224 JOURNAL OF THE PLYMOUTH INSTITUTION. 
accounts begin, and from them we shall be able to trace the vicissi- 
tudes of the old Church down to the present time. 
Among the annual receipts each year a considerable space is 
occupied by the moneys received on account of pews. In the earliest 
account, we find the plan adopted for two centuries after in full 
force. The system was to sell the right of sitting in a seat for a life 
or lives, but I am unable to ascertain with certainty the amount 
charged. I am inclined to think from the variety in the entries, 
that the price varied with the situation and the age of the person 
to be accommodated. I will give a few entries relating to the 
pews. 
The receipts for men’s pews (for I should say that the moneys 
for men’s and women’s are entered separately, and that the sexes 
appear to have been separated, sitting in different parts of the 
church), amounted in 1635-36 to £13 9s. 8d., and for women’s to 
£21 2s, 4d. 
item: Received of Thomas Bootye, smith, for a pewe in the south ile, 
wherein Buller sate, who died out of the almshouse, Xs. 
ltem: Received of Fames Baker for Nicholas Horrell’s pewe, in the 
second rank in the south ile, xs. 
ltem: Received of Richard Harell for a pewe in the south alleye, where 
Frynch, the measurer setts, Xs. 
litem: Received of Humfry Smyth LE Edward Champernowne’s seate, 
under the gallery, viijs. 
ltem: Received of Samuel Bulteel for his seate in the chancel, where Mr. 
Worth setts, xxxs. 
Item: Received of Wiliam Hobbes for a seate tn the gallery, where 
Martyn Coombes sate, vjs. viijd. 
Item: Reccived of Thomas Paddon for exchange of his pew for his 
father’s, Nicholas Paddon’s seate, vjs. viijd. 
Item: Received of Arthur Roe for removing him from the seate where 
Edward Caunter sits into the formost eastern seate in the gallery, xs. 
Then they sold Arthur Roe’s seate. 
Received of John Prance for his setting in the seate where Arthur Roe 
sate, xiijs. ivd. 
On the other side there are constant charges for wainscott, 
deales, boards, hinges, nails, and so on, on account of repairs and 
erection of pewes. In 1639 Mr. Wilson’s pew was fitted, Thomas 
Truebody being paid 12s. 11d. for doing it. In 1650 Mr. Hughes’ 
seat cost 2s. 6d. mending ; but it was badly done, or quickly got out 
of order again, for the following year 4s. 2d. more had to be spent 
