Churchwardens' Accounts: nos 1-30

Churchwardens' Accounts: nos 1-30

[The first folio appears to have been bound in reverse; if verso precedes recto, however, the result is a relatively coherent statement of income for the first account. This has been adopted here.]

1. [f. 1v] This is the account of John Manewe and Richard Jones late wardens of the rents and goods of the church of St Andrew Hubbard beside Eastcheap, London, made from the feast of Christmas 33 Henry VI [1454] to the feast of Christmas the 35th year [1456] which is 2 years.

Receipts
First they account that they received in the box when they came into office – £3 12s. 4¾d.
The rent
Item received of John Walker for the house that he occupies, 2 years at 5 marks the year – £6 13s. 4d.
Knells, pits and bequests
Item received of John Reynold's wife – 10s.
Item received of John Manewe – 3s. 4d.
Item received of Asshcombe's wife – 10s.
Item received of Thomas More – 3s. 4d.
Sum – 26s. 8d.

2. [f.1] Quarterage and houseling silver
Item received by 7 terms for quarterage – 58s. 11d.
Item received for houseling silver upon 2 Easter days – 22s. 1½d.
Sum – £4 12½d.

Receipts towards making the cloth for the rood loft
Item received of Nicholas Hony's sister – 6s. 8d.
Item gathered in the church on Palm Sunday – 6s.
Sum – 12s. 8d.

Things sold
Item received for 20 lb of old pewter, at 2d. the pond – 3s. 4d.
Sum – 3s. 4d.

Sum total received – £16 9s. 5¼d.

3. [f. 2] Discharge
Payment made by the said wardens within the time of this account
For the rent
First paid to St Mary Spital for quit-rent for Walker's house for 2 years, at 8s. the year – 16s.
Paid for the obit of Juliana Fairhead for 2 years – 15s. 2½d.
Paid for a priest singing for the same Juliana for 3 terms – £5.
Sum – £6 11s. 6½d.

Payments touching the church
First paid to the waxchandler for wax for the beam and the paschal within the time of this account – 23s. 7d.
Item paid for mending albs and setting on parnvers – 6½d.
Item paid for washing altar cloths, towels, albs, amices and surplices and for scouring candlesticks and the bowls of the beam at divers times – 5s. 8d.
Item paid for making the basin with the lamp – 13d.
Item paid for lamp oil – 6s. 8d.
Item paid for tallow candle – 2s. 1d.

[f. 2v] Item paid for this book and for another book for the church – 2s. 3d.
Item paid for binding a processionary – 11d.
Item paid for clasps and corses of the great book – 3s. 3d.
Item paid for mending and repairing books – 16d.
Item paid for mending copes – 4s. 8d.
Item paid for mending the pax – 5d.
Item paid for 5 latten candlesticks – 8s. 4d.
Sum – £3 [?]½d. [Correction renders total illegible].

Repairs on the church
Item paid for tiling on the church roof – 3s. 9d.
Item paid for 3 sacks of lime to the same – 6d.
Item paid for nails and laths – 3d.
Item paid for mending a pew – 4d.
Item paid for paving about the font – 2s. 8d.
Item paid for stoppyng the beam in the rood loft – 4d.
Item paid for paving the pavement in the street around about the church – 31s.
Item paid for carrying away dung and rubbish – 12d.
Sum – 39s. 9d.

Repair of the bells and the steeple
Item paid for a rope to the little bell – 3½d.
Item paid for making a beam and a new bell wheel and mending the other bells – 10s.
Item paid for lead and nails to the steeple – 5s. 8d.
Item paid for ringing bells for 3 minds – 12d.
Sum – 16s. 11½d.

[f. 3] Allowances
Item allowed to Walker in paying the rent – 8d.
Item paid for coals on Easter eve – 2d.
Item paid for flags – 2d.
Item paid for making, writing and engrossing this account – 16d.
Sum – 2s. 4d.

Payments made for the rood loft cloth
Item paid for a new cloth for the same – 4s. 6d.
Item paid for staining the same cloth – 24s.
Sum – 28s. 6d.

Sum total paid – £14 9½d.
And so remaining in the box – 48s. 8¾d.

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4. [f. 4] This is the account of Michael Harris and Tyse Jowler late wardens of the rents and goods of the church of St Andrew Hubbard beside Eastcheap, London, from the feast of the Annunciation of Our Lady 35 Henry VI [1456] to the same feast 36 Henry VI [1457], that is a year.

Receipts
First they account they received in the box when they came into office – 48s. 8¾d.
The Rent
Item received of John Walker for the house that he occupies for a whole year – £3 6s. 8d.
Knells, Pits and Bequests
[f. 4v]
Item received for burying Isabel the purser – 6s. 8d.
Item received of William Granger for burying his wife – 6s. 8d.
Item received of Simon Tapser for burying Nicholas Hony's wife – 10s.
Item received of him for the bequest of Nicholas Hony's wife – 6s. 8d.
Item received of the painter at St Margaret Patens for burying Nicholas
Hony's sister – 6s.
Item received of Stonehous's wife for bequest of certain persons and for all other things and ?duty – 6s. 8d.
Item received of Salomon James for burying his wife – 10s.
Item received of the said Salomon for Alice Pede – 20d.
Sum – 54s. 4d.

Quarterages and houseling silver
Item received by 4 terms for quarterages in the church – 31s. 5d.
Item received for houseling money upon 1 Easter day – 8s. 5½d.
Sum – 39s. 10½d.

[f. 5] Received for avails of the church
Item received for a book of law of a priest – 40s.
Item received of Stone for an old quire – 12d.
Item received on St Andrews day in May, money gathered at the church door – 2s. 8d.
Item received of Margaret the fruiterer for standing at the church door – 6d.
Item William Alhed gave towards mending the best cope in the church – 8d.

Sum total received – £12 14s. 5¼d.

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5. [f. 6] Discharge
Payments made by the said wardens within time of their account for the rent
Item paid to St Mary Spital for quit-rent going out of Walker's house for a whole year – 8s.
Item paid for the obit of Juliana Fairhead for a year – 9s.
Item paid to certain priests singing for the said Juliana Fairhead for a quarter and half – 49s. 6d.
Sum – £3 6s. 6d.

Payments touching the church of St Andrew
First paid to the waxchandler for wax to the beam and the paschal and other lights within the time of this account – 18s. 8d.
Item paid for washing divers surplices and other cloths belonging to the church at divers times – 2s. 3d.
Item paid for refreshing and amending the best cope – 9s. 4d.
Item paid for mending the censer and gilding – 15s. 10d.
[f. 6v] Item paid for a crysmatory of tin – 2s.
Item paid for a latten dish for the paschal – 4s.
Item paid for scouring the candlesticks and the bowls of the beamlight and for rats' bait – 2s.½d.
Item paid for tallow candles for the church – 18d.
Item paid for hemming the new staining cloth and hooks and a skin of parchment to mend the legendary and paper and for the tools – 12½d.
Item paid for 5 gallons of lamp oil – 5s.
Item paid for a lamp – 8d.
Sum – £3 2s. 4d.

Repairs in the church and in the steeple
Item paid for a rope for a paschal and for a rope for the little bell and a rope for the great bell – 16½d.
Item paid for ringing the bells for 3 minds – 12d.
Item paid to Simon Tapiser for a holy water-stick – 4d.
[f. 7] Item paid to a founder for mending the great bell – 12d.
Item paid for laying 4 stones upon certain burials in the church – 6s. 2d.
Item paid for mending divers pews in the church – 5d.
Sum – 10s. 3½d.
Repairs in Walker's house
Item paid for 2 sacks of lime – 4d.
Item paid for a mason and his man for a day and a half and sand for the chimney – 22d.
Item paid for tile sherds for the chimney – 2d.
Sum – 2s. 4d.

Allowances
Item allowed to Walker in paying the rent – 4d.
Item paid to 2 priests in earnest – 2d.
Item paid for writing this account – 12d.
Sum – 18d.

[f. 7v] Sum total paid – £7 2s. 11½d.
So remains clear to the church with the money that is in the box, sum total due – £5 11s. 5¾d.

6. [f. 8] This is the account of Michael Harrys and William Granger, late wardens of the rents and goods of the church of St Andrew Hubbard beside Eastcheap, London, from the feast of the Annunciation of Our Lady 36 Henry VI [1457] to the same feast of Our Lady the Annunciation 38 Henry VI [1459], that is to say for 2 years.

Receipts
First they account they received in the box when they came into office – £5 11s. 5¾d.

The Rent
First received of John Walker for the house that he occupies by 2 years, at 5 marks the year – £6 13s. 4d.

[f. 8v] Knells, pits and bequests
Item received of John Barry for the pit and the knell of Stonehous's wife – 6s. 8d.
Item received of Richard Hangcok's wife for a knell for her husband – 3s. 4d.
Item received of Ellen Armorer of her husband's bequest – 12d.
Item received of Robert Barbour for wasting of 2 lb wax of the torches at his wife's buirial – 12d.
Item received for wasting of 2 torches at Wetherle's dirge – 4d.
Sum – 12s. 4d.

Quarterages and houseling silver
Item received on 2 Easter days for houseling money – 17s. 2½d.
Item received in the church for 8 quarterages – 55s. 1d.
Sum – £3 12s. 2½d.

[f. 9] Money gathered for dighting and boarding the steeple
Item my lady Combe gave to the work thereof – 20s.
Item gathered in the church of St Andrew at divers times of the people of the parish for the work of the said steeple – 44s. 7½d.
Item received in gathering at the church door – 2s. 5d.
Item received of John, clerk, for old boards from the steeple – 4½d.
Item received of Margaret Kene for sitting at the church door – 6d.
Sum – £3 7s. 11d.

