 
 
 of money received at Estur xxj. \d. 
 
 of money received Nichill nl. 
 
 of money received iijj. \]d. 
 
 of money received iijj. \\\]d. 
 
 of money received at the Fayre \\s. \y.d. 
 
 of money received of diverse of the parish 
 as apperethe be a bill for half yere 
 
 xlij^f. \]d. 
 
 of money received '\]s. \yi. 
 
 of money received of John Taylur wife 
 wever iiijV/. of John Tailur wife cocos^ 
 \\\]d. of John Weber wife the younger 
 \\\\d. of Andrew Alsope wife \\\]d. of 
 Jone Ballingham '\\\]d. of Margere 
 
 ' "Lux fulgebit hodie super nos"isthe 
 Introit for the Missa in Aurora on Christmas 
 Day in the Hereford and Sarum Missals. 
 
 ' The Lady Chapel and St. Katherine's 
 Chapel were the chancel aisles of the 
 Church. 3 Cook.
 
 churchwardens' accounts, 
 
 Forene recept. 
 
 Alowance. 
 
 Clark's wages. 
 
 Rcparacions of tJu 
 Vestments. 
 
 Cliarge about tJu new 
 organs. 
 
 Collies \\\]d. of Marget Glover iiij^. 
 of Thomas Collens wife iiij^f. of Wil- 
 liam Baker wife \\\^d. of William Pen- 
 rice wife \'\\\d. of Thomas Bullengham 
 ■wife \\\\d. iiij^. 
 
 of Edmonde Childe for the hold organs 
 
 xxxiijj. iiij^. 
 Sm. to"^ recepts vj/. viijj. ix^. 
 
 Ferst we ask alowance for holly and eyvy 
 agenst Crestomas ijV. and for collis ' 
 at Estur unto the hallowinge of the 
 fyre ijV. and for the skoring- of the 
 latene stuf agenst Estur vij^. yi)d. 
 
 Item paid unto Edmond Coombs dark 
 for his wage for the space of half 
 a yere xLr. 
 
 Item paid for j unce of Venis^ gold ijj. iiij^. 
 
 Item for ij ells and half Towke * ijj. \\d. 
 
 Item for sewing silke iiijj. \]d. 
 
 Item for Dymy silke \\d. 
 
 Item for the weving ij unce silk \\\]d. 
 
 Item for thred \d. 
 
 Item for iij quarters and j nail Damask 
 
 vjj. v\d. 
 
 Item for a yard and half canvas \\d. 
 
 Item for sening Candill ]d. 
 
 Item paid unto the browderer for the space 
 
 of X daies and half by the day vij^. 
 
 Sm. \]s. \]d. xxiijj. \d. 
 
 Item paid for the taking downe of the old 
 organs and the lofte of them and for 
 the mending of the Rode loft iiijj. iiijV. 
 and for paving stone in the churche 
 xxijf/. and for lyme and sande \]d. 
 and for a workman and his servant for 
 paving in the Churche for the space of 
 j day \yid. vijV. '\]d. 
 
 ' CharcoaL 
 
 ' Scouring. 
 
 3 Venice. 
 
 * Tuke, a kind of buckram.
 
 ST. HELEN, WORCESTER. 
 
 Charge about the Bells. 
 
 Charge about the making 
 of the new house for 
 bcris '. 
 
 Reparacions of the 
 fewells. 
 
 Forene exp. 
 
 Clarke wage owing for 
 the yere paste. 
 
 Item paid Alexander Stilband for the 
 mending of the clappers of the bells 
 with other eyron warko unto them 
 
 v]s. v\\]d. 
 
 Item paid for the timber, bords, cyron 
 warke and carpenter's wage viji'. Vyl. 
 
 Item paid for the mending of the best 
 crosse and for the mending of a chalis 
 
 iiji'. ix</. 
 
 Item for cloth and for the making of 
 a surples unto the parish priest viijj. 
 and for the mending of the Clarke 
 surples iiij^. and for the hallowing 
 of corperas and gurdells " \\\]d. and 
 for the mending of the bawdricks ^ 
 of the bells vjW. ixj. vj«/. 
 
 Item more paid unto Robert Farmer for 
 the Petcrfarthinge iiji'. 
 
 Item paid unto Mr. Thomas Monox for 
 the making of light and wax the 
 space of this accompt xxxvijj. v]d. 
 
 Item paid for the making and writing of 
 this accompt \-'n]d. 
 
 Sm. to'" allowance vj/. xixj'. \\\]d. and 
 so the allowance excedit the charge 
 the sm. of xjj. so that the church is 
 in dett at this accompt. 
 
 Verte follm. 
 
 Mr. Thomas Ybull for a quarter ^\]d. 
 
 Rowland Instokc for a quarter id. 
 
 Thomas Hoper for a quarter ]d. 
 
 Robert Bere for a quarter }d. 
 
 John VVever cowper for a quarter ]d. 
 
 Elsabeth Perkens for a quarter }d. 
 
 Roger Collcy for half yere \]d. 
 
 John Corbett for half yere \\d. 
 
 Robert Smeth for half yere \]d. 
 
 ' The parish bier. 
 
 Girdles. 
 
 ' Leather straps for hanging the clappers. 
 
 B 2
 
 churchwardens' accounts, 
 
 Peive money owing 
 
 Inovements^. 
 
 S. Hehne Church. 
 
 A rr : 
 
 Lux fiilgcbit. 
 Paschall money. 
 Pcntccoste. 
 
 John Goldemey for half yere i]d. 
 
 John Wells for a quarter ]d. 
 
 Robert lonson for a quarter ]d. 
 
 Robert Robenson for half yere ijV. 
 
 Richard Swayne for half yere ij^. 
 
 \\"illrn Smeth for half yere \]d. 
 
 Willm Sharp for half yere i]d. 
 
 Ellenor Ellows for half yere \]d. 
 
 Margere Yong for half yere Vyd. 
 
 Elsabeth Marthene for half yere ij</. 
 
 Richard Mother for half yere '\]d. 
 
 Thomas Fene for half yere \]d. 
 
 Margere Meunes for half yere \]d. 
 
 Richard Tuke for half yere \]d. 
 
 Anne Martene for half yere \]d. 
 
 Oswald for half yere i]d. 
 
 Davj' Dipper for half yere i]d. 
 
 \n]s. vjd. 
 Richard Collins Taylur iiiji/. 
 
 Stephene Ellows iiij^. 
 
 viij</. 
 Item. A awter Clothe with a fringe of 
 
 the gefte of Thos. Alowther. 
 Item. Half a ell of fyne hulland of the 
 
 gefte of John Apries wife. 
 
 The accompt of Richard Mukelow and 
 
 Thomas BuUengham wardens of the 
 
 Church aforesaid from the feste of the 
 
 Conception of our Lady anno xj unto 
 
 the same feste anno xij that is to say 
 
 for the hole yere complet. 
 
 of arrears none as appeareth in the foot of 
 
 the last accompt. Nichill. 
 
 of money received at Cristemas viijj. vij*/. 
 
 of money received at Estur xi.xj. 
 
 of money r.:ceived at Whitsontide all costs 
 
 and cl.irges borene xiijj. iijd. 
 
 ' A most unusual word. It seems to mean " new things."
 
 ST. HELEN, WORCESTER. 
 
 S 
 
 Standing afore the Church. 
 Oivre lady light. 
 S. Katlicrinc light. 
 
 Peterfar things. 
 Set money. 
 
 Clark wage. 
 
 Alloc. 
 
 Reparacion abowte the 
 beris. 
 
 For the making of the 
 covering over the beris. 
 
 •ijj. \\\]d. 
 
 of money receyvcd at the fayre dais '\]s. 
 
 of money received of the said light iijj. 
 
 of money reccyved of this same light 
 
 iijj. iiij^. 
 
 of money receyved of Peterfarthings ijj-. 
 
 of money receyved of Richard' 
 Hcrken \\\yi. 
 
 of John Russell wyf \\\]d. 
 
 of Joan Favell iiij^. 
 
 of Robert Taylur iiijW. 
 
 of Andrew iiij^. 
 
 of John Orton \\\]d. 
 
 of Robt. Hid's wif iiij(/. 
 
 of money receyved for hys first 
 
 quart xxj. ixrt'. 
 
 of money receyved for hys se- 
 cond quart xixj. iiij^^. 
 
 of money receyved for hys third 
 
 quart xixj-. \\\yl. 
 
 lixj. vd. 
 Summum tot^'^ recept cxijj. y.]d. 
 
 Ferste we ask alowance for holy 
 
 and eyvy agenste Crestomas \yi. 
 
 Item paid more for the mending 
 of the lampe 
 
 Item paid for timber unto the same 
 Item paid for nails and taks 
 Item paid for claspes 
 Item paid unto a carpenter for ij 
 daies wage with a clap making 
 
 Item paid for thre bords 
 
 Item more for tymber for legg 
 
 and unto the fete 
 Item paid for nailes 
 Item paid gemellis * 
 Item paid for carpenter for ij daies 
 
 ■ Hinges. 
 
 ix^. 
 
 xj^. 
 
 iiijfl^. 
 
 SXyl. 
 
 ]d 
 
 xijrt'. 
 xxc/. 
 xijo'. 
 
 \]d. 
 
 \]d. 
 
 \xd. 
 
 xij^. 
 
 iijj. ']d.
 
 churchwardens' accounts, 
 
 Mending of the Setts. 
 
 Mending of the Chnrche 
 Windows. 
 
 Repairs aboivte the Bells. 
 
 Reparacion of tlu Boks. 
 
 For tJie Peterferthings. 
 
 For the Clark Forene 
 expenses. 
 
 Item paid for tymber unto the same 
 Item paid more for iiij claspes 
 
 eyron 
 Item paid unto a carpenter for 
 
 a day and half wage 
 
 \]d. 
 iiijt/. 
 
 YX-d. 
 
 ■Kvd. 
 
 V]S. 
 
 V]d. 
 v]s. vjd. 
 
 iiij^. 
 
 Kl]d. 
 
 xvjd. 
 
 Item paid unto a glasyer for the 
 
 mending of the Church 
 
 Wyndowes 
 Item more paid for lyme, sande 
 
 and nailes unto the same 
 
 Item paid unto Willm Phily for 
 
 the mending of a bawdrike 
 Item paid unto the same for new 
 
 bawbrike 
 Item mor paid for ij new mor 
 
 besid 
 Item mor paid unto Blok the 
 
 Carpenter for the tynsshing ^ 
 
 of iiij of the bells 
 Item for a man to heipe hyme 
 Item paid unto Saunders Smith 
 
 for eyron work unto the same 
 Item paid for nailes unto the same 
 
 Item paid unto Fred Glover for 
 the bynding and coverng of 
 the servyce boks iiijj. iiijV. 
 
 Item paid unto Robert Farmer 
 
 for the Peterfarthing ujs. 
 
 Item paid unto John Sadeler our 
 dark for his wagis for the 
 space of three quarter wagis iij^. 
 
 Item paid for the mending of 
 
 a chalis ijd. 
 
 xviij^. 
 vd. 
 
 vd. 
 
 ]d. 
 
 vs. ]d. 
 
 ' The same as " trussing," i.e. banding the bell yokes with iron straps going through 
 the cannons.
 
 ST. HELEN, WORCESTER. 7 
 
 Item paid for the skowring of 
 
 canstyks ^ viija^. 
 
 Item paid for a rolle ^ unto the 
 
 priest on Palmsonday j^/. 
 
 Item paid for wachinge of the 
 
 hght abowte the Sepulcre ijd. 
 
 Item paid unto Nicholas Moris 
 
 for his laber on Palmson- 
 
 daye and Good Fridaye iiij^/. 
 
 Item paid for the mending of 
 
 a Scnser v^/. 
 
 Item paid unto the Ringers on 
 
 our Dedicacion Daye ij^. 
 
 Item paid for a key and for the 
 
 mending of ij loks in the 
 
 Rode loft iiij^/- 
 
 Item paid for the hallowing a 
 
 chalis viijW. 
 
 Item paid for iiij gerdells }d. 
 
 Item paid for the skowring of 
 
 ij basons agenste Reliko 
 
 Sunday ^ 
 Item paid for a corde unto the 
 
 organs 
 Item paid for a rope unto the 
 
 litell bell iiijV. 
 
 Item paid for vij ells of cloth 
 
 unto a surples unto the 
 
 clark iijj. v']d. and unto the 
 
 makyng thereof xd. iiijj. ijd. 
 
 vijs. v'n]d. 
 Tyler. Item paid for ij strike lyme \\]d. 
 
 Item paid for ij strike sand ]d. 
 
 Item paid for ij bords \\\d. 
 
 ' Candlesticks. 3 Relic Sunday, the third Sunday after 
 
 " The bede roll on which was entered the Midsummer, for the reverence of Saints' 
 
 names of all benefactors. It was read over relics. 
 
 from the pulpit to the parishioners several 
 
 times in each year.
 
 8 CHURCHWARDENS' ACCOUNTS, &C. 
 
 Item paid for lathes and nails n]d. 
 
 Item paid unto a Tyler and his 
 
 man for a day xd. 
 
 l)S. 
 
 IVaxcfiamber. Item paid unto M. Monox for 
 
 wax and making of light 
 unto the Church xxxvji-. iiijV. 
 
 Sm. to'^ alowance vj/. xjj. Xi/. 
 And so the said wardens have 
 paid more than the charge 
 xviijj. xji/. beyond the xjj. 
 owing to M. Monox and 
 so the hole dett that the 
 Churche oweth xxixj. xjV.
 
 CHURCHWARDENS' ACCOUNTS, 
 
 ST. MICHAEL'S IN BEDWARDINE, 
 WORCESTER. 
 
 I. [1539.] The xvj day of November, the xxxjth yere of the Regne 
 of * * Lord Kynge Henry the viijth, Roger Bury and William 
 Pers alias Backe * in the presence of the hole or most part 
 of the parishoners there ylded theyre Accompts and all thynges 
 allowed and Discharged. The said wardens owght to the 
 churche use of the perments [sic] of the same churche 
 iiij/i. xijj. vd., whcrof the above namyd Roger Bery owyt 
 weat [sic] to the said Churche iij//. xi]s. vd. 
 
 [The above is crossed through with one slanting penstroke, and some portion of this 
 and the following leaf is destroyed. ] 
 
 Item delyueryd to John Mathewes, pewterer, xxs. 
 
 Item delyueryd to John Hyett, Scryuener, xs. 
 
 ti. [A blank page follows.] 
 
 2. [1542.] The Accompts of Mr. Burne and Thomas Go * churche- 
 wardens for the yere last past, taken by thassent of the hole 
 parishe ij day of November and and [sic] so the said wardens 
 ware dischard, full accompt elded, savyng savyng [sic] the church 
 owethe to Mr. Borne v.f. Thus done the Day above specified, 
 xxxiiijth yere of Kynge Henry the the [sic] viijth. 
 
 Detts due to the churche that day and yere. 
 William Curtes owith vs. 
 
 Master Moris owith xxxiiji-. iiij</. 
 
 [Above this is interlined, "which most be payed at Saynt Mary day by Mr. Home's 
 hands."] 
 
 Davy Capper vs. 
 
 John Bynley xiijj. iiijW. 
 
 Margery Froney x\s. 
 
 Thomas Archarde vjj. viiji/.
 
 lo churchwardens' accounts, 
 
 John Frende xxj. 
 
 Johannes Pewtterer alias Mathewe xlj. 
 
 John Scryvener xs, 
 
 William Pers alias Baker xxj. 
 
 Johannes Asterley vs. 
 Walter Skynner xxxiijj. iiij^. 
 
 William Blande liijj. Ui}d. 
 
 Johnsone the Brotherer vs. 
 
 Thomas Gowld xls. 
 
 Phillipe Lechmore vs. 
 
 Came thelder and Came the yonger xUjs. ui}d. 
 
 Jeffrey Tayler xxd, 
 
 Richard Parker vs. iiij^. 
 
 John Gought xliijj. 
 
 Sum ma xj//. xj. 
 
 2i, 3. 3*- [Three blank pages follow the above. Several of these names are marked with 
 crosses in the margin, and against the cross is placed a small "p." Against the 
 amounts follo^¥ing the names so denoted there are also crosses. A light scribble 
 in the margin against Johnsone the Brotherer's name reads as follows : " Note. 
 Ye churche ovryt him iii'js. "] 
 
 4. Memorandum that I, Roger Hughes, parsone of Saynt Michel's 
 in Bedwarden, receaved of the church money xj//. xviijj. iiijd. 
 to be distrubuted amoungst the parishioners there, to be paid 
 at the next day of accompts. 
 
 Imprimis delyuered to William Burnham alias Skynner one of 
 
 ye wardens xxj. 
 
 Item delyuered to John Mathevves, pewterer xxs. 
 
 Item delyuered to John Hyette, screvener xs. 
 
 Item to Thomas Putchmaker xs. 
 
 Item to John Gowgh xxs. 
 
 Item to Thomas Bydell xxs. 
 
 Item to John Lynley vs. iu}d. 
 
 Item to Davy Capper vs. 
 
 Item to John Davys vs. 
 
 Item to John Frende, without a bill xxs. 
 
 Item to Thomas Johnson vs. 
 
 Item to Thomas Bylford vs. 
 
 Item to John Esterley, smyth vj. 
 
 Item to Roger Wills iijj. iiijV,
 
 ST. MICHAELS IN BEDWARDINE, WORCESTER. II 
 
 Item to Richard Wake xs. 
 
 Item to Thomas Gould v]s. vn)d. 
 
 Item to Jeffrey Taylor, — bury vj. 
 
 Item to Maister Came and his sone xiij^. iiijV. 
 
 Item to Archard vj^. viij^. 
 
 Item to Curtes vs. 
 
 Item to Maister Burne xviijj. 
 
 Item to Maister Blande xxj. 
 
 Summa xj7/. xviijj. iiijV. 
 
 [Thus far in firm good handwriting : most of the names have " p" and a cross before 
 them. At the bottom of the page in another hand and in varying ink, as if 
 written at different times, begins what follows, which is continued over leaf.] 
 
 [1540.] Memorandum that the parson hathe made his acount 
 for thys some a bove wret the second day of Nouember the 
 xxxij yere of owre souerent lord Kyng Henry the viij'. 
 
 Item Wyllyam Fener owyt xxvjj. iiij</. 
 
 Item Robert Penryce owyt xxxiiijj. iija?. 
 
 4^. Item Received of Maistres Frewen the same day xxs. 
 
 Item Received of Roger Bury xijj. vd. 
 
 Item Received of Roger Bury and Wyllyam Baker iijV/. 
 
 Item Received of Nycolas Horganmaker xs. 
 
 Item Received of Mr. Blande for his fathur and hym self xlv.y. vd. 
 Item Received of Wyllyam Stener x\s. 
 
 Summa Recepta in Mr. Borne's hands, xvj/i. xiiijj. ijd. 
 
 5. [1543.] The accompts of Mr. Daniel Boyce and Richard Wake, 
 churche wardens of the parishe church of Saint Mighel's in 
 Bedvvarden, made the second daye of Nouember the x.xxv'*'^ 
 yeer of the raygne of our Soueraigne Lorde King Henrie height, 
 in the presence of the hole or most parte of the parishoners 
 there. 
 
 Recepta per magistrum Danyell Boyce. 
 
 Imprimis Received of Mr. Blane the i.x'^"' daye of Nouember 
 
 xxvjj. viij^. 
 Item received of the said Mr. Blane x\}d. 
 
 Receipts of Richard Wake. 
 
 Imprimis received at the hands of Maister Burne for Thomas 
 Archard vjj. viij^.
 
 12 CHURCHWARDENS ACCOUNTS, 
 
 Item received of Mr. Burne for Willj-am Baker xxj. 
 
 Item received of the said Mr. Burne for John Scrj-uener vs. 
 
 Item received of the said Mr. Burne for Jeffrey Tailer iijj. iiijf/. 
 
 Item received of Mr. Richard Salwey for the half yere's rent 
 of the ground lying within the parishe of Stoke belonging 
 to the churche xxvjj. viij^. 
 
 Item received at Ester viijj. 
 
 Item received at Whitsontyde for the churche ale viijj. 
 
 Sum ma v/i. vs. iiij(/. 
 
 5^. Exposita per eundem Wake. 
 
 Imprimis paid for lampe oile vd. 
 
 Item paid for tacketts, pynnes and threydde to dress the 
 
 sepulcer i}d. ob. 
 
 Item paid for shutting of the claper of tlie sacring Bell and 
 
 Iron warke to the stocke of the same bell xiji/. 
 
 Item paid for a key to the olde church box ij«/. 
 
 Item paid to Vulfray the clerke for watching on Easter eve ij(/. 
 Item paid to John Gowlde for tending the rode light for a pair 
 
 of showes ix</. 
 
 Item paid for scouring of the lampe and candlestiks xijV. 
 
 Item paid for wasshing of the churche Geare ijj. 
 
 Item paid on Ester daye drincking at the taverne '\\]d. 
 
 Item paid for mending of an Awbe and a surpeles \\d. 
 
 Item paid to Maister VVyche for his wages for the half yere 
 
 xiijj. \\\)d. 
 Item paid to the clerke for his halfe yere's wages xiijj. iiijW. 
 
 Item to the clerk for thother half yere's wages xiiJ5. myi. 
 
 Item paid to the hands of Mr. Burne for Thomas Archard 
 
 \)s. \'\\]d. 
 
 Item geuen to Jamys Capper xx^. 
 
 Item paid for ale at the waying of the bell at John Mathewes j</. 
 
 Item paid for writing of this booke \\d. 
 
 Exposita per magistrum Danyell Boice. 
 
 Imprimis paid to Laurence Perott for making of the light 
 
 at Christmas \s. jd. 
 
 Item geuen to a pore sicke woman in the churcheyarde xij(/. 
 
 Item paid to the said Laurence for making of the light at Ester 
 
 iijj. iv^. 
 Summa iij//. vj. vijd. ob.
 
 ST. MICHAEL'S IN BEDWARDINE, WORCESTER. 1 3 
 
 There remayneth in the wardens handes xxxixj. viij^. ob. 
 
 Sum owght xljj. vd. ob. 
 
 Of the which sum remayneth in hands of Danyel Boyce xvijj. \d. 
 
 The reste of the sayd sum, videlicet xxiijj. iiij^. oh., remayneth 
 in the hands of Richard Wake. Payd therof to Jolm 
 Malteman as apperith by his accompt. iij.f. \\\]d. 
 
 [In another hand.] 
 
 6. At the same daye the parishoniers hathe chosen Wyllyam Blande 
 and John Malte, Churche wardens for thys yere foleying 
 and have delyuered to the sayd Blande xxxiijj. in money 
 with the Jewels of the sayd churche. 
 
 [Three blank pages IoHowk] 
 
 8. [1545.] Decimo quinto die mensis Novembris Anno domini 
 millesimo quingentesimo quadragestimo quinto. 
 At whiche daye Richarde Fisher and John Taylor were made 
 by the consent of all the parishyners church wardens of 
 Saint Michel's in Bedwardyne. And then they recevid of 
 Mr. Blande and John Malteman xxiijj. overplus of their 
 accomptes as apperith by the same. 
 
 The Accompt of John Apowell and Richard Fisher, Church 
 Wardens of the parishe of Seynt Mighelle's in Bedwardyne, 
 Anno domini millesimo cccccxlv, et xv° die novembris. 
 Et anno regni domini Henrici octavi xxxvij". 
 
 The Recepts of John apowell. 
 
 Imprimis of Philip Lechemer for on holeyeres rent of his house 
 due at Mighelmas last past xiijj. iiijc/. 
 
 Item receaved of Willyam Bland and John Malten churche- 
 wardens last before xxiijj. 
 
 Item received of John Hardwick preste for Lyndleye's dett \\]s. 
 
 Item received of the Hostlyng money at easter vs. v]d. 
 
 Item received of John Malten for on quarter's rent for the 
 pasture at Severne Stoke xiijs. iWjd. 
 
 Summa totalis recepta Iviijj. ijd. 
 
 Payd bie the said John apowell. 
 
 Imprimis for the Subsidie xxvjj. viijV. 
 
 Item for on quarter's wage to the clerk vis. viija?.
 
 14 churchwardens' accovxts, 
 
 Item for the Rode light and sepulter light vijj. jd. 
 
 Item for the dressyng of the sepulter iiiji/. 
 
 8b. Item for a cheyne to t>-e the Bible iiij^. 
 
 Item for a peare of gloues for the clerke's ease i'}d. 
 
 Item for oyle jd. 
 
 Summa xljj. iiij^. 
 
 And so there remaynes due to the churche in the haades of the 
 said John, all thynges allowed hym xvjs. xd. 
 
 The Recepts of Richard Fisher. 
 
 Imprimis of William Skynner of Dett that he owed to the 
 churche xxj. 
 
 Item received of George Malten for iij quarters' rent for the 
 pasture aforesaid due at Mighellmas xb. 
 
 Item received of William Saunderson for the dett of John 
 Mathewes iijs. ui]d. 
 
 Item received of the seid Hardwick for Lyndleye's dett vjj. viijd. 
 Summa totalis recepta iij//. xs. 
 
 Payd by the said Richard Fisher. 
 
 Imprimis to the parson for ij quarters' stipend xiijj. iii'jd. 
 
 Item payd to the clerk on half yere's wage xiijj. 
 
 Item payd to John Malten for the conduct>-ng of a soldyer vs. 
 Item for the washing of the churche clothes for on hole yere ij.f. 
 Item for ij bell ropes xxd. 
 
 Item for scowrjTig of candlesticks i.x^. 
 
 Item for a balderick for a bell viij^. 
 
 9. Item for Coles at Easter i]d. 
 
 Item for frankensence ijd. 
 
 Item for Whitson farthyngs vd. 
 
 Item for mendyng of ij Surples iij^. 
 
 Summa totalis xxxvijj. i\\]d. 
 
 And so there remaynes in the handes of Richard Fisher althyngs 
 allowed xxxijj. viijd. 
 
 And so there remaynes in the handes of the seid wardens due to 
 the churche xlixj. vj^. 
 
 [1546] The Accompt of John Apowell and Richard Fysher 
 Churchewardens of the parishe of Seynt Mighelle's in Bed-
 
 ST. MICHAELS IN BEDWARDINE, WORCESTER. 15 
 
 wardyne in the xxxviij" yerc of our soueraigne lord Kynge 
 Henric the Eight. 
 
 The receipts of John Apowell. 
 
 Imprimis of Philip Lechnicr for on yeres rent of his house 
 
 xiiji. iiij^. 
 
 Item received of John Hardwick for Lyndley's dett iijj. iiij^. 
 
 Item received at Easter for hoselyng money vj.r. ijd. 
 
 Item received for Roode light xx.d. 
 
 Item received of William Saunderson for John Mathewcs' 
 
 dett xs. 
 
 Summa xxxiijj. vjd. 
 
 gb. Payd bie the seid John. 
 
 Imprimis gyven in almes to the pore \]s. viijV. 
 
 Item payd to Thomas Barbor for makyn the rode lyght and 
 
 the paschall \]s. \]d. 
 
 Item at Easter for coles frankcnsence and for a peare of gloves 
 
 for the clerke xd. 
 
 Item for scowryng of the greate lampe ix^. ob. 
 
 Item payd for the rerage of the Whitson farthynge to Edward 
 
 Porter \d. 
 
 Item for dressyng of the Sepulture at Easter iiij(/. 
 
 Item for the bawdrick of a bell viijV. 
 
 Item allowed to Philip Lechmer for the reparacions of his house 
 
 vs. -ad. 
 Item for makyng of a bill to the Kyng's surveyors for our church 
 
 landes n\]d. 
 
 Item for mendyng of a seate \]d. 
 
 Summa xviijj. vj(/. ob. 
 
 And so there remaynes in the handes of the seid John to be 
 payd to the churche xvj. xjt/. ob. 
 
 The Recepts of Richard Fisher. 
 
 Imprimis of George Malten for on yere's rent of the pasture 
 at Severne Stoke liij^. nV]d. 
 
 Payd bie the seid Richard. 
 
 Imprimis for oyle and frankcnsence \]d. 
 
 Item for makyng of dores to seats in the churche xxijt/.
 
 i6 churchwardens' accounts, 
 
 Item payd to the parson for his stipend for iij quarters of the 
 
 yere xxi^. 
 
 lo. Item for mendyng of Mr. Borne's seate and his wiffe's vnjd. 
 
 Item for moving the pulpitt and mendyng the seate where he 
 
 stode xvj^. 
 
 Item payd to Thomas Gold for ij keyes and for hynge for 
 
 seate xxt/. 
 
 Item for the subsidie for the churche lands v}s. vnjd. 
 
 Item g>'\'en to the pore ijs. 
 
 Item for weshyng of the churche clothes for the yere i]s. 
 
 Item for mendyng of Surples iiij^. 
 
 Item for WTiitson farthynges vi^. 
 
 Item for a bawdrick for a bell vujd. 
 
 Item for recordyng the last yere's accompt and this yere's 
 
 accompt xx</. 
 
 Summa xxxviijj. vd. 
 
 And so there remaynes in the hands of the seid Richard to 
 the churche xiiijj. xjd. 
 
 This Accompt allowed there remaynes in the hands of the seid 
 John and Richard clere to the churche xxxj. X(/. od. 
 
 [This last sentence has been written a second time and then crossed out.] 
 
 lO^. [1547.] Detts owing vnto the churche of Seynt Mighelle's in 
 
 Bedwardyne and not payd the vij daye of January Anno 
 Regno Regio Henrici .xxxviij° 
 
 Imprimis John Gough dothe owe bie his owne confession in the 
 
 presence of the parishe xliij.f. 
 
 Item Richard Walker dothe owe xxj. od. 
 
 Item Danyell Boyse xxx.f. ix^. 
 
 Item Margery James, late Frewen's wiff xLr. 
 
 Item Thomas Johnson, broderar vs. 
 
 Item George Woolfe vs. 
 
 Item John Mathewes, pewterar xvj. iiijV. 
 
 Item Jcfferey, taylor vs. 
 
 Item David, capper vs. 
 
 Item Mr. Thomas Mores xxxvjj. iiijd. 
 
 Item William Bumam alias Skynner xxxiijj. iiijV.
 
 ST. MICHAEL'S IX BEDWARDINE, WORCESTER. 17 
 
 Whereof payd to Richard Fishar xks. and to John Malteii 
 
 iijj. iiij^. and so remayncthe xs. 
 
 Item Thomas Poichmaker vs. 
 
 II, Il/i, 12, I2l>, 13, 13^. [Three bbnk leaves follow, one of them being composed of 
 a piece of parchment from a nLinuscript missal.] 
 
 14. [1547, Dec. 26.] This is the accompte of John Hyett, Churche 
 wardyne of Saynt Michel's in Bedwardyne, beinge within the 
 Countie and Dioces of Worcester, made on Saynt Steven's daye 
 in the fyrst yeare of the raygne of our Soueraigne Lorde 
 Edwarde the Syxt, By the grace of God Kynge of England 
 ffraimce and Ireland, defender of the fayth and of the Churche 
 of England and also of Ireland in Erthe the supreme heade. 
 
 The Receytes. 
 
 Imprimis Receyved of Richarde Fysher xs. 
 
 Item receyved of Rycharde Salwey of Pyrton for halfe yeare's 
 
 rent due at the Annunciation of our lady xxxvjj. viiji^. 
 
 Item receyved of Hustlynge money vijs. xd. 
 
 Item receyved of lyght money iiijj. 
 
 Item receyved of Richarde Salwey of Pyrton for halfe yeare's 
 
 rent due at the feast of Saynt Michael tharchaungell 
 
 xxxvj.y. viijf/. 
 Item Receyved of Philippe Lechemore for halfe yeare's Rent due 
 
 at the feast of Saynt Michaell tharchaungell vjs. viijV. 
 
 Item Receyved of Thomas Skere for his seat and his wyffe's xijV. 
 
 Summa iiijV/. lis. xd. 
 The paymentes. 
 
 At Chrj'stmas for the Roode lyght and the lampe lyght [j/V] 
 
 Item for the makynge of xxv'' //. waxe x\]d. ob. 
 
 Item for xiij li. newe waxe iiiji-. viijV/. 
 
 Item for flovvres for the Tapers of the Roode lyght \]d. 
 
 Item for fyve waxe Tapers for the lampe \\\]d. 
 
 Summa vji'. \\d. ob. 
 
 \Afi. At the Kyng's Highnes' dirige and masse. 
 
 Item for fyve Tapers x^. 
 
 Item a masse yi. 
 
 Item for the mendynge of the here and herse \]d. 
 
 Item for the Colovvrynge of two wodden canstycks blacke xyi. 
 
 Item for brede and ale for the ryngers then iiijV. ob. 
 
 Item for ryngynge vj^. 
 
 C
 
 1 8 churchwardens' accounts, 
 
 Item for two papers of the Kyng's Armes to sett on the Kyng's 
 
 herse iij^. 
 
 Summa ijj iiijV. ob. 
 
 The mendinge of the seates in the hyerende of the Churche. 
 
 Item payde for two hordes xiiijd?. 
 
 Item payde for a C and a halfe of hordes iijj. \\d. 
 
 Item for Nayles viij</. 
 
 Item payd for ij peces to make Joystes ijV. 
 
 Summa vs. v]d. 
 
 At Ester for the sepulte lyght, the pascall lyght, the lampe 
 
 light, with the fonte taper. 
 
 Item payde for v"" //'. waxe makynge for the pascall {]d. ob. 
 
 Item payde for the wast of the pascall vj(/. 
 
 Item payde for iij Tapers for the sepulter for makynge of xij li. 
 
 waxe vj</. 
 
 Item payde for the wast of the said iij Tapers \]d. 
 
 Item paj-d for one li. waxe and for makynge of the lampe tapers 
 
 with the fonte taper ix*/. 
 
 Summa ijj. wd. ob. 
 
 1 5. For other necessaries belonging to the Churche. 
 
 Item payde for lampe Oyle for the hole yeare \\\]d. ob. 
 
 Item payde for fraunconicens for the hole yeare m]d. 
 
 Item for nayles and pynnes for the Sepulter on Palme Sonday 
 
 and wyer for the Curteynes for the Sepulter at Ester '\]d. 
 Item for Coles at Easter for the fonte ]d. 
 
 Item payde to Nycolas Broke for the makynge of a new here 
 
 with a herse iiijj. \n\d. 
 
 Item payde to Thomas Golde for the dressynge of the Iron 
 
 for the said here m]d. 
 
 Item payde for Skowrynge of all the church brasyn stuffe xxt/. 
 Item payd for glasynge of the Churche wyndowes xvj</. 
 
 Item payde to the seconde payment of the Kyng's Highnes 
 
 subsidye for the Churche landes v]d. \\\]d. 
 
 Item payde for nayles to mende the whele of the bell ob. 
 
 Item payde to Nicholas Broke for mendynge the whele of one 
 
 of the belles \'n]d. 
 
 Item payde for a newe bell rope \d. 
 
 Item payde on Trinitie Sonday at the CoUedge ijW.
 
 ST. MICHAEL'S IN BEDVVARDINE, WORCESTER. I9 
 
 Item payd for the sowders goinge furthe to Skotland at 
 Richarde Fyssher's doore towarde the eight shylliiigs to 
 John Apowcll v\]d. 
 
 Item payde to Jolin Brabant at his goinge furthe to Skotland 
 
 i}s. v]d. 
 
 Item payde to Nycholas Broke for mendynge of the payse of 
 the lampe j^. 
 
 Item payde for a newe Balryche for one of the belles xia^. 
 
 Item delyuered to the poore sycke woman next the parsonage xij^. 
 
 Item payde at the visitacion at the delyuerance of the b\ll 
 of presentment ijt/. 
 
 Item the Kyng's Iniunctions iiijV. 
 
 Item the boke of the Syxe Articles iijrt'. 
 
 Item the pane of the pater noster the Articles of our faith 
 with the ten Commandments of God ijc/. 
 
 [A pen stroke has been run through this item.] 
 
 Item payde for the settynge on of a horde on the churche dore ]d. 
 
 Item the Kynge's boke of the Homyles xvj^. 
 
 15^. Item payde to iij'^ men for rynginge at the procession for the 
 
 victorye in Skotlande iij^. 
 
 Item for wasshynge of the Churche clothes xijd. 
 
 Item payde for the poore manne's cheste vjs. viijc^. 
 
 Item this boke jd. 
 
 Summa xxxijj. i}d. 
 
 Summa totalis xlixj. od. 
 
 So there remayneth in the handes of the said John Hyett 
 
 all thyngs before dyscharged xxxijj. ix^. od. to the 
 
 Churche. 
 
 16. [1548, Nov. I.] This vs the Accompte of John Hyett, Churche 
 wardyne of Saynt Michael's in Bedwardyne, beinge within the 
 Countie and Dioces of Worcester, made on all Sowlen Day 
 in the seconde yeare of the raigne of our Soueraigne lorde 
 Edwarde the Syxte, By the grace of God Kynge of Englande 
 Fraunce and Ireland, Defendour of the fayth and of the Churche 
 of England and also of Ireland in Erthe the supreme head. 
 The receytes. 
 
 In primis receyued of Rychard Salwey of Pyrton for halfe 
 a yeare's Rent due at Thannuntiacion of our lady 
 
 xxvj"j. viij^. 
 C 2
 
 20 CHURCHWARDENS' ACCOUNTS, 
 
 Item receuyed of Philippe Lechemore for halfe yeare's Rent 
 due at Thannuntiacion of our lady vjs. viijt/. 
 
 Item receyued at Easter of huslynge money ixj. 
 
 Item receuyed of Richarde Sahvey of Pyrton for halfe yeare's 
 Rent due at the feaste of Saynt Michaell tharchaungell 
 
 xx\-j"j. vu'jd. 
 
 Item receyued of Philippe Lechemore for halfe yeare's Rent 
 
 due at the feast of Saynt Michaell tharchaungell vjj. viijdf. 
 
 Summa iij/z. xvj. vn}d. 
 The paymentes. 
 
 In primis for the payntinge of the iij Aulters iiijj. 
 
 Item payed to John Davyes for hewinge downe of the seates 
 
 of the Images in the Churche and whitelymynge the 
 
 Churche xv^. 
 
 Item for lyme and sande iUjd. 
 
 Item payed for a border sett at the aulters ende iij^. 
 
 Item payed for pynnes and Nayles for the dressyng of the 
 
 Sepulter at Easter jd. ob. 
 
 Item payed for the makynge of a tapur to sett on the Aulter 
 
 at Easter before the Sepulter \\\]d. ob. 
 
 Item payed to Robert Browne for a Jacke two Skuelles and 
 
 a byll ixj. 
 
 \6b. Item payed for a nother Jacke to the Tayler at the Knowle end 
 
 ■vs. \\\]d. 
 Item payed to Antony Tollye for the makynge of the dexte at 
 
 the pulpyt \\\)d. 
 
 Item payed for the Iron Worke for the same dexte to Thomas 
 
 Golde viijV. 
 
 Item payed for the makynge of a new pentyce at Philippe 
 
 Lechemore's howse and for wether hordes to sett on the 
 
 backsyde of the howse 
 Item payde for a C or Oken hordes \]s. v\\\d. 
 
 Item payed for one Helme borde for the same \-\d. 
 
 Item payed to the Carpynter for his laboure xij«/. 
 
 Item payed for Nayles for the same v</. 
 
 Item for francombesence for all the hole yeare \d. ob. 
 
 Item a paraphrasis in Englyshe for the churche xjj. 
 
 Item payed for glasynge of the Churche wyndowes xvt/. 
 
 Item for Tylinge of Philippe Lechemore's howse as followeth
 
 ST. MICHAEL'S IN BEDWARDINE, WORCESTER. 21 
 
 Item payed for l}'me and sandc "vd. 
 
 Item payed for Tyle[s] [the "s" is omitted] \n]d. ob. 
 
 Item payed for ij Tylers for a daye's worke xij^. 
 
 Item for vvashyni:;e of the Cluirchc clothes xijW. 
 
 Sumrna xlji'. v^. 
 remayneth xxviiijj. iiji^. 
 all )'s \\]li. viijj. ob. 
 to the Churche whereof is payd iij//. vijj. Y-yi. [ix has been written 
 over.] This ij accompte made and discharged by the presence 
 of the hole paryshyoncrs. 
 
 [Written in the margin, " I moste be .ilowed \d. Whytson fardings."] 
 
 17. [1547.] The accompt of Richard Alen for the first yere of the 
 raigne of Kyng Edward the Sixt. 
 
 The receyts of the seid Richard. 
 
 In primis of John Apowei. xj. 
 
 Item of Philypp Lechemere for halfc yere's rent of his house 
 endynge at the Annuntiacion of our ladie vj.y. viij^. 
 
 Summa xvjj. viijV. 
 Allowance to the seid Richard. 
 
 In primis for fyve peare of hyngs for seats in the churche y.d. 
 
 Item for nayles to the same \d. 
 
 Item for a bawdricke to a bell iiij^. 
 
 Item for mendyng of the sacrament and a barre to the churche 
 dore \d. 
 
 Item for mendyng a dext \d. 
 
 Item for corde for the sacrament and thryd for the sepulcre \d. 
 
 Item for nayles to the same ob. 
 
 Item for mendyng of ij surples \\d. 
 
 Item for weshyng of the churche stuff xij^. 
 
 Item payd to John Beaban apoynted soldyer towards Scotland 
 
 ijj. V]d. 
 Summa viijj. '\]d. ob. 
 
 And so he owes viij.y. vd. ob. 
 
 17b. [1547.] The seid Richard Alen's accompt for the second yere 
 
 of Kyng Edward the Sixt. 
 
 Recepts. 
 
 In primis of Richard Acton for wyer -ad, 
 
 Summa xa'.
 
 22 CHURCHWARDENS' ACCOUNTS, 
 
 Allowance. 
 In primis payd to Maryan a pore woman iiijV. 
 
 Item for weshyng the church gere xij^. 
 
 Summa xvjV. 
 And so there remaynes to the seid Richard vj^/. 
 
 [1547. Nov. I,] The seid accompt is allowed payd and discharged, 
 except j^. ob. whiche is remitted, apon All Soule's daye in the 
 second yere of the raign of the seid Kyng. 
 
 1 8. At the whiche day Roger Folyatt and John Hastinges were 
 
 made by the consent of all the paryshyoners churche wardens 
 of Saynt Michael's in Bedwardyne, and then receyued of John 
 Hyett and Richard Alen the over plus of theyre Accompte 
 \\\li. xvj-. \\\]d., as yt appereth by these presentes. 
 1 8^. [A blank page follows. ] 
 
 19. [1548, Nov. I.] The accompt of Roger Follyatt, Churche warden 
 of the parishe of Seynt Mighelle's in Bedwardyne, beyng Churche 
 warden from the feaste of All seynts in the seconde yere of the 
 raigne of our Soueraigne lord Kyng Edward the Sixt, vntill 
 the fourth day of Januarij in the fourthe yere of the raigne of 
 our seid soueraigne Lord. 
 
 '&' 
 
 The Receyts of the seid Roger. 
 
 First receaued bie the handes of John Hyett apon his accompt 
 
 iij//. xvj. iiij^. 
 Item of Mr. Salwey for on hole yere's rent of the ground 
 
 which he hathe liiji'. iiiji^- 
 
 Item for an Ares coueryng which was used to the sepulter sold 
 
 to Mr. Bland vj.f. viijaf. 
 
 Item for a lampe and a senser weying xx/i. iiijj. 
 
 Item for ij standerdcs of brasse and ij candle sticks and a tynacle 
 
 of brasse for Hollywater weying iij quartens of C. xiiijj. 
 Item for a copper crosse ijj. 
 
 Item for a platter xviijV. 
 
 Item for a Holywater pott of l:d and certeyne organne pypes 
 
 of led weyng halfe C and x j/?., at ob, the //. ijj. x</. 
 
 Item for xiij //. of pewter of organne pjpes and chelles for tapers 
 
 at \]d. the //. ijj. \\d.
 
 ST. MICHAEL'S IN BEDWARDINE, WORCESTER. 23 
 
 191^. Item for ij small belles wcying vj//. ix^. 
 
 Item for a latcn bason ijj. 
 
 Item for the case of the organnes viljd. 
 
 Item for the coffer of the organncs ijj. 
 
 Item for the topp of the pulpitt ijj. 
 
 Item for the fob of the pulpitt Ijd. 
 
 Item for the sayle and old clothes to couer saynts iij^. iiij^. 
 
 Item for the table that stode on the high alter xijV. 
 
 Item for the table that stode on the syde alter viijW. 
 
 Item for the table of an other side alter viijV. 
 
 Item for the trymmer ouer the high alter xxijd. 
 
 Item for ij frames and the endes of the high alter and the 
 
 frame of the sepu iter xvj^. 
 
 Item receaued at Easter in the iij''^ yere of our soueraigne lord 
 
 the Kynges raigne of Hoselyng money v]s. 
 
 Item receaued at Easter in the iiij"" yere of his grace raigne 
 
 i'}S. n\']d. ob. 
 Summa ix/z. vjj. vijc/. ob. 
 
 20. Paymentes made bie the seide Roger durynge the seid tyme. 
 First gyven bie the consent of the parishe to Roger Willes xij«/. 
 
 and to Ankerett Bayliff xijc/. \]S. 
 
 Item delyuered to John Apowell to bye wood for the pore 
 
 \\s. \\d. 
 Item spent at the taverne bie the parishe after the accompt viijaT. 
 Item delyuered to Mr. Bland bie the consent of the parishe to 
 
 bryng t[\v]o daughters of the vvomans of the palace to 
 
 London to service ijj. 
 
 Item for bell ropes at on tyme xij^. 
 
 Item gyven to the gold smight for weyng the Churche plate \]d. 
 Item lend to Ales Hatmaker bie the consent of the parishe vs. 
 Item for wrytyng of ij Inventaries of the churche goodes to the 
 
 Kyng's commissioners viijd?. 
 
 Item spent on the parishenors at the same tyme at the taverne \']d. 
 Item gyven in almes in the parishe at Easter in the iij'''^ yere of 
 
 the Kyngs grace raigne xijj. 
 
 Item payd for the fyndyng of Ankerett Bayly and on to kepe her 
 
 in her sicknes iijj. viij^. 
 
 Item for Whitson farthyngs for the same yere \d.
 
 24 churchwardens' accounts, 
 
 20^. Item for bell ropes at ij other tymes \']d. at a t>^me xij^. 
 
 Item for makyng of tapurs to the churche x</. 
 
 Item g>^en in the parishe at Easter in the iiij"> yere of tlie 
 
 Kynge's grace raigne xjj. viij^. 
 
 Item for ij formes for the communion to be receaved at iiijj. 
 Item for wrytyng of scriptures and payntyng the churche after 
 
 '\]d. the yard xiijj. n\]d. 
 
 Item for x dayes and halfe for pargetyng and whitenynge the 
 
 churche iiij-f. vj^. 
 
 Item for pieces to make sise iiij^. 
 
 Item for a barell of lyme xiij^. 
 
 Item for caryage of the same ij^ 
 
 Item for ij tuckyng girdles for albes ij^. 
 
 Item for Whitson farthyngs for the iiij"" yere of the raigne of the 
 
 Kyngs Highnes \d. 
 
 Item for a table to be sett in the churche xj. 
 
 Item for weshyng for on hole yere ijj. 
 
 Summa iij//. xixj. hid. 
 
 The whiche some allowed of iij/;. xix^f. ix^. there remaynes to- 
 the churche \li. v]s. xd. ob. the iiij''' day of January in 
 anno 1550. 
 
 The whiche \li.v)s. xd. the said Roger haythe paid in the presense 
 of the hole parishe and dyscharged. 
 
 21. The Accompt of John Hastyngs churche warden of the seid 
 churche duryng the seid tyme. 
 
 The Receyts of the seide John. 
 
 ffirst receaved of Mr. Salwey for the rent of the churche grounde 
 
 for on hole yere liijj. iiij^. 
 
 Item of Philip Lechemore for the rent of his house for on yere 
 
 and halfe xxj. 
 
 Summa iij//. xn]s. ii\]d. 
 
 Payments made durynge the seid tyme bie the seid John. 
 
 ffirst to bie John Knight a srowde i]s. 
 
 Item for the collorjmg of the parson's surples iiij</. 
 
 Item for mendyng of the same at ij other tymes iiiji/. 
 
 Item for skowryng of ij small ca dlesticks i'}d. 
 
 Item for mendyng of ij baldcricks for the belles viijd.
 
 ST. MICHAEL'S IN BEDWARDINE, WORCESTER. 25 
 
 Item for takyng downe of the alters and pavyng where the seid 
 alters stode iij^. m]d. 
 
 Item for vj strike of lyme xv^. 
 
 21^. Item for the fachyng of the same lyme jd. 
 
 Item for ij C of bricke to pave with xviij</. 
 
 Item for the caryage of the same vd. 
 
 Item for sand \'jd. 
 
 Item for mendyng the wall under the chaunsell wyndowe and 
 stoppyng of holes in the seid chaunsell xd. 
 
 Item for weshyng for on hole yere , ijj. 
 
 Item gyven in almes at Cristemas in the iiijth yere xs, 
 
 Summa xxiijx. jd. 
 
 The seid some of xxiijj. jd. allowed there remaynes to the churche 
 apon this accompt }s. iij</. the iiij day of January in anno 
 1550. The which sum of jj. and u]d. the said John Hastings 
 hathe paid in the presens of the hole parishe and is dys- 
 chargid. 
 
 22. Churche wardens chosyn at the same day. 
 
 Nicholas Burnam. 
 
 George Wall. 
 vj men chosyn the same tyme. 
 
 Richard Fysher. 
 
 William Bland. 
 
 John Apowell. 
 
 John Hastyngs. 
 
 Richard Alen. 
 
 John Walton. 
 Paid the same day by Mr. Fysher and John Aphowell for dys- 
 
 chard of theyre accounts and so they rest dettors vppon 
 
 a tryall. vi'. 
 
 2 2 3. [The next page is blank.] 
 
 23. [1550, Jan. 5.] Money distributed of lone amongest the parishe- 
 
 nors to be payed to the churche agayne to the handes of the 
 vj men chosen or to thre of them on this syde the feaste of 
 All Seynts next ensuyng the date hereof apon theire names 
 as folowithe. Done apon twelthe yeve, Anno R. R. Edwardi 
 
 vj'' iiij'°. 
 
 [In the margin] xcf. [sic] vu'js. iiiji/.
 
 26 churchwardens' accounts, 
 
 First lend to Roger Follyatt havyng for his suertie for the 
 payment thereof Thomas Gold xiiji-. iujd. 
 
 Item to John Hastyngs havyng for his suertie Richard Fissher 
 
 xiijj. iiijV. 
 Item to Robert Browne havyng for his suertie John Danks xxj. 
 Item to Thomas Powell havyng for his suertie John Apowell 
 
 xiijj. iiijd. 
 
 [This entry is crossed out. ] 
 
 Item to Richard Acton hauynge for his suertie William Wright 
 
 XJ. 
 
 Item to Hugh Flecher havyng for his suertie Mr. Richard 
 Fisher vs. 
 
 Item to John Malten havyng for his suertie Mr. Fisher 
 
 xiiji'. ul]d. 
 Item to William Wright hauyng for his suertie Richard Acton xs. 
 Item to John Oseland hauyng for his suertie Roger Foll}-att 
 
 xiijj. m]d. 
 
 Item to Leonard Patricke hauyng for his suertie Thomas Gold xs. 
 
 2ib. Item to Thomas Payne hauyng for his suertie John Apowell and 
 
 Mr. Fisher vs. 
 
 Item to Thomas Hammon havyng for his suertie William 
 
 Burnam vs. 
 
 Item to George Wall church warden v]s. v'n]d. 
 
