Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries. 223 For mending one wheel for the lesser bell of the church 2|^- For the making of three corporals ig- with 5'^- for red P'iartariny for the same. For the mending of the pavement in the nave of the church 6*^- For the mending of the principal chalice of the church iS"^- For one copy of the ... of the Town for the rents of Baldwin Bolle, 4"^ For paper bought l^- Sum 28^- 2^^- Payments of Obits {Soluc' Obituu') For the obits of William Taverner, Robert Taverner, John and Nicholas Godman and others 3'- For the obits of Richard Olyuer, Joan his wife, John Dyrkyn, Agnes Wodelegh and other benefactors of the church 6=- S- For divers obits, paid the Rector of this church for (? souls) of [persons who died in] the olden times, 2i^- Sum II'- 5'^- Sum of all Expenses 48'- ii^^- And they owe 53'- i- Of which there is allowed them 2=- of the rent formerly Baldwin BoUe's, which cannot be collected (levari), of last year. And 2^- of the same rent, of this year because it cannot be ... . and because there is pending the arbitra- tion of Richard Bosonn, Citizen of Exeter, as being newly elected in this negotiation. And they owe 49=- i- Of which there is allowed them 6'^- for expenses about the Plea {p'lit') of the rents of Baldwin Bolle for several times. And they owe 48^- y^- Endorsed: — Account of John Sporier and John RofFe ii*** and 12"' years of H. iiij° / 150 151.! 3^ p.7-^f, Ethel Lega-Weekes. 188. Richard Crosse. — It is stated that Richard Crosse, the miniature painter, was born in Devonshire in 1745. Can any reader give the name of his place of birth and where
- i.e., Cloth^ from Taitary. See Du Cange.
t The last was presumably the 151st of a series of bygone accounts which have unhappily disappeared.
