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

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Account of [Thomas and William Marcshall (The names appear in the endorsement.)] Proctors of the Guild of the Holy Cross, the Blessed Mary the Virgin, and the Nativity of S. John Baptist, [from Monday next after the Feast of the Translation] of S. Thomas the Martyr, 18 Edward IV., [to Monday next after the same Feast,] 19 Edward IV. (for one whole year) There is only one marginal heading left to this Account, viz., "Decay of Rents." [Heading gone.] (Legacies:--12d from Thomas Dylvynge, of Shoterey; 12d from William Ireton; 2s from Thomas James; and 6d from Agnes Lyzghton; 18d received for two measures of corn, c.) [Heading gone.] (Cartload of earth for a barn in Walker-street, 2d; ½d for a "booke"; paid for "latis, lathenayle, and wyndynge rodds," 18d; horse hire of Sir Thomas Wager riding to the town of Mikelton, 2d; "crests" and tiles for the hall of the Guild, 12s 8d; carriage of timber to the Chapel for "le store house"; payment for "synynge brede" for the Chapel; payment for "lathe nayle" and "iiij peny nayle"; paid for an "evespole," 1d; payment for "wyre" for the beam in the Church before the Crucifix, and for the beam of 8. John Baptist there; 10 "rafters" for making "stodes" for "le storehouse" in the Chapel, 10d; for "gederynge mosse" for a tenement, 2d; cartload of tiles for the said tenement, 3s 4d; paid for 8 "meusis ad le pentes ante shopam" of Mathew Iremonger, 2s 6d, c.) [Heading gone.] (Payment for two pieces of timber for "le pentes" for the shop of Mathew Iremunger; 2 carpenters working for 2 days, and for their board, 12d; paid John Oxton, Chief Bailiff, for chief rent to the Bishop of Worcester, 8s; mention of Richard, Parchment-maker; paid John Kyngge, reeve of the Bishop of Worcester, for chief rent of certain lands in the field of Shottery, 3s 4d; 1 quarter of "lymestone" for the chambers of the Guild priests, 16d; 2 pieces of iron for the beam of S. John the Baptist, 12d; "pyche" for the said iron, 1d; "pro mille panibus vocat syngyng bred," 8d; "paid for mending "le sege house" in the Chapel garden, and for mending the house in which John Pype keeps his fuel, 18d; Richard Smyth, for "hongyng" the clock at the High Cross, 16d; John Shereve, of Old Stratford, for the chief rent in "Shoterey feld," 3s 4d; paid Elizabeth Wever for mending the Guild vestments, 6d; payment for the obit of Agnes Couper, c Decay of rents [No heading.] (3s 4d for wine this year for the Priests of the Guild for celebrating; wax at 6d a lb.; 6 lbs. of "rosyn" for "torches," 5d; 10 yards of "Hollond" (This and the following entries are on the back of the roll.) delivered to the Priests of the Guild for cloths and "towells," 6s; "talowe candulls" for the Priests of the Guild for saying and celebrating divine service, 2s 6d; horse hire to Mikelton for the exequies of a brother of the Guild, 2d; paid for "stoweynge candelebris Gilde," 1d; mentions the exchange of 2 "cruettes"; "syngynge bred," 6d; mending the iron pertaining to the bell called "Le Clok," 2s; mentions the "sege house," the "wode house," and the "appul house"; stipends paid to the Chaplains, c.)