Note 263 — Chapter XIX · PARISH REGISTERS AND CHURCHWARDENS’ BOOKS.
Reading edition
See Notes and Queries. First Series, vol. ii., pp. 344, 345. In the Churchwardens’ Books of Fordingbridge we find—“1609. For smoke-mony, for makynge and deliveringe of the bills xvjd,” which would confirm the first explanation given in the text.