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The account of John Harris and John Algar Wardens of the 

 church of St. Andrew of Bridport from the feast of Michaelmas in 

 the 35th year of the reign of Henry the VI. to the same feast in 

 the 36th year of Hen. VI. who presented their accounts before the 

 Bailiffs namely Received. 25 7J. They ask to be credited with 

 payment of different expenses 9sh. and so there remains clear 

 1 16 8. The churchwardens appointed for the coming year 

 were Richard Maichall and Thomas Warner who received the 

 above sum 1 16 8. 



The volume of statutes and miscellaneous entries contains 256 

 leaves of parchment, not bound together originally, but in two or 

 more volumes ; the handwriting throughout is very good, the 

 initial letters are illuminated, in red and blue, and almost every 

 word is still legible. The oldest entry appears to have been made 

 in the year 1338, and records the birth of the second daughter of 

 Richard Laurence, to whom the compilation probably belonged 

 and who it is likely was one of the officials of the borough. The 

 contents of the volume are are as follow : 



Confirmation of Magna Charta, 25 Ed. I., in 37 chapters ; the 

 Charter of Forests ; a large number of other Statutes ; the Assize 

 of Bread and Ale ; a reference to the Contention between Ed. 2 

 and the Barons about the De Spensers. Entries concerning the 

 Clipping of Money, Weights, and Measures, and the Punishment 

 of Fraudulent Traders. A manual of Legal Forms, filling 105 pages. 

 A statement of the right of the Town to Keelage on the Shore 

 and to take Sand and Pebbles from the same ; an inquisition concern- 

 ing the Foundation of St. Michael's Chapel, the King's Charter 

 respecting the same. Copy of the Deed of Robert de Faringdon, 

 Knight, conveying rents of certain lands and tenements to Sir 

 Nicholas Michel, Chaplain, and his successors who shall daily say 

 a mass for the souls of himself and other persons specified in St. 

 Michael's Chapel. The Rental of the Church and Lights of St. 

 Mary, A.D. 1337 ; the Rental of the Mass of St. Mary and the 

 H.'ly Trinity ; Routs of the Commonalty ; Rental of St Martin's, 

 which furnishes us with a Ion" list of the names of owners of 



