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Wardens -
Crobcombe. Pilton. Patton. TintinBull. Morebath.
and St. Michael+b. Bath.
RANGING FROM A.D. 1349 TO 1560.
EDITED BY
RIGHT REV. BISHOP HOBHOUSE
(Late Bishop of Nelson, N.Z.).
PRINTED FOR SUBSCRIBERS, BY THE SOMERSET RECORD SOCIETY.
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HARRISON AND SONS, PRINTERS IN ORDINARY TO HER MAJESTY,
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Contents.
PAGE
EDITOR'S PREFACE . . . . . . .
WARDENS' ACCOUNTS OF SIX SELECTED PARISHES
REMARKS ON OTHER ACCOUNTS INSPECTED . .
GLOSSARY. .
APPENDICES . . . . . . . .
INDEX . . . . . . . . .
. ix-xxvi
• 1–228
. 229-232
233–242
. 243–253
. 255-275
Contents of Editor*s Preface.
History and Aim of the Work; The Parish from 1349 to 1560, p. xi ;
The Parish in Council, p. xi; Ways and Means, p. xii ; Wardens
and their Functions, p. xiv; Church-Rates, p. xvi; Sidesmen,
p. xvii ; Chantry-Wardens, p. xvii ; Personnel of Parish, p. xviii ;
Parish-life, p. XX; The Church-house, p. xxi; What was Lack-
ing, p. xxiii; Relief of Poor, and other things not named
p. xxiii.
Somerset Record Society.
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REPORT.
THE losses and gains since the presentation of my last Report leave our
Society one less in numbers than it was at that time.
The finances, as will be seen by the annexed account, are in a satisfactory
state.
The expense of printing the third volume has been unusually heavy
owing to the nature of the subject, but it is expected that our printing
expenses will now return to their former level. There must, however, as I
forewarned the Society last year, be an additiona charge upon our funds in
the coming year for transcriptions, as we shall not be able to obtain the
volunteer assistance which has been so freely afforded us hitherto, and has
saved the Society considerable expenditure.
Our fifth volume is now in hand. It will contain two unpublished
Custumals of Glastonbury Abbey of the 13th century, with some other
documents bearing upon the same subject. I am glad to be able to report
that the important work of dealing with this interesting subject has been
kindly undertaken by Mr. C. I. Elton, Q.C., M.P., F.S.A.
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List of Subscribers.
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ADLAM, W., The Manor House, Chew Magna.
ANTIQUARIES, THE SOCIETY OF, Burlington House.
ARCHÆOLOGICAL SOCIETY, THE SOMERSET, Taunton.
ARCHBOLD, W. A., 20, Albemarle Street, London.
BADCOCK, H., Taunton.
BAILWARD, H., Horsington, Somerset.
BAKER, E. E., Weston-super-Mare.
BARNARD, REV. H. J., Pucklechurch, Bristol.
BATES, E. H., Newton Surmavill, Yeovil.
BATTEN, J., Aldon, Yeovil.
BENNETT, G., 2, Whitehall Place, London.
BENNETT, REV. J. A., South Cadbury Rectory, Bath.
BIRKBECK, REV. W. J., The Vicarage, Milborne Port.
BLACKER, REV. BEAVER H., 26, Meridien Place, Clifton.
BODLEIAN LIBRARY, THE, Oxford.
BOND, T., TYNEHAM, Wareham.
BOSTON, THE PUBLIC LIBRARY, Boston, U.S.A.
BOURDILLON, E. D., Poundisford Park, Taunton.
BOUVERIE, P. P., Brymore House, Bridgwater.
BRAIKENRIDGE, W. JERDONE, 16, Royal Crescent, Bath.
BRAMBLE, LIEUT.-COL., Cleeve House, Yatton.
BROADMEAD, W. B., Enmore Park, Bridgwater.
BROOKING-ROWE, J., Castle Barbican, Plympton.
BROWNE, THE VEN. ARCHDEACON, Wells.
BUCKLE, EDMUND, 23, Bedford Row, London.
BULLEID, J. G., Glastonbury.
CARLINGFORD, RIGHT Hon. LORD, The Priory, Chewton Mendip, Bath.
CARTWRIGHT, Rev. H. A., Whitestaunton, Chard.
CHURCH, THE VERY REV. R. W., DEAN OF ST. PAUL'S, St. Paul's, London.
CHURCH, REV. CANON C. M., Wells.
List of Subscribers.
CLARK, W. S., Street.
CLOETE, W, D., Churchill Court, Congresbury.
COLEMAN, REV. J., Cheddar.
CORK AND ORRERY, THE RIGHT HON. THE EARL OF, Marston, Frome.
COWIE, THE VERY REV. B. M., DEAN OF EXETER, The Deanery.
DAVIS, MAJOR, 55, Great Pulteney Street, Bath.
DANIEL, REV. W. E., East Pennard, Shepton Mallet.
DAUBENY, W., Stratton House, Park Lane, Bath.
DICKINSON, F. H., Kingweston, Somerton.
DODINGTON, T. MARRIOTT, Horsington, Somerset.
DUCKWORTH, REV. W. A., Orchardleigh Park, Frome.
EDWARDS, SIR G., Stoke Bishop, Bristol.
ELLIS, REV. J. H., 29, Collingham Gardens, South Kensington.
ELWORTHY, F. T., Foxdown, Wellington.
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FANE, THE HON. SIR SPENCER PONSONBY, Brympton Yeovil.
FISHER, E., Abbotsbury, Newton Abbot.
FLOYD, W., 39, Russell Square, London.
FOLJAMBE, CECIL G. S., Cockglode, Ollerton, Newark.
FoxCROFT, E. T. D., Hinton Charterhouse, Bath.
FOXCROFT, Mrs., Hinton Charterhouse, Bath.
FREEMAN, E. A., D.C.L., Somerleaze, Wells.
Fry, THE RIGHT Hon. LORD JUSTICE, Failand House, Long Aston, Bristol.
GEE, Rev. H., St. John's Hall, Highbury.
GEORGE, W., 3, King's Parade, Clifton.
GIBBS, ANTONY, Charlton, Nailsea.
GLASTONBURY ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY, THE.
GREEN, EMANUEL, F.S.A., Devonshire Club, St. James's.
GREENFIELD, B. W., 4, Cranbury Terrace, Southampton.
HALLETT, T. P. G., Claverton Lodge, Bath.
HARRIS, R., Wells.
HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY, THE, Cambridge, Mass., U.S.A.
HERRINGHAM, Rev. W. W., Old Cleeve Rectory, Taunton.
HERVEY, THE RIGHT Rev. LORD ARTHUK, Bishop of Bath and Wells, Wells,
HERVEY, REV. SYDENHAM, Wedmore Vicarage, Weston-super-Mare.
HICKES, Rev. T. H. F., Draycot Vicarage; Cheddar.
HIPPISLEY, W. A. Cox, 10, High Cross Street, Leicester.
HOBHOUSE, THE RIGHT REV. BISHOP, Wells.
HOBHOUSE, H., Esq., M.P., Hadspen House, Castle Cary.
List of Subscribers
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HOLMES, REV. T. S., Wookey Vicarage, Wells.
HOOPER, His HONOUR JUDGE, Thorne, Yeovil.
HORNER, F., Mells Park, Frome.
HORNER, REV. G., Mells Rectory, Frome.
HOSKINS, REV. C. T., North Perrott Rectory, Crewkerne.
HOSKINS, H. W., North Perrot Manor, Crewkerne
HOSKINS, H. W. P., 5, Portman Street, London.
Howes, Rev. J. G., Exford Rectory, Taunton.
HUDD, A. E., 9.4, Pembroke Road, Clifton.
HUMPHREYS, A. L., 26, Eccleston Road, Ealing Dean.
HUNT, REV. W., 24, Phillimore Gardens, Campden Hill, Kensington, W.
HUSEY-HUNT, B., Compton Pauncefort.
HUTCHINGS, HUBERT, Sandford Orcas, Sherborne.
HYLTON, LORD, Ammerdown Park, Radstock.
Hyson, Rev. J. B., Tintinhull Vicarage, Yeovil.
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JACKSON, REV. CANON, Leigh Delamere Rectory, Chippenham.
JENKYNS, H., Riverside, East Molesey, Surrey.
KNYFTON, Mrs., Uphill, Weston-super-Mare.
LEIR, REV. R. L. M., Charlton, Musgrove, Wincanton.
LEIR, RÉv. W. MARRIOTT, Ditcheat Rectory, Castle Cary.
LONG, COL. W., Congresbury.
LUTTRELL, G. F., Dunster Castle, Dunster.
LYTE, H. MAXWELL, C.B., 3, Portman Square, London.
MACKENZIE, REV. C. H. N., East Harptree, Bristol.
MANNING, R. G., Wells.
MASTER, Rev. G. S., Flax Bourton.
MEADE, REV. DE COURcy, Bath.
MEDLEY, REV. J. B., Lullington Rectory, Fromne.
MELLIAR FOSTER-MELLIAR, W. M., North Aston, Deddington, Oxon.
MILDMAV, REV. A. St. John, Hazelgrove House, Sparkford, Bath.
MITCHEL, F., Chard.
MOGG, W. REES, Cholwell House, Temple Cloud, Bristol.
MOYSEY, H. G., Bathealton Court, Wiveliscombe.
NORRIS, H., South Petherton.
PAGET, Sir R., BART., M.P., Cranmore Hall, Shepton Mallet.
PERCEVAL, Cecil H. S., Henbury, Bristol.
PHELIPS, W., Montacute House, Ilminster.
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List of Subscribers.
PIGOTT, C. SMYTH-, Brockley Court, West Town, R.S.O., Somerset.
PINNEY, COL., Somerton Erleigh.
PLUMPTRE, THE VERY REV. E. H., D.D., DEAN OF WELLS, The Deanery.
POYNTON, Rev. F. J., Kelston Rectory, Bath.
PRANKERD, S. D., The Knoll, Sneyd Park, Bristol.
RENDELL, REV. L. T., Timsbury Rectory, Bath.
ROGERS, REV. E., Odcombe Rectory, Ilminster.
ROGERS, T. E., Yarlington House, Wincanton.
SINGER, J. W., Frome.
SKRINE, H. M., Warleigh Manor, Bath.
SKRINE, H. D., Claverton Manor, Bath.
SLOPER, E., Taunton.
SOMERVILLE, A. F., Dinder, Wells.
STEPHENSON, REV. J. H., Lympsham Rectory, Taunton.
STRACHEY, Sir E., BART., Sutton Court, Pensford, Bristol.
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THOMPSON, REV. ARCHER, Milton, Wells.
THRING, Rev. G., Hornblotton Rectory, Castle Cary.
TITE, C., Shutes House, Wellington.
TREVILIAN, E. B. CELY, Midelney Place, Curry Rivel, Taunton.
TYNDALE, J. W. WARRE, Evercreech, Bath.
TYNTE, COL. KEMYS, Cefn Mably, Cardiff.
UNIVERSITY LIBRARY, THE, Cambridge.
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WALTERS, G., Somerleaze, Frome.
WATTS, B. H., 13, Queen Square, Bath.
WEAVER, Rev. F. W., Milton Vicarage, Evercreech.
WELLS, The Cathedral Library.
WINWOOD, REV. H. H., II, Cavendish Crescent, Bath.
WORDSWORTH, THE RIGHT Rev. J., LORD BISHOP OF SALISBURY, The
Palace, Salisbury.
YOUNG, REV. E. M., The School House Sherborne.
Editors Preface.
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T HE documents which form the corpus of this volume are of a class so little known,
and primâ fácié so little capable of enriching history, that it needs a few words to
justify their selection.
I was asked in 1883 to inspect the Tintinhull Accounts then newly brought to light. I
found in them not merely dry entries of Wardens' receipts and outlay, but a picture of village
life, a record of habits, views, convictions, aspirations, which surprised me; moreover, I
found that they untaught me no little. The church fabric and services were not maintained
by the neighbouring Priory which owned all the acreage, but by the people, highly organized
for purpose of continual contribution. I found also that the “ parish” was a purely religious
organization, distinct in its origin, its raison d’être, its principles, its working, and its aims,
from the manor or the tything; though composed of the same personnel, man for man.
Since that time I have had opportunities of examining other Wardens' accounts noticed
below, and I have found the same picture of church-life,' whether in village or in town.
It seemed to be fully within the province of a Record Society to make these documents
public, to rescue them from peril of perishing or oblivion; and to bring their teaching to a
focus.
The collections selected for thorough examination as the basis of these remarks were six;
of these, one collection, St. Michael's, Bath, had been printed by the Somerset Archæological
Society in 1878 and 1879, in full. Of another, Morebath, portions were printed in 1883. I
have not seen these two MSS., and am therefore not answerable for the faithfulness of
transcription. For the handling of the other MSS, I am primarily indebted to friends,
without whose aid my eyes could not have surmounted their task. The Rey. T. S. Holmes,
Vicar of Wookey, made a verbatim transcript of the whole Pilton MS., the accuracy of which
I can avouch from close collation. Our unwearied Secretary, Rev. J. A. Bennett, made large
extracts from the Yatton, Croscombe, Tintinhull, and Morebath originals, transcribing what
1 The only important variation from the rule of raising funds by voluntary means was that of Bridgwater,
where there was an involuntary rate, at least a rate enforced in “invitos” though voted by the vestry volun-
tarily. See p. 230.
2 This collection will be designated hereafter by B, the others by their initial letters, C, Y, P, T. M,
See below for a short introduction to each collection at the head of the Accounts.
Editor's Preface.
he judged to be the normal or more instructive portions, and summarizing the remainder. I
have collated the first three before presenting them in print.
I have to regret that our space would not allow us to present a transcript of the whole
MSS. The publication of the portions will, I hope, stir up others, like the new Vicar of
Morebath, to enterprise a verbatim copy, and thereby to ensure the parishes against the loss
of any of the substance of their now-valued chronicles.
I regret, too, that such stores as are lying at Banwell and Bridgwater should be left half
searched. There is probably matter enough in these, even if not swelled by further discoveries,
to fill another volume, and to add to our knowledge of the subject.
It is probable that both at Chard, and at Wells, where the municipal authorities were
heads of Guilds, and as such, were closely entwined with Church administration, the Church
accounts are to be found among the town records. I am therefore obliged to send forth this
collection in the consciousness of its being very incomplete, but in the hope that other hands
will be stirred up and other hoards opened for its completion.
I may hope, however, that this work will serve to fill in part the remaining blank in
our knowledge of the social life of our forefathers. This blank has been félt by our Society
as one which it ought to aim at filling, and it has already achieved some steps in the
process. In Vol. I the task of illustrating the working life of a diocese (then so potent
a factor in the body politic), was assigned to me to work out from the Register of Bishop
Drokensford, 1309–29. In Vol. II Mr. Green has given us a sight of the forcible close
in 1547 of the ritual system which had prevailed in our village churches, and which
revived under Queen Mary only to die again under Elizabeth.
It remained to ascertain what that system was as developed in our villages, and to
learn how far it had operated in the formation of our people's habits and customs. The
present volume attempts to do this.
To illustrate the other side of the village life, its prædial and manorial sides, i.e., its
land tenures and husbandry; the relations between the owner and the occupier of the
oil, of the lord of the manor, his customary tenants and his bondmen there must be a
search into the vast store of manor court rolls, bailiffs' compoti, and custumalia which are
yet extant.
Part of this search, viz., into the Glastonbury custumalia is already on foot, and will,
it is believed, add to our yet scanty knowledge of the class relations of the village com-
munities; and, if handled as we hope by one who has already manifested his knowledge of
the mediæval land tenures, it may be hailed as a most effective contribution to the common
aim of our Society.
i Mr. Serel, in his history of St. Cuthbert's Wells, has given “in extenso,” contracts made for work in
that Church in the 15th Century, the Mayor being a party, and the record remaining with the Corporation.
I now proceed to draw from the documents here edited or elsewhere inspected their
teaching with regard to
Editor's Preface.
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The Parish, its Organisation and Condition
(Within the limits of 1349 and 1560).
[N.B. Where no other date is stated, all remarks below apply to this period.)
To reach the meaning of “Parish” antecedently to the changes which imposed civil
functions on the religious community, we must be indebted, not to any later writings, but
to co-temporary documents.
From them we find that the “parish” was the community dwelling in an area defined
by the Church, organized for Church purposes, subject to Church authority.
The area might coincide with a mąnor or manors, or a piece of a manor or a tithing,
or it might differ from all other defined areas. It was at times altered by Church authority.
Within this area every resident was a parishioner, and, as such, owed his duty of
worship and contribution to one stated Church, and his duty of confession and submission
to the official guidance of a stated pastor, entitled his Rector, or to the Rector's deputy,
entitled Vicar.
There was no choice allowed.
The community was completely organized with a constitution which recognized the
rights of the whole and of every adult member to a voice in self-government, but kept the
self-governing community under a system of inspection, and (if need should be) restraint
from central authority.
The necessary officers were (1), the Rector or his deputy; (2), the Wardens, the
chosen representatives of the parishioners.
The whole adult population were accounted parishioners, and had an even voice when
assembled for consultation under the Rector. Seeing that both sexes served the office of
Warden, there can be no doubt that both had a vote.
The place of meeting was the Church. The name of “vestry," as applied to the
Church council, nowhere appears.
It must have grown up after the date when veştry-rooms grew up, and were large
enough, as at Croscombe, to contain an assembly. These must have been rare. In most
country parishes the Churches served for the parishioners' council-room.
The Bestry.
The functions of the vestry (to use the later term) are gathered from the things entered
as done “coram parochianis.” The formal acts were (1), the yearly election of Wardens;
(2), audit of the outgoing Wardens' Accounts; (3), transfer of the Church goods, and of
balance of cash and livestock from the outgoing to the incoming Wardens by inventory;
(4), consultation on the needs of the Church fabric and ornaments, and on the methods of
raising funds, with instructions to the Wardens for effecting repairs, &c.
A wide freedom in the management of the fabric and accessories seems to have been
left to the parish by the Diocesan Authorities. Probably the people were duly monished
when they fell short of their prescribed duties. Otherwise, they were left free in the
exercise of their bounty; but it must be remembered that they were under the regular
inspection of Rural-Deans and Archdeacons, who held most effective powers to enforce
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Editor's Preface.
their monitions, and that the Wardens were sworn to the Visitatorial Court to make
presentments of every defect.
The liability of the parish to maintain and furnish the House of God was uncontested.
It was the settled duty of each member to help in so doing, a duty always pressed on the
conscience by the Clergy in making their parishioners' wills,' and the duty of the collective
body must needs accrue from this rule for each of its constituents.
But though the duty arose “ in foro conscientiæ,” it was, according to the mediæval
methods of guiding consciences, enforceable “ in foro externo," 1.6., in the Church Courts
beginning with the Archdeacon's monition. Such a monition, we find, issued to St. Mary's,
Bridgwater (see p. 231) based probably on the Vicar's presentment of some defect in the
spire. The parish obeyed the monition and placed the estimated sum in the Vicar's hands
for executing the repair, as ordered.
The details of the parishioners' liability were defined by papal and provincial
constitutions. Archbishop Winchelsea's constitution, circa 1300, was in force in the
middle of the 16th Century. I have given it in Appendix A, as exhibiting the
authorised demands made upon lạy members of the Church. They were large, but
large as they were, were outstripped by the people's zeal, which went far beyond the
imposed minimum in supplying the necessaries of Divine Service. .
In the apportionment of the “onera” (i.e., the requirements of the Church), between
the parish and the Clergy, custom always had some variant voice, and in the apportionment
between the Lay Rector and Vicar in an appropriatedparish, the Bishop's award was the
rule. This was generally settled by a deed called “ordinatio vicaria” issued at the time
of appropriation, but it was subject to revision and was not seldom revised when justice
to needy Vicars demanded it.
Ways and Means.
The mode of raising funds in discharge of liabilities was left to local option. Even
in the rare case of a monition the parish was free to choose its own method of meeting
the imperative demand. If there was no balance in hand, voluntary rates (called "setts,"
át M, p. 209) were sometimes made on some loose basis of rateability, and I suppose
with no more attempt at enforcement than what the loss of the neighbours? good-will could
effect. Special collections were more common, and of donors to these many lists survive,
but one only case of a rate imposed by the majority upon" the unwilling has come to
light. This impost was levied at Bridgwater year after year upon the whole area of the
parish, the town and the hamlets being divided into wards, and each ward visited by a
collector who reported defaulters. One lişt of defaulters is extant, and also the charge
incurred by the Wardens for entering a sụit against them in the Archdeacon's Court.
Even in this process of assessment the first stage was voluntary.
The parish was free to raise its fụnds, like all its neighbours, by the good-will of its
1 The forthcoming extracts, edited by Rev. F. W. Weaver, from the oldest wills in H.M. Probate Registry,
Wells, show that every dying person strove to leave something to his Parish Church, and to the mother Church
of the Diocese, the Cathedral, too.
2 1.e., where the rectorial Tithe had been perpetually annexed to a religious Society or Office. Cases of
revised apportionments to Vicars may be seen in Reg. Drok., fo. 265, affecting Over Stowey and Yatton.
Editor's Preface.
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members. It was under no compulsion to rate them according to their property, but
when it chose to do so, each member was bound to discharge his obligation to the
Church in the way and amount determined for him. It then became an involuntary
impost.
The Bridgwater rate is the only one known (to me at least) as a clear instance
of the principle (a general one in mediæval self-governing communities), of the majority
binding the minority in the discharge of duties common to each member.
But if it was rarely exercised, the reason is made clear by our records. The
good-will of the people found the needed funds without resort either to compulsion
or to any outside sources.
The modes of eliciting this good-will were various and worth studying.
1. The Church, after inhibiting the employment of labour on festal days, and requiring
the people of all classes, as a sacred obligation, to attend the Church Services, busied
itself to find amusements for the gathered people, thus identifying the Holy Day and
the Holiday
2. The popular amusements thus provided were the occasions for drawing out
the peoples' contributions. The Church Ale was, by the end of the 15th Century, the
most universal Churchwardens' resort for eliciting the bounty of the parish.
3. The principle of association was also largely employed. The constituent classes
of the community were banded together for the maintenance of special devotions, 1.8.,
lights, obits, the shrine of a patron saint, &c.
Each of these guilds had its festal day, its Service, and its revelry, and made
its gathering of money; which, after defraying the guild-objects, was added to the
Wardens fund. This guild-system was most fully organised at Croscombe, where it
must have been co-extensive with the community. See p. Į.
4. The popular bounty was also elicited by other incitements. The names of bene-
factors were written in a roll, “the bede-roll,” called also Kalendar, Martilege, Liber obitalis.
The names were given out to the parishioners on great days and their prayers bidden in
behalf of the donors, “pro bono statu ” if living, “pro salute animæ,” if dead.
Some of the donors specify this enrolment as a condition of their gifts, some leave a fee
to the “ bedeman " who should bid the prayers in their behalf. The poorest, judging by the
smallest of their bequests, were anxious to be among the benefactors. An iron crock, a girdle,
a ring, a swarm of bees, and yet smaller gifts in kind may be found amongst the bequests of
the poor, which the Wardens had to turn into money for their coffer.
5. The gifts of livestock were frequent, and of a nature which led the Wardens into
farming them for the sake of annual returns. Sheep, cows, bees, were often given, and some-
times managed by the Wardens; but the management in the hands of officers changing yearly
was difficult, and the stock iş apt to disappear suddenly from the accounts, testifying to some
1 At Wembdon a middle course was adopted in 1325. See Reg. Drok., fo. 248. The parishioners all
agreed to a rate for rebuilding their Church. Some defaulted. This breach of faith was reported to the
Bishop, who thereupon ordered the defaulters' names to be returned to him, intimating that they would be
cited to Wells Consistory. The basis of this rate was consent, and the defaulters' offence was breach of faith.
2 In all Churches one fixed day was celebrated as the anniversary for the Benefactors (Good-doers, C. 45),
called variously, the great Dirige, the Commemoration, the Mass for the Founders.
3 The communest gift of all--sometimes specified as the wedding-ring.
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unexplained failure. At C, P. 40, the contract for management of a flock of sheep may be
seen. At P, the church-herd of cows had their own Warden, see the Key-Warden's account,
p. 63. At M, almost every side-altar was endowed with sheep. Even St. Michael's, Bath,
a city parish, had a small flock.
6. Close akin to the farming of livestock was the trade (for it was nothing less) carried
on at the church-house for the benefit of the church-coffer. The growth of this institution
calls for separate treatment-see below. It became at last the most productive of all the
fiscal devices. Its fiscal success led in fact to its moral ruin and its abolition.
7. Larger gifts were common, but the larger ones did not usually swell the Wardens'
credit-sheet. They aimed at securing some abiding spiritual benefit to the donor and his
family, e.g., by addition of a chapel with its endowed chantry and obituary services. At B,
we can track the growth of endowments in the form of house-property given to the parish,
and administered by the Wardens, for the sake of maintaining anniversaries in behalf of the
donors, see p. 228.
The houses were endowments of the parish and lightened the burden on the voluntary funds,
but rich donors more commonly aimed at erecting or succouring newer institutions. At C,
the Palton chantry was enfeoffed with an estate valued in 1537 at £29 Is. 6d., charged with
maintenance of four priests. At Bridgewater the Lady Wardens administered an ample
revenue for the lights and services of the lady-chapel, whilst the lights of the High Cross had
in 1389 a rent roll af € 2 145.
8. By religious plays. In 1451 a Christmas play was gut up at T (p: 184), by five
parishioners, who gave the nett profits to the new rood-loft. At M, we read of an Easter-play ;
in each case the events of the religious season being set forth for the teaching of the unlettered
people and thus combining edification with amusement. At St. Peter's, Oxford, the Wardens
kept a set of players' garments which they not only used for Christmas plays at home, but let
out on hire for behoof of their funds. These plays were, I suppose, held to be so far hand-
maids to the church in her teaching office as to justify their being represented in the
naves of the churches—the scenery, if any, being of the simplest. The Play-Kings with their
mock courts were on the other hand, altogether şecular, and exhibited in the church-house
with more freedom of revelry and jest. We find them performing not only at Christmas, C
and T, but at three of the four seasons, in the summer at T, in the autumn at B.
They all brought funds to the Wardens, as also did the Robin Hood-exhibitions
at the village butts.
Wardens.
It is evident that Wardens who had to ply such fiscal machinery had very varied
functions to perform, e.g., farming, trading, selling gifts in kind, housing corn, selling beef
when the bull was killed, T, p. 183, furnishing the church-house, overseeing its brewery, its
bakehouse, its entertainments.
They had besides the duty of presentment to the Archdeacon's Court, as now, of moral
delinquencies in their Rector or the flock. Further they had to make many journeys, e.g.,
to fetch a Freemason from Exeter for building St. George's Chapel at C, in 1508, for buying
standing trees, felling and seasoning the timber, as at Y, p. 85.
The complex nature of the office did not deter the parishioners from selecting feniales.
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At M, P. 219, Lucy Scely held the office single-handed in the most difficult times, viz., 1548.
Dame Isabel Newton was Warden at Y in 1496–7.
The office on the other hand was wholly free from all civil functions or even eleemosynary
calls.
The earlier descriptions of the Wardens custodes bonorum, Procuratores ecclesiæ S. Mar-
garete or Joannis, limit the office to the narrow bounds of providing the necessaries of a system
of worship at a particular church or chapel. This and no more was the actual range of the
wardens' office as deputed by the parishioners, and this was the object for which voluntary
funds were committed to them. Their disciplinary functions accrued to them, as Bishop's
Officers, empowered in the Visitation Court.
No civil functions were cast upon them? until quite late in the reign of Henry VIII,
when they begin to receive orders to provide harness or arms for soldiers, to relieve maimed
soldiers, or otherwise to meet the public needs for which the civil government neglected to
provide.
In the reign of Edward VI, 1549, the voluntary alms of the members of the church were
formally and regularly demanded for the relief of the poor. In 1552, the poor man's box
was set up in the church under the Archbishop's injunctions, and the Wardens were required to
gather the donations of the people, and to dispense them amongst the poor.
The Wardens thus became Relieving Officers, and when the mass of poverty, which had
been quickened by the dissolution of the monasteries, became too heavy for voluntary alms,
and demanded the impost of a poor's rate, the Wardens needed the aid of special officers for
their novel functions of levying and dispensing a rateable tax.
The establishment of the rating power wrought a great change in the functions of the
Vestry, of the Wardens, and of the parish.
Henceforth it passed from an ecclesiastical organisation of churchmen for their own
special purposes, to a machinery, which, in addition, could discharge various functions for the
civil power.
It was used regularly through the reigns of Elizabeth and James I, for maintenance of
army hospitals, for passing maimed soldiers, for relief of wayfaring İrish and others, and for
equipments of volunteers. Further, as the Hundred and Manor Courts waned in their
active control over the secular interests of the locality, the Vestry became the chief council
of the community, and having authority to tax the whole area of the parish, it was able to
provide for any dropt duties and expenses. By successive stages it became the highway
1 There were two legislative attempts, but both disregarded, at least by the parishes whose records are
extant. (1). The provisions of the Statute of Labourers, 1349, which required Churchwardens along with
officers of boroughs and counties to aid labourers to return to their homes, seem to have been quite inoperative,
though sometimes quoted as evidence of the parish being a civil institution. The earliest charge for anything
not ecclesiastical, is in 1512-13, at Y. see below p. 80. In 1528 the Wardens of Y. take up the yearly duty of
scouring the Yeo with repair of sluices for the common safety. This may have been laid upon them by a
Commission of Sewers, though preceding the Act in 23rd of Hen. VIII, which gave permanence to such
Commissions, or it may have been prompted by desire for the safety of the village. (2). The Act of 27 Hen.
VIII, 1535-6, " for punishment of sturdy vagabonds and beggars" seems to have been as inoperative as that
of 1349. It required Churchwardens or two others of every parish (under pain of forfeiting 20s. every month)
to gather voluntary alms of good Christian people, with hoxes, every Sunday or Huly Day in such good dis-
cretion as that impotent folk, not able to work, should be holpen, so as not to go openly in begging, and also
required that the lusty should be kept in continual labour.
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board appointing its waýwardens, and levying its highway rates. The care of the Pound
the appointment of Hayward, the repair of Stocks, and appointment of Tything men often
lapsed into its hands. In the huge parishes of London it has been gradually invested by
the Legislature with large powers 'as the Local Government Board of each parochial area;
and there its civil functions have so overtopped its ancient ecclesiastical ones as to hide their
origin and induce the belief that it drew its birth from the civil community, assuming to
itself the care of the church, not as its original purpose, but only as a necessary incident to
the union of Church and State.
It will be easier for the next generation to realize the Vestry in its original purpose. It
ceased tô be a Poor Law Board in 1834 by the establishment of unions. It lost its rating
power by the Churchi Rate Abolition Act of 1867, which restored its original dependence on
voluntary funds: The Local Government Act, of 1888, has begun to transfer to the larger
civil community the management of the streets of London. And the rector of the London
parish has no longer to preside over a body charged with vast duties of a most. secular
character:
The village Vestry has now ceased to spend funds on equipping soldiers, or on the
slaughter of vermin. It retains the election of Overseers and Guardians of Poor, and of
Waywardens, as a testimony of the length it has wandered from its original functions.
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Church Rates.
Our documents show no trace of recourse to compulsory rate imposed by external
authority. The voluntary contributions being adequate to the needs, there was no reason
for seeking other and less desirable means. We cannot conclude that compulsory power
could not have been invoked “ab extra." Within the parish the principle of community-
self-government was strong. It was strong enough in the Manor Courts to enforce fines and
general submission to the will of the majority. At St. Michael's, Bath, the Vestry laid the
Wardens under penalty, 18th Henry VIII—but I have never met with a case anywhere in
Bishop's Registers of compulsion being invoked by the Church community to enforce
demands, except upon those who had consented to them.
In Reg. Drok., fo. 248, we find a case where the Bishop threatened compulsion against
certain parishioners of Wembdon, near Bridgwater, who after consenting to a voluntary rate
laid "juxta valorem possessionum,” for the rebuilding of their Church, had failed to pay.
The Bishop desired that the list of defaulters should be sent to him with a view to their
citation. Ante p. xiii, note.
This case shows how easily a rate made by consent of a parish under monition might
become compulsory, for each Churchman, who in Vestry opposed obedience to the monition,
might be cited for contumacy, and when his assent had once been obtained, he was liable to
be cited for breach of engagement.
The powers of compulsion were indeed ample enough, though happily little needed. In
Bishop Roger de Norbury's Reg. at Lichfield, we find the Bishop on visitation in 1325
ordering the repair of the roof of Mayfield Church in Staffordshire. The parishioners
pleaded that the inhabitants of the chapelry of Butterton had shirked their liability to
1 The case of Bridgwater above named was one where the people by their own consent imposed a rate on
themselves, and then coerced defaulters.
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join in repairing the mother Church. The Bishop thereupon interdicted the Butterton
people from the use of their own Chapel until they had done their duty to the mother Church
of Mayfield.
The power of Interdict, i.e., the excommunication of the whole community, was the
weapon always ready for forcing the community into providing (1) the Church for the living,
(2) the Churchyard for the dead, and (3) all the accessories of worship, if not found
" aliunde.”
The liability of the parish was a settled thing, but in the modes of discharging it there was
ample option. In the case of disputed proportion of the liability, to be borne by the Chapelries
of a mother Church, the Bishop was called in to settle it.
A decree of this kind is found in Reg. Drok., fo. 243, where the Bishop finally released
the people of Wyke St. Lawrence from further liability to repair the mother Church of
Congresbury, but made them liable to the exclusive maintenance of their own Chapel,
Graveyard, and Services.
Sidésmen, .ei, Trstes Synodales.
These were occasionally appointed when ordered by the Ordinary to attend the Visitation
Court as witnesses, or needed by the Wardens to support Wardens' presentments with their
testimony in the Court:
The name of sidesmen does not appear, nor any formal name, nor does it appear how
they were selected, but probably by the parish in whose name they were to give their evidence
at the synod. The inference drawn from the clocuments is that this office was not a necessary
or a constant part of the framework of the parish, that it was supplementary to one department
of the Wardens' duties, viz., the disciplinary.
In Canon 90 of 1603 the office is treated as a perpetual one. Two or three or more
discreet persons are to be chosen in every parish by the joint consent of minister and parish,
or failing their consent, by the Ordinary. They are called sidesmen or assistants, i.e., to the
Wardens, and are spoken of in the title as if they had a joint office with the Wardens.
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Cijapel and Chantry Wardens.
These offices sprang up to answer the demands created almost universally during the
15th Century by the addition of chantries and chantry chapels, some endowed with lands and
cattle, some maintained by guilds.
In the case of the latter, the guildsmen were sure to elect their own Wardens. They were
probably responsible to the guilds only, not to the parish, or to the Visitation Court, in which
they were, I presume, not sworn in-but in the case of malversation of sacred goods, they
would be as individuals amenable to the censures of the Court "pro salute anime."
In the case of well-endowed chantries, where the priest was presented to the Bishop and
instituted, the Wardens obtained nearly even rank with the Parish Wardens. They sometimes
wielded a large income, and maintained festival services in which all parishioners could join.
The secular successors of some of these guilds, the Mayors and Town Councils are
still found, as in Wells and Chard, nominating a Warden to act co-ordinately with the other
Wardens for the whole parish the guild-origin of the Council's right being quite forgotten
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The existence of chantries is now brought to light in almost every church restoration
by the survival of piscinæ or some other token in the East or the side wall; but even where
the fabric reveals no token, and perhaps never bore one, the existence of a guild, bound to
maintain some special services, either obituary for the benefit of the departed, or festal, in
honour of the guild's patron, or of the guild's feast day, may be presumed in all but the
smallest of fabrics. If there were no side-altar, the high altar was available, and the parish
priest was remunerated out of the oblations for officiating.
The publication of Edward VI's Chantry Commissioners' Report, 1547, has helped to
show the prevalence of chantry endowments, but it must be remembered that it is an
incomplete record. There were many endowments, which, warned by the signs of coming
spoliation, 2 vanished in the latter days of Henry VIII—some of the chantries, maintained
only by the goodwill of a guild, yielded nothing to the grasp of the Commissioners—some
places, where chantries are known to have existed, seem unaccountably to have escaped the
visitation, e.g., Mells, Leigh, Whatley, Tintinhull, Bruton and its chapels.
The Personnel
Of the average village parish was as follows—
I. Rector or Vicar invested with a permanent cure of souls. If disabled, an assistant
priest, generally entitled “ Capellanus.”
2. A Deacon or sub-deacon, or both in the larger parishes.
3. A Clerk in minor orders, entitled —"clericus parochialis" and "aquæ bajulus” from
his attending the priest with holy water. He was supported by the parishioners, by
customary dues, which, if withheld, were enforced by monition.
4. A Sexton, in the modern sense, as grave-digger, and outside caretaker.
5. The Wardens, variable in number.
6. The Sidesmen—when needed.
7. The Wardens of the voluntary bodies, or of endowed chapels, or of guilds, or stores
or herds.
8. The keepers of the procession-crosses.
In one of our selected parishes, M., in addition to all the usual officers appears a body
of men, probably exceptional, certainly supernumerary, elected by the parishioners, and
recognized, though perhaps not empowered by the Ordinary. They are called each year
from the number elected, the five men, or the four, or the nine, and by no other name.
The reasons of their election were probably exceptional. Their action may be briefly
viewed in the account rendered to the parish in 1527, p. 221, and again in p. 223, where
“ four honest men” are said to be " chosen to govern the parish in all causes concerning the
wealth of the Church” “under orders at Visitation.” They were a parochial council chosen
it would seem “pro re natâ.”
? The Chantry Commissioners report (p. 130) the fact of the Earl of Huntingdon, escheating the lands
given by his ancestor about a century earlier for endowing a College of Priests in North Cadbury Church.
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Lower Oflices.
Of Deacons and Sub-deacons we hear little. That they were at times in use, the double
and triple sedilia of our churches testify; but there was no endowment for them, neither
any aid from the parish funds. The offices were a training for the priesthood, and to those
candidates who were drawn from the lowest ranks, must have been their chief training.
They were sometimes quartered in the parsonage-housel where they got some teaching in
return for services, and they got some support from the illiterate neighbours who required
their clerkly help.
Schoolmasters there were none.
The office which the parish was required to support was that of Parish Clerk, in official
language, aquæ bajulus, the carrier of Holy Water. He was in minor orders, perhaps
sometimes raised to the sub-deaconship, if unmarried. He attended the priests inside the
church, and also at the visitation of the sick, and carried Holy Water and Bread at seasons
to some of the houses.?
At M., p. 223, we find the details of his duties and emoluments. In Drok. Reg., folio
156, we find at Chedzoy the Bishop removing from the “Beneficium aquæ benedicte" one
who was neither tonsured or “literatus," and requiring the curate to admit the Bishop's
nominee, duly qualified. The office was regulated by Canon-law, and was imposed upon the
parish, as the Canon of 1603 testifies. Singers appear sometimes, but whether as a trained
choir, or some out-of-door performers, such as waits, is not clear. At P., they twice
received a gratuity from the wardens.
An organist was maintained at Yatton, the earliest, Harry Organs, earning his name by
his art, and bequeathing it to his posterity.
The occasional mention of organs at C. looks like the use of a borrowed and “portative”
instrument.
Ringers received gratuities now and then. They were probably a volunteer band, taking
fees, as they came, but not wages.
The clock is found in every Church, in spite of being a costly article and needing
frequent repair and paid care. The caretaker was generally the clerk, but with a special fee.
The care of the crook, i.e., the chief processional cross, was at P., a paid office. After
a time, St. Michael's guild provided a crook for themselves, with its own keeper, leaving the
distinction of “High Crook,” to the chief one which headed the great Paschal Procession of
the whole parish.
The care of the other manifold gear, candles, lamps, candlesticks (cansticks), banners,
censers, incense, surplices and minor robes, with the “folding up of the vestments” did
not belong to any one office, except in parishes rich enough to maintain a sacristan. They
were paid for in separate items. Hence washing, wax, melting down old wax and making it
See Abp. Peckham's Injunctions in 1280, to Lichfield Chapter in Dugd. Mon. V. 6, where he requires
the Vicar of Bakewell to keep a Deacon and Sub-deacon as “ commensales” and as pupils, and the Chapter, as
reitors, to allow them 20s. and ios, for clothing.
2 Within memory the clerks of East Somerset carried an Easter-cake to each principal house, and received
a ſee in return.
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up anew, with scouring of metal, all form regular and weighty items. At. T. the washer-
women declined to take anything for their labour, leaving us an example which the Wardens
did well to record, though little dreaming that it would be held up for the incitement of
church people at the end of 400 years. At P., the Warden charges for “sunning the cloths,”
a much needed process in a church never warmed.
Having omitted it elsewhere, I will here remark on the system, which must have brought
much stir and trouble to the servants of the church, of executing works on the spot with
material bought by the Wardens. When books were wanted, parchment was bought, a scribe
hired, a book-binder fetched and furnished with material. Çlock weights and sheets of lead
were cast on the spot, the metal being brought from Mendip. Even the high art required
for ornate robes could be sometimes found near enough at hand to be employed on the spot
by the Wardens, who had to find the materials. The grand workmanship of the rood-screen
at Y. was all executed by Crosse, a carver in Cleeve within the parish, the oak being bought
by the Wardens in standing trees, which they selected, felled, and seasoned. The fine bench-
ends at T. were executed in the same way.
The diffusion of skilled art and of taste through the village communities is thus evidenced
incontestably.
The Life of the Parish.
With the above view of the constitution of the parish, we may proceed to a view of its
life.
The religious conditions of the community stood in strong contrast to the civil. The
spiritual authority was strong enough to control all orders and degrees of men in their
mutual relations. The Church regulated the festal and work days. It claimed for the
servile population to be free from the demands of service on the days set apart as Holy
Days of obligation. These days were not only the Lord's day and the great Christian Feasts,
but also days of local observance, e.::, the dedication day of the Parish Church, the day of
the local Saint or of the principal guild-patron.
On all these days the labourer, though born in serfdom, was free, only bound to the
service of his Divine master. He donned his best clothes, he joined his fellow-guildsmen,
he marched under banners to the Church as the common home of the highest and the
lowest.
After Divine Service, there were amusements provided at the Church-house, or on the
village green. Somebody had given a tavern of ale, and invited the parishioners of the next
parish that kept these social terms, or there was a return revelry at the Church-house of
that parish, or the guild of Webbers or of Hogglers was holding its “ale," or Robin Hood was
mustering his men at the Butts, or the young men or the maidens were keeping Hockday.
The bulk of the parishioners, even the serfs, were, I conceive, engaged through their
various associations in planning these amusements. They were not spectators or partakers
merely, but also managers sharing in the pageant and in the costs; and thereby the bonds
1 The Monday and Tuesday in the second week after Easter week. At St. Peter's, Oxford, the maidens
stopped the thoroughfares on the first day, making the young men pay for passing. On the second day the
young men levied toll of the maidens. The proceeds went to the Wardens.
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of social fellowship were tightened, and the barrier lines between servile and free, which seem
to the student of our law books to be so impassable, were melted away by the warmth of
kindly fellowship.
Certain it is that in these documents no trace is found of any class disfranchised by
bondage from the even enjoyment of the privileges, spiritual or social, which attached to the
religious community.
If we glance at a manor court roll of the day, the condition of the civil community as
there seen stands in strong contrast to the condition of the religious community, (the very
same persons be it remembered) as shown in the Church accounts.
In the civil document the community is divided into sharply defined classes, the lord
of the soil and his tenants, the tenants into bond and free, the villeins again sub-divided
according to the size of their holdings into virgatarii, fardellarii, etc. The relative duties of
class to class are sharply defined too, and are involuntary. They are all enforceable and
enforced by fine and penalty. But in spite of this harsh look there are traces to be seen of
a gradual blending of classes and interests, and of a continual softening of the earlier barrier
lines. Though the legal distinction between the servile and the free tenant went on, it
became so modified in practice that the same persons are found in the Court Roll on the
list of the bondmen, and of the leasehold occupiers of farms which they obtained by pay
ment of fine.
In Henry VIII's Valor, 1537, the monastic estates are shown to be no longer managed
on the earlier system of the demesne cultivated for the lord by his serfs under a reeve, the
rest of the manor in villenage. In 1537, the manor is found apportioned into farms leased
to the newly-created race of renting yeomen, and worked by free labour for wages. The
manorial community had become much more blended and assimilated; and wherever we can
get peeps into its inward spirit and condition it was actuated by a strong esprit de corps
which must have tended potently to fuse the stiff social partitions.
The great blending force is, I conceive, to be found in the church, not only in its master-
precepts of brotherly love and mercy, but in the peculiar form which it adopted of social
action, a form which its lofty authority then enabled it to carry out. It was able to mitigate
the rigour of the landlord's demands upon the servant of the soil, whom serfdom would else have
doomed to an unceasing round of toil. It was strong enough to say to the master, “Thy
servant shall rest on the days that are marked as holy. Thou and thy servant together shall
on those days resort to the house of your Divine Master, as fellow servants, and there pay
your united homage of prayer and praise."
It was in this way that the Holy Day of the Church became the Holiday of the people.
The holy day and the holiday, now so different, were in origin identical, and for some time
identical in meaning and in mode of observance. The growing divergence is traceable in
these documents (the later of them), but it is our present business to note that they were
once identical, and to measure the very wide social import of that fact.
The Church-house, being the focus of the social life of the parish (meaning by that word
the Christian community), will be fitly introduced here in illustration of the above.
The growth of this institution may be traced in all its stages in T. Beginning with a
bakehouse for the holy wafer, and for the holy loaf, it came to be a place of sale for the
latter, and when brewing gear was added for the brewing of the holy ale, a place of sale for
that also, instead of the churchyard. It had, by these facilities for baking and brewing,
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become a source of revenue. This revenue was enhanced by letting the oven and the
brewing vessels on hire for the use of private persons.
The next step was to get possession of a dwelling-house, and to make it a place of
entertainment. A house was obtained (subject only to a quit rent to the manorial lord)
close to the church, in the reign of Henry VII. Agnes Cokke, i.e., the cook who probably
owed her surname to her calling, was placed in it to manage the complex concerns, now
including cookery.
In 1533 it had reached its full development. It was a most convenient centre of
sociality. Anyone who wished to forward a church object found appliances ready. He had
only to proclaim an ale (taberna in churchwardens' latin, i.e., a tavern), and the parishioners
flocked to it, and gratefully brought their contributions.
With enlarged appliances, they enlarged the area of hospitality. Tintinhull invited
Montacute and Stoke, Montacute and Stoke on their festal days invited Tintinhull, for an
interchange not only of sociality, but of religious offices and contribution.
These taberna were, I consider, expansions of the earlier institution of the “Holy Ale,"
which in its simplest form was the Wardens' sale of Ale blessed by the Rector and
carried home, as the holy loaf was, from the church door. The taberna was a social
consumption of the ale. It was a revelry, and liable to sensual abuse. The abuses abounded
in proportion as the power of the church to check them waned, and the religious origin of
the institution was forgotten.
The Church-house, however, went on with dangerous popularity all through Elizabeth's
reign, and in spite of just puritan dislike. The 88th Canon of 1603, “Churches not to be
profaned,” only touched the evil so far as to guard consecrated places from revelry. It did
not forbid the ales. In this county the civil authority interposed, and, in spite of the
Bishop's (Piers) apology, succeeded in quenching them together with all the peculiar social
life of the village community out of which they had sprung.
They have never revived in any form but that of a club-walk, and that institution
originates in association for mutual aid, not for the furtherance of Divine Service.
The houses nevertheless had a long, though inglorious history. They became the
property of the civil parish which had no funds for repairing them. They were generally
used, whilst each parish was chargeable with maintaining its own poor, for housing the
poorest families. When the reformed Poor Law in 1834 gathered the indoor paupers into
union workhouses, the squalid tenement, once the Church-house, was sold, and the price
carried as a parish contribution to the building of the central workhouse. The Church-house.
was, I believe, as universal an adjunct to the church, as the Sunday School-room has
become in this century. Every small tenement reputed to be, or to have been parish
property, lying very near to the church, may be suspected of having been once the focus
of the social life of the church community, it may be under the name of our Lady House as
at Pilton, or Guildhall as at Stanford, Berks.
I have spoken of the Christmas play and also of the Play-kings, amongst the means of
raising church funds. There were also mumming and minstrel performances, which no
doubt found a rallying place at the church-house; but I am inclined to think that they were
wholly in the hands of wandering bands of laymen, owning no sober control, and not in
i The chief source of income at T, and elsewhere, to the end of the 16th Century.
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the hands of parish officers. To judge by what survived of them within memory, their
subject was always a crusading one. St. George rescuing a Christian maid from her
Turkish captors was always presented, and the joy of his never-failing victory was expressed
in a dance, the morris, i.e., moorish dance. The whole was out of doors, near Whitsuntide,
or at least in May.
At Y. the continual charge for minstrels at Whitsuntide points, I conceive, to a
mumming performance with music and dancing. There was often a Whitsun Ale held by
the Wardens at the same time.
wri
Life in the Parish, what it lacked.
Our documents lead us, by their silence, to see what the parish of the 15th and 16th
Centuries had not. It had no school or schooling within reach, no books, no readers.
The whole scholarship of the village was confined to the Clergy, and to the steward
of the manor, who knew enough of technical Latin to make entries in the Court Rolls.
The clergy were the chief scribes invoked for drafting agreements or reading them, or for
making wills. The Wardens regularly charge for the writing of their accounts by a hired
hand, and they were obliged to trust that hand for spelling, a craft then in its infancy, and
enjoying the widest freedom from rule. Whether the scribe used his choice in employing
English or Latin, or a mixture of both, the average Wardens were equally unable to read
the result.
The use of Latin in the audit sheets, passed “coram parochianis," must not be taken
as evidence of erudition. The same people were used in the manor court to have their
proceedings recorded in Latin. To those who could not read, it mattered not. They
were used to resort to learned help for the solution of every record, as they did for the
transmission of their most important secrets by letter. The entire unletteredness of the
community told in many ways upon their habits. All tidings were passed from mouth to
mouth, not only delaying the rate of progress, but ensuring distortion of the intelligence
in its passage through many and unintelligent media. The village resort, whatever it was,
whether ale bench, or Church-house, or the village green, was the news-room where the
latest rumours could be heard and discussed. I cannot but think that one of the objects
of the Church-house was to afford a kind of club-house for villagers, the general resort of
all ages, ranks, and sexes, free from the uncontrolled temptations and the unbridled language
of the publican's ale bench, and that it must have served a purpose of social education in
promoting interchange of thought and speech between the chiefs and elders of the parish
on the one side, and the poorer and younger members on the other, but of this we lack
positive evidence.
Belief of Poor.
There is one department of parish life on which our documents might be expected to
speak, but they are quite silent
It is the care of the poor and disabled. There was, as we know, no State relief for
In
i Court Rolls were written in Latin till a very late date, long after it was abandoned by the parish.
fact, the parish was the first institution that adopted the use of English for its records. See Y, 1445.
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the poor, no enforced provision of any kind. The parish contributed nothing. Its funds
were evidently raised for other purposes, and, until they were deemed by the civil power
to be a convenient resort for abating the growing poverty, they were never applied in alms.
At the end of Henry the VIII's reign, when the effects of the dissolution were making
themselves felt, the first items of poor relief appear, but under orders from without. The
effect is well known. The violent diversion of voluntary funds from their intended
purpose dried up the source in the good-will of the donors. The civil power in Edward
the VI's reign tried to formalize a system of poor relief through the agency of the Church
without taxation, but it was found necessary to introduce a rating system, and to support
it by legal sanction. But we are here concerned with the question: What did the parish,
as a Christiani community, strongly feeling the brotherhood-tie, do spontaneously for the relief
of the needy?
The audit sheet does not show a single eleemosynary item.
I can only suppose that the brotherhood tie was so strongly realized by the community,
that the weaker ones were succoured by the stronger, as out of a family store. The
brotherhood tie was, no doubt, very much stronger then; when the village community was
from generation to generation so unalloyed by anything foreign, when all were knit together
by one faith and one worship, and close kindred; but, further than this, the guild-fellow-
ships must have enhanced all the other bonds in drawing men to share their worldly goods
as a common stock. Covertly if not overtly, the guildsman bound himself to help his needy
brother in sickness and age, as he expected his fellow-guildsman to do for him in his turn
of need; and these bonds, added to a far stronger sense of the duty of children towards
aged parents than is now found, did, I conceive, suffice for the relief of the poor, aided
only by the direct almsgiving whiclı flowed from the parsonage house, or in favoured
localities, from the doles or broken meat of a monastery.
This latter was, of necessity, limited in area to the neighbourhood of the convent gate.
The majority of parishes in the land were out of reach of it. The amount of the stated
money doles is returned in the Valor of Henry VIII as an abatement of the taxable income
of the house. If spread evenly over the country it would not have gone far in relief. As
it was, being given at the gate, together with broken meat, very considerable, but un-
gaugable in amount, it cannot have served as a reliable substitute for other means of relief
throughout the breadth of the land. To take an instance.-The doles statedly given to the
poor at Glastonbury are returned in 1537 at £140 165. 8d.—a large sum, so large, probably,
as to attract a body of resident beggars in waiting at the gate, but not large enough to flow
beyond a few neighbouring villages whose able-bodied poor might reach the gate on the
favoured days. It could not have touched the distant manors of the Abbot's vast estate.
It did not touch any who could not come to fetch it. At Wells there were similar doles at
Penniless Porch and at Saint John's Hospital, equally restricted to a small area. Passing
from Wells northward, no other centre of almsgiving could be found nearer than Bath,
Keynsham, Bristol, or going southwards and westward at the Abbeys of Muchelney,
Athelney, Taunton, Cleeve, Barlynch, and St. John's Hospital, Bridgwater.
The monastic alms must have been, besides this insufficiency, far too uneven and
limited in area to have eased the strain of poverty beyond their own neighbourhoods. Our
U
1 See App. C, for table of eleemosynary doles charged upon monastic la nds.
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problem, “what did the parish do ?” still remains unsolved. The manorial records are as
silent as the parochial. The manor-court rolls show no entry implying that the poverty of
the dependents of the manor ever came before the court except in abatement of a fine. The
serfs were by theory of law (once true in fact) incapable of acquiring property, and therefore
must have been by the presumption of law dependent on their Lord, and in the days of
disability as wholly dependent as the slaves of Carolina on their owners. It is true that
after 1349 they began, in spite of law, to acquire rights, and to earn money, but still their
support in times of need or sickness was not within the cognizance of the manor-court,
and seems to have been left wholly to the good-will of the lords, At least no machinery
for securing their due support is now known to exist. The grand eleemosynary scheme,
issued by Bishop Drokensford in 1313—see Reg. Drok., fo. 1410 and App. C—for the
manors of his see, is an evidence of the obligation felt by great landowners, and it may be
hoped, felt by all, though not by all in an equal degree, in obedience to conscience
quickened by public opinion and long-standing custom.)
Whatever the care taken or not taken by the owners of the soil and of the servile
population, we come back to the fact that the parish, i.e., the organized Christian community,
as such, did nothing in the way of money-relief, and to the conclusion that long custom
based on, and ever inspired anew by Christian teaching and example, bound the divers
classes of the community in such close brotherhood-ties, as to ensure the relief of the
neediest.
Things Unnamed.
Besides relief of the disabled there are other matters not spoken of in the records, the
absence of which I cannot account for, 2.8., (I), the administration of the rites of Confir-
mation; and (2), of preaching ; (3), of confession. The visits of a confirming Bishop were
likely to have shown themselves in the accounts in the way of charge for his retinue ; witness
the charges at Y in 1486, p. 79, for entertainment of the Bishop's men at a Consecration.
(2), For preaching, the pulpit was always ready, being wanted for the far more frequent use
of the bedeman bidding the prayers. Preaching no doubt was not a regular part of the
Sunday observances as now. It was rare, but we must not conclude from the silence of our
MSS. that it never was practised.? Confirmation, too, must have been administered, though,
perhaps, only in the larger churches. (3), The ordinance of confession probably required
some convenience in the Church which the Wardens would provide for.
There is no mention of the use of the Offertory as a means of gathering the alms of a
congregation. It was not in use, as in our reformed ritual. Whatever was offered on the
Altar came within the designation of Altarage (alias Altelage) and was due to either Rector
or Vicar, as his endowed right, and so altogether beyond the Warden's reach. The Alms-
.
The operative strength of such forces may be more easily believed in by remarking that within memory
Ireland, Scotland, and the Isle of Man, had no poor law, i.e., no compulsory relief for the needy, who therefore
depended on the good-will of kindred, neighbours, former employers, and the alms of the Church.
? Prebendary Randolph in the “Newbery House Magazine,” February, 1890, quotes a presentment made
by the questmen of Colyton, Devon, in 1301, complaining of the rarity of their Vicar's preaching. Of its
quality they did not complain, because it was his best, and he was a good man, but he stinted quantity and
he would not admit the preaching friars to eke out his insufficiency as his predecessors did.
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box is not mentioned, and probably did not exist till ordered by the First Prayer-book of
Edward VI.
Of the Friars as Village preachers we hear nothing. At T, p. 184, a Friar of Ilchester
is recorded as a donor by will, which shows that the members of the begging order had
slackened their founder's rule of owning nothing. At Pa Frary-clerk yearly received a fee
of xd., but who he was or what his services to the parish, is left in the dark. The activity
of the Friars as that of the older Orders had probably waned by the 15th Century.
It remains now only to repeat my regrets for the insufficiency of my researches, and
my hopes that short-coming as they are, they will serve as a spur to others to gather what-
ever of value remains hidden amongst the dry entries. I am sure there is much, and that
with our increased facilities for reaching the history of our forefathers, the work of thrashing
out the grains will be an easier one for after comers. There is also something besides
history to be gained. In dwelling on these records of church-life, I have been led to many
reflections on the theology of the past day in its practical effect on the morals and habits of
the people, on the religious convictions so differing from those which now sway the popular
mind, and on the methods of engaging the religious interests of those classes who were
absolutely unlettered. The object of this work being historical, and not theological, I am
not warranted in expressing any of my reflections, which I have felt free to express in the
pulpit and elsewhere. If the absence of them should seem to savour of approval of
practices which have been forbidden by the reformed Church of England, either as
erroneous or inexpedient, I will beg my readers to take note that my silence is due to the
limits of my position. I am set to find out and put forth things as they were, and not to
express my approval or disapproval.
Thanks.
Hearty thanks are due to those good friends, without whose help I should have failed
to accomplish the work, the Revs. J. A. Bennett, T. S. Holmes, H. W. Pereira. On
them has fallen the largest share of the labour of transcription and preparation for the
press. I must also thank those kind guardians of the original records, who have courteously
entrusted them to my inspection, viz. : Mr. Penny, of Tintinhull, and the Incumbents of
Yatton, Pilton, and Croscombe.
Wells, June, 1890.
CROSCOMBE:
[SPELT IN THE MSS. CORSCOMBE AND COSCOMBE.]
FISCAL SYSTEM.
The two wardens were chosen yearly by the parishioners. They held their audit on
January 11th, or some day in that month, or February—once in March. The audit sheet
was made out at the time of audit, after the announcement of recent gifts and bequests, and
the receipt of subsidies from the guilds. The wardens then presented their bill of expenses,
got their acquittance, and after choice of new wardens, handed over to them the church goods
and the stock, i.e., the balance of money, rings or other valuables in the box or coffer (the
value always stated).
The new wardens began their administration with a sum of cash for immediate needs.
There was another fund, " dead money," not subjected to audit, though administered by
the wardens. It served for maintaining lights for the departed, and for the general anniver-
sary obit. It was fed by gifts and bequests. The balance of this fund called the “Reste,”
was entered in the sheet.
The Guilds who presented their offerings at the audit were :-
The Young Men, or “yonglyngs.”
The Maidens.
The Webbers (weavers).
The Tuckers (Fullers).
The Archers, personated by Robin Hood and Little John.
The Hogglers, probably the field labourers and miners.
And once-1483-4—The Wives.
Each guild received at the outset of the year a stock (xijd. or so) for immediate charges,
such as the maintenance of their light at one of the altars. This they supplemented by a
collection on their special feast-day, and brought back to the wardens the "new and old;"
“the stock and the crece," j.l., increase. If anything hindered their yearly revel, they
“ broughte yn noughte."
The largest items of receipt were from the “Croke,” i.e., the processional Cross which
1 The wills of the period oſten mention the “Ded lyght” and “Soul lyght.”
2 Wright's Provincial Dictionary gives “hoggle” as a Somerset word=to take up from the ground, like
polaloes. See Glossary
Croscombe Church-Wardens' Accounts.
had its special keeper, as had also St. Michael's Croke. The gathering of alms was made
during the procession.
At Easter a special gathering, entered separately, was made for the paschal taper, the
font-taper, and the trendel.
The form of the wardens' account is descriptive of the proceedings of the audit. Each
contributor is represented as coming into the church and presenting his offering, e.g.,
“Cometh yn Roben Hod and presentyth yn," and then taking out his "stok” for the coming
year's stewardship.
Probably the entire community was enlisted in one or other of these guilds, and thereby
all classes associated not only in the maintenance of the church, and its services, as members
of the same religious body, but also in the festivities of their holydays, which brought all
classes together as members of the same social community.
THE FABRIC was maintained by the same means as the services. In no case did the
wardens look beyond the parish for funds, though some gifts from outside seek them, e.g.,
from Bishop Bekynton's executors, 1478, and an altar cloth from Dame Elizabeth Shepton,
a friend now unknown.
In 1476 the fabric must have consisted of nave and chancel, both with aisles, of tower,
and porch.
In 1506–7 additions were made, probably the strong rooms at the south-west angle,
which served for vestry and treasure-house, and also the chapel on the north of the chancel
aisle, intended for the more dignified cultus of St. George, which thenceforth became popular,
and brought in large gatherings.
The payments to Carter, the Exeter Freemason, go on through 1508-9-10. He is
called the “Jorgemaker," and paid specially for the setting up of the “ Jorge,” XXXS., showing
that his work was principally in the addition of this substantially-built chapel. In 1512-3
the chapel was at last completed. “The hole coste of the Jorge” is summed up at
xxvijl. xjs. vjd., but in spite of this large outlay, the funds were very thriving.
At the audit of 1512-3 the wardens handed on a balance of xl. ivs. vid. in the chest,
besides a store of rings, and of some other articles priced at xl.
This affluence, so unknown to modern wardens, and so enviable, was wholly due to the
one-hearted zeal and bounty of the parishioners themselves.
THE ACCOUNT BOOK.
This is kept in the parish chest. It is of paper, much dogs'-eared, with a tattered rem-
nant of its leathern binding. Of the whole volume, only 122 pages survive, the earliest and
latest having been lost : the modern paging will be found noted in these transcripts.
The audits run on from 1475, with few exceptions, to 1548, when the accession of
Edward VI, and the visits of his Commissioners broke the old order. Spoliation set in,
1547-8. In 1548-9, 1550-1, 1552–3, are irregular entries savouring of the unsettledness of
the times. In 1553-4, after Queen Mary's accession, the wardens present to the parish an
inventory of goods recovered from their hiding during the late reign.
In 1555-6, inclusive, there are entries, but no regular audit.
Croscombe Church-Wardens' Accounts.
CIRCUMSTANCES OF THE PARISH.
With an acreage of only 1,433 acres, its agricultural wealth was small. The cloth trade
was its chief support, with perhaps a little lead-mining. The Palton family, whose manor
house still survives in small remnant on the north side of the church, were the chief land-
owners up to 1449, when the last Palton died, and apparently left no resident successor.
The community must have been mainly composed of the middle and lower classes, such
as are represented in the guilds. Only two families, the Mayows and the Denshyls, probably
clothiers, were rich enough to give endowments.
The benefice was a Rectory in the gift of the Paltons and their successors.
The last Palton made an addition to the endowments and to the fabric, circa 1449, by
enfeoffing a guild with lands and tithe at East Horrington. The enfeoffment deeds have lately
come to light in H.M. Record Office. (See note on Mayow's gift, below sub anno 1483.)
These endowments were not applicable to any but their own specified purposes.
All the maintenance of the fabric, the ritual, the bells, books, and vestments, with all
accessories, e.g., the church house, the clerk and sexton, were drawn from the voluntary alms
of the members of the church.
January meccclrrvrviAudit for 1474--5.
TTY
A loose sheet with torn edges, the date lost. Date determined by names of wardens
elect, who present the accounts in January, 1476-7, i.e., the next year.
... The said year by Thomas ..., Warden for yere past...
Comes John Joyce and William Branch, and brings in of the King's revel'. . .
Comes John, and bryngs in of the remayn of font-tapur and trendel . . .
Item, the rent of the last year past for Fyllocks . .,
It. The goders of Synt Collas” bryngs in of encrese for this year. ..
It. the Carchofs and a ryng of the gifte of Jone Doltyng, present in by the ...
It. the Auter cloth of the gyfte of dam Elsabeth Shepton, present in by the Wardens . . *
It. the Wardence bryng in ayen* the stoke of last yere, that . . . . . ixl. xd.
Comes the Webers and bryng in their stoke xijd., and more encrece xjd. ; summa . xxiijd.
Comes Harry Mew and Thomas Symones and received a stoke of . . . . xijd.
Comes W. Branch and presents in for Synt Meghel which lyse in his hands as a stoke iijd.
... W. B. and bryngs in the Cherche money that he . . ; of ij yere ago;
summa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xviijd.
. . bryng in encrece for the yere . . . . . . . . . vid.
Come tokers and bryngs in their stoke xijd., and more encrese xjd. ; summa . . xxiijd.
Comes Thomas Costrell and Rogger, and received a stoke of . . . . xijd.
Comes Hoglers and bryngs in there stoke ijs., and more encrece xd. ; summa. . ijs. xd.
i Probably the Christmas-tide sport, which had a wide currency under varying names and forms, centering
in a King and a mock court (see Brand's Pop. Antiquities v. i, p. 259, ed. Bohn). Its abuse led to a restraining
canon in Worcester Diocese, 1240. This revel brought income to the wardens thrice, viz., in 1476, 1478, 1504.
? Gatherers of St. Nicholas. 3 Kerchief, a word of n:ost variable spelling. 4 Again.
B 2
Croscombe Church-Wardens' Accounts.
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Comes Thomas Costrell and Richard Tropenell and received a stoke of . . . ijs.
Comes yong men and bryngs ijs. ijd clere.
Hit apers by the sa .
. . . . . xxxs. iijd.
So they be in the parrych det. ixs. ixd., which they have paid.
:.. go quit away.
The money of the Croke of this yere comes to in the box . .
. iijl. xvijs.
Paid to Harper for his yere's wages
. . . . . . . vs.
Paid to John Joyce and Harper for the Croke kyping this yere . . . . xxd.
Summa of the Cherch goods, Croke, and ryngs sylver .
. xvijl. vd.
Comes John Hill and John Harper ayen chosen by the parrech for Wardens for this year.
Delyvered to John Hille. . . . . . . . . . vjl. xiijs. ivd.
So raymens in stoke in the box . .
: . . xl. vjs. xid.
It. There is left of dede money in the box and parson paid' . . . . lijs. vjd.
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· Anno mcccclxrvíti.l., 1476–7 for 1475-6.
Acounte y made of the parresche church of Corscomb the xj day of Janever by John
Hille and John Harper, Wardens for the yere past.
Comes Thomas Blower and John Hille and presents in xls. of Roben Hod's recones
(reckonings).
Comes John Joyce and Roger and presents in of fonttapur and trendel-of encres. iijs.
Comes Sowthemor and bryng in for ffyllok’s rent . .
Comes Walter Mayow and presents in of the gyfte of Isabel Mayow, I payer veste-
ments of white damaske (? broidered) and delyvered into cherche.
Comes the Weybers Harry Mewe and Thomas Symonds, and presents in xxijd., and
they receive a yen for a stoke. .
. . . xijd.
Comes William Brabuck and presents in cf old and new of Synt Myghel light which
remayns al in his hands .. . . . . . . . . . vjs. viijd.
Comes the Hogglers, and presents in of old and new (Tropenel and Harper) iijs. xd.,
and they received a yen for a stoke . . . . . . . . . ijs.
Comes young men William Coggen and Nicol Edmonds and bryng in of encres of
the past iijs. ixd. that remayns in their hands delyvered to them more by :
Heyman of his gaderyng of old .
... . ijs. ijd.
Comes Tokers and Rogerand Costrell and presents in cler ijs. ijd., and Roger and
Braunch received a stok of xijd.
Comes the maydens and bryng in of encres cler . . . . . . . ixd
Comes Maysterº John Toker and gyfes to the new legent“ . . . . vjs. viijd.
i lol., after paying the priest for his services:
2 Gyſte, and qyste, i.e., bequest, are written so alike as to be hardly discernible.
3 A master fuller.
4 A book of Legenda Sanctorum for reading on Saints' days.
Crosrombe ChurchWardens-
" Accounts.
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Janver (No. mcccclrvi [sic].
Comes the Wardence and bryng in a bille of their cost done the yere past as hit
aperes by same bille . .
. xxxiijs. vijd.
Item the Wardence have paid for stofft and writtyng of the new legent which is xlvi
queyres, pres per queyer iijs. ; summa . . . . . . . vjl. xviijs.
So the parresch is in the det of the wardenes . . . . . ; xxxviijs. iijd. ob.
The money of the Crok of the yere comes to.
. . lixs. vijd.
Paid to Harper for his yer's wages . . . .
. . . vs.
Paid to Harper for kepyng of the Croke .
. . . xxd.
Summa of the cherches goods that remaynes at this contes. . . . xjl. xvjs. jd.
Paid to Robart Clerk xijd., and to Loward ijd.
Comes Hille and Harper and are chossen wardens for this yere by al the parresch.
delyvered to them . . . .
. . . xlvs.
So remaynes in the Box of stock . .
. ixl. xvs. save ob.
There is left of the ded money at this cont.
. . . xlvjs. jd.
·
·
·
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Onno mcccclxxvii. z.l., 1477-8 for 1476-7.
Acountes y made of parresche cherch of Corscomb, the last day of Janever in said yer
by John Hille and John Harper, Wardence.
Comes Richard Downe and presents in of the gyfte of Marget Medamer for shep . xijd.
Jone Fenton at her det gaf to our lady a ryng gylt.
Item, of the gyfte of John Smythe to the cherche . . . . . . . xijd.
It. John Taillor, weber, gaf to the cherche . .
. . xijd.
It. Of the gyfte of Maud Malleway sylver ryng gylt and a token gyrdel of sylver. .
It.' of the gyfte of Annes Gybons i sylver rynge gylte.
John Malleway, the yonger . . . . . . iijs. ivd,
Thomas Webb of Chew . .
. . xijd.
John Malleway, the elder, 4 wedors, sold for . . . vijs. ivd.
John Nelle i gowne of grene in kepynge of the wardence.
Comes William Branche and presents in of Synt Myghel money vijs. vd., which he
takes ayen in his owne kepyng.
Comes yong men William Coggan and Nicol Edmonds and presents in of old and
new (and a candelstok in the peler (pillar) next the fonte which cost ijs. jd.),
vijs., and the wax paid. So remayns in ther hands agen . . . . . ijs. jd.
Comes William Coggan and presents in of the Kyng's revell . . . . . XXS.
Comes hoglers and presents in of old and new (tropenell and harper) . . iijs. viijd.
they have received agen in stoke ijs. Costrell hath hit.
Comes the Webers, Harry Mew and Thomas Symonds, and present in of old and new
xviijd. ob. they received ayen in stoke . .
. . . xijd.
Comes Tokers, Roger Morris and William Bramber, and presents of old and new
ijs. ijd.—they have received the stoke ayen . . . . . . . . xijd.
Received of Sowthemore for fellok's . . . . . . . . . . ivs..
1 Materials.
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Janever
o. mcccclxxvii. i.e., Jan. 1477-8 for 1476–7.
Comes the maydence Marget Smyth and Jone Bayle and presents in, of old and new,
al things lowed . . . . . . . . . . . 1xs. vijd.
herof moste be abated for wax and makyng . . . . . . . ijs. vid. ob.
So is cler vijs. ob.-delyvered to them ayen . .
. ijs. vid.
Comes Maister John and presents in that he hath of Synt Collas lyght, al things paid xijd.
Comes Hill and Harper? and presents in of pascal money, that they gadered on
Ester day . . . . . . . . . . . . vijs. ixd.
Ther remaynes of the dede money in the box this yere . .
xxxixs. viijd.
The money of the Croke this yere . .
. iijl. xs.
It. alowed to Harper for his labour vs. and for kepyng of the croke
. . xxd.
Summa . . . . . . . . .
vjs. viijd.
John Yeng hath in his hands of the Cherche lede one cwt. dim. iiijlb.
The somma of al the Cherche goods at this acombt . . . . . . . xivl. xivs.
Comes John Hille and John Harper agen, and are chossen for this yere folloying
wardence by al the parrasch-delyvered to them same time xls. So re-
maynes . . . . . . . . . . . . xijl. xiijs. jd.
PAGE 5.
Qlo. mcccclxxviii. i.l., 1478–9 for 1477-8.
Acountes y made of the parrausch cherche of Corscomb the first day of March in
forsaid year by John Hille and John Harper, Wardence of the Cherche for the yere past.
Comes John Hille and bryngs in the gyfte of :-
Maister John Towker . . vjs. viijd. | Annes Clerke, ryng, kerchef and aporn.
Nicol Edmonds
. . xxd.
| Thomas Blower, I vyolet long gowne
Joyce (son) :
. xvjd. ?in grayne, a ryng gold with a
Hugh Pendleton
. ivd.
torcas and a kerchief of 4sypers
John Williams
to make a corpas.
John Abbot . .
Thomas Loward, a chepe, pris. . xivd.
Harrison (fadour) .
Honnethron a énewe, pris . . xivd.
William May, an ewer, bras.
Water Crowtecote . . . vjs. viijd.
Water Loware, a tokyng shere.
Margere Hoper, 1 sylver ryng.
There is in sylver ryngs in al xvj., of which are taken owte ij. to selle.
It. there be ij golde ryngs, that were Dangvyls and Isabel Blowers.
The money of the Croke of this yere is . .
iijl. ijd.
.
*"
lets
ivd.
. ivd.
ivd.
I Wardens. Their election is not noted at the last audit, but their re-election is in this. The allowance
to Harper, vs., is for some costly trouble, not a salary. This would have been shared by both.
? 1.e., dyed before weaving.
3 Turquoise.
4 Cyprus silk for a corporas cloth. “Cyprus-lawn.”—Milton.
5 Sheep.
1 An ewe.
Croscombe Church' Accounts.
Wardens-
Received of Richard Sowthmore for Felloks house rent of yere past.
: xivs.
Comes Harper and presents of the Kyng's revell of thes yere past .
xiijs. jd.
whereof was stole away ijs. vijd. So remaynes cler . .
XS. vijd.
PAGE 6.
Comes H. and H. Wardenes and bryng in a bille of expence of this yere past lviijs. ixd.
Whereof rebate that Hille had at the begyneng xls. Rest to the Wardenes
xviijs. ixd. paid them, so quits herof.
It. Alsone More oweth for the wast of the ltorches for her husband, xlb. price vs. a
syned (assigned) the wardence the same vs. in the xls. that they have in stoke.
Comes Hille and Harper and presents in of the gaderyng on Ester day for paskall and
fonte taper . .
. . vijs. xd.
Comes Water Mayow” and Jone his wife, and have gyf in to the cherche for the
ryngeng of Courfu for ever more so much londs as shall be in valew of ivs. rent
yerly.
Comes Hille and Harper and presents a grene gowne of the gyfte of John A’Walkeden.
Comes William Branch and presents in of Synt Meghel light viijs. vd. which renaynes
in his hands.
Comes yong men William Coggan and his felow and presents in ijs. ixd. to Edward
Bolle (Bull) a stok .
. . . . . . xijd.
Comes Hoggelers, Tropenell and Harper, and presents in iijs. jd. delyvered to them
Harry Mew hath bought John A’Walkdences gowne for . . . . . . xviijd.
Comes the Webers Harry Mew and Thomas Symones and presents in old and new
xxjd. delyvered them ayen . .
. : xijd.
Comes the Tokeres, Roger Morrys and William Branche, presents in of old and new
ijs. They have received the stoke ayen . .
. xijd.
Comes the Maydence and presents in of old and new iijs. clere. delyvered to Annes
Beke ayen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ijs.
Comes Plente and cnowth (acknowledges) hym dettar to the Cherche for his servant xxd.
Sold to Richard Maudley the gowne that was Thomas Blowes for . . . xiijs. ivd.
PAGE 7.
Item. alowed Harper for his wage for kepyng of the Croke, . . . . vjs. viijd.
It. ther remayns of the dede money in the box cler. .
. xxxiijs.
Summa of al the cherch goods at this count . . . . xvjl. xviijs. xd. ob.
It. the parson hath bought John Nelles gowne for ..
. . iijs. paid.
Summa du (i.l., to parish) .
. xvijl. js. xd. ob.
Comes John Harper and William Branch and ar chossen for Wardence for this yere
comyng.
Delyvered to them in stoke xls.—so remains . . . . . . xvl. js. xd. ob.
1 Torches kept by the wardens to serve at funerals.
2 The Mayows were people of substance, probably of the parish ; see W.M.'s giſts, 1480-1 and 1483-4.
3 The inventory was no doubt produced in vestry at the transfer to the new wardens, but its loss forbids
our knowing what was included in “ Church-goods ”—probably not vestments, but only such things as had
been given to sell for the maintenance of the fabric and service.
Croscombe Church-Wardens' Accounts.
..
IY II
PAGE 8.
Co. mcccclrrix. Feb. 4, 1479-80 for 1478-9.
Acont y made of the barrerch of Corscomb the iiij day of ffeverer in said yere by
William Branch and John Harper, Wardence for the yere past.
Comes Branch and bryngs in of the quest (i.e., bequest) of Water Bigge. . . xijd.
It. a cloth of holland for the hye auter of the gyfte of bischop Bekenton (i.e., his
executors).
It. received of Richard Sowthemore for fylloks house . . . . . . ivs.
It. Branch brought in for the ij. sylver ryngs that he had to selle . . . ijs. ivd.
It. (Branch) paid of the croke money of this yere past
. . lviijs. viijd. ob.
It. paid to Branche for wasscheng of vestments and sorplers .
. . iijs.
It. of the gyfte of phelpot troge by the hands of John Hille
. . vjs. viijd.
Comes the maidence and presents cler of this yere with stoke
. . iijs.
Delyver hem ayen (Annes Beke and Isabel Hoper). ..
ijs. for stock.
Comes Harry Mew and Thomas Symens and presents in .
. xxd.
Delyvered them in stoke ayen . .
. xijd.
Comes Richard Branch, Roger Morys and presents in . .
. ijs. ijd.
Delyvered them in stoke ayen . .
. xijd.
Comes the wardence, Branch and Harper, and bryng in a byll of dyverse cost of the
cherche, as it aperes by ther bill
· · · · · · · ixl. xiijs. ivd.
Ther remaynes of sed money in the box ther . . .
. i Xxvjs. vid.
The somma of the money clere in stok in the churche is
. . xjl. vis.
Comes William Branch and Harper, and are chosen for this yere comyng.
delyvered to them in stok xls. So remanes in box. .
. . . ixl. vjs.
CD
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PAGE 9.
mcccclxxx+ 2.., Jan. 13, 1480-1 for 1479-80.
Aconts y made of the parrasch of Corscomb, the xiijth day of Janever, yn ye seyd yere
by William Branche and John Harper, wardenes, for the yere past.
The said Wardence bryng in a harnest gyrdel of the quest of Elner (Eleanor) Tyler,
bukul and pendant, and xij barres blake torfft.?
It. of the gyft of Maude Gardener xxs., and a golde ryng wayeng . . xvjs. viijd.
It received of Richard Sowthemor for Fyllok's House . .
. ivs.
It. rec. of the Croke-money for the yere past . . . . . . .. lvs. vijd.
It. paid to Harper for his labour in the cherche and croke . .. . vis. viijd.
Comes the Maydens and presents clere of this yere with stoke. . .. ivs. viijd.
Delyvered to Jone Hill (Mor's servant). . . .
ijs. in stoke.
Comes Harry Mew and Thomas Symens and presents in
. . ijs.
Delyvered to Mew ayen in stoke
. . xijd.
Comes Branch and Roger Morrys and presents in . .
• ijs. jd.
Delyvered to John Costrell ayen in stoke . .
. . xijd.
Comes the Wardence and bryng a bylle of dyverse costs for the cherche as it apers be
ther bille . .
. . xlys: ijd
1 Talleta.
Croscombe Church-Wardens' Accounts.
Ther remaynes of ded money in the box clere . . . . . XXs. save jd. ob.
Therefore the money clere in the stoke of the cherche is .
. : xiijl.
Comes Roger Morris and William Branch and are chosson for this yer Wardence.
delyvered to them in stoke . . . . . . . . . . 1V.
So remaynes in the box
. ixl.
Also, Water Mayow hath gyf and granted to the parresch yerly for ever to the fyndyng
of the lamp to four (before) the hey Auter . . . . vjs. viijd. yerly.
PAGE 10.
Clot mcccclxrri. i.l., Audit, Saturday after Epiphany,
1481–2 for 1480-1.
A countes y made of the parresche cherch of Corscombe, the Saturday next after xijth
day in forsaid yere by Roger Morris and William Branch, Wardence for the past.
First the Wardence presents in of the gyfte of Annes Down, modor. . . . xijd.
It. same Wardence present in more of gyfte of John Tailor, Dyndo (Dinder) . xijd.
It. Rich. Southmore for Fellok’s . . . . . . . . .
It. the Croke-money this year is . . . . . . . . . iijl. vs. xd.
Comes the maidens and present in clere of this yer past noght yet.
Comes Harry Mew and Thomas Symons (weavers) and present in nought.
Comes John Costrell, Edward Boull, and presents in . . . . . iijs. ivd.
delyvered to John Costrell ayen for next yere
. . xxd.
Comes Hoggelers, Thomas Costrell and his felaschep (fellowship), presents in. iijs. ivd.
del. to Costrell ayen in stoke . . . . . . . . . . ijs. ijd.
Comes the yonglenst and presents in bolles (Bull's) hands of owed ij year past . ijs. vd.
Comes yonglens and presents in Rich. Costrell's hands, and Rich. Bolles for two yers vjs. xd.
Comes John Halse and Roger Morris for Roben Hod's revel, presents in . . xls. ivd.
Comes William Champion and presents in of levyng (levying) of the grate belle vjs. xd.
Comes William Branch, and presents that he hath in his kepyng of the yere last past.
Richard Costrell ryng the same yere and Jone Mede? . . . xxvis. viijd.
PAGE II.
Comes in W. Branch and presents that he hath in his hands of Synt Meghelles lyght
for ij yere clere . . . . . . . . . . . . ivs.
r Comes the Wardence, Roger Mors and W. Branch, and bryng a Bille for :
makyng of the Cherch house of the costs in their tyme.
ffirst paid to the carpenter Bedford . . . . . . . . ivl. xixs.
It. paid to the massons, Horman and his felaschip . . . vl. xixs. vd. ob.
It. they have paid for dyverse thyngs for cherche nede, as hit aperes by their
bille
bille . . .
. . xlivs. jd.
Summa hereof . . . . . . . . .
.xiijl. ijs. xjd, ob.
Whereof they have received at ij times . . .
. xijl
So is rest to said Wardens . . . . xxijs. xjd. Paid them the said rest.
1 Younglings used in Spenser for lads.
2 Their wedding-ring, probably—an offering made to the church after the wife's death.
-
- -
Cost of Church house.
- IO
' Accounts.
Croscombe ChurchWardens-
.
It. Water 'Mayow hath paid for the yere past for the lamp . . . . vjs. viijd.
It. He hath paid More for Corfu ryngeng . . . . . . . . ivs.
It. ther remens of the dede money in the boxe (parson and lyght paid). . xiijs. vjd.
It. paid to Branche for his ?labour in the cherche, and kepyng of the Croke . vjs. viijd
It. gyf to Branch for his labour and tendens of the Cherche house . . iijs. iiijd.
Rest remaynes in the box of eherche money xxxvs. ivd. and xxijs. ivd. and more xls. ivd.
Roben Hode money, Summa al . . . . . . . . vl. ijs. vijd.
Comes W. Branch and William Wynsor, and are chossen for this yere comyng wardens.
delyvered to them iijl. vjs. viijd., and viijd. delyvered to Will. Toyt for lyghts.
Rest due in the box, al thyngs content.
. . XXXVS.
It. remayns in John Joyse hands for John Yeng, lede . . . . . vjs. vjd.
S
PAGE 12.
Clo. mcccciiii ii. Jan. 25th, 1482–3 for 1481–2.
A countes made of the parysch church of Coscomb a Synt Powell (Paul's) day in the
forsayd year by W. Branch and William Wyndylsor, Wardeynes for the yere past.
First the Wardeynes present in of the gefte of Agnys Bygg a ryng of sylver, same
gylte.
It. presents of the gefte of the Lady Schefton a ryng of gold with a ruby.
It. presents of the gefte of John Dyte a ryng of selver and a kerchew.
It. recd... of Water Mayow to helpe to a boxe
. . . . . . XXS,
reste in the boxe.
Comys (comes) the maydyngs presents in for this year nowgte.
Comys Harry Mew and Thomas Symonys and presents nowgte.
Comys J. Costrell and E. Bole and presents in. . .
. iijs. vijd.
delyvered to John Costrell . . . . .
.
. . xxd.
Comys yonge men and presents in . . . . . . . . . iijs. viijd.
delyvered ayen to Rychard at Wyll the stoke . .
. . xijd.
Comys W. Branch and presents in that he hath in hys hande of olde and newe for
Synt Mychaell . . . . . . . . . . . . VjS.
Hoglers went not* this yere.
Comys in the Wardenys Bronche and his felow and bryngys in a byll . xxixs. ixd. ob.
Comys Wyndylsor and bryngys in a byll of his costs . . . . iijl. xviijs. viijd.
All payd and quyte (quit).
Also Rychard Downe and oweth5 for a kow of quest of his dowgters . . vjs. viijd.
PAGE 13
It. remaynes of the dede money, the parson and lygte paid . . . . vijs. jd. ob.
It. R. Sowthmore for Fylloks .
· Fylloks . . . . . . . .
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
. . . ivs.
Comys Robin Hode and presents in .
. . xxxiijs. ivd.
1 This benefactor has not yet found an endowment for his pledged support of lamp and curfew. He there- ,
fore pays in cash. See note p. II.
2 Not as Warden, but as Keeper of the Croke or some other charge.
3 The letters fr written over thus denote scores, which must be multiplied by the units below them. The
same remark applies to the c for a hundred.
4 1.e., did not go in procession and revel; hence no collection.
5 1.e., settles the price, and acknowledges the debt.
Croscombe Church-Wardens' Accounts.
II
The Croke money this yere is . . .
. . . . . . iijl.
Paid to Bronch for his labour tendying to the Church and croke . . vjs. viijd.
Comys W. Bronch and John Cornysh and are chosyn for thys yere wardynys; de
lyvered to them . . . . . . . . . . . . Xls.
So reste in the box of the church money. . . . . i . ivl. xviijs. xd.
PAGE 14.
Audit, Jan. 17, 1483-4 for
Xo. Dm. m iiii iiii iij.
1482—3.
A cont made of parrach churche of Corscomb the xvij day of Janever in the yere afore-
said by Will. Branche and John Cornyche, Wardens for the yere past.
First, the wardens present in of the gyft of Iset Cooke a kerchef and iiijd. in money.
It. they present more of the gyft of Wyst of the hamm?
: : : xijd.
Rd. Sowthemore oweth for the house called felloks for the yere past
. iiijs.
Comes Harry Mew and Thomas Symonds and presents nougt.
Comes John Costrell and Ed. Bolle and presents in clere.
jijs. ivd.
delyvered to John Costrell xxd. in stoke.
Comes Ric. Willes and Ric. Maudley and presents in . .
. ejs. vd.
delyvered Ric. Willes ayen in stoke . .
• xijd.
Comes the madens, Halses and Hilles, and presents in clere.
ixs. vid.
Comes the hoggelers and presents in clere .
ivs. ivd.
delyvered to Harry Mew same time .
. . ijs.
Ric. Willes was Roben Hode, and presents in for yere past .
. . xxiijs.
Alles Abbot hath bought an old Sauter (psalter) for ijs. Whereof she hath paid xxd.
Rest iiijd., that she oweth.
It. of the gyft of Water Mayow to the cherche werkes vl. which he asyned (assigned)
shuld be paid of Horryngdon and of lond that he lent tords the purchessyng of
Horryngdon oute of the Kyng's Hands.?
PAGE 15.
It. there was of the croke money in the boxe of the yere past . . . xlviijs. viijd. ob.
W. Branch hath in his hands of Synt Meghel's money of old vjs., and more encrest
this yeare . . .
. . . . . . . . . . Xxd.
i Ham, a large wood and farm in Pilton, but close to Croscomb.
2 In 1548 the Commissioners of Edward VI. report, that the Guild or Fraternity of Corscombe were
possessed of lands at East Horrington, with the free Chapel there, of which they held the advowson ; also of
lands in Wilts, and of houses, &c., in Shepton, by gift of Walter Mayow and wife ; valued altogether at
xxvijl. vjs. viijd. nett, per ann.
The Guild was founded to maintain four priests (two of whom survived), one of whom should minister
in East Horrington Chapel ; also to maintain an annual obit with perpetual light in Croscombe Church for W.
Mayow, and for nightly ringing of the curfew; also to pay viijd. for repair of two almshouses ; and vijd. for
relief of the poor.
The property at East Horrington had belonged to the Palton family. The whole of the endowments
were seized by the Crown, and granted to lay owners.
“ The King's hands ” were probably the Royal Escheator's, demanding payment for a license to convey
the land in mortmain.
C 2
I 2
Croscombe Church-Wardens' Accounts.
·
·
.
·
.
·
.
·
.
·
.
.
·
: summa . . . . . . . . . . . . . vijs. viijd.
Of dede money left of last yere save over .
· · vijs. jd. ob.
paid there of to the parson . . .
. . vs.
and paid to Branch for wax and makyng
. .. xviijd.
So rest at present . . . .
vijd. ob.
Paid to Branch for xij lb. wax and makyng .
. vijs. ivd. ob.
and for wasshyng ijs. viijd. summa . . . .
ixs. ob.
and for skorrying (scouring) of candelsteks.
. xijd.
Branch hath in his hands of Ester gaderyng for paskall and font tapur clere . . vs. xjd.
Branch hath of the wyfest dansyng in his hands
. . vjs.
Paid to Branch for his labour and kepyng of croke . .
vjs. viijd.
It. there is in money redy lefte .
. xxxvjs.
and in Branch hands.
lijs. jd.
and in Madeley's hands and Hille’s .
. vl.
Whereof paid to Toyte
· vijd.
Paid to Branch and Cornysch iijl. by me Ric. Maudley of said money, and Hill most
pay xls. save ixd.
Rest in rey (ready) money with ivs. in Sowthmore hands . . . . . xxxixs. iijd.
Comes William Branch and John Halse for wardens for the yere comyng.
delyver them the foresaid
·
.
·
.
·
.
·
.
PAGE 16.
2.9. Milf cccc iiii iiiiz.e., Jan. 8, 1484-5 for 1483-4.
...
. .
.
.
.
. .
A cont made of the parach church of Corscomb the viij day of January in the yere
aforesaid by William Bronche and John Halse, wardens of the yere past.
Firste the wardeynys present in the yefte of Ric. Tropnell . . . . vjs. viijd.
It. John Perys of hame (Ham) . . . . . . . . . . viijd.
Thomas Paty oweth for William Pew ys gyfte to the church . .
vjs. viijd.
Ric. Sothmor oweth for the hows callyd Vylloks for thys yere past
. . iiijs.
Comys Harry Mew and Thomas Symons and presents in nowgte.
Comys John Costrell and Edward Bole and presents in . .
. ijs. xjd.
delyvered to John Costrell .
. . . xxd.
Comys yong men and presents nowgte.
Comes the maydyngs and presents in .
xvjs. iijd. ob.
It. therof is payd to Bronch for xlb. wax and the makyng . . . vjs. ivd.
Comys the hogglers and presents in. .
. ivs. jd. ob.
So reste . .
. iijs. vjd. ob.
delyvered to Harry Mew . .
. . ijs.
Comys Robyn Hode and presents in .
. xxiijs. viijd.
It. there was of the croke money in the boxe of this yere past.
· xliijs. viijd.
It. the creyse (increase) of the paskall . .
. ivs. vid.
It. for a ryng that was sold . .
. . . vijd.
It. Rychard Down for a kow of the yfte of his dowgter. . . . vjs. viijd.
1 The only instance of the matrons' revel and contribution. 2 I.e., giſt : given in 1482.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
...
.
.
Croscombe Church' Accounts.
Wardens-
·
·
·
·
·
·
·
·
·
·
PAGE 17.
It. rest of the dede money . . . . .
xjd.
It. payd to Bronch for kepyng of the clokel .
. iiijs.
It. for wayschyng of the church gare (gear) .
vs. iiijd.
It. I payd to Toyte. . . . .
. . xijd.
It. payd to Bronch for hys labur . .
. vis. viijd.
It. for skowryng of the kandylstyks. . .
. . xvid.
So reste of the hole money. .
. . vl. vjs. jd.
It. more John Hyll hath on hys hond to pay of Horyngdon’ money . xls. save ixd.
Comys Wyllyam Bronch and John Boklond for wardens of thys yere comyng, and ys
delyveryd to them . .
. . . . xls.
So rest of the stoke . . . .
. . . iijl. vjs.
·
·
·
.
.
PAGE 18.
