[278] Five years later, the vicar dead, the clerk was ordered to assist the wardens in receiving the ‘paskall pence’ whether paid at Easter or at any other time of communion.  Hill and Frere, Memorials of Stepney Parish, 4-5 and 13-14.

[279] Ordered by St. Edmund’s, Sarum, vestry in 1628:  “that the bread and wyne for the Communion shalbe paid for by the auncyennt paymentt of the halfepence, and yf it shall com[e] to more ...  Jt shalbe supplied out of the rest of the mony given after the Co[m]munion.” St. Edmund and St. Thomas Acc’ts (Wilts Rec.  Soc.), 187.

[280] These levies were 2-1/2d. on each householder at St. Margaret, Lothbury, London; 3d. a house at St. Lawrence Pountney, London (History of St. Laurence Pountney, by H.B.  Wilson [1831], 125 ff.).  Etc.  At Salehurst, Sussex, the fee was 1d. a poll yearly, heads of households being empowered in 1585 to abate that sum from their servants’ wages:  Sussex Arch.  Coll., xxv, 154.  At Pittington, Durham, landlords were to answer for their cottagers for a yearly fee of 2d.:  Surtees Soc., lxxxiv, 29 (1590).  Cf. ibid., Houghton-Le-Spring Acc’ts, 269.  Leverton, Lincoln, Acc’ts, Archaeologia, xli, 368 (A penny a poll for the elements. 1612).  In the Abbey Parish Church Estate Acc’ts, Shrewsbury, every “gentleman” is to pay 6d. yearly to the wardens for bread and wine; “the second sorte” of the parishioners 4d. each; “the third or weaker sorte,” each 2d.:  Shrop.  Arch.  Soc., i, 65 (1603).

[281] See Great Yarmouth Acc’ts, East Anglian, iv (1892), 67 ff. (An item for purchase of 1000 tokens. 1613-14).  Also St. Margaret, Lothbury, Vestry Minute Books, 14 (1584).  Also Archaeologia Eeliana, xix (1898), 44 (Ryton, Durham, Book of Easter offerings. 1595).

[282] St. Edmund and St. Thomas, Sarum, Acc’ts, 288 (Muscatel and claret). Abbey Parish Church Estate Acc’ts, 62 (same). St. Martin’s, Leicester, Acc’ts (ed.  Thos.  North), 100 (Malmsey and claret).

[283] Rubric Sec. 144 of the First Edwardine Prayer Book directs that as ministers are to find the elements, the congregations are to contribute every Sunday at the time of the offertory the just value of the holy loaf.  See E. Freshfield, St. Christopher-le-Stocks Vestry Minute Book, p. vii, et passim.  Stanford, Berks, Acc’ts, Antiquary, xvii, s.a. 1582 (2d. collected every Sunday for holy loaf).  Mere Acc’ts (Wilts Arch. (etc.) Mag., xxxv, 38), s.a. 1568, et passim.

[284] J.V.  Kitto, St. Martin’s-in-the-Fields (London) Acc’ts, append.  D., Vestry Order of 1590.  Parish order of Salehurst (1582), Sussex Arch.  Coll., xxv, 153.  St. Margaret’s, Westminster, Overseers Acc’ts in Westminster Tobacco Box, Pt. ii, 18 (1566).