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

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Account of John Leeke and John Lokyer, Proctors of the Guild of the Holy Cross, the Blessed Mary, and St. John the Baptist, from the Morrow of Michaelmas Day, 9 Henry IV., to the Morrow of the same Feast, 10 Henry IV The Account is rendered under the following headings [Arrears.] [Rents of Assize.] Light-silver [Money received for the Feast.] (70s. received from 140 Bretheren and Sisters present at the Feast this year, being 6d from each one.) [Sales after the Feast.] (12d received for 4 sheep skins and 4 calf skins, 8d for geese sold, c.) [Expenses.] Stipends of the Chaplains Cost of the lamps and the light. (6d for a "quartrona" of "vertgrese," 3½d for beer, 2d for beer, 12d for 21bs of wax bought "pro emendatione de le Torchys versus Henley, c.) Decays of rent and gift of rent (persolut'). (2s the decay of the rent of the tenement of Geoffrey Fretter for the year, because it is occupied by John West by the gift of the Master and Alderman, c.) Rents resolute Expenses about the "interlocutio." (Expenses incurred in the purchase of bread, beer, mutton, c., for a breakfast for the Master, Alderman, and others at the Guild Hall. Also expenses incurred for the Master, Aldermen, and others at the house of John Blaunfron, for bread, beer, beef, and fowls.) Small necessaries. (½d for "rissch'n pro lampad'," 2d for making a lectern for the altar of the Holy Cross; 2d for carrying "le torches" to Henley, 3½d for a cord bought for the lamp 2d for a cord bought for "le cloke," 16d for a "gabule" bought for "le cloke," 5d for "hemmyng de le Bortclothes," 8d for washing `le "naprye" after the feast, 4d paid to Henry Bedmon for ringing the bell in the town four times in the year for the "Interlocutio," 4d for mending the vestments of the altar of the Holy Cross, 2s 1d for 2 "wyndyngschetes" bought for two poor women, 6d for 1lb. of wax bought for Ellen Walleford, c.) Expenses of the Feast, with sub-headings of Corn, Malt, Veal, and Mutton, c. (12d for "flowr" for "pyes;" 17½d for 3 bushels 2 pecks of corn bought for the geese and pullets at 5½d the bushel; 8s 3d for 2 qrs. 2 bushels "brasii aridati" bought at 5½d the bushel for the geese; 10s 10d for 3qrs. 2 bushels "brasii non aridati" bought for the geese at 5d the bushel; 21s 6d for 129 geese bought at 2d each; 12s 7d for 154 pullets; 12d for keeping them; 8d for 4lb of figs; 15d for ½lb. of ginger; 3d for 2lb. of rice; 40d for the pay of the maste cook: 2s the pay of the other cook; 6s 8d the pay of other servants assisting the cooks, and for washing the dishes and carrying them into the town; 20d paid to three men carrying the food; 5d for "ryschen" for the hall; 18d for baking the bread; 14d for wine for the kitchen; 11s 10d for cloths and the canopy for the tables in the hall (pro vest' et canap' pro tabulis in Aula), c