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Cuidam Ministrello ludente coram Domino Die Dominica proxime post Natales Domini 3 s. 4 d. [ibid.]Lusoribus de Isleham ludentibus coram Domino in die Circumcisionis apud Downham, 6 s. 8 d. [ibid.]
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Ministrello + 3. Sociis existentibus cum Domino per totum Natale 1 L. 16 s. 8 d. / Ministrellis Domini Regis, bis, 1 L. 13 s. 4 d. [ibid.] Cuidam fatuo de Northumbria6 s. 8 d./ 4. Ministrellis Domini de Somerset 10 s. [ibid.]...
Ministrellis Domini de Morle, existentibus hic in die Paschali 3 s. 4 d. [ibid.]
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To a certain minstrel playing before the lord (bishop) on the Sunday next after Christmas, 3s 4d [ibid.]
To players of Isleham playing before the lord (bishop) on the day of the Circumcision at Downham, 6s 8d [ibid.]
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To a minstrel and three of his fellows staying with the lord (bishop) throughout all of Christmas, £1 16s 8d. To minstrels of the lord king, twice, (ortwo, ie, minstrels) £1 13s 4d [ibid.]
To a certain fool of Northumbria, 6s 8d. To four minstrels of the lord of Somerset, 10s [ibid.]
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To minstrels of the lord Morley, staying here on Easter day, 3s 4d [ibid.]
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Record title: Bishop Matthew Wren's Household Accounts (A)
Repository:
CUL
Shelfmark: Additional 2953
Repository location: Cambridge
Matthew Wren (1585–1667) was appointed president of Pembroke College in 1616, where he undertook a fundraising campaign to add to the library collection and produced the first extant inventory of books in the library, compiled in a register of benefactors (Kari Anne Rand, Manuscripts in the Library of Pembroke College, Cambridge and the Fitzwilliam Museum (Cambridge, 2006), pp xiv–xvi). During this time Wren also compiled a list of estate papers for the college, under the supervision of Lancelot Andrewes, bishop of Ely. Before 1621 he was one of the chaplains-in-ordinary to James I, and accompanied the king to Madrid in 1623 in James's unsuccessful effort to marry his son, Prince Charles, to Philip III's daughter, Maria Anna. Wren would later accompany Charles for his coronation in Edinburgh in 1633. In 1625 Wren again turned to historical record-keeping as master of Peterhouse, producing 'an inventory for the treasury of the medieval college ... and a chronologically arranged list of all the library collection.' Wren's archival work continued as dean of Windsor in 1628, bishop of Hereford in 1634, bishop of Norwich in 1635, and finally bishop of Ely in 1638. As bishop of Norwich and Ely, Wren also undertook a series of visitations to ensure conformity, an effort curtailed in 1641 when he was imprisoned in the Tower of London, where he stayed until 1660 (Nicholas W. S. Cranfield, 'Wren, Matthew (1585–1667), bishop of Ely,' ODNB, accessed 14 September 2021).
c 1770; Latin and English; paper; ii + 185; 204mm x 163mm; contemporary ink foliation; bound together in contemporary parchment binding, title on spine: 'vol 10 | St. John <...> | Register | Montacue | ad | De Lisle | ad | <...> | Patrick.'