[283] Rubric § 144 of the First Edwardine Prayer Book directs that as ministers are to find the elements, the congregations are to contribute every Sunday at the time of the offertory the just value of the holy loaf. See E. Freshfield, _St. Christopher-le-Stocks Vestry Minute Book_, p. vii, _et passim_. Stanford, Berks, Acc'ts, _Antiquary_, xvii, _s.a._ 1582 (2d. collected every Sunday for holy loaf). Mere Acc'ts (_Wilts Arch_. (etc.) _Mag_., xxxv, 38), _s.a._ 1568, _et passim_. [284] J.V. Kitto, _St. Martin's-in-the-Fields_ (London) _Acc'ts_, append. D., Vestry Order of 1590. Parish order of Salehurst (1582), _Sussex Arch. Coll_., xxv, 153. St. Margaret's, Westminster, Overseers Acc'ts in _Westminster Tobacco Box_, Pt. ii, 18 (1566). [285] _E.g._, at St. Laurence Pountney, London, the "clerk's wages" amounted in 1598 to nearly £30 in the wardens receipt items, but in the expense items to £8 plus various dues for lighting, bell-ringing and church-linen washing, in all £12 12s. Wilson, _History of St. Laurence_, 125. In the _St. Christopher-le-Stocks Acc'ts_ (ed. E. Freshfield), p. 4, the receipts in 1576 for "Clarkes wagis" are £9 6s. 5d., but we read: "Pd. to J.M. Clarke his whole yeares wagis [etc.] ... iij li." In _St. Margaret, Lothbury, Vestry Minutes_ (p. 13) it was decided in 1581 to raise the "clarkes rolle" to £8 a year, but expressly stated that the clerk is to be paid as before, "but That [the] overplus Shall remayn For astocke to the churche to beare owtt such charges as shalbe nessesarye for the same." In _St. Bartholomew, Exchange, Vestry Minutes_ (ed. E. Freshfield) in 1583 it is agreed (p. 27) that the clerk is to pay out of his wages the statutory assessment of 2d. weekly on the parish for maimed soldiers and mariners. Same stipulation at St. Alphage's, London Wall: G.B. Hall, _Records of St. Alphage_ (1882), 25 (1594). [286] _St. Mary, Reading, Acc'ts_ (ed. F.N. & A.G. Garry), p. 56. [287] Hill and Frere, _Memorials of Stepney_, 1-3 (1580). Later, 1606 (p. 50), the same method was employed to pay debts for casting the bells. Those not paying their assessments were to be deprived of their seats (p. 4). Other examples of raising money by pew rents are Butcher, _Parish of Ashburton_, 49 (£6 4s. collected "for the seat rent". 1579-80). _St. Christopher-le-Stocks Vestry Minutes_, 71 (Clerk's wages to be "sessed by the pyews").