2.9. mcccclxrrv. i.e., Jan. 14, 1485-6 for 1484-5.
A cont made of the parisch church of Corscomb the xiiij day of Januar in the yere afor
sayde by Wyllyam Bronch and John Boklonde, Wardaynes of the yere past.
First the Wardeynys comys in and presents in of the yefte of John Baker of Lamport
(Langport) a gold rynge . . . . . . . . . . iijs. iiijd.
It. of the yeft of Sir Wyllyam Costrell a sirpalys (surplice) . . . iijs. iiijd.
Also presents of the yefte of John Mallway a harnayst gurdyll with a ray-corse and a
ryng of selver.
Also of the yeft of Alys Sothemore, a ryng of sylver.
Also of the yefte of John Smyth, a ryng of sylver.
Also of the yefte of John Madokoke . . . .
. . . viijd.
Thomas Paty owyth for the yeft of Wyllyam Pew . .
vjs. viijd.
Rychard Down for a cow of the yeftet of his dowgter .
· vjs. viijd.
Comys the Wefeyrs (Weavers) Harry Mew and Thomas Symons and presents . vijd.
Comys Rychard Sothemore payth the rent of Vylloks .
. . iiijs.
Comys the Tokers John Costrell and Edward Bole and presents
· . ijs. viijd.
delyvered to John Costrell a stoke .
. . xviijd.
Comys the yong men John May and Richard Mowle and presents in for the yere
past and thys yere . . .
.. . viijs. ijd.
So a batyde (abated) for wax and makyng of the lygth
. . . xviijd.
delyvered a stoke to John May and Rychard Mowle .
. . xiiijd.
PAGE 19.
Comys Wyllyam Bronch and presents in for the font tapyr and the pascal). . vjs. viijd.
Comys the hoggelers and presents in
• vjs. ijd.
delyveryd a stoke to Bronch
. : ijs.
Comys the maydyns and presents in
. . xvijs. ivd.
delyveryd to Bronch a stoke . . . . . . . . . iijs. ivd.
1 The first notice of a clock.
2 To repay Walter Mayow's Loan. See p. II.
3 Striped bodice attached to girdle. 4 See 1482–3.
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It. there was of the croke money of thys yere past . . . . . : ivl. ijs. xjd.
Comyss Wyllyam Bronch and presentyth in of Synt Mychaell croke . . . . ivs.
So reste in Bronch ys honde.
Comys Wyllyam Bronch and John Buklonde and delyveryth xxvijs. vd. of the xls. that
was delyveryd to them (i.e., for stock) the last yere, and all thyngs ys made clere
rekenyng.
To Wyilyam Bronch for kepying of the cloke. .
. . iiijs.
It. for his labor . . . . .
vjs. viijd.
It. for wayschyng of the cherche gar
vs. iiijd.
It. for skowryng of the candylstyke.
. . xvjd.
It. to Wyllyam Toyte for hys labor . .
. : xijd.
So reste of all the hole stoke. .
• xil. xvis.
Comys Wyllyam Bronch and John Carter for Wardaynes of thys yere comyng and ys
delyvered to them . . . . . . . . . . . . Xls.
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Q.a. mcccclrrrvi. i.e., Jan., 1486-7 for 1485-6.
A cont made at parych chyrch of Coscomb the xx day of January in the year afor sayd
by Wyllyam Bronch and John Carter, wardaynes of the yere paste.
Fyrst the Wardynys commys and presents in
Thomas Paty owyth for the yefte of Wyllyam Pew . . i . . vjs., viijd.
Rychard Down for a cow of the yefte of his dowgter
.. . vis. viijd.
It. they presents of the yefte of Mayster John Wylton . . . . . . vijd.
It. of the yefte of Wyllyam Kogan,.. .
xxd.
It. of the yefte of Alys Frawnceys, a ryng of selver, and of money .
ivd.
It. of the yeft of Robert Smyth ... .
viijd.
Wyndelsor's servant . .
iiijd,
Rys Costrell's servant .
iiijd.
Do.
Robert Browne, a sawter (psalter) and
iiijd.
Do. John May. .
xijd.
Do. Alys Bronch .
• ijijd.
Do.
John Joce ys servant . .
• iiijd.
John Champyon . . .
vjs. viijd.
Do. Alys Tafe ij rynges, and
. . iiijd.
John Champyon to the bellys!
vjs. viijd.
Do. John Browne of Ham .. . .
. . xvjd.
Do. Robert Smyth to the bellys.
... xijd.
Comys Robyn Hode, Wyllyam Wyndylsor, and presents in for the yere paste iijl. vjs. viijd. ob.
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Comys the maydynys and presents in . .
. . xvijs. ivd.
Comys the hoggelers and presents in .
. . iiijs. xd.
· delyveryd a stoke to Rychard at Wyll
. . ijs.
The Croke money ys . . . . . . . . . . iijl. xiys. ijd.
Comys the tokers and presents . . . . . . . . . . iijs.
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Whych remaynyt in Rychard Costrel ys hand and Edward Bole.
Comys Rychard Sothemore and payth the rent of Vyrloxys .
. . iiijs.
Comys Bronch and payth the paschall money . . . .
. iiijs. vijd.
To Bronch for hys labor .. .. ..
vjs. viijd.
It. for waschyng of the Chyrch gar .
. vs. iiijd.
It. for skowryng of candylstyk . . .
. . xvjd.
It. to Toyte for hys labor. . . . . .
. . xijd.
So reste of all the hole stoke, and all things clere . .
. . ixl. xvjs. jd.
Comys Wyllyam Bronch and Rychard Vowlys for Wardenys of thys yere commyng,
and delyveryd to them . . . . . . . . . . . xls.
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@.D. mcccclxxxvii. z.e., Jan. 12, 1487–8 for 1486–7.
A cont made at the parysch Cherch of Corscomb the xij day of January in the ere a for
sayde by Wyllyam Bronch and Rychard Vowlys, Wardaynys of the ere paste.
Fyrst the wardaynys commys and presents in of the ſere] paste.
Thomas Paty owyth for a kow of the yefte of Wyllyam Pewe, price . . . vjs. viijd.
Rychard Down for a cow of the yefte of hys dowgter, price .
• vjs. viijd.
John a Dene owth for the yfte of hys syster iij selver sponys . . xxs. in money.
It. of the yefte of Rychard a Mawdeley . . . .
. iijs. iiijd.
It. of the yefte of Wyllyam Yrysch, servant of Wyllyam Champyon. . iijs. iiijd.
It. the yfte of Yevayn Thomas
. . xijd.
It. of the yefte of Wylliam Kogan
Do. Harry Hoper . . . . . . . . . . vjd.
Davy a Powell ,
. . . iiijd.
Crystyon Cornish a ryng of sylver.
· vjs. viijd. money.
It. to the bellys . .
. . . xijd.
Comys the maydonys and present in . . . . . . . . . xxijs.
dylyveryd to... .
Comys the hogglers and presents in
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delyveryd to Rychard att Wyll .
ijs.
Croke money . . . . .
. iiijl. xvijs. xd. ob.
Comys Tokers and presents in .
. iijs. vjd.
delyveryd to Rychard Costrell and Edward Bole . .
. . . Xxd.
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Comys vefers (weavers] and presents in nowgte.
Comys yong men and presents in . . . . . . . . . iijs. iiijd.
So rest in Rychard Browne ys honds and Thomas Hewys.
Comys Rychard Sothemore and bryngs in rent of Vylloks
. . iiijs.
Comys Wyllyam Bronch and presents in of the paschall . . . . vjs. ijd. ob.
To Bronch for hys labor . . .
• vjs. viijd.
It. for waschyng of the Chyrch gar (gear] ..
• vs. iiijd.
It. for skowrynge of candylstyks . . .
. . xvjd.
It. payd to Wyllyam Toyte .
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Comys Wyllyam Bronch and presents in of Synt Mycaell money . . , vjs.
So restyth in hys hands of the olde money by for [before] and this yere : viijs. xd.
It. payd to Willyam Bronch for wax to the hyd crose and makyng withall iijs. xd.
It. payd to Wyllyam Bronch for kepyng of the cloke.. .
. . iiijs.
It. payd to Harry Mew for kepyng of the croke . . . . . . . xd.
It. payd to Wyllyam Bronch . .. . .
. . xd.
So rest and all thyngs content in money on the stoke of thys yere . . : ixl. xjs. vjd.
Comys Wyllyam Bronch and John Dunpayn for Wardaynys of thys yere comyng and
delyveryd to them . . . . . . . . iijl. xs. of the same mony.
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afor saide by Wyllyam Bronch and John Dunpayn, Wardenys of the yere past.
[The three first entries of Paty, Down, and · John a Dene are identical with those of last
year.]
It. of the yſte of John Merke a ryng of sylver, and of money . . . . . xijd.
John Wasyn a ryng of sylver and a kerchew.
Do. 2 Davy Uphavel . .
. . . iiijd.
Comys the maydyns and presents in .
xxs. iiijd.
delyveryd to Elenor Boklonde for the stoke
. iiijs.
Comys the hoggelers and presents in
vs.
delyvered to R. att Wyll for the stoke . .
. . ijs.
The Croke money . . . .
. . iijl. xvs.
Comys Tokers and presents in . . .
. . iiijs.
delyveryd to R. Costrell and Edward Bole.
• , xxd.
Comys the Wefers and presents in nowgte.
Comys yong men and presents in . .
. iijs. ivd.
dylyveryd to Edwarde Windsore for the stoke . .
. . xxjd.
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Comys Sothemore and bryngs rent of Vylloks . . . . . . . . iiijs.
Comys W. Bronch and presents in of the paschall. . .
. iiijs. jd.
Do. do. do of Synte Mychaell money
Comys Robyn Hode and presents in? .
iijl. vijs. viijd.
To Bronch for his labor
vjs. viijd.
It. for waschyng of Chyrch clothys .
• vs. iiijd.
It. for skowryng of candylstyks
. . . xvjd.
It. for wax to the rode-lofte .
ijs. xjd.
It. for kepyng of the cloke .
. ilijs.
It. for kepyng of the Croke . .
. . Xxd.
It. to Wyllyam Toyte . . . .
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" High.” It stood on the rood-loft with lights burning before it. It was the most elevated and con-
spicuous devotional object in the church.
2 An extraordinary effort.
3 Earliest mention.
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It. to Wyllyam Bronch . . . . . . . . . . . . xijd.
It. payd to Thomas Rogg for pleyng at orgons .
. . . iijs iiijd.
So reste and all thyngs content in money in the stoke of this yere . . . xjl. vijs.
Restyth more of the Tokers lygth in Bronch ys honds . . . . ijs. iiijd.
Comys W. Bronch and John Honythorne for Wardens of thys yere folowyng and ys
dylyveryd to them . . . . . . . . . . ill. vjs. viijd.
So restyth in the stoke. .
. . viijl. iiijd.
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A.D. mcccclxrrix- i.e., Jan. 16, 1489-90 for 1488–89.
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A cont y made at the parysch chyrch of Corscomb the xvj day of January in the yere
aforsayd by W. Bronch and J. Honythorne [&c.].
Thomas Paty oweth of the yfte of W. Pewe . . . . . . . vjs. viijd.
resevyd hereof . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vs.
John a Dene [as before).
It. of the yfte of Syr John Comb, parson of Corscomb a grette maser with a ston.
It. of the yfte of Syr John Camell ij powchys of felewote [velvet], one of rede felewote
and another of blake, and ij stonys of sylver and gylde.
It. of the yfte of John Hille a synat [signet] of sylver and a tuell [towel] of twylly.
It. of the yfte of Edyth Calow . . . . . . . . . . . viijd.
It. of the yfte of Edwarde Perys xijd. and to the bellys . .
. . viijd.
It. of the yfte of John Crytyon . . . . . . . . . . xijd.
Comys the maydyns and presents in ..
. xxiijs. ivd.
Wer of they have payd for wax and makyng .
. . iiijs.
delyveryd to W. Bronch a stoke . .
. . iiijs.
Comys the hoggelers and presents in ..
· vjs. ijd. ob.
Delyveryd to Rychard att Wyll a stoke.
. . ijs.
Comys the Tokers and presents in. .
. iijs. vid.
delyveryd to Edward Bole a stoke..
.. . xxd.
Comys the Wefars and present in nowgte.
Comys the yong men and presents in . . .
ilijs. vjd.
delyveryd to Rogger More.
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xxd.
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Comys R. Sothemore and brings in rent of Vylloks . . . . . . . iiijs.
Croke money . . . . . . . . . . . .
vl. vs. xd.
Comys W. Bronch and presents in of the pascall .
. . iiijs.
[To W. Bronch, washing, candelsticks, cloke and croke, and W. Toyte as usual.]
It. to Thomas More for pleyng at orgenys . . . . . . . vjs. viijd.
So rest, etc. . . . . . . . . . . . . viijl. xvd.
W. Bronch and Water Jonys chosen wardens.
Delivered to them . . . . . . . . . . . . xls.
Rest in stoke . . . . . . . . . . . . vjl. xvd.
1 Organ playing mentioned here and once only again, 1489-90. The instrument was probably portable.
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A.D. meccclrxxxi.e., Jan. 15, 1490-1 for 1489-90.
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W. Bronch and Water Jonys, Wardens, Jan. 15.
Th. Paty and John a Dene as usual.
It. of the yfte of Alys Lorayn .
. . xijd
Do. Anys Sterlyng
iij ryngs of sylver:
Do. Edyth More .
• j ryng of sylver.
Do. Alys Symons.
. j ryng of sylver.
Do. Isatt Nett . . . . . .
• j ryng of sylver.
Do. More in money . .
. . . xd.
Comys the maydyns and presentyth in .
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wher of they have payd vs. for wax .
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delyveryd to Elenor Boklonde
. iiijs.
Comys the hoggelers and presentyth in .
. vs. iijd, ob.
delyveryd to R. att Wyll . .
. . ijs.
Comys the Tokers and presentith in .
. ijs. ixd.
delyveryd to Ed. Bole
. . . xxd.
Comys the Wefars and presentith in nowgte.
Comys the yong men
. ivs. ijd.
delyveryd to John Mawdeley
. . xxd.
Croke money . . . . . . . . .
. iijl. vs. ijd.
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Comys W. Bronch and presenteth in of the pascall . .
iiijs. vjd.
Comys Robyn Hode and presentith . . . . . . . . . ls.
[Expenses identical with last account.]
So rest all things content
. . . . . . . xjl. xys.
New Wardens W. Bronch and Richard Sugar and receive xls. save ijd, and a sengyll
plake.
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Q.9. mcccclrrrri. i.e., Jan. 14, 1491-2 for 1490-1.
T. Paty and John a Dene are as before.
It. of the yfte of Syr John Comb a supplyse.
The Maidens, Elenor Bocklond and Margett Elme bring .
. . xvjs. ijd.
E. Bockland receives . . . . . .
. . iiijs.
The hoggelers . . . . . .
. iiijs. ixd.
R. att Wyll receives .
. . ijs.
The Tokers . . .
iiijs. ijd. ob.
E. Bole receives . .
. . xxd
The young men . .
.. . iijs. viijd.
E. Wyndelsor receives
. . . xxd
Croke money
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W. B. presents of the pascall . . . . . . . . . vjs. xd.
Do. for St. Michael
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(Expenses identical with the last, only W. Toyte now gets xvid., and there is no
organist paid.]
Remaining . . . . . . . . . . . . . ixl. vs. iiijd.
W. Bronch and Harry Mew are chosen wardens and receive . . . . . . xls.
PAGE 31.
A.D. mcccclrrrrii. i.e., Jan. 12, 1492–3 for 1491–2.
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T. Paty and J. A. Dene as before.
The Maidens Johan Bronch and Johan Mew bring. .
. . xviijs. iijd.
J. Mew receives . .
. . iiijs.
The hogglers . . .
iiijs. ivd. ob.
R. at Wyll receives
. . ijs.
The Tokers.
the Tolers . .
. ijs. vd.
Ed. Bole receives
. . xxd.
The young men . .
vs. ijd.
Ed. Wynser receives.
. . xxd.
Croke money .
iijl. vijs. ivd. ob.
W. Bronch brings of the pascall
. . vs. viijd.
Do. of St. Michaell. .
. . vs. jd.
[Expenses as before, only now keeping the croke is omitted.]
Remaining . .
. ixl. xvs. save jd.
W. Bronch and Richard att Wyll are chosen Wardens and receive . . . . xls.
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A.Ø. mcccclrrrriii. i.e., Jan. 11, 1493-4 for 1492–3.
. ijs.
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xxd.
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viijs. viijd.
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W. Bronch and Richard att Wyll Wardens.
T. Paty and J. A. Dene as before.
It. of the yfte of Johane Tropnell . .
Do. Wyllyam Baker .
- Do. of W. Chompyon ys prentyse
Do. Johane ap Rychard . .
a gown of Jolin Lovell .
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A kerchew of Margery Phelpe and a ryng of sylver.
The same of Margeti Apendylton.
A kerchew of Margett Davy ys mayde.
[The only other receipts mentioned are] :-
The hogglers . . . . vjs. jd. | The young men . .
Richard Vowles receives. . ijs. E. Wynsor has
The Tokers .
. iijs. W. B. brings for the pascall
E. Bole has . . . . . xxd. 1 Croke money . .
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The Wardenys owyth to the chyrch for the rent thett browgtyn (Broughton) recevyd
of W. Wynsor for the chefe! rent of my lady ys closis and the almyshowse . iijs. iiijd.
Remaining ·
• • • • . . . . . . . xijd.
The church owed to W. Champion . . . . . . . . vjs. viijd.
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A.Đ. mcccclxrrriiii. z.e., Jan. 10, 1494-5 for 1493–4.
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W, Bronch and Edward Bole, Wardens.
T. Paty and J. a Dene as before.
It. Annys Bygge . . . . . . . . . . .
It. Annys Weste . ..
It. Johane Harper, a harneyste gyrdell, with a blew corse.
It. Johane More—a ryng of sylver.
The hogglers bring . .
Harry Mew receives
The Tokers bring. .
E. Bole receives . .
The young men.
The Wardeyns presentith in for the pascall .
Croke money . . . . . . . . . .
The Maidens bring ...
Elsbete (Elisabeth) Joce and Jone Carter receive
Robyn Hode presents in. . . . . . . . .
Paid to Harry Mew for keeping the Crok ,
Washing and scouring and the clock as usual, and kepyng the cherch
For mending windows . . . . . . .
Remains . . . . .
W. Bronch and W. Carpynter (incoming Wardens) receive . .
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xxxvs. ivd.
. xxvjs. vd.
. xlvjs. viljd.
• . ijs.
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xlvjs. viijd.
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Do.
[First time it is called “ Croscombe.”]
WILL. BRANCH, WILL. CARPUNTYR, WARDENS.
Itm. of the yefte of Richard Sugar . . . .
. vjs. viijd.
Isabelle Harrysonys Moder
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Do.
John Toyt . . . . . . .
. . viijd.
The hoggelers bring
.ivs. vijd. ob.
W. Branch takes . .
. ijs. viijd.
The tokers bring . .
. ijs. xjd.
E. Boll takes of the same.
. . Xxd.
The yonge men bring . .
· . vjs. viijd.
i It appears that there was an endowment in land for the altar of the Blessed Virgin, subject to a chief
rent (as were the almshouses) payable to the Lord of the Manor. In 1526–7 the lord distrained for this rent.
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The Mayduns bring . .
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Delyveryd to W. Carpyntar for the maydyns lygth
. . iiijs.
Croke money . . . . . . . . . . . iiijl. xiiijs. jd.
It. resevyd of W. Carpyntar yn mony . . . . . . . . xxxvijs. xd.
and in costys viijs. xd., the sum of all . . . . . . . . . xlvis. viijd.
[No new items of expense and no organist.]
Remains in stoke. . . . . . . . . . . . . . xjl. vs. xjd.
The same are to be wardens for the coming year and receive (i.e., for a stock). . xls.
More 10 Harry Mew of the said sum to by ches? (to buy cheese) . . . vs. vjd. pay.
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Rec. of the yefte of Alsun Sugar a gyrdyle and a peyre of beds (beads) with ij ryngs
and a crucyfyx.
Do. of Alsun Sowythmore a peyr of beds of jett with v gawds of sylver and a tuell of
dyapper.
Do. of Isblle Rymon a gold ryng.
Do. of ſelyan Lovyn? of Ham a ryng of sylver and gylte.
Do. Alsun Sugar for her pytt: . .
vjs. viijd.
Do. Mr. John Mawdlyn for a grav .
iijs. iiijd.
Do. Thomas Champyon of Schepton
. xxd.
Do. Jelyan Bowly . . . .
. xijd.
Do. of gaderyng the pascalls.
vs. iiijd.
The hoggelers bring . .
iiijs. ixd.
Richard Vells takes .
ijs. iiijd.
The tokers bring . .
• iijs. ijd. ob.
E. Boll takes of the same
. . xxd.
The Mayduns bring .
· xxvijs. ivd.
The Croke money
iiijl. ijs. viijd.
Received of W. Carpyntar in money
. xxxijs. ixd.
and in a bill for costs.
vijs. iijd.
[Expenses as last year].
Remains in stock
. . . . . . iijl. vijs.
Mem. that the parysch payde for ij coppus (Copes). .
• xijl. xs,
Mew being keeper of the “Croke,” the cheese was probably for the refreshment of the processioners
who followed him.
2 Julian Lovaine.
3 Pit must mean a grave in the church. The repair of the pavement fell upon the wardens, who regularly
charge 6s. 8d. for the privilege of burial. What is meant by the grave charged 35. 4d. does not appear.
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PAGE 36.
A.D. meccclrxxxvii. z.l., Jan. 13, 1497-8 for 1496–7."
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.
The same Wardens.
T. Paty, J. a Dene, Alsun Sugar, A. Southmore, J. Rymon, J. Lovyn, as before.
Itm. of the yefte of Isbella Hylee a peyr of bedds of corell with xvj gawds of sylver
and ovyr gylte and a ..gurdyll with boculle (buckle) and penant (pen-
dant) of sylver and xix steds (studs) theryn.
Itm. of Master Richard Mawley and Alsun his wife a portoos? called a leger a
grayll and presecioner and ij new corches (kerchiefs) and ther wedyng ryngs of
gold to our lady.
The hoggelers bring .
. . , vis. vd.
R. Wells takes of the same .
. ijs. viijd.
The yong men bring . . . . . . . . . . . . iijs. vd.
R. Jons and W. Hadle take.
. . ijs.
The mayduns bring .. .
xiijs. jd.
W. Branch takes of the same
. . . iiijs.
The tokers bring . . .
. iijs. vijd. ob.
E. Bole receives of the same. ..
. . xxd.
W. Branch brings for the pascall .. .
. . vs. iijd.
The Croke money
. . iijl. xiijs.
PAGE 37.
[Costs as usual, but the following is a new expression.]
Paid to W. Toyt for tynnyng (tending) of the lygtht .
.' . xvjd.
Remains in the box clear .
. iiijl. xivs.
delivered to W. Branch (as incoming warden) .
. . xls.
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PAGE 37.
A.D. mcccclxrrrviii. i.e., Jan. 12, 1498–9 for 1497-8.
W. BRANCH AND JOHN DUNPAYN, WARDENS.
[All the early entries of the last repeated, with the addition to Isabella Hilles of
“a hellyng (covering) of rede and yelowe.”]
after R. Mawley and wife's gift.
1 The numerals used for the headings of these accounts undergo an entire change this year. Thus the page
(36) from which the above extracts are taken is superscribed--
++ ano. Em. 1497.**
The old notation, however, is retained in the body of the account ; e.g., two lines below the above head
ing :-"yn ye yr of our lord gode MCCCCLXXXXVII” .
Roman letters for the headings are once more resumed in A.D. M.VC.XX (i.e. 1520), p. 67, until Ano. 1548,
p. no, when the Arabic figures are again employed to the end of 1558, then 1559 and 1560 are written in the
Roman letters.
2 Service books. See Glossary.
3 Wedding rings were often given after the death of the wife. In this case both parties being alive, the
ring was probably promised in reversion.
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Wardens-
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' Accounts.
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.
.
Itm. of the yefti of my lady Mayowe a gold ryng to our lady, and a nobule for her pytt.
Do. of Yed (Edward) Vynsent a jetyn (of jet) beds and viijd.
Do. of Master Wasun a ryng of sylver gelte.
Do. of Alsun Martemar a ryng of sylver and gylt.
PAGE 38.
Do. of John Jons a newe and a lam (an ewe and a lamb).
The hoglars bring. .
. . vjs.
R. Volls receives of the same
• ijs. viijd.
The young men bring . .
. . iijs. jd.
R. Jons and W. Browne receive of the same
. . ijs.
The maidens bring ... .
. xxijs. vd.
The tokers bring . . . .
• . ijs. xjd. ob.
E. Boll receives of the same .
. . xxd.
W. Branch brings of the pascall
. vs. ixd.
Expenses as in the last, including tynyng the light.
The Croke money comes to .
. . ivl. ivs. ijd.
Remains clear
. vijl. xvijs. xd
W. Branch and Hew Morgan, the new Wardens, receive xls.
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PAGE 39.
2.9. mcccclrrrrix: .l., Jan. 13, 1499-1500
SW. BRANCH.
| HEW MORGAN.
[The early entries, as far as the Maidley gift, the same as the last.]
Itm. of the yeft of the Vecor (Vicar) of Pylton xijd., viijd. to the bells and iiijd. to our lady.
Do. John Hache ij ryngs of sylver and ovyr gylt, and a therdyn cerchewe (threaden
kerchief).
Do. of Jerman
• • . . ivd.
Do. of Alsun Prystan a ryng of sylver and a myllyde (enamelled).
Do. of W. Carpyntar 1 lb. of wax and xijd. in money.
Do. of John Champyon a ryng of sylver and ovyr gylte, and vjs. viijd. for his grave.
Do. of John Yng and Annys his wife and oyll fatt (oil-vat or vessel) of sylver.
Do. of my lady Mayow a gold ryng to our lady, and a nobule for her pytt.
Do. of Yed Vyncent a jettyn bedys and viijd.
Do. of Master Wassun a ryng of sylver and gylt.
Also A. Mortemer and J. Jons as in the last.
PAGE 40.
The hoglars bring vis. jd., and take . . . . . . . . . ijs, viijd.
The maidens ,
xxs. ivd.
The young men vs. jd., and (take) ijs. The tokars iijs. and (take) .
. . . xxd.
The pascall brings vis. St. Michael Crok . . . . . .
. xviid.
Expenses as usual.
| The ring and noble must have been a promise, repeated yearly at the audit. See following years.
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Croscombe Church-Wardens' Accounts.
.
Umc doney .
.
iijl. xvjs vjd.
Paid to W. Toyt for tynnyng of the lyght and the holy lofe xvjd.
The Croke money
: :
Itm. recevyd for vantage (i.e., nett profit) of the crokbred ijs. ijd.
There remains clear.
Hugh Morgan and John Derrant, incoming wardens, receive xls.
.
.
.
.
xl.
S
PAGE 41.
A.D. mcccccu i.e., Jan. 16, S. Marcel, Bp. and M.
1500-1 for 1499-1500.
Hugh MORGAN, JOHN DURRANT, WARDENS.
Itm. of the gyffte of Isabel Toytt a ryng of sylver.
„ of John Halse to owr lady xijd. and to the Roode xijd. and to the bellys viijd.
and for his grave. . . . .
. . . vjs. viijd.
, of the gyfte of Maister W. Champyun a mass boke of veln (vellum) lymmyde, 3
with claspys of sylver, and a pax of sylver and gylt and anamelled.
» of Thomas Costrell to owr lady . . . . . . .
.
.
. xxd.
„ of Maister John Mawdley, for his chyldys grave . .
. iijs. iiijd.
Sum of the receipts in money xs. iiijd. and a ryng of sylver.
The pascall produces vijs. viijd. St. Michael's croke .. .
. . xxd.
Hught Morgan maketh a cownt of xls. recevyd in the yere past as it aperyth by a byll.
The hogglers bring iiijs. vid., and H. Mew receives . .
ijs. viijd.
The Towkarys bring iiijs., and E. Boll receives
.. , xxd.
The young men bring iiijs. iiijd. and J. Ing the younger receives
, ijs.
Comyth in Robyn Hode and Lytyll John and presentyth in .
; . XVS.
J. Dunpayn presents of the Croke moneye . . . .
. iijl. xjs. ixå.
and ther off he ys delyvered to by chys with. . .
· vjs. viijd.
Paid to Alice Dunpayn for kepyng of the Croke .
. . ijs.
» W. Toyt for tyndyng of the lyght and the church loffe . . . . . . xvjd.
PAGE 42.
Itm. comyth in Hewight Morghan and bryngeth in for rent of the church londe . Vs. xd.
Remains in the box · · · · · · · · · · xijl. xvijs. viijd.
2.9. mcccccio i.e., Jan. 8, 1501–2 for 1500-1.
HUGHT COLYNS, JOHN DERRANT, WARDENS
First the Wardens present in for the yere past in primis a gold ryng of the gefte of
Allson Mayner of Wells.
Itm. of the gift of John Dyer of Wyncauntun . . . . . . . . xS.
1 The first mention of this general custom. The “panis benedictus” was baked in the Church-house,
blessed by the priest, and sold to the people. “Holy Ale” was in some places treated in like manner.
2 Was it so called from bearing the sign of the cross ? and how differing from the holy loaf?
3 Limned, i.e., illuminated.
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Wardens-
' Accounts.
Itm. of the gift of Isbell Harryson ij ryngs of sylver and gylte.
„ of Master Thomas Morris of Septon a payr of beds of corell of xviij
setyn (set) with xxj gawdes of sylver and gylte with gowld ryng and vrinakull.1
» of Allsun Lyde a ryng of sylver and gylte...
„ of Master Hymmyford to the bell . . . . . . . . . xijd.
» of Anys Benat. . . . . . .
vjs. viijd.
It. ij crowns of sylver and gylt to our lady and a nother to hyr sett (seat] ovyr the
vaute (or vante), of the gyfte of J. Ing and his wyfe.
Itm. a manwell [manuel] of the gifte of W. Champyon.
PAGE 43.
The hogglers bring.
iiijs. vjd.
R. Voll receives . .
·
ijs, viijd.
The tokers .. .
iijs. iiijd.
E. Boll . . .
. xxd.
The young men ..
. . vs. iiijd.
R. Bokland . . . . . . . . . . . . · ijs.
The maydens . . .
. . xxjs.
Paid of the same for wax and making of the light
viijs. viijd.
The wardens bring for the pascall. .
: . iiijs. jiijd.
, , S. Michael Croke . . . . . . . . . xvd.
Washing, scouring, kepyng the Croke, as usual.
To W. Toyt for kepyng of ye lyzthe.
The sum of the Crokmony comyth to with the vantech of the bred . . . liijs.
There remains in the box clear . .
. xl. ijs. iiijd.
R. Costrell and John Derrant, incoming wardens, receive . . . . . . xls.
PAGE 44.
2.9. mccccciii.e., Jan. 14, 1502–3 for 1501-2.
The wardens present in
First a ring of silver and gilt the gift of J. Heyman.
» of Margaret Cornyshe of Wells . . . .
. . xijd.
„ of William Anys and his wife a ryng of sylver and .
. . xvjd.
of R. Ellys of Pennarde . . . . . . . .
vjs. vijd.
» of Yedith (Edith) Bylstone, Anys Donny's sarvant. .. . . . xijd.
» of Isabelle Wevar, servant to John Bokland a ryng of sylver and . . . viijd.
» of Margery Wynsor a payr of beds of corall with xvij gawds of sylver and gylt,
and ij ryngs of sylver and gylt and vjs. viijd. in mony.
of John Honythorn a ryng of sylver and gylt and a synat (signet) of sylver and
viijd. in mony.
» of Anys Downe a gyrdyll with boculle and pennant of sylver and gylt, and v
gyngylls (jingles] of sylver hangyn in the pennant, and viij steds of sylver
and gylt in the core.?
i Qy. Vrinakutt, i.e., vinaigrette. ? The inside ? or the crop or knob which held the studs.
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iiijd.
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.
xiid.
Item of Thomas Symes . . . . . . . .
„ of Alson Reve of Dynder . .
Sum of resayt in money and gefts xviijs. and vij ryngs of sylver.
PAGE 45.
The hoggelers bring · · · · · · · ·
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.
iiijs. ixd.
ijs. viijd.
. iijs.
. xxd.
xljd.
ijs.
. xvjs.
.
.
.
.
iiijs.
.
.
The tokers bring . .
R. Costrell receives of the same
The young men bring .
R. Bockland of the same
The maydyns bring
Jone Knap of the same . . .
The Wardens for the pascall . .
9 for S. Michael's Croke.
Comyth Robart? Hode and presentyth in. .
[Washing, scowring, &c., as usual.]
This year W. Toyt for “tynning” the light .
The Croke money with the vanteg of the brede
Remains in the box clear . . . .
Delivered to the Wardens.
iiijs.
.
.
xls.
. . xvjd.
. xlvs. jd.
xvjl. xvijs. vd.
. . xls.
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PAGE 46.
2.9. mccccciii. i.e., Jan. 13, 1503-4 for 1502-3.
W. BRANCH AND JOHN DYRANT, WARDENS.
The Wardens present first of the yeffte of W. Evans iiijd. to the bells for his fadyrs
knyle.?
Of the yefte of Rd. Brasytar, hys wyvys wedyng ryng and viijd. in money.
. vjs. viijd.
The hogrars [sic] bring . . . .
. . vs.
R. Voll of the same receives.
ijs. viijd.
The tokers bring . . .
iijs. iiijd.
R. Costrell of the same receives
. xvjd.
The young men . .
• VS.
Godeall of the same receives . .
. ijs.
The maydens . . . .
To Jone Bronch the hole ageyn.
St. Michael's Croke . . . . .
. . xijd.
[Keeping the Church, the Croke, washing, &c., as usual.]
The Croke money with the vantage and all . . .
. . liiijs. xd.
Rests in Dunpayn ys hands for to by ches . . .
Rests in a stoke in the honds of W. Branch .
. . xviijs. iiijd.
And more over in the box of refows3 money resteth .
. xis. iiijd.
Note the change of title. See A.D. 1505.
2 A knell to be rung for his father.
3 1.6., reſuse, or broken money.
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•
• xviijd.
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Croscombe Church-Wardens' Accounts.
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PAGE 47.
A.D. mcccccív: 2.l., Jan. 12, 1504-5 for 1503–4.
. W. BRANCH AND EDWARD WYNSOR, WARDENS.
First the wardens present of the qwest of John Bervu .
. . . . XS.
of the quest of Elenor Portar and her wedyng ryng gylt and xijd.
„g of the quest of Sevyn Bolloks wyfe of Dynder .
. iiijd.
Itm. that W. Branch hav resevyd of Roger Frawnceys for a ryng
vyu ol Koger Frawnceys for a ryng . . . . Xijd.
„ ij ryngs sowlde to Harry Harrysons, the prys . . . . . . . ijs.
„ John Jose a golde ryng, the prys xs. non solvyt.
The hoglars bring. . .
vjs. ijd.
R. Vole receives of the same.
ijs. viijd.
The tokars bring . .
ijs. xjd.
R. Costrell . . . . . . . . .
· xiiijd.
The young men .
. Vs.
Goodeall
. ijs.
The maidens. ..
. xiijs.
No return.
No S. Michael's Crok.
The pascall . . .
. . . . . . . . . iijs. vijd.
Dunpayn presenteth in for ij tewells.
[Expenses as usual.]
The Croke money with the vantag of the brede xlijs. xjd. Presentyd in of the Kyng
revyll [i.e., the King's Revel] . . . . . . . . xxiijs. xd. ob.
that restys yn Master Mawdley ys hondys.
Restys in the honds of Dunpayn to by ches . . . . . . . viijs. vid.
PAGE 48.
Rests in the box . . . . . .
. iiijl. iijs. viijd.
of the wych is delyvered to W. Branch of the same xxs. and of the said xxs. ys paid
to W. Branch for kepyng of the cherche.
Also ther ys in ryngs of sylver and gylt xix and v of golde.
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W. BRANCH.
First the wardens present of the yeft of Isbel Olyvar a tuell and . . . . iiijd.
Next they present for the pascall . . . . . . . . . iiijs. ijd.
Itm. for a payr of beds that was sold of corell the wygte a nownce and dim [i.l., Iš
ounce] and dim. qu. scant [i.c., scarcely half a quarter] .
. . . vs.
, for a ryng that Branch sold . .
. . . xiiijd.
» for ij gold rynges that John Jos bowte (bought) . .
. xxd.
, for a pys of tymber that the wardens sold
vjd.
PAGE 49.
The hoglars bring . . .
. . iijs. ixd.
R. Wolls receives . . . . . . . . . . . . ijs. viijd.
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' Accounts.
Croscombe ChurchWardens-
The tokars bring . .
. ijs. xd.
R. Costrell receives .
. . xiiijd.
The young men bring
. iiijs. viijd.
Godall receives . .
. ijs.
The Maydens bring
i xvijs. vd.
[Expenses as usual, the clock, washing, scouring, keeping the Croke, the light, and the
church] . . . . . . . .
. . xxiijs.
The Croke money with the vantage. . . .
. . xliijs. xd.
Presented in of the sport of Robart Hode and hys company . . . . liijs. iiijd.
the wych resteth in the hands of W. Carter.
in the hands of W. Dunpayn to by ches . . . . . . . vjs. viijd.
In the box vjl. ixs. of which xxs. is delivered to J. Phillips.
Also these are xviij silver rings and v of gold.
PAGE 50.
A.S. mcccccvi. i.e., Jan. 1506–7 for 1505-6. { PHILLIPS:
First the Wardens present of the yefte of Alsun Abbat a payr of beds of jett with a
ryng of sylver and xijd. in money.
of Anys Morgyn a ryng of sylver and gylt and . . . . . . . xijd.
„ of Isbell Branch a ryng of sylver and gylt and .
xijd.
» of a sarvant of Water Jons . . . . . . . . . . xijd.
„ of W. Evan ys wyfe a ryng of sylver and gylt and a sett.
They present for the pascall. . .
. . iijs. ixd.
The hoglars bring. . . .
. . ivs. vijd. ob.
R. Volls receives . .
ijs. viijd.
The tokars bring . . . .
. iijs. vjd.
R. Costrell receives
. . xiiijd.
The young men bring ijs., which rests in J. Edmund's hands.
delivered of the same to J. Cute
. . ijs.
The maydins bring . . . . . . . . . . . . ixs. ijd.
.
.
.
.
xvs. viijd.
xliijs. iiijd.
.
..
PAGE 51.
[Expenses] . . . . . . . . . . .
Presented ind for the sporte of Robart Hode . . .
(Crossed out.)
Mem. that the Croke yeld this yere . . .
There rests in a stok of church money . . .
Wher of is delivered to W. Branch
x rings of silver and gold remain.
In the hands of Dunpayn for ſto] by ches . . . .
1 Robin seems to have ceased coming in person.
.
:
· lijs. ijd. ob.
. xxijs. ixd.
: XXS.
·
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.
vjs. viijd.
Croscombe Church-Wardens' Accounts.
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2.9. mcccccvii. i.e., Jan. 13, 1507–8 for 1506–7.
W. BRANCH AND E. BOLLE, WARDENS.
First of the yefft of Jone King, a ryng of sylver and gylt.
» of the gyfft of John Howell a payr of beds of corell with xiij stons of [i.e., set in] sylver.
„ of Amys Donpayne a rynge of sylver and in mony . . . . . . iiijd.
„ of R. Jones a rynge of sylver and gylt and
. . . xijd.
of Margytt Gye a rynge of sylver and gylt and .
. . xijd.
» of Jone Calloe in money . . . .
. ijs.
„ of Allse Costrell ryng of sylver and gylt and a twell (towell] of dyaper, with iijd. in mone,
» of Jone Roger a ryng of sylver and gylt and a certcher.
PAGE 52.
for the Pascall . .
ilijs. viijd.
The hoglers bring. .
. iiijs. vd.
R. Voll receives of same
ijs. viijd.
The tokers bring . . .
. iijs: xd.
R. Costrell receives of same.
. . xiiijd.
The young men . .
.. . iiijs.
John Redmunys receives of same . . .
. . ijs.
The Maidens . . . .
. . xiijs. jd. ob.
The wardens present for the sport of Robart Hode . .
. . ixs. viijd.
In the hands of Donpayn to by chese .
- vjs. viijd.
In the box iijl., of which xxs. is delivered to the new wardens.
The Croke yielded . . . . . . . . . . .
. . xjs. ijd.
Paid by W. Cartar of the sum above written . . . . . . xxijs. viijd.
PAGE 53.
The hole sum . . . . . . . . .
. . xiijl.
Itm. John Carter Jorge maker, Vre massyn [Free mason] of Exeter that receyved off
the parech of Croscomb the son of . . . .
iiijl.
. ..
.
Ítm. payd the fryst day of January to the same man . . .
.
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.
. . . iiijl.
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Q.A. meccccviii. i.e., Jan. 14, 1508-9 for 1507-8.
WATER JOHNYS AND ED. BOLL, WARDENS.
First, a yeft of Johan Wylls a ryng of sylver and gyllte and . . . . . iiijd.
Itm. the Croke this yere . .
. . . . xlixs. iiijd.
Mem. there are in the box vj rings of silver, and one of gold.
Itm. Commyngl in of the pascall taper . . . . . . . iiijs. ijd.
This new form of entry prevails henceforth, indicating that the contributors no longer appeared in person,
but sent their “commyng in,” i.C., the income of their guild. This change matches with the addition of the
Vestry, part of the Freemasons' work (see next year), which was probably used for audits instead of the
Church. N.B.—The weavers' guild has dropped out, perhaps absorbed in a new one for the cultus of St.
George.
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' Accounts.
Croscombe ChurchWardens-
.
.
.
XVS. Vjd.
. vs.
iijs. iiijd.
iijs. viijd.
Do. of the maydens . . . . . .
. .
Do. of the hoglers . .
Do. of the towkers
Do. of the young men . . . . . . . . . .
and no return to any of them.
[Expenses] . . . . . . . . . . .
PAGE 54.
In the hands of J. Dunpayn for to by chese. . . . . .
In the box iijl. xiiijs. xd. of which xxxs. is delivered to the new wardens.
SY
. xxixs. iiijd.
.
vjs. viijd.
A.D. mcccccírı i.e., Jan. 12, 1509–10 for 1508-9.
“the fyrste yere of Kyng Hary the VIIJ.”
[The Regnal year is noted henceforth.]
JOHN MORSI AND EDWARD BOLLE, WARDENS.
The Croke money this year .
. . . lixs. iiijd.
The wardens present the yefte of J. Cartar, Weke, a ryng sylver and gylt and iiijd. and
a sett.
„ of Alys Vaysse a rynge of sylver and a serppelys.
„ of Isbell Broke a lawnde charche [a lawn kerchief] and . . . . . iiijd.
„ of John Dyrrente . . . . .
. . Xxd.
The comyng in of the pascall taper .
vjs. ijd.
maydens . . . . . :
. . xvjs.
hoglers . .
: . iiijs.
towkers. .
iijs. iiijd.
the young men . .
. iijs. iiijd.
In the box vj rings of silver and one of gold.
[Usual expenses]. .
. . . xvjs.
The comyng in of Robyn Hode (John Honythorne) .
• . . iijl.
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Delivered to Jo. Paynter and Rd. Rowland . . .
. . ijs.
u Jo. Phelyppys . . . . .
. ijs. viijd.
, Owyn Porter.
. . xiiijd.
In the hands of J. Carter xxiiijs. ijd. ; of W. Carter xxvjs. viijd. ; of J. Felippes and R.
Crose liijs. iiijd. ; in the box of the church . . . . . lixs. viijd.
J. Donpayne to by chesse . . .
. . . . .. vis. viijd.
Itm. the wardens Owyn Porter and Edward Bolle hath y payd owtte of the box of the
cherch money xxxs. unto John Carter the Jorge maker at the settyng oppe of the
Jorge [image of St. George].
1 Mors = Morris.
Croscombe Church-Wardens' Accounts.
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Q. D. mcccccx. i.e., Jan. II, 1510–11 for 1509–10.
The second yere of Kyng Harry the VIIJ.
BOLLE AND OWYN PORTER, WARDENS.
First the yefte of Master Water Bockelonde . . . . . . . . xxd.
of Johan Jonys . . . .
· · · viijd.
of Hew Colyng a meyser (maser, or mazer-bowl] of wode.
of Margette Dyrrynte a autter [altar] cloth and a cotton' and a ryng of
sylver.
The comyng in of the pascall taper . . . . . . . . . vjs. iiijd.
maydens
. xvjs. xd.
» hoglers
. iiijs. ijd. ob.
towkers
. . iijs.
2 young men . .
. iiijs. vd.
The Croke box for this yere .. . .
. iijl. vs. xjd.
Delivered to 0. Porter for the towkers . .
. . xiiijd.
, J. Felyppes for the hoglers. .
ijs. viijd.
» W. Tore for the young men lygte
. . ijs.
[Usual expenses]. . . . .
: . xvijs.
For kepyng of the vestrye? [a new entry). .
. iiijs.
Comyng in of Robyn Hode.
iijl. vis. viijd.
To J. Donpayne for by chesse . .
vjs. viijd.
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Remain v rings of silver and one of gold, and money
; . iiijl. xs. vjd.
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2.9. mcccccri. z.l., Jan. 17, 1511-12 for 1510–11.
ED. BOLLE AND RICHARD MOLDE, WARDENS.
First the yefte of Margett Lyde a ryng.
of Felypp Leyws . . . . . . . . . . iiijd.
of Alys Canning, Marsh, a brason pott.
Comyng in of the pascall taper
vjs. vijd.
maydyns .
. . XXS.
hoglers . . . . . . . . . . . iiijs. viijd.
towkers :
. ijs. xjd.
young men . .
. . vs. xd.
Itm. the Croke box
. iijl. ixs. jd.
2 Robyn Hode (J. Honythorn and J. Stevyn)
. XXXVs. xd.
Delivered to J. Felyppes for the hoglers . . . .
. ijs. viijd.
. for the young men . . . . . . . . ijs.
To Harry Vorde. .
. . xiiijd.
. .
.
1 A curtain.
2 Newly erected in the S. W. angle of the Church ; called also the Treasury.
Croscombe Church-Wardens' Accounts.
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XIXS.
PAGE 58.
[Expenses as usual] .
. . .
In the box are v rings of silver and one of gold.
In money . . . . . . . . . . .
Also in the Church viij lb. of wax.
Edward Bolle and Richard Poclon [i.e., Boclond] are chosen wardens.
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xiijl.
P.A. mcccccrii. i.e., Jan. 15, 1512-1 3 for 1511-12.
EDWARD BOLLE AND RICHARD BOCKLOND, WARDENS.
First the yefte of John Yng a pype with wode.
Margette Davy a ryng of sylver and gylte and a Rochate (Rochet).
John Tayler's wyffe a ryng of sylver and gylte.
, a sthere (steer] of Richard Wasyn.
, of Water Vynsente for his father and mother . . . . . . viijd.
The coniyng in of the pascall taper . . . . . . . . . VjS. iijd.
maydens . . . . . . . . . xviijs. vjd.
PAGE 59.
The comyng in of the hoglers . . . . . .
. . . iiijs, vijd.
y towkers . . . .
. ijs. ijd. ob. -
o 2 young men .
. . iiijs. vd.
[The usual sums are delivered to each of the above.]
Itm. the coste of the Gorge, the holle sum of all the coste? . . . xxvijl. xjs. viijd.
The incrysse of Croke . . . . . . . . . . iijl. iiijs. iiijd.
[Expenses as usual.]
There remain v rings of silver and one of gold and in money . . . xl. iiijs. vid.
There rest in the wardens hands . . . . . . . . . XxuIjs. i11ja.
The new Wardens are Ed. Bolle and W. Carter.
Mem. that the wardens hath delyvered unto Roger Morris, R. Costrell, a pype with wood
and a mesure the pryse xl. that shall be ypayd at Cryste masse comyth twelmotte that
с
shalbe in the yere of our Lord MVXV (1515.]
PAGE 60.
Q.A. mcccccriii. i.e., Jan. 20, 1513-14 for 1512-13.
The WARDENS, ED. BOLL AND JOHN CARTER, THE ELDER, AND WILLIAM HIS SON.?
Do present for the lyyng of Wyllyam Carter and his wyff in the chyrche vjs. viiijd.,
and a ryng of sylver and gylt, and xijd. to the bells and cerchew [kerchief] to
Saynt Marget.
1 This large outlay, and employment of a skilled body of Freemasons from Exeter marks an addition to
the Fabric. It consisted of a Chapel on the N.E., at the opening of which St. George's image was set up
with light burning before it, and the Vestry or treasure-house on the S.W., with its two chambers, upper and
lower, strongly barred for safe custody of the increasing store of valuables. In later accounts, 1516-17, St.
George had a Box, a Collection, and an Ale, 1523-4. There was a guild organized to maintain these
observances. See 1516-17.
2 N.B. -A third warden to help the older one.
Croscombe Church-Wardens' Accounts.
Itm. a ryng of gold of the yefte [of] Mastress Bassyng.
Itm. a ryng of sylver and gylt of the geft.of Alson Jamys of the paryshe of Schepton.
Itm. of the geft of Amys Harrys . . .
. . . . xijd.
»
John Reve a whether schepp J. Jose hath paid . . . xijd.
se , John Abatt . . . . . . .
. xxd.
, , my lady Schepton to the belles .. .
· vijd.
Received in by Sir Thomas for my lady Schepton berel (burial]
vjs. viijd.
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[The pascall taper, the maidens, hogglers, tokers, the young men as usual.] Total xxvijs. vd.
The Croke box this year . . . . . . . . . .
ijs. xd.
P. Thomas and J. Vord received of the stoke . . . . . . ijs. and js. ijd.
There are ij gold and vj silver rings in stock.
The usual expenses come to . . . . .
. xiijs. viijd.
Delyvered to J. Phyllip for the hoggler stoke :: .
; . ijs. viijd.
The remains for the Crok vjs. iiijd. and in the box . . . . . iijl. iijs. xd.
[The year 1514-15, i.e., for 1513-14 is omitted.]
PAGE 62.
Q.m. mcccccro. 2.1., Jan. 13, 1515-16 for 1514-15.
Edw. BOOLE AND WILLIAM GOODALL, WARDENS.
Alys Downpayne has given a pair of ryngs of sylver gylt.
John Rede . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . xd.
Isabell Boole a ryng of sylver gylt.
The maidens, young men, hoggelers, tokers, and pascall money . . . ijl. ijs. ixd.
J. Fyllypps hoggeler receives ijs. viijd., H. Harryson toker xiiijd., W. Jose iis.
Ed. Boole made his acownt for the cherce lond, in the yere abowfe (above) said, for
iij yere and halfe . . .
. . . . vs. xd.
Mem. the yere [of the lease] be kynnyth at our lady day in lent—after [i.e., henceforth).
There are ij gold and viij silver rings.
Delyveryd to W. Payne vjs. viijd. for by chesse. . . . . . xvjs. iiijd.
Remains in the box. . . . . . . . . . . . . .
The new wardens receive .
. . xxviijs. xd.
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A.D. mcccccrvi. i.e., Jan. 13, 1516-17 for 1515-16.
xijd.
ED. BOLL AND JOHN PHYLLYPS, WARDENS.
The wardens present of the gift of John Boklond ,
. .
Jon Brown a ryng of sylver and a frontlett.
Hew Sherwell . . . . . . .
John Phyllyps of Schepton . . . . .
1 At the marriage of Sir Gervase Clifton, A.D. 1530, amongst the "expenses of the apparel,” is
"A frontlet of blue velvet, xvijs.” Bailey, Annals of Nottinghamshire, Vol I, p. 380.
iijd.
iiijd.
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Croscombe Church-Mardens' Accounts.
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Itm. her comythe yn John Phyllyps and Wyliyam Payn an present for Sayntt Gorg ys
lyght . . . . . . .
.
. . . xijs.
The maidens, young men, hoglers, tokers, and the pascale
; xxxvijs. jd.
Delivered to J. Phyllyps for the huggelers light
. . ijs. viijd.
Itm. paid chyrche costs drwwytt (draweth] to . ..
xxxvjs. ijd. ob.
To Grayson and J. Vord for toker lyght . . .
. . xiiijd.
The Croke hath yncressyd thys yere . .
. iiij marki
[Usual expenses]. .
. . xvjs
There are viij sylver and one gold ring.
Reckenying for the Church land the whole year
. xxd.
Rest in the box for the yere past . . .
. xs. ijd
To the Wardens . . .
. . XXS.
Rest in the box of Saynt. Jorys [George's] mony
. xijs
Rest yn W. Payn hond for to by chesse . . . . . . . . vjs. viijd
The key of the Crok box John Morrys hond.
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A.D. mcccccrvii. i.e., Jan. 17, 1517-18 for 1516-17.
111
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. . iiijd.
. xvjs. viijd.
. xxvijs. viijd.
ED. BOLL AND JOHN HORDAR, WARDENS.
Ed. Jenkyll, Corff [? Carver] presents a ring of sylver and ij ygylt.
John Plenty
do.
Harry Mew
. . . . .
John Hordar presents in for Sayn Jorys lyght . .
The maidens, hoglers, tokers, young men, and the pascall present in
[Expenses.]
Rings, x silver one gold.
To J. Hordan and R. Male for the lyght.
To J. Phyllps for the hoglers lyght .
To Harryson for lyght . . .
To R. Brown for to by chesse . .
The Croke hath yncrest this yere .
In the cherche box in mony .
Itm. there ys Sir Thomas Vox owt (oweth] for my lady Schepton
In the box the whole sum of all mony. . . . .
. . ijs.
ijs. viijd.
. . ijs.
vjs. viij.
. xxxxiiijs. ijd.
. xxiijs. iiijd.
vjs. viijd.
iiijl. xivs. viijd.
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@.. mcccccxviii: i.e., Jan. 15, 1518-19 for 1517–18.
Ed. BOLL AND MORGAN PHYLLYPS, WARDENS.
A. Wattys presents a ryng of Sylver and ygelt (gilt]. -
W. Brane presents a Serplys and a iiijd. to the bell.
The Croke hathe incressyd thys yere . . . . . . . . xliijs. iijd.
i T.e., ijl. xiijs. iiijd.
Croscombe Church-Wardens' Accounts.
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The hoglers, tokers, young men and maidens present
. . xxixs. vjd.
[The usual sums are delivered out and paid away.] .
Itm. therys ypott [put] yn to the box v nobylls and xxxxd., and ryngs of silver and gylt.
D
PAGE 66.
Q.A. mcccccrir2.., Jan. 14, 1519-20 for 1518-19.
ED. BOLL AND RICHARD SEUGAR, WARDENS.
The gift of Alsun Whytyng of Pylton
. . iiijd.
, Phylyp Bys . .
. . . . . . . vjs. viijd.
, Isbell Sadler . .
. . ijd.
» Anys Carter a ryng of sylver and . ..
. vjs. viijd.
The hoglers, Tokers, young men, maidens, and pascall . . . . . Xxxviijs. vjd.
[The usual sums are delivered out and paid away.]
PAGE 67.
Q.A. m.vc.xx+ i.e., Jan. 14, 1520–21 for 1519-20.
ED. BOLLE AND JOHN EDMONDS, WARDENS.
Anys Yng presents a boke, a chalys, a peer (pair) of vestements, at the parylle (apparel] of the
awlter, also a rynge of golde.
Itm. Master John Edmonds a relyke of Syntte? Thomas of Canterbyrye.
W. Stevyns and Alys uxor ejus a ryng and . . . . . . . . vijd.
Alys Jarman a peer of bedys and a ryng.
Alys Mew a plat(er) and xij trenchers. S
Jone Haukor . .
. . iiijd.
[The hoglers, towkers, young men, maidens, the pascall, and S. George's profits as
usual.—The only change in the regular entries is instead of Croke-paid for
kepyng of the tresur* house.]
The sum remaining in the box is . . . . . . . . vijl. xiijs. ulijd.
A gold ring is sold for .
. . xiijs. iiijd.
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PAGE 68.
@.. m.vc.rri. i.e., Jan., 1521-2 for 1520–21.
ED. BOLLE AND JOHN HONYTHORNE, WARDENS.
Paid for the lyyngø of Whytte Wolle ,
: : iijs. vjd.
J. of John Joysse in the Chyrche ij torchys and iiijlb. of brasse.
i I.l., jl. xvjs. viijd.
2 Probably obtained on pilgrimage. This was the year of the last Jubilee of the Martyr. What was done
with the relic?
3 Outfit for the Church house.
4 The cross, with the other valuables, was now kept in the strong room at the S.W. angle of the Church.
6 Were these cases of the corpse being laid out in the Church beſore burial, with lights burning ?
F 2
30
Croscombe Church-Wardens'. Accounts.
PAGE 69.
[Among usual entries]
Ed. Wynsor geve unto the chorch ij yows [ewes] the prisse
.
Mem. that the sayd wardens had for to by wex iijs. iiijd. of the croke box.
PAGE 70.
.
iijs. iiijd.
A.D. m.vc.xxii. i.e., Jan. 1522–3 for 1521-2.
iiijd.
iiijd.
ED. BOLLE AND RICHARD WAYSSE, WARDENS.
The gifts of—
Sir Stevin Edmonds iij bokys of Canan.? ! Anys Taytte, a ryng of sylver.
Anys Hogys a ryng of sylver.
Elizabeth Shepperd do.
Thomas Chaunler of Hame . . iiijd. | Jone Bladon a charch and do.
Elynore Sowthmore a carcho [kerchief] Maude Brasse do.
and . . . . . . iiijd. | Thomas Amerike . . . .
W. Persse of Hame . . . .viijd. Robard Heth . . . .
J. Horder
i . xd. Robard Hopar of Wells.
Jone, daughter of W. Towker . . viijd.
A servant of J. Mors a carcho and peer of bedys.
R. Voll a platter, a poger, and . . . . . . . . . .
R. Chester . . . . . . . .
. . . .
John Molde. .
· .
[The hoglers and outgoings as usual.]
[The entry "to by chesse" does not now occur, but the sum allowed for that purpose,
viz., vijs. viijd. does, though without description of its application.]
iiijd.
111jd.
xijd.
iiijd.
.
.
ijd.
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a.A. m.vc.rriii. i.e., Jan. 17, 1523-4 for 1522–3.
[Originally so written; but one of the units has been scratched out. The same
remark applies to the heading of the next year.]
ED. BOLLE AND RICHARD BROWNE, WARDENS.
Gifts. John Carnycke a massebocke.
» Sir Umefry John son ; . . . . . . . . . . xijd.
» Watt Vynsentte
, Oleffe Lame a ryng of Sylver and gylte, and a peer of bedys of gette [jet] and
a charcho.
» Alys Sheppard a ryng of sylver and gylte.
» Anys Brade of Comton Dondayne .
. . xvjd.
[The hoglers, young men, maidens, and Towkers as usual, expenditure ditto.]
The crysse of Syntte my helle [Michael] . . .
. ijs.
Payd for the wesch (washingſ of the hy aulter . . . . . . . iiijs. viijd.
The crysse of Syntte Gorgys alle [Ale] . . . . . . . . xiijs. viijd.
xv rings of silver, ij of gold.
? Probably three books of the Canon of the Mass for use at the Altar.
2 Porringer.
Croscombe Church-Wardens' Accounts.
PAGE 73.
In the hands of Ed. Wynsore iiij yousse [ewes).
Delivered to R. Brown to by chesse . . . .
. . . . . vjs. vijd.
PAGE 74.
2.9. m.vc.rriiii. i.e., Jan. 16, 1524-5 for 1523–4.
ED. BOLLE AND JOHN VORDE, WARDENS.
Gifts. Anis Josse, a ryng of Sylver.
xv silver and ij gold rings in the box.
[Receipts and payments mingled].
Rest in box . . . . . . . . . . . jijl. xiijs. iiijd.
besides ryngs and vj ewes.
PAGE 76:
TERMS OF SHEEP-LEASE.
John Felyppes and Jone his wife vj yows [ewes), and iij ryngs of sylver. The whych
you scheppes (ewe sheep] beth delyvered unto Hew Morganne for the space of
vij yere, the said Hew for to pay by the yere the sum of ijs. for to pay hit at the
Countt day. If so be as eny of thes scheppe doth dy or inynish, the said Hew
pay for them xvjd. a pesse [apiece], the scheppe be of the age of iiij yere, all of
one age, the said Hew for to delyver at the vij yere ende the scheppe or ells
else . . . . . . . . . . . . . . viijs.
[All the usual entries of receipts and payments, except that there are no
S. Michael or S. George receipts.]
Itm. ther rest in the hands of Ed. Wynsor, vj scheppe, the whych thay be yousſewes]
all, the sayd Edward for to pay for the same scheppe at all tymys vjs. viijd., or ells
[else] the scheppe.
»
PAGE 78.
a. . mcccccrrv. i.e., Jan. 21, 1525-6 for 1524-5.
ED. BOLLE AND JOHN FORDE, WARDENS.
Gifts. Harry Cornysch of Wells . . . . . . . . . . 111d.
the wyfe of John Dylte of Wells . . . .
. . ijd.
, the wyfe of Lewis Tayler a sylver ryng and a charcho, and a cotton (curtain]
and bowese of wett [a bushel of wheat), and . . . . . .
iiijd.
the wyfe of Water Jonys a ryng of sylver and a carcho of lawne [lawn].
the wyfe of W. Towker a charcho and . . . . . . . . xvjd.
Johan Chanler of Hame . . . . . . . . . . viijd.
Alys the wyfe of Feleppe Morgan a ryng of sylver and a charcho.
Jone the wyfe of Robard Cosyn of Baltsborrew (Baltonsborough] . . . iiijd.
Rychard Bolloke a peer of crewatt [cruets).
» John Jevans a platter and ij sowsers (saucers) and a peny.
"[The usual entries of hoglers, &c., but no S. George).
Hew Morgan pays rent for the vj sheep. . . . . . . . . ijs.
Croscombe Church-Mardens' Accounts.
PAGE 80.
2.9. mcccccxxvi. i.e., Jan. 19, 1526–7 for 1525-6.
ED. BOLLE. AND JOHN KYNGDON, WARDENS.
Gifts. Sir Jon Rodneye. . . . . . . . . . . iijs. iiijd
Jone Parfytte of Doltyng . . . .
. . xxd
Elizabeth Corage a ryng of sylver and gylte.
John Dylte a wytte of lydde [weight of lead]
xxviij lb.
, W. Josse . . . . . . .
. . . . iiijd.
, Robyn Hodel . . . . . . . . . . . iiijl. iiijd.
Itm. payd to Rychard Brown for corpes?
. . . xjd.
Item. ther was payde owtte of the chyrch box for all the parysch whane ther was a
strayne taken for the lorde . . . . . .
. . XXS
*Hew Morgan to pay for the vj sheep ijs. a year for the space of vij years at the last
year xvjd. for apes [apiece].
There rest in the hands of Ed. Wynsor for vj sheep . . . . . . vjs. viijd.
PAGE 82.
Q.A. mcccccrrviit z.l., Jan. 18, 1527-8 for 1526–7.
ED. BOLLE AND JOHN MORS, WARDENS.
Gifts. Jone Sevons of Schepton Mallatte a ryng of golde.
„ Jone Shepperd of Stoke My hell (S. Michael, or Stoke Lane], a ryng of sylver.
Itm. Syntte Gorgys alle [Ale] the sum . . . . . . . xxxiijs. iiijd.
The rent of vj sheep for ij years . . . . . . . . . iiijs.
Mem. that Owyn Porter hath ypayd unto John Broke for his warke and to John Coke
for the mendyng of the horne of the cherch, and to Gornay and to the wardens
the sum [of] forti shelyng, and so the parysch doth owe on to Chantre . . xls.
PAGE 84.
21.. mcccccrrviii. i.e., Jan. 23, 1528–9 for 1527–8.
ED. BOLLE AND JOHN PELTON, WARDENS.
Gifts. John Sowthmore . . . . . . . . . . .
Richard Pers of Hame (Ham]. . . . . . . . . iiijd.
Alys Mew a rynge of silver.
Ther was made of Syntte Gorgys alle [Ale] by John Pelton and Rychard Vaysee lvijs. iiijd.
Received for a cotton (curtain] of Edw. Bolle . . . . . . . . xiijd.
is from Edmonde Carter for beryng of mother? . . . . . vjs. viijd.
[The usual entries of hoglers, &c., and expenses.]
1 The first time since 1510-11. ? Qy. Corporas.
3 A distraint made by the Lord of the Manor for chief rent (see the year 1493-4), due for cur Lady's
closes and the almshouses.
+ A summary of the terms given in full, 1524-5.
5 Some jutting corner or pinnacle. The cost required a loan.
6 1.e., the parish borrowed from the Feofſees of the Palton Chantry.
7 The stated fee for burying in the Church, the wardens making good the pavement.
Croscombe Church-Wardens' Accounts.
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PAGE 86.
A.D. mcccccrrir. i.e., Jan. 22, 1529–30 for 1528–9.
E.D. BOLLE AND WILLIAM MOLDE, WARDENS.
Gifts of John Bockelon :
Anys wife of J. Torne, a ryng of sylver and gylt. . .
Rd. Brown son of R. Brown . . . . . . . .
Made of Seyntte Gorgis alle [Ale] .
.
. . xijd.
. . jd.
. . iiijd.
. xxvjs. viijd.
[The usual entries of hoglers, &c., and sheep, and payments).
.
.
.
.
PAGE 88.
.9. mcccccxxx. i.e., Jan. 28, 1530–31 for 1529-30.
ED. BOLLE AND RICHARD MOLDE, WARDENS.
Gifts of Sir Thomas Rogers of Wells, preste (priest]. . . . . . . xxd.
» Rychard Goodall . . . . . . . . . . xijd.
, Tohn and Elizabeth Morris . . . . . . . . . . ijs.
the Lady Elizabeth a rynge of golde.
Anys daughter of John Edmonds a platter and .
iiijd.
the sayde Anys Edmonds a carcho or els [else] . .
viijd.
Allys Goodall, daughter of Williain . . . .
• . iiijd
Elyn Nicolas, a ryng of sylver.
Alys wyfe of W. Molde, a rynge of sylver and a carcho of lawnde.
W. Wooke . . . . . .
. . . . vid.
Ed. Sewgar a bason, and . . . . . . . . . iiijd
Jone Carter a ryng of sylver.
Master Moris Walker, perste (priest] . . . . . . . . vjd
Ed. Campe . . . . . . . . . . . . vid.
Cryten Horsynton, a ryng of sylver.
Isbell Carpyter, do.
Thomas Jacobe. . . . . . . . . . . . iiijd.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
iiijd.
ijd.
ijd.
» John Porter .
W. Lews . . . . . . . . . .
Ed. Bolle received for fessel (vessel]
Gift of Alys Blakedon, a ryng of silver.
Made at Seyntt Gorgys alle . .
. .
[The hoglers, &c., as usual.]
The Church Croke this year.
[The usual entries of expenditure.]
.
.
.
.
xiijs.
.
.
.
xxxixs. xd.
Regnal year given all through this period.
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Croscombe Church-Wardens' Accounts.
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PAGE 91.
@1.. mcccccrrri. i.e., Jan. 13, 1531–2 for 1530–1.
ED. BOLLE AND OwyN POTTER, WARDENS.
Gifts. Sir Nycolas Garlantte . . .
xxd.
Margaret Chester a ryng of Sylver, and a stone and i
. iijd.
» L. Watts of Schepton . . .
. iiijd.
» Jone Tucker of Noney [Nunney] . . . . . . . . . iiijd.
S. George ['s Ale] . . . . ; . . . . . . . xxvjs. viijd.
[The hoglers, &c., as usual, and the usual expenditure.]
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PAGE 93.
a.m. mcccccrrrii. i.e., Jan. 11, 1-532–3 for 1531–2.
ED. BOLLE AND WILLIAM WATTS, WARDENS.
GIFTS-
Em. feyse . . . . . iijd. | The Maydens incres . . xvijs. iiijd.
John Meryfylde and Edeth
vid. | The young men
. ijs. viijd.
John and Wyllyam Phelyps . . ijijd. The hogelers. .
. . iiijs.
St. George Croke Alle [Ale] . xviijs. iiijd. The towkers . . . . . xxjd.
The Pascall . . . . iiijs. viijd. ' The Croke box increse . . XXXS.
[The keys of the box are in the hands of J. Delton, as usual not one of the Wardens. ]
[The usual expenses.]
John Bolle for pewter vessells” debeth [debet, i.e., oweth] . . . . . ixd.
Itm. Owyn Porter debeth onto the Chorch of Corscomb xls., for to be ypaid in the
space of iij yere that ther shollde be ypayd at the day of the countts nextte
commying by Owyn Porter . . . . . . . . . xiijs. iiijd.
John Bolle debeth for the rent of the Chorch . . . . . . . ijs. vjd,
PAGE 94.
mcccccrrriv. Lease of ten sheep: Jan., 1534-5
for 1533-4.
In the rayne of Kyng Hary the VIIJ the xxv yere, the xviij day of January, the Wardens of
the parysch Chorch of Corscomb, Symon Brone and John Bolle other wys Mydel have I
sette to farme unto Rychard Downe of Corscomb x scheppe for the tyme of vij yers, and
the sayde Rychard for to pay by the yere for the rente of the x scheppe ijs. vjd. for to
be ypayd at the day that the Chorch Wardens doth make ther countte at the parysch
Chorch of Corscomb every yere for the tyme of vij yere for to pay ijs. vjd. by the yere
and to have the vij yere paste, the said Rychard Downe for to delyver the sayd
x scheppe so good as they ware or ells xiijs. iiijd. in good and lawfoll [money).
ther to consentteth Thomas Downe and Hary Jamys schomaker for to se the sayd
payment welle and trewly payd in the payne. (under penalty.]
1 Regnal year given all through this period.
? The vessels of the Church house are now let out on hire, as in other parishes. Hitherto the house has
yielded nothing to the wardens.
Croscombe Church' Accounts.
Wardens-
PAGE 95.
.D. mcccccxxxiii. i.e., Jan. 10, 1533–4 for 1532–3.
. : . iiijd.
·
JOHN CARTER AND JOHN MYDEL, WARDENS.
By the byquest of John at Wylle of Dynder . . . .
the byquest of Thomas Carpynter . . . . .
. viijd.
the byquest of Wellcheen (Wilkin] Chester . .
. iiijd.
and a ryng of sylver and gylte and a carcho.
the by quest of Rychard Jonys. . . .
. . vjd.
the byquest of Jone Bockelen of darke shellel .
. . iijs. iiijd.
the ryng of Mr. Thos. Fy [Fitz] James . . .
. . iiijd.
Itm. John Mydel hath delyvered for the pewter fessell . .
.. xjd.
[The pascall taper, the maidens, &c., the increase of St. George, &c., as usual. As :
also the usual sums returned to the maidens' light, hoglers' light, &c.]
eth for the rent of the Church . . . . . . . viijs. vid.
[The usual expenses, for keeping the clock, and washing, &c.]
Th. Downe debeth on to tlie chyrch for lampe
Itm. ther ys payd to the Clarke for his wagys? .
Money in the church box . . . .
. xjs. viijd.
John Chester for a carcho (the whych ygeven by his wyfe Welcheen) debeth. . ixd.
· PAGE 97.
. . mcccccrrxiv. i.e., Jan. 9, 1534-5 for 1533-4.
JOHN MYDELL AND SIMON BROWNE, WARDENS.
[They first present all the bequests.]
the byquest of Rychard Crosse, a ryng of sylver and . . . . . . viijd.
, Amys Camell . . . . . . . . . 111jd.
J. Mydell hatlı delyvered for pewter vessell . . . . . . . . xiijd.
[Receipts and expenditure under the usual heads.]
The sum that cherch coste of Rep(rea)ssig [Reparation] . . . . vl. xiiijd.
Tho. Downe debeth unto the chyrch for the rentte for the lamp [Mayow's endow-
ment] · · · · · · · · · · · · · · viljs.
R. Downe debeth for the rentte for x4 shepe . . . . . . . . ijs. vid.
PAGE 99.
.. mcccccxxxv. 2.l., Jan. 8, 1535-6, 1534-5.
EDMUND QUAR AND JOHN MYDDEL, WARDENS.
The byquest of Water Jonis . . . . . .
. . . . xijd
Edward Bolle . . . .
. viijd.
. , John Pers of Hame.
. iiijd.
[Receipts for the Pascal, &c., as usual, and usual outlay.]
J. Bolle paid for pewter vessels .
• . . xviijd. "
1 T.e., Darshill or Dursill, in Shepton. ? A new entry.
3 The wardens who leased the x sheep. 4 None for the vi sheep.
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Croscombe Church-Wardens' accounts.
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.
.
Owyn Porter debeth
W. Payne .
T. Downe
J. Moog
J. Bolle
W. Frensch
. . . . .
. . . . . .
My helle Mass [Michaelmas].
. .
.
xiijs. iiijd.
iijs. ilijd.
. viijs.
. iijs.
ixs. vid.
. iijs.
.
.
.
.
.
.
5
LO
PAGE IOI.
Q.D. mcccccxxxvi. i.e., Jan. 13, 1536–7, 1535-6.
JOHN INGSTRE AND JOHN BOLLE, WARDENS.
The byquest of Isbel Molde a ryng of sylver and gylt.
[Receipts and expenses as usual.]
J. Bolle bryngeth for pewter vessels .
. . xiijd.
The sum of costys done by John Yngstre this yere . . . . . . iijl. xjs. ob.
Received of J. Bolle for a ryng . . . . . . . . . . xviijd.
PAGE 102.
Received of J. Kyngdon for tymber . . . . . . . . vs. iiijd.
Edmond Quar debeth for lyde [lead] . . . . . . j cwt j qr. xviij lil
The prisse of the C of lyde. . .
. . . ilijs. viijd.
There rests in the hands of Jelyan (Julian] Harys for to by chese for the Croke [i.l.,
for the Procession]2
. iijs. iiijd.
[Various sums are owing as usual.]
PAGE 103.
Q.A. meccccrrrvii. i.e., Jan. 19, 1537-8 for 1536–7.
JOHN STEVYNS OTHERWISE SADELER, AND JOHN MYDELL OTHERWISE
JOHN BOLLE, WARDENS.
The bequest of Yede Suger, a ryng of sylver.
N. Goodall . . . . . . . . . . . iiijd.
Yede Robins of Wotton . . . . . . . . . iiijd.
Margaret Mawdelyn of Wells . . . .
. . . iiijd.
Anys Towker, a towelle and a yow schepe.
[Receipts and outlay under the usual heads.]
J. Mydell for pewter vessels . . . . . . .
. viijd.
T. Downe debeth for the lampe (i.e., Mayow's) dew at Michaelmas
. . viljs.
There rests in the hands of J. Harys for to by chese for the Croke . . . iijs. iiijd.
[Various sums are owing as usual.]
1 These 143 lbs. of lead probably had been given to the wardens by mining parishioners, for lead ore was
at that time ſound along the whole range of Mendip.
2 This allowance is now reduced to half the ordinary payment for these occasions.
Croscombe Church43
Wardens-
' Accounts.
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PAGE 105.
W.9. mcccccrrrviii. i.e., Jan. 11, 1538-9 for 1537-8.
THOMAS DOWNE AND JOHN MYDELL, WARDENS.
The bequest of John Hardwylle . . . . . . . . . . . 111d.
John Paynter . . . . . . . . . . . 111jd.
The incres of the pewter vessels .
. . . vijd.
[The accounts this year are much less regular than hitherto.]
The pascall taper iiijs. vijd. S. George's alle [ale] . . . . . . xxvjs. viijd.
The maydens . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . iiijs.
PAGE 106.
Jelyan Harys is paid for washing and tynyng the light.
J. Laffe oweth for a yowe .
. . xxijd.
John Ford oweth to the chirche for the rest of his? ale mony.
. iiijs. viijd.
Received for the pascall at Easter
iiijs, vijd.
For rent from W. Sugar . . . .
iijs. iiijd.
J. Sadeler
• vjs.
Mogg iij parts rent.
iijs. ixd.
R. Phelyppes for the vantage of bredde.
. xxijd.
Hill of Compton for rent . . .
. iiijd.
John Bysse . . . . . .
vijs. iiijd.
J. Edwards for last yere . .
ijs. iiijd.
T. Stevens for J. Edmonds rent this yere .
. xxd
Received for a knylle [knell]
iiijd.
of Edyth Honythorne for a knylle and the pall?
Margery Mether for our worst pall . . . . . . ijd.
More for lyme to John Medyll . . . . . . . .
PAGE 107.
[One page at least has been cut out with scissors. .
There is the heading of an account 33 Hen. VIIJ, i.e., Apr. 1541 to Apr. 1542.
Harry Mede and Richard Goodall, Wardens, crossed out.]
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vjd.
..
Clo. Hen. viii. rrrvi°.4 John Carter and JOHN STEVENS, WARDENS.
Receyvyd at our comyng in at the accompts day in money
. xiiijs.
Payd to the obytt for all gode doersó . . . . . . . ijs. vjd.
u for yoyle (oil]. . . . . . . . . . . . 1S. Viijd.
Paid for hewing timber to Broke . . . . . . . . . . xd.
1 John Ford had either given an ale, or had collected at an ale for the Church, and not paid the collection
in full.
2 First mention of a pall as a parish property.
3 Worn, and therefore not a new possession.
4 If dated from Jan. to Jan., as usual, this official year ran from Jan., 1545–6 to 1546-7. The King died
Jan. 28, 1547-8.
5 The parish benefactors, named in the Bede-roll.
G 2
44
Croscombe Church-WHardens' Accounts.
Paid to Broke for makyng of the framel .
Trame . . . . . . . . . xd.
» for belropys . . . . . . . . . . . . . ijs. ixd.
» for making of wax . . .
ijs. iiijd.
» for a tweyste and naylys and greffe?
. iijä.
for greffe (?) thred and silke . .
. iijd.
for caryng of the banor to Care (Cary].
iiijd. oh.
» for mendyng of the cloke . . .
.. xd. ob
„ at vysytation at Bruton
. . iiijd.
:, for caryng home of Tymber and Woode . . . . . . . xijd.
PAGE 108. MEM. [Interpolated to record Kingdon's debt from 1542.] That Edward
Kyndon and John Stevyns be chosyn Wardens for the yere. Wheras
delyvered them in hande xiijs. xd. in the yere of the rayne of Kyng Harri
the VIIJ, xxxiiij.
Soe Edward Kyndon doth owe viijs. and xxd. for chese (chest].
.
.
This is of John Carter and John Stevyns yere.
Paid for makyng a wheel to the little bell.
cutting trees and stopping of scherdys (gaps]
, bokes for the prossyon* . . . . . . .
coppys [copes] . . .
» going to visitation . . . . .
.
pweyntyngs of the Chyrche
for lime . . . .
for oyle and veyre and drynkyng and grese
ffre sute and kyngs sylver7 .
, wax xvjlh. at vd. ob. the pound.
.
.
iijs. iiijd.
. vd.
. xjd.
. xxjd.
: ijs.
xd.
xd.
xijd.
. xxd.
PAGE 109.
A.D. m.vc.xlvii. z.e., 1547–8 for 1546—7.8
JHAN BYSSE AND JOHN MYDEL, WARDENS.
The bequest of Rychard Bockland , vijs. | The Croke to eche (each of the Ales?]
the pascall taper . . . . 111js.
xxxiijs. jd. ob.
the maydes ayll [Ale] . . xxijs. vjd. They levyeth for the fyne of John
The Ale att Wytsontyde. xvijs. ijd. Jeffrey . . . . . xijd.
for John Kendon for hys fyne ijs. iiijd.
IT.e., a bell frame.
Qy., "grease "? grease for the bell-wheels.
3 First mention of a visitation. Previous wardens must have comprised it in their bill of costs.
4 Procession, i.e., the Litany, newly put forth in English.
5 Painting ; probably painting out something newly condemned.
6 Oil, fire, and grease, i.e., for a bonfire on Midsummer Eve.
7 If this refers to the King's revel (hitherto a source of income) and not to a legal process, the suit must he
a dress provided for the mock king, and the silver a tribute paid to him.
8 Spoliation begins, and voluntary offerings die away.
Croscombe Church-Wardens' Accounts.
45
Mem. Than Ba nytt for at of hys fynuts of the year debts.]
Mem. Jhan Bysse doth ... detter [debtor] before all the pareche for certen
plate sold hytt (or att] and awtrer [Altar] to the side of ys . . iiijl. vjs. iiijd.
Itm. John Jeffrey do owe of hys fyn . . . . . . . . i vjs.
Thomas Stevyns do owe for iij parts of the year. . .
ijs. vid.
[Several other debts.]
PAGE 110.
Mem. that 38 Hen. VIIJ? Jhan Bysse and Jhan Phylepes were chosen Wardens.
Qo. 1548, i.l., 1548–9 for 1547–8.
[A list of nine men who owe sums from xx to iv shillings; for what is not stated;
only]
T. Downe do owe for a ryng . .
. . . .
vid.
PAGE IIJ.
Q.D. mcccccrlviii.?
The Church rents the first day of September.
[A list of nine names, each owing for five quarters' rent in sums from xvs. to vd.]
PAGE II2.
Co. 1550, i.e., 1550-51 for 1549-50.
JOSEPH CARTER AND THOMAS FASY, WARDENS.
[The whole page is taken up with a list of sums owing to the parish, the following
only specify for what the sums were due]:-
T. Downe for rings . . . . vjd. , the person for a hlew cloth .
T. Hyll for rent . . . . vd. T. Wills for a brouder [broidery] .
the person for xy lb. of wax . . iijl. | R. Tasy for a ber . . . .
the person for the perrafrase (Para-
E. Quar for a ber . . . .
phrase] . . . . . vs. ijd. |
xijd.-
vjd.
xiijd.
xixd.
1 If in January, a few days before the King's death on the 28th.
2 In this year Edward VI's Commissioners seized the Chantry endowments, i.e., the lands and Chapel of
East Horrington, and the Mayow lands and houses. See Som. Record Soc., vol. ii.
3 The Paraphrase of Erasmus on the Gospels and the Acts, first published in English in A.D. 1547, from
the Translation by Nicholas Udal, a protégé of Queen Katherine Parr.-(Strype's Memorials, vol. ii., part i.,
p. 45.).
4 Lol., “ bier," either for the use of one, or perhaps to purchase it.
Croscombe Church-Wardens' Accounts.
PAGE 113
A.D. “yn the ffyfe yere of our soffreyn lorde kyng
Edward the Sext,” Dec. 6, i.e., 1551-2 for 1550-1.
Mem. that the parish of Corscomb hath chosen to be Wardens, John Goodall and
John att Wyll, in the fyffe year of our sovereign lorde Kyng Edward VJ the vj
day of December.
And John Enstryge and Rechard Felyps to have the over sight.
Mem. Wardens made “ther a cownt a newerds eve (New Year's Eve) 1552."
“The paryche ys depytte” . . . . . . . . . . ivs. vijd.
5
A.D. 1553, i.e., 1552–3 for 1551–2.
The same Wardens. And John Myddyl and Richard Whats to help sell the tymber
and other things.
Mem. Jhan Goodall, Jhan Attwoll, hath mayd ther acownte to Jan. 1554, and they
doth owe to the paroche . . . . . . . . . . . Xilijlı.
5
PAGE [14.
.. “yn the fryst [fyrst] yere of the rayne of oure
most sovreyne lady the queen Mary,” i.e., 1553-4
for 1552–3.
RICHARD WATTS AND RICHARD DOWNE, WARDENS.
They have received” a sylver challys, and a cover.
Itm. a boxe of coper for the sacrament. | Itm. ij barres of yeron (iron] with a slege
, a blake palle of blake velvet and red.
[a sledge-hammer) and a stone sawe.
» a paule of blew damaske.
, j peke (pick] axe and a spade.
» a paule of green silke.
„ j wyte bason and a towell.
, a awter cloth of green and gold saten of „ a streymer and a bayner logge.3
bryges (Bruges] silke.
, a kerchowe that did serve the canapy
, iij lynen awter clothes and a towell.
with torcells.*
» ij serples.
I a canapy to hange the sacrament over.
Spoliation going on. Overseers appointed to watch the wardens.
? I e., recovered goods, hidden during Edward's reign. Mary's accession was July 6, 1553.
3 A flag and banner “lug," i.e., string.
. 4 Tassels.
Croscombe Church' Accounts.
Wardens-
Itm. ij long towels for Ester.
| Itm. a grete cheste bownd with yron.
, a cope of blue vellat (velvet] and a „ a pere of sensers [censers].
westment of blew and red bryges , a bybell.
[Bruges] saten, withall thyngs to hit » iij stoles.
belonging.
iij famels.1
, a crosse of coper, ij candeelstekes of , a tabell for the communyon.
laten.
, a grete cheste in the vestre for copes.
„ij boxes formony bowned withyron[iron] |
PAGE 115.
Mem. they have receyvyd in redy mony : .
. . xiiijl.
[Four debtors are to pay within a year. The names of xxiij men who are present
when the above agreement is come to, are given.]
PAGE 116.
A.D. 1555, Jan. 12, i.e., 1555-6 for 1554-5.
RICHARD WATTS AND RYCHARD DOWNE, WARDENS.
[No accounts.)
A.D. 1556, Jan. 18, i.e., 1556–7 for 1555-6.
JOHN CLYVE AND JOHN BLAKMAN, WARDENS.
[Only two entries of receipts of xvjs. from two debtors. ]
Q. . 1557, Jan. 9, i.e., 1557-8 for 1556–7.
JOHN MYDDLE AND RYCHARD MOLDE, WARDENS.
The next Wardens are to be R. Mowlde and Joseph Cartter.
Received of John Godwyn of the bequest of Jone Buclond, Wydow . . iijs. iiijd.
Received more of the said J. Godwyn for the burial in the Church of the said Jone
Buclond, and the wife of Joseph Carter her daughter .. . . . xiijs. iiijd.
[Three debts are paid.]
Remayneth owing by John Goodall for the buryall of hys wyfe in the Churche . vjs. viijd.
[pp. 118, 119 of the accounts are blank.]
PAGE 120.
2.9. 1558, i.e., 1558-9 for 1557-8.
JOHN COLYER AND NYCHOLAS WYLLS, WARDENS.
They present the gefſte of Sir Smyth .
James Carter . .
Total receipts . . . . . . . . . . .
I“ Famels,” i.e., "fanons,” maviples.
.
.
vid.
xijd.
XXVS.
.
.
88
Croscombe Church-Wardens' Accounis.
PAGE 121.
Payments.
Payd for making of the pascall. xxijd., Payd for a tonge for the second bell .. jd.
:, for francincense and pynsl . ijd. for mending a hole in the led. ijd.
„ for the maken clene of candel-
» for carryage of a shete of led , iijd.
sticks . . . . . .
» to Vysytation . . . . ixd.
for weshyng a qayrt [? quarter] .
to makyng up of the byll . . ijd.
att Brewton at Vysytation ...
to a rope for the whyrelgok . iijd.
» for the hyre of a horse . . . iiijd. for keepyng of the cloke . . viijs.
„ for mending of the bere . . ijd. ' „ for Washing . . . . vjd.
vjd.
xijd.
PAGE 122.
2.9. m.vc.lit. i.e., 1559-60 for 1558–59.
HARRY WYLLS AND RYCHARD BYSSE, WARDENS.
[No items. Due to Wardens] . . . . . . . xjs. viijd.
Q.A. m.vc.fr. i.e., 1560–61 for 1559-60.
.
JOSEPH CARTER AND THOM MEAD, WARDENS.
Payd for Visitation . . . .
for bred and wyne from passyng Sonday: thys day.
, for washing the whole year . . . . . . .
, for mending of a serpless
Tot. . . . . . . . . . . . .
.
.
.
. VS.
ijs. iiijd.
. xijd.
.
.
.
iijd.
..
.
.
xixs. xjd.
THE END.
[Several pages apparently lost.]
1 Pines, either (a) pine boughs, used as well as juniper, for purifying the Church : or (b) for torches to be
carried by the acolytes.
2 Whirl-cock, whirligig.
3 Passion Sunday.
Pilton:
Circumstances of the place.
Glastonbury Abbey was the Lord of the Manor including Wootton (an acreage of 7,139
acres), and sole known Landowner. The Abbot kept the Manor-house close to the Church
fit for his occasional residence. He had theſe a park, a vineyard, and a large demesne, on
which stood and stands a noble barn.
THE CHURCH
Was dedicated to St. John the Baptist. Our Lady's Altar stood in the North Aisle. The
women seem to have used that part as their special chapel and place of offering. There
were two guilds, that of St. John the Baptist, and that of the Hogglers, who maintained a
light at some altar unnamed. The Church-house, called St. Mary House, repaired in 3rd of
Hen. VIII., and now standing, afforded ample room for all the brotherhood meetings and
festivities. The Rectory, valued in 1537 at £24 6s. 3d. nett, was appropriated under a com-
pact with the Abbey, the original patron, by Bishop Savaric, circa 1200, to the Precentorship
of the Cathedral. The Precentor thenceforth nominated the Vicar to the Bishop for Institu-
tion. The Chapter, in lieu of the Archdeacon, gave induction, but the disciplinary authority
of the Ordinary was vested in the Precentor.
The rectorial and vicarial houses with their tithe-barns must have formed part of the
surroundings of the Church. The Vicar was bound to serve North Wootton Chapel.
FISCAL SYSTEM.
Until the year 1530 a single Warden administered the parish funds. He alone was
responsible to the visiting authority, and accounted to the parishioners, but under him there
were—it would seem-no less than four pairs of Wardens, viz., Our Lady Wardens, those of
S. John's Brotherhood, those of the High Light on the rood-loft, and those of the Key, Kye
or Cows, the form of live-stock by which the rich pastures could best render their tribute to
the Church. A Key-warden's Account will be seen on p. 64, but dateless. Each cow, it
will be seen, had a surety, "borow" or "pledge” to certify her good treatment. A large pro-
portion of parishioners was in these manifold ways engaged in the responsible service of the
Church. Save only a few small gifts from the wealthy, the funds flowed from within, and
always sufficed.
Pilton Church-Wardens' Accounts.
NORTH WOOTTON.
This Chapelry had its pair of Wardens, who were presumably answerable directly to the
diocesan authority for the fabric and its offices. Besides a subsidy to the Easter light of
Pilton, they paid 35. 4d. per annum to the Mother Church, the usual form of recognizing a
daughter's former dependence. In the Chapel there was a Light endowed with six acres of
land yielding 1os. when confiscated to the King in 1548. [See Som. Rec. Soc., Vol. II.]
THE CHURCH-BOOKS.
Vol. I contains two leaves of parchment, the rest of paper. It is bound in parchment,
measuring it in by 72-in. It is made up of three pieces, the first enclosed in parchment
with eight sheets within. Of the second and third no less than seven leaves are maimed or
cut away.
Vols. II and III beginning in 1584, and 1626, ending 1641, do not fall within the
present range of research.
The subjoined Table of Contents will show that the accounts are neither perfect nor
continuous, nor arranged in time. The paging is that of the original MS.
Date. Page in
Date. Page in
MS.
Inventory
... ... 1508 ... 1-4 Competus of Wm. Woky,
Competus of Wm. Knoll ... 1508 ... 5-8
14 Hen. VII, A.D. 1498-9 ... 27
Wm. Vowles ... 1509 ... 9-11
Thos. Schetes,
John Capell 1510 ... 12-14
15 Hen. VII ...8499-1500 29
Thomas Cawndeler 1507
John Canard ...
1507 ... 15-16
deler
1514 ... 32
John Browsse, of
Thos. Ede ... 1515 ... 34-5
Compton ... 1511 17-19
John Wilkins ... 1516 ... 36-7
John Browsse, of
Wm. Tokar ... 1517 ... 39-40
Pilton?... . .. 1512 ...
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John Holder ... 15[18] ... 42-4
the Wardens of the
Note of Receipt by Mathew
Key for 3 years dateless ... 24 Trym of the balance of his
Inventory of “goods longyng to
predecessor, John Lane
Wardyngs,” xv of H. VII, 1.2., 1499-1500)
Warden in 1519 ... ... 1520 ... 45
List of the Key Wardens, Town-
Competus of Will. Sargeant ... 1521 ... 47-50
send and Dore, May I ... 1507 ... 1 9
Will. Vowllys ... 1523 ... 51-3
List of Debts owing to Church 1507 ... ]
Wm. Lamman ... 1525 ... 55
A remembrance (Inventory) of
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Rob. Herris and
ornaments Our Lady's
Walter Bayle ... 1530 ... 56
Wardens, xv of Hen. VII ... 1499-1500 I 2
In 1522 Wm. Canard was Warden, in 1524 John
List of rings ... ... ... 1503 ... )
Rogers, but their accounts have perished.
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1 Inventorium omnium bonorum ecclesie parochialis Sti Johannis Baptiste de pulton
factum p Willelm. Jones vicarium eiusdem ecclesie et pochianos tempore
Willelmi Knoll gardiani vicesimo quinto die mensis Aprilis die Sti Marcii.
Anno Dni millesimo quingentesimo septimo? et anno Henrici septimi vicesimos
[the year has been altered by a later reviser's hand to “xliiija of Hen. VIII,"
and a note added. viz.] V nobiles ad Stum Jacobum.
Fyrste iij Crosses one of Copyr and gylte with Mary and John and a staffe of copyr and
gylte.
Item ij other Crosses of tree and sylvered uppon.
Iteni a pyxte of sylver to bere yn the sacrament,
Item ij sylver candelstikes.
Item iij chalys one gylte weying ... [blank].
Item one littel chalys half gylte weying ...
Item one chalys parcell gylte, weying ...
Item one stonding maser to serve for Brydes at theyr weddyng, weying ..
