Stratford-upon-Avon: Guild of the Holy Cross: Masters' and proctors' accounts

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Account of John Brasyer and Thomas Smyth, Proctors of the Guild of the Holy Cross, from Michaelmas 3 Henry IV. to Michaelmas 4 Henry IV The Account is rendered under the following headings Arrears [Rents of Assize.] (The name of each tenant is given with the amount of his rent:--4s received from Thomas Frecter for a grange in Henley-street for the year; 6s 8d received from the "new place" in Rotherstret for the year; 6s 8d received from John Scholmayster for a chamber for the year, c.) Stipends of the Chaplains. (£5 to Robert Wyld and £4 to ... Mortemer.) Cost of the houses. (16d the pay of a carpenter making the windows of the hall; 3s 2d for "hukes and twystes" for the doors and windows of the hall and the chamber; 2s for "recudbord" for the windows of the hall; 6d for stopping the holes in the chamber of the Chaplains; a payment for repairs to the door of the kitchen, c.) Small necessaries. (Payments for candles, linen cloth for an "amys"; mending and washing the vestments; 4d for a cord for the "Sanctus Belle"; a new "auterclothe" with "frenges," c.) Divers Expenses and Payments. (4d to John Rodehous by precept of Roger Chilcote then Master; the rent to the Bishop of Worcester's Collector for the tenements of the Holy Cross within the borough; 3s for the hoods of the Chaplains "pro capuciis sacerdotalibus," c.) Allowances. (The rent of a mill in Swynestret standing vacant; and for wax from the fines expended about the altar.) ... Expenses ... by Roger Chilcote. (Payments for corn, calves, "buttys" of pork, c.; 2s 10d for a "tyttelyng"; 8d for a swan, c.) Other expenses incurred about the same by the Proctors. (Payments for malt, geese, a "brest" of veal, beer, candles, a "peke" of corn for the pullets, 5 bushels of malt for the geese, "rischen" for the hall, c.) Following these allowances there is another entry with the marginal heading of "Receipt of money," being apparently a list of Fines or of Light-silver paid by the members of the Guild, 14d being the amount received from a married couple, and 7d from a single person. The following are the names in the list:--Nicholas Saucer, Richard ... and his wife, John Jamus and his wife, William Rukesley and his wife, ... Iremonger and his wife, Geoffrey Frecter, John Still and his wife, Thomas Compt .., John Iremonger and his wife, John Reynold and his wife, Thomas Mason, H ... Baly and his wife, John Furbour and his wife, John Smale and his wife, John Blaunfron and [his wife], John Growenhale and his wife, Walter Sald and his wife, Roger Chilcot and his wife, Henry Taylour and his wife, Thomas Smzth and his wife, John Brasyer and his wife, Thomas Vincent and his wife, Thomas Taylour and his wife, Edith Barbour, William Westyngton and his wife, William Mayel, Richard Cowper and his wife, John Mayel, Junior, and his wife, John Zerdeley and his wife, John Chebbessey and his wife, John Mayel, senior, and his wife, William Carter, John Hubard and his wife, Robert Pacey, Richard Wotton and his wife, ... Eton and his wife, Alice Sarleke, Matilda Bowyer, John Lokyer and his wife, John Pound, Thomas Kyngus and his wife, Richard Brooke and his wife, John Sanders, John Whe ..., John Ster and his wife, John Aleyn, John Parnell and his wife, John Tommus, Senior, and [his wife], William Clerke and his wife, Robert Dyester and his wife, John Barly of Wichurche, Warren ... John Schepard, Ralph Hopper and his wife, Simon Dowler, William Welcombe, John Cooke, of Kyrmescote, and his wife, and Nicholas Godefrey and his wife