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366 ST. THOMAS CHURCH. names being " for y° name off Halson, ye servente off ye wycare off Lenkenhorne." In 1532 credit is given for 20d. received "Off Thos. Pole for mony y fc he ded how to ye Cherche, and 8s. off ye viii men off ye coffer mony to pay Thos : Greston for a cow. There are preserved eighteen of the accounts of the Guild of All Saints beyond those already noted. They terminate in 1548, thus extending two years into the reign of Ed. VI. Twenty-five of the intervening accounts are lost. Some of those which remain are intituled The Yelde, or Guild, of Alhallyn, or Alhallen, others of Alsowles. From the year 1508 the officers are usually designated wardens. These later accounts of the All Saints Guild, like those of the Store of the Virgin, substantially resemble their predecessors. An occasional addition is the purchase of " halfe a busshel of whete," which, in 1529, cost lid. ; in 1 535, yd.; and in 1536, 14.6.. The chaplain or priest, the sexton and the clerk, receive small sums for masses, dirges, and other matters. The profits from ale, and the hire and purchase and sale of cows, are regularly recorded. A memorandum at the foot of the account for 1537 is as follows: "That Gregorie Prater and William Ysack, wardens aforsd, by the agreement of the brothers of the said geyld, have dylyved to Willy m Langdon us. 6d. for to by a coe to the said geyld, and he ye said Wyllyam Langdon pro- mysyth that, yf the wardens leke nott ye coe, that he wul paye to them for her hyer I2d., and also dylyvr them att the next count the said us. 6d." At the foot of the account for 1538 is a similar memorandum, the sum then delivered to buy "a koe" being 12s. On the account for 1539 is this "M m , that hytt is agreyd and actyd bytwen the brothers of thys geld, that no man shall dylyver no coe which he hath to hyer, butt onlye wythyn iij days before Rodemas, and to geve also know-