[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.

[276] See, e.g., J.E.  Foster, St. Mary the Great (Cambridge) Acc’ts, 148 ff.  Offerings of the masters of arts and of the bachelors form a distinct feature here.

[277] See pp. 41 ff. and 59 supra.  In the Morebath Acc’ts (ed.  J.E.  Binney, p. 178) we read, s.a. 1553-4, as a heading to the receipt items:  “Now to pay y’e forsayd dettis & demawndis y’e schall hyre of all our resettis y’t we have resseuyed, & how gentylly for y’e moste p[ar]te men have payd of there owne devoc[i]on w[i]t[h] out ony taxyn or ratyng as y’e schall hyre here after.”  Then follows a list of 30 names.  There is evidently some sort of rough assessment here, e.g., Nicholas at Hayne pays 4s. 9d., “consyderyng hys bothe bargayns” (i.e., small farms).  Cf. St. Edmund and St. Thomas, Sarum, Acc’ts, p. xviii and p. 317.