THE MONUMENTS AND REGISTERS OF LOCAL CHURCHES. 285 
no means think that because there are entries back to those dates 
the whole remains ; for until about 1640 only a very small portion 
is still legible, and in some parts many years are entirely wanting. 
Appended to the earlier portion of the Register, having been 
written at the end of the volume, are the following notices of 
collections made on briefs; viz. : 
Collected in this pish of Sheviock the 17'* day of June 1655 by John 
Gey, minister, Richard Bray, & Symon Lavers, churchwardens, and William 
Jane, their assistant, the full sume of one pound tenn shillings & six pence 
for the poor protestants in Savoy according to a Declaration of his Highnesse 
the L¢ Protector & his Counsell to that purpose: And the 21st day of the 
s¢ month in the s¢ yeere p* over to the use afores? according to Instructions 
to the Declaration afores* annexed unto John Moyle Esq. then one of his 
Highnesse Justices of the peace for the county of Cornwall. 
Collected in this pish of Sheviock the 28t day of November & the 
weeke following in the yeere of ot Lord 1658 by Richard Rolle, minister, 
Richard Holman & Thomas Harry, churchwardens, Edward Truscot & 
Symon Lavers, overseers, the sume of eleven shillings & five pence, for the 
distressed Inhabitants of Piddletrenthead in Dorsetshire who sustayned 
great losse by fyre, according as wee were thereunto required by virtue of 
letters pattents under the great seale of England by his Highnesse speciall 
grace Oliver late Lord Protector : and payd over unto (rest blank). 
Novembr 17* 1661. 
Collected then for & towards the releife of the protestant churches in y¢ 
Dukedom of Lithuania by virtue of Letters patents bearing date at West- 
minster 12th day of July in the XIII. yeere of his Majesties reigne, the 
sume of sixe shillings & sixe pence, by us 
John Arundell 
Robert Pope. 
Following these is written a document settling the fees for 
burial, with the signatures of the principal inhabitants attached, 
which may be sufficiently uncommon to be worth giving 
verbatim : 
Wee the Churchwardens, Overseers for the poore, Sidesmen, and others 
the Inhabitants of the pish. of Sheviock whose names are heerunder written 
doo for many reasons us heerunto moving, consent and agree, And alsoe 
heerby order ; That from and after the tenth day of February next for every 
p’son that shall bee buryed in the pish. Chancell of the said Church there 
shall bee payd to the churchwardens then beeing of the s¢ pish., to the use 
of the s* church and toward the Repayration of the same the sume of tenne 
shillings. And for every p’son that shall bee buryed in any pte of the body 
of y¢ s¢ church there shall be payd five shillings and eight pence. And for 
