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RECORDS OF EARLY ENGLISH DRAMA
VOLUME 1
ALEXANDRA F. JOHNSTON is a member of the Department of English at Victoria
College in the University of Toronto and Executive Editor of Records of Early
English Drama.
MARGARET ROGERSON holds a PhD from Leeds University and has taught at the
University of New South Wales.
Records of Early English Drama, when complete, will provide the basis for the first
accurate history of the English theatre before 1642. The individual volumes also
offer a rich source of information in areas as diverse as musicology, palaeography,
linguistics, social history, and medieval and Renaissance studies in general.
The two volumes covering York present a fascinating picture of the social and
economic life of this important provincial city. From 1370 to 1642 there is evidence
from almost every year related to playmaking, musical performance, or ceremonies,
particularly related to royal visits. The majority of the evidence before 1569 con-
cerns the Corpus Christi Play produced by the City Council and performed by the
craft guilds. The documents describe the evolution of the play, the establishment of
the pageant route, the sheds for storing the pageants, the expenses incurred by the
council and the craft guilds, the regulation of the festivities, and the complex
interrelationship among the guilds as reflected in the sponsorship of pageants.
Several other local plays figure in the records, as well as various civic processions
and ceremonial ridings.
Actors and musicians travelling in the livery of a great lord appear in the city
early in the records. The first company of professional actors from London per-
formed in York in 1576 and other companies continued to perform until late in
the 1630s. Many records concern the city waits or municipal musicians and record
payment for their wages and livery. The hiring, firing, censuring, suspending, and
occasional restoring of individual musicians makes intriguing study.
Records of royal visits by Richard 11, Henry v1, Edward IV, Richard III, Henry
vii, Margaret Tudor Queen of Scotland, and Henry viii provide some idea of the
civic pageantry that surrounded Plantagenet and Tudor monarchs. Much of the
later material concerns the visits of King James I and then King Charles 1.
Records of Karly Knglish Drama
YORK
EDITED BY ALEXANDRA F. JOHNSTON
AND MARGARET ROGERSON
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Contents
VOLUME 1
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS vil
INTRODUCTION
York and National Events ix
Civic Government x
Craft Guilds and Religious Guilds xiii
Principles of Selection xv
The Documents xvii
Editorial Procedures xlii
SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY xlvij
THE RECORDS 1
VOLUME 2
FRONTISPIECE: Map of York 1610,
after Speed
APPENDIXES
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Undated Ordinances from
A/Y Memorandum Book 617
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Inventories of the Guilds of
Corpus Christi, 1416-1546 628
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Pater Noster Guild Returns,
1388-9 645
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Alleged Letter from Henry VIII
concerning a St Thomas Play 649
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Pageant Masters of the Mercers’
Guild, 1488-1590 651
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Pageants in the Corpus
Christi Play 657
TRANSLATIONS
The Records 687
Appendix! 841
Appendix II 851
Appendix I11 863
END-NOTES 867
ABBREVIATIONS 888
GLOSSARIES 889
Latin 891
Anglo-Norman 907
English 911
INDEXES 929
Subject 930
Place & Name 946
Records of Early English Drama
The aim of Records of Early English Drama (REED) is to locate, transcribe and
publish systematically all surviving external evidence of dramatic, ceremonial and
minstrel activity in Great Britain before 1642.
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
JOANNA DUTKA University of Toronto
DAVID GALLOWAY University of New Brunswick
R.W. INGRAM University of British Columbia
ALEXANDRA F. JOHNSTON University of Toronto EXECUTIVE EDITOR
IAN LANCASHIRE University of Toronto
PETER MEREDITH Leeds University
A.G.R. PETTI University of Calgary
PRUDENCE TRACY University of Toronto Press
EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD
HERBERT BERRY University of Saskatchewan
A.C. CAWLEY Leeds University
L.M. CLOPPER Indiana University
NORMAN DAVIS Merton College, Oxford
STANLEY J. KAHRL Ohio State University
RICHARD PROUDFOOT King’s College, London
Acknowledgements
Although the gathering of the material in this collection is the result of a collabora-
tion between myself and Dr Margaret Rogerson (nee Dorrell), the editing of that
material has been the result of the work of many people. Following the policy of
Records of Early English Drama, the transcriptions have been checked and double-
checked against the original documents in York and London and against photo-
graphic reproductions in Toronto. Iam grateful to my colleagues in the REED office
for their energy, doggedness, and learning. Many mistakes have been caught and
blunders averted by their efforts. The blame for any remaining errors must be mine.
