Counsel Prayed judgment if he ought to be answered, inasmuch as he offered suit, and then failed to produce it.
Note 1. That one shall not be answered on a tally without suit.
Note 2. Note that by Law Merchant one can not wage his law against a tally; but if he deny the tally, the plaintiff must prove the tally.
GILD OF ST. MICHAEL ON THE HILL, LINCOLN
(Toulmin Smith, English Gilds, p. 178)
[Summary]
[The gild was founded on Easter Eve, A.D. 1350.]
On the death of a brother or sister within the city, not only shall the Dean bring the four wax lights which are called “soul candles,” and fulfil all other usual ceremonies, but the banner of the gild shall be brought to the house of the dead, and there openly shown, that men may know that the dead was a brother or sister of the gild; and this banner shall be carried, with a great torch burning, from the house of the dead, before the body, to the church.
On the eve of the feast of Corpus Christi, and on the eve of the day following, all the bretheren and sisteren shall come together as is the custom, to the gildfeast. At the close of the feast four wax lights having been kindled, and four of the tankards which are called flagons having been filled with ale, a clerk shall read and explain these ordinances, and afterwards the [ale in the] flagons shall be given to the poor.