[46] Except in the city of London and some few other places, the chancel was at the charge of the rector or other recipient of the great tithes. Sidney and Beatrice Webb, English Local Government (1906), 20, note. Also W.G. Clark-Maxwell in Wilts Arch. etc. Mag., xxxiii (1904), 358. H.B. Wilson, History of St. Laurence Pountney (London, 1831), 73.
[47] Canterbury Visit., xxvi, 21.
[48] Ibid.
[49] Ibid., 32. In 1599 the wardens of this parish inform the archdeacon that both church and churchyard need repairs "which we mean shortly to do." The next year, too, they make a report in almost identical words. Ibid., 33.
[50] See p. 15 supra.
[51] Dean of York's Visit., 341.
[52] Numerous other presentments at visitations for failure to supply the requisites for worship besides those adduced in the text will be found in Hale, Crim. Prec., 173 (A warden failing to supply the elements for communion, 1579-1580) Ibid., 154 ("The rode lofte beame, the staieres of the rode loft standinge, the churche lacketh whittinge to deface the monuments." 1572), etc. Barnes' Eccles. Proc._, 115 ("The Degrees of Mariage" and "the Postils" lacking. 1578-1579). Warrington Deanery Visit., 189 ("Cloth for the communion table." 1592). Visitation of Manchester Deanery in 1592 by the Bishop of Chester in Lancashire and Cheshire Antiquarian Soc. Tr., xiii, 58. (Communion cup lacking). Ibid., 62 ("Noe fonte," and christenings in "a bason or dish"). This source hereinafter cited as Manchester Deanery Visit.
[53] Hale, Crim. Prec., s. a. 1587 (21st June).
[54] Manchester Deanery Visit., 66 (1592). Cf. Canterbury Visit., xxv, 23 (1600).
[55] Hall, Crim. Prec., 13 (1598).