Communar's Accounts: 1497-8

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: 1497-8', in Calendar of the Manuscripts of the Dean and Chapter of Wells: Volume 2, (London, 1914) pp. 152-153. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/wells-mss/vol2/pp152-153 [accessed 19 March 2024]

Accounts of the Communar, from Michaelmas, 1497, to Michaelmas, 1498.

Receipts.

Rent of the Herteshead in Sadlers St., with 2 messuages 2l. 18s. 8d.
Vacancy of Yarlington Church 1l. 6s. 8d.
Induction of the vicar of Winsham 6s. 8d.
By wills 1l. 13s. 4d.
Of Knappe Mill 5l. 13s. 4d.

Expenses.

Paid for gown of John Belde 6s. 8d.
Aid to the king 13s. 4d.
The king's half-tenth and quarter-tenth, by the abbat of Mochelnay, collector 26l. 19s. 1d.
Obit of Mr. John Hope 1l. 6s. 8d.
Mending a chasuble and for ribbon at the altar of N. Bubwyth 3s. 2d.
4 towels for the altars of Bishop Bekenton and Bishop Bubwyth 7d.
2,000 tiles 10s. 2d.
6,000 tiles 1l. 10s. 0d.
1,300 finguli[?] 8s. 8d.
12 tucking girdles 10d.
Tiler for New Works 2l. 17s. 11d.
Mending a gutter in New Works 1s. 0d.
making bulk in do. 3s. 6d.
Expenses of the bishop's tenant and Mr. W. Boket, riding to London for the dean's license, 15 days with 10 horses 6l. 5s. d.
John Belde's expenses holding Canonbarn Court on St. Mark's day 1s. 6d.
Obit of Richard Worthington 1l. 6s. 8d.
Bydesham. Binding "colet boke" 2s. 0d.
and a gradual in the choir 2s. 0d.
Mending 4 censers and 3 rectors' staves 1s. 8d.
½lb. of ribbon silk 8s. 0d.
Thread ribbon 2s. 4d.
yds. black velvet, for 2 tunicles and 1 chasuble 15s. 0d.
16 ells and 1yd. of linen, for 3 albs and amices, at 6d. the ell 8s. d.
making 3 albs 1s. 6d.
applying apparels 3d.
Making 53 leopards' heads 2l. 13s. 0d.
3 vestments 10s. 0d.
Making 2 phials, weighing 12oz. 6s. 0d.
Washing a corporas for Bekinton's altar 3d.