 Item to William Watson hauyng for his suertie Richard Ligh 
 
 v']s. v\\]d. 
 
 Summa v\']li. vs. and xiiija'. more dronke at the taverne amongest 
 the parishenors and so the hole somme is vijV/. v]s. \]d. 
 
 24. [1551.] This ys the accompte of Nycolas Broke and Gorge Walle, 
 churche wardyncs of Saynt Michel's in Bedwardyne, beinge 
 within the Countie and dioces of Worcester, the xv day of 
 November the fcyfte yeare of the Raygne of our Soueraygne 
 Lorde Edward e the Syxte, Be the grace of God Kynge of 
 England Fraunce and Ireland defendour [this word is repeated] 
 of the fayeth and of the Churche of Englonde ande aliso 
 of Ireland in erth the supreme head. 
 
 Tiic Receytes. 
 
 In primis Rcceivyd of Fylype Lechmore for the hoUe yere's 
 rentes xiijj. \n]d.
 
 ST. MICHAEL'S IN BEDWARDINE, WORCESTER. 27 
 
 Item Rasawyd of master Sallway for the hollc yere's rente 
 
 \u]s. ivd. 
 Item Resawyd for tlie pore men's box \\]s. \\\]d. 
 
 Summa \\]li. xj. 
 
 The Receytcs of the Scott. 
 
 Item Rasawyd of John Danks \\\]d. 
 
 Item Rasawyd of Harry Malten viij^. 
 
 Item Rasawyd of Humfre Smythe viijV. 
 
 Summa xx^. 
 
 Also the summa of the ofrynge vV]s. n]d. 
 
 2ifi. The paymens. 
 
 In payment to Hughe Carpenter xaf. 
 
 Item for a pottyll of mamsey to Clefton \x.d. 
 
 Item goyng to Clefton \'\\\d. 
 
 Item goyng to Clefton a gayne xij^/. 
 
 Item for mendynge of a Loke in the quire vj^. 
 
 Item for papure \d. 
 
 Item for a Bell Roppe viijV. 
 
 Item a pare of Jemeles iiij^. 
 
 Item for a Booke xij^. 
 
 Item goynge to Clefton for y" Harryett m)d. 
 Item Jewyng vn to the pore xvj.f. '\]d. 
 
 Item for mendynge of the Roff of the churche xx</. 
 
 Item for stolls for the tabell viijia^. 
 
 Item for Wetson fardyngs vd. 
 
 Item for mendyng of a glasse iiij-r. 
 Item for lokyng of a wryttyng to a master of law iijj. \d. 
 
 Item for a Jemell \)d. 
 
 Item for whytlymenge of the churche iij^. 
 
 Item for weysshynge of the clothes for the holle yere ijj. 
 Item for mendyng of the hawbys and towells and surples viijV. 
 
 Summa xxxvj. V\]d. 
 
 25. [1551.] The Acownts off Nycolas Brooke and George Waule, 
 churche wardens of y" paryshe of Seynt Mychel's in Bed- 
 warden, made before y^ whole parysheners there the xx day 
 of November in y" fyft yeare of y'= Rayne of King Edward 
 ye vj''.
 
 28 CHURCHWARDENS' ACCOUNTS, 
 
 ffyrst receu}-d of y' foresayd churche wardens for y* ouerplus off 
 
 theyre acownt for this there yeare xliijV. i'ujd. 
 
 And so be dyscharged. 
 And so remaynethe in Philipe Letchemore's hand for the haulfe 
 
 yere's rent of his house vji-. v'ujd. 
 
 Reseuyd off j^ debts off y* churche y' was delyuered this same 
 
 yeare. 
 Furst Receuyd of Roger Folliat. 
 
 off John HastjTigs. 
 
 off Wylliam Watson. 
 
 off Robart Browne. 
 
 [There are no sums affixed to these names, and they have been crossed out 
 with penstrokes. ] 
 
 At which daye >•* consent of y' whole parj-she y' haue chosen 
 
 for churchewardens John Apowell and Thomas Fletchar. 
 Syx men chosen that ys to sey, 
 
 Rychard Fysshar. 
 
 Wylliam Bland. 
 
 Nycolas Brooke. 
 
 Rychard Allen. 
 
 John Hastynges. 
 
 John Maulton. 
 
 25^. The a counte of Wyllyam Blaund and John Daunks made 
 be fore the whole parj-she and hath delyuered vp to the new 
 wardens John Parker and Rycharde Acton [the names are interlined] 
 iij/». vjj. xd. and be dyscargyd. 
 
 Item also a challys and two pattens, the cover of a pyxe, the 
 fote of the sylver crosse, a crvsyfyxe that was in the cover 
 of the pyxe, a lytyll sylver boule, the lyt>-ll boule of the 
 pyxe that the cr\syfyxe stode in, vj peses of sylver gj-lte, 
 a lytyll bell wyth owte a clap, two brasen canstjxks, two 
 paynted clothes, a paule of sylke, two surples for chylders, 
 two avbes, a tabyll cloth, fyve towels, the parson's sorples, 
 and the clerk's sorples, a course pavle, a here clothe. 
 
 Payments. 
 Payde by John Parker and Rychard Acton at the accounte 
 daye to Roger Wylls xijd.
 
 ST. MICHAEL'S IN BEDWARDINE, WORCESTER. 29 
 
 Item to Rafife Pryor xiji/. 
 
 Item to Mother Andros iiijV. 
 
 Item to Mother Bromlay iiijc/. 
 
 Item to Wyllyam Watson's wyfe iiijV. 
 
 Item to Thomas Gryfythe's wyfe iiijV. 
 
 Item to Symon Maltmon jd. 
 
 Y<= vj men. 
 
 Rychard Fyssher. 
 John Hastyngs. 
 Robert Broone. 
 George Walle. 
 Roger Follyatt. 
 Wyllyam Grafton. 
 
 26. [1554, Nov. I.] Thys ys the accompte of John Parker, churche- 
 warden of Saynt Mychaell's in Bedwardyne, beynge w' in 
 the countye and dyoces of Worcester, made on All Sowles' 
 day in the fyrst and seconde yeare of Phylyppe and Marye 
 bye the grace of God kyng and quene of Yngland Fraunce 
 Neapoles Jherusalem and Yrelande, defenders of the faythe, 
 princes of Spayne and Sicily, archedukes of Austryge, dukes 
 of Miliam Burgundye and Brabande, Countes of Hasporge 
 Flanders and Tyroles. 
 
 The reseates. 
 
 In primis reseaved of Mr. Bland and John Danks iij//. v}s. ixd. 
 
 Item reseaved of Master Salwaye for soule payment of one 
 
 yere's rent liiji'. iiijV. 
 
 Item reseaved of Roger Folyatt vjj. viijdT. 
 
 [A line is here entirely erased.] 
 
 Item reseaved of the poreman's box xvjd. 
 
 Reseaved of master Blunte 
 
 In primis a crosse, a payre of sensers, a payre of cruets, a crys- 
 
 matorye, a tunakell for holy water, a pyx, and a shype to 
 
 put frankenses in. 
 
 Summa vj//. viijj-. jV. 
 
 The payments. 
 
 In primis to George Wall for a vestment of whyte braunche 
 dawmaske xj.
 
 30 churchwardens' accounts, 
 
 Item to Roger Folyate for a vestmente of blewe saten vjj. viij^. 
 
 Item for fyve elles of clothe to make to auter clothes vs. \d. 
 
 Item for one elue of dawles and a quarter to make tow ameses 
 
 Item for a yearde of clothe to make a corporas xv^. 
 
 Item for hemmyng of the same and ynkell to make laces for the 
 
 a meses \\\]d. 
 26b. Item to the pore of the paryshe at newe yeare's tyde. 
 
 In primis to Holden and John Saunders \\\]d. 
 
 Item to Margaret Wattson Vu]d. 
 
 Item to mother Andros \]d. 
 
 Item to Hammons and hys mother vj^. 
 
 Item to Jone Jones v]d. 
 
 Item to father Prior iiijdf. 
 
 Item to Benet \]d. 
 
 Item to Symon Maltman \]d. 
 
 Item to Byrche's wyfe of saynt Peter's paryshe \']d. 
 
 Item to Parteryche ijV. 
 
 Item to father Hastynges iiij^. 
 
 Item to Edwarde Eles bockeler maker iiijrfl 
 
 Item to Thomas Payne wayver \\\]d. 
 
 Item to Rycharde Hyndye, tayler \n]d. 
 
 Item to mother Bromley \n]d. 
 
 Item to Elenor Waghorn V]d. 
 
 Item to Payne the Joj-ner \\\]d. 
 
 Item to mother Flecher \]d. 
 
 Item to Shawe's wyfe and mother Peares 'n\]d. 
 
 Item to Kateryne GryfTyn \\V]d. 
 Item to Katerj^ne Smythe and Anes the chanter's tenant. iiijV. 
 
 Item to Robert Kynges i]d. 
 
 Item for a peace of a masse boke calyd the canon and the 
 
 chrystnynge xij^. 
 
 Item for washsshynge the surplesses a genst Ester ]d. 
 
 Item geven to Master Blunte's man for hys paynes when I 
 
 fechete the crosse and the rest of the stufe \']d. 
 
 Item geven to Wattson's wyfe, when she lay in chylde bed xij^. 
 
 27. Item payde to father Charlemayne for mendynge the chrys- 
 
 matorye vj</. 
 
 Item for thre chenes for the senser xijV.
 
 ST. MICHAEL'S IN BEDWARDINE, WORCESTER. 31 
 
 Item to Raffe Pynner for mendyng the pyx viijV. 
 
 Item payde for vij stryke of lyme to make the auter xvijif. ob. 
 Item for thre quarters of brcke to make the auter and pave the 
 
 churche \xd. 
 
 Item to the mason for fyvc dayes' worke and a halfc iiijV. ud. 
 Item to Robert Kynges for serving the mason iiij dayes and 
 
 a halfe \]s. Wd. 
 
 Item to Acton's boye for hys worke at the same tj'me viij</ 
 
 Item to Wyllyam Skynner for the offeryng at VVytsontyde vd. 
 Item for a shraud for Kateryne Grj'fifyn xviijW. 
 
 Item payde at saynt Ellyne's churche for my lorde's procurations 
 
 at the vysytation xviij</. 
 
 Item spent at Androwe Sutton's when we made our byll for 
 
 the vysytation \]d. 
 
 Item payde to Sir Wale our curate for halfe a quarter's serves 
 
 [at] the comunyon borde vs. 
 
 Item payde for a bell roppe x^. 
 
 Item delyvered to my felow Acton ijj. 
 
 [This entrj- is crossed out.] 
 
 Item lent to father Flecher xj. 
 
 Summa iij/?'. viijj. '\V\]d. ob. 
 So by this accounte John Parker owis lixj. \\\]d. ob. the which the 
 said John paid in the presence of the hole parishe. 
 [This sentence is crossed out.] 
 2yb. At which day was chosyn chyrche wardens Richard Fyssher and 
 George Wall and deliuerid vnto the said Chyrche wardens 
 by John Parker and Richard Acton lix.f. m]d. ob. for the 
 ouerplus of his account and so is clerely dyschargid. 
 
 28, 28*, 29, 29^. [The next leaf is a portion of a missal, corresponding to pages 12 and 
 12b. A blank leaf follows this.] 
 
 30. [1553.] This is the accompte of William Blande and John Banks, 
 being Churchewardens of Sainct Michael's in Bedwardine, 
 made the seconde day of Novembre in the firste yere of the 
 Raigne of our Soveraigne Ladye Lady Marye bye the grace 
 of God Quene of Englande Fraunce and Irelande, defender 
 of the faithe and of the Churche of England and also of 
 Irelande in Earth the supreme heade. 
 The Receyts of the same William Blande and John Banks. 
 
 First Receyved at the Last accompte xxjj.
 
 32 CHURCHWARDENS ACCOUNTS, 
 
 Item Rece)'\-ed for the Roode lofte xvj. i']d. 
 
 Item Receyved for one wholl yere's rent of the grounde which 
 
 mistres Salwaye occupyeth liijj. injd. 
 
 Item Rece}'\ed of John Apowel's wife xs. 
 
 Item Receyved for one wholl yere's rent of Philip Lechmor's 
 
 howse xiij-f. iiij^. 
 
 Summa totalis v/«. xijj. x^. 
 
 Paiments made by the said William and John. 
 
 First paide for ij daj-es worke at philip Lechmores howse. 
 Item paide for the same for iij quarters of tile and iij gutter 
 
 tyle[s] and ij bushells of lyme xvij^f. 
 
 Item for takyng downe of the Roodelofte to Richarde Mitte 
 
 for ij daies worke xxj. 
 
 Item to Nicolas Brooke and his man for iij daies worke iiijj. 
 
 30^. Item to John I son for paving of the Churche iij daies worke 
 
 at x%-ij^. the daye for hym and his man iiijj. ujd. 
 
 Item to Gilberte for iij daies worke xviijt/. 
 
 Item to Thomas Choise for one daye vj^. 
 
 Item to ij women and the clerke for makynge clene of the 
 
 Churche xij</. 
 
 Item for one loode of Claye iiij^. 
 
 Item for one loode of sande iii}d. 
 
 Item for v bushels of Lyme xvd. 
 
 Item for nailes vj^. o3. 
 
 Item for glasj-ng and mendynge the windowes iijj. v]d. 
 
 Item for white lymyng of the Churche and for lyme xvnjd. 
 
 Item paide for a keye to the doore in the nether ende of the 
 
 Churche iiijd. 
 
 Item geven to the Tabowrer when he was sicke xxd. 
 
 Item geven to Thomas Hal's wife xi}d. 
 
 Item to the poore people for xvj weeks xiijj. 
 
 Item geven to the Ij-ttell tailer at the staire when he was sicke xi]d. 
 Item geven to the poore of the parishe at Christmas and at 
 
 Easter as doth by bylles appear xxiijj. iijd. 
 
 Item paide for a Badricke xiiij(/. 
 
 Item paide to Mr. Fissher for charges at the going forth of 
 
 Souldiers vs. iu}d. 
 
 Item for wasshing the wholl yeare K\-]d. 
 
 Summa totalis iij//. xiiijj. viij^. od.
 
 ST. MICHAEL'S IN BEDWARDINE, WORCESTER. 33 
 
 31. Debtes owinge to tlie Cliutclic in the tyme of William Blande 
 and John Danks as hereafter shall appear and their suerties. 
 
 Rs. vjj. viij</. Firste to Roger Folcat xiij^. ivd. Thomas Golde. 
 
 Item to Richard Allen xxj. Nicolas Brooke. 
 Rs. ijj. Item to John Hasty ngs xs. Richard Fisher 
 
 [crossed out.] 
 
 Item to George Wall xxs. Richard Allen. 
 Rs. iijj. iiij^. Item to Hen[ry] Flecher xs. Thomas Flecher. 
 Rs. ijj. Item to John Maltyn xs. Richard Fissher. 
 
 Rs. iijj. iiijV. Item to Henry Maltyn vjs. vnjd. Thomas Golde. 
 
 Item to Thomas Hammons xs. Henry Maltyn. 
 Rs. vjj. viijV. Item to Nicolas Brooke xvjs. viijJ. Richard Allen. 
 Rs. xxxxd. Item to William Wright vjj. viijrt'. William Blande. 
 
 Rs. vjj. viijV. Item to Thomas Fletcher xvjj. Richard Fissher. 
 
 Item to William Perseavall vjj. viijd. Thomas 
 Fletcher. 
 
 Item to Richard Acton xs. William Perseaval. 
 
 Item to Roberte Browne xxs. John Danks. 
 Rs. xxxxd. Item to Walter Heywoode vs. Humphre Finither. 
 
 Item to Robert Shawe vs. Richard Fissher. 
 Rs. iijj. iiija?. Item to Humphre Smithe xs. Watter Heywoode. 
 
 Item to Richarde Hyndy iijj. iiij^. Richard Fissher. 
 
 Item to Thomas Hall vs. Thomas Fletcher. 
 
 Item to Humphre Statham vs. William Blande. 
 
 Item to Richard Parker njs. iiij\/. Richard Acton. 
 Rs. xiijj. iiij</. Item to Thomas Powell xiijj. iiij^. John a powell. 
 [Thomas's name and the amount are crossed out.] 
 
 Item to John Richards u']S. iiij^/. William Blande. 
 Rs. xj.r. Item to John a powel's wife xjs. William Blande. 
 
 [The debtor's name is crossed out.] 
 
 Item to Thomas Paine vs. 
 Rs. iijj. iiijV. John Osland xj. Summa totalis xij//. xvs. iiijW. 
 
 xxd. 
 
 [The sums in the margin are in different writing.] 
 
 31^. The count of William Blande and John Dancks made before the 
 hole parishe, and haue delyuered up to John Parker and 
 Richarde Acton Church wardens chosen the same daye, the 
 
 D
 
 34 churchwardens' accounts, 
 
 full of ther accompt iijY;. vs. ixd., and so the said William and 
 John be discharged. 
 
 32, 323, 33. [On folios 32, 32i, and 33 is a fair copy, vdih variations in spelling and 
 better written, of John Parker's account beginning on folio 26. The chief differences 
 are these : — 
 Roger Follyat paid " for mony lent hym." 
 Instead of " corporis " is " corpore cloth." 
 " Sette " instead of " fechete " the cross. 
 " Procurations" is omitted and a space left ; the copyist was perhaps more puzzled 
 
 than I am at the contraction of the word. 
 " the comunyon borde " is left out.] 
 
 33^. At which daye was chosyn Church wardens Richarde Fyssher 
 and George Wall and delyuerid vnto the forsaide Churche 
 wardens by John Parker and Richarde Acton lixs. iiijV. 06. 
 for the over plus of ther accompte and so they are clerely 
 discharged before the hole parishe. 
 
 [1555] The count of Richarde Fyssher one of the Church wardens 
 of Saint Mighell's in Bedwarden the third daye of Nouembre 
 in the secounde and third yere of Phillipe and Marye fyrst 
 and secounde, &c. 
 
 His resejiies. 
 
 In primis receauid at the hands of John Parker and Richarde 
 
 Acton at ther accompte xxxj. x^. 
 
 Item of Mr. Salowey for halfe one yere's rent xxvjj. iiij^. 
 
 Item receauid of Robarte Kent for one hole yere's rent xiijj. iiij^. 
 
 Summa iijVz. xs. xd. Layd out of the same. 
 
 34. In primus to Sir John Dyckyn for his seruis that he dyd 
 
 in Saynt Mighell's \]S. vjd. 
 
 Item to Sir Richarde Whale for one quarter's seruis xj. 
 
 Item paide for a portuas vs. 
 
 Item paid for a surples vs. 
 
 Item for wax at Ester to Thomas Barber vs. 
 
 Item gave to Dyxson when he was very syck i}s. iiij^. 
 
 Item to old Robart Hastings iiij(/. 
 
 Item to Mother Hat maker viijV. 
 
 Item to Raffe Pryor viij^. 
 
 Item for the sepulcre ijV. 
 
 Item spent at Andrew Sutton's xijV. 
 
 Item to Holdens the Taborer vjV. 
 
 Summa xx.wj.
 
 ST. MICHAEL'S IN BEDWARDINE, WORCESTER. 35 
 
 341J. [1555.] The Accompte of George Wall one of the churche 
 wardens of Saynt Myghell's in Bedwarden the thirde daye 
 of Nouembre in the secounde and thirde yere of Phillipe and 
 Marye first and secounde, &c. 
 
 His receytes. 
 
 In primus receauid of John Parker and Richarde Acton at ther 
 accompte xxxs. v]d. 
 
 Item receauid of Mr. Salwaye for halfe yere's rent xxxvjj. viij</. 
 Item Rs. of Robarte Kent for one whole yere's rente xiijj. \u]d. 
 Item receauid of the church boxe at Ester viijj. 
 
 Sum ma \\]li. xvjj. \]d. 
 
 Layd oute of the same Sum. 
 
 In primus to Syr John Birken for his seruis done in Saint 
 
 Mighells ijj- vja'. 
 
 Item to Syr Richarde Whale for one quarter's seruis xj. 
 
 Item paid for bell ropps ij.f. iiija'- 
 
 Item paid to Nycholas for the sepulcre '^s. 
 
 Item paid at Mr. Bland's on Ester daye xij^. 
 
 35. Item paid to Richard Acton xx^. 
 
 Item to father pryor vijV. 
 
 Item to father Hastyngs ijrt'. 
 
 Item to the Clarke '^d. 
 
 Item to Roger Willis ijV/. 
 
 Item to the ringers at the bondfirs for the quene iiij<^/. 
 
 Item to the good wife Clarke iiij'^'. 
 
 Item to Watson's wiffe vj«/. 
 
 Item to Jone Jones vjV. 
 
 Item to the Taberis wife iiij'^- 
 
 Item to Mason's wiffe iiij'^''. 
 Item for Nayles for the sepulcre And coles on Ester even ]d. 
 
 Item for washing ij.*'- 
 
 Sum layd out xxvj. 
 
 The compte of Richarde Fissher and George Wall made before 
 the hole parishe and have delyuerid to Hew Flacher and 
 William Wright church wardens chosyn the same daye the 
 full of ther accompte iiij//. xviijj. \n]d. and so the said 
 Richard and George be Discharged. 
 
 D 2
 
 36 churchwardens' accounts, 
 
 35^. Debts owinge to the Churche in the tj-me of R. Fissher and 
 George \\'all as hereafter shall appere and ther surties. 
 
 Rs. xxd. In primus Roger Foleat Rec. vjd. vjs. \-u]d. Thomas 
 
 Golde. 
 
 Item to Richarde Allen Rec. xijd. kxs. Nycholas 
 
 Brocke. 
 
 Rs. ijj. Item to Georg Wall Rec. xxd. xxs. Richarde Allen. 
 
 Rs. xij^. Item to Hew Flacher vjj. viij^. Thomas Flacher. 
 
 Item to John Maltj'n Rec. xn]d, viijj. Richarde 
 
 Fisher. 
 
 Rs. iiijV. Item to Henrie Maltyn Rec. iiij^. iijj. m']d. Thomas 
 
 Golde. 
 
 Item to Thomas Hammons xs. Henri Maltyn. 
 
 Item to Nycholas Brocke Rec. xij^. xs. Richard 
 
 Allen. 
 
 Rec. byOseland. Item to William Wright iijj. iiij^/. William Blande. 
 
 [The sum and the name of the surety are crossed out. ] 
 
 Rs. xijV. Item to Thomas Flacher Rec. xd. ixs. iiijd. Richard 
 
 Fysher. 
 
 Item to \^'illiam Parcivall vjj. vu}d. Thomas 
 
 Flacher. 
 
 Item to Richard Acton xj. William Parcivall. 
 
 Rs. xxd. Item to Robert Browne Rec. xi}d. xxs. John 
 
 Danks. 
 
 Rs. xd. Item to \\'alter Haywoode xx^. Humfri Smjiih. 
 
 Item to Robart Show vs. Richard Fissher. 
 
 Item to Humfrie Smyth vjj. viijt/. Walter HayAvood. 
 
 Item to Richard Hyndy Rec. iiijd. iijs. iiijd. Richard 
 
 Fyssher. 
 
 Item to Thomas Hale Rec. v'}d. vs. Thomas Flacher. 
 
 Rs. xij^. Item to Humfry Stathan Rec. v]d. vs. William 
 
 Blande. 
 
 Item to Richard Parker iij.f. iiijt/. Richard Acton. 
 
 Item to Thomas Payne vs. 
 
 Rs. xij^. John Oslande Rec. iiijj. vs. 
 
 [This number U crossed out.] 
 
 Item to Richards iijj. iiijW. W. Blande. 
 
 Summa v'njh'. xv')S. vii'}d. 
 
 [The numbers to the left of the page and those in the centre preceded by " Rec." have 
 been written in at different times.]
 
 ST. MICHAEL'S IN BEDWARDINE, WORCESTER. 37 
 
 36. [1554.] IVIoney Lend furthc of the Churche Stocke as Here aftur 
 
 folowithe, apon the accompt of Richard Fisher and Gecrge 
 Wall, whiche was as is before rebcrsed the third of Novem- 
 ber annis regnorum Philippi et Marie prime et ijdo. 
 
 In primis Lend to William Brevitar havyng for his suertie 
 
 Hugh Flecher iij.f. iiij^. Rec. n\}d. 
 
 Item lend to John Dixon hauyng for his suertie George 
 
 Wall ij.s-. iiij^- Rec. iiij^f. 
 
 Rs. xijV. Item to William Grafton havyng for his suertie William 
 
 Bland x\i']s. iiiji/. Rec. xvj^. 
 
 Item to Edward Elles hauyng for his suertie John 
 
 Malten iijj. iiij^- 
 
 [The sums to right and left have been added afterwards.] 
 
 36(5. [1556.] The Accompte of Hugh Flecher and William Wright 
 churche wardens of St Mighclle's for the yere past, taken the 
 xxiiij daye of January 1556. 
 
 Theire Receyts. 
 
 In primis receaued at the last accompte iij/z". vs. 'iKd. 
 
 John More for on yere's rent of the churche Lande iij^/. vjs. viijd. 
 Item at Easter for hoselyng money viijj. vj^. 
 
 Summa vij/2. xjd. 
 
 Whereof they haue bestowed about the churche as aperithe by 
 
 there bill v/i. ixs. iiij^. 0^. 
 
 And so remaynes clere to the churche of this accompt 
 
 xxxjj. vjV/. o6. 
 payd and discharged. 
 
 There is of newe chosen wardens for the yere to come Hughe 
 Flecher and John Oseland. 
 
 Rs. ijs. Item apon this accompte there is Lend to William Wright 
 hauyng his suertie John Danks xj. And the reste 
 beyng xxjs. v}d. is dclyuered to the handes of Hugh 
 Flecher. 
 
 37. [1557.] The accompte of Hugh Flechar and John Oseland 
 
 churche wardens for the yere passed, taken in the presence 
 of the more parte of the parishioners upon Sonday the 
 vijth day of Nouember 1557 and the iiijth and vth yeres of
 
 38 CHURCHWARDENS' ACCOUNTS, 
 
 the raignes of our soueraigne Lord and soueraigne Ladie 
 Philippe and Marie, &c. 
 
 Hugh Flechar. 
 
 In primis the said Hugh Flechar hathe bestowed aboute the 
 
 necessaries of the churche as aperithe bie his bill xixj. 
 
 And he hathe receaued of the churche money as aperith with 
 
 xxjV. vjd. that remayned in his hand apon the last accompt 
 
 xxxj. iijdf. 
 So that he owithe apon this accompt xj. iiij^/. whiche somme he 
 hathe payd in the presence of the parishioners and so is 
 quyte. 
 
 37^. John Oseland. 
 
 Item the seid John Oseland hathe receaued in the tyme of 
 
 his office as aperethe by his bill thereof iijV;'. xs. 
 
 Item he hathe leyd furthe aboute the necessaries of the churche 
 
 and parishe as aperithe by his bill vijj. 
 
 And so he owithe apon this accompt all thyngs allowed 
 
 iij//. iiijj. 
 Whiche somme he hathe payd in the presens of the parishioners 
 
 at this accompt and so is quyte. 
 Memorandum that at this accompt ended there is of new 
 chosen to be churche wardens for the yere to come William 
 Bland and William Grafton to whome then is delyuered xxj., 
 videlicet xj. apece, and the reste is putt into the handes of 
 William Bland beyng liijj. iij^. 
 
 38. [1558.] The accompt of William Bland and William Grafton, 
 taken the vijth daye of November, 1558. 
 
 William Blande's receytes. 
 
 In primis of the churche money liijj. n]d. 
 
 Item for Mr. Salvveye's rent due for the hole yere liijj. iiijV. 
 
 Item the yeres rent of Robert Kent's house xiijj. iiij^. 
 
 Item of John Oseland for parte of his dett xi]d. 
 
 Item of Roger Follyott for parte of his dett xx^. 
 
 Item of Hugh Flechar in parte of his dett xij^. 
 
 Item of George Wall in parte of his dett l'}S. 
 
 Item of William Grafton in parte of his dett xij^. 
 
 Item of Humfrey Stathan in parte of his dett xijd.
 
 ST. MICHAEL'S IN 13EDWARDINE, WORCESTER. 39 
 
 Item of Robert Browne xxd. 
 
 Item of Walter Heywood xd. 
 
 Item of William Wright vu}d. 
 
 Item of Henry Malten iiija?. 
 
 Item of Thomas Flechar xijV. 
 
 Item Rec. of the churche money xs. 
 
 Item more of William Wright xvj^. 
 
 Summa vij//. iiij^. vd. 
 William Blande's payments. 
 
 38^. In primis for dressyng of too swerdcs ijs. 
 
 Item gyven in almes to Thomas Paj-ne's wifT v]d. 
 
 Item payd to John Oseland for a shcffe of arrowes ijs. vjd. 
 
 Item to the same John for a bowe iiji'. n\}d. 
 
 Item to the same John for a soldyer's cote iijj. viijW. 
 
 Item for mendyng the tower of the churche ijj. xjd. 
 Item gyven to Richard Acton in almes at sondry tymes ij^. ijd. 
 Item gyven to John Tomson taylor that laye sicke in our 
 
 parishe xd. 
 
 Item gyven amonges the poore of our parishe xxijV. 
 
 Summa xixj. ixd. 
 
 Whiche somme of xixj. ix^. allowed there remayneth clere to the 
 
 churche vj/i. x]s. ni']d., payd and discharged in the presens 
 of the parishe apon this accompte. 
 
 The receytes of William Grafton. 
 
 In primis of the churche stocke at his entrey xs. 
 
 Item at Easter vjV. 
 
 Summa xvjj. 
 
 39. William Grafton's payments. 
 
 In primis at Mr. Blande's amounge the parishe in wyne at our 
 
 entry xd. 
 
 Item for candelles apon Cristemas daye iiijrt'. 
 
 Item for oyle for the lampe i'njd. 
 
 Item at Easter apon the parson and parishe at Mr. Blande's in 
 
 wyne xij^. 
 
 Item for wyne to the churche xij^. 
 
 Item for the pastall tapur xxd. 
 
 Item for ij other tapurs xUjd. 
 
 Item for a pynt of lampe oylc iii'jd.
 
 40 churchwardens' accounts, 
 
 Item for ij bell ropes ijj. 
 
 Item for stowe[r]yng the candlesticks and sensar iiij^. 
 
 Item for weshyng the churche gere the hole yere i]s. 
 
 Summa xj. vij^. 
 
 The seid somme of xs. vijV. allowed there remaynethe clere to 
 the churche vs. vd., of the whiche there was g}'\-en to the 
 dark n]d., the residewe was then payd and discharged. 
 
 After whiche accompte there was chosen of newe to be guar- 
 dyans Rychard Lye and Henrj' Malten, to whom there was 
 delyvered of the churche money xxj., videlicet xj. apece, 
 and the residewe beyng v//. xvj. of the churche stock is 
 deljniered to the custodie of Richard Fysher. 
 
 39^. [1559.] The accompte of Richard Lyghe and Henr>' Malten 
 churche wardens, taken the laste daye of December 1559, 
 and the second yere of the raigne of our soueraigne Ladie 
 Elizabeth. 
 
 Henry Malten's recej^es. 
 
 In primis for the light at John Dank's mother's burj'all v]d. 
 
 Item for the light at Dixson's wiff's burj-all iiijV. 
 
 Item for the light at James Aspemer's wiff's buryall \]d. 
 
 Item for the light at Henrj'^ Malten's wiff's burj'all v]d. 
 
 Item for light at mother Newalle's burj'^all \]d. 
 
 Item for light at Pickeryng's burj-all vd. 
 
 Item for Mr. Salweye's rent due at our ladie day [the three last 
 words crossed out] due at Mighelmas xxvji'. viijV. 
 
 Item Rec. at my comyng to the office of the churche stock x.f. 
 
 Summa xxxixj. ']d. 
 Henrj' Malten's payments. 
 
 In primis payd for wyne at our election xvjV. 
 
 Item for a pynte of lampe oyle vij</. 
 
 Item gj'ven in almes to Di.vson ui]d. 
 
 Item for waxe at Cristemas xvj</. 
 
 Item for waxe at candlemas y.\'\]d. 
 
 Item gyven to Picker>-ng in almes at diuers tymes ijj. '\'yi. 
 
 Item for a baldericke to on of the belles \d. 
 
 Item for ledd and makyng of tokens at Easter \']d. 
 
 Item for frankensense ob.
 
 ST. MICHAEL'S IN BEDWARDINE, WORCESTER. 41 
 
 40. Item in almcs to Katherync Puche maker vjV. 
 
 Item for hosclyng bred iijaf. 
 Item for a pastall taper ijj. viiji^. 
 
 Item a hynge for a seate i]d. 
 
 Item for wyne on Easter daye xijd. 
 
 Item for charcole in Lent }d. 
 
 Item for waxc at Wliitsonetyde iij^. 
 
 Item in almes to Katheryne Doctor ijV. 
 
 Summa xiijj. iiijW. od. 
 
 Whiche some of xiijj. iijd. ob. allowed there remaynethe clere 
 to the churche xxvj. ixrtf. ob. 
 
 Which the seid Henry hathe payd and is thereof acquited. 
 
 Richard Lye ; receytes. 
 
 In primis at Easter for hoselyng money xiijj. n\]d. 
 
 Item for Robert Kent's house due at our ladie day v]s. v'n]d. 
 Item Mrs. Salweye's rent due at the same tyme xxvjj. viij^. 
 Item for the rent of Robert Kent's house due at Mighelmas 
 
 v]s. \'\{]d. 
 Item at my entrey of the churche money xj. 
 
 Summa iij//. iijj. m]d. 
 
 Richard Lye's payments. 
 
 In primis for Quene Marye's obit ixaf. 
 
 Item for mendyng the glasse wyndowes xix^/. 
 Item for wyne at Easter ij^. \]d. ob. 
 
 Item spend at the tavern at Easter xviijt/. 
 
 Item for hoselyng bred ]d. 
 
 Item for oyle and creame iiijV. 
 
 Item for stowe(r)yng the candlesticks 'yd. 
 
 Item for weshyng the alter clothes xij^. 
 
 Item for papers and ink ]d. 
 
 4o5. Item in almes to Katheryne Pocheraaker vj^. 
 
 Item for mendyng a bell whele i]d. 
 
 Item payd on Trynitie sondaye vd. 
 
 Item gyven to father Kynges at tymes in almes \]s. v]d. 
 
 Item for tylyng the churche xviij^. 
 
 Item for tyle ix^. 
 
 Item for lyme and sand viij^. 
 
 Item in almes to Pickcryng vjj.
 
 42 CHURCHWARDENS' ACCOUNTS, 
 
 Item for a communion table v}s. 
 
 Item for mendyng the bere iiij^. 
 
 Item for mendyng an albe i}d. 
 
 Item for procurations on the Quene's visitation xviijW. 
 
 Item for makj-ng the inventary of the church goodes viij^?. 
 
 Item for takyng downe the alter \-]d. 
 
 Item for pavjmg the place and makyng cleane of it ujs. 
 
 Item for ryddyng the rubbell i'}d. 
 
 Summa xxvijj. vij^. ol>. whiche somme allowed there re- 
 maynethe clere to the churche xxxvj. viij</. od., whereoff is 
 payd XS. viij^. od. [This amount is interlined, and the following words 
 erased, "and the seid Richard thereof acquited."] and SO he Owithe XXVJ. 
 
 Memorandum that there was showed at this accompte bie 
 Mr. Bland xxviij pieces of evidents and writyngs concearnyng 
 the churche landes, whiche are delyuered to the custodie of 
 the seid ]Mr. Bland to the churche vse. 
 
 Memorandum that there is chosen gardyans of newe John Parker 
 and Humfrey Stathan, to whem there is del>-uered furthe of 
 the churche stocke xx.r., videlicet xs. apece. 
 
 Memorandum that apon this accompt there is delyuered to the 
 custodie of iMr. Fysher vjli. xvs., and now payd for becon 
 money to the const[able ?] xi'}d., and gyven then to the 
 poore vii'}d. 
 
 41. [1560] The accompte of Humfrey Stathan and John Parker 
 Churchewardens, yelded and gj'ven vp to the parishioners 
 there the xjth daye of Nouember 1560. 
 
 The receytes of Humfrey Stathan. 
 
 In primis receaued at the entry of the seid Humfrey in to 
 his office. xj. 
 
 Item for cheritie money at Easter xiij.f. 
 
 Item of Mr. Salwey for his rent liijj. iiij«/. 
 
 Item of Robert Kent for his rent xiijj. iiijt/. 
 
 Summa iiij/z. ixs. v'njd. 
 
 The payments of the seid Humfrey. 
 
 In primis for wyne at Eastur iijj. iiij^- 
 
 Item for bred iiij^.
 
 ST. MICHAEL'S IN BEDWARDINE, WORCESTER. 43 
 
 Item for a bell ropp xv]d. 
 
 Item gyvcn in almes to Payne at dyuerstymes as apperith bie his 
 bill vjd. 
 
 Item gyven in almes to Kyngs as apperith by his bill at sondry 
 tymes ijj. viij^. 
 
 Item in almes to Philipp i]d. 
 
 Item for a byble xiiji-. 
 
 Item for weshynge the churche gere ijj. 
 
 Item for procurations at the bushop's visitacon xviij^/. 
 
 Item for makynge a bill iiijV/. 
 
 41^. Item for wyne at dyuers tymes vjjj^. od. [sic]. 
 
 Item gyven in almes to the good wiff Heynes vijd. 
 
 Item for a communion booke iiij.f. i]d. 
 
 Item for bred od. 
 
 Item gyven in almes at Mr. Halle's dole xij^. 
 
 Item gyven to Katheryn Smithe ijs. 
 
 Item to mother Margarett vjW. 
 
 Summa xxxiij.f. viijV. od. 
 
 So that these charges allowed there remaynithe over to the 
 churche \vs. x]d. ob., which is payd and discharged apon 
 this accompt. And now payd in by John Parker. 
 
 Memorandum that there is allowed and payd to Mr. Fysher 
 at this accompt videlicet to Mr. Hymulton for seruyng 
 the cure at christemas vs. 
 
 In almes gyven by hym to John Malten '\]s. 
 
 For money delyuered to Wm. Wright constable at the settyng 
 furthe of a man in the warrcs to Berwick iijj. \]d. 
 
 And in almes gyven to Kyngs xij^. 
 
 Summa xji'. '\)d. 
 
 Item payd to the seid Wm. Wright more apon his rekenyng 
 
 '\]s. \]d. 
 
 And so all thyngs allowed and discharged there is delyuered 
 to the custodie of Mr. Richard Fysher at this accompt the 
 some of \'\\)li. \\]s. xd. 
 
 And there is chosen of newe to be churche wardens Roger 
 Follyot and Nicolas Broke, to whom there is delyuered xxs., 
 videlicet to euery of them xs.
 
 44 
 
 CHURCHWARDENS' ACCOUNTS, 
 
 The residewe of the money which remaynithe of this accomp is 
 gyuen to the pore in tlie presence of the whole parish 
 videlicet ij-f- x^. ob. 
 
 Thomas Golci 
 Nicolas Broke 
 John Danks 
 Richard Alen 
 Thomas Flechar 
 Richard Fisher 
 Thomas Gold 
 Henry Malten 
 Richard Alen 
 Richard Fisher 
 Thomas Flechar 
 
 42. [1560] The detts remaynyng vnpayd to the church at this 
 last accompt videlicet the xi of November 1560. 
 
 Suerties. 
 
 In primis Roger Follyott iiijj. \]d. 
 
 Item Richard Allen xixj. 
 
 Item William Wright vijj. iiij*/. 
 
 Item George Wall xvjj-. iiij^. 
 
 Item Hugh Flechar vs. \\\)d. 
 
 Item John Malten vijj. \\\]d. 
 
 Item Henr}- Malten \]s. \-\\)d. 
 
 Item Thomas Hamons xr. 
 
 Item Nicolas Broke ixj. 
 
 Item Thomas Flechar vijj. \\d. 
 
 Item William Percyvall \]s. \\\\d. 
 
 William Percivale Item Richard Acton xj. 
 
 John Danks Item Robert Browne xvijj. iiij^f. 
 
 Humfrey Smith Item Walter Heywood [crossed out] ixrf. 
 
 Richard Fisher Item Robert Shawe vs. 
 
 Walter Heywood Item Humfrey Smithe \]s. \'\\)d. 
 
 Richard Fisher Item Richard Handy iijj. 
 
 Thomas Flechar Item Thomas Hall iiij^. vj^. 
 
 Item Humfrey Stathan iijj. v]d. 
 
 Item Richard Parker \\\s. \\\]d. 
 
 Item Thomas Payne vs. [crossed out] 
 
 Item John Richardes iijV. iiij^. 
 
 Item William Brevitar iijj. 
 
 Item John Dixson \\)s. 
 
 Item William Grafton XJ. \\\)d. 
 
 Item Edward EUes iijj. \\\)d. 
 Summa v\v\li. xjj. ijV. 
 
 William Bland, 
 Richard Acton 
 Pardoned 
 William Bland 
 Hugh Flechar 
 George Wall 
 William Bland 
 John Malten 
 
 \2b. [1561.] The accompte of Roger Follyott and Nicolas Broke, 
 Churchewardens of the parishe of S'. Mighelle's in Bed- 
 wardyne, made and yelded vp before the parishioners there 
 sonday xj of Januarie, 1561.
 
 ST. MICHAEL'S IN BEDWARDINE, WORCESTER. 45 
 
 Roger Follyot's receytcs. 
 
 In primis receaued at his first entrcy into the office of the 
 churche stock xs. 
 
 Item receaued of Mr. Salwey for on hole yere's rent of the 
 churche land I'njs. \n}d. 
 
 Item of Robert Kent of on yere's rent of his house xiijj. iiij^. 
 
 Summa \\]li. xvjj. \\\]d. 
 
 The payments bie Roger Folyott. 
 
 Firste payd for halfe a quarter's wage to Mr. Warrett, curatt, 
 due at Christemas 1561 vjV. viijV. 
 
 Item gyven in ahiies to the pore of the parishe agenst Whit- 
 sontyde and Christemas last as apperithe bie billes xxiijj. 
 
 Summa xxxjj. viij^. 
 
 Whiche some allowed there remaynithe apon this accompt 
 clere to the churche the some of xlv.y. whiche he hathe payd 
 and is thereof acquited. 
 43. Nicolas Brok's receytes. 
 
 In primis receaued at his firste entrey into the office xj. 
 
 Item at Eastur of the parishioners xiijj. v\]d. 
 
 Item for old tymber of the rode lofte iiji-. 
 
 Item of William Wrighte for seate money viijV, 
 
 Item also of Randull Jonson viijV. 
 
 Item of Henrie Symons iiij^. 
 
 Item of John Bird in]d. 
 
 Item of Richard Eger in]d. 
 
 Item of Thomas Lee iiij^. 
 
 Summa xxxj. iijV. 
 
 The payments bie Nicolas Broke. 
 
 Firste payd halfe the quarter's wage to Sir Richard Warrett due 
 
 at Christemas 1560 vjj. \n]d. 
 
 Item for papur ]d. 
 
 Item for the Iniunctions vj^. 
 
 Item for a locke keye and ij hyngs to a coffisr x.d. 
 
 Item for a gymall to on of the seats i]d. 
 
 Item for a boke of orders in the church \]d. 
 
 Item for waxe candelles ob.
 
 46 churchwardens' accounts, 
 
 Item for bred and wyne fache to the churche at sond[r]ey 
 
 tymes as aperithe bie his bille vijs. \n]ti. ob. 
 
 Item for weshynge xijrf. 
 
 Summa xvjj. •x.d. 
 
 43^. Whiche some of xvjj. x^. allowed there remaynith apon his 
 
 accompt cler to the churche xiijj. \d., and the seid some he 
 
 bathe payd and is thereof acquited. 
 
 Memorandum that Mr. Fisher brought in at this accompt 
 
 viijV/. iijj. sd., delyuered to his custodie at the last accompt, 
 
 whereof he askith allowance for money g>'ven bie hym to 
 
 certeyn sicke persons in the parishe the some of \\s. 
 
 Item payd bie the seid Mr. Fisher in parte of payment of 
 
 Richard Lighe's dett \s. 
 
 So that there remaynes cler in redie money at this accompt the 
 
 some of xj//. xv«/. 
 
 The same daye there is chosen bie the whole consent of the 
 parishe to be church wardens for the yere to come Nicolas 
 Broke and Thomas Xaylor, to whom there is delj-uered out 
 of the foreseid some xxj., videlicet xj. apece. 
 
 Item gj'ven to Payne's wiffe besydes the dett whiche her late 
 husbund dyd owe as aperthe before in this boke '\]s. 
 
 Item delyuered to the handes of Mr. Fysher for the payment 
 
 of Mr. Hymulton's wages servyng the cure from Mighelmas 
 
 to Christemas last xj. 
 
 44. Item gj-\-en in reward to Roger FoUyot for his paynes, wretj-ng 
 
 in this boke heretofore \s. 
 
 Item gyven in almes to the pore of the parishe at the seid 
 accompt, as aperithe bie a bill with xv^. the parishe did 
 drjnke after the seid accompte iiijj. \\)d. 
 
 All whiche allowed and deducted there remaynes clere to the 
 churche vse ix//., whiche some is delyuered bie consent of the 
 parishe to the custodie of Mr. Fysher. 
 
 Wb. [1561.] An Inventorie of soche goodes as remayne to the 
 churche vse and delyuered to the custodie of Nicolas Broke 
 and Thomas Nayler the xviij daye of Januarie, 1561. 
 
 In primis a precessionall, the portuas in ij parts for the whole 
 yere, a missall, a manuell, a boke for christenyng and burj-ing,
 
 ST. MICHAEL'S IN BEDWARDINE, WORCESTER. 47 
 
 a pall lyncd and a olde pall onlyned, a olde vestcment of 
 sylkc, a front of an alter of redd and white sattcn with 
 flouredclice, ij albes, ij surples for children, a litle pillow of 
 grene, ij towellcs with blew thred, a Byble, a Boke of comon 
 seruice, vj stoles for the necke and armes [underlined], a booke 
 of the paraphrastes, ij parelles for albes, a lampe and certcyne 
 pece of an old lambe [stc], ij iron roddes with stockynnies 
 apon them, and ij curtens of redd and yellowe saye, the pastall 
 tapur and viij endes of other tapurs, the sepultre without a 
 hedd, a crosse clothe of grene silke, a corperens case, a 
 chales and a patten, ij table clothes, ij surpleses for men, 
 a old pall clothe to couer the communion bord. 
 
 45- [1562-] The accompte of Nicolas Broke made the xvij''' daye of 
 Januarie 1 562, and the fifth ycre of the raigne of our soue- 
 raigne Ladie Elizabeth, &c. 
 
 Receytes. 
 
 In primis receaued of Mr. Salwey for the rent of the churche 
 
 ground liij.f. iiij^. 
 
 Item of Robert Kent for his rent xiijj. iiij^. 
 
 Item for duties at Easter xiiijj, ]d. 
 
 Item at his first admission xj. 
 
 Summa iiij//. xs. ixd. 
 
 For seate money. 
 
 Payd and layd forthe [these words are crossed out.] 
 
 In primis of Humfrey Payne viij^. 
 
 Item of Raphe Symons Injd. 
 
 Item of the goodwiff Hill iiij^. 
 
 Item of William Ford iiij^. 
 
 Item of William Ferecliff iiij</. 
 
 Summa i}s. 
 
 Item for a tree sold to Nicolas Broke of the ground at Clifton xs. 
 Summa totalis, v/L ijs. ixii. 
 
 Payments as folowithe. 
 
 Item as aperithe hereafter bie a bill of particules as hereafter 
 
 folowithe iij//. vjd. ob. 
 
 Payd in money upon this accompt xxxijj. \)d. 
 
 And so he remaynithe in dett for the tree xj.
 
 48 CHURCHWARDEN'S' ACCOUNTS. 
 
 45^. Reparacions made by Nicolas Broke. 
 
 In primis for lyme, videlicet iiij bushel and halfe xviij^. 
 
 Item for ij and halfe of tyle ujs. ij(/. 
 
 Item for caryage of tyle iiijd. ob. 
 
 Item ij bushell of sand '\]d. 
 
 Item for \vor[k]man shipp xx</. 
 
 Item for sand \]d. 
 
 Item for a litle boke bought of John Gough \\)d. 
 
 Item for mendyng surpleses v'\]d. 
 
 Item gyven to the pore xiijj. \)d. 
 
 Item for mendyng the churche wyndowes \s. 
 Item for wyne at dyuers tymes as aperithe bie his bill vjj. \\\)d. 
 
 Item for communion bred \\]d. 
 
 Item for a table of the commandements xvj^/. 
 
 Item for papur )d. 
 Item for procurations at my L[ord] of Canturberie's visitation, 
 
 xiij" Aprilis xviija?'. 
 
 Item for makyng a bill for the visitacion v]d. 
 Item for expenses in goyng to Clyfton to suruey the churche 
 
 land vij.f. \\]d. 
 
 Item to John Wall for caryng vs downe by water xvj(/. 
 
 Item for gymalles for seats in the churche \\\]d. 
 
 Item for nayles \d. 
 
 Item for mendyng benches in the quyer yi. 
 
 Almes. 
 
 46. Item gy\'en to mother Margarett iiij^. 
 
 Item to Robert Bridge xija'. 
 
 Item for weshynge the churche lynen \]s. 
 
 Item gyven to Jone Mariott viij^. 
 Item gyven to welshe Katherj-n at iiij sondry tymes \]s. v\\\d. 
 
 Item to Jone Mariott a nother tyme xij^/. 
 
 Item to Payne's wiffe at ij tymes ijj. 
 
 Item to mother Margett \^d. 
 
 Item for candelles ageynst Christmas \d. 
 
 Summa iij//. \\d. ob. 
 
 And so the seid Nicolas remaynethe in debt to the churche this 
 expenses deducted and allowed xlijj. ijo'. ob., of the whiche 
 some he hathe payed at this presence in redie money
 
 ST. MICHAEL'S IN BEDWARDINE, WORCESTER. 49 
 
 xxxijj. i}d., and so remaynethe in the parishe dett for 
 the price of the tree xs. 
 
 46l>. The accompte of Thomas Naylor. 
 
 Memorandum that the seid Thomas hatha receaued nothyng 
 nor payd any thynge, but hathe delyuered at this presente 
 accompt the money delyuered at his firste admission, 
 videlicet xs. 
 
 The accompte of Mr. Fisher, Keper of the churche stocke. 
 Memorandum that he askethe allowance as folowethe. 
 
 First gyven to John Malten by parishe consent v]s. viijV. 
 
 Item gyven also to Walter Heywood vj.f. viij<^. 
 
 Item to Robert Brydge ijj. 
 
 And so he delyuerethe vp of the ixli. before in the last accompte 
 to hym delyuered viijY/. iujs. viijaf. 
 
 Memorandum that there remaynethe in redie money apon this 
 accompt xlt. vs. x]d. 
 
 47. There is of newechosen for this yere to come for guardyanes 
 
 of the seid churche Thomas Nayler and Roger Folyott 
 to whom there is delyuered xs. apece. 
 
 Almes. 
 
 Item gyuen to Robert Bridges iijj. 
 
 Item to Katheryn Doctor xij^. 
 
 Item to Katherjm Smithe uiW- 
 
 Item to Mother Margett iiij^- 
 
 Item to Katheryn Acton xijd?. 
 
 [viij(/. is crossed out.] 
 
 Item to Philipp Geffreyes iiij^- 
 
 Item to Hamon's wiff m]d. 
 
 Item to the dark William Ferecliff y'}d. 
 
 And so there is delyuered to the custodie of Mr. Fisher this 
 
 presente daye in redye money nyne poundes ix//. 
 
