BILLS FOR STRANGE SERVICES.

The bill of the Cirencester painter, mentioned by Bishop Horne, (Essays and Thoughts,) is as follows:—

Mr. Charles Terrebee
To Joseph Cook, Dr.
To mending the Commandments, altering the Belief, and making a new Lord’s Prayer£1—1—0

Here is a Carpenter’s bill of the Fifteenth Century, copied from the records of an old London Church:—

s.d.
Item.To screwynge a home on e
y Divil, and glueinge a bitt on hys tayle		 vij
Item.To repayring e
y Vyrginne Marye before and behynde, & makynge a new Chylde		ijviij