p 32 (9 June–1 June) (Expenses on the principal day)
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Ad Exequias in pane
casio et seruisie
polinctori & clericis xij d. Ad colloquium
in Expensis omnibus v d. Item in frumento viij busshells
frumenti ij s. viij d. Item
multura & pistura viij d. pro v
dussenis ij kilderkins seruisie viij s. iij d.
pro ij kilderkins
te<...> seruisie iij d. pro
xxiiij aucis iij s. viij d. pro auenis ij s. j d. pro vno vitulo
ij s. iiij d. pro iij lambys iij s. vj d. pro v porcellis iij
<..> pro xliiij chekones iij s. iiij d. pro
butiro onyons aceto ouis anglice eggys xj d. pro lacte & creem
x d. In ffocali turb<.>s
teri<...> pro hony iij d. In speciebus ij s. ij d. ob.
pro
turners & squyllers vj d. In vegews
pro sali prandio coci locione mapparum vj d.
pro stipendio coci xvj d. pro stipendio Thome & Willelmi
mynystrallorum iiij s.
pro stipendio de vessellis
xij d.
Summa xliij s. viij d. ob
(Inquiry)
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...Item ordinant quod habeant duos ministrallos videlicet Willelmum mynstrall & Thomas ffoster...
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p 32 (9 June–1 June) (Expenses on the principal day)
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For the obsequies on bread, cheese, and ale for the undertaker and the clergy, 12d; for the meeting in all expenses, 5d. Likewise on grain, eight bushels of grain, 2s 8d; likewise milling and baking, 8d; for five dozen, two kilderkins of ale, 8s 3s; for two kilderkins of weak ale, 3d; for twenty-four geese, 3s 8d; for oats, 2s 1d; for one calf, 2s 4d; for three lambs, 3s 6d; for five piglets, 3<...>; for forty-four chickens, 3s 4d; for butter, onions, vinegar, eggs, in English 'eggs,' 9d; for milk and cream, 10d; on fuel, peat <...>; for honey, 3d; on spices, 2s 2 1/2d; for turners and squillers, 6d; on verjuice, for salt, the cook's meal, the washing of the tablecloths (or other cloths) 6d; for the cooks stipend, 16d; for the stipend of Thomas and William, the minstrels, 4s; for the servants' stipend, 12d.
Total 43s 8 1/2d
(Inquiry)
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...Likewise they (the jurors) order that they shall have two minstrels, namely, William Mynstrall and Thomas Foster...
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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.'