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

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Account of William Smyth and John Corveser, Proctors of the Guild of the Holy Cross, the Blessed Mary the Virgin, and the Nativity of S. John the Baptist, from Monday next after the Feast of the Translation of S. Thomas the Martyr, 17 Edward IV., to Monday next after the same Feast, 18 Edward IV The Account is rendered under the following headings-- Arrears Payments of money with rents resolute. (Payments of £5 to John Pype, Thomas Chylde, John Kynge, Thomas Wager, and John Clopton, Chaplains; to Alice Cook, serving in the kitchen, 10s, for her yearly stipend; chief rent for a shop in Middlerowe for (pro) Lady Elizabeth Palmer; 71 lbs. of new wax bought for the beam of the Holy Cross in the Church, for the beams of the Blessed Mary and S. John Baptist, and for the Chapel, price "le lb," 6d; payment for "talowe candells," c.) Repairs. (Paid 2 carpenters working for 4 days 3d per diem each; for their board, 13d; 1 "sylle" and 1 "walplate," 13d; paid for a "guttre tre," 16d; payments for "stakes" for hedging; 4 quarters of lime, 3s 4d; for the board (mensa) of William Sclatter working for seven days, 14d, and for the board of his servants, 10½d; paid to 2 persons carrying "mortar" from the house of John Gilbert as far as the tenement of Patrycke Wever, 4d.) As yet repairs. (2,000 tiles, 12s; payment for "thechynge, wallynge, and dawbynge" in a tenement, 20d; mention of Richard Copeland, "parchmentmaker"; paid a tiler and his servant for four days' work, 2s 11d; payment for a "lever corde," for the tenement of William Crabbe; "Yelmynge" straw, 4d; paid John Barbor for "Bagynton rent" for a tenement in Middle-row, 10d; 1 "matte" lying in the Church before the Altar of the Holy Cross, 3d; repairs to divers tenements in "le Rothermarket": paid for a "well boket," 4d, and for a "whope" for the same 1d; 3 lamps, 3d; 2 "cordes," 5d; mending divers "Albarum" for the Altar of the Nativity of S. John Baptist, 14d; mending lamps, 4d; John Couper, for making a "barel" for the said lamps, 3d; linen cloth for mending the vestments of the Altar of S. John Baptist, 5d; paid for scouring the candelabra, 1d; key for the clock. 1d ; c.) Expenses of the Feast. (Entries of the usual kind, including, amongst many others, 11s 3d for 13½ bushels of corn at 10d "ye streke"; malt at 2s 4d the quarter; veal, beef, pork, geese, c.; "pro turnspytes," 1½d; paid John Hall for keeping the door of the Guild on the day of the Feast, 2d; "ciphis," 2d; sugar, 12d; 12d given to the "mynstrelles.") Rents resolute with the payments of money. (2s for washing the cloths; 4s for collecting the Guild rents; paid the Chief Bailiff of Stratford for chief rent due to the Bishop of Worcester, 16s; payment of other chief rents and for ale and victuals) Decay of rents In the "super" the accountants pray allowance of 4s 8d for wine for the Priests, celebrating in the Chapel