f [373] (29 June–27 September 1583) (Hall expenses)
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| First for expenses in building a stage in the hall for acting of the comedies | £4 3s 10d |
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Record title: Winchester College Bursars'
Accounts
Repository: Winchester College Archives
Shelfmark: 22216
Repository location: Winchester
The bursars' accounts were kept annually by the two bursars, one of whom was elected each year and served as the junior bursar, becoming senior bursar the following year. Their accounts included all the college finances, beginning with receipts from the rents of manors and estates owned by the college. Expenses are divided into sections: the chapel, hall, kitchen, pantry, stable, and garden; stipends to chaplains, scholars, and others; external expenses and gifts (the last two the sections where payments to entertainers were normally entered). In 1556 the system of annual rolls adopted at the founding of the college was changed to keeping the accounts in book form. The accounts run roughly from Michaelmas to Michaelmas but with each year divided into four quarters.
1572–83; Latin; paper; i + 394 + i; 313mm x 200mm; unnumbered; contemporary parchment binding with remains of 3 leather straps, 1 with metal buckle, title on spine: 'Burs: ab 1572 ad 1583.' The 2 fly- leaves, now loose from the binding, are 2 leaves from a 14th-c. commentary on the Minor Prophets written in England in Latin containing Hosea 10.9–11.11 and Joel 3.13–Amos 1.9.