Communar's Accounts: 1473-4 | British History Online

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

'Communar's Accounts: 1473-4', in Calendar of the Manuscripts of the Dean and Chapter of Wells: Volume 2, (London, 1914) pp. 95-96. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/wells-mss/vol2/pp95-96 [accessed 27 April 2024]

1473–1474.: Accounts of John Combe, the Communar, from Michaelmas, 1473, to Michaelmas, 1474.


Paid to 12 canons resident last year	289l.	18s.	3¼d.

Receipts.


Received of the dean and chapter by the hands of the vicars of the new close, for the annual rent from the manor of Newton Plecy, appropriated to them	2l.	0s.	0d.

Expenses.


Paid petty commons of the canons	150l.	14s.	0d.
The king's half-tenth at St. Mark's day	17l.	19s.	3¾d.
To Richard Gurney, feudary of the duke of Clarence, for repair of the close of Corymalet park, the vicars of the new close paying 15s. 6d. under the will of Bishop Bekynton for the manor of Cheddar		15s.	6d.


Bydesham. Paid for 2 dozen "tockyng gurdells"			8d.
2 cords for the picture at the high altar			2d.
Mending a silver thurible given by Mr. William Bygenell			12d.
12 ells of Flemish linen cloth for 4 albs, for choristers and tabulars		7s.	0d.
making them		1s.	4d.
2lbs. of silk ribbon	2l.	17s.	4d.
4 staves for rectors in the choir			8d.
painting them		1s.	4d.
Making a new chalice for the altar of St. Stephen	1l.	19s.	3d.
Mending a large portifory before the dean			4d.


Barliche. Tiling the chancel of St. Cuthbert		1s.	3d.
Paid for new pikes [lancee] from London, besides 5s. received by Thomas Chewe, and for painting them		5s.	4d.
Mending the gutter from Lurteburne to the great gate called Westgate, along the stone wall of Mr. John Pemerton			4d.
A pair of balances for the exchequer			8d.
To the park keeper of Westbury		10s.	0d.
Making desks in the chancel of St. Cuthbert, besides 19s. 2d. paid by Mr. John Middelton	2l.	7s.	0d.