Of the Lynn Gilds our printed books give but a very imperfect and wretched account. Their list of names is extremely defective, and the idea which they give of those institutions is equally so. For a more correct and ample information on this subject we are chiefly indebted to Mr. King’s MS. volume, before mentioned, which was compiled about a hundred years ago, by some unknown hand, or hands, from certain ancient and authentic documents, which seem no longer to exist. Both Mackerell and Parkin appear to have seen this volume, but they have not availed themselves of it to the extent they might have done. Even its most curious and interesting parts they have left unnoticed. In the latter part of this volume is inserted the following “Catalogue of the Gildes in the Towne of Lynn”—amounting in all to thirty one. They stand in the following order: 1. The Gild of _St. George_. 2. The Gild of _St. Erasmus_. 3. The Gild of _St. John Baptist_. 4. The Gild of _St. Gyles and St. Julian_. 5. The Gild of _St. Ethelerede_. 6. The Gild of _St. Margarett_. 7. The Gild of _St. Anne_. The Gild of the 12 _Apostles_. 9. The Gild of _St. Christopher_. 10. The Gild of _our Lady_. 11. The Gild of _St. Micheal the Archangel_. 12. The Gild of _St. Nicholas_. 13. The Gild of _St. Awdreys_. 14. The Gild of _St. Michael and King Henry_. 15. The Gild of _St. Cyprian_. 16. The Gild of _St. Fabian and St. Sabestian_. 17. The Gild of _St. Lawrence_. 18. The Gild of _St. Agnes_. 19. The Gild of _Corpus Christi_. 20. The Gild of the _Trinity_. 21. The gild of _St. Andrew_. 22. The Gild of _Holy Rood_. 23. The Gild of _St. Lovis_. 24. The Gild of _St. Austin_. 25. The Gild of _St. Barbara_. 26. The Gild of _St. Antony_. 27. The Gild of _St. Stephen_. 28. The Gild of _St. Francis_. 29. The Gild of the _Shoemakers_. 30. The _Red Gild_. 31. The Gild of _St. William_, trading to North Bern.