Item one paxbrede of sylver parcell gylte of the gyfte of William Mowett and Alis is wiff
weying ...
Item Rynges sylver and gylte xxxiij and viij besyds our lady mantell and xiij in the mantell
with saynte James schell of sylver and other broches.
Item ij Clappesys of silver that was uppon the ordinal.
Item a maser off the border sylver and gylte ye gyft of Walter Sargent.
Item for ij Rynges one ye bequeste of Anys Symond.
Item ffor a nother off the quest of Alyss of quortt.
... of ppull sylke harnes wt. sylver. vacat.
. ; . of... Capell of
Pennard by quest of William dere for xs. vacat.
of ... of. . Calowe ys biqueste of sylver and gylte. vacat.
Itm. Ryngs iij.
Sma. of Ryngs, xxxiij xxx [erased).
ffyrste a hole sewte of Pleyne damaske of the biqueste of Walt. Wry wt. a cope of whyte and
hanckyngs for the hyght aut [er].
Itm. a hole sewte of grene wt. a cope.
1 The heading and the whole list has undergone at least two revisions and two checkings of the inventory.
2 Altered to xxxix as if to make it 1539 Ap. 25, 1539=31 Hen. VIII.
3 Altered to octavi followed by something illegible, probably at first scdő. April 25, 1507 = 22 Hen. VII.
4 Belongs probably to date as last altered, 1544.
5 The King having died in his 38th regnal year, this was a scribe's error.
6 I.e., the article was dropped from the inventory.
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Itm. a westement of grene wellwett of John Wry is biquest.
Itm. a westement of blewe damaske of Edm. Selepark biquest.
Itm. a westement of whyte wt. skalloppeys schells.
and ij Chesabylls of whyte and sylver of the biquest of panys.
Itm. a westement of ... and grene of Ser Thomas Wade biquest.
Itm. a westement of whyte of doctor Sugar? biquest.
Itm. a westement of (whyte) for lent.
Itm. a westement of blacke.
Itm. a westement of flowerey saten of master Thomas Bolen? bequest.
Item a grene westemente of grene.
Item a worse westemente of grene.
Item a westement of grene of ser Johan Wullners biqueste.
Item a cope of redde wt. grene bawderyck.
Item a cope of grene.
Item a hangkyng of whyte damaske branched wt. flowres and ij Curtene of whyte Sarton of
the gyfte of Agnes Rickeland and a hangkyng for the aut of whyte sylke sett wt. flowres
browdered and a crucifixe in the mydde of the gyfte of my lorde Edmund (?) channl of
Wells.
Item a cope of redde velvet DS.
Item a peace of westement of redde welvet with bere.
Item on hanerykyng with ij curtens steyned of the gift of John W-
Item on hangyng for the high auter of saynte Johan Baptist and saynte Johan Evangelyste.
Item iij stenyed clothes at saynt Kateryn and saynt Nicholas auter.
Item a canype steyned to hold over the sacrament Corpus Christi ys day.
Item iij baner clothes of sylke steyned with our Lady and saynt Johan Baptist and the signes
of the passyon.
Item ij other baner clothes of sylke of the gyfte of Alys Volks.
Item a mantell of purpull wellwent and parseled with black wellwent of John.
Item a mantell of blew wellwent for our lady at the Wante [font?].
Item a palle, Item ij other baner clothes of cloth and ij other steyned clothes, one of saynt
Katyn and others.
Fyrste a masse boke of master Thomas Bolen bequest.
Item a masse boke prynted. Item ij baner clothes of ye pascion.
Item ij old massebokes. Item a pillo of purpyll velvett.
Item a grayle noted.
Item a prosessionary covered with blacke
Item iiij prosessionaries prynted.
Item a quayer of the newe feste notyd
Item a manuel boke. Item a manel buke prynted.
Item an ordinall and a festivall.
Item an old portuas and ij old antiphoners.
Item .. of other olde bokes.
Item and ij new bokes—a manuel boke
Item a grett portuas of prynte.
1 One of Bp. Beckington's executors. ? Precentor, 1451-1471
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Item iiij Serplės.
Item auter clothes, iij of Johan Wardeford bequeste.
Item xxxij Kercheffes grete and smale for images.
Item a clothe for the sepulcre steyned.
Item steyned clothes for lent steyned wyth the signes of ye pascion.
Item a kerchoff of John Howder.
Item iiij Auter clothys and ij Kerchoffs.
Item vj erds of redde saye and vj of grene.
Item iij corporas casse of velvett.
Firste a grete brasse pott, of John Warde biqueste.
Item six other brasse pots and iiij pannys.
Item viij tabyll clothes.
Item j basen and j laver of laten.
Item a pollyse of iron and ij polys [pulleys] of brass nowe beying at Pyll.
Item a slegge to breke stones at the quarey,
Item a bollte of iron and grete crokes and a chayne of iron.
Item a payer of vestymenttes of whyt of the bequeste of Willyam Fowllys ye wyche is of
whyt Damaske.
Item a payer of Vestymentes of Rede Velvett of the bequeste of my lorde of Glastynbery.
Item xxj polle of puter vessell.
Item iij brochys and brondeyron.
Item iij sponys of silver of the gift of Wat. Sargent.
Item j spone ... Johan Geteven.
Item j spone ·Agnes.
Item an oyle vatte of sylver.
Item j lytell boxe of silver and gelt of master Chanter bequest, of doctor Pirssel byquest.
Item vj spones of John Holder bequest.
And a maser with a bande of silver a pere of bedes of jete with xij gaudes of sylver.
Item a
[The next entries are scribblings on a page left blank between Warden Knoll's receipts
and payments. The first entry states the number of Rings in stock in 1500. It recurs
below. The numbers and dates are confused by repeated alterations, which mar the value
of the record.]
The Some of Rynges in the ere of our Lord Gode mccccc [xxli, xli] and a crusifix.
Item [i]ij? Rynges.
Item the recept of Rynges yn my yere.
Firste receved of Issabel Hayne bequeste j rynge.
Item receved of Margarete Coke ys bequest ij rynges.
Item receved of Johan Calowe ys bequeste j rynge and saynt James schell.
i Dr. Pyers. Precentor, 1513-1535.
2 Evidently altered from time to time.
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Item receved of Alys Trynme ys bequeste j rynge.
„ „ Margery Danyell „ j rynge.
, , Alys Torner
„ j rynge.
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Johan Barett „ j rynge.
Item John Kanerde a cowe the geft of John Brok p’ci [price] the cow--xjs. viijd. the hyre
xxd.
The summe of rynges in the ere of our Lord Gode MCCCCCXXXIX, xxv and a crusifix.
Item a gerdyll with vj stodes of silver with a bokyll and a pendend of sylver of the geft of
angnis [Agnes] Bokeland.
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Marcii die Mensis Aprilis Anno Dni millesimo quingentesimo octayo.
Fyrst Receved of Wm. Champyon for Thomas Chaundeler
. . vli. xs. viijd.
Item Receved of Willyam Townysende and John Dore for Key Whyt . ixs. vd.
Item receved of Willyam Tucky . . . . .
· vjs. viijd.
Item receved of Estyr Lygght . .
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Wotton for Estyr Ly3ght
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Johan Brousse : :
vjs. viijd.
Willyam Mylleward :
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Willyam Dore the elder.
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John Wattes . . .
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Thomas Chaundelere .
. . . iijs. iiijd.
John Brousse of Compton
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John Elyns . . .
iiijs. vid.
Alys Tornere . .
iiijs. iiijd.
Walter Sergeant the elder
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Richart Sergeant . .
ijs. iiijd.
Richard Mylleward
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John Wrye . .
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Wyllyam Mere .
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Margerete Wallter ys byqueste
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Ric. Mylleward ys biqueste . .
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Agnes Natteley ys biqueste . .
• viijd.
„ John Smyth and Johan Canard our lady wardens
Ivjs. ixd.
Item Receved of Wm. Dyke . .
iiijs. vid.
, , for the Sepulture of John Dore . . . . .
vjs. viijd.
„ „ of the biquest of John Man . . . . . . . . xijd.
Item receved of the parish gathering for the coueryng of the rode lozffte. viijs. ijd.
Sm. xiijli. xiiijs. viij.
1 Before the commutation of tithe, 1835, “Cow-white ?was the customary term for the fixed payment, or
modus, due to the Vicar in lieu of the tenth of milk. In this case the sum paid by the Cow-Wardens must
have been the yield of the milk of their Herd. See their account, p. 64, to the Warden for the benefit of the
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Competus Willmi Knoll gardiani ecclesie pochialis Sti Johanis Baptiste de Pulton
Aº Dni millesimo quingentesimo octavo. Soluciones eiusdem Willam Knoll in
singulis.
First payed and delivered to John Smy3th and John Canard our lady wardens . . XXS.
Item payed to dd. [David] Jonys the peynter of the Rode ložthe the xijth of aprile xxvjs. viijd.
Item to Wyllyam Ffeyzand sunt [servant] of the sayed dd. on saynt Marke ys day xiijs. iiijd
Item payed on saynt Marke ys day to the vicar, the clerke, and the ringes for Dyryge
of the Benefactours of the chyrche . . . . . . . . . viijd.
Item payed for di on (half one] qyer of papyr and di for the boke of a compt . . iiijd.
Item for waxe and makyng of Trendell . . . . . . . ijs. iiijd.
Item for vij lbs. of waxe and makyng of the same waxe at Estyr . iijs. viijd. ob.
Item for skowryng of the Candillstykes . . . . .
. iiijd.
Item payed to Jolin Foreste, smyth for yron werke for ye Rode logfte . . ijs. vd.
Item payed to dd. Jonys peynter at divse tymes for hys coste. . . . xd.
Item payed to hym that brow3th a brason pott fro Balysborowe . . . iijd.
Itm. for wex and of ij tapers agenst the dedicasyon . . . . . i vijs. ob.
Itm. payed to the clerke of Saynt John ys fraternyte . . .
. . xd.
Itm. payed to dd. Jonys peynter the day of the feste of Saynt Petyr and Paule iijli. vjs. viijd.
Item for a lowans of badde grotes cryppe? . . .
. iijs. ijd.
Item Reckshokes and gret pynnys for the Auters . . . . . . jd.
Item for Reparacyons of the Bawdryckes of the bellys . . . . . . iiijd.
Item for the reparacyons of the Churchhey gates .
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Item payed to the peynters
xiijs. iiijd.
Item payed to Edward Holdyn for the peynters tabyll
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Item payed to the plumere . . .
• vjs. viijd.
Itm. for my labor on[e] day ..
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Item for the mowyng of the churche hey.
. . iiijd.
Item payed to the peynters . . . .
· xxvjs. viijd.
. . xlviijs. jd.
Item payed to the clerke for his ernest peny . . .
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Item payed for the makyng of saynt Nicholas ys staffe . .
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Item payed for the makyng of a tapere. .
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.... makyng of ij tapers agenste the feste of the Nat. of Cryste . xd. ob.
Item payed for xij ellys of lenyn clothe for the Rode lo3fte
· vijs. vijd.
Item for lynes and rynges for the sayed clothe . . .
• . vijd.
Item for waschyng of the churche clothes
. xvjd.
· wrytyng of myne a compte . . . . . . . . . viijd.
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in die Sti Marcii Evangeliste Aº Dni millesimo quingentesimo nono et anno
Henrici Octavi p’mo.
RECEPT.
Firste received of on Estir Day
. xvjs. jd.
Item R. of Willyam Knoll
. xvjs. viijd.
, John Holler . .
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Herbert Kerver . . . . . . . . . . . . xS.
yong men lyght
. iiijs. vijd.
the bequestse of John Deran ys dowter.
xijd.
Thomas Townisende
vjd.
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John Rede . . . . . .
. . . iiijd.
, for a peyr of bedes of the biqueste of John Hollere ys wyff.
Item of Wotton Estyre lyght.
, R. for a peyr of bedys geete . ..
• viijd.
, R. of the biquest of Johan Denam .
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R. of Thomas Schepard . .
ixs. iijzd.
R. of John Brusse and John Ragg
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R. of Robert Kerver . . . .
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Item for viij yere j cowe
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Sum tot. recep
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EXPENSE.
First payed for viij lbs. wax agenst Estir . . . . . . . . . . iiijs.
Item the makyng . . . . . . . . . . . . . id.
Item delyved to John Holler, our lady Warden .
. . xS.
Item for Dyryge Messe for ye benfactors on saynt Marke is day
.. viijd.
Item for Waschyng or Whytyng of the church . . . .
· · vijs.
Item for lyme and pargyttyng . . . . . . . . . . . xviijd.
, for a paylo . .
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Item payed to John Wardeford for pargyttyng of the tour and stoppynt of the skaffold
holys . .
Item for on yron for the ledde at saynt Mary housse xy li diftrdih 7
It. a putteful of erth . . .
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It. j lb. of waxe to renewe the p'keť [pricket] agenst Wittsonday and the makyng viijd.
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· Item for mowyng of the chirchyard . . .
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, wax for the trendell and makyng .
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wax and makyng of ij tapers
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at ye Dedicacyon.
. xiiija.
Item for ij newe bele ropys . . . .
. xvd.
, mendyng of Beer [bier] . . . .
. ijd.
Item delivered to Robert Kerver . .
Xs.
„ Willm. Sergeant and John Canard
Item for wex and makyng of ij tapers agenst the Feste of the Nat. of Cryste
xiiijd.
Item lether and reparacyon of ye bawderickes . .
i vjd.
Item for oyle for the bellys . . . . .
. ijd.
Item the plummer and sawder .
: viiijd.
Item payed to proctour of saynt John is fraternite .
xd,
Item payed to Thomas Man for a Riage [arrearage] of a compe of a more sum for saynt.
Mary house . . . . . . . . . . vjs. viijd.
Item for waschyng of the churche clothes . . . . . . . . xvjd.
Item for mendyng of the cope . . . . .
: . ijd
Item for wrytyng and makyng of the boke of a compte . . . . . . viijd.
Sm. iiijli. xiiijs. viijd.
Reste to the church clere . . . . . . . . . XXXVjs. xjd. ob.
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Competus Johannis Capell XXV° die Mensis Aprilis Anno Dni millesimo quingen-
tesimo decimo et Anno p’mo Henrici octavi.
Firste of Wyllyam Wowlys Warden next by for hym in money the daye of a
compte . . . . . . . . . . xxxvjs. xjd. ob.
Item receved of Estyr lyzghte of Pyllton Estyr Day . . . . . . xvjs. iiijd.
Item receved of the biqueste of John Brederyppe of Pylle . . . . xijd.
Item receved of John Deverell and Wm. Rug, Wardens of Wotton.
. vs.
Item from Wyllyam Sergeant and John Canard saynt Mary Wardens . lvs. vid.
Item for Issabell Man for hokelyng lyzghte . . . .
. . ijd.
Item of John Forest for his mother bequest . . . . . . xijd. and a ryng.
Item receved of Richard Merke ys bequest . .
. vij lbs. of ledde.
Sm. vli. xvijs. ixd. ob.
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The costes of the same yere above rehersyd.
Fyrste payed to John Sergeant . . . . . . . .
Item payed to Richard Shete . .
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Item for viij lb. wexe agenst Estyr Day, the Paschall want [font] tap and ij tapers
Item for dyryge messe for the benefactors on saynte Marke is day . . .
Item for a rope for the Trendell . ..
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Item for a key for the cofyrs that Wm. Schepard gave .
vjs. viijd.
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ivs. viijd.
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Item for waxe and makyng of iiij tapers the dedicacyon day . . . ijs. iiijd. ob.
Item payed to the plumber, sawder, and his labour . .
. ijs. vid.
Item a laborer to serve hym . . . . . . .
vjd.
Item for a plancke to rayse the ledde . . . . . . . . . ijd
Item for skowryng of the Candellstyckes . .
• iiijd.
Item for iij newe belle ropy's . . . .
. . , xxjd.
Item for mowyng of the churcheyard .
• iiijd.
Item payed to the pcto. (proctor] of saynt John ys fraternite .
. xd.
Item for a new lantern ,
vijd
Item for a locke for the towr door. .
ijd.
Item for a newe spade and showell .
xijd.
Item for sope and waschyng of the Corporas
Item for lynes for lente clothes
vjd.
Item for reparyng of beer . . .
ijd.
Item for oylying of the bellys . .
. .ijd.
Item for reparying of the bawderyckes .
. . iijd.
Item for iij lb. of wexe and makynge of iiij tapers agenst Nat. Di.
• xxjd. ob.
Item for makyng of a newe gate yn the Churchyard, bordes, tymbir and ij lode stones xxiijd. ob.
Item for settyng of free stones that John Wardeford gave . . . . jd.
Item for waschying of the churche clothes and ye kercheff of ye canepy . . . xvijd.
Item for wrytyng of the a compte . . . . . . . . . . xijd.
Sm. xxxjs. iijd. ob.
Rest to the Church clere . . . . . . . . . iijli. xvijs. ijd.
ijd.
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The Dettes that remayneth the said yere.
Fyrste Wyllyam stevyns for iij key · ·
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Item for the heyr of the key . . . . . . . . .
Item John Elyns for hokelyng a yere and a half.
Item John Baron.
. . . . . . . .
Item the Vicar that Wyllyam Champyon for.
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Item Thomas Sergeant and John Paty wardens of the hyghe crosse lyght
Item Wyllyam Wowlys for hys ere for Wotton.
The Rynges John Capel ys Dayer.1
Sm. of all the rynges V., vij. Ti.e., 127.7
Item a rynge Johan Wardeford.
Md. that Tomas Sergeant oweth to ye cyrch . . . . . .
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iijs. iiijd.
. xd.
iijs. ijijd.
Xxx
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. xiiijd.
? T.e., Dairyman.
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' Accounts.
Competus Thomæ Cawndeler factus in die Sti Marcii XXV° die Mensis Aprilis
Anno Dni millesimo quingentesimo septimo, et Anno Regni Regis Henrici
septimi vicesimo secundo vell 30.
THE RECEPT.
Fyrste receved of Estyr lyghte Ester Day
. xvjs. viijd.
Item receved of Wotton for Ester lyghte. .
. . VS.
Item for yong men lyght . . . .
. iiijs. iiijd.
Item for one peyr of Bedys . . . .
. . viijd.
Item receved of Wyllyam Champyon
. lixs. xd.
Item receved of our Lady wardens John Wylkyns and John Man . . iijli. vjs. viijd.
Sm. tot Recepcois vijli. xiijs. ijd.
IN ANNO REGNI REGIS xxiiij [later hand).
Item in rynges sylver and gylt xxvj.
j wt. a crusifix.
Item on rynge.
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Followeth the costes of the sayed Cawndeler churche-warden of Pulton the yei
moneth and daye afore wrytte
Fyrst for making of Estur lyght
. iiijs. xjd.
Item for saynt John is lyght . .
. . . . . . iijs. iijd.
Item for makyng of the lyght at the Nat. of Criste. .
. . xiiijd.
Item payed to saynt (John) ys fraternite . . .
. . xd.
Item payed on saynt Marke ys day for dirige and messe for the benefactors of the
Churche . . . . . . . .
. . vjd.
Item for waschyng of churche kercheffes . . . . .
. vd. ob.
Item for makyng of a newe gate agen churchchey . .
ijs. iiijd.
Item for mendyng of the howsyng over the crucifixe
. viijd.
Item for mendyng of the ber and the skaffold .. .
Item for one lyne for the canapy and naylys. .
. ijd.
Item payed to the plumer . i
· xvjd.
Item for my labour with the plumer and the schaffold
. vid.
Item delivered to Wyllyam Townisende.
. XS.
Item to Richard Sergeant for pavying of the tour . .
. ijs. ijd.
Item for waschyng . . . . . . . .
. xijd.
Item for makyng of the churchhey gate, nayles, and j barr .
· xiiijd.
Item for the yer of Ric. Sergeant for saynt John is fraternite
xd.
Item for mendyng of the baner clothe of our lady. . . · · iiijd.
Item for skowryng of the candelstyckes . . . . . .
. iiijd.
Item for mowyng of the churchhey . . . .
. . . ijd.
Item delivered to the Vicar and Wyllyam Vowlys yn crypped grotes . . . xjs.
1 In spite of the endeavours of later hands to correct the original error, the true date of this Audit must
remain unsettled. The XXIInd year of Hen. VII, ran from Aug. 22, 1506, to Aug. 21, 1507.
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Item a lowans for Robert Herdewyke and William for they wt hold Estyr lyghte iiijd.
Item for blessyng of ij corporas and j auter clothes. .
. . . ijd.
Item Wyllyam Mylleward wt hold frome . . .
Item for the Ryngers on saynt Marke is day. .
Sm. total xliijs.
Et sic remanet clere ecclesiæ . . . . . . . . . vli. xvjs. ijd.
no
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Competus Johannis Brousse gardiani ecclesie pochialis de Pullton, in die Sti Marci,
Evangelist. Aº Dni millesimo quingentesimo xjº.
Recept ejusdem gardiani.
Fyrst Receved on Estyr day for the hy crosse lyght
. . XVS. xd.
Item receved of the wardens of Wotton ..
.. . iiijs. viijd.
Item receved of John Cabell of the Church stocke i .
. iijl. xvjs. ijd.
Item receved of Thomas Sergeant and John Style lady wardens . . xlvijs. iijd.
Item receved of John Broderyppe and Wyllyam dore our lady lyggth
viijs. ijd.
Item receved of John More and William Wowlys .
. . vs. jd.
· receved of John Wardeforde ys bequest . . . . . . . viijd.
. . . . . . Johan Wardeforde ys . . . . . . . . . . . iiijd.
...... John Wry ys bequest. . . . . . . xiijs. iiijd
Sm. . . . . .viijli. xjs. vd. ob.
Item the coste of the clocke this same yere content and payed and performed bi the
vicar Wyllyam Jonys and the parishioners
. . iiijli. viijs. viijd.
out of the warden ys a compte part.
TTT
The dettes [z.e., Arrears due] belongyng to the Churche of Pullton over the a compte
of the sayed John Brousse, of Compton, and be longyng to John Brousse over
his a compte.
Wyllyanı Stevyns for iij Key . . . . . . . . . . . XXXs.
Item for the hyr of the sayed Key.
. . viijs.
Item John Elyns for hokelyng lyght his part with John Man.
Item Thomas Sergeant and John Paty . . . . . . . . iiijs. iiijd.
Item Robert Kerver . . . . . . . . . . . . xS.
Item Johan Brousse . . .
. . xviijd.
Item the hy crosse lyghte of Wotton, Thomas Grene and Thomas Cleament wardens.
Item of the l:y crosse lyghte part behynd in the yer of John Brousse of Compton.
The Costys of the sayed John Brousse.
Fyrste for Estyr lygth . .
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Item for the dyryge for the benefactours on saynt Marke ys day .
Item for mendyng of the clepers of the bellys .
Item for mendyng of the shorpells (surplices] . . . . .
Item for the skowryng of the Candellstyck . . . . .
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. viijd.
. iiijs.
. iiijd.
. iiijd.
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Item for makyng of the benche on the sou3th side of the chirche and stares [stairs] . ijijs.
Item for ij tapers agenst trinyte tide
xxd.
. . . . . . . the dedicacyon day . .
xxd.
Item payd to the clerke of saynt (John) ys fraternite
. xd.
Item for mowyng of the churchyard . . . . . . . . • iiijd.
Item for casting of ij new smale bellys . .
. ijs.
Item for ij tapers at ye feste of ye Nativite of Criste
. . xviijd.
Item for ij quarters of lyme . . . .
. . viijd.
Item for the new handyng of the bellys . . .
. ijs. vid.
Item for makyng of the trendyll . , . .
. . ijs. xc.
Item for makyng of the bawdryckes and gressyng
. . vid.
Item for waschyng of the chyrche ornaments. .
. xvjd.
Item for the smyth for mendyng of the clocke. ,
. iiijd.
Item for vyre and mendyng of the hamer
. xd.
Itern for the warnyng bell and iiij polysse .
ijs. viijd.
Item for ij ropys for the grete peysse and the lytyll peyssel
xviijd.
Item for a peyc of . . . . . and iij bordes . .
xvid,
Item for nayles and tockynge gyrdell . . . .
Item for a locke . . .
. iiijd.
Item for castyng of the peyses and makyng of the dore.
· vijd.
Item for John Browsse for vij days yn the chyrche worke and poyntyng of the logge. ijs.
Item for Ric. Shete for Rydyng of the chyryard . . . . . . . . iiijd.
Item for wrytyng of the boke a compte . . . .
. . . . viijd.
Sm. ....... . . xlis. vijd.
Sic restat clere ecclesiæ de Pollton supra debita . . . . . vjli. iijs. iiijd.
et remanet in manus John Browsse de Pullton gardiani.
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- vd.
Et supra competum predictum remanet ecclesie omnia debita ut supra, et de illis
qui sunt a retro p. luminibus alte crucis annorum Johannis Brousse de Compton
et Johannis Brousse de Pyllton.
XX.
Numerus annulorum v. viij. [z.e., 108] præterannulum Johanne Brousse nuperdefunctæ.
Item the increse of the churche Key of Pulton in the yere of Ric. Sergeand and
Numerus vaccarum et in quorum manibus sunt vaccæ et nomina de plegge vaccarum.
Johes Shepart of Compton receve plegge for a cowe for John Shepart of Benagre his
son . . . . . . . . . . . . . . XS.
1 Peysse=Clock Weight.
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* Item a boxe with a xj dedys wrytynge.
Item the encrese of rynges to the church in the yere of John Canard and John
Sargeant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxvj.
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Competus Johannis Brousse de Pullton gardiani ecclesie pochialis Sti Johannis
Baptiste xiij die mensis Maie die Sti Marci Evang. anno Regni regis Henrici
octavi tertio.
RECEPCIONES EJUSDEM JOHIS BROUSSE CUM DEBITIS.
Fyrste receved of John Brousse of Compton late warden
vjli. xld.
Item rec. on Estyr Day in Pullton is Cherche for heyth crosse light . . xvs. iiijd.
Item rec. of John Ede and John Burford our lady Wardens encresse . . xlys. viijd.
Item rec. of John Galantonn and Thomas Collys wardens of the cherche of Wotton
iiijs. viijd.
Item rec. of the bequeste of Johan Brousse of Pulltonn . . . . . . xviijd.
Sm. : :
.ixli. xs. vjd.
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iijs. vd.
· viijd.
. ijd.
. ijd.
. xiiijd.
.xvijd.
. xd.
• xvijd.
ijs. ijd.
. xld.
. iiijd.
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The costys of the sayed John Brousse, Warden.
Fyrst payed for Estir lyght wex and makyng.
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Item for dyryge and masse on saynt Marke is day for the benefactours . ·
Item for waschyng of the corporas and sope. .
. . .
Item for a bokyll for a bawderike . . . . . . . . .
Item for ij newe bawdericks . ..
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Item for iiij tapyrs agenste the feste of saynt John Bapte .
Item paied to the proctor of saynt John Bapte fraternite. .
Item paied to ye glasyere . . . . . . . .
Item for wexe and makyng of iiij tapyrs agenste dedicacyon day .
Item paied to John Horsley parisch clerke for kepyng of the clocke .
Item for skowryng of ye grete candellstick
Item for mowyng of ye chercheyard
of ve chercheyard . . . . .
Item for a new processionary printed . .
Item in expensis to Wells to bey the boke .
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Item for viij ells of lenyng cloth for a surpeles for the Vicar .
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Item for makyng of the surpelcs . . .
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Item for v yards of lenyn clothe and makyng of a surpeles for ye clerke . .
Item for waxe and makyng of iiij tapyrs agenste the feste of the Nativite of Criste
Item for gresyng of the bellys . . .
Item for waschyng of the chyrche clothes
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Item for wrytyng of the a compte . .
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Sm. . . . . . xxxiijs. ijd.
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vjs.
iijs. id.
. xxd.
.iijs. jd.
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. xvjd.
. xijd.
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The costes of Saynte Mary house now Reparying.
Item paied to John Sergeant, John Brousse and William Knoll
xxs. iijd.
Item for lathe and nayle . . . . . . . .
. . vjd.
Item for ij.c [= 200) lathes . . .
. xxd.
Item for cariage of iij lode tymbyr.
. iijs. vd.
Item for stones and caryage . .
. xixd.
Item iij.c rede? (300 bundles of reed]
ijs. iiijd.
Item j.c rede of Margyry Wry
. xxijd.
Item iij.c rede of William Wowle .
. ijs. iijd.
Item ij.c rede of the Vicari
. xijd.
Item Philippe Gele for drawyng of lead
. vid.
Item for helpe to sett the tymper .
• xixd.
Item for castyng of the ledde . . .
ijs. iijd.
. Sm. . .
· xxxixs. iijd.
Sm. tot. Reparacionis
. iijli. xijs. iijd.
Sm. tot. Recepcionis
. . ixli. xs. vid.
Alloc. [Allocatur, there is allowed] pro reparacionibus. . iijli. xijs. iijd. .
Sic remanet clare supra onera ecclie de Pullton
. . . vli. vjs. viijd.
Præter debita quæ sequuntur singulis nominibus cum debitis.
Willm Stevyns pro 3 bus waccis (vaccis] . . . .
. . XXXS.
Item pro redditu illarum .vaccarum . : . . . . .
. . viijs
Item John Elyns for hoggelyng lyght .
. . ijs.
Item Thomas Sergeant John Paty wardens of the hygh crosse lyght . . . : xiiijd.
Item John Pennard and John Donkurton . . . . . . . vs. ijd.
Item Thomas Grene of Wotton and Thomas Clement for hyghe crosse lyght.
Item Christian Kelly the bequeste of Water Kelly her husbant for his sepullture vjs. viijd.
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xijs.
vjs.
iiijs.
Ric. Sergeant and Willyam Canard, Wardens of the churche Key,
the a compte for iij yers.
Firste for the hyr of vj key ij ere . . . . . . . . . -
of this sm. provided a cowe more except vd. ob.
Item for the iij yer the hire of the key . . . . . . . . .
over all charges remaneth to the chirche stocke . . . . . .
The names of them that hath the key to hyr wt. ther borows and plegge.
Fyrste John Elyns j cowe.
Item William Canard of Estn [j.e., Eastern] Compton j cowe plegge John Canard.
Item Johan Knoll a cowe plegge Johan pennard.
Item John Dunkerton a cowe plegge Johan Baron.
Item Johan Brousse of Pulton a cowe plegge Ric. Sergeant.
Wyllyam Knoll a cowe plegge Wyllam Canard.
Stephans Aylwarde for a cowe, plege Wylelm Aylwarde at Crosse.
John Tounysende of Westcompton a cowe plege Edwarde Holdson.
Itm. Rob. Stoke a cowe precio xiijs. iiijd. plege John Mog John Wardeford.
Straw unthreshed and prepared by bleaching for the thatcher.
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[A parchment leaf, the 2nd half of the Sheet wh. begins the Book.]
Anno Regni regis Henrici Sept. xv. [A.D. 1499.]
A remembrans off the chyrche gods longyng to the wardyngs, 1 fyrst a sewte of blew damaske
branchyde of Wat. Frys byquest wt. a kope to the same.
secunde a sewte of grene wt. a kope too the same.
Itm. a blew westmente off Chris [i.e., Christopher] Paddocke byqueste.
Md. of the Kye and the encresse the fyrste day of the moneth of may the yere of
our Lord God mcccccbíj, Wyllyam Townsende and John Dere, Wardens.
Fyrste for vj Key ij yeres . . . . . . .
. . . xijs.
Alloc. for the makyng of the sepultur taper .
ijs. ixd.
Rests clere to the chirche . .
ixs. vd.
Delyvered to William Knoll2. [See p. 54]
ixs. vd.
Remanet in the handes of John Baron
iijs. xd.
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A remembrance of the chirche dettys the firste day of the moneth may, Aº Dni
millesimo quingentesimo septimo.
Fyrste John Browse . . . . vijs. | Item William Fenor: . . viijd.
Item William Tucky . . vjs. viijd. John Ewan . . : ilijs. vid.
, Alys Torner . . . iiijs. iiijd. William Mylleward the yonger . ijs.
✓ Johan Brousse . . . vjs. viijd. „ William Dyke .
„ Walter Sergeant the yelder . xvjs. » Thomas Chaundeler . iijs. iiijd.
, John Flyns . . . ijs. ixd.
Sm. Tot. . . . . . iijli. vd.
Item Willyam Stevyns . . . . . . . . . . . . . XXXS.
Anno Regis Henrycy the. Sevynth, xv.
A remembrance for our ladys mantell wt other thynges longing to the same wardyns fyrst the
mantell selfe off vellett.
Item yn the same mantell off rynges xiiij a flate ryge and square.
Item iij schellys of seynt Jame.
Item iij brochys off kyng henry and one lytyll broche.
Item a peyr of bedes off ambur wt gette gaydys.
Item a peyr of gette bedes off Margaret Martyn byquest.
yn the same bedes owte off the mantell.
Item one peyr off gette bedys off Jo. Smyth byquest.
Item another bedys off gette of Johan Hallere bequest.
This very small stock must have belonged, not to the parish but to Our Lady's Wardens.
2 To the High Warden for the High Light. In 1548, three cows, the remnant of this herd, were seized
for the King on the ground of their being given for maintenance of the High Light in the Church. The hire,
1.6., rent paid by the dairyman for the cows milk was 25. per annum.
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Item a peyr of bede of gette wt gawdes wt a buckell of silver.
Item a peyr of lanbur [amber] bedys off Margaret Spycer byquest to o" lady yn the quer.
Item a kercow off alson borford byquest and a zetter.
Item a kercow and a quetyn [? cushion].
Md. the sum off ryngs yn the streng amowntthyth to lxxxviij [added afterwards]
wt other yn the mantell, the nomber lxxxviij (with 3 more added in a later
hand).
Item a kerchow to yolady off goody sergentes by quest. Anº Dni
Item off Margaret Maners by quest a nother kerchow.
Mlo ve iijo
Item iij mo off others by questes.
Thys boke made xxviij day off Aprill in the xiiij yere of oure soverayne lord
Kynge Henry the VIJth [i.e., 1498-9] and ordayne(d) to the chyrche off
ton for a remembrance of all such goodes as long therto and to make &
tytyll atrew acownttys off all wardens ther withyn and all other things that
encresse to the same. -
įre
To his acowntts cumythe Wyllm. Woky, off Ham, being wardyne yn xiij yere off
Kyng Henry the VIJ, and by for the pryste maketh hys acowunte for the yere
above rehersyd yn thys forme folowynge.
Fyrst resevyd off Water Sergeant the younger, wardyne next by fore hym yn
money . . . . . . . . . . . . . vijli. ijs. ob.
Allso leyd to the same reseyte to be levyd at thys hys acownttes ij detters.
Water sergente the elder . .
. . vs.
Wyllyam Tutky . . . . . . . . . . . . vjs. viijd.
Item Rec. for Estyr lygt off Pylton . . . .
. xvjs. iiijd.
.. . . ? Wotton. .
. vs. ixd.
Item rec. for my lady Mayow of Croscombe off by queste
: . xijs.
Item rec. off Wyllyam Dore off by quest a heffer, p’co .
• vs. viijd.
Item rec. off old Brusse wyffe . .
vjs. viijd.
Item rec. of the younger Knolle and Wyllyam Fowlys mane for young men lyzth iijs. vd.
Item rec. for scaffold tymber off . . .
. . xiijd.
Item rec. of Water Sergent younger for scaffold tymber .
. . iijd.
Item receved of hoglyng money of our lady wardens
. vjs.
Item receved of rente for the lede . . . .
. xxd.
Item receved of our lady wardens . . .
. iiij marks, iiijs.
Item receved of chyrche rente. .
. . . . . . xviijd.
Sm. totalis Rec. xiiijli. xixs.
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Md. for coste yn the same yere a bove rehersyd.
Fyrste for vij li waxe at Ester . . . . .
iiijs. ob.
Item for derege one Seynt Markes Day. ..
• viijd.
Item for bell ropys . .
• viijd.
Item for mendyng of a candellstycke to John Browse
vd.
Also for my lady Mayowsse derege. ... .
· viijd.
Item payed to the payntters . .
Itein payd for ij quarters lyme to the northe wyndow yn oure laydys yele . . . viijd.
Item for one powne waxe . . . . . . . . . . . . vijd.
Item for makyng off iij lb. waxe a geynst our dedicacyon day . . . . .jd. ob.
Item to the frary clarke . . . . . . . . . . .
xd.
Item for makyng klene the bole of the crosse.
iiijd.
Item for makyng the trendell and the makyng off iiij tapers with the waxe to the
same
. .. . iiijs. xjd.
Item payd to John Wardeford for takyng downe off the nort wyndow yn our lady
yele
. . : xijd.
Item payd to Robert Carver for makyng off the Trayle under the rodelofte . iijs. vjd.
Item payd for drawyng off viij lode stonys to makyng off the chyrcheyerd walle . xvjd.
Item payd to Thomas Akort for caryeg of the same viij lode stonys . . . . xvjd.
Item payd to John Sergent for takyng downe of the north wyndow yn our lady yele xijd.
Item for remevying off the scaffold timber . . . . . . . . xd.
Item for beryng away the rubbyll . . . . . . . . . . ijd.
Item for strekyng the wyndows and wallys .
Item for takyng downe the scaffold and for alle ſale]
Item for mendyng of a spade and a schowle : .
Item for gresse to the bellys . . . . .
jd.
Item for mowyng the chyrche yerd iij tymys. .
. iiijd.
Item for wassyng the chyrche clothys . .
. xiiijd.
Item for makyng of the chyrche yerd walle .
iiijs. viijd.
Item for beryng owte off the snow and dryyng off banarse
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Md. that Thomas Schetes hate rec. yn hys yere of the wardynwycke yn the xiiij
yer off Kyng Henry the VIIth.
Fyrst of Wyllyam Woky of Ham wardyn next by fore hym yn money . . . xxjs.
Item rec. off our lady wardyns . . . . . . . iiij marke, iiijs. vid.
Item leyde to the same vs. whyche restyth yn Water Sergent hondes.
Item vjs. and viijd. whych restyth yn Wylm Tuckes hondys.
Item leyed to the same iiijs. vjd. whyche restythe yn Thomas A corte handys left off
glasyng off the wyndow yn our ladys yele [i.e., a balance left from the glazing].
Item for Estyr lygth of Pylton . . . . . . . . . xvjs, xd.
. . . . . . Wutton . . . . . . . . . iiijs. iiijd.
Item off our lady wardynse . .
. . xls.
Item off by queste of Isbell Tyrpyns
. . vjd.
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iiijd.
Item to the bellys for Thomas Schet by quest . .
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Item vs. to the encresse off the hye crosselygth yt. restyth yn Stevens Haynes hande
and Water Sergent the elder.
Item for the chyrche lede iiijd. off Tho. akort.
Sm. totalis recevyd vijli. xvjs. vjd.
MEM. For costes yn same yer. [No entries].
Memorandum that John Wattes yn hys yer of ye wardyn wyke yn ye yer off Kynge
Henry ye VIIth hath ylde [yielded] up off yº yn cresse off ye chyrche of sentt
John of Babtys.
Sm. totalys vli. xiijs. vid.
Allsoo ye seyd John wattes hath resevyd of John Browsse, of Pulton, viij merke.
Sm, totalis vli. vis. viijd.
[Loose entries in later hands.]
Itm. Wylleam Sergentt owynge unto ye churche for yo” lady ly3t iiijs. and vjd.
Item of ye bequeste of Thomas Grene iijs. iiijd. restyng yn ye honnys of Wylleam
Jonys.
Item John Gregory off Barow and Thomas Collys for ther [Wootton) yester lyzt iiijs. ijd.
Item Rychard Kynge and Wylliam Browsse beyng yownge men wardens howynge to
the churche . . . . . . . .
. . . . iijs. iiijd.
Wyllm Hobbys oweth to the churche . . . . . . . . . . xijd.
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Competus Johanni [sic] Canarde Gardiani ecclie paroche Sti Johis Baptiste die
Sti Marcii anno Dni mºcccccºxibº,
Item recevyd of the Ester lyght .
. . . . . . xvjs. viijd.
Item recevyd of Water Wekys for ye Estyr lyght
. . iiijs. iiijd.
Item recevyd of Willm Mylward . . . . . . . . . . XXs.
... Willm. Stevyns . . . . . . . . . xviijs. save ijd.
... John Paty for ye kepyng of ye hygth crosse lyght .
. . xxijd.
Item receved of Thomas Sargant hys fellowe.
. xijd.
... Willm Wylcokes sone . . . .
. ijs.
... of a pore man bequeste to ye bellys .
. iiijd.
... John Wattes
· . vjs. viijd.
Summa recepcionis iijli. ixs. viijd.
Md. that John Canard ys surty to ye chyrch for a brasyn morter the pryse of vjs. viijd.
[The wyche nobyll ys caste yn ye cownte of the recepcois.]
Md. that Thomas Eed have recevyd of John Canarde the wolde warden vjxxti. s. viijd.
[i.e., £6. os. 8d.]
i Warden in 1511-12 : Watts served in 1512-13, probably.
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Md. that of John Brousse ys detter unto ye cyrche . .
. vis. viijd.
Md. that John Canard yn hys yer the ere off yowr suffryn Kyny Harry ye VIIJth hatth
yelde uppe off ye yn cresse (revenue] off ye cherche of Saynt John off Bapptist
iiij nobylls and hee ys dyschardgyd.
Competus Thomi Ede gardiani ecclie parochialis Sti Johis Baptiste dominica post
festum Sti Marcii, A.D. M°CCCCC°xbº.
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xvjs. vd.
iijs. ixd.
iiijs. xjd.
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Receptoes ejusdem Thomi Ede cum debitis.
Fyrste receved off John Canard off Pylton late warden .
Item R. on Estyr Day for the Ester lygth
Item R. off yownglyng lygth . .
Item R. off yower ladey wardyns . .
...: John Brusse at the Elme
. . . . yowe of Wotton .
:: John Wyllcock for a ev [ewe) and lame .
.. John More off ye questh off hys weyffe.
· · · ye yownglying lygth . . . .
. . : ye cherche lands . . . . . .
... for ye ledde haxyn [lead-ashes] . .
Sm. . . . vijli. xviijs. vjd.
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The coste of the sayed Thomas Ede, warden.
Fyrste payed for Ester lygth wex and makyng . .
. . . iiijs. iiijd.
Item for dirige and Masse on saynt Marke day for benefactors . . . . . viijd.
Item for mendyng of ye cherche gate . . . . .
. . ijd.
Item for makyng off a key to a lytyll cofer . . . .
. ijd.
Item to makyng off ye klypper to ye lytyll bell & schyttyng a erde [i.l., casting a
mould] . . . . . . . .
· · · jd. ob.
Item for ye beying iij bussells off axyn (ashes] . . .
. iiijd. ob.
Item for ye rungyng of ye cherche laddyr . . .
. iijd.
Item for ye makyng of a bawderike to ye lytyll belle . .
. vid.
Item for ye makyng off iiij tapyrs agenst seynt Johne Day.
. xvjd.
Item for ij lode of wode for ye plumer . . . .
iijs. iiijd.
Item for nayles for plumer to nayle ye ledde . . .
ijs. vid.
Item for lathys and bowrde to make ye gutter. .
vs. iiijd.
Item for heryng [hiring] off workmen abowth cherche workes . . . . ijs. iiijd.
Item for to John Baron for ye fetyng [fetching] off plumer stuffe att West Penard . vjd.
Item for fetyng off flakes [i.e., for the scaffolds] and hurdylls and rede and postes for
y® plumer . . . .
vjd.
Item for fechyng xy hundyr off ledde at Mendeypp. .
Item for ye carryng of ye ledde axyn to Chewton . .
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Item for ye clarke for makyng clenne off ye cherch erd and kyppyng off ye clocke iijs. viijd.
Item paied to y® plumer for sowdyr and ys labor
. iij pounds.
Item paied to frayry clarke . . . . . .
. . xd.
Item paied for makyng off iiij tapyrres agenst Crystmas:
. viijd.
Item I bowth off Plumley of Septon iij hundyr ledde ye prysse .
. xjs.
Item for ye fetyng xij hundyr ledde att Mendyppe . .
. xlviijs.
Item for ye wessing off cherche clothes . . . .
ijs.
Item for mendyng and dresyng off iiij bells ; . .
. iiijd.
Item for mendyng off bere . .
. iijd.
Item for Thomas Edes ys labor the space off xviij days ;
. iijs.
Item for Master Officiall (the Ordinary's judge] costes att ye visitacion . . xviijd.
Sm. . . . . vijli. xvjs.
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Md. that Thomas Ede hath made hys countes byfore ye pars [parish] the laste
daye off Aprille the here off yow” lorde mºccccc°xbº. yn ye yere off yowr sufferen
kyng Harri the VIIJ, and hatth elde [yielded] uppe to ye cherche ijs. ijd., the
wyche wasse bestowyde amongste ye clerkes off ye quere.
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gentesimo deciº sexto.
Item R. off Estyrlygght . . . . . . . . . . . xvjs. xd.
· · · y® youngling wardens . . .
ijs. iiijd.
.. . John Lane for a pere of bedys .
. xd.
Item R. off ye zonysswyff (son's wife] for Kerchowys. . . . . . . . xviijd.
... off Thomas off oldett [old debt].
xiiijd.
... John Pennard of Howlth.
ijs. vid.
... off John Dunkarton.
ijs. vid.
Item R. off Wyllyam Hobbys off dettes.
. xijd.
... Wyllyam Canard of Compton . .
iijs. viijd.
... John Knolle of Compton
. iijs. iiijd.
.. off Wardyns off Heycroslyth (High Cross Light] .
• vjs. viijd.
. off wardens of Wotton
. iiijs.
. . . off you" lady wardyns. . . . . . .
viijxxxs. viijd.
Item R. off Fowlys for Elys . . .
. . ijs. ijd.
... off ye bequest of John Walter. .
· · xijs.
. . . . . . ., John Myllard . .
. iiijd.
. . . . . . . . Thomas Myllard . .
. . . . . iiijd.
iiijd.
. . Thomas Ede and John Rogers of bequest.
vid.
. Wyllyam Thownsyn and John Canard bequest.
.. Jane Coppe bequest . .
. . xvd.
.: John Canard bequest. .
. . . . ijd.
off bequest John Vene
. . . . . . . . . . ijd.
ijd.
. . . . . . Water Myllard . . . . . . . . . . iiijd.
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... off M. Kelle
ON M. Kelle
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... Wyllyam Brusse
... Wyllyam Canard for cherche lands
... off John Grygory off Barow
vjs.
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vjs. viijd.
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The costes off the sayed John Wyllkyns, Wardens.
Fryst payed off Estyr lygght wax and makyng . . .
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Item for derige and masse on Saynt Markes daye . . . . .
Item ffor ij Newebellropes . . . . . . . . . .
Item receyved for ye clarke att ye counte . .
Item paied to John Pyper for hys labyr. .
Item for makyng off iiij tapyrs agenst Vittsonday
Item ffor makyng off a new bere . .
Item ffor ye clarke for kypyng ye clocke.
Item ffor ye beying of a new bawdrycke.
Item ffor making off ye trendyll . .
Item for bawdryck for ye medyll bell .
Item for mendying off a happys [hasp] .
Item ffor fraywry clarke
Item ffor costogges [costs] att visitasion.
Item for makyng off iiij leyttes
Item ffor setting and reparyng off lamps.
Item ffor mendyng off ye clocke . . . . . .
Item ffor coveryng off ye Sayntes att lent ..
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Item ffor driying off ye ornamentes off ye cherche and clarkes labyr .
Item ffor mendying off ye helyng off je ... ?.
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Item ffor wassing off ye cherche clotthys . . .
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Item ffor pekyng and dressyng of ye belles ...
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Item ffor pekyng off ye bawdrycke . . .
Item ffor mowyng and keyppyng of ye chercheyd
Item ffor skowryng off ye canstycke. . . .
Item ffor ye makyng off ye pateyn and gyltyng . .
Item ffor mendyng off y ffowth [foot] off ye chalys.
Item ffor ye laboryss and fetthing home .
Item ffor lettyng abowth ye cherche workes yo off xviij days
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. viijd.
. xvd.
iiijd.
. viijd.
. iiijd.
. xijd.
iijs. iiijd.
· viijd.
. ijs. vjd.
. vid.
. ijd.
. xd.
iijs. iiijd.
iijs. ijd.
. xxd.
. ijs.
iijd. ob.
. ijd.
. ijd.
. ijs.
. iiijd.
iiijd.
. iiijd.
. iiijd.
. xviijs.
vijs. vd.
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Md. that John Wylkyns hath delyveryd unto Wyllyam Tocar, off Ham, vli. xls. vjd.
in ye here off kynge Harre VIIJth, and ye here off yow" lorde godde mºcccccºxvjº.
and ys dyscharggyd a ffore the pars off hys here [year of office].
A remembrans off the cherchis dettes in the here off Wyllam Tocar cherchewardin and
the ffrist dae off ye munthe off May, Aº. Dni. m ccccc xvjto
John Grygory of Barow . . . . . . . . . . . . xxd.
Wyllam Sargant . . . . . . . . . . . . ilijs. vid.
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vis. iiijd.
Itm. the bequeste off John Syppard of Chewton .
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Itm. a rynge of syller and gyltt off the quest Annys Syppárd wt. ij kerchows.
Item the bequeste off Edytt Webb. .
Item the queste off Wate Sladde sum tyme delyng yn Pulton . . .
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xxd.
xijd.
Competus Gyllelmi Tokar de Pulton Gardiani ecclie parochie Sti Johs Bapt xx
sexto die Mensis Aprilis die post festum Sti Marci, Evang., A.D. mºcccccºxbijº.
Receptiones ejusdem Gilhelmi Tocar cum debitis.
Firste receved off John Wylkyns off Pulton late wardeyn .
It. R. on Ester Day in Pulton is cherche ffor heyth crosse liyth
It. R. off our Lady wardyns lytys encresse . . . .
· · · · · · ye young men iygthes . . . . .
..John Knoll off Wester Comton . . .
. . . . . . off ye Est. lygth off Wotton . .
. . . . . . off yowr lady Wardeyns yn cresse off ther alle [Ale] .
Item for ye salle off ij peyrs off Bedes . . . .
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Sm.. .. vijli. xiijs. xd.
· vli. xls. vid.
. . xvijs.
xijs. iiijd.
. vijs. vijd.
. iijs. iiijd.
. iiijs. jd.
iijli. iijs. iiijd.
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The coste off the seyde Wyllyam Tocar, Wardeyn.
Itm. ffor the coste of wexe and the makyng ffor the hole here
. . xvijs. vijd.
Itm. ffor ye makyng off ye candellsticke. .
. . vli. vs.
Itm. ffor ye makyng off a klyfper . . .
. ijs. iiijd.
Itm. ffor ye mendyng off a bawddrirc .
• viijd.
Itm. ffor seynte Marke duryge . .
. viijd.
...ye Frarey clarke . .
. xd.
. . . . . . clarke ffor ye kyppyng off ye clocke
iijs. iiijd.
Item for j tapeyr bey fore ye sepultar . . .
xxd. ob.
. . . . . . y visitacion . . . . . . .
. iijs.
Item for ye [rough] castyng off ste John Chanbeyrd .
xxd.
Item ffor ye blessyng off ye leyttyl challs [chalice] .
viijd.
Itm. ffor ye wessyng off ye cherche clothys . .
. ijd.
Itm. ffor skoweryng off ye grette candyllstyckes
iiijd.
Itm. ffor mowyng off y® chercheyerd
. iiijd.
Itm. ffor gressyng off ye bellys . . .
• iiijd.
Itm. ffor off ij Rocchett and mendyng off iij obys [albs] .
viijd.
Itm. ffor mendyng off ye grett paxkes (pax] .
. jd.
Itm. ffor sonnynge (sun-drying] off ye ornamentes that longeth to the cherche . . viijd.
Itm. that I wasse lett the space off iiij days goyng yn and yowte to Bruton ffor ye
canstickes and also yn castyng a weye off ye snowe that wasse apon the ledde
ande also yn goyng to Welles, to Glastonbery and to Bruton to have the challis
y blessyd. . . . . . . . . . . . . . viijd.
Sm.... vjli. xvijs. iijd. obe
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Item Gardianus resepit a Johan Kolle . . . . . . . . iijs. iiijd.
Item recepit a Wyllyam Sergant . . . . . . . . . . iiijs.
. . . . . . . Hollys.
Item exposuit inter cantores (the singer's fee] . . . . . . . . iijs.
Item Johs Browysse per precul . . . . . . . . . . viijd.
Md. that Wyllyam Tocar yn hys here off wardeyn wycke yn the here off Kyng Harry
the VIIJth hatth helyd [yielded] uppe the encresse off the cherche off saynt John
off Bapptyst and ysse dischargeydde hy ffore the parish and John Holder off
West Humle [? Holm] ys takyn yn to hys wardeynscheyppe to fulfyll hys Roume
[room] the space off thewlmownthes.
Competus Johis Holder de Pulton gardiani ecclie poch Sti Johis Baptiste xxvjto
die Mensis Aprile die Sti Marci Evang., Anno regni regis Henrici octavi.
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Frest reseyd yn the comtysday
Itm. reseved on Ester Day yn Pulton Scherche for the lyttes.
Itm. reseyd off ower lady Wardens . . .
. . . . Wyllyam Sergant . . . . .
. . . . . Wyllyam Hobbes . .
... off Johis Browsse for a peyr of bedes . . .
.. reseyd off Johis Marke off ye bequeste off hys mother.
Sm... iijli. xvijs.
. iiijs.
xvjs. ijd.
ijli. xs. xd.
. iiijs.
. xijd.
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Fyerst payed ffor the Ester lytes wex and makyng . .
Ite. ffor ye dirige and masse on Saynt Markes day.
Ite. that hee put ffowrthe a mongyst ye syngars.
Ite. ffor ye mendyng off ye clocke . . .
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Ite. ffor ropes, locckes, neyles, gemmowys .
Ite. ffor the gressyng off the belles . .
Ite. ffor the makyng of the lytys agenst Wyssoner day .
Ite. ffor ye carryge of stownys to make the Cherche valls [walls] .
Ite. delyverde unto the clarke at ye fyrst comyng off ys ownants (earnest].
Ite. ffor a lyne ffor ye canapy . . . . . . . . .
Ite. ffor a sowelle (shovel] . .
Ite. ffor the makyng off ye leytte agenst yowdedicacyon day.
Ite. paye to ffrayery Clarke . .
Ite. for ij bawdryckes . . . . . .
Item for ye makyng off ye cherche wall. .
. . . ffor ix lode of stonys and ye carryge off them .
Item ffor ij belroppe the prysse . . . . . . . .
iijs. iiijd.
xijd.
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Item ffor ye makyng off leytte agenst Crystenmasse. .
Item ffor ye makyng off ij tapyrrs agenst Candylmasday.
Item ffor the strekyng off ye chercheerd . .
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Item ffor the mowyng off ye cherchyerd. .
Item ffor vj erds off clotth to make a syrplys.
Item ffor ye wessyng off ye cherche clotthys .
Item ffor ij holes makyng under ye canstyckes . .
Item ffor ye makyng off iiij tapyrrs affore Synt Jon.
Item ffor ye mendyng off ye glassyn wyndowys
Item ffor ye wex off ye hey crosse lyttes borrydd off ye wardes .
Item ffor ye visitacyon un to ye officiall . . . .
Item ffor a loke and gymowys [hinges] to ye coffer yn yow" ladey yelde
Item ffor ye gyfte unto yow" lady wardyns . . . . .
· Item ffor ye greye cottes . . . . . . . . .
Sm. total ... . viijli. jd.
Sic remanet ecclie . . xixs.
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Be yt knowyn to all the holle paryshe that I John Lane of Pyltun, chyrche wardene
for on yere the yer of ower Lord A mccccc and xix hathe geffyn a trewe a comttes
off all maner of resayttes bothe of mony and of all maner of ornamenttes of the
chyrche and mor ovyr the sayde paryshe hathe alowyde me of the a for sayde
for all maner of costes doone yn my yere mor ovyr I John Lane hathe lefte in
the handdes of Mathewe Tryme styll remaynynge for hys yere . . XXxxxiiijs. xd.
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Itm for a rochet v yarddes .
Item for inendyng of yº cliales
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Compotus Willmi Sargeant gardiani ecclie Sci Johis baptiste in Pulton in die dnca
asensionis Dni Anno Dni, mºcccccºxxjº.
Redita bonorum ecclie de Pulton.
Itm rec. of Mathew Trym at the day of his a contes .
· xxvjs. viijd.
Itm rec. of the hole paryshe for Ester ly3th i . .
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Itm rec. of Thomas Browne for Ester lyzth' .
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Itm rec. of John Layne vjd. Item rec. of John Layne .
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... John Paty viijs....John Coppe and Davy Dey owre lady wardons
lvjs. Itm rec. of John Gregory of Barrow vjd. Iteni rec. of Mathew Trym in die
omn. stor. [Omnium Sanctorum] xs. Item rec. of John Chandellar xxd. Itm. rec.
of ye be queste of Thomas Chandellar xijd. Itm. rec. of ye be queste of Willm
Volkes vjd. Itm rec. of ye bequest of Davy Prichett . . . . . iiijd.
Sm. total . ... . vjli. xiijs. iiijd.
Rynges.
Itm rec. of je be queste of Jone Wardforde . .
Itm rec. . . . . . . Alys Penard . . .
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The Costes of ye sayd Willm.
Item payd for vjli. waxe ijs. price of every powne-xd. and so ye hole sum ys-vs. Item
payde for makyng—ijd. Item payd for makyn of ij tapers—ob. Item payd for a
quarter of a li of wexe to make ij tapers to the hy aulter and for ye makyn—iijd. ob.
Itèm payd for iiijli. wexe to ye trendell price ye li.—xd. so ye hole sumys, iijs. iiijd.
Item payde for makyn—viijd. Itm payde for a li wexe to make ij tapars for ye hy
auter-xd. ob. Itm payd to Master Vycary for a li and a q. wexe xijd. ob. Itm payd for
makyn of ij tapers to ye hy auter-jd.
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Of oyer [other] costage ydon.
Itm payde for sayng of dyrige to Sir Willm-iiijd. Itm payd to the parysche clarke—ijd.
Itm payd to the ryngers--ijd. Itm payde for a letheryn baag to ber ye keys-iiijd. Itm
payde for mendyng of a sorplys and a rochet—vd. Itm payde for mowyn of ye cherche-
yerde - iiijd.
Itm payde for nalys and mendyn of ye cherche gytes--ijd. Item payde to John Wylmat
for brygyng of a leytter ffro hys master and for hys labor to Glastonbery to speke wt my
lorde [i.e., Abbot]-viijd. Item payde to Johan lanman for makyng of a canepy and
for v tasselles and a laysse [lace]-xvjd. Item payde for mendyn of a surplys—iiijd.
Item payde to coppe for wyre to ye clocke-jd. Item payde for hangyn uppe of yo
leynt clothys—iiijd. Item payde for mendyn of ye bawderikes to ye belles-vjd.
Item payde for thride to mende ye vestmentes—ob. I payde for weschyn of ye cherch
clothys-iis. Itm for myne expense to Exsetter to speke wt ye carvar—ijs. iiijd. Itm
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payde for a yrynde bowe and hokes to hang a clothe be for owyr lady-jd. Item
payde for Master docter Fythejamys [Fitzjames] dynner for kepyn of visitacyon, vjs. ijd.
Item payde to John Morys for y® byll of seyntens [sentence]—ijs. iiijd. Item payde for
drawyn and caryge of x lode stonys for the cherche walles—ilijs. iiijd. Item payde to
John Sargeant for vj days warke—ijs. vid. Item payde to John Dore for jij days and a
half-xviijd. ob. Item for my labor iij days-vjd. Itm payde for grese for the belle-
iiijd. Item for a sacke of lyme—iiijd. Itm for makyn of ij bolte of yryn to the crosse
-jd. Item for keepyn of the guttris and makyn cleyne of the toure florys—ijd.
Item for my labor to Wotton to sarche and know every man plase and cottijd.
Item payde for mendyn of the clocke—viijd. Itm payde to Walter Sergeant for mendyng of
the cherche wall—xd. Item payde to John Dore for a days warke-vd. Itm payde to
John Sergeant for a di days warke—ijd. ob. Item payde for lyme-viijd. Item for
my labor on Fryday—ijd. Item payde to John Pleyter for mendyn of vestmentes and
makyn of a canopy for ye sepulcor--xvjd. Itm payde for makyn of a rochett-jd.
Item payde to Saynt Johis Clarke—xd.
Sm. totalys de Costagio-xlijs. xxjd.
Et sic dz.-iiijli, vs. iiijd.
Competus Willm Vowllys gardiani ecclie parochialis Sci Johis Baptiste de Pulton
in prima dominica post festum Sci Marcij, A.D. mºcccccºxxijº.
Redita bonorum ecclie de pulton.
In primis recevyd of William Canerd the day of his a cowmt-viijli. xjs. ijd. Itm rec. for
Estyr lyzght-xvjs. iiijd. Itm of Robert Browsse and William Scheppard owre lady
wardyns—xxxijs. Itm rec. of John Stone of Wotton for Estyr lyzth--llijs. viijd. Itm
rec. of the bequest of John Schyppard—viijd. Itm rec. of ye be quest of Jylyen Canarde
-iiijd. Itm rec. of yo be quest of Willm Melworde—iiijd. Itm rec. of Robert Harris
for oure lady lyzth—-xijd. Item rec. of Willm Canarde of Comton for the chorche
rentt-ijs. Itm rec. of ye bequest of John Broderybe of Pyll-xxd.
Sm. Tot. of my recete . . . . . xjli. ixs. xd.
Rynge.
Itm. rec. of ye bequest of Alys Mylworde-j Rynge.
· · · · · · · Jelyen Canarde—j Rynge.
The Costage Idon by Willin Vowllys, Warden of ye Cherche of Pulton.
Itm. payed for xli. and a half wex agenst Ester . . . . . . viijs. ob.
. . . . . . the makyng
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...... wax and makyng of this same wėx agenst the Nat. of saynt John
Baptyst . . . . . . . . . . . . . ijs. ixd.
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Item payed for makyn vjd. Itm payd for a jli. and a half of wax for ij tapers to the
hy Auter-xvd. Itm for makyn-jd.
Sm. . . . . . xvjs. ijd. ob.
Itm. payed on Saynt Marke is day to the Vicar, the Clerke and the ryngers for dyrige
of the benefactors of the chirch
viijd.
Itm. payed for movyng [mowing] of the chorche hey .
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Itm. payed for skowryng of the iiij grett candellstyk
iiijd.
Itm. payed for the reparacyon of the bellys . . . . . . . . iiijd.
Itm. payed to the procter of saynt John ys fraternite . . . . . . xd.
Item payed for mendyng of the locke of the chorche dore
Item payed for a roope to the clocke . . . .
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Item payed for a roope to trendell . . . . . . . . . . viijd.
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Itm. payed for a bell rope-viijd. Itm. payed for mendyng of the Chorche ledd-iiijd.
Itm. payed for mendyng of thre pere of vestments and wessyng of the Chorch clothys-
ijs. Itm. payed to the clarke ffor keppyng of the clocke-iijs. iiijd. Itm. payed to
John Scharge and Richard Sargant for pargytyng of the towre and for lyme-xvs. vjd.
Item for coveryng of sayntes at Leynt-iijd. Itm. payd to John Sargantt, Rich : Sar-
gantt for nayelles and mendyng of the roffe in owre lady Elde [Aisle]-xijd. Itm. payed
fór mendyng of the chorche gate and for the cage of the bell-iiijd. Itm. payd for
mendyng of the beste cope an the Palle—iiijd. Itm. payed to Jone lanmam for weschyng
of v corpers-xd. Item payd for wrytyng of the boke of Compte—xijd.
Comput' Johis Lanma [n] gardiani ecclie parochialis Scti Johis Baptiste de Pulton
dominica prima post festum Ascencionis Domini Anno Dni mdxxb.
In primis Rc. of John Roger the day of is a cote [Account] [No entries] . . vijli. vjs. vd.
Computs Robti Harris & Walti Bayle gardianorum ecclie Sci Johis Baptiste de
Pulton in prima dmca post octavam Pasche anno dni mºccccc°XXX°.
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Item recevyd for the lyche rest of Als [Alice] Vooles
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Itm. recevyd for a croke . . . .
Itm. recevyd for a lyche of a rope . .
Itm. recevyd of the youngmen lyzht .
Itm. recevyd of the gift of Als Vooles .
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Qatton:
Notes illustrative of the MSS.
Manor. Added by Bishop Giso to the endowments of the See of Wells circ. 1066.
Surrendered to the Crown by Bishop Barlow, 3 Edward VI, March ist, 1549.
Valued at £20 in 1290 ; in 1537 at £62 25.. 7d. nett.
It did not embrace Claverham (Claram) manor, a lay fee held of the Honor of
Gloucester by the De la Sores of Backwell, from whom the Rodneys inherited.
Acreage of the two Manors, 6,476.
The Parish. The whole rectorial tithe and glebe (stated in Domesday as one Hide),
were appropriated to a prebend in Wells Cathedral, circa 1135, and the prebendary was
invested with peculiar jurisdiction. A vicarial income was set apart. The Vicar was
nominated by the prebendary to the Bishop for institution.
In 1327, the Bishop (see Reg. Drok., ap. Wells Registry), readjusted the Vicar's and
Rector's incomes, after proof by inquest that whilst the one was worth 100 marks, the other
was worth only twelve, with two chaplains to keep for service of two chapels.
The Chapels served by the Vicar were probably (1) that of St. James on the north-east
of the church ; and (2) a chapel in the churchyard, reported by the Chantry Commission
in 1548 to be ruinous.
Two other chapels stood in the parish, both of them manorial, and not under the Vicar's
charge. The one at Claverham Court was endowed with' tithe, and presentative. The
other at Court de Wyke was probably maintained by the Lords of that Manor, i.e., by the
Newtons in the 15th and 16th centuries.
FISCAL SYSTEM FROM 1445 TO 1547,
The area of the parish was divided into three portions, the east and west, i.e., Claverham
and Cleve, being committed to two “Lightmen,” sometimes called Wardens, who brought
their gatherings, originally made for the support of lights in the Church, to the Wardens'
audit. Central Yatton paid its offerings to the Wardens direct. ;
1 The Wells Registers record the institution of no less than 11 rectors between 1420-1545, presented
alternately by the Rodneys and the other representatives of the De la Sores. Sir Giles Capel presented in
1526, value in 1548 £ 2 8s. nett.
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After the completion of the Church house, with its appliances for entertainment, the
gatherings were made at the Ales, instead of from house to house, but the Lightmen of the
east and of the west held their Ales separately.
These gatherings were the largest source of income.
Beside these, there was a yearly gathering of 6s. 8d. for the font taper, and paschal
taper, probably made at the Easter procession; and now and then special gatherings for
foreseen outlays.
Arrears never occur. Gifts and bequests are recorded yearly, but there was no rating
of property or gatherings in Church. These would have been counted "oblations” claimable
by the Clergy.
In 1520 a fee of 6s. 8d. for inside burial begins; the Wardens taking the fee, and
bearing the cost of replacing the pavement.
This parish had no landed endowment, and did not retain any live stock for income.
It seems to have received no stated help from its great land-owner, the Bishop, or from its
great tithe-owner, the prebendal rector.
The Newtons of Claverham Court are often recorded as benefactors, and probably
joined the Church Ales with a full hand; but their burial aisle was repaired by the parish.
The widow, Isabel Lady Newton, was Warden in 1496.
Looking at the absence of gifts from the richer ones, the income raised by this population
of peasants and yeoman, is most surprising.
There was always a balance handed over to the incoming Wardens, enough to meet
their year's ordinary outlay..
But this wealth did not deaden zeal. The ritual aims were continually rising? ; new
objects of veneration, and new cults added3_the fabric was kept in the highest order,
enlarged and adorned.
The Churchyard was enlarged in 1485 at a cost of £3 6s. 8d., and in 1486 of
£1 135. 4d., for the consecration.
A noble Churchyard Cross was built in 1524, at a cost much exceeding £9, but not
ascertainable from the brevity of the entries.
The Church house was thoroughly equipped for all its hospitable purposes. There was
an organ and a clock. Minstrels were hired at Whitsuntide. The Organist, Clerk, and
Sexton were salaried. The “Waking of the Sepulchre” from Good Friday to Easter morn
by two paid men, was regularly observed. All vestments, and portable vessels, and even
the stone altar slabs were carried to the Bishop for his blessing.
i Entered sometimes as for the font, sometimes for the paschal taper.
2 Note the large sums spent on Vestments & Cope ; e.g., in 1481, £xxvj, in 1534, £xxx.
Service books, Manual, Mass-book, psalters, Processionals, portas,'
gradual tv vjs. viijd. in 1460.
a ledger, £ 17 IS.
bells, 1451, £5, and often aſterwards.
Processional Cross, 1499, t 18.
3 S.S. Katharine, Thomas, George, Nicolas, and Christopher, were added to the older cult of S. James,
whose chapel on the north side of the Church was enlarged in 1451–2, and Ale instituted, and a stipend paid to
the Chantry Priest.
. 4 Specially note the Roodloft, with its Aler splendidly carved, gilt, and painted, and decled with over 80
images. The Carpenter's Account alone was £31.
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The funds also were employed in upholding the Wardens in the enforcement of
discipline.
The splendour of the Church was here, as elsewhere, a temptation to knavery. The
endeavour to bring Davie Gibbes to punishment for stealing the Church goods in 1489 was
very costly; so complicated as to baffle the modern reader, who can hardly understand how
the numerous jurisdictions of the day required processes at Bristol, Ilchester, Wells.
Inter-parochial Ales.—This system was very complete. The Wardens attended these
festivals at Ken, Kingston, Wrington, Congresbury, &c., with more or less regularity ; making
their contributions, commonly xijd., in the name of the parish and at the cost of the parish,
for in their persons the parish was deemed to be present. In return, the allied parishes
attended the Yatton festivities, with “ale-scot” in hand.
Once, in 1537, an unusual charge of vs. is made for attending an Ale at Keynsham, far
beyond the wonted girdle.
Civil charges.—The earliest charge for anything not ecclesiastical is in 1512-13, viz.,
16s. 8d. to the “Constable and Tything man,” repeated in 1513–14 at 11s. 8d., but only
once. It is unexplained, and probably may be found to be connected with one of the
Commissions of Sewers, which had power to assess property for the maintenance of Sea-
walls, &c. Though the parish, as such, was not assessed, the landownersand occupiers
may have found a vote of vestry the easiest mode of discharging their burden.
In 1528 a sluice-gate is repaired, and later on the scouring of the “Yeo” is found a
yearly charge.
No poor-relief occurs till 1549 ; then, a detached vote to 14 persons.
Buildings.--Around or near the Church stood the following :-
1. The Courthouse, no longer inhabited by the Bishops as Manorial lords, but by
their Reeve; also used for the Manor courts.
2. The Rectory or Parsonage, in which the Bailiff, or lessee of rectorial tithes under
the prebendal rector, lived.
3. The Vicarage, with perhaps a small house for the two chaplains.
Each of these had Barns and Homesteads; required by No. I for the Lord's
demesne lands, by Nos. 2 and 3 for collection of tithe in kind.
4. The Chapel, scheduled by Edward VI's Commissioners.
5. The Church-house.
Language of the Accounts.-From the beginning it is a medley of English and Latin,
with no apparent rule. The Latin Heading was retained till 1481-2, probably from its
being written by the Vicar presiding in Vestry, the remainder being left to the hired scribe,
often specified in the payments to be the parish Clerk.
1 In the 23rd of Hen. VIII, an Act was passed continuing the legislation of Hen. VI and VII, by which
the Lord Chancellor could issue Commissions of Sewers, with power to survey and order needful works at the
cost of landowners benefited, calling on the Sheriffs to aid in the levy. The Sheriff's collecting officers would
be the hundred-constable, and his subordinate, the tything-man.
Yatton Church-Wardens' Accounts.
Church: Wardents Accounts.
[The earliest is a paper volume, 12 x 5 inches, containing 180 pages, and marked
on the outside in a modern hand “A Nº 1." The entries begin abruptly in the
middle of an account of the year mccccxl, as it is conjectured, the earlier part
having disappeared.]
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Q.A. m.cccc. rly John Move and Wm. REEVE, WARDENS.
Summa ... : £xvij xvjs. xjd.
Item y received of the bequest of Walter Modswyne and Egolyn his wife iij boshells
of wete, the prysce of the iij boshells were ijs.
It received of the bequest of Alis Ogyn a boshell of wete, the prisce vijd.
It received of the bequest of R. Watts a boshell of wete, the prisce viijd.
It. received of William Hylle for plocks and sponys . . . . . . . . ixd.
Itreceived of John Goodknave for a bord . . . .
It. received of the bequest of Robert Medwynter halfe a boshell of wete, prisce iiijd.
It. payd for ij pound wex to John Medwynter
It. received of the bequest of Jone Thurba [rne] .
Gefte money that was y geve to the settyng of the newe howes tymbyr [z.e., the
Church-house].
Isbell Browne.
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Isbell Wytyng . . . . . . . . . . . . . jd.
Jone Kewe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . jd.
Isbell Kewe. .
Edde Gamelyn .
John Brewer. .
John Roscheforth.
Annys Bell . . .
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Remaines £xix xvijs. ijd.
Summa £xix iijs.
Summa totalis Eviij vjs.
Receptiones Év xixs. vjd. . . Summa totalis £x xvs. vjd.
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Mem. Anno Domini meccclxvi. John Dole and Thomas,1 Wardyns, hath received of John
Avernaye and John Goodknave £x xvjs.
Mem. that Thomas Thurbarne and Thomas Knygth hath payd to John Bowton for
mete and drynke abowgth the setthyng of the wyndowys vjd.
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It. for the Cherch howse, of John Mariott .
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for the hyr [hire] of chetill [kettle] of John Crose .
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that Thomas Thurbarne and Thomas Knygth, Wardynes, have payd for a cloth for
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These ben the parcells that Jon Wyke and Jon Nede, cherchewardeynys of the
parysche cherche of Yatton have resevyd and payde in there offyce beyng.
Inprimis, reseyvyd of Jon Moye and Welyam Reve, late cherchewardeynys . xlvjs. viijd.
It. reseyvyd for a cowe . .
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It. reseyvyd of the queste of Roberd Reve . .
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It. reseyvyd in mony to the Esterne tapyr
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It. reseyvy.d with owr taverne ale . .
lvjs: viijd.
It. reseyvyd of the bequeste of William Crosse .
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It. reseyvyd for the heffer of Aneyse Hill
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It. reseyvyd of Jon Fischer and his felowes .
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It. reseyvyd of Wylyam Bonde . .
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It. reseyvyd for old potts . . . .
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It. reseyvyd for ryndyn' of the oke . .
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Summa totalis receptionis
£x xvjs. iiijd.
It reseyvyd for a basyn and a laver. . . . . . . . . vjs. viijd.
It. reseyvyd of Wylyam Colman . . . . . . . . . xxvijs. vid.
Summa totalis receptionis
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It. that Wyliam Reynan howeth to the Church of Yatton a clere rekenyng . . XXS.
It. John Averey outh to the same Church .
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The seyde John Averey to the chapelle . .
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Mem. de Solucionibus.
Inprimis paycle for an oke at Brockle [Brockley] . .
. . . vjs.
It. for the schaperyng? and the brynggng home and for the cariage of a weyne
[wagon-load] of the seyde oke . . .
. . iiijs. vid.
It. for a bawdre [baldric] and a bokel .
. . xxiijd.
It. for wex bowte agen Esterne . ..
. xld.
It. for fettyng (fetching] home of iiij whelys
. viijd.
It. for expenses upon ij tymes upon croyse .
. iiijd.
It. for waschyng of clothys . . i
. . ijd.
It. viij caryages [loads] was be hote [bought], of the wheche cam that daye but iiij.
In expenses . . . . . ... . . . . . . . . xvd.
It. payd to Jon Hykkys and Jon Falew . . . . . . . . . xls.
It. payd to Westbery . . . . . . . . . . . xviijs. viljd.
It. payd to Welyam Stonhowse for makyng of the dore in the vyse (winding staircase] xld.
It. for the stonys to the seyde dore . . .
. . xviijd.
It. for the bryngng home of the seyde stonys. .
. . xijd.
It. for meltyng and makyng of the wex . . . . . . . . . ijd.
It. payd to Jon Sloo for gresyng of the bell .
. xxd.
It. for the chetyl and the keve [vat]
vjd.
It. for the brewerys here [brewers hire]. .
. vid.
It. for threshyng of wet (wheat] . . . . . . . . . . . viljd.
It. for to [two] mennys labour to helpe brewe . .
. . . . . . xd.
It. payd for owr dyner for beryng up of benys [beans] whan we made clene the berne
[barn] . .
. . . iijd.
It. for ale to rese with,' and owr dyner
. . . . . iijd.
It. for fellyng of an oke at Bacwell.
It. for markyng of the trendyl . .
xs. iiijd.
It. for colowrs to the trendyl.
. . xxd.
It. for peyntyng of the trendy
• . xijd.
Summa . . . £iiij xs...
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It. for caryage of the bordys owte of the cherche yerde into the bushopys halle [at the
manor-house] .
. ijd
It. for makyng of the cherche dore keyge [keys]
vijd.
It. for gerdelys to the vestements
. . . . . . . . . iijd.
It. for a corde to the canape (canopy] . .
It. for hokys to the vyse dore . . . . . . . . . . . vid.
It. payd to Westbery . . . . . . . . . . . . xxjs.
It. payd for twests to the vyse dore'.
Lo the vyse aore'.
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It. payd for nayls to the same dore . . . . . . . . . . iiijd.
Shaping and dressing. ? Cross, near Axbridge, or Cross, the carpenter.
3 In the original, “Clet,” á mis-spelling.
4 To “raise" with ; i.e., to enable them to “bear up” or carry the loads of beans.
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It. payd for a lok and a keye to the same dore. . . . . . . . iiijd
It. payd for makyng of the same dore . . .
. . . . xijd.
It. payd for ferments to the stepyl wyndowys bowte of Jon Smyth at the streme vijs. xd.
It. payd to Jon Smyth of Comysbere [Congresbury] for makyng of al maner of eyreen
[iron] werke for the bellys . . . . . . . . . viijs. viijd.
It. payd for bred and ale for to hange with the bellys, and fysche and flesche and
chese and all thyngs cowntyd, summa . . . . . . . xiiijs. ijd.
It payd for ote mele .
. ijd.
It. payd to Jon Falew and to Jon Hykkys and to Jon Fyscher for here [their]
compacion . . . . :
It. payd for waxe agen crisemasse.
. . . . . XXS.
It. payd for roseyne . . .
. vid.
It. payd for makyng of the waxe .
. iijs.
It. payd for the here [hire) of the rope and the caryage in and owte . . : vis. viijd.
It. payd for hors-mete to the wax-maker, and hys owne mete, and owr mete, whyl we
made the sayd waxe. . . . . . . . . . . . xvijd.
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It. payd for the new Crosse, and makyng of the canape, and the other crosse. . xjs.
It. payd to the Veker for paper and makyng of the boke and wrytyng . . . xiiijd.
It. payd for talwe candel.
ijd.
It. payd to Wylyam Stonhowse for settyng in of to (two] femerell in the stepyl . xd.
It. payd for washyng of surplyses and oder clothys agens Cristemasse
iijd.
It. payd for fettyng of a brasen pelewe for worspryng
ijd.
It. payd to Jon Meke for ij horns.
ijd.
It. payd for drynke when we boryn [bore] in the bordys . .
It. payd for drynge to Jon Smyth . .
ijd.
Summa totalis solutionum . . . £x xjs. jd.
iijd.
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A.D. mccccxlvi-vii.
Mem. quod Johannes Hullman et Willelmus Webbe custodes bonorum ecclesie de
Yatton receperunt de Johanne Nede et Johanne Wyke . . . . xxxixs. vd.
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Item yreseived of Jon Harte of Claverham . .
of dmn rec' byschype:
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of a man vor ryngyng ye bell ...
of Ester tapyr . . . .
of ... Karter .
of the Wardeynys of the ale making at Whytteson day
of the parasche to the (Easter] sepulcur, clare .
of John Rymer vor p[re] lubkys of the cherche . .
of Lygtmen of Yatton, John Reyd and John . . .
i Ferments= Ferramenta ; i.e., iron work. 2 In pity to them.
3 1.e., the Bishop's manorial Receiver or Steward.
iijs. iiijd.
xiijs. iiijd.
. iiijd.
vjs. viijd.
vjs. viijd.
£iiij xxd.
xviijs. vd.
. ijd.
£iij vjs.
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Yatton Church' Accounts.
Wardens-
Item yreseived of lygtte men of Cleve and of Claverham, William Watts and
William Colynys . . . . . . . . £iij vijs. vid.
vor a gyrddyll that was for... Richard Byssechip,1 Vyker
of Yatton . . . . . . . . .
XS.
of John Hurdewyche ... the bygwyst of J. Ydward. . iijs. iiijd.
vor candyll of the [r]ella ysowlle at divers tymys
. vid.
vor ryngyng of the bell of a munke of Staverdell
. . iiijd.
of William ... vor a rad .. .
of Tybyt Scheryffe . . . . .
. . viijd.
vor a gowne, of the quyst of John Vyn .
. iijs. viijd.
» » vor a crokke, the quist of Robert Syms of Kenne . . . vs. xd.
, of R. Gold and J. Vord vor wodde of the Chercheys . . . xvjd.
It. Receperunt modium frumenti de legatione Willelmi Attewyke, pretio . . . xd.
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It. vor wodde of William at Wyke, and Robert Yogge and John Hyllman . . viijd.
» of Richard Benektun . . . . . . . . . . Xxjs. iijd.
of William Hyckys . .
. . xxd.
de Willelmo j bossall frumenti et j bossall ordii [hordei], the sum of ham [them] xvijd.
vor a whyche . . .
• . xijd.
of R. Thurberne vor iiij bussel ordii.
. ijs. iiijd.
„ of J. Meke vor a yhefyr [heifer]
. . . . . . . iijs.
„ of R. Reve for a plock [block] .
. ijd.
„ of John Felpys
. . . . . . xiiijd.
· Summa totalis receptionis £xviij iijs. xjd.
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a.A. mecccxlvii-viii. JOHN HYLLMAN AND W. WEBBE, WARDENS.
Mem. quod Johannes Hyllman et W. Webbe expend.
It. y payde vor mette and dryncke vor iiij carige [loads] to the churche . . .
It. y payde to Hurneman vor ij takys* . .
. . . vd.
„ „ John Valoks and J. Hobkys vor mette and dryncke vor sowwyn (sawing]
at Nayllese [Nailsea] . . . . . . . . . iijd.
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vor anoke [an oak] at Thurbbewyll .
. iiijs.
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to J. Valoke and J. Hobkys vor goyng thyddyr.
• vjd.
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vor ij bolts and a stapylle . .
vijd. ob.
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vor the cost of ij men goyng to Thurbbewyll .
. ijd.
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vor of the makyng of Ester tapyr
. XXd.
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vor the beying [buying] of a loke
. . : ixd.
: [A few common entries about a few repairs.]
1 R. Bishop was instiuuted 1440. How long he held office, unknown.
2 “The reel ysold,” the candle ends were thus turned to account.
3 The Churchyard. Hey=enclosure.
4 See Glossary.
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It. y payde vor the sepulcur kloth . . . . . . . . . xxixs. viijd.
» » vor ij candyll stykys . . . . . . . . . . . Zij
u vor mať ybowyetel to the weste dore . . . . . . vid.
vor iij men rydyng to Estun’ to se the alle [alure], the cost of ham (them). iijd.
to Crobbe and J. Hylman here [their] costys rydyng to Selwudde . ..viijd.
to W. Hurneman rydyng to Button (Bitton] . .
. . jd.
to John ... vor vyllyng (felling] anoke . .
. jd.
, vor clothe y bowgte to the surplous . . .
xiijs.
, vor thredde to make the same .
vd.
» to W. Stubbe rydyng to Brystowe to see the tabylment
iiijd.
„ „ at Cogybbyre [Congresbury] at Churche alle [Ale] . . . . . iiijd.
vor the mynda of W. Bocktun. . . . . . . . . jd.
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It. y payde vor the mynd of W. Malsell . . . . . . . . . jd.
„ „ to J. Vysser beryng of a whele to Kynstun .
... . jd.
1: in costes to rydyng [ridding] of the churche and vor dryng [drink] to the
carpentorys to the settyng‘in of here (their) segys (seats]
. . iiijd.
vor ij puwns (pounds] of talowe to the carpenterys . . . . . ijd.
to John Valew and John Huckys . .
£iij vjs. viijd.
» vor makyng of the surplys
. . . vjs.
vor makyng of the rochette . .
. . ijd.
, vor wex to the cherche . .
• xiiijs. iiijd.
vor mete and drynke in makyng of the wex.
viijd. ob.
vor the makyng of the pulpyt and ij awterys .
. iijs. iiijd.
vor lyme to the same y bowgt . .
. vd.
vor bynnyng of a panna wyt yres .
. xijd.
vor nayls y bowgt vor the segys .
. . . vijd.
vor strykyng of the churche.
. iijd.
to J. Parker vor goyng to Thurbbewyll to helpe hewwe the schuddes . iiijd.
to J. Slo vor kepyng of the bell . . . . . . . . xxd.
to the writer of the bowke (the Account] . . . . . . vjd,
Summa expensarum £ix xvjs. xd. ob.
Summa totalis solutionum £ix xvijs. ob.
Et remanebit in manibus Johannis Hylman et Willelni Mydwynter erga proximum
annum £viij vjs. xd. ob.
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| Matter or matters bought.
2 Easton-in-Gordano, to see a model rood-loft with an Alure, before setting about their own, for which
they were buying timber, in Selwood Forest.
3 A carved or painted representation of a sacred subject.
4 A commemoration of the departed, a month or a year after death. These two benefactors were com-
memorated for several years.
i .e., binding of a banner with iron.
To hew the shroud i.e., branches.
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Q.A. mecccrlyii-viii. J. HyLMAN AND W. MYDWYNTER, WARDENS.
J. Hylman and W. Mydwynter begin as above with £viij vjs. xd. ob.
Received of John Huredyche to chreche warkys (Church-works] . . . . viijd.
, of the Ester tapyr . . . . . . . . . . vs. viijd.
vor a kowwe of Hurdewychys.
. . . viijd.
, of J. Horte of Claram (Claverham] vor a kowe of hys byquyst. . vjs. xd.
of the Wardeynys of John Hylman and William Mydwynter of makyng of
Ale at Wyttesunday, to the cherche . . . .
. . £iiij
, of Alice Gowdman of the quist . . .
. . . . iijs. iiijd.
1 of John Rowlyng of quist . . .
. xvjd.
, vor ryngyng of the bell of the reseyver acorte day! . . . . . viijd.
[In another hand and language.]
Item recepimus de Edde Bustun nomine legationis . . .
. . .. iijs. iiijd.
„ „ „ Johanna Wampervyle nomine legationis annulum et . . . xd.
, de pro tabernâ Servicie? de collect. luminis de Yatton . . £iij xvjs. viijd.
» de pro tabernâ ,
, de Claverham . . . £ij xjs. viijd.
Item recepimus de Johanne Hykke. . . . . . . . . vjs. viijd.
de J. Meke pro vitulo legato de J. Hurdewyche
; . iiijs.
de Johanne Herte nomine legationis ij modios frumenti et ij modios
ordii, pretio . . . . . . . . . ijs. vjd.
de Jekyn att Wyke unum modium frumenti et alium modium ordei,
pretio . . .
. . . . . . xyd.
de Johanne Avery de Huysch j modium frumenti et modium ordii
nomine legationis, pretio . . . . .
. . . . . . . xiiijd.
de J. Halle j modium frumenti nomine legationis, pretio . . . xd.
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Item recepimus de Johanne Knyght unam tunicam, pretio .
iiijs.
à W. W. Wever pro focis v de residuo lignorum dimissorum, pretio.
à R. Dornebarne pro ij bus tabulis vocatis "planks "
xijd.
à W. Mydwynter pro j tabula vocata “plank"
. iijd.
à R. Mei pro duobus lignis vocatis ij plocks [blocks]
ijd.
à J. Rynd pro ligno vocato a ploke.
ijd.
de Vicar, unam ollam eneam, pretio .
. . vs. xd.
pro olla Ricardi Wyllyngs . .
. . vs.
pro modio frumenti nomine legationis à Johanna Knyght .
xd.
à Johanna Knyght certas partes, pret. . .
vjd.
, de legatione Johanne Garlonde in pecuniis . . . . : xijd.
Summa remanens £xxj xs. viijd. ob.
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EXPENSES.
It. ypayd vor weynscot (wainscot] · · · · · · · · · vijs.
» vor cariage of the same . . . . . . . . . . . xiijd.
On Manor Court day for the Bishop's receiver or steward. 2 1.e., cerevisie = Ale.
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It. vor mendyng of awbys [albs] .
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, vor Ester tapyr and iiij precatys,' the makyng and costs .
„ to J. Valew vor makyng of werke of the cherche . . .
vjl.
„ to ij men vor rydyng [ridding] of Syn Jameys schapell. .
„ vor anoke ybcw3t of J. Hykks and the vyllyng” of the same.
, vor vyllyng of a chyde at Herryherte . .
: : jd.
„vor lamp oyle . . . . . .
. iiijd.
vor warsyne (washing] of clothes to Alson Sawndes
. iiijd.
„ vor mete and drynke vor trussyng of the bellys
. ijd.
„ to John Blo vor kepyng of the bells . . . .
· ' xxc.
„ to John Sty vor makyng of to (two] baner luggust
. . iiijd.
„ to John Slyette vor makyng of ij banarys, and a clothe afore the tabylle, and
mendyng of j awbe [alb] . : . .
. . . . . . Xiiijd.
„ to J. Smythe vor makyng of a yryn croke and settyng : .
. . ijd.
„ vor ij days goyng to Cogysbyry to gete tymbyr vor the cherche, iiij men, the cost
of ham (them). . . . . . . . . . . . xd. ob.
„ vor the vyllyng of the same tymbyr . : .
. . xiijd.
„ vor cottyng of the same tymbyr to v men in mete and dryng and hyre , . . ixd.
„ vor cariage of the same tymbyr in mete and dryng, in al costs . . iijs. iiijd.
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It. vor lyme to wassche the awterys . . . . . . . . . . ijd.
, vor the dyner of the man that come hydyr to se the playster of the stypyll. . iijd.
[In another hand, with a mixture of Latin and English.]
Item solvimus pro confectione campane . .
· · · vjs. viij...
It. pro tabulis vocatis wenscote numero xxviij . .
. . xxiijs. iiijd.
„ in expensis in die emptionis tabularum supradictarum.
vid.
» pro caryage (vehitione) tabularum dict. de Brydstoll.
. . xvijd.
, pro vehitione tabularum à rypa Brydstoll usque portam de Radecleve . . . vd.
[Expenses in meat and drink at the same time] . .
iiijd.
[Hereafter the use of Latin only is resumed to the end of the Warden's period
of office.]
Solvimus pro xliij modiis cementi vocati “playster'.
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In esculentis et poculentis pro circa vehitiones de supradicta playster . . xjd.
, pro esculentis equorum eodem tempore . . . . .
. vd.
, pro calciratione equorum eodem tempore . . .
. viijd.
, pro conductione duorum operariorum . ..
Solvimus operario de supradicto playster pro operibus manuum suarum
: xxd.
pro ejusdem operarii esculentis . .
• vjd.
pro duobus operariis et esculentis et poculentis eorundem.
. ijs.
Johanni Sloo pro duobus dictis circa opus supradictum
. vid.
pro anniversario Willelmi Bowdon .
• . jd.
Johanni Crosse pro factura solarii6 in parte solutionis . .
Ev vjs. viijd.
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1 Prickets. 2 Felling. 3 l.e., a shyde or shroud, the top and lop of a tree.
"Lugs, cords to keep the banner straight. 5 Wainscoat boards.
6 The Aler.
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Solvimus Johanni Balwe et J. Hikke pro factura sedilium ,
· £ij xviijs. viijd.
pro cera . . .
· · xxixs. viijd.
pro rosen pro cera supradicta . . . .
. iijs. ijd.
pro vehitione rosen et cere et aliis expensis
. . iiijd.
pro factura cere . . . . .
.xxd.
pro esculentis et poculentis circa facturam cere
. xvjd.
pro lichline vel filo lichinis!
pro clavibussedilium .
· viijd.
pro lotione vestimentorum ecclesie et surpiclis.
. ijd.
pro oleo lampadis . . . . . .
. . . iiijd.
pro pastura unius vituli Willelmo Gene .
. vid.
servicia°. ecclesie de Congarisberi .
. . . iijd.
Johanni Balwe, Johanni Hylle, pro potatiune, quum fecerunt finem de
factura sedilium . . . . . . . . . . . iiijd.
Ricardo Bowdon pro labore suo versus Worle pro cros . . . . ijd.
. Summa expensarum . . £xiij xviijs. ixd. ob.
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Mem. quod remanebat in manibus custodum antiquorum, viz. Johannis Hylman et
Willelmi Mydwynter, A.D.4 m.ccccxlviii, in die Sancti Matthye Apostoli, omnibus
computatis coram parochianis in ecclesia de Yatton £vij xs. viijd. que summa
solvenda est novioribus custodibus, viz. : Willelmo Willyng et Thome Prewett.
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W.9. mecccrloiii. W. WYLLYNG AND T. PREWET, WARDENS.
These ben the parcelys that Vyl Wyllyng and Tom Prewet recevyd wyl they wer
churche wardyns of Yatton yn the yer of our Lord mccccrrrrviii.
