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 318 CHURCH OF ST. MARY MAGDALENE. We shall give only a few further instances in support of this statement. By the borough account for the year 162 1-2, it appears that .£20 were paid to Mr. John Seint- hill, minister, k for his year's stipend, and that £5 6s. 8d. were added " in regard " for him ; that 40s. were paid to William Middleton, the clerk ; 16s. to two men for ringing the great bell ; £4 to Thomas Downing for playing on the organs ; 6s. for cleaning the church and blowing the organs; and 5s. "to John Addams for trymming of the seates for M r Maior and the Aldermen." In this account 40s. are credited as having been " graunted by the Kinges ma tie and his most Royall auncestors, out of the Obite lands, to be paid by John Trevillian, Esq re ," with the note added, "The same xls disbursed to the poore this yeere by M r Hecks, late maior." We have not found any subsequent entry concerning this annuity. In 1640 the Mayor paid for a large quantity of new glass, which had been put into the church windows, and for "nue leadinge one schuchin [escutcheon] of arms;" also "for a boulte for ye maior s pue doore, and for mendinge the eight men's i.e. the aldermen's] seats in the churche." In 1642-3 Mr. William Gynn supplied the following for the communion : " December the 4th, ffor 7 quarts of malego sacke [sherry] 8s. 3d. January the 1st, for 8 qts of malego sacke 9s. 4d. Ffebeary 5th, for 6 qts of Tent 9s. March 26th, being Palm Sunday, for 13 quarts of sacke 15s. 2d. 30th of March, for 4 qts of sacke 4s. 8d. The last of March, being Good-a-Ffryday, for 4 qts of sacke 4s. 8d. Esterday, for 28 quarts of sacke £1 12s. 8d. Aprill 9th, for 4 qts of sacke 4s. 8d. August 6th, for 5 qts of sacke 5s. iod. October 3rd, for 5 qts of sacke 5s. iod. More, for bread for the Communion in that yeere 2s." A gentleman, whom we have named at page 201 (one William Shakespeare), records {King Henry IV., part i. act ii.) that Poins took from the pocket of the sleeping Jack