[266] Examples are Thos. North, St. Martin's, Leicester, Acc'ts (1884), 80 (Children's morris-dance. 1558-9). Ibid., 85 (Robin Hood play). St. Helen, Abingdon, Acc'ts, Archæologia, i (2d ed.), 15 (1560). J.H. Baker, Notes on St. Martin's (Salisbury) Church and Parish (1906), Wardens Acc'ts, 153 (Whitsun dance in 1588 yielding 13s. 4d.). St. Edmund and St. Thomas, Sarum, Acc'ts, introd., p. xvii. Also both acc'ts, passim ("Feast of Hokkes," "Childrens daunse." At St. Edmund's £3 12s. collected in 1581 [p. 131]; at St. Thomas' same year £3 6s. 8d. [p. 291]). T.N. & A.S. Garry, St. Mary, Reading, Acc'ts (1893), 28-9, et passim (Whitsuntide and Hocktide money here drop out as early as 1575. There was also here a Christmas gathering).
[267] Examples: Wandsworth Acc'ts in Surrey Arch. Coll., xvii (1902), 158 (1567-8). John Nichols, Illustrations of the Manners etc. of Antient Times (1707) (Great Marlow, Bucks, Acc'ts, 135. 1612), etc.
[268] Wilts Arch. (etc.) Mag., loc. cit. (Mere Acc'ts: brass crocks in inventory of 1584). Chagford Acc'ts in Devon Ass. (etc.), 74. Binney, Morebath Acc'ts, 132. A.E.W. Marsh, History of Caine, 368 (Church furnace, 1529. Wardens expenditures for sowing church lands, mowing them, and carrying the corn and storing it in the church-house). The Antiquary, xvii, 169 (Stanford, Berks, Acc'ts, s.a. 1569: laying corn in church-house, and making malt there). Morebath Acc'ts, 132 (Spits put up in the church-house).
[269] Morebath Acc'ts, 142 (Church stock-taking), Mere Acc'ts (Wilts Arch. (etc.) Mag. loc. cit.), 32, 37, 54, etc. Chelmsford Acc'ts, 217 ("xv dozen pewter & ix peces," and rent of it owing to church. 1560).
[270] St. John's, Glastonbury, Acc'ts, N. and Q. for Som. and Dor., v, 94, s.a. 1588 (Selling ale in church-house). Tintinhull Acc'ts, Somer. Rec. Soc., iv, p. xxii ("The chief source of income [church-house] at T[intinhull] and elsewhere to the end of the 16th Century,") Stratton Acc'ts, Arch., xlvi, 198. Bristol and Glouc. Arch. Soc. Tr., vii (1882-3), 108 (Tenement donated 1532 to Northleach known as "the Churche Taverne." It was rented out, but on the condition that the lessee should "permit the towne to have the use of the same one month at Whitsontyde"). Of the Stratton church-house we are told that men were fined (in 1541) for drinking ale there, because the drinking was not for the profit of the parish. Arch., loc. cit., supra.
[271] Stanford Acc'ts, loc. cit., s. a. 1595. Stratton Acc'ts, loc. cit., 198.
[272] Thus at Calne (Wilts) in 1574-5 no church-ale was had, but a gathering in lieu of it was made from the parishioners. Ales and collections thenceforward alternated here, until church rates were established. Marsh, History of Calne, 372.
[273] See, e.g., Thos. North, St. Martin's Leicester, Acc'ts, 98, where the times of collection are named.
[274] See, among others, Ludlow Acc'ts, Shrop. Archit. (etc.) Soc., iii, 127 (1567), where the name occurs. Also St. Edmund's, Sarum, Acc'ts, Wilts Rec. Soc. for 1896, p. 141 (1592).
[275] E.g., at St. Edmund's, Sarum, or at St. Martin's, Leicester.