In primo for a taverne that ys ymade of ye Churche ale . . . . v marcs xjd.5
and the lightmen of Clyf and Clarham . . . . . . lllj marcsa
» for a payr of bedys of lambyr [amber] . .
· · vijd.
It. recepimus de J. Colman et W. Balwe custod: .
v marcs ilijs.7
, de W. Stabbe pro salute animarum filiorum suorum
. . xijd.
pro adimpletione rote8 de certis personis
. . xvjd.
pro candela de rota . . . . .
. . ijd.
, de custodibus antiquis . . . .
£vij xs. viijd.
, pro antiquis tabulis quas vendimus Johanni Clerico
. . xxd.
pro veste altaris solvendo Steby yn the merche [Marsh]
. . viijd.
.. de W. Stabbe de tabula . . . . . . .
vjs. viijd.
„ pro candela paschali.
. . vs. iijd.
[One or two more indistinct entries.]
Summa receptarum
Exviij iiija.
1 Lamp-yarn. ? Oy. clavis, i.e., nails. 3 = Cerevisia, the Church Ale.
4 T.e., 1447, N.S. Feb. 24, 25th Hen. VI. 5 £375. 7d. 6 £2 135. 4d.
? £3 10s. 8d. 8 The reel, or corona.
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for the bellys to Jon Slo.
for costage of to (two) wyng[s] of rayselk for the hy auter
for a cloth of the tabyl ystenyd (stained]
for a clothe by for [before] the same auter
xj marcs xs.?
. . xvijd.
xxd.
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xxd.
xxd.
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xijd.
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for wyr and ryngs for the tabyl
for four spykys . . . .
vijd.
for makyng of the sepulkyr tre
xxd.
» for waschyng of clothys . . . . . . . . .
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» for clensyng of ij candylstykky[s] of latyn and a sensa (censer]
. iijd.
» for Wyll Bonton ys mynde . .
„ for aschyd yfot at yde od [a shroud fetched at Yde wood).
xvjd.
for wexe to the rele, and costage
vs. viijd.
for costage of the Ester tapyr . .
. . ijs. iijd.
for a rop for the sacryng bell . .
. . iiijd.
for scowryg of the grete semys .
. . iiijd.
: viij marcs xiijs.
for to sacryng bell . . . . . .
. . . xiijd.
» for a lege bell, and the mendyng of another . . . . . . ijs. ijd.
Summa . . £xv xijs. viijd.
These accounts are presented, “ coram parochianis," on Thursday before+ S. Valentine's
day, A.D., mecccrliy; and the balance of xlijs. xijd. is delivered to the new
Wardens, John Cooke of Cleve, and John Hylman, junior, of Yatton.
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J. HYLMAR AND J. COOKE.
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mjd. ob.
. iiijd.
EXPENSES.
In primis pro factura cere paschalis .
aschanis .
.
.
.
. . . . . .
, pro lotione vestimentorum erga festum pasche. .
[Entries for wax, &c., as usual.]
Johanni Crosse carpentario pro coopertione baptysterii (Font] .
pro glutuno et clavi eidem baptysterio . .
pro lotione vestimentorum . . .
eidem Crosse sub nomine cure .
pro cera empta baptysterio .
Johanni Crosse pro solario .
for a lyne to the font . . .
schrydyng of treyes yn church hay . .
pro vehitione unius querci de sylva.
167 16s. 8d. ? T.e., raye=striped. 3 £5 19s. Sil.
il.e., before Feb. 14, A.D. 1448–9, for 1447-8, 27 Hen. VI.
.
.
. vjd.
. iiijd.
. jd.
. ijd.
xiijs. iiijd.
. ijd.
. jd.
. viijd.
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for an yren tak to Spenser ys wene (wain]
; ijd.
for the poley of yren to the fonte .
. . . . . . . . . xviijd.
for rede sylke to amende the cops (copes] herewith
. ijd.
we delyvered to the clerke for quyste .
. iiijd.
for clapsyng (clasping) of ij boks . . .
iijd.
for the auter clothe to the clerke .
vijs.
for the rodeloffte to Crosse (the carpenter] ,
. xls.
for costage yn sekyng of a potte or a crokke . .
. . . iiijd.
for wex and makyng of wex ayens Mydwynter, and other certeyn costs there
upon . . . . . . . . . . · . xvjs. viijd.
in the day of the capytert for sewte of certyn personis . . . . . . ilijd.
PAGE 23.
for a tapyr upon the northe auter . .
. . . . vid.
payd to Crosse for the rodeloffte . .
vjs. viijd.
for seekyng of Crosse at Backwell. .
. jd.
for a keye and nayl to the stypyll (steeple] dore
. . . iijd.
[and a few small repairs.]
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Q.D. mccccli.
RECEIPTS BY J. HYLMAN AND J. COKE.
In primis pro collectione cere paschalis recepimus. . .
. . vjs.
pro toga Johannis Parker . . . .
. iijs. iiijd.
pro taberna nostra in die Pentecoste. .
v marcs. vs. (*)
de T. Hygans de pecuniis collectis tabule
. .xs. ijd.
pro superiori parte unius quercus . .
. . viijd.
de Th. Hygannys pro tabula . . .
. xijd.
de Waltero Crosse et Edmundo Dole .
. xiijs. iiijd.
de Vicario pro toga dornebarne (Thorbarne)
. . ijs.
de Davy Cradock et Th. Kew lyghtemen . .
. . £iij
de Waltero Crosse et Edmunde Dole .
v nobil. iiijs. (3)
pro olla enea de Vicario . .
. . xxijd.
of the old wardens ad solvendum Crosse, .
- vjs. viijd.
of the old Wardens .
· vjs. viijd.
A.D., mecceli, on the Conversion of S. Paul the Wardens brought in the Accounts,
and Thomas Hygams and William Watts were elected Wardens, receiving the
balance Evj xixs. xjd.
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1 The R. Deanery Chapter was disciplinary, and was used for reporting offences to the Ordinary. In this
case the cost of iiijd. shows that the Wardens did not go as far as Wells. Vide infra, . Fw, mcccclii.. p.
94, from which it appears that going to Wells to a chapter cost ijs. iijd.
2£3 11s. 8d.
3 £ I IIS, 4d.-
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Mem. de receptione custod. WILL. HYGHAM AND W. WATTS.
de Johanne Newton prolumine obitus filie sue pro eo quod expendidit de torticiis . xvjd.
Rec. de custodibus Hylman et Cooke . . . . .
. . : £iiij XS.
„ de fonte taper . . . . . . . .
vs. ixd.
» de J. Goodman, lyghtman .. ..
. . . xxvjs. viijd.
de J. Maryotte ejus socius . . . . . . . . . xvjs. viijd.
de domina p. de Wyke [Philippa Newton, The Lady of Court de Wykel per
manus J. Newton filii sui de legatione domini Ricardi Newton ad solvend. pro
campana . . . . . .
XXS.
12 de Johanne Hylman et Johanne Cooke.
. . . XXS.
, de Johanne Maryotte . . .
. . . . XS.
» pro una olla enea vendita ..
. . . . iijs.
de Weneman pro tabula . .
. xijd.
„ de Th. Sleche de Banwyle pro pulsatione [bell-ringing] .
. . iiijd.
oj de W. Stable pro tabula . . . . . . . . . .. vjs. iiijd.
, pro taberna servicie in festo Pentecoste . . .
. . £iij
, de custodibus luminis de Cleve et Claram, Knyght, et Hert, pro taberna
propriorum' in festo Michaelis . . .
• £iij vjs. xd.
» de Johanne Kynge de Cranemore, nomine legationis . . . . . vid.
, pro olla enea vendita Johanni Hykks . .
. . iiijs. vjd.
» de legatione Johannis Wampervile . . . . . . . . . ijs.
PAGE 27.
EXPENSES.
In primis for the auterclothys and the corporall and the clerke hys surplesse, and
expenses yn beyng [buying] therof at the feyr (fair]
xilijs. xjd.
Item for wax to the Vicary . .
viijs. viijd.
» for yreworke for ij wyndowys to the smyth of Comysbery .
. iijs, ixd.
, payede to Crosse for the aler (alure) . .
to Crosse ys chylde’ yn reward . . .
. xxd.
for caryage of the cabell and poley for the strekyng (striking] of the belle
. viijd.
for wex to the fonte taper and costs ther to .
. iijd.
for expenses in the day of the weyyng of the belle . . .
. xvjd.
for caryage of the belle to Redecleve . . . .
. . . . vs.
» for the furste payment for the belle at Brystowe to the bellman . ; £iiij iiijs.
for costs in strekyng the grete belle . . . . . . . . . ijs
for expenses doo at Bristow yn tyme of the weyyng of the newe belle in
makyng of our detys and oder expenses dyverse wyse. . . . ijs. vid.
for custom ſtoll] for our wene to Bristowe warde comyng and goyng. . . iiijd.
, to the servant of Hew the bellman for clovys. . . . . . . . jd.
„ for the takyng adowen of the old belle, and the hongyng up of the newe belle
to the bellman . . . . . . . . . . . iiijs. iiijd.
, to Wyll Hurman for fettyng home of the newe belle fro Radcleve. .
vs.
XXS.
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Yatton Church-Wardens' Accounts.
93
for dy
ete and drynke yn the day of the-taryage of the belle...
how
. :
. . . . . . . 111js. ja.
[other small items.]
PAGE 28.
for Crosse ys labour yn makyng of the lede for the holy water stone . . . ijd.
to the same Crosse for the Aler
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to the belle yn the Wendisdaye of Wytsondaye tyme of our taverne we payede (the
money gathered at the Ale, and paid on spot] . .
. . xls.
to Crosse at anoder payment for the Aler
. ij marcs iijd.?
for glewe to the Aler . . . . .
. . iiijd.
for the payntyng of the deske cloth. .
: . xvjd.
„ for the byndyng of the boks
. . vs.

@.D. mcccclii
On the Feast of S. Scholastica (Febr. x), the said Wardens made their account:
William at Wyke and John Valwe were chosen Wardens, and the balance of the
account is lviijs. xd.
PAGE 29.
2.9. mccccli.
RECEIPTS.
FROM THE OLD WARDENS, W. HYGHAM AND W. WATTS.
In primis de legato Johannis Gybbis de Tykkenam [Tickenham] . . . . . xijd.
Item de legato Th. Drewette, pro uno boviclo . .
. . iijs. iiijd.
, de J. Dele et J. Crosse custodibus luminis de Yatton pro taberna ipsorum
iiij mark vjs. xd.
, de legato Alicie Beny uxoris Johannis Webbe de Stoke . . · · · xijd.
, de J. Wale de debito antiquo . .
. . xS.
pro ligniclis* de Vicario . . .
. vid.
pro cera paschalis candele
vjs. ixd.
» de legato R. Kyffte . .
vjs. viijd.
» pro taberna J. Fischer et Philip Beny pro lumine de Clar et Cleve
xlvis. xd.
, pro tabula de Johanne Salamon, juniore . . . .
• ijd.
, de eodem Johanne sub nomine legati pro pyxide . ..
. xijd.
» de eodem Johanne sub nomine legati ecclesie . . .
• xijd.
„ de W. Wyllyng ex debito antiquo .
. . . . vijs. jit
Summa . . £xiij xixs. iiijd.
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EXPENSES.
In primis for wex boffte of the Vicar, xxj lb..
vnjs. ixd.
for wex boffte at Bristow, iiij lb. . .
. . xxd.
to John Sloo, for his pension (stipend] ..
• . ijs.
for takyng adown of the tymber of the Chapyll of Synt Jamys. . . vijd.
for werkemanschyp of tymber to Synt Jamys ys chapylle, . . iijs. iiijd.
for makyng of the walle to the same chapyl
hapy?
.
.
.
. . . . . ijs. jd.
for the costage yn caryage abowte tyler and erthe and stone to the same
chapyll . . . . . . . . . . . . . xiijd.
for latthenayles in numero M. pretio . . . . . . . xviijd.
for tyle stone and the caryage of the same stone from Naylsey, and costs
also to Hurman . . . . . . . . . . ijs. lijd.
for a precescionall boke to the cherche . .
. . xiiijs. viijd.
for helyng (tiling] of Synt Jamys ys Chapell to R. Tyler of Backwyll . vs. vijd.
for Ale gevyn to the parysch of Myll Blewett,' ys bayle yn rewarde . . iiijd.
for muse’ gaderede [gathered) to Synt Jamys ys chapell. . . . iijd.
for costs doyn abowt the oke boffte from hyde wode . . . . xxd.
PAGE 32.
yn costage to Well for sowte of [suit touching] the churche gods [goods] yn two
tymes3 . . .
. . . . . . . . . . xviijd.
for makeng of the chyldren surpel (surplices] . . . . . . . . xd.
yn costs for laboryng at Wells for Crosse . .
. . iijd.
yn costs at Wells for the Chapter for the cherche ys neds at laste tymys3 . . ijs. iijd.
[Total expenses] : £v xiijs. xjd.
JOHN HYKKE and WALTER ROPER to be Wardens,

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PAGE 33.
A.D. mccccliii.
RECEIPTS OF HYKKE AND ROPER.
de antiquis custodibus .
£viij vs. vijd.
ex legato Roberti Ken .
• vjs. viijd.
pro vasto tortitorum (torches] obitus Roberti Ken . . .
• ijs. iijd.
de W. Durnebarne et Isabell Hurdewych protaberna ipsorum . .
. £iij xxd.
[There is also the usual Pentecost Ale]. . . . . • . £iij vijd.
de W. Meye et R. Knyght de Claram (Claverham] pro taberna ipsorum pro lumine xliijs. xd.
pro uno coopertorio de legato uxoris J. Hatte . .
. . . vs.
pro vitulo de legato Steph. Colman . . . . .
. . . iiijs.
de legato W. Pyke de Ken
. . . xvjd.

Inc., an Ale was viven to the parish by one of the Blewett family, once seated at Hinton Bluet. His
filijd.
" Is felt is noiv, fe . thickening...
Dorial Court of the Chapter of Wells touching the fabric or ornaments
Yatton Church-Wardens' Accounts.
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PAGE 35.
EXPENSES.
pro consecratione campane, suffraganeol . . . . . .
pro manutergio paschali . . . . . .
pro factura superpellicie . . .
pro terrubulo (thurible] et olei vase et canabo (canvas) et navi
in expensis factis apud Wryngton in servisia ecclesie . .
[a quantity of stone bought.]
J. Crosse, Carpenter, and John Sutton are paid xxs. and xls.
[No other special entries.]
Balance paid to incoming wardens . . . . . .
. vjs.
. iijs.
. iijd.
ixs. iiijd.
. viijd.
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PAGE 36.
Q.D, mccccliv.
W. BURNELL AND J. FYSCHER, WARDENS.
. [Only one legacy.]
de vicario ex dono pro pavimento et solario . . . . . . . vjs. viijd.
pro tabula altaris .
vijs. vid.
de Philippa Newton pro vasto cere tortitorum in die sepulture filie sue, pro iiij lb. . xvjd.
pro taberna Thome Beny .
. . . . . . . . . V marcs ijs.
et R. Bowton juniore, custodi luminis de Yatton . . . . . iiij marcs vs.
pro taberna J. Herte et J. Wyllyng custodibus luminis de Cleve et Clarum
iiij marcs iijs. 3
2tu
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EXPENSES.
In primis Johanni Crosse pro solario
. . xxvjs. viijd.
for a lyne to the leynte clothe [Lent cloth] ...
. ijd.
for a glase to the lampe . . . .
. jd.
for a gurdell to the vestments . . .
for John Sloo ys salery .
. . . ijs.
for expenses atte Cherche ale of Wryngton . .
[Many payments to Crosse.]
payede for divers colers to the Aler (Alure] . . .
vjs. vjd.
costage yn settyng uppe of the Aler, the fyrste daye . . . ijs. vijd.
payede an ernyste peny to the clerke .
. . jd.
yn laberyng yn costs to ryde to speke with the clerke atte Hunspylle . iiijd.
for colers late boffte at Bristow
. . ijs. jd.
for the paynter ys hyre a wyke [week]
. . , xxd.
.
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i James, Bishop of Aghadoe, was at this time employed by Bishop Beckington.
2 “Navis," generally “navicula," or boat; the vessel which is used to hold the incense before it is put
with a spoon into the censer or thurible.
3 £3 95. 8d., 62 18 d., and £2 19.5. 4d.

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' Accounts.
Yatton ChurchWardens-
. ijd.
. xxd.
. xxs.
vjs. viijd.
iiijs. xd.
vjs. viijd.
. ijd.
. xd.
jd.
xiijs. vid.
. jd.
ijs. vid.
XXS.
for the same payenter ys bedde .
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for yren worke for the syler (Cieler]
.
for John Sotton ys labor in pavyng .
for bords from Sowtheampton
for ij bords boffte at Brystow. .
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PAGE 38.
for caryage of the same borde by twynel (South] Hampton and Chew
for costs yn the bargan makyng . .
.
for costs yn the caryage of the same borde betwyne Chew and home
.
for nayls boffte to the syler .
for colers . . . . .
.
for feschyng [fetching] of a stone from Chelvey to grynde colers therwith . .
for drawing of bords to schylyng [ceiling] . . . . . . . .
to Crosse at a payment for the syler . . . . . . .
to Crosse at another tyme for the syler . . .
to J. Hykkes for trussyng of the [? s]hyde and the Crosse with the Maryes .
for glovys for dewtees to Crosse yn settyng uppe of the worke fesste of the syler
for one erneste peny to J. Snıyth . . . . . .
for an ernyste to J. Hykkes in makyng of segs (seats] . . . .
to J. Sutton for pavyng, payed .
for wyndeyng oute of robell (rubble) at the awterys and oder thyngs
for sawdyng (soldering] glew to crosse . . .
for a quarte of peyntyng oyle . .
for dyvers colers boffte [bought] .
.
y payde to Crosse for the syler
payede for golde to paynte the angell ..
for mendyng of a keye to the vicedore . .
.
for yren to the rodeloffte, payde to J. Smyth .
.:
Balance. . . . .
.
The new Wardens are W. BREKEBEKE and THOMAS HARBELL.
XXS.
.
...
iiijd.
iiijd.
jd.
.
.
jd.
XXS.
.
.
vid.
iijd.
.
.
vd.
. xxijd.
vjs. viijd.
. vjs.
. jd.
ijs. vjd.
XXXs. iijd.
PAGE 39.
de Walt. Carter
„ T. Wyllyng .
„ J. Bowden .
, T. Beny
» J. Scott .
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De receptis pecuniis pro tabula altaris.
. . . vid. I de J. Watts . . .
. . . iiijd. „ Stephano Coleman .
. . . iiijd. „ W. Brekebeke . .
.' . xvjd. 1 „ J. Sloo
.
. . . viijd. I
Sa. vijs. vid.
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,
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.
iiijd.
xxd.
ijs.
iiijd,
.
11.e., between.
2 Gloves as a complimentary fee to the Carpenter on completing his work for t

eiler's hands.
Yatton Church-WMardens' Accounts.
PAGE 40.
Summa solvendorum ex parte W. Wyllyng et Prewett . . . . . xxxvijs.
Mem. quod W. Wyllyng indebitus est ecclæ de Yatton à tempore quo erat custos
eccl. sc. omnibus satisfactis satisfaciendis, et allocatis allocandis . . . vijs.
Et dicit quod solvit de summa dimissa a tempore suo J. Hylman et J. Coke success-
oribus suis V nobiles per Wale et remiss. nobile de Welett istius debiti , . xS.
Remanet solvenda ex pte W. Wyllyng ecclæ . .
. . . vijs.
Solutum est J. Crosse pro solario diversis temporibus a diversis Custodibus, a tempore
quo incepit opus suum in ecclesia de Yatton . .
£xviij xiijs.
Et sic remanet sibi [sic] solvendum . . . . . ,
£iij vjs. vd.
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Q.m. mcccclou 2.l., 1455–6 for 1454-5.
W. BREKEBEKE, JUN., AND THOS. HARBELL.
Eighteen Bequests; some in money, some in kind, as a heifer, a sheep, a brass pot, &c.
Several gifts, e.ge:-
de dono Banvyle . . . . .
. . vjs.
Canonici de Staverdale . .
ilijs.
J. Clerke quod Crede solvet
. iijd.
W. Wever pro xij imaginibus
. . . xijs.
Vicarii pro iij
iijs..
W. Stabbe pro ij
ijs.
T. Harbell pro ij
W. Brekebeke pro ij
J. Efe proj
. . . . . . . xijd.
» · J. Pyke pro ij .
. ijs:
, R. Dornebarne pro ij »
. ijs.
, J. Hylman proj
. xijd.
pro annulo aureo ex legato sororis J. Hylman.
. ijs. vid.
pro taberna Roberti Yngram et W. Brekebeke custodum luminum de Yatton . £iij iijd.
pro cera paschalis candele . . . . . . . . . . vs. xd.
ex taberna Kysste et Brademerse .
. . . . . xlvis. viijd.
Summa £xiiij xvijs. vd.
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PAGE 43.
EXPENSES.
a potell of paynters oyl . .. . . . .
for vernaysche (varnish], a pound and a quarter .
for glew and diverse colers for the loffte. . .
for chelke [chalk] and greye cayk (cake] and paper .
for a buyschel of schyryds for make cole [charcoal] .
Itm. for makyng and mendyng of glasse to the churche
.
. xd.
iiijs. xd.
- jd.
. iiijd.
.
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Yatton Church-Wardens' Accounts.
for a barre yn the cherche dore, and a crampe of yre [iron] in the sowthe syde of the soler xijd.
for expenses at Crosse ys ale yn settyng uppe of the poste of the rode-lofte . iijd.
Itm. ypayde to Crosse for hys labor yn the loffte . . . . . . . xjs.
Itm. for labour of ryngers and yevyrs [givers] of ale to [i.e., at] Banvyle (Banwell].
for the chandeler yn the rodelofte, to Jenken Smyth of Comysbury . . . xiijs. iiijd.
for ale gevyn to Crosse yn certeyn tymis yn hys worke to make hym wel wellede (well-
.
PAGE 44.
for erneste peny to the ymage maker . . . . . . . . . jd.
to settyng up of the ymages . . . . . . . . . . . iiijd.
for colde (charcoal] whyche J. Smythe made upon the yren werke . . . . xviijd.
[Many entries of large sums paid for the syler and for colours.]
for the ymages to the rodeloffte yn number lxix . .
£iij xs. iiijd.
for fette a down a stone of the Spyre, the hyre and cost. .
. . xviijd.
for makyng the wyndow yn the stepyll and the batylment. .
:. iijs. iiijd.
for settyng up the yren worke to the syler . . . . . . . . vd.
for takeyng a don of the olde loffte and makyng of the trestell .
· · xijd.
:
jd.
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yn costys in ystyre [Easter] monday to tary at the Vycary ys hoce [house] for the
. preces [? priests] .
for j man to helpe to wymmynge [winnowing] the malte to [i.e., at] the mylle ; .
PAGE 46. [Stone is bought at Dundry for the spire and steeple.]
PAGE 47.
to gaderyng of oyestere scellys (oyster shells] . . . . . . . . jd. ob.
for takyng away of the corvyll [corbel] stonys of the Alere
. . xijd.
for mendyng of the wyndows and legynge of the dore above the stere (stair].
for the mynde of Wyllian Malsyll and Annese Harrys .
. . . .
for the mynde of Wylliam Bowton . . . . . . . . . .
PAGE 48.
for makyng of the Threehewgll (threshold) to the porche . . . . . . ixd.
for the makyng of the hole above the stere
. . : xijd.
for cropys (cramps] to the tabyll (prob. Parapet] of the syde allee Caisle] . . . ijd.
to Bole (Bull] of Axbridge . . . . . . . . . lxs. Xlijs. illjd.
PAGE 49.
[Eight small payments in Latin, and in a new hand.]
[All the above pages from page 43 full of entries, but none at all unusual beside
those noted.]
[Appears to be missing:]
It is written in a
1 Page 45 of the original accounts begins here, and is entitled “ Costagiys” (costages].
new hand which lasts to near the end ċf page 48, and in very bad spelling, and in English.
Yatton Church99
Wardens-
' Accounts.
PAGE 50.
a.. mcccclvii. z.e., 1457-8 for 1456–7..
:
TS.
JOHN [HORTE] AND JOHN GOODMAN.
Receyvyd of Wyllyam Colinys and John (Stevyn the late Wardens] . . . xjd.
[This page, 50, and page 51, have been left blank for the account of the Wardens
Goodman.]
PAGE 52.
RECEIPTS.
of J. Godeman and J. Horte (successors to Colins and Stevyn] recevede for the
pascall tapyr . . . . . . .
. vs. ixd.
for [? from] the lytemen of Cleve, Recharde Hayman and John Coukar for the taveryn
yrecevede . . . . . . . . . . . . iiij marke ijs. (Ⓡ)
for the lytemen of the northe syde, J. Pyke, and T. Avery, for a taveryn . £iij xiiijs.
for the wardeyns of Yatton for a taverne ale, yn clere .
. £iij xs. viijd.
of John Stevyn and Wyllyam Colyngs of the Recete of the rayer (rear) yere . . xjd.
PAGE 53.
EXPENSYS.
[Several purchases of colours at Bristol.]
to wrytyng of a boke to an ely (anneal] a syke man, to Thomas of Kyngnstun in all
costys . . . . . . . . . .
. . xviijd.
to the chorchenen for schryde wode yn the chorchehay. .
. . jd.
for clothe to make aubys [albs] to the chorche . . .
• vjs.
for makyng faste of the emagys (images] at the hye Croce . . . . . xijd.
for the three "myndes,” Malsell, Harris, and Bowton .
PAGE 54.
for wax ybowte to make the lyte to fore the crosse . . . . . . xxxiijs. iiijd.
.
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viijd.
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PAGE 55.
MEM. The Wardynys of the Schorche of Yatton, Recharde Thorbarne and Ric.
Knyhygt [Knight] recevede of the schorche godes in honde, £vij vjd.
[Receipts as usual.]
PAGE 56.
EXPENSES.
to J. Hyckys to make a Judas, and the font tapyr.
.
for xxvj cappys . . . . . . . . . . . . . xiiijd.
PAGE 57.
for a corde to the canapy
. . . ijd. ob
[Much plumber's work in roof of porch.]
PAGE 58.
William Thorbarne and Davy Cradoke, the new Wardens, receive from R. Thorbarne
and R. Knight the balance of . . . . . . . . . Ex xixs
PAGE 59.
[Detached entries belonging to Cradok and Thorbarne's year, but crossed out.]
£1 8s. Ed.
02
100
Patton Church-Wardens' Accounts.
[The spire was still in hand ; a regyl [rail ?] was made about it, and much plumbing
done; the surplus lead was sold to the Vicar.] .
PAGE 60. Nomina promitt. pro ymaginibus. XV nomina.
MEM. that there ys payede to Crosse for the makyng and peyntyng of the Aler of
the Chorche . . . . . . . . . . . , XXXj ijs. xjd.
PAGE 61.
Q.a. mcccclviii. 2.2., 1458-9 for 1457–8.
Davy CRADDOKE AND WYLLYAM THORBARNE, SUCCESSORS TO R. THORBARNE
AND R. KNIGHT.
Balance £x xixs.
RECEIPTS from Ales and BEQUESTS.
EXPENSES.
In lede at iiijs. viijd., the C. ..-.
. . Summa £iiij xs. iiijd.
It. to make a regyll [ ? Rail] abowte the batylmente
. . . . xvd.
„, for a Plomer to hely the batylmente for the stypyle .
. . . vjs.
„, for Ire gare [Iron-gear] farmentes, hokys, and other thynges to the chorche euce
[use], vj Skore li. (six score pounds of iron] at . . . . . . xijd. a li.
„, for sande to ley the lede [for casting the lead] . . . . . . . vd.
„ for makyng clene of Syn Jamys schapdell [chapel]. . . . . . . ijd.
PAGE 62.
„ for makyng iiij torches agenste candylmas . . . . . . . ijs.
„ for byndyng of ij portoce bokys. . . . .
: . iijs. iiijd.
„, for pavyng of the chorche, to W. Hyll . . . .
· · · · £iij
PAGE 63.
A.D. mcccclir: 1.l., 1459-60 for 1458-9.
.
xxd.
. WARDENS, THOMAS THOMAS AND WYLLYAM MAY.
RECEIPTS.
Balance from CRADOKE and THORBARNE £x xvijs. iijd., and xij ryngs.
EXPENSES.
It. for iiij bushels barleche [barley] of the queste of J. May . . . .
Page 64.
It. to the carpynter for to cely [ceil] the Rodlofte (in erneste) . . . .
„, for walsche [i.e., foreign, probably Wainscot] bord and plankys . . .
Xxx zeme of bordys, xijd., the zeme, and iij zeme of plangys xijd. the zeme.
,, for lyne to pavy the chorch . . . .
. . . . .
PAGE 65.
It to a mendy a crosse of latyn.
. . . . . . . .
„ for pentyng (painting] the Rodlofte
„ for a croke to hang the Trendyll. .
.
. jd.
. xxxiijs.
.
iijd.
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iiijd.
£jij
vjd.
.
Yatton Church-Wardens' Accounts.
IGI
PAGE 66.
It. iiijli. wex to fulfyl the rele.
„ for a staynede cļothe to Syn Colas (S. Nicolas) auter
Total expenses . . . . . . .
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iiijs. ijd.
£ix xijs.
PPLEMENTARY
ENSES.
.
for Weeryner . . . . . . .
To Wylliam Hyll for ye batylmente of V panys [bays]
To same Wyll, for ye playne worke at the weste zyn [west end] of ye cherche
To-same for makyng (good) ij brokyng panes .
. .
For a newe pynnakyll .
for the helyng of ij tomys (tombs] of Isbell Symmys and alys Fischer .
for a carchawe [kerchief] to the chals [chalice]. .
to the clerke for rep [er] yng [repairing] of and settyng on of a norfys! .
ijs. iiijd.
• XXXVS.
· xijd.
. XS.
. xijd.
·
ijd.
ijd.
PAGE 67.
A.D. mcccclxı "z.e., 1460-61 for 1459-60.
WARDENS, JOHN WYLLYNG AND W. AVERY.
receiving from Thomas and May . . . . . . . . Balance £ix xijs.
EXPENSES.
As for the grayell (grail] . . . . . . . . . . . . . viij marcs
for makyng of the stolys . .
. . xiiijd.
for mendyng of the orgyns
. ijd.
for mendyng the hole in the cherche payment in mendyng of the pylpyt . . . vd.
PAGE 68.
Total . . . Eix xvs. xd.
Balance . . Exij xvjs.
PAGE 69.
Received for the quota [? quarter] . . . . . . . . vs. viijd.
for a coppe (cope . . . . . . . . . . . ls.
Total receipts [of John Bene and John Seffe, who present their accounts in the next
page]. . . . . . . . . . . . £xxij xijs.
PAGE-70.
@.9. mcccclri. i.l., 1461-2 for 1360–61.
JOHN BENEⓇ AND JOHN SEFFE, WARDENS.
receiving Balance from Wyllyng and Avery . . . . . . . Exij xvjs.
PAYMENTS.
for flakys ſhurdles] to make scafote [scaffold] . . . . . . . . . xd.
for a lampe of braste brass i . . . . . . . . . . .viijd.
for a clothe to the sepulkyr . . . . . . . . . xxvjs. viijd.
for makyng of ij crosts [crosses ?] . .
; . . iijs.
. An orphrey.
2 £ 5 6s. 8d. 3 Called, in 1463, by his trade, Wever.
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for ij scholys [shovels] . .
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for mendyng of abys [albs] .
. iiijd.
for frestonys.
. .xviijs.
for bredd and ale and fysch to the caryng (carrying] of the stonys
iijs. xd.
Ipro lapidibus
vjs. viijd.
pro ciphis
vijd. ob.
pro la panno benedicto . .
vjd. ob.
pro calcibus (et in expensis iiijd.) .
. xd.
pro emendatione pelvis sub lampade
: . ijd.
pro descisione arborum in cimiterio
. . ijd.
pro reparatione magnorum candelabrorum
iijs. iiijd.
pro tribulo (thuribulo] et patella ferrea
. iiijd.
pro dealbatione ecclesie Willelmo Hill .
. xjs.
Item Willelmo Hill . . .
xiijs. viijd.
pro una scala . . . . . . . .
viijd.
pro uno vase ad dealbandam ecclesiam ,
. iiijd.
pro alio vase quod mutuati sumus vel conduximus à Joh. Pycke
. iiijd.
pro disco stanneo ad reparationem candelabrorum .
vid.
pro calcibus . . . . . . . . .
. xiiijd.
pro expensis in adquisitione ipsorum
. iiijd.
pro expensis in nundinis (Fair] S. Johannis, Bristollie
: : xijd.
ad turibulum novum argenteum et pyxidem
. . £iij
ad turibulum argenteum.
: xvjs. viijd.
pro capsulis ligneis pyxidis et turribili .
. . . . vijd.
pro una scapha [censer] .
· · · jd.
Item solvimus vicario .
. vjs. viijd.
[Several other entries, of stones, &c., and repairs of pinnacles.]
PAGE 71.
RECEPTA. [Four items; and also Eleven Payments belonging to Bene and Seffe.
Then Four items of receipt belonging to their successors Brekebeke and Symmys,
to whom they pay Balance] : : : : : : : : : Lilij xivs.
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A.D. mcccclxiii.
W. BREKBEKE, JUNIOR, AND RICHARD SYMMYs, alias HURDWYCH, WARDENS.
. EXPENSES.
pro emendatione cerarum [locks] thesaurie [treasury, probably the parvise] . . vijd.
pro virga ferrea, ad altum altare
· · · · · ·jd. ob.
per Vicarium pro impetratione brevis circa [unfinished] . . . . . . XXs.
PAGE 72.
RECEIPTS from the usual sources. Balance paid to Bene and Hillman . . £viij xjd.
Change of hand and language.
Yatton Church-Wardens' Accounts.
103
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.
.
.
.
.
. . iijs.
jd.
ixd.
. . xvd.
vd.
. . ijd.
Ev vjs. viijd.
. iijd. ob.
.
.
.D. meccclriiii.
TH. BENE AND WILLIAM HILLMAN, WARDENS.
EXPENSES.
Sacristario pro custodia campanarum .
. . . .
pro appositione cere ad hostium
pro clavis ad magnas ceras
pro commutatione campane sacramentalist
. . . .
pro commutatione phiolarum?.
pro ij zonis vestimentorum .
pro emptura nove calicis .
. . . .
In costs to ryde to Woke [Wookey]> to blesse the chals . . .
[Several repairs to the bells, and wax bought, as usual.]
PAGE 73.
RECEIPTS.
In primis collegimus et recepimus pro cera paschali . . . .
pro superpelliciis antiquis venditis . . . . . . .
[From Bequests and Gifts in kind and money, and from Ales.]
It. Thomas [the Warden] dedit empture calicis . . . .
EXPENSES [supplementary).
for a case for the chals . .
Ze { for ye Plumer mendyng of the Sowthe Ele [Aisle]4. . . .
l for ye molds makyng and costs . .
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.
. vjs. jd.
. iiijd.
.
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.
viijd.
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.
.
. viijd.
xjs. xd.
11JS. viija.
.
PAGE 74.
A.D. mcccclrv.
an
J. AVERY AND J. GODKNAVE, WARDENS.
RECEIPTS.
Balance from Bene and Hylman . . . . . . . . £vij xiijs. iiijd.
received for torchys of my lady Nuton, bernyng at the [in]terment . . . . xd.
is of Jone Waltrys for candels to the trendel. .
. . . . . . jd.
[Fourteen contributions for candles, -a new item ; nine bequests, three Ales.]
PAGE 75.
EXPENSES.
paid for the goggyn (gudgeon] of the grete bell
paid for chechyngø of too cruetts
we paid at wakyng at sepulcure
ijd.
„ for fylling of a elme . .
„ for frenge [fringe] to the curtens
xijd.
„, for rynghys (rings] to the curtens
. . ijd.
i Oy. whether exchanged for the new chalice.
2 Change to English.
8 Bishop Bekynton's Manor-house.
* Also spelled Isle, Vle, Aisle, and Aile.
6 Mis-spelt for “ fetching."
•
vjd.
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ijd.
·
104
' Accounts.
Yatton ChurchWardens-
.
PAGE 76.
paid to schote the braste?
the costs to schote the same braste in mete and dryng
payd for coleryng and gyldyng
.
.
.
.
ijs. viijd.
. jd. ob.
. iiiijd.
.
:
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PAGE 77.
0.9. mcccclrvi.
J. DOLE AND T. WALL, WARDENS.
RECEIPTS.
Balance from Avery and Godknave.
From usual sources. Total . . . . . . .
.
.
.
£x xvjs.
£xxj ob.
PAGE 78.
[Blank.]
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. xxjd.
. iiijd.
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PAGE 79.
EXPENSES.
for makyng tymbyr, and makyng of steches .
for ale to menne wakyng at the sepulcure . .
for a paks4 . . . . .
for Annys Lancotynngs myne5 . .
for bred and ale to hyr myne . .
for the wyndow levys . .
Total expenses . . .
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£iiij xijs. vjd. ob.
PAGE 80.
@.D. mcccclxvii.
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ijd.
.
.
T. KEWE AND JOHN HURT, WARDENS,
RECEIPTS.
Balance from Dole and Wale . .
£xvj viijs. ijd.
of June Mey to the peyntyng of the Mary .
of June Kewe to the same
for a broken posenett [Pot] . . . . . . . . . . . xvjd.
PAGE 81.
EXPENSES.
payd for angyng of wyndow-levyso in the treser-howse
. . vid.
to make the scafote? to the peynter . . . . . . . . . . iiijd.
PAGE 82.
to the peynter to peynt owre Lady . .
· · · · · Zillj
to J. Bowton to bryng home the auter clothe fro John Alangotyn . . . . iiijd.
to the peynter to peynt the Crystofer . . . . . . . . . XXS.
1 To cast the brass. 2 Dressing the log 3 Stacks of small wood or bark.
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.
6 Mind. 6 Folding shutters. 7 Scaffold.
4 Pax.
Yatton Church' Accounts.
Wardens-
to R. Rowe to veche a capulll at Wrynton, and to lede hym home i .
to gorney (Gurney's] son to lede home the capull . . . . .
for a pyggs wote
.
. . . . . . .
Total, £ix xijs. ijd.
PAGE 83.
[Three small items belonging to last account the rest blank.]
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ijd.
PAGE 84.
Q.9. mcccclrviii.
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.
. . xv viijs.
. £xxv xviijs. xd.
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jd.
ijd.
J. KYNGE AND W. WHITYNG, WARDENS.
Balance from Kewe and Hort . . . . . . .
Receipts as usual. Total
PAGE 85.
EXPENSES.
[A bell is re-cast at Bristol.]
to the bellmanys man to wene: the bell . .
to help wynet uppe the lytyll bell . . . . . . .
payd to vetch the capuli at Clevedon .
PAGE 86.
to J. Harnell for ij nygts wakyng the sepulcur . .
V casting the bell alone cost
for ij stavys to bere the cloth hover howr lord . .
for mendyng5 iiij beryels in the chorche :. .
for a stafe, and to peynt the stavys. .
for peyntyng the crystofer
PAGE 87.
payd to John Kyng to lede the capul to Clevedon . . .
Total, £ix xxs. iijd.
.
. ijd.
£iiij iijs. ixd.
: . iijd.
. . xiiijd.
. . iijd.
. xxiijs. vd.
.
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jd.
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PAGE 88.
A.D. mcccclrir.
T. AVERY AND J. TOWKER, WARDENS.
RECEIPTS.
Balance from Whyting and Kyng . . .
. . £xv xviijs. vijd.
T. Kewe and J. Harte owyng to the parasche xxs. that they delyvered to the peynter
with owte leve of the parasche . . . . . . . . . .
received of a chapman6 to ston7 in the porche . . . . .
. . ob.
, of my lady Newton for bernyng of the torgs8 . .
. . xijd.
, of my mastras for brenyng of the torges
. . xijd.
1 A horse. 2 A pig's foot, a viessel for carrying coal or such like.
3 Wene= either “win," i.C., bring it home, or "wain.” 4 Wind.
5 The Wardens were liable for making good the pavement after interments, and on this ground took
vjs. viijd. as a fee.
6 A Pedlar allowed to sell his wares on some feast-day. 7 Stand, i.e., with his wares.
8 Torches. 9 Masters, the Newtons.
P
106
Yatton Church-Wardens' Accounts.
ENSES.
. .
PAGE 89.
for ij regets, and for threde therto .
. . . vid.
for a zete . . . . .
. . . iiijs.
for the caryng home of the same Zete
. . . . . . . . vid.
to E. Gole to mend the bellyn3
• vjd.
for ij apryns* . .
vjd.
for xiiij coppys5 .
. viijd.
for a corporas, and for makyng the panne to the censer .
. iijd. ob.
PAGE 90.
for iiij yerds of clothe to hang by fore the Mare [Mary] .
. .
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. . . . xxijd.
yn mete and dryngg to brek the wex, and mylte hyt . . . . . . ijd.
payd for the enteryng at the corte to rere [? recover] the mony agenst J. Dole . . iijd.
to clerke to reppe? howte ye lynyng and settyng yn a 8ze [or ye] in the vest-
ments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . jd.
PAGE 91. Q.D. meccclrrr [by error for 1470.]
R. WYLLYNG AND R. BENE, WARDENS.
RECEIPTS.
including Balance £xxij ijs. vd. from Averaye and Towker . .
PAGES 92, 93.
EXPENSES.
for reppyng? owte ye loke, and settyng yn a 3e of ye Treser-house dore
for pavyng of Stabys beryell . . . . . . . .
for sityngs of the Church Wardens . . . . . . .
.
£xxxj iijs. ijd.
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viijd.
111jd.
iiijd.
PAGE 94.
2.D mcccclrr. Feast of St. Matthew, Ap.
J. APPASSYE AND RICHARD WYLLYNG, PROCTURRS.
RECEIPTS.
Balance from Bene and Bowton . . . . . . . . £xxiiij xs. viijd.
of the bequest of the lady of Clevedon .
. . xijd.
TA most unusual number of bequests, 29 in all, both in kind and in money, but no gifts.]
ENSES.
PAGE 95.
in costs to ryde to Wells to speke with the recever, a ponne iij men . .
to the sextyn . . . . . . . . . . . .
in mete and dryngk a ponne vij men to chese tymbyr. [repeated 1471.]
in do: ... to bar yn yệ tymbyr yn to Syn Jayslo cherge . .
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,
ixd.
iijs.
vijd.
ijd
.
i Rochets.
7 Ripping.
? Gate. 3 Plural of bell. 4 Aprons. 5 A citation by the Ordinary. 6 Melt.
S A mark perhaps Y for Yatton, see next accounts. Choose. 10 St. James'.
Yatton Church-Wardens Accounts.
107
[Several entries about felling timber, quarrying stones, and “stabelyng "l of stones.]
PAGES 96, 97.
for amendyng of the vyne? in the rodelofte . . . . . . . .
jd
.
PAGE 98.
Q.D. mcccclrri.
W. PREWETT AND J. KEWE, WARDENS.
RECEIPTS.
Balance from Appassy and Willyng . . . .
. . £xxiij xs. xjd.
Bequest : viz., fro ij childryn . . . . . . . . . . . xijd.
The Ales as usual.
PAGE 99.
EXPENSES.
to iij men to wake at the sepulcure . . . . .
iiijd.
to make a baner
. . . . . . . . vd.
in mete and dryng upon men to speke to Fejamysø for the cherge howcet
for ij wey cole
• XS.
for makyng a kylle, 5 and yo lyme-berner . . . . .
to bere hyt alonne6 from the bote .
xiijd.
in cost in mete and dryng to carie home stonys and breyngr of the fundament. .xs. ijd.
PAGE 100. [Much stone and lime bought, and lime burnt.]
to leying of the fundaments . . . . . . . . . . vjs. ijd.
for the weleberow . . . . . . . . . . . . . xvijd.
for makyng a schordes at the wyte croste
. . ijd.
for makyng of ye style yn ye Cherch hay wall10 . . . . . . . . xxijd.
PAGE 101.
[Two oaks and some elm trees bought.]
for rydyngll of the new howse . .
. . iiijd.
for makyng a cherche hay wall
xijd.
for remevel2 ij dores
. xijd.
to remeve the mantell broddyr13 .
for wote mele14
. . . iiijd.
PAGE 102.
Have yn myne15 that John Appassye and R. Wyllyng owyt to Will. Prewytt and John
Kewe . . .
. . xs. xd.
and Jo. Bowton owyt to same men.
. . . . XS.
.
111jd.
1 The stone was quarried at Felton and Hendeley, brought home green, stacked-perhaps thatched-till
seasoned enough for use in the building of the Church-house in 1471.
2 The vine-pattern cornice.
3 Fitz-james; probably of the family seated at Redlynch, near Bruton, the head of which became Chief-
Justice, temp. H. VII-VIII.
4 Church-house. 5 Kiln. 6 Along. 7 Bringing. 8 Shard, i.e., a gap.
9 The white Cross. 10 Again, p. 101.
12 Removing
13 Broader.
14 Oat-meal.
11 Ridding.
15 Mind.
P 2
108
Yatton Church-Wardens' Accounts.
A.D. mcccclrrii.
.
. txxvj ixs. viijd.
.
.
.
xijd.
J. THURBARN AND J. HYCKS, WARDENS.
RECEIPTS.
Balance from Prewet and Kewe . . . . . .
Total . . . . . . . . . . . .
PAGE 103.1
recevyd for the hyre of the chamber in the Cherche howse . .
PAGE 104.1
EXPENSES.
for iiij hukmuckes? . . .
e . . . . . . . . .
for hopyng3 . . .
for mendyng of the chetyll and of the pannys.
for makyng of a pygges fote . . . ...
I payde at Wryngton at the Cherche Ale . . .
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
vid.
iijd.
iijd.
. .
.
. E
PAGES 105, 106.
[Blank.]
PAGE 107.
2.9. mcccclrrii-iii.
.
J. THURBARN AND J. HYCKS, WARDENS.
RECEIPTS.
Balance from Prewett and Kewe . . . . . . .
for candyls of the rele .
and for chese that was yzeve to the settyng up of ye tymber . .
[Bequests and Ales as usual.]
PAGES 108-9.
[Nothing unusual in the payments.]
Exij vijs. ijd.
. . jd.
. . vijd.
.
XVS.
.
.
PAGE IIO.
Q.A. meccclrriii-iv.
W. STABBE AND J. HURDEWYCHE, PROCTYRYS.
RECEIPTS.
From the rather4 Procturys Thorbarm and Hycks , . .
from the Vikarye, for the new chamber.
. . . .
of J. Hurdewyche, for the hyre of the howse.
of W. Hoper, for the howse . . .
of W. Hyllman, for the Cherche howse.
of W. Hurdewyche for the howse . .
. .
PAGE III.
Total . . .
. .
1 The date of these entries is doubtful, the sheet being misplaced.
2 Something for wiping the feet. Cf. Jennings' Somt. Dialect.
3 Hooping.
4 Earlier, comparative of rather early.
xd.
xijd.
xijd.
xijd.
.
.
xijd.
£xiij ixs. viijd.
Yatton Church-Wardens' Accounts.
109
PAGE II2.
Among the EXPENSES.
to Thomas Smythe for wrestys and hartys for ye dorys . . . . . . xvjd.
for “motyng of the Asschys ”l. . . . . . . .
·
xxd.
for formes and Trestylls yn ye chamber. .
. . ijs. viijd.
and for other small articles of furniture and plant, for entertainment in the Church
house.
A well is lined with stone for the use of the house.
PAGE 113
Total expenses . . . . . . . . . . . . £vij ixd.
PAGE 114.
PAGE 114.
.. meccclrriv-v+ Feb. vj.
W. BREDMERE AND R. WALE, WARDENS.
Balance from the "rather" Wardens . . . . . £vj vjd. and víij rings
Divers gifts to the Kyve, and to the Church house.
PAGES 115-117.
[Bradmere and Wale's expenses, numerous, but usual, save continued outlay.on the
Church-house and its well. No balance struck.] i
Page 118. (8.A. meccclrro. February viij.
J. MEY AND RIC. BRADMERE, WARDENS.
RECEIPTS.
Balance from Bradmere and Wale . .
. . . . . Evij xs. jd.
[Among these are six sums for the Church-house; but whether for hire of it, or as gifts
is not stated.]
PAGE 119.
EXPENSES.
of Mey and Bradmere; no balance struck.
PAGE 120.
[No heading, date, or Warden's name.]
RECEIPTS.
[from bequests, chiefly for lime, and from gifts not summed up.]
PAGES 122-9.
Headed : “Expenses of the Cherche howse."
[carefully compiled from previous Wardens' accounts, filling 74 pages :-not summed
up.]
PAGE 130.
[A memorandum of six persons from whom wax had been borrowed by the Wardens
of 1476.]
1 T.e., grubbing up the Ash trees. “Moot” is in Somerset the part of the tree just above and below the
ground-line.
2 William “Brown” and J. Hurdewyche. “Brown” was probably the alternative name of W. Stạbbe.
3 Otherwise Kive or Keeve, a large brewing-tub.
ΙΙΟ
Vatton Church-Wardens' Accounts.
PAGES 131–2.
2.D. mcccclrrvi-vii. January xxix.
W. BREKEBEKE (CLEVE) AND R. GAMELYN, WARDENS.
the Successors of Mey and Bradmere, whose balance is specified, viz. . £xiij xijs. vd.
RECEIPTS.
[Six items for hirings of the Church-house of xvjd, each, and two for hire of the
chetyll.)
The House and its utensils are a source of yearly revenue. Ales, bequests of money,
corn, garments, rings, cattle, &c.]
PAGE 133.
For iiij goote skynnys?,
. . . . . . . . iijs. iiijd.
for mendyng of the organs for v wokes, labor, ijs. a woke . .
for hys table for ye sayd v wokes, and for hys bed, fyre, and candle .
for verde grese for torches . . . . . . . . . . . vd.
PAGE 134.
for the caryage of the Altar-table from Wellys* .
. . . . . ijd.
ENSES.
XS.
VS.
PAGES 135-6.
A.D. m.cccc.lrrvii-viii. February vj.
,
£xix xiijs. iijd.
.
.
.
xxd.
PENSES.
J. THURBARN AND T. KNYGHT, WARDENS.
RECEIPTS:
Balance from Brekebeke and Gamelyn. . .
.
[An unusual number of bequests : among them,]
Of the bequest of ye children of John Crosse . . . . .
PAGE 137.
to T. Hathwey for hopyng ye bokett and an yren chayne . . .
to W. Hoper for Trendellys . . . . . . . .
for clensyng of ye hye chambyr .
for a markyng yeres [Iron] for vessells
PAGE 138.
for Ryses for ye dawbes betwene ye to chambres . . . .
.
.
.
.
iijs. vid.
viijs.
. ijd.
. ijd.
.
.
.
ijd.
1 Kettle, i.e., caldron. ? Goat-skins for bellows. 3 Verdigris.
4 After the Bishop's benediction. It was a stone slab, portable on horseback.
5 A brand for wood? or a punch for indenting metal ?
6 The partitions were of hurdlework and plaster, “wattle and dab.” Rysera pliable branch
Yatton Church-Wardens' Accounts.
III
PAGE 139. Q.D. m.cccc.lrrviii-ir- Feb. xviij.
Edw. CRADOC AND JOHN CROSS, WARDENS.
RECEIPTS.
Balance from Thurbarne and Knyght xixl. xjs. viijd. besides xvj rings and the “harneyste
gurdle.”
seven hirings of the Church house at . . . . . . . . . xvja.
Total . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxijl. xs. vd.
PAGE 140.
(Left blank.
A list of names in later hand.]
PAGE 141.
EXPENSES.
payde for the mendyng the Rele and peyntyng of ye same
for color for ye same Rele .
for a dosen cuppys ayenst Whitsontide [ale] . .
PAGE 142.
paide for a pax brede . . . . . . .
..
.
iijs. viijd.
. xxiijd.
. viijd.
.
.
.
.
.
vijd.
PAGE 143.
PAGE 143. Q.D. m.cccc.frrir. March xv.
Ric. THURBARNE AND RIC. WORTHNELL, WARDENS.
RECEIPTS.
Balance from Cradock and Cros . . .
. .
for makyng of Seynt Kateryn wex, .
.
[Several bequests, and hirings of Church-house.)
PAGES 145–6.
EXPENSES.
[Many items for scaffolding.]
for spykes for selyng the cherche . . . . . . . .
to Sir Ed.that lakkes of his wages . . . . . . . .
. xxij]. xs. vd.
. . iiijd.
.
.
iijd. ob.
iiijs. ijd.
PAGE 147 .A. m.cccc.lrrr. Feb. xv.
Rich. KEW AND JOHN WORTHNILL, WARDENS ELECT.
RECEIPTS.
Balance from Worthnell and Thurbarne.
.
a gurdle i solde to John Jagryn
.
? Large nails. 2 A chantry priest.
xxviijl. ijs. ixd.
. . xxd.
II2
' Accounts.
Yatton ChurchWardens-
PAGE 148.
[Blank.]
PAGE 149.
EXPENSES.
In primis I paide to John Jagryn for the selyng of the Cherche . . . . vs.
I paide to J. Jagryn in part of payment for the closyng? of the arches . xxvjs. viijd.
I paide for buckram, and for the fringe and the settyng over of the baner of Seynt
Kateryn . . . . . . . . . . . . .
I paid to Lyon for makyng of the peysys of ledde upon the belowys. .
. xvjd.
I paide to Lyon for pleyng att the organe . . . . . . . . xd.
I paide att Kyngeston att the Cherche ale . . . . . . . . xijd.
paide to Lyon for makyng the drawgth of water at ye well* . . . . . xjs.
paide to Lyon for sowder.5
PAGE 150.
I paide for the changyng of the chalys . . . . . . . . xvijs. vid.
Item I paide for the change of the chalys xv ryngs.
I paide for cariage of tymber fro Lyme Ryge? . .
. .ijs. vjd.
I paide to John Jageryn for the closyng of the Arches
vjs. viijd.
» for mendyng of the chetyl . . . . . . . . . . iiijd.
PAGE 151.
I paide for the byndyng of the sawter . . . . . . . . . . xvjd.
[Half torn away.]
I paide to Julian Clerke for makyng of a Rochat . . . . . . . ijd.
PAGE 152. [Left blank.—In a later hand six names with sums of money against
them, varying from xvjs. to iijs. Total iijl. vijs. xjd.]
1
PAGE 153-4. (X.A. m.cccc.lrrri-ií. March vij.
W. BREKEBEKE, CARPENTER, AND JOHN CARTER, WARDENS.
RECEIPTS.
Balance from Kew and Worthnell, £xxx xixs. iijd.
[The regular yearly entries of gifts in money, rings, collection for the Easter taper,
bequests, hire of Churche-house and vessels ; from the Wardens' Ale, and from
the lightmen of Yatton, and those of Cleve and Claverham, £iiij xs., £iiij xs. viijd.,
and £iij ilijs., respectively. Total, Exij iiijs. viijd.]
PAGE 155.
EXPENSES.
for repayring of towr and ye pynnacles of y® cherche . . . . . . . xxiijs. iiijd.
for the blessyng of the Chalys . . . .
. . . . . . ijd.
for mete and drynke at the hawsyngø of a pece of tymber into the steple. . . ix.
for repayring and poynting of the stepyll a noder tyme . . . Xs. and xvjs. viijd.
PAGE 156.
to John Brene, writer, in part of payment for the legger10 the x day of June. £iij vjs. viijd.
1 Parclosing? 2 Weights. 3 First time of this entry. For making the pump draw.
5 Solder. 6 In exchange for. i 1.e., Limebridge Wood near Tickenham.
8 Psalter. 9 Hoisting.
10 Ledger=the new bokes; infra.
Hatton Church-Wardens' Accounts.
II3
for ij Anys, and strengs for same . .
. . xS.
I paide att Bristowe for a sewte of vestments and a cope . . . · · £xxvj
in costs spende a bowgth the byyng of the same vestments . . : (no sum].
Item to John Brene for iiij quayresl of the new boke the xiij day of October . xxvjs. viijd.
I paide to the Bushep ys man for halowyng of the new sute of vestements . . vid.
PAGE 157.
I paide for bords for the new cofyr . .
ilijs. vd.
for caryage of the same . . . .
for makyng of the Cofyr. i
. . . . . . . ijs. viijd.
in costs a bowgth the byndyng of the cofyr .
: . iiijd.
I paide to Rowland for bends and naylys for the cofyr .
. xjs. ijd.
for ij lokes for the cofyr. . .
ijs. viijd.
I paide in costs to lett a rent to be paide to my Lordel for the Cherche house . ijs. iiijd.
I paide to T. Clerke for foldyng of the vestments . . . . . . . iiijd.
·
•
iiijd.
·
PAGE 158.
[Blank, save a few memoranda.]
PAGE 159. A.A. m.cccc.lrrrii[iii]. Feb. xx.
Jo. MARYOTT AND JO. COLYNS, WARDENS.
RECEIPTS.
Balance from Brekebeke and Carter . .
·
of the lygthmen of the West Syde, 4 Thomas Waren and J. Seffe . .
It. for candyll of the rele. . . .
for brewyng in the Cherche howse vj persons at xvjd. and xijd.
.
· £v xs. iiijd.
£v iijs. iiijd.
. . ijd.
.
PAGE 160.
[This page having been left blank, has been used by the Wardens of A.D. 1486–7 for entering
the Consecration Charges.]
MEM. The... day of Averyll A.D. m.cccc.lrrrbí that John Brekebeke and Lowys
Watts hath ypayed for dyverse costs for hawluyng5 of the Cherche erde.
In primis, payd to the Byschepeo .
. xxxiijs. iiijd.
It. payd to the coke . . .
. . iiijd.
for horse mete . . .
• . xiijd.
for spysys
. . . . . .
. . iiijd.
for ij ellys of cloth for My Lord's apryn
: xviijd.
for a pygg and capone
. xiijd.
for iiij chykyn .
. . . vd.
for the brekefast of the Lurds men . . . .
. . . iiijd.
·
·
i 1.e., for writing four quires.
2 Bishop, as Lord of the Manor. The fine of 25. 4d. was paid in the Manor court for admission to the
tenancy.
3 An annual entry. 4 I e., Claverham. 5 Hallowing of the Church-yard.
6 1.e., Bp. Stillington's Suffragan, probably Bp. Cornish.
114
Yatton Church-Wardens' Accounts.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
S
It. payd for vele and lomel.. . . . . . . . .
for bred . . . . . . . . . . .
» for rydyng to Wellys ij tymys . . . . . .
, for rydyng to Bristowe . . . . . . .
for settyng of the pypys, and cuttyng and other attendends :
for fewell. . . . .
„ for dyverse vessels ybowgth to the balowyng of ye Cherchyerd
Total . . . xlvjs. vjd.
. xxd.
. viijd.
. xijd.
. xijd.
• viijd.
. iiijd.
ijs. viijd.
.
.
PAGE 161.
EXPENSES.
(viz., of Maryott and Colyns.]
paide for pauper
for the closynges betwyxte the chyrche and the chawnsell, and for mete and drynge,
and naylys .
. . . . . Xxd.
we bowghte ayenste Whyttsontyde vj cuppys and jij bollys, price . . . . vd.
for iij bord clothys4 to the Churche howse
• iiijs. vjd.
PAGE 162.
to John a Brene for the boke5 yn partte of paymentte . . . . . xxvjs. viijd.
to carrying the little bell to Bristowe and “whome ayene"
. . xvijd.
for custom of the bell att Redclyff hyll, utwardys and whomwardys . '. . . vid.
to the workmen at the castynge of the bell, off curtesy .
.. . viijd.
[This seems the equivalent of "rewards” often given above.]
to the scryvener at ij tymys for wrytyng of the new boke . . . . xxxiijs, iiijd.
for caryage of hauser? of lytyl bell and the pukysy . . . . . . ; ijd.
Item we payde the olde freyr8 yat was cum fro maystyr newton to syng for the
paryche . . . . . . . . . . . . . . viijd.
PAGE 163
to J. Bek to close the chancell .. . ... . . . . . ijd,
.
.
PAGE 164.
.. m.cccc.lrrriii[iv]. Feb. v.
WALTER MEEKE AND R. KNYGHT, WARDENS.
RECEIPTS.
Balance from Maryot and Colyns . . .
£viij vs. xd.
[from other sources, as usual.]
EXPENSES.
To the boke-maker . . .
. . . . XXS.
Payde to Nycholas Ket, Scryvener, on Alhalow day in the presence of Syr Jhon
Newton K[nt.] . . . . . . . . . . . xls.
1 Veal and lamb.
? See also Anno 1485, £ iij vjs. viijd.
3 Parclose. N.B.—The Chancel-screen paid for by the Parish, as elsewhere, and not by the Rector.
4 Table-cloths, 5 1.e., writing. 6 The city toll. 7 Rope.
8 Friar. Probably the general anniversary of Benefactors.
PAGE 165.
Yatton Church115
Wardens-
' Accounts.
Payde to the same Nicholas on Seint Thomas Eve before Cristemasse . . . XXS.
, the Monday the xxiiij day of January then next followyng to the same
Nicholas? . .
. xxvjs. viijd.
» for a paxe . .
· · · vijd.
PAGE 166.
payd to the clerke, by the commandment of Master Newton . . . . xvjs. viijd.
10
Page 167. Q.A. m.cccc.frrriv[v7+ Feb. xv.
WILL. WEBBE OF CLEVE, AND JOHN COLLMAN OF HEWYSCH, WARDENS. .
RECEIPTS.
Balance of Meke and Knyght . . . . . . . . . .£v ixs, xjd.
[Nothing unusual.] Total, . . £xix xxiijs.
[On this page there are several payments to Ket"in the presence of Sir J. Newton”;
all crossed out, being charged in previous account.]
PAGE 168.
for vij tavernysº made at the Churche howse . . . . . . ixs. iiijd.
[The other public taverns, as usual, produce several pounds.] .
PAGE 169.
EXPENSES.
Payd to Nicholas Scryvenyr, upon Synt Mathews day
. . xlvis. viijd.
to. costs to rydy4 for the Chals that waste ystoleś .
. . . xijd.
payd to the Scryvener for the legerd
. . xxjs.
payd to Nycholas Kette the xxix day of March .
xlvjs. viijd.
payd to the Scryvener the xij day of March in the presence of Master Newton . iiij Marke.6
Total . . . . £xij xijs.
PAGES 171–2. Q.D. m.cccc.lrrrv[vi]. Jan. xx.
PAGES 171–2.
J. BREKEBEKE AND LEWYS WATTS, WARDENS.
RECEIPTS.
Balance from Webbe and Colman
Evj ixs. xjd.
[As usual.]
of the bequest of ij chyldryn of T. Hyrbow .
. . . ijs.
of Annys Browne a gowne to ye reparation of Seynt James Chapell. . ijs. viijd.
1 Total paid to Ket, £ II 145. 4d.
2 One of these reveals that the Scrivener's costly work was not a Service-book, but the Ledger. This
book, prepared under the special care of Sir John Newton, must have been more than the Wardens' account-
book, probably a Terrier recording the Deeds of Appropriation of the Rectory, the endowment of Vicarage,
and establishment of the two manorial chapels and of that in the Churchyard.
3 1.l., private brewings, or entertainments for which the House was hired, at xvjd. each time.
4 Riding.
5 Stolen. 6 £ij xiijs, iiijd.
Q2
116
Yatton Church-Wardens' Accounts.
[Owing to the probable loss of two leaves, the EXPENSES of this year, 1485-6, are
missing, save those for Consecration, written on page 170. The RECEIPTS of
1486–7 are missing. Page 173 begins with the EXPENSES of Will. Stabbe and
Thomas Colyns, Wardens of that year.]
PAGE 175.
EXPENSES.
Payd for haluyng? the Cherche yerde
£iij vjs. viijd.
, to the bokebyner .
. . xxvjs. viijd.
PAGES 175-6.
Q.D. m.cccc.lrrrvii-viii. Feb. xvj.
JOHN HYGGYN AND JOHN WATTS, WARDENS.
Balance from Stabbe and Colyns . . . . . . . .
RECEIPTS.—Nothing unusual. -
PAGES 177-8.
EXPENSES.-Nothing unusual.
.
£x xvs.
Page 179.
(X.. m.cccc.lrrrviii[ir]. Feb. x.
JOHN LANG AND WILLM. FFYSCHER, WARDENS.
RECEIPTS.
Balance from Hyggyn and Watts . . . . . . .
TT
.
. £xvj iiijd.
PAGES 180-1.
[Blank.]
PAGES 182–3.
EXPENSES [of Lang and Fyscher.]
For a sommar, bowght of John Oter . . . . .
For ledde for ye helyng of the Chyrche . . . . .
To the lavender for wesschyng
.
.
.
.
£v iijs. iijd.
. . ijs.
.
.
Page 184.
Q.A. m.cccc.lrrrir: Feb. xxij.
ROB. COLYNS AND THOMAS WAREN, WARDENS.
RECEIPTS.
Balance from Lang and Fysscher . . . . . . . . fxvij iiis. xd.
xxiij Ryngs in stock, besides gifts.
of my Lady [Newton] of bequest of Maister Newton x marks. 3
Total . £xxxvij xiijs. iiijd.
PAGE 185.
EXPENSES.
For Tonne of Lydet bowght at Berynyton5 .
. . . . £iiij xiijs. viijd.
, do. do and smaller quantities . . . .
, ij sakys of mesec . . . . . . . . . . . . iijd.
i Hallowing.
? The Suffragan's stated fee. Cf. ante p. 113. 3 1.e., tovj xiijs. uid.
4 Lead. 5 Burrington. 6 Moss, for laying under lead on roof.
.
.
.
Yatton Church-Wardens' Accounts.
117
·
·
ne
·
PAGE 186.
To plommer to wasche ye Axsyn? . . . . .
for myltyng of ye ledde Axynne . .
. . . . . . . . .
for waschyng ye ledde Axsyn.
.. . . . . .
for takyng off and settyng on a cenne [sic] of y® vestments . . . . .
Sma. ... £xxj vijs. vd.
PAGE 187.
NOTE.—A ton of lead and xiijs. iiijd. [worth] of barryd2 planks "remayneth in the
sum of ye reseyts above, of Rob. Colens and Tho. Warryn.”
Vs,
ixs.
xd.
iiijd
·
PAGE 188.
[Torn; very scant.]
A.D. m.cccc.lrrrr [xci]. Feb. viij.
Thos. DALE AND Ric. Dysman, WARDENS.
Balance from Colens and Waryn . . . . . . . .
TI
I/
£xvj vs. ijd.
PAGE 189.
[Blank.]
RECEIPTS.—Nothing unusual.
PAGE 190.
EXPENSES.
For a dosyn of dhysters3 . . . . .
. . iiijd.
Payd for a copyll of cruetts, selver.
. , XXXs.
for v score row4 wex, vjs. and vijd. for a powne
• £iij xxijd.
PAGE 191.
[Seven Receipts; no date or Warden's name.]
PAGE 192.
EXPENSES.
For ij wey of cole carried by water from Ronam (Rownham-on-Avon) to Kingston,
thence by land.
for makyng of the sepulcure, and the cafes . . . . . . . . uljd.
for ridding and mending the Kyl16 . .
for CC yere? .. . : . . . . . . . . . . . XS.
PAGE 193.
for makyng of the pax .
. . . . . . . . . XS.
payd for Sint Sunday8 (prob. for an Image] ...
. xijs. ixd.
· Ashes, which seem always to have been worth washing and remelting. ? Bared=smoothed.
3 Dusters. 4 Rough. 5 Cave.
6 Kiln; much lime being burnt.
7 l.e., 2 cwt, of iron.
A Saint venerated in Cutcombe and other parishes of West Somerset.
The real name is “sub-judice."
I 18
Yatton Church-Wardens' Accounts.
PAGES 194-5.
A.D. m.cccc.lrrrri [ii].
EIPTS.
J. CRADOKE AND W. HILMAN, WARDENS.
RECEIPTS.
Balance from Dale and Dygheman . . . . . . . . £xix ixs. iijd
Item. the seid parties puttethe in knowleche to ye seid proctors, that folowyth, suche
goodes as hereafter ys rehersed of the bequest of Julian Craddock.
In primis the apparell for the high Auter, viz., the ffront with the ij curteyns.?
a chalys . . . . . . .
. . . . . prt. viij marke.
a peyre of vestments :
. prt. iiij marke.
It. for a keverled, 3 of the bequest of W, Medwynter .
. . . ijs,
from Sir William for the Chamber , . . . . . . . . . viijd.
and for taverns of Ale . . . . . . . . . . . .
PAGE 196.
EXPENSES.
for chesyngt of the stonys to the masyner5
. . vid.
for dykyng of the fundament . . . . . . . . . . . . xviijd.
for xxviij weynys to cary home stonys and cole, in mete and drink . . • vis. viijd.
PAGE 197.
for xiiij lode of frestonys . . . . . . . . . . xxvs. viijd.
(besides many other loads.]
for dykyng of stonys [ ? stacking them] . .
. . xxd.
for poynting of spyre, of iij pynnaclys, and batylment of the tower . . . vjs. viijd.
for the crane settyng uppe . . . . . . . . . . iijs. vijd.
PAGE 198.
paid to J. Bekke for steyynge of the Chansell . . . . . . . . iijd.
[Much freestone brought from Dundry.]
PAGE 199.
To cary owte the erthe owte of the cherche . . . . . . . . viijd,
for makyng of the Syntorne?.
. ixd. ob.
(Large building was going on, but no evidence, where. Unhappily, the account for
1492–3 is missing.]
XXVS
PAGE 200. Q.D. m.cccc.lrrrriii[iv]+ Feb. xx.
Rich, THURBAN AND JOHN HERVOW, WARDENS.
RECEIPTS.
Balance from Colman and Roper, £xy viijd., ob., "of laful money of Engeland."
For Pothynger and “sawser,” and vjd.—bequest.
1 The old Latin heading is now exchanged for English, taking the forın of a Receipt of out-going
Wardens' balance in cash, “in lawfull money of Engelonde.” .
2 All crossed out. 3 Coverlet. 4 Choosing
5 Mason.
6 Supporting
7 Centering.
Yatton Church119
Wardens-
' Accounts.
PAGE 201.
EXPENSES.
payd for halfe C yerel and ij powne . .
. . . ijs. jd. i
for tymmer2 to make ye yate: . . . . .
. . . XXS.
payd for a nowle*
.
. . . . ijd.
Much freestone hauled.
PAGE 202.
paid for xij seme of Walsches bords .
. viijs.
payd to carame to the water
. . iiijd.
payd to J. Lewys for the frettes
. : xijd.
for ij Tonne Ledde.
. . £viij xijd.
PAGE 203.
payd for half a C wex . . .
. . xxxijs. viijd.
[The making of the wax, rosin, and wick-yarn, are yearly entries, costing viij or ix
shillings, besides meat and drink.]
payd to the clerke to voupp9 the vestments
. . . viijd.
payd for iij boschells of axynio. . .
. . viijd.
[More freestone hauled and sorted by Fysscher, the skilled Mason; more moss, and
Scaffold timber :-]
Total Exp.
PAGE 204.
[Inventory of utensils :-]
This be persellesll that longyth12 to the Cherche howse, the yere A.D. m.cccc.Irrrrii.
delyveryd to the Wardens13 that yere.
In primis a chetyll
It. kyve vate. 16
It. ij grett crocks.
„ ij trowys. 17
„ij lyssel4 crocks.
„ ix stonds.18
sj iiij pannys.
„ ix barellys.
„ a botum for a panne.
„ xxj trendyllys.19
„ a brandyrels.
„ vj borde clothis.
„ v tun vats.
PAGE 205.
EXPENSES. [Only the last few items :--the rest missing.]
Sa Tots . . . . . . . . . . . . £xix vijs. ixd.
Balance . . . . . . . .
. . . . . Łvilj vs.
| Half a cwt. of iron. 2 Timber. 3 Gate. 4 An awl.
5 Welsh, i.e., foreign. Wainscot landed at the head of the tideway in the Yeo, and fetched from thence.
6 Carry them. 7 At. : 8 Freight.
9 Fold up. 10 Ashes. 11 Parcels. 12 Belongeth.
13 1.e., the incoming Wardens. 14 Lesser.
15 Brand-iron for carrying the burning logs on the hearth, alias=andirons.
16 See ante p. 36, note 3. 17 Troughs, pronounced "trows," hodiè.
18 Stands : called “ standards," p. 210, 19 Shallow tubs or vats.
ole
I 20
Yatton Church-Wardens' Accounts.
PAGE 206.
Q.A. m.cccc.lrrrriiii[v]+ March v.
RICH. WAMPERFYLDE AND JOHN SEFFE, WARDENS.
Balance from Thurban and Hervow. ,
.
RECEIPTS. Nothing unusual .
EXPENSES [missing, all but the Total, viz.] .
.
Balance torn away.--
. : £viij vs.
Total £xxiiij xvs.
. . £xj ixs.
.
.
PAGE 207.
Q.D. m.cccc.lrrrro.
[Wamperfylde & Seffe served again as appears among their receipts, of which only 4
remain, viz., a Pecast and three Ales, and the Tot. .
:
£xx vs. ijd.
PAGE 208.
EXPENSES.
payd for a manuall2
. . . xxiijs. iiijd.
» for pápyr and russchys.3
» for frongkynsensu . . .
. . jd.
» for settyng uppe of yren gere before our Lady . .
. . . ixd.
PAGE 209.
payd for bords to syle5 the chapyll. . . .
· xxjs. viijd.
» for takyng downe ye crane .
. . xijd.
„ for a pyggsfote to bare cols . . . . . . . . . . . jd.
for the closyng of the charnsel), to J. Austeyns.
iijs. iiijd.
» for makyng of a nawter,6 to Thomas Cotyng .
vjs. viijd.
„ for a stone to hele the auter.
. . ijs.
Total Expenses . . . . . . . . . . . t viij xiijs. ixd.
Remaynyng clyr to ye Chyrche .
... . £xj xjs. iiijd.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
PAGE 210.
@.9. m.cccc.lrrrrvi[vii]. March xiv.
LADY NEWTON AND JOHN BULBEKE, WARDENS.
Mem. that my Lady, Dame Isabell Newton and John Bulbeke hath reseyvid of R.
Wampfyld and J. Seffe . . . . . . . . . £xj vs. iiijd.
Item. ix ryngs of sylver.
and the goods in y® Chyrche house. [List nearly the same as in p. 204.]
PAGE 211.
[Blank.]
PAGE 212.
Received of Saundyr Harrys for Seynt Kateryn light . .
1 Pick-axe. 2 Manual. 3 Rushes. 4 Frankincense.
0 An altar.
7 Cover.
.
iijs. vjd.
. .
6 Ceil.
Yatton Church-Wardens' Accounts.
12I
PAGE 213.
[Blank.]
.
·
.
.
•
.
.
. xviijd
. xvjd
. ijd.
·
PAGE 214.
EXPENSES.
Payd for xiij yerdis of Iryshe clothe.
» for herys for ij auters . . . . . . . .
» for ensens! . . . . . . . . . .
PAGE 215.
Payd for changyng of ij peyre of cruetts . .
.
„ for the hangyngs of the hye auter, the utter syde and the lynyng
„ for vj ells and a halfe of lynnyn for a surplesse . . . .
, for ij unces of selke, to frenge ye hangyng of ye auter . .
PAGE 216.
Payd for the changyng of iiij torchys agenst Crystymasse . . .
Total. , £vij xjs. vd.
.
.
.
.
.
.
. xijd.
. XVS.
iijs. iiijd.
ijs. viijd.
.
.
.
.
ixs.
PAGES 217–18.
PAGES 217–18. .. m.cccc.lrrrrvii. Feb. vj.
JOHN THOMAS AND WILL. ROGERS, WARDENS.
RECEIPTS.
Balance from Dame Newton and Bulbeke
• . £xxj xiijs. iija.
For led aschys3 . . .
. XS.
Of ye parson of Kyngston for led . .
. . . ijs. vijd.
of Master Vycary4 for a pane [pan] . .
· vijs.
[Note in later hand.] Dame Isabell Newton dyed in the year 1498, which is 165 yeares
agon to this present yeare 1663.- Nicholas Prater.
PAGE 219.
EXPENSES.
Payd for a proschensnallo . . . . . . . .
ixs. iiijd.
for new settynge of Oure Lady and the lyzght. .
. iiijd.
„ to Antony for dressyng of the yron, and a copys that beryth the lyzght
iiijd.
, to Thos. Bene for a here to the hye auter . . . . . . . xxd.
„ to Antony Smyth for nakyng ij leggs to ye chetyll.
. ijs.
PAGE 220.
Payd for mendyng of the hye booke6 . . . . . . . . . viijs.
PAGE 221.
Payd for castyng vij tonne of led . . . . . . . . . xlvjs. viijd.
„ for tonne and halfe of new led
. . Evj xjs.
» for makyng cofyr box and chyrch-hey yate key . . . . . xijd.
PAGE 222.
Payd for ij yrense? to hong ye curtense . . . . . . . . . iiijd.
1 Incense. ? Outer. 3 Ashes. The Vicar. 5 Processional book.
6 The High Wardens Account book, see inf., 1502. 7 Irons.
122
Yatton Church-Wardens' Accounts.
PAGE 223.
PAGE 223. A.D. m.cccc.lrrrrviii[ir]: March i.
WM. WORNELL AND WM. BRADMERE, WARDENS.
RECEIPTS.
Balance from Rogers and Thomas . . . . . . . .
For tyle of Seynt James Chappell .
Total . . £xxvij xiiijs. vijd.
£xix ixs. vd.
XXS.
PAGE 224.
[Blank.]
·
·
PAGE 225.
EXPENSES. Nothing unusual.
PAGE 226.
Payd for mendyng ye Rode-loft, and settyng of ye crest of ye hye awter
iiijd.
» for strekyng of the chyrch wythin and wythout . . . . . ijs. iiijd.
„ to John Hyks for rent of the Chyrch Howse . . .
iiijd.
» to R. Clerke for makyng of owre booke . . . . . . . . xijd.
PAGE 227.
Payd for halowyng of the chalyce . .
. . xijd.
„ for iij men and iij horse to brynge ye said chalyce to Wells
. i xd.
, in costs for sekyng of the chyrch goods' . . .
· vijs. viijd.
» to John Payne and Thomas Wale for rydyng to Oxford? . .
. XXS.
» for rydyng to Wells, for horse mete and man ys mete for W. Bradmere and
ye Smyth. .
. iijs.
„ to Bowre of Banwell for beryng of ye bill [Indictment] to Yelchester to ye
schesscheons
: : : : : iiijs. iiijd.
Total £viij ixs. xijd.
PAGE 228. @.D. m.cccc.lrrrrir[md]. Feb. xvij.
W. KNIGHT AND J. TOKER, WARDENS.
RECEIPTS.
·
·
· £x xjs. iijd.
.
.
.
. xiijd.
Balance from Wornell and Bradmere . . . . .
Among the bequests 'a mete clothe,"4 and a ryng.
It receyved of y® gaderyng of ye chalyce above ye sum . .
PAGE 229.
Five Taverns of ale.
It. reseyved of R. Thurban for brewyng in ye chorch chetylló .
1 Stolen by Davy Gybbes, see 1500. 2 In search for the lost goods ?
4 Table-cloth. 5 Kettle=caldron.
.
.
iiijd
. .
33 Sessions.
Yatton Church-Wardens' Accounts123
111
.
Costs of suit against
D. Gibbes.
.
.
PAGE 230.
EXPENSES.
The sute of Davy Gybbys y® fyrst day. . :
. . iiijs. viijd
It. the seyd D. Gybbys to ye sute of ye preve sesscheonel to ye towne
clerke . . . . . .
• vjs. viijd.
It to hys ij servants . . . .
. . viijd.
It. the Meyre ys sergents .
. ijs, viijd.
3 It. in expenses and askyng of cownsell .
iijs. iiijd.
It. for y® wrytyng of ye oblygacyon and yo endentyng .
· · vjd.
It. the costs for owre cherche gode at Bristowe . . .
. . xvjd.
It. payd to Master Rodney for yo endyment of D. Gybbys . . . vd.
(It. payd to Richard Clyfe when he rode ...... ye cherche goode . vjs. viijd.
It. payd for yo halowyng of ye chalys. . . . . .
. . viijd.
It. payd to W. Goffe for kepyng of y® bells . . . .
. iijs.
PAGE 231.
*It. for ye beryng of a letter to Master Malet . .
. . xijd.
* ,, for yo costs of scesscyonys yn Brystow aboute D. Gybbys. . . . iijs. xjd.
„, for new Crosse .
» for a sencer of koper* . . . . . . .
iijs. viijd.
„ delyveryd to T. Wale to bere a letter to Master Fyzamesă.
iijs. iiijd.
„ payd for ye change of v score and xix lb. of torche wax .
vijs. vid.
* „ payd for ye makyng of ye testymonyall to y® notore6 for Davy Gybbys . xijd.
* ,, for costs att ye same busyness . . . . . . . . . . vid.
PAGE 232.
*It. for fachyng of Davie Gybbys fro Brystow to Yatton.
xxjs. xd.
*It. for yº bryngyng fro Yatton to Wells . . . . . . . . . ixs. vd.
*,, payd to ye jugys? att Wells for to make owre panell . . .
. . XXS.
*,, in costs yn mete and drynk, for horse mete, and manys mete
. vijs, vijd.
MEM. Remaynys in ye hande of Jo. Holden xs. ffor ye tymburs off Sentt Jamys
Chapel, ye qwych ys uncountyd ffor off Wm. Knyght's deys.
.
.
Exviij
.
*
.
.
.
PAGES 233-4.
Pages 233-4. (.A. m.ccccc[1]. January xxij.
W. AVEREY AND RICH. CREED, WARDENS.
RECEIPTS.
Balance from Knyght and Tucker . . . . . . .
[Nothing unusual.]
Total . . £xvij xiijs. viijd.
Evj ijs. ixd.
PAGE 235.
[Blank.]
1 Privy Sessions. ? Indenting. 3 Indictment. 4 Censer of copper.
5 Fitz-james.
1.c., a notarial Act, recording the proceedings against D. G.
* All relate to this costly suit, in which it would seem 3 Lawyers, viz. : Rodney, Fitz-james, afterwards
Chief Justice, and Malet were engaged. See also * in 1501.
7 In re D. Gybbys.
R2
124
Yatton Church-Wardens' Accounts.
.
.
beau
.
..
vs. vid.
.
PAGE 236.
EXPENSES.
A new “Cofyr," with ij locks made .
*to Averey for rydyng to Sesscheons
PAGE 237.
*for ye sute of Davie Gybbys. .
to John Haryce for mendyng of ye Lent clothe
to Antonyl for schothyng? the clapyr3 .
to T. Dale for ledert and thongs to make ye bawdrys
PAGE 238.
payd for5 helyng of ye maskokeb . . . .
.
vijs. vid.
. iiijd.
. xiijd.
. xd.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
. xvjd.
PAGE 239. @.9. m.ccccc." February iv.
R. WYLLYNG AND J. KEW, WARDENS.
RECEIPTS.
Balance from Averey and Creed . . . . . . . . .
It. of Wyllyam Hylman, and of Syn Catyrnes men for wex . . .
Suma Receptionis, 9 pretii . . . £iiij xviijs.
£xij xixs. iijd.
. . iiijs.
TY
PAGE 240.
[Blank.]
XXS.
XXS.
PAGE 241.
EXPENSES.
Payd to John Walle for Syn James Chapell . . . . . . . xiijs. iiijd.
It, more to ye seyd propterslo with Nycholas Smalen ys mony.
It. more to ye seyd propters . . . . . .
. . . .
XX
It. payd for iiij lib. of wax . . . . .
„ payd for makyng of ij surpleyce to ye bokbynder .
„ payd to ye seyd bokbynder for makyng of a nobell
„ payd for a bag to bere ye keys in of ye chyrch .
. jd.
PAGE 242.
It. payd to Synt Jamys propters, to Thomas Dale and John Brokbek in ye name of
ye parysch .
. . Ev vjs. viijd.
It. delyvered to seyd Jamys propters . . .
. . . xxxiijs. iiijd.
It. delyvered to ye seyd propters . . . . . . . . . . XS.
It. payd to ye glasyer .
. . . . . . . . XS.
PAGE 243.
It. payd to Syr John for mendyng of ye calyas (Chalice] . . . . . . iiijd.
It. payd to Sent Jamys procterys . . . . . . .
It. remanet ecclesie ex claro . . . . . . . : : Evj ixs. xjd.
1 The smith. 2 1.e., casting. 3 Clapper.
Leather.
5“ Makyng,” struck out? Mis-spelt for “ mass boke." 1 This ought to be MCCCCCI, for 1501-2,
& S. Katharine. 9 1.e., including stock.
10 1.e., proctors (wardens) of the Chapel.
11 An alb.
·
·
.
.
.
Yatton Church-Wardens' Accounts.
125
·
PAGES 244-5. A.D. m.ccccci. Feb. ix.
RICH. PYKE AND RICH. ALYN, WARDENS.
RECEIPTS.
Balance from Wyllyng and Kew ..
. . . . £vj ixs. xjd.
[Nothing unusual.]
PAGE 246.
EXPENSES.
Payd to Thomas and John Brekbeke, propters of Seynt Jamys Chapell . . . XXS.
PAGE 247
It. delyvered to Seynt Jamys propters .
. . vijs. viijd.
, payd to Hew Smith for makyng of ij copy[s] to ye baner, loggs, and a hoke, and
settyng . . . . . . .
. . ijd.
„, delyveryd to Thomas Dale .
. . . xvs.
It. „ to ye seyd Thomas
xvjs. ilijd.
It. payd for a sakerynn bell
. . . . .
xd.
„ for y® caryng of the krok .
vjd.
„ delyveryd to Seynt Jamys propters to pay Water Krossman3
. £iij
„ delyveryd to John Cradok and John Brekbeke, Seynt Jamys propters . . iijs. iiijd.
PAGE 248.
[Two memoranda of Wympeny's debt of a noble.]
payd for iij new herys to iij awters . . . . . . . . . . iijs.
payd for hawssyng4 down of ye bell . . · · · · · · · vijd.
» for rydyngó of gotters of ye chyrch and ye gargellsø . . . . . .viijd.
PAGE 249.
a key is made for ye fyce door. . . . . . . . . . . ijd.
·
·
·
PAGE 250. Q.D. m.ccccc.ii[iii]. Feb. xvj.
T. THURBAN AND R. WALE, WARDENS.
RECEIPTS.
Balance from Pyke and Alen . . . . . . . . . . liijs. vd.
PAGE 251.
of ye gaderyng of y® bell money . . . . . . . . . xxviijs. xjd.
of ye bequest of Syr Thomas, a crosbow, pretio . . . . . . . vjs.
Total . . £xviij ijs. vid.
PAGE 252.
EXPENSES.
For men and horse and oxsyn,7 and for makyng of more wrytyng [a contract] at
Brystow to y® castyng of ye bell
also for bringing it home and hanging . . . . . .
. .
1 " Lugs,” strings to keep the banner straight. 2 Carrying of the Cross.
8 Qy. the Maker of the Cross.
4 Hoisting.
5 Clearing. 6 Gargoyles, or gurgoyles.
ī Oxen.
wiyorum UU y
canly 115 UL Y
Del
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
113. 111a.
126
Yatton Church-Wardens' Accounts.
PAGE 253.
mendyng ye West Window, costs .
. . . . . . xxijs. ijd.
[Coal hauled to the kiln, and much lime burnt.]
PAGE 254.
Payd to J. Horte for v daies laber for pargyng of y® Chyrch . . . . xxd.
,,to Thos. Porker for kepyngl of ye lyme kyll for iiij wekes, bed and bord, and
waggs . . .
·' . xs. viijd.
„ delyveryd to J. Brekbeke to pay ye carpynter for Seynt Jamys Chapell . . vs.
payd for blessyng of ye vestment
. . . . ixd.
payd in mete and drynk for bryngyng of Seynt Kateryne ['s Image] . . . vd.
payd for half a bochell of salt to ye pargyng of ye Chapell“ within and without » iijd.
payd for pargyng of ye chapell within and without . . .
• vjs. viijd.
delyveryd tu J. Brekbeke to pay ye carpynter for Seynt Jamys Chapell
. vs.
payd for ij new pax ·
· · · ·
· vjd.
payd for ij new tokyngå gyrdylls .
ijd.
payd for ye mendyng of ye pynownet wall of Seynt Jamys Chapell . . . . xiiijd.
payd to ye plommer for leyng of yo leds to ye seys chapell
. . iijs.
in costs in mete and drynk for ye halyng ope5 of ye seyd led, and for ye leyyng . . xijd. ,
PAGE 255.
payd to ye Mason for ye makyng of Seynt Kateryne Awter i
• . . vis.
payd for ye makyng of ye pynon of Synt Jamys Chapell, for ye rowZht6 werke . . xijd.
payd for ye awter stone of Seynt Kateryne . . . . . . . . viijd.
· payd for ye caryng of Seynt Jamys tabyll? stonys . .
xijd.
payd in mete and drynk for iiij men Friday and Saterday for to ley ye seyd tabyll . xxd.
[Several more small items of expenditure on St. James' Chapel.]
PAGE 256.
payd to yo glasyer for mendyng of ij wyndowys to ye hye book . . . . iiijd.
It. payd for ye angellº that Seynt Kateryn stonds on . . . . . . viijd.
payd for a box to put ye oblygacion in . . . . . . . . . jd.
Total . . . . Eix xvjd.
1 Watching the fires.
2 It appears here and elsewhere that there was a large use of plaster and limewash (strekyng] on the
outside as well as inside of the chapel, and of ihe church.
3 Tucking. The gable end is still called the “pwining,” i.e., pointing end.
5 Hauling up. 6 Wrought.
7 The parapet, or its cornice and coping. “Table " is much used by masons; e.g., corbel-table, water-
table.
8 The high-book probably means this account now presented by the high wardens, so called in contrast to
inferior wardens, such as those of St. James' Chapel.
9 l.e., carved corbel.
Yatton Church-Wardens' Accounts.
127
PAGE 257. M.D. m.ccccc.iiiſiiii]. March iv.
J. GORMAN AND J. CANYNGTON, WARDENS.
RECEIPTS.
Balance from Thurban and Wale . .
xls. vid.
[Among the usual bequests are a few to St. James' Chapel from vs. to iijs.]
Total : . . Evj xjs. iiijd.
PAGE 259.
EXPENSES.
payd for ij clothys for ye chalyce . . . . . . . . . . ijd.
„ for rydyng? of ye chapell.
„ for y® glasyng of ij wyndows in Seynt Jamys Chapell . . . . . XXs.
The second bell was recast this year, and the year before.
The casting costs “ye halfe summe”? . . . . . . . . xxvs. iiijd.
PAGE 260.
payd for six skore pownds of wax for take such money as we toke in owre [?Ale] [i.e.,
the wax sold for whatever the Ale might yield.]
. . . . . . Łiij.
PAGE 261.
For mendyng ye ij doors in S. Jamys Chapell . .
. . . . vis.
For hewyng of ye dornenys: of ye seyd dor, and for a spade tre settyng . . . iiijd
For syting% of Emot Thurban and Rych. Wamperfyld to ye Conystre5 for Claram
Crosse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ijd.
PAGE 262.
a.. m.ccccc.iiii[v]+ xixth of Fefrell.
JOHN OTOR AND RICH. MEY, WARDENS.
RECEIPTS.
Balance from Gorman and Canyngton . .. .
[Nothing unusual.] Total . . . £xvij xviijs.
£,v. xvijs. ijd.
PAGE 263.
[Blank.]
:
PAGE 264.
Total
EXPENSES. [as usual.]
: . : £iiij viijs. ob.
PAGE 265.
2.D. M.ccccc.v[vi]+ March xij for 1504-5.
JOHN CRADOK, AND NICHOLAS SMALCOM, WARDENS.
RECEIPTS.
Balance from Otor and Mey . .
. £xiij vd.
of ye bequest of John Edwards ij bushells of barly and for that. I toke ij clepyd7 grotys
on yº pryce of . . . . . . .
. . . . . . vij.
I Clearing out, after completion. ? The other half in 1504-5.
er half in 1504-5.
3 Durns, or side-posts.
4 Citing.
ó Consistory. 6 1.e., for the barley.
7 Clipped.
128
Yatton Church-Wardens' Accounts.
PAGE 266.
[Blank.]
XS.
PAGE 267.
EXPENSES.
Payd to Wylliam Krosse of old dutyl of Seynt Jamys Chapell . .
Payd to ye seyd Wylliam Krosse for makyng of y® quere? and peyntyng of ye selyng3
of Seynt Jamys Chapell . . . . . .
. xxiiijs. jd.
Payd for tymber to make yo quere in Seynt Jamys Chapell
. iijs. iiijd.
Payd for mendyng ye organs . .
. . xls.
Payd at Gangarysbery4 to the schot5 on Wytwysday6 .
viijd.
Payd for festyvale?
. . . . . . . . . . . . xijd.
.
PAGES 269–70.
A.D. m.ccccc.ví[vii]. March xv.
W. WYLLYNG AND W. HORT, WARDENS.
RECEIPTS.
Balance from Cradok and Smalcom .
Exy vs. vd.
[Nothing unusual.] Total . . £xxiij vijs. vijd.
PAGE 271.
EXPENSES.
For botomyng of ye clensyng renge [sieve] . . . . . . . iiijd.
PAGE 272.
Paydå in metall of ye Church stufe! to ye bell of Seynt Jamys Chapell to ye valor of
weyght of xxxvij li.
Payd y® overplus in money for ye seyd bell and for stokkyng and hangyng
nangyng
: ixs.
