1687.--"Spent at the Ffish after the French Protestants' money was gathered," 6s. 8d. "Ditto, ditto, when the money was paid in," 2s. 4d. "Spent at Ffish with severall p'ishioners abt ye comandments," 1s. 6d. Among other curious sources of expenditure are the following: /# 1681. "Paid Mr. Lea for howsling pence (or huslinge money, as it is elsewhere called), 11d." This probably means what is now called Sacrament-money. Howsel, an ancient name for bread, was in former times applied to the sacrament of the eucharist, as before the Protestant Reformation the sacrament of both kinds was restricted to the clergy, and the sacramental cup was forbidden to the laity. In the certificates of colleges and chantries for Worcestershire, 2 Edward VI, the persons who received the holy communion are called "howsling people"; and in the line in Hamlet, where the Danish prince, after complaining that his father had been sent out of the world before his time, adds-- "With all his imperfections on his head, _Unhouselled_, unanointed, unannealed," he evidently means that his royal sire had not received the last offices of religion; "unhouselled" meaning that he had not received the sacrament of the eucharist; "unanointed" that he had not received the Roman Catholic sacrament of extreme unction; "unannealed," or as it should be _unanknelled_, that he had not had the passing bell tolled for him as he was dying, to cause all pious Christians to pray for his soul. 1679.--"For a warrant to take the names of the Papists," 6d. This was probably in consequence of the excitement following the discovery of Titus Oates's Popish plot. A subsequent allusion to the Romanists occurs many years afterwards, when it was "agreed that Papist Franks' child be put on the roll," as though it had been a matter of grave deliberation first. I suppose this means, that belonging to Popish parents precluded children from the benefit of being put on the rolls for parochial relief, but that after some discussion this single case (perhaps a pressing one of destitution) was admitted. 1682.--"For paceboard for the excomunicated p'sons," 4d. 1683.--"Charges of the excomunication," £6. 10s. The above charges were probably for a list of Papists and others who had been excommunicated in the Ecclesiastical Court here, and which list was fixed to the church door. Excommunication may still in some cases form part of the sentence of our ecclesiastical courts, but is now regulated by the statute 53 George III, chap. 127.