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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: 1478-9', in Calendar of the Manuscripts of the Dean and Chapter of Wells: Volume 2, (London, 1914) pp. 97-98. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/wells-mss/vol2/pp97-98 [accessed 15 April 2024]

1478–1479.: Accounts of John Menyman, the Communar, from Michaelmas, 1478, to Michaelmas, 1479.

Receipts.


Received of the rents of Shepham manor, given by Bishop Beconton	8l.	16s.	8d.
Fees of the seal: Will of Thomas Lerebeke, vicar of Winsham	2l.	3s.	4d.
of Dean Gunthorp, for confirming tenants in Merke and Wedmore	3l.	13s.	4d.
manumission of William Edward of Westhatch	10l.	6s.	8d.
presentation of the vicar of Pokelchurch		6s.	8d.
will of Robert Martin, vicar of Winsham		13s.	4d.
manumission of Robert Estemere of Monkton	6l.	13s.	4d.
Vacancies of churches in the archdeaconry of Wells	4l.	3s.	8d.

Expenses.


Paid for petty commons of the canons	149l.	7s.	0d.
Obit of Cardinal Beaufort		13s.	4d.
To the escheator, obit of John Maynstone	1l.	0s.	0d.
Writing evidences about lands and tenements of Peter Orum [cancelled]		5s.	0d.
Expenses of men and scholars taking possession [cancelled]		1s.	4d.
The king's half-tenth at the Purification, paid to the prior of Bridgwater	17l.	19s.	3¾d.
To Thomas Morton's servant, for carriage of a doe given by Morton		3s.	4d.
3 pecks of flour bought for the venison pasty		1s.	3d.
1/2lb. of pepper for the same			7d.
To the king's players		6s.	8d.
To the prince's messenger		3s.	4d.


Bydesham. Paid for chimes and watch	6s.	8d.
Masses in the chapter	4s.	4d.
Cleansing candlesticks	2s.	10d.
Cleansing the basin before the altar of Holy Cross and remaking its bowl	1s.	0d.
Cord for a basin at the high altar		3d.
Binding one antiphonary	2s.	0d.
2 books in which choristers psalmodize	1s.	0d.
Mending 2 texts [texta] and gilding them	13s.	4d.
21yds. of buckram for 3 albs and amices for the high altar	7s.	0d.
making them	2s.	0d.
Silk fastenings [fibule] for the copes of Henry Perci		4d.
Mending 2 chasubles at the altar of Thomas de Bekenton		4d.
Ribbon and thread for boys' vestments	1s.	0d.
12 "tucking gurdells" for the treasury		6d.
Key for the door of Bishop Bekenton's chapel		4d.
Mending a latten sconce in the choir		2d.
Note.—January 24, 1667. This parchment rolle was shewed unto Nicholas Dowthwaite, gent., at Wells, at the execution of a commission there yssued out of H.M. Court of Exchequer, for the examination of witnesses in a cause there depending between the dean and chapter of Wells, plaintiffs, and Charles Thirlby, clerke, defendant, before us, John Harvey, John Prickman.