[301] Examples are found in W.F. Cobb, _St. Ethelburga-within-Bishopsgate_, London, _Acc'ts_, 5 (10s. received of a schoolmaster allowed to keep school in the belfry. 1589). _Ibid_., same p. ("Receaved of the owte cryar for a quarters rente for settynge of goodes at the churche doore ... iiis. iiijd..." 1585). The canons of 1571 forbid this practice: "_Non patientur [sc_. the wardens] _ut quisquam ex ... istis ... sordidis mercatoribus ... quos ... pedularios_ [peddlars] _appellant, proponant merces suas vel in coemeteriis vel in porticibus ecclesiarum_ [etc.]...", Cardwell, _Syn_., i, 124. St. Michael's, Lewes, Acc'ts, _Sussex Arch. Coll_., xlv (1902), 40, 60 ("Recd for sarttayn standyngs agaynst the cherche at Whytson fayar xvd." 1588). Similar items to the last are found in many accounts. See also _St. Mary the Great_, Cambridge, _Acc'ts_, 215 (Receipt items "for the chirch style before his house"; for the rent of the "p[ar]ishe ground wherevpon his chymney standythe". 1588). _Ibid_., 203 ("Yt ys also agreyd that goodman Tomson shall from hence forthe paye vnto the p[ar]yshe for hys byldynge into the Churche yarde 12d. by the yeare." 1584). [302] Thus in 1561 Kingston-upon-Thames church sold brushwood growing upon its land for £14 7s. 8d.: _Surrey Arch. Coll_., viii, 77. In 1573 the wardens of St. Michael's in Bedwardine _(Acc'ts_ ed. John Amphlett, p. 74) brought a suit for the value of eight trees sold to one Lode, alleging that the defendant had promised to pay the price "for the reparacions of the ... church and reliff of the pore..." [303] For the form and wording of such a licence see Parish Registers and Documents of Kingston-upon-Thames, etc.: _Surrey Arch. Coll_., ii (1864), 92 (1591). The fee according to royal proclamation was 6s. 8d.: _St. Margaret, Lothbury, Vestry Minutes_, 9. For receipts from this source see _St. Ethelburga-within-Bishopsgate Acc'ts_, 5, _et passim_, as well as the other London acc'ts already cited. Cf. Cardwell, _Doc. Ann_., i, 370-2, for Council's letter to the archbishop of Canterbury on the observance of Ember Days and Lent. [304] _E.g._, see in _St. Mary the Great_, Cambridge, _Acc'ts_, 227-9 and 240-2, long lists of persons from all parts of England who contributed in the years 1592-4 towards the rebuilding of St. Mary's steeple. A host of proctors licenced under the broad seal, or by the justices of the peace, or otherwise, went from parish to parish soliciting contributions for churches, alms-houses, hospitals, etc. They seem to have entered parish churches at service time and disturbed or annoyed the congregations. This probably led to the parish order of Mere, Wilts _(Mere Acc'ts_, p. 80, in _Wilts Arch_. [etc.] _Mag_.), which in 1585 forbade such persons going about the parish or entering the church, but enjoined them all to repair to the Mere churchwardens for contributions to be given at the expense of the parish.