Communar's Accounts: 1490-1 | 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.

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Historical Manuscripts Commission, 'Communar's Accounts: 1490-1', in Calendar of the Manuscripts of the Dean and Chapter of Wells: Volume 2(London, 1914), British History Online https://prod.british-history.ac.uk/wells-mss/vol2/pp122-123 [accessed 25 April 2025].

1490–1491. Accounts of John Menyman, the Communar, from Michaelmas, 1490, to Michaelmas, 1491.

Receipts.


Rents of assize, several tenements being ruinous	7l.	16s.	8d.
Received of Knappe mills	4l.	6s.	8d.

Expenses.


Paid the dean and canons residentiary for Bekenton mass, 4d. daily	6l.	1s.	8d.
5lbs. of wax on his anniversary		2s.	8d.
12½lbs. of wax for mass through the year		8s.	0d.
the communar for paying the said mass		6s.	8d.
Repairing the way near the new work in Chamberlain St. against the king's coming			8d.
Procurations for Modeford at the archbishop's visitation		2s.	8d.
Expenses of the steward in riding towards the king's majesty, &c.		16s.	7d.
Expenses at Faryngdon for communications with the prior of Bath about electing the bishop		4s.	3d.
King's tenth	35l.	18s.	7½d.
Distributed among 12 canons	143l.	2s.	8¾d.
Paid for 2 torches weighing 64½lbs., with making	1l.	1s.	6d.
repair of Paxbread			8d.
repair of a chalice for the altar of St. John		1s.	0d.
binding a gradual in the choir		3s.	0d.
binding Legenda		3s.	0d.
binding a collectary			5d.
morning censers		1s.	0d.
binding a library book		2s.	0d.
and a gradual in the choir		1s.	10d.
Removing the great organ from St. Mary's chapel to the choir			4d.
Writing divers evidences and parchment for same	2l.	16s.	8d.
Barlych. Paid for a paper missal for the altar of St. Nicholas by the cloister	1l.	0s.	0d.

Note. 24 Jan. 1667.—This parchment shewed to N. Dowthwaite, gent., &c., as before, ante, p. 98.