[300] Some examples taken from many are North, St. Martin, Leicester, Acc’ts, 119 (Agreement in 1571 by mayor and brethren to fine one refusing to be warden for the first year 10s. to the use of the church). Ibid., 142 (This fine raised in 1600 to 20s.). St. Edmund and St. Thomas, Sarum, Acc’ts, Introd., p. xi, and St. Edmund’s Acc’ts, 121, 129. Mere Acc’ts, 26 (Parish order of 1556-7). St. Margaret, Lothbury, Minutes, 33 (An offer from a parishioner in 1595 of L10 for church repair, “condicynellie that the parish wowld dispence with him for the church warden, Officers and cunstable..."). Ibid., 36 and 45 (Two parishioners each pay L10, being exempted thereafter “from all services as Constableshipp, Churchwarden, syde men and any other offices whatsoever that the parish myght ... hereafter Impose uppon them...”. 1607). Memorials of Stepney, 44 (Fine for not attending vestry. 1602). Clifton Antiq.  Club, i (1888), 198 (40d. fine for absence from St. Stephen’s, Bristol, vestry, 1524.  For other fines, see ibid.). Clifton Antiq.  Club, i, 195 (Same fine for absence from St. Thomas’, Bristol, vestry. 1579). St. Margaret, Lothbury, Minutes, passim (Fines for not accounting on a certain day, and for not auditing accounts).

[301] Examples are found in W.F.  Cobb, St. Ethelburga-within-Bishopsgate, London, Acc’ts, 5 (10s. received of a schoolmaster allowed to keep school in the belfry. 1589). Ibid., same p. ("Receaved of the owte cryar for a quarters rente for settynge of goodes at the churche doore ... iiis. iiijd...” 1585).  The canons of 1571 forbid this practice:  “Non patientur [sc. the wardens] ut quisquam ex ... istis ... sordidis mercatoribus ... quos ... pedularios [peddlars] appellant, proponant merces suas vel in coemeteriis vel in porticibus ecclesiarum [etc.]...”, Cardwell, Syn., i, 124.  St. Michael’s, Lewes, Acc’ts, Sussex Arch.  Coll., xlv (1902), 40, 60 ("Recd for sarttayn standyngs agaynst the cherche at Whytson fayar xvd.” 1588).  Similar items to the last are found in many accounts.  See also St. Mary the Great, Cambridge, Acc’ts, 215 (Receipt items “for the chirch style before his house”; for the rent of the “p[ar]ishe ground wherevpon his chymney standythe”. 1588). Ibid., 203 ("Yt ys also agreyd that goodman Tomson shall from hence forthe paye vnto the p[ar]yshe for hys byldynge into the Churche yarde 12d. by the yeare.” 1584).

[302] Thus in 1561 Kingston-upon-Thames church sold brushwood growing upon its land for L14 7s. 8d.:  Surrey Arch.  Coll., viii, 77.  In 1573 the wardens of St. Michael’s in Bedwardine (Acc’ts ed.  John Amphlett, p. 74) brought a suit for the value of eight trees sold to one Lode, alleging that the defendant had promised to pay the price “for the reparacions of the ... church and reliff of the pore...”