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ACCOUNTS. 177 person in charge of one bestie called a camele, i6d. ; also expenses of the Mayor in riding to Lostwythyell to the session of the peace, on affairs of the Town, 2s. 8d. ; and reward to divers players of Plymouth and Launceston, 2s. Among the costs of the Church are, For four hammers for the bells ; for mord for the bells, and repairing the old colers ; paid the Dean for closing the Church door, id.; paid for cord for le sanctus belle; paid for one iron vase called a panne to carry coals of fire, 4d. The large purchase of stores in this year points to the probability that some of them were being applied to the covering of the Church, e.g. paid for 34,000 of covering stone, bought of John Person and John Gybbe, with the carriage thereof, at the price of 2s. 7d. per 1000; total, £4. 7s. iod. Paid John Polmargh for 500 of helyng stone, i4d. ; Richard Lorde, for twenty-one quarters and two bushels of lime, with the carriage thereof, and with one penny paid for le yernest, 54s. 5d. ; for 100 bushels of sand, with the carriage thereof, 8s. 4d.; for 3,500 of latthes, with the carriage, 1 8s. ; for 42,000 helyng pynnes, bought at divers prices, 10s. 3^d. ; for 9,200 lathe nayls, 7s. 8d.; and for 96 feet of crests, bought at divers prices, 13s. 2^d. There are also the following entries : Paid John Polmargh for roofing houses and the Church, 61 days, and for meats and drinks, 32s. 7^d. ; paid helyers; paid John Lauerans for manufacturing and polishing stones called tyle in the Church; paid a plumber for repairing the Church, and a man for attending him, and meat and drink, and for cleaning "le leds." Many tenements are recorded as unoccupied, and, among them, "one tin work at Redemore;" one piece of land called "le butte pece," because it ran entirely for the use of the Guild of St. George ; 1 toft called Chiketysewallys in decaye, &c. 1 53 1. A parchment roll, of which one half, from top to bottom, through the writing, has been destroyed by damp, is indorsed, in modern handwriting, 23 Henry VIII. (1531.) The account evidently embraces all usual matters. Among the borough officers we can discover Eggecomb as Recorder, and Trecarell, Esq., as chief-steward. A " player of the lord the King " received a present, and the words "Queen of Gall." appear in an unfinished sentence. There is a payment for " 4 le Bucks skynnes for the books," and the stannary work or tin work in Radmore is again in arrear for its rent. N