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

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Account of Thomas Lampette and John Eyles, Proctors of the Guild of the Holy Cross, the Blessed Mary the Virgin, and the Nativity of S. John Baptist, from Monday next after the Feast of the Translation of S. Thomas the Martyr 9 Henry VII., to Monday next following after the aforesaid Feast, 10 Henry VII The Account is rendered under the following headings Arrears [Rents.] Allowance of chief rents, with rents resolute. (Payments for the stipends of the Chaplains; for the chief rents due to the Bishop of Worcester; to John Lampet for riding to Bromesgrove, Wyche, Henley, Knoll, and other places to warn the Brethren to the Feast; 20d for distribution among the poor of the Almshouses; 10s for the pay of the Cook of the Priests of the Guild for the time of the Account; 4s to the keeper of the clock this year, c.) Allowances of chief rents Decays of rent. (Also 7d for a lock and mending a lock of the door of the Buttery in the Guild Hall.) Payments. (3d for a lock for the door of the Hall in Henley-strete, late in the tenure of Thomas Grene, Senior; 10s 4d for wine for the Priests of the Guild to celebrate Divine service in the Chapel, c.) Amongst the further allowances in the total is one of 7s 3d for the rent of the tenement in the tenure of Richard Tysynge, because the said Richard worked for the said rent in divers places