Holy Trinity Guild Accounts

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

p 5 (3 June–26 May) (For the principal day)

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Item In pane iiij s. x d. Item seruicia vij dossenis summa x s. vj d. Item seruicia peiore ij d. Item In vitilino empto de Iohanne hope iij s. Item in vitulino empto de Willelmo Belina xv d. Item in pissibus vj d. Item In angnis emptis ij s. vj d. Item petitis porcis iiij quelibet per ce x d. summa iij s. iiij d.

Item In ij dossenis aucas emptis iiij s. j d. Item in j quarterio auenarum xiiij d. Item in pane iij d. Item in porko empto iij d. Item in Ouis v d. Item in Butyro & lakte x d. & creme xij d. Item j d. ob. Item in Caseo vij d. Item in sale j d. In cirpis ij d. Item in speciebus & mele iij s. iij d. Item in emendactione de j tabula ij d. Item in sitrabartha iiij s. Item pro j Capiciuma Waltero <.> rakelond ij s. Item pro lauacione panis tabelle vj d. Item in coco ij s. Item in conduxione aule coquine xij d. Item in veriuetoribus iiij d. Item pro alijs iij d. Item in focalibus xvj d. Item in vineegra et ass<.>t<.> iij d. Item in candelis j d. ob. Item in sandoris ob. Item in expenso menstralli iij d. Item in hemynges de le table pannis ob.

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  • Footnotes
    • aucas: for aucarum
    • Item j d. ob.: either this sum is to be understood as an addition to the previous payment, or there has been scribal error
    • Capicium: for capicio
    • ass<.>t<.>: letters smudged; likely for asseto
  • Record Translation

    p 5 (3 June–26 May) (For the principal day)

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    Likewise on bread, 4s; likewise, ale, six dozen, in sum, 10s 6d; likewise on weaker ale, 2d; likewise on veal bought from John Hope, 3s; likewise on veal bought from William Belina, 15d; likewise on fish, 6d; likewise on lambs bought, 2s 6d. Likewise, four piglets, each by itself, 10d, in total 3s 4d; likewise on two dozen geese bought, 4s 1d; likewise on one quarter of oats, 14d; likewise on bread, 3d; likewise on pork bought, 3d; likewise in eggs, 5d; likewise on butter and milk and cream, 12d; likewise 1 1/2d; likewise on cheese, 7d; likewise on salt, 1d; on rushes, 2d; likewise on spices and honey, 3s 3d; likewise on the repair of one table, 2d; likewise on the harper, 4s; likewise for one hood from Walter Rakelond, 2s; likewise on washing of the tablecloth, 6d. Likewise, on the cook, 2s; likewise on the renting of the kitchen, 12d. Likewise, on turnspits, 4d; for others, 3d; likewise on fuel, 16d; likewise on vinegar and (malt) vinegar, 3d; likewise on candles, 1 1/2d; likewise on sanders 1/2d; likewise on outlay for the minstrel, 3d; likewise on hemmings of the tablecloth, 1/2d.

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  • Glossed Terms
    • ce pron var of se [OLD, DML]
    • cirpus, -i n m var of scirpus [DML]; sirpus
    • panis, -is n f in CL bread; here the form has apparently been confused with pannus, -i n m cloth, tablecloth; panys
    • sitrabartha, -e n f likely harper; perhaps originally in error for citharista
  • Endnote

    The accounts record payments for the guild dinner, 3 June 1425. All sums are underlined.

  • 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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