Writing in 1930, Victor Strode Manley, as part of his Regional Survey Of Warminster And District, made the following notes concerning Monkton Deverill’s parish registers:
The Parish Registers – from 1677.
1683 – For the act of uniformity, 1/6d.
1684 – For one Book of Curing the Evil, 1/6d.
1687 – Paid for a fox head ye was kild at Kiesly [Keesley]. Sparrows were accepted at 2d. a dozen, stots [stoats] 2d. each, Hedgehog 4d., polecat 4d., Rooks 4d. per dozen.
1702 – For ye use of a gin, 1/-.
1740 – For ye Fast Books, 2/-.
1724-5 – Lamont Hawkeswell is Vicar at this Easter Vestry Meeting. He appears to be absent at times for years, then returns, soon to go away again.
1756 – N.B. The Bell Ringers always got 2/- per annum for ringing the Gunpowder Plot.
1792-3 – Paid for ringing Gunpowder Treason, 6/-.
1820 – Boris Bottom, Monkton Field £2 10s.