p 45 (28 May 1480–17 June 1481) (Expenses for the dinner)
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In primis solutum in expensis ad exequias
vltimo Anno xj d. Et pro j quarterio
ij bushels
frumenti v s. v d. Et
solutum pro
multura & pistura inde xviij d.
Et pro vj dossenis
seruisie viij
<...> Et pro ij kilderkins
potus iiij d. Et pro ij
dossenis Aucarum iiij s. Et pro iij Combis
Auenarum xxj d. Et pro ij vitulis iiij s. Et
pro j motone dimidio
iij s. ii<...> Et pro vj
porcellis ij s. v d. Et pro iiij dossenis iij pullorum
galinorum iij s. xj d. Et pro CC Ouis xij d. Et
pro butiro iiij d. Et solutum pro la<...> & quacco
xiiij d. Et pro melle v d. Et solutum pro
speciebus iij s. Et pro j pecca Sale &
otemele ij d. Et pro
ew vnyonis & a<...> ij d. Et pro stipendio
Maunger
mynstrall iij s. iiij d. Et
pro stipendio
Coci ij s. Et pro
Swilleris &
turneris xij d. Et foculi xiiij d.
Summa xlix s. iiij d.
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p 45 (6 June–28 May) (Expenses for the dinner)
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First paid in expenses for the obsequies last year, 11d; and for one quarter (and) two bushels of grain, 5s 5d; and paid for milling and baking thereof, 18d; and for six dozen of ale 8s <...>; and for two kilderkins of drink, 4d; and for two dozen geese, 4s; and for three coombs of oats, 21d; and for two calves, 4s; and for one sheep and a half (or one half of a sheep) 3s <...>; and for six piglets, 2s 5d; and for four dozen chicken pullets, 3s 11d; and for 200 eggs, 12d; and for butter, 4d; and paid for milk and cream, 14d. And for honey, 5d; and paid for spices, 3s; and for one peck of salt and oatmeal, 2d; and for onions and <...>, 2d; and for the minstrel, Maunger's stipend, 3s 4d; and for the cook's stipend, 2s; and for swillers and turners, 12d; and fuel, 14d.
In total 49s 4d
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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.'