mb [1] (29 September–29 September) (Mayor's expenses with gifts)
...<......> ministrall' Domini Regis iij s. iiij d. Et datum ministrall' Ducis de Surrey xx d. Et datum ministrall' Regis ffrancie xx d.... Et in viij virgis dimidium straguli & v virgis dimidium panno coloris empto pro ministrallis Ciuitatis xvj s. viij d.... Et datum iij ministrallis Ducis de Aumarle iij s. iiij d.... Et datum ministrall' Ducis de Excester <......> ... Et datum iij ministrallis domini Regis vj s. viij d. Et datum iiij ministrallis Ducis Eboracum v s....
mb [2]
...Et datum cuidam ministrallo domini <...>... Et datis ministrallis ville querentibus Tron x s....
mb [1] (29 September–29 September) (Mayor's expenses with gifts)
...<......> to minstrels/a minstrel of the lord king, 3s 4d. And given to minstrels/a minstrel of the duke of Surrey, 20d. And given minstrel(s) of the king of France, 20d.... And on eight-and-a-half yards of striped cloth and five-and-a-half yards of cloth of one color bought for the minstrels of the city, 16s 8d.... And given to three minstrels of the duke of Aumerle, 3s 4d.... And given to minstrels/a minstrel of the duke of Exeter <......> ... And given to three minstrels of the lord king, 6s 8d. And given to four minstrels of the duke of York, 5s....
mb [2]
...And given to a certain minstrel of lord <...> ... And given to minstrels of the town getting the Tron, 10s....
The right side of mb [1] is damaged where the beginning of the entry for the king's minstrel would be.
The top right part of mb [2] is missing; a section of the record is damaged, approximately an inch and a half wide. The tron was the city's weighing machine, usually kept in the Staple. The tron was taken up St Giles' Hill at the time of St Giles' Fair; perhaps the city's minstrels (that is, the waits) had been given that responsibility (VCH: Hampshire, vol 5, pp 36–44, British History Online, http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/hants/vol5/pp36-44 [accessed 20 January 2017]).
Record title: City Account Roll
Repository:
HRO
Shelfmark: W/E1/9
Repository location: Winchester
The city account rolls record all of the city's income and expenditures.
Income comes primarily from annual rents and rates, as well as special
levies. Expenditures include the whole range of civic responsibilities,
including construction and maintenance of civic structures, annual
payments to civic officials, and rewards given to local nobility and
gentry (and to their performers). The account rolls up to
1420 incorporate the accounts of several officials (including the mayor, bagmen, aldermen, and clerk of
the market), as the chamberlains had not yet been recognized as
responsible for all civic finances. The accounting period runs from
Michaelmas to Michaelmas.
1397–8Latin; parchment; 4 membranes attached at the top; 247–688mm x 172–325mm; unnumbered; mbs [1–2] written on one side only; paper wrapper inscribed: 'City Roll 22 Richard II.'