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

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Account of Thomas Iremonger and John Couper, "Corvycer," Proctors of the Guild of the Holy Cross, the Blessed Mary, and St. John the Baptist, from the Morrow of the Feast of the Guild, 3 Henry V., to the Morrow of the Feast of the Guild, 4 Henry V The Account is rendered under the following headings [Heading gone.] (Receipts from lands, c., in Stratford, Shotrech, and Bruggeton; from 162 Brethren and Sisters present at the Feast of the Guild this year, namely 6d from each; from new members of the Guild; from skins sold, c.) [Cost of the lights.] (Oil for the lamp before the Altar "in summo choro," c.) [Rents resolute.] (Payments for keeping the "horascopium"; to the Chief Bailiff for the chief rent of the Hall of the Guild, c.) [Decays of rent.] (Allowances for rents of empty houses, c. One exemption from rent is for the schoolmaster.) [Necessary Expenses.] (Expenses in the Hall, bread, beer, meat, c., provided for the Master and Aldermen.) [Expenses] of the Feast. (Complete list of all victuals, c., bought for the Feast, with their quantities and prices; payments for "turnyng" in the kitchen, for bringing tables and forms from the town to the Hall and taking them back, to two women for washing the dishes and carrying them to the Hall and back, for a cloth for wiping the dishes, c.) (Allowances for the food of the 4 Chaplains, the Proctors, and of three men who laboured diligently about the said Feast.) List of members from whom light-silver is to be collected. (From Lucy Brasyer, Felicia Note, John Mayel, "Barker" and his wife, Richard Halle and Alice his wife, Alice Carter, William Carter, Roger Chilcote, Thomas Grene and his wife, John Pounde and his wife, Margaret Ilmygton, John Smyzth of Brayles and his wife, the wife of William Sallow. Peter Sloley, Richard Crispe and his wife, William Baly, Chaplain, John Rose, Chaplain, Roger Hosyer of Campedene and his wife, ... Hecoke of Campedene and his wife, Warren Richardus of Lokisley and his wife, Peter Lynedraper and his wife, the wife of Robert Dister of Wotton, the wife of Thomas Reynold, John Inggement and his wife, John Base and his wife, John Iremonger late of Shepuston, Thomas Halford, Chaplain, John Salamon, Clerk, John Magot, junior, and his wife, John Owdeby and his wife, William Carter, Vicar of Lokesley, John Sanders, John Dilvyng and his wife, Richard Hardyng and his wife, the Lord of Clopton and his wife, Julia Frecter, John Chamber and his wife, Thomas Crewze and his wife, William Cha ... , Thomas Barbour and Katherine his wife, Thomas Trigg and Alice his wife, John Reve of Weston-subter-Egge and his wife, Walter Freemon of Lapurton and his wife, William Balle [?Ralle] of ... escote and his wife, John Sheperd of Hatton and his wife, John Summour and his wife, the Rector of Clifford, Richard Compton, Richard Evwayn and his wife, Richard Payntour and his wife, John Wibbe, Thomas Payntour and his wife, and Thomas Owdeby and Cecilia his mother.) [Allowances for light-silver.]