230 JOURNAL OF THE PLYMOUTH INSTITUTION. 
1682-83. Paid Mr. Philip Pearse for drawing the picture of King 
Charles I., which by consent of the bishop was set up this yeare in 
memory of his sacred name, whoe dyed a martyr for the Church of 
England by the bloody and barbarous rebells and sectaryes, 1648, vl. 
Paid him for priming and twice painting the gallery, for drawing the 
arms of the king, town, and diocese thereon, with inscriptions on it and 
the wall, for mending the old king’s arms, painting a chest, and divers 
pinns in ye church, viijl. vs. 
Paid postige from the Navy Office, and expences with workmen, and 
going to Mount Edgcumb about the king’s picture, xs. 
In 1690 the affairs of the church had apparently become 
desperate ; and a letter was written, so states the book, ‘“‘by the 
Right Worshipful Phillip Andrew, merchant, at the desire of and 
with the full approbation of the aldermen and common councilmen 
of the burrough, to the Hon. Sir John Maynard, Knight, acquaint- 
ing him thereby that the Church of St. Andrew, within the 
burrough, was gone very much in repair and decay, and that the 
income of the church would not repair the same, and that the 
inhabitants were not well able to raise soe great a sume as was 
necessary for repairing thereof ; and withal recommended the same 
to his charitable consideration, and particularly with respect to 
money raised out of the estate of Ellis Hele, Esq., which was in 
the disposition of the said Sir John Maynard for charitable uses.’ 
And that in answer to the said letter, “the said Sir John May- 
nard sent a letter to Mr. Nicholas Carkeet, of this towne, merchant, 
one of the trustees for the said trust, bearing date the 26th day of 
April, 1690, in these words ; viz., 
‘‘Cousin CARKEET,—I have received information under several 
hands that the Old Church, in Plymouth, wanteth much repairing, 
and that the inhabitants are not well able to raise so great a sume 
as will be necessary for the doing of it; therefore I doe desire and 
appoint that yourself and the other trustees of Hele’s charity would 
pay out of the money in the chest at my dispose towards the 
repairing of the Old Church the sum of £150, not doubting but 
that some of you will take the trouble and care to see that the 
money be layed out and employed to the best advantage for the 
repairations of the Old Church only. 
My service to Mr. Mayor and his brethren, yourself, &c., and 
rest, Your loving kinsman and friend, 
Jo. MAYNARD.” 
26th April, 1690. 
