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STORE OF VIRGIN MARY. 365 dignified apostolical predecessor. St. Thomas a Bccket had eventually no less than sixty-four churches dedicated to him. Our St. Thomas held its degraded honour only a few years; for Henry VIII., soon after Bishop Oldham's award, struck the Saint out of the calendar. By the way, we lately heard a young clergyman announce from the pulpit the collect for St. Thomas's day (21st December) as " The Collect for St. Thomas, the Apostle and Martyr!' Is this an attempt of the modern church to make us forget history, by impliedly suggesting that his clerical forefathers meant Thomas the Apostle when they wrote Thomas the Martyr ? If this be not the motive, why are St. Peter and St. Andrew, and St. James and St. John, and the other martyred apostles, uncommemorated in a similar manner? We now return to the accounts. Those which relate to the Store of the Blessed Virgin Mary, and not already noted, embrace the years 1507, 1508 (24 Hen. VII.), 15 12 (3 Hen. VIII.), 1513, 1514, 1516, 1519, 1520, 1521, 1523, 1524, 1525, 1526, 1528, 1529, 1530, 1532, 1533, 1536, 1537, and 1538 (29 Hen. VIII.) ; but, as they are all of the same general tenor, we must be content with a brief allusion to them. They contain entries as to the purchase of cows, including two bought in 1521 at the Water Fair ; the sale of cows, one of them " in y c Cherche yerde," in the year 1532; expenses at fairs, &c. Receipts for cow-hire, cow-skins, for the beadroll, for a "gone [gun, query] y t was solde in y e Chorche for 4s. 8d.," in the year 1521 ; payments for cow- leses, for masses and dirges, for the priest and the clerk ; and, in 1526, threepence for "a skene of perssment for y e bedrole." The account for 1520 is called the account of "Wardens off howre Ladye's Store y e yere & reynyg off Kyng Harre ye ycth, ye xj yere off hes reynyng," and records the names of nine persons admitted members of the store or guild, each of whom paid I2d., the last of such