(Vol. vii., pp. 262. 340.)
A tradition of similar character with that mentioned by E. G. R., and noticed by J. H. L., is reported to have occurred between the parishes of Shipdham and Saham Tony in Norfolk, of a corpse being found on the common pasture of Shipdham, which parish refused to bury it, and the parish of Saham Tony, therefore, was at the expense thereof, and claimed a considerable piece of the common pasture from Shipdham, in consequence of the neglect of the latter parish.
A fine continues to be paid by Shipdham to Saham to this time; and although many entries are made of such payments in the early parish accounts, beginning A.D. 1511, yet in no instance is it said the reason or cause of these payments being annually made. The said payments are not always of the same amount; they are sometimes paid in money and sometimes in kind, as the following instances show.
The first entry I meet with is in 1511:
Payd the halffe mark at Saham.
1512. Delyvyrd to same ij buschells of otts, viijd; in sylvr, ijd.
1513. The same payment as in 1512.
1514. No entry of any payment.
1515. Payd for woots to Saham, vjd, and ijd of mony.
1516. Payd to ye hallemarke, jd (not said if to Saham or not).