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

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Stratford - upon - Avon. Account of Thomas Smyzth and John Chebbessey, Proctors of the Guild of the Holy Cross, the Blessed Mary, and St. John Baptist there, from the Morrow of the Feast of St. Michael, 5 Henry IV., to the Morrow of the same Feast, 6 Henry IV The Account is rendered under the following headings Arrears Rents. (£21 7s 10d of all the rent of Stratford and Bruggeston by the year as appears in the Rental.) Light-money. (18s 10d received of divers men for finding light called "lyzthgselvr.") Sum total of the receipts, £22 6s 8d Rents resolute. (To the Bishop of Worcester 7s, "Dno de Clopton," of a messuage late of Christina Gorschaw, c.) Cost of light and lamps. (Oil for the light in the chancel 8s 4d, candels 2s 4d; bread bought for the Priests therewith to celebrate, per annum, 6d; 4lb. of wax lights, at 6½d the 1b, for the Chaplains; "Wekezerne" 21, c.) Cost of the houses. (4 "lacehes, catches, and hokes" bought for a new house in Le Rotherstret, 8d; 4 locks with keys for the same house, 12d; making a "gewet" in the said house, 12d.) Stipend of the Chaplains. (Robert Stourton £5; John Mortimer £4.) Small necessaries. (Paid Henry Bedeman for ringing the bell four times a year for the interlocution of the bretheren, 4d. Washing the "Napry" after the Feast, 5½d. Washing the vestments of the Altar of the Holy Cross, 5½d.) Allowances. (Numerous payments to a John Iremonger "pro ratificatione" of sundry charters, c.)