Holy Trinity Guild Accounts

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

p 39 (5 June–21 May) (Expenses for the principal day)

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In primis solutum in expensis ad exequias vltimo Anno ⸢x d.⸣ Item solutum in j quarterio ij bushels frumenti ⸢iiij s. vij d.⸣ In multura & pistura eiusdem ⸢xvj d.⸣ Item solutum pro ix vij dossenis seruisie ⸢ix s. iiij d.⸣ In ij kilderkins potus iij d. In ij vitulis iiij s. In iij Ouibus ⸢vj s. iij d.⸣ In ij dossenis aucarum ⸢iiij s.⸣ In ij Combis dimidio auenarum ⸢ij s. j d.⸣ In iiij dossenis pullorum galinorum ⸢iij s. ix d.⸣ In CC Ouis ⸢x d. ⸣ In lacte & quacto ⸢xiiij d.⸣ In Butiro ⸢iiij d.⸣ In diuersis speciebus ⸢ij s. vj d.⸣ In j quarterio mellis ⸢iiij d.⸣ In aceto sale Otemele Cepis & le garlek ⸢iiij d.⸣ In stipend' histrion' ⸢xvj d.⸣ In stipendio Coci ⸢ij s.⸣ In lixis & giratore xiij d. Item in excoriacione vitulorum & agnellorum ⸢ij d.⸣ In ffocali ⸢xviij d.⸣ xlviij s.

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(Inquiry)

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...Escabini ordinabant proximo anno vnum ydoneum ministrallum...

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  • Record Translation

    p 39 (5 June–21 May) (Expenses for the principal day)

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    First paid in expenses for the obsequies last year, 10d. Likewise paid on one quarter (and) two bushels of grain, 4s 7d; on the milling and baking of the same, 16d; likewise paid for seven dozen ale, 9s 4d; on two kilderkins of drink, 3d; on two calves, 4d; on three sheep, 6s 3d; on two dozen geese, 4s; on two coombs and a half of oats, 2s 1d; on four dozen chicken pullets, 3s 9d; on 200 eggs, 10d; on milk and cream, 14d; on butter, 4d; on various spices, 2s 6d; on one quart of honey, 4d; on vinegar, salt, oatmeal, onions, and garlic, 4d; on the entertainers' (or entertainer's) stipends (or stipend), 16d; on the cook's stipend, 2s; on the servants and the turnspit, 13d; likewise on the skinning on the calves and lambs, 2d; on fuel, 18d. 48s

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    (Inquiry)

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    ...The aldermen ordered for next year one suitable minstrel...

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  • Glossed Terms
    • escabinus, -i n m alderman [cp DML scabinus]
    • otemele n oatmeal; otmele
    • potus, -us n m drink, here weak ale as distinct from ceruisia
  • Endnote

    Payments for the guild dinner, 5 June 1474.

  • 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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