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beinge shall see it executed And if defalte be made by the
then Churchwardens for due execucion hereof then the said
wardens shall forfeite to the use of the poore for there necligence
therein vjs viijd viz iijs iiijd a peece.
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Even the pew rents and charges for the ringing of the
bells were adjusted by the Vestry:—
8th Mail, 1593.—At a Vestrie the Day and yere abovesaid in the prte
of the Vestriemen whose names are hereunder written it was
agreed and orderyd that whatsoever Inhabitante of this parishe
who shall happen to burrye his wife shall not claim chalendge
or have any right unto his wifes pewe after hir death, but to
be dysposed by the Churchwardens for the Tyme being except
any such pson soe burrienge his wife be or have bene high
Constable burgesse or vestrieman and it is further orderid that
any such man shall reserve to himself soe that his next wife hir
pewe paying within vj wekes after hir death xijd and yerely
also xijd to the churchwardens for the same. And that whoesoever
heretofore hath burried his wife and not paide xijd according
to a former order Shall alsoe lose the beneffitt of there wives
pewe and the churchwardens to place whome they shall think
good notwithstanding any custom or order to the contrarye
confirmed by or handes the day and yere abovesaid.
An order taken in the vestry for the prises and rates of the belles
and certayne pewes the xij day of January, 1594, in the
xxxvij yere of quene Elizabeth.
Upon consideration had of the grete sorames of mony lately disbursed
out of the churchbox about the makings of one grete bell deper
by a note than any other which was in the church before, and
about the new castinge of the other belles and to the end that the
rates may bo'hereafter certaynely knowen Therefore the Vestry
men whose names are subscribed have rated taxed and assessed the
new pewes and other things hereafter mentioned and expressed
as foloweth Ffirst every man which shall be first on either of the
two uppermost or highest pewes on the north side of our ladye
chappell or in any of the fouer new pewes lately erected in the
upper ende of the churche without the quyer and hath not ben
placed before in this parish shall pay to the use of the churche
thirtene shillinges fouer pence And if he have been placed before
in this parishe then he shall pay for his remove into any of the
said pewes ten shillings except such pson be or have ben a
burgesse high constable or Vestryman in this parish Every such
person shall pay for his remove six shillings eighte pence.
This order was extended at great length to various other
matters relating to the letting of the said pews to women,