Winchester College Bursars' Accounts

Winchester College Archives: 22218

f [608v] (28 September–27 December 1622) (Necessary expenses with gifts)

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Tibicinibus regijs per Vicecustodem ij s.
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Tibicinibus regijs ad mandatum ij s. vj d.

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(28 December–28 March)

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Musicis oppidanis x s.
Tibicinibus Comitjs Kantie, et Baronjs Bartley ex consensu Domini Custodis 2 s. 6 d.

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f [609] (29 March–27 June)

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Tibicinibus quibusdam cum consensu Domini Custodis 2 s.
Tibicinibus Regis cum consensu eiusdem vj s. viij d.

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f [609v] (28 June–26 September)

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Tibicinibus Regis 10 s.

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  • Record Translation

    f [608v] (28 September–27 December 1622) (Necessary expenses with gifts)

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    To royal pipers by (order of) the deputy warden 2s
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    To royal pipers by order 2s 6d

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    (28 December–28 March)

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    To town musicians 10s
    The earl of Kent's pipers, and Baron Berkeley's with the consent of the lord warden 2s 6d

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    f [609] (29 March–27 June)

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    To certain pipers with the agreement of the lord warden 2s
    To pipers of the king with the agreement of the same 6s 8d

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    f [609v] (28 June–26 September)

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    To pipers of the king 10s

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  • Glossed Terms
    • Cantia, -ie n f Kent; Kantia, -e
  • Endnote

    'Comitjs Kantie' (f [608v]) was Charles, 10th Baron Grey (of Ruthin) (1545–1623), who succeeded as 17th earl of Kent in 1614/15. 'Baronjs Bartley' is likely George, 8th or 18th Baron Berkeley (1575–1658) ('Bartley' was commonly a spelling for 'Berkeley.')

  • Document Description

    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.'

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