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Anno 1558. Elizabethae primo.
Imprimis, For the taking down of the Rood-lost, three shillings two pence.] If then; there living and able, I hope I should have lent an helping hand to so good a work, as now I bestow, my prayers, that the like may never in England be set up again.
Item, Received for a suite of Vestments, being of blew velvvet, and another suite of Damask, and an Altar-cloth, four pound.
Item, For three Corporasses, whereof two white silk, and one blew velvet, two pound thirteen shillings four pence.
Item, For two suits of Vestments, and an Altar-cloth, three pound.] Now was the superstitious Ward-robe dispersed, and that (no doubt) sold for shillings which cost pounds. They were beheld as the garments spotted with sin, and therefore the less pity to part with them. But see what followeth.