Sum total received – £19 17s. 4¼d.

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7. [f. 10] Discharge
Payments made by the said wardens within the time of this account
For the rent
First paid to St Mary Spital for quit-rent going out of Walker's house by 2 years at 8s. the year – 16s.
Item paid for the obit of Juliana Fairhead by 2 years – 18s. 11d.
Item paid to divers priests for singing for the same Juliana Fairhead by 3 terms – £5.
Sum – £6 14s. 11d.

Payments touching the church of St Andrew
First paid to the waxchandler for wax for the beam and the paschal and other lights within the time of this account – 24s. 6d.
Item for washing surplices and altar cloths at divers times – 3s. 8d.
[f. 10v] Item paid for scouring candlesticks and the bowls of the beam at divers times, and for coals – 20d.
Item paid for carting away dung and rubbish at divers times and mending a desk and for mending the sepulchre timber and making clean the churchyard – 16½d.
Item paid for nails for the canopy for Corpus Christi day and for garlands and flags and packthread and mending the new pew in the church with new hinges – 11½d.
Item paid for mending the latten censer and the silver censer and mending the corporas – 17½d.
Item paid for 7¼ ells of linen cloth for 3 rochets for the choir, with the making – 4s. 9½d.
Item paid for mending the canopy and cutting the tree in the churchyard and for flags and garlands – 12d.
Item paid for tallow candle for the church – 3s. 7d.
Item paid to Roger Champney for lamp oil – 9s.
Item paid to Granger to content the buying of a torch – 17d.
Item paid to the clerks for drinking upon 2 St Andrew's days for singing – 13d.
Sum – 54s. 6d.

[f. 11] Repairs on the church
Item paid to a tiler and a labourer for tiling on the church for 3 days, and for tiles and pins and lime – 8s. 8d.
Item paid to Barnard for a key to the churchyard door, and a lock and key for the charnel house, and for a key to the church door – 18d.
Item paid to a labourer for dighting the churchyard – 3d.
Item paid for mending the mass book and for binding the legendary – 17d.
Sum – 11s. 10d.

Repairs on the bells and the steeple
Item paid to Barnard the Smith for mending the bell – 10d.
Item paid for ropes for the little bell and the alms bell – 16½d.
Item paid for ringing bells for 2 minds – 8d.
Item paid to a man at Aldgate for baldrics and for mending certain baldrics for the bells – 22d.
Item paid to a mason for laying a stone on Stonehous's wife – 8d.
Item paid to a man for mending the clock – 8d.
[f. 11v] Item paid to the bell maker for twice changing the little bell in the steeple, weight and all – 7s. 8d.
Item paid to Thomas Grey's man for mending the great bells and mending the corporas on the high altar – 2s. 1d.
Sum – 15s. 9½d.

Repairs, leading and boarding the new steeple
Item paid to John Carpenter for boarding the steeple anew and for timber and for his handiwork and for all manner of nails – £4 13s. 4d.
Item paid to Barnard the Smith for 10 doggs of iron for the steeple, weighing 70 lb at 1½d the pound – 8s. 9d.
Item paid to him for making the spindle for the vane – 10d.
Item paid to Kerby the plumber for new lead and for changing the lead and carriage – 46s. 1d.
Sum – £7 9s.

[f. 12] Allowances
Item allowed to John Walker for paying the rent – 8d.
Item paid for writing this account – 12d.

Sum total paid – £18 7s. 8½d.
So money remaining clear to the church in the box – 29s. 7¾d.

Item more we received at Easter in the church for houseling money – 8s. ¼d.
Sum – 37s. 8d.

[f. 12v] Costs done in the church
Item paid for washing the church gear and surplices – 5d.
Item paid for rope for the little bell – 7d.
Item paid for scouring candlesticks and other gear – 16d.
Item paid for carrying dung away from the churchyard – 5d.
Item paid to Sir Harry for singing here all Easter week – 2s.
Item paid to the waxchandler for light in the loft and for the paschal and tenebrae candles and other lights about the font – 13s. 10d.
Sum of the costs amounts – 18s. 7d.

So remaining clear in the box on the 24th day of April 38 Henry VI [1459], sum – 19s. 1d.

The which 19s. 1d. and 1 bar of silver was delivered to William Halhede and to Simon Tapser on the day abovesaid when they came into office.

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8. [f. 14] This is the account of William Halhede and of Simon Tapeser late wardens of the rents and goods of the church of St Andrew Hubbard beside Eastcheap, London, made from 24 April 38 Henry VI [1459] to the [blank]. [It transpires that the account is for a five-year period, 1459–1464.]

Receipts
First they received in the box when they come into office, with a bar of silver – 19s. 1d.
The Rent
Item received of John Walker for the house that he occupied by 4 years and of Thomas Hunton occupying the same house for a whole year – £16 13s. 4d.
Sum – £17 12s. 5d.
[f. 14v] Knells, pits and bequests
Item received of John Wycam of John Martyn's bequest – 40s.
Item received of Alison James for the pit and the knell of Salomon James – 10s.
Item received of Isabel Bellamy's bequest – 20d.
Item received of Wastnest Wyny's mother a harness of silver which weighed 5¼ oz and which was sold for – 11s. 11d.
Item received of John Kyng for ringing the great bell and for the waste of 3 torches – 4s. 7d.
Sum – £3 8s. 2d.

Quarterage and houseling silver
Item received on 5 Easter days for houseling money – 48s.
Item received in the church for 20 quarterages – £8 16s. 4d.
Sum – £11 4s. 4d.

9. [f. 15] Discharge
Payments made by the said Wardens within the time of this account.
For the Rent
First paid to St Mary Spital for quit-rent going out of Thomas Hunton's house by 5 years, the year 8s. – 40s.
Item paid for the obit of Juliana Fairhead by 5 years – 40s.
Item paid to Sir John Patye singing for the said Juliana Fairhead by 4 terms – £6 13s. 4d.
Sum – £10 13s. 4d.

Payments touching the church of St Andrew
First paid to the waxchandler for wax for the beam light and for the paschal and other lights within the time of this account – £3 7s. 10d.
Item paid to the tallowchandler for oil and tallow candles – 25s. 1d.
[f. 15v] Item paid for washing surplices and altar cloths and mending divers surplices and albs at divers times – 12s.
Item paid for scouring candlesticks and the bowls of the beam at divers times and mending the lamps – 5s. 2½d.
Item paid for carting away dung and rubbish at divers times and for carpentry and masonry to mend the cross – 4s.
Item paid for mending the church door, for timber work about the pillar, for 3 tucking girdles and for setting up the canopy – 12d.
Item paid for flags and garlands and for mending of divers pews, for hasps, garnets and nails – 4s.
Item paid for a basket to put the jewels in and for frese and for 3 flaskets – 2s. 7d.
Item paid for 2 new surplices and for an old surplice – 5s. 10d.
Item paid for ringing a knell for Salomon James and for a torch, and for a key to the churchyard door and for 2 cruets – 4s.
Sum – £6 11s. 6½d.

[f. 16] Repair of the church
Item paid to Peter Glacyer for making clean and mending glass windows and for glass – 10s. 4d.
Item paid for the organs and for setting them up in the chancel, for nail board and workmanship, and for the timber in the glass windows – £5 8s. 8d.
Item paid for clasping and glueing the books, and for 3 sconces and a dish of iron for the censer – 3s. 4d.
Item paid for 2 new forms, for setting up the canopy and for the hire of 2 priests to sing in Easter week – 4s. 6d.
Item paid for painting the George and the Christopher, for mending the best chalice and for mending the covering to the font – 9s. 4d.
Item paid for a key to the church door, for 2 padlocks and for mending a lock and a bolt of iron – 17d.
Item paid for making 2 passion banners, for tartarin for the fringe, for the staves, for the 2 crosses and the small staves – 26s. 8d.
Item paid for scouring the cloth at the high altar – 8d.
Item paid to Wodehousson for playing the organs – 4d.
Sum – £8 5s. 3d.

10. [f. 16v] Repairs on Walker's house
Item paid to a tiler and his man for 3½ days' working upon Walker's house and for 5 sacks of lime and for 5 lb of solder – 7s. 2d.
Sum – 7s. 2d.
Repairs on the aforesaid house when Thomas Hunton took it
In primis paid to divers daubers and labourers for loam and sand and for their hire.
Item paid to a carpenter for his labour, for timber for a siege stole, for dressing board and for other board.
Item paid to Lege, ironmonger, for nail, hinges and hooks and to a labourer for casting a gong.
Item paid to a mason and his labourer for their [word omitted], and for ?channel stone, paving stone and for the border of a chimney.
Item paid to a tiler and his man for their hire and for tiles, tile pins and to William Granger for lime.
Item paid to a plumber for a cistern and for carting away dung and rubbish.
Item paid for a door and a shelf, 1 cellar door and for making windows in the kitchen and the counter in the hall.
Sum – £3 15s. 8d.

[f. 17] Repairs on the bells and the clock
Item paid for a bell wheel and for mending divers bell wheels. For mending the clappers and paid for 5 new baldrics – 8s. 3d.
Item paid for a rope for the great peise and for mending the same peise.
For mending the clock at divers times and mending the little peise – 11s. 6d.
Sum – 19s. 9d.

Repairs on the copes
Item paid for mending 2 copes and for buckram, thread, lace and for seryd cloth – 9s. 8d.
Item we paid for a psalter book – 6s. 8d.
Item paid for mending copes and vestments – 16d.
Sum – 17s. 8d.

