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

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Account of John Bryghtwell, Master 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 St. Thomas the Martyr, 5 Henry VII., to Monday next after the same Feast, 6 Henry VII The Account is rendered under the following headings:– Arrears [Fines.] (Paid by amongst others, William Nash de Hambery; Richard Tomson de Wyche; Thomas Galyn; Matilda Archer de Shepeston; William Ravley de Coventry; Thomas Grove de Coventry; the Vicar of Lodyngton; John Wager; John Gilbert; Thomas Madley de Alcester; Richard James; Richard Wylonyns de Pyllardyngton; Richard Lyne de Loxley; John Hawkyns de Alcester; the Sub-Prior of Stodley; John Janys de Barford; John Knottiford; John Fox de Evesham; William Parsons de Barford; 6s 8d legacy of Thomas Kynley de Loxley; Lawrence Saunders of Coventry; Thomas and John Lampete (for light); 20d received for the soul of Thomas Tasker of the son of Thomas Tasker) [Fines.] (George Muston; William Treweman de Bromesgrove; William Grove de Shapuston; John Tomkyns; William Rouney; Thomas Buggynge de Wyntasshe; Thomas Garet; Richard Edmay; John Bentley; Isabel Kynge; John Cropthorne de Honyngborn; John Castell; William Cryspe; John Boughton; Sir William Boboke, Vicar of Lodyngton; Thomas Wylston; Henry Albury de Fulfredy; John Mase de Aston, "Miller"; John Harewell, Esquire, for the soul of his bailiff, John Balamy ; John Goldycare de Shipston; 3s 4d received of Robert Toly de Burmyngton by the bequest of his mother; fines of Alice Perry, John Rounde, John Jay, c.) Total £4 19s 7d [No heading.] (Also received 40s of Sir John Powes, Chaplain; 4d of Sir Thomas Childe [Chaplain] by bequest of "Helene de la Almeshouses, c.) "Wylmecote." (The Master also answers for receipt of 14 measures of corn at 9s per quarter ; 21 streke of barley, at 5s per quarter ; 20d for 5 measures "sabarum" ; 9d for 3 measures of peas and " feches" ; receipt also for tithe hay and for a tithe calf, pig, and goose) [No heading.] (£6 2s 7d received at the Feast; receipts also for a bullock skin; for " talowe" ; old timber, c.) Payment of money. (4s oblation in the Church on the Feast of the Holy Trinity; John Semer "pro celebrations" at Wylmcot; paid to the Chaplains for the exequies of Master Robert Toly of Burmynton, 12d, and paid 1d to John Aleyn going about the town [praying] for the soul of the mother of the said Robert; paid for the collection of tithes (corn, barley, peas, and hay) at Wylmecote, 4s 2d; paid "Horsman" for the Bishop of Worcester, 6s 8d; paid for " Bagynton rente" for a shop in Middlerowe, 10d, c.) Repairs. (Paid George Carpenter for "making" a house containing "tres bayes" within a tenement, £6; "10 rafturs," 10d; 10 bundels of "rodds," 10d; paid 2s for a piece of timber for a "manteltre" of the chamber in the house of Marione Jokyns; paid Richard Tvsynge "pro fraccione" of the walls, and for "waterynge" the same; the usual payments for "wyndynge roddes," tiles, c., occur) As yet repairs. (1,000 tiles for the tenement of Thomas Grene, Junior, 6s, and 8s paid to George Carpenter for making divers windows, steps, c., there; 1000 "lathe nayle," 12d; carriage of the tiles from the Chapel to the said tenement and for "lyme" and "sonde," 7d; paid "Yldshawe for a ladder for a Gilder," 14d, c.) As yet repairs. (5s for 3 cartloads of straw for "le Almeshowses"; paid Richard Tysynge for roofing ("pro tectacoe") the said Almeshouses and other tenements for 6 days, 3s; 1 key, 2d; paid "Patrifamilie de la Belle" for 500 lathes, 22d ; 2 cartloads of stones, called "fre stones," for a tenement, 2s; payments for straw, sand, c.) Expenses of the Feast. (Corn at 13½d "le streke," and malt at 9½d; brewing 6 quarters 4 measures of malt, 3s 4d; 21 small pigs, 7s 7d; baking bread and "bultynge," 2s 8d; 4 capons, 20d ; 3s 10d for geese ; butter, milk, and "creme," 3s 11d; 1½ gallons of milk, 18d; 4 dozen "trenchers," 5d; paid John Robyns for riding to the town of Warwick to buy pigs, 5d; 1½lb. of pepper, 9d; 2 ounces of sugar, 20d; 1lb. of almonds, 4d; 1 lb. of "sugar," 8d: 5 lbs. of small "resons," 5d; 6 lbs. of great "resons," 5d ; "streyners," 4d; 3 "dozen punctorum"; payments also for spices, "saunders," wine, vinegar, c.) [No heading.] (75 lbs of wax lights, at 7½d per lb., "ad erucifixum" in the Church, for the Altars of the Blessed Mary the Virgin, and S. John Baptist, and for the Chapel) [Repairs.] (Mentions the "stone warke.") [No heading.] (3 ells of linen cloth "pro tabula," for the use of the Guild Chaplains, 20d; 4d for the hire of a horse for the funeral of the Vicar of Eburton)