f [421] (25 September–24 December) (Necessary expenses with gifts)
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| Soluti Musicis oppidanis | 0 10 0 |
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(25 December–25 March)
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| Datum buccinatoribus Regijs | 0 10 0 |
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| Solutum pro vestimentis datis ex gratia vtrisque Showes | 1 12 0 |
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f [421] (25 September–24 December) (Necessary expenses with gifts)
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| Paid to town musicians | 10s |
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(25 December–25 March)
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| Given to royal trumpeters | 10s |
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| Paid for clothing given as a favour for both the shows | £1 12s |
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The accounts run, as usual, from Michaelmas to Michaelmas but the scribe has left blank the closing date. On p 714 of REED's Cambridge, the editor refers to 'quasi-dramatic show[s]' in the form of 'brief topical jokes in verse,' being staged in the colleges, but there is no evidence as to what form the 'Showes' took in Winchester College (Alan H. Nelson (ed), Cambridge, vol 2, REED (Toronto, Buffalo, and London, 1989), 714).
Record title: Winchester College Bursars'
Accounts
Repository: Winchester College Archives
Shelfmark: 22219
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, the 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 from Michaelmas to Michaelmas, but with each year divided into quarters.
1624–41; Latin; paper; 472 leaves; 305mm x 195mm; unnumbered; leaves very dog eared; contemporary parchment binding with parchment straps and metal buckle, title on spine: 'Burs: ab 1624 ad 1641.'