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from Lady-day to Michaelmas, and at six o'clock in the morning and seven o'clock in the evening from Michaelmas to Lady-day, and to toll the day of the month on the tenor bell immediately after, and to have a salary of two pounds and twelve shillings a year for their trouble.
March 17th, 1799, two 'guides,' armed and mounted, are to be at the 'Alarm Post or Rendezvous,' on Roborough Down, with three days' provisions and a blanket for a tent, to give alarm in case of invasion.
(2) In the Wardens' Account Book from 1750 to 1829 we have the usual entries about vermin, e.g. under 1787, two hedgehogs, 4d. ; Mr. Glanville's boy, for a badger, is. ; Thomas Doidge, for a fox, 5s. ; Philp, for a fitch and otter, Is. 4d. Under the same year we have, ' For hairing a bass bow, IS. 6d.' And so near our own time as 1825, ' Received from Mr. H. Rundle, late churchwarden, one violin and one tenor viol (no bow) ; from Mr. William Monk one violon- cello (no bow) — although by that time the church had its organ.
(3) The next Wardens' Account Book, from 1829 to 1846, gives the last church rate, in 1838, amounting to
- ^ 1 86 9s. In 1 84 1, ^600 being needed for repairing the
roof of the church, and ;^50 for annual expenses, and there being no chance of a church rate, owing to the state of the law and of public opinion, it was agreed to ask rent for the seats in the church, and to open a subscription list for the repairs. A church rate was attempted once more in February, 1845 ; but on a poll was defeated by 250 votes. From the first, the seat rents made a little short of ^170, which is just what they make still, in 1887. Under 1843 we have provision made for the Sunday evening lecture, the lecturer being the Rev. Thomas Gibbons, afterwards rector of Peter Tavy.
Rural Deans' Book. — This was provided July ist, 1822, by order of the Rev. R. H. Froude, archdeacon of Totnes, and father of the historian. The Rural Deans made notes of their visitations in it for ten years. But from 1837 it was laid aside for nearly fifty years, until the Rev. H. B. Grylls, vicar of Maristowe, made his entry as Rural Dean, in March, 1886.
Separate Dociiuients. — i. Copies [a) of the grant of the Tavistock Abbey lands to Sir John, Lord Russell, and Anna his wife ; {b) Of the Decree for the Augmentation of
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