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The annual accounts of the Church Estate date from 1593, and are
written upon rolls of parchment, ten to twelve feet in length, by
the clerk for the Churchwardens, who received for his fee 26s. 8d.
As well as the expected details of income from rents and expenditure
on repairs, it is recorded that the Churchwardens also made payments
"for the killing of urchants (hedgehogs), owls, jackdaws, foxes
and fox cubs".
Also, in 1698, "For two quarts of Canary for the Archbishop, Vs"!!
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