Robt. Soame gave a Load of Oatstraw for repairing their Beds.
Ordered that the Keeper ring the Bell at 6 o’clock at night, & there be prayers daily, & that the Alderman visit the Almeshouse once a month to see that nothing be amiss.
[436a] This is the only mention we have met with of Saint Julian’s Horn, the history of which, no doubt, would be very amusing, if it could be recovered.
[436b] This shews that even our suffragan bishops assumed the power of granting indulgences, or licences to sin with impunity, on such conditions as they chose to prescribe.
[439a] Parkin, 130.
[439b] Ibid. 141.
[440a] Parkin, 142.
[440b] Those of the Gilds seem to be the only aldermen of Lynn in those days, see page [395].
[441] Of St Audrey and her smock, and our Lady and her appearances at Thetford, some account may be found in Martin’s History of that town. Speaking of the church of St. Audrey, he says, it was of but small revenue, but that a famous relique made ample amends to the priest for the smallness of his stipend. He then introduces the following extract from Bacon’s Reliques of Rome, fol. 181.—
“In Thetford, a Mayor town in Norfolk, there was a parish church, now destroyed, called St. Audrise. In this church among other reliques, was a smock of St. Audrise, which was there kept as a great Jewel and precious Relique. The virtue of that smock was mighty and manifold, but specially in putting away the toothach and swelling of the throte: so that the paciente was first of all shriven and hard masse, and did such oblations as the priest of the church enjoyned.”