f 1(29 September–29 September)
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| Et in denarijs solutis & datis xviijo die Octobris minstrel' ducis Bedfordie per mandatum maioris | vj s. viij d. |
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f 2v
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| Et in denarijs datis minstrell' Wintonie videlicet xiijo die Ianuarij | xx d. |
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| Et in seruicia empta de vxore Ricardi march minstrelli apud Cutthorn per preceptum maioris | viij d. |
f 3v
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| Et in expensis factis apud Wyntoniam xjo die maij per
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ij s. vj d. ob. |
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f 4
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| Et pro xij vergis panni stragulati
emptis de Roberto Pyle de Sarum pro
vestitu Mynstrellorum de Suthamptonie preciatis xvj
s. & in tonsura careagio & costez de eodem xx
d. Et pro v virgis & j quart |
xxix s. vj d. |
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f 4v
| Et in denarijs datis minstrell' domini comitis de Warrwyke vna cum expensis factis in cena eorundem per Iohannem Estwell | v s. |
| Et in vadijs solutis Ricardo March Iohanni Goddislond & Willelmo Goldefynche minstrellis pro termino sancti Iohannis Baptiste | xx s. |
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| Et pro expensis factis apud Wintoniam
videlicet in festo sancti swithini ad cessionem
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iij s. v d. |
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f 7v
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| Et in vadijs solutis Ricardo marsch Iohanni Goddislond & Willelmo Goldfynch minstrellis dicte ville pro termino sancti michaelis | xx s. |
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f 8
...Et in denarijs datis minstrell' comitis Northumbrie xx d. Et in denarijs datis minstrell' ducis de Gloucetir iij s. iiij d....
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f 1 (29 September–29 September)
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| And in cash paid and given 24 October to a minstrel/minstrels of the duke of Bedfordshire by order of the mayor | 6s 8d |
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f 1v
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| And in cash given to a minstrel/minstrels of the earl of Huntingdon | 3s 4d |
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f 2
And in cash given to a minstrel/minstrels of Cardinal <...>
And to Peter Lokier for purchase <...>
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f 2v
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| And in cash given to a minstrel/minstrels of Winchester, that is to say, on 13 January | 20d |
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| And on ale bought from the wife of Richard March, minstrel, at the Cutthorn by order of the mayor | 8d |
f 3v
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| And in expenses incurred at Winchester, 11 May, by George Uske and William Flecher, because the said (Uske and Flecher) were mainpernors of Richard March, John Goddislond, and William Goldfynch, who were arrested at the suit of Walter Hore, then mayor of Winchester, and (because Uske and Flecher) had to respond to the said Walter before the justices of the peace at the next session, for food at breakfast, 5 1/2d. And in wine and beer given to John Hunt, porter, with the rest of the sheriff's servants doing their duty, 7d. And in the horses' expenses, 6d. And for the aforesaid horses, 12d. In total | 2s 6 1/2d |
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f 4
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| And for 12 rods of striped cloth bought from Robert Pyle of Salisbury for clothing of minstrels of Southampton, priced 16s. And on cutting, carriage, and costs of the same, 20d. And for 5 1/4 rods of cloth for the same bought from James Thyrlether, 12s 3d. In total | 29s 6d |
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f 4v
| And in cash given to a minstrel/minstrels of the lord earl of Warrick together with expenses incurred on the dinner of the same by John Estwell | 5s |
| And in wages paid to Richard March, John Goddislond, and William Goldfynch, minstrels, for the term of St John the Baptist | 20s |
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| And for expenses incurred at Winchester, namely, on the feast of St Swithun at a session before the sheriff and justice, for the liberation of the minstrels, as previously recorded, for two days, 12d, and for expenses of the horse, 7d, and for the said horse, 6d. And in wages given to John Barow, Rye Tiwogh, and many other jurators there lest at that time, they should accuse anyone of our fellow burgesses by order of William Chamberlain, 16d. | 3s 5d |
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f 7v
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| And in wages paid to Richard March, John Goddislond, and William Goldfynch, minstrels of the said town, for Michaelmas term | 20s |
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f 8
...And in cash given to a minstrel/minstrels of the earl of Northumberland, 20d. And in cash given to a minstrels/minstrels of the duke of Gloucester, 3s 4d....
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The draft accounts for this year have survived and the entry corresponding to the one concerning the cardinal on f 2 is complete in the draft accounts: 'Solui minstrell' Cardinalis per preceptum Iohannis Emery iij s. iiij d.' (f [5v], John Emery was mayor this year.)
On f 2v, the Cutthorn was the boundary marker of the north-east corner of the city's liberties and was located at the northern end of the modern Southampton Common. The Court Leet traditionally met at that spot (Thick, Southampton Steward's Book, p 91, n 73).
Entries in the draft accounts (SC5/1/3, f 6) suggest that the minstrels who were given 20d on the 13 January 1433/4 (f 2v) were then given wages for part of the year as minstrels of Southampton, and they continued as the port town's musicians for some years thereafter.
The entry concerning the minstrel's wages on f 4v does not occur in the list of similar wages paid to all the civic officials, though the next entry is for 20d to Nicholas Clerk of St Michael's for ringing the curfew bell. The latter, however, is a payment for the full year. Seven entries separate the two groups of entries here. The payment of wages on f 7v does occur with other wages paid for that quarter, perhaps suggesting that the payment for the quarter ending at midsummer was unusual in some way.
The payments to minstrels on f 8 occur in a large group of expenses of the mayor for travel to Waltham, Winchester, and London. However, the rewards to minstrels occur immediately after expenses for the craneman's livery, so these payments were probably given at Southampton by the mayor at various times of the year.
Record title: Steward's Accounts
Repository: Southampton City Archives
Shelfmark: SC5/1/2
Repository location: Southampton
The steward's accounts run from Michaelmas to Michaelmas
and cover all areas of civic receipt and expenditure, from land rents to
annual payments to civic officials, costs of construction and repair of
town structures, and rewards to visiting performers. See the introduction to
Gidden (ed), Stewards' Books of Southampton, vol 1, pp
iii–xvii, for further discussion. Gidden's edition of the accounts for
1428–34 and 1434–39 includes full transcriptions of those documents,
including records relating to drama and minstrelsy. A full set of draft
accounts for this year survives, with some substantive differences
described in the endnotes; the draft accounts have therefore been
separately included (see Steward's Accounts, 1433–4).
1433–4; Latin; paper; ii + 27 + i; 290mm x 215mm; modern pencil foliation; leaves repaired; modern cardboard cover with original paper cover as first flyleaf.