[208] In 1562 it is said to have contained only 48 families.  John Amphlett, Churchwardens Acc’ts of St. Michael’s in Bedwardine (ed. for Worcester Hist.  Soc., 1898), introd., p. iii.

[209] Op. cit., 142-3.  See ibid., and for the year named, the receipts from these properties.  Thus L4 is paid for one and a half years’ rental of parish land lying in Severn Stoke parish; 44s. for two years’ rent of parish houses in St. Peter’s parish, Worcester city, etc.

[210] Op. cit., pp. xxx-i.

[211] Hudson, Memorials, etc., 85 ff.  Consult Mr. Hudson’s map of the parish lands.

[212] Notes and Queries for Somer. and Dorset, v (1897), 94.

[213] Somerset Arch. and Nat.  Hist.  Soc.  Tr., xxiii, Mr. Pearson’s introd., p. iii, and op. cit., vol. xxvi, 106-9.  Cf.  A.G.  Legge, North Elmham, Norfolk, Acc’ts (1891), 5-6 (Long list of lands managed by wardens in 1549).  Also J.H.  Butcher, The Parish of Ashburton (Devon), 49 (1580).  Owen and Blakeway, Hist. of Shrewsbury, ii, 342 (St. Mary’s parish lands with 32 tenants and rental of L6. 7s. 8d. in 1544.  The churchwardens were here called “Lady Wardens” as managing the “Rentall of our Lady").

[214] St. Michael’s Acc’ts, op. cit., vol. xxvi, 129.  The wardens of this parish record among their expenditures many items for the repair of the parish tenements and other property.  In early times they received 12d. as a salary for management.  Later this was changed into an honorarium of varying amount “pro bono servicio suo.”  Op. cit., vol. xxiii, intro., p. ii.

[215] Thus at Lapworth, Warwickshire, a trust of parish lands was re-created in 1563 with twenty-two feoffees; and one Collet in 1567 enfeoffed seventeen men of a field of only three acres, fourteen perches, to parish uses.  Hudson, Memorials (etc.), 85-6.

[216] E.g., the Grasswardens of St. Giles, Durham, who managed the common lands of the parish, and accounted yearly for them.  They made disbursements for many parish expenses which elsewhere churchwardens usually paid out (e.g., for bridges, houses of correction, poor prisoners, armor and musters), yet were themselves distinct from the churchwardens.  See Surtees Soc., xcv, I ff.  Cf. the bridge wardens of Loughborough, Leicester (W.G.D.  Fletcher, Hist. of L., 1883, pp. 40 ff).  Also the townwardens of Melton Mowbray, Leicester Archit. (etc.) Soc., iii, 61-2, note.

[217] Hudson, Memorials, etc., 88.

[218] That is (apparently) holdings returning L4 of rent annually.

[219] Pasture.

[220] Surtees Soc., lxxxiv, 15.

[221] Editor’s (Mr. Barmby’s) introd., ibid., 4.