p 27 (8 June–31 May) (Expenses on the principal day)
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| Ad exequias In pane j d.
ob. in caseo j d. in
seruisia v d. clericis & pollictori vj d. Ad
colloquium vij d. Summa xx d. ob. In frumento vj bushels & demi iiij s. x d. ob. In molitura & pistura xij d. In v dussenis & j kilderkin seruisie vij s. x d. ob. In xviij aucis qualibet iij d. qua summa iiij s. x d. In iij dussenis pullorum iij s. In vitulo vino ij s. viiij d. In quatuor agnis quolibet ix d.iij s. datum persono adducenti illos j d. In quatuor porcellis ij s. ij d. In ouis iiij d. In speciebus xxij d. turvis viij d. In mylke & crem vij d. in butiro j d. ob. in veriows j d. In sale j d. In allegra j d. In arundine j d. In cirpis ad aulam j d. In cepis ob. In j dusseno piponum iiij d. In pipere & croco ij d. In prandio coci ij d. In locione mapparum ij d. In stipendio coci xvj d. In stipendio mynstralli ij s. iiij d. In wasshers turners & asteler vij d. |
Summa xl s. iij d. ob. |
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p 27 (8 June–31 May) (Expenses on the principal day)
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| For the obsequies, on bread, 1 1/2d; on cheese, 1d; on ale, 5d; for the
clergy and undertaker, 6d; for the meeting, 7d. In total, 20 1/2d. On grain, six bushels and a half, 4s 10 1/2d; on grinding and baking, 12d; on five dozen and one kilderkins of ale, 7s 10 1/2d. On eighteen geese, 3d each, which in total, 4s 10d; on three dozen pullets, 3s; on one calf, 2s 8d. On four lambs, 9d each, 3s. Given to the person leading them here, 1d; on four piglets, 2s 2d; on eggs, 4d. On spices, 22d. Pieces of peat, 8d; on milk and cream, 7d; on butter 1 1/2d; on verjuice, 1d; on salt, 1d. On alegar, 1d; on reed, 1d; on rushes for the hall, 1d; on onions, 1/2d; on 1 dozen of squab, 4d. On pepper and saffron, 2d; on the cook's meal, 2d; on the washing of the tablecloths (or other cloths), 2d; on the cook's stipend, 16d. On the minstrel's stipend, 2s 4d; on washers, turners, and the hasteler, 7d. |
In total 40s 3 1/2d. |
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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.'