Holy Trinity Guild Accounts

Wisbech and Fenland Museum: Guild of the Holy Trinity in Wisbech 1379–1547 & Corporation Records 1564–1566

p 36 (9 June–24 May) (Expenses on the principal day)

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In primis ad exequias x d. In j quarterio j bushel frumenti ix s. In multura & pistura eiusdem xij d. In vj dossenis ij kilderkins seruisie ix s. ix d. In ij kilderkins potus iiij d. In ij vitulis iiij s. In ij Ouibus iiij s. viij d. In ij agnellis ij s. In xxv aucis iiij s. ij d. In iij Combe auenarum xxij s. In ij bushels de Otemele duste iij d. In iiij dossenis pullorum gallinorum iij s. iiij d. In lacte & quacco xiiij d. In Ouis C dimidio viij d. ob. In butiro iij d. In Sale j d. In Cepis j d. & In vinegra & aceto j d. In Otemele j d. In melle j d. iij d. In diuersis speciebus ij s. x d. In ficis & le reysones ix d. In stipendijs ⸢ij⸣ histrionum iiij s. In stipendio Coci xvj d. In focali xx d. In Giratore veruum hasteler & lixis x d. In biga pro piscibus viz. makrell & anguilles & omy pro Coco iiij d. ob. Summa lv s. viij d.

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  • Footnotes
    • omy: the meaning of this word has not determined, and the reading is uncertain: m consists of three minims
  • Record Translation

    p 36 (9 June–24 May) (Expenses on the principal day)

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    First for the obsequies, 10d. On one quarter (and) one bushel of grain, 9s; on milling and baking of the same, 12d; on six dozen (and) two kilderkins of ale, 9s 9d; on two kilderkins of drink, 4d; on two calves, 4s; on two sheep, 4s 8d; on two lambs, 2s; on twenty-five geese, 4s 2d; on three coombs of oats, 22s; on two bushels of oatmeal dust (ie, chaff), 3d; on four dozen chicken pullets, 3s 4d; on milk and cream, 14d; on 150 eggs, 8 1/2d; on butter, 3d; on salt, 1d; on onions, 1d; on vinegar and (malt ?) vinegar, 1d; on oatmeal, 1d; on honey, 3d; on various spices, 2s 10d; on figs and raisins, 9d; on the stipends of two entertainers, 4s; on the stipend of the cook, 16d; on fuel, 20d; on the turnspit, hastler, and servant, 10d; on a cart for fish, namely, mackerel and eels and 'omy' for the cook, 4 1/2d. In total 55s 8d

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  • Glossed Terms
    • otemele n oatmeal; otmele
    • potus, -us n m drink, here weak ale as distinct from ceruisia
    • ueru, -us n m spit, broach
  • Endnote

    The accounts record payments for the guild dinner, 9 June 1471.

  • Document Description

    Record title: Holy Trinity Guild Accounts
    Repository: Wisbech and Fenland Museum
    Shelfmark: Guild of the Holy Trinity in Wisbech 1379–1547 & Corporation Records 1564–1566
    Repository location: Wisbech

    The guild of the Holy Trinity of Wisbech was one of three guilds with a presence in the village of Leverington; the other two were the guilds of St Mary and of St John. Holy Trinity was the largest and most important of the guilds, with a consistent membership of fifty-six to sixty-seven members, both men and women; it first appears in accounts in 1379, but entries there indicate it had existed for some time prior (VCH: Cambridgeshire, vol 4, pp 186–97, British History Online, https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/cambs/vol4/pp186-197). Holy Trinity was incorporated in 1453; after its dissolution in 1566, the guild's estates were taken over by the Corporation and thus preserved (VCH: Cambridgeshire, vol 4, pp 255-6, British History Online, https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/cambs/vol4/pp255-256). Records of the guildhall begin in 1423, but it is likely that it was in existence before then; its site cannot be definitively identified (VCH: Cambridgeshire, vol 4, pp 255–6, British History Online, https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/cambs/vol4/pp255-256). As Frederic Gardiner observes, 'the Trinity Guild is believed to have met in a primitive building, with thatched roof, supposed to have stood on the site of the present Grammar School, but its locality is not known with certainty' (Frederic John Gardiner, History of Wisbech and Neighbourhood, During the Fifty Years – 1848–1898 (London, 1898), 90–1).

    1379–1547, 1564–6; Latin and English; paper; iv + 139 + i; 414 mm x 301 mm; 18th-c. pagination; leaves extensively reconstructed, mounted into paper frames with some gauze reinforcement; late 18th-c. marbled paper binding with leather spine and front label and corner reinforcements, title on spine: 'Guld of Holy Trinity Wisbech 1379 – Annis Multis Intermissis – 1547, Records of the Corporation 1564 – 1566.'

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