_Wooden Baldrocks._--_Thanksgiving-book._--In the vestry-books of St.
Peter's, Ruthin, co. Denbigh, there are some entries, explanations of which
will be very acceptable.
From 1683, and many subsequent years, there is a constant repetition in the
churchwarden's account of "Wooden Baldrocks," from time to time supplied
new to the parish.
In 1704, "A Thanksgiving-book" is charged in the parish accounts.
Query the use and nature of Baldrock? and what book is meant by a
Thanksgiving-book?
About the above period, continual payments are made for the destruction of
hedgehogs, which seem to be valued at sixpence a-piece, in some cases
fourpence; and to have been allowed in the parish accounts.