Catalogue description Account of Roger Paget, Master of the Guild of the Holy Cross, the Blessed Mary the...

Account of Roger Paget, Master of the Guild of the Holy Cross, the Blessed Mary the Virgin, and St. John the Baptist, of Stratford, from Monday next after the Feast of St. Thomas the Martyr, 8 Edward IV., to Monday next following the same Feast, 9 Edward IV

The Account is rendered under the following headings--

Arrears. (Divers sums received from "Doggets.")

Fines. (Paid by, amongst others, Thomas Grene, of Lapworth, Chaplain; "Goditta," wife of Thomas Garette, of Shottrey; John Evorall, Master of Arts ("in artibus Magri"), and Rector of Pawlespury; William Mason ; Margery Baxter; Alice Palmer, for the soul of John Palmer; fine for the soul of Thomas Wydon, of Draycote; ... Walther, of Charlecote, and Joan his wife ; Edward Mallebrusshe, of Charlecote, and Alice his wife; Richard Hatteton, of Charlecote, and Margery his wife ; Thomas Lewes and Margaret his wife; Richard Buggy; Hugh Taylor, and Agnes his wife ; ... of Stratford, "Gentilman," and Margaret his wife ; John Coton; John Jannys, of Shepusterd-super-Stour, and Elizabeth his wife; John Tomworth, Vicar of Botiller [-super-Stour]; Roger Kyneam, of Surpillarton, Chaplain; Robert Turner, of Avendarsette, and Joan his wife; Thomas Ennok ; John Hachet, of Churchehull; William Adkyns, of Wylmcote; Thomas Edmay, of Honyngton-on-Stour; John Porus, of Adderston ; Richard Merell, of Ayleston ; Robert Suley, of Coventry, Merchant of the Staple of Calais, and Matilda his wife; Robert Tate, of the City of London, Merchant of the Staple of Calais ; Hugh Clopton, of the City of London, "Merchaunte" ; Thomas Fabyon, of London, "Mercer," and Margaret his wife ; the Vicar of Wokkellone; John Gyles, of Getynge; "Temple-super-Coteswolde;" John Rutherford, of Stratford, and Elizabeth his wife, and for the souls of ... and Petronilla, late wives of the said John; Thomas Warde, of Overpyllarton ; Thomas Robertus; Agnes, wife of John Bedull, of Clyfford; Robert Nele, of Honyngton; the Rector of Whacote ; Richard Day, of Haburton; Richard Baker, Master of Arts, son of Philip Baker, of Stratford)

[As yet Fines.] (John Colles; John Tasker, otherwise called Croppeley; John Myll; Edmund Rogers; John Cooke, of Stratford; Thomas Pere; William Fermour; Thomas Savage, of Tachebrooke-Malary, and Matilda his wife; John Napton; Roger Sutton, of Coventry, "Dyer"; Thomas Throgmarton, Esquire, and Margaret his wife; William Lamprey, of Oxhill; Nicholas Perkyns, of Bradeway, and Margaret his wife, and for the soul of "Elene," sometime his wife; John Wylmote, of Welcome; Henry Vicars, of Roteley; Thomas Compton, a monk of the Abbey of Gloucester, and "Chamberlyn" there; John Tyllyngton, of Stratford ; for the soul of William, son of Reginald Flecher, of Stratford ; "Elene," wife of William Ireton, of Stratford; Robert Botemon, and "Beteryche" his wife, of Stratford ; John Hynde, Vicar of Aston Cantlow ; Richard Frankeleyn, of Tyso; Thomas Horsman; John Hykus; Thomas Wodecok, and Emotta his wife; John Hale, of Ylmyngdon; Richard Okeley; John Grene, of Warwick, "Sadeler"; John Archer; John Alye, and Dionisia his wife; Thomas Rouneton, of Tachebroke; William Wollaston; William Carter; Thomas Rawlyns ; Robert Scotesbury, of Upthruppe ; Alice Hyll, of the Parish of Bromsgrove; Alice, wife of William Stodeley; Nicholas Justeyn; Roger Stanysmore, of Walsall; Agnes Ruddynge, of Coventry, widow, and for the souls of Thomas Dey, John Ruddynge, and William Fyssher, some time her husbands ; Henry Knyzte, of the parish of Bromsgrove, and "Aude" (Audry) his wife; John Gay; 20s, legacy of Richard and John Kingus, Chaplains, &c. The wives of many of the above are given, pledges are mentioned, and additional fines are paid for "light.")

