Berkshire, Reading, 1538–9
BRO: D/P 97/5/2

p 212 (29 September–29 September) (Receipts)

...

Received of the men & women gaderyd at hocketyde xxxiij s. ob.

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  • Footnotes
    • hocketyde: 14–15 April 1539
  • Endnote

    This is the year that the monastery was disestablished. 8d was recorded in these accounts 'for karyeng the deskes out of the Abbay churche.'

  • Document Description

    Record title: St Laurence's Churchwardens' Accounts
    Repository: BRO
    Shelfmark: D/P 97/5/2
    Repository location: Reading

    The churchwardens rendered their accounts on the feast of the Annunciation (25 March) until 1516 when they adopted the Michaelmas–Michaelmas pattern rendering their accounts on 29 September.

    1498–1626; English; paper; 250 leaves; 330mm x 225mm; modern pagination; some display capitals; pp 1–2, 490–3 are separated but have been repaired and put separately in a brown paper wrapper; bound in boards covered in parchment, title on front cover: 'The Book of the | Church-Wardens Accounts | of the Parish | of | St Laurence.'

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