 47^. [The next page is blank.] 
 
 48. [1566.] The Accompt of Thomas Nayler on of the churche 
 
 wardens, made the xvj daye of Februarie 1 566. 
 
 £
 
 50 churchwardens' accounts, 
 
 Receipts. 
 
 First receaued bie hj'm at his first admittance xs. 
 
 Item receaued for cheretie money at Easter 1 563 and the wyne 
 
 pa}d for vs. ]d. 
 
 Item of Hamons for his seate iiij^. 
 
 Summa xvj. \d. 
 
 Payd bie hym 
 
 Item for bred and wyne at sondrj' tj-mes for the communion 
 as aperithe bie his bill iijj. viij^/. ob. 
 
 Item for a common prayer 
 
 ["boke" crossed out before "prayer."] 
 Item for mendj-nge a bell whele ijrf. 
 
 Item for weshynge ijj. 
 
 Summa vjj. '\\)d. ob. 
 
 And so the seid Thomas Nayler remaynes in dett to the 
 churche ixj. ^d. ob. 
 
 48*. [The next page is blank.] 
 
 49. [1566.] The Accompte of Roger Folliot on of the churche 
 wardens, made and yelded vp in the presens of the 
 parishenors of this parishe of St. ^lighell the xvj daye of 
 Februarie, 1566. 
 
 Receyts. 
 
 In primis at his entr>'ng to the office xr. 
 
 Item of the rent of the land at Clifton for on yere endyng 
 at Mighelmas 1563 liijj. iiij^. 
 
 Item of Robert Kent for parte of his rent vjj. \\\)d. 
 
 Item of the cheretie money at Eastur 1562 xij.f. 
 
 Item for on yere's rent of the land at Clifton endynge at 
 Mighelmas 1564 Iiij.r. iiij</. 
 
 Item in more parte of Robert Kent's rent xiijj. \\\)d. 
 
 Item of the cheretie money at Eastur 1565 xiijj. ij</. 
 
 Item for on yere's rent of the lande at Clifton endyng at 
 Mighelmas 1565 liijj. iiijV. 
 
 Item of the cheretie money at Eastur 1566 xiijj. 
 
 Item in more parte of Robert Kent's rent xvjj. 
 
 Item for on yere's rent of the lande at Clifton due at Mighel- 
 mas 1566 \\\)s. iiijV.
 
 ST. MICHAEL'S IN BEDWARDINE, WORCESTER. 5 i 
 
 Item in more parte of Kent's rent iiijj. 
 
 Item for vj li. of old vvaxe ijj. 
 
 Item for the holic water pott of ledd weying xv //. xvj</. 
 
 Summa totalis xv//. vs. Y.d. 
 
 /^gb. Payments. 
 
 In primis gyven in almes in the parishe the Fryday next before 
 
 Whitesonday 1563 xijj. \V\]d. 
 
 Item for mendyng the baldericke of a bell {]d. 
 
 Item to Mr. Hymulton for his wage at Mighelmas 1563 
 
 xiijj. \\\]d. 
 Item gyven to Katheryn Doctor at tymes in her sickenes xiiij^/. 
 Item to Henry Bratt's wifife iiij^A 
 
 Item gyven in almes in the parishe the Thursday before Christe- 
 
 mas then next folowynge xijj. "nd. 
 
 Item payd at Mr. Dighton's when the inhabitants of St. John's 
 
 and Whitynton and this parishe dyd mete there for har- 
 
 uestyng of men the iiijth of July yn]d. 
 
 Item for sawyng of tymber to make seats xiiij^. 
 
 Item to Share the carpentur and his man for ij dayes' work 
 
 makyng and mendynge seats iijj. i]d. 
 
 Item for nayles -v'yl. 
 
 Item for ij peare of hyngs \\i]d. 
 
 Item for rent bord KVyi. 
 
 Item for vij elies and half of dowles for a surples of Kvd. ob. the 
 
 elle ixj. \\\]d. 
 
 Item for makyng of the same iijj. iiijW. 
 
 Item to John Wevar the tyler mendyng the churche xijV. 
 
 Item for lyme \\]d. 
 
 Item for ij crests xyi. 
 
 Item for expenses Rydyng to Vpton apon Severne about the 
 
 certificate of the pore - ■x.d. 
 
 Item gyven to a naked man in the churche \\\]d. 
 
 50. Item for bell ropes 
 
 Item spent upon the parishe at Kydson's the xth of Aprill xvj^/. 
 Item for Mr. Hymulton's wage for Christemas and our Ladie's 
 
 daye 1563 xxvjj. viij<^/. 
 
 Item for viij elles of lynen clothe to make a surples for the 
 
 priste at xixo^. the elle xijj. viij^. 
 
 E 2
 
 52 CHURCHWARDENS' ACCOUNTS, 
 
 Item for makyng the same to Ric[hard] Alen's wiffe viijj. v'ujd. 
 Item for Mr. Hymulton's wages for Mydsommer and Mighelmas 
 
 next after xxvjj. viij^ 
 
 Item for glasyng the churche at Christemas next after xvj^. 
 
 Item gyven in almes apon good fryday 1564, besides the money 
 
 that the colledge gave vijj. xji/. 
 
 Item payd to Mr. Hymilton of the cheretie money at Easter 
 
 1564 vs. 
 Item for bred and wyne then i]s. viij^. 
 Item payd to Mr. Lynsey for a generall acquitance to be gott 
 
 furthe for the parties xij(/. 
 
 Item gj'ven in almes at Christmas besides xiijj. that the colledge 
 
 gave iiijj. vjd. 
 
 Item for Mr. Hymulton's wages due then xiiji-. m]d. 
 
 Item for casting the little bell and more weight put to 
 
 hym xvijj. 
 
 Item to a carpentar for hangyng and stockyng the same bell xd. 
 Item for Iron worke to the same x^. 
 
 Item to Mr. Carter for glasyng the church xvjt/. 
 
 Item gj^'en to mother Margarett in her sickenes, with xij(/. that 
 
 Mr. Bland geve in my absence, which I repayd xviij^. 
 
 Soi>. Item gyven in almes at Eastur besides xijV. that the Colledge 
 
 gave 1565 vijj. 
 
 Item to William the Tyler for ij dayes' worke, stoppyng between 
 
 the raughters of the churche to kepe furthe pygeons and 
 
 mendynge the walks of the litle house xiji/. 
 
 Item gyven to Mr. Hymulton of the cheretie money at Eastur 
 
 1565 vs. 
 Item for bred and wyne then ijs. vijd. 
 Item for ij lode of cleye xijV. 
 Item for a sawter for the churche to Kydson xiiijdf. 
 Item for procurations in my L[ord] Bushop's visitacion xviij^. 
 Item for makyng the bill of presentement and spent apon the 
 
 sixe men ijs. 
 
 Item g>-\-en to Mr. Hymulton of the cheretie money at Eastur 
 
 1566 vj. viij</. 
 Item for bred and wyne then i}s. viijV. 
 Item gyven to Katheryne Acton at Whitsontyde vjd. 
 Item to old Margett iiijW.
 
 ST. MICHAEL'S IN BEDWARDINE, WORCESTER. $3 
 
 Item for wyne when we went to survey our churclic land at 
 Clifton vii'}d. 
 
 Item to Mr. Hymulton for his wages at Mighelmas 1566 
 
 xiijj. iiij^. 
 
 Item spent apon Mr. Harford, Mr. Wesheborne, and other when 
 we obteyned our Evidences furthe of theyre handes after 
 the deathe of Mr. Bland xvij^/. 
 
 Item gyven in almes at Christemas more then the colledge 
 gave njs. vjV. 
 
 51. Item gyven to Mother Acton in her sicknes vjd. 
 Item for a cupp and a pott for the communion Bord iijj. 
 Item for the caryage of them from London v]d. 
 Item to Roger Bushell for tylynge ij dayes apon the churche 
 
 and to his man iij.y. 
 
 Item for iij bushell of lyme vjd. 
 
 Item for sande jd. 
 
 Item for wyne at tymes for the communion as aperithe by 
 
 a bill for the space of iiij yeres vs. xjd. 
 
 Item for weshyng durjmg the seyd tyme \']s, 
 Summa totalis xiij//. ijj. vUjd. 
 
 And so remaynethe to the churche the premisses allowed xliij.f. 
 i}d., whiche some is payd in the presense of the parishe and 
 this accompt discharged. 
 S'^- [This page is blank.] 
 
 52. The Accompte of Richard Fisher, Keper of the churche stock. 
 In primis it dothe apere at the last accompt taken, videlicet 
 
 the xvij of Januarie 1562, that there was delyuered in to 
 the custodie of the seid Richard Fysher the some of ix/i. 
 whereof he askethe allowance, videlicet, 
 
 In primis gj'ven to John Malten ijj. 
 
 Item lent by hym to Hamons iijV. iiijV/. 
 
 Item gyven to Katheryn Doctor xijd. 
 
 Summa \-}s. vn'jd. 
 
 So remaynes viij//. xiijj. viijd. 
 Memorandum that there is at this presente tyme delyuered 
 to the custodie of the seid Mr. Fysher the some of ix/i. xs. ; 
 and the residewe of the money rysyng of the former
 
 54 churchwardens' accounts, 
 
 accompt made by Roger Folliott is gyven in alines as 
 folowith, and delyuered before hand to the newe church 
 wardens as hereafter maye apere 
 
 Item in almes to Elkyns for his boye ijs. 
 
 Item to Katherj'n Acton xij^. 
 
 Item to Katherj'ne Doctor vj^. 
 
 Item to Katherj-ne Smithe vjrf. 
 
 Item to Philip Jeflfereyes ijd. 
 
 Item to John Malten xx^. 
 
 Item to the Clark iiij^. 
 
 Item to mother Margett iiijV. 
 
 Item to Dixson iiij</. 
 
 $2d. Memorandum that there is of newe chosen to be Guardyanes 
 of the seid churche John Oseland and John Birde. And also 
 there is chosen to be sixe men of the seid parishe, to be 
 joyned with the seid wardens for placyng of seats, and other 
 thyngs to be done about the churche landes, and necessarie 
 afayres about the said churche, videlicet, Richard Fysher, 
 Roger Folliott, John Danks, George Wall, Nicolas Broke, 
 and Richard Alen. 
 
 Item there is delyuered to the handes of the foresaid wardens 
 furthe of the former accompt of Roger Folliott xks., videli- 
 cet xj. apece. 
 
 Item there remaynes in a chest in the custodie of Mr. Doctor 
 Hare xix peces of Evidences for our churche lande, vnder 
 a locke with thre Keyes, whereof on remaynithe in the 
 custodie of Roger Folliott, a nother with George Wall, and 
 the third with Nicolas Broke. 
 
 53. [1562.] A Terrar of all soche Landes medowes Lesowes and 
 pastures as belong to the churche of St. Mighell within the 
 citie of Worcester, Lyng and Beyng at Clifton within the 
 parishe of Sevcrnestoke in the countie of Worcester, taken 
 and acknowledged bie men of good age and longe abydyng 
 within the seid parishe, the xxv daye of September 1562. 
 
 In primis one meste close lying betweene the ground of Nicolas 
 Clifton gentleman on the northe side and the land of
 
 ST. MICHAEL'S IN BEDWARDINE, WORCESTER. 55 
 
 William Somcr on the southe side, shotyng into the strete 
 of Clifton estward, and hath the land of John Folliott 
 esq. on the west part. 
 Item one litle close bctwenc the tenement of the seid Nicolas 
 Clifton and a close of the same Nicolas on the southe syde, 
 shotyng into the strctc at Clifton. 
 Item one Icasowe or pasture called Barnc's home lying betwcne 
 Clifton home and Severne, and shotithe southcvvard apon 
 the lesowe of Nicolas Clifton and Clifton home on the 
 northe parte. 
 Item one other Icasowe or pasture called Ricarde's Lesowe 
 apon Severne banke on the one parte and a pasture of 
 Nicolas Clifton called Lowefyld on the other parte. 
 Item one medowe pleck at Mitt hurste, betwene the medowe 
 ground of Mr. Clifton and William Somer. 
 53^. Item a medowe pleck at Barne's home shotyng at bothe endes 
 apon the Lord of Seuernestoke['s] medow. 
 Item a other medowe plecke beyng Cott medowe in Clifton 
 
 home 
 Item one other parcell of Cott medowe called the Harpe. 
 Item one other parcell of medowe at Cadnall betwene Rough 
 more and the land of Richard Wade, and shotithe on bothe 
 thendes apon the land of Nicolas Clifton. 
 Item one other litle medowe plecke lying bie Quadmore. 
 Item one farmedell of land in SulTyld, betwene the land of 
 Nicolas Clifton on the southe syde and William Somer 
 on the northe syde, shotyng on Westemore. 
 Item one other farmedell in the same fyld, betwene the land 
 of Stoke on the southe parte and Nicolas Clifton on the 
 northe part, and shotithe apon the seid more. 
 Item one other farmedell in the same fyld betweene the land 
 of Stoke on the southe syde and Mr. Clifton on the northe 
 syde, and shotithe apon the seid more. 
 Item one other farmedell in the same f}'ld between the lord 
 on the west parte and Mr. Clifton on the est parte, and 
 shotithe to Wofyld. 
 54. Item one farmedell in the same fyld betwene the land of 
 Nicolas Clifton on the southe syde, And the land of 
 Kenelme Wynselowe on the northe syde, shotyng to Arle.
 
 $6 CHURCHWARDENS' ACCOUNTS. 
 
 Item one other farmedell in the same fyld betwene the land 
 of the seid Wynselowe on the southe syde and the lord 
 of Stoke on the northe syde, and shotithe to Arle aforeseid. 
 
 Item one farmedell in Woefyld betwene the land of John 
 Folliott esquier on the southe parte and the land of the 
 Lord of Stoke on the northe syde, shotynd to Arle on the 
 west And on the este to Westemoreland. 
 
 Item one butt of land in the same fyld, shotyng to Arle be- 
 t\vene the land of Nicolas Clifton on the este syde and the 
 land of John Berewick on the weste parte. 
 
 Item one halfe Acre in the same fyld between the land of Mr. 
 Clifton on the este syde and the land of the lord of Stoke 
 on the west syde, and shotithe on the land of William Coks 
 southeward, and the land of the lord northeward. 
 
 Item one halfe Acre in the same fyld betweene the land of Mr. 
 Clifton on bothe sydes, and shotithe to Arle at the northe 
 end, and the vveye to Sanford at the southe end. 
 
 Item one other halfe Acre in the same fyld betwene the land of 
 the lord of Stoke on the northe syde and the land of Mr. 
 Clifton on the southe syde, And shotithe on Quadmore and 
 the weye to Sanford. 
 54^. Item on other halfe Acre in the same fyld betwene the land of 
 Mr. Clifton on the northe syde, and shotithe between Quad- 
 more and Arle. 
 
 Item one farmedell in Huffyld betwene the land of John Folliott 
 esquier on the northe syde and the land of John Berewick 
 on the southe syde, shotyng in leynthe betwene Aste- 
 more and the high weye betwene Clyfton and Severnc- 
 stoke. 
 
 Item one other land in the same fyld betweene the lorde's 
 land on bothe sydes, shotyng betwene Astemore and the 
 weye aforeseid. 
 
 Item one butt betweene the land of the lord on the northe 
 syde and the land of Mr. Clifton on the southe syde, 
 shotyng betwene Arle and the land aforeseid. 
 
 Item one halfe Acree in the same fyld betwene the land of 
 Nicolas Clifton and the land of John Somer, shotyng to 
 the high weye aforesaid. 
 
 Item one half Acre in the same fyld betwene the land of
 
 ST. MICHAEL'S IN BEDWARDIXE, WORCESTER. 57 
 
 Mr. Clifton on the northe syde and the land of William 
 Somer on the southe syde, shotyng on Astemore at the 
 este end and the highwey aforeseid at the weste end. 
 
 Item one halfe acre in the .same fyld betvvene the land of the 
 lord of [sic] the southe syde and the land of Mr. Folliott 
 on the northe syde, shotyng betwene the high weye and 
 Arle aforeseid. 
 
 Item one halfe Acre in the same fyld betweene the land of 
 Mr. Clifton on bothe sydes, shotyng betwene Astemore 
 and the wey aforesaid. 
 55. Item one farmdell shotyng to the high weye aforeseid and 
 cuttithe of at the butts, shotyng to Astemore betwene the 
 land of Mr. Clifton on bothe sydes. 
 
 Item one halfe acre shotyng betvvene Arle and the seid high- 
 weye the land of the lord on the northe parte and the 
 land of William Somer on the southe parte. 
 
 Item one farmedell shotyng the same weye betwene the land 
 of Mr. Clifton on the southe syde and Mr. Folliott on 
 the northe syde. 
 
 Item one halfe Acre in the same fyld shotyng on Astemore 
 betwene the land of Mr. Folliott on the southe syde and 
 William Somer on the northe syde. 
 
 Item one halfe Acre shotying on the weye to Worcester bie 
 the land of Mr. Clifton on the northe parte. 
 
 Item one halfe Acre in the nether forlong of the same fyld 
 shotyng on Astemore betweene the land of Kenelme 
 Wynslowe on the northe syde and William Somer on the 
 southe parte. 
 
 Item one halfe Acre in the same fyld shotyng on the weye 
 to Worcester betvvene the land of the lord on the southe 
 syde and the land of Mr. Clifton on the northe syde. 
 
 Item one halfe Acre in the same fyld in the mydle forlong 
 betwene the land of the lord on the southe parte and the 
 land of Mr. Folliott on the northe syde. 
 
 Item one farmedell in the northe fyld shotyng on the marie 
 pytt between the land of the lord on the northe syde and 
 the land of Mr. Clifton on the southe syde. 
 SS5. Item one halfe Acre in the same fyld shotyng on the weye be- 
 twene the land of Mr. Clifton on bothe sydes.
 
 58 churchwardens' accounts, 
 
 Item one farmedell shotj-ng apon Astemore betwene the land 
 of Mr. Clifton on the northe syde and WilUam Coks and 
 Mr. Clifton bothe on the southe syde. 
 
 Item one farmedell shotyng on Astemore betwene the land of 
 the lord on bothe sydes. 
 
 Item one butt in the mydle forlong shotyng on the hed land 
 of Nicolas Clifton at the southe end. 
 
 Item two butts shotyng on Astemore, the one bet%veene the 
 land of the lord on the este syde and the land of Mr. 
 Clifton on the weste syde shotyng on the hed land of 
 the lord, the other by the land of John Benvick on the 
 Este syde and the land of Nicolas Clifton on the west 
 syde. 
 
 Item one halfe Acre at Ryple gate shotyng on Astemore on 
 the weye betwene the land of the lord on the southe syde 
 and the land of Mr. Clifton on the northe syde. 
 
 Item one halfe Acre in the same furlong bet\vene the land of 
 John Folliott on the southe syde and the land of Nicolas 
 Clifton on the northe syde. 
 
 Item one farmedell shotyng on Istemore betwene the land of 
 the lord on the northe syde and the land of William 
 Somer on the southe syde. 
 
 Item one halfe Acre in the same forlong shotyng from Aste- 
 more to Istemare, the lord on the northe syde and Wil- 
 liam Somer on the southe syde. 
 56. Item one butt from Wythie mere to the ende of Istemere 
 bet^vene the land of the lord on bothe sydes. 
 
 Item one land, beyng thre farmedells, shotyng from Wethie- 
 mere to one hedland of the lord and Mr. Clifton on bothe 
 sydes. 
 
 Item one butt shotyng fromward Worcester to the land of 
 Mr. Clifton, betwene the land of the lord of Stoke on the 
 weste syde and the land of William Coks on the este syde. 
 
 Item one halfe Acre in the mydle forlong called Lewes hill 
 betwene the land of the lord on the northe syde and the 
 land of William Somer on the southe syde, shotj'ng at 
 bothe endes apon the land of Mr. Clifton. 
 
 Item one farmedell shotyng into Catt's hill betwene the land 
 of Mr. Clifton on bothe sydes.
 
 ST. MICHAEL'S IN EEDWARDINE, WORCESTER. 59 
 
 Item one halfe Acre in the mydle furlong betwcne the land 
 of the lord of Stoke on the southe syde And of William 
 Somer on the northe syde shotyng betwcne ij wirpes. 
 
 Item one other halfe Acre in the same furlong betwene tiie 
 
 land of Mr. Clifton on the northe syde. 
 Item one butt and one farmedcll next the same halfe Acre, 
 shotyng apon the strete at Clifton and the land of Wil- 
 liam Coks on the southe syde. 
 $6b. Item one butt in the same furlong shotyng apon the close of 
 Mr. Clifton. 
 
 Item one butt in Hempstede shotyng from Wethye mere 
 to one land of John Berwick betwene the land of the 
 lord on the southe syde and the land of Mr. Clifton on 
 the northe syde. 
 
 Item one farmedell in the mydle furlong in the same fyld 
 shotynge in leynth from the hed land of one Turlyans 
 to the wayneweye betwene the land of the lord on the 
 southe syde and the land of Mr. Clifton on the northe 
 syde. 
 
 Item ij butts in Catt's hill furlong, Mr. Clifton on bothe sydes. 
 
 Item one butt in Hempstede shotyng apon the black greve, 
 the land of Mr. Folliott on the weste syde and the land of 
 the lord on the este syde. 
 
 Item one other butt in the mydle furlong of the same fyld 
 betwene the land of Mr. Clifton on the este syde and 
 William Coks on the weste syde. 
 
 57. [This page is blank.] 
 
 57(5. [1567.] The Accompte of John Oseland, churche guardiane 
 of the parishe of St. Mighell, made the vijth daye of Alarche 
 1567, Anno x" regnis Elizabeth. 
 
 Receytes. 
 
 In primis receaued for one halfe yere's rent of the land at 
 Clifton due at thannunciation of our Ladie last 
 
 xxvji'. viijV. 
 
 Item for parte of Robert Kent's rent for his house dependyng 
 
 apon the last accompte and due at the feaste of St. Mighell 
 
 1566 xiijj. iiij(/. 
 
 Item of Thomas Nayler for seate money Vn\d.
 
 6o churchwardens' accounts, 
 
 Item of Humfrey Perj'n for seate money injd. 
 
 Item for John of Arowe and his wiff viijV. 
 
 Item of the parishe stocke at his entrey xj. 
 
 Payments. 
 
 In primis item for the parishe drynkynge after the last accompt 
 before this iiijj. 
 
 Item a ropp for the httle bell m]d. 
 
 Item gyven in almes to litle John Taylor when he was sicke at 
 tymes xiijV. 
 
 Item for communion bred for this yere v']d. 
 
 Item communion wyne from Passion Sonday untyll Lowsondaye 
 
 iijj. viijV. 
 
 58. Item for the parishe drynkyng upon Easter daye in the after- 
 
 noone iij-f. viijd?. 
 
 Item in Almes to Katheryn Acton at thre tymes when she was 
 
 sicke -._ iijj. 
 
 Item for communion wyne from Low Sondaye tyll Mighelmas 
 
 Item for communion wyne from Mighelmas tyll this accompte 
 
 n}s. ixd. 
 Item for ij bell ropes i'}s. 
 
 Item for a ladder for the steple and mendyng the belles ijs. vjd. 
 Item for hordes and mendyng the steyars in the steple viij^. 
 Item for nayles iiij</. 
 
 Item for a newe keye and mendyng the lock apon the steple 
 
 dore 
 
 Item for makyng an Indictement ageynst John Symons for 
 
 fightyng in the churche apon Eastur Daye ijj. 
 
 Item for weshyng x\]d. 
 
 Item gj'ven in almes to Katheryn Doctor, Katheryn Smithe, 
 
 Hamon's wiffe, mother Wright, John Dixson, old Margett, 
 
 mother Flecher, and to Payne's wiff, after viij^. a pece 
 
 vs. vn']d. 
 
 Item for hyngs for a seate for Mr. Hare iiij^. 
 
 Summa xxxvijj. ixd., whiche some discharged and allowed 
 
 there remaynes clere to the churche the some of xiijj. vijd. 
 
 beyng payd apon this accompt in the presence of the 
 
 parishioners. 
 
 583. The accompte of John Byrd one other of the seid churche 
 
 guardianes made the same daye.
 
 ST. MICHAEL'S IN BEDWARDINE, WORCESTER. 6 1 
 
 Receytes. 
 
 In primis for one halfe yerc's rent of the land at Clifton due at 
 Mighelmas last xxvj. viija?'. 
 
 Item for cheritie money at Eastur xvjj. viijd?. 
 
 Item the seate money of Mr. Doctor Hare for a seate new made 
 whiche the parishioners have promised at this accompt 
 shall remayne to his house for euer vj. 
 
 Item of Mistress Bland for the seate that her husband had for 
 her frendes to knele in xi]d. 
 
 Item receaued at his entrey xj. 
 
 Payments. 
 
 In primis payd to Clent for Whitson farthyngs for ij yeres xd. 
 Item for ij bawdericks for the belles ijj. v}d. 
 
 Item to Mr. Hymulton of the cheritie money at Eastur vu]s. 
 Item in almes to the parishe besides the college gifte ijs. xd. 
 Item more to mother Margett viij^. 
 
 For a peare of shoes for her xiijt/. 
 
 Item to Katheryn Doctor v']d. 
 
 Item for Mr. Hymulton's wages xiijj. i'njd. 
 
 59. Item for weshyng xi]d. 
 
 Item to Nicolas Broke for makyng Mr. Hare's seate vjV. vUjd. 
 Item for mendyng the quyer and other seates, to hym iijj. iiijV. 
 Item to Roger Folyott for wrytyng and kepyng our accompts 
 dyuers tymes before this accompt vjj. vU}d. 
 
 Item gyven to discharge a certeyne debt that Raphe Symons 
 dothe owe to Humfrey Peryn vs. 
 
 Summa lijj. vjV., whiche some allowed and discharged there 
 remaynes to the churche vjj. x^. beyng payd apon this 
 accompt in the prescns of the parishioners. 
 And the foreseid some of ix/i. xs. delyuered to the custodie of 
 Richard Fisher in the last accompt is so remayning in his 
 custodie. 
 And there is of newe chosen guardyanes of the seid churche 
 John Byrd and Humfrey Peryn. And the sixe men to con- 
 tinewe as they are. And there is gyven in almes by the 
 seid guardyanes of the money nowc delyuered vnto them apon 
 this accompte, videlicet xs. apece, as folowitlae vs. and the 
 residewe dyd remayne in overplus of this accompt.
 
 63 churchwardens' accounts, 
 
 Margett vj(/. ; Dixson vjV. ; Philipp vj^. ; the Clarke v)d. ; 
 Katherj-n Doctor viijV. ; Katherj'n Smitlie iiijV. ; Hamon's 
 wiff iiijd. ; Mother \\'right iiijt/. ; George Coke iiij^. ; 
 Woodfall iiij^.; Bridge ijd?.; Howell ij^. ; Lee iiijV.; David 
 Gough ijti. ; Posterne ijW. 
 59^' [This page is blank.] 
 
 60. [1568.] The accompt of John Byrd, one of the churche 
 wardens of St. Mighelle's in Bedwardyne, made the xiij daye 
 of Marche 1 568, et anno regni Elizabethae vndecimo. 
 His receytes. 
 
 In primis receaued in money at the last accompt xj. 
 
 Item Rec. of Thomas Salwey for rent due at thannunciation 
 
 of our Ladie last xxvjj. vii'jd. 
 
 Item Rea of Robert Kent for his rent the 27 of Auguste 
 
 last KS. 
 
 Item Rec. of Thomas Salwey for his rent due at Mighelmas 
 
 laste xx\Jj. vn]d. 
 
 Seate money. 
 
 Item Rec. of John Oseland for his seate v}d. 
 
 Of Rafe Symons for his seate iiij^. 
 
 Of John Dixson for his seate m}d. 
 
 Of William Bristowe for hym and his wiff x^. 
 
 Of William Ford vj^. 
 
 Of John Dyar vj^. 
 
 Of John Byrd vjV. 
 
 Of Richard Woodfall iiijV. 
 
 Churche dett. 
 
 Receaued of Roger FoUiott of the churche dett v'jd. 
 
 Of Thomas Flecher vjd. 
 
 Of Thomas Hall iu]d. 
 
 Of Nicolas Broke vj^. 
 
 Of Roger Wall vj^. 
 
 Of Richard Alen vjd. 
 
 Of Thomas Naylor - v}d. 
 
 Summa totalis iiij//. vj^. 
 
 6o3. John Byrde's allowances. 
 
 First gyven in almes at the last accompt in the presence of 
 
 the parishe ijj. \}d.
 
 ST. MICHAEL'S IN BEDWARDINE, WORCESTER. 63 
 
 Item for the parishioners drynkynge at Osclande's the same 
 
 tyme 
 Item for a pynne to the saunce bell Id. 
 
 Item gyvcii to the poorc at Easter as apcrithe bie a bill 
 
 xiiiji'. viiji^. 
 Item for two bell Ropes ijj. v]d. 
 
 Item for a pynne to the second bell jd. 
 
 Item for Whitson farthyngs vd. 
 
 Item for a Rope to the greate bell xiiijV. 
 
 Item in almes a[t] Christemas besides colledge gifte vs. 
 
 Item to Mr. Cirell and Roger Wheler for a proces to areste 
 
 Mr. Fyssher's goodes at his deathe for the churche money 
 
 iiijj. v'ujd. 
 Item for Mr. Hymulton's wages due at Mighelmas last 
 
 xiijj. m}d. 
 Item gyven to the pore at sondry tymes as aperithe by his 
 
 bill iljs. iujd. 
 
 Item for weshyng the churche stuff ijj. 
 
 Summa Ij^. ixd. And so there remaynes to the churche all 
 
 thynges allowed xxviijj. ixd. whiche is payd apon this 
 
 accompt and the seid Byrd discharged. 
 
 61. The accompt of Humfrey Peryn one other of the churche 
 wardens made the daye and yere above seid. 
 
 His Receits. 
 
 In primis Rec. at the last accompt xs. 
 
 Item Rec. of Robert Kent of his rent the 17 of August last xs. 
 
 Item for cheritie money at Easter xvjj. 
 
 Summa xxxvjj. 
 
 His allowances or payments. 
 
 Firste gyven in almes at the last accompt ijs, v]d. 
 
 For the parishe drynkyng at Oselandes ijj. 
 
 Item payd to Mr. Hymulton of the cheritie money viijj. 
 
 Item for mendyng the dark's surples ijV. 
 
 Item in wyne to the churche at dyuers tymes viji'. vi]d. 
 
 Item for bred iijV. od. 
 
 Summa xxj. v}d. ob. And so his allowances deducted of the 
 
 former some there remaynes to the church clcre the some 
 
 of x\s. vd. ob.
 
 64 churchwardens' accounts, 
 
 Memorandum there is clere to the churche of bothe these 
 accompts xliiijj. ijd. ob., where of there is gyven to the 
 pore of the parishe at this accompt iiijj. '\]d. ob., and the 
 residewe xb. is delyuered to Humfrey Peryn and William 
 Ford who ar chosen guardyanes for tliis yere to come, 
 videlicet xxj. apece. And there is also chosen one of the 
 sixe men Thomas Flecher in the place of Mr. Fisher. 
 
 6i£. [This page is blank.] 
 
 62. [1569] The Accompt of Humfrey Peryn, one of the churche 
 guardyanes of St. IMighell, made the vth day of Marche 
 1569 et regni Elizabeth, etc. 
 
 His receipts. 
 
 In primis receaued at the last accompte xx.j. 
 
 Item for the rent of the land at Clifton xxvjj. \'n)d. 
 
 Item of Robert Kent of his rent vjj. viijt/. 
 
 Item for cheritie money at Eastur xiiijj. 
 
 Item of Roger Folliot for his wiff 's seate xijW. 
 
 Item of the Keper of the Castell for his seate and his wiffe's xij^. 
 
 Item of Georg Wall for parte of his dett \)d. 
 
 Item of Richard Alen for parte of his dett \]d. 
 
 Item of Nicolas Broke for parte of his dett \]d. 
 
 Summa iij//. xj. yid. 
 His Payments. 
 
 First at Oselande's at the last accompt \\]d. 
 
 Item the same tyme at the seid Humfrey's iijV. 
 
 Item spent apon the parishenors apon Eastur daye at Oselande's 
 
 iijj. 
 
 Item the same daye at George Cardmaker's \\\]d. 
 
 Item gj^en in almes at t}'mes to mother Margett iijj. 
 
 62b. Item gy\-en to Thomas Lee in his sicknes at tymes ijj. \']d. 
 
 Item to David Gough iiij^. 
 
 Item to Katheryn Smithe \\\]d. 
 
 Item for halfe the charge of the presentment in the Bushop's 
 
 visitation iiij^. 
 
 Item for drynkyng the same daye iiij^. 
 
 Item for procurations at the same visitation xviijV. 
 
 Item gyven to mother Walker in her sicknes \]s. 
 
 Item payd to the masons for makyng the stone walles aboute the 
 
 litle house in the churche end xx^.
 
 ST. MICHAEL'S IN BEDWARDINE, WORCESTER. 65 
 
 Item for lymc and sand viijrf. 
 
 Item for a boxe to put our evidence in v]d. 
 
 Item for our drynkyng before our goyng to Clifton iij^. 
 
 Item for a sheffe of Arowes xviij^. 
 
 Item gyven to John Dixson in his sicknes v]d. 
 
 Item payde for a baldericke '\]s. v]d. 
 
 Item for the amerciament at Stoke Courte and for my charges 
 
 v\\]d. 
 
 Item for ryngyng at the daye of the Quene's entrey viij^. 
 
 Item for weshyng the churche stuffe xij^/. 
 
 Item payde for parte of the charges in settyng furthe of ij men 
 into the north xj. 
 
 Item to Hymulton for the halfe of the cheritie money viijj. 
 
 Item for wyne to the communion at dyuers tymes as aperithe 
 
 hie a bill \']s. ixd. 
 
 63. Item for communion bred \']d. 
 
 Item for a boke of homelies xijrf. 
 
 Item for the charges aboute our churche landes betvveene 
 Mr. Clifton and vs, and the expenses of Roger Follyot 
 at the counsaile at Bridgenorthe aboute the same as 
 aperithe bie his bill xviiji-. 'n\]d. 
 
 Summa iij//. ixj. m]d. 
 
 And so remaynithe of this accompt clere to the churche xv^., 
 and the same is payd and discharged. 
 
 The accompt of William Ford, one other of the churche- 
 guardyanes, made the same daye. 
 
 William Forde's receipts. 
 
 First receaued at the Last accompt xxj. 
 
 Item receaued of Thomas Salweye for his halfe yere's rent 
 
 xxvjj. viijV. 
 Item of Robert Kent for parte of his rent v]s. \\\]d. 
 
 Summa \\\]s. \\\]d. 
 6ib. William Forde's payments. 
 
 Firste in expenses at Oselande's after the last accompte iij^. 
 Item for scowryng of harmes vjf/. 
 
 Item gyven to mother Margett at tymes iij-f- vj^/. 
 
 Item gyven to Katheryn Smithe iiij^- 
 
 Item gyven to Katheryn Doctor xviij(/. 
 
 Item to Sybell Clark \\\]d. 
 
 F
 
 66 churchwardens' accounts, 
 
 Item for parte of makyng of a bill at the visitation iiij^. 
 
 Item in expenses the same daye iiij^. 
 
 Item gyven to Dixson iiij</. 
 
 Item to mother Sergeant i}d. 
 
 Item expenses at Clifton when we dyd goe to sur\-eye our 
 
 ground xvj^. 
 
 Item for my charges Rydyng to the counsaile at Bridgenorth 
 
 about our Landes viji-. v}d. 
 
 Summa xxvjj. xj^/. 
 And so remaynithe clere to the churche apon this accompt 
 
 xxvjj. vd. 
 Which is payd and discharged. 
 
 64. There is of newe chosen churche Guardyanes for the yere to 
 
 come William Ford and Roger FoUiott, to whom there is 
 
 delyuered xxyjj. viijV., videlicet xiijj. iiij^. apece. And the 
 
 reste of the money that remaynithe was gyven to the pore 
 
 apon this accompte. 
 
 Memorandum that John Danks owithe to the churche of the 
 
 money that Mr. Fisher had iiij//. ; and he and Robert 
 
 CoffjTi as suerties for iij/?. more of the same money. 
 
 Item that Georg Wall owithe of the same money xiijj. iiijif. 
 
 Item William Grafton of the same money apon his bill xs. 
 
 Payments made bie John Danks of the seid iiijV/. 
 
 Item payd bie hyra for settyng furthe of our soldyers into the 
 northe xiiijj. iiij^. 
 
 Videlicet to George Wall for John Blande's harmes vjs. viij</. 
 and to the constable Henry Symons vjs. viij(/. 
 
 Item to Mr. Hymulton for his wages due at Mighelmas last 
 
 xiij.r. iiij//. 
 
 643. [1570.] The accompt of William Ford one of the churche- 
 wardens of St. Mighell's made the xj of March, 1570. 
 
 Recej-tes. 
 
 Rs. at the end of the last accompt xiijj. iiij^. 
 
 Rs. for one halfe yere's rent of the ground at Clifton xxvjj. viij^. 
 Rs. of the cheritie money at Eastur vs. vi}d. 
 
 Summa xlvj. vijd.
 
 ST. MICHAEL'S IN BEDWARDINE, WORCESTER. 6/ 
 
 Payments. 
 
 Item gyven to Katheryn Doctor in almes at dyucrs tymes as 
 aperithe bie a bill i'j'^- vjV. 
 
 Item to David Gough vj^. 
 
 Item to John Dixson iiija'- 
 
 Item to Katheryn Smithe " viij<f. 
 
 Item to Hamon's wiffe vj^/. 
 
 Item to bye her a Shrowde ijs. n'ljd. 
 
 Item for wyne at Eastur ij-y. ij<^- 
 
 Item for wyne at tymes for the communion sythens Eastur vs. iijV/. 
 Item for Ryngyng the daye of the quene's entryng xvj</. 
 
 Item for parte of our charges at Ludlowe in the sute that Mr. 
 Clifton had ageynste vs for our lands xijj. iiij</. 
 
 Item for charges of a commission for the same at Malverne 
 
 u]s. \u]d. 
 Item for Whitson farthyngs vd. 
 
 Item for bell ropes xviij^. 
 
 Item for weshynge the churche lynen xi]d. 
 
 Summa xxxiijj. jd. 
 65. And so there remaynithe clere to the churche of this accompt 
 xjj. vj^. And the same payd and discharged. 
 The accompte of Roger Folliott, the other Churche Warden, 
 the same daye and yere. 
 Receipts. 
 
 Firste receaued apon the last accompte xiij.f. iiij(^. 
 
 Item for the halfe yere's rent of the land at Clifton xxvjj. uijd. 
 Item of John Danks for charges in law of Mr. Fisher's debt 
 
 xiijj. iiij(/. 
 
 Item of the cheritie money at Eastur xj. v]d. 
 
 Item of Robert Kent for rent and arrerages xxs. 
 
 Item of William Bristowe for ij yeres' rent of John Goughe's 
 
 gardun, towards the payment of his debt iiji'. nijd. 
 
 Item of [sic] Cowperfor ij yeres' rent of a nother garden iiijj. 
 
 Summa iiij//. xjj. \]d. 
 6$b. Payments. 
 
 Item spent at Richard Alen's after the churche accompt xvu]d. 
 Item for wyne at Eastur 'J-^- 
 
 Item for glasyng the churche wyndovves vs. ij^. 
 
 F 2
 
 68 CHURCHWARDENS' ACCOUNTS, 
 
 Item payd to Mr. Hymulton of the cheritie money at Eastur 
 
 viijj. 
 Item charges at Shrewesburie betwene Mr. Clifton and vs as 
 
 aperithe bie a bill xs. yd. 
 
 Item g\-\'en in almes to David Gough \\]d. 
 
 Item to Katheryn Doctor at tymes xix^. 
 
 Item to Dixson at tj'mes viij^. 
 
 Item to Hamon's wiffe xijW. 
 
 Item to Richard Alen's charges to Ryde to Ludlowe aboute our 
 
 matter in lawe iijj. 
 
 Item parte of our charges at Ludlowe, Beryn and Ford, at the 
 
 orderyng and dismission thereof xijj. 
 
 Item at Ludlowe for myself Crastino Andree xix^. 
 
 Item for weshyng the churche lynen xijd?. 
 
 Summa xlviijj. \\}d. 
 
 And so remaynithe clere to the churche xliji-. xjW., which is 
 payd and discharged apon this accompt whereof there 
 was allowed to William Ford for his parte of weshyng the 
 church l}-nen the yere that Peryn and he were wardens 
 because he dyd aske no allowance for the same xijV. 
 
 So that there remaynithe clere of bothe these accompts liijj. \d. 
 
 66. Memorandum at the same accompt John Danks payd of Mr, 
 
 Fisher's dett xlj. 
 
 And askithe allowance of xxdf. g>-ven bie hym to David 
 Gough in his sicknes ; and so remaj-nithe clere xxxviijj. v\d. 
 
 Also George Wall payd of the seid dett xiijj., whereof he had 
 allowance of \)d. gyven by hym to Katheryn Doctor ; and 
 so remaynes clere xijj. \']d. 
 
 Summa \s. xd. 
 
 Whereof payd to ]Mr. Hymulton for his wages xiij^. iiijV. 
 
 to Katheryn Doctor vjd. 
 
 to Dixson xijd. 
 
 to John Gough xxd. 
 
 to Richard Woodfall Hijd. 
 
 to litle Philipp vj<i 
 
 to Katheryn Smithe iijrf. 
 
 Summa xvijj. vijV.
 
 ST. MICHAEL'S IN BEDWARDINE, WORCESTER, 69 
 
 So that the totall some of this accompt is clere to the churche 
 all thyngs allowed as is before declared iuj/i. vjj. viij^/., 
 whereof there is layd in the communion chest iij//. vjs. viij(/., 
 and more delyuercd to Roger Follyott and Thomas 
 Muckelowe, guardyanes of newe chosen, xxs., videlicet xs. 
 a pece. 
 
 661/. [1571 ] The accompt of Roger Follyott one of the churche 
 wardens, made the XYJ'** daye of Marche, 1571. 
 
 Receipts. 
 
 In primis at the last acompt xs. 
 
 Item of Thomas Salwey for ij elme butts ijj. 
 
 Item of Mistres Fissher for parte of her dett xxvjj. 
 
 Item for a Chalis of ix ounces and half at vs. iiijV. the ounce 
 
 xlixj. vd. 
 Item of Thomas Salwey for our Ladie daye rent xiijj. iiija?. 
 
 Item of the cheritie money at Easter vd. 
 
 Item of Roger Lode in erneste of his trees xljd. 
 
 Summa v/z. ijj. i]d. 
 
 In primis gyven to the pore at tymes as cheritie as aperithe 
 
 bie a bill ijs. u}d. 
 
 Item to the clarke of the Commemoration ix^. 
 
 Item for procurations in the bushop's visitacion xv'njd. 
 
 Item for tylyng of the churche xviij^. 
 
 Item for lyme and tyle ijj. i]d. 
 
 Item for whityng the churche vijV. 
 
 Item for Bristowe lyme vj(/. 
 
 Item for Bords to mend a gutter i^d. 
 
 Item for a commandement for Lode ijj. 
 
 Item for a messenger to the Counsaile ijj. 
 
 Item payd apon the order to Lode ijj. viijV. 
 
 Item for a communion Cupp of vij ounces and iij quarters at 
 
 vs. vjd. the ounce xlijj. ijd. 
 
 Summa iijV?. ijj. ijd. 
 
 And so restethe towardes the churche clere x\s., which is payd 
 and discharged.
 
 xiijV. 
 
 iiija?. 
 
 KVJS. 
 
 viijV. 
 
 xviji 
 
 :. v]d. 
 
 
 ijs. 
 
 
 ni}d. 
 
 xiiijj 
 
 r. iijd. 
 
 
 lis. 
 
 
 injd. 
 
 
 v]d. 
 
 ijs. 
 
 viij^. 
 
 70 churchwardens' accounts, 
 
 6y. The accompts of Thomas Mucklowe, a nother Churche Warden 
 
 of the same churche, made the same daye. 
 
 His Receytes. 
 
 In primis at the last accompt xs. 
 
 Item for the rent for the land at Clifton due at our Ladie daye 
 
 xxvjj. viijW. 
 
 Item of Thomas Salweye for ij trees 
 
 Item of the same for rent due at Mighelmas 
 
 Item for the paten of a chalys 
 
 Item for an old lampe 
 
 Item for an old surples 
 
 Item for cheritie money at Eastur 
 
 Item of William Bristowe for a garden 
 
 Summa iiij//. xixs. vd. 
 Payments. 
 
 Item g>'\-en to the clarke 
 
 Item for drynkyng at Richard Alen's 
 
 Item for our expenses at Clifton 
 
 Item gyven to David Taylor, mother Katherj'n, Mother Wright, 
 
 Thomas Lee, John Gough, and other as aperithe bie a Byll 
 
 viijj. ]d. 
 
 Item for a shrowde for Katherjm \]s. \n]d. 
 
 Item for wyne to the churche \-]s. xd. 
 
 Item for ij commandements for Loode iiijj. vii']d. 
 
 Item for ij bylles and a quittance to the commissioners xij</. 
 
 Item for mendyng a bell whele viijd. 
 
 Item for ryngyng for the Quene vujd. 
 
 Item payd to Mr. Hymulton at Eastar viijj. 
 
 Item payd for his wages xiijj. iiijrf. 
 
 Item for a bawdrick of a bell ijj. vjd. 
 
 Item for candelles at Christemas ij^. 
 
 Item for hyngs and nayles for seates v'njd. 
 
 Item for glasyng the churche xv'jd. 
 
 Item spent at Oselande's on Easter daye ijs. uijd. 
 
 Item for wesshyng ijs. 
 
 6'jb. Item for a booke of articles \\\)d. 
 
 Summa Iviijj. \d., and so restithe towardes the churche clere 
 
 xijj. 
 Memorandum that of these seucrall accompts there rcmaynithe 
 
 clerc to the churche, all things allowed and deducted iiij//. xija'.
 
 ST. MICHAEL'S IN BEDWARDINE, WORCESTER. 7 1 
 
 Whereof there is putt into the cheste liijj. iiij^. 
 
 Delyuercd to the wardens of newe chosen, videlicet Robert Walle 
 
 and Thomas Mucklowc xxj. 
 
 And the rest bcyng vij^f. viij^i?. is distributed to the poore of the 
 
 same parish at this present accompte. 
 
 [1572] v'" die Augusti, 1572. 
 
 Memorandum that John Dantcs, George Wall, Nicolas Brooke, 
 
 Thomas Allen, and Humfry Perryn, hathe payde these 
 
 sommes of money out of the coffer which remaynethe 
 
 in the churche, videlicet 
 
 Imprimis deliuered to Thomas Muckelowe for to paye Mr. 
 
 Kyrte's fee for two seuerale matters xiijj. iiijV/. 
 
 Item payde to Robert Walker, which he layed out of his 
 
 purche at the assices vijj. 
 
 Item payde to him for Mr. Plawden's fee for his counsaill in our 
 
 evidences vjj. viij</. 
 
 Item payde to Mr. Scrupe for a commandement agaynste Lode 
 
 iijs. njd. 
 
 So remaynethe in the coffer iiij/?. viijs. iiijc/. 
 
 Item delyuered forthe of the cheste the Sonday xv° Februarii, 
 
 1573 to George Wall xxxs. 
 
 Item to Robert Walker xxiijj. 
 
 68. [1573.] The accompt of Thomas Muckelowe, one of the churche 
 guardianes of St. Mighelle's churche, made the xix daye 
 of July, 1573. 
 
 Receits bie hym. 
 
 In primis apon the last accomp xxs. 
 
 Item for one hole yere's rent of Mistress Salwey for the churche 
 
 land liijV. iiij^/. 
 
 Item of Roger Folliott for Mr. Fisher's dett xiiijj. 
 
 Item of Robert Kent at tymes xxj. 
 
 Item of the charitie money at Easter xiijj. iiij^?. 
 
 Item of Cowper for the rent of one of John Goughe's gardens 
 
 iji-. 
 
 Item of Roger Lode apon an order for the trees xlixj. 
 
 Item for seate money x\'}d. 
 
 Summa viij//. xijj. vij^.
 
 72 CHURCHWARDENS ACCOUNTS, 
 
 68^. Payments bie hym. 
 
 In primis to Mother Wright iijj. 
 
 Item to Hamons xvJ. 
 
 Item to William Spurrier xijV. 
 
 Item to John Gough vj^. 
 
 Item to Dixson xiij^/. 
 
 Item to Mother Clark iijt/. 
 
 Item to Mother Sergeant xvj^f. 
 
 Item to bothe the Elkyns viijV. 
 
 Item to Baston viijV. 
 
 Item to the old Pj-ncer viij</. 
 
 Item to Katheryn Smithe viijrf. 
 
 Item to George Cooke iijj. v}d. 
 
 Item to Partridge iiijV. 
 
 Item to the goodwiffe Payne iiij^. 
 
 Item to Ligh iiijd. 
 
 Item to Partridge viijel. 
 
 Item to David Goughe's wiff viijV. 
 
 Item a porter of a hospitall iiijW. 
 
 Item to Howell iiij</. 
 
 Item for Whitson farthings vd. 
 
 Item for a bottle of wyne to Clifton xd. 
 
 Item for wyne gj'ven to Mr. Kerle iiij</. 
 Item payd to Sir Henry Hymulton for his parte of the cheritie 
 
 money at Eastur viijj. 
 
 Item for wyne at Easter vjd. 
 
 Item for wyne from Eastur tyll Mighelmas xx^. 
 
 Item gyven to Woodfall xijd. 
 
 Item for wyne from Mighelmas tyll Christemas viijV. 
 
 Item for mendyng the Baldericke of a bell viijV. 
 Item for rj'ngj'ng at the queue's renewing of her rayne vnjd. 
 
 Item for a booke ui}d. 
 
 Item for mendyng of the churche wyndowes iiijj. 
 
 Item for bell ropes vijj. 
 
 Item for procurations ixj. 
 Item payd for a commission from the counsaile aboute our 
 
 churche land ixj. 
 
 Item to William Pyncer seruyng of proces xij^/.
 
 ST. MICHAEL'S IN BEDWARDINE, WORCESTER. 73 
 
 Item payd to Philip Gardcnar aboute the same matter for 
 
 goyng to Ludlowe oucr [it] and besydcs ijj. that Roger 
 
 FoUiott gave hym xij</. 
 
 69. Item gyven to Anne Organmaker and her mother xij^/. 
 
 Item to Mr. Hymulton for his wages xiijj. iiij^/. 
 
 Item for bookes ijj. 
 
 Item payd at Evisham about the process i]s. yl. 
 
 Item spent apon the parishioners apon Eastur dayc at night 
 
 xvjV. 
 
 Item more at Mr. Dighton's vjd. 
 
 Item Peryn's ijd. 
 
 Item for wyne xv'jd. 
 
 Item gyven to Gregorie Hart's wiff ijj. vjd. 
 
 Item drynkyng at WiUiam Bristevve's ijo!'. 
 
 Item for washyng the churche gere ijj. 
 
 Item for mendyng the surples viijV. 
 
 Item to the commissioners for churche goods ijj. 
 
 Item for a quitance vjd. 
 
 Item for ij billes vjd. 
 
 Item for seruyng a command[m]ent vjd. 
 
 Item to a horse hire to Ludlowe for iij dayes ijj. 
 
 Item for his meate ij^-. vj^. 
 
 Item for my expenses iijs. 
 
 Item more for my charges waytyng apon the counsaile iiijj. 
 
 Item to Mr. Scrope for his paynes at the counsaile vijs. 
 
 Item to Kydson for the hire of a mare vjd. 
 
