CHURCHWARDENS' ACCOUNTS OF BEDFORDSHIRE. 259 



for many years, continuing until the nineteenth century, but the 

 payments then are chiefly for Sparrows, and cease in 1833, 



Pketenhall. 



1727. £ s. d. 



For a Dog Fox 10 



For 7 Polcats & Hedghogs 12 



For a bitch Fox 3 4 



For a Bitch Fox 3 4 



1728. 



Foxes, Polcats, etc., & Travelers 10 



1729. 



32 Polcats & Hedghogs 5 4 



1730. 



39 Polcats & Hedghogs 6 6 



Powder & Shot & Gun to Keep the feild 2 years 6 10 



1731. 



A Bitch Fox 3 4 



A Badger 10 



34 Polcats & Hedghogs 5 8 



1732. 



33 Polcats & Hedghogs 5 6 



1737. 



Paid for three Otters 3 



Paid the Mole Catcher 5 



Paid the Mole Catcher 3 



Paid for the Use of a Gun 16 



1741. 



Paid for two Otters 2 



The accounts for 1733-6, 1738-40 are missing, and in 

 1742-74 no details are given. ' 



1775. £ s. d. 



July 6th. Pd. hue Jorden 8 Doz. sparrows 8 



Taken out of the sparrow book 7 2 



1776. 



June 24th. Pd. Tom Jorden for sparrows 6 doz 6 



Pd. Charls our boy 6 



1778. 

 Four entries occur for 31 dozen Sparrows in all. 



1779. £ s. d. 



June 13. Pd. Jane Bodington 2 Hedghogs 8 



July 13. Pd. John Bodington 2 Hedghogs 8 



Dec. 20. Pd. Ed. Briers 2 hedghogs 6 



Altogether 39 Hedgehogs (with exception of the last entry), 

 all at 4d. each, and 34^ dozen of Sparrows at Id. per dozen. 



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