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

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Account of Thomas Smyzth and John Chebbessey, Proctors of the Guild of the Holy Cross, the Blessed Mary, and St. John the Baptist, from the Morrow of St. Michael, 4 Henry IV. to the Morrow of the same Feast 5 Henry IV The Account is rendered under the following headings Arrears Rents "Denarii luminis." (Payments for "lychgselver.") Rents resolute Costs of the light and the lamp Cost of the houses. (Payment for materials, labour, c., for repairing of the houses of the Guild, building walls, digging a well, c.) Small necessaries. (Payments to Henry Bedmon for ringing the bell four times a year, "pro interlocutione Fratrum facienda"; for parchment bought for the charter; for beer bought for the hall on three occasions at the "Interlocutis"; for the washing "de la napry" after the feast, c.) Stipends of the Chaplains Allowances. (Allowances for rents, amongst others "de redditio nov oelig; place oelig; in le Rotherstrete," and of the rent of the new chamber in the hall which John Scolemayster held for one term.)