_Costs paid for penting of the roodes, with karvying, and oder costs also._
"1497.
"Item. To Sir John Plomer, for makying of the fyugyrrs of the roode,
£0. 1ˢ 8ᵈ.
"Item. To the karvers for makyg of iii. dyadems,[19] and of oon of the
Evangelists, and for mendyg the roode, the crosse, the Mary and John,
the crown of thorn, with all odir fawts, £0. 10ˢ 0ᵈ.
"Item. To Undirwood, for peynting and gyldyng of the roode, the crosse,
Mary and John, iiii. Evangelists, and the iii. dyadems, with the
nobills that I owe to him in money, £5.
"Item. For makyng clene of standards, candlesticks, braunches, with the
bolls of laten upon the beame of the rodeloft, anenst the fest of Est.,
A.D., 1486."
EXTRACTS FROM THE CHURCHWARDENS' ACCOMPTS OF THE PARISH OF ST. HELEN'S,
ABINGDON.
"1555.
"Payde for making the roode and peynting the same, £0. 5ˢ 4ᵈ.
"For making the roode lyghtes, £0. 10ˢ 6ᵈ.
"For the roode lyghtes at Christmase, £1. 3ˢ 2½ᵈ.
"1557.
"Received of the paryshe for the roode lyghts at Christmas. Payde for
peynting the roode of Marie and John, and the patron of the churche,
£0. 6ˢ 8ᵈ.
"For the roode, Marie, and John, with the patron of the church, £0. 18ˢ
0ᵈ.
"1561.
"To the somner, for bringing the order for the roode loft.
"To the carpenter and others for taking down the roode lofte, and
stopping the holes in the wall, where the joices stoode, £0. 15ˢ 8ᵈ.
"To the peynter, for writing the scripture where the roode loft stoode,
and overthwarte the same isle, £0. 3ˢ 4ᵈ."