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

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View of Account of William [Bulle] (?) and Robert ... [Proctors of the Guild of the Holy] Cross, the Blessed Mary, and St. John the Baptist from [Monday]... 16 Henry VI., to ... [St.] Thomas the Martyr, 17 Henry VI. (one whole year) The marginal headings of this Account are mostly wanting Arrears [Rents of assize.] [Delivery] of moneys. (Stipends of the Chaplains; 15s paid to Alice Ulbarowe for her annual pension; 3s 4d the clerk's fee; 1d paid for the year to Otewelle Power for a grange with its appurtenances in Brugeton) [Expenses incurred in the counting-house.] (Expenses incurred in the counting-house on Monday next after the Feast of the Translation [of St. Thomas the Martyr] at the rendering of the account of the Proctors for the preceding year, for bread, beer, "otemel," c.; 2d for beer bought by command of the Master and given to the poor men and women of the alms-houses.) [Expenses incurred in the counting-house.] (Expenses incurred in the counting-house on Monday next before the Feast of St. Martin the Bishop in entertaining Thomas Burdet, the Master, the Aldermen, and others, for bread, beer, "kydall," "otemel," c. Also, expenses incurred about "Burdet" on another occasion.) [Cost of the lights.] (Cost of the light for the three beams in the Parish Church before the High Cross, the Blessed Mary, and St. John the Baptist; 4d for "weikezerne" bought from the barber; 10d for fire, food, and drink for the barber and the two Proctors; nothing for [wax] this [year] because John Webbe, the Master, gave the wax for the aforesaid light and for the light in the chapel; 2d for making 4 "tapers," two for the Parish Church and two for the Chapel, c.) [Cost of repairs, c.] (A payment for a pair of "dovetayles" of iron, c.) [Cost of repairs of a house of Nicholas Batty [and] in other places.] (Also 7d for bread bought for the Guild Hall; 4d for washing "le naprye"; 4d for bread for the Aldermen and for beer.) [Expenses incurred in the hall.] (Expenses incurred in the Guild Hall on Monday next after the Feast of the Ascension of our Lord, at the election of the Master, Aldermen, and Proctors--12d for bread, 2s 6d for 12 gallons of beer, 8d for cheese, 8d for bread for the poor men and women of the Almshouses, by command of the Master, John Webbe Rents in decay. (An allowance of 7s 8d for the rent of a tenement in "le Bruggestrete" in which Nicholas Bayly now lives, because he worked at the building of the tenement to the value of the rent and more; an allowance for the rent of a shop which Richard Willowes held in Myddylrow because it stood empty from Lady Day, 16 Henry VI., to the Feast of St. John the Baptist next following, the said Richard having secretly left it, and there being nothing left in the shop to distrain on but the bare walls, then came a certain Thomas Lacy, "Bocher," and took the shop from the last-mentioned date to Christmas, when he left it, and it again remained empty to Lady Day; an allowance of 3s [2]d for the rent of the house of St. Mary next "le Oldstratford"; an allowance of 2d for the mendding of a cross; 2½d for parchment and paper, c.)