[f. 17v] Allowances
Item allowed to Walker's house in paying the rent – 14d.
Item to Sir Harry for earnest – 1d.
Item paid to Mayer's child for dancing with the hobby horse – 2d.
Item allowed to Thomas Hunton's house in paying of the rent – 2d.
Item paid for making, writing and engrossing this account – 2s.
Sum – 3s. 8d.

Item paid to Thomas the Childe for playing the organs – 4s. 4d.
Item paid for mending of a cope of gold with reperaunce – 3s. 4d.
Sum – 7s. 8d.

Sum – 11s. 3d.

[f. 18] Sum total paid in our time – £32 19½d.
So there remains clear in the box – 43s. 7d.

11. [f. 18v] This is the account of Thomas Underwood and Thomas Unton wardens of the rents and goods of the church of St Andrew Hubbard beside Eastcheap, London, made from 24 April 5 Edward IV [1465] to 24 April 6 Edward IV [1466], which is for a whole year.

Receipts
First they received in the box at their coming into office – 43s. 7d.

Receipts of rent
Item received for the rent of the tenement where the said Thomas Unton dwells, that is to say for a whole year past at Midsummer 5 Edward IV [1465] – £3 6s. 8d, and for 3 quarters of a year past at Easter 6 Edward IV [1466] – 50s. Sum total – £5 16s. 8d.

[f. 19] Receipts of quarterage and paschal silver
Item received for Easter quarter, quarterage anno 5o – 7s. 3d.
Item received for quarterage at All Hallowtide – 16s.
Item received for quarterage at Candlemas the same year – 7s. 3d.
Item received for pascal silver at Easter anno 6 – 8s. 7d.
Sum – 39s. 2d.
Sum total received – £9 19s. 5d.

12. [f. 19v] Payments made by the said wardens in the time of this their account
First paid to the morrow mass priest for his salary for a quarter at midsummer anno 5 – 33s. 4d.
Item paid for repairs done on the church as appears by 3 bills – 54s. 2d.
Item paid for mending books – 14d.
Item paid to the morrow mass priest for half a year past at Christmas anno 5 – £3 6s. 8d.
Item paid to the Prior of St Mary Spital for quit-rent – 8s.
Item paid to a plumber for mending a lead gutter – 10d.
Item paid to the launderer for washing church cloths – 2d.
Item paid to a player on the organs – 2d.
Item paid to John Girdeler for Corpus Christi day – 8d.
Item paid to Agnes Underwode for washing – 16d.
Item paid to Margaret Ride for washing – 6d.
Item paid to Bernard for making the locks – 16d.
Item paid for an obit of Juliana Fairhead – 7s. 8d.
Item paid for making a clock – 6s. 8d.
Item paid for ale – 3d.
Item paid for washing against Easter anno 6 – 10d.
Item paid for making the churching pew – 8d.
Item paid for tallow candle – 2s. 4d.
Item paid for mending a gutter – 10d.
Item paid for the waste of 2½ lb of the paschal weighing 14 lb – 2s. 10d.
Item paid for a taper for the font – 8d.
Item paid for a 1 lb candle for [the] Judas – 8d.
[f. 20] Item paid for 3¼ gallons of lamp oil – 3s. 3d.
Item paid for washing 2 altar cloths and 2 towels – 2d.
Item paid for 2 bushels of coal – 1½d.
Item paid for bread – ½d.
Item paid for the engrossing and writing of this account – 16d.

Sum total paid – £9 16s. 8d.
And so remains clear in the box – 2s. 9d.

13. [f. 20v] This is the account of Thomas Wattys and Richard Crakenthorpe, wardens of the rents and goods of St Andrew Hubbard beside Eastcheap, London, made from 24 April 6 Edward IV [1466] to 24 April 8 Edward IV [1468], that is by 2 whole years.

Receipts
In primis they received in the box at their coming into office – 2s. 9d.
Item received of Margery Kene for occupying the bench under the church wall for 2 years – 3s.

Pits, knells and waste of torches
First received for waste of torches for a man that died within[?] the Garland – 2s. 8d.
Item of John Hurtley for torches at 2 different times – 4d.
Item of William Graunger for a woman that died within his house – 4d.
Item received of Richard Jones for his wife's pit and knell – 10s.
Item of William Graunger for his wife's pit and knell – 5s.
[f. 21] Item received for burying a woman that died next to the Garland – 10d.
Item of William Cassen tailor for burying his child – 10d.
Item of Master Pect for burying his man – 2s.
Item of Thomas Carter for burying his child – 4d.
Sum – 22s. 4d.

Paschal silver
Received for 2 years for the paschal – 17s. 10d.

Quarterages
First received at Whitsuntide for Easter quarter for the first year – 7s. 2d.
Item received at Lammas for Midsummer quarter – 8s. 6½d.
Item received at All Hallowtide for Michaelmas quarter – 8s. 5d.
Item received at Candlemas for Christmas quarter – 8s.
Sum for 1 year – 32s. 1½d.

Item received for Easter quarter in the next year following – 8s. 5d.
Item received for Midsummer quarter in the same year – 8s. 8d.
Item received for Michaelmas quarter next following – 9s. 7d.
Item received for Christmas quarter next ensuing – 8s. 11d.
Sum for this year – 35s. 7d.
[f. 21v] Item received and gathered of divers persons to make a new surplice – 14s. 7d.
Item received for house rent for a whole year for the house where Harry
Silver dwells – £3 6s. 8d.
The said house was void and unoccupied for the first whole year that the said churchwardens occupied their office.
Sum – £4 15d.

Sum total of all the charges and receipts comes to – £9 14s. 10½d.

14. Payments and discharges for the said 2 years
First paid to Thomas More for mending a bell wheel – 8d.
Item paid to Master John for a priest that served in the church upon Palm
Sunday in Thomas Unton and Underwood's time – 6d.
Item paid to Thomas Crowcher for a key to the vestry door – 3d.
Item paid for flags and garlands for 2 years upon Corpus Christi day – 12½d.
Item paid to a paviour for mending the pavement before the church door – 3d.
Item paid for 4 bell ropes – 2s. 4d.
Item paid for rent gathered for St Mary Spital for 2 years' rent – 16s.
Item paid to Thomas Crowcher for a lock in the vestry – 8d.
Item paid for a new wheel for 1 of the bells – 3s. 4d.
Sum – 25s.½d.
[f. 22] Item paid for a cup of latten that hangs at the high altar – 3s.
Item paid to John, clerk, for burying Richard Jones's wife – 2s.
Item paid for a shovel – 4d.
Item paid for ale given to the singers upon the church holy day – 6d.
Item paid for 1 quarter of 1 cwt. wax for the beam light – 14s. 6d.
Item paid for mending 4 bell clappers – 2s. 8d.
Item paid to a mason to cover the pits of Richard Jones's wife and William
Graunger's wife – 12d.
Item paid to John Richmond and to John, clerk, for making clean all the candlesticks and the bowls in the rood loft – 2s.
Item paid for 4 baldrics to hang with the bell clappers – 4d.
Item paid to a man that played upon the organs at Christmas – 12d.
Item paid for 2 obits of William Fairhead and Juliana his wife – 18s. 8d.
Item paid for making the wax for the beam light – 22d.
Item paid for tucking girdles for priests – 3d.
Item paid for linen cloth for new surplices – 13s. 4d.
Item paid for making 3 surplices, a rochet of new cloth and for mending an old surplice and marking altar cloths – 5s. 6d.
Item paid for a board for the pentice over the church door and for making and setting up the same – 6d.
Item paid to John, clerk, for mending the books – 20d.
Item paid for correcting and writing the inventories – 14d.
Item paid for ale to the clerks upon St Andrew's day – 6d.
Item paid for washing surplices, altar cloths and other cloths belonging to the church, for 2 years' washing – 5s. 3d.
Item paid for making 2 indentures for Thomas Clarke of Whitechapel parish – 10d.
Item paid to the said Thomas for fortnight's service – 17½d.
Sum – £3 18s. 3½d.

[f. 22v] Item paid to Thomas Crowcher for prickets of iron and setting them upon the church door. Item for a lock and key and bolt for the vestry door – 2s. 4d.
Item paid for a cord to hang up the canopy and for a man's labour – 3d.
Item paid for ale to the clerks upon the dedication and church holy day and for an organ player for the same 2 days – 15d.
Item spent on ale for divers of the parish when John, clerk, delivered up the church goods – 4d.
Item paid to John Motte carpenter for making and [for the] stuff of a defence against the church walls – 2s. 8d.
Item paid to a labourer to dig 2 holes to set in the posts – 3d.
Item paid to a young man that kept the organs in Christmas – 2s.
Item paid to the raker for cleaning the churchyard and carrying away dust and dung for 2 whole years – 13d.
Item paid for cleaning and red ochre-ing Harry Silver's house – 22d.
Item paid to a man that set the clock – 3d.
Item paid to John Halle for scouring a green coverlet 2 times – 4d.
Item paid for coals and frankincense at Easter for 2 years – 17d.
Item paid to Thomas Watts for tallow candle for 2 years – 3s. 6½d.
Item paid for mending a lead gutter in Harry Silver's house – 4d.
Item paid to Crowcher for mending Richmond's wife's pew – 3d.
Item paid for wire to the paschal – 3d.
Item paid for making the Judas candle – 1d.
Item paid for making the paschal and for waste of it for 2 years – 4s.
Item for money spent about John, clerk, that is dead, more yet [than] can be received of his quarterage by the sum of – 23d.
Item paid for 5 gallons and a pottle of lamp oil – 5s. 6d.
Item paid to a joiner for mending a bell wheel – 2d.
Sum – 30s.½d.
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15. [f. 23] Quarterages
First received at Whitsuntide for Easter quarter – 10s. 5½d.
Item received at Lammas for Midsummer – 8s. 1d.
Item received at All Hallowtide for Michaelmas quarter – 8s. 10½d.
Item received at Candlemas for Christmas quarter – 10s. 3½d.
Sum of the quarterages – 37s. 8½d.

