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

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Account of Thomas Smyzth and Geoffrey Webbe, Proctors of the Guild of the Holy Cross, the Blessed Mary, and St. John the Baptist from the Morrow of St. Michael, 6 Henry IV., to the Morrow of the same Feast 7 Henry IV The Account is rendered under the following headings Arrears Rents Light-money. (Payments for "lyzchgselver.") Rents resolute. (Paid to the Bishop of Worcester, Thomas Huband, and the lord of Clopton.) Cost of the light and the lamp Coat of the houses. (Straw for thatching; the carriage of and sand, c.) Stipends of the Chaplains Small necessaries. (4d to Henry Bedman for ringing the bells four times a year, "pro interlocutione Fratrum facienda," the washing "de la napry" after the Feast, two keys bought for the door of Henry Bedeman, c.) Rents vacant and not levied