 Item to Peryn at Evisham xijV. 
 
 Item to Hart's wiff xd. 
 
 Summa v/t. kjs. nijd. 
 
 Item payd to Henry Pyncer furthe of the money that remaynes 
 apon this account as hereafter aperithe, for reparyng of 
 harnes when he was constable ijs. 
 
 Memorandum that there remaynes apon this accompt to be 
 payd bie the said Muchclowe, all charges to hym allowed, 
 the some of iij//. xvd., whereof he hathe payd at this 
 presente accompt xljj. iij^., and the rest beyng xxs. he 
 owithe to the churche. 
 
 Item payd to George Wall apon his bill xviijV. ; money re- 
 maynyng clere apon this [certain words are scratched out] accompt
 
 74 CHURCHWARDENS ACCOUNTS, 
 
 with XVJ-. that remayned in the cheste is lijj. ixd., whiche 
 money is delyuered to the guardyanes, videlicet to Mr. 
 Walker xxvjj. ix^/., And to Mr. Fydo xvjj. and the com- 
 munion cupp. [Other words are scratched out in the margin of the last 
 sentences. J 
 6gl>. A reckenyng of George Wall at the former accompt. 
 
 Received by hym furthe of the cheste the some of xxxj. 
 
 Payd bie hym to IMr. Walker at E\-isham at thassises xs. 
 
 Item for the hire of George Walle's horse i}s. 
 
 Item for the hire of Roger Follott's horse, Nicolas Broke and 
 George Walle's at Evisham iijj. ijrf. 
 
 Item for dyner and supper ^Monday w'}S. 
 
 Item Tuisday dyner and supper iijj. v}d. 
 
 Item brekefast Wensdaye xviij^. 
 
 Item to Roger Folliott for charges in thassises i}s. viijd. 
 
 Item to John Danks in licke manner ijj. viij^. 
 
 Item expenses betwene meles at Evisham ijj. 
 
 Summa xxxjj. vjd., so that there remaynithe to George Wall 
 xviij^. payd and discharged. 
 
 70. A rekenynge of Robert Walker. 
 
 Who receaued furthe of the cheste xxiijj. And more of George 
 Wall xj. 
 Payd at Evisham assisses. 
 
 In primis for the Juries' dyner ixs. v]d. 
 
 Item to John Wiche for attendyng apon the Jury iiij^ 
 
 Item for the inquery of the privie veredict xij</. 
 
 Item to the Judge for the privie viredict vj.f. viijd. 
 
 For the dark of thassise fee i]s. 
 
 Item for the enteryng ijj. iiijd. 
 
 Item to the crj-ar v'jd. 
 
 Item to Mr. Fowler's man iijs. i'\i]d. 
 
 Item for thatturney's fee lijs. n\]d. 
 
 Item to the baylye Button for wachyng the Jury ij.r. 
 
 Summa xxiijj. 
 
 70^. [1573.] Apud Wigorn, x° die Junii anno Regno Reginse 
 Elizabethae, etc., xv", inter Robertum Walker et Thomam 
 Muckelowe, querentes et Rogerum Lode defendentem. 
 At whiche daye bothe parties apered before the quene's majesty's 
 
 counsell in the Marches of Wales, who examened the matter within
 
 ST. MICHAEL'S IN BEDWARDINE, WORCESTER. 75 
 
 specified. And forasmoche as the parties have sufficiently proved 
 bie the deposicions of vvittenesses that the defendant bought the 
 eight trees within specified of the late churchevvardens of the parishe 
 churche of St. Mighell within specified for xlj., and promised to paye 
 the same at a daye long past, for the reparacions of the seid church 
 and reliff of the pore people of the seid parishe, and payd there- 
 of xijd. in erncst ; And for that the defendant confessed bie his 
 answere and otherwise that the rest is yet vnpayd ; It is at this 
 tyme ordered that the seid defendant shall content and paye to the 
 parties to the vse within specified the rest of the seid xls., beyng 
 xxxixj., together with ks., towardcs the parties' costs susteyned 
 in this sute. And the defendent if he woU to be at his remedie 
 over ageynst the within named Thomas Clifton, gent., who he 
 affirmethe toke certeyne of the trees from hym. 
 
 J. C. Sherer. 
 
 71. The Accompte of Robert Walker, one of the churche guardyanes, 
 the xiiij day of Marche, 1573. 
 
 Receaued bie hym the same yere. 
 
 In primis of Thomas Sahvey for on yere's rent of the land 
 at Clifton liijj. iiij^. 
 
 Item of Robert Kent for his rent xiijj. iiijW. 
 
 Item receaued of the cheritie money at Eastur ixs. v]d. 
 
 Item receaued of the churche money at the Last accompt 
 
 xxvji'. ixif. 
 Sum ma vli. '\]s. xjd. 
 Payments bie hym made. 
 
 In primis to Mr. Hymulton for his parte of the Cheritie money 
 
 viijj. 
 Item for wyne at Eastur iijj. iiijV. 
 
 Item for Mr. Hymulton's wages xiijj. iiij^. 
 
 Item to Mr. Kerle for drawyng our Replicacion versus Lode at 
 the counsell vjj. viij^. 
 
 Item to Mr. Trovell for his fee at the heryng of the matter 
 
 vj.f. viij^. 
 Item to Mr. Prynce for his fee vj. 
 
 Item to Mr. Poughnell, atturncy 'j-f- 
 
 Item charges at Clyfton when the parishe was last there njs. 
 Item for parchement to write the Dedes and obligacions for the 
 churche Landes xij</.
 
 y6 churchwardens' accounts, 
 
 71^. Item for Frende's charges when he sealed our Dedes xij</. 
 
 Item spent apon certeyne of the parishe at the same tyme v]d. 
 
 Item for the Baldericke of a bell xvjd. 
 
 Item for my charges and my man Rydyng twise to the counsaile 
 
 about Lode's matter v]s. viij;/. 
 
 Item payd for the parishe drynkyng at Mr. Dighton's at Eastur 
 
 iijj. ij</. 
 
 Item payd to Frend in parte of his payment whiche was agreed 
 
 to be payd to hym for his goodwill to make vs a newe 
 
 feofifement iij//. 
 
 Summa vj//. xKd. 
 
 And there restithe to be payd to Mr. Walker, for that he hathe 
 leyd furthe more then he hathe receaued xviijj. ixd. 
 
 Memorandum that Roger Follyott dothe owe to the Churche 
 for plate sold as aperithe by a bill n}/i. 
 
 72. The accompt of Thomas Fydowe, the other churche guardyane, 
 made at the foreseid daye. 
 
 Recepts. 
 
 In primis of the churche money at his firste entryng xxvjV. 
 
 Item of Thomas Salwey for two elmes vjj. v'njd. 
 
 Item of Roger Lode for a oke xijV. 
 
 Summa xxxiijj. viijW. 
 Payments made bie hym. 
 
 In primis gyven in almes to Richard Woodfall xijV. 
 
 Item payd to John Danks for money that he leyd furthe aboute 
 
 our sute in Lawe vjs. viijd. 
 
 Item for ryngyng the Daye of the Quene's coronation xijd. 
 
 Item for Whitson farthyngs vd. 
 
 Item gyven in almes to Roger Gough iijV. 
 
 Item for our charges when we toke possession at Clifton 
 
 iijj. v]d. 
 
 Item gyven in almes to Margery Elkyns vjd. 
 
 jzb Item to Roger Symons \]d. 
 
 Item to Sergeant ij^. 
 
 Item to Lewes Welsheman vj^. 
 
 Item to Woodfall vj^. 
 
 Item to Sergeant v]d. 
 
 Item for weshyng the churche lynen ijj. 
 
 Item at the bushop of Canter[bury's] visitacion \\d.
 
 ST. MICHAEL'S IN BEDWARDINE, WORCESTER. ^^ 
 
 Item for wync to the communion at tymcs ijj. ixaf. 
 
 Sunima xxj. vijV. 
 And so he remaynithe in the churche dett, althings to hym 
 
 allowed xiijj. ]d., payd and distcharged. 
 Memorandum that at the same accompt Roger Folliott payd 
 of his dett to the churche and was allowed by the hole 
 parishe as folowithe 
 First towardes the payment of Nicolas Freend he payd xxj. 
 Item payd bie hym to Philip Gardenar in goyng to Ludlowe 
 with a commission about the parishe sute versus Lode ijj. 
 Item allowed to hym for his charge at the assises at Evisham 
 aboute the sute of the churche land iijj. iiij^. 
 
 Item allowed to hym for his wrytyng in this booke for dyuers 
 yeres past ■x.s. 
 
 Item he payd in money at this accompt xj. 
 
 And so the whole at this tyme by hym payd and allowed is 
 
 xlvj. iiij^. 
 
 Memorandum at this presente accompte there was gyven to 
 
 the pore of the parishe iijj. \d. 
 
 73. And the rest, videlicet xxj., was delyuered at the same tyme, 
 
 XJ. to Thomas Fydowe and xj. to Roger Coffyn, of newe 
 chosen guardyanes. 
 
 [1577.] Memorandum the xxj daye of Aperell 1577. 
 
 Thomas Fydoe and Mr. Walker for Thomas Coffyn dyd yeld 
 a accompt, as aperithe bie theire billes, and apon the ac- 
 compt of Thomas Fydo there remaynithe to the churche 
 clere xvijj. ix^., and apon Roger Coffyne's accompt vjj. vijV., 
 all whiche some is delyuered to Mr. Hymulton for the churche 
 vse. 
 
 Gyven thereof at the same tyme xx^. to Nicolas Organmaker, 
 Woodfall, Dixson the dark, Katheryn Smithe and Posterne. 
 73^. [This page is blank. ] 
 
 74. [1579.] The Accompt of Richard Alen and Walter Walker, 
 
 churche guardyanes, made the xij"* daye of Marche 1579. 
 
 Richard Alen's Recepts. 
 
 In primis of John Banks for parte of Mr. Salwaye's rent vj. 
 
 Item received of Walter Walker xxdf.
 
 78 churchwardens' accounts, 
 
 Item received of Mr. Hymulton xiijj. n\]d. 
 
 Item received of Thomas Salwaye for parte of our Ladie Daye 
 
 rent 1578 xiijj. iiij^. 
 
 Seate money. Item of John Symons for his seate v]d. 
 
 Item of Humfrey Peryn x'njd. 
 
 Item of Chelmarshe viijV. 
 
 Item of Ford iiijV. 
 
 Item of Gregory Hart iiij^. 
 
 Item of Dorothie Bushell iiijV. 
 
 Item of Richard Eger vjd. 
 
 Item of Richard Jackeson v\i}d. 
 
 Item of Nicolas Philips vj^. 
 
 Item of Mr. Archepoll xij</. 
 
 Item of Mistres Stanley iiij^. 
 
 Item of Humfrey Staunton u\]d. 
 
 Item of Thomas Lee v]d. 
 
 Item of widowe Coke iiijV. 
 
 Item of Mr. Bullyngham viijd. 
 
 Item of Rowland Lynyall X(/. 
 
 Item of Thomas Salwey for Mighelmas rent 1578 xiijj. iiijd. 
 
 Item Received of cheretie money at Easter 1577 xj. 
 
 Item Received at Easter for cheritie money 1578 vs. 
 
 Summa iij//. xvj. i]d. 
 
 74^. The money Leyd furthe bie Ric[hard Alen], as aperithe bie his 
 bill, is iij//. viji'. \]d. 
 And so remaynithe viijj. to be pa}-d bie hym apon this ac- 
 
 compt, whiche is payd and discharged. 
 Paid to Humfrey Peryn for dressyng of hames iiijj., which was 
 parte of the seid viijj. 
 The Accompt of Walter Walker one of the churche wardens. 
 In primis Received of Danks for parte of Mr. SaUveye's rent 
 
 viiji'. iiij(/. 
 Received of Thomas Salwey for parte of our Ladie daye rent 
 1578 xiijj. uijd. 
 
 Received of hym for parte of Mighelmas rent next after 
 
 xiijj. iiij^. 
 Received of Thomas Sahveye for rent xxvjj. vu]d. 
 
 Summa Rccepta iij/?. xxd.
 
 ST. MICHAEL'S IN BEDWARDINE, WORCESTER. 79 
 
 Memorandum that the particulars of the money that Walter 
 Walker hathe Leyd furthe for the churche, as aperithc bie 
 his bill, is iij//. ii]s. i]d. And there is owyng to hym apon 
 thys accompt xviij</. payd and discharged. 
 
 Item there remaynithe clere in the churche stock at this tyme 
 xxxiiijj. x^., dclyuered to Mr. ArchepoU and Thomas 
 Flecher the nevve churche wardens. 
 
 75. [1581.] Thaccompt of me, Edward Archpole, one of the Churche- 
 wardens of St. Michael's in Bedwardyne geaven vp the last 
 daye of Aprill 1581 Anno Regni Reginae Elizabethan xxiij". 
 
 A note of receipts before the x'^ of Julie laste paste. 
 
 In primis, I the saide churchwarden do chargde mysellfifc with 
 xxxiiijj. xd., Received the xij'li of Aprill 1579 at the 
 yeldinge vp of thaccompts of Walter Walker and Richard 
 Allen xxxiiijj. x^. 
 
 Item received of the saide Richard Allen vpon Easter daye 
 then next following, which was collected of the Com- 
 municants vpon Passion and Palme Sondaie ij.f. 
 
 Item received the xxix'^ June nexte ensuynge of Thomas 
 Sallweye the moietie of his fine, videlicet xiij//. vjj. vnjd. 
 
 Item received the xvij"' of October nexte foUowinge of the 
 saide Thomas Sallwey hallff a yer's rente due at Mychaell- 
 mas before xxvji-. vu]d. 
 
 Item received of Mr. Pattryck the firste hallff yer's rente of 
 his howse due at January 1580 v'js. vnjd. 
 
 Item received of Thomas Sallweye, by the hands of iiij of the 
 ffeffees, 23° Junii 1580, the other nioitie of his fyne, videlicet 
 
 xiij//. v]s. viijd. 
 A note of receipts after the x'"" of Julie 1580. 
 
 Received of Thomas Sallwey his rente due at Mychaellmas 1580 
 
 xxvj.f. viij^. 
 
 Received of Mr. Pattryck his rente and parte of his fyne due 
 at the said Mychaellmas xxj. 
 
 Received of Thomas Sallwey his rent due thannunciacion last 
 paste xxvj.f. vu]d. 
 
 Received of Mr. Pattrycke his rente and parte of his fyne due 
 at the said Annunciacion xiijj. iiij^. 
 
 Sum ma totalis of the whole chard[g]e is xxxiiij//. xj. i'}d.
 
 
 8o CHURCHWARDENS' ACCOUNTS, 
 
 75^. A note of money disburste before the x*'' of Julie last paste. 
 
 In primis la}ed cute the same daj'e I was elected, videlicet, 
 
 the 12 of Aprill 1579, at the meeting of the parishe at 
 
 Walter Walker's vj^. 
 
 Item at thassemblie of the parishe at the same place v^on 
 
 Easter daye then next ensuing -viijd. 
 
 Item \'pon Sondaye the second of Maye 1579 the moitie of 
 
 xijV. geaven by my fellow Fletcher and me to widdow 
 
 Woodfall, widdow Gest, and widdow Pyuner \}d. 
 
 Item the laste of Maye 1579 the moitie of i]s. geaven by my 
 
 fellow and me towards the buriall of wydowe Cardmaker 
 
 xij</. 
 
 Item vpon \\1iitsondaye 1579 the moitie of \-il]d. geaven by 
 
 my fellow and me to goodwiff Shaw being sicke iiij</. 
 
 Item payd the v^ of Juhe 1579 for a quarter C de[midium ?] 
 
 rent pale i}s. v]d. 
 
 Item dd. [delivered ?]"to my fellow Fletcher to provide tymber 
 
 tile lyme, and other necessaries for repayring the parishes 
 
 howse v//. xj. 
 
 Item paj-ed to Arnold Beane, the xij^'' of Julie, 1579, for iij sills 
 
 and a side trace xijj. \ii)d., for a beame a side trace and 
 
 a first peece ixj., for one walle plate iijj., for a quarter of 
 
 rodds vs. i]d., for xij bondell of lathes vs., for ij ease powles 
 
 xija'., for iiij bondell of lathes xxd?., for one ease powle vijd. 
 
 for V vinles [?] ijs. u'jd., for ij postes ijs. mjd., the whole 
 
 xlijj. viij^. 
 
 Item payed the same daj^e for rent pale vj^. 
 
 Item layed out at thassemblie of the parishe at Goodman 
 
 Peryn's the 30th of August 1579, at which tyme thei 
 
 granted a lease to Mr. Pattryke injd. 
 
 Item payed to the Clarke towards buylding of his Chymnej' xj. 
 
 Item geaven to widow Woodfall the 20th of September 1 579 xij^. 
 
 ^6. Item payed to Mr. Bell the 17th of October for his wages due 
 
 at Mychaellmas before xiijj. iiij//. 
 
 Item payed the viij^ of November for a deske vj^. 
 
 Item geaven by my fellow and me to the ringers vpon the 
 
 Queen's hoolie daye 1579 ijj. xd. whereof I disbursed xvj^. 
 
 Item geaven amongst the poore of the parishe vpon Christmas 
 
 evee [sic] 1 579 v}s. vii]d.
 
 ST. MICHAEL'S IN BEDWARDINE, WORCESTER. 8l 
 
 Layed out at thassemblic of the parishc vpon Easter daye then 
 following the moictie of ijj., videlicet xijfl^. 
 
 Item to goodinan Fletcher's sister at ij several tymcs xij^. 
 
 Item to wyddow Woodfall ij partes of xijV/., videlicet viijf/. 
 
 Layed out for scouring of harness xx^. 
 
 Layed out at the trayning of Soldyars xvja?. 
 
 Dclyuered to the goodman Parryes at the minster topte, the 
 viij"' of Julie vs. 
 
 Geaveii to old fdther Pynner the moitie of xijW., videlicet \'jc/. 
 
 A note of money disbursed after the said x"^ of Julie 1580. 
 
 Geaven the saide x'"' daye of Julie to a poore man which came 
 
 to the churche to crave the benevolent of the parishe vjd. 
 Layed out for a booke of homelies, 11° Julij iiij^- v]d. 
 
 Item to the Glasyer for mendinge the wyndoes, 17° Julij \\d. 
 Item for a booke of artycles at my L[ast] visitacion iujii. 
 
 Item geaven to widow Woodfall being sicke \']ci. 
 
 Item to my fellow Fletcher's sister v}d. 
 
 Item payed for a frame for the ten commandments iiij^. 
 
 Item spent at thexhibiting of our bill of presentment xijd. 
 
 Item payed to Mr. Bell, 13 Augusti, his wages for Mychaellmas 
 
 then next following xiijj. Uijd. 
 
 Item geaven to Posterne 14 of August by consent of the parishe 
 
 towards his journey to the buthes vs. 
 
 Item geaven to widow Gierke being sycke x\}d. 
 
 ^66. Item geaven at the Collection for Portsmouthe xij(/. 
 
 Item to a poore boye which came to require almes at our 
 
 church upon St. Mathewe's daye ij^. 
 
 Item payed for a prayer booke vjc/. 
 
 Item dd. to goodman Perryn at the setting out of footcmen 
 
 vnto Ireland xvjj. 
 
 Item geaven to widow Dyxson being sycke vj^. 
 
 Item to her at an other tyme, viz. 15° November vj^. 
 
 Item to the ryngers at the Quee[n']s hooliedaye last past xijd. 
 Item payed to Roger Clark 22 Novembris for iij ycres' arrerage 
 
 of Whitson farthings avd. 
 
 Item geaven to goodm.m Mucklow in tyme of his syckiies '\)s. 
 Item to goodman Grafton at his first sycknes ijj. 
 
 Item geaven to wydow Clerk 1° Decembris xij^. 
 
 G
 
 82 churchwardens' accounts, 
 
 Item dd. to Mr. Bell vpon Christmas even laste to distribute 
 amongst the poorest of the parishe xj. 
 
 Item payed for wyne vpon Christmas daye for the Com- 
 municants iijci. 
 
 Item geaven to Widow Dixson the 8"^ of Januarie vjd. 
 
 Item to wyddow VVoodfall the xj"" of Januarie vjd. 
 
 Item geaven at ij severall tymes to a mayde which laye syck 
 in the bowse where my fellow Fletcher's sister dyed xij^. 
 
 Item payed to George Lye the xxiij"" of Februarie 1 580 for 
 tymber, iiij dayes' workmanship of his sellff, and iij dayes' 
 of his man, in making iij newe seates adjoyninge to the 
 lefte side of the quyer and in mending old seats xixj. 
 
 Item dd. to Mr. Bell to bestow amongst the poore of the parishe 
 vpon good fryday laste ijj. v}d. 
 
 Item geaven towards the shardes of goodman Grafton in his 
 laste Sycknes 'i]s. 
 
 Summa tot[alis] of money disbursed xiiij//. ]s. \d. 
 TJ. So cleare to the parishe by this accompte the sume of 
 
 xx/f. viij.r. '\yid. 
 
 Whereof delyuered to Mr. Bland xxj'. 
 
 And to Chelmarshe xxj. 
 
 And the rest videlicet xviij//. viijj. ix^/. in the custodie of 
 Mr. Archepole. 
 
 Whereof gyven to Mr. Bell towardes the reparacion of the 
 parsonage vs. 
 
 And to Thomas Mucklowe iiji'. i.X(/. 
 
 And so remajTiithe xviij/r. 
 
 Tit- [This page is blank.] 
 
 "j^. [1580.] The accomts of me Thomas Fletcher, one of the cherche 
 Wardens of Saj-nte Myghel's in BedwardjTie, geuen vp there 
 accomts the laste off Aprell, 1580, Anno Regni Reginse Eliza- 
 bethae xxiij"". 
 
 Amounte of moneye Receyved. 
 
 In primis fyrste Receyved of Thomas Salwa[y] gentyllman for 
 one halfe yere's Rent dewe at owre Ladye in lent 
 
 xxvjj. viijV. 
 Item of him for another halfe yere's rent xxvjj. viij^. 
 
 Item of charytie money at Easter -xs. iijt^.
 
 ST. MICHAEL'S IN BEDWARDINE, WORCESTER. 83 
 
 Receyved of Mr. Archepole at the buildyng of Kent's howse 
 
 vlt. XJ. 
 Receyved of the goods that were praysyd in Kent's howse that 
 
 be solde _ Ivijj. iiijaf. 
 
 Summa ydi. xs. xjd. 
 Geuyn to the poore. 
 
 Item the thyrd of Maye my fellowe Mr. Archepowle and I gaue 
 to three wydovves the Moitie of xij^., that was wydow 
 Woodfaule, wydow Pynner, wydowe Gowghe vj^/. 
 
 Item geuyn to the buryall of Margaret Ferecleffe the laste 
 of Maye xij^/. 
 
 Item geuyn to the good wyffe Shae the viij"" of Junnic by 
 my fellowe Mr. Archepowle and me the Moietie of viij«^. 
 
 ui'jd. 
 
 Geuyn to Margerye Elkyns the x"» of November by my fellowe 
 
 and me the moytye of xijd. vjd. 
 
 Item geuyn by my fellow Mr. Archepowle and me to Raffe 
 
 Symons the vj''' of Apryll the moyetye of xi}d. vjd. 
 
 Item geuyn to Margerye Elkyns the same day by my by my 
 
 [sk] fellowe Mr. Archepowle and me the moitye of xij^/. v]d. 
 
 Geuyn to the goodwyfe Woodfaule the xij of Apryll lying verye 
 
 sycke the moite of xijd., that was hys viijd. and my iujd. 
 Geuyn to Margerye Elkyngs lying sycke x"" of June v}d. 
 
 There remaynes of Thomas Flecher's accompt clere xxjj. yjd., 
 whereof gyven to Thomas Flecher xxs. and now to Peryn 
 for charges in mustryng xviijV/. of newe John Bland and 
 Richard Chelmarshe 
 
 [Two lines blotted out with ink.] 
 
 ySd. Geuyn to the poore and payde owte for other thynges. 
 
 Item Receyvyd of charyte money at Ester xiijj. i]d. 
 
 Wyne for communycants at Ester and all the yeare vj. v]d. 
 
 Payde to Mr. Bell of the same money vijj. ijc/. 
 
 Payments sence owre laste mekyng. 
 
 Payde at Wattys at the geuyng vp of owre byll at the vycy- 
 tacyon iiij'^- 
 
 [A line blotted out.] 
 
 Mendynge the carpet for the communion table vjd. 
 
 Payde to the ryngers apon the Quen's holydaye xi]d. 
 
 Payde for three peyre of hynges for three seats in the cherche 
 
 ixd. 
 
 G2
 
 84 CHURCHWARDENS' ACCOUNTS, 
 
 Item for nayles and tacks for the seates and to set vp the 
 
 pulpyt xjd. 
 
 Item for two pyllers that the pulpyt [sic] xi}d. 
 
 Item for lathe for it v'jd. 
 
 Item to George Lye and hys man for a daye's worke to set 
 
 vp the pulpyt and mend the seats abowte the cherche xxt/. 
 Item for makyng a clothe for the communion table and mend- 
 
 ynge hols in it vjd. 
 
 Item payde to George Lye for mendyng the beere viijV. 
 
 Item for washyng ijj. 
 
 Item payde to John Symons for lorne worke for the polpyt ijt/. 
 Item payde at Walter Walker's apon Ester daye for owre 
 
 drynkyng xvja?! 
 
 Item payde for two redde skyns to lyne the quoshons Kv]d. 
 
 Item for fethers to stuffe them viij^. 
 
 Item for makyng them xijV. 
 
 Payde for the seat where the pulpit stode to George Lie ijj. 
 
 Summa xvjj. iiij^. 
 Gevyn to the poore. 
 
 Gevyn to wyddowe Woodfaule the xiij"" of July vjd. 
 
 Gevyn to Margerye Elkyns the same daye vjV. 
 
 Gevyn to Margerj^e the xxix'*" daye of Julye vjd. 
 
 Geven to the good wyfTe Gierke the fyrste of Aprell vjd. 
 
 Gevyn to hyr the xxvj''' of Aprell vjd. 
 
 Gevyn to the goo[d] wyffe Woodfaule xiiij of Aprell vjd. 
 
 Gevyn to wydo[w] Dyxon the same daye vjd. 
 
 Summa xxxiijj. 
 Item receyued of charyte money at Ester laste xijj. n]d. 
 
 Of the same payde to Mr. Bell vjj. iij^. 
 
 For wyne for communycants of the same iiijj. vjV. 
 
 Remanet Kvnjd. 
 
 79. Payments for Reparacions of Kent's howse and the cherche and 
 
 other things nessesarye. 
 
 Item fyrste for Wynne at Aster for communycants iiijV. iij^. 
 
 Payde to Sir Harrye Hybleton of the charytye money yjj. vd. 
 
 Payde at Walter Walker's apon Ester daye at the drynkyng vnjd. 
 
 Item for Wynne apon Whytsondaye for the communycants iij^. 
 
 Payd to Rychard Danks the xx"" of Maye for mendyng the 
 
 whels of the bells and a seate in the quyre vil}d.
 
 ST. MICHAEL'S IN BEDWARDINE, WORCESTER. 85 
 
 Item paydc to Rychard Brotherton for hallyng iiij pieces of 
 tymber from the Ketye xd. 
 
 Bestowed apoii men to helpe downe with the frame where owre 
 lytle bell hanged vj^. 
 
 Item payde for one hundryth of borde iiayle vijd. 
 
 Item payde for vj hundryth of lathe nayle xijW. 
 
 Item payde to Ancret and his man for a week's work at Kent's 
 howse ixs. v]d. 
 
 Payde to a man to helpe them to take downe the old howse 
 
 Payd agay[n] to Ancret and his man for an other week's work 
 
 lackyng a daye viijj. 
 
 Payde for a loode and a halfe of stone to quyne the house \\\]s. 
 Payde for three barrells of lyme and the carredge iijj. \\\]d. 
 
 Payde for halfe a hundryth of borde to make two doores \\s. 
 Payde for a thowsand and a halfe of lathe nayle more i]s. v]d. 
 Payde more for a hundryth and a halfe of vij peny nayle x^. od. 
 Payde to Ancret and hys man for a weeke's worke ixj. v}d. 
 
 Payde to two men for a week's worke to make the wauls and 
 
 to plaster them xs. xd. 
 
 Payd to the good man Bosshell and hys man for a daye's worke 
 
 in tylyng xviij^, 
 
 Payde to the sawyar for sawyng one of the olde fy traces of the 
 
 olde house that was broken to make ledges for the doores 
 
 and a joyste for the chamber ouer the parler \]d. 
 
 Item for a rafter powle and to other to make pynns of xi]d. 
 
 Item for a week's worke to Ancret and hys man \xs. v]d. 
 
 Item for spyke nayle iiij^. 
 
 Item for two barrels of lyme more ijj. iij^. 
 
 Item for halfe a thowsand of lathe nayle more xd. 
 
 Item for a hundryth of vij peny nayle more vij^. 
 
 Item more for halfe a thowsand of lathe nayle x^. 
 
 Payde to the good man Broke for three loodes of sand iijj. 
 
 79^. Payde to hym more for iiij loode of cleye ijj. 
 
 Payde to hym more for hallyng vpe from the Keye three pecys 
 
 of tymber vj^. 
 
 Payde to hym for caryng iij barrells of lyme and xij bondell of 
 
 lathes iiij^. 
 
 Payde to hym for carryng a loode and a halfe of stoone \\d.
 
 86 churchwardens' accounts, 
 
 Payde to Borshell and hys Sonne and theyre two men for 
 a week's worke in tylyng xvs. Ixd. 
 
 Payde to the pergytor and hys man for a week's worke more 
 
 vs. xd. 
 
 Payde to Gylbarte Ancret and hys man for a week's worke 
 more ixs. v}d. 
 
 Payde to Dowghtye for a thowsand and a halfe of tyle xvj. 
 
 Payde to hym for carrj'ng of the same tyle xviijV. 
 
 Payde to hym for a loode of sand xijdf. 
 
 Payde to the good man Malten for v deosen av gutter tyle and 
 vij crests iiijj. 
 
 Payde for an other barrell of lyme xm']d. 
 
 Payde to John Symons for a hynge ij hookes and three lytle 
 staples Injd. 
 
 Payde to the pargyter for two dayes' worke to make an end 
 of quoynyng the tyls and poyntyng and whyt>mg the 
 wauls xv)d. 
 
 Payde to Water Sadler for makyng the baudrycke new of the 
 greate bell xijrfl 
 
 Payde at Walter Walker's for owre breckfaste when we gave vp 
 owre byll to Mr. Herle at the \ysytayon in owre cherche 
 
 xij^. 
 
 Payde for shuttyng a bell rope uijd. 
 
 Payde for wyne the xi day of October for communycants ii}d. 
 
 Payde for wyne apon hyr maiestye's holyedaye for commu- 
 nycants n}d, 
 
 Payde to the ryngers the same daye xij^. 
 
 Payde to"Rychard the tyller and his man for three dayes' worke in 
 tylyng of the cherche and mendyng the selyng and waules 
 of the cherche, a pauement in the quyer and other places in 
 the cherche, and swepyng the selyng and the wauls injs. vjd. 
 
 Item for two hundryth and a halfe of tyle for the cherche 
 
 ijj. v']d. 
 
 Item for v stryke of lyme for it xvd. 
 
 Item for iiij strj'ke of sand i']d. 
 
 Item for halfe deosen of gutter tyle for the cherche iiijV. od. 
 
 Item for a borde and nayles to slope the south wyndowe in the 
 cherche ijj<^. 
 
 Item for wyne apon Candylmassc daye Hid.
 
 ST. MICHAEL'S IN liEDWARDINE, WORCESTER. 87 
 
 Payde to the clcik's wj-ffc for wasshyng ijs. 
 
 Payde for a book of praj-cr tovvchyng the earthquake vjd. 
 
 Wynne for communjxants the thyrd of Julie, beyng Sondaye 
 
 iijj. 
 iijV/. xiijj. vijW. od. 
 Summa totalis viij//. iiijV. ; and so rcmayncth to the cliurch 
 xliijj. 
 
 80. [1580.] Memorandum that the xth daye of July i58oMr. Archepoll 
 and Thomas Flecher dyd showe theire billes of accompt bie 
 which it dothe apeir that Mr. Archepoll hathc in his custodie 
 clere apon his reckenynge xx/i. \']d., and that Thomas Flecher 
 bathe in his hand xliijj. clere apon his reckenynge re- 
 maynynge to the churche. 
 
 And at the same tyme Walter Walker delyuered to the parishe 
 the Dede for the land at Clyfton made by John Robynson, 
 the exemplificacion of the recouerey for the same Land, a re- 
 lease from Thirkell, the counterpane [sic] of Salweye's old 
 lease and certayne papurs. 
 
 Also at the same tyme dyd apere bie a bill that certeyne of the 
 parisheners were in debt to the churche and haue byne so 
 of long tyme, of the whiche many are ded, many pore, and for 
 dyuers other good causes the same debts is forgeven and 
 pardoned bie the assent of the whole parish and discharged. 
 
 ?>ob. [1581.] Memorandum that apon Sondaye the last of Aperell 
 
 1 581 Mr. Edward Archepole and Thomas Flecher made 
 
 theire accompte for this parishe. 
 
 Item that apon the accompt of the said Mr. Archepole all thyngs 
 
 allowed there dyd remayne to the parish xx//. viiji'. ix<^/. 
 
 Whereof delyuered to Mr. John Bland and Richard Chelmarshe 
 
 who are of newe chosen guardyanes for the yere to come, 
 
 xxj. a pece. xIj. 
 
 Item more gyven to Mr. Bell our curate towardes the rcpar- 
 
 acion of his house \s. 
 
 Item to Thomas Muckelowe iijj. xxd. 
 
 And so remaynithe cler in the custodie of Mr. Archepoll xviij//. 
 
 Also the accompt of Thomas Flecher all thyngs allowed hym 
 
 apon his accompt remaj nithe clere to the churche xxjj. \-]d.
 
 88 CHURCHWARDEKS' ACCOUNTS, 
 
 Whereof ^yven to Thomas Flecher towards the cure in surgery 
 of his sone Christofor Flecher xxs. and more allowed to 
 Perjn the constable apon a remanet for lacke of payment 
 for settyng forthe a soldyer xviijV. 
 
 And so remaynithe apon his accompt nihil. 
 
 Si. [1582-] The accompt of John Bland one of the churche guar- 
 dyanes of St Mighell parishe made the vjth of Maye 1582. 
 Receyts bie John Bland. 
 
 In primis receaued at the last accompt xxj. 
 
 Item receaued more xijd. 
 
 Summa xxjj. 
 Payments bie hym. 
 
 For the parisheners drynkyng at Peryn's after the accompt xijd. 
 Item gj'ven to the clarke vj</. 
 
 Item payd to mother Dixson, wickely after v}d. the weeke, for 
 xix weeks and half ixs. ixd. 
 
 Item g3-ven to mother Clark iij^. 
 
 Item gj^ven to burye her xvij" Maij xij</. 
 
 Item gyven to mother Wodfall ujd. 
 
 Item gy\'en to Posterne's wife in her childbed vj<:/. 
 
 Item gyven to a pore man with a licence xij(/ 
 
 Item to a nother pore man with a licence vjd. 
 
 Item to a nother pore man with a licence vn'}d. 
 
 Sumnia xvj. vd. 
 And so remaynes to tlie churche c'ere apon this accompt all 
 thynges allowed vj. \ijd. 
 
 Payd and discharged. 
 8 1 3. The accompte of Richard Chelmarshe, the other church 
 guardyane of the seid parishe, made the seid daye and yerc. 
 
 Recejtes bie hym. 
 
 In primis receaued at the last accompt xxj. 
 
 Item of Mr. Godyer for his seate xijd. 
 
 Item apon Whitsondaye for cheritie money xiij^. 
 
 Item of mother Hancox for her seate uijd. 
 
 Item of Morrys Davyes for his scate yjd. 
 Item of Thomas Bond for his seate and his wifTe's seate xi]d. 
 
 Item of Mr. Salweye for Mighelrj:as rent xxvjj. viij</. 
 
 Item of Mr. Patrick for his rent due then xiijj. iiijt/.
 
 ST. MICHAEL S IN BEDWARDINE, WORCESTER. 89 
 
 Item of George Lye for his seate viij<^/. 
 
 Item of Symons the tothe drawer for his seate v}d. 
 
 Item of Edward Davyes for his seate vj^. 
 
 Item of Mr. Patriclve for our Ladle daye rent x\\js. \\\]d. 
 
 Item for cheritie money at Easter vijs. U]d. 
 
 Item of Mr. Salwcy for our Ladic daye rent xxvjj. viijW. 
 
 Item of Mrs. Mose for her seate iiijV. 
 
 Item of William Ford for his seate iiijV/. 
 
 Item of Humfrey Peryn for his seate vj(/. 
 
 Summa v//. xiijs. 
 
 82. Payments bie hym. 
 
 Item gyven to the clarke at thaccompt vjW. 
 
 Item apon Whitsondaye for wyne xviijt/. 
 
 Item gyven to mother Clark U}d. 
 
 Item to her buryall xiijaT. 
 
 Item to goodwaff Woodfall iiji^. 
 Item to Edward Heks for wertyng [sic] in the bible where it 
 
 lacked ixd. 
 
 Item to Folke the boke bynder for bosses and claspes to the 
 
 bible vj. iiijV/. 
 
 Item to Randle Litle for a balrick for one of the belles xVyi. 
 Item to Richard Turnar for mendyng the claper of a bell 
 
 iiji'. iiij(/. 
 
 Item to John Awood for part of a bell ropp Kijd. 
 
 Item to a pore man with a licence v]d. 
 
 Item to the goodwiffe Woodfall vj^. 
 
 Item for wyne apon All Saints' daye iiij^. od. 
 
 Item for wyne the xvij of November iij</. od. 
 
 Item the same daye for ryngynge ijj. 
 
 Item for Whitson farthyngs v^. 
 
 Item to Mr. Bell for his wage xi]s. njd. 
 
 Item for wyne the iij'''= of December iiijV/. 
 
 Item to the pore of the parishe xxij December ijs. 
 
 Item for a keye to the chauncell dore for the curate iiij^. 
 
 Item to Therle for a bell whele iijj. jd. 
 
 Item for two keyes for a coffer locke vUjd. 
 
 Item to Muckelowe's wiiT vjV. 
 
 Item to mother Woodfall vj^-
 
 90 churchwardens' accouxts, 
 
 S2b. For \v}-ne on Passion Sonday iij'^- ob. 
 
 For wyne on Palme Sonday x^. ob. 
 
 Item to John Awood for a bell ropp xxijrf. 
 
 For wyne on Maunday Thursday viijV. 
 
 For w\^ne on Easterj-eave vij^. 
 
 For wyne on Easter daj^e xxrf. 
 
 For the parishioners drj-nkyng on the same daye at Mr. Dighton's 
 
 xx</. 
 Item to Posterne in almes y']d. 
 
 For ■nyne on Lx)\vsonday iiijV. ob. 
 
 Item to John Awood for a ropp for the saunce bell \d. 
 
 Item for washjmg the churche Lynen '\]s. 
 
 Item payd to the goodwiff Dixson for xxxj weeks, after \]d. 
 the week xvj. vj</. 
 
 Summa totalis iij/?. ixj. ix^. 
 
 Whiche some allowed and deducted furthe of the former some 
 of \li. xiijj. there remaynithe to the churche xliiji-. x^., 
 whereof delyuered to the newe guardyanes, videlicet, Roger 
 FoUyott and Richard Chelmarshe xIj., euery of them xxj., 
 g)'\-en to the dark y]d., and spent apon the parishenors after 
 the accompt i]s. \]d. 
 Memorandum that at the same Accompt there was payd to 
 Mr. Bacheler for thre yere that he was behynd of a marke 
 bie yere for the Lease of Kent's house xli-., of whiche money 
 tliere is taken furthe of our churche stock that Mr. Arche- 
 poU hathe in kepyng xxxiijj. '\\\]d. So that there remaynes 
 in his custodie xvj//. v]s. \u]d. 
 
 S3. [1582] Memorandum that I William Bacheler of the Citie of 
 Worcester, Baker, haue receaued of Roger Follyott one of 
 the churche wardens of St. Mighelles fort}' sh[i]Ilyngs of 
 Lawfull monej- of England for three yere's payment of a 
 mark bie yere, vnpayd for the some of vj//. whiche was 
 promised bie the parishenors there for the redemcion of the 
 lease of Kent's house, the vj"" daye of Maye Anno Regni 
 Reginae Elizabethae x.xiiij''', in the presence of Thomas 
 Malten and Guthelake Follyott. 
 
 William Bacheler's ■0- marke.
 
 ST. MICHAEL'S IN BEDWARDINE, WORCESTER. 91 
 
 833. [1583.] The accompte of Roger Follyott one of the church 
 
 wardens made the xij"" of Maye 1583. 
 
 Receyts. 
 
 Receaued at his firste entrey to the office xxs. 
 
 Receaued of Thomas Salweye for halfe yere's rent of the land 
 
 at Clifton due at Mighelmas last xxvj.f. viijaf. 
 
 Summa xlvjj. viij</. 
 Payments. 
 
 Payd to Mother Dixson after vjd. the week from Mydsomer 
 
 to Mighelmas xiiij weckes vijj. 
 
 Payd to Mr. Slough curatt for his wage due at Mighelmas 
 
 xiijj. iiijV. 
 
 Payd in almes at Christemas besydes viijj. that the colledge 
 
 gave xvd. 
 
 Payd to mother Dixson from Christemas tyll our Ladie daye 
 
 xij weeks v]d. 
 
 Payd for procurations in my L[ord] Bushop's visitacion the v"" 
 
 of Maye 1583 xviij^. 
 
 Summa xxixj. }d. 
 
 And so remaynes clere to the churche all thyngs allowed 
 
 xvijj. vij(/. whiche some is payd and this accompt discharged. 
 
 84. The accompts of Richard Chelmarshe the other churche warden 
 the same daye and yere. 
 Receyts. 
 
 Receaued at his entryng to the office xxj. 
 
 Receaued for cheritie money at the communion x'lxs. xd, 
 
 Receaued from Mr. Patricke for his rent due at Mighelmas 
 
 xiijV. iiijV. 
 Received of Morrys Davyes for his seat and his wyve's xv\\]d. 
 Received Fraunc[i]s Downyng for his seate and his wiffe's viijV. 
 Received of Davyd Brassy for his seate and hys wyve's xviij^. 
 Received of Thomas Salweye for his rent due at our Ladie daye 
 
 xxvjj. viijV. 
 Received of Richard Gyles for his seate and his wiff 's viijV. 
 Received of Mr. Patricke for his rent due at our ladie daye 
 
 xiijj. Vn\d. 
 Received of Mrs. Benet for her seate iiij'''- 
 
 Received of the good wiff Abell for her seate iiij^. 
 
 Summa iiij/r. xviijj. '\]d.
 
 92 CHURCHWARDENS' ACCOUNTS, 
 
 S4<5. Richard Chelmarshe payments. 
 
 For my charges at Stoke courte iiij^- 
 
 For Ryngyng apon the Quene's holie daye i]s. 
 
 For a Balricke for a Bell viij^. 
 
 For mendyng a surples iiij(/. 
 
 For mendyng the glasse wyndowes iijj. vjV. 
 
 For a bell rope xxjV. 
 
 Gyven to the godwiffe Wodfall iiij^. 
 
 Payd for the parishe drynkynge at Easter iiiji'. vij^. 
 
 Gyven to the good wiffe Alberowe to burie her child v'jd. 
 Payd for the bill of presentment in the visitacion of the L[ord] 
 
 bushop viij^. 
 
 Payd to the Regester at the delyuery thereof v]d. 
 
 Item spent the same daye xvijV. 
 
 For washyng the churche lynen ijj. 
 
 For mendyng a seate ]d. 
 
 Payd to Mr. Slowgh of the cheritie money ixs. x</. 
 For wyne to the communion at dyuers tymes as aperithe by his 
 
 bill vs. vn}d. ob. 
 
 And more for wyne \\]d. 
 
 Payd to Mother Dixson at tymes bie vj^. a weke xiijj. \\d, 
 
 Summa xlvijj. xjaf. ob. 
 
 And so remaynethe to the churche clere apon this accompt 
 \s. '\]d. ob. payd and discharged. 
 
 85. Memorandum at this accompt Mr. ArchepoU delyuered vp to 
 
 the parishe the churche stocke whiche dyd remayne in his 
 
 custodie, \-idelicet xvj//. \\s. \\\]d., of the whiche some he dyd 
 
 lend to Richard Alen xs., whiche \s. and viijj. \\\]d. more to 
 
 make it vp to xiijj. \\\)d., the parishe gave to the said 
 
 Richard in respect of his age and pouertie. 
 
 Item gyven also to Walter Heywood towardes his charges in 
 
 comyng from London to be our clarke vjj. viij</. 
 
 And so remaynes stocke clere at this accompte all thyngs 
 
 discharged xviij//. xiijj. \'d. ob. 
 
 Whereof delyuered to the guardyanes of newe xxj. a pece, 
 
 videlicet xIj. 
 
 And so remaynes clere in the custodie of Roger Follyott 
 
 xvj//'. xviijj. \d. ob, 
 85*. [This page is blank.]
 
 ST. MICHAEL S IN BEDWARDINE, WORCESTER. 93 
 
 86. [1584.] There was chosen churchc wardens of newe for the 
 yere to come John Byrd and William Ford, the Seventhe of 
 June, 1584. 
 The Accompts of Roger Follyott, the last churche warden, for 
 the whole receytes of the last yere made the xxiij of June, 
 1584. 
 His receytes. 
 
 Imprimis of Thomas Salwey for his rent for one yere endyng 
 at thannunciacion of our Ladie last past liijj. iiijW. 
 
 Item of Mr. Patricke for his rent due at the same feaste 
 
 xxvjj. viijV. 
 Item for the Cheritie money at Easter xvijj. x]d. 
 
 Item in money of the churche stocke xviij//. xiiijj. vd. 
 
 Item of Mrs. Bullyngham for her seate xijV. 
 
 Item of Mr. Packeman for his seate and his wiffe's xij^. 
 
 Summa xxiij//. xiiji'. iiij^. 
 863. His payments. 
 
 In primis payd for wyne for the communion at dyuers tymes 
 as aperithe bie his bill vs. vijd. 
 
 Item to George Lye for makynge a newe joyned seate for 
 Mrs. Bullyngham xs. vijd. 
 
 Item for hyngs to the same vij^'. 
 
 Item gyven to wydowe Payne at tymes in her sickenes and to 
 bury her iij.f. 
 
 Item for halfe thousand of tyle to repare the churche vs. 
 
 Item for the caryage of them vjd. 
 
 Item for lyme and sand for tylyng and whiting the churche 
 
 ijs. vijif. 
 
 Item for cariage of it i'j<^- 
 
 Item payd to Richard Mathewes and his ij men for tylyng and 
 
 whiting the churche after xviijt/. the daye xjs. v]d. 
 
 Item for Lathes and nayles crests and gutter tyle xvjV. 
 
 Item payd to the constables Lynyoll and Lye for the subsidie 
 
 of Edward Bullyngham I'JJ- 
 
 Item for a salter boke for the clarke ij'^- 
 
 Item payd to Mr. Slough our curate for his Mighelmas wages 
 
 xiijj. iiijV. 
 Item payd to Roger Clarke for Whitson farthyngs due for ij yeres 
 
 x^.
 
 94 CHURCHW'ARDEXS' ACCOUXTS, 
 
 Item for Ryngj'ng apon the Quene's holy daye 'i'}s. 
 
 Item for glasyng the churche i]s. \-]d. 
 
 87. Item to George Lye for removyng Mrs. Bullynham's seate at 
 
 the curate's apevyutom [?] viij^. 
 
 Item gyven to mother Lye, bie vjW. the weke, begynnyng the 
 
 xix^ of Januarie to the xx"" of June, videlicet xiij weekes 
 
 xjj. v}d. 
 Item gyven to Mother Woodfall at tymeswhen she was sicke as 
 
 aperithe bie his bill ijs. \\\d. 
 
 Item payd for light in the churche at Christemas \]d. 
 
 Item for iij quarters of borde to flore the seates in the churche 
 
 iijj. 
 Item for sylles to lye under them xij^/. 
 
 Item to a carpenter for a daye and half irvd. 
 
 Item for nayles 'in]d. 
 
 Item for washyng the churche lynen i]s. 
 
 Item for mendyng a bell whele iiij^. 
 
 Item for medyng the baldericke of the greate bell vd. 
 
 Item gyven to wydowe Hancoxe and mother Naylor on Good 
 
 Frydaye xijV. 
 
 Item gyven to iij pore wemen iij^/. 
 
 Item payd at Walter Walker's on Easter daye for the drynkyng 
 
 of the parishioners besides the money they spent vjj. 
 
 Item payd at the openyng of our boxe with the curate -ad. 
 
 Item payd to Mr. Slowgh of the cheritie money xiijV. xj^. 
 
 Item g>"\-en to John Pynvyn at tj'mes in his sickenes ijj. 
 
 Sjb. Item gyven to wydowe Grafton in her sickenes xijrf. 
 
 Summa totalis \ii. vijj. \]d. 
 
 And so remaynes to the churche cler all thynges allowed apon 
 this accompt xviijV/. vjV. xd. 
 
 At which acompte it is agreed bie the consent of the parish- 
 ioners that John Bird and William Ford the churchewardens 
 shall have apon good suerties to be bound to Roger Follyott 
 and John Bland for the redelyureye thereof xijV/., videlicet vj/j, 
 a pece. 
 
 Item there is order taken for xxj. parte of the former some of 
 xviij/?. vjj. ^d. that was lent to Richard Jackeson our clarke 
 to have gyven hym thereof \-]s. \\\]d., and the reste to be re-
 
 ST. MICHAEL'S IN BEDWARDINE, WORCESTER. 95 
 
 ceaued bic tlic cluirclic wardens of tlie clarkc's house that 
 Christofer tlic vndcrkcpcr dwcllithe in after tlic rente of vjj. 
 bie yere. 
 
 Item there is gyven at the same tyme to tlie fyndynge of 
 William Bristowe's pore chyldren of one yere vjj. viij^/. 
 
 And the resedewe of the money beynge vli. \]d. is ordered to be 
 putt into the chestc in the churche vli. '\yi. 
 
 Memorandum taken out of the cheste the xxix"' daye of 
 September, 1584, the some of xxvj.f. v\\]d. to pay William 
 Batcheler for ij yercs' payment of xiijj. \\\]d. by the yere, in 
 the presence of Edward Sloughe curate, R^ger Folliatt, John 
 Birde,W'illiam Fordc, Nycholas Phillips, and Richarde Jackson. 
 
 88. [1585.] June 27. Memorandum Jhon Birde churchewardcn hathe 
 
 delivered vp his accompte in the presence of the parisheoners 
 
 the saide xxvij"' of June, whereby it appearethe that he 
 
 hathe received xj//. xi'. 
 
 And hathe laide oute as appearethe by his bill iiijV/. viijj-. \]d. 
 
 And so remainethe cleare to the churche vij//. xxijt^f. 
 
 Item the accompte of William Fordc the other churchewardcn 
 
 the same daye his v]li. broughte in whereof he requirethe 
 
 allowance as appearethe by his bill viijj. \'\\\d. 
 
 And so remainethe cleare to the churche vli. xjj. \\\]d. 
 
 And there was remaininge in the cheste iij/z. xiijj. Vyl. 
 
 Summa totalis xvjVz'. vjj. viijV/. 
 On the same daye were chosen churchwardens for the yeare 
 to come William Forde and Nicholas Phillips, by consente 
 of the minister and parishioners geven forthe of the former 
 some to Thomas Bristovve v]s. \\\yl. 
 
