[268] _Wilts Arch_. (etc.) _Mag., loc. cit_. (Mere Acc'ts: brass crocks in inventory of 1584). Chagford Acc'ts in _Devon Ass_. (etc.), 74. Binney, _Morebath Acc'ts_, 132. A.E.W. Marsh, _History of Caine_, 368 (Church furnace, 1529. Wardens expenditures for sowing church lands, mowing them, and carrying the corn and storing it in the church-house). _The Antiquary_, xvii, 169 (Stanford, Berks, Acc'ts, _s.a._ 1569: laying corn in church-house, and making malt there). _Morebath Acc'ts_, 132 (Spits put up in the church-house). [269] Morebath Acc'ts, 142 (Church stock-taking), Mere Acc'ts _(Wilts Arch_. (etc.) _Mag. loc. cit_.), 32, 37, 54, etc. Chelmsford Acc'ts, 217 ("xv dozen pewter & ix peces," and rent of it owing to church. 1560). [270] St. John's, Glastonbury, Acc'ts, _N. and Q. for Som. and Dor_., v, 94, _s.a._ 1588 (Selling ale in church-house). Tintinhull Acc'ts, _Somer. Rec. Soc_., iv, p. xxii ("The chief source of income [church-house] at T[intinhull] and elsewhere to the end of the 16th Century,") Stratton Acc'ts, _Arch_., xlvi, 198. _Bristol and Glouc. Arch. Soc. Tr_., vii (1882-3), 108 (Tenement donated 1532 to Northleach known as "the Churche Taverne." It was rented out, but on the condition that the lessee should "permit the towne to have the use of the same one month at Whitsontyde"). Of the Stratton church-house we are told that men were fined (in 1541) for drinking ale there, because the drinking was not for the profit of the parish. _Arch., loc. cit., supra_. [271] _Stanford Acc'ts, loc. cit., s. a_. 1595. _Stratton Acc'ts, loc. cit_., 198. [272] Thus at Calne (Wilts) in 1574-5 no church-ale was had, but a gathering in lieu of it was made from the parishioners. Ales and collections thenceforward alternated here, until church rates were established. Marsh, _History of Calne_, 372. [273] See, _e.g_., Thos. North, _St. Martin's Leicester, Acc'ts_, 98, where the times of collection are named. [274] See, among others, Ludlow Acc'ts, _Shrop. Archit_. (etc.) _Soc_., iii, 127 (1567), where the name occurs. Also St. Edmund's, Sarum, Acc'ts, _Wilts Rec. Soc_. for 1896, p. 141 (1592). [275] _E.g._, at St. Edmund's, Sarum, or at St. Martin's, Leicester. [276] See, _e.g_., J.E. Foster, _St. Mary the Great_ (Cambridge) _Acc'ts_, 148 ff. Offerings of the masters of arts and of the bachelors form a distinct feature here.