Andrew's. The following looks like a case of grave suspicion, in reference to a period when the character of judges was not like that of Cæsar's wife, and when juries of "honest and true" men did not disdain a "refresher." Robert Walker, the churchwarden in 1573, hands in a "reckoning" thus: "Paid at Evesham Assizes. In p'mis, for the juries dinner. ix_s._ vi_d._ To John Wiche, for attending upon the jury. iv_d._ For m'gment (probably "management") of the p'vie (privy) verdict. xii_s._ To the judge for the same. vi_s._ viii_d._ To the baylye Button for watching the jury. ii_s._" The clerk of the assize, the crier, and others, also had their fees on the occasion. Besides the regular yearly income of the parish, it appears that lands were left at Synglebarrow, in the parish of Great Horwood, Buckingham, out of which a small payment was made (probably in rotation) to the Corporations of Worcester, Winchester, and Reading, the towns of Calne and Aylesbury, and the parishes of St. Michael and Great Horwood. In 1779, the citizens being about to petition Parliament to increase the powers under their act for supplying the city with water, paving the streets, &c., and having proposed to extend the said act to the parish of St. Michael, in order to avoid union with the city in the said act, which it was apprehended might prove injurious to them, the several proprietors of lands and houses situate next the city engaged voluntarily to remove obstructions, and to pave their soils from St. Mary's Steps to the College Gates, at their several costs, and a committee was appointed to direct the execution thereof. The only other entries remaining to be noticed are the following curious ones: 1548.--"Paid Robert Browne for a jack, two s----, and a byll. ix_s._ Paid for another jack to the tayler at Knowle End. v_s._ iv_d._" Was this "jack" one of those stuffed figures formerly carried about in processions, like the "Jack-o'-Lent," &c.? 1559.--"For ledd, and making of tokens at Easter vi_d._" What these tokens were required for at Easter I cannot ascertain, but suppose them to have been for some religious purpose. Tokens for change do not occur before the time of Charles I, and they were made by tradesmen, not parishes, and had nothing to do with Easter. In the year 1660, John Martin, bell founder, was employed in "casting and hanging the second bell." This was at the Worcester foundry, which was in operation a few years only, which is still called "Bellfounders' Yard," Silver Street. Lastly, in 1769, one of the vestry meetings was attended (or at least the minutes are signed by) seven women and seven men. This introduction of the feminine element, however, seems to have been a very rare exception to the rule in those days.