Under the reign of Mary, old customs were partly revived, as charges
were again made for the pascal taper, wax, frankincense, and charcoal
in Lent; Mr. Blunt's man was remunerated "for his paines when he sett
the cross and the rest of the stuffe;" Father Charlemayne was paid 6d.
for mending the crysmatory; 7d. was charged for chains for the censer;
"Raffe Pynner" mended the pyx; and apparently the high altar was
reinstated, for after the death of her Majesty, 6d. was paid for taking
down the altar, and 3s. "for paving the place and making clean of it."
The parish went to but small expense in solemnising Queen Mary's death,
9d. only having been spent "for quene majesty's obit." The Paraphrases
of Erasmus had been previously purchased at a cost of 11s., and, with
a Bible in English, chained to a lectern. The rood loft was now pulled
down, and sold as old timber for 3s. This was in 1561, at which time
another inventory of the church goods was furnished, as follows:
"A processional, the portuas in two parts for the whole year,
a missal, a manual, a book for christening and burying, a
pall lyned, and a old pall onlyned, an old vestment of silk,
a front of an alter of red and white satten, with flourdelich
(_fleur de lis_), two albes, two surplices for childern, a
little pillow of green, two towels with blew thredd, a bible, a
book of comon ----, six stoles for the neck and arm, a book of
the paraphrasis, two parelles for albes, a lamp, and certaine
pieces of an old lamp, two iron roddes with stockynns upon
them, and two curteins of red and yellow, the pastall tapur
and eight endes of other tapurs, the sepultre without a hedd,
a cross cloth of green silk, a corp ---- case, a chalis and
patten, two table cloths, two surplises for men, one old cloth
to cover the com'n bord."
A "cupp and pott for the com'n bord" was purchased in 1566 at a cost of
3s., and 6d. for the carriage of it from London. The "frame where our
little bell hanged"--probably the sanctus bell--was taken down in 1580.
Fifteen years later, Nicholas Archbold, the churchwarden, chargeth
himself with 7s. 9d. "received from Fowlke Broughton for the old bible
of the church, and also with 12d., which this accountant, before the
sale thereof, received of one Mr. Morrys, a relator to the Council in
the Marches of Wales, in earnest of the said bible, which 12d. was
forfeited by him, for that he fetcht not the book as he p'mised." Mr.
Morris, no doubt, was more punctual in his subsequent dealings with
churchwardens. The old communion book was also disposed of for 3s. 4d.;
but "a newe fayer Englishe bible of the last translacon authorised in
the church" was purchased for 16s., and a new communion book for 6s. 8d.
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