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 ST. GEORGE. 153
1726, at the bottom of St. George's Lane, between lands formerly belonging to
Sir Anthony Irby and Sir Thomas Middlecott.1
Seal of the Guild of St. George.
These five Guilds of ConPrs CIHRISTI, ST. MARY, ST. PETER AND ST. PAUL,
the TRINITY, and ST. GEORGE, are said to have been the only incorporated ones
in Boston, and they probably were. There is a very imperfect MS. in the
British Museum, which purposes to give the names of the incorporators of these
Guilds, or"By whom they were incorporated, as it appeared to the Commissioners of the Lord
King upon the inspection of certain letters patent of the progenitors of the Lord King that
now is. This was taken in the reign of Edward VI. as follows below............ at the
instance of Philip............in the church of St. Botolph............Anne Queen,
his consort............Incorporation in like manner by the grant of Henry the Sixth,
bearing date the xxIII year (1455)........ in the name of the alderman of the fraternity
of the Blessed Jiary in Boston.
" Incorporation, by the grant of Edward the third, dated in the year of his reign......
at the instance of Gilbert Alilande and others, in the name of the alderman of Corpus
Christi Guild.
"Incorporation, by the grant of Henry the fourth, dated in the year of his reign....
Master or keeper of the fraternity or Guild.... to the perpetual honour of.... Trinity in
the town St. Botulph, and in the name of the brethren and sisters of the same.
"Incorporation by grant of Richard II., dated in the.... year of his reign, in the name
of the master or keeper of the fraternity or Guild of Saints Peter and.... in the town
of St. Botulph, and in the names of the brethren and sisters of the same.... But the existence
(corporatio) of the same Guild was by no means made clear and certain to the same Commissioners; nevertheless, it was shown to them that by the license of King Henry V., in
the fourth year of his reign, given to Richard Frere and others, that they were empowered
to give, grant, and assign lands and tenements to the annual value of 20 marks, which were
not held in capite, to the master or keeper of the fraternity or Guild of St. George, in the
town of St. Botulph."
In the Coeporation Reco'ds, 2 June, 1552, the lands, &c. of St. George's Guild are said to have' purtayned to the Corporation."
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