f [14v] (29 September–29 September)
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| die lune | ...v lusores ... ad prandium cum famulis ... vj lusores ad cenam cum famulis.... |
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f [14v] (29 September–29 September)
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| Monday | ...Five players ... at dinner with the servants ... Six players at supper with the servants.... |
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f [19v]
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| Thursday | Six entertainers of the lord of Gloucester at dinner with the fellows. |
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f [30v]
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| Saturday | One juggler at dinner with the fellows. |
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f [36v]
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| Monday | Three of the king's minstrels of Westminster at dinner with the fellows. |
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28 December (f [14v]) is the feast of the Holy Innocents and a frequent time for performers to be at the college (possibly in association with a boy bishop festivity): see the bursars' accounts.
Record title: Winchester College Hall Book
Repository: Winchester College Archives
Shelfmark: 22821
Repository location: Winchester
The hall books were rough accounts in paper booklets kept by the hall steward (this job was rotated weekly between the junior fellows), listing by name in two columns all those eating in hall each day. The totals were entered later in the bursars' accounts, 'Commons' section. The visitors eating in hall were entered at the end of each week, generally across both columns, under the heading of 'Jurnelli,' that is, guests. The listings start on the left with the day of the week followed by a list of guests, usually without commas or virgules, and then a formulaic entry such as 'ad prandium/cenam cum socijs' or 'cum famulis.' Sometimes the visitors were listed as eating at the top table with the warden, sometimes with the junior fellows ('socijs'), and sometimes with the servants ('famulis'). This pecking order gives us some idea of the status accorded to the various sorts of visitors.
There are datings of regnal years on the covers,
sometimes the year the book was started and sometimes when it ended.
Sometimes there are two entries in different hands; the lengthier one in
Latin appears to be contemporary and the other brief one is in a later
hand. Each week starts with a Saturday and is not dated but designated
by a heading such as '2nd week, 2nd quarter' and then by the days in
Latin. These have been given dates with reference to to H. Chitty,
bursar from the 1910s to 30s, who went to considerable lengths to verify
them and also to establish dates where no cover has survived, with
reference to the corresponding account rolls where they exist or else to
lists of scholars/fellows and their dates of admission. The accounting
period is usually Michaelmas to Michaelmas and the new year begins with
the Saturday following Michaelmas (with one or two exceptions). The
quarters are divided into thirteen weeks each, although the fourth
quarter sometimes contains a fourteenth week to make the first quarter
of the next year start on the Saturday after Michaelmas.
1416–17; Latin; paper; 53 leaves in 4 quires; 300mm x 115mm; unnumbered; bound in parchment, on cover: '1417 5 H V' and 'Nomina Omnium commensalium in Collegio Anno regni regis henrici quinti vto.'