p 44 (6 June–28 May) (Expenses for the dinner)
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In primis solutum in expensis
exequiarum Anno precedenti xij d. In
j quarterio ij bushels
frumenti viij s. ix d. In
vj dossenis
seruisie ix s. In
ij kilderkins peioris iiij d. In
multura & pistura
inde xviij d. In xxvj Aucis iiij s. iiii d. In j
quarterio ij bushels auenarum ij s. j d. in ij
vitulis iij s. viij d. In iiij agnellis iij s. iiij d. In iiij
porcellis xxj d. In iiij dussenis pullorum
galinorum iij s. iiij d. In CC Ouis xij d. In butiro iiij d. In mylke
& kreme xv d. ob. In sale & otemele j d.
In j quarterio mellis iij d. ob. In
diuersis speciebus iij s. In j mynestrallo
Nicholao maunger
iij s. iiij d. In j Coco ij
s. In swelleres
& Turneres xij d. In ffacali parte propria facale xiij d.
In le garlek & vnyone j d.
Summa lij s. vij d.
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p 44 (6 June–28 May) (Expenses for the dinner)
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First paid in expenses for the obsequies in the preceding year, 12d; on one
quarter, two bushels of grain, 8s 9d; on six dozen of ale, 9s; on two kilderkins of
weaker (ale), 4d; on milling and baking thereof, 18d; on twenty-six
geese, 4s 4d; on one quarter (and) two bushels of oats, 2s 1d; on two calves, 3s 8d;
on four lambs, 3s 4d; on four piglets, 21d; on four dozen chicken pullets, 3s 4d; on
200 eggs, 12d; on butter, 4d; on milk and cream, 15 1/2d; on salt and oatmeal, 1d;
on one quart of honey, 3 1/2d; on various spices, 3s; on one minstrel, Nicholas
Maunger, 3s 4d; on one cook, 2s; on swillers and turners, 12d; on fuel, in part (the
accountants') own fuel, 13d; on garlic and onion, 1d.
In total 52s 7d.
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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.'