f [331] (27 March–25 June 1613) (Necessary expenses with gifts)
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| Item musicis ex gratia Domini Custodis et sociorum | x s. |
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f [331v] (26 June–24 September 1613)
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| Item pro tibicinatoribus ex gratia Domini custodis et sociorum | xiij s. 4 d. |
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f [331] (27 March–25 June 1613) (Necessary expenses with gifts)
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| Likewise to musicians as a favour of the lord warden and fellows | 10s |
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f [331v] (26 June–24 September 1613)
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| Likewise for pipers as a favour of the lord warden and fellows | 13s 4d |
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Record title: Winchester College Bursars'
Accounts
Repository: Winchester College Archives
Shelfmark: 22218
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, 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 from Michaelmas to Michaelmas but with each year divided into quarters.
The manuscript flyleaves are 'apparently 4 leaves from book on Martyrs including St Sebastian' (Himsworth, Winchester College Muniments, vol 1, p 65).
1599–1624; Latin; paper; ii + 656 + ii;
300mm x 200mm; unnumbered; leaves very dog-eared, first 2 leaves of
accounts torn out, leaving a 75mm border on which one can discern parts
of the usual 'computus' records which open each year's accounts;
contemporary parchment binding, remains of leather straps, buckle
missing, title on spine: 'Burs: ab 1599 ad 1624.'