REPTON CHURCHWARDEN'S' ACCOUNTS. 33 



and all theire successors shall yearely, at the account daye for the parrishe, 

 deliver up the bookes to be revised by M r Whittheade w ,h the parrishioners. 



Allsoe that the said minister and churchwarddens or any one of them shall 

 have authoritie to lend any of the said bookes to any of the parrishe of 

 Reptonne for the space of one, 2, or 3 moneths, as they in their discretione 

 shall see fittinge, one this condicione, that the parties borrowinge anye of the 

 bookes aforenamed eyther foully bruisinge, tearinge, defaceinge, or embezellinge 

 said bookes borrowed, shall make good the said bookes thus defaced, lowrne, 

 bruised, or embezzled, unto the parrishe. 



Allsoe that the said bookes, kept by the minister & Churchwarddens in 

 some convenient place shall not be lent more than one at a time to anye 

 of the parrishe. 



Allsoe that anye pson borrowinge any of said bookes shall subscribe his 

 name on borrowinge of the same booke. (The rules of this, the earliest 

 Derbyshire Lending Library of which we have any knowledge, are unfor- 

 tunately imperfect). 



1623 It. paid for castinge the Bell v u 



1630 It. paide for bread and wine for towe dayes Com- 



munione the xvij th of October and the 24 ,h . . vij j 



It. paide for towe excommunicacions xvj 



It. paide the ix th of November for the Retanene of 



excommunicacions ij 



It. paide for killinge of three hedgehogges. ... vj 



Inventory 30 December 1630 



The Chalice with the Cover 

 A Pewter flaggine 

 A Serples and table clothe 

 A carpitte 



A Cushine for the pulpitte and a Coveringe Clothe 

 One table with a forme and a Buffett stoole 

 vj Coweffers (coffers) and vij keys towe Cowffers filled with Ieade 

 vj formes, a moulde fraeme for Castinge of leade ; a mould frame. 

 5 Tressells of wood 



xviij Deeds in a boxe, xij of yem sealed and vj without seales 

 Church bookes (same as before, but also) 

 A Praire booke of thankesgivinge after y e Conspiracie 

 A Register booke. 



Allsoe bookes sent by M r Bladon to be emploied for the use of the 

 parishe (same as before, with the additional statement respecting 

 " towe bookes of martters fixed in a boxe"). 



