Staffordshire, Lichfield, 1574–5

Corvisors' and Curriers' Guild Accounts

Chetham's Library: MUN.A.6.65.A

f 46 (25 October–25 October)

...

chargis of ye dynnar made by hew bronsgrove & Rychard marshall vppon chryspany day the xxv day of october in ye seventyn yere of ye quenes magestis that now ys

Imprimis for byffe	v s. ij d.
Itim for iiij gysse	iiij s. vjjd.d.
Itim for iiij pygges	iij s. x d.
Itim for ij dossin of bread & ij penyworth	ij s. ij d.
Itim for a stryke of malt	ij s. ij d.
Itim for spys	iiij d.
Itim for mustard	ij d.
Itim <...> to ye wyfes	xij d.
Itim to gabrell	vj d.
	some xix s. x d.

Footnotes
- vjjdel>d.d.del>: first j written over i
- of ... penyworth: written above line filler
- x: written over j
Glossed Terms
- chrispiane day n phr St Crispin's Day; chryspany day; chryspian day; chryspiane day; crispiany daie; cryspyany day
- gysse n pl geese
- seventyn adj seventeenth
Endnote

The only payments to individuals in these dinner accounts are to minstrels; perhaps this 'gabrell' appeared alone this year and received half the usual fee for two minstrels. Note that the fee for minstrels in the following year is also 6d.
Document Description

Record title: Corvisors' and Curriers' Guild Accounts
Repository: Chetham's Library
Shelfmark: MUN.A.6.65.A
Repository location: Manchester

The Lichfield Corvisors' and Curriers' Accounts migrated by unknown means to Manchester, where they are now preserved at Chetham's Library. The accounting year began on St Crispin's Day (25 October), on which day a guild dinner was held. A second dinner was held on Corpus Christi Day, but there is no evidence that it was associated with a civic procession at the late date of preservation of these accounts.

c 1562–1623; English; paper; 21 leaves; 412mm x 155mm; modern pencil foliation 41–62; 3 gatherings bound into a booklet, some repair where pages have been torn when booklet folded across at some time; bound in parchment from old (presumably religious) MS, inner cover has 4 columns written at right angles to the booklet, outer cover is written the same way up as the folios of the booklet; flaps on front and rear outer covers, lower half of leather spine and part of the original binding thong survive.

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