 Memorandum that the xviij"' daye of July 1585 there was 
 taken forthe of the cheste to hand to Richard Alen, beyng 
 sucrties for the same Thomas Flecher and Walter Walker. 
 
 88(J. Memorandum that William Forde gaue upp his accompt the 
 
 xxvj'h of June 1586, in which accompt his receiptes comethe 
 
 to ix/?. ij.f. \\]d. 
 
 Out of which some he is allowed vppon this accompte as 
 
 appearethe by his bill \>]li. y.s. \\\]d. ob. soe that there 
 
 remainethe to the churche 
 
 [The foregoing paragraph is crossed out.]
 
 96 churchwardens' accounts. 
 
 Out of which sume he is allowed vppon this accompt as 
 
 apperethe by his bill xlixs. xJ. ob. 
 
 Soe that there remainethe due to the Churche vj7/. xs. \\\]d. ob. 
 
 At the same daie and yeare Nicholas Phillips another of the 
 
 Churche Wardens gaue vpp his accompte in which accompt 
 
 his receipts comethe to vijV/. \]s. xd. 
 
 Oute of whiche accompt he was allowed xxxiiijV. soe that 
 
 there remainethe clere of his accompt due to the Churche 
 
 vli. xijj. xd. 
 Alsoe there remaines clere in the bagge restinge in the chest 
 in the churche iiijV?'. 
 
 [Some odd shillings and pence appear to have been erased with later ink.] 
 
 Sum ma totalis xvjh'. iiji-. ob. 
 
 The same daie and yeare there are chosen churche wardens 
 againe William Foorde and Nicholas Phillipps. 
 
 The same day there are appointed collectors for the whole 
 yeare John Leonard and Simon Johnes. 
 
 [1586.] Memorandum the xviij daye of September there was lent 
 to Thomas Flecher the some of xxxj. apon a gilte salte 
 with a cover for a monethe's space. 
 Memorandum the xxiij day of December the savlt was takene 
 forthe of the cheste and there was paye[d] xxj. in money 
 and two spones put in for xs. 
 [These two entries have been crossed out by a single penstroke each and "payd " 
 written twice over in the margin.] 
 
 89. [1587-] IMemorandum the ij*^ daye of July there is lend 
 
 to Richard Jones alias Gylesj_jXxxi-., to be repajd apon 
 
 a obligation at Mydsomur next. 
 
 Memorandum the xxix"" daye of October 1587 there is lent 
 
 to Symon Jones Twthe Drawer xxj., to be repayd apon 
 
 a obligacion at the feaste of the annunciation next coming, 
 
 which obligacion remaynithe in the hands of Roger FoUyott. 
 
 The accompte of Nicolas Philipes, seconde July, 1587. 
 
 Receaued of the Churche stocke at his entrey vjV/. 
 
 Received of Mr. Salweye's rent liijj'. i'ujd. 
 
 Received of D. Patrick's rent xxvj.r. viijd. 
 
 Received at Eastur for hoselyng wyne xxijj. vj</. 
 
 Summa x/t. xvijj. vj</.
 
 ST. MICHAEL'S IN BEDWARDINE, WORCESTER. 97 
 
 Whereof payd and allowed to hym apon his bill inj/i. ixj. ij</. 
 
 And so remaynes clcrc apon his accompt the sonime of 
 
 vj//. iiij^f. iiij^. 
 
 The Accompte of Wm. Forde the said daye and yerc, videlicet 
 the seid Wm. rcceaued at his enterynge of the churche 
 stocke vj//. 
 
 Whereof he payd in expenses at the Bushope's visitacion xij^. 
 
 And so remaynes clere to the Churches vse v/i. xixs. 
 
 The whole stocke remaynyng at this accompt xvj/i. vijs. iiij</. 
 
 Whereof delyuered to Nicolas Philippes and Walter Walker, 
 
 the wardens for this yere folowyn<T, the some of xij//'., 
 
 videlicet, vj/z. a-pece. And the remaynder beyng iiij//. 
 
 is disposed as folowethe. 
 
 89^. Ther is lent to Richard Alen apon suerties xxs. 
 
 Item there is lent to Richard Jones xxxj. 
 
 Item there is lent to Symon Jones xxs. 
 
 And the reste to the cheste. 
 
 90. [1588.] The accompte of Nicolas Philippes on of the Churche 
 wardens made and yelded vp the xxviij of June 1588. 
 
 The receytes of hym as maye apere bie his bill amountithe 
 to the some of x/i. viijj. ijd. 
 
 Whereof payd bie hym as maye also apere bie his bill of 
 particulers in almes and otherwise iij//. iijV. viij(/. 
 
 And so remaynes of his accompt clere to the churche 
 
 vij//. iiijj. v]d. 
 
 Whereof delyuered to Richard Chelmarshe of newe chosen 
 Churchewarden vj//. 
 
 And the reste beyng xxiiijj. vjd. is put in the cheste, so that 
 there is remaynyng in the cheste with xj. that was there 
 before x.xxiiijj. vy/. 
 
 Qoi>. The accompte of Walter Walker the other churche warden for 
 the yere to come made the seid xxix of June 15 88. 
 
 Whiche seid Walter Walker delyuered in apon this accompte vj//. 
 whiche he had in his custodie at his election to the office. And 
 hathe the same vj//. agayne vntyll the next accompt. 
 
 Item he payd the some of vs. whiche Henrie Staunton of 
 
 H
 
 9S churchwardens' accounts, 
 
 \Vhityng[ton] hathe g>'ven to the pore of this parishe, whiche 
 was delyuered privately to the pore as folowithe 
 to Gregorie Hart ijs. 
 
 to Richard Jackeson x\}d. 
 
 to mother Woodfall vjV. 
 
 to father Nayler vjd. 
 
 to mother Shawe vjd. 
 
 to a boye called Woodfall vj^. 
 
 91. [1589.] The accompte of Walter Walker on of the churche 
 
 guardyanes of this parishe of St. Mighell made the vj daye 
 of July 1589. 
 The seid Walter Walker delyuerethe his money that he had 
 of the churche stocke, videlicet vj//., and askithe allowance 
 of xxviijj., for trymyng and makyng of Seats in the churche, 
 of whiche xxxiiiji-. he is content to take but xijj. and to gyve 
 vnto the rest, whiche xijj. is payd vnto hym apon this accompte. 
 91*. [A blank page.] 
 
 92. The accompte uf Richard Chelmarshe on of the churche 
 
 guardyanes of this parishe of St. Mighell made and yelded 
 
 vp the vj daye of July 1 5 89. 
 
 The seid Richard dothe accompte that he receaued of the 
 
 parishe at his enteryng to the seid office vj//. 
 
 Item more for halfe yere's rent from Thomas Sahvey due at 
 
 Mighelmas xxvjj. viij^/. 
 
 Item on other halfe yere's rent of hym due at our ladie daye 
 
 xxvjj. viijd?. 
 Item of Doctor Patricke for on hole yere endyng at our ladie 
 daye for the house he dwellethe in xxvjj. viij^/. 
 
 Item for cheritie money at Easter xs. u'}d. 
 
 Item of John Locke for his seate and his vviffe xij^. 
 
 Item of Mr. Crompton and his wiff xij</. 
 
 Item of John Horward and his wifiTe xij^. 
 
 Item of Mr. Hickmanes and his wiffe xij^. 
 
 Item of John Walker and his wiffe vj</. 
 
 Item of July Bradshawe for her seate xviij^. 
 
 Summa x/i. xvjj. iij^. 
 
 Whereof he hathe leyd forthe in almes and other necessarie 
 charges as aperithe by his bill iij//. vjj. iijii.
 
 ST. MICHAEL'S IN BEDWARDINE, WORCESTER. 99 
 
 And so rcmaynes clere to the churche vlj/i. xs., out of whichc 
 vi}/i. S.S. was payde to Walter Walker xijj., and gyvcn to 
 Henry Brevatar iij^., to Jackeson xijrt^., to father Alcn i]s., 
 to Thomas Lee \js., to John Chester vj^., to the old collectors 
 v}d., And so remayncs vjV/. ixs., whiche vj//. ixj. remaynes in 
 the handes of the seid Richard Chelmershe. There is of ncwe 
 chosen Richard Chelmershe and William Elvins, to whom is 
 delyuercd vj/i. a pece. 
 
 92^. [1590.] Memorandum that the xvij daye of Aprell 1590, beingc 
 Good Fryday so called, There was gyven to the pore of this 
 parishe of St. Mighell xijj. bie the churche Reves of the 
 same parishe accordyng to the Laste will and testament of 
 Mr. Thomas Hare doctor of phisicke, videlicet 
 
 Thomas Lee xijd. 
 
 Richard Alen xi]d. 
 
 Richard Jones alias Gyles x\jd. 
 
 Widowe Hart xijd. 
 
 Richard Jackeson xijV. 
 
 Widowe Patten xijaf. 
 
 Widower Nayler xijd. 
 
 Thomas Bushel xij^. 
 
 Widowe Elkyns xijd. 
 
 Widowe Shawe xi'}d. 
 
 Henry Brevitar xljd. 
 
 Christopher Barker xijd. 
 
 93. The Accompte of Richard Chelmarshe on of the churche 
 guardyanes made the v daye of July, 1590. 
 
 His Receytes. 
 
 In primis Receaued for on hole yere's rent of Land at Clyfton 
 
 liij^f. liijd. 
 Item for the rent of Doctor Patrick's house for on hole yere 
 
 xxvjj. viijV. 
 Item for cheritie money collected at Easter of the communicants 
 
 viiji'. i'}d. 
 Item receaued of the churche vj7«. 
 
 Item more remaynyng apon his last accompte ixs. 
 
 H 2
 
 ICX3 CHURCHWARDEXS' ACCOUXTS, 
 
 Item of Mr. Morgan for his seate xijV. 
 
 Item receaued of the communicants on Whit Sonday iijV. 
 
 Summa x//. xviiji-. \d. 
 His payments. 
 
 Item g)-ven to Thomas ^Muckelow, an old parishenor, at t>'mes 
 in almes as aperithe bie particulers xiijj. \\d. 
 
 Item gyven to mother Woodfall at tymes x\-iijj. 
 
 Item g>ven to mother Nayler at tj^mes viijV. iiij^. 
 
 Item given to widow Hart at tymes xviijV. 
 
 Item payd for communion wyne at tymes viijj. ob. 
 
 Item for Witson farthings \d. 
 
 93^. for a bell ropp xij^i 
 
 for a servj's booke vj. 
 
 for Ryng>-ng on the Quene's daye ijj. 
 
 to Edward Carpenter for mendyng the dark's house xyj^. 
 
 for glasyng the churche yid. 
 
 gy-^-en to John Wall xij^/. 
 
 to Henry Alen for tylyng the churche viijj. \^d. 
 
 to Jackeson for washyng the churche Lynen ij,r. 
 
 Item payd to xij pore men of this parishe xij(/. a pece apon 
 Good Fr>"daye accordyng to Doctor Hare's last will and 
 testament xijj. 
 
 Item my expenses at the partyng of the cherity money ijV. 
 
 Item for entryng Mr. Picher for the tothe drawer's dett \\\]d. 
 
 For a declaracion \')d. 
 
 For a capias xvji/. 
 
 For Coterell's yeldyng to the dett iiij^. 
 
 For Judgement iiijV. 
 
 Item payd to the curate the vj of July for his pension xiijj. iiij</. 
 
 Item g>"ven to Henr>' Bre\ytar '\\]s. iiijt/. 
 
 Summa vli. iiijV. \\x\d. ob. 
 
 And so thus allowed there remaynithe to the churche clere 
 \li. xiiijj. ob. payd and discharged. 
 
 94. The accompte of William Elvyns made the same daye. 
 
 The seid William Elvyns receaued at his comyng to the office 
 
 vj/z"., whiche yj/;. he hathe delyuered apon this accompte. 
 Receaued more by Roger Follyott videlicet for the dett of 
 Symon Jones xxj.
 
 ST. MICHAEL'S IN BEDWARDINE, WORCESTER. lOl 
 
 Item for the dctt of Richard Jones alias Gyles, the rest par- 
 doned XXJ. 
 Whiche somes are payd and reckened for apon this accompte. 
 Whereof gyven to the pore at this accompte, videlicet 
 to the parishe clarke xij^. 
 to Ryver's wiffe v]d. 
 to Mother Shawe vjd. 
 to Mother Nayler vjV. 
 to wydowe Hart vjd. 
 to widowe Elkyns v]d. 
 to Bushell iijrt'. 
 to Lewes ujd. 
 Memorandum that William Elvynes and Robert Caryngton 
 are of newe chosen guardyanes for the yere to come, to 
 whom is delyuered xij//., videlicet vj//. apece. And the rest 
 beyng xxxiiiji-. is iiijj. in almes and xxxj. to the cheste. And 
 so remaynethe in the cheste iijV/. iiijj. vjfi., in the presence 
 of Walter Walker, William Elvyns, and me Roger Follyott. 
 
 94(^. [1591.] Whereas controversie hath benne between the parish- 
 ioners of St. Michaell's in Bedwardine neare the City of 
 Worcester and Roger Folyat, one of the same parishe, for 
 certaine sommes of money supposed to be due vnto the sayd 
 parishe by the sayd Roger, especyully for certaine Arrcragcs 
 of a yearlye pension payd by the Church of Worcester vnto 
 the sayd Roger Folyott for the vse of the parson of the sayd 
 church, which should have beenne payd by the sayd Roger 
 accordingly, and in some part was not. Now for the appeas- 
 ing of all striffs, controversies and debates between the sayd 
 parties, and vpon submission of both parties made vnto 
 Mr. Deane of Worcester y' now is. It is by him ordered and 
 concluded with the consents of all parties, that the sayd 
 Roger shall presently pay the some of fiftie shillings vnto 
 the hands of the churchwardens for the time being to the 
 vse of the sayd parish in full satisfaction and paiment of 
 all the Arrerages of the sayd yearly pension and all other 
 demands, debts, dueties, summes of money, actions, quarrells, 
 debates, iudgements, executions, or molestations whatsoever 
 which the sayd parishioners maye or might move stirre,
 
 102 CHURCHWARDEN'S' ACCOUNTS, 
 
 or pretende, aime, way, or recover against the sayd Roger 
 Folyat, his heyres. Executors, Administrators, or Assignes, 
 from the beginninge of the world vnto this present day, being 
 the vij"" of Aprill in the yeare of the Reign of our soveraigne 
 Lady Queen Elizabeth the xxxij'*' 1591. Which some of 
 Is. we the said Churchewardens have receaued accordingly 
 which we testeffy by subscribing our names. And of that 
 \s., with the consent of all parties, we gaue and delivered 
 xs. to Phillip Gardner of the foresayd parishe in regard of 
 his paines and chardges in procuring a commission concerning 
 this matter so osibred [?] [in another hand with other ink] by Mr. 
 
 Deane. 
 
 Fran. Willis, Deane. 
 
 Wilems Elvyns' IV] marke, on of the church wardens above 
 named; Robt. Carington, churchwarden also. 
 
 [Previously to this award the entries in the book had been made nearly entirely 
 by Roger Follyot. His handwriting does not appear again.] 
 
 95. [1591] The accompt of William Elvyns on of the Churche 
 Guardyans made the sixt daye of July 1591. 
 At whiche tyme the said W^illiam Elvyns did deliuer in his 
 vj//. whiche was the last yere deliuered to his Custodie. 
 
 The accompt of Robert Carrington the other churche warden 
 made the said vj' daye of July 1591. 
 
 The said Robert Carrington doth accompt that he receaued 
 
 of the parishe at his entrynge to the said office vj/?. 
 
 Item more of widowe Salwaye for halfe yere's rent due at 
 
 Michaelmas last past to the parishe xxvjj. viijV. 
 
 Item on other halfe yere's rent of his due at our ladie daye 
 
 xxvjj. vn'jd. 
 Item receaued of Mr. Edward Archepoll for halfe yere's rent 
 of Doctor Patricke's howse due at Michaelmas last 
 
 xiijj. iiij^. 
 Item on other halfe yere's rent of him due at our ladie daye 
 
 xiijj. iU]d. 
 
 Item Receaued of Mr. Folyott the xix"" daye of Aprill, vppon 
 
 agreement betwixt the pari.he and him whiche was due 
 
 to the parishe xIj.
 
 ST. MICHAEL'S IN BEDWARDINE, WORCESTER. 103 
 
 Item receaued of Chadbourne of Whittington due to the parishe 
 
 for certej'iie money rcmayninge in his handes by the gyfte 
 
 of Henry Staunton latly deceased vs. 
 
 Item for Cheritie money at Easter vn'js. vj(/. 
 
 Summa xij//. viijj. vjrf. 
 His Payements. 
 
 Inprimis payd to Mother Naylor after viijrt'. the weecke from 
 
 the x"" daye of July vnto the xxvij"" daye of Marche 
 
 xxxviij weeckes xxvs. iiijW. 
 
 Item payd to Mr. Fysher, Curate, the xv"' daye of July for 
 
 his pension xiijj. iujd. 
 
 Item payd to the good wyffe Chester for mendinge the minister's 
 
 surples vd. 
 
 Item payd to Euthlake Follyott for A petition made to Mr. 
 
 Deane and chapiter about Mr. Chaunce's howse iijV. 
 
 Item payd for communion vvyne at tymes xiijj. x</. 
 
 Item payd to Edward Carpenter for mendinge a bell whcle 
 
 the v"" daye of Nouember ijs. vu'y/. 
 
 95(5'. Item gyven to John Sherman the ix'** of Nouember by consent 
 
 to bringe him to London ijj. 
 
 Item payd to Edward Carpenter for a forme and a tripytt xij^. 
 Item for rj-nginge on the Ouene's daye ij^. 
 
 Item payd for mendinge a ballerige for on of the belles iijd. 
 
 Item gyven to the poore at tliree seueral tymes xijj. ni]d. 
 
 Item gyven to Twelve poore folkes vppon Good Frydaye 
 
 accordinge to Doctor Hare's last will and Testament xijj. 
 Item payd to Richard Jackson's wyfe for weshing the church 
 
 Lynen i}s. 
 
 Item gyven to the wydowe Harte the first daye of Maye when 
 
 she was sicke xijV. 
 
 Item for a bell Rope for one of the belles xiiij^. 
 
 Summa iiijVz. ixi-. vijc/. 
 
 And so this allcnved there Remayneth to the Churche clere 
 from him the said Robert Carrington viij//. iijs. xjd. payd 
 and discharged. And William Elvyns vj/?. which he de- 
 liuered in and iij/t. nijs. \]d. found in the Cheste and xix^. 
 from the collectors, all whiche maketh in the whole the Some 
 of xvijVz. xj.
 
 104 CHURCinVARDENS' ACCOUNTS, 
 
 Memorandum that Robert Carrington and Thomas Mynshawe 
 are of newe chosen guardyans and churche wardens for the 
 yere to come, vnto whom ys deliuered xij//., videlicet x]li. 
 apece. And the rest beinge v]li. xj., whiche should haue 
 byne layd in the Cheste, is delyuered by the consent of the 
 par^-shenors vnto the Custody of Walter Walker, vppon his 
 bonde to be payd at the next accompte daye or at on 
 weecke's wamyng to be gyven vnto him by the Churche 
 wardens at any tyme before the said accompt daye yf nede 
 requier the same for any nedefull or necessarie vse for the 
 said churche or paryshe, as aperethe by his bonde for the 
 same. 
 
 Memorandum there are chosen Collectors for this yere follow- 
 inge Mr. Nicholas Archepoll and I\Ir. Thomas Crompton. 
 
 96. Memorandum that the second daye of Aprill 1591 beinge Good 
 Frydaye so called, there was gyven to the poore of this 
 paryshe of St. Michaell xijj. by the Churche Reves of the 
 same parj-she according to the last will and testament of 
 Mr. Thomas Hare, Doctor of physicke, videlicet, 
 
 Thomas Ley xijV. 
 
 Richard Allen xij^. 
 
 Richard Gylles xij^. 
 
 Wydowe Harte xij</. 
 
 Richard Jackson xij^. 
 
 Widowe Shawe xij</. 
 
 Widowe Elkynes xij</. 
 
 John Sharman xij</. 
 
 Henry Breviter xijrf. 
 
 John Chester xijV. 
 
 Widowe Patten xij</. 
 
 John Sysemore xijV. 
 
 g6b. [1592.] The accompts of Robert Carrington one of the Churche 
 Wardens made the vj* daye of July 1592. 
 
 His Receytes. 
 
 Inprimis receiued the Sixt daye of July 1591 of the paryshe 
 money v]li.
 
 ST. MICHAEL'S IN BEDWARDINE, WORCESTER. 10$ 
 
 Item Receaued of Mr. Salwey['s] widowe halfe yere's Rent 
 due vnto the parishe at the feast of St. Michael tharch- 
 angell xxvj.f. viijf/. 
 
 Item Receaued of Mr. Edward Archepoll halfe ayere's Rent due 
 at the feast of St. Michaell tharchangell for the house 
 where in Doctor Patricke did dwell xiijj. iiija?! 
 
 Item Receaued more of Mistres Salwey for halfe ayere's rent 
 due at the feaste of thannunciation of our ladie xxvjj. viij</. 
 
 Item Receaued of Mr. Shipley halfe ayere's rent due for the 
 house which Doctor Patrick did dwell in at the feast of 
 thannunciation xiijV. iiijV. 
 
 Item Receaued of Chadbourne of Whittenton due to the paryshe 
 for certeyne money remaynynge in his handes by the gyfte 
 of Henry Stanton lately deceassed vs. 
 
 Item Receaued for Charitie money at Easter xiij.f. iiijV. 
 
 Item Receaued of Edward Symons alias Page for hys owne 
 
 seate and his wyve's xijV. 
 
 Summa x/i, xn}s. iiij^/. 
 
 His Payementes. 
 
 Imprimis gyven to Richard Jackeson by Consent the S'"" of 
 
 July xij^. 
 
 Item payd for a pynte of muskadine for the communion the 
 
 xj"' of July \i]d. 
 
 Item for Akey for a coffer in the churche the xviii"' of July 
 
 ij^. 0^. 
 Item for halfe a pynte of muskadine for the communion the 
 
 15 of August U}d. od. 
 
 Item for a buckle and the mendinge of a balerug the 17 of 
 
 August xij(/. 
 
 Item layd out at the visitation for our Dyner and other charges 
 
 iijj. iiijV. 
 Item another daye when we presented viijV. 
 
 Item for the n.akinge and exhibitinge our bill xviijd. 
 
 Item for scouring the harn[e]sse belonge to the churche the 
 
 vj daye of Nouember to Richard Jackeson ijj. 
 
 Item for two Ropes for the Belles xxd. 
 
 Item gyven for Ringeing on the Queene's holy daye ijs. 
 
 Item payd for a quarte of muskadine for the communion vppon 
 
 Sainte Stephen's daye xiiijV.
 
 I06 CHURCHWARDENS' ACCOUNTS, 
 
 97. Item gyven to Hugh Hollynehead and his wife beinge bothe 
 sicke the 28 daye of December xijV. 
 
 Item gj'ven to Lewes Apprice beinge sicke the 10*'' of Marche 
 
 v]d. 
 
 Item g>^'en to Lewes Apprice the 20 of ]\Iarche v]d. 
 
 Item gj^'en to Twelve poore people vppon Good Frydaye ac- 
 cordinge to Doctor Hare's last will and testament xijj. 
 
 Item for muskadyne for the communion vppon Palme Sondaye 
 and vppon Easter eve ijj. iiij^. 
 
 Item for iij quartes vppon Easter daye iijj. vjV. 
 
 Item for a quarte vppon Low Sondaye xiiijaf. 
 
 Item payd to Richard Jackson's wife for washinge the com- 
 munion clothes \]s. 
 
 Item spent when we bracke vp the boxe at Nicholas Phillips' 
 
 iijj. \\\]d. 
 
 Item for mendynge of a balerige before Easter viij^. 
 
 Item g>'\-en to Richard Gyles' wyfe beinge sicke viijV. 
 
 Item payd to Edward the Carpenter for tymber bordes and 
 planckes to make iij seates in the quyer vs. xd. 
 
 Item for ij men ij dayes and on man one daye to make the 
 same Seates iijj. i]d. 
 
 Item for nayles and hynges xxd. ob. 
 
 Item payd to Thomas Onyon for vj turned bosses \]d. 
 
 Item gyven to Richard Jackson the 28 of June his wife and 
 daughter beinge sicke yC\)d. 
 
 Item for ij pyntes of wyne for ij communions since Lowe Sondaye 
 
 xiiijd?. 
 Summa totallis iij/?. ij^. ob. 
 
 Memorandum that the xxiiij"" daye of Marche 1592, beinge 
 Good Frydaye so called, there was gj-ven to poore of this 
 parj-she of St. Michaell xijj. by the churche Reves of the 
 same parishe according to the last will and testament of 
 
 JMr. Ihomas Hare 
 
 , Doctor 
 
 of Phisick, videlicet 
 
 XIJJ. 
 
 Richard Allen 
 
 xij^. 
 
 Wydowe Elkyns 
 
 xij^. 
 
 Thomas Ley 
 
 xij^. 
 
 Wydow Shawe 
 
 xijrf. 
 
 Widowe Harte 
 
 ■xXyi. 
 
 Henry Breviter 
 
 xijrf. 
 
 John Sysemore 
 
 xij(/. 
 
 Lewis Apprice 
 
 xij(/. 
 
 Richard Jacksons 
 
 xij^. 
 
 John Chester 
 
 ■x.\]d. 
 
 Widowe Patten 
 
 xij</. 
 
 Richard Gyles 
 
 x\\d.
 
 ST. MICHAELS IN BEDWARDINE, WORCESTER. I07 
 
 97^. And so the forcsayd paycmentcs allowed there rcmaynethe 
 clcrely to the churchc and parishe from him the said Robert 
 Carrington vij/z. x'uiis. ]d. ob., which said Sommc of 7//. 
 14J. \d. ob. was the said Sixt of daye of July 1592 payd 
 and delyuered vpp in Readie money to the whole paryshe 
 at his said accompt, and the yi. ob. gyven backe by consent of 
 the paryshenors. 
 
 At whiche said tyme Thomas Mynshewe the other churche 
 warden did paye and delyuer vpp in roadie money \]li. 
 whiche was the last yearc delyuered into his custodie. 
 
 The same daye and yeare Walter Walker payd and deliuered 
 fyve pounde tenne shillings which was deliuered into his 
 custodie in the behalfe of the parishe the last yeare. 
 
 So that there Remaynethe clyer to the churche in the Whole in 
 ready money xix//. iiijj'. 
 
 Memorandum that Thomas Mynshew and Morrys Davys are of 
 new chosen churche wardens for this yeare to come, vnto 
 whom ys deliuered xijV/., videlicet, \\li. apeece. 
 
 Memorandum the same daye there was chosen Collectors for 
 the pore John Fydo and John Ockeley for this yere followinge 
 vnto whom was deliuered by Mr. Nicholas Archcpolle and 
 Mr. Crompton the olde collectors of their collection on readie 
 money to distribute vjj. 
 
 Memorandum there was deliuered by the consent of the paryshe- 
 nors the ix''' daye of July 1592 into the custodie of Mr. 
 Nicholas ArchepoU vpon trust reposed in him, to the vse 
 and in the behalf of the churche and parj-she, the some 
 of vij//. vppon his bond to be payd at the next accompt daye. 
 
 And the Rest which is iiij^. Remaynethe in the cheste. 
 
 Memorandum that Richard Allen owethe vnto the churche 
 xxj. as apearethe by his bond bearinge date the xxv''' daye of 
 June Anno Regni Reginee Elizabethce xxviij. 
 
 Memorandum that Robert Chadbourne of Whittenton dothe 
 owe vnto the parishe and church fyftie shillings which was 
 gyven vnto the parishe by Henry Stanton thelder of Whitten- 
 ton nere the citie of Worcester deceassed, without bill or 
 bonde.
 
 I08 CHCRCHWARDEXS' ACCOUNTS, 
 
 98. [1593.] The accompt of Thomas Mynshewe, one of the churche 
 wardens, made the vj"" daye of July 1593. 
 
 His Receytes. 
 
 Inprimis Receaued at the last accompt, being the Sixt day 
 of July 1 592 of the parishe money vj//. 
 
 Receaued of wydowe Salvvaye halfe yere's Rent due vnto the 
 parishe at the feast of St. Mychaell tharchangell xxvjj. viij^. 
 
 Receaued of Mr. Shippsey halfe yere's Rent of the house wherein 
 he dwellethe, due vnto the parish at the feast of St. My- 
 chaell xiijj. nijd. 
 
 Receaued of wj-dowe Salwey halfe yere's Rent due at the feast 
 of the Annunciation of our ladie xxvjj. viij^. 
 
 Receaued of Mr. Shippsey halfe yere's Rent due at the feast of 
 the Annunciation of our ladie xxvjj. viijV. 
 
 Receaued of Chadbourne of Whittenton due to the parj-she the 
 interest of fyftie shillings whiche was gyven to the parishe 
 by the last will and testament of Henry Stanton latly 
 deceassed vs. 
 
 Receaued for Charitie money at Easter iij.f. vjV. od. 
 
 Receaued for Seate money of John Richards et vxor xijV. 
 
 Receaued of John Symons for his seate vj^^ 
 
 Receaued of Phillip Gardener for his seate v]d. 
 
 Receaued of Robert Alcocke for him and his wyf viij</. 
 
 Receaued of Thomas Onyon for his seate vja?. 
 
 Receaued of William Elvj'nes for his seate v}d. 
 
 Summa x/i. xijj. ijd. ob. 
 
 His payementes. 
 
 Imprimis gyven to Richard Jackson the ix"" of July 1592 xij^. 
 Item g>"v-en to Richard Jackson the x"" of July \\]s. 
 
 Item payd for our dynner at the visitacion \s. 
 
 Item payd for a bell rope the xix"' of August xvijV. 
 
 Item geven at Mr. Deane's request to wydowe Stanton the 
 
 xxiij"> of August \s. 
 
 Item payd Georg Shewesmithe the vj* of October for mendinge 
 
 the glasse wyndowes in the churche iijj. \\i]d. 
 
 Item payd to John Wood the xv"" of Nouember for two bell 
 
 Ropes \]s. \\\]d.
 
 ST. MICHAEL'S IN BEDWARDINE, WORCESTER. 109 
 
 Item payd the same daye to Thomas Onyon for mending a bell 
 
 whecic i]d. 
 
 Item gyven to Richard Jackson for Ringeinge the xvij''' daye 
 
 of Noucmbcr beingc the Queene's holy daye i]s. 
 
 gSd. Item for mending the churche vvalie the same daye '\]d. 
 
 Item payd for waxe candles for the minister iiijV. 
 
 Item gyven to vvydowe Shawe the Satiirdaye after the Queene's 
 
 holy daye vjd. 
 
 Item payd for vvyne the first Mondaye in the Newe yere xviijd^. 
 Item payd for wyne that was geven Mr. D. Lewes xijd. 
 
 Item payd to Mr. Wright for the makinge a petision to the 
 
 Deane and chapiter xij^. 
 
 Item gyven to John Sherman's wife at her lyinge in iiijV. 
 
 Item gyven to the wydowe Elkyns in her sicknes vjt/. 
 
 Item gyven more to wydowe Elkyns the 18 day of February 
 
 xijW. 
 Item gyven the same daye to John Sharman's wyfe vjd. 
 
 Item payd to John Awood the xiiij"" daye of Marche for a bell 
 
 rope xvjrf. 
 
 Item geven Sherman's wife the xviiij"' of Marche v}d. 
 
 Item the same daye geven Thomas Lea vjV. 
 
 Item geven to Came the same daye xij^. 
 
 Item geven to Came the vj"' of Aprill v}d. 
 
 Item payd for wyne the first of Aprell iiijV. od. 
 
 Item payd for wyne the viij"> of Apriell i}s. 
 
 Item payd for wyne the xij"" daye of Apriell vjd. 
 
 Item geven to Astmore's Sonne ijV, 
 
 Item gyven the xiij"" of Aprell to xij poore people according to 
 
 Doctor Hare's will xiijj. 
 
 Item for wyne the xiiij"* of Aprell xijd. 
 
 Item for wyne the xv"" of Aprell iiijj. 
 
 Item geven to Thomas Lea the xvij"' of Aprell v'}d. 
 
 Item payd to Frauncis Downinge for mendinge the Seats x^. 
 Item payd for vvyne the xxij"' of Aprell x'ljd. 
 
 Item for mendinge a Balcreeke iiijV. 
 
 Item payd for a newe Surples for the minister xiijj. 
 
 Item payd the x"" of Maye to Richard Jackson for washinge 
 
 ijj. 
 Item laid out at the breakenge vpp of the boxe vs. iiijt/.
 
 no CHURCHWARDENS' ACCOUNTS, 
 
 Layd out at that tyme wee sett proces agajTist Mr. Deane and 
 
 chapiter as followethe, videlicet 
 Inprimis to Mr. Davys for his counsell vs. 
 
 Item for wrj-ting the bill of complaynte xviij^. 
 
 Item to Mr. Harrj-s for his hand \}d. 
 
 Item for expedicion v]V. 
 
 Item for the puttinge the bill into the signett xij^. 
 
 Item for the taking \'pp of the bill iiijV. 
 
 Item my Travell and charges x^. 
 
 Item for servinge the processes at Hereford \"pon D. Thometon 
 
 ij.r. 
 Item spent at St. Johne's waj-tinge to serve Mr. Chaunce iiij^. 
 Item payd to Mr. Wright the vij'*' of June for layinge downe 
 
 our answere to Mr. Deane xviijV. 
 
 99. Item payd for the copie of the bill of complaynt agaynst the 
 
 Deane and chapiter xvj^. 
 
 Item my charges xd. 
 
 Item layd out at the meetinge of the Deane and chapiter at 
 
 Bewdley to Mr. Davys for counsell vs. 
 
 Item to Mr. Smj-the for Counsell vs. 
 
 Item to Mr. Da\ye Thomas ijs. 
 
 Item lefte for proces against Mr. Deane and Mr. Chaunce iiij'j. 
 Item spent travelinge to Bewdley vpon my selfe and Phillipp 
 
 Gardener u\]d. 
 
 Item spent at dynner at Bewdley vpon my self, Phillipp Gar- 
 dener, and Thomas Crompton xd. 
 Item spent at supper and bedd vpon my self and Phillipp 
 
 Gardener xiijV. 
 
 Item spent on the morrowe vpon my self, Thomas Crompton 
 
 and Phillipp Gardener at dynner x^. 
 
 Item spent at supper vpon myself, Thomas Crompton and 
 
 Phillipp Gardener xv'njd. 
 
 Item spent over and aboue meales vpon vs three x^. 
 
 The charges of Thomas Crompton for on daye and t\vo nightes 
 as followethe 
 
 Vpon the xx"" daye of June spent at Ambersley iiij<f. 
 
 Item dynner at Bewdley vjd. 
 
 Item supper vjd. 
 
 Item bedd jd.
 
 ST. MICHAEL'S IN BEDWARDINE, WORCESTER. 1 1 1 
 
 Item supper the xxj"' daye \]d. 
 
 Item bcdd ]d. 
 
 Item his expenses over and aboue mealcs \]d. 
 
 Item payd for wync the x"' daye of June, 1593 \]d. 
 
 Item to George Shewesmithe the iiij"> of July 1593 for mcnd- 
 
 inge the churche vvyndovves xvj^. 
 Summa totallis \li. xvs. vjd. ob. 
 
 Memorandum that the xiij"> day of Aprcll being Good Frydaye 
 there was geven to the poore of this parishe of St. Michacll's 
 xiji'. \iy. in the foregoing accounts] by the churchc Reeves of the 
 same parishe according to the last will and testament of 
 Mr. Thomas Hare, Doctor of phisicke, videlicet 
 
 1. Thomas Lea 7. John Sysemore 
 
 2. Widowe Hart 8. Anne Cope 
 
 3. John Sherman 9. Christopher Barker 
 
 4. Henry Breviter 10. Thomas Tanner 
 
 5. Widowe Shawe 11. Widowe Patten 
 
 6. Widowe Elkyns 12. Edmund Hall 
 
 99^. And so the foresaid payements allowed, there remayneth 
 clerely to the churche and parishe from him the said Thomas 
 Mynshewe iiijV/. xvjj. viij(/., whiche foresaid accompt by the 
 consent of the parishenors was holden the ix"' daye of July 
 1593. And then and there the said Summe of iiijV/. xvjj. 
 viij^. was payd and delyuered vp in readie money to the 
 whole parishe at his said accompt. 
 
 At which said tyme Morrys Davys the other Churche warden 
 did paye and delyuer vp in reddie money vjV/., which was last 
 yere delyuered into his custodie. 
 
 The same daye and yere Mr. Nicholas Archebold payd and 
 delyuered vij//. which was delyuered into his custodie in the 
 behalf of the parishe the last yere ; and there was also 
 delyuered iiijj. which should the last yere haue byne put 
 into the chest. 
 
 Memorandum at this foresaid accompt there was xxj. gyven 
 vnto William Ford, which xxj. was parte of the vij/;. that 
 Mr. Nicholas Archebold payd and delyuered. 
 
 Memorandum that John Bird and Thomas Crompton are of
 
 CHURCHWARDEXS' ACCOUNTS, 
 
 newe chosen churche wardens for this yere to come, vnto 
 whom is delyuered xij//., videlicet vj//. apeece. 
 
 Memorandum the xv*"" daye of July 1593 there was chosen 
 Collectors for the poore Frauncis Downynge and John Locke 
 for this yere foUowinge. And there was the same tyme 
 delyuered vnto the parishenors by the old collectors iijs. i]d., 
 whereof the same tyme was gyven to a poore man sick in the 
 parishe vj^. 
 
 Memorandum there is delyuered the said xv'*" daye of July 
 I593i by the consent of the parishenors into the custodie 
 of Mr. John Bland, vpon truste reposed in him to the vse 
 and in the behalfe of the churche and parishe aforesaid, the 
 Summe of vj/;. iijj. iiija'., vppon his bond to be repayd at the 
 next accompt daye. 
 
 So there Remaynethe clere to the churche at this tyme in 
 Redie money the whole summe of xvijV/. iijj. iiij</. 
 
 More over Richard Allen owethe vnto the churche xxj. as 
 apereth by his bond bearinge date the xxvi"" daye of June 
 Anno Regni Reginae Elizabethae, etc., xxviij". 
 
 Also Robert Chadborne of Whittenton dothe owe vnto the 
 parishe and churche Fyftie shillings which was gyven vnto 
 the parishe by Henry Stanton of the same village de- 
 ceassed. 
 
 100. [1594.] The Accompt of John Bird, one of the Churche wardens 
 of the parishe of St. IMichaell in Bedwardyne made vnto the 
 parishenors then the xxij"^ daye of July 1 594 as foUowethe. 
 His Receytes. 
 
 In primis Receaued of the parishe at my entryng into the said 
 
 office the Summe of vj//. 
 
 Item Receaued of the widowe Salwey for halfe yere's rent due 
 
 to the parishe at the feast of St. Michaell 1593 xxvj.y. viijt/. 
 Item receaued of Mr. Shipseay for halfe yere's rent of his house 
 
 due at the said feast xiijj. iiij^. 
 
 Item Receaued of the widowe Salwey halfe yere's rent due 
 
 at the feast of the Annunciation last past xxvjj. viij^. 
 
 Item Receaued of Mr. Shipseay for halfe yere's rent due at the 
 
 same tyme x'lijs. iiij^.
 
 ST. MICHAEL'S IN I3EDWARDINE, WORCESTER. I13 
 
 Item Receaued of Mr. Archebold for half a hundred of tylcs 
 
 viijc/. 
 
 Item receaued in Charitye money viij^. xd. 
 
 Item Receaued one ycre's Rent of John Ballarde's house payd 
 by Mr. Chaunce due vpon Good Frydaye last past, accord- 
 inge to Doctor Hare's last will and testament xiiij.f. 
 
 Item receaued the money gyven to our parishe by Henry 
 Stanton of Whittington deceassed, videlicet \s. 
 
 Item Receaued of Richard Gardener of Hymbleton gent., of 
 his owne free g\'fte to be distributed emongest of our said 
 parishe at the fcaste of Christmas last xi'. 
 
 Item Receaued of Mr. Nicholas Archebold for his seate xij(/. 
 
 Item Receaued of Mr. Fysher for his wyfe's seate xij</. 
 
 Summa totallis xij7/. v]d. 
 
 loob. His payements. 
 
 Imprimis gyven the xv"" daye of July 1593 towardes the 
 
 buryall of Richard Staple. 
 Item payd to Richard Jacksons the xviij"' daye of July 1593 
 
 for Ryngeing at the comynge of my L[ord] Bushopp v]d. 
 Item payd for the booke of Articles at the bushopp's visitacion 
 
 \-]d. 
 Item for the dynner of the sixe men the same tyme iiijj. \']d. 
 Item for the byll of presentment viij^. 
 
 For exhibiting the same \[\]d. 
 
 Item payd to Apparitor for his fees V]d. 
 
 Item payd the v'^ daye of August to Frauncis Dowenyng for 
 
 mendinge the bell whcele iij^/. 
 
 Item payd the xxiij"' daye of September for wyne for the 
 
 communion xviijV/. 
 
 Item gyven the same daye to goodwife Wilkinson v]d. 
 
 Item gyven the xxvij*'' daye of September to Symon Jones \]d. 
 Item gyven the same daye to the good wife Wilkinson \\\]d. 
 
 Item gyven the xxx"' daye of September to Symon Jones ijj". 
 Item gyven the same daye to the good wife Wilkinson y]d. 
 
 Item payd the xvj"" daye of October vnto Mr. Fysher our 
 
 minister according vnto an agreement at the accompt x.f. 
 Item payd for a Pottcll of sake that was carried vnto the courtc 
 
 at Seavernestoke ii>id. 
 
 I
 
 114 CHURCHWARDENS ACCOUNTS, 
 
 Item g^^en to Flj-tt over and aboue the money that I receaued 
 from the colledge by the Treasauror vs. vjd. 
 
 Item delyuered to Ryemill the constable to give to Flytt ijj. vjd. 
 
 Item gj-\en to Richarde Lambe for to hyer weemen to searche 
 Flytt's child xijV. 
 
 Item payd for Ryngeing vpon the Oueene's holy daye i]s. 
 
 Item payd for a bell Rope xvj^. 
 
 Item payd to Richard Lambe for Flytt's buriall vj</. 
 
 Item paj'd to Mr. Wrj-ght for draweing a lease concerning the 
 house that John Ballard dothe dwell in vs. 
 
 Item payd for wyne for the communion the last daye of 
 December vd. 
 
 Item payd to Georg Crompe the Carpenter for iiij days' worke 
 in makeing and altering the pulpitt iiijj. 
 
 Item for tj-mber the same tyme ijj. 
 
 lOi. Item payd for hynges and nayles for the pulpitt xiij^. 
 
 Item payd for a plancke for the pulpit vnto Richard Jacksons 
 
 vijd. 
 
 Item payd to Richard Jacksons for helping the Carpenter xi]d. 
 
 Item payd for payneting of the pulpitt ijs. v]d. 
 
 Item payd to Richard Lambe for a book of prayer for the 
 Oueene's majestie the xxv''' daye of Marche vd. 
 
 Item payd the x\-ij''' daye of Marche for wyne for the com- 
 munion yj</. 
 
 Item the xxiiij"" of Marche for wyne \]s. 
 
 Item the xxv'*" of Marche for wj-ne vi]d. 
 
 Item the xxviij'*" of JIarche for wj-ne '\}d. 
 
 Item the xxx* daye of Marche for wj-ne v']d. 
 
 Item the xxxj'"" daye of Marche for wyne 'i\]s. 
 
 Item g}"ven the secound daye of Aprell by the consent of the 
 parishenors vnto John Ocker vs. u\]d. 
 
 Item pajd vnto the handes of Mr. Deane for Mr. CjTell for 
 makeinge a Release concerninge Ballarde's house xj. 
 
 Item payd the vj"" daye of Aprell for mendinge the glasse 
 wynedowes iijj. i\]d. 
 
 Item payd the vij"' of Aprell for wyne for y* communion xviijV, 
 
 Item payd the viij"' daye of Aprell vnto Stephen Rymyll the 
 money which was the same weecke gyven to the houses 
 infected within our parishe videlicet V]s. vi\]d.
 
 ST. MICHAEL'S IN I3EDWARDINE, WORCESTER. 1 15 
 
 Item paid to the houses infected the .w"' day of Aprdl \]s. viijV. 
 Item paid to Rycmyll the xxj"' daye of AprcU for the houses 
 
 infected ijs. viij^. 
 
 Item for wyne vpon Trinitie Sondaye xijV. 
 
 Item paid the pyttcman for mending the bcare ijV/. 
 
 Item paid the xxvij'i' of Aprill for the houses infected ijs. viijV/. 
 Item paid the xxj"' of Aprell for wyne iiij^/. 
 
 Item paid to Rycmyll for mendingc of the leade of the churche 
 
 the xxvij'h daye of Aprell vs. 
 
 Item gyven to Edmund Hall the last of Aprell xxd. 
 
 Item gyven to Edmund Hall the iiij"" of Mayc vjd. 
 
 Item payd the xiij"' of Maye to the houses infected for two 
 
 vveeckes vs. iiij^. 
 
 Item gyven to Edmund Hall the xx"' of Maye ujd. 
 
 Item spent the xxij"' of Maye at the breakinge vpp of the boxe 
 
 vs. \]d. 
 lOiiJ. Item payd the sccound of June 1594 to Robert Alcoxe for 
 
 attending vpon the houses infected vjj-. Id- 
 
 Item payd the same daye to the vvidovve Gaye for parte of her 
 
 wages vnpayd for tending Pavye's house xx^. 
 
 Item payd the xj"" daye of June for a ballerige for on of the 
 
 belles v]d. 
 
 Item payd for the workeman's wages and his man's for Sixe- 
 
 teene dayes at xviija'. the daye for tylinge and whytinge 
 
 the churche xxiiijV. 
 
 Item for v hundered of tyles and the Carriage vijj-. iiijV. 
 
 Item for iij barrells of lyme and the carriage iij^. \\]d. 
 
 Item for on loade of sande xij</. 
 
 Item for a bundell of lathe and a hundred of lathe naylcs vij^i'. 
 Item for halfe a stricke of beare \]d. 
 
 Item for one Crest ']d. 
 
 Item for beesoomes ]d. 
 
 Item payd to John Symons for two Claspes of Iron K\\]d. ob. 
 Item payd for washeing the lynen and mendinge the surplossc iijj. 
 Item payd vnto Doctor Lewis, Receauor of the Cathcdrall 
 
 churche of Worcester, for costs allowed to the Deane and 
 
 Chapiter by her Majestie's Counsell in the inarches of Wales, 
 
 for suite in lawe there commenced by the parishenors xxj. 
 Item payd to the Paynetors for paynetinge of the churche xj. 
 
 I 2
 
 "6 churchwardens' accounts, 
 
 Item payd \-nto the Joyner for a new seate and for mending of 
 other seates in the churche ixj. 
 
 Item payd to xij poore people vpon Good Frydaye last past as 
 appeareth by a particuler noate thereof xiji-. 
 
 Item xij(/. more beinge parte of the overplus of the foresaid 
 house rent was distributed the same daye emongest some 
 other of the poore within the said parish. And xij</. being 
 the resydue of the rent Receaued for the said house the 
 sayd two churche wardens Crave for allowance to them- 
 selves according to Doctor Hare's last will and testament \}S. 
 
 Item more g>~i-en the xxv**" of Marche last the some of f)'%'e 
 shillings vnto the poore of our parishe of the money gyven 
 by Henrj' Stanton of Whittington vs. 
 
 Item gjn^en at Christmas last emongest the poore of our 
 parishe, being money gj^en by Mr. Gardner of Hymbleton 
 to that vse xj. 
 
 Summa totallis xj/?. ixj. vn]d. ob. 
 
 \02. And so the foresaid payementes allowed there remayneth 
 clerely to the churche and parishe from him the said John 
 Bird xi-. -s-d. ob. payd and discharged. 
 
 At whiche time Thomas Crompton the other churche warden 
 did paye and delyuer vpp in readie money vj//., which was 
 last j-ere deljnaered into his custodie. 
 
 The same daye and yere ilr. John Bland payd and deljniered 
 vj/«. iijj. iiijt/., which was deliuered into his Custodie in the 
 behalfe of the parishe the last yere at the last accompt. 
 
 Memorandum at this foresaid accompt there was xxj. forg}-ven 
 and remitted vnto Richard Allen which he did owe and was 
 indebted vnto the churche, which thinge was consented vnto 
 by all the parishenors then present 
 
 Memorandum the same tj-me John Locke, for himself and 
 Fraunces Doweing the Collectors, made their accompt and 
 delyuered there in readye money vnto the vse of the parishe 
 
 ijj. \d. 
 
 Money remayning then cleare to the church was xj7/. xvjj. \\]d. 
 
 Whereof distributed to the poore at the same tyme vjj. \\]d. 
 
 So there remayneth now cleare to the churche and parishe in 
 readie money the some of xj/». xj.
 
 ST. MICHAEL'S IN BEDWARDINE, WORCESTER. 
 
 "7 
 
 There are of newe Chosen and ellected Churche wardens for this 
 yere to come Thomas Crompton and Mr. Nicholas Archebold, 
 vnto whom the said some of xj/i. xs. ys dclyuercd. 
 
 There are also Chosen collectors for the poore Nicholas Phillipp 
 and Thomas Onyon. 
 
 Thomas Lea 
 
 xijd. 
 
 Richard Allen 
 
 K\}tf. 
 
 Widowe Harte 
 
 xijV/. 
 
 Richard Jackeson 
 
 xij^. 
 
 Widowe Patten 
 
 xij^. 
 
 Robert Pavye 
 
 xij(/. 
 
 102^. Memorandum that the xxix"" daye of Marche, beinge Good 
 Frj'daye, there was gyven and distributed to the poorc of 
 this parishe of St. Michaell xij.y. by the churche Reeves of the 
 same parishe, according to the last will and testament of 
 Mr. Thomas Hare, Doctor of Phisicke, videlicet, 
 
 William Ford xijt/. 
 
 Widowe Gale xij^. 
 
 John Chester xi'}d. 
 
 Symon Jones xijW. 
 
 Wydowe Elkynes xij^. 
 
 John Sysemore xij^. 
 
 The names of suche persons which had the vs. which was gyven 
 this yere by Henry Stanton of Whittington dcceassed dis- 
 tributed emongest them videlicet, 
 Richard Giles [No sum given] Widowe Shawe vj^. 
 
 Anne Cope iij<^- 
 
 Ales Lye Hjd. 
 
 Widowe Came njd. 
 
 Widow Prychitte iiijrt'. 
 
 Sybell Jonsons iiij'^- 
 
 Christopher Barker iiijV. 
 
 Wydowe Smythe iiij^- 
 
 The names of those persons which had the xs. gyven by 
 Mr. Gardener of Hymbleton distributed emongest them 
 
 Ales Ford 
 
 iiijrt'. 
 
 Henry James 
 
 iiijV. 
 
 Arthour Home 
 
 iiijrt''. 
 
 Thomas Moxon 
 
 i]d. 
 
 Edmund Halle 
 
 v]d. 
 
 John Sherman 
 
 v]d. 
 
 Henry Brevitor's wife 
 
 vj</. 
 
 as foloweth. 
 
 
 
 
 Widowe Patten 
 
 \]d. 
 
 Thomas IMynshewe 
 
 '\\\]d. 
 
 Widowe Harte 
 
 \']d. 
 
 Richard Allen 
 
 \]d. 
 
