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��a-piece. In April, 1800, Mr. William Harness agrees to attend the poor for ;^io a year; and Charles Conian to furnish good beef and mutton to those in the workhouse at 5 id. a pound. One rate in 1800 amounted to £60 9s. 6d., and of this £g los. was in Irish money. In December, 1800, .^892 was subscribed by 54 persons, whose names are given, as a special fund to meet the distressed state of the poor, and to be administered by a committee of twenty- five. In the assessment under March, 1799, are many names of places, now much altered, or little known, e.g. Pixton Hill, Particliff Wood, Muchaparks, Pittapase, Newton Chapel, Impham, Two Meadows Part, Winson- means, Kemps Hole, Brigge Parks, Butworthy, Wapisworth, Indescombe, Deer Park Lodge, House late a fulling, Sandy Parks, Sweethams, Herdwick Ho: and Quillets, Trixes ]\Ieadow, Maudlins, Down housen, A Ho: by the Church Bow, A Trulling Mill, Cake's Hill, Ho: at Mount Hungry, Bray's Pixton, Oldwooder, The Rectory, Abbey Ho: Maggy Lane.

Churchwardens Books. — (i) After the first book, which has been worked in with the old MSS., comes a vestry book, from February 20th, 173I, to Sunday, October 3rd, 1802, This book was recovered from private hands, at the cost of £\ 5s., in November, 1885. It has many interesting entries. Here are three specimens: January 29th, 1789, a Sunday-school was established under the control of the parish vestry. It was to be managed by a monthly com- mittee of four, and voluntary contributions were to be made up by the rates. The children were to meet in school at 8 a.m. in summer, and at 9 a.m. in winter, and to go from school to church. In the afternoon, they met at 1.30 p.m. for an hour and a half schooling before church, and they ended this day of rest with two hours more in school after service in the summer, and an hour and a half in the winter. It is ordered that as little severity is to be used as possible, but if necessary that little must be used. Ten rules are given for the guidance of the teachers, who are paid for their labour. This method, it is said, must be observed, *as order and regularity are the life and soul of instruction.'

July 27th, 1794, it is ordered that Edward Bennett, Richard Rundle, James Andrews, and Thomas Monk be appointed to ring the sixth bell for ten minutes, at five o'clock in the morning and nine o'clock in the evening

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