1531-2. Kyng ale on White Sunday, 10_s._ 9_d._--at soppar, 20_s._ 7_d._ On Monday at dinner, 2_s._--at suppar, 10_s._ 7_d._ On Tuesday at dinner, 6_s._ 9_d._ On the said Tuesday of the parish of Pamber, 4_s._ On the said Tuesday of the parish of Strathfieldsay, 9_s._ On the said Tuesday at supper, 10_s._ 6_d._ On the Wednesday at dinner, 13_s._ 6_d._ _Received_ for calf and sheep skin, 21_d._ At supper on Trinity Sunday, 12_s._ 6_d._ For tapping money, 7_s._ 6_d._ The payments made by the wardens for the above series of entertainments are-- Towards the Kyng ale to Alys Carter 6 bushells whete, 6_s._ 4_d._ To Mr. Vycar for 3 bushells whete, 3_s._ 8 barrells of bere, 13_s._ 8_d._ To John Redyng for 2 calves, 6_s._ 8_d._ To Richard Tyrry for 1 calf, 2_s._ 8_d._ To William Littlework for 2 wethers, 5_s._ 5_d._ To Henry Whyte for a barren ewe and 3 lambs, 7_s._ For geese and pyg with hare, 17_d._ To Hugh Carter’s wife for chekyns, 6_d._ Anne Acre for butter and eggs, 6_d._ For woode, 21_d._ For mynstrell, 20_d._ For rushes and making clene the barn, 3_d._ For spices, 4_d._ To Symon Redyng and his wife (and his moder above), 12_d._ _Hock-days._--In many parishes there was a feast celebrated, according to some, in memory of the massacre of the Danes in A.D. 1002. It was called _Hock-day_ and _Hock-tyde_, and seems to have been specially the women’s feast in the parish. The second Monday and Tuesday after Easter were the Hock-tyde days, on which, with some sportive traditional customs, money was collected for parish purposes. According to an early custom, women seized and bound men and then demanded a small payment for their release. This seems to have been prohibited, and then recourse was had to stopping roadways and bridges with ropes, and demanding a toll from all men who desired to pass. For example, at Shire in Surrey in 1536, 8_s._ are entered in the accounts, as coming “from the collection of pennies by the married women on Hokmonday.” In the accounts of St. Mary the Great, Cambridge, in 1518, there are two entries of receipt for Hockday money: “_Item_ Receyved of Mistres Sabyn, Mistress Butt, Mistres Halbed and other wyfys of money gathered by them on Hockmonday--20 shillings ... and _Memorandum_ that there remayneth in the hands of Kateryn Hawes in halfpenys of the gatheryng on Hockmonday--2_s._ 4_d._” So also in the accounts of St. Mary-at-Hill, London, for 1511-12, there is this item: “_Received_ of the Gadryng of hok monday by the wemen 20_s._: _Rec._ of the Gadryng on Tewysday 4_s._” In the parish of SS. Edmund and Thomas, Salisbury, the women paid a composition to escape “binding” on the Tuesday of Hocktide. In the year 1499-1500, for example, there is the following entry in the accounts: “_Received_ of divers wives and maidens to save them from binding in Hok Tuesday in all the year, 5 shillings.” In