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1642. Jtem pad. William Egdcombe, the beedle, for keeping the boyes 
from the church window for one year, xs. vjd. 
1643. Ld. Fames Stone for glassing the windows of the church this 
year, vl. xiijs. vd. 
1647-8. Glazing the windows cost £6 18s, 5d., and in the same 
year is ;— 
Item pd. two men for watchinge the church when the windows were 
broke, ijs. vjd. 
1651-52. Glaziers, ivl. xs. xd. 
1659-60. Repairing glass windows, xi, xivs. xjd. 
The next year glazing the windows cost £8 6s. 6d. 
1672-73. Pd. Wm. Woodmason for taking down all the glass windows 
of the church, new leading, soldering, banding, and for many foote 
of new glass, as per receipt, xl. - 
In 1674-75 further expense ;— 
Pd. Robert Mingo for mending all the glass windows in ye church, five 
of them being exceedingly broken on the 29th of September by fyering 
of chambers, ixl, xvs. 
1690. Payd Oliver Wrath in full, for repairing the windows in moor- 
stone worke, xxi. 
In 1717, many of the windows were blown out in a violent 
storm, and £40 was collected of divers people, it is said as free 
gifts, and a workman from Calstock was brought down to view the 
damage, for which he was paid 2s. 6d. 
Until 1594, the whole of the sittings were on the floor of the 
Church, but in that year a gallery was erected, which was situated, 
as far as I am able to judge, at the western end of the church. 
This was added to subsequently, for the accommodation of the Llue 
and green boyes. This gallery seems to be always mentioned as 
‘the gallery.” 
In 1639, I believe I am right in stating, the gallery in the 
north aisle was built. We have an entry of the cost of making a 
doorway in the north side of the church, and there was not long 
after a gallery there. The cost of this gallery clearly did not come 
out of the Church funds, but must have been obtained by private 
contribution. 
In 1718, another gallery was erected in the south aisle for the 
use of the charity children. The money was obtained from the 
stock of the poor children educated in the charity schools of the 
town ; the gallery being intended for the use, as the books state, 