In costs in mete and drynke for schrydynglo of wood to oure Ale
ijd.
Payd for a lok to ye font
. . . . . iijd.
Total . . . Evj viijs. iijd.
x and hanging
. .
.
PAGE 273.
@.D. m.ccccc.vii[viii]. March vj.
J. MASKALL AND J. HYLMAN, WARDENS,
RECEIPTS.
Balance from Wyllyng and Hort . . . . . . .
.
.
. £xiiij
PAGE 274.
[Blank.]
1 Debt.
2 Choir, i.e., the east end of the chapel with its choir-like attributes of Altar, piscina, image, canopied
ceiling, and perhaps reredos.
3 Probably the carved and painted ceiling over the altar.
4 Congresbury. 5 Collection at a Scot-Ale. 6 Tuesday in Whitsun-week.
7 Paid scot at a neighbouring ale. 8 1.e., contributed. 9 Material in stock.
10 Shrouding, i.e., lopping the heads of pollards.
Yatton Church-Wardens' Accounts.
129
PAGE 275.
EXPENSES.
Payd for a here to ye hye awter .
. . . xxijd..
Kreysklothi and holland bought for bord clothes and surplices and rydyng to Wells to
by yo seid clothe . . . . . . . . . . . vijs. xd. !
Payd to ye monke for caryng of ye awter cloth to Wells for to be blessyd . . . vd.
for makyng of a newe ye to ye iiij Bell-clapper, and for schotyng? of y® schank . iijs. iiijd.
[The stock of trenchers, cups, and bowls, &c., for the Church-house is frequently
replenished.]
PAGE 276.
Payd for a Masboke and a pye3
. xjs. vid.
Payd for mendyng ye red vestment, and ye blak cope, and for dyeng of ye old red
vestment. · · · · · · ·
· ·
Payd to Dan. Wyllyam, mownke$ to his wages
» to J. Avery of Kyngeston for scheryng strayes6 of ye church hefer . . . iiijd.
PAGE 277.
Payd for a new offray.?
Balance . . . . . . . . . . . . . Exxij xjs. xjd.
:
·
: xls.
vijd. vs.
·
PAGES 278-9.
1
.D. m.ccccc.viii[ir]. Fefrell xix.
J. HARRYCE AND T. HORYN, WARDENS.
RECEIPTS.
Balance from Hyllman and Maskall
. .£.xxij xjs. xjd.
Many bequests :-nothing unusual. Total . . . . . . £xxxv xviijs. ob.
PAGE 280.
EXPENSES.
Payd for makyng and settyng of vij mynells8 to ye sowth wyndow, and a west
wyndow . . . . . . . . . .
. . xviijs. vid.
[Freestone is bought for the window, and over iv Tons of Lead.]
PAGE 281.
Payd for pavyng of Harye Organs pytt? . . . . . . . . . iiijd.
» for a cofyr for ye torchys
„ for a thrawll [the drawing gear] of yren to ye well . . . . . iiijs.
PAGE 282.
Payd for y® tylyng of y® parsonagelo . . . . . . . . . . ijd.
1 “Crass” cloth, a coarse kind of towelling used for surplices.
2 Casting. 3 Ritual directory. 4 Monk.
5 1.e., for celebrating on some set days. In 1510 we find Sir Richard Yorke engaged as Chapel-priest at
fixed wages, xxvijs. iiijd. the quarter.
6 The “strays" were probably fines incurred by a heifer impounded by Avery as hayward of Kingston.
“Scheryng" may perhaps=sharing.
7 Orphrey. 8 Mullions. 9 The organist's grave.
10 The rectorial house belonging to the prebendal Rector. How were the Wardens concerned ?
130
:
LU
Church-Wardens' Accounts.
Yatton .
.
.
.
PAGE 283. .
Payd for xiiij yerds of lynyn to make ye Lent clothe. . .
It. for staynyng of ye seyd Lent clothe . . . .
It. payd for ix yerds of bokeram for ye Rod? clothe . . . .
It. for steynyng of ye seyd clothe . . . . . . .
It. for x yerds of webb to fastyn y rynggs of ye clothys.
Payd to ye Mason for makyng of ye mynells to yo wyndow .
PAGE 284.
It. to varmynge? of ye churche well. .
Total Expenses
£xx xvjs. vjd.
Balance . . . . . £xv xviijd.
.
.
.
iiijs. viijd.
vjs. viijd.
iijs.
xiijs. iiijd.
. vd.
. XS.
PAGE 285. .A. m.ccccc.ir[x]+ March xxiv.
J. AVERY AND W. HEYMAN, WARDENS.
RECEIPTS.
Balance from Harryce and Horyn . i . . . . . . £xv xviijd.
[All as usual, comprising the annual receipt for the Easter taper, vjs. :—also
bequests, articles sold, a few sums of money, taverns of Ale, and rents for
brewing in the Church-house. The following entry is new]:-
Receyvd of Saynt Jamys Ale.
. . . . . . . . iij Mark iiijs.
[The other similar receipts this year are from the Ale at Whitsuntide, and from the
light-men of Yatton.]
PAGE 287.
EXPENSES.
Payd to Syr Rychard Yorke, 4 Chapell priest for ye fyrst quarter wages . xxviijs. iiijd.
Payd for treyn5 platters and bollys . . . .
· · vijd.
Payd to S. Hoper for mendyng ye Church vessell[s].
. xvjd.
„ to W. Hort, Mason, for poyntyng of ye spyre, and makyng of ye tower to ye
chapell . . . . .
. . . . . ls.
[Stones and lime, sand and sawyng dust are bought for the work.]
PAGE 288.
payd for a lyne and a swystyng gyrdyll . . .
. . . iiijd
payd for a bagg of leder7 to kepe ye fyce door keyes
iijd
payd to ye hoper for hopyng of ye kyve. .
payd for ij tokyng8 gyrdylls . . . .
jd.
payd for ij new apryns . . . .
» for wesyngof ye tabernacyll.
PAGE 289.
Payd for mendyng ye tynnell pott . . . . . . . . . . .
Total . . £xvij ixs.
Balance . . £viij xvs.
1 Rood. 2 Forming. 3 £ij xvijs. vid.
4 R. Y. was instituted Rector of Backwell in February this year.
5 Wooden
o Bowls.
7 Leather.
8 Tucking.
9 Washing.
jd.
xjd.
Yatton Church-Wardens' Accounts.
131
PAGE 290.
DETTERRS TO ve CHURCH OF YATTON
xxvijs. xjd.
Eight names with sums of money against each from viijs. iiijd. to iijs., and of two
more who owe xxiijs. iiijd.
PAGE 292.
Thys detts folowyng of y® Church-money to John Haryes and Thomas Horyn (Wardens,
1508–9]. The List partly the same as last.
PAGE 293.
Thys detts byhynd of Chyrch-money to J. Cradock and Nicholas Smalcom, Wardens,
for ye year, A.D., m.ccccc.5, with dates at whych they are to be payd. Nine men
owe xxxvijs.
[The list is crossed out as if the debts had been paid.]
A similar list of " detts byhynd” due to W. Wyllyng and W. Hort, who were Wardens
for the year, A.D. m.ccccc.bi.
[Some pages seem to be missing here.]
PAGE 294.
[Loose and dateless.]
[List of 16 bequests, to Church and chapel; the rest of the leaf scribbled over.]
.
. Eviij
PAGES 295–6–7.
[Blank.]
PAGES 298–9.
A.S. m.ccccc.r–riMarch xxviij.
JOHN WARE AND JOHN TORE, WARDENS "NEWE CHOSYN.”
RECEIPTS.
Balance paid in parte from Avery and Heymanı
.
Total . . £xxj xiijs.
PAGES 300-1-2.
EXPENSES.
For ye canybe? . .
With the parysh at Ken . .
. . . .
To Syr Rich Yorke
Total . . £xiiij xiijs. iiijd.
So restyth yn y® wolde Wardens, J. Tore and J. Ware . . .
.
.
. iiijs.
. vijd.
xxiijs. iiijd.
xxxvjs. viijd.
PAGES 303-4.
Q.A. m.ccccc. ri [rii]. Febr. x.
JAMES COLEMAN AND R. SESSE, WARDENS.
RECEIPTS.
Balance from Tore and Ware .
Of John Gurman for ye Church harnes? . . .
Woldes detts . . . . . . . . . . .
Total £xxv vs.
1 Canopy. :? Gear. 3 Old.
.
.
£xiiij xiijs. iiijd.
. . xxijs.
xxvjs. vijd
S
2
132
Yatton Church-WMardens' Accounts.
.
:
.
.
i
iiijd.
jd.
.
.
...
·
.
·
· ·
.
PAGE 305.
EXPENSES.
Paide for mendyng the best teneklesi
„ for a puone? stryng
PAGE 306.
Paide at Ken' with ye Parysche .
to mend ye steyre in ye Churche howse .
» for ij processeners . . . . .
for mendyng of ye hye Crosse .
» to John Wakelyn for peyntyng and gyldyng of ye churche
» to R. Wyllyng ye refe4 for churche howse . . .
PAGES 307-8.
Paide for floryssyng wax . . . . ...
for colaryngs of ij surplesse . .
» for cloth to ye same surplesse .
. . viijd:
. . vjd.
• ijs. ijd.
. . xijd.
£xij xvjs. viijd.
. . iiijs.
·
.
.
vse
.
.
.
.
. xijd.
. xiiijd.
. ijd.
PAGES 309–10. Q.A. m.ccccc.rii [riii] Febr. xiv.
T. AVEREY AND W. MEY, WARDENS.
CEIPTS.
Balance from Sesse and Coleman . . . . . . . . £vij xiijs. iiijd.
A pynnaculle of ye best crosse. 6
Receyvyd of yo rele (still a usual entry] . . . . . . . . . jd.
PAGE 311.
of J. Bek for his taverne of Ale at Hoc-day? . . . . . . xxxvjs. viijd.
Total £xviij xvs.
PAGE 312.
EXPENSES.
Payd for gyldyng to John Wakelyn . . .
. . . . . . xxvjs. viijd.
It. to ye same for gyldyng
· xxvjs. viijd.
It. to ye same J. Wakelyn
xxs. and vjs. viijd.
PAGE 313.
Payd for x yardys of cloth and a halfe to make tabul clothys to ye church house iijs. xjd.
» for ij flowrs' to ye Rode lofte ..
. . . . . . : : : iiijd.
» to N. Smalcum for ij flaks' to ye church. .
.
ijd.
» for cloth to ye hye beme, xxx ellis, ye price viijd. a nelle . . . . . XXXS.
» for wyrs to ye hye beme: .
. . xvjd.
PAGE 314.
Payd more expenses in making ye said cloth, and rings for it.
9 for schewyng of John Tors howse to John Penny . . . . . . lijd.
» at Combyrsberelo with ye parysch. . . . . . . . . vjd,
1 Tunicles. 2 Pound of string.
3 At the Church-Ale given there.
4 Reeve, or Bailiff of the manor.
5 Collaring.
6 Henceforth handed on as an heir-loom, until sold in 1549. 7 First mention of Hock-day.
9 Hurdles. 10 Congresbury Ale.
s Floors.
Yatton Church-Wardens' Accounts.
133
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
. XXS.
. ijs.
xvjs. iiijd.
·
Payd to J. Wakelyn for gyldyng . . . . . .
„ to ye seyde John for yo dext? cloth . . .
» to yo constabul” and ye tethyngå man for ye parysch .
PAGE 315.
Payd yn expences for hevyng4 up ye cloth afore ye rod lofte
» for y® canebe. . . . . . .
, for Wassyng ye hye auter
. . .'
» to J. Wakelyn for gyldyng .
to W. Hathewey for yres to ye hye beme .
» for mendyng ye best sewe . . .
PAGE 316.
Payd in expenses when we made ye hye lygth . . .
Total £xiiij xvs.
· ·
.
.
.
·
.
•
.. iijd
. vs. xd.
ijs. viijd.
vjs. viijd.
. vs.
. xxd.
·
·
·
.
.
.
.
xxd.
PAGES 317-18.
[a torn leaf.]
PAC
PACE 319. A.D. m.ccccc.xiit[riiii]. March xij.
T
MATHEW TORE AND T. PASCALLE, WARDENS.
RECEIPTS.
Balance from Averey and Mey, xliijs. in part of £ iiij vijd.
PAGE 320.
Receyvyd a pynnaculle of ye best crosse.
Total £xiiij iiijs.
PAGE 321.
EXPENSES.
Payd for ye doyng of ye durre?. . . . . . . . . . . iiijd.
» for gyldyng to J. Wakelyn . . . . . . . . . xlvjs. viijd.
„ for tockyng gyrdylls .
· · · · jd.
» to ye constabulle and ye tethyngman, for ye parysch. . . . . xjs. viijd.
PAGES 322-3-4.
Payd to W. Hort for makyng a nette and for tenys (tins], and a lyne to ye chaunsell. iiijd.
Summa £ix ijs.
, for trener platters.
„ for crest cloth to make aprons to the church house . . . . . .viijd.
i Desk.
2 The first draft on the Church funds inade by any Civil officers. It was the forerunner of a great change.
See charge repeated 1514.
3 Tithing. 4 Heaving.
5 The iron and wire gear now attached to the high beam, probably that of the Nave-roof, would seem to
be for the double purpose of hanging a lamp so as to cast light upon the rood, and also for veiling the rood
in Lent.
o Suit. 7 Door.
8 Wooden.
134
Yatton Church-Wardens' Accounts.
PAGES 325–6. Q.A. m.ccccc.xiiii[v]: Feb. xvij.
J. BENE AND W. Hycks, WARDENS.
CEIPTS.
.
.
Ev xxijd.
.
.
.
·
.
·
. vjd.
. iiijd.
· xijd.
. xS.
. ixxxs.4
·
.
.
.
.
Balance from Tore and Pascall .
.
Sums of money, bequests, &c., as usual.
Total Evj ixs.
PAGES 327-8.
EXPENSES.
For a schote to ye Welle . . . . . . . .
For a schote to ye wenchel .
Payd to R. Kew for iij days warke to mend yo segesse’ yn yệ chyrch.
. to J. Avery for blake londes . . . . . . .
, to J. Wakelyn for glasyng . . . . . . .
PAGE 329.
Payd to J. Wakelyn . . . .
It. to ye seyd John Wakelyn.
„ to iij dayes warke to J. Wakelyn for plummyng .
„ to ye seyd John for halfe days warke . . . .
PAGE 330.
It. to John Wakelyn for gyldyng Seynt Thomas and ye rele . .
[Some smaller sums to J. W.]
PAGES 331–2.
It to Nicholas Smalcum for cariying home ye rele and Seynt Thomas
„ to John Harrys to fylle ye reles . . . . . . .
.
·
XS.
.
. xs.
vjs. viijd.
. ijs.
. iiijd.
.
.
.
.
.
.
xs.
.
.
.
.
.
.
xd.
vjd.
Page 333. A.D. m.ccccc.ro [vi]. Feb. vij.
WYLLYAM MERYOT AND THOMAS WARR, WARDENS.
RECEIPTS.
Balance from Bene and Hycks . . . . . . . . £vi ixs. vijd.
[Nothing unusual.]
Total £xv xvjs. vjd.
PAGE 334.
receyvyd an auter clothe of Rychard Webbe.
» for Water Knyth lying yn ye Church6 . . . . . . . vjs. viijd.
PAGE 335.
EXPENSES.
Payd to Thomas Avery for settyng up Seynt Thomas and pavyng ye Church, and
whyte lymyng . . . .
. . . . xijd
1 Winch. 2 Seats.
3 Black lawn to veil the Rood in Lent.
4 = 29th, the unit prefixed deducts from the later figures. See below in 1519, ixx = 19.
5 Viz., with candles.
First use of this phrase, which perhaps embraces the laying of the body in the Church belore burial, ás
well as a grave bencath the pavement.
Yatton Church135
Wardens-
' Accounts.
. .
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
xijd.
xd.
vs.
Payd to ye chanonfor mend ... ye vestments
Payd for mendyng a croke? to a tynkar . . . . .
Payd for xj ells of lynen to make ij albys and ij amys . .
PAGES 336–7.
Payd for a schepe skyn to cover y® boke
,9 for mendyng ye tabullment and Seynt Keteryne . .
.
Total . . £iiij viijs.
.
ijd.
.
.
.
.
iijs. vd.
PAGE 339. A.D. m.ccccc.xvi[vii]. Feb. xviij.
· J. HANNAM AND SAUNDER HARRIS, WARDENS.
RECEIPTS.
Balance from Meryot and Warre . . . . . . . . . £xj viijs.
PAGE 340.
[Nothing unusual.] Total . . . £xxv xjd.
PAGE 341.
EXPENSES.
Payd for ye composition . . . . . . . . . . . . vjd.
„ at Ken for y® parysch . . . . . . . . . . vjd.
» for hopyng a trendelle of ye churche ..
. . iijd.
, for x yerds of crest clothe to make ij mete clothes to ye churche howse . ijs. vid.
» for a preket to set afore Seynt Kateryn . . . . . . . . . iiijd.
PAGES 343–4.
Payd to ye chappell prists
. . . xijd.
Total. . . £xxiij vijs.
PAGE 346.
[Blank.]
A.D. m.ccccc.xviiſviii].
T. KNYGHT AND J. FYSSAR, WARDENS.
RECEIPTS.
Balance from Hannam and Harris . .
£xx vijs. xjd.
[Nothing unusual.] Total . . £xxiiij xvijs.
PAGE 348.
EXPENSES.
Payd to Wyllyam Carpenter for goyng up to ye rele, and for y® mendyng . . . vd.
PAGE 349.
Payd for a streymer and a baner . . . . . . . . . xxxiijs. iiijd.
,, for huckmocks . . . . . . . . . . . . . vid.
, for reban* to mend ye best sewte and ye second kope
. . xvjd.
» to Syr Rychard . . . . . . . . . . . xijs. viijd.
? Probably an Augustinian Canon of the neighbouring House of Worspring. ? Crock.
3 Priest, ?whether of the detached chapel or of St. James's. • Ribband, riblon.
5 l.e., Sir Richard Yorke.
ner
136
Yatton Church-WMardens' Accounts.
.
.
.
.
. xd.
. xviijs.
. iiijs.
. ijs.
.
.
PAGE 350.
Payd for mendyng yo segs in ye churche howse
» for a chalesse that was new cast
» for mendyng anoder chalis
» for blessyng y® seid chalis
PAGE 351.
Payd to ye plummpel maker . .
,, for drawyng up y® plumpe to ye welle
us to ye chapell prist Syr Wyllyam .
Total . . • £ix xvjs. jiijd.
.
.
. vjs.
jd.
xxviijs. iiijd.
.
.
PAGE 352.
[Blank.]
.
£xxiij xviijd.
·
.
.
PAGES 353-4. .@.D. m.ccccc.xviii[ir].
W. KYNG AND R. WORNELLE, WARDENS.
RECEIPTS.
Balance from Knyght and Fysser . . . . . .
[Nothing unusua'. ]
PAGE 355.
EXPENSES.
Payd for a purne stryng
for ij casis for ij chalis .
for hangyng up ye lampe in ye chanselle
» for a lyne to ye lampe . . .
for leying stones in ye new chapelle
PAGE 356.
Payd for ye sexton3 . . . . . . . . .
, for iiij and 4 pownds of wax agenest crystymas4 .
PAGES 357-8.
Payd to y® tynkar for mendyng ye halywater stocke . . . .
·
·
.
·
·
.
. jd.
. xiiijd.
· vijd.
. ijd.
· jd.
·
·
.
·
·
.
·
.
.
.
. xviijd.
. xlvs.
·
.
.
.
xijd.
.
.
PAGE 359.
2.9. M.ccccc.xix[xx].
J. THURBAN AND W. HORDE, WARDENS.
RECEIPTS.
Balance from Kyng and Wornelle. .
. . . . . txxxiij iijs.
Reseyvyd of John Avery for his wyfes lyyng in ye churche
. vjs. viijd.
of William Hayman . . . .
. xiijs. iiijd.
of John Cradock . . . . . . . . . . vjs. viijd.
„ of John Mascall and John Hyllman . . . . . . vj. viijd.
ij ryngs with a pere knyfes.
Pump. ? Apron. 3 A usual entry for some ears.
A yearly entry. Pair.
.
.
YI
9
Yatton Church-Wardens' Accounts.
137
PAGE 3бо.
[Taverns and legacies as usual, and then]
Resevyd of Rychard Legette for candyls of ye rele.
Resevyd of ye rele of T. Hurne . . . .
„ of John ... for ye rele . . .
„ of Isabelle Tynkar for candylls of ye rele . .
PAGE 361.
EXPENSES [nothing unusual].
PAGE 362.
Payd to a vestment-maker to make a vestment of ye olde cope .
„ for a rebandl to ye seid vestment . . . . . .
PAGE 363.
Payd to Syr Davy . . . . . . . . .
» to Syr John.
» for steynyng and gyldyng of ye Crosse .
for rydyng.to Wells for ye visitation
„ expenses for rydyng to Dondre3 .
» to Syr John for his wages
PAGE 364.
Payd yn yernest to y® steyner . . . . . . .
Total . . . Ex iiijs.
.
.
.
.
.
.
vs. iiijd.
. jd.
.
.
. xxvjs. viijd.
vjs. viijd.
. iijs. iiijd.
. viijd.
. . viijd.
- XXS. viijd.
.
.
.
.
jd.
PAGES 365-6-7.
A.D. m.ccccc.xx[xxi].
W. TAYLER AND ROBERT THURBAN, WARDENS.
RECEIPTS.
Balance from J. Thurban and W. Horde
. . £xxxviij iiijs.
[The receipts include several small bequests to the chapel, and one bequest of John
Toore for "lyeng ” in the church] ·
· · vjs. viijd.
Total . . £xlix xixs. vid.
PAGE 368.
[Blank.]
PAGES 369–70.
Dettys to yo Church, the which that the Wardens be not charged.
J. Cadocke for his wyfys lynge in the Church . .
J. Thurban for his moder lynge in the Church. .
Matthew Toore for his sisters lynge in ye church
Three sureties delivered to John Wakelyn . .
Three other men owe, each . . . . . . .
vjs. viijd.
• vjs. viijd.
• vjs. viijd.
· xxvjs. viijd.
. vis. vijd.
.
.
3 Dundry.
4 Earnest.
1 Ribbon. % First time of this entry.
5 Probably Tayler and Thurban ; no date.
138
Vatton Church-Wardens' Accounts.
ENSES.
..
.
· ·
PAGE 371.
Payd to W. Hatheway for settyng up ye canebe
. , xxd.
» for x pownds wax to make yo rele . . .
. vijs. xjd.
» for makyng ye seyde rele . . . . . . . . . . iijd.
PAGE 372.
Payd for a cheyne to ye canebe
. . jd.
Nearly ij Tons of lead are bought at per ton .
. . £iij xs.
Three tymes rydyng to Mendip . . .
. . viijd.
Payd for castyng of vj ton of ledde . . . .
· V nobulls viijd. (1)
PAGE 373.
Payd for beryng of ye seyd olde ledde fro ye chapelle to ye parsonage ; 7.
ijd.
To Thomas Prewett ye bocher .
·
.
, for beryng of ye seyd ledde, to Thomas Prewett, John Berner, and Thomas Warre ixd.
» for mete and drynke to makyng ye moldes to cast ye seid ledde . . vijd.
» to ye heyward of Comysbury for a cooppe wod, and for yo cariage . . . . xxd.
PAGE 374.
Payd for iij wekys and more to Thurban and , Tayler for to yntende ye seid
plommer . . . .
. . ijs. viijd.
» for halowyng a pere of vestments.
. . xijd.
, at Bristow for bakarrs londs. .
. xijd.
PAGE 375.
Payd for iiij torchesse ..
. . . . xiijs. vid.
Total . . . £xvj xiiijs. iiijd.
PAGE 376.
Q.9. m.ccccc.rri[ui].
J. AVEREY AND W. FLICHE, WARDENS.
RECEIPTS. [A very short list.]
Balance from Tayler and Thurban . . . . .
. . £xxxiij iiijs.
Total .... . . . . . . . . . . . £xly vijs.
PAGE 377.
EXPENSES.
Payd for wakyng ye sepulcre . .
. . . . ob.
, for schreds to bynd ye lyme . .
. . . ijd.
PAGE 378.
Payd to a mynnystrelle.
. . xijd.
» to Syr John Masday .
. XXS. xd.
for ij ymnalls . .
. . ijs. xd.
„ for wrytyng ye boke at Stoke and at home
iijs. iiijd.
, to ye clarke of Axbrige for peyntyng of yo seid cloth
. . . xxvjs. viijd.
II e., £iij vijs. iiijd. 2 Butcher. 3 Mould. 4 Wardens. 5 Oversee.
6 Baker's lands; where ? 7 The Sepulchre has not been mentioned since 1507-8.
8 Cow-hair is now used by plasterers in like way.
9 First entry.
Patton Church-WMardens' Accounts.
139
.
.
Want 101 ly yung yli y Chlapeite
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
VS.
PAGE 380.
In expenses for dyking ye new yew .
. . . xxiijs. iiijd.
Total . . . £xxxv xixs. xjd.
THE CHAPELLE DETT.
[The list comprises bequests of money and kind.]
Alys Wake for lyyng yn ye chapelle
John Cannyngton . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vs.
The hole sum of this boke to ye Chapelle . . . . . . . xliijs. xd.
PAGES 381–2.
[An undated sheet entitled “Bequests gevyn to je parysch of Yatton by [= in] Wm.
Wornell and Wm. Bradmere ys dayis” [1498], followed by bequests in Knight
and Tucker's days (1499] and loose memoranda. The bequests amount to many
pounds.]
END OF VOLUME I.
III/
VOL. II.
A paper book, 15 x 5in., bound in a vellum page of M.S. Office-book.
PAGES 1, 2, 3. Q.D. m.ccccc.rriiiſiiii].
T. HYLMAN AND ROBERT THURBAN, WARDENS.
RECEIPTS. [of the usual type.]
Balance from Avery and Fliche . . . . . . . . £xxxv xixs. xjd.
Total . . . £lj xixs.
PAGE 4.
[Blank.]
PAGES 5, 6, 7.
EXPENSES.
For a pype for ye second belle rope to rennet yn . . . . . . . iiijd.
to Keytyngalle for workyng ye chirche werk . .
£iij vjs. viijd.
[The pump still called a "plumpe." Much stone hauled from Felton.]
PAGES 8, 9.
Payd to y® clerke of Axbrige for peyntyng ye wono part of ye cloth . . xxvjs. viijd.
Payd to y® seid Massynnys . . .
. . . . . . . . xls. xd.
, for settyng up of ye old fynyalls ,
. . xiijs. iiijd.
1 The amount of the charge looks like the repair of the yeo, i.e., main-drain ; or of a yere = sluice.
2 N.B. In this Vol. the date at which the accounts are made up is never stated. It is probable, however,
that, as in other accounts, it is before March 25th. A figure is therefore added within brackets to represent
the year according to our reckoning.
3 Tube to protect floor against friction.
4 Run.
5 One.
6 Masons.
T2
140
Yatton Church-Wardens' Accounts.
PAGE 10.
[Blank.]
PAGE II.
A.D. m.ccccc.rriiii[v].
·
·
· ·
·
W. KYNG, CALLED BONNEWY, AND R. WEBBE, WARDENS.
PAGE 12.
RECEIPTS.
Balance from Hylman and Thurban . . . . . . Exxxvij vjs. viljd.
[The three Ales yield the large sum of £xiij, and, with many bequests, and Balance,
swell the Total Receipts to £xlxxxxj xjs.]
PAGES 13, 14, 15.
EXPENSES.
For a trawle to plumpe . . . . . . . . . . . . lijd.
for an apurned to ye church . .
. iijd.
for settyng up ye tabylment . .
. ijd.
for stones for ye crosse .
. xxvjs. viijd.
for vj waynes of stone fro Felton, and vj moe to Wm. Hort fre mason . xxvjs. viijd.
for mendyng ye chaunsell . . . . . . . . . . viijs. viijd.
PAGES 16, 17.
for yryn barre for Westwyndo in ye towre . . . . . . . . . ijs.
for do. do. to ye newe warke . . . . . . . . . . xiiijd.
More waynes of stone from Felton.
for mendyng ye Constyke in ye chaunsell . . . . . . . . xiiijd.
to Wm. Hort fre mason . . . . .
. . XXS.
in expenses at Welis when we went to gefe an answere to Master Beckham for ye
parysch.
·
PAGE 18.
[Blank.]
PAGES 19, 20.
Dettes to ye church, y® which ye Wardens be not charged with.
[Items similar in character; many the same as in last list.]
PAGES 21-2-3-4. Q.A. m.ccccc.rrv[vi].
R. MAY AND JOHN Vigour, WARDENS.
RECEIPTS.
Balance from Webbe and Bonnewy . . . . . .
Several for lying in the Church.
of John Hort for a stone for his sister
[The Ale days are specified as St. James' Day, Hock Day, and Whitsuntide.]
Total . . . £xix xs.
1 Apron. 2 Candlestick.
3 Canon of Wells, holding the Visitation Court of the Prebendal Peculiar.
£xxxiij viijs.
.
.
iijs.
Patton Church-Wardens' Accounts.
141
PAGE 25.
EXPENSES.
For makyng a shotel and for hewing of ij shydes”, and for warke on y® chaunselle ijs. iiijd.
for a carnockeⓇ of lyme, and bryngyng home . . . . . .
.
. .
.
1
ixs.
PAGE 26.
for many loads of Felton stone . . .
for ryddyng ye ground to ye Crosse, and shrydyng ye trees
. . xvjd.
PAGE 28.
payd for stone to ye hede of y® Crosse
iijs. vid.
» for bryngyng it home . .
xs. iiijd.
» in expenses for rydyng to Bath
. . . xijd.
PAGE 29.
for sawyng ye burdestockes to y® church . . . . . . . . . ijs. vd.
for thungs and for a lace to ye canebe .
· ·jd. ob.
to J. Hort ye fre Mason for rydyng to Bath to se ye stonys (besides 3 payments of
xiijs. and xxs. and liijs.] . . . . . . . . . . . vjd.
PAGES 30-1.
[Several entries of expenses for scaffolding.]
for settyng uppe of ye schaffoold and of ye crosse hed
. ijs. viijd.
for settyng uppe y® seid tymber and for thacking ye crosse
. iijs. vid.
for repyng of ye redeo and for bryngyng home . . .
• . iiijd.
to halfe an hundred of brymbylls? . . . . . . . . . . ijd.
to ye gyltar . . . . .
. . . . XXS.
Total . . . £xvj xixs. vijd.
PAGES 33-4-5. .A. M.ccccc.rrvi[vii].
ROBERT THURBAN AND JOHN STRETYNG, WARDENS.
RECEIPTS.
Balance from May and Vigour . . . . . . . £xxxiij xvjs.
For Wolde dett . . . . . . . .
. . vs. viijd.
For ryngyng Syr Wyllyams modorº knele . . . . . . . . . Xxd.
Total ... £xxxxxj xvjs.
The receipts from the Ales this year are (as of old) from the “ Lightmen of the East
and West parts." The truth probably is that the Lightmen did their collecting
work, whilst the people were assembled at the Ale in the Church house.]
PAGE 36.
[Blank.]
1 Casting metal in a mould. ? Shroud-wood for fuel.
3 Curnock. A measure of 4 bushels (Wright's Prov. Dict.) 4 The finest Bath stone was used for the carving,
5 Boardstock, i.e., a trunk fit for sawing into plank ; board is still pronounced "boord.”
6 For thatching the Cross against frost, whilst the stone was green. 7 Branıbles for same purpose.
8 Old. 9 Mother's.
142
Vatton Church-Wardens' accounts.
PAGE 37.
| Payd to y® organ maker . .
. . . . . . . . . x1)
» for makyng a fote’ to ye organs .
. . iiijs.
„ in expenses for ye organ maker and for his company that gefe attendance
with hym . . . . . . . . . . . .
» for makyng priketts agenest Alhalowday . . . . . . . ijd.
Lu to y organ pleyer . . . . . . . . . . . xxjd.
PAGE 38. EXPENSES. [Sundry repairs to pump, &c.]
For schotyng ye drawzteof y® plumpe . . . . . . . . . iiijd.
PAGE 39.
for a dext clothe of iij yerds . . . . . . . . . . . . xiiijd.
to Thomas Nefelle, gylder . . . . . . . . . . . Zij
PAGE 40.
for ij awterclothes, won of diaper and another of bocaram, ye price . . . vjs. vjd.
for a manuall . . . . . . . . . . . . ijs. iiijd.
PAGE 41.
for ij awter clothes of vj yerds and a halfe, y® price a yerd . . . . ijs. vd. ob.
for halowyng of iiij awter clothys . . . . . . . . . .viijd.
PAGE 42.
for schotyng a brochet in y® Church howse . . . . . . . . ob.
Total ... £ix xviijs. xjd.
PAGES 43-4.
A.D. m.ccccc.xxvii[viii].
PENSES.
T. KEW AND W. WAMPERFYLDE, WARDENS.
RECEIPTS.
Balance from Stretyng and Thurban . . . . . . . £xliij xvjs. vd.
Nothing unusual.
Total ... £xxix xvijs. ixd.
PAGE 45.
Payd to ye organ maker at Brystow. . . . . . . . . . xls.
, at Bristow with y® parich makyng ye bargain . . . . . . . xxd.
„ för mendyng ye bonds of ye surplesse and ye rochetts
. ijd.
PAGE 46.
Payd for makyng a myster to ye Church howse . . . . . . iiijs. iiijd.
1 for a peer of gemows® to y® seid myster. . . . . . . . xiijd.
» for a locke, ij ryngs to ye seid myster .
. . . . vd.
» for ij dosyn and a halfe drynkyng bowls, and a dosyn and a halfe of mete dysses,
and iiij dosyn trenchers and a ladylle . . . . . . . . xvjd.
1 These items have been scratched out. No date. ? A pedal ?
3 Casting the drawing-rod of pump. 4 A spit. 5 Unexplained. 8 Pair of bir.ges.
-
Yatton Church-Wardens' Accounts.
143
·
·
·
·
·
·
·
·
·
[Much stone for the west window of the Church.]
Payd to John Wakelyn for glasyng . . . . . . . . . .
PAGE 47.
Payd for sprangs to church lader . . . . . .
. . ijd.
, for makyng a yeerel to ye Church howse cowle .
. . .jd. ob.
„ to John Wakelyn for glasyng? . .
. . £iij
for iij boksº to ye church . .
. xlvjs. viijd.
for mendyng of ye pyx of ye hye awter . .
· . . iiijd.
» to y® organ maker at Bristow. .
. . . XXS.
in expenses for bryngyng home ye organs, and to ye seyd Halyart of Brystow vijs. ob. ·
» for mendyng ye hedde of ye West Wyndow . . . . . . . iiijs.
PAGE 48.
Payd to ye organ maker . . . . . . .
• Exij
Payd in expense for y® organ maker, and for hys compane that gefe attendance with
hym to helpe hym . . . . . . . .
. viijs. viijd.
» to ye organ maker when that he was last payd of hys pay, for a reward . xvijd.
» for makyng priketts agenest Alhalowday . . .
. . ijd.
» to ye organ pleyer . . . . . . . . . . . . xxjd.
PAGE 49.
Payd to John Felyps for pleying on yo organs . . . . . . . . viijd.
Payd for iij sacryng bells clepers .
. . . jd.
[Waking the Sepulchre has disappeared.]
PAGE 50.
[Blank.]
PAGE 51.
21.D. M.ccccc.xxviii[ir].
J. CRADDOCK AND W. KYNG, WARDENS.
PAGE 52.
RECEIPTS.
Balance from Kew and Wamperfylde . . .
· · £xxix xvijs.
Resevyd of Matthew Toore for iij qurarters of saten of Bryge6 .
. . xijd.
y of my lade7 Rodne for lone of ye vestments.
· · ijs.
PAGES 53-4.
xxx gifts, very small, towards buying lime; the largest from Isabell Hort "for a
carnocke lyme"
. . . . viijd.
Total ... £xxviij xviijd.
PAGES 55-6.
[Blank.]
| Ear ? ? Too costly for plain glass. 3 Books. 4 Haulier.
5 A gratuity. Such “rewards” are common in the accounts. 6 Bruges.
ī Lady Elizabeth Chaworth, widow of Sir W. Rodney, was living in the Rodney Manor-House of
Backwell. She died 1537, aſter founding a chantry in Backwell Church.
La dinyatuity. Sucho costly for plain
144
Yatton Church-Wardens' accounts.
PENSES.
iijs. iiijd.
iiijs. iijd.
PAGE 57.
Payd for a peynted clothe to ye hye awter . . . . . . .
PAGE 58.
Payd to R. Porcar for brannyng? lyme . . .
[There are other like payments to him, and for coals.]
PAGES 59-60.
[The spire is repaired and pointed :—three items.]
[Coal hauled from Nailsea.]
PAGE 62.
Payd for wax, xx li. agenyst Saynt James Day.
» to a mynstrelle for pleyng at . . . .
, for hewyng a claveys to Church howse . . . . . .
PAGES 63–4.
Payd for ye iryn gere to y® gowntet dorre at Wemeram [Wimberham on the Yeo]
to ij men for stoppyng ye sayd water . . . . . .
ixs. vijd.
. xijd.
. iijd.
. xvjd.
. xvjd.
Pages 65–67.
A.D. m.ccccc.xrir[x].
WATER WILLIAMS AND J. WEBBE, WARDENS.
RECEIPTS.
Balance from Kyng and Cradock . .
. . £xxviij xiijd.
[Nothing unusual.] Total . . . . £xxvj xjs.
PAGES 68-9.
EXPENSES.
Payd to ye gyldar for ye tabylment . . . . . . . . . . xls.
, to ye belle maker .
. £xix vid.
(with many items for carrying the old bell into Bristol, and bringing back and hanging the
: new one.]
PAGE 70.
Payd for gyltyng of Saynt James . . . . . . . . . xiijs. vd.
» for gyltyng of owre Lady . . . . . . . . . . vjs.
PAGE 71.
Payd for xxviij piownde wexe, wyche made ye torchys and ye tapyrs, ye wyche shall
brenes when ye corse shall be presente .
. . . . xviijs. viijd.
» for xiiij pownde of wekezerne . . .
. . . iijs. vid.
u for makyng of ye seyd torchys, and for expenses of ye makyng of ye seyd
torchys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ijs.
i Burning. 2 Hitherto limited to Christmas and Easter.
3 Mantel-piece. Presumably so called as the place where the keys (claves) were hung.
4 Drain. The bursting of this sluice in the sea bank was a peril to the whole level, and therefore repaired
by Church funds, without pressure from authority.
5 Burn. 6 Wick-yarn.
Yatton Church-Wardens' Accounts.
145
PAGE 72.
Payd for framyng of y® seegys' in yo church, for makyng ij doerys? in yo towre, and all
ye levys of ye wyndowes in ye Church-howse, with hookys, twystys, and
haspys . ..
. . . xxiijs. iiijd.
» for y® sege in y® chaunsell to R. Kew for hys hondewerke, and for a bord to
J. Harriis . . . . . . . . . . . . . ijs.
» for ye koverynd' of yo ovyn .
. . . . . . xxd.
Total £xiiij vijs.
TIT
Pages 73-4-5-6. .A. m.ccccc.xrx[i].
MATTHEW TOORE AND W. ROME, WARDENS.
RECEIPTS.
Balance from Willyams and Webbe. .
. £xxxiij xjs. xd.
[Several old debts recovered, and three fees at vjs, viijd. “for lying in the church."]
Total £xlj ijs.
PAGE 77.
EXPENSES.
Payd for a horse locke to ye cherche yatte . . . . . . . . viijd.
» for makyng ye tabernacle of Saynt Thomas . . . . . . . XXS.
„ for bryngyng home ye same seid tabernacull to ye carver . . . . xvjd.
, to Thomas Partrych for makyng ij coppsys, and an hapse to ye cherche yatt iijd. ob.
, for an ocke' . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxija.
, to Jo. Whyte ye Belmaker . . . . . . . . . xlixs. vid.
PAGE 78.
Payd to J. Partrych for a bronde-yryn, and for naylys . . . . . ijs. iijd.
„. for wadlynge ye cherche how'se .
PAGES 79-80.
Payd to a mynstrell at Wytsonday.
. . . . . . ijs. viijd.
Total £x iijs. iijd.
UA
.
.
viijd.
TIT
1
TY
PAGE 81.
A.D. m.ccccc.rrri[ii].
J. WALE AND T. TAYLER, WARDENS.
RECEIPTS.
Balance from Toore and Rume .
• Exlj ijs. iijd.
After xiij items of receipt the account ends, but it is resumed with formal heading and
I.II.S. on page 83, beginning with the xiij items. Two pages have been cut out.)
of Master Capel for a reward to y® Churche . . . . . . . xxd.
of a bequest of Syr Davy . . . . . . . . . . iijs. iiijd.
1 Seats. : Doors. 3 Shutters. Covering. 56 Unexplained. Oak.
8 Watiling ♡ Gratuily.
*
U
146
Patton Church-Wardens' Accounts.
.
iiijs.
viijd.
;
ijd.
PAGES 84-5-6.
[The three Ales are still very fruitful, yielding £xvij viijs. iiijd.]
PAGE 87.
EXPENSES.
to ye Bellator? of Brystow at makyng ye bargain
payd for ij kynterkynnys to ye cherche howse . . . . .
·
PAGE 88.
payd for rydyng to Bristow on y® Ascencione day . . . . . .
PAGES 89-90.
payd for ij salt celars and a dosyn dysses with a dosyn of trenchers .
. .
,, for iij huckemocks to ye cherch .
.
[A large number of entries again this year about the casting of a bell at Bristol.]
PAGE 91.
for makyng wax ageynst Saynt James day . . . . . . .
PAGES 92-3-4.
for reparations on ye chapell of my Lady Newtons . . . . . .
to a Mynstrell
. . . . . . . .
Total . . . £xj xvs.
.
.
vd.
vid.
.
.
ijd.
vijs. xjd.
xiijs. iiijd.
11
PAGE 95.
A.D. M.ccccc.rrrii[iii].
J. BEKE AND J. VIGOR, WARDENS.
RECEIPTS.
Balance from Wale and Tayler : . Exlvij
[Nothing unusual.]
Total . . . £xlviij xvijs.
PAGE 97,
EXPENSES.
Payd to R. Kew for crossebarrs and rounds for ye peyse?.
This yere Robert and John Grenefylde is paid for pointing and other work on the
Church . . . . . . . . . . . . £viij vjs. vd.
Pages 98-9.
Payd to J. Rylbere for stonys to ye Chapell wyndow. . . . . vjs. viijd.
,, to R. Grenefylde for takyng downe an elder tre out of a pype abooffe in yo towre iiijs.
for mendyng of a gargyne“ hede
, to a mynstrele at Wytsontyde .
. . . vjs.
» for assyon cuppy'sø . . . .
. . iiijd.
PAGE 100.
[The great bell re-cast at Bristow, and rehung:]
i Bell-rounder. ? A regular entry. 3 Clock-weight. Gurgoyle
5 Ashen cups.
·
xxd.
2
Yatton Church-Wardens' Accounts.
147
.
.
• vs. ijd.
. xvjd.
. vd.
PAGE 101.
payd for xxviij yards of Irys' cloth for a hussyllyng cloth the price.
» for mendyng a sylver canstyke . . .
.
. . .
, for vj yards of lasyng to mend old vestments . . . . .
PAGE 102.
payd to R. Grenefelde for poyntyng a tornelle" of ye cherche . .. .
» for mendyng ye surplesse collars, and for a new amysse . . .
„ to J. Meryfeld for makyng a croke to ye Sacrament over yo hye auter .
Total . . £xvj vjs. xd.
.
.
ijs. viijd.
. xijd.
. jd.
PAGES 103-4.
[Blank.]
[After a page cut out, p. 105 shows a Heading for 1533-4 crossed out. pp. 106-7-8
contain expenses, probably of Cooke and Payne, but crossed out, with “verte”
in the margin.]
Total . . £liij viijs.
Some of the items on pp. 107-8, which are not found in the audited account, are
given here.]
PAGE 107.
for makyng of halfe a dosyn of towells of ye olde hoselyngó cloth
. . . . iiijd.
to ye gyltdarº (twice the same]. . . . . . . . . xiijs. iiijd.
PAGE 108.
for halfe a dosyn heryng barells . . . . . . . . .. iijs.
£xlviij xvijs.
Pages 109–10. 2.0. m.ccccc.rrriiiſiiii].
EDWARD COOKE AND WATER PAYN, WARDENS.
RECEIPTS.
Balance from Beke and Vigor . .
[Nothing unusual.]
Total . . Eliij xs.
PAGE III.
EXPENSES.
Payd to Thomas Jeferes, bellatur? of Bristow in part . . .
PAGE 112.
Payd to ye gyltdar . . . . . . . . .
, to Syr John Batell . .
.
.
xlixs. vid.
.
.
.
.
xiijs. iiijd.
. XXXVS.
o
w wyr Jul Dulcil .
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
i Irish.
2 Houselling cloth spread over the rails during the Communion of the faithful. Appointed in the Coronation
Services of the Georges. Still used in some Churches in the Diocese of Winchester, at St. Mary's, Oxford
&c.
3 Candlestick.
4 Turret.
5 Gilder.
6 Bell-founder.
V 2
148
Datton Church-Wardens' Accounts.
.
.
.
.
. viijd.
viijs. iiijd.
.
.
PAGE 113.
Payd for a serchel to ye cherche howse . .
uto a Mynstrell
. . . . . . .
PAGE 116.
Payd for a ryng and stapull to yo font . .
„ for a hole peesse’ to make fronts to yo syde auters. .
» in yerneste for a cope . . . .
Total . . txv Xs. vijd.
.
.
.
.
.jd. ob.
xixs. viijd.
iiijd.
.
.
.
.
PAGE 117.
[Blank.]
PAGES 118-119.
J.H.S.
Q.. m.ccccc.rrriv[v].
J. ERLE AND J. BENE, WARDENS.
RECEIPTS.
Balance from Cooke and Payne . . . . . . . . . fliij xs.
PAGE 120.
[Besides usual gifts, are vjs. for "an ocke,” ijs. for "ye croppe of an ocke."]
of John Wassborowe for lygthmanshepet . . . . . . . . vis. viijd.
Total . . £xxiij xiiijs.
PAGE 121.
EXPENSES.
Payd for mendyng ye vyce durre locke in ye towre. .
. . vijd.
» for makyng yryn pynnys for ye foore locks in yo medyll flore . . . jd.
» to T. Organs wyfe for makyng a canebe to y® hye awter . . . . . vjd.
, for mendyng a coveryng to ye font . . . . . .
. xijd.
PAGE 122.
Payd for a hole sewte of vestments with a Coope . . .
. . £xxx
„ at Thomas Prewetts with ye parysch of Comysbures and Yatton for brynggyng
ther sewte of vestments, in expenses . . . . . . . . . ijs. xd.
„ to T. Tucker of Comysbure for beryng ye sayd vestments home . . , jd.
, to J. Meryfeld for scowryng of canstyks, and mendyng ye canebe, and for iij
new cheynys, and mendyng a quart, and for crooks to ye awter clothes, and
mendyng a frunt over ye hye awter. .
. . ijs. xd.
„z to Terre Lucocke for makyng ye fronts of ye new awter clothes and a cooshen . viijd.
PAGE 123.
Payd to J. Jeferes of Brystow, ye bellatur . . . . . . . xlixs. vjd.
1 Survey ? ? Whole piece. 3 Earnest.
4 Not a private gift, but to be added to his collection as Lightman.
5 The parish of Congresbury seems to have bought a suit likewise, and to have greeted the arrival of the
two suits at a joint Church Ale, given by T. Prewett.
6 Most of these items are repeated, pp. 137-8. There are no yearly entries of payments to an organist
besides those noted.
Yatton Church-Wardens' Accounts.
149
xiijs. iiijd.
. ijil
.
xijd.
.
.
jd.
Payd to ye organ maker . . . . .
. . .
„ at ye tewnyng of ye sayd organs, in expenses for Peter and Thomas in wyne
for forks, forlocks, pynnes to ye bales [hellows]
» for mendyng iij sacryng bellys, and y® Church chetyll. . .
» at Keynsam to ye sumnar . . . . . . . . .
PAGE 124.
Payd at Brystow to ye browdurar . .
.
» for a crosse at Saynt James tyde
, to ye bales of Wellys for ookyst in Kyngs wood
·
» in expenses for ye chosyng of y® Wokes . .
.
„ for wax at Mychalmas, for xxvj pownds, at vjd. a pownde
to Syr Rychard, prist6 . . .
. . . . .
[Not totalled.]
.
.
.
. Evi
Ivjs. viijd.
xliijs. vijd.
. iiijd.
. xiijs.
. vs.
.
.
.
7
PAGES 128-9-30. .9. m.ccccc.rrrv[vi].
T. WYLKYS AND CALYX SPREDE, WARDENS.
RECEIPTS.
Balance from Erle and Bene
£xxiij xiiijs.
[Nothing unusual.]
PAGE 131.
EXPENSES.
Payd for mendyng ye best canstyke and scowryng a sensar . . .
PAGE 132.
Payd for niakyng iiij rochetts . . . . . . . ,
to ye Carpynter four sums besides earnest : to carver . . .
.
. xviijd.
.
.
.
.
xvjd.
XXS.
PAGE 133.
Payd at Banwell for halowyng ye sewte of vestments
viijd.
, with y® parysch at Comesbure upon Wyttewysday ..
xxd.
for makyng ij new awter clothes . . . .
iiijd.
PAGE 134.
Payd for xvj eils of cloth for ye hole sewte vestments
xs. viijd.
for makyng iij albys, iij amys, for ye sewte
xd.
,, in expenses at ye makyng of y® sege in yo church, for iiij dayes warke , . viijd.
PAGE 135.
Payd for iij ells of dyaper for ij awter clothes,
· · Xs. viijd.
„ iij ernest pense, won to Osburne and another to Sperark je carver, and
Grenefyld
Total . . . Exj xvs.
Sunmoner, or Apparitor, of Visitation Court. . Embroiderer
3 Eailifi.
4 Oaks.
5 Oak.
6 Priest.
7 Whit-tuesday.
150
' Accounts.
Yatton ChurchWardens-
PAGE 136.
[Blank.]
[After one page cut out, pages 137–8 contain sundry payments of A.D. 1534-5 to be found
on pages 123-4.]
PAGE 139.
J.H.S. 2.9. m.ccccc.xrrvi[vii].
vjs. viijd.
. vs.
iiijs. iiijd.
J. CRADOCKE AND J. COLMAN, WARDENS.
Balance from Wylkyns and Sprede . . . £xxix ijd.
RECEIPTS.
Resevyd of Isabell Avery a pelow and auter cloth.
o of John Avery a bequest of . . . . . . . .
» for a bequest of Master Perceval . . . . . . .
[with many more.]
Total . . £xij ijs. vjd.
PAGE 143.
EXPENSES.
Payd for makyng a sege, and for makyng a dext . . . . . .
[The timber bought above is now sawn and brought home.]
PAGE 144.
Payd to Thomas Carpynter for a settyng up ye pascall . . . . .
laying up the tymber. . . . . .
, to a carver . . . . . . . . . . . . .
PAGE 145.
Payd to ij mynstrell
ynstrell
.
.
:
.
.
.
.
. . . . .
, to Syr Robert for makyng an auter cloth .
» for makyng ij clappsys' to ye Coope . . .
» for withdrawyng ye constret cowrte . . .
„ for ye mendyng a coppys of a coffur in ye chaunsell sett.
.
PAGE 146.
Payd for drawyng of strake: schyd to ye sayd pytte . . . . . .
» for makyng of hawfeº ye pytte . . . . . . . .
„ to Wm. Sensam in ernes for makyng a clock and chyme .
ijd.
.
.
.
»
xlvjs.
vjs.
xxd.
vijd.
iijd.
. .
ijd.
.
.
vd.
vjd.
1 A family seated at Tickenham Court. 2 For seasoning. 3 Clasps.
4. See above, A.D. 1503 ; suit instituted in the Consistory Court, and now withdrawn.
6 ? A hovel-shed run up to cover the saw-pit.
15?
Yatton Church-Wardens' Accounts.
151
.
151
Pages 147–8.
A.
m.ccccc.rrrviiſviii].
J. HANNAM AND J. SMYTH, WARDENS.
Balance from Cradocke and Colman . . £xxix vjs,
Stock transferred to ye New Wardens.
Pinnacle of best cross. 1
Twenty-five Rings.
Silver studs of girdle.
Two kerchiefs.
Two girdles—harnessed.
Pillow and altar cloth.
·
·
·
·
·
·
·
·
·
·
RECEIPTS.
of Master Choward, ye ornaments of ye Church at Backwell .
. iijs. iiijd.
Total . . £xliij xiijs.
PAGE 149.
EXPENSES.
Payd to Syr Harry . .
xiijs. iiijd.
, to Syr John Batell.
• viijs.
, for mendyng y® font and a chalys.
. iiijs.
, for ye parysche at Comesbure . .
. xxd.
»
at Ken . . .
. . xvjd.
PAGE 150.
Payd to ye gyltar . . . . . . . . . . . . . XXS.
to ye Mynstrells .
. . x.s. jd.
, to ye gyltar . .
. xliijs. iiijd.
to ye buckebynddar .
· xxiijs. iiijd.
more to ye buckebynddar
. . xvs.
for y® furst buke to ye sayd buckebyndılar
· · vjd.
in expenses with yo parysch at Keynsam3 .
. vs.
to ye buckebynddar for another bargayn . .
xxvjs. ixd.
to T. Stone for makyng yryn gere to Saynt John
. vid.
„ in expenses for makyng a scaffold to Saynt John* .
• . ijd.
» to yo gyltar . . . . . . . . . .
. xvijs.
PAGE 151.
Payd for a locke and a key to ye font .
. . iiijd.
12 for a shydes to ye pytt to saw a pece of tymber apon . . . . : ijs., jd.
, . for fyllynge ye sayd shyde, and for bryngyng to je pytt
· viijd.
„ for sawyng of ye sayd tymber for yo clocke howse . .
• vs. iiijd.
, for beryng in ye sayd tymber into y® chapell . . .
. . xijd.
I Went on till 1546, then sold.
? The executor, probably of Lady Elizabeth Chaworth, widow of Sir Walter Rodney. She borrowed
vestments in 1528-9, for which it would seem compensation was paid. She died 1537, June 3rd. See her
monument at Backwell.
3 A visitation or an Ale?
Viz., on the Roodloft. 5 Shroud, or branch, for the saw-pit.
6 Felling.
·
·;.
.
.
.
.
.
.
152
' Accounts:
Yatton ChurchWardens-
.
PAGE 152.
Payd to yº peynter for ye last bargayn makyng . . . .
, to ye buckebyndar.
» for settyng ye plate afore Saynt Jorge i
„ to Thomas Bredmere for ye sexteneshepe? for ye halfe yere
Total . . £xviiij xs.
.
.
. xxvjs. viijd.
.. vis. viijd.
. : ixd.
. . xviijd.
.
.
PAGES 153-4.
[Torn away:]
Pages 155–6–7.
Q.D. m.ccccc.rrrviii[ir].
T. GYLLYNG AND J. SOMERSETT, WARDENS.
CEIPTS.
.
.
·
.
·
.
Balance from Hannam and Smythe . . . . . . . . . £xxv vjs.
[Nothing unusual, but a] bequest from a poore woman . . . . . . iiijd.
Total . . . £xxxviij viijs.
PAGE 158.
Detts to ye Church wyche we be not chargyd wt. [9 names.]
Detts owyd for berying in ye Church. [18 names ; some crossed out as having payd
after.]
PAGE 159.
EXPENSES.
Payd to ye clocke howse makyng in ye Church.
. . xiijs. iiijd.
„ to ye bede man for makyng a dycke in ye parsonage .
. viijd,
PAGE 160.
Payd for Lyme at Chewton'. .
iijs. iiijd.
for fetchyng Osburne .
. . iiijd.
„ in expenses on Schere Thurssday .
. iiijd.
PAGE 161.
Payd for hewyng a tre for y® clocke howse
; . ijs.
» to Osburnes . . .
. . . . . . . . . £iij
PAGE 162.
Payd for a by bylls :
. . ixs. vjd.
» for ye Mynstrells . . .
. . xs.
, for mendyng of a chales . .
. . ijs.
» to ye buckebyndar
· xxvjs. iiijd.
,, to William Sensam for ye clocke . .
• - XXS.
PAGE 163
Payd for ij hundryth of bords to make ye Church coffur. . . . . iiijs. viijd.
PAGE 164.
Payd to Syr Harry for a buckes . . . . . . . . . .viijd.
Balance . . . £xx xs. ob.
? A new entry. ? Sextonship. 3 Maundy Thursday.
4 The maker of the Clock house. 6 Bible. 6 Buok.
·
.
·
·
.
·
.
·
.
.
Patton Church-uilardens' Accounts.
153
[Blank.]
PAGE 165.
PAGES 166–7-8.
Q.P. M.ccccc. rrrir[xl].
T. MYDWYNTER AND J. HYLMAN, WARDENS."
RECEIPTS.
of Humfrey Lett, Clarke of ye sayd parysch . . . . . . . ijs. iiijd.
for candels of ye rele from J. Avery . . . . . . . . . . jd.
Total . . . £xxxv xviijs.
PAGE 169.
EXPENSES:
[Three loads of timber hauled, a stair in the Church-house and a window added.]
PAGE 170.
Payd to Syr Robert Cocke for mendyng and peyntyng the cloth of ye sepulcre’ and ye
roode . . .
. . ijs. vd.
» for takyng down of ye clocke howse3
. . . . . . xijd.
PAGE 171.
Payd to a pryste of Brys ... for comyng to Yatton . . . . viijd. (*)
» for mendyng yo patents of the chalesse . .
. . xvjd.
„ in expenses at John Wyld for the cownt makyng of mastres Mydwynter and
Hylman.6
for an ell of cloth to make iiij corporasi :
xvd.
» for a locke to ye font . . . . .
. iiijd.
, for ij yards of here cloth for an awter i
. xvd.
» for vestments in part payment
. Evj
PAGE 172.
Payd to J. Meryfyld for makyny a cheyne to ye bybyll .
. .viijd.
» stoppyng of the holes under ye clocke howse . .
. . ijd.
, in part for ye clocke . . . . . .
. .xxxiijs. iiijd.
to ... and to ye seid Clockmaker . .
. . XXS.
to Thomas Carpynter for a hole wekes worke and hys man Nycholas vjs. vid.
„ to Nycholas for ij days worke more ..
. . xiiijd.
» for mendyng ij lokkys on je regester coffer . .
. . ixd.
PAGE 173.
Payd for makyng clene y® lampe in ye chaunsell
.. . jd.
» for bryngyng home ye clocke . .
„ do. do. do. ye frame of ye clocke
vjd.
„ to J. Tayler for rydyng to Wells
· · xxd.
» in expenses when we fett? ye crosse from Brystow . .
. . v.d.
Total = . . £xv Xs.
1 Thos. Brodmere is surety for payment of xls, not paid by the late Wardens with the rest of the balance
£xx xs.
? Not mentioned for many years. 3 1.e., the old one. 4 Torn.
6. Patein, first time it is mentioned. 6 1.e., the defaulting Wardens. 7 Fetched.
END OF VOLUME Iİ.
.
ijs. viijd.
.
.
.
154
Yatton Church-Wardens' Accounts.
VOL III.
[A paper book, 13 x 8 inches, also, like the last, bound in pages of MS.
Service Book.]
PAGE I.
A.D. m.ccccc.rrr. by error for m.ccccc.rrrr[17.
W. TUCKER AND R. HORT, WARDENS.
Balance from Mydwynter and Hylman £xx ijs. ixd.
God be praysed in all his workes.
RECEIPTS (as usual].
PAGE 2.
EXPENSES.
Payd to J. Stretyng for goyng to Uphill when y goods of ye Chyrche was gone . ijd.
„ to Wardens of Congsbury forye Chyrche chetyll. .
. viijd.
» to sawyng yo quyrbys to y Furnes of Chyrche howse . . . . . vjd.
PAGE 3
Payd for iij awter clothes halowyng . .
.
. .
.
. . . . .
, for ij mynstrells
.
...
. vjs. ixd.
„ to William. . . . . . . for hys with iiij other menys expenses when ye chyrche
was robbed . . . . . . . . . . . . . vs. iijd.
PAGE 4.
(several entries of expenses in seeking the goods.]
Payd for makyng a byll of indytement at Wellys sessyns . · , , , viijd.
Total ... Exj xvs. xd.
PAGES 5, 6.
A.D. m.ccccc.xrxxi[it].
IT
J. ERLE AND J. STAPERCHYLDE, WARDENS.
Balance from Tucker and Horte £xxij xiijs.
Wherof they toke thys dett followyng as mony £v iijs.4 and at y® accompte [were ?]
dyschargyd ye same Ev lijs., and ye same prout in ye dett-boke.
[RECEIPTS unfinished. Nothing unusual.]
PAGE 7.
EXPENSES.
Payd goyng to Ilchester sessyons for ye Chyrche goods . . . . viijs. vjd. ob.
, for iij stavys to bere ye pawle® cloth .
.
. . iijd.
„ to W. Rome and Edward Avere for leyng a tumbe in ye chyrche, with other
reparations . . . . . . . . . . . . . xijd.
PAGE 8.
Payd to Syr John Frenshman for mendyng ye sayd surplesse and rochettes . . xijd.
1 1.e., for the hire of. ? Much outlay on Furnace. 3 Men's. 4 Details omitted.
5 y., put out.
o Pall; a new entry.
Yatton Church-Wardens' accounts.
155
.'
.
. iiijs.
vjs. viijd.
.
.
Payd to yo Clarke for keepyng ye clocke . . . .
» to ye mynstrells at Wytsonday. . . . . .
PAGE 9.
Payd for makyng y® wax at Seynt James tyde and at halowntyde
, for iiij score pownds of wax ageynst Crystymas
» for ye parysch at Kenston . . . . . .
Total : . Eviij xviijd.
So remayneth clere and al dyschargyd . . . . .
.
.
. . jd.
xxxviijs. vijd.
. . xvd.
.
.
. £xxij xixs. vijd.
PAGE IO.
[Blank.]
PAGE II.
[Begins with]
EXPENSES [of Wardens unnamed; Heading and Receipts being lost].
For a pece of brode yncull' for gyrdyllys. . . . . • . . . vd.
for xvij sheets of dubbell plate
pell plate
...
. . . . . . . . . vs. iiijd.
for ij hundryth and an halfe and iij powndes yryn to make a beme a fore the hye
awter, ye price. . . . . . . . . . . . xvs. vjd.
to Smyth for makyng ye sayd beme.
. Xs.
to a smyth of Brystow for makyng a beme afore the hye awter, in part of pay-
ment . . . . . . . . . . . . . xvjs. viijd.
for caryng home of ye sayd beme.
. . ijs. iiijd.
to W. Rome for settyng in the foresayd beme in ye chaunsell afore yê hye awter, and
for mendyng ye wall in ye chyrch . .. . .
.. . · · · viijd.
PAGES 12, 13. [several more entries upon the same work.]
to a gylter of Brystow for gyltyng ye kyngs armys . . . . . . xiijs. viijd.
for y® parysch at Kynston Seymer . . . . .'.::. . . . xvjd.
for ij banners . . . . . .
xxjs. xd.
to John Lynch, Mynstrell
. . . . vs.
Total . . . £xiiij xvjs. vd.
T
PAGE 15
Q.D. m.ccccc.rrrrii[iii].
J. IRYSCH AND T. PARTRYCH, WARDENS.
Balance from Cradocke and Meryfield £xxiij ijs., of ye wych ys xiiijs. of brokyng
money, dandepratts: and Irys grots.
RECEIPTS.
Resevyd for ye Chapell bocke. liiijs. vd.
Total . £xli xs.
" A kind of broad linen tape : bleached yarn. 2 1.e., at the beam ends,
3 A small coin, not in lawſul currency. (Halliwell.)
4 A special subscription for outlay on the Chapel of St. James, or on its Services, growing in costliness.
Burials are now allowed in it, at a fee of vs.
X, 2
1:56
' Accounts.
Yatton ChurchWardens-
PAGE 17.
EXPENSES.
For mendyng of ye organs
.. . xxvjs. viijd.
For a pawle' cloth. . . .
. . . xiijs. iiijd.
Payd to ye commysnarrs.
· vjs. viijd.
„ to C. Tanner for vij dayes warke makyng clene the rode lofte, and the glasyn
wyndows . . . .
. . . . . . . . . lijs. jd.
PAGE 18.
Payd for the Kyngs subsyde3 . . . . .
. . xiijs. jiijd.
» to a vestment maker for makyng of a chesypull of an old cope . . ijs. vji.
» for lynyn cloth to ye chesypull, and threde . . . . . . iiijd. ob.
„ to the Chapell prist*
. . £ vij
Alowed to 'John Irys and Thomas Partrych for the brokyn sylver . . . vs. viijd.
Total · · · £xxij vs. iijd.
PAGE 19.
Mem. that the Churchwardens hath bowyth of Thomas Brodmere iij acres of ereabull
ground for the dett of xls. to the Church of Yatton for the space of foure jeres
commyng next. Also yeffe, the sayd Thomas do paye at the day of the accounse
next, xs., then he to have the ground that yere folowyng, yeffe not, the Church
to take the prophete of the same sayde ground for the space of iiij yeres tyll the
money be payd, that ys to say, iij acres above meres, ereabull ground.
Item, resevyd be John Stretyng and Wylliam Kew7, xs, for the furst yere,
In lyke manner they have bow3th all Thomas Prewetts ground in Claram for iij yeres, and
yeffe he bryng not in hys xs. a yere duryng ye space of iij counte dayes, then ye chyrch
to take y® profett of ye sayde grounds for so moche as hyt comyth to,
Also moreover they have bow3th of Richard Heyman iij acres of Medow in lange-mede for
ij yeres, except he pay the next comt day vjs. viijd., and so that tyme twelve monyth
vjs. viijd. more, or ells the Chyrche to take y® profett of ye sayd ground duryng the yeres
for so moche.
Item, resevyd of R. Heyman be the honds of J. Stretyng and W. Kew . .
vjs. viijd. for ye furst year.
i Pall. ? Commissioners; a new entry. 3 New entry.
4 Priest. Probably ertrusted to him for outlay on the Chapel. His own salary was not above xxxs.
One ton, ten cwt. of lead are bought this year. In 1543-4 two sums, tv vs., and xxs., are paid to him besides
his wages.
5 - Above mere "; a description of their whereabouts in the common held, which was divided by grass
strips called “meres."
6 In a later hand.
7 Wardens in 1543-4. 9 Later hand.
Patton Church-Wardens' Accounts.
PAGES 21, 22.
PAGES 21, 221.76.5.
2.9. m.ccccc.xrxxiii[iv].
.
XVS.
.
XXS.
.
JOHN STRETYNG AND WILLIAM KEW, VARDENS.
Balance from Irys and Partrych . . . . . . . £xix vs. ijd.
Note added at the next audit, to the effect that only £xv being transferred in cash to
Wardens Stretyng and Kew, the parishioners deem it due to make allowance in case of
certain debts (specified) not being paid.]
RECEIPTS.
[Nothing unusual]. Total. . . £xxx ijs. vjd.
PAGE 23.
EXPENSES.
Payd to the prist for hys wages . . .
„ to ye sayd prist . . . . .
„ to a browderer for makyng a pere of vestments, and for a pelow
. Vs.
» for whyte fusteen, and for canvase to y® sayd pelowe . . . . . viijd.
for xxx powndes of wax . . . .
. xvs. xd.
to the prist . . .
· £v vs.
„ to iij mynstrells . . . . . . . . . . . . xiijs. viijd.
» for mowyng the yew? .
. iijs. iiijd.
» for naylys at Danys yere3
. . iijd.
PAGE 26.
Payd for v score powndes of wax and rosen . . . . . . xljs. viijd.
„ for ij bokes for owr professyon
. . viijd.
» for makyng of ij corporas
. xd.
» for rydyng to Pennysford ..
vjd.
, to the Kyngs collectors . . . . . . . . . . . viijs.
, for makyng a byll of the subsyde . . . . . . . . . xvjd.
„ for makyng a byll of the cornes . . . . . . . . . ijd.
Total . . . Exrij viijs. ...
.
.
.
PAGE 25. 1.H.S. Q.A. m.ccccc.rrrriiii[v7.
J. COLMAN AND THOMAS DUN, WARDENS.
RECEIPTS.
Balance from Stretyng and Kewe. .
. £xiij xiiijs.
[One bequest, three Ales, no lyings in Church, and no rents from the Church House.]
Resevyd from Thomas Don for a surplesse . . . . . . . . xvjd.
, for the font taper . .
. . . . . . . vjs.
... by the same Wardens for the Kyngs bere this present yere . . xxxiijs. iiijd.
Total . . £xxvij viijs. vid.
+ Fustian. 2 The banks of the l’eo, or main drain. 3 Sluice.
4 A new entry. @3., was this “ The Institution of a Christian Man,” issued in 1537, or "A Necessary
Doctrine and Erudition for any Christian Man,” published this year 1543, and known as “The King's Book.”
ó Corn grown on the mortgaged lands.
158
' Accounts.
Patton ChurchWardens-
PENSES.
.
.
.
.
.
.
jd.
xS.
.
·
.
·
.
vjd.
·
£iij
.
·
.
.
.
.
.
.
·
.
.
.
·
PAGE 27.
Payd to Syr John Danell in ernes . . .
. . . .
» to ye sayd Syr John . . . . .
.
„ to ye plummer for castyng of a peysse' and ij clothes of led .
„ to John Vigour, constabull, for ye whyte cootes . . .
PAGE 28.
Payd to Syr Danyell . . . . . . . . .
» to ye sayd Syr John .
. . .
„ to ye same Syr John Danyell for the subside makyng
» to ye same for makyng a byll of the subside . .
to Syr Jo. Danell for hys wages3 .
» for rydyng to Charleton at ye vysytation . . . . .
» for mendyng a pax
2 to Syr John Danell . . . . . . . .
Total . . £xviij xijs. ixd.
PAGES 29, 30-1.
A supplementary account of “chargys of ye Kyngs bere.”
[Showing the unprecedented scale of the Revel.] . . .
Grand Total of the year . . £xxij xvijd.
.
.
.
·
. XVS.
XS.
. viijd.
. viijd.
. xxvs.
. viijd.
jd.
xiijs. iiijd.
.
.
.
·
.
·
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
£iij viijs. viijd.
anell
.
.
.
PAGE 33. Q.A. m.ccccc.rrrrvi[vii].4
W. KNYGHT AND W. HARRYS, WARDENS.
RECEIPTS.
Balance from Dun and Coleman . . .
£v vijs.
of John Irysse for that Robart Fesse was suspectyd for the suretyshepe of John
Wakelyn, wych was delyveryd to Matthew Toore
. . vjs. viijd.
of Wyllyam Tyrry for his mothers lyeng in ye Chyrch
. vjs. viijd.
of W. Dale for his mothers lyeng in the chapell
iijs. iiijd.
of Jone Beme for her husbands lyeng in church
. vis. viijd.
of the bequest of Thomas Tayler .
. . xxd.
of hys sayd bequest lykewyse to the chapelli
. . xxd.
of Thomas Dun and John Colmanó more, for that John Irys payd Syr John Danyell
when he made defawte in service of Yatton and went to Comesbury at John
Iryse desyr . . . . . . .
. . . . iiijs. viijd.
of Thomas Wale for hys Whytmothers6 lyeng in the church . . . . vis. viijd.
for our taverne Ale at Whytsondey ...
. £iiij xiiijs. iiijd.
for the font taper . . . .
. . . vjs.
for vij owncys and an halfe of ryngs, with ij gyrdyils, and a pynnacull of the beste
crosse? ·
· ·
XXXs.
1 Weight. 2 Sheets. 3 Was he the Chapel Priest?
4 The missing year 1545-6 has been cut out between pp. 28–29.
5 Late Wardens.
Godmother? " These long-standing heirlooms at last sold.
XXXS.
Vatton Church-Wardens' Accounts.
159
.
.
.
.
.
.
xijd.
. ixd.
. xijd.
. xijd.
£iij xs.
£vj xs.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
. ijd.
. vjd.
. iiijs.
vjs. viijd.
·
.
.
.
.
.
·
.
.
.
Xs.
.
.
.
.
.
of parker for brewyng in the church howse .
for wax of the reele. .
. . . .
of J. Beks for brewyng in the church howse . .
of John Rome for brewyng?
of Thomas Knyth and Robert Syms lygthmen of ye wester part .
of J. Hylman and J. Tayler lythmen of ye ester part
Summa receptus , . £xx xixs. ijd.
PAGE 35.
EXPENSES.
Payd for a skene of sylke to mend the second cope . . .
.
„ for iij yards of sylke of ij peny brede’ to mend ye second cope .
„ to the subsyde
„ to Syr J. Danyell for hys wages . .
. . . .
, to the same . . . . . .
, for the sayd sowdears .
. . . . .
» for reparation of the clocke all the yere.
[cost of wax this year] . . . . .
» in expenses for goyng to y® Kyngs vysytors .
, to Syr Cristover of Kynston at ye vysytation for makyng a byll
PAGE 36.
Payd for a locke and key to the font
. . . . . .
„ for a showle to make graves in the church hey
» for whyte ynchulle to make amyss . . . . . . .
» to R. Wylimet, mynstrell, at Wyttsontyde .
is for wax for Crystymas . . . . . . . .
PAGES 37–8.
Payd to J. Meryfeld for mendyng the wold crosse . . . .
„ to Jone Beme for mendyng an awter cloth .
.
' [Allowance for sundry bad debts.]
Total . . . . . t xij 11js.
PAGES 39, 40.
. XVS.
. xijd.
xxs. vijd.
. iiijd.
. ijd.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
. vd.
. ijd.
. jd.
vjs. viijd.
. XXVS.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
iijd.
ijd.
J.H.S.
a.. m.ccccc.rrrrviiſviii].
J. HANNAM AND ALEXANDER HARRYS, WARDENS.
RECEIPTS.
Balance from Knyght and Harrys . . . Eviij xvs. ixd.
Our taverne Ale at Wysontyde
. . . . £ov xxd.
of the west part M. Irys and J. Stretyng the elder for ye taverne at Hocday . £v xijd.
of J. Gernesse and John .. for ther taverne Ale at Mydsomer . . . lvijs. iiijd.
Total . . . . . . £xxiiij ijs.
PAGE 41.
EXPENSES.
Payd for settyng furthe sowders . . . . . . . . . . xijs.
j' for settyng furthe sowdears .
XXXs. ixd. ob.
1 In the Church-house.
2 Bieadth,
S See p. 155, note 1.
Soldiers.
160:
' Accounts.
Yatton ChurchWardens-
Payd for the Omelys and the injuncsions
is in expenses for fechyng the sayd books . . . . i . . . iiijä.
[other expenses, wax, minstrells, subsidy, visitation, scouring the Yeo, and repairs
as usual].
Payd at Bedmynster at the Kyngs vysytation . . . . . . . . iiijd.
PAGE 42.
Payd in expenses at ye takyng down of the seyd images and the yryn in the church . ' vd.
» to W. Sensam and J. Stretyng for takyng down the same sayd iryne and images xijd.
» expenses at Chew at ye vysytation, and for a byll makyng . . . . vjd.
Total . . . . Evj xviijs.
PAGES 43-4. Q.D. m.ccccc.rrrrviii[ir].
T. HOBBYS AND JOHN TAYLER, WARDENS.
RECEIPTS.
Balance from Hannam and Harrys . . £xvij iijs. vijd.
[accruing chiefly from sales of material no longer needed.]
(The Lily pots had probably stood on the roodloft by the side of the Magdalen.
Thomas Wale had probably bought articles which the Wardens did not like to
specify. The Ales and other sources of voluntary revenue were dried up..]
[One bequest of a bushel of wheat, several sums for iron sold.]
of C. Predy for ij lyly potts with pewter
. . .
of Thomas Wale . .
[No ales or other usual receipts.]
Total . . . . £xxiiij ixs. ob.
ijs.
£iiij
Thys yere the sylver crosse of owr church was sold by Master Kenne and xx of ye honest
of ye parych of Yation, and by there lyke assent the money of the sayd crosse was bestowyd
by ye hands of Wyllyam Cradock and Wyllyam Croke upon ye makyrg of a sirten sklusse' or
yere agenste the rage of ye salte water, callyd Danys yere, set and beyng yn West Wemerham,
the wych yere then beyng ruynus and yn dc kay, and the seyd perysheonars beyng chargyd
with the makyng thereoff by the cominyssycnars sewardsupon ye paye' of £x to be made
by ye seyd perysshonars by a day serteyne, by ye same commyssyonars prefyyyd4 as yn ye
commyssyonars boks or decrees more playnly may apere.
PAGE 45.
EXPENSES.
Payd for takyng down our Lady in ye chaunsell . . . . . . . iiijd.
» for makyng and settyng in an yryn in ye pulpytt . . . . . . viijd.
„ to the clarke for makyng the church buke, and for makyng up the vestments of
the church ·
· ijs.
1 A certain Sluice. : Commissioners of Sewers. 3 Pain. 4 Prefixed or provided.
6 Great changes; e.g., no outlay on wax, or lamps, or vestments; but the first item of poor relief, 14 men
appears.
/Patton Church-Wardens' Accounts.
161
7
.
.
Payd to ye poore men of' y parysch, xiiij names, each receiving. .
xijd.
PAGE 46.
Payd to Syr Nicholas Poore for caryeng out of ye commyssyon . . . . . iiijd.
» for makyng a byll to ye kyngs commyssyoners at Bedmynster. .. . . viijd.
» to W. Sensam and John Maryfyld for takyng down the clothes on the
Chapell . . . . . . . . .
. iiijs. viijd.
for rydyng to Wells afore the Kyngs visitarrs.
iijs. ixd.
for a bucke callyd paraphrasus and Erasmus .
xjs. iiijd.
for a bybull of the largyst volume . . .
. xjs.
„ for ye sowders' at Banwell at ye muster. ..
• xjs. iiijd.
» to ye peynter of Brystow in part of peyment . .
. . . xjs.
PAGES 47–8.
more to ye seyd peynter . . . . . . . . xijs. viijd. and xliijs.
„ to Syr Nicholas Poore for wrytyng y® masse in Englych . . . . . viijd.
» payd to ye peynter
Total . . . . £xv xviijs. xd.
Balance . . £viij xjs. ijd.
..
.
.
.
.
PAGE 49.
[Note in an early hand.]
“An yll dede done. Here was a yere cutt out, Wyllyam Dale, junior, and Thomas Durban
beyng wardens, as apereth by this booke.”
PAGE 53.
[Pages 48–53 are blank, except the above note and apparently some pages have been torn
out.]
.
· ·
.m. m.ccccc.rrrrir.
Thos. SMYTH AND WALTER LUKYN, WARDENS.
PAGE 105.
RECEIPTS.
Balance from Hobbys and Tayler . . . .
£viij xjs. ijd.
From ye clarke of Henbere for gylt of Images . . .
. . xijd.
For a stone in y® Chaunsell . . . . . . .
. . iiijd.
From W. Cradocke, for hys wyfe lying yn the Churche . . . . . vjs. viijd.
For our Tavernes of Ale . . . . . .
ls.
Of Rich. Stallard for Settó . . . . . . . . . vjs. viijd.
Total . . . Exij xxijd.
PAGES 106–7.
EXPENSES.
At Axbrydge afore ye Kyngs Vysytars . . . . . . . .viijs, viijd.
For makyng ye Font taper . . . . . . . . . . . id.
1 Or "over.”
Soldiers. 3 1.c., for painting out proscribea things. The large sum below
of Ev looks like the substitution of Texts. .
4 Only one, 5 1.e., a single sitting, rented.
PENSES.
162
Patton Church-Wardens' Accounts.
...
..
.
ijs.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
For rydyng to Welis for ye Chapell'. .
.
, mendyng a rochett . . . . . . . . . . . . jd.
, caryng boke to Wells . .
. iiijs.
, makyng of byll at Wells,
iijs. iiijd.
To Syr John Smyth for ye injunctions
. iiijd.
„ sayd Syr John for makyng a byll
. ijd.
„ makyng a byll at Bedmynster
.. iiijd.
2, a tabull-bord . . .
iijs. iiijd.
in expenses at Axbryge for ye Churche goods.
. xd.
for dressyng y® Auters, and caryeng out of ye churche
• vijs. xd.
for a byll to ye subsyde . . . . . . .
; . iiijd.
to W. Croke for hys reward and paynys abowte ye makyng of ye newe yere, 4 as hit was
agred at ye last acownt . .
. . . . vs.
Total . . . xlijs. iijd.
Balance .... £vij vjs. jiiji.
.
.
.
.
.
VS.
PAGE 54.
2.D. m.ccccc.li[ii].
J. LOVELL AND J. WYLLYNG, WARDENS.
The Wardens received from the old wardens, Dale and Durban, 1550-1, a balance
of . . . . . . . . .
·
.
·
.
· . Evij vjs. iiijd.
Whereof there most be allowyd for ye fall of ye money in ye same year . £iij vjs. iiijd.
And so remaineth clear . . . . . . . . . . £iiij
PAGE 55..
RECEIPTS.6
of J. Smythe for iiij platters of wood . . . . . . . . . ijd.
of Jordan for a scheste? . . . . .
• . xvjd.
of M. Irysche for stonnes, ye which laye behynde ye tombe
• . xvid.
of Gellys8 Jordan for ye churche howsce and yeres rentt.
• vjs. viijd.
Summa . . .
£iiij ixs. vjd.
Summa totalis of Reseptts9 commythe unto ye sum, .
Evij xvs. xd.
PAGE 56.
EXPENSES.
Payd for foldyng the vestements . . . . . . . . . . xijd.
„ for mendyng ij pere of westements and y® surpelascy .
xijd.
1 Edward VI's Chantry Commissioners report that the inhabitants of Yatton made suit to buy the Chapel
[of Clareham] to make therewith a "slluse " against the rage of the sea, for the safeguard of the country. The
suit was in vain. The endowment lands yielding xlviijs, viijd. per ann. net, are scheduled in the report as
annexed to the Crown. The Incumbent was a scholar of 18, and therefore unable to do duty. His pre.
decessor is described as a “Scholar” also. The Chapel had probably been closed for some time [see Vol II,
Som. Rec. Soc., pp. 88, 269]; the benefice treated as a sinecure.
3 Visitation, prob. 3 Altars.
Sluice. 5 l.e., fall in the value of the currency.
6 All items transcribed. 9 Chest. 8 Giles..
o 1.c., reckoning them at the old value of the currency.
Vatton Church153
Wardens-
' Accounts.
.
A leaf lost, and with it the end of the 1551–2 account, and the receipts of 1552-3,
Wale and Tayler.]
1
PAGE 57.
(Headed.]
Payd by me Thomas Wale.
to T. Carpyter for makyng ye tabull in ye chansell . . . . . . iijs. jiijd.
for leggs to the tabull . . . . .
. . . viijd.
unto John Dale for makyng ye Inventorie when whe aperyd before ye Kyng Com
missiners.
. . . vjd.
unto Syr John for facchynng' the precepte .
PAGE 59.
for a boke for the Communion . . . . . . . . . iiijs. iiijd.
Total . . . . xxxvijs.
ijd.
a View Januya 101 y Cucid Owse.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
VjS. Viljd.
-
-
Page 61. .D. .ccccc.liii[iiii]. Feb. x.
W. ROKE AND EDMOND CADMAN, WARDENS.
[No accounts in this page.]
PAGE 63.
RECEIPTS.
of J. Let for ye cuttyng of ye sege endes* .
.
. . ijd.
of J. Let for the wood . . .
. . xiiijd.
of Syr John Smythe, parson of Weston, for an old pott .
. ijs. iiijd.
of hym for an old tryndell . .
. . vjd.
the last day of May of John Meryfeld for ij hundreth weight of brasse of olde candel-
sticks . . .
·
.
· · · ·
· · xxxijs.
of Giles Jardyn for ye church howse. .
Total . . . ix xiijs.
Jesus give us grace.
PAGE 65.
EXPENSES.
Payd unto Thomas Brodmere for keepyng of ye bells yº x daye of Februarii
xijd.
for bred and wyne from Alhowmas to crestymas, to Syr John Smyth
. iijs.
,, for bred and wyne the fryst Sonday in lentt. .
iiijd.
for wyne y® ij Sondaye in lentt
. vid.
for pavyng ye place where ye table standythe .
viijd.
to Jhon Owyns and Jhon Cooke cotthyng of ye Seyggs, and makyng of ye same
and the forms . . . . . . . . . . . ijs. viijd.
for ye matt for yje tabull . . . .
. xjd.
, for wyne in ye weke unto Syr Jhon. . .
, for wyne in ye weke unto Syr Jhon. .
jd.
? Fetching. 2 Headed "payd by me Willm. Taylor.” 3 Items all given.
4 Does this mean that the carving of some seat-ends was sold ? N.B. Income wholly from sales, save
rent of Church-house, now let as a dwelling.
o Cutting.
ja.
Y 2
164
Yatton Church-Wardens' Accounts.
·
·
Payd a pan' the Sonday for wyne . .
• i .
i . iijd.
„ unto Jhon Lett for ye fryngge abowthe ye tabull . . . . . . iiijd.
,g for ye Church howse rent . . . . . . . . . . nujd.
PAGE 67.
Payd for dressheng ye powdere unto a bowderer . . . . . . . vid.
, for wyne aster3 . . .
. vs. iiijd.
» unto Thomas Hariss all ye Lent and yens* Ester for yº communion breyde at yo
same tyme . . . . . . . . . . . . iijd.
to T. Harris for bred for ye communion after to Midsomer . .. . iijd. ob.
for wyne for. ye communion to ye xiij day of June. . . . . . viijd.
» for wyne for ye communion to ye viij day of Julye . .
. viijd.
to ye ryngers at ye proclamation of our soverayn lady quene Marie
» the xxix day of Julye for wyne for ye communion.
for communion bred betwext Mydsomer and holy Rode day.
ixd.
for candles at Chrysmas
. . . . . . . . iijd.
, for lyght a visityngó .
. . . . . . . . jd.
Total . . . Exlviijs. vd.
vd.
vjd.
THE POYNTYNG OF THE SPYRE.
The tablyng vs., and for naylys .
„ expense in settyng up ye tablyng .
„ for makyng of ye cradle .
[and some small items.]
.
.
.
.
.
.
viijd.
vid.
viijd.
PAGES 70, 71.
[Blank.]
PAGE 72.
THE BUYLDYNG OF THE AULTER.
. .
. . .
. . . . . . .
.
.
.
.
.
.
It. to ye masons . .
„ to ye other ij worke men
» for lyme .
„ to Thomas Clarke .
„ in expenses
,
.
.
.
.
vilis.
ijs.
xijd.
vjd.
xd.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
Summa
..
.
xijs. iiijd.
PAGES 73-4.
A.D. m.ccccc.liiii[v]. Januarie xvij.
J. AVERY AND T. GAY, WARDENS.
RECEIPTS.
Balance from Roke and Cadman. .
. viijs. xd.
Item receaved of Rychard Stallard xs, upon condition that yf ye parysh do not stand to
there promyse he wyll pay ye other xs.
Upon. ? Dressing the border, to an embroiderer.
4 Against
5 Candle carried in visitation of sick.
3 Easter.
Yatton Church165
Wardens-
' Accounts.
,
00
»
.
u quuil Vi papci
.
.
.
.
·
..
·
.
·
·
.
·
·
·
.
·
·
.
·
.
·
·
Item of Geyles Jurdayne in earnest for yo church howse .
jd.
, of ye bells for Syr Roberts brother .
s oor Syr Roberts brother . .
. .
. . . . . . . iiijd.
of Rychard Rome and Wyllyam Bell beyng lygth men of ye eyst partte. . XXs.
of Rychard Rome and Wyllyam Bell beyng lygth men of ye eyst partte · xxiiijs. viijd.
of Jhon Hortte and Mathu Irys lygth men of ye weste partte . . . . xls.
of Jhon Cradocke of Cleve for leying hys wyffe in ye churche . . . vjs. viijd.
of Thomas Warre of cleve in full payment of all ys detts unto ye church . xiijs. iiijd.
of Thomas Dorre and Jhon Kormer of cleve . . . . · .. vijs. xjd.
of Mathew Ireyshe and Jhon Hortte in full payment of there yere. £v xs. iiijd.
Summa totalis . . . £xij iijs. irijd.
PAGE 75.
EXPENSES.
For makyng of a byll owt of y® gatheryng booke, of the names of them that were
unpayed . . . . . . .
: . ijd.
for a quere of paper .
. . . iiijd.
to Thomas Lett for foldyng ye vestments .
. xd. ob.
to T. Brodmere for kepyng the bells
. . iijs.
for a processyonal . . . .
: .ijs. vid.
for makyng of ye sepulcre .
viijd. ob.
for iij Banner luggs . . .
: . vjd.
for wax makyng agaynst Ester.
vijs. viijd.
for a missall . . . .
. xvjs.
for a manwell . .
. . . . . . . . . vjs. viijd.
in expenses sekyng ye seid books
· vijd.
for a sacryn bell . .
. iiijd.
for an olle fatte and an olle boxkel.
. . vjd.
for a cytte, and ye makyng of a post
. iijs. vd.
för ye fychiynge up of ye fre stonne, and settynge of the poste, to T. Meke, and in
expenses . . . .
. . vijd.
for dekynget wythoutt ye new yere,5 to Hurdyche and Tedboll with theyr felous . vijs.
PAGE 76.
for a holleb portas. . . . . . . . . . . . XXS.
for a censer and a paxys7.
for ye hoppyng8 to Mathew ... for ye church vessels . . . . . ijs. viijd.
for bollys, cuppys, and platters, trenchers
. xijd.
to Rychard Partryge for naylys and ye makynge of y® yron that ys sette ower y® auter xd.
for naylys for y® wells . . .
. . viijd.
for expensys at ye makyng of ye wellys .
ijs. viijd.
for ye nette clothe ower yº pyxe
. xviijd.
for a new corporas clothe i
. . . . . . . xxiijd.
for a key for ye cheste . .
. . . . . . . viijd.
PAGE 77
for iiij hundrye tylle fette at Naysey, 10 to R. Freman . . . . . iijs. iiijd.
" An oil vat and an oil box.
Seat. 3 Fetching. 14 Dyking. 5 Sluice.
6 Whole. . i Pax.
8 Hooping
9 Wheels. 10 400 tiles fetched at Nailsea.
.
·
·
.
·
·
·
XXS.
166
Yatton Church-Wardens' Accounts.
iiijs.
[other expenses about this and lime.]
to Lache the tyler for ye hellynge? of ye church, and hellynge of the owen .
vjs. xd.
to Jhon Brofort for ye fetthyng of rafters and tymber to ye sterrsa
to T. Broudmore for mendyng of a Braderes. . .
. xd.
to J. Lette for kepyng of ye cloke . . .
to W. Knyghte rent for ye Church howse . .
iiijd.
demyssyons of the cortte . . . . .
iijd.
PAGE 78.
unto Syr Jhon Smyth for thei men .... the whych dyd the pennansó unto.
offiale for a letter, ye whych was ryd? in ye Church ...
. . . . ijd.
the demyssyons8 of ye corte for ye men that where putt in there
iijd.
for a punde of candells agens Crestemas
for franckenserse . . . . . . . . . . . . . jd.
for tassells for ye pyxk . . .
for makyng ye boke unto Syr Jhon Smyth
to T. Lette for foldynge the festements . . .
Sumına Totalis . . . £viij vijs. iiijd. ob.
So remaneth of thys account £iij xvs. xjd. ob., and allso ye somme xxvjs. ixd., that
whe hath gederyd of serten of ye paryshe, the whych were to paye in a boke! made
by ye assent of ye a fore sayd paryshe. So ye somme total that remaneth to yo
new wardens £v ijs. viijd. ob.
iijd.
PAGES 79, 80.
[Lists of names.]
Page 81.
PAGE 81.
A.D. m.ccccc.lo [vi]. January xxij.
T. KNYGHT AND T. ROMME, WARDENS.
RECEIPTS.
Balance from Avery and Gaye .
. . £v ijs. viijd.
[Some arrears paid; one for lying in the chapel ; two sums paid for burying in the
Church.]
of the font taper . . . . . . . . . . . . vs. iiijd.
of Jhon Brodfortt for a peyse of a haffe,19 and for ther over plus for mendyng of the
Church howse dore of ther kycchyngli . . . .
viijd.
the lythemen of ye wester syde . . . . . . . . £viij viijs. iiijd.
the lythemen of ye ester syde . . . . . . . . . . £v xjd.
Total . . . £xx vs.
PAGE 82.
EXPENSES.
Payd unto Wyllyam Taylor that he payd for the crosse . . . . . . XXS.
» Wyllyam Dale
.
» » »
. . XXS.
| Tiling. ? Stairs. “Repairs to the Church-house stairs ” is a common entry. 3 Brand-iron.
4 Demissions, i.e., relaxation of sentence in spiritual court. 6 Penance.
The official.
7 Read.
8 By charging these costs to yº parish, it is plain that the Wardens made presentment of the offenders.
The Rate-book, as yet voluntary, is now first seen. . 10? .
11 Kitchen
XXS.
Yatton Church-Wardens' Accounts.
167
.
.
.
.
.
Payd unto John Hanna that he payd for the crosse . . . . . . . XXs.
, for a porsel to put yo keyes in . . . . . . . . . . ijd.
for mendyng of ye fayle . . : .
. jd.
a lyne for ye vayle . .
. . iijd.
