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ACCOUNTS. 131 the year. Rents paid to the co-heirs of Landew and others, as in a former account, including the fee farm and rent of the Park Mill, the Provosts being now Robert Skelton and John Alyn. Pensio?is to Officers. To Edward Aysscheton for advice, 20s.; to Thomas Lannoy, Mayor, 40s. ; to John Stevyn, senior clerk of the Mayor, [sum obliterated] ; to Laurence Martyn, Mayor's bailiff, 6s. 8d. ; to John Dawe, sexton, for keeping "le clokke," 6s. 8d. ; to the keeper of the clothes of the Church, and for reparation of the vestments, &c. Other general expenses are, Tax to the King, 28s. 4d. ; for carriage of the same money to Leskyryd, nd. ; for bread, hay, lodgings, &c, for the Justices, as in former accounts ; for money paid to Lymbery, one of the burgesses of parliament, 20s.; and for money paid to William Mounce, one of the burgesses of parliament, 20s.. &c. Charges for covering the Church ; for two skins of parchment bought by the .Mayor for writing down the knights' fees of our town; paid to the Dean for his office, id.; for beating the bell for a year, i4d.; for repairing the almshouse ; for cleansing the west well, &c. Then follow expenses for wine and bread; among these is, for the Mayor and Commonalty, when they made " le bondar " of the Pillory ; to the wife of Earl Somersede ; to costs of bread and ale about Michael Power and John Trelauny; wine to Thomas Wyse, Esq. ; wine expended between the Mayor and Commonalty upon the fishing which they made at Lawhitton ; wine given to Roger Champernon ; wine expended in the night of Mary Magdalene between the Mayor and the minstrels ; expended in wine on the day when they were put in seisin of the field of John Page, at Carnforde ; one quart of wine to Lymbury ; one bottle of ale given to Walter Colle, chaplain, and other singers on the day of St. Giles; wine given to Nicholas Aysscheton, Justice; to Hugh Cortenay, chr.; to Barron Carrew; to Edward Aysscheton, at Kalyngton, &c. &c. The usual sources of Income of the Corporation follow. Under the various heads, are : 1st, The Pillory : Sums paid to a carpenter and other persons for erecting and covering the Pillory ; for lath nails ; for laythys ; lime and sand ; scapulating of eleven Polifant bodyr stones, 22d. ; and of six bodyr Polifant stones, like to "le bodyr;" for the purchase of Polifant stones, 22d. ; for carriage of same, 3d. ; for raising the timber at the Pillory ; for two clavils and the carriage thereof; for 4000 covering stones; for six blakys, K 2