[222] (Dean) G.W. Kitchen, The Manor of Manydown, _Hants Rec. Soc_., 1895, 171. For other examples both of parish cows and sheep: see Hale, _Crim. Prec_., 221 (40 parish sheep of Billericay, Essex, for the relief of the poor. 1599). Littleton, Worcestersh. Acc'ts, _Midland Antiquary_, i (1883), 107 (Purchase of cow for parish in 1556). _Ibid_., 108 (Wintering of a church heifer). Morton, Derbysh., Acc'ts, _The Reliquary_, xxv, 17 (Same as above. 1593). Owen & Blakeway, _Hist. of Shrewsbury_, ii, 342 (St. Mary's had in 1544 ten cows and three sheep renting for £1 1s. 8d. yearly). Rotherfield Acc'ts, _Sussex Arch. Coll_., xli, 26, 46. St. Michael's, Bath, Acc'ts, _Somerset Arch_. (etc.) _Soc_., xxiii, introd., _et passim_. Great Witchingham, _Norf. and Norw. Arch. Soc_., xiii, 207 (Cows in 1604). Hartland, Devon, Acc'ts, _Hist. MSS. Com. Rep_., v, Pt. i (1876), 573a (Custom _circa_ 1601 for poor to leave sheep to church by will). Hudson, _Memorials_, etc., 106-10 (Parish meeting about renting out of cows. Surety bonds given by hirers in 1580 ff.). Many other examples will be found in the wardens acc'ts and elsewhere. [223] See Hudson, _op. cit., supra_, 106. In 1595 two cows were bequeathed to Lapworth to be rented out at 20 d. yearly. The proceeds of one to mend a certain parish road, of the other to support the poor (_ibid_., 109). [224] Art. xxv, Cardwell, _Doc. Ann_., i, 189 ff. So in the Visitation Articles of the same year (_ibid_., 213) we read: "Item, whether the money coming and rising of any cattle or other movable stocks of the church [etc.] ... have not been employed to the poor men's chest." [225] In North Elmham the term "office land" seems to have been used for lands set apart for the remuneration of parish servants. See A.G. Legge, _North Elmham Acc'ts_, 81, _s.a._ 1566: "It[e]m for office Land of the ten[emen]te fost[er] ... vij d." Cf. Mr. Legge's _note_ (p. 129). He cites other examples in Norfolk parishes, viz., "Constable Acre" in Stuston, "Constable Pasture" in Fralingham, "Dog Whipper's Land" in Barton Turf. Cf. J.L. Glasscock, _Records of Bishop Stortford_, 55 ("sexten's meade," 1563). In an early year _temp_. Henry VIII one Jesop left two tenements to Mendlesham, Suffolk, "to ye fyndyng of a clarke to pley att ye organys for a p[er]petuite." _Hist. MSS. Com. Rep_., v, Pt. i (1876), 596a. See also _Shrop. Arch. and Nat. Hist. Soc_., iii, 3rd ser. (1903), 315 (26s. and 8d. and 12 bushels of rye issuing annually out of Idsal rectory for the poor and the maintenance of a clerk). E. Freshfield, _St. Christopher-le-Stocks' Acc'ts_, 38 (Bequest of a perpetuity of 20s. annually for clerk and sexton. 1602). [226] Swyre, Dorset, Parish Acc't Book in _Notes and Quer. for Somer. and Dorset_, iii (1893), 293 (Lands allotted by parish for support of a blind man).