For receipt items for palls in the acc'ts, see _St. Martin's-in-the-Fields Acc'ts_, 317 (1580), where "best cloth" nets 20d. on each occasion, the "worst" but 2d. See also Stepney vestry regulation of 1602 concerning fees to be paid for palls: _Memorials of Stepney_, 41-2. For expenses for making parish coffins see _St. Martin's-in-the-Fields Acc'ts, s. a_. 1546. Cf. _St. Edmund and St. Thomas, Sarum, Acc'ts_, introd., p. xx. _St. Helen, Bishopsgate, Acc'ts_ (ed. J.E. Cox), 103 (Ordinance of 1564 that those buried within the church are to be confined). Also the other acc'ts _supra_. At St. Edmund, Sarum, the wardens sold tombstones for the benefit of the parish (_Acc'ts_, 135. 1587-8). [292] _Memorials of Stepney_, 39-40. [293] See W.G.D. Fletcher, _Hist. of Loughborough (Acc'ts)_, 24: an order regulating fees for marriage peals in 1588. In _St. Edmund, Sarum, Acc'ts_, 127, are receipt items, being money turned over to the wardens by the sexton, for banns, christenings, etc. Cf. _Introd_. to _St. Edmund and St. Thomas, Sarum, Acc'ts_, p. xix. Cf. also _St. Laurence Pountney Acc'ts_ (Wilson, _Hist. of St. L_.), 124 (A marriage offering going to the parish. 1582). Usually marriage and churching dues went to minister and clerk (see tariffs, p. 221 _supra_). Chrisoms, _i.e._, white robes put on children when baptized, and given as an offering at churching, occasionally figure in the wardens' receipt items. See, _e.g_., J.E. Foster, _St. Mary the Great_ (Cambridge) _Acc'ts_, 156 (1565-7), _et passim. St. Thomas, Sarum, Acc'ts_, 282 (Chrisoms farmed out by the parish in 1562-3. In 1567-8 the value of the chrisom offerings is 40s.). See _Introd_. to _St. Edmund and St. Thomas, Sarum, Acc'ts_, p. xix. [294] See p. 27 _supra_. Also p. 35 _supra_. [295] _Provision for the poore now in penurie Out of the Store-House of Gods plentie, Explained by_ H. A[rth], London, 1597 (No pagination). "Wednesday suppers" refers to fasting nights appointed by proclamation or by statute. A not uncommon entry in the act-books is "no levy of the fyne of 12d." See, _e.g., Manchester Deanery Visit_., 57, _et passim. Barnes' Eccles. Proc_., 119, _et passim_. Hale, _Crim. Prec., passim_. Cf. in _Bishop Stortford Acc'ts_ (J.L. Glasscock, _Rec. of St. Michael, B. S_.), 64, the rubric: "Rec. of defaultes for absence" (9 names follow, each for 12d., except one for 3s.). _Dean of York's Visit_., 215 (Hayton wardens report to commissary that they have a small sum from absentees yet undistributed to the poor: "But it shalbe shortlie". 1570). [296] See examples in note 32, pp. 19 _supra_.