Winchester College Bursars' Accounts

Winchester College Archives: 22215

f [252r] (23 June–28 September 1571) (Necessary expenses with gifts)

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Item in regardis datis lusoribus domine Regine vj s. viij d./

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  • Record Translation

    f [252r] (23 June–28 September 1571) (Necessary expenses with gifts)

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    Likewise in reward given to players of the lady queen 6s 8d

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  • Document Description

    Record title: Winchester College Bursars' Accounts
    Repository: Winchester College Archives
    Shelfmark: 22215
    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: the chapel, hall, 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). In 1556 the system of annual rolls adopted at the founding of the college was changed to keeping the accounts in book form. The accounts run roughly from Michaelmas to Michaelmas but with each year divided into four quarters.

    1564–71; Latin; paper; i + 308 + i; 308mm x 209mm; unnumbered; contemporary parchment binding with remains of 3 leather straps, 1 originally buckled, title on spine: 'Burs ab 1564 ad 1572.' The fly- leaves are a fragment of 2 consecutive leaves (the centre of a gathering) containing an apparatus or commentary upon the Clementines of Pope Clement V, 1305–14, probably by Zenzalinus de Cassanis, alias Zesselin de Casagnes. The MS was written in the 14th c., possibly in Southern France.

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