[76] See, e.g., A.G.  Legge, North Elmham (Norfolk) Acc’ts (1891), 76 (1562), 82 (1566 and 1567).  Melton Acc’ts in Leicest.  Archit. and Arch.  Soc., iii, 192 (1566).  Ludlow Acc’ts in Shrop.  Arch.  Soc., 2nd ser., i, s.a. 1601-2, etc.

[77] In this year the 39 Eliz. c. 3 was enacted which instituted overseers of the poor nominated by the licence of the justices, and placed wholly under their supervision.  In spite of the provisions of an earlier act (14 Eliz. c. 5) giving the justices power to appoint, or see collectors appointed, the ecclesiastical courts rather than the justices, as the act-books show, seem to have looked after the matter.  See, e.g., Manchester Deanery Visit., 57, 59, 60, 62, 63, 64, 68, etc.  Also Warrington Deanery Visit., 184, 186, 187, 191, etc.  Cf. the item in the Ludlow Acc’ts, Shrop.  Arch.  Soc., i, s.a. 1586-7, where is recorded an expense item for a payment to “Mr. Chauncelor” for entering a presentment for collections for the poor.

[78] See act-books above cited.  Also Hale, Crim.  Prec., 165, et passim. Barnes’ Eccles.  Proc., 118, et passim. Norf. and Norw.  Arch.  Soc., xiii, 207-8 (Great Witchingham wardens).

[79] Stanford (Berks) Accounts, Antiquary, xvii (1888), 169 (Expenses to Oxford “to speke with [the] ...  Archedyacon for caryeng a strem[e]r in Rogacion weke.” 1564).  Hale, Crim.  Prec., 150 (Wearing of surplice on same occasion. 1567); 152 (Do. 1572).  Cf.  Grindal’s Inj. at York, 1571, in Cardwell, Doc.  Ann., i, 337.

[80] Melton Acc’ts, ubi supra, 192 ("Beyng somonyd ffor Ryngng off all Hallodaye att nyght.” 1566).  Halesowen Acc’ts in T.R.  Nash, History and Antiq. of Worcestershire, ii, App., p. xxx (1578).  Stanford Acc’ts, ubi supra, 169 (1566). Manchester Deanery Visit., 64 (Wardens of Manchester “ringe more than is necessarie at Burialls...").  Cf.  Canons of 1571, Cardwell, Syn., i, 124 (Ordained that wardens must not suffer “campanas superstitiose pulsari, vel in vigilia Animarum, vel postridie Omnium Sanctorum...").

[81] Accordingly some seven weeks later the wardens (or rather their successors) appeared again and reported that the rate had been laid, but not gathered.  The court granted them a further space to buy the implements.  Hale, Churchwardens’ Prec., 2-3 (1583/1584).  Similar examples abound in Archdeacon Hale’s work, just cited, which covers the period 1557 to 1736.

[82] Ibid., 4 (1584).  For other cases see passim.