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Churchwardens' Accounts date from 1754, but entries relating 

 to Sparrows do not occur until 1794, and continue, with excep- 

 tions of a few years, until 1832. No other entries of vermin 

 appear. The first payment for eggs appears in 1819, and 

 frequently after that year. In almost every instance only a 

 single entry for the year occurs, and that generally at Easter. 

 A total of ^17 lis. 4d. seems to have been paid in all, the rate 

 per dozen being omitted except in a few instances, and then at 

 the rate of 2d. per dozen. 



Milton Bryan= 



Ano. Dm. 1678. £ s. d. 



Paid to Samuell Gray for a fox head 00 01 00 



1679. 

 Paid for powder for shouting the Crows 10 



169-. 



Paid for catching of Birds 14 



Paid to Nicholas Clark for shouting and catching 3 mo wlds 3 6 



Paid for catching a powlcat 4 



1692. 

 Paid to two men for the catching of Birds 10 



1703. 



Pd. for a dozen of Sparrows 00 00 02 



Pd. for a Hedghog 00 00 04 



Pd. for Pollcat 00 00 04 



1705. 



For fore hedhogs 14 



Paid for pollcats 18 



1709. 

 August ye 31. ped for a fox hed one 00 01 00 



1721. 



paid to Thomas Hall for a polt catt 00 00 04 



paid to William Clark for spares 00 00 1^ 



pd. to Cemson Gall for sparos 00 00 1£ 



August ye 17. ped to George Monch for a polt cat 0000 4 



ped to Colmans man for a wisel 00 00 2 



May ye 20. William Gans and GeorgNash, 4 pence for 



soame sparos 00 00 04 



ped to Thomas Garner a peny for sparos 00 00 1 



1752. 

 29 Novr. Paid to Eliz. Cooper 2 years Molecatching ... 1 4 



(Undated.) 



Pd. John price for a whisle 2 



Pd. Thomas Johnson for two whizols 4 



for 2 Duzzen of Spraes and a half 5 



for a polcat 4 



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