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 ST. IVES 241 and another shilling for the drummer on that occasion. In 1681 there was trouble with the vicar who served the three parishes of St. Ives, Towednack, and Lelant, about the payment of tithes ; the vicar seems to have been non-resident, and often attended to his pastoral duties at incon- venient times. In 1690 King William's victory at the Boyne cost the borough a pound in merry- making, to which we may add the following entry of 5s. 6d. " for a Tar Barrell and Syder." In the same year an itinerant beggar seems to have won alms from the authorities under a false ticket : — Given ffrancis Browne by consent who brought a Let pas by that name, but afterwards his name apeared to bee ffrancis Jackson Is. Od. " Pd. the Cryer to whip him and for thongs Is. Id." Under the year 1693 we are reminded of perils, now happily impossible, that then lurked around these shores. There is an entrj'^ of half-a-crown paid to William Thomas "for his labour to goe to ffalmouth to give an account that two ffrench privateers lay in our bay " ; and a little later another half-crown was given " to ffower poore boyes that were taken by a ifrench privateer." The beginning of 1698 seems to have been especially devoted to charities; we have record of sums given to two distressed men and their children whose houses were burnt ; to two poor Irishmen cast away at Zennor ; to a poor traveller and his wife, a seaman who had lost his hand, a captain who had lost all his goods by Avreck, and a poor disbanded soldier. Also, four shillings given to two " poore soldiers which came from Silly." It has generally been understood that Scillonians