Fabric accounts: 1505-6

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: 1505-6', 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/pp195-197 [accessed 2 April 2025].

Historical Manuscripts Commission, 'Fabric accounts: 1505-6', in Calendar of the Manuscripts of the Dean and Chapter of Wells: Volume 2(London, 1914), British History Online, accessed April 2, 2025, https://prod.british-history.ac.uk/wells-mss/vol2/pp195-197.

Historical Manuscripts Commission. "Fabric accounts: 1505-6". Calendar of the Manuscripts of the Dean and Chapter of Wells: Volume 2. (London, 1914), British History Online. Web. 2 April 2025. https://prod.british-history.ac.uk/wells-mss/vol2/pp195-197.

Accounts of Richard Pomeray, Keeper of the Fabric, from Michaelmas, 1505, to Michaelmas, 1506.

Receipts.

Rents of assize—Arable acre between Balerow and Milton, lately enclosed and ditched 4s. 0d.
Oblations: Pix of the B.M. at the choir door, 10s. 10d.; St. Andrew at the west door, 3½d.; B.M. in Jesina, 10½d.; W. Button, 2s. 4d.; St. Sythe, 1s. 8d.; Holy Cross in the cloister, 16s. 3d.; St. Saviour in the cloister, 3½d.; 7 other pixes, nil. Total 1l. 12s. 0d.
Sales: oil 2l. 11s. 8d.
wood 1l. 11s. 2½d.
1,481lbs. of lead 3l. 2s. 5d.
nails 5s. 6d.
coloured glass 2s. 8d.
2 justes [? joists] 6d.
Collection of the Brotherhood of St. Andrew 20l. 2s. 6½d.
Legacies: Through Mr. Thomas Goldweg 1l. 14s. 3d.
37 others 1l. 0s. 2d.
a brazen dish 3s. 9d.
2 silver rings [blank]
Vacancy of vicars' stalls 24l. 15s. 0d.

Expenses.

Paid weekly wages of labourers 9l. 5s. 0d.
Expenses of collection of the Brotherhood of St. Andrew 7l. 6s. 8d.
Lead purchased, 5,750lbs. at 3s. 4d. and 300lbs. at 4s. 10l. 5s. 8d.
tin, 260lbs. 2l. 3s. 4d.
nails 15s. 9d.
Necessary expenses: the king's players 6s. 8d.
the prince's players 6s. 8d.
3 le lateys 2s. 0d.
an iron shovel for the sacrist 1s. 0d.
brooms 6d.
lantern 5d.
mending the basin of B.M 8d.
5lbs. of thread cord 3s. 4d.
10lbs. of cord 3s. 4d.
a load of reeds 2s. 9d.
spars 3d.
mending a bucket 1½d.
ox hide 3s. 6d.
painting at the high altar 4d.
1 ell of 'moksatin' 1s. 4d.
repair of 2 bellows 2s. 8d.
2 great elms 11s. 4d.
and carriage from Dinder 4s. 2d.
rake 2d.
cleaning and painting the altar of St. John 2s. 2d.
cleaning the coronation of the Virgin and two other images 1s. 0d.
making a silver staff for the altarist 4s. 8d.
2¼oz. of silver for the staff 6s. 9d.
Outside expenses: For Mass, Epistle and Gospel during vacancy of vicars' stalls 3l. 13s. 4d.

Stock: tin 187lbs., bought 260lbs.; lead 4,150lbs., bought 5 850qrs. 58lbs.; greatspikes 39lbs.; spikenails 319; boardnails 1,650; hatchnails 1,603; tacknails 80; leadnails 2,360; lathnails 4,900; ceilingnails 654; bushelnaus 1,000.

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