From Chicklade And Pertwood, A Short Parish History by E.R. Barty, M.A., Chicklade, Old Rectory, first published December 1955:
In 1796 3/- were paid for a poor traveller’s expenses at the Bull Inn.
In 1797 £20 advanced to the Rector for clothing the Poor.
In 1795 A smock frock was bought for Robert Matthews.
“For raising a man for the Navy” in 1795, £2 9s. 0d. was paid.
And now to conclude these excerpts from the Registers and Church Accounts perhaps we may be permitted to relate something in a lighter vein.
Over a number of years it seemed customary to pay people for collecting sparrow heads and bodies of moles, hedgehogs and stoats. As much as £1 14s. 9½d. (the largest sum recorded) was paid for sparrows in 1837 and sums from 2/- to 18/6 were paid at different times according to the number of dozens of sparrow-heads varying from 8 dozen to as many as 74 dozen.