By Mr. Edward Kite. 



325 



1704. 3 Anne. 



Pd. for a Terrier of the Church Lands and 

 sending it to Salisbury , 



3 0 



1706. 5 Anne. 



Pd. Ambrose Zealy for the new Gallery 



Daniel Cutting for ceiling the new Gfallery, 

 45 yards at lOd. the yard 



25 0 0 



1 17 6 



No entries of interest occur after this date. 



Thomas Hall's Letter. 



The following letter, written by Thomas Hall of Devizes, to the 

 Bishop of Salisbury, apparently temp. Phil. & Mary, will give some 

 idea of the value of the Plate and Ornaments in St. Mary's Church 

 at the Reformation. 



" Yn most humbell wyse I comend me unto your good lordshepe whose pros- 

 perus estate Grod preserve, most humblye besechyng your honore to stand good 

 lord unto these my neighbors the brynggers hereof, for that they ar myche mys- 

 used by serten mene of these paryche wyche have byne the churche wardens, 

 that ys to say, John Smythe, Edward Heaynes, J ames Travys, John Adlyngton, 

 John Blanford, 1 and Edward Heleare, these forsayd parsons havynge the cus- 

 todye and berynge of the paryche church stocke, plate, Jewelse, and other 

 ornaments, have sowld and other wyse consumed frome the church and paryche 

 by (unlawful ?) meanes, wythe yn tene yeares or thereabowt, all these parsels 

 folowyng, that ys, one fayr gret crosse wythe Mary and John, by estemasyon 

 wel worthe thyrte pownds ; one peare of candlestyke, by estemasyon worthe 

 fyfteene pownds ; fyve chalyse, worthe twente pownd ; two sensers, worthe 

 twente pownd; one gret pyxe, worthe fyve pownd; to cruats, worthe fortey 

 shelyngs ; one (oylvate ?) worthe four pownd ; one shep wythe a spoone, worthe 

 fyve pownd ; to paxe, worthe fyve pownd ; two gret belse owt of the towr, worthe 

 xxiirp; and as myche brasse and yron as ys thowght to be worthe x 11 , and the 

 rent of the sayd church wyche ys by the yeare viij 11 ; all wyche goods and money 

 ys not at thys present tyme yn the church stocke above v 11 but dothe remayne 

 yn there hands abovesayd, and thus hath lead the paryche forthe wythe fayr 

 words promesyng to paye yt at serten days but nothyng ys browght forth, and 

 nowe of late they have crafftelye used syche days of metyng or reconjmge when 

 they ar sure that the welthest and cheffest of the paryche be from home, as they 

 dyde nowe upon Monday, beyng twelfe market at Salysbury, and dyde knowe 

 all the chefe of the cheffest of the paryche to be there, made a reconynge among 



1 The custody of the Church goods was committed to John Blanford and James Travers in 1552, 

 [6 Edw. VI.], See Churchwarden'' $ Accounts. The writer of this letter, Thomas Hall, was one of 

 the Representatives of the Borough during the whole of the reign of Phil. & Mary, and Edward 

 Haynes in 1554, [2 of the same reign]. The name of John Smyth occurs in 1546, and John Adlyngton 

 in 1567. 



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