b'1804-5 Kirbys Singers 0.13.0Bass Viol String 0.2.01806-7 Given to Yapham Singers 0.10.02 strings for Violincello, a first & third1 0.1.111 string for base vile 0.1.0 oz. of Ising Glass [?] for violincello0.0.6Robt Wilkinsonyear sallery [Clerk] 1.1.0Ditto for his Larning the Singers2.2.0[The parish clerk often rehearsed & directed the singers &instrumentalists]Pd Doctor Magginson for a String for Violincello 2 0.1.41807-8 Bass Viol Stick [bow] 0.8.6Glew for Bas Viol 0.3.6Book to prick Psalms into3 0.6.0Paid to Mr Turner for Bass Strings 0.2.61808-9 Mend Bass Viol 0.8.01809-10 Five Strings for Bass Viol 0.5.51813-14 For Bass Strings 0.5.01814-15 To Candles for Singers at Church 0.4.6Bass Strings 0.5.01816 Gave to Wilberfoss Singers 1.0.01Strings of a cello are bottom C, G, D & A. First & third probably refers to C & D of the above fourstrings2Some powder either for wiping the strings of sweat, or some form of resin for the bows3to prick, an old verb no longer used, to describe the act of writing out by hand the music to beperformedThere are no further mentions of musical items in the Churchwardens Book, which ends with 1824-25.Bishop Wilton Had ItsOwn Bank!Based on material supplied by Eileen HopperT his torn item was found stuck to the back of the cardboard on which a photograph was mounted that Eileen Hopper supplied for a local history display.It shows that the Yorkshire Penny Bank had a branch in Bishop Wilton in 1931. It was open every Monday evening in the school from 6 to 6.30 with the Headmaster, Mr Rhodes, in charge as Local Actuary.But why was it a Penny Bank? Evidently it started as a savings scheme introduced in 1852 at Akroyds Bowling Dyke Mill in Halifax. Employees were encouraged to save 1d a week from their wages. It was so successful that it became the Yorkshire Penny Savings Bank in 1856, the Yorkshire Penny Bank in 1871 and the Yorkshire Bank in 1959. Does anyone still have a paying-in book by any chance?98 BULLETIN 7'