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

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Account of Thomas Grene and Richard Fretter, Proctors of the Guild of ... and St. John the Baptist, from the Morrow of ... 8 Henry IV. to the Morrow of ... 9 Henry IV. (one year) The Account is rendered under the following headings Receipts of moneys. (Entries torn.) Stipends of the Chaplains Decays of rent and repayments. (One item is of 3s 3d, the rent "de la Drapry quia non possunt levare." Cost of the light and the lamps Cost of the houses. (Lime and "okyr" bought for white-washing the Hall of the Guild, with 11d for the man doing it, c.) Expenses about the "interlocutio." (Payments for the victuals bought for a breakfast in the house of John Brasyer, and for a breakfast in the Hall of the Guild on Monday next after the Feast of the Nativity of St. John the Baptist; 1d paid to a woman for preparing the latter breakfast; money paid for beer bought for the Master and Aldermen on various occasions at the Hall of the Guild and at the house of John Mayel.) Small necessaries. (6s 8d paid to John Barre, of Preston, by the grant of the Master and Alderman; 10d paid for linen cloth bought for a poor dead woman; 1d paid to Henry Bedman for ringing the bell in the town for the same woman; 1d offering for the same woman; 4d paid to Henry Bedman for ringing the bell four times in the year at the "interlocutio;" 3d for parchment for the accounts.) [Payments of Light-silver to the Master.] (The light-silver of Richard Broke and Agnes atte Putte)