Payments made by the said wardens for the year
First paid to an organ player upon the day of the translation of St Andrew [9 May] – 6d.
Item paid for ale to the clerks on the same day – 2d.
Item paid for mending the clock – 2s. 4d.
Item paid to Crowcher, smith, for a lock to the door in the steeple – 7d.
Item paid to William Goldsmith for mending the monstrance – 3d.
Item paid upon Corpus Christi day for garlands and flags, and for a small rope in the rood loft – 7d.
Item paid to John, clerk, for burying Robert Peet – 2s.
Item paid to Crowcher, smith, for mending a bell clapper and for a key to the store house door – 11d.
Item paid to a carpenter and to a dauber for making a thing in the north side of the church for dropping of candle – 8d.
Sum – 8s.

[f. 23v] Item paid for a cart-load of sand – 6d.
Item paid for laying a stone upon Robert Peet – 6d.
Item paid for a purse for the box – 1½d.
Item paid to the rent gatherer of St Mary Spital – 8s.
Item paid for lamp oil to Robert Nonde for the whole year – 4s. 9d.
Item paid for¼ of 1 cwt. of wax for the beam light – 15s. 9d.
Item paid to a workman who red ochred and whited the church – 3s. 4d.
Item paid for coal for the same work – 3d.
Item paid for 15 lb of red lead – 20d.
Item paid for coals to make a fire – 1d.
Item paid for scouring the candlesticks great and small – 8½d.
Item paid for a rope to the alms bell – 7d.
Item paid for washing all the church cloths for the year – 2s. 10d.
Item paid for red ochre – 5d.
Item paid for nails and hooks, and oil, for scouring the bowls in the rood loft, and to a woman for scouring them – 6d.
Item for making a cushion – 22d.
Item paid for making the wax in the rood loft – 21d.
Item paid to Crowcher, smith, for mending the clapper for the great bell – 8d.
Item paid to William Graungier for 4 sacks of lime for the church – 8d.
Item paid for writing of the indentures between us and Ralph, clerk, – 11d.
Item paid to Margaret Kene for 2 holy water sticks – 2d.
Item paid to Sir Richard for his half year wages – £3.
Item paid for making 2 indentures between Okley and us, and for bread and ale – 4d.
Sum – £5 6s. 4d.

16. [f. 24] Item paid for pins and hooks – 1d.
Item paid to Ralph the clerk's wife for mending a vestment and a surplice – 5d.
Item paid to Crowcher, smith, for mending a chest and the clock – 4d.
Item allowed to Harry Silver when he paid no rent – 4d.
Item paid for the obit of Juliana Fairhead – 9s. 11d.
Item paid for observing the evidences of Juliana Fairhead – 2d.
Item paid to the chamberlain and to the mayor's clerk with other expenses and for enrolling the testament of the said Juliana – 45s. 10d.
Item paid for nails spent in the house where Okley dwells – 2d.
Item paid for 150 4d. nails – 6d.
Item paid for 50 4d. nails – 2d.
Item paid for a pair of garnets for the shop door in the same house – 5d.
Item paid for 3d. nail and 2d. nail – 3d.
Item paid for a garnet to the hall window – 2d.
Item paid for a labourer for 2 days' labour in the said house – 10d.
Item paid for a pair of garnets upon the stall over the cellar door – 3d.
Item paid for a load of brick to the same house – 2s. 4d.
Item paid to Crowcher, smith, for 2 iron dogs weighing 40 lb – 5s.
Item paid to the said Crowcher for a lock to the shop door – 7d.
Item paid for a key to the counting house door – 3d.
Item paid for a key to the hatch at the farther end – 3d.
Item paid for mending a lock and key for a chamber door – 3d.
Item paid to a carpenter for 160 feet of elm board for the parclose of the shop and for all other timber work – 9s. 5d.
Item paid to the raker for carrying earth out of the said house – 4d.
Sum – £3 18s. 3d.

[f. 24v] Item paid to a plumber for mending a gutter and for 2 lb of solder – 12d.
Item paid to a mason for workmanship in the same house – 3s. 2d.
Item paid to a plumber for mending a gutter another time – 4d.
Item paid to William Graungier for lime spent in the same house – 2s. 2d.
Item for making clean the churchyard against Palm Sunday – 4d.
Item paid to a founder for scouring the latten work – 14d.
Item paid to Harry ?Nevyllman for playing upon the organs – 14d.
Item paid for tallow candle spent in the church for the whole year – 13d.
Item paid to Thomas Wattes for 1½ bushels of coal spent in the church on Good Friday and Easter Eve – 3d.
Item paid for making the paschal and for waste of wax – 20d.
Item paid for engrossing and writing this account – 12d.
Sum – 13s. 5d.

Sum total of all the payments – £10 6s.
And so the sum of the said payment exceeds the sum of the receipts by – 31s. 8d, which is owing at this account to Richard King one of the said wardens.

17. [f. 25] This is the account of Richard Kyng and John Baker wardens of the rents and goods belonging to the church of St Andrew Hubbard beside Eastcheap, made from the last day of April 9 Edward IV [1469] to the last day of April 12 Edward IV [1472], which is by 3 whole years.

Receipts of rents
First received of John Okeley for the rent of the tenement which he has held these 3 years past at the feast of Midsummer the said 12th year, every year £3 6s. 8d – £10.

Receipt for paschal light
Item received in money for 3 paschals by all the said time – 28s. 1d.

Receipt for beam light
Item received in money for the beam light by all the said time – £5 5s. 10d.

Receipt for May money
Item received in May money – 5s. 4d.

Receipt of Margery Kene
Item received of Margery Kene for 3 years every year 2s. – 6s.

Sum of these receipts – £17 5s. 3d.

[f. 25v] Receipts for burials and knells
Item received of Richard Bafford's wife for the pit and knell – 9s.
Item received for the pit and knell of Arnold the Gascoyn – 10s.
Item received of Mistress Alhede for the pit and knell of her husband – 33s. 4d.
Item received for ringing the great bell for our parson – 3s. 4d.
Item received of Underwood for burying and bell-ringing for his wife – 10s.
Item received of Rolf Smith for ringing the great bell for his wife – 3s.
Item received of the said Mistress Alhede for the church works – 6s. 8d.
Sum – £3 15s. 4d.

Receipts for the waste of torches and for other things
Item received of Richard for lending the chalice – 8d.
Item received of Mundys for waste of the church torches – 7d.
Item received of Maud Hansumme for waste of 1¾ lb – 12d.
Item received of Thomas Wattes for a pound waste – 6d.
Item for wasting a torch for Jenot the Gascoyne – 6d.
Item for painting of St Andrew of Richard Bafford's wife – 20d.
Item received for oil – 3s. 6d.
Item received of Rychemond for the waste of 2 torches – 12d.
Sum – 9s. 5d.

Receipts for the chamber over the vestry
Item received of Sir Richard Seston, priest, for the chamber over the vestry for half a year past at midsummer anno 12 – 2s. 5d.

Sum total received – £21 12s. 5d.

18. [f. 26] Payments made by all the time of this account
First paid to Richard Kyng all that is owed to him, owing as appears in the foot of the last account – 31s. 8d.
Item paid to Sir Richard for his salary – 30s.
Item paid for making of the font – 11d.
Item paid to Thomas Crowcher for mending of 2 locks to the church doors – 4d.
Item paid for a rope to the clock – 2d.
Item paid for a clapper to the second bell – 4s. 10d.
Item paid for scouring candlesticks – 2d.
Item paid to the organ player at Christmas week – 4d.
Item paid for mending a surplice – 15d.
Item paid for cleaning the candlesticks of the church – 9d.
Item paid for mending the pentice at the church door – 2s. 11d.
Item paid for setting on a hook – 4d.
Item paid to Thomas More for pulleys, nails, and rolls, with other mending of wheels – 20d.
Item paid for a rope to the clock for the great peise [word indecipherable] – 6d.
Item paid for mending a lock to a chest – 1d.
Item paid for a hook to the pentice – 4d.
Item paid to mending the clock – 4d.
Item paid for dressing a candlestick to the resurrection – 3d.
Item paid to Richard Rolf for mending a clapper – 6d.
Item paid to Thomas Crowcher for mending a clapper and a spring and other gear for the clock – 8d.
Item paid for scouring candlesticks – 8d.
Item paid for a staff to the cross – 5s.
Item paid for 2 baldrics for 2 bells – 14d.
Item paid for a little bell rope for the sanctus bell – 2d.
Item paid for a rope to the alms bell – 5d.
Item paid for the paschal for 2 years – 3s. 4d.
Item paid to Robert Luter's wife for coloryng [?collaring] a surplice – 3d.
[f. 26v] Item paid to Reygate's wife for coloryng another surplice – 4d.
Item paid for beam light wax – 15s. 6d.
Item paid for making the beam light – 2s. 6d.
Item paid for Richard's pit – 2d.
Item paid to Graunger for 2 loads of lime and 5 sacks for the church and for Okeley's house – 2s. 10d.
Item paid to the mason for paving the pit for Arnold the Gascoyn – 6d.
Item paid to John, clerk, for making Richard Bafford's pit – 2s.
Item paid for Corpus Christi day for flags and garlands – 7d.
Item paid for mending the albs in the church – 7d.
Item paid to the raker for bearing away dust – 4d.
Item paid for laying a stone upon Underwood's wife – 8d.
Item paid for making 2 new wheels – 10s.
Item paid to Simon Turnour for painting the dial – 3s. 4d.
Item paid for repair of the house about the clock for nails, boards and workmanship – 8s. 9d.
Item paid for scouring the latten gear in the church – 14d.
Item paid for making the clock – 5s.
Item paid for a rope – 3d.
Item paid to Sir Nicholas for 1 quarter – 13s. 4d.
Item paid to Geoffrey Raker – 2d.
Item paid to Thomas Wattys for coal and candle by the said time for the church – 2s. 2d.
Item paid for washing the church gear by 10 quarters of this account that is to say the first quarter 8d, the second quarter 8d, the third quarter 8d, the fourth quarter 7d, and every quarter then next after by all the said 10 quarters 8d, sum – 6s. 7d.
Item paid for scouring the gear of the church at Easter the 12th year – 14d.
Item paid for an organ player – 11d.
Item paid for a key to the church door – 4d.
Item paid to Crowcher for mending the clapper of the great bell – 6d.
Item paid for making of the paschal the said 12th year – 2s. 6d.
Item paid for lamp oil by all this time – 13s. 3d.
Item paid to Mundus for candle [during] this our time – 2s. 9d.
Sum of these payments – £9 7s. 2d.

