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to nail his victims to the church doors, and that these attracted the 
dogs. But from whatever cause, there is no doubt that they gave 
much trouble to churchwardens in former times. 
In the same year 20s. 6d. was paid for a present of sweetmeats 
sent to the chancellor on the bishop’s visitation. 
1643. Ld. for 7 lbs. of candles for the souldiers that were at the church 
ready to go forth on a party the 6th and 7th Oct. and 14th Oct. 
The quantity of wine charged for the sacrament about this time 
appears extraordinary. In 1643-44 156 gallons are charged. The 
next year much less, but 36 gallons seems a great deal. 
1649. tem pd. for rodds for keepinge quiet of the boyes, ijd. 
1650. ohn Lee, for keeping quiet the boyes, xjs. 
Flour-glass, xviiid. 
1652. Allowed loss on changing Spanish and Portugal money, xxivs. 
1656. Pd. Henry Eustice, Constable of the hundred, by virtue of a 
Warrant from the Justices of the County towards the building of a 
house of Judicature in the Castell Green of Exeter, viijl. xs. 
The total cost, it is stated, was £688 16s. 6d. 
In 1659 is a startling entry :— 
Item: Received for two old murderers that lay in the tower that were 
sold by the said wardens, the sum of iijl. ivs. 
A murderer is a piece of artillery, a wall piece, a murdering 
piece, and this was a relic of the siege, doubtless. 
The churchwardens seem to have been careless in their accounts 
during the civil war and Commonwealth, but at the restoration they 
were obliged to square up, and pay over the balances which they 
had retained. : 
The ordinary payments for killing so-called vermin, chiefly hedge- 
hogs, occur constantly even down to this nineteenth century, and 
not far from our own day ; 2d. was the usual payment for a hedge- 
hog, and one Abraham Bligh, towards the end of the 17th century, 
was the principal recipient. Sometimes there was a great prize, an 
otter was killed. In 1706, 5s. was paid for this exploit. A badger 
was supposed to be worth only Is. In 1752, two badgers, four 
hedgehogs (the price-of which had then gone up to 4d. each), and 
one fitch cost 3s. 6d. 
In 1740-41 the accounts were kept with particular neatness, 
