f 57v (18 October–18 October) (Bailiffs' accounts) (Payments)
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| Inprimis paid to Peeter Hales on th'eleccion daye | 00 01 06 |
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f 58
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| Item geuen to the players Ianuary 14 | 00 03 06 |
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| Item geuen to the Lord Bartlettes players | 00 03 06 |
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| paid at thassises 16 martij for wine to the Iudges and Sherriffe | 01 03 04 |
| paid then for a warder & musick at the sherriffes house | 00 02 06 |
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Peter Hales is presumably the 'blind peeter' mentioned as playing at the hobby horse in the churchwardens’ accounts for this year; in the accounts for many other years between 1612 and 1641, Peter Hales received payments from the bailiffs and the churchwardens for music.
Record title: Bailiffs', Churchwardens',
and Mayors' Accounts
Repository:
STRO
Shelfmark: D1323/E/1
Repository location: Stafford
This volume contains (a) copies of earlier accounts, beginning in 1519, which are in the same hand as entries for the years 1611 onwards, so they presumably were copied by the town clerk or his scribe; (b) accounts of bailiffs, chamberlains, churchwardens, and schoolwardens, because the accounts of the minor officials were presented and approved by the corporation officials before being entered into the town book. In the transcriptions, the entries from the churchwardens are differentiated from the bailiffs' (later the mayors') accounts because they originated from different authorities. The churchwardens' accounting year was 21 December–20 December, with the accounts presented to the bailiffs between 13 February and 19 March, the Friday following Quadragesima Sunday. The bailiffs' accounting year was 18 October–17 October, with the accounts similarly being presented between 13 February and 19 March. The mayoral accounting year was later adjusted slightly to begin the next Monday after St Luke's Day (ie, 27 October).
1611–62; English; paper; v + 353; 350mm x 225mm (text area variable); modern pencil foliation to f 310 (ff 5–19, 21, 152, 161, 179, 250, 305–53 blank; 60–2, 142–7, 149–50, 153–7, 168, 244–7, and 253 missing; 158, 166, 167, 193, and 201 foliated twice [a/b]; 221 foliated thrice [a/b/c]); early tooled calf binding, much worn, with loose leather cover; remains of brass closures; also preserved is an older (perhaps original?) parchment binding which has title on inside front and back covers: 'Burgiis Stafford Liber Compotus This book was bought and In<.>veded by Richard Drakeford and Iohn Wilson Bailiffes of the said Borough vicesimo die Novembris Anno regn Domini Iacobi vnum Regis Anglie & Nono Scocie <......> gracias. 1611 IS R Drakeford I Willson Bailliffs.' On f [ii] is written: 'The Old Book of Accounts.'