Expenses of the Feast. (8 quarters of corn at 6s a quarter; 12 quarters of malt for brewing ale, at 3s 4d a quarter; 16½d for baking bread ; 2 "strayner-cloths" 4d ; Alice Barber, for brewing 2 quarts of ale, 16d. (Similar payments to other women for brewing). Payments for coal and other fuel: 200 "ciphorum," 2s; Thomas Bocher for 13 calves at 2s 6d each; twenty-six lambs at 12d each; payments also for beef, "Marybons," veal, &c. ; 1 "kydde," 16d; numerous payments for geese, some at 2½ each, some at 2d, some at 2¼d, the total number of geese being 180 ; payment for malt for the geese, and for 4 measures of barley for the pullets, 12d; paid Elizabeth Hyotte for "keeping" the geese, 8d; 3 lbs. of pepper, at 15d; 1 "quatron" of cloves, 12d; ½ lb. of "cinnamon," 2s; ½ lb. of ginger, 12d; ½ lb. of "saunders," 20d ; "Agnis seede," ld; 3 gallons of "honey," 4s; "White sugur," 14d; paid the wife of Thomas Clopton for 8 gallons of milk, 8d; paid John Clopton for 2 gallons of milk, 2d; 1 gallon of "creme," 8d; 6 "quarts" of butter, 18d ; 3 gallons of creme, at 9d a gallon; 120 pullets, 10s ; 950 eggs, at 6d per hundred; 12 pullets, 18d; 2 "caupons," 12d; three small pigs, 18d; numerous other payments for pigs; paid to "turnespyttes," 2s 4d ; wine and vinegar for the kitchen, 20d; salt, 4d; payment to William Baker, the son of Philip Baker, for baking and helping in the chapel (? attending to the furnaces); payments also are mentioned for almonds, "resins," &c., and to numerous cooks and others employed in the kitchen)

Repairs of the houses. (154 oaks bought of John Bebys for a tenement called the "Angell," and divers other tenements; "fallynge" the said oaks, 8s; numerous payments for timber; carriage of timber from the wood called "Waleys" to Rounton Green; paid 2 sawyers for sawing 11s ld; paid John Carpenter and others for "hewynge" timber, 8s; 18 "couple sparres" for "le Angell," 7s 6d ; 2 "bayes" of timber for a barn in the tenement called "le Angell," £1 1s 8d (xxs xxd); 1 pair of gates there, 4s ; paid for "hyngys," "hokes," and nails for the said gates, 13½d; John Chery and Thomas Brute working there for 8 days at 2d per diem ; table (mensa) for the said tenement 16d; paid Thomas Welsshman, working four days, with victuals, 13d; for "clensynge de la yarde" there, 4d; paid for pulling down an old house, 4½d; at the same time for victuals, 2½d; bread, ale, and other victuals for divers persons working at "le Angell," 6s; paid for making a dormitory ("dormond") there; 3 "couple sparres" for the same dormitery, 15d; paid Geoffrey Tyler for tiling the said dormitory, 12d ; paid a sawyer for sawing "evesbordes" and "justes," 18d ; 4000 "lathnayle" at 10d per 1000 ; paid Thomas Welsshman for making a "herthe" in the kitchen (at the Angel), 9d ; for making 7 "bayes" there, 16s ; mention of "Le Gylleputtes"; paid 5s 8d for bread, beer, and other victuals for a dinner for the neighbours carrying the timber from Rounton to "le Angell" for the love of the Master of the Guild and the Aldermen and the brothers and sisters; paid ... Fulwode for thirty oaks now lying in le "Chappelane" and "Gilleputtes," 20s; paid for "le hewynge of the said oaks, 14s 4d; dinner given to the neighbours for carrying the same oaks for the love of the Master (as above), 8s 11½d; paid a carpenter and his servants working at a new tenement in Elystreet for 33½ days, 14s ld ; paid for a "pooste" and "syde pece," 16d; paid Robert Iremunger for "strawe nayle," 11d; 12,000 "chasnayle" at 9d per thousand ; 10,000 "stonayle" 10 (? shillings) ; 500 "Fyvpeny nayle," 20d ; 1000 "iiij peny nayle," 2s 8d; paid Thomas Clopton, esquire, for 6 "bigats" of thornes, 7s; 100 "rent-bordes," 16s numerous other payments for all kinds of timber, for making "gutters" for dawbynge," & c

