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

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Account of Thomas Tasker, Master of the Guild of the Holy Cross, the Blessed Mary the Virgin, and the Nativity of S. John Baptist, of Stratford, from Monday next after the Feast of the Translation of St. Thomas the Martyr, 9 Henry VII., to Monday next after the same Feast, 10 Henry VII The Account is rendered under the following headings Arrears [Fines.] (Received from, amongst others, Sir William Herrys, Vicar of Tonworth; Thomas Boughton; Elizabeth Pruddon, widow; John Cowper de Longmuston; Robert Wolseley de Kyngton; Richard Colchester, and for the soul of Margery his wife; Sir William Jokyns; Agnes Freeman, wife of John Freeman de Henyngborn; Roger Wode de Coventry, and Joan his wife; Elizabeth, wife of William Hopper de Blakywell; Thomas Tybottes de Armescote, c.) Sum total, £3 11s 2d [No heading.] (47s 3d received "de dogeto" of John Bedull; £5 6s 8d received on the day of the Feast of the Guild; 7s received of John Egynton "de dogeto suo." Repairs. (14d for two pieces of timber; "laht nayle," 4d; payment for bigats of straw; 2 "bigats" of earth called "cley," 4d; 1 "bauderyke" for the bell hanging in the Chapel, 3d; paid for "laht nayle" and "vi. peny nayle" for a certain tenement, 2d; paid for "ryddynge of the ground" there, 4d; paid a carpenter for making a "bay" in the said tenement, 6s 8d; 2 sawyers sawing at the said tenement, 6d; payments as usual for "wyndyngroddes," sand, tiles, c.) As yet repairs. (Paid for "drawynge straw," 4d; paid a carpenter for "leying" a "gutter"; 1 lock and 1 key for a tenement in Church-strete, 4d; the same for another tenement, 5d; payment for 1 dozen "de crestis," 8d; paid Thomas Kelem, "Tyler," for tiling, 7s; 1 "Fythur de wyndyngroddes," 20d; paid for "ternynge, grounselynge, watelynge, and naylynge" at a tenement, 3s 4d; 20 "sparres," 10d; paid Thomas Power, carpenter, for making a "halffe howse" in a tenement, and for "leying" a "syll" there, 4s; paid Thomas Power for "mangers" and "stodynge," 10s; standards and "bordes" for a tenement, 3s 4d, c.) Repairs. (3s paid to William Carpenter and William Bromeley; 12 pieces of timber and 1 "forklege," 16d; 1 "syll," 1d; 6 raftours, 12d; "hokes and hynges," 16d; "lythynge" and "dawbynge" a tenement, 16d; 1 "clathys," 5d; making a wall in the Chapel for four days, 3s 8d; "terynge" the said wall, 7s 6d; 6 "meusis" for the said wall, 16d; paid Gilbert Workman for "dawbynge" in "le overbotrey" and the "overhall," 20d: paid the same Gilbert for 1½ days' work upon the wall in the pantry, 5d; c.) [No heading.] (4d for a "Sanctus bell" in the Chaple; paid a certain Smith for hanging the said bell, 2d; 4s oblation on the day of the dedication of the Church; repairs to a chalice pertaining to the Altar of John Baptist, 3s 6d; candles called "talowe candulls" for the Priests of the Guild saying Divine service, 2s 6d; 2 "mensis tabulis" for the Priests, and 1 "towell," 2s 8d; paid John Barbor for riding to the towns of Bromesgrove, Wyche, Henley, Knoll, and other places giving warning to the Brothers and Sisters of the Guild before the Feast; syngynge bred, 16d; payment for the Guild Priests for the obit of William Ireton, c.) Expenses of the Feast. (5 quarters of corn at 2s 4d per qr.; 4 quarters of malt for brewing at 6d per qr.; malt for feeding the geese; 18 "caupon" at 3d each; 151 "chycons" 12s 5d; 8 gallons of "creme," 4s; 5 gallons of milk is 5d; "vyrjus" 4d; 6 "quarts" of butter, 12d; for "cruddis," 3s; 6 lbs. of large raisins, 9d; 5 quarts of hony, 15d; payments also for geese, pigs, spices, fuel, of the usual kind; payment to John Hamelet; paid 1 "Turner" in the kitchen on the day of the Feast, 1d) Most of the entries relating to the Feast are on the back of the roll, and are much obliterated