[297] _Warrington Deanery Visit_., 189 (Penance of three days standing in white sheet for fornication commuted--the offender "_humiliter petens_"--to 13s. 4d. to be paid to vicar and wardens of Ormschurch to be distributed to poor, etc.). Hale, _Crim. Prec_., 232-3 (Commutation of a penance for having a bastard into £5 to be paid for the repair of St. Paul's, London, and also into 34s. 4d. to be paid to wardens of Horndon-on-the-Hill for the poor. 1606). See also _Chelmsford Acc'ts_, 212 (20s. received in 1560 "toward the pavynge of oure churche for part of his penance"). _Abbey Parish Church Estate Acc'ts, s. a_. 1578 (20s. received for a "purgation" to go to parish poor and to church). [298] For some interesting receipt items see _The Westminster Tobacco Box_, Pt. ii, _Overseers Acc'ts_, 18 ff. (Fines in 1569 from a player beating a drum in service time; for selling coals on Candlemas day; for selling wood on Sunday; for driving a cart on that day, etc. In 1570 fines are received for retailing during service time, from proceeds of forfeitures of pots and dishes, etc., etc.). Wandsworth Acc'ts, _Surrey Arch. Coll_., xviii, 146 (Receipts for 1599 from fines for bricklaying on Sunday; for being in ale-house at service time--a number). [299] See John Hawarde, _Les Reportes del Cases in Camera Stellata_. 1593-1609 ed. W.P. Baildon (1894), _passim. E.g_., p. 91 (Offender fined £10 to use of poor for not laying sufficient ground to his cottages). _Ibid_. (Ed. Framingham, of Norfolk, fined £40 to use of poor for same offence. Oct. 14th, 1597). _Ibid_., 71 (Council commend a justice of the peace for condemning a Wilts engrosser to sell his corn to the poor 8d. under the price he paid for it). [300] Some examples taken from many are North, _St. Martin, Leicester, Acc'ts_, 119 (Agreement in 1571 by mayor and brethren to fine one refusing to be warden for the first year 10s. to the use of the church). _Ibid_., 142 (This fine raised in 1600 to 20s.). _St. Edmund and St. Thomas, Sarum, Acc'ts, Introd_., p. xi, and _St. Edmund's Acc'ts_, 121, 129. _Mere Acc'ts, 26_ (Parish order of 1556-7). _St. Margaret, Lothbury, Minutes_, 33 (An offer from a parishioner in 1595 of £10 for church repair, "condicynellie that the parish wowld dispence with him for the church warden, Officers and cunstable..."). _Ibid_., 36 and 45 (Two parishioners each pay £10, being exempted thereafter "from all services as Constableshipp, Churchwarden, syde men and any other offices whatsoever that the parish myght ... hereafter Impose uppon them...". 1607). _Memorials of Stepney_, 44 (Fine for not attending vestry. 1602). _Clifton Antiq. Club_, i (1888), 198 (40d. fine for absence from St. Stephen's, Bristol, vestry, 1524. For other fines, see _ibid_.). _Clifton Antiq. Club_, i, 195 (Same fine for absence from St. Thomas', Bristol, vestry. 1579). _St. Margaret, Lothbury, Minutes, passim_ (Fines for not accounting on a certain day, and for not auditing accounts).