Churchwardens' accounts: 1531-2 | British History Online

The Medieval Records of A London City Church St Mary At Hill, 1420-1559. Originally published by Trübner, London, 1905.

'Churchwardens' accounts: 1531-2', in The Medieval Records of A London City Church St Mary At Hill, 1420-1559, (London, 1905) pp. 358-360. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/early-eng-text-soc/vol128/pp358-360 [accessed 26 April 2024]

[a.d. 1531–2.



Thomas Goodneston	Wardens.
Thomas Maltby

Chantry Accounts.

Church Rents.]

Paymentes.

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(fn. 1) paid to a basket maker for v round mattes for the Clarkes to stond vpon		x d
paid for ij pottes to fett oyle in		j d
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paid for ij hangyng candylstykes for the quyre		v d
paid for ij kayes and a lok, and mendyng of other lokkes, and a lok for the torch chest		xvj d
paid for ij stolys for the Rectours in the quyre, and ij Greyes skynnes	iiij s	ij d
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(fn. 2) Paid for xx^ti elles of holland cloth, at vj d ob. the elle, for surplices, x s x d. And for makyng of v surplices ij s vj d for the conductes; and for iiij surplices for the childern, x elles at vj d the elle, v s. And for makyng the same iiij surplices xvj d. Summa	xix s	viij d
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paid for the hyre of the Rayment for the prophetes on palmesonday		xij d
paid for the hire of clothes of Aras for palmesonday		xvj d
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paid to Saunder the porter, for makyng clene the parissh priest chamber. And to the Raker		iij d
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(fn. 3) paid to Wolston Wyn for mending the wyndowes of the same hous, And for bordes & iij lb. sowder, price xv d; and for mendyng Master dialles stall'; And for xvj staples to the shope wyndowes	ij s	viij d
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(fn. 4) paid for a pax for the high Alter		vj d
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(fn. 5) paid to the sessyng of the dong-bote		vj d
paid for ij quayres of papur Rial to mende the pryiksong boke		xiiij d
paid for settyng vp the ymages abought the quyre dore		iij d
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[Quitrents and Allowances.]

(fn. 6) The clarkes wagys and the beame lyght.



Rec' of the clerkes wages this yere as it apperith by the Roll' of gaderyng of the same	vij l'i	iiij s	j d
Rec' for pascall' money and beame light this yere		x s	vj d	ob.
Summa, vij l'i xiiij s vij d ob..

Paymentes.



Paid to Edmond Matryver for a yeres wages	x l'i
Paid to Mighell' Grene for iij quarters seruice vl'i, And to Wylliam Paten, nowe being clerk, for oon quarter xxxiij s iiij d. Summa	vj l'i	xiij s	iiij d
Paid to Wylliam Paten as conducte for iij quarters wages	vj l'i
Paid dunstane Chicheley for an hole yeres wages	viij l'i
Paid to Richard the Baas for ix daies wages that he serued before Mighelmas		iij s	iiij d
Paid to the Thomas Arowsmyth, sexten, for a yeres wages	iij l'i	vj s	viij d
Paid to Wylliam Wylde for iij quarters wages	xv s
Summa of thies paymentes, xxxiiij l'i xviij s iiij d.
And so
The charges is more then the Receptes, xxvij l'i iij s viij d ob..

(fn. 7) Casuell' Resteites thys yere.



Receyved of Maistres Ideall' for the buryall' of hir husbond in the church and for a small grave stone	xx^ti s
Receyved of ffulk Duttons wife for the buriall of hir husbond in the church	vj s	viij d
Receyved of Maister Burngyll for the buriall' of his doughter in the pardon church yard	ij s
Receyved of Maistres Goodwyn for the buriall of hir husbond in the church and for the great belle	xiij s	iiij d
Receyved of Maister Chaloner for the buriall' of his sonne in the pardon church yarde	ij s
Receyved of Iohn Byrd for the buriall' of his doughter in pardon church yard	ij s
Receyved of Carters wife for the buriall' of hir kynneswoman in the pardon church yard	ij s	viij d
Receyved of Maistres Ioh'nson for the buriall' of hir husband in the church and for the knell' with the great belle	xiij s	iiij d
Summa of thies parcelles, iij l'i ij s.

(fn. 8) [The Wax Reckoning.]

Casuell' Paymentes.



paid for Rynging of Master Ideall, Master Goodwyn and Master Ioh'nson knylles	xviij d

[The Rehearsal.]

(fn. 9) Memorandum: that this accompt was gyuen vpp the xj day of ffebruary Anno 1532, that is to wete, for oon hole [yere] endyd at Mighelmas last past.

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(fn. 10) payd to bayesse for makyng of thes ACounth' vj s viij d.

[The Accounts appear at this period commonly to have been 'given up' in January or February.]