274 NOTES ox THE CHUECH OF ST. IVES. 



remarked that "it is wiclced, and besides, it injures the price," is 

 hy no means a modern growtli. An entry in tlie horough 

 accounts for 1622 reads "It is agreed })j generall consent, that 

 liencforth no owner of boats or netts sliall dryve or sett their netts 

 or owner of Seanes row to Steame (Stem), the Sondaye niglits, 

 or any tyme before daye of that nighte : who sliall herein 

 transgresse, ech owner shall paye for his defaults 10s., and ech 

 fisherman 3s. 4d., to be levied of their goodes for the use of the 

 parishe." In 1626, Mr. John Paynter paid 2/6 "for the faults 

 of his servants in shij:)pinge their Sayne boates before daye on 

 the Sunday night " and Henry Bailie paid 15/- for his offence, in 

 company with five others, of setting nets at the same forbidden 

 hour. 



Another fact learnt from the borough accounts is that the 

 churchyard was at one time fortified. lender 1573 we find " Eec. 

 of Thomas Stevin and Thomas Hickes for there full and laste 

 paiment of the benevolens towards the ehurche yarde vj^vj'^ ' 

 Amongst the old documents copied hj Mr. Hicks into the 

 borough accounts are some dated about 1 696, and referring to 

 this subject. The jjayments of the "cute for resystans of the 



Enymye for fencynge of the cliureli and Cr[enelling ?] 



of the cherche yerd." 



Another of these runs "It is ordred and agreed b}' the 

 consent of the 12 men and the 24, Thomas Hicks hed wai'deine, 

 the 3 day of .... 1596 ... . that the cute and rate made 

 through the hole towne and p'ryshe of St. Yees in anno 1595 

 was aftr the attempt made by tlie Span^^ards upon IVIowsholle 

 Newlyn and Penzans : . . . the which cute and rate is pd of 

 many goode, well wyllers to oixr commonwealtlie ; . . . and 

 the reste that hathe not pd the rate layd upon their severall and 

 partyeular hedds (in so dangerows a tyme) beynge lafullie sought 

 and demanded to so goode uses as aforesaid as a token and a 

 syngne that shewethe ther carles [careless] harts and hedds for 

 to resyst that Enymye which thretned the Rewyne of our towne ; 

 and for that our ehurche windowes and church yard lyethe 

 greatly in decaye at thys instant," therefore, payment of the 

 cute is to be enforced, and the money is to be devoted to the 

 repairs of the church windows and yard. In the 1596 accounts 



