24 Facts relating to Marlborough. 



was, at Newbury, Ogbourne St. George' and other places, known 

 by the name of the Dog-rapper, as he was paid 4s. a year to beat 

 the dogs out of the church. 



In the Parishes of Claverley, in Shropshire, and Trysail, Stafford- 

 shire, the dog-rapper combined with that office the office of 

 Awakener, as in the former Parish Mr. Eichard Dovey, of Farm- 

 cote, by feoffment dated 23rd August, 1659, gave " a house and 

 land situate at Claverley and Alveley, to John Sanders and others, 

 their heirs and assigns in trust [inter alia] to pay yearly the sum 

 of Ss. to a poor man of the said Parish who should undertake to 

 awaken the sleepers, and to whip the dogs from the church of 

 Claverley, during Divine service,"^ and in the latter Parish, Mr. 

 John Pudge, by his will dated 17th April, charged his lands at 

 Seisdon, with " an annuity of 20s. a year payable at 5s. a quarter, 

 to a poor man to go about the Parish Church of TrysuU during 

 Sermon, to keep the people awake, and to keep the dogs out of the 

 Church." 



s. d. 



Ite. laide out vpon the rogues when they \ 



weare had before Justices in bread and > 



di'inke j xj. 



Ite. for havinge the rogues to the howse ) 



of correction j y. iiij . 



Ite. to William Markam the tythinge man \ 



for goinge w"> the rogues at that time to J 



Readinge j ij, 



Ite. for makinge of a whipinge coate and ) 



hoode j yiij. 



Ite. for an elle of canvas to that coate . . vj. 



The coate w'^'' was for him that did whipp the rouges \_sic] is now delivered this 

 v*h d. of May 1622 to Thomas Wynch by Richard Martine." 



Our Editor, Canon Jackson, informs me that among the old 



Records of the Borough of Chippenham, there is in the "account 



of Wm. Gale's Bayly wicke, A.D. 1598 " the following entry. 



Ite. For canvass iiij ells to make good a ) s. d. 



shirt and a whipp j 4 



For whipping rougs [sic'] and making ) 



the shirt ) 6 



* See ante, Vol. I. p. 89. 

 ' Char. Com. Rep. iv. 248. 



