'^HAP. 7.] PARISH OF RIBCHESTER. 179 



"Nov. y^ 18 (94'). 

 " Then rec'd. uiDou a Brief for j" poor Preach Protestants y° sum of 

 One pounds seuen shillings & a penny. 

 Witnes my hands, 



Geo. Ogden, Vicar. 

 Paid to Dr. Wroe, the warden of Manchester, who 

 paid it to y« Bishop." 



"Ap>-i- : ye 10 : j705. 

 "It is ordered and agreed by and with y'= gentlemen & 24 : of this 

 Parish that y'' Churchwardens shall pay to ye Cloarke he behaving 

 him Self as becometh him to do in his place, and also to his Parishioners 

 y« shall make ye 16s. : & 2d. : which is now due to him from y"^ Parish 

 for keeping y^ Register & Cloke, etc. Yearly y« same In Regard if he 

 shall not go to gather meat which he Jo. Poole Cloarke doth most 

 Humbly beg you will be pleased to sign ye Same and Alow : 

 . "Signed by us. 



"The words above being a reaU Request Humbly beging all your 

 approbations by Me Josiah Poole Claarke in Rib : " 



Jan. 19, 1706.— Collected upon ye Breif for Great Farington in ye 



County of Devon ye sum of 00 : 00 : 09 



"March ye 17"' Day 1733. 



"Whereas it hath been usuaU to pay one penny for every Noape- 



head killed w'in this Parish, it is now ordered by us that heareeifter 



there shall not [be] anything Due, as "Witness our hands 



" Tho : JonNso:^ [Vicar]. 



" ROBT. R.VDCLIFFE. 



" [And others]." 



"Nov. 22, 1742. 

 " Reed, then from the hands of John Carter the sum of five shiUinffs 

 for painting Two Cherubims upon Two Cannalls on ye singing pew as 

 witness my hand." 



'169-4. .still speak of Maiip.s as 'titty maup,' 



="A Maupe [or Noapel is a small the titmouse."— W.N. Lane, and dies. 



bird supposed to destroy fruit buds." Antiq. Notes. 



At Wilmslow, "the common people 



