Of the five Gilds, mentioned in the Catalogue next after that of _our Lady_, namely those of _St. Michael the Archangel_, _St. Nicholas_, _St. Audrey_, _St. Michael and King Henry_, and _St. Cyprian_, no particular information has been obtained. We therefore know not how they were constituted, or what were the particular objects of their respective confederations. That the members of all or of any of them were as useful and respectable in their generation as those of St. Gyles and Julian can neither be affirmed nor denied. They might be all very good sort of people, in their way, for aught we know. But we may without any breach of charity suppose they had their full share of childish credulity and stupid superstition. These were the predominant failings of their time, of which, however, even our own time, and with all its boasted advantages and improvements, is not yet quite clear. We must therefore suppose, that they readily and implicity believed all the marvellous monkish tales which were then propagated; especially those that particularly related to their respective tutelar or patron saints. The members of _St. Audrey’s Gild_, for instance, would all readily believe the extraordinary and miraculous virtues ascribed to her wonderful _Smock_ at _Thetford_: and those of _our Lady’s Gild_ would no less readily believe the wonderful accounts of her _appearances_ to divers persons in the very same town. Thetford being so nigh to Lynn, and in the same county, the miracles pretended to have been worked there would soon be reported and credited here; and those, especially, that were ascribed to _St. Audrey_ and _Our Lady_, would be so among the members of those Lynn Gilds which bore their names. {441} The sixteenth Gild in the above Catalogue is that of _St. Fabian_ and _St. Sabestian_, or _Sebastian_, of which the following account is given by Parkin—