 Widowe Elkynes 
 
 \]d. 
 
 John Chester 
 
 \]d. 
 
 John Sysemore 
 
 WVyi. 
 
 William Ford 
 
 \]d. 
 
 Richard Giles 
 
 i\\]d. 
 
 Symon Jones 
 
 iiij</. 
 
 Widowe Gale 
 
 nld. 
 
 Widowe Fleet 
 
 iijrt'.
 
 II! 
 
 CHURCHWARDEN'S ACCOUNTS, 
 
 Thomas Lea 
 
 vj^. 
 
 John Chamberlyne 
 
 iijV. 
 
 Widowe Shawe 
 
 Vujd. 
 
 Alles Lye 
 
 iid. 
 
 Widowe Cooke 
 
 iiijV. 
 
 Henry James 
 
 in]d. 
 
 Brevitor's wife 
 
 v']d. 
 
 Richard Jaeson 
 
 v}d. 
 
 John Sherman 
 
 iij^. 
 
 Widowe Prychet 
 
 iijd. 
 
 Amie Cope 
 
 njd. 
 
 Widowe Came 
 
 ii'}d. 
 
 Edmond Halle 
 
 U]d. 
 
 Sybell Jonson 
 
 iijd. 
 
 Thomas Tanner's house 
 
 ni]d. 
 
 Thomas Moxson 
 
 iijd. 
 
 Christopher Barker 
 
 iijd. 
 
 
 
 103. [1594.] xxij die Julij Anno Domini 1594. A noate of suche 
 goodes as apperteyne to the churche of St. Mychell in Bed- 
 wardyne. 
 
 Imprimis a great Englishe Bible 
 
 a Pharaphrase of Erasmus 
 
 an Homely booke 
 
 a Communion booke 
 
 a Psalter booke 
 
 The Oueene's Iniunctions 
 
 Eight small prayer bookes 
 
 Two Surplesses 
 
 a Carpett 
 
 a Table Clothe 
 
 a longe old lynen Towell 
 
 Two velvett quisheons 
 
 a Pawle 
 
 a flaggon pynte pott or pewter 
 
 a Silver Cupp with a cover for the communion and a case for 
 
 it of leather 
 Two Register bookes. 
 
 103^. [1595.] The Accompt of Thomas Crompton one of the Churche 
 wardens of the parishe of St. Michaell in Bedwardyne, made 
 vnto the parishenors there the xiiij"" daye of July 1595 as 
 ffolloweth. 
 
 His Receytes. 
 
 Imprimis Receaued of the parishe at his entring into the 
 said office the Summe of v//. xvs.
 
 ST. MICHAEL'S IN BEDWARDINE, WORCESTER. II9 
 
 Item Receaued of widowc Salwaye for halfe yerc's Rent due to 
 the parishe at the feast of St. Michacll last past xxvjj. viij</. 
 
 Item Receaued of Mr. Shipsyde for halfe yere's Rent of his 
 
 house due at the said feast \]s. v'njd. 
 
 Somma totallis vij//. viiji'. iUjd. 
 His Payements. 
 
 Inprimis spent the da)'e of our Choyse xijrt'. 
 
 Item geven to the goodwife Shavvc vjrt'. 
 
 Item geven to the goodwife Elkynes iiij^. 
 
 Item geven to the widowe Cooke iijW. 
 
 Item geven to the widowe Harte iij^. 
 
 Item geven to Organmaker being syck xvliy/. 
 
 Item geven to widowe Ford v]d. 
 
 Item for mending the Sancebcli v'}d. 
 
 Item for mending one of the bell wheeles iiij^. 
 Item payd for two Bell Ropes ij^. viij</. 
 
 Item for mending the balerick of the first bell V}d. 
 
 Item payd for Ryngeing vpon the Queene's hollydaye ij.y. 
 
 Item for Cayes to the Chestes v']d. 
 
 Item geven to the widowe Shawe being sick v}d. 
 
 Item geven to Symon Jones' w^ife beinge sick vj^. 
 
 Item geven to Brevitor's wife being sicke xviij^. 
 
 Item geven towardes her buryall xijV. 
 
 Item payd to Mr. Fisher our minister xjj. 
 
 Item payd for a ballrick for the sancebell vjW. 
 
 Item payd for lights for the churche iij</. 
 
 Item geven to the widow-e Patten iiijV. 
 
 Summa xxvjj. ]d. 
 
 And so the foresaid payements allowed, there rcmayneth Cleere 
 to the church and parishe from him the said Thomas Crompton 
 vj/z. i}s. iij(/., payd and discharged. 
 
 104. 14 July 1595. The true playne and perfect Accomte of me 
 Nicholas Archebold, one of the Churche wardens of the 
 parishe of St. Michaell's in Bedwardyne nere the Citie of 
 Worcester in the count ie and dioces of Worcester, of all 
 Recepts, payements and other charges Receaued payd and 
 disbursed to and for and in behalfe of the said parishe by 
 me the said Nicholas Archebold, made and geven vpp in
 
 I20 CHURCHWARDEXS' ACCOUNTS, 
 
 wryting to the said parishe in the parishe churche there 
 vpon Mondaye the xiiij'"" daye of July Anno Domini 1595 
 as followethe. 
 
 The Chardge. 
 Receipts. 
 
 Inprimis the said churchevvarden and Accountant 
 dothe charge him self with the some of fyve poundes 
 fyfteene shillings d[elivere]d to him by the said 
 parishe in July 1594 at his entrance into this office, 
 \'li. of which this Accountant dothe hereby protest 
 that he presently lent to parishenors there as nede 
 required, videlicet, by xxj. a man, tyll this his 
 accompt, and hath as yet Receaued thereof in paye- 
 ment againe only iij/z. thereof. Yet is readie to make 
 payement of the full somme delivered him furthe of 
 his own purse according to the trust reposed in him. 
 And therefore dothe charge himselfe with the said 
 some of \'li. xvs. 
 
 Item the Accountant dothe also charge him self with 
 the some of Twentye sixe shillings eight pence Re- 
 ceaued of Wydowe Salwaye of Clyfton for one halfe 
 yere's Rent, due at Thannuntiacion of our ladie last 
 past, for the parishe lande there lying xxvjj. viijW. 
 
 Item he likewise chardgeth him self with the some of 
 Sixe shillings eight pence Receaued of Mr. George 
 Shipsey for one half yere's Rent, due at the Annun- 
 tiacion last past for the howse he noue dwelleth in 
 scituat within the parishe of St. Peters in Worcester \-}s. viij^. 
 
 Item the said Accountant dothe charge him self with 
 fowerteene shillinges Receaued by the handes of 
 John Ocker from Mr. Chaunce due on Passion Son- 
 daye last past for one whole j-ere's Rent of the 
 howse geven to the parishe in the last will and testa- 
 ment of Doctor Hare, where John Ballard now 
 dwellith, in the parishe of St. Helines in Worcester xiiijj. 
 
 1043. Item he also chardgeth him self with fyve shillings 
 Receaued of John Brayne of Whittington in Regard 
 of the last jere's benefitt Accruing to this parishe
 
 ST. MICHAEL'S IN BEDWARDINE, WORCESTER 12 I 
 
 in respect of a legacye gyvcn by tlic last will and 
 testament of Henry Stanton deceassed \s. 
 
 Item with nyne shillinges two pence being the moytie 
 or one halfe of all the money rcceaucd at abouts and 
 since Easter last of the Communicantes for bread 
 and wync, the other of which this Accountant hath 
 alreadye payd and delyuered to the minister of this 
 churche accordinge to the Auncient customc of the 
 parishe ixj. ijd. 
 
 Item he chargeth himself with Seaven shillings nyne 
 pence Receaued of Fowlke Broughton for the old 
 Bible of the churche, and also with Twelve pence 
 which this Accountant before the sale thereof Re- 
 ceaued of one Mr. Morrys a Relator to the counsell 
 in the Marches of Wales in earnest of the said Bible 
 which xij^. was forfeyted by him for that he fetcht 
 not the booke as he promised, in toto, viijj. Ixd. 
 
 Item this Accountant chargeth him selfe with Three 
 shillings fower pence Receaued of Mr. Browghtoa 
 for the old communion booke of the churche iijj. iiij^/. 
 
 Sum ix/i. viijj. vijt/. 
 
 105. [1595.] Receaued also for seates and places in seates in the 
 Churche. 
 
 Mr. John Bland and his wiffe ijj. 
 
 Mistris Spackman x'\]d. 
 
 Mistris Dedycott x.i}d. 
 
 Mr. Richard Hill and his wife i}s. 
 
 Guthlak Folliott and his wife i}s. 
 
 Thomas Onyon and his wife ijj. 
 
 Mrs. Ussherwood xij^. 
 
 Richard Lambe's wife xi}d. 
 
 Morrys Davy's wife xijd. 
 
 John Symon's wife xijV. 
 
 William Ehyn's wife xijV. 
 
 Robert Carrington's wife xijd?. 
 
 Stephen Rymyll's wife xij^. 
 
 John Locke and his wife xviij*/. 
 
 John Ocker and his wife xxd.
 
 122 CHURCHWARDENS ACCOUNTS, 
 
 \\'alter Dreive and his wife x\-iijV. 
 
 John Gybbes and his wife xiiijt/. 
 
 John Steevens and his wife xiiij^. 
 
 Henry Allen and his wife xij^. 
 
 John Awbery and his wife xijV. 
 
 Timothee Ford and his wife xviij^/. 
 
 John Merediethes wyfe viijV. 
 
 James Jonson's and his wife xiiijV. 
 
 Richard Jackson's wyfe viija^. 
 
 \Mlliam Eger's wife vjd. 
 
 Phillip Gardner's wife vja'. 
 
 Richard Davys' wife vjV. 
 
 Thomas Parker the glover and his wife and his mother ijj. 
 
 Mistris Richard Ford y}d. 
 
 Summa xxxiijj. viij^. 
 
 Summa totallis xj/i. iijj. iij^. 
 
 105^. Forth of which said totall summe of xj//. u]s. iijV. Receaued 
 as aforesaid this Accountant hathe payd and disbursed 
 and ys to be allowed theis sommes followeinge, videlicet^ 
 
 The discharge. 
 Payementes. 
 
 Inprimis this Accountant hathe payd and is to be 
 allowed for two shillings payd to Richard Jackson's 
 wyfe for washeinge the Surplesses and churche clothes 
 for this yere last past ijj. 
 
 Item payd for newe byndeing and Amending of the old 
 Communion booke (longe before yt was sold) and the 
 Gierke's psalter xx^. 
 
 Item payd for a new fayer Englishe Bible of the last 
 
 Translation authorised in the churche xvjj. 
 
 Item payd for a newe Large Communion booke for the 
 churche vijj. iiij^. 
 
 The distribucion of Dr. Hare's g>'fte on Good Frydaye. 
 Item gyven on Good Fryday last out of the Rent 
 receaued of Ballarde's howse, geven by the last will 
 and testament of Doctor Hare, Twelve shillings to 
 the Twelve poore people of the said parishe fol-
 
 ST. MICHAEL'S IN BEDWARDINE, WORCESTER. 1 23 
 
 lowing, videlicet, To Thomas Lea xij\/., to Richard 
 Allen xij</., to Richard Jackson xijV., John Chester 
 xij(/., John Sysemorc xijV/., John Sherman xijd., 
 widowe Harte xij</., Wydowe Elkynes xij(^/., 
 wydowe Patten xijV/., wydowe Shawe xijV., wydowe 
 Cooke xijrf., Wydowe Ford xijd., in toto xijj. 
 And xijV. more this Accountant craveth as al- 
 lowed to him and the other churche warden ac- 
 cordinge to the last will and testament of the said 
 Doctor Hare xiijj. 
 
 Item geven on Whitson Eve last, videlicet 7° Junij, 
 1595, to the poore followeinge iijj. iiij^., videlicet to 
 Thomas Lea iij^., to Richard Allen iiij^., wydowe 
 Harte iiijV/., widow Patten iijV., wydowe Ford iijV., 
 ^vydowe Gale i}d., Edmond Hall ij(/., John Chester 
 ijd., John Sherman \]d., wydowe Cooke i]d., Symon 
 Jones ijd., wydowe Shawe iijd., wydowe Elkynes iij^., 
 John Sysemore iij^., Richard Gyles ijd., in toto 
 iijj. mjd., Kijd. of whereof I accompt to be the over- 
 plus or remenant of the Rent receaued for Doctor 
 Hare's house iijj. iiij^. 
 
 106. Item payd for wyne fetchet at Mr. Walter Walker's 
 this whole yere last past for the churche, videlicet, 
 one quarte of muscadcll geven to Mr. Thornehill 
 when he preached at our said churche 12 Januarij 
 ultimi xiiijd^., for a pynte and halfe at the communion 
 abouts all Saintes x,^. ol>., vth Januarij at the com- 
 munion one quarte xiiij^., on Passion Sondaye vijd., 
 13° Aprilis iij pyntes Kx]d., iy° Aprilis one pynte vi}d., 
 19° Aprilis halfe a pynte iijo3., 20° Aprilis a gallonde 
 iiij^. viijV., 27° Aprilis 3 pyntes xxjd., viij° Januarii 
 on pynte vij^., in toto, 13^. 5c/. xiijj. vd. 
 
 Item payd to Thomas Onyon for 17 yeards and some 
 odd of Waynescott abouts the wemene's fy ve seates on 
 the Northe syde of the Churche, and abouts one of 
 the mene's seates in the midle of the Churche, at 
 xviij^. the yeard, xxvjj. ; for newe benches in Mistris 
 Dedicotte's seate i]s., for vij payer of Waynescote 
 and hynges ij.f. iiij^., for nayles vsed abouts the said
 
 124 CHURCHWARDEXS' ACCOUNTS, 
 
 seates and in Amending some other seates in the 
 churche xv}d., in toto xxxijV. viij«/. 
 
 Item payd for a Deske for the Communion table xd. 
 
 Summa totallis of the allowance and Payementes iiij/:. xs. iijrf. 
 Sum totall of all Recepts being my full chardg xj//. u]s. n}d. 
 
 So that there remayneth clerely in my handes all 
 thinges discharged to be answered and payd to the 
 parishe at this my Accompt vj//. xiijV. 
 
 Payd and discharged. 
 
 So the whole Summe nowe comyng clere to the 
 
 churche, althings allowed, ys xij//. xvs. iij^. 
 
 Memorandum the said daye, being the xiiij* daye of 
 July, 1595, Nicholas Phillipps one of the Collectors 
 for the poore made his accompt as followeth, 
 videlicet his Recej-tes xiiijj. jd. 
 
 His Distribucions. xjs. vd. 
 
 So there remayned in his handes for the poore which 
 
 he then deljnaered vnto the parishe ijs. viijd. 
 
 Then there remayned to the churche on the whole 
 
 xij/j. xvijj. xjd. 
 
 io6b. 14° die Julij 1593. At the same tj-me there are of newe 
 
 elected and chosen church wardens for the yere to come 
 
 Mr. Nicholas Archebold and Guthlake Folliott. And there 
 
 are allso chosen Collectors for the poore Richard Chelmarshe 
 
 and Steephen Rymyll. 
 
 Memorandum that there was geven the said tyme of the 
 
 Accompt by the consent of all the parishioners then 
 
 present, out of the said somme of xij//. xvij.f. xjV., vnto 
 
 John Newesham who was pressed into Ireland [these two words 
 
 are interlined] in the beginnynge of this presente j-ere 1595 
 
 a Soldyer for this parishe, and ys returned from thence 
 
 with lycence from his Captayne by reason of sicknes. So 
 
 that the parisheners in regard of his said sicknes haue 
 
 bestowed vpon him v^. 
 
 And allso there Wcis geven vnto some of the poore of the same 
 
 parishe then present emongest them \]s. x'}d.
 
 ST. MICHAEL'S IN BEDWARDINE, WORCESTER. 125 
 
 So all thingcs finislieJ at the foresaid Accompt there re- 
 mayned clerc then vnto the Churche and parishe xij//. xs. 
 
 107. [1596.] The true and perfect Accounte of me Nicholas Arche- 
 bold one of the Churche wardens of Sainte Michaell's in 
 Bedvvardyne ncre the Cytie of Worcester in the countye 
 and Dioces of Worcester, Yelded and gyven vpp to the 
 parishenors there vppon Thursdaye the Eyght dayc of Julye 
 Anno Domini 1596, for one whole yere's Rccciptes, pay- 
 mentes, and Chardges, by me for and in the behalfe of the 
 said parishe Receaued payd and disbursed as followethe, 
 videlicet, 
 
 My chardge in Receiptes. 
 
 Imprimis, Receaued of the parishe 14 Julij 1595 the one 
 moytie of the parishe Stocke then being, videlicet v]lt. vs., 
 to be ymploied and vsed in and aboutes the busynesses 
 of the churche poore and parishenors as neede required 
 and to be accomptable for the same or the remaines thereof 
 and all other Receiptes in this behalfe at the yere's end 
 videlicet at this my Accomt vj7/. v.f. 
 
 Item Receaued 7° Septembris 1595 of John Brayne of Whittcn- 
 ton a legacye of fyftie shillings bequeathed to the parishe 
 in the last will and Testament of Henry Staunton de- 
 ceassed \s. 
 
 Item Receaued of widowe Sallwey at two seuerall Rent dayes, 
 videlicet, at the feastes of Sainte Michaell and the Annun- 
 tiacion last past, 53^. 4^. for one whole yere's Rent due 
 to the parishe at the said feastes for the parishe land 
 lyeinge at Clyfton now in her possession liijj. iu}d. 
 
 Item Receaued of Mr. George Shipsey for one whole yere's 
 Rent due to the parishe at the severall feastes aforesaid 
 of his nowe dwelling howse within the parishe of Sainte 
 Peter in the Cytie of Worcester 13J. 4d. xiijj. iiijV. 
 
 Item Receaued from John Chaunce by the handes of John 
 Ballard 14s. due to the parishe vpon Passion Sondaye 
 last past for one whole yere's rent of the howse wherein 
 the said John Ballard late dwelt lyeing and being within 
 the parishe of Saint Hellynes in Worcester xiiijj.
 
 126 churchwardens' accounts, 
 
 Item Receaued of Thomas Baker of Hopton for two trees 
 sold to him at Clifton which are to be vsed in building 
 vpon the parishe ground and land there 24s. xxiiijj. 
 
 Item Receaued at and abouts Easter last past of the Communi- 
 cants then receaving the Communion in our said parishe 
 for bread and wyne the whole yere before 19J. The one 
 moytie whereof I Reconed for with the minister and payd 
 him the same according to the Auncient custome of the 
 said parishe. And the other moytie being gs. 6d. I am 
 to answere to the parishe ixj. y]d. 
 
 Item Receaued of the seuerall persones followeing the parti- 
 culer Summes at thend of every one of their names sett 
 downe for their placeing and removeing into fytt and con- 
 venient seates and places in the sayd churche as foUoweth, 
 videlicet, 
 
 1073. Seat money Receauid of 
 
 Robert Carrington xijV. 
 
 William Greeneslade and his wife xiiij</. 
 
 Christopher Courte and his wife xiiija^. 
 
 Steeven Fair and his wife xiiij^. 
 
 William Buller and his wife xij^. 
 
 Allen Brayne and his wife xijV. 
 
 John W^hitbey and his wife xijV. 
 
 Nicholas Jerrar and his wife xij</. 
 
 Widowe Cooke vj^. 
 
 Henry Allen's wife \]d. 
 
 Goodwife Dunne vjV. 
 
 Good wife Fynton v]d. 
 
 Richard Rymell viijV. 
 
 Goodwife Hollowaye \']d. 
 
 Summa totalis omnium et singulorum Receptorum predict! 
 con"" [?] consideratorum ad Summam 15J. 10^/. xv//. yid. 
 
 Furthe of whiche said totall sume of xv//. -x-d. Receaued as 
 aforesaid this Accountant hath payd and disbursed and ys 
 to be allowed theis Somes followeing, videlicet.
 
 ST. MICHAEL'S IN BEDWARDINE, WORCESTER. 1 27 
 
 The discharge and payementes. 
 
 In primis layd out at the parishe meeting at Walter Walker's 
 ymediately after our account the last account daye vide- 
 licet in Julij 1595 2J. \']s. 
 
 Item gyven to Mr. Fyshcr our minister 15° Octobris 159S 
 by consent of the whole parishe to Augment his small 
 comodity for serving the Cure amongst vs 10s. xs. 
 
 Item payd to Richard Jackson's wife for washeing the surplis 
 and churche Clothes this whole yere past 2s. ijj. 
 
 Item payd for mendyng of the Ballricks of the three bells 
 28° Octobris ultimi 4d. iiij^/. 
 
 Item payd to a Carpenter for goeing to Clyfton to marke out 
 two trees for the parishe 6d., for falleing the same trees 
 24 Decembris I2i/., in toto i8d. xviijt/. 
 
 Item geven to Thomas Lea in tyme of his sicknes in October 
 last 12^., more 6° Novembris i2d. And geven to buye 
 necessaries for his funerall 17° Novembris 2s. 6d., in toto 
 4s. 6d. iiijj. v]d, 
 
 108. Item payd to the Clarke for Rynginge on the 17*'' of November 
 last beinge the daye solemnized for the Coronation of her 
 Majestie 2s. ijs. 
 
 Item payd for waxe Candells vsed by the minister at prayer 
 tymes at and about Christmas ijd. 
 
 Item payd for two brusshes for the Cleane keeping of the 
 Church vnjd. 
 
 Item payd for two yeres' Whitson farthings due to Mr. Deane 
 and the chapiter of Worcester ^d. each yere, in toto xd. 
 
 Item payd for Scowring the glasse wyndowes against Christmas 
 last ijd. 
 
 Item gyven vpon Good Frydaye last past I2J. to twelve poore 
 people of the said parishe of the Rent Receaucd for the 
 howse where in John Ballard lately dwelt within the par- 
 ishe of Saint Hellen's in Worcester according to the bequest 
 of Doctor Hare in his last will and Testament, videlicet, 
 To widowe Lea xijV., Richard Allen xijd., Edmond Hall 
 xij^., John Chester x\}d., Symon Jones xijd., Widowe 
 Harte xij^., Widowe Patten xi]d., Anne Coxe xijd., 
 Widowe Shawe xijd., Widowe Elkyns x\}d., John Whitbey 
 xijW., and Richard Jones xi]d., in toto 12s. ; And the
 
 128 churchwardens' accounts, 
 
 residue of the rent nowe payd for the said house being 
 2s., \]d. thereof was also geven the daye aforesaid to 
 widowe Ford, And \]d. to Edward Davies in regard of 
 the long sicknes of his daughter. And the remanet being 
 I2d. ys allowed to the two churche wardens for their 
 paynes abouts the premisses accordinge to the true mean- 
 ing of the said Doctor Hare in his said will and testament 
 expressed, in toto i/^. xiiijJ. 
 
 Item spent at our Reckoning with the minister abouts our 
 receipts at Easter for bread and wyne i2d. xijV. 
 
 Item payd to the office for fees due vpon the exhibiting of our 
 bill towchinge the enquyrye and presentment of recu- 
 sants 6d., And for the churchwardens, and other parish- 
 eners' dynners, being presentors the same tyme at Walter 
 Walker's, is. iijj. v]d. 
 
 Item payd for wryting of the Sentences of holy Scripture abouts 
 the walls of the church and Chauncell and the paynteing 
 there abouts and for Coulloring the gallery 2,s., also geven 
 to the payneter's man for his pa}nes ^d., in toto viijj. iiij^. 
 
 Item payd to George Crumpe the Carpenter for him self and two 
 men 3 dayes and a half wourke abouts the altering of the 
 stayers of the gallery, bourding the same, and amending some 
 seates on the sowth syde of the churche, (^s. ; and to Richard 
 Jackson for his healp about that wourk i2d., in toto xj. 
 
 Item payd to Thomas Onyon for tymber vsed abouts the fore- 
 said wourk 2s. 4d., And for one hundred of bourdes there- 
 abouts yd.. And payd also for nayles vsed abouts the 
 premises 2s. 6d., in toto lis. lod. xjj. xd. 
 
 ioSl>. Item payd to Thomas Onyon for newe waynscotting of one 
 woman's longe seate on the northe syde of the churche, and 
 one man's seate in the niydle Rowe of the bodye of the 
 said churche, bothe conteyning 4 yeardes of waynscotte, 
 and a waynscotte dore to Dr. Pattricke's seate contening 
 one yeard, at 18^. the yard, ys. 6d., and for altering and 
 amending William Elvyne's seate dore with waynscott 8d., 
 in toto 8s. 2d. viijj. i}d. 
 
 Item payd for two payer of hinges for the said seat dores and 
 for one other odd hinge to supplie a broken one vpon an 
 other seat dore, lod. xd.
 
 ST. MICHAEL'S IN BEDWARDINE, WORCESTER. 1 29 
 
 Item payd to Fowlk Browghton for tymbcr to make sleepers 
 for the boording of the Eight longe seates for women on 
 the iiorthe sydc of the church 2s. 6d., and for sawcing 
 thereof, 6d. iijj. 
 
 Item payd to Thomas Onyon for two hundred and halfc and 
 14 foote of bovvrdes vsed abouts the said 8 seates xvijj. 
 
 Item payd for Nayles vsed tliere abouts, and abouts the amend- 
 ing of some other seates in the church 3^. 2d. \\]s. \]d. 
 
 Item paj'd to Richard Corbett the Carpenter for v dayes' worck 
 and halfe abouts the premisses 5^. 6d., and to Robert, 
 Thomas Onyon's man, for Iialfc a daye's worcke in altering 
 and mending the paiticion of William Elvyne's scate, Dr. 
 Pattricke's seate and some other thinges 6d., in toto 6s. \-]s. 
 
 Item payd to George Shewesmith the glasyer for 16 foote 
 quarter of nevve glasse in 3 seuerall panes at ^d. the foote 
 6s. gd., for 8 foote of old glasse nevve sett in lead and 
 sother at 3^/. the foote 2s., for takeing downe one pane 
 bonding and scouring and setting of yt vpp ^d., 20 peeces 
 of our owne glasse sett in at ob. a peece lod., lyme and 
 sand there abouts 2d., in toto xj. 
 
 Item payd to Henry Allen for mending the pavement of the 
 churche and chauncell 8^/., for two pecks of lyme vsed 
 there abouts 2d., in toto lod. xd. 
 
 Item payd for wyne fetcht at Walter Walker's for the churche 
 this whole year, gs. 2d., videlicet one quarte of Clarett wyne 
 geven to Mr. Thornhill the daye he preached at our 
 churche 8d., Bastard wyne for the Communion as followethe 
 at Christmas one pynte, 4° Aprilis one quarte, 8° Aprilis 
 one pynte, 10° Aprilis one quarte, Easter Daye 3 quartes, 
 18° Aprilis one quarte and halfe a pynte, 2° Maij half 
 a pynte, 30 of Maye one pynte, at Whitsontyd one pynt, 
 in toto, 8 quartes and a pynte at I2d. the quarte, 8s. 6d., 
 in toto 9^. 2d., payd ixj. 
 
 Summa totalis of payements aforesaid disbursed this 
 whole year 6/t. los. lod. \']li. xj. xd. 
 
 The total 1 summe of Receiptes come to xv//. xd., out of which 
 must be allowed to this Accountant vj7/. xj. xd. disbursed, 
 So there remayneth to the parishe of this accompte 8li. los. 
 
 v\\\li. xs. 
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 I30 CHURCHWARDEN'S ACCOUNTS, 
 
 Memorandum that Guthlak Folliott the other Church warden 
 did deliver vpp to the parishenors of the foresaid parishe 
 the foresaid daye the other moytie of the churche stock, 
 videlicet vj7/. vs. 
 
 So all things accompted for and discharged there remayneth 
 Clyer to the churche and parishe aforesaid at thend and 
 foote of these accomptes xiiij//. xvj. 
 
 109. [1597.] The true and perfect Accomte of vs Nicholas Arche- 
 bold and Guthlak Folliott, Churchwardens of the parishe of 
 Sainte Michaell's in Bedwardyne nere the Cytie of Worcester, 
 in the countye and dioces of Worcester, yelded and gyven 
 vpp to the parishenors there vpon Thursdaye the xiiij''' daye 
 of July, Anno Domini 1597, for one whole yere's Receiptes, 
 payementes and charges by vs for and in the behalfe of the 
 said parishe Receaued, payd and disbursed as followeth, 
 videlicet 
 
 Receiptes. 
 
 Imprimis receaued in July 1596 by the handes of Mr. John 
 Bland fowerteene poundes fyfteen shillinges (being the 
 parishe Stocke) v-pon our seuerall bondes obligatory for 
 our Account to be made this present month of July 1597 
 
 xiiij//. xvs. 
 
 Item Receaued at two seuerall payementes for one whole yere's 
 Rent of the parishe land lyeing at Clyfton in the parishe 
 of Seaverne Stoke nowe in the tenure of Thomas Baker 
 due at the feastes of Saint Michaell and Thannuntiacion 
 last past fyftie three shillings ffower pence liijj. Ui]J. 
 
 Item Receaued for one whole yere's Rent due at the seuerall 
 feastes aforesaid for the parishe house in the parishe of 
 St. Peter's in Worcester nowe in the tenure of Mistris 
 Katherine Willis widowe Thirteene shillings fower pence 
 
 xiiji'. iiij^. 
 
 Item Receaued one whole yere's Rent due vpon Passion Son- 
 daye last past for the parishe house within the parishe of 
 St. Hellen's in Worcester nowe or late in the tenure of 
 John Ballard fowerteene shillings xiiiji-. 
 
 Item Receaued by the handes of Thomas Baker a legacye of 
 tenne shillings gyven to the parishe by the last will and
 
 ST. MICHAEL'S IN BEDWARDINE, WORCESTER. I3r 
 
 testament of widowe Sallweye of Clyfton aforesaid De- 
 ceased xs. 
 
 Item reccaucd at and abouts Easter last and synce of the 
 Communicants for bread and wyne sixteenc sliillinpjs eight 
 pence, the one moytic of which deiiuered to our Minister, 
 according to the Auncient Custome, thother moytie being 
 8s. 4c/. rcmayneth nowe to be answered to the parishc 
 
 viijj'. iiijV. 
 
 Item Receaued for seate money as followcth of Richard 
 Waunerton and his wife x\]d., of Frauncis Smythe and 
 his wife xijc/., of John Strickland's wife viijc/., of William 
 Mound v}d., of Steeven Rymell vujd., in toto, 3J. lOc/. 
 
 iijj. xd. 
 
 Item Receaued of Mr. Edward Archepole for a grave stone 
 taken furthe of the Chauncell and he paveing the place 
 agayne 3J. 4^., which was more than Walter Drowe es- 
 teemed yt worthe iijj-. iiijc/. 
 
 Summa totallis of Receptes xx//. xviijc/. 
 
 109^. Payementes disbursed. 
 
 Inprimis layd out at the parishc meeting at Walter Walker's 
 ymediately after our accounte the last account Daye vide- 
 licet the 8"' of July 1596 \]s. 
 
 Item geven to Mr. Fyshcr our minister the 30"" of August 1596, 
 by consent of the parishe to Augement the smalenes of 
 his lyveing amongest vs for serving the said Cure xijj-. 
 
 Item payd to Richard Jackson's wife for washeing the surplisscs 
 and churche clothes this whole yere past ijs. 
 
 Item payd to Mr. Warmestreye's office for fees due vpijon the 
 exhibiting of the bill of presentment in the last L[ord] 
 Bushopp's visitation xd., And for the prcscntors' dyiiners at 
 Walter Walker's 8° Octobris last 3^-. 4c/. And payd for a 
 prayer for the church in July 1596, then newly sett furthe 
 vpon the then goeing out of the greate Fleett 2d. And payd 
 since to Richard Lamb for a breve from the office aforesaid, 
 towching abstinence from certeyne meeles and mcates, 
 
 I resort to the church, contrybucion to the poore, etc. 6J. 
 And for Whitson farthinges due at Whitsontyd last 5</., 
 in toto Si-. 3^/. vs. u]d. 
 
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 132 CHURCHWARDEN'S' ACCOUNTS, 
 
 Item payd to John Ocker in July 1596 for 4 hundred and 
 quarter of Bowrdes vsed in and aboutes the bowrding 
 vnder foote, bencheing and a mending of the whole Rewe 
 of seates in the Quyre and church on the South syde 
 thereof, the two Rewes on the north syde of the Quyre, 
 the two seates for the minister and Clark, makeing vp 
 vnder the stayers, and benching the gallery, at 6s. the 
 hundred, 2$s. 6d. Sleepers vsed there abouts 5^., and 
 carriage of the premisses from the Keye I2</., in toto, 3IJ. 6d?'. 
 Item more for boordes to him 2S. ^d., in toto 33J. lod. 
 
 xxxiiji'. x^. 
 
 Item pa\-d to Richard Corbett the Carpenter for xv dayes' 
 worcke abouts the said worcke in the church xvi'. ; geven 
 to Richard Jackson for his paynes takeing there aboutes 
 and at other tymes, 6d. ; payd to Thomas Onyon for 
 apeece of tymber and for mending goodwife Phillipps' seate 
 and Phillipp Gardner's seate, over and above $d. geven 
 by the said Phillipp towards ji:, lyd. ; And for nayles vsed 
 abouts the said premisses had and fetcht of Warner the 
 naylor, 6s. 6d. ; payd to Richard Turner the Smyth for 
 tenne Crampes of Iron and nayles vsed abouts the foresaid 
 seates on the south side of the Quyre, igd., for one boult 
 two staples and nayles i2d,, one payer of Gymoes and 
 nayles for a seate dore 6d., and to Richard Corbett for 
 hinges for one of the lower seates in the churche 2d. ; to 
 Henry Allen for heweing the wall in the quyre seates 
 aforesaid, lyme and plastering it, i2d., in toto 285-. 6d. 
 
 xxviijj. \]d. 
 
 Item geven to John Sherman and his wife at seuerall tymes 
 in the monthes of October and November 1596, in tyme 
 of their sicknes, by consent of the parishe 5^. vj. 
 
 1 10. Item geven vpon Good Frydaye last past, videlicet the 25th 
 of Marche 1597, xijV/., to Twelve poore people of this 
 parishe out of the rent receaued for the howse wherein 
 John Ballard lately dwelt within the parishe of St Hellen's 
 in Worcester according to the bequest of Doctor Hare 
 in his last will and testament, videlicet to widowe Lea xijV., 
 widowe Harte xij^., widowe Patten xij^., wydowe Ford 
 xij</., widowe Shawe xij</., widowe Elkynes xijV., Richard
 
 ST. MICHAEL'S IN BEDWARDINE, WORCESTER. 1 33 
 
 Allen x\'y/., Ricliard Jackson \\}d., Richard Giles xVjd., 
 John Sherman xij^/., John Chester xij^'., Symon Jones 
 xijrt'., in the whole i2s. ; And the residue of the rent nowc 
 Receuid for the said house being 2s. v]d thereof was also 
 gyven the same daye to Thomas Moxson, And \]d. to 
 John Chamberlayne ; And the rcmanct being \2d. was 
 and ys to be allowed to the two churchwardens for their 
 paynes abouts the premisses, according to the true meaning 
 of the said Doctor Hare in his last will and testament, 
 in toto 145-. xiiijj. 
 
 Item payd for a newe Bellrope \?,d., for a newc ballricke 18a'., 
 for mending the bell wheele 2d., for mending the case for 
 the Communion Cupp ]d., To Richard Jackson for Ringe- 
 ing vppon the 17"' daye of November last being a holly 
 daye solemnized for the Coronation of his Majestic 2s., 
 for waxe Candells vsed by the minister in the church in 
 the wynter Evenings 2d., To George Shewesmithe the 
 glasier for mcndynd the glasse wyndowes in the church 
 x^., in toto, 6s. id. vjj. \\]d. 
 
 And for a money bagg for the parishe money iijc/. 
 
 Item payd for wyne fetcht at Walter Walker's for the churche 
 this whole yere past i \s. Sd., videlicet for muskadell one 
 pynte 3° Octobris yd., more by Richard Jackson one pynte 
 jd., the first of January 3 pyntes 2id., 20° Martii bastard 
 3 pyntes iSd., 24 Martii one pynte 6d., 25 Martii beinge 
 Good Frydaye one pynt 6d., 26 Martii halfe a pynt 3^/., 
 27 Martii being Easter daye 4 quarts 4^., 3° Aprilis one 
 quarte I2d., 24 Aprilis halfe a pynte 3d., more sythence 
 Easter abouts Whitsontyd one pynte and halfe c/d., in toto, 
 II .f. 8^. xls.vnjd 
 
 Summa totallis of payment this yere vj//. ix^. 
 
 The totall Summe of this whole yere's receiptes come to xx//. 
 
 xiiijW. An the totall summe of payementes disbursed come 
 
 to vj//. ixd. 
 So that all things accounted for and discharged there re- 
 
 mayneth Clyer to the church and parishe aforesaid by this 
 
 accompt xiiij//. yd. 
 Whiche Somme of xiiij//. was deliuercd to the handes of Mr.
 
 134 churchwardens' accounts, 
 
 John Bland in truste for the vse of the parishe when neede 
 should requier to be readie. 
 
 I io5. [1598.] The accounte of Morrys Davyes one of the churche 
 Wardens of Saint IMichaell's in Bedwardyne made and de- 
 lyuered vpp to the parishenors in the churche there the Third 
 daye of August 1598 as followeth. 
 
 Receiptes. 
 
 Imprimis Receaued of Mr. Chaunce for one whole yere's rent 
 of the house where in John Ballard late dwelt due vpon 
 Passion Sondaye last past xiiijj. 
 
 Item Receauid of Mr. Walsingham for one whole yere's rent due 
 at the Feastes of Saint IMichaell and the Annuntiacion last 
 past for the howse where in MistrisWillis late dwelt xiij^f. iiijV. 
 
 Item Receauid of Thomas Baker the whole yere's Rent due for 
 the parishe lande at Clyfton at the feastes of St. Michaell 
 and thannuntiacibn last past liiji'. iiij^. 
 
 Item Receauid from Mr. Backhouse 4^. to be distributed 
 emongest the poore of this parishe iujs. 
 
 Item Receauid at Easter for bread and wyne of the Communi- 
 cants 8s. 4d. And also 2s. 6d. of the minister's porcion 
 therein ks. xd. 
 
 Item Receauid of Tymothie Ford for hys seate v'n'jd. 
 
 of Frauncis Porter for his seate v}d. 
 
 of John Gates for his seates xijif. 
 
 of Thomas Onyon for a seate vj^. 
 
 of Mistris Morgan for a seate vj</. 
 
 Summa totall of the Receipts iiij//. xviijj. viij</. 
 
 III. His Payementes. 
 
 Inprimis layd out at the visitacion for the churche wardens' and 
 sydemen's dynners iijj. iiij^. 
 
 Item layd out for a pound of suger xxd. 
 
 Item payd for wyne which was bestowed vpon the bushopp 
 
 iijj. viija?. 
 
 Item payd for our bill at the visitacion v'njcl. 
 
 Item payd for a prayer booke which was brought to our church 
 
 by the Apparitor x^. 
 
 Item payd the xxvth daye of Aprill for wyne xjj.
 
 ST. MICHAEL'S IN BEDWARDINE, WORCESTER. 135 
 
 Item payd the iiijth day of June for wyne xiiij</. 
 Item geven to the Clark for his paynes taken the xij"* daye of 
 
 August xijV. 
 Item layd out for a bell Rope the xviij"' daye of August xvij^/., 
 
 and a penny for mendinge the Claspe of the byblc xviij</. 
 Item layd out the iiij"' daye of September for a bookc to 
 
 Richard Lambe vjrt'. 
 
 Item geven to widowe Patten vjV, 
 
 Item geven to Symon Jones v'yi. 
 
 Item geven to Mr. Fysher our minister the xxiiij''' daye of 
 
 October in Augmentacion of his lyving for servinge the 
 
 Cure emongest vs xj. 
 Item payd to the Ringers the xvij"' daye of November \]s., 
 
 and also for mending the bell ropes iijV/., and a penny 
 
 for lycker for the bells \]s. \\]d. 
 
 Item payd for waxe Candles Vyf. 
 
 Item geven to Symon Jones \\]d. 
 
 Item geven to Thomas Noxson m]d. 
 
 Item layd out for a ballrick xx</. 
 
 Item geven to widowe Halle yid. 
 
 Item more to widowe Hall xijV/. 
 Item payd to the Clark for the washeing of the surplices and 
 
 church lynen ijj. 
 
 Item geven to Thomas Noxson iiij^. 
 
 Item geven to widowe Cope xija?. 
 
 Item geven to widowe Halle \]d. 
 
 Item geven to widowe Ford v]d. 
 
 Item geven to widowe Noxson x'yl. 
 
 Item geven to Thomas Noxson iij^. 
 
 Item geven to widowe Allen i]d. 
 
 Item geven to widowe Halle ijV. 
 
 Item geven to widowe Noxson iiijV. 
 
 Item geven to widowe Halle vjV. 
 
 Item geven to widowe Cope vjV/. 
 
 Item geven to the Clarke xij^. 
 
 1 1 lb. Item geven to widowe Patten vj</. 
 
 Item geven to goodwife Chester iij^. 
 
 Item geven to wydowe Meredieth vj^. 
 
 Item geven to wydowe Langhornc vj^.
 
 136 CHURCHWARDEXS' ACCOUNTS, 
 
 Item geven to John Sysemore v}d. 
 
 Item geven to widowe Sliawe vj^. 
 
 Item geven to John Bristowe ijd. 
 
 Item layd out the vj*'' daye of Maye for a bell rope xvjW. 
 
 Item layd out for a statute booke ijj. vilj^i. 
 
 Item layd out for wyne which was bestowed vpon Master Colles 
 at our goeing to him abouts the parishe busines xvjd. 
 
 Item geven to a poore woman which Henry Conwaye had taken 
 in as tenant vnto him, in consideracion that she should de- 
 parte out of our parishe iiijj. 
 
 Item geven to widowe Ford v}d. 
 
 Item geven to goodwife Tanner u]d. 
 
 Item geven to the Ringers viijV. 
 
 Item payd for widowe Halle's rent vj. 
 
 Item geven to Symon Jones iiijV. 
 
 Item payd for mending one ballricke iijat 
 
 Item payd for mending the glasse wyndowes iiijj. 
 
 Item geven to John Chamberlayne iijs. 
 
 Geven vpon Good Fr>-daye 1598 of the rent of the house wherein 
 John Ballard late dwelt according to the last will and testa- 
 ment of Dr. Hare. 
 
 To widowe Hall xij«/., widowe Tanner xij^/., John Sherman xij</., 
 John Chester xi]d., Symon Jones xij^., widowe Elkines xijV., 
 widowe Harte xij:/., widowe Shawe xij^., John Sysemore xijV., 
 widowe Patten xijV., Sybell Xaylor xij^/., widowe Cooke xijV., 
 widowe Forde vjd., Ales Ford vj^., and xij^. to the church- 
 wardens. 
 
 Mr. Backhouse money distributed to the poore as followethe, 
 
 videlicet, 
 
 widowe Noxson iiijV., widowe Halle iiij^., widowe Elkines 2d., 
 
 widowe Shawe i}d., Symon Jones vjd., widowe Allen 4^., 
 
 John Baylies i}d., John Sysemore \}d., widowe Patten 4//., 
 
 widowe Harte iiiy/., Ales Ford ija'., widowe Meredieth $d., 
 
 widowe Cope \}d., widowe Ford i}d., John Chester ^d., Sybell 
 
 Naylor ijd., in toto iiijj. 
 
 Summa totallis iiij//. xiiijj. iu}d. 
 
 So all things accompted for and discharged there remaynethe 
 
 to the church of this Accomtc iiijj. iiijV. 
 
 1 12. Memorandum that vppon the geveing vpp of this foresaid
 
 ST. MICHAEL'S IN BEDWARDINE, WORCESTER. 137 
 
 Accomt the tliird dayc of August 1598 there was newly 
 elected and Chosen Churchwardens for tlic yere following 
 Morrys Davis and Nicholas Archebold. 
 
 Geven then to goodwife Jackson x'l'y/. 
 
 to John Sysemore xij^. 
 
 to widowe Patten x\](f. 
 
 And allowed to Guthlak Folliott for keeping the booke v yercs 
 together iiijj. ixd. 
 
 Memorandum that at the geveing vp of this accomte the parishe 
 Stocke, being xiiij//., was brought in by Mr. John Ballard, 
 and delyuered to him agayne to be safely kept for the vse 
 and good of the parishe as occasion should happen. 
 Ii2i5. The Accompt of Morrys Davyes, one of the church wardens 
 of Sainte Michaell's in Bedwardyne, made and deliuercd 
 vpp to the parishenors in the churche there the xiiij''' daye of 
 August 1599, as foUoweth. 
 
 His Receiptes. 
 
 In primis Receauid of Thomas Baker the whole yere's Rent 
 due for the parishe lande at Clyfton at the Feastes of 
 St. Michaell and Thannuntiacion last liij-r. iUjd. 
 
 Item Receauid of Mr. Walseingham for one whole yere's rent 
 due at the foresaid Feastes for the howse wherein Mistris 
 Willis late dwelt xiijj. iiijV. 
 
 Item Receauid of Richard Honnyett for one whole yere's rent of 
 the house wherein John Ballard late dwelt due to the 
 parishe vpon Passion Son daye last past xiiijj. 
 
 Receauid in Charitie money at Easter viijj. vjV. 
 
 Item Receauid of the Collectors iiij-s'- xj'^- 
 
 Item Receauid of the Clarke for Ringeing iiij^?. 
 
 Item Receauid of Thomas Mynshewe for a seate vj</. 
 
 Item Receauid of the monthely contribucion for the poore 
 
 iij//. xj.f. iujii. 
 Summa totall of Receiptes viijV?'. vjj. iij^. 
 
 113. His payementes. 
 
 In primis payd to the widowe Elkynes for the keeping of 
 
 a poore child »j^'- ''vijt/. 
 
 Item geven to widowe Shawe '"J"* 
 
 Item to Richard Jackson ^j''-
 
 138 CHURCHWARDENS' ACCOUNTS, 
 
 Item to widowe Ford liij^. 
 
 Item to Richard Jackson vj^. 
 
 Item to Richard Jackson iiij^. 
 
 Item to Richard Jackson xijrf. 
 
 Item to widowe Patten x\'}d. 
 
 Item geven to widowe Shawe iiijd. 
 
 Item more to widowe Shawe v}d. 
 
 Item geven to widowe Jackson xij</. 
 
 Item to widowe Patten xijrf. 
 
 Item geven to John Sysemore xijd. 
 
 Item geven to the widowe Elkines ijd. 
 
 Item to Symon Jones iiij^. 
 
 Item to widowe Shawe iiij^/. 
 
 Item to widowe Ford iiij^. 
 
 Item to widowe Patten v]d. 
 
 Item to widowe Shawe iiij^. 
 
 Item to widowe Patten vjd. 
 
 Item to widowe Ford iiija'. 
 
 Item to Symon Jones iiij^f. 
 
 Item to widowe Shawe iiij^. 
 
 Item to John Sysemore iiij^. 
 
 Item to Goodwife Tanner iiij(/. 
 
 Item to widowe Shawe ij^. 
 
 Item geven to widowe Elkines ijd. 
 
 Item to Symon Jones iiijV. 
 
 Item to widowe Shawe m}d. 
 
 Item more to widowe Shawe iiij</. 
 
 Item more to widowe Shawe i'}d. 
 
 Item to Symon Jones iij^. 
 
 Item to Goodwife Chester vjd. 
 
 Item to widowe Patten xijV. 
 
 Item geven to widowe Elkines vj^. 
 
 Item to widowe Shawe iiij^. 
 
 Item to Symon Jones vjd. 
 
 Item payd for mending the seates ijd. 
 Item payd for a pynte and a halfe of wyne the xiij"' daye 
 of August xd. ob. 
 
 Item payd for mending the bell ropes xjV. 
 
 Item payd for a bell rope ijj.
 
 ST. MICHAEL'S IN BEDWARDINE, WORCESTER. 1 39 
 
 Item payd for mending the bells iiijrf. 
 
 Item payd for vvasheing the church lynen ijj. 
 
 113/;. Item payd to the Ringers the xvij"' dayc of November ijj. 
 Item payd for Candles ij</. 
 
 Item payd for Candles Candles [sic] iiij^. 
 
 Item payd for mending the surples iiij</. 
 
 Item payd for a quartc of wync xiiij</. 
 
 Item payd for the makeing and Waynscotc of a newe scatc in the 
 
 Chauncell where Mr. Butler was placed xs, vjd. 
 
 Item payd for tyles and worck abouts the tyleing xd. 
 
 Item geven to Edward Davies in his sicknes ijj. 
 
 Item payd for a pynte of wyne vij</. 
 
 Item payd for mending of a wooden wyndowe xd. 
 
 Item layd out at the visitacion xxiijf/. 
 
 Item payd for wyne on Palme Sondaye l]s. u\']d. 
 
 Item payd for a quarte of wyne vpon Shrove Thursdaye xiiij^. 
 Item payd for fyve quartes of wyne vpon Easter Daye vs. xd. 
 Item for a quarte of wyne xiiijV. 
 
 Item more payd for wyne - ijj. 
 
 Item payd for a Register booke ^ xjs. 
 
 Item for the wryting thereof xvs. 
 
 Item to the minister to peruse and confers [sic] yt vs. 
 
 Item geven vpon the daye of our election besides 4s. 4d. then 
 
 remayning iijj. vd. 
 
 Geven vpon Good Frydaye videlicet 6" Aprilis 1599 of the rent 
 of the house wherein John Ballard late dwelt according 
 to the last will and testament of Dr. Hare. 
 
 To widowe Patten xijW., widowe Harte xij^., widowe Allen 
 xijV/., John Sysemore xij^., widowe Elkines xijf/., widowe 
 Shawe xi]d., Symon Jones x'ljd., John Sherman x\]d., 
 widowe Ford xijV., John Chester xij^/., widowe Hall x'l'yf., 
 widowe Birde xijd., goodwife Tanner \}d., widowe Cooke 
 vj^. and x'i]d. to the church wardens. 
 
 Sum totall of payements viijVi. vs. xd. ob. 
 
 So this Accomte being fynishcd there remayneth iW'yl. ob. 
 whiche was then presently geven to the Clarke of the church 
 for his extraordinary attendance.
 
 140 CHURCHWARDENS' ACCOUNTS, 
 
 114. [1599.] The Accounte of Nicholas Archebold one of the church 
 Wardens of Saint Michaell's aforesaid gcven vpp as aforesaid 
 the said xiiij"" daye of August 1599. 
 
 His Receiptes. 
 
 Inprimis Receauid by the handes of Mr. Bland the parishe 
 
 stocke to be ymployed to the vse of the said parishe xiiij//. 
 
 Item Receauid for one whole yere's rent of the Tenements lying 
 
 in Froglane lately purchased for the parishe xxs. 
 
 Summa totallis xv/z. 
 Payementes Disbursed. 
 
 Inprimis payd for the fee symple of the said Tenement nowe 
 devided into two severall dwellings with the garden there- 
 vnto x/i. 
 
 Item payd to ^Ir. Wyeat for Advice in frameing the Con- 
 veyance for the purchase of the foresaid Tenement and 
 for the first drawght xj. 
 
 Item payd for the engrosseing of the bookes in parchement, 
 videlicet a Deede of Feoffement and Indenture of vses 
 annexed and one bond obligation for further assurance 
 thereof vs. 
 
 Item layd out also for the saffe Carriadge vpp and downe to 
 London bothe of the Conveyance and of the money to 
 be payd there And in attending the sealeing and deliuery 
 of the same and in payement of the money, etc. vj. 
 
