[255] In 1605 and 1606, doubtless to meet some extraordinary expenses, the Mere wardens roused themselves to great efforts at their church-ale, and netted £15 6s., and £20 respectively. Sir Rich. Colt Hoare, _Hist. of Modern Wiltshire_ (1822), i, 21. [256] Kitchen, _Manor of Manydown_, 174. At this ale there were six tables and the receipts from each were tabulated separately. For other large receipts see the Wing, Bucks, Acc'ts, _Archaeologia_, xxxvi, 219 ff. In 1598 the ale here yielded £9 16s. 4d. At Morebath, a small and poor parish, an ale had produced £10 13s. 5d. in 1529. but the receipts from this source fell off here in Elizabeth's time. At Stratton, Cornwall, up to 1547, at any rate, if not later, ales were the chief source of income. _Archaeologia_, xlvi, 195-6. [257] _Devon Notes and Quer_., iii (1905), 224. Cf. the Young Men Wardens' ales at Morebath (Binney, _Morebath Acc'ts_, 213 [1573], _et passim_). Also St. Anthony's Gild ales at Chagford. _Devon Ass. for Adv. of Science_, viii, 74 (1599). Various persons at Milton Abbot sold ale and bread. _Op. cit_., vol. xi (1879), 218. [258] _Notes and Quer. for Somer. and Dorset_, v (1897), 48. The same year in these acc'ts we find three conduit wardens mentioned. These are to have "the assistance of William Ellis plomer [plumber]." Of them it is also determined that they "do kepe an alle for the comodetie of the [Transcriber's note: WORD ILLEGIBLE] dytts in the sayd Towne to be kept abowts the tyme of Shrofftyde," [Transcriber's note: WORD(S) ILLEGIBLE] just before Lent. [259] Butcher, _The Parish of Ashburton_, 41. It would seem that there were special wardens here for ale drawing. (See p. 44 [1570-1].) [260] _Archaeologia_, xxxvi, 235. [261] "And because John Watts hath ben long sick, hit is agreed that if hee be not able to s[e]rve at the tyme of the Church ale, That then John Coward ... shall s[e]rve and be king in his place for this yeare." Mere Acc'ts (_Wilts Arch. Mag., l.c_., 34) _s.a._ 1561. Cf. J.H. Matthews, _History of St. Ives_ (1892), 144, _et passim_. [262] Bishop Hobhouse, _Churchwdn's Acc'ts of Croscombe, Pilton_, etc., _Somerset Rec. Soc_., iv (1890), 80, where he says: "The [Yatton] wardens attended these festivals at Ken, Kingston, Wrington, Congresbury, etc., with more or less regularity, making their contributions, commonly xijd. in the name of the parish and at the cost of the parish ..." Cf. _Morebath Acc'ts_ (ed. Binney), 224: "It there was payd a trinite Sonday at the Churche ale at Bawnton [Bampton] for John Skynner ... xjd." (1565). Mere Acc'ts (_Wilts Arch. Mag_.), 60: "Item paied for bread and drink to make the Sum[m]er Lord of Gillingham Drink ... ijs. vjd." (1578-9). T. Nash, _Hist. and Antiq. of Worcestershire_, ii, appen., p. xxix (Halesowen Acc'ts: "Paid when we went to Frankley to the church ale 20d.").