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HOGENSTORE. 375 account for the year 15 13-14 is credited a sum of 20s. " from the warden of the store of the blessed Mary in the aisle, otherwise called the hogenstore ;" and again, in the account for the same parish, in the year 1554-5, 21s. are credited " from the hogen-store." At St. Thomas the expressions hogeners money and hognor bread probably relate to the same thing. The word " bread " often meant food in its broadest sense. We several times saw horse-bread [pauis eq:] in the Dunheved accounts. There was a word — "hogenhine," or "hogenehune" — used in the time of Edward the Confessor, for a guest who had, during three successive nights, partaken of the hospitalities of a house. He was said to be then under the protection of his host, who was accountable for his conduct, as a member of the householder's family. Some of our readers may have a traditionary knowledge of the uses to which the hogenstore, hogener's money, and hognor bread were applied. We ourselves have failed to obtain this knowledge; it is, therefore, only a suggestion that it was a provision for the relief of persons casually detained in the parish, by sickness or other cause — "casual poor." Another suggestion has been made, viz., that the old Latin word hoggasius, a young sheep of the second year, and its derivatives — hoggrel, hogget, &c. — lead to an inference that the givers of hognor bread at St. Thomas were givers of pasture, or other food, for rearing sheep towards the expenses of the church. An account, of which the date is lost, but which was apparently made early in the reign of James I., shows payments for " making of a seate for the Church-wardenes, 3s. 7d. ; peade the Bedman for midsomer quarter, 9d. ; for Micaelmas quarter, 9d. j Crismas quarter, 9d. ; & Ladie dequarter, 9d. ; for the burial of prisoners at Lammas & Lent assises; for a fox's heade, i2d.; for too outores heades, 4d. ; for writing of the note of the Register booke, nd. ; & carringe of the note to Exeter, i2d."