As yet repairs with other necessaries. (4s oblation in the church on the feast of its dedication. 98lb. of wax, at 7½d per lb., for the beam of the Holy Cross in the church and for the altars of S. Mary, S. John Baptist, and other places there; 20 lb. "Wykezaron," 4s 6d; 4½ dozen "rosyn," 4s 6d. Paid John Robyns for making anew the torches for the church, 4s 4d ; 2 torches for the chapel, 6d ; "wykezaren" for the same, 10d; making wax candles for the church, 3s ld ; 18 lb. of "talowe candellas" for the chapel for use of the priests, 2s 3d ; other payments for wax and candles ; paid John Barbor for making wax into tapers and other small candles for the Priests celebrating, 2s 1½d ; 14 "Bolles de laton" before the cross in the Church, price "le bolle," 2s 6d; paid for a "blodie curteyn" for the Altar of the Holy Cross, near ("juxta") the Chapel of the Blessed Mary the Virgin in the Church, 11d ; 2 yards of "Bokeram" for covering the said Altar, 12d ; paid for an "Awter clothe de holond" for the said Altar, 15d; 1 cloth of "holond cloth," 2s; "pro celebratione" (? consecration) of three altar cloths, 8d ; "sarsenet and silk" to mend the black vestments of the Chapel, 4s 9d ; paid John Boton for mending same, 16d ; paid for a "pax" for the Altar of the Blessed Mary, 8d; for a "curteyn" hanging before the image ("ymagine") of the Blessed Mary at the end ("finem") of the Altar of the Blessed Mary in the Church, 12d; mending the silver cross in the Chapel, 16d; "synyngbred" for the use of the Priests of the Guild, 8d; 1 linen cloth of "dyaper" for the "Altar table" of the Guild, 5s; cloths for the hall and "le countyngehouse," containing 16½ ells, at 6d the ell; 16 ells of "hoswyses clothe" for "mappis" in the hall, at 4½d the ell; mending of a bell called "le clokke," 8d ; lead, at 10d "le stone," bought of Geoffrey Plumer, of Warwick ; exchanging the old lead of the Guild for new lead of his own ; paid the same Geoffrey for "leedynge" gutters; payment for making gutters between divers tenements ; "sowder" for the said work, 10s 2d; 2 "bordeclothes" for the use of the priests, 2s 8d ; 2 "towells" for the said priests, 13d; [exchanging] 75 of "le olde pewter vessells" of the Guild for new ones of John Zale, of Coventry, with gift to the said John, 9s 4d ; pewter vessels containing 155 lbs., 51s 8d; tiles at 6s per thousand; payment for bread, ale, and meat, at the last account of the Master, 8s 7½d; parchment for his account roll, &c., 10d; paid for 100 "sixpeny nayle," 6d; paid John Bromefeld, carpenter, for making and "framynge" 8 "bayes" for the tenement called "Le Angell"; numerous other payments to capenters and plasterers, and for their materials.)

Sum of the expenses, £72 16s 8d