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

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View of Account of Thomas Ballesale and Richard Broke, Proctors of the Guild of the Holy Cross, the Blessed Mary, and St. John Baptist, from the morrow of Wednesday next before the Feast of St. Thomas the Apostle, 12 Henry VI., to the morrow of Monday next after the Feast of St. Thomas the Martyr, 13 Henry VI., to wit for one year and a half The Account is rendered under the following headings-- Rents of Assize Receipts of monies at the feast. (38s 6d) received of divers Brothers and Sisters being at the feast of the Guild this year. Receipts for skins of the beasts killed for the feast. 20d received for "chesyl and bran." 3s for bread sold after the feast. Receipts also for mutton sold.) Receipts of money for light with bequests. (Sums varying in amount received from, amongst others, Joan Edward, of Buynton ; Nicholas Ingement; John Bate, "bocher," and Agnes, his wife, of Stratford; Richard Grete, and Agnes, his wife, of Stratford; Richard Tuly and Margery, his wife ; John de Fakenham; 6d for the profit of the Altar of the Blessed Mary in the Church of Stratford; 22d legacy of Agnes, wife of John Leke, and Agnes, daughter of Thomas Leke ; 4d, legacy of Thomas Whytred, of Shotrith, for the altar of St. John in the Church of Stratford ; 20d for light from William Ryngdale, bailiff, of Snettesfeld, and Elizabeth, his wife: John Jolyfe, of Holbarrow, in the parish of Inkeborowe, and Agnes, his wife, and Alice Holebarow, mother of the said Agnes ; "Emmota" the wife of William Blakeman, of Bugnam; Margery George, for the soul of Peter, late her husband; 101 for the soul of Agnes, daughter of Thomas Leke. For the souls of Edith Chalenor, the son of Richard Carles "de la Oldeton," c.) Payment of monies. (Thomas Plentech, one of the Chaplains of the Guild, for his stipend £5 16s 8d ; Alice Ulbarowe, for her annual pension, 50s; Robert Thorne, clerk of the Guild, for his fee, 5s. Paid "Hoddy," cook of the Chaplains of the Guild, 20s. Payment to Olwell Power, c.) Cost of the light, with other expenses (10lbs of wax, bought for the beam of St. John Baptist in the Church of Stratford, at 5½d a lb. 1lb. of wax, bought to make a "taiper" to burn before the High Cross in the Church of Stratford, 5½d. Wax bought for small candles for the priests celebrating mass in the Chapel. Oil for the lamps in the Chapel, 6d. Washing the "vestments" of the Altar of the Blessed Mary in the Church and the Altar in the Chapel, 9d. 45lbs of wax lights for the "light beam" before the High Cross in the Church newly-made, 18s 9d. Payment for "Wekezern" for the same lights. "Rosyn," for torches, 3s. Wax for the same, at 5d a lb. Paid "pro clarificatione" of the old wax 2d. 13lbs. "candelarum de sepe," 13d, c.) Rents in decay. (3s 6d of the rent of the House of St. Mary "juxta Old Stratford," c.) Expenses of the Feast. (The items are divided under the following sub-heads:--) Corn and Malt. (Corn and malt at 5s 4d per quarter; malt for feeding the pullets.) Calves, "Mutton," Pigs, and Geese. (10 calves, whereof 7 at 2s 7d each, 2 at 3s each ; paid a man for purchasing the calves in the country, 12d. Paid for their carriage from Beoley to Stratford, 12d; paid to the man coming at night with the cart, 4d ; 7 "multon," 2 at 2s 1d, 4 at 2s 5d, and 2 at 3s 4d. "In buccis porcorum pro bakemeat," 4s 8d; "marowbones" 8d; 26 pigs (7 at 6d, 9 at 5½d, and 10 at 5d) 11s 9½d. Expenses at the entertainment of knights and gentlemen, 6 geese, 22d, c.) Capons and Pullets. (10 capons at 2½d each; 200 pullets 17s 3d.) Honey, Butter, and Milk. (1 gallon of honey, 16d; 1 gallon and 3 quarts of butter, 21d; 8 gallons of milk, 8d; 500 eggs at 5d per hundred.) Spices. (Pepper at 15d per lb. ; 71b. "de gross raysyns," 16d; 11b. of "raysyns de coraunce," 7d. Payments also for saffron, mace, almonds, ginger, c.) Fuel. (5 quarters of "charcoole," 2s 3½d. Payment for "kyddys" and other fuel.) Stipends of the cooks and servants (Thomas Brydder, a cook 20d; Robert Cook, of Aldermaston, William Chaumbre, John Thomkyns, and Thomas Parent, cooks, 12d each; to Nicholas Baly and Hugh Cook, 4d each; to "Brown Rychard," another cook, 6d ; paid William Raddecockes for 6 days' "bultynge," baking bread, killing animals, c., 2s 6d ; paid a man for heating the "fornaces," 2d ; 2 women washing and cleaning dishes for 2 days, 6d ; 4 "turneboches" for 3 days, 8d ; 2 women drawing ale "in botteleria"; 1 "napory given to Richard Compton, "Survyour," 6d ; William Hody, for cleaning the kitchen, 2d; washing "de la napry" after the feast, 8d.) Foreign expenses. (4 gallons of wine for Sir Thomas Burdet, Knight, William Bisshopusdon and other gentlemen on Monday, the morrow of the Feast of the Guild, 3s 4d; expenses of the Clerk and Proctors making this book, 4d; parchment for charters, indentures, c., for the profit of the Guild, 12d.)