“Pd.  Expences apprehending two Felons.... -1-
  “Pd.  Expences maintaining them two Nights
      in the Dungeon ...................... -2-
  “To Ann Duncan very ill to take her over into
      Ireland ............................. -4-
  “To Straw for the Dungeon ............... -4-
  “To Belman sundry public Cries .......... -76
  “To three pair of Stockings and dying for the
      Beedle .............................. -9-
  “To Wine drinking Royal healths the Prince’s
      birthday at his full age ............ 3/16/6
  “To a distressed Sailor to Leverpoole ... -1-
  “Pd.  Boonfire on King’s Coronation Day .. -66
  “Gave Nancy Mackeen a Stroller .......... -/-6
  “Pd.  Musicians at rejoicing for good news
      from Germany, and on birth of the Prince
      of Wales ............................ 27/-
  “Pd. for a Cat with nine Tails .......... -3-
  “To a lame Stranger ..................... -1-
  “Pd. lighting Lamps last Dark ........... -26
  “Several Fortune Tellers Indicted, etc... -12-
  “Pd.  Lawyer Nagave advising Roger Blomely’s
      Case bringing Actions agt. the Constable
      for putting him in the Dungeon for being
      drunk on Sunday in time of divine
      Service .............................. l/l/-”

It is interesting to note in this connection that on August 16, 1762, was “Pd.” one “Barnard Shaw maintenance of Rioters and Evidence, 1-11-6.”

A circumstance of considerable human interest, too, and one possibly little known, is the great aversion to the sight of bears held by the inhabitants of the Isle of Wight, at least in the year 1891.  A copy of the “Bye-Laws” of the “Administrative County of the Isle of Wight,” issued that year, contains, following articles relating to “Regulating the Sale of Coal” and “Spitting,” this: 

“As to Bears.

“1.  No bear shall be taken along or allowed to be upon any highway, unless such bear shall be securely confined in a vehicle closed so as to completely hide such bear from view.

“2.  Any person who shall offend against this Bye-law shall be liable to a fine not exceeding in any case five pounds.”

“Atti del Municipale!  Atti del Consiglio Comunale di Siena.  Bollettino Degli atti Pubblicati Dalla Giunta Municipale di Roma.”  It is fitting that quartos of such titles as these, containing addresses beginning Signori Consiglieri and Onorevoli Signori, should look something like Italian opera, and be bound in vellum, title and date stamped in gold on bright red and purple labels, with sides of mottled purple boards, and imprints such as “Bologna.  Regia Tipografia Fratelli Merlani,” and of typography the best.  And on genuine paper, far from the woodpulp of American municipal graft contracts.