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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.

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Historical Manuscripts Commission, 'Fabric accounts: 1500-01', 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/pp163-165 [accessed 25 April 2025].

Accounts of Richard Pomerey, Keeper of the Fabric, from Michaelmas, 1500, to Michaelmas, 1501.

Receipts.


Received from oblations in pixes	2l.	12s.	1½d.
Sales: lead	2l.	12s.	2d.
3 sheets of glass		2s.	6d.
9 semes of Walschboards		6s.	0d.
celingnails			4d.
a pair of agate prayer-beads			7d.
Collected by the bishop's commissary and the archdeacons of Wells and Taunton	1l.	16s.	8d.
Arrears of St. Andrew's pence from Pylle			8d.
32 legacies	2l.	11s.	4d.
2 rings		1s.	1½d.
2 gold rings	1l.	17s.	6d.
St. Andrew's briefs: deaneries of Bath and Ratclyffe	2l.	15s.	4d.
Frome, Axbridge and Poulet	4l.	3s.	9½d.
Cary, Merston, Ilchester and the jurisdiction of the dean of Wells	5l.	9s.	7d.
Crukern, Taunton, Dunster, Bridgwater and the jurisdiction of Glaston	10l.	11s.	10d.
Vacancy of vicars' stalls	21l.	6s.	8d.

Expenses.


Paid workmen's weekly wages	11l.	7s.	6d.
Expenses of collection of the Brotherhood of St. Andrew	6l.	9s.	7d.
Paid for a hogshead of oil	1l.	16s.	8d.
carriage from Bristol		1s.	9d.
To the king's players		6s.	8d.
the queen's		6s.	8d.
and the prince's		6s.	8d.
Carriage of the hammer of the bell		1s.	8d.
Table expenses of John Whyte, testing the sound of the great bell		1s.	10d.
Mr. Robert Pemberton, for bringing a cope by command of the chancellor		1s.	8d.
Bars and hooks above the nave of the church		1s.	0d.
Crampetts of pipes to the cistern of the aqueduct		2s.	0d.
Mending the hammer of the great bell		13s.	4d.
Brass pipe for the aqueduct in the Palm churchyard			6d.
Bread and beer for workmen at bringing and hanging the bell		3s.	0d.
4qrs. of coal		2s.	4d.
2 ells of linen cloth for the bishop at the consecration of the new bell		2s.	4d.
To Thomas at the Antelope for making divers things for bringing the great bell, &c.		13s.	4½d.
During vacancy of vicars' stalls, for Mass, Gospel and Epistle	3l.	4s.	2d.
Received legacy of William Cokell	2l.	0s.	0d.
Donation towards making the great bell, by decree of the chapter	1l.	6s.	8d.
Hopeless debts to be omitted from the rolls: of John Haydour	2l.	6s.	3 3/4d.
of Robert Wilson, late prebendary of Timberscombe	2l.	13s.	4d.
of the prior of Barlynch, for 23 years	7l.	13s.	4d.

Stock: Tin, 151lbs., spent on the church 100lbs.; lead, 750lbs., bought 5,769lbs., spent on the church 2,400lbs., sold 1,319lbs; spikenails, bought 150, used for the church 72 [? 62], remaining 88; board nails 300, used 250; hatch nails 460, bought 2,000, used for the church 2,100, remaining 360; tack nails, bought 1,000, used 700; lead nails, bought 1,000, used 800; lathnails, bought 1,000, used 200; white glass, 11 sheets, sold 3; coloured glass, 2 bouncher.