2. More by a score then I hope wilbe payd these two dayes.

poore wretches, you have payd for your Capon sauce.

And, honest frend, thou knowst and darest, I hope, Believe me I will see thee payd for all.

I owe my life and service to the King, (The king of England) let me pay that Bond Of my allegeance; &, that being payd, There is another obligation, One to a woefull Wife & wretched Children Made wretched by my misery.

Two monthes paye They have before hand for to make provision, Needfull provision for so longe a voyage, And two monthes paye theyr wives are yearely payd The better to mayntayne theyr poore estate

The tribute payd by the Christians his Subiects is one gold ducat yeerely for the redemption of euery head, which may amount vnto not so litle as one Million of golden ducats, which is sterling three hundred threescore thousand pounds.

I wishe myne eares had to the pillorye Payd tribute rather then let in this sounde.

Not a pore simple jest hathe made me smyle Tyll I had payd the tribute of my cares Over and over.

To him and them our vowes must next be payd.

The church accounts of the year 1560 tell us what it cost to remove: Payd for taking down ye rode and Marie and John 4s.

Payd to ye carpenter for pullyng down ye rode lofft 4s.

Item, payd to a labourer for helpying up the Roode Loft into the stepull viijd.

Payd for a present for Mr. Alford and Mr. Herytage for ther good wyll for tymber for the newe Rode lofte ijs.

Also payd to Thomas Stokedale for xxxv ells of clothe for the frunte of the Rode Lofte whereas the x Commandements be wrytten, price of the ell vjd. xxiijs.

Also payd to hym that dyd wryght the said x Commaundements and for ther drynking lxvjs.

Also he had two pieces of greene Kersies, which were worth foure and twentie pardaos the piece, and payd for them sixteene pardaos a piece: besides diuers other trifles, that the officers and others had in the like order, and some for nothing at all.

A debt I payd my father When I begat thee, and made him a Grandsir, Which I expect from you.

Thus the wardens of St. Martin's, Leicester, record: "Payd to Mr. Comyssarye whe[n] we was suspendyd for Lackynge a Byble & to hys offycers xxiij d."

"Touchinge the same Wm Garrett," the registrar inscribes in the act-book, "the churchwardens do here testifie that he hathe payd his iiij s. w[hi]ch he was rated at...& they saye they have receyved it.

The lawier's fees must needs be payd,And every clarke in his degreeOr els the lawe cannot be staydBut excommunicate must they bee."

in the name of the parish and at the cost of the parish ..." Cf. Morebath Acc'ts (ed. Binney), 224: "It there was payd a trinite Sonday at the Churche ale at Bawnton [Bampton] for John Skynner ... xjd."

In the Morebath Acc'ts (ed. J.E. Binney, p. 178) we read, s.a. 1553-4, as a heading to the receipt items: "Now to pay y'e forsayd dettis & demawndis y'e schall hyre of all our resettis y't we have resseuyed, & how gentylly for y'e moste p[ar]te men have payd of there owne devoc[i]on w[i]t[h] out ony taxyn or ratyng as y'e schall hyre here after."