The entry on f 45a is the penultimate in a set of payments to town officers that includes both wages and liveries.
Record title: Steward's Accounts
Repository: Southampton City Archives
Shelfmark: SC5/1/26
Repository location: Southampton
The 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
Thick (ed), Southampton Steward's
Book, pp iii–xlvi. Thick's edition of the 1492–3 accounts
includes full transcriptions of those documents, including records
relating to drama and minstrelsy.
1506–7; English with some Latin; paper; 51 leaves; 305mm x 210mm; modern pencil foliation; good condition; original parchment cover.