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

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Account of John Samwell, Master 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, 15 Henry VII., to Monday next after the same Feast, 16 Henry VII. (See next Account, BRT1/3/110.) The Account is rendered under the following headings [Fines.] (Paid by, amongst others, Henry Walstod; John Hockeyns; John Shypley; Roger Bayley, rector of the church of Stoke; John Lyndall; John Harper, and Elizabeth [his wife]; Symon Ede; Thomas Hillard; Humphry Wassell; Thomas Underhyll; John Waggestaffe, of Shepston; Peter Holton; Sir (Dni) Humphrey Jordan, of Weston-upon-Avon; the Rector of Lodyngton; Sir (Dni) John Nevill; Sir (Dni) William Lambert de Brayley, c.) [No heading.] (13s 4d received of John Waggestaffe for the bell late of Wylmcote; mentions John Power, sometime a Proctor of the Guild; bequests of numerous persons, including Sir (Dni) William Stafford, Abbot of the Monastery of Haylis) [Fines.] (Richard Pargetur, of Chepyng Norton; Sir Thomas Bruer, Chaplain; John Broke, of Shenyngton; Robert Nevill; Michael Sowthewad; legacy of William Wolyton; John Boner; Richard Grene, of Walford; William Gretwiche, Thomas Power, of Coventry, c.) Repairs. (4s oblation in the Church on the Feast of the Holy Trinity; paid Emelyn Lacy for drawing straw, 12d; paid for "thacheynge" a tenement, 4s 6d; Symone Wodwood, for "wyndynge and terynge," 10½d; 13 "burdens" of rods; mentions repairs to the Almshouses; 1,500 "tyle," 9s; 2 "desen de gutter tyle," 11d; payment of 5s to a thatcher and to a woman serving him for 20 days, c.) As yet repairs, c. (Paid 5s for the obit of Master Jolyffe; 4s 2d for 20 bushels of "lyme"; 1 "sill" and 1 "furse" for a tenement, 14d; 12d paid "ad Glasyar"; paid Thomas Plasterer for "plasterynge," 17d; payments for "wynding," "grondesillyng," c.; 6s 8d for coals for the Alms poor; paid Richard Bentley for 2 "bonds" of iron for a tenement, 2s; 4s 3d for "thacheyng" the Almshouses; 2 ells of linen cloth, 17d; and for "staynyng" the said cloth, 2s) Expenses of the Feast. (55s for 5 quarters and 5 measures of corn; 28s 1½d for spice bought at Coventry by the Master; 5 lbs. of sugar, 20d; 147 geese, 24s 6d; 18s for 3 quarters of barley to feed the said geese; 200 pullets, 16s 7d; 6 capons, 3s 2d; payments to cooks; 1 linen cloth for the Altar of the Holy Trinity, 13d; 1 "gallon" of honey, 12d.) [No heading.] (16 "dosen trenchers," 6d; 4 aprons for the cooks, 12d; 1 "streyner," 2½d; 4s 8d for wood ("sylva") bought in the Market place, c.) The roll is much decayed towards the end