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 PARISH ACCOUNTS. 357 fragments bears the date 19 Ed. IV. (1480). Aided by the language used in subsequent accounts, we can sufficiently supply some lost parts of this account. It is in Latin, and is the account of Richard Canon and William Panston, keepers of the Guild of All Saints, and was rendered at Tregadylet. It first admits the receipt of a small sum from the keepers (custodes) of the year preceding, and then credits " I2d. for the hire of a cow in this year, and 5s. 2d. for wool sold in this year." The expenses are : For making ale, 8d. ; for an obit and the clerk, yd. ; for tithes paid for five lambs, id. ; and 2jd. for making the account and for the quarto (the account book in which it was written). On the other side of the leaf is a series of names, each followed by a sum. Among these are: "John Congan, senior, for his part, 22d. and also 46. ; William Garrya hath 23d. ; and John Congan of Thorn hath 2s. 3d. ; and Johanna Jynne hath 4s. 3d.; and Walter Garrya hath iyld. ; and John Jynne hath 13d.; and Johanna Gynne hath yd. beyond that which she hath above." Other names are succeeded by other sums. At the foot of the account it is recorded that John Garry and William Greiston were elected keepers for the next year, and that 19s. 6d. remained in the hands of John Garry, and that the same John Garry was entered as a brother, and gave a lamb. The peculiarities to which we referred are partly shown even in this first account. The " cow hire " was apparently a sum received for grazing a cow, either on land which the wardens held, and for which they paid no rent, or on which a brother or sister of the guild allowed gratuitous agist- ment. Entries of a similar character are more numerous in later accounts; and cows and oxen, and calves and sheep, were occasionally bought and sold to increase the "store." The sale of wool, and payment of tithes for lambs, prove that the guild had further use of lands for the benefit of the church.