 Summa xj//. 
 So there remayneth Clyer to the church and parishe aforesaid 
 
 vpon this Accomte iiij//. payd and discharged. 
 Memorandum there are newely elected for churchwardens the 
 xiiij"" daye of August Anno 1599 and in the 41* yere of the 
 raigne of our soueraigne ladie queene Elizabeth for the yere 
 to come Mr. Nicholas Archebold and Morrys Davyes. 
 
 1 14^. A monethlie Ceasement layed and ymposed vpon the parish- 
 enors of St. Michaell's in Bcdwardyne nere the Cytie of 
 Worcester from the xij"" of August 1599. Agreed vpon 
 by the Sixe men appointed for the said parishe in the Churche 
 there for one yere followeing. The first of which monethes 
 bcgane 12° Augusti. The secound nioneth g" Sept. 7° Octobris 
 4" Noveni. 2° Decemb. 30° Decemb. 27° Janu. 24° Febru.
 
 ST. MICHAEL'S IN BEDWARDINE, WORCESTER. 141 
 
 23 Martii 20 Apr. iS" Maij 15" Junii 13" Julij. And the 
 x"' of August 1600 yt was then likwise agreed for three 
 monethes then followcing, videlicet, till the feaste of All 
 Saints to paye moncthly, videlicet 10 Augusti, 7° Sept., 
 6 Octob. 1600, halfe as muche as the first Ceasement, videlicet, 
 for Query 8^. before then afterwards to paye ^d., for euery 
 6d. yi., and for euery ^d. 2d., and so ratcably, the first of 
 whiche monethly taxc is first in eche lyue followcing sett 
 dovvne and the later lastly after euery man's name as fol- 
 loethe, videlicet 
 
 Receauid the first 13 monethes the later 3 monethes. 
 
 vjj. Thomas Spackman gent 
 
 II I II I III III 6d. 3</. 
 viijj. viiijV. Nicholas Archebold gent 
 
 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 I 8</. 1 1 1 4fl'. Rec. 1 2d. 
 
 viijj. viijV. Walter Walker 1 1 1 11 1 iii in i S(/. in 4^^. Rec. 12^, 
 
 Robert Morgan 6d. yi. 
 
 Guthlak Folliott 6d. yl 
 
 \]s. Morrys Davies 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 6d. id. 
 V]s. \ld. William Ellvyns 
 
 III III III III I 6d.ii\ id. Rcc.gd. 
 
 xxd. John Shellvocke inn 4d. 2d. 
 
 injs. m}d. Tymothie Ford n i n i 1 1 1 n i i 4^/. 2d. 
 
 Thomas Onyon i n 1 1 1 n i n i 4^. 2d. 
 
 John Oker id. 2d. 
 
 John Honyett 4^. 2d. 
 
 ijs. \jd. John Steevens i n i ii n i I n i 2d. id. 
 
 ijj. i}d. Richard Wanncrton 
 
 III in II I III I 2d. id. 
 
 xviijif. Walter Drewe 1 1 1 I II II I 2d. id. 
 
 ijs. ChristoferCourte 1 1 1 1 11 n i 1 11 2^/. id. 
 
 ijj. ijd. John Abrey 1 1 1 n i i n i n i 2d. id. 
 
 ijs. ijd. William Greeneslade 
 
 1 1 1 I n 1 1 1 II I I 2d. id. 
 
 William Walle 2d. id. 
 
 Richard Lambe 2d. id. 
 
 v]d. Frauncis Porter 1 1 1 2d. id. 
 
 Frauncis Smythe 2d. id. 
 
 \U]S.
 
 2d. 
 
 id 
 
 
 
 2d. 
 
 id 
 
 
 
 2d. 
 
 id 
 
 
 
 2d 
 
 id 
 
 
 
 2d 
 
 id 
 
 
 
 Ceasement 
 
 into 
 
 the 
 
 
 
 
 scvd. 
 
 
 
 
 iij/i. 
 
 
 
 \]S. 
 
 , iX(/. 
 
 142 churchwardens' accounts, 
 
 Receauid the first 13 monethes the later 3 monethes. 
 
 Robert Kettle 
 John Chappell 
 Richard Woodward 
 \]d. Henrj- Rowbridg 1 1 1 
 
 xij^. William Whoopper 1 1 1 1 1 1 
 
 Thomas Spillsbury comeing after this Ceasement 
 
 parishe payd of him selfe 
 Receauid of the first ceasement 
 Receauid of the later ceasement 
 Receauid of Thomas Spillsbury 
 
 iij//. iiijj. 
 
 115. [1599.] The accompt of Nicholas Archebold and Morr>-s 
 Davies Churchewardens of the parishe of Sainte Michael! 
 in Bedwardyne nere the C>"tie of Worcester in the countie 
 and dioces of Worcester of all and singular their Receiptes 
 payements and disbursements for two whole yeres past, 
 videlicet, from the fowerteenth daye of August Anno Domini 
 1 599, tyll the daye of yelding and delyvering vpp of this their 
 Accompt, beinge Wensdaye the second of September Anno 
 Domini 1601. 
 
 Receiptes. 
 
 In primis receauid at the last Accompt daye, videlicet, 14° 
 Augusti 1599, and our election the parishe stocke then 
 beinge iiij//. 
 
 Item Receauid of Thomas Baker at three seuerall payementes 
 for one whole yere's rent and a halfe of the parishe lande 
 beinge at Clyfton in the parishe of Seaveme stoke due 
 at the seuerall feastes of St. Michaell in Anno Domini 
 1599, Thannuntiacion and St. Michaell Anno 1600, xx\'jj. 
 \n]d. at euery of the said three feastes, in toto iiij/j. 
 
 Item Receauid of Mr. Walsingham for two whole yere's due at 
 the seuerall feastes of St. Michaell Anno 1599, Thannuntia- 
 cion and St. Michaell 1600, and Thannuntiacion 1601, for 
 the parishe howse lyeing in the parishe of St. Peter 
 in the Cytie of Worcester nowe or late in the tenure of 
 Mr. Doctor Eager xxvjj. \{\]d.
 
 ST. MICHAEL'S IN BEDWARDINE, WORCESTER. 143 
 
 Item Reccauid of Robert Hussye and John Longc for two 
 whole yeres' rent of the parishes howses nowe in their 
 seuerall occupacions lycing in Froglane in the parishe of 
 St. Peters aforesaid due quarterly at the seuerall quarters 
 followeing, videlicet, St. Michaell and Christmas Anno 
 1599. Thannuntiacion St. John Baptist St. Michaell and 
 Christmas Anno 1600, Thannuntiacion and Midsomer 1601, 
 videlicet for, the first of the said yeres of eche of the said 
 parties xs., And for the later of the said twee yeres of eche 
 of them xijj. in toto xliiijj. 
 
 Item Receauid of Richard Howyatt for two yeres' rent due vpon 
 Passion Sondaye eche yere for the parishe howse nowe in 
 the tenure of the said Richard Houyatt and late in the 
 occupation of John Ballard, lyeing in the parishe of St. 
 Helen's in Worcester for eche yere xiiijj. in toto xxviijj. 
 
 Item Receauid at and abouts the two seuerall last feasts of 
 Easter of the Communycants for breat and wyne, videlicet, 
 at the first of the said two last Easters xvjj. viij</., And at 
 the later xvjj. iiij(/., in toto, xxxiijj., the one moytie of which 
 was geven and deliuered to Mr. Hill our minister according 
 to the vsuall manner. And the other moytie being xvjj. v}d. 
 ys now to be answeared vpon this Accompt xvjj. vjd. 
 
 115^. Item Receauid for seat money as followethe for theis two 
 yeres together videlicet of 
 
 Thomas Spellsbury and his William Walle and his wife Sd. 
 wiffe I4d. Peter Brooke 4^. 
 
 of him for a Remove 6d. Mr. Henry Mowle and his wife 
 
 John Steevens and his wife 2i. 
 
 I2d. Henry Rowbridg and his wife 
 
 Richard Wannerton and his I2d. 
 
 wife I2d. Thomas Ford and his wife 10^/. 
 
 William Daniell and his Robert Kettle 6d. 
 
 wife \4d. John Chappell 6d. 
 
 John Price and his wife 14^. John Abrey 4</. 
 
 Robert Carrington M. Rowland Griffith 4^. 
 
 Walter Drewe Sd. John Daunce and his wife 8</. 
 
 Mr. Rogers and his wife i^d. Timothie Fowrd 6d. 
 
 William Brooke and his Goodwieff Courte 4//. 
 
 wife 1 2d.
 
 144 CHURCHWARDENS' ACCOUNTS, 
 
 Besydes Thomas Mynshewe oweth for his wifTs place 4a. 
 Receauid in toto 17s. 6d. xviji-. vj^. 
 
 Item Receauid of the parties followeing of the monethly Con- 
 tribucion for the poore as appeareth by a particuler booke 
 or note thereof here\Tito annexed, videlicet of Mr. Thomas 
 Spackman 6s., of Nicholas Archebold one of the nowe 
 Accountants 95-. %d., of Walter Walker gs. Sd., of Morrys 
 Davies the other Accountant aforesaid 6s., of William 
 Elhyns ys. 3^., of John Shelh'ocke 2cv/., of Tymothie 
 Fowrd 4s. 4//., of Thomas Onyon 4s., of John Steevens 
 2s. 2d., of Richard Wannerton 2s. 2d., of Walter Drewe 
 iSd., of Christofer Courte 2s., of John Abrey 2s. 2d., of 
 William Greeneslade 2s. 2d., of Frauncis Porter 6d., of 
 Henrj- Rowbridg 6d., of William Whoopper I2d., of Thomas 
 Spellsburj- i $d., in toto 3//. 4s. iij/?. iiij J. 
 
 Item Receauid from the right Reverend father in God the 
 L[ord] Bushopp of Wigom 24° Decembris 1599, to be 
 given and distributed amongest the poore of the said 
 parishe 13J. 4-/., And 23° Decembris 1600 20s. to be gyven 
 and distributed as aforesaid, in toto xxxiijj. iu']d. 
 
 Summa totalis of the whole receiptes xix//. xj. 
 
 116. Payementes and Disbursementes. 
 
 Inprimis layd out at the parishe meeting the last account daye, 
 videlicet 14° August, 1599 ij-^- 
 
 Item payed to Gilbert Ancrett alias Dudcott for Carpenters' 
 wourke, 12 dayes, videlicet, 28°, 29, 30, 31 Augusti 1°, 
 3°. 4°. S°. 6°, 7°, 8°, et 10 Septembris, 1599, 12s. for his 
 man 10 of the first foresaid dayes Ss. ^d. abouts the Sylling, 
 repa}-eing and amending of the parishe howse lyeing 
 in Froglane, any for nayles vsed thereabouts i id. in toto 
 
 xxjj. iijd. 
 
 Item payd for tymber had from Morr>-s Davies aforesaid abouts 
 the said wourke 30$-., for one other peece bought of Henry 
 Strickland I2d., and for a pole to make a Rafter gd., for 
 Carriage of Tymber from the Sawe pitt to the said howses 
 I2d., in toto xxxijj. ix^. 
 
 Item payd for a quarter of Chosen harde woode for studds etc. 
 IS</., 14 bundells of wynding Redds 3^. 6d., lathes one
 
 ST. MICHAEL'S IN BEDWARDINE, WORCESTER. 145 
 
 bundell 6d., Carriage of the premisses 6d., Lyme one barreil 
 I2d., cariagc of the lyme and Sande id., in toto vijj. 
 
 Item payd for 6 hundred and halfe of Tyles 8j. \d., Sande 
 5 strickes <,d., carriage of the premisses 10^/., Clayc 3 loades 
 3J., 4 Crcstes and 4 gutter tyles gd., stone 2 loads 2s. 4//., 
 Carriag thereof \2d., in toto i6s. ^d. ob. [«V] predictorum 
 
 xvji-. iiij^. 
 
 Item payd 22° Septembris 1599 predicte, to Richard Evans 
 pargetter and his man for 2 dayes' wourke and halfe 
 abouts tylcing and quyneing the Sills of the foresaid 
 bowses iij.f. '\^d. 
 
 Item payd to George Shevvesmyth the Glasier for 36 quarries 
 abouts the wyndowes of the church and chauncell 3^., newe 
 glasse two foote and halfe in the high wyndowe on the 
 South syde of the church \2d. ob., one pane of the same 
 wyndowe being 3 foote newe sett in leadd gd., 8 quarryes 
 and amending the rest of that wyndowe 12^., nayles vsed 
 there abouts ^d., And for a mending the broken places 
 abouts the wyndowes ultimo Augusti 1601 4^., in toto 
 
 vjj. m]d. 
 
 Item payd to Thomas Coxe and David [j'/c] the one 
 
 5 dayes the other 6 dayes abouts the altering of the seates 
 in the middle Rowe of the bodye of the churche in Aprill 
 1601, and thereby gayneing one whole newe seate xjj. 
 
 116^. Item payd for tymber from Thomas Onyon vsed there abouts 
 i6rt'., and Rayles and bourdes from Morrj's Davies aforesaid 
 3J., in toto iiij.f. iiijV. 
 
 Item payd to Thomas Onyon for waynscotting two of the lower 
 seates in the midle Rewe of the Churche and one of the 
 long seates on the northe syde thereof and for newe dores 
 and waynscott thereto xj. 
 
 Item payd to him for amending the deske in the chauncell 6d., 
 amending the beare \od., and for footeing a tressell 4^., in 
 toto xx</. 
 
 Item payd to goodman Turner the smythe for nayles vsed 
 abouts the foresaid wourke and other needefull places 
 abouts the churche in amending of seates and seate dores 
 etc. 2s. id., for 4 payres of Gymoes and nayles thereto 2s., 
 And for altering and amending the locke for the Evidence 
 
 L
 
 146 CHURCHWARDENS' ACCOUNTS, 
 
 Chest and makeing two newe keyes thereto 14^., and for 
 fyve g}-moes and nayles sett vpon certen dores broken 
 downe ultimo Augusti 1601, igd., in toto \-]s. \-\\\d. 
 
 Item payd for three newc bell ropes 4J. ^d., two newe Ball 
 Rycks 2s., and amending the third and for amending the 
 bells icul., in toto vijj. x«/. 
 
 Item payd to Mr. Walter Walker for wyne fetcht there for the 
 churche at seuerall tymes the first of the foresaid two yeres 
 los. lod., and the later of the said two yeres lis. 2d., in toto 
 
 xxijj. 
 
 Item payd to Robert Creswell the Clarke for Rynginge vpon 
 the 17"' of November 1599 2i-., And likewise 17° Novem- 
 bris 1600 2s., being the dayes yerelie solempnized for the 
 daye of her Majestie's Coronacion, in toto iiijj. 
 
 Item payd to him for wassheing of the Surplesses and churche 
 lynen the two yeres aforesaid eche yere 2s. in toto iiijj. 
 
 Item payd by IMorrys Davies aforesaid to Guthlak Folliott for 
 entering into the church booke certen Accountes of his for 
 two yeres before our last accomte, videlicet ijj. 
 
 Item payd to Mr. Abraham Pilkington for perfecting and 
 fynisheing of the Register booke lOf., over and aboue 20s. 
 formerly rsceauid by him the yere before of Morrys Davies 
 aforesaid xj. 
 
 117. Item payd for 4 yeres' Whitson Farthings due to Mr. Deane 
 and the Chapiter of the Cathedrall churche of Worcester, 
 videlicet for the yeres 1598, 1599, 1600, and 1601, for eche 
 yere ^d., in toto xxrf. 
 
 Item paid in August 1600 for two preceptes to calle in the 
 Feoffees and Tenaunte of the parishe lande at Clyfton before 
 the L[ord] Bushopp of Worcester and other her Majestie's 
 Commissioners appoynted in this Countie and diocese for 
 the enquirey of the ymployment of landes given in pios 
 vsus 2s., for executing the said preceptes i2d., for dynner 
 of the Minister Churchwardens and some of the parishe 
 which attended the foresaid parishe busynes before the said 
 Commissioners 5^., for sending 3 seuerall breves and 
 special! messingers one to Mr. Folliott's and two to 
 Mr. Coventrye's, And for the saffe conveyeing of one other 
 to London and procureing there the Commissioners' hands
 
 ST. MICHAEL'S IN BEDWARDINE, WORCESTER. 147 
 
 to the order by them sett downc and for the exhibiting 
 thereof into the office above at London, the first 4^., the 
 two letters 12a'., and the 4th 6d., a bottelle of Sackc carried 
 to Mr. Coventrcy's in September aforesaid at his pcnncing 
 of the order for the said parishe lande 18^., and to his 
 Clarke for engrossing the said order in partchement 4^., in 
 toto xiijj. 
 
 Item payd to Edward Alyes, one of Mr. Covcntrye's Clarkes 
 for a Coppie of the order aforesaid forthe of petty bagg 
 office or Chauncery 4?., for Search there abouts in that 
 office \6d., to him selfe for his paynes taken therein and 
 for deliuering into the said office and procuring some of the 
 Commissioners' hands above there to is. 4^'., in toto 
 
 viijj. viij</. 
 
 Item payd to Mr. Georg Langford at Easter tearme last his 
 fee as an Attorney in the behalfe of the parishe to prosecut 
 the brech of the order aforesaid before my L[ord] keeper 
 in the Chauncery iijj. jjij^. 
 
 Item given to Mr. Richard Hill our Minister towards the Aug- 
 mentation of the smalenes of his lyveing and bencfitt 
 amongest vs in this parishe for theis two yeres last past 
 aforesaid xxiiijj. 
 
 Item given to wydowe Elkins 14° August! 1599 being the 
 last accomte daye 4<f., 17° Novembris 1600 ^d., 29° Augusti 
 1 601 6d., in toto xiiijV. 
 
 Item geven to her 16° Septembris 1599 by the parishe consent 
 in her daughter's sicknes ^d., and so wceckly id., for 
 40 weekes togeather los., and towards his daughter's cureyng 
 2s., in toto xijj. 
 
 wjb. Item payd to the said widowe Elkyns for dyctt and keeping of 
 a poore Child leafte vpon the chardge of the parishe at \\d. 
 the weecke from the 14''' of August 1599 till this secound 
 of September 1601, every Saturday, being two yeres and 
 three weeckes, videlicet 107 weeckes, in toto \li. \\]s. 
 
 Item given to John Bristowe 10 Septembris 1599 by consent 
 of the parishenors to bringe him to the bathe for Recouerey 
 of his legg xj. 
 
 Item given to him at scuerall tymes in his sicknes in the 
 begyning of Marche 1600 xijt/. 
 
 L 2
 
 148 churchwardens' accounts, 
 
 Item given to Symon Jones ultimo Octobris 1599 3«/., 17° 
 Novembris 2^., 6° ?ylaii 1600, at her lyeing in Childbed 6d., 
 ultimo Octobris 1600 4^., 17° Nouembris ^d., 2° Febru. 4//., 
 24Febru. 4^., 10° Julij 1601 6d., 14° August 6d., 24 August 
 6d., 29 August id., in toto iijj. xj(/. 
 
 Item payd to Symon Jones aforesaid for John Bristowe his 
 lodgeing 4^. weekly every Satterdaye from the 22"' of 
 Marche 1 599 being Easter Eve till this secound of Septem- 
 ber 1601, being 76 weekes, in toto xxvj. \\\]d. 
 Item given to wydowe Patten 14° August 1599 ild., vltimo 
 Octobris 3^., 17° Novem. 3^., 24° Decemb. 6d., 2" Januarii 
 4jd., 5° Febr. being Shrovetuesdaye ^d., vltimo Octobris 
 1600 2d., 17° Xovem. 4^/., ultimo Januarij ^d., 24 Febr. 
 being Shrove Tuesdaye ^d., 29° Augusti 1601 6d., more to 
 her ^d., in toto iiijj-. v]d. 
 Item given to her by Christofer Lawrence 8° Martii 1600 in 
 her sicknes 6d., and so weekly 6d. for 6 weekes together, 
 in toto iijj. 
 Item given to John Chester 14° Augusti 1599, being the last 
 Accomte daye iiij^. 
 Item given to widowe Jackson 16° Septembris 1599 in her 
 sicknes /^d., and to her daughter 19 Septembris towardes 
 her buryall I2d., in toto Kvjd. 
 Item given to Philipp Gardner at seuerall tymes in his sicknes 
 in November, December, and January 1600, 6s., and to 
 his wydowe ultimo Januarii towardes his buryall 2s., more 
 to her 29° Augusti 1601 6d., in toto viijj. vjd. 
 Item given to widowe Shawe vltimo Octobris 1599 4^., 17" 
 Novembris 4^., vltimo Octobris 1600 4^., 17° Novembris 
 4^/., 2° Febru. 4/f., and at seuerall tymes in her sicknes 
 in the begynning of Lent 1600 I2d., 10" Julij 1601 3d. i]s. xjd. 
 1 18. Item given to wido.ve FowrJ vlt. Octobris 1599 ^d., 17° Novem- 
 bris 4d., vltimo Octobris 1600 3</., 17° Novemb. 4d., 8° 
 Martii 4//., 29° Augusti 160 1 2d., in toto xxd. 
 Item given to wydowe Bird vltimo Octobris 1599 3(/., 17° 
 Novemb. ^d., vltimo Octobris 1600 ^d., 17° Novemb. ^d.. 
 29° Augusti 1601, 2d., in toto xiiijV. 
 Item given to John Baylyes 21" Martii (Stylo Angliae) 1599, 
 beinge Good Frydaye vj^.
 
 ST. MICHAEL'S IN BEDWARDINE, WORCESTER. 149 
 
 Item given to Wydowe Hartc vltimo Octobris 1599 3^^., 17" 
 Novembris 3^/., 2 Januarij 3^., 5" Februarij 3</., in toto xij^/. 
 
 Item given to vvidowe All:n vltimo Octobris 1599 4//., 17" 
 Novembris 4^., vltimo Octobris 1600 4^., 17° Novembris 4^., 
 2° Fcbruarii ^d.. And in her sicknes 9° Martij 4//., IS" 
 Martij 6d., 29 Augusti 1601 ^d., in toto ijj. x^. 
 
 Item given to wydowe Halle vltimo Octobris 1599 id., 17° 
 Novembris 4^., vltimo Octobris 1600 ^d., 17° Novembris 
 2,d., 29° Augusti 1601 3</., in toto xvj</. 
 
 Item given to wydowe Tanner vltimo Octobris 1599 3^., 17" 
 Novembris 3^., 21 Martij beinge Good Frydaye 1599 6d., 
 vltimo Octobris 1600 T,d., 17° Novembris id., 29° Augusti 
 1601 id., in toto xxj</. 
 
 Item given to widowe Cooke vltimo Octobris 1399 id., 17° 
 Novembris id., vltimo Octobris 1600 id., 17° Novembris id., 
 2° Januarii 1599 id., 29 Augusti 1601 ^d., in toto xviijrf. 
 
 Item given to Raphe Fynton in February 1600 in the tyme 
 of his sicknes at seuerall tymes xi]d. 
 
 Item given on the Frydaye commonly called Good Frydaye 
 21° Martij Stylo Anglie 1599, the Rent Receauid for the 
 parishe house being in the parishe of Sainte Hellen's in 
 Worcester now in the tenure of Richard Honnyett and 
 some tyme in the tenure of John Ballard According to 
 the bequeast of Doctor Hare doner thereof in his last 
 will and Testament to the poore people following of the 
 said parishe, videlicet to 
 
 widowe Allen 
 
 i2d. 
 
 wydowe Fowrd 
 
 12^. 
 
 widowe Harte 
 
 I2rt'. 
 
 wydowe Bird 
 
 1 2d. 
 
 widowe Patten 
 
 I2d. 
 
 John Chester 
 
 1 2d. 
 
 widowe Halle 
 
 i2d. 
 
 John Sysemore 
 
 I2d. 
 
 widowe Shawe 
 
 1 2d. 
 
 Symon Jones 
 
 \2d. 
 
 widowe Elkyns 
 
 12d 
 
 John Sherman 
 
 \2d. 
 
 The residue of the rent being 2s., 6d. thereof to widowe Cooke 
 
 and 6d. to widowe Jackson. And thother \2d. allowed to 
 
 the Churchwardens according to the said will of Dr. Hare, 
 
 in toto xiiijj. 
 
 llZb. Item given on Good Frydaye x° Aprilis 1601, the Rent of the
 
 ISO 
 
 CHURCHWARDENS ACCOUNTS, 
 
 w-idowe Allen 
 
 12d. 
 
 widowe Patten 
 
 \2d. 
 
 widowe Shawe 
 
 \2d. 
 
 widowe Elkins 
 
 \zd. 
 
 widowe Halle 
 
 \2d. 
 
 widowe Fowrd 
 
 I2d. 
 
 howse aforesaid according to Dr. Hare's last will and Testa- 
 ment as aforesaid, videlicet 
 
 widowe Cooke I2d. 
 
 widowe Bird i2d. 
 
 widowe Vssherwood I2d. 
 
 widowe Tanner i2d. 
 
 Symon Jones I2d. 
 
 Raphe Fynton I2d. 
 
 And the 2s. remaj-neing of the said Rent to John Sherman 
 6d., John Bristowe 6d., And the two Churchwardens I2d., 
 in toto xiiijj. 
 
 Item distributed amongest the poore of the said parishe 24° 
 Decembris 1599, the xiijj. iiijV. mencioned amongest the 
 Receipts of this Accomte given to that end by the right 
 Reuerend father the l[ord] bushopp of Worcester as foUoweth, 
 videlicet to 
 
 wydowe Elkyns 
 Symon Jones 
 John Sherman 
 widowe Cooke 
 wydowe Tanner 
 John Sysemore 
 John Baylies 
 
 I2d. 
 I2d. 
 I2d. 
 1 2d. 
 I2d. 
 
 \2d. 
 
 i2d. 
 i2d. 
 xiijj. \u]d. 
 
 Item distributed amongest the poore as aforesaid 23" Decembris 
 1600, the xxj. mencioned amongest the Receiptes aforesaid 
 gyv-e by the said Reuerend father to them aforesaid, videlicet 
 
 widowe Allen 
 widowe Harte 
 widowe Pollen 
 widowe Fowrde 
 widowe Halle 
 widowe Bird 
 widowe Vssherwood 
 widowe Shawe 
 
 I2d. 
 i2d. 
 \2d. 
 
 Sd 
 
 Sd. 
 
 6d. 
 
 6d. 
 
 wydowe Patten 
 
 iSd. 
 
 widowe Cooke 
 
 1 2d. 
 
 widowe Fowrd 
 
 iSd. 
 
 widowe Vssherwood 
 
 1 2d. 
 
 widowe Bird 
 
 iSd 
 
 Perfida Grafton 
 
 12d 
 
 widowe Shawe 
 
 iSd 
 
 John Sherman 
 
 I2d 
 
 widowe Elkyns 
 
 iSd 
 
 John Bristowe 
 
 i2d. 
 
 Phillipp Gardener 
 
 i8d. 
 
 widowe Allen 
 
 1 2d 
 
 Symon Jones 
 
 iSd. 
 
 widowe Halle 
 
 I2d. 
 
 widowe Tanner 
 
 12d 
 
 \\-)\lowe W'yan 
 
 6d. 
 
 Goodwife Pearson 
 
 I2d 
 
 
 
 xxs. 
 
 Summa totalis xxiij//. xvIijV. viij</.
 
 ST. MICHAEL'S IN BEDWARDINE, WORCESTER. 151 
 
 119. Summa totalis of Receiptcs xix/i. xs. 
 
 Sumiiia totalis of the Payments xxiijV/. xviijj. viij</. 
 
 Geven athe same tyme to widowe Patten by consent of the 
 parishcnors then present and deliuercd to Christofer Lawrence 
 for her xv'y/. 
 
 So that vpon this Accomptc tlic parishc rcstctli indebted to 
 Mr. Nicholas Archebold one of the Churchewardcns aforesaid 
 as appeareth iiij//. xs. 
 
 Memorandum that there is oweing to the parishe by Thomas 
 Baker for one halfe yere's rent due for the parishe lande 
 in Clyfton at Thannuntiacion last, videlicet this present 
 yeare 1601, which according to his old Lease ys xxvjj. viijW., 
 But according to order of the L[ord] Bushopp and other her 
 Majesties Commissioners in pios vsus sett downe in September 
 1600. The same ys and ought to be 3//. 6s. Sd. iijV/. vjj. viij(/. 
 
 Memorandum this Accomte was publiquely and distinctly 
 read over, pervsed, considered of dyligently, the Second 
 of September 1601 in the parishe church of St. MichacU 
 aforesaid after publique notyce in the Churche the Sondaye 
 before, geven according to the Awncyent Custome. And 
 accordingly approved and allowed of by vs then present 
 videlicet, 
 
 Richard Hill minister then Christofer Lawrence 
 
 Henry Mowle Robert Carrington 
 
 Walter Walker Thomas Mynshewe 
 
 William Brooke John Shelvocke 
 
 Richard Chelmarsh Griffith Rowland 
 
 John Ocker William Buller 
 
 John Abrey 
 
 Memorandum there are newely elected Churchwardens for 
 the yere to come Morrys Davyes and Guthlak Follyott. 
 
 1191J. [1601.] A monethly Ceasement layd and ymposed vpon 
 the parishenors of Saint Michaell in Bedwardyne nere the 
 Cytie of Worcester from the xv"" daye of November i6oi, 
 and agreed vpon by the sixe men appoynted for the said 
 parishe in the churche there for three months from the Feast 
 of All Saintcs last past and towardes the Relieffe of the poore 
 peple of the said parishc.
 
 152 churchwardens' accounts, 
 
 by the monethe 
 
 
 in toto 
 
 Thomas Spackman gent 
 
 II 
 
 vyl 
 
 xij^. 
 
 Nicholas Archebold gent 
 
 III 
 
 vjV. 
 
 xviij^. 
 
 Walter Walker 
 
 III 
 
 vid. 
 
 xviijV. 
 
 Robert Morgan 
 
 
 v]d. 
 
 
 Guthlak Folliott 
 
 III 
 
 x]d. 
 
 xviijV. 
 
 Morris Davies 
 
 III 
 
 vjV. 
 
 xviijV. 
 
 William EK^jtis 
 
 III 
 
 v]d 
 
 xviijV. 
 
 John Shelvocke 
 
 III 
 
 \n]d. 
 
 xij^. 
 
 Thomas Goffe 
 
 III 
 
 m]d. 
 
 xijV. 
 
 Tymothie Foorde 
 
 III 
 
 \i\]d. 
 
 xijV. 
 
 Thomas Onyon 
 
 III 
 
 m]d. 
 
 xijV. 
 
 John Honnyett 
 
 I = 
 
 '\\\]d. 
 
 vj^. 
 
 Thomas Spilsbury 
 
 III 
 
 in]d. 
 
 xij^. 
 
 John Ocker 
 
 III 
 
 n]d. 
 
 ix^. 
 
 Robert Carington 
 
 III 
 
 iijd. 
 
 vxd. 
 
 William Daniell 
 
 II I 
 
 iijd. 
 
 ix^. 
 
 Walter Drevve 
 
 III 
 
 njd. 
 
 ixrf. 
 
 Richard Wannerton 
 
 III 
 
 ijd 
 
 yjdl 
 
 Christofer Courte 
 
 III 
 
 ijd 
 
 v]d. 
 
 John Abrey 
 
 III 
 
 i]d. 
 
 v}d. 
 
 William Walle 
 
 III 
 
 ijd. 
 
 yjd. 
 
 Richard Lambe 
 
 
 i]d 
 
 
 Frauncis SmjiJie 
 
 III 
 
 i]d 
 
 vjd. 
 
 Robert Kettle 
 
 III 
 
 ijV. 
 
 v]d. 
 
 John Chappell 
 
 III 
 
 iid. 
 
 vjd. 
 
 Richard Woodward 
 
 
 \]d 
 
 
 Henrj- Rowbetche 
 
 III 
 
 ijV. 
 
 \}d. 
 
 William Brooke 
 
 III 
 
 \]d 
 
 v]d. 
 
 John Price 
 
 III 
 
 \]d. 
 
 vjd. 
 
 Thomas Foord 
 
 III 
 
 \]d. 
 
 vjd. 
 
 John Bird 
 
 I 
 
 \]d 
 
 iid. 
 
 William Smyth 
 
 II I 
 
 ij</. 
 
 vjd. 
 
 Steeven Farre 
 
 III 
 
 ij^. 
 
 vjd. 
 
 Clergmen. 
 
 
 
 
 Mr. Henry Mowle 
 
 
 '\\\]d. 
 
 
 Mr. Richard Foord 
 
 
 \\]d. 
 
 
 Mr. William Fysher 
 
 
 \]d. 
 
 
 Some totallis Recauid 23^. Sd.
 
 ST. MICHAEL'S IN BEDWARDINE, WORCESTER. 153 
 
 120. [1601.] The Accompt of Morris Davies and Guthlak Folliott 
 Churchewardens of the parishe of Sainte Michacll in Bcd- 
 wardyne nere to the Cytic of Worcester in the countie and 
 dioces of Worcester of all and singular their Receipts paye- 
 mentes distribucions ffrom the second daye of September 
 1601, Tyll the daye of yelding and deliuering vpp this their 
 said Accompt being the Twentyth daye of January Anno 
 Domini 1603, juxta stylum Angliae. 
 
 Receiptes. 
 
 Inprimis Receauid of Thomas Baker at two seuerall payements 
 for two whole yeres' rent of the parishe land lyeing at Clyfton 
 in the parishe of Seavernestoke due at the feastes of the 
 Annuntiacion 1601, and Saint Michaell 1601, The Annuntia- 
 cion 1602, and St. Michaell 1602, 26s. 8d. being due at eucry 
 of the said seuerall feastes, in toto 5/2. 6s. Sd. 
 
 Receauid more of the said Thomas Baker at two seuerall paye- 
 mentes for one whole yere's rent of the foresaid parishe land 
 due at the Feastes of the Annuntiacion 1603, and Saint 
 Michaell 1603, 26s. M. being due at euery of the said seuerall 
 feastes, in toto Hij^. iiij^i'- 
 
 Receauid of Mr. Walsingham at fyve seuerall payementes for 
 two yeres' rent and a halfe for the parishe house lyeing and 
 being in the parishe of Saint Peter in the Cytie of Worcester 
 late in the tenure of Doctor Eager 5^. M., due at the seuerall 
 feastes of Saint Michaell tharcangell 1601, the feast of the 
 Annuntiacion 1602, Saint Michaell tharcangell 1602, the 
 Annuntiacion 1603, and Saint Michael tharcangell 1603, in 
 toto xxxiijj. \n]d. 
 
 Receauid of Richard Honnyett at two seuerall payementes for 
 two yeres' rent due vpon Passion Sondaye Anno Domini 
 1602 and 1603, for the parishe house nowe in the tenure of 
 the said Richard Honnyett lyeing in the parishe of St. Hcllyne 
 in the Cytie of Worcester, in toto xxviijj. 
 
 Receauid of Robert Howssey quarterly is. rent for the parishe 
 house wherein he nowe dwellethe, being in Frogg Lane in 
 the parishe of St. Peter in the Cytie of Worcester, due 
 quarterly at the seuerall quarters followeing, videlicet 
 Michaelmas 1601, Christmas 1601, Annuntiacion Midsomer
 
 154 CHURCHWARDENS' ACCOUNTS, 
 
 Michaellmas and Christmas 1602, Annuntiacion Midsomer 
 Michaellmas and Christmas 1603, in toto xxxj. 
 
 i2o3. Receauid of John Longe quarterly 3J. for that parte of the 
 parishe house wherein he nowe dwellethe being in Frogg Lane 
 in the parishe of St. Peter's aforesaid, due quarterly at the 
 seuerall quarters followeing, videlicet Michaellmas and Christ- 
 mas 1601, Annuntiacion Midsomer ]Michaellmas and Christ- 
 mas 1602, Annuntiacion 1603, in toto xxjj. 
 Et debet ptoibus [sic] vltimi quarteris ixj. 
 
 Receauid at the Feast of Easter 1602, of the Communicants for 
 bread and wyne i6s. 8d. The moytie thereof was geven to 
 Mr. Hill our minister according to the vsuall maner. And 
 the other moj^tie being Ss. 6d. ys nowe to be answered vpon 
 this accompt viijs. vjd. 
 
 Receauid for Seat money as followeth videlicet of 
 
 Robert Kettle 
 
 xij^. 
 
 William Walle 
 
 vjd. 
 
 Thomas Goffe 
 
 xviij\/. 
 
 Steeven Farr 
 
 vjd. 
 
 John Jenkins 
 
 vj^. 
 
 John Somner 
 
 iiijrf. 
 
 Raphe Bagnall 
 
 xijV. 
 
 Henrj- Dugger 
 
 xij^. 
 
 John Chappell 
 
 xij(/. 
 
 
 
 in toto vijj. viij^. 
 
 Receauid of the monethly Contrj-bucions for the poore as 
 apeareth by the particuler note hervnto annexed xxiijj. viij^. 
 
 Receauid of Robert Creswell the parishe Clarke at seuerall 
 tymes for Ryngeing according to an order made within our 
 parishe vjj. v'njd. ob. 
 
 Receauid from the Reuerend father in god Gervas Lord Bus- 
 shop of Worcester the 22 daye of December 1602 the some 
 of xxj. to be devided emongest the poore of this parishe, 
 which was bestowed as in the distribucions hereafter followeth 
 
 XXJ. 
 
 Receauid from the said Reuerend father in God Ger\'as lord 
 busshopp of Worcester the 23 daye of December 1603 the 
 some of xxj. to be devided emongest the poore of this 
 parishe which was bestowed as in the distribucions hereafter 
 followeth xxj. 
 
 Receauid from the Executors of Mr. Thomas Chaunce the 
 4"' daye of October 1603 the some of xxj. to be devided
 
 ST. MICHAEL'S IN BEDWARDINE, WORCESTER. 155 
 
 emongest the poorc of this parishe which was bestowed as in 
 the distribucions hereafter followeth xx.f. 
 
 121. Receauid of Thomas Baker being Tenaunte to the parishe of 
 the land at Clyfton the xxth day of December 1603 for two 
 and Tvventye trees sold to him out of the said ground to be 
 by him fallen and carried away within the compas of two 
 yeres for the said xxth day of December 1603 iVj/i. 
 
 Summa totall of Rcceiptes 
 
 xxij//. v]s. \-d. ob. 
 
 Payments and disbursementes. 
 
 Inprimis payd to the wydowc Elkins for the dyett and keeping 
 of a poore childe leaft vpon the parishe at lid. the wicke 
 and geven to her at seuerall tymes since the last accompt 
 
 1 3.f. jd. 
 
 Item payd to the widowe Usherwood for the dyett and keeping 
 of the foresaid poore child for a certeyne tyme since the 
 last accompt and geven to her at seuerall tymes since 
 
 22s. 6d. 
 
 Item paid for Fryse to make the poore child a Coate and 
 for Clothe to make him two shirtes and for makeing of the 
 same 4-f- 
 
 Item payd for the dyett and keeping of the foresaid child for 
 fyve weeckes at 8^/. the weecke since yt came from wydowe 
 Vsherwood in toto 3-^- 4"- 
 
 Item payd to Symon Jones ^d. weeckly for John Bristowe's 
 lodgeing since the last accompt and geven to him at seuerall 
 tymes ^SJ. 8r/. 
 
 Item geven to wydowe Patten at seuerall tymes since the last 
 accompt ^^' 
 
 Item geven to wydowe Shawe at seuerall tymes since the last 
 
 i. i2d. 
 
 accompt 
 
 Item layed out when Joane Goodyeare was wrongfully put vnto 
 the parishe to be Relceved 3-f- 4«'- 
 
 Item payd at Walter Walker's for wyne fetchet for the churche 
 at seuerall tymes 
 
 Item layd out at seuerall tymes since the last accompt in 
 
 reparacions about the belles S'^- S^'- 
 
 i2ib. Item payd to Robert Creswell the parishe Gierke for ringeing
 
 156 churchwardens' accounts, 
 
 vpon the 17 daye of November 1601 2s., and likwyse the 
 17 daye of November 1602 2s., being the dayes of the yere 
 solempnized for the daye of our late Queene Elizabeth 
 deceassed her Coronacion, in toto 4-*'. 
 
 Item layd out at the visitacion at three seueral meetings 
 concerning the same xj. \d. 
 
 Item geven on the Frydaye commonly called Good Frj'daye 
 being the secound daye of Aprill 1602 the rent reserved 
 for the parishe house lyeing in the parishe of St. Hellyne 
 in Worcester nowe in the tenure of Richard Honnyett 
 according to the bequest of Doctor Hare doner thereof 
 by his last will and testament to the poore people 
 followeing of the said parishe videlicet 
 
 widowe Patten 
 
 xij(f. 
 
 widowe Coocke 
 
 xij(/. 
 
 widowe Elkins 
 
 xij(f. 
 
 widowe Foord 
 
 xij^. 
 
 widowe Shawe 
 
 xj^. 
 
 widowe Bird 
 
 xijV. 
 
 widowe Allen 
 
 xij(f. 
 
 Symon Jones 
 
 xijV. 
 
 widowe Vsherwood 
 
 xijt/. 
 
 John Sysemore 
 
 xijV. 
 
 widowe Hall 
 
 xiji/. 
 
 Goodwife Tanner 
 
 xij</. 
 
 The residue of the rent being ijj. sixepence thereof to Goodwife 
 Lynj'all and vjd. to John Bristowe and the other xijrf. 
 allowed to the churchwardens according to the said will 
 of Doctor Hare, in toto xiiijj. 
 
 Charges layed out the 17 daye of January 1602 and since in 
 sueing out a commission against Mr. Chaunce for the 
 makeing of a newe deede of feoffment for our parishe 
 land at Clyfton as followeth, videlicet 
 
 Imprimis the expences of Guthlak Foliott for his dyett in goeing 
 to Ludlowe at that tyme 3J. 4^. 
 
 Item payd to the Counsellor and Clerkes and for other fees 
 and charges at that tyme gs. 6d. 
 
 Item layed out at the vij"" daye of February to my lord 
 Bushopp's Clerk and in other necessaries toucheing the 
 said Commission 13J. 6d. 
 
 Item layed out for wryting the newe deede of feoffment 
 and for other things concerning the effecting and fynishing 
 of the same I4J-.
 
 ST. MICHAELS IN BEDWARDINE, WORCESTER. 
 
 '57 
 
 tern layd out for a deputacion vndcr the Common Scale of the 
 Deane and Chapiter of the Cathedrall Churchc of Worcester 
 concerning the house gcven to this parishe by Doctor Hare 
 for fees of the Scale and for wryting the said Deputacion 
 
 22S. 6d. 
 Item payd to Thomas Spilsbury Constable for a proclamacion 
 for vvaightes and measures Zd. 
 
 122. Item geven on the Frydaye commonly called Good Frydaye 
 being the 22 daye of Aprill 1603 the rent reserved for 
 the parishe house lycing in the parishe of Saint Heilyne 
 in Worcester nowe in the tenure of Richard Honnyett, 
 according to the bequest of Doctor Hare doner thereof by 
 his last will and Testament, to the poore people followeing 
 of the said parishe videlicet 
 
 widowe Patten 
 
 yi\]d. 
 
 widowe Foord 
 
 x.'\]d. 
 
 widowe Elkins 
 
 xijV. 
 
 widowe Gardner 
 
 xijV/. 
 
 widowe Coocke 
 
 xij^. 
 
 Symon Jones 
 
 xij(/. 
 
 widowe Halle 
 
 xijt/. 
 
 John Sherman 
 
 xij^. 
 
 widowe Pearson 
 
 xijV. 
 
 Good wife Lynyall 
 
 xijV. 
 
 widowe Bird 
 
 xijc/ 
 
 John Bristowe 
 
 ■x.\]d. 
 
 The residue of the rent being \]s., sixepence thereof to widowe 
 Meredieth and v]d. to Christofer Lawrence, and the other 
 xij^. allowed to the Churchwardens according to the said 
 will of Doctor Hare, in toto xiiijj. 
 
 The xxj. which was geven by Mr. Chaunce to the poore of 
 this parishe at the t\-me of his death was distributed as 
 followeth 
 
 widowe Foord 
 
 xij^. 
 
 widowe Hall 
 
 ■xV]d. 
 
 widowe Patten 
 
 i]s. 
 
 Goodwife Lynyall 
 
 xijdT. 
 
 widowe Elkins 
 
 xviij^. 
 
 widowe Pearson 
 
 ijj. 
 
 Symon Jones 
 
 ijj-. 
 
 widowe Meredieth 
 
 xijt/. 
 
 widowe Bird 
 
 xijV. 
 
 widowe Vsherwood 
 
 xij</. 
 
 John Sherman 
 
 xijo'. 
 
 John Bristowe 
 
 xiji/. 
 
 widowe Coocke 
 
 xviijV. 
 
 Richard Brewcar 
 
 vj</. 
 
 Goodwife Mond 
 
 xij^/. 
 
 Margaret Williams 
 
 v]d. 
 
 Robert Robinson 
 
 x\]d. 
 
 in toto 
 
 XXJ.
 
 158 
 
 CHURCHWARDENS' ACCOUNTS, 
 
 Geven by the Reuerend father in God Gervas 
 of Worcester the 22 daye of December 160 
 of xxj. which was bestowed emongest the 
 parishe as followeth 
 
 widowe Elkins xvjd. 
 
 widowe Shawe xvj^. 
 
 widowe Patten xvj^. 
 
 Symon Jones xvjd. 
 
 widowe Foord xii'jd. 
 
 widowe Bird xiijV. 
 
 widowe Vsherwood xij^/. 
 
 widowe Cooke xij</. 
 
 widowe Gardner xijd. 
 
 Margett Gough xij^/. 
 
 widowe Meredieth xd. 
 
 John Sherman 
 widowe Hill 
 wndowe Tanner 
 widowe Pearson 
 Margett Williams 
 Rowlan Lynyall 
 Francis Pharo 
 Richard Brewear 
 John Bristowe 
 Goodwife ^lond 
 Robert Robinson 
 
 lord bushopp 
 
 2 the somme 
 
 poor of this 
 
 x^. 
 viijd. 
 viijd. 
 viijd. 
 viijV. 
 viijV. 
 viijV. 
 viijW. 
 viijV. 
 viijd. 
 
 YU}d. 
 
 \22b. Geven by the Reuerend father in God Gevas lord bushopp of 
 
 Worcester the 23 daye of December 1603 the Somme of 
 
 xxj. which was bestowed emongest the poore of this parishe 
 as followeth. 
 
 Thomas Tanner \\\]d. 
 
 widowe Pearson viijV. 
 
 Margett Williams v]d. 
 
 Rowland Lynyall x<f. 
 
 Frauncis Pharo v\\]d. 
 
 Richard Brewear xij</. 
 
 John Bristowe viij^. 
 
 good wife Mond x^. 
 
 Robert Robinson \]d. 
 
 Raphe Fynton xijV. 
 
 Item payd for mending the bell wheele 6d., for a newe sturopp 
 for one of the bells and for nayles ^d., for a bell ropp 2od., 
 and for mending one of the bell ropes ^d., in toto \]s. xd. 
 
 Item for mending the glasse wyndowes about the church at 
 two seuerall tymes iijV. ijd. 
 
 Item payd for wyne at three seuerall tymes xjj. v']d. 
 
 Item geven to John Sherman in tyme of his sicknes 4//., and 
 payde for a Shroode for him 2d., in toto xv]d. 
 
 widowe Elkins 
 
 ijj. 
 
 widowe Patten 
 
 i'is. 
 
 Symon Jones 
 
 i}s. 
 
 widowe Foord 
 
 xn}d. 
 
 widowe Bird 
 
 xiij^. 
 
 widowe Vsherwood 
 
 XV jd. 
 
 widowe Coock 
 
 xijd. 
 
 widowe Meredieth 
 
 xd 
 
 widowe Sherman 
 
 Xid 
 
 widowe Hall 
 
 viij(/.
 
 ST. MICHAEL'S IN BEDWARDINE, WORCESTER. 159 
 
 Item seven to Symon Jones at three scuerall tymcs xijV. 
 
 Item gcven to John Bristowe 2d. a wecck from the 10"' July 
 
 for 28 wccckes iiijj. viij^/. 
 
 Item geven to Raphe Fynton being sick xij;/. 
 
 Item geven to Richard Brewcar in tyme of his sicknes viijaf. 
 Item spent at our goeing to Clyfton about the parishe busines 
 
 xiiijrt?. 
 Item spent at the same tyme at widowe Walker's '\\]d. 
 
 Item layd out at the breaking vpp of the boxe \\\\d. 
 
 Item payd to Christofer Courte for keeping of the poore child 
 
 with dyett for sixc wccckes iiijj. 
 
 Item payd to the said Christofer for takeing the said child to be 
 
 his Apprcntes according to an Agreement with the parisbe- 
 
 nors xxj. 
 
 Item payd for makeing of a payer of Indentures for the boye 
 
 xijV. 
 Item payd for hinges for two seates in churche vj<i
 
 INDEX 
 
 TO THE 
 
 CHURCHWARDENS' ACCOUNTS OF ST. MICHAEL'S IN 
 BEDWARDINE, AND ST. HELEN'S, WORCESTER. 
 
