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

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Account of John Clopton, Master of the Guild of the Blessed Mary the Virgin and S. John Baptist (the Holy Cross not mentioned), from Monday next after the Feast of S. Thomas the Martyr, 12 Edward IV., to the morrow of the same Feast, 13 Edward IV The Account is much defaced, and one side is torn away. It is rendered under the following headings-- Arrears [No heading.] (£6 5s 10d received at the Feast of the Guild; 3s legacy from Robert Foly, of Burmynton, for the profit of the Guild, and a bequest also from John Hannys mentions the husband of Alice Shelton; 3s 4d received from William Wells and his wife for their "ingress"; a tenement called Blaunfron is mentioned) [Fines.] (Paid by, amongst others, John Pott, Vicar of Loxley; Edward Twyss, of Stratford, "Corveser," and Margery his wife; Richard Hogges; John Drewe, of Coughton, and Isabel his wife; William Pernell, of Bysshoppston, and Agnes his wife; William Powes, of Stratford; Thomas Gybbys, of Ydlycote; Roger Adam, of Stratford, "Corveser"; Robert Jenkynson, of Stratford, "Corveser"; John Mullynge, of Stratford, "Sclatter"; ... Mathewe, of Stratford, "Yeoman," and Joan his wife; for the soul of Joan, wife of John Samwell, of Stratford; the names of Pery, Gybyns, Carter, Hall, Ward, c., also occur) [As yet fines.] (John Moode, Vicar of Brayley ; Guy de Clinton, Clerk and Rector of the Church at Utlyoote; John Wellis, of Stratford; Alice Whatley, of Stratford, "puelle"; John Mylle, of Grymestrete; William Marshall, of Stratford, "Barker"; Thomas Reve; Richard Rawlyns, of Armestete; John Baly ... Robertus; William Perkyns; Thomas Walforde; John Bysshoppe; Robert Eddon, of Brayles; Henry Evatte, of Knoll, senior: Lawrence de Shaborne, and many others. In most of the foregoing cases the wife's name is also given. Frequent mention of fines for "souls" occur Sum of the receipts, £70 3s [Expenses of the Feast.] (Malt at 3s 4d a quarter; 5 sheep, 9s 4d; 1 calf, 2s; 300 pullets; 8 quarts of butter, 16d; eggs at 4d a hundred; 3 "dosen ciphorum," 18d; ½lb. "cloves" and "maces," 16d; ½lb. of pepper, 14d; small and large "resons," at 2d a lb.; paid to divers "ministrelles," 3s; payments as usual to cooks, "washers," c. ; 2 gallons of wine, 20d) Sum of the expenses, £10 14s 3d [Payment of moneys.] (The usual oblation in the Church, 4s; payment for candles, c.; paid "pro celebrations" (? consecration) of divers "awter clothes," 4d; an entry relating to a book pertaining to the Guild by the bequest of John Bosbury, late Chaplain of the Guild; expenses of Thomas Burdette, Esquire, and others "ad cessionem," c. ; [faded]) [Repairs.] (Payments to carpenters, tilers, c.; 1,000 tiles for a shop, 6s; lime at 9d a quarter; Thomas Welsshman for "terynge" a shop, 2s 8d; 2 dozen "boordes" for "florynge" a shop; payment for timber for the steps of 1 "stairs" in a shop; for "Pleesynge" in the Guild garden; payment for the collection of "mosse" for the hall and the Guild tenements, 16d; 1000 "sclatpynnes," 4d, c.) In the "summa" is mention of "Le Angel," and of the purchase of parchment for the rolls; hoods given to the priests, c.)