p 10 (30 May–22 May) (Expenses for the principal day)
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| ...In pane emptum vj s. Item In seruicia vj s. Item in Carne v s. Item In peper et croco v d. Item in sale et venegra iij d. In caseo xiij d. In focalibus vij d. In conducione ‸⸢coquine⸣ vj d. Item pro j coco viij <.> Item veriuetoribus ij d. | xx s. viij d. |
| Item in sitrabartha iiij s. Item in sirpis iij d. °Item sepes ij d.° | Summa iiij s. iij d. |
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p 10 (30 May–22 May) (Expenses for the principal day)
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| ...On bread bought, 6s. Likewise on ale, 6s. Likewise on meat, 5s. Likewise on pepper and saffron, 5d. Likewise on salt and vinegar, 3d. On cheese, 13d. On fuel, 7d. On the renting of the kitchen, 6d. Likewise for one cook, 8d. Likewise for turnspits, 2d. | 20s 8d |
| Likewise on the harper, 4s. Likewise on rushes, 3d. °Likewise onions, 2d° | In total 4s 3d |
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There was evidently some doubt as to where the payments for the 'sitrabartha' and 'sirpis' should be recorded. Identical payments have been written at the end of a previous expense account on this page and struck through. They are also recorded after the sum of all the expense accounts for the year that appears following the present entry, and are therefore presumably not included in that total.
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.'