The Returns of the Commissioners are in the Record Office, and there is an index to them arranged under counties. The Harleian MS., 605, in the British Museum, is also a catalogue of gilds and chantries.
Here follow some notes, from these sources, of curious endowments—
Fernditch and at Ordell, Beds., for “a Lamp and a Drinking” in the church.
Emberton, Bucks., “for a Drinking.”
Great Horkesley, Essex; Cranfield and Steventon, Beds.; for “a Drink for the Poor.”
Uppingham, Rutland, for “a Drinking on Rogation Day.”
Wynge, Bucks., “for Bride Ale, Child Ale, Marriages, and Dirges, with lawful games.”
Coventry, “for a preacher.”
Townley, Suffolk, for “a Lamp and watching the Sepulchre.”
Hempstead, Essex, “for discharging the Tax of the poor who may not have to dispend yearly above 40s.”