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1426-27]
Churchwardens' Accounts.
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John Okelegh and Alice his wife, Eustace Byre and Amice his wife, William Beamont and Alice his wife, Reginald Strepe and Christina his wife, Henry John and Christina his wife, John Wynd and Joan his wife iijˢ iijᵈ Paid to the same vicar of rents received out of the tenement of Richard Julkyn with the garden adjacent and … of the meadow of the same Richard at Crewelake for the anniversary of John Wyndout and Alice his wife annually vjᵈ To priests and clerks and bread at the exequies of the same John and Alice out of the same rents xijᵈ—Total expenses xijˡⁱ xjˢ vijᵈ.

[Next warden Walter att Oke. At the end of the account Richard Pipe is mentioned as being in arrears vjˢ viijᵈ; and there is the following list, presumably of balances in former accounts: Walter Parson ijˢ Thomas Lyrea xvijᵈ ob John Mochell xxijᵈ William Tayle xvjᵈ ob.]

[An 'anniversary' was the celebration of the office for the dead on the anniversary of the death of the person commemorated.]


[1426-27] From feast to feast of Invention of Holy Cross. Thomas atte Oke, warden of the light. Richard Pipe late warden. Richard Durrant warden preceding.

Total receipts iiijˡⁱ ijˢ vjᵈ.

[Payments]—Wax bought clxxxiij di lbs, costing iijˡⁱ xvjˢ jᵈ ob Links vˢ Oil for lamps ixˢ Expenses about making 'bondell' and torches xvjᵈ viij lbs. of rosin bought for making torches vjᵈ Making wax [tapers] with fuel found viijˢ [Payments for rushes for Nativity of the Baptist and fuel for the vigil of the Assumption continue.] Bread bought for the exequies annually celebrated for the anniversaries and the benefactors to the church vjᵈ vij flagons (lagen) of ale bought for the said exequies xᵈ Making the deed (carta) of John Lybbe's garden given to the warden of the church viijᵈ Ale drank when seisin was given to the warden jᵈ Repair of the 'logge' of the bells iiijᵈ viij yards of Cornish (Cornub) cloth for making rochetts for the clerks vˢ For making the same xvjᵈ j bolt for the great bell newly made iiijᵈ Victuals bought at divers times about the repair of the bells ijᵈ j cord bought for the Lent cloth jᵈ (velo quadragesiali) John Drape and John Plommer for taking a letter to the Bishop of Exeter vjˢ viijᵈ (Ira Epi Exon hend).

Total expenses vjˡⁱ xviijˢ iiijᵈ Nicholas fforde succeeding warden.