Communar's Accounts: 1534-5

Calendar of the Manuscripts of the Dean and Chapter of Wells: Volume 2. Originally published by His Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1914.

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'Communar's Accounts: 1534-5', in Calendar of the Manuscripts of the Dean and Chapter of Wells: Volume 2, (London, 1914) pp. 244-245. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/wells-mss/vol2/pp244-245 [accessed 26 March 2024]

1534–1535: Accounts of Richard Eryngton, the Communar, from Michaelmas, 1534, to Michaelmas, 1535.

Receipts.

Received of vacant churches in the archdeaconry of Wells 2s. 10½d.
and in the archdeaconry of Taunton 8s. 10½d.
Fees of the seal: Presentation to the vicarage of Stokegummer 6s. 8d.
manumission of one Colyns, besides 10s. 8d. for the king's tenth 2l. 13s. 4d.
Pensions from Norton St. Philip church, paid by Henton Priory 5s. 0d.
from Tyntenhull, paid by Montacute Priory 13s. 4d.

Expenses.

Paid Thomas Cromwell his fee 4l. 0s. 0d.
Repaid to the fabric chest, beyond 23l. already repaid, in part payment of 35l. 16s.d. taken in 6 Henry VIII, for lands of Richard Bykenalre alias Jenkyns and John Pomysford, bought by canons then resident and applied to present commons 1l. 10s. 0d.
leaving due, 11l. 6s.d.
Repaid to the fabric chest, in part payment of 55l. taken for the manor of Alverton, and another 6l. in 1521 2l. 0s. 0d.
Obit of William Childe and John Blakdon, from land in Alverton newly acquired by them 6s. 8d.
Chief rent to the lord of Cory for Alverton manor 1s. 8d.
Repaid to the fabric chest, in part payment of 13l. 1s. 4d. taken for the controversy between the dean and chapter and Sir Andrew Lutterell, besides 1l. 1s. before paid 1l. 0s. 0d.
Repaid to the church store, in part payment of 15l. 4s. 2d. taken for scouring the ditches from Stath to Corylode in Estcory manor 1l. 4s. 2d.
The king's tenth, besides 30l. 7s. received according to rate from divers persons 39l. 5s. 10d.
Bydesham. Paid for small nails, thread, and peedles for the sepulchre 8d.
Mending vestments and other jewels in the treasury 2l. 5s. 5d.
To the poor at the obit of King Ini, the original founder of the church 13s. 4d.
Indenture between the dean and chapter and Thomas Horner, about Ratclyfmede 2s. 4d.
King's tenth 2l. 2s. 10d.