„ for iij cloths' staffyng® ye which y® Scryptours where wrytten in and upon . vjd.
for ij proclamations concernyng the oon for reconciliation of ye people, ye other
for ye bulls of y® pope of Rome, ye wych was reade in cena domini* ; vid.
for ix poundes of wax and a quarter agenste Ester . .
• ixs. iijd.
, for iij yards of lynen cloth ye same tyme for ye Rode .
. ijs.
„ for lyme and charyches unto J. Brodmore for ye Church of Yarton .
. ijs.
» for wassyng of ye churche pollyng . . . .
. . . xd.
PAGE 83.
Payd for ye Rode clothe, the parysse for peinthyng .
, for halfe a ponde of frenkensesse . . .
for ye clarks waggso
. . .
ijs.
for walls7 for ye Rode clothe . .
. . ijd.
for ye lokynge of ye boke at visitation ...
iijd.
for mendyng ye kechyng dore of ye church howse.
. iiijd.
to W. Daye, senior, for ye pyxe and palle cloth for ye same
. XXs. viijd.
unto Mathew Ireyshe for the Crosse.. .
. . XXS.
expenses at ye counttes day! . . . .
[Mowing the yeo is an annual Entry.]
PAGE 84.
Payd for going unto Wells garing the boks, expenses .
» for chandells goyng a Wysythyng," unto Syr John Smythe
. iijd.
, expenses for ye fatchyng ye paynted cloth at Brystow
. xijd.
for payntyng of ye clothe of ye hye autour . . . .
. . viijd.
, for wax unto Syr John Smythe for goyng a visityng . .
. .. jd.
» unto Syr John Smythe and ye towel churchewardens for cvei luwkyng up ye
Church boks, expenses at owre brekefaste at ye same tynse. · · viijd.
» unto Wyllyam Cradocke for the Crosse . . . . .
» unto Menstrells at Wyttsondaye . . . . . .
vs.
» unto Syr John Smythe for makyng ye bokels . . . . . . ij.s.
unto Henry Wornall for ye Crosse . .
[And many repairs to bells, &c.]
Total : . Exij ixs. ixd.
.
.
.
TO
. .
.
.
XXS.
XXS.
i Purse.
5 Carriage.
10 Carrying.
s Veil. 3?? both words obscure.
4 On Maundy Thursday.
6 Wages. 7 Oy., nails ? 8 Inspection.
Audit-day.
11 Candles used in going to visit the sick.
19 Two.
13 1.6., this account.
168
' Accounts.
Patton ChurchWardens-
PAGES 85-6.
A.D. m.ccccc.lvi[vii].
T. WORNELL AND T. WARRE, WARDENS.
Balance from Knyght and Rome . . . . . . .
.
.
£vij xvjs.
RECEIPTS.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
for thei fontte tapur . .
of Jhon Stabulchylde bequest .
.
de becuest:
.
.
vs. iiijd.
vjs. viijd.
0
[Between pp. 86–7, a page has been cut out.]
11
EXPENSES [belonging to A.D. mccccclvi-vii].
Payd for glassyng of ye Churche, to Averie of Brystow .
:
Xxxjs. viijd.
, at ye visitation of ye Archbysshoppe of Canturburie at Penford . . . vijs. xd.
» for candells for goyng a visityng . . . . . . . . . jd.
PAGE 88.
Payd for bred and wyne at Myssommor,' ij quarts of claret wyne, and a quarter againe
of sacke . . . . . . . . . . . . 111js. xjd.
for candells at myssumor to Syr John Smyth .
· · jd.
„ unto Syr John Smyth for candells goyng a visithyng before Myggheallmass . jd.
, for a pound of candells for the rengars . .
. . . . . . . iiijd.
„ at Bedmasturi at ye visitation, expenses . . . . . . . . xxd.
PAGE 89.
Payd for makyng of thei tabernaculle
.. . xxvjs. viijd.
, for thei locke and the gemmulls* .
. . xijd.
for ole for thei lampe . .
. xjd.
, for thei lampe . . . . .
. iiijd.
» for wyre for thei lamp . . . .
: : jd.
» for candells upon Crestemas daye . .
. . . iiijd.
» Owr expenses for goyng unto Banwell unto my Lorde bysshoppe to axe his
counsell for thei tabernacull . . . . . . . .
ixd.
„ for candells for goyng a visityng . .
.
for mendyng and mowyng of the yowe from Chramore gowtte unto the yer
be ...?.
. . . . . . . . . . . xijd.
.
.
.
.
jd.
| Midsummer.
? Ringers.
3 Bedminster.
+ Hinges.
5 Oil.
o Veo.
Yatton Church-Wardens' Accounts.
169
Page 91.
A.A. m.ccccc.lvűi. Feb. xviij.
J. HORT AND J. STRETCHYNG, WARDENS.
RECEIPTS.
Balance from Wornall and Warre . . . Exij xiijs. xjd.
Receved of Robert Wyllatt of money that he gave to owre chorche whan hys wyfe wos
I buryed? .
. . . . . . . . . ijs. iiijd.
of money that we gathered for the yawnte tabor .
. iijs. iiijd.
of Wylliam Crocke for taborsø whan hys wyfe wos I hyryed . . . iijd.
y made of a taverne . . . . . . . . . Lilly
Summa . . . £xvj xjd.
PAGE 92.
EXPENSES.
Payd for the demission of the Cortte at Bedmaster.
. . ijd.
, at the visitation at Bedmyster . .
. . . . . . . xiijd.
» for the Rode makyng . .
xiijs. jiijd.
, for sprycks and nayls and the settyng up of the same
. . . xijd.
PAGE 93.
expenses for casting the little bell. .
*Payd to Thomas Carpenter for makyng of the middle flore
xiijs. iiijd.
» to Thomas Lettº . . . . . . . . . . . . xijd.
., to Isbell Taylor for lhe kepyng of Thomas Lett . .
. iiijd.
to Jone Brodford for stryckyng of the church.
. ijd.
to John Hatheway for makyng clene of the tresore howse
· iijd.
, to the Mynstrell . . . . .
. . vjs. viijd.
to Edmont Badmans buoye for wachynge of the oxen the nyglit before they went
to Brystowe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ]d.
2 to owre dynner at W. Tyrryes att the mendyng of the myddle flore . . . xvd.
» to Thomas Lett for to helpe hym when he was up walkyng . . . . jd.
PAGE 94.
Payd to Thomas Lett of that whyche the parysshe dyd award hym . . . . xs.
» to Syr Tomas for makyng the bocke to gather7 to sette for the sodwdyars8 . vjd.
» to Thomas Erle for wrytyng of the mowster! byll .
. iiijd
Total . . . £x ob.
Buried ; the I representing the Anglo-Saxon prefix of the participle past. · Font taper.
3 Tapers.
+ A Scrivener's hand here begins, marred with flourishes : but henceforth the year's accounts are balanced
in due form, and with the formula, “all things charged and discharged.”
5 The Clerk, now disabled. 6 Opened for liſting the bell to the cage in Belfry.
? A collecting list.
A special collection for their equipment.
9 Muster.
170
Patton Church-Wardens' Accounts.
A.P. 1558 yº xxvj daye of February (1558-9.]
MATHEW IRYSCHE AND W. HURDWYCHE, WARDENS.
RECEIPTS.
Balance from J. Hort and J. Stretchyng . . , £vj xjd.
of Wyllyam Worthe for the lyche-restet of Jone his wyf . . . . vjs. viijd.
of John Cradocke for the lyche-reste of John Cradocke his father . . vjs. viijd.
of John Hort for the lyche-reste of Alice his wyf
. vjs. viijd.
for the lyche-reste of Wyllyam Cradocke . . . . .
. vjs. viijd.
of the lyghte men of the west parte . . . . : :
£vij xiijs. iiijd.
of the lyghte men of the est parte i
£iij iijs. xd.
[No bequests, or gifts, or Wardens' Ale.]
· PAGE 97.
EXPENSES.
Payde for the mendyng the blewe cope and ij surplessis ; ; ; . . viijd.
., to W. Knyghts wyfe for healynge of Thomas Letts legge, whiche was dewe to
be payde by J. Hort and J. Streathyng . . . . . . .
to J. Brodmore for wasshyng the Roodelofte in our yere . . . . . xvjd.
, towards Averye for rearyng of a tombstone. .
; iijd.
, to J. Hatheway foș v keyes and a hapse and naylis to sett the locke one ; . ijs.
for a locke for the vyce dore . . .
iijd.
, for makyng the subsidye byll. . . . . . . . . . vjd.
at the vysytation for the continewance of Marye’ and John . .. . iiijd.
» for mendyng the chetyll and the holye water pott: : : : : ; xijd.
PAGE 98.
Payde for whyt ynkle for ye booke : : . . . . . . . . ob.
, to the organ maker . . . . .
. . . . . . XXS.
for Dychinge—the parishe woorke in ye Yol . .
xrjd. and xijd.
for doynge ye Lordest woorke ye Yo . . .
. . vs.
to T. Lette for foldynge the vestments for iij quarters of a yere
. xxiijd.
for v yards of dowlas to make a surples for the clarke : ;
iiijs. ijd.
for candells at All Halomtyde and Crystnias . . .
. iiijd.
for a booke of the prossessyon5 in English . . .
. . ijd.
for makyng of ij muster bylls . . . . .
. . xijd.
.
.
.
.
| This new phrase seems the equivalent of the older one "lying in the Church,” i.e., the privilege of
burial under the pavement. See Glossary.
2 Queen Mary died Nov. 17, 1558. The restored images of the Roodloft were again threatened, but a
year's respite was obtained. See 1559-60.
3 Veo. 4 Lord of the Manor. 5 Litany.
Yatton I
171
Church-Wardens' Accounts.
171
TT
wowocz
.
PAGE 99.
A.D. 1559, the 23 of February.
JOHN WAULE AND R. SYMES, WARDENS.
Balance from Irysche and Hurdwyche . . . . . . £xj ixs. iijd.
Debts due to ye Churche.
Four lyche-restes at. . . . . . . . . . . vjs. viijd. each.
[No Receipts.]
PAGE 100.
EXPENSES.
Payde for iij yards of dowlas, and iij yards of canvas, for to make ij cotes of fencel
ilijs. vjd.
» for makyng the same ij cotes . . . . . . . . : . viijs.
„ for candells to go a vysytynge . . . . . . . . jd.
for half a pound of frankencence . .
. .jd. ob.
for a pounde of threde to make the cotes above wrytten . .
. xxd.
» that there ys uppon the inventory of the churche goodys iij tabul clothys of
the which one was occupyed to put in the forsayd cotes.
» for vij pounds of wexe.
. . . . vjs. jd.
for mendyng a tombe and certain other places in the Church.
. iiijd.
» to the mynstrell . . . . . . . . . . . . . XS.
„ for bowles and dyshes . .
. . ijs. ijd.
for ij salters.
. iijs. iiijd.
to Morris Dall, at the request of John Sannom and other of the paryssioners in
his syckness. . .
. : xijd.
for takyng downe the Roode
: : : vd.
in expenses at the plucking down of the Images
• vjd.
for foldyng the vestments . . . . .
. ijs.
„ for makyng a dore to the newe yere3
.
: ; vs. viijd.
PAGE 101.
Payde for the boke of common prayer . .
. vs.
, for the tabull and the formes for the Communion . .
i . vjs.
„ expenses at Reclyt at the vysytation . .
. iijs. viijd.
for makyng of our bylls there . . .
. . xxd.
for makyng the inventory of the church goods and for other charges at the
delyvery of the same at Brystowe .
. Vs.
at Brystowo at the vysytation . . .
· viijd.
, for a bocke of the injuccions. . .
. iiijd.
, for drawyng the koppye of the bryfess of the stattutes .
. . xijd.
» for mendyng the tabul cloth in the church, and a surples.
. . iiijd.
Total . . . . . . . . . . . . . £vj xxijs. ijd.
2 Psalters in English. 3 Sluice. 4 Redcliffe. Í 1.e., of presentments
o 1... at St. Mary's, Redcliffe, then within the diocese, and giving name to the Deanery.
7 Injunctions.
8 Abridgements probably of the Elizabethan Acts A'. Iº.
.
.
.
. .
.
.
. .
.
.
.
.
.
Z 2
172
Vatton Church-wlardens' accounts.
PAGE 102.
Q.A. 1560, the y daye of February.
T. MORE AND J. WARRE, WARDENS.
Balance from Waule and Symes . . . . . . .
TTT
Exiij xijs. xd.
CEIPTS.
C
Five entries of lyche-restes at . .
. . vjs. viijd. each
for plate being sold by consent of the wardens. .
. . £xij xijs.
of the lyght men of the west part . . :
• £iiij vs. xjd.
, , , east part . . . . . . . . . . lviijs. jd. ob.
Allowed to Warden for the fall of money. .
i . .xiiijs.
Total . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Zxj xiiijs.
Byt remembred that thys yere was solde the sylver crosse, the accompte whereof
remayneth in the hands of Thomas Wall and William Smethes.
PAGE 103.
EXPENSES.
Payd to the clarke for kepyng the booke .
e for kepyng the booke .
.
.
.
. . . . . . . ijs.
» to the same clarke for foldynge the vestments .
. ijs.
„ for bred and wyne at Ester . . . . . . . . . xijs.
, to the clarke for his wagis at our Ladye daye.
vjs. viijd.
„ for takyng downe the alter . . . .
· · ijs.
„ for a tabull cloth of vj yards . . . .
. . ijs. ijd.
PAGE 104.
Payde for timber for the vawte of the church . . . . . . . xiiijs. iiijd.
» for our expenses for mete and drynke, and for basting the ryng in whyt . . vijs.
» to Clevedon for makynġ the ryng and the flowre, and other his workmanshepe
xxxiijs. iiijd.
Be it remembered that we provided to pay the clarke his part wagis, and to pay John
Meryfelde for scowrynge the harnes, xijs. viijd., and before the day came, the moneye
fell, be meanes whereof we loste . . . . . . . . iijs. iiijd.
Payd for trimming and gresing the bells at Alhalontyde. . . . . iijd.
„ for fynyshyng the dore at the newe yere,' with all other charges therto belongynge xjs.
, for a glasse bottell to kepe wyne for the communion
· vjs. vid.
Page Ill.
[Debts to the Church. No date.]
1 Sluice.
Tintinbull:
Notes illustratiße of mss.
The Manor, with Advowson of rectory, was vested in the adjoining Priory (Cluniac) of
Montacute. The parish, probably co-terminous with the manor contains 1,828 acres.
The Manor house of the Prior stood on the south side of Churchyard. He was probably
the sole landowner.
The Benefice remained a rectory till 1520, when it was appropriated to Montacute Priory,
charged with £10 for the Vicar's sustenance. The whole tithe valued at £18 nett, was
thereby vested in the Priory, and was secularised at the dissolution in 1539.
The Church, whilst unchanged in ground plan, was being continually improved. The
accounts record the addition of a rood-loft and rood, built on the breastwork of a previous
stone screen, the rebuilding of the south Porch with stone roof, the raising of the tower with
turret-staircase; the enlargement of the west window, the addition of carved-oak benches,
and the building of a “stonyn door," i.e., a door-case of stone in the west wall of Church-
yard. The bells too were recast in 1539. All these changes were effected by the bounty of
the people, unaided by any large gifts either from without or from their own landlord.
There were several low altars, one dedicated to St. Nicolas.
FISCAL SYSTEM.
Two wardens were chosen yearly, either on Easter day, Palm Sunday, the Annunciation,
or St. Margaret's, i.e., the Dedication day, thus varying the length of the official year. Yearly
accounts were as a rule rendered, even when the wardens were re-elected, which was not
uncommon.
The funds accrued from (1) The Bakehouse (Pistrina); (2) The Brewhouse (Brasina);
(3) (at later date) the Church house (Pandoxatorium); (4) Some strips of land in the moor,
sometimes cultivated for grain, sometimes let for leaze ; (5) live stock, c.9., horned cattle, and
bees ; (6) Gifts, bequests, and special gatherings.
Of these sources, the Church-house, when completed in 1497, was the most fruitful. It
combined the manifold purposes of entertainment, baking, malting, brewing. The Holy
Loaf was baked there, the Holy Ale brewed there. There the parishioners were welcomed
on certain Holy days after Divine Service, for some common amusements, during which their
ale scot was levied. The allied parishes of Stoke, Montacute, and Chilthorne, sent their
offerings in aid. The baking and brewing tackle were also let out for private hire, and a room or
two sometimes let to tenants. The old bakehouse, when superseded, yielded a cottage reni.
174
Tintinhull Church-Wardens' Accounts.
TTY
The Lady-chapel and its special services were maintained by the Brotherhood of St. Mary,
who also contributed sometimes to the Warden's funds, see 1437–8. In 1444-5 their steward
bought 100 lbs. of lead from the Wardens.
The Hogglers were associated under a steward (procurator) to maintain a light.
The Warden's attendances at Visitations of Archdeacon, Bishop and Archbishop are
unfailingly recorded, with the charge for the bearing of the banners into Ilchester. It seems
to have been an honoured occasion, the officers marching with banners before them.
THE ACCOUNT BOOKS.
The following extracts are made from the first of two volumes of Church-Wardens'
accounts, which were bound and so preserved by Mr. T. Napper in 1723, and are now in the
keeping of J. Penny, Esq., Tintinhull.
A few of the earlier pages have been transcribed verbatim, with the view of showing in
what manner the accounts were kept. After this, entries which recur annually or very
frequently, are omitted as a rule; but occasionally they are inserted, or a note is added, to
show that they are still going on. Also when any new item of receipt or expenditure appears,
it is noticed.
The greater number of the entries refer only to small necessary repairs, or to annual
expenses for the bells, the purchase of small quantities of wood or stone, &c. Items of this
kind are omitted; the object of these extracts being to exhibit such original entries as
will enable a student to work out a good idea of the general life of a country parish until
about the year 1560.
They are written in Latin up to a later date than usual in country parishes, but the
scribes claimed the utmost freedom in dealing with tenses and cases.
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-
-
Tintinhull Church-Wardens' Accounts.
175
PAGE 29.
Wardens* accounts.
11-12 H. VI. [z.e., A.D. 1433–4.]
D
Computus Willelmi Strecche et Johannis Aste, custodes bonorum ecclesie de Tynten-
hull, a festo Pasche anno regis Henrici Vjti XJmo usque eundem festum anno
ejusdem regis XIJmo
Idem receperunt de arreragiis computi precedentis . . . . . . ijs. viijd.
It. de collectione sacre ceree.
. iijs. vd.
It. de incremento unius brasine facte per Willelmum strecche. . . vis. viijd.
Sumina . . . xijs. ixd.
E QUIBUS IN EXPENSIS.
In primis ad faciendum sacre ceree . .
iijs. xd.
Item pro visitatione . . .
It. ad ligandum unum ordinale
It. pro lavationé velaminum ,
It. pro oleo .
It. pro una cordula . . . . .
. . vijd.
It. pro uno pyxide latino [latten] ad ponendum Corpus Christi . . • Xs. or xd.
It. solut. Johanni Capellano ad celebrandum pro animabus ceteri [sic] hominum . viijd.
Summa omnium expensarum.
• . xvjs. vijd.
Et sic excedit plus quam recepit .
. iijs. ixd.
.
.
vjd.
xd.
jd.
jd.
2.9. 1434-5. 13-14 Hen. VI. a festo Pasche
Anno regis H. VI i XIIJº usque eundem festum
Anno ejusdem regis XIIIJO:
WILLIAM STRECCHE AND John AnsTEYS, WARDENS.
Idem receperunt de collectione sacre ceree . . . . . . . iijs. iijd.
It. ex dono Willelmi Morys .
. . . XXS.
It. de incremento unius brasine facte per W. Strecche . . . .. . vis. viijd.
It. pro candelis venditis.
. . iijd.
Summa . . . £iij ijs. xd.
ijd.
IN EXPENSIS.
Ad fac sacre ceree . . .
It. pro lavatione velaminum, et ad faciendum tapyr et trendel .
.
.
iijs. jiijd.
.
.
.
iiijd.
This entry, very varied in form, runs through the whole book. It is for the great Dirige or Anniversary
in commemoration of all the benefactors of the Church (see A°. 1443) who were entered on the bede-roll.
" Ceteri" seems to be meant for “diversorum."
176
Tintinhull Church-Wardens' Accounts.
·
·
·
·
·
·
It. solut. pro iij ropys ad campanas . .
xvd.
It. pro correo ad campanas . .
ijd.
It. pro oleo pro clocke . . . . . . . . . . . . jd.
It. ad emendandum unum sorplys . .
. jd.
It. Thome Capellano pro dimidio anno ad celebrandum . . . . . xijs. iiijd.
It. ad faciendum librum computi . . .
. . iiijd.
It. de arreragiis computi precedentis que parochiani fuerunt in debito custodorum
[sic] pro anno predicto . . . .
. . . . iijs. ixd.
Summa . . ixs. viijd.
Et debent de claro omnia sibi Allocat. . . . . . . . . XXs. vjd.
.
.
.
A.D. 1435–6. 14-15th H. VI. [From
Easter to Easter.]
W. STRECCHE AND JOHN ANSTEYS, WARDENS.
Inde receperunt de arreragiis computi precedentis . . . . . . . xxvjs.
Idem de Isabella Houchyn . . . . . . . . . . xiijs. iiijd.
It. de legatione uxoris Johannis Broune . . . . . . . . . ijd.
It. de candelis venditis de Trendale
• .jd. ob.
It. de Willelmo Strecche vj bussellos brasie fruinenti pretii
PAGE 30.
It. de Johanne Aste pro j quatero brasie avenarum. .
. . ijs.
It. de Roberto Aste pro vj bussellis brasie avenarum
. xviijd.
It. de Thoma Cole pro ij bussellis.
. vid.
It. de Thoma Cole pro vj bussellis . .
. xviijd.
It. de Johanne Trent pro iiij bussellis .
. xijd.
[Eight more similar entries.]
It. pro quinque pecke de uxoribus datis, pretii
. xd.
It. de Thoma capellano.
. xijd.
It. de venditione unius bovis.
. . xijd.
It. de collectione sacre ceree.
. . iijs. vd. ob..
Summa cum arreragiis computi precedentis . . £jij ijs. xd.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
:
IN EXPENSIS.
Ad faciendum sacre ceree et trendale . . . .
It. pro lavatione velaminum et factura trendel et tapir
It. pro oleo pro clocke. . .
It. pro uno skyppe [beehive] . .
It. pro uno lente clothe . .
It. pro uno tapyr . . .
It. in expensis apud Welly's ..
.
.
.
·
iijs. viijd.
. iiijd.
. jd.
. iiijd.
xiiijs. ijd.
: xvjd.
. viijd.
·
.
·
.
·
.
·
Tintinhull Church-Wardens' Accounts.
177
It. solut. Johanni Davy ad faciendum muros circa cimiterium .
It solut. plomario . . . . . . . . . .
Summa . . xxiiijs. iijd.
Et debet. . . . . . . . . . .
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
xxd.
vjd.
.
.
.
.
XVlIjs. xd.
Q.9. 1436–7. 14-15th H. VI.
W. STRECCHE AND Joan ANSTEYS, WARDENS.
It. Ex legatione Thome Broune . . . . . . . . . . xxijd.
It. Ex legatione Thome Broune iiij busselles frumenti
. iijs. iiijd.
It de Johanne et aliis de Mertock pro transgressione facta tenentibus Tyntenhull in
le mersh . . . . . . . . . . . . . iijs. iiijd.
It. pro uno bove tradito Johanni Helyer . . . . . . . . ijs. vid.
It. pro uno [sic] vacc tradito Johanni Smyth de Ashe eodem modo . . . . ijs.
It. pro j vacc tradita J. Wylle eodem modo . . . . . . . xxd.
IN EXPENSIS.
It. pro lavatione mapparum.
It. pro messore unius dimidii acri frumenti
. . vid.
It. Thome capellano . . . . . .
. . viijd.
It. pro cloutyng lether pro iij ropys . . .
xixd.
It. pro grece pro campanis ,
. . jd.
It. pro łamynge [hemming] pro auter clothys.
It. J. Davy ad faciendum communem furnum .
xxvjs. viijd.
It. diversis hominibus pro prandio . .
. ijs. xd. ob.
It. pro visitatione . . . . .
. . iijd.
It. pro uno capone . .
. iijd.
It. pro labore de chalys, unde respecc [?].
. iiijd.
It. ad scribendum computum .
. . . jd.
Summa expensarum . . . xljs. vid. ob.
Et debetur . . . xixs. iiijd. ob.
·
·
·
·
·
·
·
·
·
·
PAGE 31. &.9. 1437-8. 15-16 H. VI.
W. STRECHE AND JOHN TRENTTE, WARDENS.
It. de tota parochia pro una cruce et calice de novo emptis, ut patet per parcellam
Ecclesie in custod. custodum . . . . . . . . . XXXVjs. xd.
It. de incremento unius brasine [a church-ale] facte pro S. Margareta . . vijs. viijd.
It. de incremento unius brasine cervisie facte pro S. Margareta per custodes predictos
in anno proxime precedente tunc non computato .
viijs.
It. de ligatione Johannis Aste pro domus pisirine faciendo et reparando hoc anno
xxxiiijs. iijd.
It. de ligatione Henrici Morys . . . . . . . . . . vs.
2 A
178
Tintinhull Church-Wardens' accounts.
T-
It. de ligatione nuper uxoris Johannis Warwyke hoc anno
·
· · vjs.
It. de j vacca locata Johanni Smyth hoc anno . . . . . . . . ijs.
It. de j pelle proveniente dicte vacce mo [rientis] hoc anno
. . xijd.
It. de incremento domus pistrine hoc anno per appraiam [obscure] custodum . xvijs. vjd.
It. de Willelmo Panday de bonis S. Marie hoc anno
·
vjs. viijd.
It. de candelis de le trendell hoc anno venditis diversis personis . . . . . vd.
Summa . . . Evj xjs. ixd.
IN EXPENSIS.
It. pro uno calice de novo empte per sacramentum computantum .
. . XXXS.
It. pro una cruce de copre et aurata hoc anno per sacramentum dictorum computantum xxjs.
It. pro emendandis iiij baudreyes campanarum . . . . . . iijs. iiijd.
PAGE 32.
It. mulieri locata pro lavatione vestimentorum altaris et pro les kecheves [kerchiefs]
imagorum hoc anno . . . . . . . . . . . . vjd.
It. pro smygma et brymston emptis ad idem . . . . . . . . ijd.
It. domino Thome Brytell capellano ecclesie ibidem pro diversis obitibus . . . xijd.
It. pro vij lb. cere emptis pro uno cereo voc holy taper et le trendell hoc anno, una
curn factura ejusdem . . . . . . . . . . iijs. ijd. ob.
It. in expensis apud Yvelcestre die visitationis archidiaconi . . . . . vd.
It. pro domo pistrine hoc anno de novo facte, ut in arte carpentarii ex conventione cum
eo facta in grosso preter mensam suam . . . . . . . . viijs.
It. solut. pro una mensa . . . . . . . . . . . . xijd.
It. in diversis victualibus emptis pro hominibus venientibus cum eorum plaustris pro
dicto mearemio cariando . . .
. . . . . . . uljd.
It. pro mearemio supradicto empto ad idem . . . . . . . xijd.
It. pro emendatione fenestre veteris domus pistrine ex opposito le spere . . . vjd.
It. solut. uno homini pro dicto spere cum virgis vrydendis et desuper daubandis. . iiijd.
It. uno homini locato pro le stubel vocato helmebought falcando hoc pro dicta domo
pistrine cooperienda . . . . . . . . . . . . ijd.
It. in dicto stramine empto . . . . . . . . . . . iiijd.
It. pro lapidibus emptis apud Stenteyate pro viá in villa emendanda in diversis locis
ubi indigebit . . . . . . . . . . . . iijs. vd.
It. pro emendendis le pykeys hoc anno . . . .
. . . . illjd.
It. in spire metendis ad idem . . . . . . . . . . . . vj. ob.
It. uno homini pro dicta domo watillando per unum diem.
. vd.
It. solut. domino Priori pro annuo redditu dicte domus pistrine
. . vijd.
It. pro ij bobus emptis pro stauro ecclesie hoc anno, j pro xs. et alio pro ixs. xd. ixs. xd.
Et nota quod custodes debent de arreragiis xxxvijs. et unum bovem pretii xs.
Summa . . . Ev ixs. iijd.
Tintinhull Church-Wardens' Accounts.
179
PAGE 33.
A.D. 1438-9. From Easter 16 H. VI., to Easter
17 H. VI., and from that date to S. Mary
Magdalene's Day, i.e., for five quarters and more.
JOHN TRENTE AND W. STRECCHE, WARDENS.
It. de redditu communis pistrine tradite Stephano Baker ad terminum trium annorum
vjs. viijd.
[Receipts from the pistrina, from three legacies in money, and one of a green gown,
from an Ale, and from the sale of an ox and a calf. A cow remains in stock and
let to J. Somerton.]
IN EXPENSIS.
It. in una vacca cum uno vitulo emptis hoc anno . . .
. xiijs.
It. pro ix bussellis frumenti emptis ad valenc: ecclesie .
. : ixs.
It. in j hostio pro domo pistrine cum j pare de dornes [durns] . . . iijs. ijijd.
It. in virgis emptis pro le Watilyng pistrine . . . . . . . jd.
It. pro j parcella de segg empt. pro coopertura pistrine simul cum le thetcchyng ad
thascam . . . . .
It. pro j ulmo prosternanda pro le Gakehouse [Privy] facienda. . · · jd.
It. in j trendale lignale empto de novo . .
,. ijs. ixd. ob.
It. in iiij lb. cere emptis pro dicto trendale faciendo et le pascal taper
. ijd.
It. in emendatione oriscopii ville .
. vd.
It. capellano pro certis memorationibus in ecclesia . . . .
xijd.
PAGE 34.
A.D. 1439–40. H. VII., 17th-18th. St. Mary
Magd. to same feast.
JOHN TRENTE AND W. STRECCHE, WARDENS.
Receipts include the usual Ale, the rent of the cow, a gift of iijs. iiijd. from J. Aught,
and Bakehouse rent.]
IN EXPENSIS.
It. pro vij lb. cere pro le pascal taper, et aliis cerulis ecclesie ad sepulcrum et alibi iiijs. vijd.
It. in factura j pascal taper cum aliis cerulis . . .
. . . . ijd.
It. pro una corda empta ad le trendel .
. . . . . . . . lijd.
It. pro certis memorationibus Rectorii ecclesie .
. . . xijd.
1 Hitherto a Chaplain has been paid for this Anniversary Mass.
2 A 2
180
Tintinhull Church-Wardens' Accounts.
It. domino Priori de redditu domus pistrine .
It. pro j scala xiij rongarum? empta pro le belfray .
It. J. Stephano Baker pro custodia oriscopii in ecclesia
•
.
. xiijd.
. xxd.
iijs. iiijd.
,
PAGE 35. .A. 1440-1. 18-19 H. VI.
JOHN STACEY AND ROBERT ASTE, WARDENS.
RECEPT. BONOR.
It. de totis parochianis ibidem pro quatuor cereis prout plenius patet per parcellam
remanentem in custodia custodum predictorum. . . . . . xxxviiis. id.
IN EXPENSIS.
It. pro xlvij libris cere emptis pro quatuor torticiis cereis de novo factis, prout patet xxixs. iijd.
It. pro xliij libris de rosyn emptis pro eisdem torticiis . . . . . . iiijs.
It. pro iiij rones (runs] de matchyerne pro eisdem . . .
. , . xvd.
It. Willelmo Roule locato per iij dies ad facturam dictorum torticiorum .
ijs.
It. in diversis victualibus emptis pro predicto Willelmo, et custodibus tempore facture
eorundem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxd.
It. in unguento pro manibus suis . .
• . ijd.
It. pro vj libris, uno quartero, cere emptis pro le pascal taper et le trendell . iijs. ixd.
It. in factura et non plus . . . . . . . . . . . ijd. ob.
PAGE 36..
i lebitina? (hasinī ab eo emptis
It. Thome Somerton pro j formula et j lebitina’ [basin] ab eo emptis ,
vijd.
It. Johanni Bokebynder de Mertock de j missale et į portifurio de novo ligando et
cooperiendo et certos defectus in eisdem libris emendendo ex conventione
PAGE 37.
@D. 1441–2. Hen. VI., 19th-20th.
J. STACY AND R. ASTE, WARDENS.
[S. Mary Magdalene's Day is the day of account as usual.]
De vjs. viijd. receptis de legatione Johannis Hody militis
vis. viijd.
Et de j tauro coloris rubii pretii vjs. viijd. recepto ex dono Johannis Aste . . vjs. viijd.
Et de segitibus venditis in le more hoc anno ex assensu domini et tenentum suorum,
viz., ad sustentationem ecclesie ibidem . . . . . . . . XS.
[The brasina revenue is obliterated “ quia non brasina hoc anno."]
Et de locatione j vacce sic locate Johanni Devenysh . . .
Et de pretio unius vacce in custodia eorundem procuratorum . , . .
IN EXPENSIS.
It. pro viij tabulis ligneis vocatis Weynescote borde pro australi hostio ecclesie de novo
facte, pro tabula xiiijd.
. ixs. iiijd.
It. in cxx de five stroke nayles emptis ad idem . .
· Vs.
There was no stone staircase to the Tower until 1516, when the present one was built, and the Tower
raised.
2 Probably a diminutive formed from lebes, a kettle or caldron.
Tintinhull Church-Wardens' accounts.
181
It. in iij twystys ferreis emptis ad idem .
. iiijs. viijd.
It. Thome de Somerton carpentario conducto ad faciendum de novo dictum hostium
ad thascam . . . . . .
- vjs. viijd.
It. in uno annulo ferreo cum le bose [boss] ferreo ad claudendum dictum hostium . xviijd.
It. in excambio ij cruettys hoc anno cambitis . . . . . . . . ijd.
PAGE 38.
A.D. 1442–3. Hen. VI., 20th-21st.
J. STACY AND R. ASTE, WARDENS.
[The receipts are a legacy of a sheep, ijs. from an Ale, and xiijs. iiijd. from Bakehouse,
the rent of the cow, and the sale of a bull, and of a pound of wax.]
In expensis pro visitatione Archiepiscopi Cantuariensis . . . . . .
iijd.
1
iiijd.
PAGE 39. A.D. 1443-4. Hen. VI., 21–22.
J. STACY AND R. ASTE, CHURCHWARDENS.
IN RECEPT.
It. de incremento velleris j Multonis sheep] . . . . . . . .
IN EXPENSIS.
It. de una sera ad hostium ecclesie . . .
It. pro una memoratione animarum omnium benefactorum ecclesie ibidem de-
functorum que teneri debeant annuatim per custodes ecclesie ibidem qui pro
tempore fuerint
. . . .
In expensis procuratorum existentium apud Yevelchester ad visitationem episcopil .
VS.
vijd.
xijd.
PAGE 40.
A.D. 1444-5. Hen. VI., 22–23.
J. STACY AND R. ASTE, CHURCHWARDENS.
It. pro 100 libris veteris plumbi ecclesie venditis hoc anno procuratori fraternitatis
sancte Marie de Tyntynhull . . . . .
. . vjs. viijd.
It. de una zona de viride serico et argentata pretii xs. per estimationem, que data est
: ad ecclesiam hoc anno per Johannem Aste.
It. de incremento de les hogeler ys lyght de Johanne Warwyke nuper uno procuratorum
inde ijs.
It. de ixs. receptis de quatuor quarteriis et dim. fabarum hoc anno legatis ad ecclesiam
per Isabellam? Bondwyrth et de quatuor buss. frumenti nichill hic, quia liberati
fuerint pro pane ad communem brasinam venditam ut ad commodum ecclesie
que remanet in manibus Johannis Trente, J. Stiby, T. Bole, et Roberti Aste.
? Bp. Beckington's primary visitation.
2 Her gift of wheat was handed to the four Managers of the brewhouse to serve for an Ale. Its money
value is therefore not stated.
182
Tintinhull Church-Wardens' Accounts.
IN EXPENSIS.
[Reaping, carrying home and threshing corn and beans from the Moor?.]
It. pro una libra cere pro le trendell renovand. quia igne combustum fuit .
It. pro una trabe ferri vocate Balaunce de novo empte . . . .
.
.
. vjd.
ijs. vjd.
PAGE 41.
a. . 1446—7.
J. STACY AND ROBERT AUGHT, WARDENS.
It in meremio empto ad stansile cimiterii ibidem faciendum ,
It. in uno muro lapideo in occidentali parte ecclesie ibidem emendendo
It. pro xlvij libris plumbi emptis pro wights’ ville faciendo .
It. pro locatione j domus brasine pro brasina cervisie intus facienda .
.
.
.
. xvjd.
ijs. ijd.
ijs. iijd.
. vijd.
.
.
TIT
1
/
1
PAGE 42. 24-25 H. VI. Q. . 1446—7.
J. STACE AND R. AUGHT, WARDENS.
ŞThe date from S. Mary Magdalene is altered this year to S. Margaret, and the time
comprised in this account extends to Easter following.]
It. receperunt de una zona harnesiata cum Argento data ecclesie per Isabellam Aught
et vendita Willelmo Garde hoc anno . . . . . . . . ixs. vijd.
It. de olla enea recepta de dono R. Corler hoc anno.
IN EXPENSIS.
It. pro una corda empta pro le lente clothe suspendendo . . . . . . jd.
[The stock this year is one bull in the hands of J. Waryng, one cow in the hands of
W. Prewers, four pounds of wool in those of J. Staci, and one brass pot measur-
ing one lagena.]
PAGE 42. 25–26 H. VI. (2.). 1447–8.
W. Goleight, et T. Wilmett, custodes bonorum et catallorum ecclesie S. Margarete virginis.
It. de incremento unius brasine cerevisie facte ad usum S. Margarete ultra omnes
custus costs hoc anno . . . . . . . . . . xiis, jid
It. de incremento unius brasine cerevisie facte circa festum App. Philippi et Jacobi ultra
omnes custus hoc anno . . . . . . . . . . x11js. 1d.
It. de iiij libris lane grosse et fractt. .
. . . . xd.
It. de j olla enea continente j lagenam et ponderante xviij lb. vendita . . . iijs.
[The rent of the cow is cancelled, “quia sterilis fuit hoc anno.”]
1 N.B.-Details of the harvesting of the parish grain crops on the Moor allotment, which was cultivated
by the Wardens.
2 Does not this mean weights, i.., standard weights kept at the common bakehouse for the use of the
Village ?
Tintinhull Church-Wardens' Accounts.
183
IN EXPENSIS.
It. pro ligatione et emendatione missalis ecclesie
It. pro emendatione ij chisipulorum ecclesie . .
. .
It. pro emend. ij aubis, et le perell [apparel] ij chisipularum, cum j dexte clothe, et
xvjd.
It. pro j corda empta ad le peyse oriscopii . . . . . . . . xvjd.
[The cemetery wall opposite the Manor-court is repaired.]
It. in uno libro processionali empto hoc anno . .
jijs. viijd.
It. in panno lyneo empto pro aubis emendandis .
. . xjd.
It. domino Priori pro capitali rentale communis furni ibidem hoc anno
. xiijd.
It. pro emendendo j cliper (clapper of bell] ecclesie . ...
. . xviijd.
It. pro ij plaustratis librarum petrarum ad communem furnum ville emendendum ibidem xviijd.
It. in uno lathamo... ad faciendum le mouthe et le foreborde pistrine, cum
exaltatione eorundem . . . . . . . . . . . . vd.
It. in expensis ejusdem lathami et aliorum auxiliantium lathamum ad idem opus . xd.
PAGE 44.
It. in expensis apud Hamedun pro le fleure furni ibidem faciendum cum stipendio
lathami, usque et in cibis et potibus emptis ad dictum lathamum . . viijd.
It. in uno coopertore locato per ij dies et, dein per diem iiijd., et in suo serviente
locato xd.
It. in perlionebus (purlins) emptis ad idem opus
ud puin115 Emplis ad idem opus . . . . . . . . . 1a.
It. in falcatione j acre stipuli ad idem opus
. . iiijd.
It. pro una tabula de alabastro empta ad summum altare ecclesie ibidem . . xxvjs. viijd.
It. ad ij tabula de alabastro empta per parochianos . . . . . . . xS.
It. in expensis Regisl de Montagu apud Tyntenhull existentis tempore estivali, . iijd.
VS.
1463 45 26–27 H. VI. A.D. 148-0.
W. GOLYGHT AND JOHN BROUN, WARDENS.
[A cow is sold for] . . . . . . . . . . . . . vjs.
It. de denariis provenientibus de venditione unius tauri sic venditi diversis parochianis
ibidem hoc anno ultra xijd. solutis ecclesie ad tabellam alabastriam per manus
Roberti Sherene ut fatetur per parochianos predictos . . . . . .
[J. Aught gives a red cow ad usum ecclesie, which is let for] . .
. . xijd.
- PAGE 46.
IN EXPENSIS.
It. pro lotricibus lavantibus linthiamina ecclesie nil capientibus preter expensas suas . viijd.
It. in carnifice loci ad necandum et distribuendum taurum supra venditum
. iijd.
It. in thumatione cum incenso . . . . . . . . . . ]d.
It. ad emendandum lignum de trendale . . .
It. ad faciendum de novo unum wherlegage positum ad scansile in orientali parte
cimiterii pro animalibus extra cimiterium custodiendis . . . . . iiijd.
It. solut. eidem Thome pro una libitina lignea ab eo empta hoc anno . . . viijd.
? A play-king enacted by Montacute people at Tintinhull. Each season seems to have had its mock
monarch. At Crosconibe he reigned in winter ; at Bath in autumn ; here in summer.
U
.
184
Tintinhull Church-Wardens' Accounts.
It. cuidam fabro de Kyngesbury locato ad emendandum unum kanillum oriscopii
ferreum portantem le sayllor (?) . . . . . . . . . iiijd.
It. pro ij acris prati in chestremede emptis pro domo pistrine communis cooperienda . viijd.
It. pro dicto prato falcando . .
. . . . . . . . .
It. rectori loci pro certis animis precandis per annum
xijd.
. . . . . . xijd.
PAGE 47.
27–28 H. VI. Q.D. 1449–50.
W. GOLYHT AND J. BROWN, WARDENS.
[No brewery revenue this year.]
Et de iiijs. xd., receptis in allocatione unius xyme domini regis fisci villat. hoc anno
allocat. ultra ijd., solitos clerico collectori regis.1
[Receipts this year only the rent of the pistrina and of the cow.]
1
1
.
PAGE 48.
28–29 H. VI. Q.9. 1450-1.
W. GOLYGHT AND JOHN BROUNE, WARDENS.
RECEPT.
De legatione Isabelle . . . hoc anno . . .
.
.
. . .
It. de legatione Bartholomei fratris de Yevelchestre . .
[Expenses as usual.]
.
.
. iiijd.
.iijs. iiijd.
.D. 1451-2.
.
·
.
·
.
·
·
PAGE 49.
29–30 H. VI.
W. GOLIGHT AND J. Brown, WARDENS.
[The term of Account is still S. Margaret's Day.]
It. pro uno veteri hostio ecclesie vendito . . . . . . . . . vud.
It. pro duabus tabulis ligneis sic venditis . .
. iiijd.
It. pro uno trunco ligneo vendito . .
. ijd.
It. pro uno ligno quercino vendito.
. . vjd.
It. pro ij lignis quercinis vocatis liernes de veteri rodelofte .
. . xviijd.
It. pro vj gistis (joists] ligneis venditis .
. . iiijd.
It. de Waltero Sille, Johanne Sille, Thoma Bowryng, Johanne Fribbe, et Johanne Exale
de incremento unius ludi vocati Christmasse play . . . . . vjs. viijd.
It. de Roberto Aught de dono patri sui . .
. viijs. iiijd.
Et de dono suo proprio . . . . . . . . . . . vis. viid.
Et de dono patris ejusdem defuncti . . . . . . . . . vis. viijd.
Et de dono suo proprio . . . .
vjs. viijd.
[Interlineations here make it uncertain if there is a repetition of the same entries).
? Were Church wardens allowed a percentage on the allocation of the 15th ?
·
·
·
Tintinhull Church185
Wardens-
' Accounts.
It. de ijs. vjd. receptis de Johanne Gille, collectore quarte partis unius xvme domini
regis hoc anno ut de denariis per prefatum dominum regem allocat. de antiquo
po . . (?)
PAGE 50.
Solut. Thome Dayfote carpentario locato ad faciendum le Rodelofte ut in Meremiis
ligneis ex conventione . . . . . . . . . . . xls.
It. Johanni Brayne de Stoke pro Meremiis vocatis waynscote pro dicto Rodelofte
faciendo ab eo emptis in grosso . . . . . . . . vjs. viijd,
It. Johanni Stibi pro liberis petris pro dicto Rodelofte ab eo emptis. . . . xijd.
It. diversis hominibus locatis ad deponendum le Old Rodelofte
.xviijd.
It. servienti Johannis Davy pro muro petrino in parte boreali de la Rudelofte
emendando, cum ijd. solutis pro prandio suo . .
. . . . . vd
It. Henrico Mason de Odecumbe, et Thome Bouryng locatis ad emendandum defectus
muri petrini ex utraque parte ecclesie, videl. ad implendum foramina ubi vetus
Rodelofte, prius fuit, ad thascam . . . . . . . . . vijd.
It. Johanni Broun uno homini locato ad adjuvandum dictum servientem Johannis
Davy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . iiijd.
It. in expensis diversorum hominum adquirentum ij plaustratas Meremii a Montagu
usque Tyntenhull . . . . . . . . . . . . viijd.
It. in clavis et ceteris ferramentis ad dictum Rodelofte emptis hoc anno . . . viijd.
It. Johanni Brayne, cum serviente suo, locatis per unum diem ad bordandam et
emendandam clausuram pone crucem, videl. inter naveu ecclesie et cancellam . xd.
It. Willelmo Perys locato ad faciendum de novo xl Judaces ligneas ad pertandum
luminaria stantia coram alta cruce ad thascam . . . . . .
It. in Meremio empto ad idem
It. Willelmo Golyght locato per unum diem coadjuvante T. Dayfote ad levandum
solarium subtus le Rodelofte ad 'thascam .
It. Johanni Hare locato ad progettandum [pargetting] et dealbandum muros petrinos
turris campanarum in grosso ad thascam . . .
It. cuidam homini vocato alabastre-man in arameanda et conventione unius tabelli
alabastri .
[The usual annual expenses, including those at visitation here follow.]
Total ... lxvijs. ijd.
Of which the cost of the Rodelofte is . . . . . . . . £ij ijs.
ja
W.I .
PAGE 5
Page 51. 30–31 H. VI. O. ..1452–3.
W. GolvGHT AND J. BROUN, WARDENS.
[No revenue from brewing.]
A cow is sold for . . . .
. . . . . . .
A brass pot weighing xiiij lbs. is left by will.
Segetes in marisco vendite hoc anno nil hic, quia pecunia nondum soluta fuit.
.
.
vijs.
2
B
186
Tintinhull Church-Wardens' Accounts.
.
ijd.
PAGE 52.
IN EXPENSIS.
It. mulieribus lavantes [sic], necessaria ecclesie non capientes preter expensas. . viijd.
It. pro uno veteri superpellicio hoc anno empto apud Montagu.
. .xviijd.
It. pro eodem superpellicio emendando et lavando hoc anno . .
It. solut. clerico facienti nunc computum ac pro computis quatuor ceterorum annorum
proxime precedentum . . . . . . . . . . . xxd,
It. Willelmo Passelow et aliis scribendis parcellam computi predicti ad vices . . iijd.
E quibus pecuniis allocatur de xxxvijs. iijd. solutis ad tabellam alabastriam nuper
emptam ut fatetur per parochianos.
It. de vjs. viijd. solutis pro predicta tabella alabastria per manus Roberti Aught unde
dicti custodes onerantur supra in arreragiis. . . ut fatetur super computum
per parochianos predictos.
PAGE 53.
De incremento xxs. brasine cervisie ad festum nativitatis Domini nil eo quod singuli
denarii predicti receptus fuerunt per alios parochianos et per manus eorundem
soluti cuidam alabastreman pro tabella alabastrina ab eo empta sic quod nullo
modo denarii ad manus custodum onerari deberent. Exonerantur per parochian
causa predicta.
It. de xxs. de incremento alterius brasine cervisie anno predicto erga festum S.
Margarete nil respondent causa predicta.
It. de xxs. provenientibus de ij plumbis pandoxaterii venditis nuper provenientibus
de legatione Roberti Giles et Matilde uxoris sue nil respondent causa predicta.
[First use of the word pandoxaterium.]
Remanent adhuc solvendum.
Set tamen memorandum est de diversis denariis extra computum predicti custodis
computantis in manibus diversis existentibus que fuerunt deo et ecclesie S. Mar-
garete de Tyntenhill debitæ, viz., xs. remanent solvend, in manibus cujusdam
Johannis Rede de Lange Sutton que debentur ecclesie predicte pro segitibus
vocatis leverys de marisco nuper sibi venditis.
PAGE 54.
31-32 H. VI. (Q.2). I45 3-4.
J. STACY AND W. SHODES, WARDENS.
Et de xxs. of the brasina of S. Margaret's Day of the preceding year, de dono paroch-
ianorum per supervisum Margarete Stacy et Isabelle Wilmot ultra . . ixs. jd.
Solut. pro uno superpellicio ad usum ecclesie de novo empto.
PAGE 55.
IN EXPENSIS.
It. pro falcatione unius acre stipuli de dono Johannis Stacy pro reparatione communis
pistrine . .
It j coopertore pro thatchante.
It. pro ij plaustratis petrarum emptis pro le causey ex opposito domum communis
pistrine emendando .
. . . . iijd.
It. pro ij ferreis vangalibus (spades) una cum uno ligno vangalis ad staurum ecclesie
emptis . . . . . . . . .
. . . . xd.
Tintinhull Church-Wardens' Accounts.
187
PAGE 56.
32–33 H. VI. A.D. 1454-5.
WILLIAM SHODES AND WALTER GILLE, WARDENS.
[Among the] Expenses.
Et in brimstone empto pro le fiammeolis (veils] in ecclesia lavandis . .
Et in Wexinge, j dipote cum j poyntell ad eandem emptam . . .
.
.
. ob.
jd. ob
РА
PAGE 58.
33–34 H. VI.
.9. 1455-6.
WALTER AND JOHN GILLE.
PAGE
PAGE 59. 34-35 H. VI. 2.9. 1456–7.
WALTER AND JOHN GILLE.
[Only the usual entries.]
PAGE бо.
Solut. uni homini ligatori conducto pro duobus septimanis pro libris ligandis capienti
pro una septimana, iijs. iiijd.
· vjs, viijd.
It. eidem ligatori pro libris ecclesie ligandis per iiij dies capienti per diem vjd. ob. ijs. ijd.
It. eidem pro clapsys dictorum librorum . . . . . . . . . vja
It. pro co-operatione unius libri ecclesie . .
. . . iijd.
It. pro tribus pellibus bidentum emptis pro aliis libris ecclesie cooperiendis . viijd.
It. in una pelle de doeskyne pro eisdem libris . .
. . vijd.
It. in quatuor pellibus pergamenis pro eisdem libris .
: viijd.
It. in coreo de lether (?) . . . .
iiijd. ob.
It. in gluwe ad idem opus . .
. ijd.
It. in filis emptis pro dictis libris suendis .
: . iijd.
It. in coreo equino ad idem . .
. ijd. ob.
It. in gume pro eisdem libris.
. . ja.
It. Johanni Rede de Upton pro clogill empto in mora de Tyntenhull
Et remanet in custodia unus annulus argenteus deauratus (gilt).
PAGE 61.
35-36 H. VI. Q.5. I457-8.
WALTER GYLLE AND JOHN GYLLE, WARDENS.
[Nothing unusual in the receipts].
IN EXPENSIS.
It. rectori pro communi anniversario tenendo . . . . . . . .
It. pro fronkyncense seu thure
i
It. in viij staples ferri de novo emptis pro baculis vexilli, cum uno crampo ferri empto
pro ostio ecclesie · · · · · · · · · ·
·
xijd.
id.
viljd.
2 B 2
188
' Accounts.
Tintinhull ChurchWardens-
It. in uno antiphonali de novo ligato .
. . vjd.
[Two acres of straw and five bundles of spars (plionum) are bought from W.
Montacute for thatching] . . .
. . . . . . xvjd.
PAGE 62.
It. pro portatione vexilli usque Yvelchester anno elapso et anno instanti. . . iiijd.
Ex dono rectoris ecclesie, iij quarteria avene et ij busselli frumenti.
PAGE 63.
36–37 H. VI.
A.D. 1458–9.
ROBERT AUGHT AND WILLIAM WARFULL, WARDENS.
IN EXPENSIS.
It. pro emendatione de ponte juxta cimiterium . .
. . . ; . ijd.
It. aquebajulo ecclesie pro portatione vexilli usque Yvelchester
. ijd.
[First mention of the aquebajulus.]
It. in uno hyve empto pro apibus . . . . . . . . . . . iijd.ob.
It. pro le pascal tapyr ,
. . iijs. iiijd.
In expensis factis apud? Yelchester per parochianos de concordatione inter ipsos et
dicti rectoris . . . . . . . . . . . . iijs. viijd.
XS.
Page 64. 37–38 H. VI. .D. 1459-60.
BONA ECCLÆ. Note of goods remaining in hands of W. and J. Gylle, Wardens, 1457-8, viz.,
A ring, oatmalt, wheat-malt, and a sheep, and bees,
ROBERT BENET ET W: BOLE, PROCURATORES ECCLESIE.
RECEIPTS.
Bakehouse let to William Newman and J. Bremylcombe for the year .
It. pro uno bidenti ex dono Johannis Weryn sic vendito . . . .
It. pro j brasina ejus ecclesie vendita in festo Inventionis S. Crucis in anno prece-
dente . . . . .
. . . . . . xijd.
[and again this year, same day] .
. ijs. iiijd.
It. brasina in festo S. Margarete .
· · vjs. viijd.
It. pro redditu unius camere communis pistrine a festo S. Michaelis usque ad festum
S. Margarete . .
. . . vjd.
PAGE 65.
IN EXPENSIS.
It. in lotura flameoli et factura le pryket ut in potibus . .
. . ijd.
It. uno peynter pro peyntyng de la Rodelofte ut in parte pecunie sue
. xiijs. iiijd.
It. in ridatione unius gutteri circa covam pistrine (vault of oven). . . . . iiijd.
It. in fodatione unius fossati pertinentis dicte pistrine apud moram . . . . id.
It. in una petra separali [detached, single] empta apud Hamden ad obstipandum os
pistrine .
· js. ijd.
i Probably settled at the Visitation Court by Arbitration. The cause is not revealed.
Tintinhull Church-Wardens' Accounts.
189
[The capa and vestimenta are mended, and rebyn (ribbon] bought for them, as
:: also bockeram, [blue] and white thread, thread de abisso [ = bysso, flax],
and linen de Crescloth.] . . . . . . . . . ijs. vid.
It. in smigmate et sulfur pro lotura pannorum lineorum.
It. in iiij saccis calcis uste pro fenestris . . . . .
. ijs. jd.
It. in stipendio W. Warfull ad jactandam tabulam . .
. . jd.
It. ad portandam calcem a Crukern usque Tyntenhull .
It. aquebajulo ecclesie ad portandum vexillum ecclesie ad Yelchester ad festum
Pentecost. · · · · · · · · · · · · ·
PAGE 66.
38–39 H. VI. A.D. 1460-1.
ROBERT BENET AND W. BOLE, WARDENS.
RECEIPTS.
It. pro clogill vendito Johanni Rede ut de antiquo debitur. .
It. pro parvis lapidibus fractis de remanent. fenestr. ecclesie sic venditis
It. pro quatuor annulis argenteis ex legatione . . . . .
PAGE 67.
It. pro uno latice stangni de stauro sic vendito. . . . . .
.
.
.
.
.
.
vijs. viijd.
vijd.
. ijs.
.
.
.
xjd.
EXPENS.
In stangno empto pro fenestris ecclesie
Pro cera pro cereo benedicto . .
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
iijd. ob.
xxijd. ob.
PAGE 68.
1-2 Ed. IV. A.D. 1461–2.
J. BOLE AND J. CRYBBE, WARDENS.
[In this year
I 25. 4d. was lent to six people in sums from 6s. 8d. downwards. ]
PAGE 69.
(.A. 1462—3. 2–3 Ed. IV.
J. BOLE AND J. CRYBBE, WARDENS.
ijd.
Solut. aquebajulo pro portatione vexilli in processione apud Yvelchester . . .
Allowed to J. Bole the sum which he had laid out for the painting of the Rood-
· ·
·
loft
xxd.
190
Tintinhull Church-Wardens' Accounts.
PAGE 70.
3-4 Ed. IV.
Q.D. 1463–4.
PAGE 71.
T. WYLMOT AND T. PREDYLL, WARDENS.
Solut. uno homini locato ad deponendum vitrum de fenestra ecclesie ad finem
occidentalem . . . . . . . . . . . . .
vjs.
PAGE 72,
4-5 Ed. IV. A.D. 1464-5.
J. PRYDELL AND JOHN CARSLOO, WARDENS.
Ex legatione Agnete Bretyll data ecclesie pro adorand.1 in ecclesia eadem per
annum . . . . . . . . . . . · · vjs. viijd.
PAGE 73.
in expensis clerici ecclesie et unius hominis secum pro portatione vexillorum ad
Yvelchester .
. . ijd. ob.
In emendatione unius candelabri auricalci (brass] fracti . . . . . . ijd.
[For plumber's work] . . . . . . . . . . . £j. js. xjd.
PAGE 74.
Page 74.
5-6 Ed. IV.
A.D. 1465–6.
T. STACY AND PETER BRETELL, WARDENS.
[Michaelmas to Michaelmas.]
Ex legatione Johannis Trent, viz., pro j lodice (coverlet] de fustian, et j linchiamine,
j manutergio sic vendito . . . . . .
.
ixs.
De relevio [nett benefit] panis benedicti hoc anno . .
· vs. xd.
Et receperunt de candelis pertinentibus dicto pani benedicto hoc anno [old candles
sold to swell this item] .
Et de Willelmo Warefull et Johanne Trent de hogelers light hoc anno . . . xxijd.
.
.
iiijd.
(PENSIS.
It. in uno Pax empta ad usum ecclesie . . . .
.
It. in queratione [the carriage] unius paris vestiment. a Wells usque Tyntenhull
It. pro uno trendell de novo empto . . . . . . . . .
. iiijd.
. ijs. vd.
vjs. iiijd.
1 To be prayed for.
Tintinhull Church-Wardens' Accounts.
191
6–7 Ed. IV. A.D. 1466–7.
PAGE 75.
P. BRETELL AND J. AUGHT, WARDENS.
PAGE 76.
IN EXPENSIS.
It. in duobus zonis emptis pro capellano . . . .
It. pro factura et emendatione de les pryketts in ecclesia ardentibus per annum
It. in emendatione unius cere cum una clave ad idem empta .
It. pro scrinio? in ecclesia et clavis emptis ad idem . . . . .
.
.
PAGE 77.
7-9 Ed. IV A.D. 1468–70. [From S.
Margaret's Day to the Conversion of S. Paul.]
ROUN AND
ILTER
ARDENS.
RECEIPTS.
Pro j ulmo sic vendit . .
. . . . . . . . ijs. viijd.
It. pro meremio de ponte juxta stansile cimiterii hoc anno vendito. . . ijd.
It. pro shrudatione unius ulmi in cimiterio
. . xijd.
It. pro brasina . . . . . . . .
· · xxvjs. viijd.
It. pro pane benedicto . . . . . .
. . vs.
PAGE 78.
IN EXPENSIS.
It. in j plaustrata petrarum ad communem furnum. .
It in j plaustrata petrarum querente apud Hamdon ad pontem juxta cimiterium . viijd.
It. in iiij lb. cere pro les trendel bis de novo factis.
[The clerk (aquebajulus) carries the banner to Ilchester at Pentecost.]
It. pro emendatione unius citule [bucket] pro aqua benedicta portanda.
PAGE 79.
9th-10th Ed. IV. From Conversion of S. Paul,
Jan. 25, 1469, to Sunday before SS. Simon
and Jude, Oct. 1470, I year 3 quarters.
J. BROUN AND WALTER GYLLE, WARDENS.
One brasina produces vs., and the pistrina xxixs. iiijd.
One toga ex legatione is sold for viijs.
The vexillum is carried to Ilchester “per tempus computi.”
11
The word means both screen and desk.
192
Tintinhull Church-Wardens' Accounts.
jd.
iiijd.
PAGE 80.
IN EXPENSIS.
It. in una ropa empta pro canapy . . . . . . . . . .
It. in uno cophino empto pro pane benedicto portando
.
[The Loaf, like the Holy Water, was carried to certain houses by the Aquæ-bajulus.]
In stauro vendito super computum. Pro uno annulo argenteo . .
Et pro alio annulo argenteo cum uno numerali vendito .
Et pro una patella enea de stauro vendita . . . . . . . .
ixd.
xijd.
ijs.
PAGE 81.
11-1 3th Ed. IV. Two years from F. of SS. Simon
and Jude, 1471-3.
JOHN TRENT AND R. STACY, WARDENS.
[Entries few and customary. The distractions of the Kingdom are probably reflected
in the broken periods of the wardenships.]
PAGE 83. 13-16 Ed. IV. 21.D. 1473-6.
TRENT AND STACY [serving again for 3 years.]
Receipts for two years for the panis benedictus . . . . . . . xijs.
IN EXPENSIS.
It. pro superpellicio pro sacerdote . .
ixs. viijd.
It. , , pro clerico . . . . . . . . . ijs. iiijd.
It. cera pro cereo de fonte . . . . . . . . . . ijs. viijd.
It. pro cera for the trendell .
· xvijd.
It. pro factura de le bemme crucis (the high cross beam]. . . . . ijs. vijd.
PAGE 84.
MEM. 16 Ed. IV. Joh. Bul and Thos. Prydell began to be Proctors at M’mas till
M’mas next, succeeding Trent and Stacy.
Expenses, xijs. iijd. Balance handed over, £iij xixs.
Page 84. - 17 Ed. IV. A.D. 1477-8.
JOHN BOWL AND THOMAS PYCHER, WARDENS.
[The first account in English.]
For mawing and carrying home of strawe for the bakehouse.
It. for the bedrowyll to the brest [priest) at iiij tymys
. . . .
It. for the rope of the canapie
. . . .
It. to the clerk for bearing of the banner to Ylchester ..
.
.
. xijd.
. jd.
ijd. ob.
Tintinhull Church-Wardens' Accounts.
193
.
It. for ij putts of stone to the church cawse (causey] .
It. for wyntering and summering of the ... chyrche cowe
It. for keepyng of a calfe fro mydwynter to after Easter . .
.
.
. ..
ii.
· ..
vijd.
iijs:
vjd.
.
PAGE 85.
For Ayll ſale] ad fest. S. Margaret .
For Ayll (ale Jache loffe Lloat]
RECEIPTS.
. .
.
.
.
stá bakings]
.
.
.
.
iiijs. vid.
. vs.
. viijs.
It. for the owyn [oven let for private bakings] .
.
.
.
.
.
.
18-19 Ed. IV. A.D. 1479-80. S. Marg'.
. to St. Margt
Balance .
Receipts.
Expenses.
THOMAS STACY AND JOHN BOWELL, WARDENS.
. . . . . . . . . . .
See Items below . . . . . . . .
.
.
.
. Eilj vs.
. xls. viijd.
xxiijs. vijd. ob.
Balance . . . .
Ev. ijs.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
·
RECEIPTS.
De redditu communis pistrine.
It. for a cowe off J. Stacy . . . . . .
It. for the same J. Stacy . .
İt. for the wyffe of Peter Prettyll for agoyn [a gown].
It. for a croke. of W. Undyrway . .
It. for the holy loffe . . . .
It. for sellyng of wax of the tryndyll
It. for ayll that was sold att the feste of Sanctt Margarett.
.
·
. viijs.
vjs. viijd.
. . vs.
. iijs.
, Vs. xd.
. iijd.
iiijs, vjd.
·
i
.
.
IN EXPENSIS.
It. for deryge and masses for the fonders.
It sowder and led for ye blomere [plumber's] labour
.
.
.
.
.
. xviijd.
PAGE 86.
Ed. IV. 19. St. Marg! to Ed. IV. 22nd,
Palm Sunday.
RECEIPTS.
. . .
It. pro taberna serevicie .
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
xjs. ijd.
EXPENSES.
It. carpentario pro reparatione ecclesie et domus servicie .
It. W. Newman pro reparatione domus communis servicie
11s servicie
.
.
ixs. xjd.
. vjs. iiijd.
- 20
194
Tintinhull Church-Wardens' Accounts.
PAGE 87.
It. pro thressyng of whete
PAGE 88.
.
.
.
.
.
.
jiijd.
. . . . .
[detached scribblings.]
Page 89.
22 Ed. IV.
A.D. 1482–3.
W. ASTE AND J, BOLLE, WARDENS,
ENSES.
Pro celatione Alti crucis . . . . . . . . . .
et pro facture le mortyse ad deponendum lignum intus. , .
[for the erection of the upright beam of the Crucifix.]
.
.
. xxiiijs.
. ijd.
PAGE 90.
Richard III. Q.m. 1483-4.
R. PRYDYLL AND J. Carslow, WARDENS,
ENSES.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
vjd.
id.
Pro Taratantaryatione unius ligni pro pistrino . .
It. pro capistro ad portandum canipem Alti Altaris .
RECEIPTS.
Joan Trynt dedit ecclesie . . . . .
It. pro pane benedicto . . .
.
.
.
.
,
.
,
. xijd.
. vs. xd.
PAGE 91.
[The scribe is quite confused about his date.]
ROBT. BENET [al Smyth, p. 90] AND W. LAURANCE, WARDENS, succeeding
Carslow and Prydel.
EXPENSES.
It. pro scriptionel Visitationis beate Marie et beate Anne . . . . . .
vjs.
PAGE 92,
[No date.]
R. STACY AND R. BAWNTON, WARDENS.
They receive of Smyth and Laurance. .
. Evj vjs. viijd.
It. quinque annulos et unam zonam argenteam.
It. de Willelmo Merche in Coker ad orandum .
. . . vjs. viijd.
It. de Roberto Pridyll ad orandum .
. . xijd.
It. pro uno thuriferario , , , , ,
. . xvjd.
It. de Willelmo Aste unam vaccam.
It. de redditu pistrino .
. . . xjs. iiijd.
It. pro prest unum ? vjs. viijd. ad parochiam.
· [Stacy and J. Trynte chosen Wardens, but their Account has been cut out.]
? Probably both picture and text touching the Visitation.
Tintinhull Church-Wardens' Accounts.
195
PAGE
PAGE 93. .A. mcccc. [No other date.]
J. BOLLE AND J. TREYNTE, WARDENS, after Stacy and Trynte. The only receipts
this year are from the two taverns, the bakehouse, and the cow.
EXPENSES.
It. pro una mappa empta ad altum altare . . .
It. allowyde J. Treynte pro taberna. . . .
. . . iiijs. vijd.
•
.
ixs. ijijd.
PAGE 94.
mcccc.
T. STACY AND T. HOPKYNS, WARDENS, after Bolle and Trynte.
It. pro trigintalibus [anniversary] tenentibus per annum . . . . .
.
xijd.
PAGE 95.
mcccc..
T. STACY AND PERRYS [PETER] BYRKYLL, WARDENS, after Stacy and Hopkyns.
EXPENSES.
It. pro le wyllyng (levelling] of the walete . . . . . . . . iiijd.
. vs. ixd.
PAGE 96.
[No date.]
J. BOLLIS AND W. LAURANCE, Wardens, after Stacy and Byrkyll.
It. pro pane benedicto . . . . . . . . . .
EXPENSES.
It. pro le sylyng ecclesie . . . . .
. . :
It. pro pictura alti crucis . .
It. pro pictatione alti crucis et pro cilatione supra .
It. pro pictatione unius mappe
.
It. pro factura le cylyng . . . . . . . .
.
RECEIPTS.
It. pro una taberna servicie vendita in festo SS. Philip et Jacobi
It. pro donio pistrinarii . .
It. pro pane benedicto . . . .
.
ijs. ixd.
vjs. vijd.
£iiij xld.
ijs. iiijd.
. xvs.
. xs.
xjs. iiijd.
. vs. ixd.
PAGES 98-9.
12 H. VII.
A.D. 1496–7.
.
.
.
ijs.
T. STACY AND T. HOPKYNS, WARDENS.
RECEIPTS.
It. pro vj bras. pandox. [private brewings in Church-house] . .
It. pro patella enea apud domum pandoxeterii .
EXPENSES.
It. pro emendatione j shete dicti pandoxeterii . . .
It. pro cccc arundineti pro emendatione dicti pandoxeterii
iijd.
.
. ixs. iiijd.
2 C 2
196
Tintinhull Church-Wardens' Accounts:
PAGES 100, 101.
[Blank.]
Paces 102.
PAGES 102.
13 H. VII. A.D. 1497–8.
T. STACY AND R. STACY, WARDENS.
RECEIPTS.
Et de brasina ... in domo pandoxeterii, viz., W. Newman viijd., R. Bole viijd.,
R. Browne viijd., J. Rychards viijd., W. Predel viijd., hoc anno. . . iijs. iiijd.
PAGE 103.
EXPENSES.
It. in dabero, wallero, et frethero la sperys (dauber, waller, wreather of the spars]
emend. dicte domus . . . . . . . .
. . iiijs. viijd.
It. empt. j sakeryng bell .
. . . . ijd.
It. in emendatione unius domus vocate la olde bakehouse . . . . xiiijs. iijd.
PAGE 1.
[Owing to misbinding the next account is found at the beginning of the book. Pages
104 et seq., originally left blank, have been scribbled on later. 7
.
14 Hen. VII. 1498-9.
ROB. BOLE AND JO. Trent, after Stacy and Stacy.
RECEIPTS.
3 Ales and 8 private brewings.
Panis ecclesiasticus, twice. 12 rings, gold and silver.
PAGE 2.
EXPENSES. [Customary ones.]
In stipendio Rob. Browne et jaole? iiijd. . . . . .
. [Not balanced.]
PAGE 3
15 Hen. VII.
Q.9. 1499-1500.
Same Wardens.
RECEIPTS.
De redditu domus pistrina .
xjs. iijd.
, , voc. olde Bakehowse . . .
"
"
.
"
You.
. . . . . iijs.
» „ ecclesiæ voc. Morelese ij ann. . . . . . . . . xviijd.
EXPENSES.
customary, except escura (scouring] fossati et frething sepes (making hedges] apud
oid bakehowse
i i .. ijd.
Tintinhull Church197
Wardens-
' Accounts.
PAGE 5.
15-16 H. VII. Q. . 1500-1.
R. BOLE AND J. TRENT, WARDENS.
PAGE 6.
16-17 H. VII.
J. TRENT AND T. BROWNE, WARDENS.
RECEIPTS.
It. de incremento panis benedicti distrient [sic] per totam parochiam
An inventory of Church goods and vestments in store.]
GE 7.
Page 7.
17-18 H. VII.
A.D. 1501–2.
T. BROWNE AND W. NEWMAN, WARDENS.
EXPENSES.
It. for a quit rent for the church house . .
ijd. ob.
It. for cloth for ij awter clothys paynted by J. Stacy and J. Trent
. . xixd.
It. for cloth bowght for iij corpores .
. xd.
It. for a bottel for too ffett [fetch] wyne for the hye awter. .
. . viijd.
It. allowyd to W. Rychards for bakyng for the church
. vid.
PAGE 8.
Et notandum est quod preter summas predictas debentur ecclesie tres summa
pecuniarum perquisitarum de incremento trium brasinarum de communi dono
parachianorum, quarum prima vendita est per manus Johannis Trent et Stacy,
et adduxerunt de incremento . .
. .xxxvjs. viijd.
Secunda per manus W. Prydell et J. Bawnton et adduxerunt de incremento . xiiijs. xd.
Tertia per manus Thome Stacy et T. Hopkyns et adduxerunt de incremento. xjs. iiijd.
18-19 H. VII.
.D. 1503-4.
.
.
ixd.
viijd.
T. BROWN AND J. BAMPTON, WARDENS.
RECEIPTS.
It. de pastura pertinente domui pandoxaterii . . .
. . .
It. de W. Prydell pro una brasina brasiata in domo pandoxaterii hoc anno .
EXPENSES.
It. clerico ecclesie pro monstratione vexille apud Yevelchester ex consuetudine
It. in expensis apud Kyngesburyl pro consecratîone ij corperalium hoc anno .
It. in denariis ballivo domini pro r[edditu] domus pistrine . . . .
? The nearest Episcopal Manor. Bishop King was probably in residence there.
PAGE 9.
ijd. ob.
. iiijd.
. xijd.
198
LE
Tintinhull Church.
Wardens-
' Accountsxijd.
It. in denariis ballivo predicto pro r[edditu) domus pandoxaterii . . . .
[Among the stock.] una toga ex dono Alicie Stacy et unum linthiamen pro imagine
beate Marie Virginis ex dono dicte Alicie.
PAGE IO.
Hen. VII. 19-20. 1503-4.
JOHN BAMPTON AND JOHN BREMELCOMBE, WARLIENS.
PAGE II.
Hen. VII. 20–21. 1504-5.
WILLIAM PREDYLL AND JOHN BREMILCOMBE, WARDENS.
Hen. VII. 21-2. 1505-6.
WILLIAM PREDYLL AND THOS. JENTTYLL, WARDENS.
PAGES 12–13.
Hen. VII. 22–3. 1506—7.
Thos. HOPKYNS AND T. JENTTYLL, WARDENS.
ENSES.
It. paid for iij awter clothys . . . . .
. . viijd.
It. for makyng and gyltyng of a chalyce with costs made in the puttyng owt of the said
warke, ponderat. xxj unc. et dim. . .
. . . . xlvijs. vid.
[A standing crop given by T. Predyll; charge for harvesting 18d.].
XS.
PAGE 14. 23–24 H. VII. Q. . 1507-8.
T. HOPKYNS AND J. HOREWOODE, WARDENS..
RECEIPTS.
Pro una vacca vendita donata per Elizabeta Prydell
It. de legato W. Borow . . . . . . . . . . . . xijd.
EXPENSES.
For a new dext (desk) for the quere.
. . . ijs
It. for costs done att the halowynge of the bellys and of the High Awter . . vijs. xd.
It. for adraw3tt maade for the sakerment with a coffer for the seide draw3tt, and fore
the oyle vaatt . . . . . . . . . . . . . ijs.
It. for yryn warke for the closure of the same and off the vautte . . . . Xxd.
It. for a roller to bere the [?] ewell at the Hyge Awter and for a cover to the vautte . xviijd.
It. for makynge of a frenge with bottyns [buttons] and tassels to a kerchew to hang .
over the sakerment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ijs. viijd.
Tintinhull Church-Wardens' accounts.
199
PAGE 16
It. for mendyng of a sakeryng bell . . . . . . .
ob,
It. for mendyng of the vessells at the all Cale] house. . . . . . . . vjd.
PAGE 15.
It. for mendyng of the arche at the chawncell door.
Et remanet de stauro antiquo ecclesie in manibus custodum de novo electoruni.
[INVENTORY].
In primis, ij crewetts off sylver.
It. one gurdell with bokell and pendent of silver.
It. a peyre off beeds
It. one rynge ex dono Elizabet Prydell.
It. iiijd. [i.e., a groat].
It. one pane (pan] appreciat. ad vs. viijd. ex dono Anisie Booles.
It. una vacca ex dono ejusdem Anisie..
PAGE 16. .A. 1510–11. [2 Hen. VIII.]
J. HOREWODE AND W. SMI3TH, WARDENS.
Among the receipts.
It. for ij leggst in the more . . . . . . . . . . . ixd.
EXPENSES.
It. for stuffe for mendyng off the mace [i.e., mass] book, for wrytyng off the Kalender
in the same . . . . . .
. . . . . . . iijjs.
It. in partte of payment for howsing of owr lady . . . . . . iijs. iiijd.
To the Skynner of Kyngesbury ffor v queyres off velume p'c xd. . . . iiijs. ijd.
To Nowbyll ffor xvij queyres at xd.
To Cockes of Baltsborow ffor v queyres att xjd.
It. for v queyres for a greyyll.
. . . . . vs. vijd.
It. for pryckyng, wrytyng and lymynyng [illuminating] of ye v queyres . . vjs. viijd.
It. for vj querys of velum at xd,
See also Ao. 1511-1512.] For Velum for ye portuas and a greyyll . . . xxijs. iiijd.
For pryckyng, wrytyng, and lymenyng of vị queyres . . . . . . viijs. viijd.
PAGE 18.
Q.A. 21511–2.
Will, SmyzTH AND JAMES STACY, WARDENS, after Horewode and Smyth.
[Nothing unusual.]
PAGE 19.
2.9. ²1511–2.
JAMES STACY, AND JOHN SMY3TH, WARDENS, after Smyth and Stacy.
Expenses. To carpenter for sawyng of tymber for seettys (seats) for ye churche and
for cuttyng and framyng partt of ye same . . . . . . . xxxiijs. iiijd.
1 Allotments, shapen like a leg and foot, 1.6., one strip at right angles to the other, are still called “legs."
These same pieces in later accounts, being let for leasing, are called leazes, leeses, &c.
2 One of these dates must be wrong. Owing to the official year now beginning on Passion Sunday which
might be before or after Lady Day, then the first day of the civil year, there was ample room for error.
200
Tintinhull Church-Wardens' Accounts.
PAGE 20.
Page 20.
AA. 1512-3. 4 Hen. VIII.
J. SMYTH AND W. WHELER, WARDENS.
RECEIPTS.
[An Ale as usual on SS. Philips and James and S. Margaret's Day.]
It. off Robine Hoods All [Ale] only this once . . . . .
It. a Jacobo Stacy per manus rectoris . .
. .
It. a Johanne Trentt for the oolde seets of the church . . .
.
.
.
.
.
. xjs.
viijs. xjd.
vs. iiijd.
ENSES.
It. carpentario for makyng of the segs (seats]
It. carpentario pro eodem opere . .
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
vjd. viijd.
. xls.
.
PAGE 26.
.. 1518-9.
W. PRYDELL AND J. HOPKYNS, WARDENS.
[From Passion Sunday to Passion Sunday.]
RECEIPTS.
It. ex legatione Johannis Stacy .
xvjs.
It. ab executoribus ejusdem pro loco sepulture ejus in ecclesia (earliest entry] . vjs. viijd.
PAGE 27.
[Some details of repairs to the churchyard wall on the east side and a stonynº door. 7
It. paid for viij loode of stone from the hyle . .
xvjd.
It paid for ij loode from the castell [i.e., ruins of Montacute Castle]. . . . xijd.
PAGE 28.
[A note that 3 leggs in the moor are allotted to the bakehouse and 3 to the
brewhouse].
From .D. 1519-1532.
[Very little change in the entries.]
| The addition to the Tower belongs to this Wardenship.
. A doorcas?, still standing in the west wall of churchyard, but unused.
...
Tintinhull Church201
Wardens-
' Accounts.
22–23 H. VIII. Lady Day, .9. 1531 to
Lady Day, 1532.
J. PRYDELL AND R. Broun, WARDENS.
XXS.
Special contributions to building the Church-house.
De Thoma priore Montis acuti ac rectore ibidem .
De W. Newman vjs. vijd.; De J. Underway, iijs. iiijd. ; De W. Bolerde, iijs. iiijd. ;
De T. Prydell, iijs. iiijd. ; De J. Dollynge iijs. iiijd. ; De J. Prydell, xxd.; De J.
Bampton, xxd. ; De W.Wheler, xijd. ; De J. Rychard, ijs. iiijd. ; De W. Smyth,
xxd.; De W. Gyll, xijd. ; De S. Towker, xijd.; De J. Burne, xijd. ; De R. Broun,
xijił. ; Summa, lijs. iiijd. ; [Payments for stone and labour follow. Total £iiij vijs. vjd.]
PAGE 21.
.. 1513-4.
W. WHELER AND JOHN STACY, WARDENS.
RECEIPTS.
It. de Thoma Tokar pro redditu domus sue .
.
.
. . . . . . xvd.
It. a diversis pro brewing at the All [Ale] howse . . . . . . . ijs. vid.
EXPENSES.
It. laid owt at the Churche alle at Montague for the deffawtt of apparance of owr
neybars . . . . . . . .
. . . . xxd.
It. for pavyng of the churche . . . . . . .
. . xviijd.
It. for blessyng of a pair of vestments
. . ijd.
It. for ij peire of crewetts . . . . . . . . . . . . xxd.
wetts
PAGE 22.
A.D. 1514-15.
JOH. STACEY AND JOH. PYCHER, WARDENS.
[From Passion Sunday to ye same day.]
W. Wheler de industria sua obtulit pro pictura Altaris ex parte australi
W. Ootts obtulit ad idem opus . . . . . . .
.
.
·
XS. id.
.
.
. xs. id.
2
D
202
Tintinhult Church-Wardens' Accounts.
.
ijs. iijd.
PAGE 23.
21.. 1515-6. 7 Hen. VIII.
J. PYCHER AND J. TOKAR, WARDENS.
RECEIPTS.
It. de pecuniis collectis in vigilia Epiphanie . . . . . .
EXPENSES.
It. payd to the paynter at one tyme (fil cum syr?) . . . . .
It. eidem similr. . . .
.
It. for payntyng of the kynggs crowne . . .
It. for honggyng of the clothys at the low awters .
It. for clarifyyng of olde wexe—and for takyng of ye tapers to for the crosse
. xvjs. ixd.
. xxiiijs. ixd.
. . ijd.
vjd.
iijd.
·
PAGE 24.
Q.A. 1516–7.
J. TOKAR AND W. OOTTS, WARDENS.
EXPENSES.
It. apud Stooke, Montegow, and Chilthorn, at their churche ayles . . . . vjd.
It. for clothe to mend the low awter clothys
LIC 10W AWLEI clothys
.
. . . . .
. . ixd.
It. dat. in regardo pictori for Seynt Nicholas awter. . . . . iijs. iiijd.
It. for clothe of heere [hair] for the low awters . .
. ijs. ijd.
[On a half page, sewn in, is a rough statement of the “ makyng off West wyndow yn
the towre," for raising the tower and adding a turret staircase. The rector
received £3 135. 4d. from Warden Hopkyns, and with other aids completed
the work. The masons' wages, paid weekly whilst working on le Sterr=£10 10s.]
PAGE 25.
2.9. 1517-8.
W. OOTTS AND W. Prvdell, WARDENS.
[The copes are repaired and new coloured.]
un
PAGE 116.
23–24 H. VIII. Lady Day, 1532, to Lady
Day, 1533.
J. HOPKYNS AND J. DOLLYNG, WARDENS.
[Among the revenue items are rents "veteris pandoxaterii," and "pandoxaterii,” i.e.,
the new Church-house with its bakehouse and brewhouse.)
1? The son with the sire. 2 On one of the pictures or images.
Tintinhuli Church203
Wardens-
' Accounts.
V T11.
II
PAGES 117–120.
From Lady Day, 24th Hen. VIII, to Lady
Day, 25th Hen. VIII.
THOMAS AND JOHN PRYDELL, WARDENS.
Lady Day, 25th Hen. VIII, to Lady Day,
26th Hen. VIII.
THOMAS PRYDELL AND JOHN BAMPTON, WARDENS.
[On a fly leaf, pinned to p. 119, are two supplements to this account, containing the
following Bill of particulars transcribed in full.]
SUMPTUS T. PRYDELL.
Item for ij loade off store stonys . . . . .
ijs. iiijd.
„ the helyng stonys fett [fetched) at Hardyngton for the porch
vs. iiijd.
, making of the bartin wall
vs. viijd.
costyge (costs, costagia] at Visitation
. xxd.
borde naylys.
. ijd.
beryng of ye banner
. . . . . . . ijd. ob.
„ frankynsens. .
. . . . . . . ob
» ye paschall taper . . . .
. ijs. iiijd.
, one bawdry . .
. xiiijd.
·
·
:
·
:
:
·
:
·
xviijs. xjd.
.
.
.
.
SUMPTUS J. BAWNTON.
Item payd to plumr. for mendyng lede of Chyrche.
» helyer for ye coveryng of ye porche . .
for lyme. . . . .
» Bell ropys . . . . . .
. .
.. wex for ye trendyll . .
sope . . . . . . . . .
lathys to cover ye porche
» lathys nayls. .
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
. vijs.
. vs.
. ixd.
. iijs.
vijd. ob.
iijd. ob.
. xd.
i vd.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
xvijs. xjd.
Summa hujus billæ
.
.
.
xxxiijs. xd.
PAGE 121.
PAGE 121. 28–29 H. VIII. Q.D. 1537–8.
P. TOUKER AND R. BROWNE, WARDENS.
RECEIPTS.
It. de redditu unius pistrine hoc anno . . . . . . .
It. de redditu unius cottagii dimissi A. Domytt
It. de redditu unius camere in domo pistrine dimisse Agnete Cocke. .
[Next Wardens, R. and W. Gelle. Accounts missing:]
.
1.
.
xis. uid.
. xvd.
. viijd.
2
2
D
204
LVL
Tintinhull Y
Church-Wardens' Accounts.
PAGE 125.
· 29–30 H. VIII. Q.O. 1538–9.
J. BURFORDE AND T. PRYDELL, WARDENS, after Touker and Brown.
RECEIPTS.
It. receperunt de incremento panis benedicti hoc anno ex antiqua consuetudine iiijs. iijd.
It. de dominol Episcopo Solubrensi ad sustentationem unius paris vestimentorum
empt. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Xlijs. iiijd
PAGE 126.
EXPENSES.
It. carpentario ad faciendum finem operis domus ecclesie, viz., silarium ibidem. xjs. iiijd
I
.
PAGE 129.
30–31 H. VIII.
J. BURFORD AND T. PRYDELL, WARDENS.
(Besides the usual Ales.]
It. de venditione unius cerevicie in quarta septimana Quadragesime ut per sacramentum
dictorum computantum . . . . . . . . . . xiijs. iiijd.
[List of 39 Subscribers ad sustentationem campanarum empt. hoc anno.]
[Next 20s., by John Hopkyns, senior, and the rest range from 135. 4d. and 6s. 8d. to 4d.]
It. cvij lib. (of bell metall de parochianis de Clowesworth hoc anno (eis ?) venditis
[i.e., old bells sold to Closworth] . . . . . . . £vij vs. iiijd.
Summa . . . £xv ixs. vd.
PAGE 130.
EXPENSES.
It. pro le cage campanarum de novo plena solutione
. . lxviijs. iiijd.
It. Roberto Cuffe de Yelchester pro duobus campanis ab ipso emptis hoc anno . £xx.
PAGE 132.
31-32 H. VIII. .. 1540-1.
J. PRYDELL AND W. GYLL, WARDENS, after Burford and Prydell.
De festo Annunciat.
RECEIPTS.
De dono Thome Solubriensis Episcopi in augmentationem camp. hoc anno vjs, viijd.
It. de Johanne pro occupatione domus ecclesie hoc anno . . . . . . xijd.
It. de T. Broke Ditto
Ditto . . . . . . . . . . xija.
It. de J. Cuffe Ditto le Bruerne hoc anno . .
. . viijd.
Thomas Chard, Prior of Montacute, Rector of Tintinhull, by the Act of Appropriation in 1521. He
had been consecrated in 1508 for Suffragan Service by a title “in partibus.”
Tintinhull Church-Wardens' Accounts.
205
PAGE 133.
EXPENSES.
Jo. Apsey, carpentario, tam ad deponendum iiij campanas quam ad levandum, necnon
pro laboribus super ad emendandum campanas in clastico hoc anno.
It. Johanni Belluter) pro factura quatuor campanarum hoc anno . . .
[Smaller items about the bells, and buying oaks for finishing the tower roof.]
xlvijs.
.
PAG
PAGE 135. 32–33 H. VIII. Q.. 1541-2.
J. HOPKYNS THE ELDER, AND J. HOPKYNS THE YOUNGER, WARDENS.?
[The only receipts are from two Ales, two tenants for rent of the bakehouse, pasture in
the moor, and for the rent of a little voyd place of ground in the churchyard.]
And for the increase of the holy loffe this year . . . . . . iiijs. iijd.
[The expenses include still, but somewhat irregularly, outlay for wax, for holy taper
and trendel, but there have not been any special collections for them since about
A.D. 1485.]
PAGE 136.
For our new clocke this year bought . . . . . . . xxxiijs. iiijd.
It. for the halfe price of the Bible this year bought . .
. vjs. vd.
EXPENSES.
PAGI
PAGE 138. 33–34 H. VIII. Q.. 1542—3.
Same Wardens.
RECEIPTS.
Of the vycary for the chamber in the bakehouse . . . . . . . viijd.
Of the increase of the holy loffe
. . . . . ijs. iijd.
Of the bequest of Margery Trott for her knell to be rongge
. . iiijd.
[A new entry.]
PAGE 139.
EXPENSES.
[A new Pascal taper is bought, and the Trendel renewed twice.]
It. for the expenses of the wardens, and others called by the Byssop and his Mynister
iij tymes . .
. . . . . . . . . . xviijd.
It. for a chayne to hold the Bible . . . . . . . . . . üid.
It. a cope and a surplice bought.
i Called also Bellman. He cast the bells at Chiselborough.
2 The first account presented wholly in English.
3 Summoned to testify to Wardens' presentments at Visitation Court, as testes synodales or Sidesmen.
206
' Accounts.
Tintinhull ChurchWardens-
Pace 141.
1 Ed. VI. 2.9. 1547–8.
Ric. HOGG AND SYBIL SMYTH, WARDENS.
[The usual entries.]
PAGE 142.
Paid for three visitations.
A cote, undercote, and ijs. is given in alms to J. Bremblecombe.
[A new entry.]
PAGE 143.
Three knells and a burial paid for.
24-25 Hen. VIII. 1533–4.
THOS. AND J. PRYDELL, WARDENS.
25-26 Hen. VIII. 1534-5.
PRYDELL AND J. BAMPTON, WARDENS.
26–27 Hen. VIII. 1535-6.
[No record.]
27–28 Hen. VIII. 1536–7.
. [No record.]
[Blank.]
38 Hen. VIII and 1 Edw. VI. 1547-8.
Rich. HOGG AND SYBIL SMYTH, WARDENS.
PAGE 143.
ROB. PYCHER AND JOHN DOLLYNG, WARDENS, who follow Hogg and Smyth, ist of Edw. VI.
[No account.]
II
John DOLLYNG AND ROGER SERYE. No date.
[Probably 1557–8.]
Tintinhull Church-Wardens' Accounts.
207
PAGE 144.
[No date.]
PETER TOWKER AND JOHN DOLLYNG, WARDENS.
Received of Jo. Pryddell and Jo. Stybbs.
. . . xlvjs.
Balance . . . £x vjs.
It from a St. Margaret's ale, a May's ale (i.l., the old SS. Philip and James' ale), the
Moor leaze.
It. from T. Bawnton for the Church house . .
. . . . . . . . viljs.
It. of T. Hopkyns for part of the same howse
. . viijd.
It. of my neyghbor Roger for the occupying of the Church howse . . . . viijd.
1558. ROGER SERY AND ROBERT HOSTLER, WARDENS.
1559. NAMES OF WARDENS AND BALANCES.
HOPKYNS AND TUCKER . . . . . . . . .
.
.
.
ljs.
PAGE 145:
[Blank.]
PAGE 146.1
11 Eliz. [The Annunciation is the Day of Account]
W. HOPKYNS AND R. BROWNE, WARDENS.
RECEIPTS.
. . . . . . . .
From two Ales
.
.
.
vjs. viijd.
EXPENSES.
£vj xiijs. ixd.
Balance . . . £xiij xiiijs. iijd.
[The barest summary of totals.]
Irregular entries. No audit sheet till p. 148, in 1568.
Morebath.
The records of this upland parish, lying within the borders of Devon, were selected for
publication.
(1). Because extracts from them were presented by the then Vicar, Mr. Berkeley, to the
Somerset Archæological Society in 1883, and printed in the Proceedings.
(2). Because the manor and the rectorial tithes formed part of the endowment of the
neighbouring Priory of Barlynch in Somerset.
(3). Because of the intrinsic value of the entries, compiled as they were, by one person,
viz., the Vicar, Sir Christopher Trychay, who being instituted in 1520, and living till 1574,
saw all the fluctuations, which befell the ritual which he had cherished with the utmost
zeal.
(4). Because of the intricacy of the organization and of some peculiar features.
The present Vicar, Mr. Binney, is now engaged in transcribing the whole document,
which, being in loose portions greatly needs arrangement, and also annotation from local
knowledge. In the belief that he will be able to give the record a more perfect rendering in
a separate publication, it has been thought best to produce here, only such extracts as serve
to display special features of the
FISCAL SYSTEM.
The noteworthy features were :-
1. The number of Stores, each in the interest of a separate devotion, supported by an
associate body, with a separate balance sheet, audit-day and feast-day, the audit sometimes
held by separate Wardens, sometimes by the High-Wardens. There were no less than eight
separate accounts.
(1) Of St. George (the patron of the church); (2) Of the Store of Jesus ; (3) Of our
Lady; (4) St. Sidwell, i.e., S. Ceadwold; (5) St. Antony; (6) The Alms light;
(7) The Young Men, sometimes called Gromen, 1.6., Grooms; (8) The Maidens.
2. The large amount of sheep belonging to these stores, and the detailed insight into
their management.
3. The appointment of a supernumerary body varying in number from three to nine,
acting as controllers " for the governance of the Churche Stocke."2
His burial is recorded at the end of his book. He had resigned some little time earlier.
