p 1 (Expenses) (29 September–29 September)
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...Idem computant in pane empto iiij s. vj d. in ceruisia empta xvj s. vj d. in uino ij s. vij d. ob. in carnibus bouum emptis iij s. in croco j d. in ouis iiij d. in j quarterio de verious ij d. in orpis iij d. in caseo xiij d. in ceruisia expend' circa ornacionem auli iiij d. in stipendio coci vj d. In rewardo fra‸⸢tribus⸣ lenne pro eorum cantu & labore vj s. viij d. In .v. mynstrals x s. in expensis Nicholai tyneteshale vsque lennam & pro apparatu de de daunseres empto v s. viij d. In clauis ferreis emptis pro ornamencione auli vj d. & datum Roberto filio Thome pro aula & ornamencione eiusdem iij s. iiij d....
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p 1 (Expenses) (29 September–29 September)
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...The same (accountants) render account (of payments made) on bread, 4s 6d; on ale bought, 16s 6d; on wine, 2s 7 1/2d; on ox meat bought, 3s; on saffron, 1d; on eggs, 4d; on one quart of verjuice, 2d; on rushes, 3d; on cheese, 13d; on ale consumed during the decorating of the hall, 4d; on the cook's stipend, 6d; in reward to brothers of (King's) Lynn for their singing and labour, 6s 8d; on five minstrels, 10s; on Nicholas Tyneteshale's expenses as far as (King's) Lynn for purchase of the dancers' apparel, 5s 8d; on nails bought for the decoration of the hall, 6d; and given to Robert, son of Thomas, for the hall and the decoration of the same, 3s 4d ...
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This account is dated Trinity Sunday to Trinity Sunday, ie, 3 June 1379 to 20 May 1380, at the top of the leaf, but the expenses are dated Michaelmas to Michaelmas. Those transcribed here are likely payments for the guild dinner, probably held on Trinity Sunday, 20 May 1380.
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.'