Transcribed by the Rev. A. B. Mynors. 451 



Anno Domini 1662. 



Aug. 10 for the designe of the fishing trade ' 4 5 



Sept. 7 for Anne Royston widow of Shaw in Berks 11 



for Anne Walter widow of Redriff 1 in Surrey 11 



19 for the parish Church of Gravesend 4 



Mar. 15 for some houses in S. Martin's in the fields, London 9 



Anno Domini 1663. 



Ap. 20 for a fire in Fordingbridge in Hampshire 2 6 



Jan. ye 10 for a fire in the towne of Granhan in ye countie 



of Lincolne 2 6 



ye 17 for a fire Witheham in the countie of Sussex 3 4 



Mar. 13th for a fire in Holborn in the county of Middlesex 2 2 

 20th for repairing of S. Michael Church in the county 



of Somerset 2 6 



Aug. 23 for a fire in the towne of Hexham in the county 



of Northumberland 2 6 



Anno Domini 1664. 

 Ap. 17 for repairing of the baven in Great Grimsby in 



the county of Lincoln 2 1 



27 for a fire of East Hendred in the county of Berks 2 10 

 Sep. 11 for Henry Lyt of Gisborough his loss by fyer [?] 



at sea 1 4 



Oct. 2 for repairing the parish Church of Basin in the 



county of Southampton 1 9 



9 for repairing a Church in Sandwich 2 5 



June 4 for repairing the Church of Lymington in the 



county of Southants 3 5 



1 " The Brief on behalf of the Royal Herring Busse Fishings, a scheme 

 taken up with great warmth by Charles I. with a view to giving employ- 

 ment to families out of work and for ' the breeding of Country Youths to 

 be made Serviceable Mariners in a short time.' The scheme was supported 

 by collections in the time of the Commonwealth, and on the Restoration 

 was revived by Charles II., who granted a Brief by Letters Patent for 

 collections throughout England 'for the building of Wharves, Docks, 

 Storehouses, and Granaries in all ports of our Kingdomes, which shall be 

 for the benefit of all those that shall build Busses and Imploy their stocks 

 in the said Herring Fishings, so that the Busses or Fishing Vessels may all 

 go forth to our island of Shetland as their rendezvous, to keep together in 

 their fishing seasons, according to certain orders prescribed in the said book 

 called the Royal Herring Busse Fishings.' Tljis Brief was to continue 

 three years and to be collected both in the Parish Churches and from house 

 to house. Pepys who, in 1664, was appointed one of the Commissioners of 

 the Fishery frequently mentions the subject in his Diary. ' Oct. 10 (1664) 

 Sat up till past twelve at night to look over the account of the collections 

 for the Fishery, and the loose and base manner that monies so collected 

 are disposed of would make a man never part with a penny in that manner.' ' ' 

 Trans, of E. Riding Ant. Soc, vii., 90. 