2 This body, which is designated by no other name than the 3 men or 4 men, or whatever number it
contained for the year, was probably in existence before 1520. It was elected by the parishioners, and ac-
counted to them for the funds received from the various stores, and applied them as may be seen in the printed
Morebath Church-Wardens' Accounts.
209
4. The resort to Setts?, i.e., voluntary rates, to clear off debt or to meet voluntary outlays
for the benefit of the community, e.g., repair of Ex Bridge and Hucley Bridge.
5. The mode of collecting Peter's pence.
6. The mode of supporting the Parish Clerk.
In other respects, the funds were raised by the usual means, viz., a Churchhouse and
ales; gifts and bequests; livestock, such as bees and pigs; special collections for emergencies,
once by an Easter play.
The spirit of self-help was very evident. In 1534, when a silver chalice was stolen from
the Church, “ye yong men and maydyns of ye parysse dru them selffe togethers and wt there
gyfts and provysyon the bofth (bought) yn another challis wt owt ony chargis of ye parysse.”
81 donors raising 30s. In 1538-9, in spite of the warnings of the coming changes a special
effort was made to buy a new cope, for which the subscribers paid £3. 6s. 8d. “and the Churche
at no charge.”
This spirit was strongly nurtured by the Vicar, who from 1528 onwards, gave his rights
of wooltithe accruing from the Church-flock towards the purchase of a suit of black vestments
obtained at last at the cost of £6. 55. in 1547.
Owing to the long incumbency of the Vicar, this is one of the most perfect records
extant of the ritual revolutions. In most cases the disorder of the times confused
the administration of the parish, or made the officers afraid of recording it, or led to the
cutting out of pages. Two lists of vestments are printed below, to illustrate the meth ods
employed on the one side by the spoilers, and on the other side by the guardians, of the
endangered articles.
The following facts found in the Wardens' Account of 1537 are worthy of note :-
The Priory of Barlýnch, with the manor and rectory of Morebath, passed into the hands
of Hugh Powlett as lessee. The new Lord saved out of the wreck of the Priory Chapel a
window, which he bestowed in its entirety, stone, glass and iron, on Morebath Church,
valuing the gift at £3,2 and bargaining that he should receive in return the prayers of that
church. He left the parish to pay the costs of removal.
He seems to have been a close follower of his royal master, in applying the fruits of
spoliation to securing for himself the credit of a benefactor and the spiritual benefits which he
still believed to be obtainable by bounty to the Church.
N.B:—The language throughout is English with Lațin sentences and notes interlarded,
as in Leland and other writers who were used to recite Latin offices.
The Editor is obliged to rely on Messrs Berkeley's and Bennett's transcripts, for faithful
rendering of the original, which has never been in his hands.
account. In the disputes about the Clerkship in 1536, it was accredited by the Visitation Court pro re rlatır
but its relation to the High Wardens as well as its original cause of existence is left undefined. Probably the
multiplicity of “Stores” with their conflicting claims and interests, led to the appointment of this unusual
board.
i When the involuntary “Sett” comes in, it is collected not by the Wardens, but by the Civil Officer, the
Tything-man. See p. .
2 The parish valued it at £2.
2 F
210
Morebath Church-Wardens' Accounts, The Bederoll.
EXTRACTS.
1. The Bederoll.
2. The High Wardens' Account. 1526-7.
3. The 5 Men's Account. 1526–7.
4. The Alms-light Account. 1526–7.
5. Saint Sonday's Store Account.
6. Settlement of Clerk's Maintenance.
7. Lists of Vestments. 1549 and 1552.
The Bederoll.
Orate pro animabus sequentibus.
N.B.----Mem. that here after schall ye see and knoo how this churche was prevaylyd by
the dethe of all those persons that here after ys expressyd by name, the wyche all and synguler
gefts was gewyn and bequevyd unto this churche syn y Sir Chrystofer Trychay was made
vicar here, the wyche was Anno Domini 1520, 30 die mensis Augusti et in eo anno dextera
dominus exaltavit me cujus anime propitietur Deus. Amen.
Primo. 2.9. 1520.
John Hucly and RICHARD WEBBER, was Hye Wardyns of this churche and how this
churche was prevaylyd by there wardyng scheppe (Wardenship] and by there tyme now
schall ye see.
Jamys Radnynche gave a coppe to this churche for the wyche was ressevyd . . xxjd.
Q.D. 1521.
·
Was Hye Wardyns of this churche Ric. Hucly and WYLMOTT AT TYMEWELL, and huw
this church was prevaylyd by there tyme now schall ye se.
Alsyn Hucly gave to this churche. .
. . . . viijd.
Christina Hurly, ecclesie . . . .
. xijd.
Doninus Robertus Williams, ecclesie . . .
. . . iiijd.
Johannes More, filius Galfridi More, ecclesie . .
. xxd.
John Norman at cowrte payd vjs. viijd. for hys wyffes grave coram parochianos anno
predicto.
·
·
O.. 1522.
Was Hye Wardyns of this church WILLIAM ROBBYNs and THOMAS BORRAGE, and how
this church, [&c., as before.]
W. Rumbelow gave to the Store of Sent Jorge a scheppe for the wyche was ressevyd xijd.
It. he bequevyd agayn to the almys lygth another scheppe for the wyche was ressevyd xvjd.
It. he gave agayn to the store of owr laydy a scheppe for the wyche was ressevyd . xijd.
It. he bequevyd another scheppe to the store of Sent Antoni for the wyche was ressevyd xijd.
Thomas Tymwell at hayne gave to the store of owr laydy of this churche a scheppe
for the wyche was ressevyd . .
. . . . . . xvjd.
Morebath Church-Wardens' Accounts. The Bederoll.
211
21 I
A.D. 1523.
Was Hye Wardyns of this churche JEKYN AT MORE and JAC. TYMEWELL and how this
Churche was prevaylyd by the dethe of any man by there tyme now schall ye see.
Margeria Lake gave to this churche in wex .
. . . . vs.
It. sche gave agayn a awter clothe to Sent Sydwyll ys awter, and a bassyn of latyn to
sett lygth on afore Sent Sydwyll, prise of all . . . . . . ijs.
Edward Trychay gave to the Churche for his knyll . .
. . - iiijd.
Johan at yaye ... for her knyll . .
. . iiijd.
William Rowswell gave to the churche to be prayed for . . . . . iijs. iiijd.
0.9. 1524.
JOHN MORSE AND HARRY HURLEY, WARDENS, &c., as before.
And yf ye be yn any dowte of any man his gefth loke what [y]ere that ye wyll have and loke apon that
acownte and there schall ye a see playnly what proffyth this churche toke by the dethe of any man.
Jekyn at More gave yn to this churche to dress Sent Sydwyll ys awter withall a pere of
awter clothys ypayntyd and a bassyn of latyn that the Almys lygth how doth stonde yn before
the hye crosse, all in valew .
.. . . xiijs. iiijd.
and he lay in the quyr, where for the persson and my patrone ressevyd . . vjs. viijd.
A.D. 1525.
JOHN GOODMAN AND THOMAS NORMAN, WARDENS, &c., &c.
Thomas Zaer gave to the store of Sent Jorge of this churche a scheppe for the wyche
was ressevyd . . . . . . . . . . . . . xjd.
It. he gave another scheppe to the Almys ly3th for wyche was rec. .
xiiijd.
It. he gave agayn another to owr laydys store . . . . .
. xijd.
William Don gave to this churche to be prayed for.
. . . . xxd.
It. he gave agayn to stande afore owr laydy a taper, prisse of . .
. xijd.
And of this W. Don ys gefte hyt spekyth not of yn John Goodmans acownte
2.O. 1526.
JOHN WATERUS AND JOHN NORMAN AT COWRTE, WARDENS, &c., &c.
Alicia Oblye servant Thome Zaer (conda conda”) gave to the store of Sent Jorge .
It. sche gave to the store of Jhu
. . . . .
It. sche dyde bequeffe agayn to the store of Sent Sydwyll .
It. sche gave agayn to the Almys lygth . .
. :
John Holcum gave to this churche a Lent clothe ypayntyd, a Roode clothe ypayntyd,
and a sepulture clothe ypayntyd, prisse of all .
. .
Johannes Holcum major filius predicti Iohannis Holcum gave to the store of Jhu .
i Barlynch Priory, rector and patron. ? Quondam. See below sæpe.
iiijd.
iiijd.
iiijd.
ijd.
XS.
iiijd.
2 E 2
2 1 2
' accounts. The Bederoll.
Morebath ChurchWardens-
Vicar's gifts at divers times.
It. he gave agayn to the store of Sent Sydwyll a scheppe, for wyche ressevyd . . xvjd
Thomas Holcum filius predicti Johannis Holcum gave unto this Churche a super-alta?
yblessyd, prisse . . . . . . . . . . . iijs. iiijd
Johan Holcum filia predicti Johannis Holcum gave unto the store of owr laydy . iiijd.
John Hurley gave unto the store of Jhui. . . . . . . . . iiijd.
It. he gave agayn unto Sent Sydwyli . . . . . . . . . viijd.
It. he gave to owr laydy. .
.
. . . iiijd.
[ Dominus Christoferus Trychay conda [quondam] istius ecclesie vicarii the
furst ere that he was made vicar here he gave yn Sent Sydwyll and payd for
her makyn and gyltyng . . . . . . . . . xxxiijs. iiijd.
It. by thys foresayd wardyns tyme he payd for the glassyng of the sowth west
wyndow in the quyre . . . . . . . . . . XS.
It. agayn by hys devotion and his peryssen” was payd for the tabyllment of
Sent Sydwyll xl and viijs. iiijd. [485. 4d.]
It. agayn this foresayd Sir Christofer payd for on pere [one pair) of the sute of
white vestments . . . .
. . xiijs. iiijd.
And all this foresayd he gave to this churche thoff (though]hyt apear not apon
the cownte of this ere.
Q.D. 1527.
11js.
WILLIAM AT POLE AND GEFFERY SMYZTH, WARDENS, &c.
Benefits received by the dethe of any man, or by the quycke.
John Tymewell at Hayne gave to the store of Jhu iij scheppe, prisse
e or jnu iij scheppe, prisse · · ·
The wych scheppe was gevyn to this entent to mayntayn lygth afore the fugar (figure]
of Jhu and yn this entent the peryssyn (parishioners] hathe ressevyd this scheppe
and doth entende to fynde [allot] the encressyng of the scheppe to the same
entent.
A.D. 1528.
MARGYT AT BORSTON AND RICHARD RAW, WARDENS, &c.
torne (turn) over lyffe.
William at Pole vel potter gave his part of beys [bees] that rested with John Morsse
at his departyn, to the store of Jhu to mayntayn a lamppe barnyg afore the
fugar of Jhu, and afore Sent Sydwyll every prinssipall feste yn the ere, to barne
from the furste ensong [evensong] untyll hys masse be don the morow, the wyche
beys ware yn valure at William at Pole ys departyng . . . . ijs. viijd.
It. he gave agayn to the store of Sent Antony a scheppe for wyche was ressevyd . xijd.
Also to the store of Jhu a sheep, &. . . . . .
Also to the Almys light a sheep, &. .
. xijd.
» to the store of Owr Laydy a sheep, & .
. xijd.
It. he dyd bequeffe agayn to a new image of owr laydy .
vjs. viijd.
Teen, a slab for a side altar. 2 Parishioners.
xija.
Morebath Church-Mardens' Accounts. The Bederoll.
213
·
It. for hys grave for he lyeth yn the almatory . . .
. . vjs. viijd.
Geffery More gave to the store of Jhu a scheppe for wyche was ressevyd . . . xijd.
It. to the store of owr laydy a sheep, & . . . . . . . • . xijd.
He bequeathes to the store of S. George a lamb, &.
.
. . . vjd.
He gave to the store of S. Sydwyll ij sheep, &. . .
. ijs.
Johan Hyllyer of Bawnton gave to this Churche a banner ypayntyd of Sent Sydwyll
in on syde and Sent Jorge yn the other syde, prisse of . . . . . xvjd.
It. sche gave agayn a canstycke of lattyn to stonde afore Sent Sydwyll, prisse. . vjd.
Apon the wyche canstycke sche doth mayntayn a taper before Sent Sydwyll trymmyd
with flowrs to borne there every hye and prinscypall fests, this she dothe entende
to mayntayne whyll sche lyvyth, gracia divina.
a.. 1529.
THOMAS BORRAGE AND THOMAS TYMWELL AT COME, &c.
xiiijs.
:
iiijd.
viijd.
Summa actenus predict. gefts and bequests . £xj iijs. vid.
Thomas Trychay of Collumstoke gave unto the store of Jhu, and to the store of Sent
Sydwyll a sworme of beys to mayntayne a taper before them, the wyche beys
restyth now in John Morsse ys kepyng to halfe mone (money) and John Morsse
schall fynde the botts [butts]. It. he payd agayn for on pere of the sute of
whytte vestments, prisse of . . . . . . . . . .
Elnor Nicoll gave to the store of Jhu a lytyll sylver crosse perssyll [parcel] gylte of
valure . . . . .
It. sche gave agayn to the store of Sent Sydwyll her weddyng ryng in valure . .
the wyche ryng dyde hylppe make Sent Sydwyll ys scowys [shoes).
Water More? a yong man gave to the store of S. Jorge . . . . .
of owr laydy . .
bequeathed to that of Jhu . . .
of Sent Sydwyll.
the Almys lygth . ." . . .
John Tayler, aliter Josse, a yong man gave to the store of Jhu, . .
»
of Sent Sydwell .
»
»
» he bequethed to the store of owr laydy . .
„ to the Almys lygth
. .
Thys ij gefts of Water More and John Tayler apperyth apon the cownte of the v men
anno predicto.
.
n
.
.
xxd.
xxd.
xxd.
xxd.
iiijd.
xxd.
xxd.
viijd.
ijijd.
»
»
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· St. Sydwyll [Ceadwold]'s shoes. Compare the following passage from Bishop Hall's Fourth Satire :-
“Whoever gives a paire of velvet shooes
To thi Holy Rood, or liberally allowes
But a ne rope to ring the couvrefeu bell,
But he desires that his great deed may dwell,
Or graven in the chancel window.glass,
Or in his lasting tombe of plated brasse.”
2 One of the brotherhood of young men or grooms.
214
Morebath Church-Wardens' Accounts. The Bederoll.
Christina Tymewell bequevyd her best gowne to helppe to bye a new image of owr laydy
for the wyche gowne was ressevyd . . . . . . . . . iiijs.
Johan Rumbelow made this churche her sectorl to this entent that her goodds that .
were lefth when sche was brofth yn yerthe schulde be bestowyd apon a new
image of owr laydy, so when sche was beryd and every thyng contendyd [settled]
the vantage that this churche toke by her dethe was clere to helppe to by a new
image . .
xxjs.
Margarett Holcum gave to this church to helppe to by a new Sent Jorge . . . XXS.
It. sche gave agayn td helppe to new gylte Sent Sydwyll.
. . . . . vs.
It. for her grave for sche lyeth yn the almatory.
. . . . . vjs. viijd.
Thys gefth must cum yn yn this next acownte over leve. .
2.9. 1530.
TT
JEKYN ISAC AND WILLIAM TYMEWELL AT WODE, WARDENS, &c., &c.
Thomas Tymewell at Come to helppe to by the sutte of whytte vestments he
gave . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . XXVjs. viijd.
It. for hys grave for he lyeth yn the Almatory . . .
. . vjs. viijd.
And a scheppe to owr laydy, prisse . . .
• . xvjd.
He gave agayn to the Almys lygth a scheppe, prisse .
. . xxd.
Sent Sonday a scheppe, prisse
. . Xxd.
A pere of lyne [linen] auter clothys, prisse .
. iiijs. iiijd.
2.O. 1531.
..
.
THOMAS RUMBELOW AND JOHN NORMAN AT WODE, WARDENS, &c.
Alsyn Zaer gave unto the store of Sent Sydwyll a pere of beds and a gurdyll for the
wyche was ressevyd . . .
. . . . . . viijs. iiijd.
And for this mony was madyn Sent Sydwyll ys showys.
Christina Norman at Wode sche gave unto the store of Sent Jorge . . . . xxd.
It. to the store of owr laydy a gurdyll for which rec. ..
. . . xiiijs.
It. a lattyn canstycke of v lygthys stondyng afore the fugar of Jhu, prisse of . viijd. vjd.
It. a kercher to the store of S. Sydwyll, prisse . .
. . viiju.
It. another kercher to owr laydy, prisse . . .
. . vid.
Also sche lyeth yn the almatory for the wyche grave there ys payd . . . vjs. viijd.
Summa actenus . . £xx.
William Robbyns a yong man gave to the Churche . . .
iijs. iiijd.
It. he gave agayn a cotte (coat] for wyche was ressevyd . .
. . xijd.
Alsyn Gupworthy gave to this churche . . . . . . . . . . iiijd.
Margytt Chasse , ,
. . iiijd.
Johan Trychay the dofter of Leuys Trychay gave to the new image of owr laydy iiijd.
1 Executor, meaning legatee also ; see in 1531 the like case of Kate Robyns, whose will was administered
by the Wardens. .
·
.
·
.
·
.
Morebath Church-Wardens' accounts. The Bederoll.
215
Johan Hucly, puella, and filia Richard Hucly sche gave a canstyke of v lyžthys to
stonde afore the new image of owr laydy the wyche cost her fader . . viijs. vd.
And to the Almys lygth . . . . . . . . . . . iiijd.
A.D. 1532.
ROBERT AT HAYNE AND WILLIAM MORSSE, WARDENS, &c., &c.
William Robbyns gave unto thys churche a awter clothe payntyd of Sent Jorge, and
a stremer payntyd of Sent Jorge yn bothe sydes. Also he gave a crucifix of Mary
and John to make a pax ?' of. Summa in valure of this hyt cost . . . XVS.
Johan Trychay dyde bequeffe unto the store of Jhu and of Sent Sydwyll a bott of beys
the wyche restyth with William Morsse.
Alsyn the dofter of Thomas Tymwell at come sche gave to the store of owr laydy a
scheppe, and another to the Almys lygth all in valur . . . . . iijs.
Johan Greneway gave to this churche a corporas with a casse blessyd, yn valur iijs. iiijd.
Keteryn Robbyns gave and bequefyd and by her dethe this churche was y nobylls
the better with the pall of satyn that was made yn her behalf [given to the parish
after her burial.]
Q.m. 1533.
17
TTT
RICHARD WEBBER, WILLIAM NORMAN AT LAWTON, WARDENS, &c., &c.
John Norman at Wode was buryed yn the yle before Sent Sydwyll the viij day of
February anno predicto, fer wyche grave was payd . . . . . vjs. viijd.
And he gave unto the Churche to help to by a pere of latyn cansticks with the grave
mony · ·
XXVJS. Viiju
A.D. 1534.
WILLIAM AT TYMWELL AND JOHN TAYLER, WARDENS, &c., &c.
Cecyly Tymwell at Hayne geve and bequeved to the churche her best gowne for the
wyche gowne her husband Nicholas at Hayne brostch [brought] yn to this churche
a awter clothe of sylke the prisse of xiijs. iiijd., and for his wyfe's grave vjs. viijd.
Harry Hurly gave yn to Sent Sydwyll ys awter a pere of canstycks of latyn prisse . Xxd.
John Don at Exbryge, a yong man, gave and bequeved to this churche a pellow of
sylke, prisse of . . . . .
. iijs. iiijd.
Christofer Morsse, filius W. Morsse, bequeved to this church . . . . . iiijd.
2.9. 1535.
THOMAS BORRAGE AND WILLIAM LEDDON, WARDENS, &c., &c.
Richard Tymwell gave to the store of Jhu a ramme hogg, prisse of . . .
.
Xd.
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@.D. 1536.
THOMAS AT TYMWELL AND WILLIAM SCELY, WARDENS, &c., &c.
Sir Edward Nicoll gave unto this churche a sepulture clothe ystaynyd to lay upon the
[Easter] sepulture, prisse of . . . . . . . . . . vs. jd.
Q.A. 1537
HARRY HURLY AND JOHN HUCLY, WARDENS, &c., &c.
John Webber and Christina Waterus, thys ij persons causyd the sylyng agaynst the
syde awter to be madyn to there frendds costs to the savyng of awter clothys [by
arresting dust, &c., falling from unceiled roof].
John Tristram at Bawnton, the lawer, gave a borde stoke to this churche, prisse of. xxd.
Annys Tymwell at Hayne gave to this church her gowne and a ryng, prisse of xijs.,
the whyche mony went to a coppe [cope).
Johan Tymwell at Wode gave to this churche her gowne and her gurdyll, prisse
xiijs. iiijd., of the wyche mony ther was bestowyd in the (payntyng, partly crossed
out] agaynst the hye awter and for the bords viijs. iiijd., the vs. went to a new
cope.
John Morse gave to the tylyng of this churche with the nobyll for his grave . xxvjs. viijd.
John Goodman gave to the tylyng of this churche (what or with) his dofters gefte
Christia, viij scheppe, and a lamme, prisse xiiijs. vid., and this ij gefts payd for all
this tylyng of the churche.
M. Hu Powlytt gave to this churche on of the glasse wyndows of Barlych with the
yre and stone and all prisse . . . .
. . . xls.
William Hucly, the son of Richard Hucly, gave to this churche for his knyl] . , iiijd.
A.D. 1538.
THOMAS NORMAN AND RICHARD HUCLY, WARDENS, &c.
Jone Sawyn gave to this churche to have her knyll rong here
. . .
Elizabeth Crosse of Cleanger gave to the churche for her knyll. . . .
Thomas Zaer, a yong man, dyde bequeffe to this churche a ramme scheppe, prisse of
Jone uxor Ric. Webber condam bequevyd to the churche a gowne and curty!l, yn
prisse of xiijs. iiijd., the wyche mony went to a new cope
iiijd.
xijd.
xijd.
2.O. 1539.
JOHN NORMAN AT COWRTE AND RICHARDE ROBYNS, WARDENS, &c,
Rycharde Norman dyde bequeffe to this churche vij scheppe and iijs. iiijd. in mony
the wyche in the hole was . . . . . . . . . . xs.
And for his grave afore the hye crosse . . . . . . . . vjs. viijd.
And all this went to a new coppe.
Morebath Church-Wardens' Accounts. The Bederoll..
217
XS.
0
John Hucly gave and bequefyd to this church for to help to bye a new coppe . .
John Swyzth bequeved to this church vs. that went to a awter clothe.
Harry Tanner gave to this church to have a knell for hys wyffe. . . . .
It. of the geft of John Waterus a ramme, prisse . . . . . . .
Of the bequesth of W. Goodman a scheppe, prisse . . . . . . .
Of the bequesth of Eboll Hurly to the black vestments that Harry Hurly hadde' .
iiijd.
xijd.
xvjd.
vs.
2.4. 1540.
iiijd.
XS.
VS.
WILLIAM LEDDON THAT SPELYDI JOHN SWYGTH AND ROBERT AT MORE, WARDENS, &c.
For the knell of Robt. at More his fader yn law . . .
It. of the bequesth of Jone at Pole a banner of sylke and of Sent Jorge, prisse ..
„ of the bequesth of Phels Swygth, that went to the black vestments .
„, of the bequesth of W. Norman, that went to the stremer . . .
,, of the bequesth of Eliz Hucly, that went to a new stremer.
Summa totalis gefts actenus ys [this] a kownt (?) respice post in folio lxxxv, a £x.
[A loose page in another hand.]
Hereafter followeth more gifts.
VS,
VS.
21.D. 1541.
Ric. RAW AND LEUYS TRYCHAY, HIGH WARDENS
Jone at Cowrtleys gave to the church, that went to the streamer .
.
.
iijs. iiijd.
01.. 1542.
W. TYMWELL AT COME AND JONE MORSE, HIGH WARDENS.
Tho. Tymwell at Bradford gave . . . . . . . . .
Christina Tayler bequeathed an altar cloth, price . . . • .
. viijd.
iijs. iiijd.
6.A. 1543.
W. TYMWELL AT WODE AND JONE GOODMAN, HIGH WARDENS.
Harry Hurly gave to the black vestments . . . . . . .
Edith Raw gave a wether, price . . . . . . . . .
vjs. viijd.
. ijs.
A.D. 1544.
HARRY HAYLE AND JOHN GU.....
John Morse, a young man, gave to the black vestments . . . . . . iijs. iiijd.
The Vicar, Sir Ch. Trychey, gave to the same for Mr. Edward Sydenham his ..
book and vjs. ecclesia habuit.
1 T.C., Supplied the place of-used again in same sense. See Glossary.
2ť
218
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VS.
Edith Tamer (?) gave to the same .
Ric. Webber gave to the church .
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
vs.
21.D. 1545.
W. MORSE AND JOHN NORMAN AT POLE, HIGH WARDENS.
For the knell of William Kempe . . . . . . . .
(0
.
.
iiijd.
0.9. 1546.
JOHN TAYLER AND J. TYMWELL AT BORSTON, HIGH WARDENS.
Annys Morse gave a curtle, sold for vs., which went to the black vestments.
1
A.D. 1547.
W. LEDDON AND TH. BORRAGE, HIGH WARDENS.
Jone Kymppe gave to the church to be prayed for, to the black vestments
Roic. Flyd gave to the church to be prayed for . . . . .
Alsyn Isac gave to the black vestments . . . . . . .
.
.
.
iijs. iiijd.
iijs. iiijd.
iijs. iiijd.
A.D. 1548.
LUCE (LUCY] SCELY WAS HIGH WARDEN.
[And by her time the church goods was sold away without commission (ut patet
postea) and no gifts given to the church, but all from the church; and this it
continued from Luce's time to Richard Cruce, and from Cruce unto Ric. Hucly,
and from Hucly to Ric. Robyns ; from him to Robyn at More, and by all these
men's time, which was by the time of King Edward VI, the church ever decayed,
and then did the King and Queen Mary Grace succeed; and how the church was
restored again by her time hereafter ye shall have knowledge of it. And in the
last year of the King, and in the first year of the Queen was Leuys Trychay high
warden.]
END OF THE BEDEROLL.
T
HIGH WARDENS’ ACCOUNT.
1526–7.
THE COWNTE OF WILLIAM AT POLE and GEFFERY SMY3th beyng hye wardyns of the goodds
and the cattyl (chattels] of the hye store of Sent Georgii the ere of owr kyng and the
ere of owr lorde before rehersyd the xxvij day of October madyn.
In primis recets.
Mem. that y William at pole ressevyd at the begynnyng of my wardynscheppe of the .
wolde wardyns . . . . . . . . . . . xxijs. jd. ob.
Morebath Church-Wardens' accounts.
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It. y ressevyd agayn of John at Cowrte ys cownte . . . . . . vs. ijd.
It. for the flyes (fleece] of wolle and the talowe of a lamme
. . vid.
It. we made frely of owr cherche ale all costs quytte . . . . . . iiij marks, vs. jd.
It. of the gesthel of John at hayne to the store of Jhu iij yowe scheppe of the wyche
scheppe John Norman, senior, hath one and John at Cowrte hathe another, and
. William at pole hathe the wother [Other].
It. John Waterus hathe a yowe lamme of the store of Jhu that came from William
Tywell this ere.
It. William Robbyns hathe a yowe hogg of the store of Jhu, also that came from
W. Tywell this ere.
It. W. Tywell bathe a yowe of the store of Jhu and her lamme of this ere was delivered
to Waterus ut predictum est.
Summa of the wolle of this for sayd scheppe is viij pownde, and lamme-towe of one
lame not val. (?) pro dec. lame hoc anno et pro dec. ij agnarum debet.
Summa of the scheppe ys v in nomber and a lamme.
Deb. It. John Dore ys in deb. agayn the cherche for the space of his wardynscheppe
as yt ij pownde of wex or xvid. for at hys plesure the whyche he will pay to the
new wardyn John at Borston agayn Ester (Easter] next commyng of hys fydelite
before the paryche promisyd.
deb. It. W. Robbyns ys contentyd for hys debt the whych ys iijs. iiijd. to bye a new
canapy to hong over the sacrament when ye wyll and yff hyt cost more he wyll
ley more to hyt and yf hyt cost not so moche ye schall have the reste,
deb. It. William Hurly of Bawnton (Bampton] to this cherche diu deb . . iijs. iiijd.
Summa totalis receptionis ys.
. . £iiij vjs. ijd. ob.
Unde petit allocari pro necessariis Expensis ut sequitur.
. Costs.
ijd.
It. y paid to William Smyrte for fre stone . . . . . . . . . ixs.
„ for vij pownde of wex for the iij tapers afore the hye crosse and the precessional
tapers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111js.
„ for iiij bell ropps .
. ijs. xjd.
» for payntyn of the lente clothe and the rowde [Rood] clothe after the bequysthe of
John at Borston
. . . ijs.
„ for iiij yerds of lyne[n] clothe for the sepulture with the hemmyng of the same . xvd.
„ for makyn of ij gurdylls for the vestments and for mendyng of the coppe . . ijd.
for mendyng of the bell collers and for thongg
ongg . : : :
for grese for the bells for the hole ere.
for settyng yn of the borde to the cherche-howse scev [? seven] fotte and the barys
[barrs] of the quire dore.
. iiijd.
for vij pownds of wex for the pascall taper and the wyvyn (wives'] taper . iiijs. jd.
» for ij yryn bars for the quire dore and a pare of twysts for the hache . . . xvd.
„ for the cherche ale howse dore loke and for the settyng . . . . viijd. ob.
„ for a dirige for the benefactors of this cherche . . . . . . . iiijd.
Quest, or perhaps gefthe = giſt.
ijd.
2 F 2
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It. for the cherche howse rente for this ere .
. . . . iiijd.
„ for mendyng of the ij rachetts for the clerke
. . . ijd.
» for makyn of the pascall taper . . .
. ijd.
for makyn of all wother wex all this ere paste that belongyth to the hye wardyns . vjd.
for francke and sensse (frankincense] and for wyke yerne for the hole ere . ijd. ob.
„ for iij powndes of wex for the presessonall tapers and for Jhu his taper. . xxijd.
„ for the payntyn of the sepulture clothe . . . . . . . . xxd.
„ to the plommer for mendyng of the gutter apon the cherche, and the gutter of the
towre yn mette and drenke and wage . . . . . . . xxiiijs. ijd.
Not Notes] the plommer. And here after he to mayntayne and kepe the
same gutters and to fynde hemself and the sawder to his own propper coste and
charge, exseppte that we doo new caste hyt and he to have for hys fee at lammas
of us ijs. if hyt rayne not yn to the cherche thorffe [through] hys defawte.
„ to Andrewe for cuttyng of wode and for caryeng of same
vijd.
„, for nayles to nayle the ledde .
. vijd.
to the raers for rayng the grette stoke in wages.
. xxjd.
for their mette and drenke for that wyke . .
. ijs.
for ij pownde of wex . . . . . .
. . xiiijd.
„ for a sake of lyme caryge and all. .
. xd.
for a hylyer to mende the towre and the almatorye’ yn mette and drenke and
wages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xjd.
„, for ij crests for the almatory but a . . . . .
, for wrytyng of this acownte with all wother aconttes of this cherche by the ere . jd.
Summa totalis . . £iij xiijs. iiijd. ob.
Thys aforesayd alowyd here is elyd (yielded] in clere all costs quytte . . xijs. ixd. ob.
And viij powndes of wolle and the wolle of one lamme and apon thys there y's amytted
wardyn Margyt at Borston and Ric. Raw and to the wydow Margytt this forsayd
mony and the wolle was delyveryd the ere and the day before rehersyd.
In eodem die the cownte of the v men.
Mem. that John Norman, senior, and William Tywell and Robert Tywell and John
Norinan the yonger, and Richard Hucly thys ere they rescevyd of the yong men
stoke xxvjs. viijd. and of owre lady stoke xvs., and of the cherche stoke at the
last acownte vijs. iijd. Summa xlviijs. xjd., the wyche restygth as ytt yn the v
men ys handes the ere and the day before rehersyd.
THE COWNTE OF THE V MEN [for 1526–7.7
Mem. that the v men hadde yn ther kepyn this tyme twelmoth. . . xlviijs. xjd.
And theieto they have ressevyd agayn this ere of the yong men wardyns v nobyls and
of owr laydy ys cownte . . .
. . . . . xiijs. iiijd.
And this day at this acownte they have received of Margyt at Borston . . . XXS.
Summa totalis ys now . . . £vj xvs. vijd.
Unde petunt alloc. for expensis.
It. for makyn of the enter closse" in part of payment . . . . . xxvjs. viijd.
1 Tiler.
2 An Aisle, so called. 3 A partition, probably a Parclose.
Morebath Church-Wardens' Accounts.
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Thys alowed, there restyth yt styll yn the v men ys handds £iiij viijs. xjd., the ere and
the day before expressyd.
Summa of all the cownts of this ere with the maydyns acownte the ressets [h]actenus
ys. . . . . . . . . . . . . t vj xixs. viijd.
THE ALMYS LYGTH YS ACOWNT. [1526–7.]
The cownte of William at Lawton beyng Wardyny of the Almys lygth madyn in
eodem die of the yong men acownte ut predict. est.
In primis rec.
Mem. that y ressevyd of the wolde wardyn at the begynnyng cf my ere . . vd. ob.
It. for the scheppe of the bequysth of Wat pole
. . . . xijd.
It. of the bequyste of John Tayler. .
. . . iiijd.
It. of the bequyste of Water More . . .
. . . . . iiijd.
Summa . ijs. jd. ob.
Wher of y aske alowance for wex and for makyn for the hole ere yn the basyn. ixd. ob;
Thys costs alowyd here ys eclyd [yielded] yn clere all costs quytte . . . . vjd,
And apon this ys amytted wardyn for this ere follyng John Tayler and to hem this
forsayd mony ys delyveryd the ere and the day before reherseyd.
STORE OF SAINT SONDAY.
1538.
Moreover hereafter followeth ye Count of the store of Sent Sonday, ye which JOHN NORMAN
at Court, is yearly warden of.
PRIMO: RECEIPTS.
Memm, that this last year then rested in John Norman's hands . . . . xxiijd.
And to this he hath received for the wool of this year of this foresaid store ; js. iiijd.
Also he received again for his ewe and her lamb of this year, and for a ran hog that
came from Robt. at Hayne, and for Robt. at Hayne his ewe's lamb of this year,
for all these iiij he received iijs. and iiijd.
Also John Norman hath in his keeping as yet, a ewe hog, and a ewe that came from
Robt. at Hayne, and as for John at Court's ewe and her lamb, was sold ut predixi
- Richard Norman hath a wether in his keeping.
Thomas Borrage a wether is gone I wyne [ween].
Robt. at Hayne's ewe is delivered to John at Court, and her lamb and the ram hog
was sold ut predictum est.
Summa totalis Rec. is vere, vijs. and vijd.
unde, he asketh allowance as hereafter foloweth pro expensis.
Morebath Church-Wardens' Accounts.
PRIMO.
It. for iiij schepyn lesse [leaze] . .
It. for wax and wick and making for the whole year.
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Xijd.
vjd.
shall count hereafter, and our lady warden shall count for these sheep and all
other sheep concerning the church in future.
NOTE.—Let all the Church sheep in future be put in our lady mark full, what store so
ever they be off.
· THE CLERKSHIP.
A fresh award made of the clerkship by Mr. John Sydenham, and by 3 men of the
parish chosen for the purpose by the parish.
Q.. 1536.
W. Leddon would not pay his stitch' of corn to the clerk according to the’award of 1531,
two others would not pay the iiijd. Nor the cots at Exbridge their quarterlage according to
that award.
Therefore the vicar would mell (meddle] no more with the clerkship, because he could
not have his duty paid without displeasure of the parish.
He therefore gave warning to the parish at Christmas to provide a clerk by Our Lady in
Lent following:
For lack of a clerk at the busy time of Easter, the whole parish desired the Vicar to find
one until a little after Easter.
When at that time they could not agree about a clerk, 4 honest men were chosen to
govern the parish in all causes, concerning the wealth of the church, under orders at Visita-
tion, viz., the Vicar, J. Norman, H. Hurly, and T. Rumbelow (that spelyd John Swy3th at
that time), they to go home and invite Mr. J. Sydenham to join them.
On a day appointed, a Sunday, Mr. J. Sydenham and the summoner asked of every mạn
by name, if they would accept these men who had been chosen by the Ordinary, and their
decision. They chose the same, and 26 consented to accept their decision, again 5
dissentients. They could not therefore agree, and there was no clerk at evensong, nor on the
morrow which was S. George's Day, wherefore the church was homely served that day. In
so much that when upon the morrow of S. George's Day, the Vicar should say Mass for
Mark's child at Exbridge. Tho' Mark was glad to go to John at Cowrte to fetch the Church
door key, and the challice, and also he fetched old J. Waterus to help the Vicar to Mass
before he could have any Mass said for his child, and all was for lack of a clerk. And when
Mass was done, we went to William at Tymwell, to the betrothing of Margyd Tymwell and
William Tayler, and there all that day we reasoned shamefully about our Clerkship,
insomuch that Mark and W. Leddon were almost by the ears for the same cause, because
W. Leddon had not brought home his corn before Michaelmas, as well as he did the
i Stitch, s. Ten sheaves set up on end, elsewhere known as a shock. Jennings' Som. Dict.
Morebath Church-Wardens' Accounts.
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Tuesday afore the Visitation, the which was half a bushel of rye, and the last pec by hyppe, 1
so in conclusion the parish wholly concluded there and said let us have a fresh day of com-
munication, and we will be ordered every one of us.
Whereupon they desired the Vicar to find them a clerk again till a fresh day of
communication, and at the parishioners' desire so did he till the Sunday after Rogation week.
And in the mayne space,2 Mr. Hu Powlytt kept court at Morebath, and he exhorted
the foresaid 5 persons, and so did Mr. Hu Stickly also that they should be contented to
be ordered as the most part of the parish were, and if they would not, he would order them
he said.
So a fresh day was appointed upon all those who would not be ordered by Mr. J.
Sydenham and the four men were cited to appear. The day was Sunday before Rogation
week. Then was the parish again singularly [one by one] demanded by name if they
would accept an order made by Mr. Sydenham, and the 3 of the 4 men (for the fourth man,
Robert at Hayne, was sick at that time), and all that were in the church said ye [yea], and
there lacked no more that day, but William at Tymwell, and William Leddon, and William
Scely. Therefore because they were contented to abide by the order of Mr. Sydenham and
the 3 men, the citation was void.
So with Mr. Sydenham's advice, they concluded that henceforth it shall be the clerk's
duty by our award, to have whatsoever he hath had afore this, to the intent to have more
unity and peace among us, and to have the Church better served. Primo ; he shall have a
stetch of clean corn of hevery ſevery] house, where there is corn upon the bargain as
Brochole and wother moo.4 And he that hath no clean corn shall pay a stetch of wots
[oats], and he that hath no corn shall pay the clerk iijd. for his stetch, and ijd. a coter [cottar),
as hyt hath been in times past.
The clerk shall demand his stetch in this manner. Once he shall come for hem, and if he
be a redy, and yff not he shall come again, and then if the stetch be not sufficient he shall leave
hem till that some of the persons who made the award do see it; and then if the stetch be suffi-
cient, after their inspection, then the clerk shall fett him, and if he be not sufficient, then the
clerk without any business shall fett a stetch with Richard Hucly, and if it be in the west part
of the parish.; and if it be in the east part of the parish he must fett his stetch with John
Norman at Cowrte, for these two men are surety to the clerk to see all his duty paid truly
unto him that these present men have ordered, without any trouble or vexation, and
the whole parish hath made their answer unto these two aforesaid men that they will were5
them harmless, and if any froward fellow will not pay his duty to the clerk according to this
award, and also and if the clerk be warned to fet his stetch and peradventure he cannot
come for him by and by, then the onner [owner] of the ground shall keep him till he come;
also he shall have jd. a quarter of every householder, and the clerk shall have at every
wedding ijd. ; also at every corsse (corpse] present, and at every month's end that is sung
by note, the clerk shall have ijd.; also the clerk shall be charged with nothing saving only
with one challis, and with the church dore key, this for to keep and hide as he will do his
own. Also he shall go about the parish once a year with his holy water, when men have
shorn their sheep to gather some wool to make him cotts to goo yn [coats to go in] the parish's
2 Meanwhile.
3 Grantee of the Manor.
4 Other more.
1 Heap.
5 1.e., bear.
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livery. And here for the clerk shall help the warden to make up the vestments, and to
dress the altars. And also for this year ondly [only] for losing of his duty in times past;
the parish shall help to drienk? (drink] him a cost of ale,2 the Sunday upon Trinity Sunday
(et sic factum esset et ibi essent onines, dumtaxat, Borston, and Scely, Webber and William
Norman). Also at every Easter hereafter the clerk shail gather his hire meat, and then the
parish shall help to drink him a cost of ale in the Church house.
This is all the [a]ward of Mr. John Sydenham and William Tymwell at Wode, and John
Norman at Cowrte, and Richard Hucly, did make, upon the clerkship, anno et die predicto,
before the perryssin,3 and John Dyffe, then being bayly [bailiff] there, under Mr. Hu Powlytt*
and Matthew the sumner (summoner). In witness whereof, this note was made here
upon this account book to testify truly the clerk his duty and our award to avoid all other
unconveniens.
1549.
VESTMENTS AND COPES. R. Hucly's Account.
Memm that in eodem die there rested with John Norman at Court, a suit of black vest-
ments of Fustain naps, and a cope concerning the same qd. iterum deliveravit ecclesiæ."
Wm at Comb habet the suit of white vestments.
Nicolus at Hayne habet the vestment of red velvet and the altar cloth of red satin.
Thomas Rumbelow habet the Lent vestments of blue.
It. the cope of red velvet and the cope of blue satin, restant nunc in ecclesia,
John Norman at Pool habet the streamer and the banner rolled in an altar cloth, and the
blue vestments, restant nunc in ecclesia,
Willm Hurley habet the black pall of satin.
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NOTA BENE.
That, in anno predicto, John at Court, Willm at Come, John at Borston, and Lewis Trickay,
did deliver unto Mr. Gawyn Carow® [Carew] at Exeter, and to Antony Harvy and Mr.
Hache a cope of blue satin, another cope of red velvet with splede egylls of gold, a
blue velvet tunicle with splede egylls, a silken tunicle of blue with broncs [sic] of gold,
a pax of silver of iiij ounces and half parcel gilt, and the paten of the less chalice of ij
ounces and half, and this was all the church goods that they had in anno predicto.
END OF MOREBATH ACCOUNTS.
il.e., to brew a special Ale in his benefit. 2 These were called Clerk-Ales.
3 Parishioners. 4 Lessee, or grantee of Barlynch.
6 The Latin notes in italics were added after the restoration of the hidden articles in Queen Mary's reign.
6 A similar commission, given to Courtenay and Ford, had in June 1551-2 conveyed the bell-furniture to
Sir A. Champernown and Mr. Chichester under Royal grant.
? Eagles displayed.
St. Michaels, Bath.
1349–1575.
Wardens* Account Rolls.
This collection, the most important in the county, was carefully edited by the Rev.
Prebendary Pearson in 1878, and printed in the Somerset Archäological Proceedings of that
year and the following ones. It is in the hands of most of the members of our Record
Society, and therefore not here reprinted beyond a sample of the oldest Roll, giving the
normal form, and language and entries of the Accounts. Some of the peculiar words are
dealt with in the Glossary.
Its special value for historical purposes lies :-
I. In its early age, 1349, being the earliest Warden's Account known to me.
2. In its comparative continuity, ranging, with small intervals, through 226 years,
There are 77 rolls ; 67 in Latin, 10 in English, most of them well preserved.
3. In the complete organization which it represents from the earliest date to the
latest, and with very little variation, in spite of vast ritual changes, and ruthless
spoliation.
4. In its illustration of the working of the Church in a city parish with a trading
burgher-population.
Its FISCAL SYSTEM
has some peculiar features, viz. :-
1. The occasional Allowance to the Wardens pro stipendio xijd. I have never seen
elsewhere anything allowed to these officers for discharge of Duties, or anything
beyond repayment for extraordinary demands on time and purse. It was
incumbent in foro conscientiæ on every adult member of the church to serve the
office, and he or she was compellable in foro externo, i.e., in the spiritual court.
The wardens in office were also held to be compellable by penalty to do their
duties—see the case in this parish of a fine imposed, 18th Henry VIII.
2. The feasting at audit-time. This was perhaps no rare custom, but it appears in
these accounts more undisguisedly than elsewhere.
3. A small flock of sheep, an intractable possession for a town parish. Sometimes
their run was paid for, and then the wool and lambs were brought into the
Wardens' receipts—sometimes, as in 1536, the flock was let out at a money
rent.
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4. A continually growing Endowment in land and houses, rising in yearly value
from Ios. 9d. in 1349, to £11. ISs. 8d. in 1540. These properties were
charged with obituary payments, which indicate the primary motive of the
donors. They laid upon the wardens a heavy burden of house-agency. The
entries for repairs and management have been duly noted by Prebendary
Pearson, but their interest is secular, not ecclesiastical.
5. Partition of duties between the two wardens, one being specially elected as bursar,
"portare bursam.”
6. The sufficiency of ordinary revenue from endowment, aided by gifts and bequests,
for the handsome maintenance of the church, without habitual recourse to the
Church-house and its revelries, which formed the mainstay of the country wardens.
Ales were relied on, now and then, see 3rd Henry VI, and also gatherings for
special objects, see one "inter parochianos ad lapidiodium” in same year, when
the Lady Chapel was in rebuilding. The parish seems to have relied wholly
upon its own resources.
Church-Wardens' accounts.
No. I.
CIVITAS BATHON.
Compotus Thome le Mason et Thome le Tannere procuratorum ecclesie beati
Michaelis extra portam borealem ejusdem civitatis a die Dedicationis ecclesie
predicto anno Domini Millesimo cccmo XLIX.
ARRERAGIA.
Idem receperunt de xxiijs. viijd. de arreragiis ultimi compoti precedentis.
REDDITUS.
Idem receperunt de ijs. jd. ob. de redditu mesuagii Matildis Paket per annum.
Et de ijs. de redditu Agnetis la Wode.
Et de vjs. receptis de tenemento Johs atte Halle.
Et de xiiijd. receptis de Rogero le Toukere de mesuagio in Froggemerelane.
Summa . . vs. ixd. ob.
Novus REDDITUS.
Idem receperunt de vis. receptis de Rogero Clyware pro tribus terminis. Vid. de
terminis Hock', Nativitate Sti Johs. Bapt. et Sti Michaelis.
Et de ijs. ixd. de Philippo le Smythe solvendis ad predictos terminos.
Et de receptis de Joh : Gregori.
Summa . . xs. ixd.
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PERQUISITA.
Idem receperunt de ijs. legatis in testamento Willi de Wyke ad unum missale.
Et de ixd. ob. de collectionibus contra Natale Domini.
Et de xjd. de collectionibus contra Pascha.
Et de xxs. de legacione Johs. Michel pro anniversario suo et aliis tenendis per an.
Et de vjs. receptis de J. Annatt.
Et de xd. de j velamine de cerico (silk] vendito.
Et de vd. de j alio velamine de cerico vendito.
Et de xijd. de veteribus pannis ad dictam ecclesiam legatis venditis.
Et de xijd. de j veteri olla enea de j lagena vendita.
Et de ijs. iijd. de una olla enea vendita.
Et de ijs. vjd. de veteri bosco de tenemento Roberti Golde vendito.
Et de vjs. de veteri bosco de tenemento Ade Storche vendito.
Et de vis. viijd. de lano (sic) vendito ex legacione uxoris Thome Stote.
Et de xijd, de herbagio gardini Ade Storche.
Et de iijd. de herbagio gardini propinquorum, etc.
Et de jį. de candelis venditis Roberto le Doyere.
Summa . . lijs. viijd. ob.
Summa tocius recepte . . iiijli. xijs. xjd.
RESOLUCIO REDDITUM, i.e., Rent-charges payable to the Clergy for obituary offices.
Item computus solutionum pro anniversariis in eadem ecclesia et aliis de veteri per
annum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xiijd.
It. in Anniversario Ade Storche et aliorum per V vices per annum .
vs. xjd.
It. in Anniversario Johs. de Budestone et aliorum per vices . .
• ixd.
It. in Anniversario Ricardi Golde . .
.vd. ob.
It. in Anniversario Roberti Golde et aliorum . .
vd. ob.
It. in Anniversario Thome de Bristolle ijs. et omnia hoc anno primo.
It. solut. pro langabulo? hoc anno . . . . . . . . . ijs. ob.
It. solut. Coffrario Civitatis Bathonie . . . . .
. . xijd.
It. solut. procuratori communitatis ijd. de tenemento quod fuit Roberti Golde.
It. solut. filio Roberti Golde pro quodam mesuagio ab eis empto jacente juxta dictam
ecclesiam . . . . . . . . . . . . . xvjs. viijd.
It. solut. Rectori’ dicte ecclesie pro tenemento Roberti Golde a festo Circumcisionis
Domini usque festum Sti Michaelis p. xl septimanis
. . . xxd.
It. solut. dicto Rectori de tenemento Ade Storche ad festum Sti Michaelis . . vid.
It. solut. pro rudyng3 tenementum Roberti Golde .
. . . xviijd.
It. solut. procuratori* communitatis vid. de mesuagio quod Wills. Cubbel tenet de
dicta ecclesia.
Land-gable. An impost payable in most towns by burgage-tenures to the Crown, or to the Lord, who
had to pay the Fee-farm to the Crown. In this case it was payable to the Bishop, as Lord of the borough.
2 To the rector for obituary services, for discharge whereof the tenements had been bequeathed to the
parish.
3 Ridding, zie., clearing away of old materials for rebuilding.
4 The Chamberlain of the City for municipal dues.
2 G 2
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It. pro iiij cartis de novo sabendis . . .
It. Rectori pro denariisi beati Petri . . .
In anniverso Johs. Columbel die Sti Martini . . . .
In coreo empto pro libro missali involvendo [being bound] ..
It. procuratori dicte ecclesie iiijd. de Anniversº Ade Storche.
Summa
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EXPENSA.
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jd. ob.
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xxd.
iiijd.
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In-li cere emptis contra Natale Domi ..
In factura ejusdem . .
In lichil empt.
In iiijli cere emptis contra Pascha . .
In factura ejusdem . .
In dimidia li. cere pro ij torchis emendendis . .
In factura eorundem
In jli. cere pro cereo Ade Storche ad pedes Ste Katerine.
In factura ejusdem . . . . . . . .
In oleo empto pro lampade .
In ij cereis de novo factis ad pedes Sti Michaelis ...
In Watelrysể emptis · ·
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It. in stipulis emptis
In stipendio clerici ad illuminandum lampadem per annum .
In stipendio js lotricis pro vestimentis et aliis ornamentis lavandis
In stipendio procuratoris per annum
In parcameno empto pro compoto faciendo . . .
Solut. pro jno libro missali empto
Summa . . lxs. iijd. ob.
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STIPENDIUM.
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iiijd.
iijd.
In stipendio clerici pro compoto faciendo
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In pane et cervisia emptis pro expensis procuratoris per idem tempus .
Summa tocius expense . . iiijli. xixs. vid. ob.
Et sic ex [eunt?] . . vjs. vijd. ob.
1 Paid to Rector as the channel to forward them through the Archdeacon at Visitation to the Diocesan,
who was responsible to the Pope's Collector, under a rescript circa 1200, for the annual payment of £11 55. in
behalf of the diocese. This very ancient impost, the Rom-feoh of Saxon England, once universal, had now
come to be leviable from a few houses in each parish.
2 Withies for wattling. See "rys” in Glossary.
St. Michael's, Bath, Church-Wardens' Accounts.
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OTHER COLLECTIONS
known to exist in Somerset.
I. Stogursey.
2. Banwell.
3. Bridgwater.
Is in the very careful hands of Sir Alex. Acland-Hood, Bt., who inherits it from the
Palmers of Fairfield, the chief mansion in the parish of Stogursey. The volume was
examined by Mr. Horwood, who describes it in Vol. VI of the Historical MSS. Commission
Reports, p. 348-9, and gives its leading features.
It contains 54 leaves (less some gaps) ranging in date from the 18–9th of Hen. VII to
the 38th of Hen. VIII. It therefore stops at the eve of the great ritual changes.
It tells very much the same tale as our other records, e.g., a revenue always ample,
raised from voluntary sources, i.e., Church-house, and Ales (these the largest items), live-
stock, bequests and gifts, with small rents accruing from former gifts. There was no
recourse to a rate, or any need of it.
The outlay was on the usual objects, purely ecclesiastical.
The language was Latin till 1509, after which are found some English words worth
noting, e.g., the “Brethereddyne dirige and mass,” fº. 25"., i.e., the Mass of the United
Brotherhoods in behalf of their departed members; the “Holybrede house,” i.e., the
Church-house where the Holy Loaf was baked; the “ Calendar," i.e., the Bederoll or list or
commemorated benefactors; a “Taverning” for a Church-ale. One custom is noteworthy,
viz., letting out at a rent the "Juells of the Church,” i.l., the valuables, whether plate, or
adornments.
St. Erasmus and St. George were venerated, besides our Lady, who was represented in
No. 2.
This is a single volume in good condition kept by the wardens in a chest over the
Church porch. It begins in the 7th of Henry VIII, 1516, and runs to end of Elizabeth,
probably with some gaps. Having had but two hours' examination of its pages, I can only
say that the fiscal systein which it details does not differ from Yatton in its main features.
The parish had its Church-house and Ales, the house being called both bakehouse and
brewhouse in evidence of being fitted for divers entertainments. It had also some landed
endowment and live-stock; but the largest income was from the Hogglers. In each account
the second item of receipt is headed with slight variation “Venditio et incrementum forin-
secum de la Hogeling.”
The Hogeling is divided into the Upland and Marshland “in Marisco.”
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' Accounts.
St. Michael's, Bath, ChurchWardens-
In 1516, the Upland Wardens paid in to the High Wardens £4 7
Marshland »
£46
£8 13
In the following years similar sums are recorded.
The means whereby such a sum could be realized must be ascertained by further
research, which an old man's eyes cannot undertake.
I can only contribute thus much :-
(1.) In 1566 the parish resolved "that the Hoglers of the parish shall yearly make
their account and pay their money the Sunday before St. Nicolas, on pain of
fines, &c.” The Hye Wardens to pay their money (i.l., income from all
sources) the Sunday after St Nicolas, i.e., the end of the financial year.
(2.) Hogglers were the lowest class of labourers.
(3.) The terms “Venditio et Incrementum” bid one believe that there was a
common stock running on common lands on the hill and in the moor, in which
the Church had rights, and that the stock was husbanded, and the rights made
productive by a band of working men, who thus made a contribution to the
Church funds.
No. 3.
These MSS. are in the hands of the Corporation. I did not know that they contained
Churchwardens' Compoti till after the decay of eye-sight had narrowed my powers of inspec-
tion. I now give the results of a three hours' survey in May, 1889, granted to me by the
courtesy of Mr. Read, the Town Clerk.
I found Rolls of the “Custodes bonorum et luminum Cantariæ B.M.” an endowed
Chantry with its own Chapel, audited in the 42nd, 43rd, 44th, 45th, 46th of Edward III,
and in the ist and on to the roth (inc.) of Richard II from Christmas to Christmas.
Of High Wardens accounts (preserved also in rolls) I found one in the 47th of Edward
III, and two in Richard II, each running for two years, viz, the °7th and °8th, and the °9th
and ºroth, from Michaelmas to Michaelmas. The same wardens present an account" in
dorso” as Wardens of the goods and lights of the High Cross, endowed with real property.
In the °2nd, 5th, 6th of Henry V.—In the 19th, 2oth, 27th, 28th, 31st, 32nd, 34th
35th, and 46th of Henry VI also one °1447 (no regnal year), and in the 3rd, 4th, and noth
of Edward IV, I found Churchwardens' rolls.
The noteworthy feature in the FISCAL SYSTEM, is—
The regular Church Rate, “ Collecta Assisa," i.e., a Collection by assessment, levied
yearly, or once in two years ; as early as 1383.
In 1447-8 it is called “ Collecta concessa per parochianos et burgenses ad emendandam
Ecclm £8."
It was laid (apparently pro rata) on the whole area of the parish in the town and country,
and was viewed as a debt, enforceable in the spiritual court. There is one loose membrane,
Those marked ° I examined in detail.
St. Michaels, Bath, Church-Wardens' Accounts.
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in writing closely approaching to 1447-8, containing a list of defaulters "in debt to the
Church” each with a rated sum against his name.
• This shows that the subsidy was not made up of gifts, voluntary in amount. In another
account, a citation has been paid for by the Wardens against the “Debtors of the Church,"
thus bringing the defaulters into the Court Christian.
Three principles are here asserted. (1) The liability in foro conscientiæ of each
member of the Church to contribute “ quoad res,” according to his property. (2) The
rating authority of the aggregate body of members, to settle the "how much ” and “how.
often.” (3) The authority of the forum externum of the Church to coerce the un-
willing.
· Being the only case of compulsory church rate before the reign of Elizabeth that I know,
I have given the particulars fully.
In consequence of being rate-fed, St. Mary's Parish did not resort to a Church-house or
revelries at Hocktide or at other feasts for maintenance. There were gifts and bequests in
money and kind, but not very large. Live-stock, if given, was sold, not kept.
The oldest MS. is a detached membrane dated 12th Edward [almost certainly Edward I,
and if so, 12847. It contains a report from a Cornmittee of four empowered by the parish to
obtain a bell. They bought the materials, made their mould, and founded the bell on the
spot. Its weight was 1781 lbs.
· On another sheet 1336–7, William the Tanner, a sole committee, accounts to the
parish for the outlay of £143 135. raised for the “Novum opus ecclesiæ.” This sum was
paid in 5 instalments to tradesmen, but the items are unrecorded.
A separate bundle is endorsed by Mr. Riley (the Commissioner who reported on the
collection to the Hist. MS. Comm.), as transcribed by him in 1871. It contains (inter alia)
Inventories of Vestments kept in “S. Katrine's Yle," and a rental of the endowed Rode
chapel. They are in English, and were printed in Vol. VII, 1858, of the Som. Arch. Pro.
This very interesting collection ought to be thoroughly examined. Together with those
of Banwell and Stogursey, it would, if transcribed in extenso, fill a volume, and the examina-
tion of contents would probably throw a good deal of needed light upon the history of our
churches. One item I will quote as an instance of the timely exercise of the visiting and
coercive authority of the Archdeacon.
In the Roll of gth-IIth of Richard II is charged the sum of £4. 6s. 8d. paid to the Vicar
“pro emendandis fenestris ad taxam ex assensu parochianorum per coercionem Archidi.
Tanton.” Here is a case of a defect noted by the Archdeacon, the parish ordered to repair
up to a given estimate (taxa), the parish complying, and giving the money to the Vicar for
the execution of the work. The same roll records the less-pleasing fact of the building of a
charnel-house (carnaria) on the north side of the Church.
Church-Wardens* accounts
. OF 15TH OR I6TH CENTURY, BEYOND THE DIOCESE.
Those that have come under my ken are the following :-
No. 1. St. Peter's in the East Oxford, a city parish.
No. 2. Solihull, a large village in Warwickshire.
No. 3. Stanford in the Vale, a Berkshire village.
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St. Michael's, Bath, Church-Wardens' Accounts.
No. 1.
These were discovered by myself when Vicar in 1845, in the state of a bundle of loose
rolls fast decaying. They are now safely kept in a vaulted room, bound in a volume, and
accessible for inspection but not printed. They date from 1444. There are nine before
1500. Then they become more regular and run through the 16th century, but with gaps.
THE FISCAL SYSTEM
Tallies very nearly with that of St. Michael's, Bath, especially in the amount of house
property, charged with obits, but in order to eke out this rental, the Wardens-
1. Made collections "inter parochianos' at the great festal processions.
2. Received collections made by the young men and maidens at Hocktide, Mon-
day and Tuesday, each class having one day's possession of the thoroughfares
and making the other pay for passing.
3. Made profit by sales of Holy Ale and Holy Loaf, brewed and baked-at the
Church-house.
4. Kept a stock of players garments and let them out for hire.
5. Let out torches for funerals, especially those of academical students.
The funds were generally ample, the outlay was wholly upon Church objects. The
house-property, to escape confiscation in the 16th century, was made over to the Corporation
of the City, who till lately, leased it to parish feoffees, in aid of the Wardens' Accounts.
.
No. 3.
This collection, ranging from 1552–1602, is printed in the Antiquary, four numbers
beginning February, 1888.
The following contents are worth noting :-
Inventory of Church goods, as renewed 1° Mariæ by Dame Fettiplace, with a preface
touching the order for providing the Holy Loaf.
A fund called “Font-stock"was gathered by two women from the “font-wives," probably
for the Font taper at Easter.
There was a gathering for “Crowche (= cross) or paschull money,” i.e., for Easter
procession. Some allotments of Church-land, a Church-house called also Gildehall, a
Whitsun ale, a gathering on Twelfth Even (Eve of Epiphany) for Rood-light called Dawel!
light, an unexplained receipt from “the encrease of the 40 pences vs. vijd” (more than once),
and for "cheeses gathered for the Church.” In 1572 wafer-bread was provided by the
parish for Communion for the year.
The usual result followed upon the compulsory imposition of civil charges. The
voluntary gifts and bequests died out.
Globbary.
The aim of this Glossary is to aid in the understanding of the foregoing accounts and of
similar ones. With this view it notices words used in an obsolete or unwonted or local
sense, and also some uses peculiar to Wessex. These are marked Z.
Other abbreviations are used, e.g. :-
n.s. Noun substantive.
adj. Adjective.
part. Participle.
Z hod. Modern Somerset tongue.
v.t. Verb transitive.
C; Y, M, T, P, B, for Croscombe, Yatton, Morebath, Tintinhull, Pilton, and St. Michael's,
Bath, the places that have furnished the corpus of the book.
The authorities referred to are Halliwell's Archaic Dictionary, Chambers' English Dictionary,
Richardson's Dictionary, Jennings' Somerset Dialect, Parker's Glossary of Architecture,
Wright's Prov. Dict.
NOTANDA.
In the use of letters the scribes constantly put V for F, and Z for S according to the spoken
sounds. At P the letters V and W are quite interchangeable, e.g., Vont (i.e., Font) is
written Wont; Wreaths, Vreathes. Sometimes F stands for W, 2.., Freathes for Wreaths,
creating doubt about the sound. Y is added as an initial where it has no place, e.g., in
“Our” and “ Aisle" and dropt elsewhere, e.g., "eeld” for “yield,” thus sharing the fate
of “h” in other counties. W in like manner is imposed and deposed, e.g., “Wolde"
for “Old,” “Ood” for “Wood.” “At” and “to” are, as in z hod, interchangeable.
The use of the Anglo-Saxon participial prefix "ge” represented by “y” or “I” is
universal, e.g., y-bought, y-fett, &c.
1 In “ Light," " Draught,” &c., our scribes inserted a letter to represent the guttural force, now extinct,
of the Anglo-Saxon “G” or “Gh.” Sometimes they added it to the "gh,” sometimes wrote it instead. It
is found also at the beginning of “gate,” sounded perhaps more like "y" then “g”-A special type 3 repre-
sents it in our text.
2 H
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Glossary.
Aler, n.s. Y, sæpe. The gallery of the rood-loft. Borrowed from the Alure or yangway of
embattled walls, made for the passage to and fro of the defenders, see Solarium.
Ale, passim, n.s. An entertainment given in the interests of the parish on a holiday.
Ale-house, n.s. Y, 201. The Church-house.
Alms light, n.s. M, passim. The light maintained for the souls of the Departed, elsewhere
called soul-light, dead-light and Lumen Animarum.
Almatory, n.s. Peculiar to Morebath, a portion of the Church, coveted for burial.
An ely, to v.t. Y, 99. To anoint, i.e., in extreme unction.
Assyon, Y, adj. Ashen, made of Ash. Z hod.
Axsyn, Y, 117, P, n.s. Ashes. Z hod.
“Bastyng the ryng in whyt,” Y, 172. Something done in the belfry apparently.
Baudries, n.s. passim, and diversely spelt. Baldricks, i.e., belts, or pendants of belts, but
here used for the handles of bell ropes, and leathern loops in the crown of the bell, from
whence the clapper swung.
Bede-roll (diversely spelt), n.s. sæpe. The list of Benefactors, claiming the Intercessions
of the Church. It was read out by a Bedeman, who might be clerk or sexton or other
subordinate, on the Anniversary day when the great Dirige was celebrated at the cost
of the parish. See in M, p. 210, a sample of a Bede-roll. To be placed on this roll
was often a condition stipulated by donors, and always a valued privilege.
Bede-man, 12.5. The person appointed to read out the Bede-roll and bid the prayers of the
congregation. In some cases it was a continuous office, e.g., at Frome, where it has
remained in the patronage of the owners of Orchardleigh. See Som. Notes and Queries,
1888, PP. 122 and 135. The modern descendant is the Beadle or Bedel.
The Bedesman was a distinct person, viz., one who was bound in virtue of a benefaction to
say intercessory prayers.
Bellatur
n.s. Y, 147. Bellfounder.
Bellmans"
Blodius, adj. Blue.
Borow, n.s. P. A Guarantor, a man who gives a borow or pledge.
Brand-yre , n.s. Y, 26. Andirons for the hearth.
Brondyrens 56.
Braste, n.s. Y, 104. Brass.
Burde-Stoke, n.s. Y, 141, M. A board-stock, i.e., a log fit for sawing into board, which
is sounded Boord in Z.
Burde-nayles, n.s. Y. Nails suited for joining boards.
Blossary.
235
Capull, n.s. Y, 105. A horse.
Carnock, n.s. Y, 141. A heap measure applied to lime. Cf. Curnock=Four bushels of
corn. Wright's Prov. Dict.
Clavey, n.s. Y, 144. A mantelpiece or shelf. Z.
Colas, proper name. St. Nicholas, Y, 101.
Constre-Cowrte, 11.s. Y. Consistory Court.
Corse, n.s. C. The bodice attached to a girdle. Cf. Corselet.
Countes-day, n.s. P. Audit-day, Day of Account
Copps
ri. Copes from Lat. Capa.
Copys
2. Some kind of Candle-holder, e.g., “the copys that beareth the light.” Y, 37.
Coppsys 3. Generally some kind of cap, finial, topping or coping. In this sense
Coppys L it is akin to German Kopf.
Crese, 1.s. Increase, the year's addition to a store or stock, passim.
P, passim. A portable cross, from Lat. Crux, Crucis. At C the High
Crook ?
Crowche ) nov
Cross had its own paid keeper. S. Michael also had a “ Crook” at
C and a Crook-bearer.
C. p. 24, 26 (bis) 27. “ Croke-money with the vantage of the brede”
Croke-bred, n.s. “and ale.” The Holy Loaf and Ale were sold at the great pro-
Croke-money, n.s. cessions, specially Easter, and the profits entered as the Crese of
the Crook.
> n.s.
M.S.
Dandy-pratts, n.s. Y, 155. A base coin, unauthorized.
Dawbe, n.s. See Ryses.
Dayer, 1.5. P. A dairyman.
Ded-money, n.s. C, sæpe. A fund kept by wardens for maintaining a light (called in
other places dead-light, soul-light, alms-light), on the high beam of the high Cross, and
for celebrating an anniversary for the dead, also for torches and tapers at the funerals of
the poor. It was fed by bequests and gifts.
Drawle , Y. A sucker or some part of the drawing gear of a pump. Cf. Drawzte Y, 142.
Trawle | Y.
Dyking of the well. Y, 127. Lining it with stone, now called in 2 steaning.
Dyking of the Yeo. Y, sæpe. Ditching, making good the banks.
Ernest-penny n .s. The id. universally paid down as the evidence of a bargain being
Covenant-penny struck.
Entreclose, n.s. In a dwelling-house a partition-wall, in a church a parclose, or half-open
screen.
2
2
H
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Glossary.
F
Famels, 1.5. C, 47. Fanons or maniples.
Femerell. Y. Pierced stonework in belfry for escape of sound, from “Fumariolum,” a
louvre for escape of smoke.
Ferments. Y, 96 L
12.5. “Ferramenta,” iron work for the steeple windows.
Farments. Y, 100 S".S.
Fett (oft. y-fett) passim. The participle past of " to fetch."
"Flameolum de Sypres pro pixide Corp. Xti,” B, 1427. A veil of Cyprus silk for the Pyx.
Cf. flammula, in low Latin=a banner.
Flaks, n.s. Y, 101. Hurdles for scaffolding, also split rods for making hurdles. Cf.
Flakes (in Hearn's Jo. Glast. v. 2, p. 321). Wattling for preserving sea walls.
Floryssyng, part. Adorning with colour the wax-candles. Y.
Forlock. Y, 149. A carpenter's term.
Freethes, n.s. Y, 91=Vreethes or Wreaths, i.e., Wreathen work for dead fencing or for
wattle and dab. Cf. Frething and Frether, T, 196, and cum virgis vrydendis T, 178.
See Halliwell.
Gawds, n.., passim. Bosses or other ornamental attachments to girdles or jewels.
Gemmows, n.s., variably spelt. A pair of hinges (gemelli, twins] including the loop on the
door and the hook on the durn.
Glassyn, adj. Y. Made of glass.
Grayell, n.s., variously spelt, sæpe. Grail. Lat. Gradale, an office book.
Grey-cayk, n.s. Prob. a pigment, 97.
Groming-wardens, 12.s. M, 1559. Groomen-wardens, i.e., Wardens of the grooms or
young men's guild.
H
Harnest, P.p., applied to a girdle. Garnished, adorned.?
Hele, v.t. passim. To cover, whence Helyer, a Tiler. ;
Helme-bought, n.s. T. Helm-bot, i.e., the right of cutting helm [stubble] in a common
field. Cf. Fire-bot, Plough-bot.
Here, Herys, Here-cloth, n.s. Cloth made of hair to cover the stone altar-slabs under a
richer cloth.
Hoggler, 1.5. The lowest class of labourer, including miners, in z hod.
Hogling-money, n.s. P, 26. The labourers' contribution paid through the lady-wardens.
Hogeling alias Hokeling-light, n.s. A light maintained by a Hoggler's guild, see Preface.
Hopyng, part. Y, sæpe. Hooping vessels.
!" Bright-harnest angels sit in order serviceable,”
Milton's Ode on Christ's Nativity, last line.
Glossary.
237
Huck-muckes, n.s. Y, 28. Something for wiping the feet upon, often renewed, probably
of brushwood, Jenn. Z. Dict. gives the word=A strainer retaining the dregs of a mash-
tub.
Husselling-Cloth. Y, 14. A cloth used in Houseling, i.e., in administering the Holy
Sacrament of the Body.
Jettyn, adj. C, 1499. Made of Jet.
Jornale, n.s. B, 1370. A wax candle "j cereo empto ad jornale."
Judas. Y and T, sæpe. A light or series of lights, or of light holders, ranged along the rood-
loft, casting up their glare on the Rood. At 'T there were 40 such light-holders of
wood, p. 185.
K
Key, Kye, n.s. P, passim, for plural of cow. Hence Key-wardens.
Kreys-cloth
7 n.s., passim. Linen cloth applied to divers uses in Church and
Cresse and Creste-cloth ) Church-house.
Kyve, n.s. Y, scepe. A large tub. Cf. keeve in Devon hod.
L
Lamb-tow, n.s. M, passim. Wool of young lambs.
Latten, n.s., scepe. A mixed metal, still used.
Lege-bell, n.s. Y, 90. Possibly a Lyche-bell.
Legent, n.s. C, p. 5. A book of Legenda or Lections.
Leverys, nas. T, 186. Some kind of grain-crop“ segetes."
Liernes, n.s. T, 184. Oaken ribs under the projecting gallery of the rood-loft. (Walcott's
Sacred Archæo.)
Light-men, n.s. Gatherers for the maintenance of lights in the east and west parts of Y.
Lugs to the banners, passim. Strings to hold the banners in place.
Lyche-rest, n.s. Y, 1559. A privilege of being buried in the Church, including probably
the lying in the Church with tapers, &c., before burial. The term is very shortlived.
M
Mese 1 7.s. Moss.
Maser, n.s. P, 51. A wooden bowl provided for the office of Holy Matrimony. See note
at end.
Mell, v.n. To meddle. M. Z hod.
SY, 94. Cf. Mesh z hod. Moss was largely used to lay under the
Muses
1 B, 1376. sheets of lead in roofs.
Mind , n.s. A commemoration of the dead, at the end of a month or year, sometimes
Myndes endowed for a term of years, or in perpetuity.
Mynells, n.s. Y, 129. Mullions. Cf. Fr. Menaux; Eng. Moynells.
Myster, n.s. Y, 142. Some chest or locker built by the wardens in Church house.
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Glossary.
N
Nelme, n.s. An Elm by transfer of the "n" from the article. By like transfer an oak, an
ewe, become noak and newe.
Numerale, n.s. A bracelet or similar ornament, the beads perhaps arranged in tens to aid
in counting. T, 192.
Orphrey, n.s., variably spelt. A band of gold or embroidery set on vestments. Lat. Auri-
frigia.
Oriscopium, n.s. T, sepe. A clock, meant for horologium, a word still extant in Z in the
form of “horloge."
Par, n.s. Strictly a pair, but used for a suit or set, e.g., "par vestimentorum ” “ par
precularum.”
Parcella, n.s., in T. A Bill of parcels or details presented by the Wardens in addition to
the audit-sheet. Two samples are extant.
Pax 2
}n.s., sæpe. The small metal plate serving for the Kiss of Peace in the Liturgy.
Paks S"
Paxbrede, n.s, Y, 30. The plate apart from the Foot of the Pax. Brede=Breadth.
Pelow, 1.s. A Pillow, whence Pelow-tow, i.e., stuffing for pillows.
Peyse, n.s. A weight, used either for a clock-or organ bellows.
Plocks, 1.5. Blocks of wood. Y, 1-7-9, "ligno voc. plocks.”
Portass 2
Portoces
n.s. sæpe. The office-book called in Lat. Portiforium.
Posenett, n.s. A litttle pot. (Halliwell.) Y, 1466.
Preculæ, n.s. Beads for use in prayer. T, 1512-3, par precularum, a set of beads.
et \ n.s. sæpe. A tall candle, elevated on a spike.
Prekyt s
Procurator 3 ms.
0}n.s. passim. A warden, steward, manager or other accredited person.
Proctor S"
Putteful, n.s. P, 10. Cartload. A two-wheeled cart is still a Putt in Z.
Pye, n.s. Y. The ritual directory or ordinale, see Preface to Book of Common Prayer.
Pyggesfote, i.e., Pigsſote, n.s. Y, 105. A vessel used in Y Church-house for bearing
coals.
Pynowne, adj. Pointing or gable end. Z hod, pronounced "pwinen ” Y, 56.
Perrson, n.s. M, 211. The rector impropriate, i.e., Barlynch Priory. The term was in
strictness limited to the rector, as “persona ecclesiæ."
Quetin, n.s.
P.
Prob. Cushion.
Glossary.
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R
Range, n.s. A sieve, Z hod. Y, 128. A cleansing range.
Rather, adj. Earlier, preceding--the comparative of rathe, i.e., early. Z hod.—Y scepe
“the rather wardens."
Ray, n.s. Striped cloth..
Ray-corse, n.s. The striped bodice of a girdle.
Rayer, adj. Rear, i.e., the preceding year. Y, 99, or, if the “y” stands for “th,” the rather
year would mean the same.
Rede, n.s. Reed, i.e., in Z, straw severed from the ears before thrashing, and dressed for
the thatcher, see Y, 53, "reaping rede.”
Rele, n.s. Lat. Rota. Reel or corona, hung to carry a circle of lights, Y, 23, “wax to fulfill
ye rele” "gylding the rele.” See Trendell, which is sometimes used in same sense.
Rest, n.s. C, passim. The balance of an audited account.
Ridding, part., passim. Clearing out dirt or rubbish.
Ryses, n.s. Y. “Ryses to the dawbes.” Hurdlework daubed with clay to form
partitions, or to fill panels in a timber frame-called z hod, “Wattle and dab.” Rys
=Twig (Mayhew and Skeat]. Anglo-Saxon Hris.
Seges ) n.s., passim. Seats, Fr. Siége.
Seggs)
Seme or Zeme, n.s. A long measure, e.g., of boards, Y, 100, also a heap-measure as of
lime. Cf. “Seme of wheat." (Piers Plowman.)
Semys, n.s. Y, 90. "Scouring of the great senys."
n.s. Variously spelt, passim. The small wood of timber trees, or the top and
Shyde
I
>
lop of pollards—called Shrouds, Z hod.
Schryde J. op
Servy or Sarvy, 0.1. Y, sæpe. To serve for a regular purpose, see note on letter Y.
Shere-Thursday, 1.s. Y, 60. Maunday Thursday.
Smygma, n.s. T, sæpe. An ointment. See Migma. Ducange.
Solarium, n.s. Y, sæpe. The Aler or gallery of Roodloft. In its other sense of a sun-dial
or clock, it is not used.
Sommar, 12.5. Y, 116. A somerstone, i.e., the headstone of a coign, corbelled out to
support the coping of the gable. The term “somer" is also applied to corbel-beams.
(Parker's Glossary.)
Somner, n.s. Summoner, an apparitor of Consistory Court. Y, 149.
Spelyd, v., past tense. M, 217. Served the place of.. A.S. spelian, to take a spell or turn
of duty. (Chambers' Eng. Dict.)
Sprangs, or Spronges, to a ladder, n.s. Rungs. (Wright.)
Stansile, n.s. T, 19.1. A style, an error for “scansile " from scando, to climb.
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Glossary.
Strekyng, part. (1) colouring wall with lines or patterns, perhaps stencilling.
(2) colouring walls plain, within and without. Y, 37, et passim.
[The use of plaster and of lime-washes on church walls inside and out, was very common.]
Syler, n.s. A ceiler, i.e., a decorator, who did both the woodwork, and colouring of the highly
adorned canopies, formed in the roof over Altars, and called ceilings. Lat. celatura,
sylatura.
Syntorne. Y, 118. Centering for turning an arch.
Synt , n.s. Saint. The spelling is phonetic, and shows how St. John, St. Leger, St. Maur,
Syn1 came to be pronounced Sinjohn, Silleger, Seymour.
St. Sonday. M, See note at end.
Tablement, n.s. Y, sæpe. A representation in painting or carving.
Tak, n.s. Y, 1490. Iron gear attached to a wagon. "Two takys.” Y, 1446-7.
Trawle, n.s. Y, 140, see Drawle.
Threddyn, adj. C, 1499. Made of thread.
Token ).
Tocking 18
girdle. Y, 47; C, 5. A girdle suited for Tucker's work, or for tucking up the
Tucking)
petticoats.
Tornelle, n.s. A turret. Y, 147, "for poynting a tornelle of Ch.” (Gloss. of Arch.)
Trayle, 1.s. The running vine-pattern common on cornices of rood screens, p. 27.
Cf. Trellis.
Treyn, adj. Made of wood, Y, 150, applied to a platter.
Trendyll, n.s. (1) A hanging corona or hoop for bearing lights. Reel and Rota.
(2) A tub. (Halliwell.) 7. Inventory of Church-house “21, Trendylls.”
(3) Rarely. The candles used in the Corona.
Like trundle, the word is derived from “turn” as treadle from tread.
Trussing (bells), n.s. Strengthening the timbers of the bell-cage by a diagonal brace.
Tynnell, n.s. A tunnel or funnell called in z hod. “Tunnegar.”
Tynnyng, part. Tending. Y, sæpe, “ Tynning the lights."
Vestment, n.s. The Chasuble-sometimes, when in plural, including minor articles. Y, 67
A vestment is made out of an old cope.
Vicary, n.s. passim. A vicar, formed direct from Latin vicarius, like notary.
Vyse, also Fyce, n.s. A winding staircase. Y, sæpe. Also Vyse-door.
Glossary,
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W
Walshe-bord, n.s. Y, 23. Foreign wainscot. Welsh in Z, as in German=foreign.
Wardenwick, 12.5. P, sæpe. Wardenship, like Bailiwick, &c.
Want un
(n.s. Font. P, sæpe. N.B. Vaute, a spelling of Vault is often difficult to discrimi-
Vont
nate from the versions of font.
Vout
Whirligoge, n.s. A turnstile. T, 49, 183.
Wrestys (for door), n.s. Perhaps Twysts, i.e., the iron loops, fitted to the hooks of the
hinge.
notes
Yeo, n.s. The main drain of a level Z. In the case of the rivers Ivel and Wring, the
term has superseded the ancient river-name.
Yere, n.s. A sluice-gate. See in ordnance map of Z, “Hook year,” “New Yar," on the
Yeo, perhaps a Z pronunciation of "Weir,” dropping the “w.”
Yncull, n.s. Broad linen tape for girdles, for an amice, for a book covering ; now spelt
inkle, see Shakespeare's Pericles. V, 1.
N.B.-Y in modern Z is added to the end of a verb to make it frequentative, e.g., to sewy=
to sew for a livelihood; to glovy, to make gloves, as a trade. In the Y accounts there
are several instances of this use.
Z
Zitter, n.s. Guitar, from Cithara.
P, 25.
NON SOLUTA.
The following words or phrases have as yet defied solution, some of them are perhaps
disguised by mispelling, or by decay-others it is hoped may find an interpreter :-
Taratantaryatione unius ligni. T, 194. / Whyt mother. Y, 160. (?) Godmother.
Dipote or dipoce and Poyntell. T, 187. Haffe. Y, 166.
Cloths staffyng. Y, 167.
Ewell. 198.
Jaole. T, 196.
Clogill. 187, 9.
Quyrbys. 154.
Walete. 195.
Prelubkys. Y, 84.
Bastyng the ryne in Whyt. 172.
Dawell-light. 324.
Lyche of a rope. 76.
Pokysy. Y, A°. 1452.
A cenne of ye vestments. 117.
Swystyng gyrdyll. Y, 130.
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Glossary.
NOTES EXPLANATORY.
MASER.—"A stonding maser to serve for brides at their weddyng” is found at Pilton.
This was in compliance with the Rubric of the Sarum Manual. “Post Missam benedicatur
panis et vinum vel aliud quid potabile in vasculo, et gustent in nomine Domini sacerdote
dicente Dom Vobiscum. Oremus." The Collect that followed refers to the marriage of Cana
&c. In the same Inventory is another Maser with a bande of sylver.
ST. SONDAY.-She is found to be a female Saint reverenced at M (where she had a
“Store” and a warden, see p. 222) and at Y, and also in West Somerset and Devon, e.g., at
Cutcombe and Brompton Regis, also in Yorks (Test Ebor, V, 299). The name has lately
been much discussed. It is now supposed by good authorities to be a translation of
Dominica, who is stated in Stanton's Menology, p. 202, to have been a hermitess at
Shapwick with her brother S. Indractus, and to have shared his violent death, and
canonization. The sainted remains were removed by King Ina in the Sth century to the
neighbouring Abbey of Glastonbury, where S. Indractus was a recorded name in the time
of the chronicler Ad. de Domerham.
Sr. DOMINICA gives name to the Church of S. Dominic, Cornwall, dedicated to her by
Bishop Bronscombe in 1263. She was invoked in an Exeter Litany of the 11th century. The
vernacular version of her name may be due to the difficulty of differencing her from the
great founder of the Dominican Order, canonized in 1234, the English tongue failing to
distinguish the male from the female name.
END OF GLOSSARY.
Appendix A.
*****
LIST OF CHURCH GOODS, “SUPELLEX,” REQUIRED BY ARCH-
BISHOP WINCHELSEA'S CONSTITUTION, 1305, TO BE
FOUND BY PARISHIONERS.
[See Lyndwood's “Provinciale,” Lib. III, Tit. 27, and Johnson's “Canons,” Vol. II, p. 319. Ed. 1851.]
BOOKS.
1. Legenda.
2. Antiphonarium
3. Gradale.
4. Psalterium. •
5. Troperium.
6. Ordinale.
7. Missale.
8. Manuale.
NOTES FROM LYNDWOOD AND JOHNSON'S CANONS.
1. A lectionary of lessons from Holy Writ, or from Lives of Saints or Homilies.
2: Containing whatever was sung at the canonical hours, save the Psalter.
3. Or Grail, containing all that pertains to the Choir at celebration of Mass.
4. The Psalter noted.
5. Containing the sequences sung after the epistle at Mass.
6. Or Pie. A directory of Divine Service.
7. Containing the whole office of the Mass.
8. A Handbook of various offices, e.g., baptisms, benedictions, processions.
Notes from Lyndwood.
Calix . . . . . . Chalice, including the Paten which formed its cover.
Vestimentum principale cum casula · Casula, the chasuble, the chief robe of a set of vest-
ments, and indispensable for celebration.
Tunica . . . . . . The subdeacon's robe.
Dalmatica :
Robe for Priest or Deacon.
Capa in choro (i.e., not at side altars).. Used at other priestly offices than the Mass
Cum appendiciis. . . . E.g., Amice, with girdles, maniples, stoles.
Frontale ad magnum Altare . Also called the Pall (Palla).
Cum iij tuellis . . . . Two veils or cloths, to be placed under the corporal,
one for hand-washing.
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Tria Superpellicia . . . . For use of Priest, Deacon, Sub-deacon.
Rochetum. . . . . . Linen robe without the sleeves of surplice, used by
priest's assistant.
Crux processionalis.
Crux pro mortuis.
Thuribulum . . . . . Thurible or Censer.
Lucerna.
Tintinnabulum ad deferendum coram Used in visitation of sick to warn passers-by to
Corp. Xti., in Visitatione
venerate the Holy Eucharist.
Pyxis pro Corpore Xti . . . Pyx cum clausura, i.e., a decent outside case of ivory
or silver.
Velum quadragesimale . . To veil the images in Lent.
Vexilla pro Rogationibus. . . Banners for Intercessory processions on the Gang-
days.
Campanæ cum chordis.
Feretrum pro defunctis.
Vas pro aquâ benedictâ . . . Portable vessel with its Sprinkler.
Osculatorium
. : The Pax, to receive the Kiss of Peace from the
faithful at Mass.
Candelabrum pro cereo paschali . The Easter taper was also to be provided by parish,
by special collection, at the Easter procession.
Fons cum serurâ
. . Fonts were locked to preserve the stock of blest
water, which was renewed at intervals.
Imagines in Ecclesiâ . . . . I.e.--In the Nave, not those in side chapels.
Imago principalis in cancello . . 1..-generally of the Patron Saint.
REPARATIONES.
Navis Eccla, intra et extra, tam in imaginibus quam in fenestris vitreis.
Librorum.
Vestimentorum.
Cetera contingunt Rectoribus, Vicariis, et aliis secundum loci consuetudinem.”
1 Including new work when needed.
2 Custom, says Lyndwood, is held to modify any of the above liabilities.
Appendir 6.
*****
CHURCH ALES, WAKES, &C., BEFORE THEIR ABOLITION.
In the reign of Elizabeth Chief Justice Popham made some orders to the Justices of the
Shire for the restraint of these revels [Fuller's Church History, vol. II, p. 147].
In 1631. Judge Richardson repeated the orders, with concurrence of the Justices who
petitioned the King through the Lord Lieutenant to suppress wakes [ib.].
The King then desired the Archbishop to procure evidence from the clergy touching the
alleged abuses. The Bishop of this Diocese, Piers, procured the evidence by citing 72
incumbents from various quarters. Bishop Piers' Return to the Archbishop, Nov. 3, 1633,
is as follows :-
(1.) These dedication feasts have been in all these (72) parishes, not only this last
year, but also for many years, without any disorders.
(2.) Upon the Feast days (for the most part Sundays) the service of the Church hath
been more solemnly performed, and the Church better frequented, forenoon and
afternoon, than on any other Sunday.
(3.) They have not known nor heard of any disorders in the neighbouring towns, where
the like feasts are kept.
(4.) The people do very much desire the continuance of these feasts.
(5.) It is fit, in the opinion of all these Ministers, to continue them as a memorial of
the dedication of their Churches, for the civilizing of the people, for their lawful
recreations, for the composing of differences by occasion of meeting of friends, for
the increase of love and amity, as being feasts of charity for the relief of the poor,
the richer sort keeping then, in a manner, open house, and for many other
reasons.
In addition to this return, which Bishop Piers believed would be endorsed by a hundred
more of his clergy, he subjoins his own observations.
"I find that there are not only feasts of dedication, but in many places, Church-ales,
Clerks' ales, and Bid-ales. The dedication feasts are more general, and generally they are
called feast-days, though sometimes revel-days, they are not known to the ignorant people as
feasts of dedication, but they are so, for the churches dedicated to the Holy Trinity keep
their feast on Trinity Sunday; most that are dedicated to Saints keep their feast on the
Sundays before or after the Saints' day. I find that almost all are kept in the summer time
because that time is convenient for meeting of friends from all places, in some places they have
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solemn sermons, preached by Divines of good note, and also communions; in one place the
parish holds lands by its feast. One of the Ministers notes in his answer that in the reformed
Churches of Switzerland these feasts are kept.
I find that the people, hearing two years ago that the judges would put down their feasts,
thought that it was very hard if they could not entertain their kindred and friends once a
year, to praise God for His blessings, and to pray for the King's Majesty, under whose happy
government they enjoyed peace and quietness, and they would endure the judges' penalties
rather than break off their feasts. It is found also that many suits in law have been taken up
at these feasts by mediation of friends, which could not have been so soon ended in
Westminster Hall.
Moreover, I find that the chiefest cause of the dislike of these feasts among the preciser
sort is because they are kept on Sundays, which they never call but Sabbath days, upon which
they would have no manner of recreation, nay neither roast nor sod; and some of the
Ministers who were with me, have ingeniously [ingenuously] confessed that if the people
should not have their honest and lawful recreations on Sundays after evening prayer, they
would go either into tippling-houses, and there upon their ale-henches talk of matters of
Church and State, or else into conventicles.
Concerning Church-ales I find that in some places the people have been persuaded to
leave them off, in others they have been put down by Judges and Justices, so that now there
are few of them left; but yet I find that by Church-ales heretofore many poor parishes have
cast their bells, repaired their towers, beautified their churches, and raised stocks for the poor;
and not by the sins of the people (as some humourists say) but by the benevolence of people
at their honest and harmless sports and pastimes, at which there hath not been observed so
much disorder as is commonly at fairs and markets.
Touching Clerks'-ales (which are lesser Church-ales) for the better maintenance of parish
clerks, they have been used (until of late) in divers places, and there was good reason for them;
for in poor country parishes, where clerks' wages are small, the people thinking it unfit that
the Clerk should duly attend Church and lose by his office, were wont to send him in provision,
and then feast with him, and give him more liberally than their quarterly payments should
amount to in many years. And since these have been put down, some Ministers fear they
shall have no parish-clerk, for want of maintenance.
. There is another kind of meeting called a Bid-ale, when an honest man, decayed in his
estate, is set up again by the liberal benevolence and contributions of friends at a feast; but
this is laid aside in almost every place.
Your Grace's ever to be commanded,
GUIL., BATH AND WELLS.
Wells, Nov. 5° 1633.
Within the original is folded the following order, but whether issued or not, non
constat.
Somerset. Whereas divers orders have heretofore been made by Judges of Assize for
the suppression of Church-ales, Clerks'-ales, Wakes, Revels, and such like, by reason of
disorders, &c.
Appendir.
247
It is now ordered by his Lordshipl that all such orders be revoked (as much as in him
lieth) and made utterly void ; and that it may be lawful for all persons freely to use any
lawful recreation or exercise at such meetings, but with this advice, that they be careful that
no misdemeanours commonly arising at such feasts be done or committed.”
There is also in the State Paper Office a Draft of a Letter from the King, May 2, 1633, to
three Justices, requiring them to certify (1) what orders had been given by any Judges of Assize
for suppression of Wakes, i.e., dedication feasts; and (2) what orders C. J. Richardson had
given at the last assizes for recalling, pursuant to the King's command through the Lord
Keeper, the prohibitions of such feasts, the King wishing that people should enjoy lawful
recreations after evening prayer, the Justices repressing excesses, and all profaning of the Lord's
Day.
ADDENDUM TO APPENDIX B.
I add a document which helps to track the fate of Church-houses after their first uses
failed.
It is a Petition to Archbishop Laud, extracted from the State Papers by my father when
Keeper of the S. P. Office. (See Hadspen MSS. v. x. 71.)
Antony Earbury, Vicar of Weston Zoyland, states in Petition that the Parishioners had
at their own charge built a fair Church-house, and employed it for 100 years for benefit of the
Church, that Sir Edward Powell, Kt., had lately taken possession thereof and built a common
bakehouse for his own benefit, which was presented at the Archbishop's Visitation, that for
this presentment Sir. E. P. has questioned the Petitioner, Church-wardens and Sidesmen in the
Wells Court.
The Archbishop, therefore, désires Sir John Lambe (who was Dean of Arches) to issue
inhibition to the Court at Wells, and to advise as to future course.
ily., the Lord Keeper?
2 He was Patron, and probably also represented the Grantee of this old Glastonbury Manor. The Abbey
seems to have favoured the establishment of Church-houses on their Manors by granting leases of sites. Many
of them are specified in Abbot Beere's Terrier, 1517.
Appendir C.
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RETURN OF ELEEMOSYNARY ENDOWMENTS HELD BY
ECCLESIASTICAL BODIES IN DIOCESE OF BATH AND WELLS,
COMPILED FROM HENRY VIII'S VALOR, 1537.
£ s. d.
Glastonbury Abbey .
. : 140 16 8
Wells Cathedral—no charge on corporate funds—but there were many doles to
the poor in connection with obituary services . . . . . Nil.
[returned A° 1 Edward VI to the Chantry Commissioners at, £21 16s. 6d.]
Wells—St. John's Hospital at Founders' anniversaries.
. 3 6 8
Bruton Abbey-daily, and on Maunday Thursday
16 6 8
Taunton Priory—including 4 Almsmen at Stavordale .
