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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 June 2012
An opportunity having been afforded me of inspecting a collection of old churchwardens' accounts, I have made some extracts from them, which I beg leave to submit to this Society.
The importance of this class of historical evidences has been long universally admitted. Illustrations of manners and customs, information as to prices and comparative values, and interesting facts in history, topography, and biography have been derived from these humble records. The present accounts differ in some respects from those which have been already published, and, although certainly not to be compared in point of interest with one or two of the most important, they will not, I think, be deemed unworthy of consideration.
page 409 note a The mineral character and curious fossil conchology of the oolite of Minchinhampton were made the subjects of a valuable communication to the Geological Society, in December, 1847, by J. Lycett, Esq. of Minchinhampton, a gentleman of well known scientific acquirements. Mr. Lycett's paper was printed in the Proceedings of the Geological Society.
page 412 note a Dugdale relates this anecdote upon the authority of Thomas Lord Windsor.—Baronage, ii. 308.
page 422 note a Baldricks for the bell-ringers.
page 423 note a This enumeration of the royal titles is inserted in a clerk-like hand, very different from the account which follows.
page 423 note b Saw, inspected; a church surveyor.
page 423 note c Bawdricks.
page 423 note d Sow.
page 424 note a Wheel.
page 424 note b Iron.
page 426 note a Key.
page 426 note b Fees paid to the parishioners for destruction of what were deemed noxious animals. For some years foxes were the chief objects of popular hatred, otters, badgers, and hedgehogs succeeded, and ultimately kites, and even jays and pies. The entries upon this subject are innumerable.
page 427 note a Suit of the market, an application with reference to the market formerly held at Minchinhampton.
page 428 note a Chain.
page 428 note b Penthouse ?
page 428 note c Pillory.
page 428 note d Curst-stool ?
page 428 note e Whole.
page 429 note a Floor.
page 429 note b Cirencester.
page 429 note c Stocks.
page 431 note a The vane off.
page 431 note b A gimmel or duplex ring: see also the account for 1583.
page 432 note a Pulpit ?
page 432 note b Amercement.
page 432 note c Fetched.
page 432 note d A collection was made under a Queen's letter dated 26th February, 1578, towards the rebuilding of Chard, which had been lately destroyed by fire. (Strype's Grindal, p. 358, 8vo ed.)
page 434 note a A rate or public contribution for the relief of wounded soldiers.
page 435 note a A county contribution for the repair of Chepstow Bridge and the expenses of the county jail in Gloucester Castle. See before, as to Chepstow, the account for 1577.
page 435 note b Poles.
page 435 note c Towards the support of the jail in Gloucester Castle.
page 435 note d The Box, a hamlet in the parish of Minchinhampton..
page 435 note e Kitchen.
page 435 note f A cord.
page 436 note a Sessions.
page 436 note b The hundred of the county of Gloucester in which Minchinhampton is situate.
page 436 note c Query, “the asking money;” money which the parishioners were solicited to contribute towards the parochial expenses.
page 436 note d This was the ordinary fee for an interment within the church.
page 439 note a In honour of the new sovereign, James I.
page 439 note b The day of the accession of James I.
page 439 note c roof.
page 440 note a Reading-desk.
page 440 note b This is the first account all the items of which are entered in Arabic numerals.
page 441 note a Wine.
page 441 note b Stile.
page 441 note c Bier.
page 441 note d This account is entitled that of “The Churchwardens for the yeare 1619,” but it is that of the receipts and payments for 1620.
page 441 note e Entitled the account of 1622.
page 441 note f A licence to pass from town to town soliciting contributions on the way.
page 443 note a Query, ‘procession;’ the door used on occasions of the old ante-reformation processions round the church.
page 445 note a There are many other donations of this class during this and subsequent years.
page 446 note a i. e., breaking up the pavement of the church for an interment.
page 447 note a An order or pass under the great seal.
page 448 note a The destruction of a fleet of merchantmen and the town of Brandaris in the island of Schelling, by Sir Robert Holmes.
page 449 note a Losses by the Fire of London.
page 450 note a The church of Benenden in Kent was destroyed by lightning on the 29th December, 1672.
page 451 note a Keynsham.
page 451 note b From this time the accounts were entered in another book.
page 451 note c i.e. nettles.
page 452 note a These entries of ribbons for the evil are continued up to 1736.