[427] Hoods must have been the word omitted.
[429] A strange word, whose meaning seems not very easy to ascertain.
[430] This shews that some of the members of this Gild were poor.
[431a] This Gild consisted then, it seems, of 50 members.
[431b] By this it appears that the Corpus Christi Gild had a separate Hall, but where it stood does not appear. That Gild seems therefore to have been another of the superior order.
[431c] It seems by this that the Gild of St. Lawrence also was one of those of a superior order.
[432a] The minstrels, it may be supposed, were employed on their public days, to add to the conviviality, or glee and hilarity of those meetings; which shews the members were not of an uncheerly cast. Minstrels must have been then in no small request at Lynn.
[432b] “A Bill” [of expences relating to the Almshouse, with memoranda.]
| s. | d. | |
| The Alderman’s ffee | 3. | 4. |
| Mess [Mass] Pence | 6. | 8. |
| For sowing [sewing] blankets & Sheets | 0. | 8. |
| A Bucket for the Almeshouse | 0. | 5. |
| Straw to the Beds | 0. | 3. |
| To Wm. Lister Almes | 0. | 4. |
| To Nicholas . . . Almes | 0. | 8. |
| To a Mason for a daies work | 0. | 7. |
| His man | 0. | 4. |
| Shinks | 0. | 1. |
| For 3 pair sheets | 7. | 6. |
| 2 pair ditto | 4. | 8. |
| 3 Mattrisses | 8. | 0. |
| For Mass pence at Oferings | 4. | 0. |
| For the Hearth making in ye Kitchen | 1. | 8. |
| For a Lanthorn in the middle of the house | 0. | 7. |
| For the Bed bottoms | 1. | 1. |
Paid for the souls of Nicholas Bardeny Prior of Lynn, Wm. Wattlett, John Dean, and many more, each of them 2s. 6d.