Holy Trinity Guild Accounts

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

p 25 (28 May 1458–20 May 1459) (Expenses on the principal day)

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In primis in vj bushels frumenti iiij s. ix d. In molitura & pistura xij d. In v dussenis & j kilderkin bone seruisie vij s. x d. ob.
In vno agno empto de Adam Iohnson viij d. In ij agnis de Willelmo Belman xx d. In dimidio agno de Willelmo Edryche v d.
In xliij pullis gallinorum xv d. In xij pullis ix d. In vij pullis vj d. ob. in piscibus pro coco ij d. In speciebus ij s. In ouis v d. In butiro j d. ob.
In melle iij d. In aceto ij d. In veriows j d. In lacte & crem vij d. in onyons j d. in arundibus j d. in focalibus viij d. in cirpis ad aulam j d.
In sale j d. in firma coquine iiij d. In wasshers & turners vj d. in locacione mapparum ij d. In stipendio coci xvj d. In stipendio minstralli xl d.
Summa xxxvj s.
iiij d. ob.

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Qui ... concedunt ffobbys minstrallo Gilde xl d. & quod ipse ibidem permanebit ad proprias expensas

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  • Marginalia
    • inquisitores
    • The jurors
  • Footnotes
    • Qui: ie, the twelve jurors
  • Record Translation

    p 25 (28 May 1458–20 May 1459) (Expenses on the principal day)

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    First on six bushels of grain, 4s 9d; on milling and baking, 12d; on five dozen and one kilderkin of good ale, 7d 10 1/2d.
    On one lamb bought from Adam Johnson, 8d; on two lambs from William Belman, 20d; on half a lamb from William Edryche, 5d.
    On 43 chicken pullets, 15d; on 12 pullets, 9d; on seven pullets 6 1/2d. On fish for the cook, 2d; on spices, 2s; on eggs, 5d; on butter, 1 1/2d.
    On honey, 3d; on vinegar, 2d; on verjuice, 1d; on milk and cream, 7d; on onions, 1d; on reeds, 1d; on fuel, 8d; on rushes for the hall, 1d.
    On salt, 1d; on rent for the kitchen, 4d; on washers and turners, 6d; on the washing of the tablecloths (or other cloths), 2d; on the cook's stipend, 16d; on the minstrel's stipend, 40d.
    In total. 36s
    4 1/2d

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    Who ... grant 40d to Fobbys the minstrel of the guild for his own expenses, and that he shall remain there.

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  • Glossed Terms
    • cirpus, -i n m var of scirpus [DML]; sirpus
    • veriows n verjuice; vegews; vergeous; vergeows; verious; veriouse; verius
  • Endnote

    The accounts record payments for the guild dinner, 28 May 1458. The jurors ('Inquisitores'), in addition to making provision for the minstrel, elected the alderman, sacrist, book-keeper, and guild officers for the coming year.

  • 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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