Churchwardens Accounts From the Fourteenth Century to the Close of the Seventee
Churchwardens Accounts From the Fourteenth Century to the Close of the Seventee
J Charles John Charles Cox
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1 541 {St. Coliimb Major). Paid George Collins for a shroude for ye pavers daughter and for an halfe pounde of Francke encence and for a penarde of threede, 8s. 5d. An interesting entry occurs in 1595 of the non-ceremonial use of incense at St. Margaret, Westminster : — Also pd for franckensence in the church in the time of visitation, iiij d. This does not refer to any episcopal or archidiaconal visitation, but to an outbreak of plague. During the period of the great Civil War, the church of S...t. Laurence, Reading, was repeatedly used as a temporary barrack by the soldiers of both parties. In 1664 a shilling was spent on frank- incense to sweeten the church after one of these visits. The following entries in the next two years speak for themselves : — 1645. Pd to Val. Fallowe for mending seats in the church wch the souldiers broke downe, . , . '33 312 THE CHURCHWARDENS' ACCOUNTS Pd to Dauid Browne for making clean the Church twice, and for pitch and frankincense . . . . 50 1646. Pd for I'i of frankincence and of pitch to perfume the church .......
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