Holy Trinity Guild Accounts

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

p 52 (10 June–1 June) (Expenses for the dinner)

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In primis solutum pro expensis factis ad exequias vltimo Anno ⸢xij d.⸣ xij d. In j quarterio ij bushels frumenti v s. In multura & pistura xij d. In viij dossenis seruisie ⸢x s. viij d.⸣ xij s. In potu ij d. In xxxvij ⸢dossenis aucarum v s. In cibacionee earundem ij s. vj d. In iij multonis viij s. In ij vitulis iiij s. iiij d. In xlviiij liiij pullorum gallinorum iiij s. iiij d. In diuersis speciebus iij s. j d. ⸢vij d.⸣ In j p<...> mellis viij d. ⸢xj d. x d.⸣ In butiro vj d. In CC ovis xjj d. In sale ⸢ij d.⸣ alegra ⸢j d.⸣ & otemele ⸢j d.⸣ iiij d. ‸⸢ob.⸣ In iiij galenis xij d. In vj galenis lactis vj d. In ij mynstrallis v s. In stipendio Coci videlicet Stephani Bigges ij s. Item in stipendijs de Swilleres & turneres xjj d. In focali xxj d. ⸢ij s. ij d.⸣...

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  • Footnotes
    • dossenis: for deletion
    • p<...>: characters lost in binding; likely for potello
    • galenis: quacci likely omitted
  • Record Translation

    p 52 (10 June–1 June) (Expenses for the dinner)

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    First paid for expenses made for the obsequies last year, 12 d; on one quarter (and) two bushels of grain, 5s; on milling and baking, 12d; on eight dozen of ale, 10s 8d; on drink, 2d; on thirty-five geese, 5s; on the feeding of the same, 2s 6d; on three sheep, 8s; on two calves, 4s 4d; on fifty-four chicken pullets, 4s 4d; on various spices, 3s 7d; on one pottle of honey, 11d; on butter, 6d; on 200 eggs, 12d; on salt, 2d, alegar, 1d, and oatmeal, 1d, 4 1/2d; on four gallons of cream, 12d; on six gallons of milk, 6s; on two minstrels, 5s; on the stipend of the cook, namely Stephen Bigges, 2s; likewise on the stipends of the swillers and turners, 12d; on fuel, 2s 2d....

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  • Glossed Terms
    • otemele n oatmeal; otmele
    • potus, -us n m drink, here weak ale as distinct from ceruisia
  • Endnote

    The accounts record payments for the guild dinner, 10 June 1487.

  • 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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