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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, 'Communar's Accounts: 1418-9', 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/pp58-60 [accessed 25 April 2025].

1418–1419.: Accounts of Robert Burgh, the Communar, from Michaelmas, 1418, to Michaelmas, 1419.


Arrears.—To 11 canons of last year	409l.	19s.	11d.

Receipts of the seal.


Confirmation to Henry Clement and his wife of Henstridge		13s.	4d.
Vacancy of Yerlington church		19s.	5d.
Vacancy of Bledon church		4s.	0d.
Confirmation of a tenement at Bishop's Lydeard		13s.	4d.
Total, with arrears	546l.	2s.	6½d.

Necessary expenses.


Commons of the bishop and canons	175l.	4s.	2d.
In processions	5l.	0s.	0d.
Commons of the vicars	6l.	7s.	8d.
Wine for altars, at 8d. or 10d. a gallon	3l.	1s.	2d.
Fetching oil at Sarum		2s.	6d.

Foreign expenses.


The Papal nuncio		7s.	0d.
The law officers	9l.	6s.	8d.
The abbat of Clyve, one tenth to the king	35l.	18s.	6½d.
Ralph Canon, for tenth for Whitchurch (side note, cave de cetero)	1l.	19s.	6d.
The same, for expenses in convocation		1s.	6d.
The prior of Dunster, for tenth		10s.	0d.
Expenses of chapter business at Bridgwater and Stogursy		13s.	8d.
Expenses of Thomas Frome to London, against the vicar of Congarsbury	2l.	3s.	8d.
The archbishop's messenger bringing a letter		6s.	8d.
Installing Mr. Thomas Bubwyth, John Osberne and John Stone. [Thomas Schelfford, cancelled "because he was not installed by the chapter, nor were commons
assigned to him by said chapter"; 4s., cancelled.]		2s.	8d.
The squire of the lord of Poyning, with expenses at Stogursy and Carington		14s.	2d.
Expenses in London, buying half the manor of Bykenalre	3l.	1s.	2d.
The vicar of Pocklechurch, for expenses about the chancel of Abbatiston		13s.	4d.
Expenses at Banwell, conferring with the bishop		13s.	4d.
Tileing Reynold Bryt's house		14s.	8½d.
Citation to the prior of Longlete, twice		1s.	5d.
Expenses at Bridgwater, before the Justiciars for the statute of Holond		6s.	4½d.
Total expenses	391l.	15s.	3½d.


Owing by the communar	146l.	8s.	0½d.
by the reeve of Cory	91l.	3s.	0d.
by the reeve of Est Cory	55l.	3s.	6½d.
by the reeve of Knapp	9l.	13s.	8d.
by the reeve of Westhatch	6l.	7s.	8½d.
by the reeve of Burnham	33l.	14s.	11½d.
by the reeve of Wynscombe	9l.	2s.	2½d.
by the reeve of Bykenalre	1l.	5s.	10d.
by the parsonage of Chewton	23l.	6s.	8d.
by the bailiff of the hundred of Cory	1l.	3s.	9d.
by the farmer of the parsonage of Pucklechurch	13l.	6s.	8d.
by the reeve of the same	2l.	13s.	2d.
by the vicar of Kingsbury, for the vacancy of the church	2l.	10s.	0d.
for the vacancy of divers churches	13l.	6s.	8d.
To 15 canons residentiary, each	27l.	6s.	4½d.
Names of the canons: Thomas Frome, John Bath, John Orum, John Knyght, Reynold Brythe, John Hody, Roger Harewell, John Stortewayte, Richard Harewell, John Roland, William Langbrok, Ralph Canon, William Excestre, Richard Penifader, Henry Abyngdon.

Expenses.


Bydesham. Mending 2 large thuribles thrice and silvering them		9s.	0d.
5 cords for the Lenten veil and basins hanging in the choir and for drawing back the great tabula above the high altar, and 1 small chain for the said basins		1s.	6d.
3 phials, in exchange for old, for the altar of St. Stephen and St. John		1s.	4d.
6yds. of half-say for choir tunicles		10s.	0d.
16yds. of half-say, gilt, and 2½yds. of fringe for the high altar	1l.	13s.	9½d.
For making and for buckram		2s.	0d.
Binding 2 books of Civil Law in the Treasury, and 1 gradual on the precentor's side		1s.	10d.
1½yds. of cloth called tartarin		4s.	0d.
1 large piece of blue buckram, for 3 mantles for the Maries at Easter		8s.	6d.
50z. of silk fringe		5s.	2d.
6yds. of green card for the lining of 2 boys' tunicles		2s.	0d.
To the sacrist for keeping the chimes		3s.	4d.
To Walter Vageler		3s.	4d.