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

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Account of Thomas Fretter and Geoffrey Webb, Proctors of the Guild of the Holy Cross, the Blessed Mary the Virgin, and S. John Baptist, from the Morrow of Michaelmas 7 Henry IV. to the Morrow of the same Feast 8 Henry IV The Account is rendered under the following headings Arrears Rents. (£21 5s 2d for the whole rent of Stratford and Bruggeton for a year.) Light-money. (27s received from divers men for finding "lychgselver," c.) Stipends of the Chaplains. (John Horspath £4 13s 4d, John Mortemer £4 6s 8d, Thomas Schepherd for three quarters of a year £3 5s.) Rents resolute. (To the Bishop of Worcester, Thomas Huband, Nicholas Attehall.) Decay of rents. (Mentions decay in the rents of Christiana Daundelyon, Alice Lycoln, Richard Rylmulle, Edith Barbor, c.) Cost of the lights and lamps. (Oil for lamps in the chancel before the crucifix, 4s 8d. Wax for two great torches. 20lb. of wax for making fresh lights before the crucifix, 8s 3d. 20lb. of candles, 3s 4d. Bread for the Priests to celebrate for one year, 2s.) Cost of the houses. (500 slates 20d, carriage of the same from Grafton to Stratford 6d, payment for "bateryng" stones or slates, "lattenayle" 2s 6d, for "bordnayle" and "lattenayle" 11d, "scudynge" and "terynge" the walls of a messuage 20d, for scudys 2d, making a new wall in a garden 4s 4d, straw for the same 2s, 1 "dorsted" 2d, mending a "forkpole" 1d, 2 "grousills" 6d, 1000 "stonelate nayle" 18d, 8 "crestes" 12d, paid a "sclater" for 9 days' work 5d, 4 rafters for "studynge" and "dorstedis" 9d, 1 "twyst" with 2 hooks ("hamis") 2d, "legges" 3d, stipend of 2 men for 1 day repairing the walls and "doresteder" in a cottage in Swyne Street 7d, timber bought for the well ("pro fonte") in the "Gwyldhalda" 13d, 1 "polle" for the table (mensa) of the dormitory in the "Gwyldhalda" 4d, payment for "ledynge" a "guttur," 1 "twyst" and a hook with a "stapull" for a cottage in Swyne Street 3d, making a "gutter" in the "Drapry" hall 5s, c.) Small Necessaries. (Paid Henry Bedman for ringing the bell four times a year for the interlocution of the bretheren, 4d. Paper bought for the interlocution, and for writing out the light money and the rolls of accounts, 4d. 1 skin "de velym" (vellum) for writing out the names of the brothers and sisters, 6d. Washing the vestments twice a year, 8d. For a picture ("tabul") painted for the Altar of the Holy Cross, by agreement, 10s 2d, c.)