Churchwardens' accounts: 1547-8 | 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: 1547-8', in The Medieval Records of A London City Church St Mary At Hill, 1420-1559, (London, 1905) pp. 385-388. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/early-eng-text-soc/vol128/pp385-388 [accessed 19 April 2024]

[a.d. 1547–8.



Nycholas Awsthorpe	Wardens.
Thomas Lucas

Chantry Accounts.

Church Rents.]

(fn. 1) Casuell' Receytes.



Receyuid for the pytt and knyll for M^r Knyght	xx s
Receyuid for a pytt in the churche yarde for a straunger	iij s	iiij d
Receyuid of the wardemote enquest for the churche house	iij s	iiij d
Summa, xxvj s viij d.

Certen thinges sold.

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Receytes for Rownd lande.



Receyuid of a spanyerd for lying his shipp ther	vij s	viij d
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The clarkes wages.



Receyuid of the parissheners for the clarkes wages this yere as particularly doth appere in a Roll made for the gathering and leveying therof	x l'i
Summa, p.
Summa, pagine xv l'i xv s ij d.

(fn. 2) The Parsones money for the maynteynyng of the quyere.



Receyuid of the parisshenours of the parsons duety gyuen by hym for the mayntenaunce of the seruice in the quyer as particulerly dothe appere in a Roll made for the gathering therof this yere	xvij l'i	xx d
Summa, p.
Summa totalis of all' the charges and Receittes this yere lxxxv l'i iiijs xd. Wherof ys paid owt as hereafter folowith, that is to saye,

Preestes wages.

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(fn. 3) Conductes wages.



Item, paid to philipp Ryse, organ player, for one quarter wages ending at Christemas in the yere of our lord god M^l'. vC xlvij		lv s
Item, paid to Ryse William for a whole yeres wages ending at Mighelmas in the yere of our lord god M^l' .vC xlviij	viij l'i	x s
Item, paid to Ryse William for playing vpon the orgaynes daily at our lady masse for one quarter of a yere		vj s	viij d
Item, paid to Robert Tanner for his whole yeres wages ending at Mighelmas aforesaid	viij l'i	x s
Item, paid to Thomas Marton, parisshe Clarke, for his whole yeres wages ending at Mighelmas aforesaid	vj l'i	xiij s	iiij d
Item, paid to Thomas Mundy, the sexton, for his whole yeres wages ending at Mighelmas aforesaid	iiij l'i
Item, paid to Thomas hamond for iij quarters and ix weekes wages ending at Mighelmas aforesaid	vij l'i	x s
Summa, xxxviij l'i v s.

Almes gyuen and paid to poore men, wekely, on the Sonday.



Item, paid to v poore men for xxx^ti weekes, paid wekely on the sonday, at ij s euery sonday	iij l'i
Summa, p.
Summa, pagine xlj l'i v s.

(fn. 4) Quit Rentes paid owte.

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(fn. 5) Particuler and necessary paymentes paid for the churche.

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Item, for taking downe of the Rode lofte [honses ?]	v s
Item, paid by grete for taking down of the tabernacle ouer the vestry doore, being all stone, and other stone workes in the churche, and for making vppe therof, and for lyme and sande	xiij s	iiij d
Item, paid for taking downe of the Iron worke in the Churche		xvj d
Item, paid to M^r Clerke, counsellour, for the view of the churche evidences consernyng the Chauntry landes	xx s
Item, to one [blank] kyrke for writing of the Certificat therof	xxvj s	viij d
Item, paid in exspences at dynners and suppers for the said Counsellours, by the space of xij days, at iij s iiij d le day	xl s
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(fn. 6) Item, to the kinges purcyvaunt for bringing of the kinges Commission for the Chauntry landes		xij d
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Item, for vj new sawters in englisshe for the quyer	viij s
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Item, for cariage of tymbre for scaffoldes for the Rode loft when yt was paynted		xiiij d
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Item, for Ropes to bynde the scafoldes		xvj d
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Item, paid for paynting of the Rode lofte with scriptures	iiij l'i

[Potation expenses for priests and clerks on Christmas, New Year's, Twelfth Day, Candlemas, Holy Thursday, the Annunciation, Whitsunday, Trinity, Corpus Christi, Jesus, the day of the Assumption, Dedication, and All Saints.]

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(fn. 7) Item, paid for a boke of the prayer for the Scottes		ij d
Item, for a boke called the paraphrases of Erasmus	v s
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Item, for wyne and synging brede for our lady masse spent daily for a half yere		xvj d
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Item, for Removing of thorgaynes		xx d
Item, paid to kyrke for his paynes taking to speke to the kinges Commissyonours for the poore men		xx d
Item, for iiij songe bokes of te deum in Englisshe		viij d
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(fn. 8) Reparacions don vpon the grete tenement in Butolff lane.

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[Several 'Allowaunces.']

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