Under the year 1557, items as follow appear:- Item, payed to the Morrys-Daunsars and the Mynstrelles, mete and drink at Whitsontide 0 3 4 Payed to them the Sonday after May Day 0 0 20 pd.
"England in the Days of Old"
William Andrews
The churchwardens' accounts of St. Peter's, Barnstaple, for 1741 contain the entry: "pd.
"The Social History of Smoking"
G. L. Apperson
The books of St. Martin's, Leicester, state: "1560. pd.
"Old Church Lore"
William Andrews