41 90
Keynsham ,
all »
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10 15
10 15 0
Worspring , . .
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Bath
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Muchelney Abbey—4 Almsmen, 7 poor men occasionally
Montacute Priory—7 Almsmen, others occasionally .
Athelney Abbey-charged on divers? estates . . .
Cleeve
26 18
Barlynch Priory »
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Dunster
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Bridgwater-St. John's Hospital. .
32 6 8
two estates charged by Bishop Burnell with maintenance of thirteen
boys—another with maintaining seven Almsmen, leaving only
£ 1 135. for distribution.
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£356 14 10
The houses at Hinton and Witham, Barrow, Buckland and Templecombe return
nothing
| The Manor of Sutton was charged with £11 45. for eleven Bedesmen to pray for the soul of King
Alfred, the founder of Athelne
Appendir.
249.
REMARKS.
The abatements allowed by the King's valuers were, I conceive, only such as could be
proved “ut patet per chartas” to be fixed charges, “doles by tenure," and so to form no part
of the available corporate income which was taxable, when subsidies to the King were voted
by Convocation.
There was no doubt much besides of ungauged benefaction flowing from the convents,
though varying in each place, fluctuating and arbitrary, e.g.-(1) Relief to the wayfarer,
(2) Broken meat, (3) Treatment of the Sick; for though the conventual Infirmaries were
designed for the inmates of the house, yet inasmuch as they were the only infirmaries of
the land, probably their benefits were sometimes extended if not to in-patients, at least to
out-patients.
There were also, besides the Doles by tenure, many occasional gifts to the poor from
great visitors lodging at the convent, and from pilgrims.
At Glastonbury there were two Almshouses, with their own special endowments, which
survive to this day.
In the way of popular education, I cannot find any trace of the convents conferring any
benefits. We look in vain through the chroniclers of Glastonbury, and whilst we read
of many benefactions of the better Abbots of the 14th, 15th, and 16th Centuries, we read
of no educational ones either inside or outside the walls, available for the people.
The abbey held an endowmentfor maintenance of 10 scholars at Oxford, and also con-
tributed to the maintenance of the Oxford House (now Worcester College), which educated
the Novices of the Benedictine Order; but this education was academical, not popular.
After all, I suppose that the most sensible loss accruing to the neighbourhood, and
especially to the abbey estates, arose from the fact, that the novices were chosen from those
estates, that they rose to hold endowed monastic offices, and being allowed the private use of
that earned income (though as monks sworn to poverty) they were able to pour their bounty
into the laps of needy kinsfolk, and also to confer on them such appointments as reeves,
woodmen, &c. In these indirect ways the dissolution made itself felt more than by the loss
of doles at the Abbey Gate.
It must not be forgotten that endowed chantries were frequently charged with doles to
the poor to be made on the day of obit.
The commission in ist Edward VI reports the following :-Porlock 135. besides main-
tenance of two Bedesmen at £3 os. 8d per annum; Greinton, 2d.; Wedmore, 12d.;
Shepton Malet, £ 1 Ios. 8d. ; Trent, ros. 8d. ; Wells Cathedral, £21 16s. 8d.
The wills in the Wells Probate Registry show likewise that the pilgrims remembered the
duty of Almsgiving at the shrine which they sought. See Sir R. Playce's Will, 1534, in which
he leaves money for pilgrimages to be made for the benefit of his soul “to Joseph
Abarmathia," i.e., Glastonbury, and to “Our Lady of Cleve," and in each case vd. to be given
to poor people. The same motives may be assumed to have operated at the time of cele-
brating obituary services in village churches, and to have kept alive a sense of the duty of
remembering the poor, which was fruitful in other ways and at other seasons.
1 Charged on the Manor of Camely by John Byconell, and amounting to £36 6s. 8d. It shared the fate of
the other revenues at the Attainder, 1539
2
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BISHOP DROKENSFORD'S DAILY AND YEARLY ALMS, FROM
1313 TO HIS DEATH 1329.
See Reg. Drok., fo. 141, a, b.
The estates being divided into 6 Bailiwicks, the Bailiff of each was ordered to deliver
to 40 of the poorest persons daily a silver farthing, or its value in food.
At Michaelmas the survivors of the 40 were to receive 4s. for a cloak and shoes.
The Incumbents of the benefited parishes were to oversee the Bailiffs (i.e., to secure
fitting selection of recipients). Worn-out priests admissible; but preference was to be given to
such of the Bishop's serfs, or widows as had been driven by poverty to throw up their
holdings and to beg.
The complement of persons thus relieved was 240.
RECTORIAL TITHES
AS A SOURCE OF RELIEF TO POVERTY.
Relief of the poor is often enumerated in formal documents as one of the “onera"
of rectorial income. The obligation and its extent was of necessity left, in most cases,
to the rector's conscience, but where the administration of the income fell into the
Bishop's hands by sequestration, the registers show that the “onus” was remembered,
and sometimes defined. In some cases the sequestrator was instructed to administer
relief to the poor out of the revenues in his hands. See Reg. Drok., fo. 75 (et alibi)
and ibid., fo. 214, the Bishop's complaint that non-residence of rectors, which he had too
freely sanctioned, had robbed the poor of their due. Owing to this evil and to the
increase of tithe-appropriation, which ensured perpetual non-residence, the relief of the
poor flowing from the Rectory, must have been very intermittent, and in many large
areas wholly drained away. The loss of this relief was in fact great enough to induce the
King and Parliament in the 15th of Richard II, and again in 4th of Henry IV, to require that
a convenient (i.e., proportionate) sum of money should be set apart out of the fruits of
each benefice thenceforth appropriated, and bestowed on poor parishioners. The Second
Statute added the penalty of disappropriation in case of neglect, thereby attesting the fact
that the requirements had been evaded. Whatever benefits flowed into the parish from
the resident and conscientious rector, none can be reckoned on as a source of standing
relief after the bane of appropriation had impoverished the benefice.
Appendir .
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THE HOGGLERS.
The existence of this class of men, of their name and of the share assigned to them in
the life of the parish is so novel to me, and to all whom I confer with, that I deem it
expedient to put on record all I know about them, in hope that their place and function in
the Village Church community may be cleared up fully hereafter.
I offer the following helps :-
There were Hogglers and Hoggling lights maintained in the Church at T, at P, at Y, at
M. At C, they were a Guild with Wardens, bringing their surplus, after Guild-expenses
paid, to the Church-Warden's audit, like the other Guilds.
At Banwell they made a much more important contribution, see p. 229, under the name
of "le Hogeling," apparently by taking charge of common lands and cattle running on them,
and bringing the profits to the parish audit.
At Banwell, the Hogglers continued to bring their subsidy in Elizabeth's reign. At Cheddar,
Hogeling money is found an item of receipt up to 1630, but whence it accrued, is unexplained.
The class was the lowest order of labourer with spade or pick, in tillage or in minerals.
The word still survives in the Mendip villages, though not a class-name, as it was in the
days of Hannah More, when her sister Patty, 1795, addressed a Provident Club thus : 1
“let the men of Shipham and Rowberrow become honest and good graziers and Hoglers.
They are placed on this spot by Almighty God: The very ground you walk upon points out
your daily labour (i.e., by its richness in minerals). Excel in that. An honest Hogler is as
good in the Almighty's eyes as an honest squire. Do your duty in the state of life where
God has placed you.” Again p: III: “The instances are rare when you have not a moment to
beg God's blessing. 'Tis presumptuous to enter on the matters of the world without asking
it. A prayer put up to God at Hogling or at Haymaking will be as acceptable to Him,” &c., &c.
The word has now fallen in use to describe not the lowest class of workman but the lowest
class of work and workmanship. “You might hoggle them potatoes, but you can't dig them,
i.e., properly," was said in scorn to a young inexpert girl in 1889 in Churchill. “A hoggling
job;" "He has been and hoggled my potatoes ;” are current expressions in Cheddar and
Priddy, used to discredit the inanner of work.
For our purpose the sense of the now-dying-out word is clear enough, and the social and
other facts we gain from the records are important.
The lowest class of hand-worker in our villages, whether in field or in minery was called
by the name of Hoggler. It was the lowest in the social rank and in means. It must have
included the serf, and yet it was allowed to take its place amongst other classes in organized
1 “Mendip Annals,” by Rev. A. Roberts, p. 145. Nisbet & Co., 1859.
2
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Appendir.
aid to the church; and poor as it was, it was willing to bring its continual contribution if not
in money to the Church Wardens' coffer, at least to the maintenance of a light, one of the
continuous devotions of the sanctuary. Moreover its acceptance as an organized Guild im.
plies an acknowledgment of its being in matters spiritual on an even level with the rest, anc
the effect of acting in a Guild must have been to elevate its members in capacity for orderly
management and control, and also in self-respect.
These facts all tend to show that the Church did not know of any degradation in poverty
or even in serfdom, and that the villagers of all ranks were in the habit of meeting the
bondsmen of their community under the sacred roof as Brethren in the family of Christ.
The silent teaching of these facts must have been powerful to soften the dividing lines of the
body social.
In immediate connexion herewith, I now offer some proofs of the softening of the social
barriers, and even of the legal ones which in their original rigour deprived the serf of political
rights.
In the episcopal and capitular registers of Wells and Lichfield of the 14th and 15th
Centuries the work of manumission is found to be continually going on. Even before the
great changes wrought by the Black Death of 1349, et seq., which raised the value of labour,
the ecclesiastical landlords were largely releasing their human property "a vinculo Nayvitatis."
In many cases, Bishop Drokensford tonsured the mariumitted youth on the day of his release,
proving that he had been selected with the view of elevation to the ministry, and that he
must already have had by favour of his patron some education to bring his capacity to proof.
The effect of serf-born men being thus elevated by patrons must have been very powerful in
abating the scorn which free classes commonly feel towards the servile ones around them.
In my college of Merton in 14th Century, there were recorded cases of youths born in
serfdom obtaining fellowships, and producing their manumission from their Lord (Kellaw,
Bishop of Durham, 1311-8) to enable them to hold their fellowships. In a communer's roll
1394-5 of Wells Chapter is recorded the fact that Henry Grey a serf (nativus) had impleaded his
masters the Dean and Chapter in the King's Court for unjust imprisonment and loss of goods,
that the court had allowed his civil right to plead as an owner of goods, that the Chapter had
been obliged to acknowledge that right, and to appear by attorney before the King's Justices
at York, where they compromised by making fine.
This recognition of rights of ownership and of legal action must have been unknown to
the legists, for Littleton, sec. 177, as quoted by Blackstone, Comm. Bk. II, 6, lays down that
“ A Villein (meaning a serf) cannot acquire lands or goods, but if he purchased either, the
Lord might seize them to his own use." Littleton wrote in Edward IV's reign, 1464-82.
He was recording no doubt what was the common law as laid down by the earlier writers,
and not taking notice of the modifications of its stringency, which were happily growing up
through the welding influences of Christian fellowship and teaching. One more documentary
proof I am enabled to give by the kindness of J. F. S. Horner, Esq., of Mells, who possesses
a “Terrier and perambulation of the Manor of Doulting ” made by his ancestor John
Horner (in 8th of Henry VIII, 1516) who was then Bailiff of the manor of D, under the
Abbot (Beere) of Glastonbury, the Sub-prior and other sworn men, tenants of the manor, being.
present. The terrier shows that the demesne lands were no longer tilled by serf labour
but divided into farms and leased out to renting tenants, who paid fines on entry. The
chief lessee of demesne lands, John Whyte, is described as a serf “nativus domini.”
· Appendir.
253
As such he was legally incapable of owning goods, yet he is found renting from his masters
at a rent of £8 165. 8d., after paying a sụm down for entry on the lease. At the end, the
Terrier sums up the human property of the manor in a list of 16 “nativi domini per capita,"
which, on comparison with the names of the farm-tenants, reveals the facts that these serfs had
been allowed to acquire property and responsible position, enabling them to pay fines, and .
rents. “Per capita " adverts to the legal fact that not only the heads of the servile families
belonged to the Lord, but also all their “sequelæ," i.e., all that followed them, wives,
children, goods.
It is evident that the bulk of the yeoman class of the parish consisted of serfs, and that
the parish offices must have been filled by them, and also, that the yoke of serfdom sat so
lightly, and was so slight a social disparagement, that they did not think it worth while to
purchase their manumission, which, as the records show, could always be done at a fixed cost.
In the Terrier, made out by the Crown officers in 1539 immediately after the Attainder
of the Abbey, the serfs were dropped altogether at Doulting, though returned in neighbour-
ing estates as “bondmen dependent on the King's pleasure for body and goods." These
bondmen were reduced at Mells and at Godney to an unit, but at Pilton reached twenty-two.
The Doulting serfs had probably purchased their freedom of their kind master, the Abbot,
before lapsing into the hands of the King.
Inder.
*****
Almatory, 213, 220, 234.
- grave in, 214, 215.
- repaired, 220.
Alms-box, xxv.
- giving, 249.
- light, 208, &c.
a account, 209, 221.
giſts to the store, 210, 211, 212, 213,
214.
Account books, 2, 50, 81, 84, 86, 139, 154, 166,
176, 177, 230, 231.
- inspected at Visitation, 167.
-- language of, xxiii, 80, 174, 210,
225, 229, 231.
- payment for, 186.
— writing, xxii, 61, 62, 56, 86, 186,
221.
Account Day, 1, 2, 43, 167. See "Audits.”
Account of Our Lady, 220. See “ Our Lady's
Wardens.”
Account of the “ Five Men," 214, 220,
Aghadoe, James, Bishop of, 95 (72).
Aisle, south, repaired, 103.
Alabaster-man, 185, 186.
Alabaster-slab for the High Altar, 183, 185, 186.
Albs, 71, 88, 99, 102, 124, 135, 149, 183.
Ale allowed, 66, 84, 89, 98, 104.
- days, 140, 159.
— givers of, 93, 94 (12), 98.
-- St. George's. See “St. George."
- holy. See “Holy.”
-- house, 201, 220.
vessels of, repaired, 199.
- money, 43, 224.
-- Scot, 80, 173.
Aler, (alure and alle), 79, 86, 88, 90, 92, 93, 95,
98, 100, 234.
Ales, Church, 179, 181, 182, 195, 196, 200, 227,
230, 231, 233.
-- interparochial, xx, 80, 86, 132, 135, 148 (12),
149, 151, 155.
- at Michaelmas, 92.
- at Whitsuntide, xxii, 44, 84, 87, 89, 92, 94,
128, 130, 158, 159.
Allhallowmass, 163.
Allhallowtide, 170, 172.
Allowance claimed for expenses, 221, 222.
- to Wardens pro stipendio, 225, 226.
Altar, building of, 164.
- High. See “High Altar."
– iron set over, 165.
- made, 129.
- painted, 201.
--- table, 110.
- taken down, 172,
Altarage (Altelage), xxv.
Altars dressed, 162.
- two made, 86,
- side, 148.
- washing of, 88.
Altar-cloths, 2, 3, 31, 53, 91, 134, 149, 150, 151,
197, 198, 214, 217, 218.
- bought, 92, 142.
– blessed, 60, 129, 142, 154:
crooks to, 148.
new, 149.
painted, 215.
- red satin, 225.
silk, 216.
-- washed, 178.
Amber-beads, 64, 65.
Amusements, popular, xiii, xx.
“ Amys,” 113, 135, 147, 149, 159.
“ An ely [anneal] a sick man," 99.
Angel gilded, 96.
St. Katherine stands on, 126.
“Anniversary,” 195. See “Obit” and “Mynd.”
Antiphonale, 188.
Antiphoners, 52.
Antony's (St.) Store, 208, 210.
" Apparel ” of the Altar, 35, 118.
250
puder.
“Apparel" of Chasubles, 183.
Appendices, 243, 245, 248, 251,
Apportionment to Vicars, xii and n.
Appropriation, Act of, 152, 204 (n).
Aprons, 106, 113, 130, 133, 136, 140.
“ Aquæe bajulus,” xviii, 188, 189, 191, 192.
Arch at chancel door repaired, 199. .
Archbishop of Canterbury's Visitation, 168, 181.
Archdeacon of Tanton, his coercive authority, 231.
- his visitation, 178.
Arches, closing of, 112.
Arrearages, 175, 176, 178, 186, 226.
Assessments, xii.
"Asyon" (ashen), 146.
Audits, xxiii, 1, 2, 167, 225, 226.
Axbridge, 138, 139, 161, 162.
“Axsyn," 117, 119,234. See also under " Lead."
B.
Bargain, 142, 146, 151, 152.
Barley, gift of, 85, 87, 100, 127.
Barlinch Priory, 208, 209, 211 (12).
- lessee of, 209.
-- window of, 209, 216.
- wrecked, 209.
Barlow, Bishop, 78.
Bartholomew, Friar, legacy from, 184.
Bartin wall, 203.
Basket for carrying the Paris benedictus, 192.
Bason, 39, 53, 80, 83, 210, 211.
and laver, 82.
recovered, 46.
– wooden, 183.'
“ Bastyng the ryng,' 172.
Batell, Sir John, 147, 151.
Bath, riding to, 141.
- St. Michael's, ix, xvi, 225, 226, 227, 228.
- - historical value of the accounts of, 225.
Battlement, 100, 101, 118.
Bawdrickeş for bells, &c., 55, 57, 58, 61, 62, 68,
70, 71, 72, 74, 124, 178, 203, 213, 234.
- buckle for, 62, 83.
- for a Cope, 52.
Bawnton (Bampton), 213, 216, 219.
Beads, pairs of, 21, 35, 36, 56, 59, 69, 71, 72, 199,
215.
- amber, 64, 65, 89.
- coral, 22, 25, 27, 29.
- jet, 23, 28, 36, 53, 56, 64, 65.
Beam before the High Altạr, 155.
— the High Cross, 192.
Beans, legacy of, i81.
Beckham, Canon, 140 and n.
Beckington, Bishop, 7, 95 (12), 103 (n), 181 (n).
Bede-man, xiii.
Bede-roll, xiii, 175 (12), 192, 210, 229, 234.
Bedminster, Archbishop's visitation, ļ68, 169.
-- King's visitation, 160, 161.
Beere, Abbot, 247 (12), 252.
Bees, 209, 213.
- a “bott ” of, 215.
- a swarm of, xiii, 213.
“Bellator," 146, 147, 148, 205 and 12.
Bell-ropes, 44, 57, 58, 66, 70, 72, 73, 76, 176,
203, 220.
Bells bought, 204.
- cage for, 76, 204.
--- carriage of, 92, 114, 125.
- - casting, 61, 88.
collars, 219.
- consecration of, 95, 198.
cost of co., 198.
-- - contract ſor casting at Bristol, 125.
C
Backwell, 83, 130 (22), 143 (12), 151 and 12.
Bakehouse, xxi, 173, 177, 178, 183, 186, 187, 188,
194, 195, 231.
-- covered, 187.
- rent of, 178, 179, 181, 196, 203, 205.
thatched, 179.
- chamber in it rented, 188, 203, 205.
— the old, rent of, 196.
-- repaired, ib,
Baker's land at Bristol, 138.'
Baking for the Church, allowance for, 197.
Balance beam, 182.
Bale and Bayle (bailiff), 94, 132.
payment to for bakehouse,
197.
--
for Church-
house, 198.
“ Bales, ' (bellows) 149.
Baltsborow, 199.
Banner bought, 155, 183.
- carried, 44, 174, 188, 189, 190, 191, 197,
203.
cloths, 52.
- of St. Katherine, 112.
- of our Lady, 59.
- made or set up, 88, !07, 125.
paid for, 135.
— recovered, 46.
- of St. Sidwell, 213.
- of silk (St. George), 217.
and streamer rolled in an altar-cloth, 224.
Banwell, x, 92, 98, 122, 149, 161, 168, 229, 230,
231, 251.
2
under.
257
Bells, cost of, 79, 90, 105.
--- founded on the spot, 231.
frame for, 44 and 12.
gifts to, 23, 25, 33, 34, 67.
the great, 92, 146.
“hoisting down,” 125.
- iron work for, 84.
keeping, 86, 88, 103, 123, 163, 165.
knells on. See “Knell.”
leather for, 176.
the little, casting, 169.
maker, 144, 145.
-“man,” (1.e., founder), 92, 105.
- metal sold, 204.
money gathered for, 125
--- rung for a Monk, 85.
-- old and new, expenses of, 92, 93.
- poor man's bequest to, 67.
-- pully for, 92.
recasting, 127, 173
- repairs to, 48, 60, 61, 68, 69, 70, 71, 76,
90, 103, 106, 124, 129, 167, 183, 205.
— Sacring. See "Sacring.”
subscribers to, 204.
trimming, 172.
trussing, 88.
the warning, 61.
weighing, 92.
“ Bellyn," 106 and 12.
Bench in Church, 61.
Benches of carved oak, 173,
Benefactors, dirige and mass for, 55, 56, 57, 59,
60, 62, 68, 76.
Bennett, Rev. J. A., ix, xxvi.
Beryngton, 116.
Bible, 47, 152, 161.
- - bought, 205.
-- chain for, 153.
Bid-Ales, 246.
Bier, 45, 57, 58, 59, 69, 79.
Bishop Drokensford's daily and yearly Alms, 250.
Piers, xxii.
- Richard, Vicar of Y, 85 and 12.
Bishop's counsel asked, 168.
- -receiver, 87 (n.).
--- visitation, 181, 205.
- visitation court, 205 and 12.
Blessing of bells, vessels, vestments, &c., 60, 67,
71, 79, 95, IIO (12.), 112, 113, 123, 126, 129,
136, 138, 142, 149, 154, 197, 198, 201, 215.
Bluett, family, 94 and 12.
“ Bocher," 138.
Bolen, Thos., 52.
“ Bona Ecclesiæ," 188
Bonfire, 44 (12.).
Book, gift of, to the Church, 35.
of the High Wardens, 121, 122.
Bookbinder, 116, 124, 151, 152, 186, 187.
Book for the procession, 44.
- maker, 114.
for the Communion, 163.
-- of accounts for St. James' Chapel, 139.
Books of the Church, 50, 52.
binding of, 93, 100, 112.
- bought by the Priest, 73, 143, 152.
“Borow" (security), 49, 63.
Boss, iron, 181.
Bottle, glass, to keep wine for the Communion, &c.,
172, 197.
“Botts " for bees, 213.
Bowls for the Church-house, 114, 130, 142, 105,
171.
Box of copper “for the sacrament,” 46.
-- for Deeds, 62.
- of silver gilt, 53.
Boxes for money, 47.
Brandiron, 53, 145.
“ Brasina,” 173, 186, 188, 191, 196.
Brass, 35:
- - casting, 104.
of old candlesticks, 163.
Bread and Wine for the Holy Communion, 48,
163, 168, 172.
"Brethereddyne dirige and mass,” 229.
Brewhouse, 173, 181, 182, 231.
Brewing, xxi, 83, 113, 122, 130, 159, 173, 175,
182, 186, 188, 195, 196, 197, 201.
Brides, Maser for, 51, 242.
Bridge near Churchyard stile, 188, 191.
Bridgewater, ix (12.), x, xij, xiii, xiv, xvi (12.), 229,
230.
Briefs, 102, 171.
Brimstone, 178, 187.
Bristol, 114, 123, 144, 153, 169.
to Bellator at, 146, 147, 148.
- bells at, paid for, 92, 144.
bells recast at, 105, 125, 146.
cross from, 153.
embroiderer at, 149.
lands at, 138.
organ maker, 142, 143.
painted cloth from, 17.7.
painter at, 161.
Priest from, 153.
Smith of, 155.
vestments from, 113.
– visitation charges at, 171.
wainscot boards from, ds.
C
2 L
258
under
Bristol, wax bought at, 94.
“Broches" (spits), 53, 142.
“ Brochys ” (brooches), ornamental, 64.
Brockley 83.
Broiderer, 157.
Broken money, 155.
silver, 156.
Brompton Regis, 242.
Bronscombe, Bishop, 242.
Brotherhood of St. Mary, 174, 181.
Bruges, satin and silk, 46, 47, 143.
Bruton, xviii, 44.
“ Brymbylls," 141.
Brytell, Syr Thomas (chaplain), 178.
Buckles, silver, 65, 83.
Canopy for Sepulchre, 75.
Canvas, 95, 171.
Capel, Sir Giles, 78.
Master, 145.
Capellanus, xviii, 175, 176, 177, 178, 179, 191
Capul, 105, 235.
“Carchow," &c. See “Kerchieſ.”
Carnocke, 141 and 12., 143, 235.
Carter, Mason of Exeter, 2, 29.
Carver, 74, 145, 149, 150.
Castle of Montacute, 200.
Causey, 186, 193.
Cave (Easter), 117
Ceiling of the High Cross, 194, 195.
“ Cena Domini," 167.
“Cenne,” of the vestments, 117.
Censer, 47, 90, 102, 106, 149, 165, 194.
Chain for Bible, 153, 205.
Chalices, 51, 176, 178, 198.
- bequest of, 118.
- blessed, 60, 71, 103, 112, 122, 123,
136.
- bought, 103, 177, 178.
- carchawe for, 101.
case for, 103, 136.
changed, 112.
cloth for, 82, 127.
collection for new one, 122.
Buckram, 112, 130, 142, 189.
Bull, killed and distributed, xiv, 83.
- red, 180, 181, 182, 183.
Bulls, papal, 167.
“Burdestock, '141.
- in the aisle before St. Sidwell, 215.
- in the Chapel, do.
– mending pavement of the Church after,
105.
Burying ſee, 38, 47, 54, 79, 155 (12.), 206.
- debt for, 152.
-
giſt at, 169.
Butcher, 183.
Butterton chapelry, xvi.
Button (al. Bitton), 86.
Butts (Archery), xx.
mended, 70, 73, 124, 136, 151.
Cadbury, north, xviii (12.).
Cage to belfry, 204, 205.
Calendar, 229
Camel, Sir John, 17.
“ Canan, bokys of,” 36.
Candles sold, 175, 176, 178, 190.
--- for the visitation of the sick, 164, 167,
168, 171.
Canons of 1603, xvii.
Canopy, 74, 83, 84, 131, 133, 138, chain to do.,
Chamber in bakehouse rented, 188.
Chamberlain, 227, 230.
Chancel repaired, 140, 141.
“ Chandeler" (Chandelier), 98.
- Chanon,”:135.
Chantries, xvii, xviii, 249:
Chantry of B.V.M., 230.
-- Commissioners, xviii, 162 and n.
endowments, xviii.
-- seized, 45 (12.).
founded, 143 (12.).
wardens, xvii.
Chapel Priest, 135, 136, 156 and 12.
- wardens, xvii
Chaplain, 175, 176, 179.
Chapman, 105.
Chapter of Wells, Consistorial Court of, 91 and
12., 94 and n., 150
Charcoal, 98.
Chard, x.
Chard, Thos., Prior of Montacute, 204 (22.).
Charnel house built, 231.
a band to support, 194.
-- cord to, 99, 192.
- of High Altar, 194.
-- lace and thongs for, 141.
to hang over the Sacrament, 219.
Inder.
259
· Charlton, visitation at, 158.
Chasubles, made of old cope, 156, 183.
- white and silver, 52.
Chaworth, Lady Elizabeth, 143 (12.), 151 (12.).
Cheese for the Croke procession, 21, 24, 28, 29,
30, 31, 33, 34, 42, 108.
- gathered for the Church, 232.
Chelvey, 96.
Chest, 162.
- - key for, 165.
“Chestremede," 184.
Chew, visitation at, 160.
Chewton, lime at, 152.
Chief-rent, 20 and 12., 38 (12.).
Children, bequest for, 107, 110, 115,
- surplices for, 94.
Chilthorn, 173, 202.
Chiselborough bells, 205 (12.).
Choward, “Master," 151.
Chramore, 168.
Christmas play, xiv, 184.
Christmastide sport, 3.
Christopher, Saint, painted, 104, 105.
--- Sir, of Kynston, 159.
Church ales, xiii, 89, 177, 181, 186, 201, 204,
205, 207, 209, 219, 245, 246.
- blending force of the, xxi, 252.
- books of, 50, 52.
costs of, 34. .
fabric of, 2, 50, 79, 146, 173, 180,
&c.
goods, 123.
heifer, 129.
hey, 55, 59.
- house, xiv, xx, xxi, xxii, xxiii, 9, 10, 79, 80;
81, 82, 107, 109, 119, 173, 209, 219, 229, 231,
232, 247 (12.).
- completed, 204.
- hire of, 204, 108, 110, III.
– hire of a chamber in, 108.
- rent of, 122, 162, 163 and 11., 164, 165,
166, 207, 220.
– rent of the old house, 212.
- - do. of new, ib.
- special contributions towards, 201.
- ultimate fate of, 247. :
Church land, 33, 34, 39, 70, 232.
Church lead, 67.
Church loaf, 193. See also “Holy Loaf,” and
“Panis Benedictus.”
Church-rent, 75.
Church stock, governance of, 208.
Church-warden's accounts, 50, &c.
examined, 167.
Church-wardens examined beyond the diocese of
B. and W., 233.
Churchyard, consecrated, 113, 116.
— cross, 79, 140, 141.
- enlarged, &c., 79.
gate, key of, 121.
- rent of, "little voyd place of ground"
in, 205.
- wall, 66, 72, 75, 107, 183.
Citations, 106, 127.
" Citula,” 191.
Civil charges imposed, 80.
- result of, 232.
Claram (Claverham), 78, 87, 92, 93, 94, 95, 113,
127, 156, 162 (n.).
- chapel, 162 and 12.
- court, 79.
cross, 127.
Claret wine, 168.
Clasps to books, 51, 91, 187.
- to cope, 150.
“ Clavey,” 144, 235.
“ Cleancorn,” 224.
.“ Clericus Parochialis,” xviii.
Clerk ales, 224 and 12., 246.
— bearing banner, 188, 189, 191, 192, 197.
folding vestments, 162, 172.
keeping the book, 172.
lack of, 222.
making the account, 160, 228.
maintenance, settlement of, 209.
- payments to, and wages of, 41, 73, 74, 76,
79, 115, 119, 153, 155, 160, 172, 230.
Clerk of Axbridge, 138, 139.
Clerkship, fresh award of, 222, 224.
Cleve, 92, 93, 95, 99.
- - Our Lady of, 249.
Clevedon, 172.
--- The Lady of, 106.
Clifton, Sir Gervase, 33 (12.).
Clipped money, 55, 59, 127.
Clock, 13, 79.
- and chime, 150.
cord for clock-weight, 183.
cost of, 60, 153.
keeping, 14, 16, 17, 48, 62, 69, 70, 71, 76,
152, 155, 166.
-- maker, 150, 153.
new, 205.
old one taken down, 153.
repaired, 44, 61, 70, 72, 74, 159, 179, 184.
-- rope to, 76.
- the village, 176.
--- washing and scouring, 20.
CC
2 L 2
260
Inder.
Clock-house, 151, 152.
Cloghill, 187, 189.
Closes, our Lady's, 38 (n.).
“ Closing ” of arches, &c., 112, 114, 120,
Cloth (linen, &c.,) for the High Altar, 90, 144,
191, 195.
- odo. painted, 167.
for low Altars, 202.
- to mend low altar cloths, 202.
for two altar cloths, 197.
painted at Bristol, 167.
for the High Beam, 132.
for the chalice, 82, 126.
for the corporas, 1973
the “ Hussylyng," 147.
- before our Lady, 75, 106, 198.
before our Lord, 105.
- over the Pyx, 165.
- of the Rood, 153, 167, 212, 219
– beſorë the Rood-loft, 133.
- for the Sepulchre, 153, 212, 216, 219,
220.
- before the Table, 88, 90.
Cloths, Church, 58, 62, 66, 69, 70, 71, 73, 74, 76;
83, 84, 88, 90.
--washed, 183, 186, 189.
old, sold, 227.
- in the Chapel taken down, 161.
Clouting leather, 177.
“ Clovys," 92.
Clowesworth, old bells sold to, 204.
Cluniac Priory, 173.
Coal, 107, 117, 118, 126.
Coat, 215.
Coats (grey), 73:
Coercive authority, 232.
Coffers, 73, 113, 121, 124, 129, 152, 198.
— given, 57.
--- mended, 150, 153.
- the Register, 153.
“Coffrarius," 227.
Cokke, Agnes, xxi, 203.
“Collecta assisa," 230.
Collection book, 169.
-- for Christmas, 228.
-- for Easter, ib.
- interparochial, 233.
Collectors, the King's, 157.
Collumstoke, 213.
Comb, Sir John, 17, 18.
Commission, the King's. See Edw. VI, and Hen.
VIII.
-- of spoliation, 224 and 12.
--- - Chantry, Report of, xviii.
Commissioners of Edward VI, II and 12., 45 (12.),
80, 161, 162 and n., 163.
of Henry VIII, 156.
- of Sewers, 80 and 12., 160 and n.
Common Prayer, Book of, 171.
“ Compassion,” payment for, 84)
Composition, paid for the, 135.
Compulsory church-rate, 231.
“ Concordantia," 188.
Congresbury, xviii, 80, 84, 86, 92, 128, 132, 138,
148, 149, 151, 154, 158.
Consecration of a bell, 95. See also “Blessing.”
Consistory Court, 127.
- suit withdrawn from, 150.
Constable, 80, 133.
Constitutions of Bishop Winchelsea, 243.
“Continuance of Mary and John," 170 and 12.
Contract for casting bell, 125.
Copes, 21, 44, 51, 101.
- black; 129.
blue, 164.
blue satin, 225
blue velvet, 46.
bought, 205, 209, 216, 217
clasps to, 150.
earnest for, 148.
given; 210:
green, 52, 64.
mending, 57, 76,91, 135, 159, 170, 189, 220.
red, “ with green bawderyck,” 52.
- red velvet, 52, 225.
- - repaired and new, coloured, 202.
white, 51.
" Coppys," 106, 121.
“Copysys,” 145
Corbel stones of the Aler, 98.
Corn, 157 and 12.
Corporal, 92, 197.
Corporas, 38 and 1.; 106, 153, 157, 165, 197, 215.
- case for, 53, 215.
- washing, 58, 62, 76.
Corpus Christi day, 52.
Corscomb, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, &c.
“ Corse, a blew,” 20.
“Costagiys,” 98 (12.), 203.
Costrell, Sir Wm., 13.
Cote and under-cote, given in alms, 206.
“ Cotes of fence," 171.
Cottage, rent of, 203.
Counsel's opinion, 123.
Court, Archdeacon's, xii, xiv.
Court-day, the bishop's, 87 and n.
Court de Wyke, 78.
Court-house, 80.
Ander.
261
Curtain, fringe to, 103.
- rons to hang, 121.
— - rings to, 103.
"steyned,” 52.
Curtle, 218.
“ Curtyll," 216.
Cushion, 148.
Custodes bonorum, xv.
“ Custom” (i.e., toll) at Bristol, 92, 114.
Custumalia, x.
Cutcombe, 117 (12.).
“Cytte” (seat), 165.
D.
I
Court, Rolls, xxiii, n.
- the Spiritual, 166 and 11..
the Visitation, 188 (n.).
“Courtesy” to workmen, 114
Cove let, 94, 190.
Cow, 10, 12, 13, 14, 15, 63, 82, 87.
- given, bought, hired, or sold, 178, 179, 180,
183, 185, 193, 194, 198, 199
- stock, 182.
Cradle, 164.
Crane, 118, 120.
"Crest” of the High Altar, 122.
Crewkerne, lime from, 189.
Croke (the processional cross), I.
box, 31, 33.
box, key of, 34:
- bread, 24, 235.
- keeping, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10, 12, 16, 17, 20,
24, 25, 26, 28.
- money, I, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 14, 15,
17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28,
29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 39; 40; 44, 76.
- payment for carrying, 125.
Crops in the Marsh sold, 180, 185.
“ Cropys” (cramps), 98.
Croscombe, xi, xiii, 1, 20, 29, &c.
Cross bought, 177.
- brought from Bristol, 153
- copper gilt, 51, 178.
the High. See "High:
latten, 100.
made, 101.
new, 84.
the old mended, 159.
payment for, 166, 167.
- the processional, 79 (12.):
— recovered, 47.
silver, sold, 160, 172.
-- sum paid for, 167 and 17.
wood and silver, 51.
- at St. James's Tide, 149
- near Axbridge, 83.
Cross-bow, legacy of, 125.
Crosse, the Carver, xx.
“ Crowche” money, 232, 235.
Crowns to the B. V. M., 25.
Crucifix, 21, 52, 53, 54, 59, 215.
housing over, 59.
Cruets, 37, 103, 117, 199, 201
--- exchanged, 121, 181.
Cups, III, 114, 165.
- "asyon ” (ashen), 146.
Curfew, 7, 9, II (12.).
Curtain, giſt of, 31, 37, 38, 52, 118.
Damask suit, 51.
"Dandepratts,” 155, 235. I
Danyell, Sir John, 158, 159.
“Danys yere," 157, 160.
Darshill, 41.
Daub and wallet, 196.
Davy, Sir, 137, 145.
“ Dawbs," 82, 110.
“Dawell " light, 232.
“Dayer ” (dairy-man), 58 and n.
Dead-money, I, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, II, 13, 235.
Debts to the Church, 64, 67, 70, 82, 131, 137
140, 152, 156, 165, 171, 172, 220, 230.
Dedication Day, xx, 55, 57, 58, 61, 62, 66, 72, 173
26.
“Defawte in service of Yatton," 158.
“Deffawt of apparance of neybars," 201.
Demission of the Court, 166 and n., 169.
Desk, 150, 198.
- cloth, 93, 133, 142, 183.
Diaper for altar-cloth, 149.
“ Dipote,” 187, 241.
Dirige and Mass, for benefactors, 55, 56, 57, 59,
60, 62, 66, 68, 70, 71, 72, 74, 76, 175, 181,
193, 211, 219.
- for Lady Mayow, 66.
-- for Sir William, 74.
Dishes, 142, 146, 171.
- brass, 192, 195.
Dissolution of the Monasteries, 249.
Distraint, 38 and n.
Ditch or dyke on the Moor, 188.
Doeskin, 187.
Doles at Glastonbury, xxiv.
- Wells, ib.
Door, old Church, sold, 184.
“Dornes” and “Dorneys," 127, 179.
Doulting, xxi, 252, 253.
Dowlas, 170, 171.
262
Inder.
Drokensford, bishop, his alms, 250.
-- elevation of serfs, 252.
-- his Register, x.
Dundry, 118, 137.
- stone, 98.
Dusters, 117.
Dyking at the Parsonage, 152.
- of stories, 118.
w of the well, 109, 165, 235.
of the Yeo, 139, 165 and 11., 170.
Eagles displayed; 224.
Earbury, A., 247.
Earnest, 8, 20, 55, 72; 95; 98, 100, 137, 148, 149,
150, 165.
Easter light or taper; 54; 57; 59, 60, 65, 66, 67,
68, 69, 70, 72, 73; 74, 76, 82, 84, 85, 87, 88, 90,
130.
- play, 209.
Procession, 234.
Sepulchre, 84, ź16:
Easton-in-Gordano, 86.
Edmonds, Sir Stevin, 36:
Edmund, “ my lorde,” Chan. of Wells; 52.
Edward, Sir, III.
Edward VI, xv, xviii, xxiii; 2, 46, 64 (.), 218,
249.
his Commissioners, 11 and n., 45 (n.),
80, 161, 162 and n.
Eleemosynary endowments, 248.
Embroider, 149, 157, 164.
English, first account presented wholly in, 206.
Enterclose, 220, 235.
Endowment in land and houses, 226.
Erasmus, D., 161.
-
his paraphrase, 45 (12.), 161.
- Saint, 229.
“Ereabull " ground, 156.
Estates, monastic, how managed, xxi.
Ewell, 198.
Ewes, 36, 37, &c.
Exbridge, 209, 216, 223.
Executors of Bp. Beckington, 27, 95 (12.).
Exeter Litany, 242.
mason from, xiv, 2, 29, 30, 32 (12.).
Fall, allowance for, 172.
- loss hy, 172.
Famels, 47, 236.
Fees for burial, 38 and 12.
" Felewote,” 17.
Felton, 140.
stone from, 141.
Femerell, 84.
Ferments, 84 and 12., 100.
Festival (book for Feasts), 52.
- - ale, 128 and n.
Fettiplace, Dame, 232.
Fifteenth paid to ye King, 184.
- collector of, 184, 185.
Fine for admission to Manor tenancy, 113 and 12.
- imposed on Warden, 226.
Fines levied, 44.
Finials, 139.
Fiscal system, I, 2, 49, 78, 173, 208, 225, 230,
232, 233.
Fitz-James, 41, 75, 107, 123 and n.
“ Five Men,” the, xviii, 208, 223.
their account, 209, 220.
“Flakys," 101, 236.
Fleece, 181.
Floor (middle) of belfry opened, 167.
“Floryssyng” wax, 132.
Flowers to trim the taper, 213-
“Flowre” (floor of belſry?), 172.
“ Flowrs” to Rood-loft, 132.
Folding the vestments, 119, 162, 165, 166, 170.
Font cover, 90.
- mended, 148, 151.
- line to, 90.
- lock to, 128, 153.
- lock and key, 151, 159.
- ring and staple to, 148.
stock, 232.
taper, 2, 3, 4, 7, 12, 13, 79, 92, 99, 157, 158,
161, 168, 169, 192, 232.
- "wives,” 232.
Forks and forlocks, 149.
“Formula,” 180.
Forms in the Church, 163.
“Forty-pences,” &c., 232.
Frankincense, 48, 120, 166, 167, 171, 187, 203, 220.
“ Frary Clark,” 66, 69, 70, 72, 73.
- the old, 114.
Freemason, 140, 141.
Freestone, 165, 183, 185, 220.
“Frette” (freight), 119.
Friar, xxvi.
- of Ilchester, ib.
Fringe to altar table, 164.
E.
Fabric of the Church, 2, 3, 79, 94 (17.).
Fair, the, 92, 102.
Fall of money, 162,
Ender.
263
:
Fringe to banner, 112.
- to curtains, 103.
- to hangings of the altar, 121.
- to kerchief“ to hang over the sacrament,"
198.
“Froggemere lane," 226.
“Front,” over the High Altar, 148.
to altar-cloths, ib
- to side-altars, ib.
Frontlet, 33 and n.
“Fundament,” the, 107, 118.
Funds, sources of, 173.
Furnace of Church-house, 154 and 11., 177
Fustian naps, vestments of, 225.
Fyce. See “ Vyse."
Fyllocks, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10, II, 12, 13, 15, 16,
17.
“Fysche and fiesche and chese" allowed, 84.
Fysscher, skilled Mason, 119.
G.
“Gake-house," 179.
Gargoyles, 125, 146.
Garlantte, Sir Nycolas, 40.
Gathering-book, 165.
Gawds, 21, 22, 25, 53, 64, 65.
“ ze," a, in the Treasure-house, 106.
- -- in the vestments, 106.
Gear of the Church, 13, 14, 15, &c.
Gemmowys, 72, 73, 142, 168, 236.
George, St., xxiii.
- statue of, 2, 30.
cost of, 32 and 11.
new image of, 214.
maker, 2, 29, 30.
ale, 36, 38, 39, 40, 43.
- altar-cloth of, painted, 215:
banner of silk, 217.
chapel, xiv, 2.
day, 223.
- increase of, 41.
light, 34.
money, 34.
- setting the plate before, 152.
store, 208, 210, 214, 218.
“ zete” (gate), 106.
Gibbes, Davy, 80, 122 (12.), 123, 124.
- cost of his suit, 123;
Gilder of Bristol, 155.
Gilding, 132, 133, 134, 137, 141, 142, 144, 147,
151, 155, 161, 198.
Girdles, 21, 22, 25, 111, 158, 191, 215, 216.
— with buckles and pendants, 25, 54,
199.
– for the Chaplain, 191.
of green silk and silver, 181
harnest. See “ Harnest.”
- silver studs of, 151.
a “Swystyng," 130.
tucking, 5, 61, 126, 130, 133.
to the vestments, 83, 95, 103, 219.
— for the Vicar, 85.
Giso, bishop, 78.
“ Glasyng" of the Church windows, 62, 72,
97, 124, 127, 134, 143, 156, 168, 190,
212.
Glass mending, 97.
Glastonbury Abbey, 49, 242, 247, 249.
- Abbot of, 49, 53, 74.
doles at, xxiv.
– Manor, 247.
Glossary, 233.
Gloves, 96.
Glue and gum, 90, 93, 187.
Goatskins, 110.
Godney, 253.
Gold paint, 96.
“Good-doers," 43 and n.
" Goody,” 65.
Gown, giſt of, 19, 85, 87, 115, 191, 193, 198, 214,
216.
- and curtle, 217.
— and girdle, 216.
-- green, 5, 7.
and ring, 21).
- sale of, 91.
- violet ingrain, 6.
“Gownte," 144 and 12.
“ Gowte," 168.
Grave, fee for, 21, 210.
- in the aisle before St. Sidwell, 215.
- before the High Cross, 217.
Grayle, 22, 52, 101, 199.
“Grey cake,” 97, 236.
Groat, 199.
Gromen, 208.
“Grotes,” Irish, 155.
“Grotes cryppe,” 55, 59, 127.
Gudgeon of the bells, 103.
Guildhall at Stanford, xxii, 232.
Guild of St. John Bapt., 49.
Guilds, system of, xiii, xvii, xxiv.
- secular successors of xvii.
Gutters of the Church, 125.
Gyngylls, silver, 25.
264
Inder.
H.
Hocktide, 228, 233.
Hody, Sir John, Kt., 180.
Hoglers, xx, I and n., 3, 4, 7, 9, IO, II, 12, 13, 14
15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27,
28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 40, 49,
174, 230, 236, 251.
-- light, 34, 57, 60, 63, 181, 190.
- money received from our Lady Wardens,
65.
Hall, Bishop, 214 (n.).
Halowntyde, 155.
Hamdon, stones from, 183, 188, 191.
Hardington, 203.
Harness, purple silk, with silver, 51.
-- scoured, 172.
Harneyste gurdle, 111, 151, 182, 236.
Healing, 170.
Heifer, 82, 85, &c.
Hele (ceil), 120.
“Helmebought," 178, 236.
Helyng (tiling), 22, 94, 166.
Henbere, 161.
Henry VIII, xxi, xxiii, xxiv.
Henry's Commissioners, 156.
Herdewyke, Robt., 60.
Here, 121, 129, 236.
Here-cloth, 153, 202.
Herryherte, 88.
“Heryng-barells," 147
Herys, 121, 125.
Heyward, xvi, 138.
High Altar,
- beam before, 155.
- cloth before, go.
-- crest of, 122.
- hanging of, 121.
- - - painted cloth to,.144.
rings to, 90.
- washing, 133.
- two wings of silk for, 90.
High beam, 132.
-- cloth for, 132.
- iron for, 133.
“High Book” (viz. : the High Wardens' account
book), 121 and n.
High Chamber, 110.
High Cross, 132, 185.
- cloth hung before, 191.
repaired, 132.
wa Beam, 192.
Light, 60, 62, 63, 67, 71, 133.
- endowment of, xiv, 232
– keeping of, 67.
– Wardens of, 49, 58, 63, 64 (n.),
- stoke, 33.
Hogeling (and Hokelyng), 58, 229.
Marsland and Upland, 229, 230.
Holmes, Rev. T. S., ix, xxvi.
Holy Ale, xxi, 173, 232.
- brede-house, 229.
- day and holiday, xxi.
- loaf, xxi, 24, 205, 229, 232.
– wafer, xxi.
Holy water pot, 170.
-- stock, 136.
- stone, 93.
Hood, Sir Alexander, 229.
- - Robin. See “Robin Hood.”
Horington, free Chapel at, 11 (12.), 45 (12.).
-- lands at, 45 (n.).
-- money, 13.
Horn of the Church, 38, 84.
Horner, J. F., Esq., 252.
Horse-lock, 145.
- "mete," 84, 123.
Horwood, Mr., 229.
House-property in Oxford, 232.
“Howsing of our Lady," 199.
“Huckmucks," 108, 135, 146, 237.
Hucley Bridge, 209.
Huntspill, 95.
Hurdwyche, 85, 87, 94, 108.
“ Hussyllyng cloth,” 147, 237.
“Hylyer,” 220, 236.
Hymnals, 138.
“Hyppe, by," 223.
“ Hyve” for bees, 188.
69.
sum owing to, 61.
High Warden's account, 209, 218, 230.
Hinton Bluet, 94 (n.).
Hock-day, xx and N., 132, 146, 159.
“I. H. S.,” 52, 145, 148, 150, 157, 159.
Ilchester, 178, 191, 192
“Ill-deed done,” 161.
Illuninated book, 24, 199
Images, 53, 97, 98, 99, 1001
gilded, 161, 214
makers of, 98.
Ander.
265
K.
Images plucked down, 160, 171.
of Roodloft, 170 (n.).
Incense, 121, 183.
Incull, 155, 159 (ynkle, 170).
Indictment, bill oſ, 122, 154.
Indractus, S., 242.
Injunctions, 160, 162.
- book of, 171.
Inscriptions on account books, 154, 210.
“ Institution of a Christian Man," 157 (12.).
Interdict, episcopal, xvii.
Inventories of Church goods, 50, 51, 64, 119, 163,
171, 197, 199, 232.
--- of Vestments kept in St. Katrine's
Yle, 231.
Irish cloth, 121, 147.
Iron gear before Our Lady, 120.
2
Kalendar, writing of, xiii, 199.
Katherine, St.
- her altar, 126.
altar stone, 126.
angel on which she stands, 126.
banner of, 112.
- image of, 126, 135.
light, 120, 124.
pricket for lights before, 135.
wax for, 111, 124.
– Yle, 231.
Kellaw, Bp., 252.
Ken, ale at, 80, 131, 132, 135, 151.
Ken, Robert, legacy from, 94.
- obit for, ib.
Kenston, 155.
Kerchiefs, gifts of, 36, 37, 39, 41, 53, 69, 71.
- of the canopy, 58.
to the chalice, 101.
– for the Images, 53, 178.
– to Our Lady, 65.
-“lawnde,” 30, 37, 39.
- recovered, 46.
- washing, 59.
Ket, Nycholas (Scrivener), 114, 115.
Kettle of the Church-house, 82, 83, 198, 112, 119,
121, 122, 149, 154, 170.
Keve, 83.
“Key” (cows), 49, 58, 60, 61, 63, 64, 237.
wardens, xiv, 49, 50, 54, 63, 64.
“Key-Whyt,” 54 and n.
Keynsham, ale at, 80, 149, 151.
--- summons to visitation at, 149.
Keys to lock, 170.
King, Bishop, 197.
- the play king of Montacute, 183 and n.
King's Arins, the, 155.
Bere, 157, 158.
· Book, 157 (12.).
Collectors, 157.
--- Commissioners. See “Commissioners,”
“Edward VI” and “Henry VIII."
Crown painted on an image, 202.
Revel, 3 and 12., 5, 6, 27, 158.
--- silver, 44.
- Subsidy, 156, 158, 159, 160.
making a bill fcr, 157, 170.
– Visitation, 161.
-- Visitors, 159, 161
James', St., ale, 130.
- chapel, 88, 115, 122, 123, 124, 125,
126.
bell of, 128.
– book for (very costly), 155 and n.
cleaning, 100.
debt of the chapel, 139.
gilding, 144.
· helyny, 94.
- purging, 126.
timber taken down, 94.
timber work, ib.
- walls made, ib.
- Day, 144, 146.
proctors, 124.
– shell, 51, 53, 64.
Jeferes of Bristol “ bellatur," 148.
Jesu, store of, 208. See under “ Store."
- his taper, 220.
John, St., fraternity of, 49, 55, 57, 59, 62, 76.
- proctor of, 57, 58.
iron gear for, 151.
his light, 59.
scaffold to, 151.
tapers before, 73.
John, Sir (Priest), 124, 137.
Johnson, Sir Umefry, 36.
Joists sold, 184.
“Jorge, the.” See “St. George."
Jornale, 237.
“Judas,” 99, 185.
Judges at Wells, 123.
“Juells of the Church,” let out, 229.
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266
Huder.
King's Wood, 149.
Kingsbury, 184, 197, 199.
Kingston Seymour, ale at, 55, 112.
--- Parson of, 121.
Knells, 14 and n., 15, 17, 24, 26, 43, 92, 141, 165,
205, 206, 211, 216, 217, 218.
Knives, gift of, 136.
“Kynter-kynnys," 146.
Kyve, 109, 119, 130, 237.
Ladder for the belfry, 180.
Ladle for Church-house, 142.
Lady, Qur, account of, 220.
- candlestick with five lights before,
215.
- Chapel, xiv, 174.
- rebuilt, 227.
gilding, 144.
- image in chancel taken down, 160.
new image of, 213, 214, 215.
-'s light, 60, 67, 71, 75.
-'s mark, 222.
of Pity, 229.
-- stores. See “ Store.”
– taper to stand before, 211.
-- wardens of, 54, 55, 56, 57, 59, 60, 62,
64, 65, 66, 68, 69, 72, 73, 74, 75.
-- increase of their ale, 71.
Lady Wardens. See “Women wardens."
“ Lamme-towe,” 219, 237.
Lamp hung in the Chancel, 136, 153.
- before the figure of Jhu, 213.
- before St. Sidwell, 213.
Lamp-yarn, 89.
- payment to clerk for lighting, 228.
Land, Church, 33, 34.
- increase of, 39.
Langabulum, 227 and 12
Langmede, 156.
Language of the accounts, xxiii, 231.
“Lasyng ” (lace), 147.
“ Latham,” 183.
Latten basons, 211.
candlesticks, 215, 216.
Latin, xxiii, 80, 88, 98, 210, 229, 231.
Laud, Archbishop, 247.
Laundresses, 183, 186, 230.
Lavender, the, 116.
Laver, giſt of, 53, 82,
“Lawer" (lawyer), 216.
“ Lawfull money of Engelunde," 118.
“ Lawnde" (lawn), 30, 37, 39, 134 (black). .
Lead, 38, 42, 67, 69, 100, 116, 119, 121, 138,
181, 182.
- casting, 63, 121, 138.
of Church repaired, 203.
- for Holy Water Stone, 93.
for St. Mary's House, 56, 63.
from Mendip, 68, 69.
— rent for, 65.
Leadmining, 3.
Lease of sheep, 37, 38, 40.
Leather, 187.
- of horse skin, ib.
Leazes, 199 (12.).
Lebetina, 180 and 12.
“Leddehaxyn,” 68, 117, 119, 121.
- to Chewton, 68.
“Lege-bell," 90, 237.
Legend, 4.
Leger, 22, 79 (12.), 112 and 11., 115.
“ Leggs in the More,” 199 and 11., 200.
Leigh, xviii.
Leland, 210.
Lent cloth, 58, 74, 95, 124, 130, 176.
- cord for suspending, 182.
- painted, 212, 220.
– vestment, 52.
Lett, Humfrey, Parish Clerk, 153.
Leverys in the Marsh, 186.
Levys to windows, 104, 145.
Liability of parishioners, xii, xvi, xvii, 231.
Liber obitalis, xiii.
Lichfield episcopal registers, xvi, 252.
“Liernes ” of Rondloſt, 184.
Life of a Parish, xx.
- in what lacking, xxiii.
Lights, not defined, xiii, 34, 73, 87.
- beſore the Cross, 99.
for Dedication Day, 72.
- for the Departed, I, &c.
Easter, 54, 57, 59, 60, &c. See “Paschal
Taper."
- The High Cross. See “High Cross.”
Hokelyng, 57.
- before the figure of Jesu, 212.
keeping, 25. See also “ tynnyng."
Our Lady's, 60, &c.
at the Nativity, 59.
for Visitation of the Sick, 164.
Wardens of the, 95.
for Whitsuntide, 72.
“ Lightmanship,” 148.
Light-men, 84, 85, 89, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 97, 99,
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267
Light-men, East, 79, 141, 159, 165, 166, 170,
172.
North side, 99.
– West side, 79, 113, 141, 159, 165, 166,
170.
Lily-pots, 160.
Lime at Chewton, 152.
for the Church, 167.
- for pulpit and altars, 86.
for the Windows, 66, 189.
Linen for Lent-cloth, 130.
-- cloth for Rood, 167.
-- to mend Albs, 183.
- painting Lent and Rood cloths, 220.
— for the Sepulchre, 220.
Little John, 1, 24.
Littleton, 252.
Live-stock, xiii, 173, 179, 209, 231.
“Loaf of the Church,” 24.
the Holy, xxi, 24 and 1., 173, 205, 231,
233.
Lock and “gemmulls," 168.
Lord of the Manor, 170 and n.
Luggs for banners, 46 and 12.; 88 and n.; 125,
165.
“Lyche-rest,” 76, 170, 171, 172.
-- of a rope, 76.
Lying in the Chapel, 139, 158, 166.
- in the Church, 32, 35, 134, 136, 137, 145,
158, 161, 165.
Lyme Ryge, 112.
Lynch, John, Minstrel, 155.
Lyndwood, 243, 244 (n.).
Manumission of serfs, 252.
Manuscript, old, 232.
Margaret, St., 173.
ale, 177, 182, 188.
chapel, 182.
Day, 182.
-
Dedication Day, 173.
— feast, 186, 193.
Marks, payment of, 93, 115, 116, 219
Marsh, the, 177.
Martilege, xiii.
Mary St. (the B.V.), cloth before, 106.
- painting of, 104.
- goods of, 178.
- House, lead for, 56.
- cost of repairing, 63.
- figure of, with St. John on a cross, 51.
Mary Magdalene, St., 160.
Mary Magdalene's Day, 179, 180, 182.
Mary, Queen, 164, 219, 231.
Masday, Sir John, 138.
Maser, 17, 31, 51, 53, 242.
Mason's wages for Turret-staircase, 202.
Mass-book, 24, 36, 52, 124, 129, 199.
- in English, 161.
Mat for the table, 163.
Mawdley, 27.
May's Ale, 207.
Mayfield Church, xvi.
Mayow family, 8, 9, 10, II, 23.
--. endowment for a light, 41, 42.
- Lady M. of Croscombe, 65.
- her Dirige, 66.
Meadowland, 184.
Mells, xviii, 253.
Mendip, lead from, 68, 69.
-"riding to," 138.
“Mere," 156 and n.
Merton College, Oxford, 252.
“Mese" (and “ Muse"), 116, 119, 194 and 12.
Metecloth, 122, 135.
Michael's, St., Bath.
- Croke, 2, 14, 23, 24, 25, 26,
27.
increase of, 36.
- light, 4, 7, 9.
money, 3, 5, 10, II, 16,
Michaelmas, Tavern of Ale at, 92.
Middle-floor, 148.
Mill Blewett, 94.
Minstrels, xxii, xxiii, 79, 138 and 12., 144, 145,
146, 148, 150, 151, 152, 154, 155, 157, 159,
160, 167, 169, 171.
Missal, 165, 180, 183, 228, 229, 230.
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Maidens, the, I, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14,
15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 25, 26, 27,
28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 40,
43, 208.
account of, 221.
– ale, 44.
— light, 21.
Malet, “ Master,” 123 and n.
Maniples, 47 (n.).
Manor Court Rolls, xx, xxiii and 12.
Mantle of B.V.M., 64.
– with rings, ib.
– blue velvet, 52.
- purple velvet, 52.
Manual, 25, 52, 120, 142, 16
a manual book printed, 52.
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Inder.
Nicholas, St., Altar, 3, 173.
- gatherers of, 3.
-- steyned cloth for, 101.
– feast of, 231.
- light, 6.
painted, 202.
- his staff, 55.
Nicoll, Sir Edward, 216.
Nobles, payment of, 23, 35, 51, 67, 68, 97, 125,
215, 216, 220.
Norbury, Roger de, his Register, xvi.
Notary, 123 and n.
“ Numerale,” 192.
0.
Money, broken, 155.
- fall in value of. See “Fall."
- collected on the Vigil of the Epiphany,
202.
- suit for recovery of, 106.
Monitions, xii, xvi.
Monk, bell rung for, 85.
paid for carrying altar cloth to Wells, 129.
his “wages,” 129.
Montacute, benefice appropriated, 173.
- charged with Vicar's Stipend, 173.
- secularized, ibi
Castle, 200.
Church Ale, 202.
- king of, 183 and n.
Parishioners of, 173.
I'rior of, 178, 183, 201.
Priory, 173
- Sürplice bought at, 186.
W., 188.
Moor (or Marsh).
- corn and beans from, 182.
Moorland, 173.
Moorlease, 207
More, Patty, 251.
Morebath Church, ix, 209.
court at, 223.
- manor and rectory, 209.
- Parish, 208.
“Morelese,” 196.
Morris dance, xxiii.
Mortice for Beam of the Cross, 194:
Mould for casting lead, 138.
Muster of soldiers, 161.
- bill of, 169, 170.
Mynd, 86 and 11. ; 88, 90, 98, 99, 104:
Mynells, 129, 130.
“Myster" to Church-house, 142.
- locks and rings to, ib.
Oaks in the King's Wood; 149.
Oats, 176, 188.
“ Obligation,” 123; 126.
box to hold; 126.
Obits, xiii, 43, 190, 211.
Obituary payments and services, xviii, 43 and 1.,
89, 175, 178, 179, 181, 184, 187, 190, 194, 227,
229.
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Offertory, no mention of, xxv.
" Official master, costs at his visitation, 69, 73.
Oil, 175.
- box, 165.
- for clock, 176.
- for lamp, 168, 229.
Oil-vat, 198.
- vessels, 23, 53.
" Omelys," 160.
“ Onera,” xii.
Ordinal, The, 52.
-- binding, 175.
“ Ordinatio vicàriæ,” xii.
Organ, xix, 79.
-“fote” to, 142.
- maker, 142, 143, 149, 170.
– mending, 101, 110, 128, 156.
playing, 17, 112 and 'n., 143.
tuning, 149.
Organist, xix, 19, 79, 142, 143.
- his grave, 129.
Orphrey, 101, 129.
Osburne (maker of clock-house), 152.
Our Lady's aisle, 66, 73, 76.
- - light, 75, 121.
Oven in Church-house, xxi, 145, 166, 188, 193.
Ox sold, 176.
-- brought for Church store, 178.
Oxford, riding to, 122,
Oyster shells, 98
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Nails, “ five-stroke,” 180.
Nailsea, 94, 165.
Navicula, Navis, 95 and 1.
“Necessary Doctrine,” 157 (12.).
Net, 133.
Newton, Sir John, Knt., 114, 115 and 12.
family, 78 (12.), 79, 114.
Isabel, Lady N., 79, IIÓ, 120, 121, 146.
- Philippa, the lady of Court de Wyke,
92, 95, 103, Ing.
“Neybor Roger,” 207.
Inder.
269
-
Painting the Altar, 201.
-- a cloth, 195.
Pall, 43, 46, 76, 154, 215, 225.
cloth, 156, 167.
Palton chantry, xiv, II (n.).
Palton family, 3, II (n.).
Pan, 199.
“ Pandoxaterium,” 173, 186, 195, 196, 197.
“ Panell,” 123.
“Panis benedictus;” 24, 25, 102, 190, 191, 192,
194, 195, 197, 204.
— ecclesiasticus, 196.
Parapet, 126.
“Paraphrase,” 45 and n., 161.
“ Parcels," 82, 89, 119, 177, 180, 186.
Parchment, 187, 230.
Parclose, 112, 114 and n., 120.
Pargetting, 56, 76, 185.
Parging, 126.
Parish, life of, xx.
- organization of, xi.
- personnel of, xviii.
Parish Clerk, 209.
Parson, 7, 9, 10, 11, 17, 45, 121, 163.
Parsonage, 129, 138, 152.
Parvise, 102.
Paschal money, 6, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 21, 22, 23;
24, 25, 26, 28, 29, 33, 34, 35, 40, 41, 43, 48,
234.
– increase of, 12.
– Taper, 2, 7, 12, 13, 29, 30, 31, 32, 43, 44,
79, 89, 91, 93, 97, 99, 103, 150, 179, 180, 188;
203, 205.
Paschal Font Taper, 57, &c.
Towel, 95.
Passion, emblems of The, on a banner, 52, 53.
Pasture for Church-house, 197.
in the Moor, 205.
Paten, 70, 153, 225.
Pauper, payment for, 114.
Paving of the Church, 100, 134, 163, 201.
- repaired, 101, 105, 106.
Pax, 24, 114, 115, 117, 158, 165, 190, 215.
- the great, 71.
- silver, 225.
“Pax-brede,” 51, III.
“Pecas” (pick-axe), 120.
“Pelewe,” a brazen, 84.
Penance, 166.
Pendant, 22, 54.
Penford, 168.
Pennard, 51.
Pennysford, 157.
Pension, 94, 95:
Percival, “ Master,” 150.
Personnel of the Parish, xviii.
Peter's, St., in the East, Oxford, xx (12.), 233.
-_'s Pence, 209, 229.
Pewter vessels of the Church-house, 40, 41, 42,
43.
Piers, Bishop, xxii, 53, 245.
Pigs, 209.
Pilgrimages, 249.
Pillows, 52, 56, 150, 151, 157, 216.
Pilton Church, 49.
- guilds, ib.
-- Our Lady's house at, xxii.
Vicar of, 23.
Pinnacle “to the best cross,” 132, 133, 151,
158.
---- repaired, 112, 118.
Pistrina, 173, 191.
“Plake," 18 and n.
Plate double, 155.
- set before St. George, 152.
- sold, 45, 172.
Platters, 35, 36, 37, 39, 130, 133, 162, 165.
Play, Autumn, xiv.
- Christmas, tiv, xxii, xxiv, 184.
Easter, xiv, 209.
- Kings, xiv, xxii.
Summer, xiv, 183.
Players' garments, xiv, 232.
“ Plegge” (security), 49, 61, 63.
“ Plumpe ” maker, 136, 139, 140, 142.
Pogger, 36.
Pointing; 147.
“Pokysy," 114, 241.
Poor Law of 1834, xxii.
Poor man's bequest to the bells, 67.
- box, xv.
- men of the Parish, 161. ·
- woman, bequest from, 152.
Relieſ, xv, xxiii, 80, 250.
Poore, Sir Nicholas, 161.
Pope of Rome, 167.
Porch, covering for, 203.
- laths for, ib.
Portiſorium, 180.
Portuas (Portoce), 22, 52, 100, 165, 199.
- "a great p. of Prynte,” 52.
“a holle portas," 165.
"Posenett," 104, 238.
Pot, for IIoly water, 170.
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Inder.
Queen Mary, 2, 46, 164.
Quire, 128.
- burial in, 211.
door, iron bar for, 220.
Quit-rent for the Church-house, xxi, 197.
“Quyrbys,” 154.
R.
Pots, brass, &c., 31, 53, 54, 87, 91, 92, 163, 182,
185:
old ones sold, 82, 229.
“Pothynger,” 118.
Pound, the, xvi.
Powches, 17.
Powell, Sir Edw., 247.
Powlett, “ Hu," 209, 216, 223, 224.
- his bailiff, 224:
“Poyntell,” 187.
Precept, 163.
“Precul,” 72.
“Prelubkys,” 84.
“Prevaylyd,” peculiar use of the word, 210, 211.
Prickets, 88, 142, 143, 188, 191.
Priest, payment to, 73, 153, 156, 157. See also
“Sir Richard Yorke,” and “Chapel Priest.”
Prior of Montacute, 183, 201.
Priory church of Barlinch wrecked, 209.
w window saved, ib.
Processional book, 22, 52; 94, 121, 132, 165, 183.
- a new one printed, 62.
- do. in English, 170.
– cross, 79 and 12.
- - keepers of, xviii.
- Taper, 220.
Proclamations, 161, 167.
Proctors (wardens), 62, 108, 118, 124, 192.
“ Procuratores ecclesiæ,” xv.
“Profession, book of our,” 157.
“ Propters," 124, 125.
“Pryckyng, wrytyng and lymynyng" a greyll, 199.
Psalters, II, 14, 112, 171.
Pulpit, making of, 86.
- mending, 101.
- setting an iron in, 160.
Purlins, 183.
Purse to hold keys, 167.
“Putts ” of stone, 193.
Pye, 129.
Pyers (Dr.), 53.
“Pyggswote," 105, 108, 120.
Pylle, 57.
Pyns, 48 and n.
Pynon, 126.
Pype for bell-rope, 139.
with wood, 32.
- (i.e., spout), 146.
Pypes, 114.
Pytte, 21, 23, 129.
- sawpit, 150, 151.
Pyx, 51, 93, 102, 143, 166, 167, 178.
of latten, 175.
— netcloth over, 165.
“ Rage of the salte-water," 160.
of the sea, 162 (n.).
Rate, compulsory, 230.
- by assessment, 232.
- voluntary, 209.
Rate-book, 166 (12.).
“Rather,” Proctors, the, 108, 109.
Rates, Church, xvi.
- voluntary and involuntary, ix (n.), xii,
xiii.
Rating authority, 232.
Ray-corse, 13.
“Rayer” year, 99.
Re-casting bells, 105, 114, 127.
Receiver, the bishop's, 84 and 1., 87 and 1
“Reconciliation” of the people, 167.
Recovery of Church-goods, 46.
Rector paid for obits, 179, 184, 187, 228.
– for Peter's Pence, 229.
- of Tintinhull, 204 (n.).
- his Dirige, 187.
Rectorial Tithes, a source of relief to poverty,
250.
Rectory, 80.
Redcliffe, bell taken to, 92.
- St. Mary, 171 (11.)
- Visitation at, 171.
“Rede,” 63, 141.
Reeds for thatching, 195.
Reeve, the bishop's, 80, 132.
“Refows” (refuse or broken) money, 26.
Regnal year noted, 30, 40, 46, 64, 65.
Regyl (rail), 100.
“ Rele,” 85, 89, 90, 101, 108, 111, 113, 132, 134,
135, 137, 138, 153, 159.
Relics of St. Thomas of Canterbury, 35.
Relief of the poor, x, xiii, xxiii, 80, 250.
Religious Plays, xiv.
“Penge," 128.
#nder.
271
Rood-light, 234.
Rood-loft, 16, 54, 55, 79 (n.), 90, 91, 97, 98, 100,
107, 122, 132, 133, 151 (n.), 160.
cleaning, 156.
covering of, 54.
images on, 170 (n.).
iron for, 96.
- "liernes ” of, 184.
new, 173, 185.
cost of, 185.
old one pulled down, 98, 185.
painting, 55, 100, 188, 189.
washing, 170.
Rope for bell, 114.
for clock, 76.
-- for clockweights, 61.
for sacring bell, 90.
-- to Trendell, 76.
Rosin, 84, 89, 119, 157, 180
Ruby ring, 10.
“Runs” of match-yarn, 180.
Rushes, 120.
Ryndyn, 82 and 11.
“Ryng, basting the,” 172.
-- making do., ib.
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Rent of Bakehouse, 194.
- of cottage, 203.
Rental of endowed “Rode-chapel,” 232.
Repairs of Church and Brew-house, 193.
- of St. James's Chapel, 130.
of Tower, 112, 118, 145, 221.
Reste, 1, 55, 57, 58, 64.
Revel, the King's, 3 and n., 5, 6, 27, 158.
- the wives', 1, 12.
Revelry, xxii.
“Reward ” (gratuity), 143 and 11., 145.
Rings, xiii and n., 2, 12, 14, 21, 27, 31, 42, 45,
50, 51, 53, 54, 58, 61, 62, 65, 75, 87, 111, 112,
122, 136, 151, 158 [7] ounces], 194, 199.
- enamelled, 23.
- gilt, 5.
- gold, 6, 8, 10, 13, 21, 23, 24, 25, 27,
28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39,
97.
- over gilt, 23.
signet, 17, 25.
- silver, 4, 8, 10, 13, 14, 15, 16, 19, 20,
23, 24, 25, 26, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 36,
37, 38, 39, 41, 42, 120, 189, 192.
-- silver and gilt, 5, 21, 23, 25, 27, 28,
29, 30, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42,
51, 71, 187.
- wedding, 22 and 12., 27 (gilt).
- to our Lady, 26, 27.
Rings for cloth to the High Beam, 132.
for curtains, 103..
Ringers, 69, 73, 74, 76, 98, 164, 168.
Ringing the bell, payment for, 84, 87, 92.
“Ryses for the dawbes,” 82.
Robin Hood, xiv, xx, 1, 2, 4, 10, 11, 12, 14, 16,
18, 20, 24, 26, 28, 29, 30, 31, 38.
—'s ale, 200.
Rochets, 32, 71, 73, 75, 86, 106, 112, 142, 149,
154, 162, 220.
Rodney family, 78 and n.
- Sir John, 38, 123 and 12.
- Lady Elizabeth, 39, 143.
- - Sir Walter, 143 (12.), 151 (12.).
Rogers, Sir Thomas (Priest), 39.
Roller, 198.
“Rom-feoh," 227 (12.).
Rood, 173.
- buckram, for, 130.
- cloth, 130, 153, 167.
-- gift to, 24.
– made and set up, 169.
-- painted, 153, 202, 220:
-- jings for, 130.
---- taken down, 171.
S.
Sack-wire, 168.
Sacrament, drawer for, 198.
- over the High Altar, 147.
Sacring bell, 90, 103, 125, 143, 165, 195:
- – repaired, 149, 199.
- rope ſor, 90.
Saints, covering for “at Lent,” 70, 76.
Salt-cellars, 146.
Satin of Bruges, 143.
Saucers, 37, 118.
“Sauter” (Psalter), 11, 14.
Savaric, Bishop, 49.
Saye, red, 53.
“Scapha” (censer), 102.
Scely, Lucy, xv, 219.
Schefton, Lady, 1o.
Schepton, Lady, 2, 3, 33, 34.
“Schere Thursday," 152.
Scholars, 162 and n.
Scholastica, St., feast of, 93.
School and schooling, want of, xxii.
“Schot,” 128.
Screen (stone), 173.
“Scrinium,” 191.
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Scriptures written on cloth, 167.
Scrivener, 114, 115.
Sea, 162 (n.).
- bank, 144 (n.).
walls, so.
Seat, 149, 161.
Seats in the Church, made, 89, 200.
— -old, 200.
- sawing timber for new ones, 199.
“Sege” in chancel, 145.
- --- in the Church, 149, 150.
- in the Church-house, 136.
-- ends, cutting of, 163 and n.
Segg for thatching, 179.
“Segys” in Church, 86, 96, 134.
Self-government of the community, xvi.
Selwood forest, 86 and 11.
« Selyng," 112.
“Semys," 90, 119.
Sepulchre, 53, 79, 84, 90, 103, 105, 107, 117,
138, 152, 165, 179.
- canopy for, 75.
cloth for, 86, 101, 153.
- cloth painted, 212.
“ystaynyd,” 216.
-- - taper, 64, 71.
--"tree,” 90.
Sepulture, fee for, 54, 63.
Serel, Mr. Thos., x (n.).
Serf, pleads successfully against the D. and C. of
Wells, 252.
Serfdom, xxi.
Serſs, xx.
Service books, 79 (n.).
Sessions at Ilchester, 122, 124, 154.
- at Wells, 154:
“Sett, a" (probably of beads), 28, 30.
"Setts,” voluntary and involuntary rates, xii,
169 and n., 209 and n.
Sewers, Commissioners of, xv. See “Com.
missioners.”
Sexton, xviii, 79, 103, 106, 136, 152.
Sheep, 226.
- giſt of, 42, 97, &c.
lease, 37, 38, 40.
“ leaze," 222.
legacy of, 181, &c.
skins, 135, 187.
sold, 188, &c.
- of the stores, 205, 208, 211, 212, 213,
215.
--- tithe, 220.
Shells of St. James, 51, 53, 64.
Shoes, St. Sidwell's, 213, 214.
*Sick person annealed, 99.
gift to, 171.
- person helped, 169.
keeping, 169.
Şidesmen, xvii, xviii, 205 (12.).
Sidwell, St., 208.
aisle before, 215.
altar cloth, 211.
basin of latten, ib.
- candlesticks of latten, 216.
-- candlestick and taper before, 213.
image of, 117 (12.), 212.
do. gilded, 214.
lamp before, 213
shoes, 213, 214.
-- tabylment of, 212. See also “Store
of St. S.”
Silarium, 204.
Singers' fee, 72.
Singing the service, 114.
Sir John Batell, 147, 151.
Sir Thos. Brytell, 178.
Sir John Camell, 17.
Sir Giles Capel, 78 (12.).
Sir Cristover, 159.
Sir Robt. Cocke, 153.
Sir John Comb, 17.
Sir Wm. Costrell, 13.
Sir John Danyell, 157.
Sir Davy, 137, 145.
Sir Stevin Edmonds, 36.
Sir John Frenshman, 154.
Sir Harry, 151, 152.
Sir John, 124, 137.
Sir Umfrey Johnson, 36.
Sir John Masday, 138.
Sir Nicholas Poore, 161.
Sir Richard (priest), 149.
Sir Robert, 150.
Sir Robert's brother, 165.
Sir Walter Rodney, 151 (n.).
Sir Thos. Rogers, 39.
Sir John Smyth, 162, 163, 166, 167, 168.
Sir Smyth (sic), 47.
Sir Thomas, 33, 169.
~~his bequest of a cross-bow, 125.
Sir Christopher Trychay, 208, 210, 212.
Sir Thos. Vox, 34.
Sir Thos. Wade, 52.
Sir William, 74, 137.
's “Moder knell," 141.
Sir John Wullner, 52.
Sir Richard Yorke, 129 (12.), 130, 131, 135.
Skynner, 199.
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“ Skyppe," 176.
Sluices, 157 (12.), 160 (“sklusse ), 162 (n.), 165
(n.).
gate, 80.
Smigma, 178, 189.
Snow, 66, 71.
Solarium, 85, 88, 90, 95, 97.
under the Roodloft, 185
Solder and lead, 193.
Soldiers, 159, 161, 169.
Soler, 98.
Solihull, 233.
Solubrensis episcopus, 204.
“Sommar," 116.
Sonday, St., 117, 242.
-- store, account of, 209, 214, 221
“Sonnynge ” (sun-drying), xx, 71
Sope, 203.
Sores, de la, 78 (12.).
“Sowtheampton," 96.
Sowthmore, Rich., 5, 6, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 15,
16, 17.
- John, 38.
Spades, 186.
Spars, 188.
“Spell,” 217 and 1., 222.
Sperak the Carver, 149.
Spire, 98, 100, 118, 130, 164.
“Splede egylls,” 225.
Spoons, 15, 53, 81.
“Sprangs” of ladder, 143.
“Spruc," a, 54.
“Stablyng” of stones, 107.
Staff, copper gilt, 51.
- of St. Nicholas, 55.
Stair in the Church-house, 132, 153, 166.
— to the tower, 173.
Stanford in the Vale, xxii, 231.
“Stang," 189.
— bought for the Church-windows, 189.
Statute of Labourers, xv (n.).
Staverdale, canon of, 97.
-- monk of, 85.
Stentyate, 178.
Steeple, battlement of, 100.
repaired, 112.
- window in, 98.
Steward of Hoglers, 174.
- of St. Mary's Brotherhood, ib.
Stickly, Mr. Hu, 223.
Stile, churchyard, 107, 182, 183, 205.
Stillington, Bishop, 113 (12.).
“ Stitch” (stetch), of corn, 222 and 11., 223.
Stock, 1, 2, 33, 151
Stogursey, 230, 233.
Stoke, Church-ale at, 202.
- Parish, 173.
Stoles made, rol.
- recovered, 47.
Stoke Michael, al. Stoke Lane, 38.
Stone in Chancel (tombstone ?), 161.
behind a tomb, 162.
-- bought at Hamden, 188.
· bought at Stenteyate, 178.
for Chapel window, 146.
for a Cross, 140.
for a monument, 140.
-- for the porch, 203.
for the store, 203.
- of window sold, 189.
Stones, precious, with silver, and gilt setting, 17,
29, 40.
“Stonyn door," 173, 200 and n.
Store of St. Antony, 208, 210, 213.
- of St. George, 208, 210, 211, 212, 213,
214, 215, 219.
- of Jesu, 208, 212, 213, 214, 216, 219.
- a little cross of silver given to, 213.
- of Our Lady, 208, 210, 211, 212, 213, 214,
215.
-- of St. Sidwell, 208, 210, 212, 213, 214, 215.
of Sonday, 208, 209, 214, 222.
Stores, 208, 209, &c.
- of the alms-light, 208, 210, 211, 212, 213,
214, 215, 221.
Straw, 188, 192.
Streamer, 135, 217, 218.
-- "painted of S. George," 215.
- recovered, 46.
Stubble, 183, 186, 236. 178
Studs, 22, 25, &c. iii
- of girdle, 151.
Subsidy, 50, 159.
- bill for, 162, 170.
on the whole Parish, 232.
Suffragan Bishop, 95, 113 (n.).
- service, 204 (12.).
Sugar, Alsun, 21, 22.
· Edward, 42.
Elynor, 36.
- Richard, 18, 20.
Dr. Thos., 52.
- William, 43.
Suit in ecclesiastical court, 91, 94 and n.
- a “free,” 44 and n.
“Sumnar” (summoner), 149.
Super-altar, 212 and 11.
- blessed, ili
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Sureties delivered, 137.
Surplices, xix, 13, 18, 30, 34, 48, 53, 60, 62, 73,
74, 84, 86, 89, 95, 103, 121, 124, 129, 132,
147, 157, 162, 170, 171, 176, 186, 192, 205.
for children, 94.
– for clerk, 92, 170, 192.
“Swystyng” girdle, 130.
Sydenham, Mr. John, 222, 223, 224.
- Mr. Edw., 217.
Syle, 120, 128.
Syler, 96, 98.
Sylyng of the Church, 195.
- against side-altar, 216.
“Syntorne," 118.
Sypers, 6.
T.
Taberna, xxii.
Tabernacle made, 168.
-- washed, 130.
- of St Thomas, 145.
Table of High Altar, 90, 95.
- - and forms for Holy Communion, 171.
- - fringe about, 164.
- mat for, 163
Table-board, 162.
Table-cloths, 53, 171, 172.
- for Church-house, 114, 132
Tablyng, 164.
Tabylment, 86 and n., 135, 140, 14
“Talwe” (tallow), candle, 84.
Taper for High Aitar, 74, 76.
— before High Cross, 202, 220.
against Candlemas, 73.
- for funerals, 144, 169.
- Holy, 175, 176, 178, 180, 205.
before St. John, 73.
- before St. Katherine, 229.
– before St. Michael, 230.
--- on North Altar, 91.
---- Processional, 220. See also“Font-taper,"
and “ Paschal-tapier."
“Taratantaryatio ligni,” 194.
Tassels, 166.
"Taverning,” 231.
Taverns of Ale, xxi, 82, 87, 92, 93, 94, 95, 97, 99,
118, 122, 130, 132, 158, 159, 169, 193, 195.
-- at the Church-house, 115.
- -- at Hocktide, Midsummer, and Whitsun-
tide, 159.
Tending the light, 22, 24.
Terrier of Doulting Manor, 252, 253.
“Testes synodales” (Sidesmen), xvii, 205 (n.).
Thatching, 188. .
Thomas (chaplain), 176, 177.
-- St., of Canterbury, 35, 134.
--- gilding and setting up, 134
- tabernacle of, 145.
Thongs for bells, 220.
Thrawll for the well, 129.
ſor pump, 140.
Thread “ de abisso," 189.
6. Threehewgll” (threshold), 98.
Thubbewyll, 85, 86.
Thurible, 95, 102, 194.
Tickenham, 93.
- Court, 150 and n.
Tiles, 165, 166.
— to mend Tower, 221.
Tiling of the Church, 216.
Timber, 42, 46, 106, 112, 119, 123, 150, 153,
191.
- for clock-house, 151.
- for the “Vawte” of the Church, 172.
Tinker, 135, 136.
Tintinhull, ix, xviii, 173, 183.
-- benefice, 173.
- church, ib.
manor, ib.
-- manor-house, ib.
moor, 187.
– tenants, 177.
“ Tokyng gyrdyll,” 5, 61, 126, 130, 133.
Tombs, 101.
- repaired, 171.
- stones, erected, 140, 170.
“ Torcas” (turquoise), 6.
Torches, 35, 92, 94, 95, 100, 103, 105, 121, 138,
144, 180, 228.
- - coffer for, 129.
- - let out, 233.
-- repaired, 229.
“ Torfft” (taffeta), 8.
Towels, Paschal, &c., 17, 21, 27, 42, 95, 147,
190.
- recovered, 46, 47.
Tower raised, 173.
repaired, 112, 118, 145, 221.
staircase to, 173.
- oak for roof, 205.
to St. James' Chapel, 30.
Trayle under the Roodloſt, 66.
Treasure-house, 2, 35, 104, 106, 169.
Treasury, 102.
Trenchers, 35, 142, 146, 165.
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Trendell, 2, 3, 4, 55, 57, 61, 66, 70, 73, 74, 83,
100, 110, 119, 135, 163, 175, 176, 179, 180,
183, 191, 192, 193, 203, 205.
- new, 182, 190, 205.
- rope for, 57, 76, 179.
Trestell, 98, 109.
« Treyn," 130, 133.
Trimming the bells, 172.
Trussing the bells, 88.
- the cross, 96.
Trychay, Sir Christopher, 208, 210, 212.
- John, 215.
--- Lewis, 218, 224.
-- Thomas, 213.
Tuckers, 1, 3, 4, 5, 7, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19,
20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31,
32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 40.
light, 17, 34.
Tunicles, the best, 131.
- blue silk, 225.
blue velvet, ib.
Twelfth Even, 234.
Twysts, 181.
“ Tynnyng” the light, 22, 23, 24, 26, 43, 45.
Tything man, xvi, 133.
Vestments, folding of, 162, 165, 166, 170, 171.
-- of fustian, 225.
- Lent vestments of blue, 225.
- list of, 209.
made of the old cope, 137.
maker, 156.
- mended, 189.
-
red velvet, 225.
from Wells, 190.
- white, 225.
-- (a) presented to the Church, 35, 118.
of black, 52.
-- of blue damask, 57.
- of blue and red Bruges satin, 47.
of flowery satin, 52.
of green, 52.
of green velvet, 57.
-- red, 129.
red velvet, 52, 53.
white, 52, 212, 213.
white damask, 53.
white for Lent, 52.
- white with scallop shells, 52.
- white and silver, ib.
(b) belonging to the Church.
blue, 64.
-- blue damask with cope, 64.
green, 51.
green with cope, 64.
-- plain damask, 51.
white damask, 4.
suit with cope, 148.
“whole suit," 149.
girdles to, 83.
- loan of, 143.
-- payment for, 153.
recovered, 46, 47.
setting on a " cenne ” of the vestments,
117.
- --- setting a “ Ze” in them, 106.
-- sums expended on them, 79 (12.), 113.
Vestry, xi, xv, xvi, 2, 31 and n.
Vicar, 74, 76, 84, 92, 93, 94, 95, 100, 102, 205
223, 233.
Vicarage, 80, 98, 121.
Vine in Roodloft, 107.
Virgin, The Blessed, 113, 126, 138, 149.
- her closes, 38 and n.
- gifts to, 22, 23, 24, &c.
Visitations, 44, 48, 69, 70, 71, 73, 75, 137, 140,
158, 160, 167, 174, 175, 177.
- Archbishop's, 181.
Archdeacon's, 178.
at Bedminster, 169.
U.
Unguent for Torch-maker, 180.
Uphill, 154.
V.
Vagabonds, Act against, xv (12.).
“Vanteg of the brede,” 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 43.
• Varmynge," 130..
Vases, 103.
Vat for oil, 53, 198
Vautte, 198.
Veils, 167, 175, 176, 187, 188.
- silk, sold, 229.
“Vele and lome,” 114.
Vellum, 199.
“ Venditio et Incrementum,” 229, 230.
Verdigris, 110.
“Vessels,” 39, 114, 130.
- hired, 40, 41, 42, 43.
Vestments, 157, 160.
- black suit, 209, 217, 218, 219, 225.
with cope, 225.
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Visitations, the Bishop's, 181, 205.
-- at Bristol, 171.
-- costs at, 70, 168, 203.
at Wells, 161.
-- the King's, 159, 160, 161.
-- of the B.V.M., picture of, 194.
-- of the sick, 99, 164, 167, 168, 171.
Visitors, the King's, 159, 161.
Voluntary funds, diversion of, xxiii.
— rates, ix (12.), xii.
“ Voupp," 119.
Vox, Sir Thos., 34.
“ Vrinakull,” 25.
Vyse, 83, 125.
- door, 96, 148.
- lock to, 170.
W.
“Wadling" (wattling), 145.
Wafer-bread, xxi, 234.
Wages to Priest, III, 129, 137, 157, 158.
- to Parish Clerk, 167.
“Waggs” (wages), 167, &c.
Wainscot, 87, 88, 180, 185.
“Waking of the Sepulchre,” 79, 103, 104, 105,
107, 138 and n.
Walker, Master Morris, priest, 39
Wall of Church, 155, 182.
of Churchyard, 177, 200.
- of Rood-loft, 185.
“Walsche-bord," 100, 119.
"Wante,” 52.
Wardens, Church or High, xiv, xviii.
chantry and chapel do., xvii.
attend Visitation, 174.
election of, xi, 1, 173.
of guilds, xvii, xviii.
- language of their accounts, xxii, xxiii,
174.
- partition of their duties, 227.
stipend, 230.
Washing of Church cloths, 16, 183
.“ of the Church gear,” 13, 14, 15.
- of High Altar, 36.
- of surplices and vestments, 8, 186, 228.
Watching oxen, 169.
"Watelrys," 230
Water, holy, xxi, 93, 136.
- "the salt," 160.
of sluice, 144 and 12.
Wattling, 178, 179.
Wax “ floryssyng," 132.
of High Cross, “ borrowed of the wardens,”
73.
"row," 117.
Ways and means, xii.
Weaver, Rev. F. W., xii (12.).
Webb, 130.
Webbers, xx, 1.
Webers, 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 13, 15, 16, 17, 18.
Weights, 182 and 12.
Well, 109, 112, 134.
-- wall for, 129.
"Well berow” (wheel barrow), 107.
“Well-willed," 98.
Wells, x, and 12, 37, 39, 42, 52, 62, 71, 78, 91,
94, 95, 106, 110, 114, 122, 123, 129, 137, 140,
149, 153, 154, 161, 162, 167, 176, 190, 247,
252.
Wembdon, defaulters at, xiii (12.), xvi.
" Wene," 105 and 12.
Weston, the Parson of, 163.
Whatley, xviii.
Wheat, 37, 81, 85, 87, 160, 176, 177, 181, 188,
194, 199.
Wheels for bells, 44, 165.
Whirligig, 48, 183.
White Cross, 107.
Whitsun ale, xxii, 234 (11.).
“Whyche,” a, 85.
“Whyt-mother,” 158.
Wick-yarn, 144 and 12.
William, Dan, Monk, 129.
William, Sir, 118.
Wimberham, 144, 160.
Winchelsea, Archbishop, his constitutions, xii,
243.
Windows of the Church, 233.
parish ordered to repair, ib.
- expenses of setting, 81.
iron work for, 92.
- new, 129.
-- repaired, 20, 73, 101, 126, 140.
west, enlarged, 173.
– west window in tower, 202.
- of the Aler, 98.
- of Barlynch given to Morebath, 216.
of Church-house, levys to, 104, 145.
Wine for Holy Communion, 163, 164.
— for organ tuners, 149.
Wings of ray silk for the High Allar, 90.
Winnowing malt, 98.
“Wintering and summering" cattle, 193.
Wives' guild, 1, 12.
Ender.
277
Yatton, D. Gybbes brought from Bristol to Y.,
123.
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Wives, giſt of malt from, 176.
revel, 12.
- taper, 219.
Women Wardens, xiv, xv, 120, 219.
Wood, the King's, 149.
- old, sold, 184, 227.
- do., portions of the rood-loft, 184.
Wookey, 103.
Wool, 219, 221, 222, 226.
sold, 229.
- stock, 182.
-- tithe, 209.
Wootton, North.
- chapel, 49, 50.
- endowment of light confiscated, 50.
– received from, for Easter Taper, 58, 65,
66, 67, 75, 76.
- for High Cross light, 60.
Wardens of, 50, 57, 58, 60, 62, 69, 75.
Workhouse, xxii.
Worle, 89.
Worspring, 135 (n.).
Wrington, 80, 95, 105, 108.
Wyke, Court de, 78, 92.
- - St. Lawrence, xvii.
“ Wyllyng of the walete,” 195.
“ Wymmynge" (winnowing), 98.
* Wyntering and Summeryng," 193.
- lightmen of, 130.
Manor, 78.
- parishioners of, 162 (n.).
- -- Priest from Bristol to serve Y., 153.
- surrendered, 78.
“Ye," a new, to the bell-clapper, 129.
“Yeere,” to cowl of Church-house, 143.
Yelchester (Yevelchester and Yvelchester), 122,
181, 189, 190, 204.
Veo (Sluice), xv (12.), 80, 139 (n.), 144, 157 (12.).
160, 170.
Yere, 139 (n.), 157, 160, 162, 165.
new, door to, 171, 172.
Yew (main drain), 139, 157.
“ Yncull” (Ynkle), 155, 159, 170.
“Yonglens," 9.
Yongling light, 68.
Yorke, Sir Richard, 129 (12.), 130, 131, 135, and
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Young men, 1, 3, 4, 7, 10, 12, 13, 15, 16, 17, 18,
19, 20, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31,
32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 40, 67, 208, 214,
215, 216, 217.
Young men's light, 31, 56, 58, 65, 71, 76.
--- - stock, 221.
-- Wardens, 67, 69.
Yowe (Yeo), 368.
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“Yatt” and “Yatte,” 145.
Tatlon, chapels in, 78.
« Zeme," 100, 239.
“Zetter," 65, 241.
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