THE CHURCH OF ST. ANDREW, PLYMOUTH. 209 
As I cannot connect the second Gild in any way with the 
church or parish, I must content myself now with briefly repeat- 
ing what I have said elsewhere. The only entry relating to the 
Gild of Our Lady and St. George has caused many a reflection to 
be made on the ingratitude of the men of Plymouth. In 1472, 
16th November, a bye-law was passed by the common council, 
that no man should be made free of the borough unless he was a 
whole or half-brother in Our Lady and St. George his Gild, and in 
pursuance of this, certain persons, who were before this free, but 
who were not of the Gild, were expelled from the corporation. 
In consequence of this, one John Yogge was expelled with the 
others; and it has always been assumed that this is the same 
Yogge who built the tower of St. Andrew, and the same who 
had previously filled four times the office of mayor. Now we 
know that Leland says Thomas Yogge built the tower, and 
added to the town; and the Black-book and other lists of 
mayors state that it was William who had been elected the chief 
officer so often, and that it was John Yogge who was cast of his 
freedom. 
I am inclined to think that there were different persons ; that 
from the name of the mayor being repeated four times as William, 
that he is correctly named ; that from his occupying this position he 
is likely to have been the pious churchman who did so much for the 
sacred edifice ; that Leland made a mistake in calling him Thomas, 
and that John Yogge was another person altogether who had been 
taking his place among his betters without lawful authority, and 
who was therefore righteously expelled. 
I spoke just now of the Ale being held in the churchyard. Of 
course St. Andrew’s churchyard at the present day would be the last 
place in which to hold a bazaar, fancy fair, or any festivity of the 
kind, and its narrow limits would prevent its being so used if it 
were wished. But in earlier times the yard was considerably larger 
than at present, extending much further south and east, and, I 
believe, also west. With the increase of the town, and the value of 
space round the market-place in the immediate neighbourhood of 
the church, land was sought after; and although we cannot suppose 
that it was unfenced before, we find in 1597 that the churchyard 
was more substantially enclosed. The map of Henry VIII.’s time 
shows a wall of some kind on the north side, but this is too much a 
