Escheator's Accounts: 1469-70 | 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, 'Escheator's Accounts: 1469-70', 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/pp92-93 [accessed 25 April 2025].

1469–1470.: Accounts of John Huskyns, the Escheator, from Michaelmas, 1469, to Michaelmas, 1470.

Receipts.


Oblations: Of the illustrious king Edward		10s.	0d.
Of the illustrious prince, the duke of Clarence		5s.	0d.
Of the duchess of Clarence		5s.	0d.
of the earl of Warwyke, in the dean's chapel		5s.	0d.
Obit of Nicholas Carent and his parents	1l.	6s.	8d.
of John Pedwell	1l.	6s.	8d.
Prebends vacant: Tymber combe, by the death of Mr. John Brykhed	8l.	0s.	0d.
Combe I, by the death of Mr. John Wygrome	5l.	6s.	8d.
Compton Dunden, by the death of Mr. Stephen Morepath	15l.	0s.	0d.
Yatton, by the death of Mr. Thomas Purvear	40l.	0s.	0d.

Expenses.


To 42 persons from the vacancy of Tymberscombe	4l.	7s.	6d.
portion of the deceased	2l.	3s.	10d.
vicar of the stall	1l.	6s.	8d.
To 42 persons from Combe I	3l.	6s.	7d.
tenth to the King		5s.	4d.
portion of the deceased	1l.	13s.	9d.
To 41 persons from Compton Dunden	8l.	18s.	0d.
tenth to the King, the executors having paid 6s. 8d. only		3s.	4d.
portion of the deceased	4l.	10s.	8d.
vicar of the stall	1l.	6s.	8d.
Allowed the farmers for good payment		1s.	4d.
To 42 persons from Yatton prebend	26l.	12s.	0d.
portion of the deceased	13l.	6s.	8d.
At the exequies of John Pedwell: at dirige to 38 persons, and altarist and chorister		13s.	4d.
at mass to 39 persons, and altarist and chorister		10s.	3d.
To the treasurer, for wax at the exequies of Nicholas Carent and parents			8d.
the like for John Pedwell		1s.	0d.