 Abell, 91 
 
 Abrey, John, 141, 143, 144, 
 
 151. '52 
 Acton, 31, 53 
 Acton, Kathcr)-ne, 49, 52, 
 
 54. 60 
 Acton, Richard, xxxix, 21, 
 
 26, 28, 31, 33, 34, 35, 36, 
 
 39,44 
 
 Albeiovve, 92 
 
 Alcocke, Robert, 108 
 
 Alcoxe, Robert, 115 
 
 Alen (see also Allen), 99 
 
 Alen, Henry, ico 
 
 Alen, Richard, xxvi, xxxix, 
 21, 22, 25, 52, 54, 62, 
 64, 67, 68, 70, 77, 78, 92, 
 
 95. 97. 99 
 Allen (see also Alen), 135, 
 
 136, 139, 149, 150, 156 
 Allen, Henry, 122, 126, 129, 
 
 132 
 Allen, Richard, 28, 33, 36, 
 
 44, 79, 104, 106, 107, 
 
 112, 116, 117, 123, 127, 
 
 133 
 
 Allen, Thomas, 71 
 
 All Saints, The Church of, 
 
 Worcester, xliii 
 Alowther, Thomas, 4 
 Alsope, Andrew, i 
 Alyes, Edward, 147 
 Ambersley, no 
 Ancret, 85 
 Ancret, Gilbert alias Dud- 
 
 cott, 144 
 Ancret, Gylbarte, 86 
 Andrew, 5 
 Andros, 29, 30 
 Anes, 30 
 
 Anes the Chanter, xx.\viii 
 Antwerp, xHi 
 Apowel, John, 21, 32 
 Apowell, John, xxxix, 13, 
 
 14, IS, 19. 23, 25, 26. 28, 
 
 33 
 Apprice, Lewes, 106 
 Aprics, John, 4 
 Archard, 11 
 
 Archard, Thomas, 12 
 
 Archarde, Thomas, 9 
 
 Archbold, xxxi 
 
 Archbold or Archebold, Ni- 
 cholas, xl. III, 117, 119, 
 124, 125, 130, 137, 140, 
 141, 142, 144, 151, 152 
 
 Archebold, 113 
 
 Archepole or Archepoll, 78, 
 79, 82, S3, 87, 90, 92 
 
 Archepoll or Archepolle, 
 Nicholas, 104, 107 
 
 Archpole, Archepole or 
 Archpoll, Edward, xxii, 
 xxviii, xxxix, 102, 105, 
 
 >3i 
 
 Arden, Catherine, xlii 
 Arden, Jolin, xlii 
 Ardern, Thomas, xlii 
 Areley, xlii 
 Areley Hall, xli 
 Arle, xxxii, 55, 56, 57 
 Arowe, John of, 60 
 Aspemer, James, 40 
 Aslcmore, 56, 57, 58 
 Asterley, Johannes, 10 
 Astmore, xxxii, 109 
 Austiyge, 29 
 Awbery, John, 122 
 Awood, John, 89, 90, 109 
 
 Babington, Gervais, Bishop 
 
 of Worcester, vii 
 Bacheler, William, xxxvi, 90 
 Backhouse, xxviii, 134, 136 
 Badsey, xli 
 Bagnall, Raphe, 154 
 Baker, xxxviii 
 Baker, Thomas, xxviii, 
 
 xxxiii, 126, 130, 134, 137, 
 
 142, 151, 153, 155 
 Baker, William, 2, II, 12 
 Ballard, viii 
 Ballard, John, or Ballardc, 
 
 John, xxxvi, 113, 114, 120, 
 
 125, 127, 130, 132, 134, 
 
 •36, 137, '39. 143. «49 
 Ballarde, 122 
 
 M 
 
 Ballingham, Joan, i 
 
 Barber, Thomas, 34 
 
 Barbor, Thomas, 15 
 
 Barker, Christopher, 99, 
 III, 117, 118 
 
 Barnes' home, 55 
 
 Baston, 72 
 
 Batcheler, William, 95 
 
 Baylies, John, 136, 150 
 
 Bayliff, Ankerett, 23 
 
 Bayly, Ankerett, 23 
 
 Baylyes, John, 148 
 
 Beaban, John (see also Bra- 
 bant), 21 
 
 Beane, Arnold, 80 
 
 Bell, ix, X, 80, 8l, 82, 83, 
 84, 87, 89 
 
 Bell, John, vi 
 
 Benet, 30, 91 
 
 Bere, Robert, 3 
 
 Benvick, xxvi, 43 
 
 Berwick or Berewick, John, 
 
 56, 58. 59 
 Beryn, 68 
 Bewdley, viii, no 
 Bird or Jiude, 139, 14S, 149, 
 
 150, 156, 157, 15S 
 Bird or Birde, John, (^ce 
 
 also Byrd), xxxix, xl, 45, 
 
 54.94. 95. «". "2, 116, 
 
 152 
 Birken, John, ix 
 Birken, Sir John, 35 
 Bishop of Worcester, The, 
 
 xxviii, xxxiii, 131, 134, 
 
 144, 146, 150, 156 
 Blackfriars, Worcester, xliii 
 Bland or Hlandc, xv, xxvi, 
 
 xxviii, xxxvii, 11, 22, 23, 
 
 29. 35. 42. 52. 53. 61, 82, 
 
 140 
 Bland or Blande, John, xxvi, 
 
 Xxxi, xl, 66, 83, 87, S8, 
 
 94, 112, 116, 121, 130, 
 
 >34 
 Bland or Blande, William, 
 xxxix, 10, 13, 25, 28, 31, 
 33. 34. 36. 37. 38. 39. 
 44
 
 l62 
 
 INDEX TO THE 
 
 Blane, il 
 
 Blok, 6 
 
 Blunt, xviu. XIX 
 
 Blunte, 29, 30 , ,.„ 
 
 Boice, DanyeU (see al,o 
 
 BoTce), 12 
 Bond, Thomas, 88 
 Borne (see also Burae),«^. 
 
 II, 16 
 
 Borshell, 86 
 
 Bosshell, 85 noniol 
 
 Bovce or Boyse, Darnel, 
 
 ixxix. II, 13. 16 
 
 Prabande, 29 
 Brabant, John, 19 
 Brabant or Beaban, John, 
 
 xxvi „ 
 
 Bradshawe, TnlV. 9» 
 
 Brassy, Davyd, 91 
 
 Bititt, Henry, 5' 
 
 Brayne, Allen, 126 
 
 Brayne, John, xx^-ui, 120, 
 
 125 
 Bredicote, ix 
 Brevitar, Wilham, 37, 44 
 Brevitor, 118, "9 
 Brevitor or Brevitar or Bre- 
 vTtar. Henry, 99. i°°' 
 ib4, 106, I". "7 
 Brewear, Richard, 1 57. 'a*- 
 
 159 ^ 
 
 Bridge, 62 
 
 Brid'^e. Robert, 45 , 
 
 IridlnorthorBridgenorthe, 
 
 xxxiv, 65, 66 
 Bristewe,\NiUiam, 73 
 Bristowe, xxix 
 Bristowe, John, 136. U7' 
 14S, 150. 155. 156. i37. 
 15S, 159 
 Bristowe, Thomas, 95 
 i^tovre', WilUam xx^. 
 xrix.xxxvii, 62,67,70.95 
 Brooke, Nycholas, 3° 
 Brok, Nicolas, 45 
 rok::'^-icholas..(seeal- 
 Brooke), xxx%-u, ib, 19. 
 26, 43, 44. 46, 47. 4». 54. 
 61, 62, 64, 74 
 Bromlay, 29 
 
 lrk:!\^°cholas (s^also 
 
 Broke), xxxix, 27, 2», 3^. 
 
 33. 7» 
 Brooke, Peter, I43 
 
 Brooke, William, 143- iJ»' 
 
 152 
 
 Broome, Robert, 29 
 Brotherton, Richard, &3 
 Broui;hton, Fowke, xxi, 121 
 Browghton, Fowlk, 129 
 Browne. Robert. 20, 26, 2», 
 
 33, 36, 39. 44 
 Bn'lg«' Rot>ert, 49 
 BuUengham, Thomas, 2, 4 
 Buller, William, 126, 151 
 
 Bnllingham or Bnllyngham 
 
 XV, 78, 93. 94 
 BuUingham, Edward, xx.v, 
 
 27 
 BttUyngham, Edward, 93 
 
 Burgundye, 29 
 Bum, xxxix 
 
 Bumam or Bumham, Nicho- 
 las, xxxix, 25 
 Bumam or Bumham, N^."- 
 liam alias Skynner, xxxix, 
 10, 16, 26 
 Bume or Borne, 9. u. 12 
 Burv or Bery, Roger, xxxix, 
 
 9. " 
 Bushel), loi , . „ 
 Bushell, Dorothie, 7» 
 Bushell, Roger, 53 
 Bushell, Thomas, 99 
 BuUer, 139 
 Button, 74 ,._ 
 Button the Bailiff, xxxiv 
 Bydell, Thomas, 10 
 Bvlford, Thomas, 10 
 Bynley, John, 9 
 
 B^d,%hn (see also Bird), 
 
 '60, 61, 62, 63, 93 
 Byrde, John, xl 
 
 CadnaU, 55 „ 
 
 Came, 10, U, "7. "» 
 
 gSterb^. The Archbishop 
 C^^Jeibury. The Bishop of, 
 cifturberie, The Lord of, 
 
 48 
 Capper, xxxvnii 
 Capper, David, 16 
 Capper, Da^7, 9. 1° 
 Capper, Jamys, 12 
 Caidmaker, xxxviii, 80 
 Cardmaker, George, xx^-l,^4 
 Carpenter, Edward, 100, 
 
 103, 106 
 Carpenter, Hughe. 27 
 cSington, Cann^^ or 
 Carv-ngton, Robert, xl, 
 ,01? 102, 103. ICH. «°7, 
 121, 126, 143. >5i. «52 
 Carter, 52 „ 
 Catts HiU, 58. 59 „ 
 
 Chadbouroe, 103, lOj, 10&. 
 Chadbourne, Robert, xxvui, 
 
 Chamberlayne, John, I33. 
 
 Chamberlyne, John, 118 
 Chambers, xhv 
 Chance, ^^u. xxviu, xxxv 
 Chance, John, 36 
 Chappell, John, 142. «4j 
 
 152. 154 
 Charlemagne, 3° 
 
 Chamel House Chapel 
 Worcester Cathedral 
 
 Church, xlv 
 
 Chaunce, 103. no, 113. «20, 
 
 134. 156. '57 , 
 
 Chaunce, John, 123 
 
 Chaunce, Thomas, 154 
 
 Chelmarshe, 78- 82 
 
 Chelmarshe Nicholas, xl 
 
 Chelmatshe or Chehnarsh, 
 Richard, xl, 83, 87, 88, 
 90, 91, 92, 97. 95. 99. 
 
 124. 151 , ,,0 
 
 Chester, 103, Ijj. »J» , 
 Chester, John, 99. >^' "•*• 
 
 ,17, 123, 127, 133. ijO. 
 
 139, 14S, 149 
 Childe, Edmonde, 2 
 Choise, Thomas 32 
 Christopher the tnder- 
 
 keeper, x, 95 
 Citell, 63 . -, B, 
 
 Clark or Clarke, 33, /2, ai. 
 
 88, 89 
 
 Clark, SybeU, 65 
 
 Clarke, Richard, 93 
 
 Clarke, Roger, vu 
 
 Clefton, 27 
 
 Clent, vii, 61 
 
 Gierke, 81. 84 , _, ^, 
 
 Clifton (see also Clj-fton). 
 XXV, xx%H, xxxii, xxxiu, 
 xxxiv, XXXV, xxx«, 47. JO. 
 53.54,55.59.61.64,63. 
 
 66, 67, 68, 70, 72. 75. 76. 
 
 87, 91. 126, 137, «53 
 Clifton home, 55 
 CUfton, Nicolas, 54, 55, 5°, 
 
 Cliflon, Thomas, xxxv 75 
 Clyfton (see also CUfton). 
 48, 56. 99, t20, 125, I2y. 
 130, 131. 134. 142, >46, 
 151. 155- 156, 159 
 Cofr\-n, Robert, 66 
 Coffya, Roger,xxxi, xxxix,77 
 Cotivn, Thomas, 77 
 Cok'e, 78 
 Coke, George, 62 
 Coks, WiUiam, 56, 58. 5? 
 College of Worcester, The, 
 xxv^, 52. 53. 61. 9>. "4 
 Collens, Thomasj 2 
 CoUes, xxxv, 136 
 CoUey, Roger. 3 
 CxiUies. Margere, 2 
 Collins, Richard, 4 
 Conway or Conwaye, Henry, 
 
 xxlx, 136 
 Coocke, 156, 157 , 
 
 Cooke, I IS, 119. ^3. «|6. 
 
 136, 139. 149. «50, '^S 
 Cooke, George, 72 
 Coombs, Edroond, 2 
 Cope, 135. '36 
 Cope, Amie, lis 
 Cope, Anne, in, "7
 
 churchwardens' accounts. 
 
 •63 
 
 Corbett, John, 3 
 Corbetl, Ricliavd, 129, 132 
 Coterell, xxiv, 100 
 Cott Meadow, xxxii, 55 
 Court, Clirislofcr, xxix, 126, 
 
 141, 144, 152, 159 
 Courte, 143 
 
 Courier, Sir William, xlii 
 Coventry, Coventrye and 
 
 Coveutrey, xxxiii, 146, 
 
 147 
 Coventry, Earl of, xxxii 
 Coverdale, vi 
 Cowper, 67, 71 
 Coxe, Anne, 127 
 Coxe, Thomas, 145 
 Cranmer, vi 
 
 Cranmer, Archbishop, xvii 
 Creswell, Robert, xi, 146, 
 
 >54. 155 
 Crompe, Georg, 114 
 Cronipton, 98, 107 
 Crompton, Thomas, xl, 104, 
 
 110, III, 116, 117, 118, 
 
 119 
 Crownecist, xlii 
 Crumpe, George, 128 
 Curtes, II 
 Curtes, William, 9 
 Cyrell, viii, xxxvii, 114 
 
 Dalton, Edward, ix 
 Daniell, William, 143, 152 
 Danks, 78 
 Danks, John, xxxi, xxxix, 
 
 26,27, 29.31. 33. 34. 36. 
 
 37, 40. 44. 54. 66, 67, 
 
 68, 71, 74, 76, 77 
 Danks, Richard, 84 
 Daunce, 143 
 Pauntes, John, 28 
 David .... 145 
 Davies or Davyes, Edward, 
 
 89, 128, 139 
 Davis, Davys or Davyes, 
 
 John, XX, 10, 20 
 Davys, no 
 Davys, Davies or Davyes, 
 
 Morris, xl, 88, 91, 107, 
 
 III, 121, 134, 137, 140, 
 
 141, 142, 144, 145. '46, 
 
 •SI. 152. 153 
 
 Davys, Richard, 122 
 
 Dean of Worcester, The, 
 V, viii, xxxvi, loi, 102, 
 loS, 114 
 
 Dean and Chapter of Wor- 
 cester, The (see also Wor- 
 cester, Dean and Chapter 
 of), xxvii, xxxvi, 103, 109, 
 no, 115, 127, 146, tS7 
 
 Dedicotte or Dedycott, 121, 
 123 
 
 Dighton, XXV, xxvi, 51, 73, 
 76, 90 
 
 Dipper, Davy, 4 
 
 Dixson or Dixon, x, 40, 54, 
 
 62, 66, 68, 72, 77, 82, 88, 
 
 90, 91, 92 
 Dixson or Dixon. John (sec 
 
 also Dyxon), 37, 44, 60, 
 
 62, 65, 67 
 Doctor, xxxviii 
 Doctor or Doclar, Katheryn, 
 
 4". 49. 51. S3. 54.6°. 61, 
 
 62, 65, 67, 68 
 Dowghtye, 86 
 Downinge or Downynge, 
 
 Frauncis, 91, 109, 112, 
 
 113. 116 
 Drewe, Walter, 122, 131, 
 
 141, 143, 144, 152 
 Droitwich, xxix 
 Dugger, Henry, 154 
 Dunne, 126 
 
 Dyar, John, 62 
 Dyckyn, John, ix 
 Dyckyn, Sir John, 34 
 Dyxon or Dyxson (see also 
 Dixon), 34, 81, 84 
 
 Eagar or Eager, Dr., xxxvi, 
 
 142. 153 
 Ecgbcrt, xliv 
 
 Edward VI., King of Eng- 
 land, xviii, xix, 17, 19, 
 21, 22, 25, 27 
 
 EfTmgham, Lord, xxi 
 
 Eger, Richard, 45, 78 
 
 Eger, William, 122 
 
 Elizabeth, Queen of Eng- 
 land, X, xiii, 40, 47, 59, 
 62, 64, 102, 156 
 
 Elkins or Elkines, 72, 136, 
 138, 139. 147. «S5. IS6, 
 157. 15S 
 
 Elkyns or Elkynes, xxix, 
 54, 99, loi, 104, 106, 
 109, III, 117, 119, 123, 
 
 '27. 132. 137. '49. '5° 
 Elkyns, Margerye, 76, 83, 84 
 Elles or Eles, Edward, 30, 
 
 37. 44 
 El lows, Ellenor, 4 
 Ellows, Stephene, 4 
 Elvyns, Elvynes or Elvins, 
 
 William, xl, 99, 100, loi, 
 
 102, 103, loS, 121, 128, 
 
 129, 141, 144, 152 
 England, xviii, 26, 29, 31 
 Esterley, John, 10 
 Evans, Richard, 145 
 Evesham or Evisham, xxxiv, 
 
 73. 74. 77 
 
 Farmer, Robert, xliv, 3, 6 
 Farr or Farre, Slceven, 126, 
 
 152, 154 
 Father, John, i 
 Favell, Jo.in, 5 
 Fene, Thomas, 4 
 Fencr, Wylljam, 11 
 Ferccleffe, .Margaret, 83 
 
 Fercclifr or Fcrccliffe, Wil- 
 liam, X, 47, 49 
 
 Finilhcr, Humphrc, 33 
 
 Fisher or I'ysher or Fysslicr, 
 vi, ix, 32, 42, 43, 46, 49, 
 63, 67, 68, 69, 71, 103, 
 113, 119, 127, 131, 135 
 
 Usher, John, 26 
 
 Fisher or Fishar or Fyshcr, 
 Fysshcr, Richard, xxxi, 
 xxxix, 13, 14, 15, 17, 19, 
 
 25, 26,28, 29, 31, 33, 34, 
 
 35. 36, 37. 40, 44. S3. S4. 
 61, 64 
 
 Fisher, William, 152 
 
 Flanders, 29 
 
 Flecher, Henry, 33 
 
 Fleete, 117 
 
 Fletcher or Flechcr, xxvlii, 
 xxxviii, 30, 31, 60, 80, 81, 
 82 
 
 Fletcher or Flecher, Chris- 
 topher, xxviii, 88 
 
 Fletcher, Flecher or Flechar, 
 Hugh or Hew, xxxix, 20, 
 
 35. 36, 37, 38, 44 
 Fletcher, Richard, Bishop 
 
 of Worcester, vii 
 Fletcher, Flecher or Flctchar, 
 Thomas, xxxi, xl, 28, 33, 
 
 36, 39. 44. 62, 64, 79, 82, 
 83, 87, 88, 95, 96 
 
 Flytt, xxiv, H4 
 
 Foliott, v, 57 
 
 Foliott, Folliott or Follyott, 
 Guthlak, V, vi, xl, 90, 103, 
 '21, 124, 130, 137, 141, 
 146, 151, 152, 153, 156 
 
 Folke, 89 
 
 Folliott, John, 55, 56, 58 
 
 Folliott, Foliott, Follyott, 
 Folyatt or Follyatt, &c., 
 Roger, V, vii, ix, xxiv, 
 xxxi, xxxvii, xxxix, xl, 22, 
 
 26, 28, 29, 30, 33, 34, 36, 
 38, 43, 44, 45, 46, 49, 50, 
 54, 59. 61, 62, 64, 65, 66, 
 67. 69. 7'. 73. 74, 76. 77. 
 90, 91.92, 93.94,95. 96. 
 100, loi, 102 
 
 Ford, Fourd or Foord, 68, 
 78, 119, 123, 128, 132, 
 '35, 136, '38, 139. 14S. 
 149, 150, 156, 157, 15S 
 
 Ford, Ales, 117, 136 
 
 Ford or Foord, Richard, 
 122, 152 
 
 Ford or Foord, Thomas, 
 
 143, '52 
 Ford, Fourd .and Foordc, 
 
 Timothy, xvi, 122, 134, 
 
 141, 143, 144, 152 
 Ford, Forde or Fooide, 
 
 William, xvi. xxxix, xl, 
 
 47, 62, 64, 65, 66, 6S, 89, 
 
 93. 94. 95. 96, 97. '"."7 
 Fowler, 74
 
 1 64 
 
 France, 25, 29, S' .. . 
 Freend or Frend, Nicola=„ 
 
 xxxiv, 77 
 Frend, ^(^ 
 Frende, John, lo 
 rrevren, 11, 16 
 Frog Lane, xxn. '^''_"' 
 xScvii, 140, I43> '44. J53. 
 
 154 
 
 Froney, Margery, 9 
 
 Fvdo, 74 
 
 Fvdo, John, 107 
 
 Fydo or Fydowe, Thomas, 
 
 xsxii, xxxix, 76, 77 
 Fvnton, 126 
 Fynton, Raphe, 149. '3°. 
 
 158. 159 
 
 Gale, 117. «23 
 Gardener, 117 
 Gardener, Richard, 113 
 Gardiner, xxviii 
 Girdner, 116. 157, I5» 
 Gardner, Gardenar or (-rar- 
 
 dener, Philip, 73. 77. lo|. 
 
 loS, no, 122, 132, iJfi, 
 
 150 
 Gates John, 134 
 
 Gaye, 115 
 
 Geffreyes, Phihpp, 49 
 
 Germany, xliii 
 
 Gervas, Bishop of N^ or- 
 
 cester, 154. '5* 
 (lest, 80 
 GUberte, 32 
 Giles, Richard (see al=o 
 
 Gyles), 117. 133 
 Gigles, Bishop of Worcester, 
 
 xliv 
 Glover, Fred, 6 
 Glover, Marget, 2 
 Go, Thomas, xxxix, 9 
 Godyer, 8S 
 
 Goffe, Thomas, 152, i54 
 Gold or Golde, Thomas (s^ 
 also Gowld, Thomas), 16, 
 18, 20, 26, 33, 36. 44 
 Goldemey, John, 4 
 Goodyear or Goodyeare, 
 
 Joan, xxix, 155 
 Gough or Goughe, David, 
 
 62, 64. 67. 68. 72 
 Gough or Goughe. John, 
 x^ xxxvu, l6, 48. 67. 70. 
 
 71. 72 . 
 
 Gough, Margett, ij» 
 Gough, Roger, xxxvii, 7° 
 Gowghe, 83 
 Gowghe, John, 10 
 Gowght, John, 10 
 Gowld, Thomas, 10, 1 1 
 Gowlde, John, 12 
 Grafton, 81, 82, 94 
 Grafton, Perfida, 150 
 Grafton, WUliam, xxxix, 29, 
 37. 38. 39. 44. 66 
 
 INDEX TO THE 
 
 Green, iii, viii 
 Greeneslade. William, 126, 
 
 141, 144 ,-■• 
 
 Grev Friars, Worcester, xltu 
 Griffith, Rowland, 143 
 Grt-ff\-n, Kater)-ne, 30, 31 
 Gryfythe, Thomas, 29 
 Gvbbes, John, 122 
 G'yles or Gylles, Richard 
 
 (see also Giles and Jones), 
 
 91, 104, 106, 123 _ 
 
 Halesowen, 42 
 Hall or Halle, xxrm, 43. 
 135, 136, «39, 149, 150. 
 156, 157. 158 
 Hall, Edmund, in, 113, 
 
 117, iiS, 123, 127 
 Hall, Hal or Halle, Thomas, 
 
 32. 33, 36. 44, 62 
 Hamon or Hammon, 30, 49, 
 50. 53. 60, 62, 67, 6S 72 
 Hamon or Hammon, 1 no- 
 mas, 26, 33, 36.44 
 Hancox or Hancoxe, 5», 94 
 Handy, Richard, 44 
 Hardwick, John, 13, 14, IS 
 Hare, Dr. Thomas, vui, xv, 
 xvi, xxvii, xxxii, xxsvi, 
 xxxvii, 54. 60, 61, 99. 
 100, 103, 104. 106, 109, 
 III, 113, 116, i'7. 120. 
 122, 123, 127, 12S, 132, 
 136, 139. 149. 150. 156. 
 
 Harecourt, Anthony, xlU 
 
 Harford, 53 
 
 Hamell, J., xUv 
 
 Harpe, The, 55 
 
 Harris, Annese, xUv 
 
 Harrys, no 
 
 Hart or Harte, 99. 100,101, 
 
 103, 104, 106, ni, 117. 
 
 119, 123, 127, 132. 130. 
 
 139, 149. 150 „ 
 
 Hart, Gregory, 73. 78. 9S 
 Hasporge, 29 
 Hastyngs, 30, 35 
 Hastyngs, Hastings or Hast- 
 inges, John, xxxix, 22, 24, 
 25, 26, 28, 29, 33, 34 
 Hatmaker, xxxviu 
 Hatmaker, Ales, 23 
 Hatmaker, Mother, 34 
 Ha)-woode, Walter, 36 
 Heks, Edward, xx, 89 
 Hempstead or Hempstede, 
 
 Henry VUI., King of Eng- 
 land, x%-ii, xix, 9, II. 13. 
 
 15. 16 
 Hereford, vUi, no 
 Hereford, the County ot, 
 
 xxxiii 
 Herken, Richard, 5 
 Herle, 86 
 
 He^-nei, 43 ,, , 
 
 HeWood or Heywoode, 
 Walter, 33, 39. 44. 49. 92 
 Heywood, William, x 
 Hickmanes, 98 
 Hid, Robert. 5 
 HiU, 47. 143. 154. 15s 
 Hill, Richard, ix, 121, 147. 
 
 151 „ 
 
 Himbleton, x, 25 
 
 Himbleton, Henry, ix 
 
 Hobhouse, Bishop, 45 
 
 Hodon, xlii 
 
 Holbeach, vi 
 
 Holbury, ix 
 
 Holden, xlii, 30, 34 
 HoUowaye, 126 
 HoUynehead, Hugh, 106 
 Honyett or Honnyett, John, 
 
 141. 152 
 Honyett, Richard, xxxvi, 
 
 137, 149. 153. 156. 157 
 Hoper, Thomas, 3 
 Hopkins, Dr., xliii 
 Hopton, 126 
 
 Hoi^nmaker, Nicolas, II 
 Home, Arthour, 117 
 Horward, John, 98 
 Howdends, xlii 
 Howell, 62, 72 
 Howssey, Robert. IS3 
 Howyatt, Richard, 143 
 Hufiyld, 56 
 Hughes, Roger, viii, x 
 HuB, xxix 
 Hunt, William, viii 
 Hussey or Hu:^e, Robert, 
 
 xxxvii, 143 , , 
 
 Hyett or Hyette, John, 
 
 xxxix, 9. 10. »7.«9. 22 
 Hymbleton, see also Him- 
 bleton, 113. n6, 117 
 Hymulton, 43. 46. 5'. 5^. 
 53,61,63,65,66,68,70, 
 
 73. 75. 77. 78 
 Hymulton, Sir Henry, 72, 
 
 Hyndy or Hyndye, Richard, 
 30, 33, 36 
 
 Instoke, Rowland, 3 
 Ireland, 26, 29, 3'. 81 
 Ison, John, 32 
 Istemare or Istemore, 58 
 
 Jackson or Jackeson, 99. 
 
 100, 137. 148. 149 
 Jackson or Jackeson, Rich- 
 ard, x, xiii, 78, 94, 95- 98. 
 99, 103, 104, 105. 100. 
 loS, 109, 113, 114, 117, 
 122, 123, 127, 12b, 13«. 
 132, 133. 137. i3| 
 Taeson, Richard, no 
 James, Henry, 117. "8
 
 churchwardens' accounts. 
 
 iCs 
 
 Jnmes, Mar£;ery, i6 
 Jeflerey, l6 
 JcfTcroyes, Philip, 54 
 Jenkins, John, 154 
 Jenar, Nicholas, 126 
 Jherusalem, 29 
 Johnson, Thomas, 10, 16 
 Johnsone the Urotherer, 10 
 Jones, Jone, 30, 35 
 Jones, alias Gyles, Richard, 
 
 99, loi 
 Jones, Richard, 96, 97, 127 
 Jones, Simon, xxiv, xxix, 
 
 96, 97, 100, 113, 117. 119. 
 
 123. 127, 133, 135, 136, 
 
 138, 139, 148, 149, 150, 
 
 155. 156, 157- 15s, 159 
 Jonson, James, 122 
 Jonson, Robert, 4 
 Jonson, Randull, 45 
 Jonson, Sybell, 117, 118 
 
 Katheryn, 70 
 
 Keeper of the Castcll, The 
 (see also Worcester, 
 Keeper of the Castle 
 of), 64 
 
 Kempsey, xxxii, xlii 
 
 Kent, 83, 84, 85, 90 
 
 Kent, Robert, xxxv, xxxvi, 
 34, 35- 38. 41,42. 45-47, 
 5°, 5', 59. 62, 63, 64, 65, 
 67. 71, 75 
 
 Kerle, 72, 75 
 
 Kettle, Robert, 142, 143, 
 
 152, 154 
 Ketye, 85 
 Knight, John, 24 
 Knowle, The, xxxii 
 Knowle end, 20 
 Kydson, xxvi, 51, 52, 73 
 Kynges, 41 
 
 Kynges, Robert, 30, 31 
 Kyngs, 43 
 Kyrte, 71 
 
 Lady Chapel, St. Helen's 
 
 Church, I 
 Lambe or Lamb, Richard, 
 
 U4, 121, 131, 135, 141, 
 
 152 
 Langford, George, xxxiii, 
 
 147 
 Langhorne, 135 
 Langlantl, \liii 
 Latimer, Hugh, vi 
 Laurence, Christofer, 148, 
 
 '5'. 157 
 Lea, 127, 132 
 Lea, Thomas, 109, III, 117, 
 
 118, 123, 127 
 Lechmere, Lechmore, Leche- 
 
 more or Lechmer, Philip, 
 
 XXXV, 10, 13, 15, 17, 20, 
 
 21, 24, 26, 28, 32 
 
 Lee, 62 
 
 Lee, Thomas, 45. 64, 70, 
 
 78,99 
 Leon.ird, John, 96 
 Lewes, loi 
 Lewes, D. , 109 
 Lewes Hill, xxxii, 58 
 Lewis, Dr., viii. 115 
 Ley, Thomas, 104, io5 
 Ligh, 72 
 Ligh or Lighe, Richard, 
 
 26, 46 
 Little, Randle, 89 
 Littleton, xli 
 Lloyd, Owen, viii 
 Llovd, Sampson Zachary, 
 
 xii 
 Locke, John, 98, 112, 116, 
 
 121 
 Lode or Loode, 69, 70, 71, 
 
 75, 76, 77 
 Lode, Uoger, xxxiv, xxxv, 
 
 69. 7', 74, 76 
 Lodge, The Co. War., xliv 
 London, x, xix, xxviii, xxix, 
 
 xxxiii, xxxvii, 53, 103, 
 
 140, 146, 147 
 London, The Bishop of, 
 
 xxxvi 
 Longer Longe, John, xxxvii, 
 
 143, 154 
 Lowefykl, 55 
 Ludlow or Ludlowe, xxxiv, 
 
 xxxv, 67, 68, 73, 77, 156 
 Lye, xxiv, 93, 94 
 Lye, Ales, 117, 118 
 Lye, George, 82, 84, 89, 
 
 93,94 
 Lye, Richard, 40. 41 
 Lye, William, xxxix 
 Lyndley or Lyndeleye, 13, 
 
 14, IS 
 Lynlcy, John, 10 
 Lynoll, xxiv, 93 
 Lynsey, 52 
 Lynyall, 156, 157 
 Lynyall, Rowland, 78, 158 
 
 Makrell, xliv 
 Maleyll, William, xliv 
 Make, John, xxxix 
 Malteman, xxxviii 
 Malteman, John, 13 
 Malten, xxxviii, 86 
 Malten, George, 14, 15 
 Malten, Henry, xxxix, 27, 
 
 39. 40, 4't 
 Malten, John, 14, 17, 26, 
 
 37, 43, 44, 49, 53, 54 
 Malten, Thomas, 90 
 Mailman or Maltmon, Simon, 
 
 29, 30 
 Maltyn, Henry, 33, 36 
 Maltyn, John, 33, 36 
 Malvern, xxxiv, 67 
 Margart'.t, 43, 48, 52 
 
 Marpett, xxviii, 49, 52, 54, 
 
 60, 61, 62, 64, 65 
 Mariott, Jone, 48 
 M.arlene, Anne, 4 
 Marthene, lilsabelh, 4 
 Marlley, The Manor of, xlii 
 Mary, Queen of England, 
 
 xiii, xxxviii, 29, 31, 34, 
 
 35, 37. 38, 4" 
 Mar)'an, 22 
 Mason, 35 
 Mathewes, John, 9, 10, 12, 
 
 13. 14, 15, 16 
 Maihewes, Richard, 93 
 M.aullon, John, 28 
 Meredieth, 135, 136, 157, 
 
 158 
 Merediethes, John, 122 
 Meunes, Margere, 4 
 Miliam, 29 
 Mitte, Kicharde, 32 
 Mitt hurste. 55 
 Mond, 157, 158 
 Monox, 8 
 
 Monox, Thomas, 3 
 Moore, Prior of Worcester, 
 
 xliv 
 More, John, 37 
 Mores, Thomas, 16 
 Morgan, 100, 134 
 Morgan, Robert, I41, 152 
 Moris, Nichol.as, 7 
 Morris or Morrys, xx, 9, 121 
 Mose, 89 
 
 Mother, Richard, 4 
 Mound, William, 131 
 Mowle, Henry, 143, 151, 152 
 Moxon or Moxson, Thomas, 
 
 117, 118, 133 
 Mucklow, xlii, 73, 81, 89 
 Mucklowor Mukelow, Rich- 
 ard, xli, xlii, I, 4 
 Mucklow, Simon, xlii 
 Mucklow, William, xlii 
 Mucklowe or Muckelowc, 
 
 Thomas, xxxLx, 69, 70, 7 1 , 
 
 74, 82, 87, 100 
 Musselburgh, xiii 
 Mynshewe or Mynshawe, 
 
 Thomas, xl, 104, 107, icS, 
 
 III, 117, 137, 144, 151 
 
 Nash, iii, vi, viii, xxvi h, 
 
 xxxii H, xxxvi n 
 Nayler or Naylor, xxxviii, 
 
 94, 98, 99, "OO. 'O'. 'Oj 
 Naylor, Sybell, 136 
 Naylor or Nayler, Thomas, 
 
 xxxix, 46, 49, 50, 59, 62 
 Neapoles, 29 
 Netherlands, The, xliii 
 Newalle, 40 
 
 Newcsham, John, xxvi, 124 
 Noxson, 135, 136 
 Noxson, Thomas, 135 
 Nychoia.-., 35
 
 1 66 
 
 INDEX TO THE 
 
 Ockeley, John, 107 
 
 Ocker, Tohn, 114. 120, 121, 
 132, "141. 151. '52 
 
 Onyon, Thomas, 106, loS, 
 109, 117, 121, 123, 12S, 
 129, 132, 134, 141, 144, 
 
 145. 152 
 Organmaker, xxxviii, 119 
 Organmaker, Ann, 73 
 Organmaker, Nicolas, 77 
 Orton, John, 5 
 Oseland or Oselande, xxvi, 
 
 36, 63, 64, 65, 70 
 Oseland, John, xxxix, 26, 
 
 33. 36. 37, 3S, 39. 54. 
 
 59. 62 
 Oswald, 4 
 
 Packeman, 93 
 Paine, Thomas, 33 
 Parcivall, William, 36 
 Parker, xix 
 
 Parker, John, x\nii, xxxix, 
 2S, 29, 31, 33, 34, 35, 42. 
 
 43 
 Parker, Richard, 10, 33, 36, 
 
 44 
 Parker, Thomas, 122 
 Parryes, xxxviii. Si 
 Partridge, 72 
 Pateryche, 30 
 Patrick, Pattr)ck or Pat- 
 
 ricke, xxv, 79, 80, 88, 89, 
 
 91. 93. 96 
 Patrick, Dr., xxxvi, 98, 99, 
 
 102, 105, 128, 129 
 Patricke, Leonard, 26 
 Patten, 99, 104, 106, III, 
 117, 119, 123, 127, 132, 
 135, 136, 137, 13S, 139, 
 148, 149, 150, 151, 155, 
 
 156. 157 
 Pavye, Robert, 1 1 7 
 Payne, 43, 46, 48, 60, 72, 93 
 Payne, Humfrey, 47 
 Payne, Thomas, 26, 30, 36, 
 
 39. 44 
 Peares, 30 
 
 Pearson, 150, 157, 158 
 Penrice, William, 2 
 Penryce, Robert, II 
 Perkens, Elsabeth, 3 
 Perott, Laurence, 12 
 Pers, William, alias Backe 
 
 or Baker, xxxix, 9, 10 
 Perseavall or Percyvall, 
 
 William, 33, 44 
 Peryn, xxvi, 68, 73, 80, 81, 
 
 83,88 
 Peryn, Humphrey, xvi, xxiv, 
 
 xxvi, xxxix, 60, 61, 63, 64, 
 
 71. 78. 89 
 Pewterer, xxxviii 
 Pewtterer, Johannes, alias 
 
 Mathewe, 10 
 Pharo, Francis, 158 
 
 Philip, King of Spain, xiii, 
 
 29. 34, 35. 37- jS 
 Fhilipp, 43, 62, 68 
 Phillipps, 132 
 
 Phillipps, PhUipps or Phi- 
 lippes, Nicholas, xxW, xl, 
 78, 95, 96, 97, io6, 117, 
 124 
 Phily, William, 6 
 Picher, xxiv, 100 
 Pickeryng, 40, 41 
 PiUcington, Abraham, xxi, 
 
 146 
 Pinter, Henry, xxiv 
 Pinkie, xiii 
 Pirton, V, xxxiii 
 Planden, 71 
 Plymouth, xxi 
 Porchmaker, xxxviii 
 Porchmaker, Thomas, 17 
 Porier, Rev. A. S., xxxviii 
 Porter, Edward, vii, 15 
 Porter, Francis, 134, 141, 
 
 144 
 Portsmouth, xxviii. Si 
 Posteme, xxviii, 62, 77, Si, 
 
 88, 90 
 Poughnell, xxxv, 75 
 
 Powell, Thomas, 26, 33 
 Price, John, 152 
 
 Prior, 30, 35 
 
 Prychet or Prychitte, 117, 
 118 
 
 Pr)-nce, 75 
 
 Pryor, Rafte, 29, 34 
 
 Puche-maker, Katheryne, 48 
 
 PuUen, 150 
 
 Putchmaker, xxxviii 
 
 Putchmaker, Thomas, 10 
 
 Pj-ncer, 72 
 
 Pjncer, Henry, 73 
 
 P)-ncer, William, 72 
 
 Pj-nner, So, 81, 83 
 
 Pynner, Rafle, 31 
 
 Pyn\-yn, John, 94 
 
 Pyrton, 17, 19, 20 
 
 Quadmore, xxxii, 55, 56 
 
 Ralph, Bishop of Ascalon, 
 
 xliv 
 Redmarley D'Abitot, xxxvi 
 RejTiales, Edward, ilii 
 Ricardes, Lesowe, 55 
 Richards, 36 
 
 Richards, J ohn, 33, 44, loS 
 Ridley, Alice, xxxvi 
 Robenson, Robert, 4 
 Robinson, John, xxxii 
 Robinson, Robert, 157, 158 
 Robynson, John, 87 
 Rogers, 143 
 Rome, xliv 
 Roughmore, 55 
 Rowbetche, Henry, 152 
 Rowbridg, Henry, 142, 143, 
 
 144 
 
 Rowland, Griffith, 151 
 Rural Dean of Worcester, 
 
 The, xliv 
 Russell, John, 5 
 Ryemill or Rymyll, 114, 115 
 R)Tnell, Richard, 126 
 Rymill or R)Tnyll, Stephen, 
 
 xxiv, 114, 121, 124, 131 
 Ryplegate, 5S 
 Ry\ers, loi 
 
 Sadeler, John, 6 
 Sadler, Water, 86 
 Salwey, Sallway, Salwaye, 
 Salowey, or Salweye, 22, 
 
 24. 27. 29, 32. 34. 35. 38, 
 40, 41, 42, 45, 47, 71, 77, 
 87, 88, 89, 96, 102, 105, 
 loS, 112, 119, 120, 125, 
 
 13' 
 Salwey or Salway, Richard, 
 
 xxxiii, 12, 17, 19, 20 
 Salwey, Salway, Salweye, 
 
 Thomas, xxviii, xxxiii, 
 
 xxxiv, xxxvi, 62, 65, 69, 
 
 70, 75. 76. 78, 79. 82, 9J. 
 
 93. 98 
 Sanford, xxxii, $6 
 Saunders, John, 30 
 Saunderson, William, 14, 15 
 Scotland or Skutlande, xiii, 
 
 xxvi, 19, 21 
 Scrope or Scrape, xxxiv, 71. 
 
 73 
 Scryvener, John, 10, 12 
 Sergeant, 66, 72, 76 
 Severne, The River, 55 
 Sevemstoke or Seaveme- 
 stoke, xxv, xxviii, xxxii, 
 xxxiv, 13, 15, 56, 113, 
 
 130 
 
 Sevemstoke, The Lord of, 
 
 55. 56. 57. 58. 59 
 
 Sevemstoke or Seaveme- 
 stoke. The Parish of, 54, 
 142, 153 
 
 Share, 51 
 
 Sharp, Wilham, 4 
 
 Shaw, Shawe or Shae, 30, 
 80, 83, 98, 99, loi, 104, 
 106, 109, III, 117, iiS, 
 119, 123, 127, 132, 136, 
 
 137. 138, 139. 14S, 149. 
 
 150, 155, 156, 15S 
 Shawe, Robert, 33, 44 
 Shellvocke or Shelvocke, 
 
 John, 141, 144, 151, 152 
 Sherer, J. C., 75 
 Sherman, 158 
 Sheraian, John, xxix, 103, 
 
 104, 109, III, 117, MS, 
 
 123, 132, 133, 136, 139, 
 
 149. 150. >57. >58 
 Shewesmith or Shewesmyth, 
 George, xii, 108, III, 
 129, 133, 145
 
 churchwardens' accounts. 
 
 167 
 
 Shipley, 105 
 
 Shipley, George, xxxvi 
 
 Shippsey or Shipseay, 108, 
 
 112 
 Shipsey, George, xxxvi, 120, 
 
 Shipside, George, xxxvi 
 Shipsycle, 119 
 Show, Kobart, 36 
 Shrewsbury or Shrewesljuric, 
 
 xxxiv, 68 
 Sicily, 29 
 Simon, liishop of Worcester, 
 
 xliv 
 Skere, Thomas, 17 
 Skinner, xxxviii 
 Slvynncr, Walter, 10 
 Skynner, William, 14, 31 
 Slough, Sloughe or Slowgh, 
 
 X, 91. 92. 93. 94 
 Slough or Sloughe, Edward, 
 
 it, 95 
 Smeth, Robert, 3 
 Smeth, William, 4 
 Smith, Smithe or Smythe, 
 
 Humfrcy, 27, 33, 36, 44 
 Smith, Saunders, 6 
 Smithe or Smythe, Kalhcryn, 
 
 30, 43,49, 54, 60, 62,64, 
 
 65, 67, 68, 72, 77 
 Smyth, William, 152 
 Smythe, 1 10, 1 17 
 Smythe, Frauncis, 13 1, 141, 
 
 152 
 Somer, John, 56 
 Somer, William, 55, 57, 58, 
 
 59 
 Somerset Record Society, 
 
 xli 
 Somner, John, 154 
 S pack man, 121 
 Spackman, Thomas, 141, 
 
 144, 152 
 Spanish Armada, The, xiii 
 Spayne, 29 
 Spilsbury, Spillsbury or 
 
 Spellsbury, Thomas, xxiv, 
 
 XXX, 142, 143, 144. '52, 
 
 157 
 
 Spurrier, William, 72 
 
 St. Andrew, The Church of, 
 
 Worcester, xli, xliii 
 St. Edmund, The Cliapel of. 
 
 Cathedral of Worcester, 
 
 xliii 
 St. George, The Chapel of. 
 
 Cathedral of Worcester, 
 
 xliii 
 St. Helen, The Church of, 
 
 Worcester, vii, xvi, xxii, 
 
 xxxviii, xli, xlii, xliii, xliv, 
 
 l>4. 31 
 St. Helen, Hellenorllellyne, 
 The Parish of, Worcester, 
 xxxii, 120, 125, 127, 130, 
 132, 143. '49. '53. '56. 
 «S7 
 
 St. Jolincs, no 
 
 St. John's, Worcester, xxv, 
 
 5', 
 
 St. Katherinc, The Chapel 
 of, St. Helen's Church, 
 Worcester, I 
 
 St. Laurence, The Church 
 of. Reading, xliv 
 
 St. Martin, vi 
 
 St. Martin, The Church of, 
 Worcester, xliii 
 
 St. Mary, The Church of, 
 Reading, xxii « 
 
 St. Michael, The Church of, 
 Bath, xli 
 
 St. Michael, St. Myghell, 
 St. Mighell, St. Mighelle 
 or St. Mychell, The 
 Church of, Bedwardine, 
 Worcester, iii,v,vi, xiii, xiv, 
 xvi, xviii, xxiii, xxv, xxvii, 
 xxxiii, xxxviii, xxxix, xli, 
 xliii, 9, 10, II, 13, 14, 16, 
 17, 19, 22, 26, 27, 29, 31, 
 
 34. 35. 37. 44, 5°. 54- 59. 
 62, 64, 66, 71, 75, 79, 82, 
 90, loi, 118, 119, 125, 
 
 134. '37, 140 
 St. Michael, St. Mighell, 
 St. Michaell, The Parish 
 of,Bedwanline, Worcester, 
 XXX, 88, 98, 99, 104, 106, 
 III, 112, 117, 130, 142, 
 
 •5'. '53 
 
 St. Peter, the Church of, 
 Worcester, xliii 
 
 St. Peter, the Parish of, 
 Worcester, xxxii, 30, 120, 
 '25, 130, 142, 143, 153, 
 
 '54 „ 
 Stanley, 78 
 Stanton, 108 
 Stanton or Staunton, Henry, 
 
 xxviii, 97, 103, 105, 107, 
 
 108, 112, 113, 116, 117, 
 
 121, 125 
 Staph', Richard. 113 
 Statham, Humfrey, xxxix, 
 
 33. 36, 3S, 42. 44 
 Staunton, Humfrey, 78 
 Steevens, John, 122, 141, 
 
 143, '44 
 Stcner, Wyllyam, 1 1 
 Stilband, Alexander, 3 
 Stoke, 12, 55 
 
 Stoke Court, xxxiii, 65, 92 
 Strickland, Henry, 144 
 Strickland, John, 131 
 Suffield or Suffyld, xxxii, 55 
 Sutton, Andrew, xxvi, 31, 
 
 34 
 Swayne, Richard, 4 
 Symons, Edward, alias Page, 
 
 105 
 Symons, Henry, xxiv, 45, 66 
 Symons, John, xxxviii, 60, 
 
 78, 84, 86, loS, 115, 121 
 
 Symons, Ralph, xvi, 47, 61, 
 
 62,83 
 Symons, Roger, 76 
 Symons the Toothdmwcr, 
 
 xxiv, 89 
 Syscmore, John, 104, 106, 
 
 MI, 117. 123, 136, 137, 
 
 '38. '39, 149. '5° 
 
 Tailer, JcflTrcy, 12 
 
 Tailur, John, I 
 
 Tanner, 136, 138, 139, 149, 
 
 150, 156. 158 
 Tanner, Thomas, III, 1 18, 
 
 158 
 Tayler, Jeffrey, 10, 1 1 
 Taylor, David, 70 
 T.iylor, John, xxxix, I, 13, 
 
 60 
 Tayhir, Robert, 5 
 Thcrle, 89 
 Thirkell, 87 
 Thomas, Davye, 1 10 
 Thornolon, D., no 
 Thornhill, or Thornehill, x, 
 
 123, 129 
 ToUye, Antony, 20 
 Tomson, John, xxxviii, 39 
 Trovell, xxxv, 75 
 Tuke, Richard, 4 
 Turlyans, 59 
 Turnar, Richard, 89 
 Turner, 145 
 Turner, Richard, 132 
 Tyroles, 29 
 Tyrone, The Earl of, xxvi 
 
 Ulster, xxvi 
 
 Upton-upon-Sevemc, 51 
 Usherwood or Ussherwood, 
 
 xxix, 121, 150, 155, 156, 
 
 '57, 158 
 
 Venice, 2 « 
 VullVay, X, 12 
 
 Wade, Richard, 55 
 Wadley, xli 
 Waghorn, Elenor, 30 
 Wake, Richard, xxxix, II, 
 
 12, 13 
 Wale or Whale, Sir Richard, 
 
 viii,ix, 31, 34, 35 
 Wales, The Marches of, viii, 
 
 XX, xxxiv, 74, 1 15, 121 
 Walker, 64, 74, 76, 77, 
 
 '59 
 Walker, Edw.ard, xxvi 
 Walker, John, 98 
 Walker, Richard, 16 
 W.alker, Robert, 71, 74, 
 
 75
 
 1 68 
 
 INDEX TO THE CHURCHWARDENS' ACCOUNTS. 
 
 Walker, Walter, xxvi, xxx, 
 XXXV, xxxWii, xxxix. xl, 
 77, 78, 79, 80, 84, S6, 87, 
 94. 95. 97. 98. loi, 104, 
 107, 123, 127, 12S, 129, 
 
 131. 133. I4«. 144. 146, 
 
 151, 152, 155 
 
 Wall, Walle or Waule, 
 George. xxxi, xxxvii. xxxix, 
 25, 26, 27, 29, 31, 33, 34, 
 35- 36. 37. 38, 44. 54, 64, 
 66, 68, 71,73. 74 
 
 Wall, John, xxxii, 48, 100 
 
 Wall, Roger, 62 
 
 Walle, Robert, 71 
 
 Walle, William, 141, 143, 
 
 152. 154 
 Wallker, Robert, xxxix 
 Walsingham, xxxvi, 134, 137, 
 
 142. 153 
 
 Walton, John, 25 
 
 Wannerton or Waunerton, 
 Richard, 131, 141, 143, 
 144, 152 
 
 Warmstry or W armestreye, 
 xxi, 131 
 
 Warner, 132 
 
 Warrett, Richard, ix 
 
 Warrett, Sir Richard, 45 
 
 Warwick, County of, xlii 
 
 Wattson or Watson, 30, 35 
 
 Wattson or Watson, Mar- 
 garet, 30 
 
 Wattson or Watson, Wil- 
 liam, 26, 28, 29 
 
 Wattys, S3 
 
 Weber, John, jun., i 
 
 Wells, John, 4 
 
 Welshe, Katheryn, 48 
 
 Welsheman, Lewis, 76 
 
 Weshbome, 53 
 
 Westemore, 55 
 Westemoreland, 56 
 Wethye-mere or Wythie- 
 
 mere, 5S, 59 
 Wevar or Wever, John, 3,5' 
 Wheler, Roger, 63 
 ■VMiitbey, John, 126, 127 
 Whittington, Whitynton, 
 Whityngton or Whitten- 
 ton, xxT, xxviii, 51, 98, 
 103, 105, 107, loS, 112, 
 113, 116, H7, 120, 125 
 Whoopper, William, 142, 144 
 Wiche, John, 74 
 Wilkinson, 113 
 Wilkinson, John, vi 
 William the Tyler, 52 
 Williams, Margaret, 157, 
 
 158 
 Willis, 134, 137 
 Willis, Francis, 102 
 \\ iUis, Katharine, 130 
 Willis, Roger, 35 
 Willis, Thomas, xxxvi 
 Wills or Willes, Roger, lo, 
 
 23 
 ^^ oeBeld, Woefyld or \\ o- 
 
 fyld, xxxii, 55, 56 
 Wood, John, :oS 
 Woodfall, Woodfaull or 
 
 Woodfaule, 62, 72, 77, So, 
 
 81, 82, 83, S4, 88, 89, 92, 
 
 94, 98, too 
 Woodfall, Richard, 68, 76 
 Woodward, Richard, 142, 
 
 152 
 A\ oolfe, George, 16 
 Worcester, xiii, xiv, xxxiv, 
 
 xlii, xliii 
 Worcester, The Bishop of, 
 
 \i, xlii 
 
 Worcester, The Cathedral 
 Church of, iii, xliii, loi, 
 
 "5 
 
 \\ orcester. Keeper of the 
 Castle of (see also Keeper 
 of the Castell), iii 
 
 Worcester, The City of, iii, 
 tli, I, 54, 57, 58, 90, 101, 
 107, 119, 125, 130, 140, 
 142, 151, 153, 156 
 
 Worcester, The County of, 
 ili, xlii, 17, 19, 26, 54 
 
 Worcester, The County and 
 Diocese of, iii, xxxiii, 29, 
 119, 125, 130, 142, 153 
 
 Worcester, Dean and Chap- 
 ter of (see also Dean and 
 Chapter, The), iii, vi, vii, 
 viii, ix 
 
 Worcester, The Diocese of, 
 
 17. 19 
 Wright or Wryght, 60, 
 
 62, 70, 72, 109, no, 114 
 Wright, William, xxiv, xxxix, 
 
 26, 33, 35, 36, 37, 39, 43, 
 
 44. 45 
 Wyan, 1 50 
 Wyatt, xxxvii 
 Wyche, riii, 12 
 Wyeat, 140 
 Wylls, Roger, 28 
 Wynselowe, Kenelme, 55, 
 
 S6, 57 
 
 Vatton, xliv, xlv 
 ^Tjull, Thomas, 3 
 Yong, Margere, 4 
 
 Zachary, xlii 
 
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