human
[275] As the sum given by each was often noted down in
gpt
or
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Easter books, [276] and was, on denial, occasionally sued for before the official (together with dues for other purposes--clerk's wages, pew rents, etc., presently to be noticed), an
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is defined in a vestry order of Stepney parish, London, in 1581 as a duty of 1d. paid by each communicant at Easter
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These paschal dues, the order further informs us, had long been farmed by the vicar for 40s. yearly. But now the yield of a penny from each communicant was
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that only as a special mark of favor was the vicar to continue to farm it, but at £4 thenceforth instead of at 40s.[278]