Such is the account we have of St. Fabian and St. Sebastian’s Gild. As it had _goods and chattels_ belonging to it, it was probably dissolved at the reformation, like all others so circumstanced. Parkin calls it _mean gild_: it might perhaps be so, compared with some of the wealthier ones; but there is reason to believe that it was superior to some of the others. It had its _company of minstrels_, which may be thought to answer to a modern _band of music_, and seems to indicate that this society was not among our meanest or lowest gilds. The number of its members in the reign of Henry VIII. Parkin reckons to consist of 38, by the amount of the morspech pence; but if the officers were exempted, from that payment, they might be no less than 45.—However that was, this gild in its days might answer some very useful purposes. Of the two Gilds named, in the catalogue, next after that of St. Fabian and St. Sebastian, namely, those of _St. Lawrence and St. Agnes_, nothing is known but the names: all the rest seems to have gone long ago into irrecoverable oblivion.—Of the next, the 19th Gild, that of _Corpus Christi_, something more is known. Both Parkin and Mackerell have made some mention of this ancient fraternity. The former speaks of it as follows— “Licence was granted that John de Brunham, and John Waryn, of Lenn, might give one messuage, 75_s._ 7_d._ _ob._ rent. with the appurtenances in Lenn, and that Richard Dun might give the rent of 12_d._ and the profit of one passage-boat beyond the port of the village of Lenn, with the appurtenances, to Thomas de Couteshale, master of the said guild, [as I take it] and the aforesaid John and Richard might give to Thomas de Couteshale, one Shop and solar, with the appurtenances in the said Village, which Thomas de Couteshale holds.—John de Brunham, John de Perteneye, and Adam Skert, burgess of Lynn, grant, &c. to Jeffrey Talboth, Thomas Botekysham, John de Dockyn, &c. 2_s._ which they used to receive of the heirs of John de Syssewell of West Lenne, for the liberty of a ferry, of a passage-boat over the water.—Dated at Lenn Bishop on Sunday after the feast of the purification of the blessed Virgin, in the 3d. of Richard II.—Jeffrey Talboth then mayor:—Witnesses John de Tyteleshale, Roger Paxam, &c.” {448} Hence it appears that this Gild had goods and chattels, was in possession of a ferry boat, &c. And must have been a fraternity of some consequence. From Mackerell’s account it seems to be one of the commercial, or mercantile gilds; what he says of it is contained in the following passage—