mb 6 (4 February 1396/7–2 February 1397/8) (Necessary expenses)
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...In donis ministrallis in festo Corporis Christi & Natiuitatis Sancti Iohannis Baptiste cum panno empto pro capitis eorundem iij s. iiij d....
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mb 6 (4 February 1396/7–2 February 1397/8) (Necessary expenses)
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...In gifts to minstrels on the feast of Corpus Christi and the Nativity of St John the Baptist, with cloth bought for their hoods, 3s 4d....
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Record title: Accounts of the Fraternity of St
John
Repository:
HRO
Shelfmark: W/H1/204
Repository location: Winchester
The fraternity of St John the Baptist was an organization which began as a guild of tailors but developed into an organization including the entire ruling elite of the city, its membership probably identical to the merchant guild's. The fraternity's activities focused on contributing to the care of the poor and sick of St John's Hospital and on celebrations of Corpus Christi and the Nativity of St John the Baptist. The office of warden of the fraternity was considered an important civic office and the warden was appointed by the mayor. The burghmote, the assembly of freemen, met three times a year in the hall of St John's Hospital, rather than in the guildhall, and in the fifteenth century the city's deeds and other records were kept in a chest there (Keene and Rumble, Survey of Medieval Winchester, vol 2, pts 2–3, pp 816–19).
1390–1416; Latin; parchment; 10 membranes, attached at the top; 365–693mm x 196–270mm; numbered in a later hand; paper wrapper with title: 'Account Rolls of the Fraternity of St John the Baptist,' and list of the regnal years covered: 13–14, 15–16, 16–17, 17–18, 18–19, 21–2 Richard II, 3–4, 4–5, 12–13 Henry IV, 2–3 Henry V.