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

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Account of Thomas Leke and Richard Iremonger, Proctors of the Guild of the Holy Cross, the Blessed Mary the Virgin, and St. John Baptist, from the Morrow of the Feast of St. Thomas the Martyr, 3 Henry VI., to the Morrow of the same Feast, 4 Henry VI The Account is rendered under the following headings Arrears [No heading.] (12d received of Richard Fayrfox by the bequest of Margaret his wife; 8d received of John Bemound de Schotryzth for "torchets" to burn about the body of his wife on the day of her burial; 2s received for the skins of 9 calves killed for the Feast, and 4d for the skins of 11 "kiddis" also killed for the same Feast, c.) [No heading.] £4 18s 2d received from divers Brothers and Sisters being at the Feast this year.) Sum total of the receipts, £10 2s Payment of moneys. (Thomas Plentish, Chaplain of the Guild, £4; payment for expenses in the Hall about taking the Accounts of the Master and Proctors; expenses of Thomas Burdet in the house of Alice Yate, 16d; paid Alice Yate for wine for the Chapel, for the Priests therewith to celebrate, 2s; candles for the Chaplains therewith to celebrate, 5d; paid the Chief Bailiff for rent of the Guild tenements within the borough, 5s 3d.) Expenses of the Feast. (The items are subdivided under the headings [Corn.] (4 quarters of corn for bread, 16s; "flour" for "Bakenmete," 12d.) Malt. (5 quarters 4 bushels of malt for brewing ale, 21s 5d (some at 3s 5d and some at 4s per quarter); malt for the geese.) [No heading.] (30 small pigs, 14s 7d; 1 pig, 3s 2d; 3 calves, 7s 6d; 4 do., 10s; 2 do., 4s; 147 geese at 2½d each, c.) [No heading.] (146 pullets, 12s 2d; 3 bushels of barley for the same, 13d; 6 "carcuys" of mutton, 12s 2d, c.) [No heading.] 1800 eggs at 5d per 100; carriage of the same from the country, 3d; 2 gallons and 1 quart of butter at 16d per gallon; 1 gallon of honey, 12d. Payments also for "creme," garlic, salt, c.; mending "a patell," 3d; "In Scopis," 1d Spices. (1¾ lbs. of pepper, 3s 6d; 2 lbs. of "Almoundus," 6d; 2 lbs. of "raysyns de courance," 12d; 3 lbs. of "gretraysyns," 6d; ½ lb. of ginger, 20d; ½ lb. of "maces," 2s; ½ lb. of cloves, 2s. Payment also for saffron, cinnamon, c.) Fuel, Stipend of the Cooks, and other small necessaries. (3 cartloads of fuel, 3s; 7 quarters of coal at 7d per quarter; paid a man riding from Stratford to Worcester, 17d; paid for a man and a horse to ride into the country to collect and purchase victuals, 20d; fish, 8d; paid Hamlet Whitchurch 12d; stipend of "Bronrychard" (Brown Richard), 8d; paid John Matresmaker 6d; for carrying ale to the Hall, 3d; baking bread and "pyes," 4s 10d; 18 "Naprens" for those serving, 6s; washing "le Napry" after the Feast, 12d; wooden "pestell" bought for the kitchen, 6d; 1 pair of shoes given to Richard Monmouth for a great "morter" stone, price 20d; carriage of the said "mortar" from the College to the Hall of the Guild, 2d. Payments also for wine, vinegar, c.) Expenses in the Hall. (Expenses of the gentlemen, viz., for Thomas Burdet and others being in the Hall; bread, ale, "flour" for "Frenchebred" and "bakenmete," 8d; 6 capons, 2s; 3 small pigs, 20d. Payments also for veal, butter, garlic, "sirpis," geese, pigeons, cream, cheese, c.)