human
amounted in 1598 to nearly £30 in the wardens receipt items, but in the expense items to £8 plus various dues for lighting, bell-ringing and church-linen washing, in all £12 12s. Wilson, _History of St. Laurence_, 125. In the _St. Christopher-le-Stocks Acc'ts_ (ed. E. Freshfield), p. 4, the receipts in 1576 for
gpt
Clarkes wagis are £9 6s. 5d., but we read:
human
Pd. to J.M. Clarke his whole yeares wagis [etc.] ... iij li. In _St. Margaret, Lothbury, Vestry Minutes_ (p. 13) it was decided in 1581 to raise the
gpt
to £8 a year, but expressly stated that the clerk is to be paid as before,