"Item. To Undirwood, for peynting and gyldyng of the roode, the crosse, Mary and John, iiii. Evangelists, and the iii. dyadems, with the nobills that I owe to him in money, £5. "Item. For makyng clene of standards, candlesticks, braunches, with the bolls of laten upon the beame of the rodeloft, anenst the fest of Est., A.D., 1486." EXTRACTS FROM THE CHURCHWARDENS' ACCOMPTS OF THE PARISH OF ST. HELEN'S, ABINGDON. "1555. "Payde for making the roode and peynting the same, £0. 5ˢ 4ᵈ. "For making the roode lyghtes, £0. 10ˢ 6ᵈ. "For the roode lyghtes at Christmase, £1. 3ˢ 2½ᵈ. "1557. "Received of the paryshe for the roode lyghts at Christmas. Payde for peynting the roode of Marie and John, and the patron of the churche, £0. 6ˢ 8ᵈ. "For the roode, Marie, and John, with the patron of the church, £0. 18ˢ 0ᵈ. "1561. "To the somner, for bringing the order for the roode loft. "To the carpenter and others for taking down the roode lofte, and stopping the holes in the wall, where the joices stoode, £0. 15ˢ 8ᵈ. "To the peynter, for writing the scripture where the roode loft stoode, and overthwarte the same isle, £0. 3ˢ 4ᵈ." EXTRACTS FROM THE CHURCHWARDENS' ACCOMPTS OF HEYBRIDGE. "Payde for waxe for the roode-lofte light agenst Chrystemas last paste, pryce the pounde 10ᵈ, £0. 4ˢ 2ᵈ. "A cloth of the Passyon to hang in the roode lofte in Lente." EXTRACTS FROM THE CHURCHWARDENS' ACCOMPTS OF WALBERSWICK. "Item. Paide to Robt. Bungyng, for helpyng of oon borde in the roode lofte, £0. 0ˢ 2ᵈ. "Item. Payd for mendyng and staying yᵉ roodeloft, in hale, £0. 0ˢ 2ᵈ. "Item. To ye said Stephin, for mendyng yᵉ herne wark in yᵉ rode lofte, £0. 0ˢ 4ᵈ." WOODBRIDGE. "Hic jacet Johannes Albred quondam Twelewever, istius ville. Ob. primo die Maii, 1400, et Agnes uxor eijus. "This Twelewever, with Agnes, his wife, were at the charges (people of all degree being, as then, forward to beautifie the house of God), to cut, gild, and paint a rood loft or partition betwixt the body of the church and the quire, whereon the pictures of the crosse and crucifixe, the Virgin Mary, of angels, archangels, saints and martyrs are figured to the life: which how glorious it was when it was all standing, may be discerned by that which remaineth. This, their work of pietie, was depensild [painted] upon the fabricke, of which so much as is left. "'Orate.—Johannes Albrede et Agnetis—Soluerunt pro pictura totius hujus operis superne:—videlicet, crucis crucifixi, Marie, archangelorum et totius candeleb.' "The names of some of the saints pourtraied upon the worke and yet remaining, are these, S. Paul, S. Edward, S. Kenelm, S. Oswald, S. Cuthbert, S. Blaze, S. Quintin, S. Leodegare, S. Barnaby, S. Jerome."—From Weever's Funeral Monuments. ACCOUNT OF THE SCREEN IN THE CHURCH OF ST. GILES-IN-THE-FIELDS.