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.

GUILD OF THE HOLY TRINITY. 151
called the Trinity Chamber; this was the Hall of the Guild, and was situated
in Wormgate.1 In the reign of Edward VI. (1547 to 1553), the Guild of the
Holy Trinity held lands, tenements, and possessions, of the annual value of
201. 3s. The expenditure for the year was,-founder's anniversary, 11. 19s. 3d.;
keeping Corpus Christi feast, 10s. lid.; Holy Trinity, 11. 7s. 4d.; repairs, 20d.;
sea-dyke, 9d.; extraordinary expenses and payments to the king, 21. 5s. 2d.;
salary of John Gimlet, chaplain, 61.; fees of collectors and auditors, 13s. 4d.;
fines, 6s.; dilapidations of farms, 3s. 7d.; other charges (which are illegible),
making a total amount of 161. 8s. 1ld., and having a balance on hand
of 31. 14s. l d.'
This Guild was taxed 6s. 8d. towards the subsidy levied in 1550.3 The
possessions of the Guild were confirmed to the Corporation by -Philip and
Mary, 1554.
Seal of the Holy Trinity.
In 1573, Trinity Hall, and a little garden adjoining the same in Wormgate,
were sold by the Corporation to John Slater for 301.4
The charter of Philip and Mary (1554) states, that eighteen presbyters,
fifteen clerks, and twelve poor men, were maintained by the Guilds, which
were dissolved in Boston in the reign of Edward VI., by which the support of
the said presbyters, clerks, and poor men, was withdrawn. But wishing to
1 Corporation Records, 26 October 1563. " John 2 COTTON MSS. Tiberius E., iii.
Brown, of Boston, sold to the Mayor and burgesses 3 Subsidy Rolls.
of Boston a messuage in Wormgate, called Trinity 4 Corporation Records.
Guild"