THE CHURCH OF ST. ANDREW, PLYMOUTH. 223 
was needless. ‘ But,” to quote the words of Collier, ‘‘ those who 
called these things superfluous, and showed so slender a regard for 
the honour of religion, were none of the best reformers. Had 
these people governed in the minority of Josiah, as they did in 
this of Edward VL, they would in all likelihood have retrenched 
the expense of the Mosaic institution, and served God at a more 
frugal rate. ‘They would have disfurnished the temple of most of 
the gold plate, carried off the unnecessary magnificence, and left 
but little plunder for Nebuchadnezzar.” 
I found in the State Paper Office, a few months ago, the certifi- 
cates of the commissioners for this county, or such parts of them as 
remain, entitled, ‘‘ The certificate of all jewells, plate, and vestments 
of all churches and chapels within the said county, taken and 
made by Sir Peter Carewe, Knight; Sir Gawen Carewe, Knight ; 
Anthony Harvey, Esq., and Thomas Hatch, Esq., by virtue of the 
King’s Majesty’s Commission to them directed, Learing date the 
3rd day of March, in the vil. year of the reign of our Sovereign 
Lord Edward the Sixth by the grace of God of England, France, 
and Ireland, King Defender of the Faith, &c. The value of all 
such jewells and bells that were taken away and also sold by the 
parishioners within certain parishes in the s¢ county, and recovered 
by the s¢ Commissioners by virtue of the King’s Commission before 
this tyme to them directed, and specified in the last certificate, as 
hereafter followeth.” Although with reference to other parishes 
there is a good deal of information, as to Plymouth this document 
is provokingly curtailed. No reference to the bells, to vestments, 
or plate, or jewels, but simply a statement of the fact that there 
had been committed to the custody of William Symons and other 
the parishioners there, by indenture, one chalice. The parish of 
Budock is mentioned, three bells in the tower and one chalice, 
being left in the custody of John Ernesettle, Leonard Worth, and 
other the parishioners there. Had St. Andrew’s lost everything 
before? I expect so. The church of the White Friars had not. 
We have an inventory of what was left there; and the Commis- 
sioners seem to have received for vestments £176 2s. 8d., and for 
candlesticks and crosses of latten, sold to divers parishioners, £9 
10s. 10d. 
Another long interval, broken only by the slight glimpse given us 
by Leland, and we find ourselves on sure ground, and with certain 
information, in the year 1635. At this time the churchwarlens’ 
