f [98v] (29 March–27 June) (Necessary expenses with gifts)
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| To the servant of the lord warden for musicians playing in the college | 2s 6d |
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(28 June–26 September)
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| To royal trumpeters as a favour | 10s |
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The computus says 'ab octavo die Decembris 1627 usque ad die (blank) euisdem mensis anni subsequentis viz 1628.' Despite this, the quarters appear to be as before. Certainly, the next accounting year starts in September as usual, so this December date may be a mistake. The second quarter of necessary expenses in this year includes a Christmas Day payment, which would bear out the idea that the December date is mentioned in error and that the accounts ran from Michaelmas to Michaelmas as usual.
Record title: Winchester College Bursars'
Accounts
Repository: Winchester College Archives
Shelfmark: 22219
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.
1624–41; Latin; paper; 472 leaves; 305mm x 195mm; unnumbered; leaves very dog eared; contemporary parchment binding with parchment straps and metal buckle, title on spine: 'Burs: ab 1624 ad 1641.'