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

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Account of Thomas Barbour and Geoffry Frecter, 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, 4 Henry V., to the Morrow of the Feast of the Guild, 5 Henry V The Account is rendered under the following headings Rents of Assize [Heading gone.] (£4 6s 0d received from 172 Brethren and Sisters of the Guild present at the Feast this year, namely 6d from each one; 15s 10d received from 19 Brethren and Sisters entering the Guild this year, as appears by the Register; money received for the skins of 7 sheep and 7 calves killed for the Feast, 12d received for bread sold after the Feast; 8d received from the sale of fat from the sheep, c.) [Cost of the lights.] (Payments for a lamp and lamp oil, and for wax, c., bought for the lights before the High Cross, the Image of the Blessed Mary, and the Altar of St. John.) Delivery of moneys. (Payments for keeping the "horascopium," for the chief rent of the Hall of the Guild; for two shops in "le Middulrow"; for vestments, c.) Decays [of rent.] (Allowances for houses not let, c. The rent of a house in le Churchstrete is not accounted for, because the house has been granted to the "Magistro Scolarum" to teach in it as long as he wishes.) [Heading gone.] (For beer and wine bought for the Master and Aldermen; for the Guild Hall; for washing the vestments of the Hall before and after the Feast; for keys, c.) Expenses of the Feast. (Payments for wheat, malt, beer for the cook, 7 calves, 16 pigs, pigs' heads, "marybonus," 4 lambs, 7 sheep, lard, 209 pullets, 2 geese, 12 capons, butter, milk, cream, vinegar, honey, salt, 900 eggs, 3 gallons of wine, fuel, "risshyn" for the hall, pepper, saffron, ginger, mace, c. Payments also for assistants for the cook, for carrying dishes from the town to the Hall and back, for washing the dishes, to the butcher for killing the calves and sheep, for carrying trestle-tables and forms from the town to the Hall and back; pro cariagio de le rafters et hurdels pro le Hale inde faciendo, c.) Allowances for the food of the 4 Chaplains of the Guild at the Feast, of the clerk, the "sewyer," the steward, the "butiler," an assistant at "le "drysser," and the "promptuarius.") On the back of the roll is a list of the names of members, with the amount of light-silver due from each. The following are the names. A line has been drawn through some of the entries, perhaps when the amount due was paid. (... Brasyer (struck out), John Mayel, "Barker" and his wife, Richard Halle and his wife, Alice Carter (struck out), William Carter (struck out), Roger Chilcote and his wife, Thomas Grene and his wife, John Pound and his wife, Margery Ilmyngdon (struck out), John Smyzth of Brayles and his wife, William Sallow, Peter Sloley, Richard Crispe and his wife, William Baly, Chaplain, John Rose, Rector of Atherston (struck out), Roger Hosyer of Campedene and his wife, [ ] Hikkoke of Campedene and his wife, Warren Richardes of Lokesley and his wife, Peter Lynedraper and his wife (struck out), Robert [Dester] of Wotton (struck out), the wife of Thomas Reynold (struck out), John Inggement and his wife (struck out), John Ba[s]e and his wife, John Iremonger of Shepuston, Thomas Halford, Chaplain, Solomon Clerk of Hudicote, John Magot, junior, and his wife. John Owdby and his wife, William Carter, Vicar of Lokesley, Saunders, John Dylvyng and his wife, Richard Hardyng, alias Fletcher, and his wife, John Lord of Clopton and his wife, Julia Frecter, John Chamber and his wife, Thomas Crewe and his wife, William Chapell, Thomas Barbour and his wife, Thomas Trigg and his wife, John Reve of Weston-subter-Egge and his wife, Walter Smy[z]th of Wotton and his wife, William Balle and his wife, John Sheperd of Hatton and his wife, John Summour and his wife, the Rector of Clifford, Richard Compton, Richard Swayn and his wife, John Webb, Thomas Owdby and Cecilia his mother, Agnes late the wife of Solomon Barbour, John Spycer Draper, John Braddeford, Henry Chamburleyn and his wife, the wife of William Mayn, the wife of John Eton, the wife of John Webbe of Alveston, and the Rector of Alincestre.)