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I finde that by Church-ales hertofore many poore Parishes have cast their Bells, repaired their Towers, beautified their Churches, and raised stocks for the poore. Wm. Prynne, _Canterburies' Doome_, etc. (1646), 151. Cf. Philip Stubbes, _Anatomie of Abuses_ (4th ed., 1595), 110-11. _Spudeus:_
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But, I pray you, how do they bestow that money which is got thereby? [_i.e._, by church-ales]. _Philopomus:_
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Oh well, I warrant you, if all be true which they say; for they repaire their Churches and Chappels with it; they buy bookes for service, Cuppes for the celebration of the Sacrament, Surplesses for Sir John [_i.e._, the parson], and such other necessaries. And they maintaine other extraordinarie charges in their Parishes besides.
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(_i.e._, so much corn of each one) at Easter,
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J.E. Binney, _Morebath Acc'ts_ (1904), 86. When in 1651 at St. Thomas', Salisbury, clerk-ales were abolished,