[f. 27] Payment of quit-rent and keeping the obit of Juliana Fairhead
Item paid for quit-rent from Okeley's house for every year this 3 year, at 8s. the year – 24s.
Item paid for the obit of Juliana Fairhead every year this 3 year, that is to say the first year 9s. 1d, the second year 9s. 7d, and the third year 9s. 6d, sum – 28s. 2d.
Sum – 52s. 2d.

Repairs in Okeley's house
First for mending a wall in John Okeley's house – 16d.
Item for mending a gutter in the same house – 6d.
Item for mending the gable end in the garret and [for] nails to the same house – 4d.
Item for making a hook to the door in the cellar by the street side – 2d.
Item paid for tiles to the same house – 5s. 6d.
Item paid for sand – 6d.
Item paid for a tiler and his man for 5 days – 5s. 5d.
Item for mending a gutter in the garret of the said house and for solder – 15d.
Item paid to Mott, carpenter, for board nail and a new window and mending the old windows in the shop of the same house – 14s.
Item allowed to the said Okeley at the receipt of his rent by 2 times either time 2d, sum – 4d.
Item paid for the engrossing of this account – 16d.
Sum – 30s. 8d.
Sum total paid – £13 10d.
And so remains clearly in the box – £8 11s. 7d in ready money.
And over this Nicholas Okerford owes for the hire of the chamber over the vestry – 3s. 4d.

19. [f. 27v] This is the account of Simon Tapycer and John Hall, wardens of the rents and goods belonging to the church of St Andrew Hubbard beside Eastcheap, London, made from the last day of the month of April 12 Edward IV [1472] to the last day of the month of April 14 Edward IV [1474], which is by 2 whole years.

Receipts in the church Box
First received in ready money – £8 11s. 7d.
Item received of Nicholas Okerford in debt – 3s. 4d.

Sum in debts and money – [Ms holed]
First received for the said house, that is to say of the said Okeley for Michaelmas quarter 12 Edward IV [1472] – 16s. 8d; and for void times, that is to say for the terms of Christmas and Easter 13 Edward IV [1473] – nil; and of the leve called the late wife of Gerard Moreys for the terms of Midsummer and Michaelmas the same 13th year – nil, for it was given and pardoned her for the cost [that] the said Gerard did in the house and of the new husband of the same late wife of Gerard called Chester Herold for Christmas quarter the same 13th Edward IV [1473] – 16s. 8d; and for Easter quarter 14 Edward IV [1464] in part payment of that Easter quarter – 10s.
Sum total received for the house in our time – 43s. 4d.

Receipts of the Paschal light
Item received in money for 2 paschals these 2 years, that is to say the first year – 10s. 7d; and the second year – 10s. 6d.
Sum – 21s. 1d.

[f. 28] Receipt for beam light
Item received in money for beam light these 2 years – £3 5s. 10d.

Receipts of Margaret Kene
Item received of the same Margaret Kene for her standing these 2 years, at 2s. the year – 4s.

Item received for an old gown that was given to the church, by us sold – 2s. 6d.

Receipts for burials and ringing knells
First received of the waferer for ringing the great bell for his wife – 3s. 4d.
Item received for breaking the ground in the church for Gerard – 6s. 8d.
Item received for the knell for John Hall's wife – 3s. 4d.
Item received of Nicholas Okerford for his wife's knell and pit – 9s.
Item received for old lead that was sold – 8s.
Item received for a quarter of board – 9d.
Sum – 31s. 1d.

Sum total received – £17 2s. 9d.

20. [f. 28v] Payments made by all time of this account
First paid to Sir George at Our Lady Day the Assumption, 13 Edward IV
[1473], for his salary for a whole year – £6 13s. 4d.

Payments for the church
Item paid to the raker for half a year – 4d.
Item paid for a post unto the church wall – 2d.
Item paid to the mason – 8d.
Item paid for 2 sacks of lime – 4d.
Item paid for staples and hasps – 3d.
Item paid for mending an antiphoner – 12d.
Item paid to the launderer for Midsummer quarter – 8d.
Item paid for mending an alb to the church – 1d.
Item paid for thread – ½d.
Item paid for the launderer for Christmas quarter – 8d.
Item paid for the obit of William Fairhead and Juliana his wife – 9s. 4d.
Item paid to the plumber for soldering the church gutter – 2s.
Item paid to the raker for a quarter – 2d.
Item paid for mending surplices – 10d.
Item paid for a rope to the great peise of the clock – 20d.
Item in costs for bread and ale – 3d.
Item paid for nails – ½d.
Item paid for mending the canopy – 12d.
Item paid to a carpenter for half a day – 4d.
Item paid for a plank and nails for the church door – 5d.
Item paid for a piece of timber to the same – 1d.
Item paid for making of the great peise and solder – 9d.
Item paid for half an ell of cloth – 4d.
Item paid to the cannel raker – 2d.
Item paid for a rope to the great bell – 9½d.
[f. 29] Item paid for mending 2 clappers – 2s.
Item paid for quarters of timber – 13d.
Item paid for nails – 11d.
Item paid for making a pit – 10½d.
Item paid to the carpenter for 6 days – 4s.
Item paid for the clock – 13s. 4d.
Item paid for fetching the clock and bearing home – 4d.
Item paid to the launderer for 3 quarters – 2s.
Item paid for 116 feet of plank-board – 3s.
Item paid for 179 [?] feet of quarter board – 5s. 5d.
Item paid for a bond for a bell wheel – 1d.
Item paid for hinges and nails – 11d.
Item paid for tiling the church, to the tiler and his man for 2 days – 2s. 2d.
Item paid for 200 tiles – 16d.
Item paid for 4 roof tiles – 4d.
Item paid for sand – 3d.
Item paid for 2½ lb of solder – 15d.
Item paid for mending the surplice collars – 1d.
Item paid for scouring the latten ware in the church – 16d.
Item paid to the raker for a quarter – 2d.
Item paid for half an ell of cloth to bind with the surplice – 4½d.
Item paid for a rope for the great bell – 9d.
Item paid to a mason for laying the stone of Gerard – 5d.

Sum as well for the priest as for the payments aforesaid – £9 18s. 1½d.

Repairs for the stall and house belonging to the church
First paid for elm board – 7½d.
Item paid for 5d. nail – 1d.
Item in 3d. nail – 1d.
Item paid for 3 quarters for the stall – 5d.
Item paid for a board for the stall – 1d.
Item paid for 50 4d. nail – 2d.
[f. 29v] Item paid in 5d. nail – 1d.
Item paid for carpenter a day and a half – 12d.
Item paid for a tiler and his man 2 days – 2s. 2d.
Item paid for 200 tiles – 16d.
Item paid for 100 quarter boards and a half and half a quarter [sic] – 4s. 10½d.
Item paid for 5 quarter boards – 5d.
Item paid for 100 5d. nail – 5d.
Item paid for 100 4d. nail – 4d.
Item paid for 2 spikings – ½d.
Item paid for sand – 3d.
Item paid for 3 sacks of lime – 6d.
Item paid for carrying the dust – 3d.
Item paid for 50 3d. nail – 1½d.
Item paid for 50 roof nails – 1d.
Item paid for 50 ?hert laths – 3d.
Item paid for roof nail – 2d.
Item paid for lattice for the bay windows – 12d.
Item paid for 50 3d. nails – 1½d.
Item paid for 2 lb solder – 12d.
Item paid in 5d. nail – 1d.
Item paid in eating and drinking – 2d.
Item paid for a hook for the garret window – ½d.
Item paid for a carpenter for 2½ days – 20d.
Item paid for the one part of the indenture for the said house – 7d.
Item paid for ringing the waferer wife's knell – 4d.
Sum – 18s. 9d.

