Hocktide for the church repairs at St Peter in the East

In seventeenth-century Oxford a parish that needed money for church repairs would keep a Hocktide, and the takings could be large. Brand, quoting old records of the Oxford parishes printed in Peshall’s History of the City of Oxford, gives the sums raised by St Peter in the East, six pounds in 1663 and four pounds ten shillings in 1667, the last year Hocktide is mentioned there.