THE ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY OF OLD PLYMOUTH. 333 
Mr. Worth says — " If we may trust Browne "Willis, early in the 
last century, the vicars of the two parishes used to derive a con- 
siderable portion of their income from the compulsory use of palls, 
the loan of which was charged for according to the quality of 
the deceased, 2s. 6d., 5s., or 10s."* 
I find, however, that long before there was a second vicar in 
Plymouth, viz., in the year 1490, the mayor, and the twelve and 
the twenty-four had something to say in the matter, if not of 
palls, of the copes then belonging to the church of St. Andrew, 
together with certain vestments used in connection with burial 
offices, and on the 1 2th January in that year a regulation, or bye- 
law, was passed in the following words : — 
"Memorandum that the 12th day of January, the 5th year of 
King Henry VII., Thomas Grayson, mayre of the Burghe of 
Plymouthe, the 12 and the 24 being then the counsell of the saide 
Burghe or Pisshe of Plymouthe, what degree that he be of for his 
buryyng, not giving the churche the sum of xx 8 in value have use, 
nor occupie any of the best coppes and vestments, unless then he or 
they that will so have them pay to the wardyns of St. Andrewe's 
Churche of the sd. Pisshe x 8 - And the second blue coppes vi B - viii d - 
And this to be kept yerely ferme and stabyl. Except that the Bisshop 
of Norwiche at his dirige shall have the best coppes yerely without 
anything paying. And also Robert Puller for his diriges to have 
the second blue coppes. And the best coppe wherein is his rnarke to 
be hadde yerely for him free without any payment. And also that 
the wardyns of the said churche for the time being yerely shall 
accompt for the said money of the said coppes as well as for money 
receyved by them for Xths and other thinges appteyning to the 
churche, and that money to be imployed and sett upon the said 
coppes of neyde be, and elso to the use of the churche aforesaid by 
the oversight of the mayre and wardyns for the time being. And 
if any wardyns deliver the said coppes contrary to the ordinance 
aforesaid they shall pay the sommes aforesaid and stonde in the 
May res grace for the breking," &c, &c. 
The mayor and his brethren seem to have been mixed up in other 
ways in matters connected with the church ; for in the year 1499, 
on 20th February, they appointed four wardens of St. Andrew's 
Steeple, one for each ward — William Thickpenny, Peryn Erie, 
William Rogger, and John Browne. There is no other similar 
* " History of Plymouth," p. 155 ; Willis, Not. Pari. vol. ii. p. 290. 
