360 JOURNAL OF THE PLYMOUTH INSTITUTION. 
That it was intended to be a great deal more than a churchwardens' 
record, is evident from the title, "The booke of accom[ptes of the] 
towne of Eas[t stonehouse]." 
The first entry is that of Eobart Brockedon and Andrew Leate 
as wardens ; and then follow in successive years James Barnes and 
William [ffrie] ; John Warren ; George Moyle ; John Dawe and 
Eoger ffayrewether ; John Warryn and John La wry ; Eoger 
ffayrewether ; Eichard Spurrell and Edward Evarre (?) ; [Sidrak] 
jorie ; . . . and Mr. Brocadon ; . . . and William ffry ; [GJeles 
J est. To neither of these entries does any date now remain ; but 
there seems no reason to doubt the endorsement of a later hand 
that the book commenced in 1594 — in fact that date occurs — 
and that those persons were chapel-wardens in the closing years of 
the sixteenth and opening of the seventeenth century. 
Associated with these are a few suggestive entries of a business 
character. 
"It is agreed that the wardens shall pass their accompt yearly 
upon Saint James twenty shillings to the use of ... " 
— evidently a penalty for non performance. 
Under 1602 are the words "John Trevill Elected "—with 
subsequently a scratched-out account of John Trevill for " playes 
and other pfitts;" while in the same year (1602) we have "John 
Warren oweth to .... his play." 
An entry of which the date is gone sets forth that on the 18th 
November, Joseph Hallet and Petter . . . ett, " collectors for the 
water," had passed their accounts, and paid over to John La wry, 
"J3eput warden [for] James Barnes, deceased, 24s. 6d.," sundry 
allowances making the total 26s. 3d. The date is probably 1606, 
since elsewhere we find La wry mentioned in that year as deputy 
for Barnes, and accounting for £3 Is. quarter pence ; the quarter 
pence of the previous year (Eichard Spurrell and Eoger 
ffearewether) being £3 8s. Both Lawry and Eodger farewether 
are named as acting in 1607, and in this year there are notes of 
payments made on the church, for nursing the sick, and to 
"maydes at whitsonday !" whatever that may mean. 
In the next dated entry — 1612 — ffearewether pays for two years 
rent of the chapel green, apparently 32s., and is acquitted in the 
book after a fashion which subsequently became usual, by the 
signatures of "Alex Ferrel, sidrake Jory, John . . . ., Eichard 
Browne, J. Hingston (who marks), Wm. By . . 
