The choirboys of St Paul's had the right to demand spur money (a fee charged to anyone wearing spurs) from visitors to the church. Testimony from Bishop Bancroft's visitation complains that the choirboys importune visitors for their spur money 'without regard either of person or time or place and trouble them in their prayers.' Gair speculates here that the spur money may have been the means by which the boys were paid for acting.