ls. malmsey, _2s. 8d._; 2
gals. muskedell _2s. 8d._; to Mr. Mayor _3s. 4d._; the Mayor to
offer, _8d._; to priests, clerks and children, _2s. 4d._; the
waits, _6s. 8d._; to poor people _6s. 8d._; to the cross-bearers
and torch-bearers, _8d._; the bellman, _4d._; the hire of pots,
_4d._; boughs, rushes and sweeping, _8d._; a woman 2 days to
cleanse the house, _4d._; half a hundred _3d._ nails, _11/2d._;
half a pound of sugar, _41/2d._; to the crossbearer and torchbearer
for St. George Day, Holy Rood Day, Shire Thursday and Whit
Sunday, _12d._; to 2 children for the same days, _6d._ Summa
(total) _38s. 2d._

That these anniversaries and wakes led to much unseemly revelling we
have evidence that cannot be gainsaid. The Trinity Gild decided in
1542

that no obite, drynkyng or com'en assemblie, from henceforth
shall be had or used at Babalake, except onelie on Trinitie even
and on the day, which shall be used as it hath been in tymes
past. And that also the P'sts of Babelack shall say _dirige_ on
midsum' even and likewise masse of _requiem_ on the morrowe, as
they have used to doo. And that the Meire shall not come down
thether to _dirige_ ov(er) night for dyv's considerac'ons and
other great busynes they used. And on the morowe thei to go
thether to masse and brekefast, as thei have used to doo.

Dugdale quotes from an old MS. an interesting passage bearing on this
question:

"And ye shall understond and know how the Evyns were furst found
in old tyme. In the beginning of holi Chirche, it was so that the
pepull cam to the Chirche with candellys brennyng and wold _Wake_
and come with light toward nyght to the Chirch to their
devocions; and afterwards they fell to lecherie and songs,
daunces, harping, piping and also to glotony and sinne and so
turned the holinesse to cursaydnesse; wherefore holi faders
ordeined the pepull to leve that _waking_ and to fast the Evyn.
But it is called _Vigilia_, that is _Waking_ in English and it is
called the Evyn, for at Evyn they were wont to come to Chirche."

In 1362 Queen Isabella helped to procure from the bishop a licence for
one Robert de Worthin, priest, to become an anchorite and to inhabit a
hermitage attached to the north aisle of the chancel. Traces of the
foundations of this have been found on the site of the modern vestry.

When the college was suppressed in 1548 the King granted to th