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Some Documents from the Burton 
Parish Chest. 
By THE LATE T. Know es, M.A., anp A. J. LyLe. 
A short Abstract of a Paper vead before the Society 20th March, 1884. 
HE Documents were numbered for reference. 
No 1 is an account of money laid out in paving in 
the year 1607. 
No. 2 is a receipt dated 30th March, 1607, from John 
Hawkes and Jerome Horrobin to John Mould, of Orton-on- 
the-Hill, due to the school of Burton-on-Trent, and signed 
by George Spurret. 
No. 3 is a similar document dated 12th December, 1607. 
The school referred to is the Burton Grammar School. 
No. 4 (undated) is headed ‘Money lade out att the 
Commission.” The Commission probably met to arrange 
for the collection of a subsidy. A quart of sack costs 12d., 
and a quart of claret 8d., and the dinner of 12 persons is 
charged 8/- It is stated that the bill was discharged by 
the ‘‘Town’s Masters.” 
No. 5 is a warrant dated 14th September, 1630, ordering 
one of the constables at Burton-on-Trent to bring two 
persons to Stafford to give evidence. 
No. 6 (undated) is ‘‘A note of the charges for the carriage 
of our armour to Lichfield, and the charges of ourselves 
and soldiers, and other things.” 
