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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 February 2009
The history of a small country town in the reign of Queen Elizabeth ought to present features of interest, not only to the student of our country's history, but also to the general reader. A good deal may be learnt from the poetical and prose writers of the time; but we all know that writings produced in the heat of political argument, or for representation on the stage, are almost sure to partake of a some-what artificial form. I need not say one word as to the peculiar interest which attaches to this reign over other reigns. Perhaps, to speak truly, no reign possesses in itself an interest superior to another. For-one man the Tudor period possesses no attractions whatever, for a second the reign of Henry may have charms sufficient to render him oblivious even of the times when Henry's children sat in succession on his throne.
page 326 note * He is named in 1560.
page 326 note † (1) It will be seen that the Mayor, Jurats, and Commoners were assessed first, and then the inhabitants in streets.
(2) In 1753, a particular examination was made of the number of the inhabitants of Faversham, and the return to the Mayor and Corporation was as under:—
page 328 note * This is the last item, but the price is worn away. The figures supplied are placed in brackets.
page 330 note * “F. F. G.” in local paper.
page 331 note * [I.e., green taffety.]
page 332 note * [By Edward Jacob, in what has been called “a ridiculous preface.”]
page 332 note † Players do not seem to have been always popular, as the followingentry will show:—1596–7. “Certen persons” were guilty of a “misdemeanoure done in the same Towne vppon misusage of a wagon or coache of the Lo. Bartlettes players.” The “certen persons” were fined “xvs. ixd.”
page 334 note * Joan?
page 334 note † Or the “receivers of the stock of money for the poor.”
page 339 note * £1 14s. 2d. × 10 = £17 1s. 8d.
page 339 note † £1 6s. 1d. × 10 = £13 0s. 10d.
page 339 note ‡ £1 9s. 7½d. per qr.
page 340 note * To sock = ? to sack, i. e., to sew in a winding-sheet. Were coffins used for the poor at this time? The price now paid by one of the Metropolitan Unions to the undertaker for supplying a coffin, arid conveying the corpse to the cemetery, is four shillings!
page 340 note † What were quayesses?
page 341 note ‡ Clapses, clasps; wapses, wasps; hapses, hasps; are all common in Kent to this day.
page 342 note * There is no break in the account. The preceding articles, may or may not have Deen for Geo. Belke.
page 342 note † This and the next three entries are from another portion of the accounts for the same year.
page 342 note ‡ Four weeks.
page 342 note § The clothing for these five children cost £1 2s. 10d.
page 343 note * See my Paper on Tudor Prices in these Transactions.