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

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Account of Roger Pagette, Master of the Guild of the Holy Cross, the Blessed Mary the Virgin, and the Nativity of St. John the Baptist, from Monday next after the Feast of the Translation of St. Thomas the Martyr, 15 Edward IV., to Monday next following the same Feast, 16 Edward IV The Account is rendered under the following headings Arrears. (Also including two legacies, rents £6 13s 4d received from Thomas Wager, Chaplain, for his admission to the Guild for the term of his life, and £4 13s 4d received from John Kyng, Chaplain, for the same) Fines. (Of Richard Messanger, the servant of George, Duke of Clarence; John Skyngeler, of Worcester, and Jane his wife (6s 8d) ; John Rede, of Stratford, "Wever," and Alice his wife (13s 4d); John Wolte, of Stratford, "Husbondman" (6s 8d); Elizabeth Couper, of Brodemarston, and the soul of Henry Couper her late husband, (10s); Jane Hoore, the mother of Matthew Walker (3s); the souls of Henry Chester, of Bristol, and Alice his wife (6s 8d); the soul of Richard Elleston, of Exale (6s 8d); Thomas Flyxston, of Stratford, "Walker," and Margaret his wife (13s 4d); John Pratte, of Henley-in-Ardern, and his wife (13s 4d); ... Stokes, of Bordesley, Gentleman (6s 8d); William Palmer, of "Bolde juxta Edward Stowe," and Sibilla his wife (13s 4d); John Warde, of Loxley, and Agnes his wife (13s 4d); John Charles, of Weston-super-Aven (6s 8d); Agnes [ ], a girl in "le Almeshouse" (7s); and 5s for the soul of John Smythe, of Lodyngton) [Allowances.] (4s the offering on the day of the Dedication of the Church; 42s 10½d for 73½ lbs. of wax, at 7d a lb., bought this year for the beam before the crucifix in the Church, the Altar of the Blessed Mary the Virgin, the Beam of St. John the Baptist, the small candles for the Priests of the Guild to celebrate mass, and for "torches"; 3d for 5 lbs. of "wykzaren" bought for "torches" and candles this year; 5d for 6 lbs. of rosen; 2s 2d for the expenses of the Priests of the Guild, and the hire of two horses for the Priests to ride to the funeral of Alice Smythe, of Oxhill; 10d paid to Margaret Myller for her trouble in keeping ("custodiend'") Robert Scot and John Daunseprowe in "le Almeshowses"; 5d paid to Robert Bendbowe, carpenter, for working at the tenement called "le Angell" for two days; 5s 6d paid to Thomas Barbour for making wax candles and 4 "torches" this year; 12d paid for a "wyndyng shete" at the funeral of Robert Sootte; 2d paid to John Aleyn, for digging a grave in the churchyard and "for going about the town for his soul," c.)