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The Churches of Devizes. 



pd. for making of the altar and for defacing 



the x commandments, and putting 



in the Roodloft vjs- 



pd. for making Mary and Joseph [John ?] . . vs. iiijd. 

 1556. 4 Maey. 



Itm. pd. to Syr Gylham prieste iiijs- iiijd. 



This Sir William was, no doubt, the Parish Priest. 



pd. for a holye water pot ij s - iiijd. 



The Holy water pot was a basin carried in processions. 



"There was borne before the cross every principal day, a holy water font of 

 silver, very finely engraved, and parcel gilt." "Ancient Rites of Durham." 



It. pd. master Heynes towards his charge to 



London to answer to the privy seale XX s - 



The name of Heynes, or Haynes, variously spelt, is of frequent occurrence in 

 Devizes at about this date. The names of Agnes, William, and Richard Haynes, 

 occur in 1404. Edward Heyns 37 Hen. VIII., [1546] was in possession of a 

 tenement and garden in the Old Port, belonging to a Chantry founded in St. 

 Mary's Church by John Coventre. This he held for the term of 80 years, 

 commencing 22 Edw. IV., [1483], at an annual rent of 13s. 4rf. The same name 

 occurs 6 Edw. 6., [1552] as one of the stewards, or proctors, of and over the 

 lands and tenements which formed the endowment of the above Chantry. 



In the 6th of Elizth., [1563] Edward Heynes procures from the Mayor &c, 

 a lease of "Tolsey House, or shop, under the gildhall," also a tenement abutting 

 on a tenement of John Ernely, Esq. The same name also occurs as one of the 

 Representatives of the Borough in 1554-58, and 63, and Mayor c. 1570. A 

 George Heynes was also Mayor at about the same date. 



The individual alluded to in this entry was evidently an attorney, and from 

 a subsequent item it may perhaps be inferred that the parishioners were at this 

 time engaged in a law suit respecting some of the Church property. 



1557. 5 Maey. 



Itm. pyd for makyn of ij alters iij s - viij d - 



payed for stones for the same allters ij s - viij d - 



for a drynkyne at the church reknyng iiij s - viij d - 



payed for a drynkyne when we dyd peruse 



the church Wrytynge at Mr. Haynes yj d - 



Itm. for tymber to make the pyctors that standeth 



by the Rode named Mary and John ij 8 - 



"The "*Rood," or "Rode," was an image of Christ upon the Cross, made 

 generally of wood, and placed in a loft made for that purpose just over the 



passage out of the church into the chancel This Rood was not compleat 



without the images of the Virgin Mary and Saint John, one of them standing 



