Holy Trinity Guild Accounts

Wisbech and Fenland Museum: Guild of the Holy Trinity in Wisbech 1379–1547 & Corporation Records 1564–1566

p 35 (17 June–9 June) (Expenses on the principal day)

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In primis in j quarterio frumenti in expensis factis ad exequias anno elapso xij d. Item in j quarterio frumenti empto v s. iiij d. In multura & pistura eiusdem viij d. Item in vj dossenis seruisie ix s. In ij vitulis emptis <...>j s. iiij s. In ij Ouibus emptis v s. In ij agnellis emptis ij s. In ij dossenis aucis emptis iiij s. Item in Cibus earundem ij s. In iiij dossenis pullorum gallinorum emptis iij s. vj d. In vj galenis lacte & creme x d. In ixxx Ouis emptis ix d. Item in Butiro ij d. In sale j d. In Cepis j d. In vineger ij d. In aceto j d. In melle iij d. In diuersis speciebus emptis xix d. ob. Item in stipendijs histrionibus iij s. In stipendio Coci xvj d. In arundine & astellis emptis viij d. In CC terricidijs emptis viij d. In <....> lixas & hastelar' x d. Summa xlvij s. ob.

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  • Footnotes
    • terricidijs: three minins for ici
  • Record Translation

    p 35 (17 June–9 June) (Expenses on the principal day)

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    First on one quarter of grain in expenses made for the for the obsequies during the preceding year, 12d. Likewise on one quarter of grain bought, 5s 4d; on milling and baking of the same, 8d; likewise on six dozen of ale, 9s; on two calves bought, 4s; on two sheep bought, 5s; on two lambs bought, 2s; on two dozen geese bought, 4s; likewise on their food, 2s; on four dozen chicken pullets bought, 3s 6d; on six gallons of milk and cream, 10d; on nine score eggs, 9d; on butter, 2d; on salt, 1d; on onions, 1d; on vinegar, 2d; on (malt ?) vinegar, 1d; on honey, 3d; on various spices bought, 19 1/2d; likewise on the entertainers' stipends, 3s; on the cook's stipend, 16d; on rushes and sticks bought, 8d; on 200 pieces of peat bought, 8d; on <...> the servants and hastler, 10d. In total, 47s 1/2d

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  • Endnote

    The accounts record payments for the guild dinner, 17 June 1470.

  • Document Description

    Record title: Holy Trinity Guild Accounts
    Repository: Wisbech and Fenland Museum
    Shelfmark: Guild of the Holy Trinity in Wisbech 1379–1547 & Corporation Records 1564–1566
    Repository location: Wisbech

    The guild of the Holy Trinity of Wisbech was one of three guilds with a presence in the village of Leverington; the other two were the guilds of St Mary and of St John. Holy Trinity was the largest and most important of the guilds, with a consistent membership of fifty-six to sixty-seven members, both men and women; it first appears in accounts in 1379, but entries there indicate it had existed for some time prior (VCH: Cambridgeshire, vol 4, pp 186–97, British History Online, https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/cambs/vol4/pp186-197). Holy Trinity was incorporated in 1453; after its dissolution in 1566, the guild's estates were taken over by the Corporation and thus preserved (VCH: Cambridgeshire, vol 4, pp 255-6, British History Online, https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/cambs/vol4/pp255-256). Records of the guildhall begin in 1423, but it is likely that it was in existence before then; its site cannot be definitively identified (VCH: Cambridgeshire, vol 4, pp 255–6, British History Online, https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/cambs/vol4/pp255-256). As Frederic Gardiner observes, 'the Trinity Guild is believed to have met in a primitive building, with thatched roof, supposed to have stood on the site of the present Grammar School, but its locality is not known with certainty' (Frederic John Gardiner, History of Wisbech and Neighbourhood, During the Fifty Years – 1848–1898 (London, 1898), 90–1).

    1379–1547, 1564–6; Latin and English; paper; iv + 139 + i; 414 mm x 301 mm; 18th-c. pagination; leaves extensively reconstructed, mounted into paper frames with some gauze reinforcement; late 18th-c. marbled paper binding with leather spine and front label and corner reinforcements, title on spine: 'Guld of Holy Trinity Wisbech 1379 – Annis Multis Intermissis – 1547, Records of the Corporation 1564 – 1566.'

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