[The following items, to be found in the mutilated first pages of the accounts, deserve mention :—

the purchase of a book of Canons and Injunctions; payments made to the bailiff for the brotherhood house and the parsonage house; receipts from Thomas Parratt and what is apparently a receipt from “[Han]scombe for the feld and the towne 6s. Od.”; the digging and felling of a great tree, apparently an elm, the total expenses of which amounted to 54s. Id.; in 1573 payments made for the hanging, with use of a “brason pullye,” and weighing (“setting up of the post to way”) of the great bell, for “rounding” of the clapper of the same and for that of the fore bell, and for mending of the bell frame (most of these payments were made to Willyam Smithe); also in 1573 the fetching of hundreds of lead from H[itchin ?], and a payment made to “John Wodfeild plummer of Hitchin” for metal.]

The bocke of the Receyts and ---- Richarde Lyllye and Thomas ---- wardens of the parishe church --- and made thereof the 19 day of ---