mb [4d] (26 September–25 September) (Necessary expenses)
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...Et in datis ministrall' domini de Arundell venient' ad collegium xijo Ianuarij ij s. Et in datis ministrallis domini Chambyrlen venientibus ad collegium xvijo die Ianuarij viij d....
mb [4d] (26 September–25 September) (Necessary expenses)
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...And as gifts/a gift to minstrels/a minstrel of the lord of Arundel coming to the college 12 January, 2s. And as gifts to minstrels of the lord chamberlain coming to the college 17 January, 8d....
mb [5d]
...And as gifts to minstrels of the lord king's mother 26 September, 20d....
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The payment to the minstrels of the king's mother comes toward the end of this set of accounts, so the date of the payment may have been 26 September 1485, even though the account was supposed to have ended the previous day. In that case the king would have been Henry VII and his mother, Margaret Beaufort. However, if the payment was instead made on 26 September 1484, the king would have been Richard III and his mother, Cecily Neville.
Record title: Winchester College Bursars'
Accounts
Repository: Winchester College Archives
Shelfmark: 22151
Repository location: Winchester
The bursars' accounts were kept annually by the two bursars, one of whom was elected each year and served as the junior bursar, becoming senior bursar the following year. Their accounts included all the college finances, beginning with receipts from the rents of manors and estates owned by the college. Expenses are divided into sections: chapel, hall, the kitchen, pantry, stable, and garden; stipends to chaplains, scholars, and others; external expenses and gifts (the last two the sections where payments to entertainers were normally entered). The rolls have paper wrappers, some of which contain notes made by later bursars. The account year varies considerably but most often runs roughly from Michaelmas to Michaelmas.
1484–5; Latin; parchment; 8 membranes, attached serially; 572–800mm x 266–275mm; unnumbered.