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The Overseers' Accounts are stated as follows:—
July the 11th 1686.
Wee whose names are subscribed have, according to an order of the
Yestrie, audited this account, and doe find it to be as followeth, viz.:—
£
s.
d.
Money received by the bookes
871
02
07
Money collected at the church doores
65
12
11
Money received for severall Bastard children
129
03
00
Money received for goods of poore people that died
04
02
06
Money received for breach of the Sabbath
03
11
09
Money received in all
1073
12
09
Money paid away to Orphants
532
00
00
Money paid away to Pensioners
309
01
00
Money paid away upon the extraordinary
93
17
07
By binding out three apprentices
07
10
00
By other disbursements
129
09
00
Disbursed
1071
17
07
Bests in hand
01
15
02
By more money recd of the Earl of Ossory of the poores book
in the late Earle of Devonshire's house
03
00
00
In all in hand
04
15
02
More allowed upon the extraordinary
02
00
00
/
Rests in hand
02
15
02
These accounts were signed by Sir Thomas Clarges and three
other parishioners. A reference to the details of the " money
paid away upon the extraordinary" incidentally throws many
a side light on the period, and, in some cases, presents an
outline story. As instances of the latter, an entry of 6/- for
" Mary William's child ye mother in Bridewell," is sadly suggestive
of the mother's lax ideas of morality—Bridewell being
the place for the incarceration of lewd women—and of the
heritage of shame to which the child was born; these consecutive
entries laconically relate a sudden termination of life,
being respectively "gave for a cordiall for a sutman 1/6,"