The history and antiquities of Boston, and the villages of Skirbeck, Fishtoft, Freiston, Butterwick, Benington, Leverton, Leake, and Wrangle; comprising the hundred of Skirbeck, in the county of Lincoln. Including also a history of the East, West, and Wildmore fens, and copious notices of the Holland or Haut-Huntre fen ... sketches of the geology, natural history, botany, and agriculture of the district; a very extensive collection of archaisms and provincial words, local dialect, phrases, proverbs, omens, superstitions, etc. By Pishey Thompson. Illustrated with one hundred engravings.

122 REGISTER OF CORPUS CHRISTI GUILD.
the King's Bench, and Margaret his wife, George Fitzwilliam, Esq., John
Jaudon, prior of Sempringharm, Richard Wheatcroft, merchant, Agnes Pulvertoft,
widow, John Hargrave, Katherine, wife of John Littlebury, Esq., Thomas,
abbot of Revesby, Maria, wife of Robert Tomlynson, Thomas Garton, vicar of
Swynshed, John Bell, rector of Leverton, John Godericke of Kyrkby, merchant,
of the staple of Calais, Joan, wife of John Leake of Boston, mercer, Ralph
Fairfax, prior of Kyme, Thomas Johnson, rector of Seremby, Roger iMerys of
Boston, merchant of the staple of Calais, Philip Claimonde of Wyberton, gentleman, William Martin, abbot of Bardney, Lady Elizabeth Beesbe, prioress of
Stanfield, John Wynbych, Esq., Anthony Irby, gentleman, Nicholas Sarot,
rector of Ingoldmells, Robert Anderson, rector of Candlesby, William Rede de
Womylsted of Wrangle, Galfrid Chambers of London, John Merys of Kirton,
Esq., Nicholas Robertson, merchant of the staple of Calais, and Florence his
wife, Robert Baryt of Waneflette, merchant of the staple of Calais, and Robert
Wallay of Drybe, auditor.
Thomas Tamworthe was alderman 1531; Sir Arthur Hopton, 1532; John
Nedermill, 1533; John Jordan, prior of Sempringham, 1534; John, abbot of
Swyneshede, 1535; Sir Andrew Bilsbee, knight, 1536; John Hargrave, 1537;
John Rede, gentleman, 1538; Dr. William Clifton, 1539; and Christopher
Massyngberde, vicar of * * *, 1540. Among the new members are, Blase
Holand of Swyneshed, gentleman, doctor John Mabeldon, vicar of Boston, John
Lade of Yarmouth, merchant, John Hochynson of Boston, and Agnes his wife,
Thomas Meere of Boston, roper, Andrew Yonge, rector of Bennyngton, John
Welles, abbot of Croyland, Christopher Tamworth, rector of Leverton, John
Tamworth of Leke, gentleman, John Friskney of Benington, gentleman,
Thomas Robertson, merchant of the staple of Calais, George Sibsey, gentleman,
George Browne, doctor of theology, and provincial of the order of Augustines
in England, Thomas Derby of Benyngton, and John Taverner of Boston.
Sir Robert Hulle, knight, was alderman 1541; Sir William Holles of London,
knight, 1542; and Peter Emere, alderman, 1543. He is the last alderman
recorded. George Cutteler and John Taverner, gentlemen, were the last
treasurers or chamberlains. The only member admitted during the last three
years was Thomas Crowe, Chaplain.'
It will be observed that the proportion of ecclesiastical members very much
increased towards the end of the Register, but the commercial character of the
town was then very nearly lost; 2 and it was a natural consequence, that, as the
Guild became more exclusively of a religious nature, the number of religious
brethren should proportionally increase.
The KALENDAR, which forms the second part of the Register, consists of twelve
pages-one for each month, Each month is divided, according to the Roman
mode, into kalends, nones, and ides. There is a column for the dominical letter,
and a broad space for the insertion of the names of the saints to whom particular
days were dedicated. On a page opposite to each month are inserted the obits
to be observed by the brethren and sisters of the Guild of Corpus Christi. We
extract the following:-The obit of RICHARD CHAPMAN and ALICE his wife was
held by the Guild on the first dominical clay after the feast of the Epiphany (in
1 This first portion of the Register fills 69 pages bourhood, or which resemble those of families now
of MS. folio, and contains the names of about 1450 resident there, and especially those of persons holdmembers of the fraternity, from which have been ing office in the religious institutions of the period,
selected those who were distinguished by their as abbots, priors, vicars, rectors, &c.
rank and station; those whose names indicate a 2 LELAND, writing about 1530, says," the staple
connexion with the ancient, and, in most instances, and the stiliard houses yet there remayne, but the
extinct families of note and eminence in the neigh- stiliard is little or nothing at all occupied."