Escheator's Accounts: 1543-4

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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'Escheator's Accounts: 1543-4', in Calendar of the Manuscripts of the Dean and Chapter of Wells: Volume 2, (London, 1914) pp. 258-259. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/wells-mss/vol2/pp258-259 [accessed 26 April 2024]

Accounts of John Lambert, the Escheator, from Michaelmas, 1543, to Michaelmas, 1544.

Receipts.

At the burial of William Bugleigh 2d.
At the anniversary of Mr. Fitzjames 1d.
At the trental of John Milward 3d.
Increase of rent: for the house opposite the High Cross, called The Celler 6s. 8d.

Expenses.

Defaults of rent: of one tenement in High Street opposite the High Cross, called the Celler, let to William Pynner 6s. 8d.
Distributed for vacant prebends, legacies or mortuaries nil.
Paid tenth to king and subsidy to the vicar of the prebend of Combe II, vacant 2 terms 2s. 8d.
Wedmore IV, vacant 3 terms 4s. 0d.
Combe XII, vacant 1 term 1s. 4d.
Harptre, vacant 2 terms 2s. 8d.
Combe XV, vacant½ term 8d.
Received for the obit of John Beckham, canon 1l. 0s. 0d.
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