21. More payments for the church
Item paid for an organ player – 16d.
Item paid to the chandler for the paschal and the tenebrae light – 3s.
Item paid for the obit of William Fairhead and Juliana his wife – 9s. 5½d.
Item paid for the paviour – 4s. 10d.
Item paid for ringing the knell for Hally's wife – 4d.
[f. 30] Item paid for girdles for the church – 4d.
Item paid to the raker for a quarter – 2d.
Item paid to Rolf Smith for 3 spikes – 1d.
Item paid for mending a bolt on the church door – 1d.
Item paid for nails for the same door – 1d.
Item paid for 2 strops of iron for the clock – 10d.
Item paid for a key to the vestry door – 8d.
Item paid for cuppes for Fairhead's tenement – 2d.
Item paid for cutting the vine in the churchyard – 2d.
Item paid for garnishing the cross banner – 2s. 6d.
Item paid to the raker – 2d.
Item paid for cutting the tree – 2d.
Item paid to the launderer – 8d.
Item paid for 2 painted cloths for the high altar – 6s. 8d.
Item paid to the plumber for 2 lb of solder – 12d.
Item paid in fire and ale – 1d.
Item paid for making clean the gutter – 1d.
Item paid for mending the clock, and water to the font – 2d.
Item paid for flags and garlands and pack thread on Corpus Christi day – 5d.
Item paid for ale to carpenters that made the cross – 1d.
Item paid for a clasp and a bolt for the little bell wheel – 2d.
Item paid for a new wheel to the same bell – 2s. 6d.
Item paid for hanging and trussing the bells in the steeple – 3s.
Item paid for changing of a noble that was broken for the church house – 4d.
Item paid in receipt of the church house rent – 1d.
Item paid for 38 ft of timber to the cross – 6s. 4d.
Item paid for 11 days' work of a carpenter – 7s. 4d.
Item paid for 8 days' work of a carver – 5s. 4d.
Item paid to the painter – 4s.
Item paid to the plumber for leading the cross – 2s. 6d.
Item paid to Munde for 4 dozen candles for the church – 5s. 4d.
Item paid to Champney for lamp oil for the church – 14s. 3d.
Item paid for laying a stone for Okerford's wife – 12d.
Item paid for a sack of lime – 2d.
Item paid for the paschal – 3s.
[f. 30v] Item paid for a cross of iron – 16d.
Item paid for a load of loam – 4d.
Item paid for a hinge – 2d.
Item paid for nails – 2½d.
Item paid for engrossing and making this account – 2s.
Sum – £4 13s. 2d.

Quit-rent
Paid for quit-rent going out of the church house for these 2 years, every year 8s. – 16s.
Allowance
Item the said accountants ask to be allowed of that they stand afore charged not yet received of Nicholas Okerford – 3s. 4d.

Sum total of all manner payments and allowances – £16 9s. 4½d.

[f. 31] Debtors [at] the time of this account
First the said Chester Herald for the residue of his rent yet being behind a quarter rent at Easter the 14th year of the reign of the said King [1474] – 6s. 8d. Paid.
The same Chester for Midsummer quarter the same 14th year – 16s. 8d.
John Brigges owes for Sir George – 5s. Paid.
Richard Kyng owes – 2s. Paid.

And so remains clear in the box – 30s. 4½d.

22. [f. 31v] This is the account of John Brigges and Nicholas Okerford, wardens of the rents and goods belonging to the church of St Andrew Hubbard beside Eastcheap, London, made from the last day of the month of April 14 Edward IV [1474] to the last day of the month of April 16 Edward IV [1476], which is by 2 whole years.

Receipts in the church box
First received in the box as appears in the foot of the last account – 30s. 5d.

Receipts of the church house
Item received of Chester Herald for the rent of the church house for a quarter of a year ending Midsummer 14 Edward IV [1474], as appears in the foot of the last account – 16s. 8d.
Item received of the same Chester for recompense of his terms which he had to come in the said tenement – 20s.
Item received of the rent of the said tenement for a year and a half from the said feast of Midsummer 14 Edward IV to Chistmas 15 Edward IV [1475] – nil.
Item received of rent of the said tenement for half a year from Christmas 15 Edward IV to Midsummer 16 Edward IV [1476] of John Mance, bowyer – 26s. 8d.
Sum – £3 3s. 4d.
Receipts of the paschal light
Item received in money for 2 paschals these 2 years – 17s. 7¼d.
Receipts for the beam light
Item received in money for the beam light these 2 years – £3 14s. 9½d.

[f. 32] Receipts of burials and knells
Item received of William Graunger for burying his father in the church and for his knell – 10s.
Item received of Richard Kyng's wife for burying her husband in the church and for his knell – 10s.
Sum – 20s.

More receipts
Item received of Margaret Kene for her standing at the church door for a whole year – 2s.
Item received of the same Margaret for her said standing for a whole year – 2s.
Item received in the gathering of May money for the church – 9s. 1½d.
Item received for 2 empty pipes that were left in the church house – 2s.
Item received for the clerk's wages for 3 quarters of a year ending at the feast of Easter 16 Edward IV [1476] – 31s. 4d.
Item received for the hire of 5 torches – 3s.

Sum of these receipts – 47s. 5½d.
Sum total receipts – £12 13s. 7¼d.

23. [f. 32v] Payments made by all the time of these accounts
First paid for quit-rent out of church house for 2 years, either year 8s. – 16s.
Item paid for ringing Graunger's knell and for laying the stone upon his grave again – 8d.
Item paid for the ringing of Richard Kyng's knell and for laying the stone upon his grave again – 8d.
Item paid for a quarter of wax for the beam light – 12s. 6d.
Item paid to John Kene for making the said beam light – 2s. 9d.
Item paid for cleaning latten ware in the church for 2 years – 3s. 4d.
Item paid for a baldric for the great bell – 13d.
Item paid for making a new bench in a pew in the church – 4d.
Item paid for mending a clapper for a bell – 4d.
Item paid for mending the clock – 12d.
Item paid for 2 new bell ropes, 1 for the great bell, another for the little bell – 20d.
Item paid for binding and covering 5 books, that is to say 2 mass books, 2 antiphoners and a processional, and for clasps for them – 38s. 4d.
Item paid for mending the vestments, for silk ribbon and for workmanship – 19s. 7½d.
Item paid to Brownyng's wife for washing the church gear for 2 years at Midsummer anno 16 – 5s. 4d.
Item paid for having out the dust of the church at divers times and for cleaning about the church – 10½d.
Item paid for coals for watching the sepulchre for 2 years – 4d.
Item paid to priests and clerks, singers being in the church [for] 2 church holy days – 2s. 2d.
[f. 33] Item paid for sewing and mending albs and surplices – 12d.
Item paid for cleaning the table at the high altar – 4d.
Item paid for making and writing 2 new inventories of church goods – 4s.
Item paid for making an obligation with a condition for the clerk's surety – 4d.
Item paid for flags and garlands on Corpus Christi day for 2 years – 14d.
Item paid for thread to sew on the fanons upon the albs – 1d.
Item paid for making and waste of the paschal for 2 years – 3s. 1d.
Item paid for tenebrae candles for 2 years – 22d.
Item paid to John Kene for mending torches that were broken – 15d.
Item paid for 26 lb of tallow candle – 2s. 7d.
Item paid for 3 lb of watching candle – 4½d.
Item paid for painting 2 banner staves for the 2 streamers – 8d.
Item paid for a pole to be a banner staff for 1 of the same streamers – 6d.
Item paid for spikes and nails for hanging the bells – 2d.
Item paid for 2 new hollow keys for the church doors – 12d.
Item paid for brooms, and for water to the font – 2d.
Item paid for lamp oil for the lamp, for 5¼ gallons – 5s. 3d.
Item paid for a new cross of copper and gilt – 20s.
Item paid to the clerk for his wages for 3 quarters of a year, that is to say for the terms of Michaelmas, Christmas and Easter last past – 30s.
Item paid in costs for holding the obit of William Fairhead and Juliana his wife for 2 years – 18s. 10d.
Item paid for engrossing and making this account – 16d.
Sum total these payments – £10 11½d.

[f. 33v] Repairs on the house belonging to the church
Item paid to a dauber, for him and his man for a day's labour, for mending walls and floors in the church house – 13d.
Item paid for a load of loam – 4d.
Item paid for lime, sand, laths and for spring nails – 6d.
Item paid for mending a bench in the hall, for quarters, nails and for workmanship – 2s. 6d.
Item paid to Rolf Smith for making new keys and for mending locks in the same house – 2s. 10d.
Item paid in costs for going to Westminster to speak with Chester Herald – 3d.
Item paid for 1½ lb of solder for gutters in the said house – 9d.
Item paid for faggots to heat their irons – 1d.
Sum of repairs – 8s. 4d.
Sum total paid – £10 9s. 3½d.
Rests clear in the box – 44s. 3¾d.

24. [f. 34] This is the account of Richard Jones and Thomas Carter, wardens of the rents and goods belonging to the church of St Andrew Hubbard beside Eastcheap, London, made from the last day of the month of April 16 Edward IV [1476] to the last day of the month of April 18 Edward IV [1478], which is by 2 whole years.

Receipts in the church box
Firs, received in the church box of money pertaining only to the church over and beside the money that pertained to the church house – 24s. 1¾d.

Receipts of the paschal light
Item received in money for 2 paschals these 2 years – 17s. 5d.

Receipts for beam light
Item received in ready money for beam light these 2 years – £3 7s. 10d.

Receipts for burials and knells
Item received of Briggs for his knell and pit – 10s.
Item received of the same Briggs for bells at the 12 month mind – 20d.
Item received for burying Ryse in the church – 6s. 8d.
Item received of John Harpham for the great bell for his wife – 3s. 4d.
Item received of Simon Turnour for burying his wife in the church – 6s. 8d.
[Scored:] Item received of the same Simon in lime sand – 20d.
Item received for burying the said Simon Tapicer – 10s.

