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s.   d.
1513   4 loads sand to St. Clere's chancel ...    0    0    6 Nails to the roof there .........    0    0    6
1514   Lead bought in London for the church    5    3    1
1515   For working upon the frame of the clock
and dial in the steeple.........    0    2    0
The man who made the clockwork and
dial ...............    2    6    8
(The clock has figures on the north side to strike the hours, and the long pendulum swings inside the church.)
£ s. d. 1524 The shingellers for laying shingles and
mending the steeple ......... 1 10 4
1538   Paid for glassing the new window in the
church ......... ... ... 1 14 11
1539   Paid for charge when the south aisle
was taken down ... ... ... ... 3 10 0
1543   Timber work to the roof of the north
aisle ...............6 0 0
1544   Plaster of Paris, to mend the pillars in
the church           ............0 12
1547 Paid for one load of tiles, to lay on Saint
Peter's aisle ............0 10 4
100 great English bricks, and 100 Flemish bricks ...............0 18
The last-mentioned seem to have been for the half-arch by which a buttress in the south-east corner is joined to the church; it helps to support a small octagonal turret.
In 1522 we get a rather interesting reference to the religious play: * Paid for a coate made, when the Resurrection was played, for him that in playing represented the part of Almighty God £0 Is. Od." (The amount is decidedly disappointing.) In 1520 ratsbane for the church cost fivepence, and in 1547 one shilling and eightpence was laid out
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