THE CHURCH OF ST. ANDREW, PLYMOUTH, 231 
According to the direction contained in this letter, the trustees 
took £150 out of the iron box, and paid it over to Thomas Ridler, 
one of the churchwardens, and £151 6s. 6d. was expended by him 
about the Church, the principal amounts being laid out upon the 
roofs, leads, and windows. 
In 1703 there was a great storm, being the one in which Win- 
stanley and his lighthouse perished. Much damage was done to 
the Church, and for the first time in the history of the parish, as 
far as I can ascertain, a church-rate was levied. The roofs appear 
to have been much injured, as the churchwardens bought boards and 
borrowed sails to protect the building. In 1716-17 another storm 
did much damage, but the cost of the necessary repairs was raised 
by voluntary subscription. 
In 1733-34, £54 18s. 6d. was collected from the parishioners for 
“ plaistering the middle aisle,” but, according to the list of pay- 
ments, this cost only £15 12s.; but there are other charges for 
carpentering and timber, amounting to £62 6s. 8d.; so that some- 
thing more than the mere plastering must be intended. Fourteen 
shillings were paid for 2,000 Cann Quarry slates. 
In 1753-4 the tower was new roofed, the work costing £74 
17s. 1ld., £48 3s. 7d. of which was raised by subscription of the 
inhabitants. The battlements of the east and west sides appear for 
some reason or other to have been built up; they were now opened, 
and the whole tower pointed from top to bottom. There are many 
entries with respect to the tower and sun-dials about the church. 
In 1638 the dials were new fitted, painted, and gilded, at an expen- 
diture of £1 2s. 2d. There seem to have been three sun-dials— 
one over the east door, one over the south porch, and one some- 
where about the tower. The cock on the pinnacle was often trouble- 
some, and had to be taken down, the process costing sometimes 
ls. 6d., sometimes more. In 1699 a new one was provided, which 
was painted and gilded by Philip Pearse (who seems to have been 
the skilled man of the day in Plymouth), he receiving £1 5s. for 
this part of the work, Mr. Cockey £2 10s. for the animal itself, and 
‘<Pd to the man that put up the cock for beer, 6d.” The old cock 
was sold at the same time for 6s. 6d. In 1704 the bird was down 
again, and £2 10s. spent upon him. In 1737-38, “P4 My. John 
Bussey’s note for taking down, repairing, and putting up the cock, 
and all the vanes on the Tower, and so on, £5 10s.; and p? John 
Hellier for gilding the three vanes, £3.” In the next year’s accounts 
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