[f. 34v] More receipts
Item received of Margaret Kene for her standing at the church door for a whole year – 2s.
Item received of one Tyse, jeweller, for an old chalice sold to him by us the said wardens with a paten silver over gilt, weighing altogether 14¾ oz at 3s. 6d. the ounce – 51s. 8d.
Item received of the same Tyse for another chalice sold to him with a paten of parcel gilt weighing 10¾ oz, price the ounce 3s. 2d. – 34s. ½d.
Item received of Pye, stationer, for a book called Decrees sold to him by us the said wardens – £3.
Item received of the same Pye, stationer, for a book called the half bible of the old testament sold by us to him – 26s. 8d.
[Scored:] Item of the wife of the foresaid Tyse, jeweller, for the residue of another new chalice – 10s. 2½d.
Sum total received – £16 2s. 1¼d.

25. [f. 35] Payments made by all the time of this account First paid for paper – 1d.
Item paid to the organ player on Our Lady Day nativity – 4d.
Item paid for a new wheel for the bell – 4s. 4d.
Item paid for a new rope for the bell – 10d.
Item paid for trussing the bell and mending the frame of the bells – 12d.
Item paid to Tyse, jeweller, for a new chalice with a paten of silver and gilt, weighing 18¾ oz at 4s. the ounce – £3 15s. 6d.
Item paid for hallowing the same chalice – 8d.
Item paid to Denys Brownyng for washing the church gear the 19th day of October 16 Edward IV [1476] – 16d.
Item paid for mending the pew for Briggs – 3d.
Item paid to Rolf the smith for a stirrup for the bell, and for a lock and a bolster and 2 clamps for the pew – 7d.
Item paid for 2 new garnets for lattice in the west window – 6d.
Item paid for making the 3 lattices – 18d.
Item paid at Christmas day to Danyell for organ playing – 10d.
Item paid to Denys Brownyng for washing the church gear at Christmas – 10d.
Item paid for 3 baldrics for the bells – 2s. 10d.
Item paid to Rolf Smith for mending 5 clappers for the bells – 4s. 6d.
Item paid to Rolf Smith for making the clapper of the great bell – 12d.
Item paid to his man – 1d.
Item paid for 2 clamps of iron for pews – 3d.
Item paid to the scavenger for payment – 4d.
[f. 35v] Item paid for drinking ?silver when we made covenant with Danyell the clerk – 4d.
Item paid at Easter to Denys Browning for washing the church gear for a quarter – 10d.
Item paid for scouring the church gear for the latten – 16d.
Item paid to the clerk for Brigge's knell – 4d.
Item paid to the clerk for Simon Tapicer's wife's knell – 4d.
Item paid for making the paschal – 15d.
Item paid for waste of 2 lb of wax, that left of the beam light – [blank].
Item paid on Corpus Christi day for flags, garlands and pack thread – 7½d.
Item paid for a shovel – 3d.
Item paid to the raker – 2d.
Item paid for mending the church wall, for ripping off the old stuff and making the pit for the new post and for ramming the earth – 6½d.
Item paid for 2 new posts of the wall of 12 ft – 2s.
Item paid for a plank – 15d.
Item paid for the portage of the same – 1d.
Item paid for 12 great nail spygges [spikes?] – 4d.
Item paid for 10 penny nails – ½d.
Item paid to a carpenter for 1½ days – 12d.
Item paid for a sack of lime – 2d.
Item paid to a mason for a day's work – 8d.
Item paid for a plank for Manne's pew – 2d.
Item paid to the clerk for watching the sepulchre and for coals – 6d.
Item paid to Denys Browning for washing the church gear for Midsummer quarter – 10d.
Item paid for mending surplices – 3d.
Item paid for 6 lamps with the brigges – 6½d.
Item paid to the raker for Midsummer quarter – 2d.
Item paid for mending the hanging of the lamp – 4½d.
Item paid for glue to mend books – 1d.
Item paid for new pews in Our Lady chapel, for 3 wainscots – 2s. 4d.
Item paid for the lid of the long chest and form in the choir – 12d.
Item paid for short boards and for nails for the pews – 8d.
Item paid for rushes for the pews – 1d.
Item paid to a carpenter for 6 days' work – 4s.
Item paid to Richard, clerk, for the hair string for the wathe [?] of the clock and for clearing the chapel – 1½d.
Item to Danyell for Rysse's knell – 4d.
Item for raising up the stone and laying down again – 8d.

26.[f. 36] Item paid for ringing the bells for Brigge's 12 month mind – 2d.
Item paid for paving 14 teises about the church, 7d. the teise – 8s. 2d.
Item paid for 2 loads of stone – 3s.
Item paid for 8 loads of gravel – 2s. 8d.
[Three lines heavily scored]
Item paid to John Meyer for candles for 2 years – 3s. [?]3d.
Item paid to the raker for Christmas quarter anno 17 – 2d.
Item paid for ringing for Harpham's wife, and for drink – 4½d.
Item paid for scouring the latten gear at Easter anno 18 – 16d.
Item paid to the organ player to perform up the nobil for the quarter at Candlemas – 17d.
Item paid to Denys Browning for washing, Christmas quarter anno 17 – 10d.
Item paid for mending the table before the high altar – 3d.
Item paid for watching the sepulchre and for coals – 4d.
Item paid to the raker for the Easter quarter – 2d.
Item paid for footing of the forms in the rood loft – 1d.
Item paid out of the box to Richard, clerk, for the reward of his wages for 3 quarters of a year – 3s.
Item paid to the clerk for mending old vestments – 6d.
Item paid for bread and ale to singers in the church – 4d.
Item paid for iron work for dropping the tapers before Our Lady of Pity – 9d.
Item paid to John Kene for 1⁵/8 lb of tenebrae candle and for 1 lb taper for the font – 18d.
Item paid from the box to the organ player to perform his nobil for his wages and Whitsuntide – 2s. 2d.
Item paid for the preysyng of the church books – 16d.
Item paid for scouring the latten censer – 2s.
Item paid to Denys Browning for washing church gear for Midsummer quarter – 10d.
Item paid to the raker – 2d.
Item paid for flags and garlands on Corpus Christi day – 4d.
[f. 36v] Item paid to the scrivener [superscript: child] for redying the clerk's obligations with condition – 1d.
Item paid for mending the censer with the stuff – 2s. 4d.
Item paid for mending the chalice with the stuff – 5s.
Item paid for 2 clasps for the best cope, weighing 2 oz less a pennyweight – 11s.
Item paid for the fire dish for the censer – 6d.
Item paid for the paschal at Easter anno 18, for making of 12 lb and for wasting 2 lb – 2s.
Item paid for a key to the chapel door – 4d.
Item paid to Danyell the organ player – 5s.
Item paid to John, clerk, the organ player, to perform his nobil – 5½d.
Item paid to John Sawndre for ringing the bell for Simon Turnour – 4d.
Item paid to the clerk for Christmas quarter to fulfil his quarterage – 12d.
Item paid to the clerk to fulfil his quarterage for Whitsuntide quarter – 12d.

Item bought of Simon Smith 28 lb of wax for the beam at Easter 18
Edward IV [1478] – 10s. 8d.
Delivered to John Kene 17 stocks of beam, weighing 27 lb.
Item 24 lb of new wax.
Item 2 lb for Judas candle.
The sum of wax – 58 lb.
Received 17 tapers for the beam weighing 56¼ lb.
Received 1 taper of 1 lb for the font.
Received 1¼ lb for the Judas candle.
Received 1 quarter of 3 lights for the paschal.
The sum of the receipt – 58¾ lb.
Rest to the chandler ¾ lb wax and paid for the making of the foresaid wax of 58 lb,½d. the lb, sum – 2s. 5d.
Sum paid for wax and making the beam light, in ready money – 13s. 1d.

[f. 37] Item paid for writing and engrossing this account for the church as well as the account for the church house – 2s.
Item paid to Thomas Champeney, tallowchandler, for 8½ gallons of lamp oil and for candles – 9s.
Item paid for weighing of the jewels – 4d.

Sum total of all the said payments – £10 11s. 11d.
Rests clear in the box – £5 10s. 2¼d.

[Different hand] Where that a chalice with a paten weighing together 18⁷/8 oz, at 4s. the ounce, sum thereof – £3 15s. 2d. It is so now the paten of the said chalice was lost by default of Richard, now clerk of the said church, and a new paten ordained, which paten with the said chalice weigh together 17⁵/8 [oz] troy-weight. And so by the default of the said Richard clerk is lost in the weight after the rate of the said new chalice 1³/8 oz, sum – 5s. 6d.
[Scored and almost illegible:] for which loss .. have given .. the said Richard clerk reward for his help .. of the receipt .. which he the said Richard .. of Ryse's wife reward the ringing of the bell for him.

27. [f. 37v] This is the account of the said Richard Johns and Thomas Carter, wardens of the rents and goods belonging to the said church of St Andrew Hubbard beside Eastcheap, London, made of the receipts and payments of the church house in which one Mance, bowyer, now dwells in, that is to say from the last day of the month of April 16 Edward IV [1476] until the last day of the month of April 18 Edward IV [1478], which is 2 whole years.

Receipts for the house aforesaid
First received in money pertaining only to the said house – 20s. 2d.

Receipt for the rent these 2 years of the said house as hereafter follows
First received of the said Mance for the house rent past at Candlemas for half a year, at Christmas, 16 Edward IV – 26s. 8d.
Item received of the said Mance for house rent past at Lammas the 17th year Edward IV for half a year at Midsummer – 26s. 8d.
Item received of the same Mance for house rent past at Lammas 18 Edward IV for a whole year – 53s. 4d.
Sum – £5 6s. 8d.
Sum total – £6 6s. 10d.

