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

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Account of [William Bulle and Reginald Fletcher,] Proctors of the Guild of the Holy Cross, the Blessed Mary, and St. John the Baptist, from the Morrow of the Feast of the Translation of St. Thomas the Martyr, 15 Henry VI., to the Morrow of the same Feast, 16 Henry VI The Account is rendered under the following headings-- Recovery of rent [No heading.] (Money spent by John Webbe, the Master, for a breakfast for Thomas Burdet.) [Skins sold and legacies.] Delivery of moneys. (For salaries, c.) [Expenses incurred in the hall.] (Payments for victuals, c., on ... [before] the Feast of Thomas the Martyr, 15 Henry VI., at the rendering of the Accounts; for bread, beer, beef, fish, c.) [Likewise expenses incurred in the hall.] (Money spent for victuals for the Master and Aldermen in the counting-house, being there about the business of the Guild on Monday next before the Feast of St. Clement the Pope, 16 Henry VI., for bread, beer, beef, pork, veal, c. ; 2d for bread given to the poor of the almshouses, and 3d for beer for them ; 1d for fish for Robert Thorn, the clerk; 1d for washing the dishes.) [Cost of the light.] 1d paid for making two "fottapayrs" for the chapel, c.) [Cost of the houses.] (Payments for repairs to one of the almshouses in which John Bayly now lives, and to a tenement in Henleystrete inhabited by John Boton.) Small payments. (3d for a cord for "le paye horasccopii," c [Decays of rent.] Likewise expenses incurred in the hall (Payments for victuals, c., 4 bushels of wheat at 14d a bushel; 5d for baking the bread; 2s for bread bought in the town. Payments for beer, some bought at 1½d per gallon and some at 2d; 8d for washing "le napry" after the breakfast; 4d paid to a man carrying the food; [2d] paid to a man for going to Henley for wine; 13d for provender for the horses of "Domimus" Thomas Burdet at Wyke ; 16d for partridges, c.) Expenses incurred in the counting-house on Monday next after the Feast of Ascension of our Lord about the election of the Master, Aldermen, and Proctors of the said Guild for the year now next following (Payments for victuals, c. 8s for 2 "quarteriis ordei fucis in viridum brasium pro mecatione aucarum" ; 80 geese at 2d each; 4 capons at 3½d each ; 8 pullets, 8d ; 4d for "marybonus" ; 13d for a lamb; 2 gallons (lageins) of butter at 12d a gallon; 2 gallons "quacci" (? connacci) at 10d a gallon; 12d for 1 gallon of honey, and 2½d for a quart; 1d for fish for Robert Thorne ; 2s 10d for expenses incurred in the house of Thomas Chacomb for Thomas Burdet and William Bisshopusdon with other gentlemen; "in rownd robyn, ijd."; 6d for killing the calves and sheep; 6d for a man carrying the food, c.)