f [203v] (27 December–27 March) (Expenses for buildings and repairs)
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| Item pro j M 2 C <.>lavorum pro theatro | vj s. |
| Item 2bus serrantibus meremium pro eodem | iiij d. |
| Item Hancock et Payne carpentarijs ex consensu Domini Custodis pro conficiendo eodem | xiij s. vj d. |
| Item Iohanni George et filio operantibus
per vnum
|
xij d. |
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f [203v] (27 December–27 March) (Expenses for buildings and repairs)
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| Likewise for 1,200 nails for the theatre | 6s |
| Likewise for two men cutting wood for the same | 4d |
| Likewise to Hancock and Payne, carpenters, with the agreement of the lord warden for making the same | 13s 6d |
| Likewise to John George and son working for one |
12d |
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Record title: Winchester College Bursars'
Accounts
Repository: Winchester College Archives
Shelfmark: 22217
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). 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 quarters.
The manuscript flyleaves are two leaves from a fourteenth-century English copy of the Legenda Aurea compiled (after 1259) by Jacobus de Voragine (1212–98), archbishop of Genoa, containing parts of the lives of Saints Clement I, Pope (ff 1,2), and Catherine (ff 3,4).
1583–99; Latin; paper; ii + 462 + ii; 300mm x 200mm; unnumbered; one originally buckled, buckle missing, title on spine: 'Burs: ab 1583 ad 1599.'