370 JOURNAL OF THE PLYMOUTH INSTITUTION. 
well kept, and in one of them I find the following well-known 
lines: 
‘‘Oh, now we have lost four wheels of Charles’s wain! 
Godolphin, Grevill, Travennion, Slanning, slaine 
With other stars belonginge to the same, 
Whose matchless valler the world could deign.”’ 
The Berry Registers contain in the case of burials a note that the 
affidavit that the body had been buried in woollen had been duly 
produced. This was in accordance with Acts of Parliament passed 
to lessen the importation of linen, and for the encouragement of 
the woollen and paper manufactures of the Kingdom, and which 
endeavoured to attain that object by inflicting a fine of £5 in the 
case of bodies buried in linen. The affidavit was required to be 
made within eight days and brought to the minister. At Berry in 
one case only was the £5 paid, that of Lady Ann Seymour, widow 
of Sir Edward Seymour, who died in 1688, and was himself buried 
in woollen. The entry of her ladyship’s burial is as follows: 
‘©1694, February the 11th. Then was buried the Honourable 
Lady Ann Seymour, of this parish, by Mr. John Prince, vicar. 
And paid for the burying in lening five pound according to the 
Acti’? 
In a chest in the vestry while examining the Registers I found 
an old book containing the churchwardens’ accounts for 1713-14 
and following years; the entries in which show that the practice 
of rewarding destroyers of animals, classed by the rural mind as 
vermin, out of the church funds, was in vogue here while Prince 
was vicar; and from the extracts which follow it will be seen that 
the prices were higher than in some other parishes. 
°1713-14, s. d. 
Pd. Mr. Lyd’s son for killing 16 Hoops (Bull-finches) . 1 4 
Pd. Roger Ford, Junier, for killing 2 Badgers 2 0 
Pd. Mr. Lyde for killing 30 Hoops 2 6 
Pd. Mr. Horsham’s boy for killing 7 Mage Homes 2 4 
More for 3 Jayes 0 6 
More for 9 Hoops and 10 Hrsenats (Tom Tits) . 0 10 
Pd. George Penny’s boy for killing 10 Heckmales si (0 Pas 
In 1717 there are many similar entries of payments for killing 
badgers, hoops, jays, fitches, greys (badgers), &c., and the following: 
‘‘Gave ye hunter when he killed ye Fox. : a geaag 
Pd. for meat ye 2nd day of Hunting ye Fox : ali fi 
Pd. Stockman for killing two Foxes : : MPs” 085 
