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 ACCOUNTS. 205 Extracts fro?n the accounts (on paper) during the mayoralty of William Moreton, for the year ending Michaelmas, 1572, the auditors being Thomas Hicks and John Fugars, Aldermen, and William Seymour and Thomas Peter, Burgesses. Paid a mason for towe daies worke to mende the schole house, is. 6d. ; Paid for making the beacon, and for furses for hit, 2s. 6d. ; Paid to Hodge for way ting for my Lord Judge, 2d. ; Paid him for covering Mr. Kynipis pytt [grave], 2d. ; Paid Geffryes' two boyes for lesing stones, 4d. ; paid Pears his wief, for boylid appulls geiven the children that leassed stones, 2d. ; Key for the pound-dore, 6d. ; For making clean the newe markett, and the stayres, at the fayre, 6d. ; To Mr. Parre for songs he bought, 3s. ; Item, delivered Nicholas Helyar, for the Quinclecem money, [Taxes of i/i5th] this yere 47s. 8d. ; Paid for the Subsidye of the towne, 26s. 8d. ; Paid, at the visitacon yn Aprill, for the great Bell, 4d. ; For Peter farthings, iod. ; For the dynner of the 2 wardens, 2 sidemen, and the prist, 2od.; to Radulphe Hicks, for a daies worke at St. John's Chaple, 6d.; For a dyner to the constables of Lawhitton, 6d. ; Paid for mending sixe psalter bookes, 2s. 8d. j for a hoggesheadd of wine geiven to my lord Bishoppe, w th the carage, 52s. ; for mending the clock wheiles, and for reading [cleaning] the towne, at soundre tymes, this yere, 2s. 6d. ; for two bokes of the statutes, 4s. ; for a song w ch I brought from Exeter, at the request of Mr. Parre, i8d. ; Delivered 40 lb. of Iron when the Bell was cast w ch servid for the furnace, 5s. ; for expenses in riding to Exeter Sessions, about busines of the towne's w fc Mr. Newcoorte, vpon that he would not allowe suche as be free in fayers, 5s.; For a song of sixe parts, 12& ; for a song of Magnyficat of v. parts, i8d. ; William Semo re praieth to be allowed for that he rode to London on the towne business, being served w* subpena, w th other of the towne, Mr. Hicks then being Mayor; Delivered unto William Wise halfe pounde of gounepowder, 9d.; unto Mr. Piper ilb. of gounepoder, i8d.; Mr. Crassen di (half) lb. of powder, od. ; [and powder is delivered to eight other persons] j for paper for their shot, is. j unto Charles Prist on(e) mache, 2d. [many others receive matches, and some of these also receive powder] ; for 3 gyrdells to hang the flaxes, 3d. j for sugar for the towne, delivered to Mr. Piper, 8'd. j and for a sugar lof, geiven awaye by the towne, conteyning i3 h 9 oz., 20s. 3d.; pd. to four prisoners, i2d.; To a pore man of St. Kayne, 4d.; to one that hadd burnt his house,