"1460. Item, sol' pro le skoryng de la belles sup' le Rode lofte iiijd. "1480. Item, paide for a doore in the rode lofte to save and kepe the people from the Orgayns xijd. Item, paide to a carpynter for makyng of the Crucyfix and the beme He standeth upon xls. Item, paide for kervying of Mary and John and the makyng newe xxxiij_s_. iiij_d_. Item, for gilding of the same Mary and John and the Crosse and iiij'or Evangelysts vj_l_. vj_s_. viij_d_. "1530. Item, payd to a labourer for helpying up the Roode Loft into the stepull viij_d_. "1534. Payd for a present for Mr. Alford and Mr. Herytage for ther good wyll for tymber for the newe Rode lofte ij_s_. ij_d_." The fickle tyrant Henry VIII. dies; a more consistent reign happily ensues. "1548. Item, for the takying downe of the Roode, the Tabernacle, and the Images iij_s_. vj_d_. Also payd to Thomas Stokedale for xxxv ells of clothe for the frunte of the Rode Lofte whereas the x Commandements be wrytten, price of the ell vj_d_. xxiij_s_. iiij_d_. Also payd to hym that dyd wryght the said x Commaundements and for ther drynking lxvj_s_. ix_d_." Queen Mary succeeds the boy-king Edward VI., and restores the Ritual of her Church. "1566. Item, payed for the Roode, Mary and John x_l_. "1557. Item, for peyntyng the Roode, Mary and John xl_s_. For makyng xvij candilsticks for the roode-light xj_s_. iiij_d_." Upon the accession of Queen Elizabeth once more, and this time for ever, the rood was destroyed, and the loft, though "reformed," did not long survive it. "1559. Payde to John Rialle for his iij dayse work to take downe the Roode, Mary and John ij_s_. viij_d_. For clevying and sawyng of the Roode, Mary and John xij_d_. "1560. Rec'd for the beame the Roode stood on, for boords and other tymber parcell of the Roode loft xlij_s_. For the rest of the stuf belongying to the Roode lofte ix_l_. For the great clothe that hong before the Rode xx_s_. Item, paide to joyners and labowrers abowt the takying downe and new reformyng of the Roode Loft, &c. xxxvij_l_. x_s_. ij_d_. Item, paide for boordes, glew, nayles, and other neccessaries belonging to the saide loft xiiij_l_. xiij_s_. ix_d_.