[f. 38] Payments made the same 2 years in repairs and quit-rent as hereafter appears
First paid to one Sir John the priest for his salary at a quarter – 13s. 4d.
Item paid to the same Sir John at Our Lady day in Lent for his salary – 10s.
Sum – 23s. 4d.

Payments for costs and repairs done upon the said church house
First paid to St Mary Spital for quit-rent for Midsummer the 16th year of the reign of the said king – 8s.
Item paid to St Mary Spital for quit-rent for Midsummer the 17th year of the reign of the said king – 8s.
Item paid to St Mary Spital for quit rent for Midsummer the 18th year of the reign of the said king – 8s.
Item paid for paving 2½ teises at 7d the teise – 17½d.
Item paid for a load of gravel – 3d.
Item paid for ½ a load of stone – 9d.
Sum – 28s. 3½d.

The costs of the obit of Juliana Fairhead these 2 years
Item paid to priests and clerks and for the other allowances these 2 years according to the will of the testatrix – 18s. 7d.

Sum total paid – £3 10s. 2½d.
Rests clear thereof – 57s. 7½d.

28. [f. 38v] This is the account of Robert Berker and Symond Phipps, wardens of the rents and goods belonging to the church of St Andrew Hubbard beside Eastcheap, London, made from the last day of the month of April 18 Edward IV [1478] to the last day of the month of April 20 Edward IV [1480], which is 2 whole years.

Receipts in the church box
Received in the church box of money pertaining only to the church over and beside the money that pertained to the church house – £5 10s. 2¼d.

Receipt of paschal light
Item received in money for 2 paschals these 2 years – 16s. 6d.

Receipts for beam light
Item received in money for beam light these 2 years – £3 6s. 8d.

Receipts for burials and knells
Item received of Crakenthorpe's wife for the bell and the ground – 10s.
Item received of Manes's wife for the bell and the ground – 10s.
Item received of Rolf for the bell and the ground for the carpenter – 10s.
Item received of Richard Jones for burying his daughter – 3s. 4d.
Sum – £11 6s. 8¼d.

[f. 39] More receipts belonging to the church
Item received of Manes' wife at the bequest of her husband – £5.
Item received of Crakenthorpe's wife for a marble stone – 13s. 4d.
Item received of the waferer for the waste of 2 torches – 12d.
Item received of the parish priest for the waste of 2 torches – 12d.
Item received of Manes's wife for paving about her husband's grave and the stuff – 14d.
Sum – £5 16s. 6d.
Sum total the receipts – £17 3s. 2¼d.

29. [f. 39v] Payments made during the time of this account
First paid for paper – 1d.
Item paid for a surplice – 4s. 6d.
Item paid for ringing Crakenthorpe's knell – 4d.
Item paid for bearing away earth that fell out of the next grave – 2d.
Item paid for sawing lead that was in the next grave – 1d.
Item paid for laying stones before Manes's pew and the stuff thereto – 1d.
Item paid to the raker these 2 years – 16d.
Item paid to Richard, clerk, fulfilling a quarter that he was behind in the other wardens' time – 2s.
Item paid to the washer for a quarter that she was behind also – 10d.
Item paid for washing the cloth that lies before the high altar – 2d.
Item paid for a corporas case – 2s. 4d.
Item paid and spent upon singers and an organ player on St Andrew's eve and day – 12d.
Item allowed to the organ player to fulfil the first quarter – 2s. 4d.
Item paid to Simon Smithe for a piece of wax weighing 32 lb for the beam light, price the pound 5d. – 13s. 4d.
Item paid to a carpenter for board and the workmanship on the new pentice at the church door – 8s. 6d.
Item paid for nails thereto – 4d.
Item paid to a carpenter for mending the high pews in Our Lady Chapel and for boarding the wall and for boarding the new pews – 2s. 4d.
Item paid for scouring the latten – 20d.
Item paid to a smith for mending the church door and setting on 2 locks – 6d.
Item paid for a chest before St Katherine's altar – 12d.
Item paid for nails and hinges to the same – 8d.
Item paid for 2 locks and keys to the same – 12d.
Item paid for 1⁵/8lb of tenebrae candle and for a 1 lb taper for the font – 18d.
Item paid for paving in the church and the stuff thereto – 14d.
Item paid to a marbler for having out of a marble ?stone – 4d.
[f. 40] Item paid for ale at the same time to labourers – 1d.
Item allowed to Richard, clerk, to fulfil his first quarter of our time – 18d.
Item paid for mending the box that the sacrament hangs in – 6d.
Item paid for cloth for 3 albs and 2 surplices – 15s. 10d.
Item paid for mending of stone – 2d.
Item paid for mending and making a rochet – 16d.
Item paid to the organ player to fulfil his second quarter – 2s.
Item paid for ringing Manes's knell – 4d.
Item paid for a surplice – 4s. 4d.
Item paid for a stirrup, 2 bolsters and the nails – 12d.
Item paid for making 3 albs and 2 surplices – 4s. 6d.
Item paid to Richard, clerk, to fulfil the second quarter – 16d.
Item paid for making and gilding the cross of the monestere [?monstrance] – 2s.
Item paid for 2½ yds of hair [?cloth] to Sir John's altar – 1d.
Item paid for flags, garlands and packthread on Corpus Christi day – 5d.
Item paid for garlands for the choir – 1d.
Item paid for the paschal these 2 years – 4s.
Item paid for ringing the great bell – 4d.
Item paid for paving the Carpenter's grave again and the stuff thereto – 8d.
Item paid to her that washes for the church for 2 years – 6s. 8d.
Item paid for 2000 tiles for the church – 11s.
Item paid for 1000 roof nails – 8d.
Item paid for 200 hert laths – 12d.
Item paid for [a] sprig – 2d.
Item paid for 6 loads of lime – 6s.
Item paid for 1 ½ bushels of tile pins – 4½d.
Item paid for 2½ loads of sand – 15d.
Item paid for 1 ½ quarts of roof tiles – 12d.
Item paid for 2 tilers for 6 ½ days at 8d. the day – 8s. 4d.
Item paid for a labourer for 7 days at 5d. the day – 2s. 11d.
Item paid for hauling away 2 loads of rubbish – 6d.
Item paid for cleaning the churchyard – 2d.
Item paid for having away thereof – 2d.
Item paid for mending the new cope – 12d.

30. [f. 40v] Item paid to the organ player to fulfil his third quarter – 2s. 4d.
Item paid for mending an old surplice and the cloth thereto – 6d.
Item paid for mending the tin chrismatory – 4d.
Item paid to Rolf for the stirrup of a bell and making and mending a lock – 14d.
Item allowed to Richard, clerk, to fulfil the third quarter – 2s.
Item paid to a carpenter for board, quarters and workmanship on the long pew – 14d.
Item paid to an organ player and spent on singers on our dedication day – 8d.
Item paid for coals these 2 years to the clerk at Easter – 4d.
Item paid to Saunder while we were clerkless to bear a torch with the housel – 1d.
Item paid to Rolf's child at another time – 1d.
Item paid to an organ player on St Andrew's eve and day – 6d.
Item spent upon singers the same day – 4d.
Item paid for scouring the latten – 20d.
Item paid for 1⁵/8lb tenebrae candle and a 1 lb taper for the font – 18d.
Item paid for an organ player on Candlemas eve and day – 8d.
Item paid for flags, garlands, and packthread on Corpus Christi day – 4½d.
Item paid to the constable for taking up a stone before the church – 4d.
Item paid for making and making clean the branch before St Andrew – 2s. 2d.
Item paid for bread and ale on the feast of our translation – 2d.
Item paid to an organ player the said eve and day – 4d.
Item paid to Father Stephen to see to the jewels on high days these 2 years – 2d.
Item paid for garlands to the choir – 1d.
Item paid to them that dressed the torches – 1d.
Item paid to an organ player on Ascension day – 4d.
Item spent on Manes's wife when we received her husband's bequest – 16d.
Item paid to her son for a quittance – 2d.
Item paid to Kene for mending a torch – 4d.
Item paid to John Mayer for 47 lb of candle – 3s. 11d.
Item paid to an organ player on Corpus Christi eve and day – 8d.
Item paid for bryge for lamps against Midsummer – 1d.
Item delivered to Kene our old stock weighing 26 lb; received of him again with 2½lb that we received more of his wax than our own, 61½lb at ½d the pound – 2s. 6½d.
Item paid to him for his 2½lb wax – 15d.
[f. 41] Item received of Violet 2 new torches weighing 34½lb, charged at 1d the pound – 2s. 10½d.
Item delivered him in old wax ends 32 lb, so rest to him 2½lb wax at 5d – 12½d.
Item delivered him 2 lb wax gathered from the beam light at ½d the pound – 2½d.
Item received of him again 5 tapers weighing 2½lb, so rest to him ½lb wax – 2½d.
Item paid to the waferer for a hanging lock – 2d.
Item paid to a smith for making a lock and a key to the great chest – 20d.
Item paid for 2 hanging locks to the same chest – 20d.
Item paid to Richard the clerk's wife for allowance for his last quarter – 3s.
Item allowed to John, clerk, for the first quarter – 6d.
Item allowed to him to fulfil the second quarter – 16d.
Item paid to fulfil this last quarter – 22d.
Item paid to Champney for 7¾ gallons of lamp oil – 7s. 9d.
Item paid for birch this 2 year – 2d.
Item paid for holly this 2 year – 2d.
Item paid to John, clerk, onward of next quarter – 20d.
Item paid for writing and engrossing this church account as well as the account of the church house – 2s. 4d.

Sum total of the said payment – £9 4s. 1½d.
Rests clear thereof in the box – £7 19s. 1¾d.