We wish to acknowledge with gratitude the help and co-operation of the archivists
and librarians in York: Rita Freedman, Mary Thallon, and Maurice Smith of the City
Library (now the North Yorkshire County Library); Katharine Longley and
C.B.L. Barr of York Minster Library; the late Norah Gurney and David Smith of
the Borthwick Institute of Historical Research; and the late Bernard Johnson and
Richard Reid of the Worshipful Company of Merchant Adventurers. We wish also to
thank Kenneth Bartlett, Leonard Boyle, A.C. Cawley, Colin Chase, Karis Crawford,
Audrey Douglas, JoAnna Dutka, David Galloway, Carol Gilham, Richard Green,
Todd Heather, Carolynn Jackson, Kathryn Johnston, Janet Katchanowski, Patricia
Kennedy, Elizabeth Keay, Ian Lancashire, Cameron Louis, Sally-Beth MacLean, Carl
Marx, Peter Meredith, Brian Merrilees, Jo Ann Moran, Jane Morley, Lynette Muir,
Jean Pearce, A.G.R. Petti, Wendy Pfeffer, George Rigg, Ann Rycraft, Bella
Schauman, Robert Taylor, Michael Turner, Germaine Warkentin, Rea Whilmshurst,
Diana Wyatt, and Abigail Young.
Dr Rogerson’s research was assisted by a Hannah Fullerton Travelling Scholarship
from the University of Sydney. My own research was made possible by the Canada
Council with a Leave Fellowship in 1971-2, a Summer Grant in 1974, and a Personal
Research Grant in 1975-6. The research and publication costs of this volume have
been supported through funds provided by the Major Editorial Project grants of the
Canada Council (now the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada).
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Introduction
The documents in this collection record the dramatic, minstrel, and ceremonial
activity supported by the civic and guild authorities of the city of York. They are
presented without commentary in chronological order and provide the raw material
from which the theatrical and musical history of the city can be derived. This
introduction, the appendices, translations, notes, glossaries, and indexes are intended
to supply the reader with information concerning the documents and their context.
No attempt has been made to interpret the documents. We have published else-
where detailed arguments of our conclusions about the York Cycle, the procession
of Corpus Christi and the Creed and Pater Noster Plays.!_ Our concern here is to
provide sufficient historical and bibliographical context to allow others to under-
stand and interpret material which can be, in itself, laconic and ambiguous. These
documents are not a history of drama, minstrelsy, and ceremonial as such; they are
memoranda, minutes of council meetings, accounts, letters, wills, ordinances, and
legal contracts which touch upon and illumine practices of long-standing custom
and ceremony. It is our hope that those who use this collection will be caught up,
as we have been, in the fascinating details of the public displays and performances
that so absorbed the people of York.
York and National Events
Events of national significance sometimes directly affected York and its inhabitants.2
Because it was the largest fortified city in the north, York was occasionally the
temporary seat of government. In the early fourteenth century, during the Scottish
wars, frequent parliaments were held there. Three hundred years later, at the
beginning of the Civil War, Charles | made the city the headquarters of his tottering
government. In the intervening period, the city was often the administrative centre
for northern England. Richard of Gloucester, later Richard III, spent much time
in York during the decade before his own succession as his brother’s lieutenant
in the north. The idea of a northern administration was revived under Henry VIII
with the permanent establishment in York of the council of the North in 1537,
The city was also touched by the dynastic quarrels of the Plantagenets. In 1399,
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1t supported the usurpation of Bolingbroke, but in 1405 sided with Northumberland
and Archbishop Scrope against the king. During the Wars of the Roses, the city
refused to take sides, sometimes welcoming both factions into the city as they did in
1460. The next Easter, young Edward Iv entered the city in triumph and it was
from York that he and his brother Richard went into their brief exile in 1470. Two
years after the Battle of Bosworth Field, Henry vii paid his second visit to York to
put down the Lambert Simnell rebellion.
The city was the administrative centre of the ecclesiastical province of York and
also the site of many religious fraternities and convents, the greatest of which,
St Mary’s Abbey, played a significant part in civic affairs. The Reformation, bring-
ing with it first the dissolution of the monasteries in 1539 and later the dissolution
of religious guilds and chantries in 1547, radically changed the physical and social
character of the city. The city council gave its tacit consent to the Pilgrimage of
Grace in 1537, when it allowed the leaders of the rebellion to enter the city to be
blessed by the archbishop. This was the last time the city defied the wishes of a
ruling monarch.
Civic Government
The city enjoyed its rights and liberties through a series of royal charters. These
were jealously guarded by the city against any encroachments by the county of
York or by the crown itself. What is known about the relationship between the
crown and the city and the structure of the city government has been deduced from
the surviving documents. Exact details are often lacking, especially from the
thirteenth and fourteenth centuries.
York was governed by a mayor and three separate councils. Membership in two
of the councils, the aldermen or the Twelve and the council of Twenty-four, was
drawn mainly from the trading crafts. Members of the third council, the Forty-
eight (later called the common council) were drawn mainly from the manufacturing
crafts. Effective power lay with the mayor and the two inner councils. The mer-
cantile oligarchy thus created was sometimes in conflict with the third council
representing the commonality. Confrontation frequently centred around the
annual electicn of the mayor and sometimes led to the suspension of the city’s
charter by the crown.
In 1386, Richard 11 created the city a county in its own right, setting it apart
from Yorkshire. From 1386 until 1537, the city enjoyed considerable independence.
With the establishment of the council of the North, however, although the legal
independence of the city was not affected, its practical autonomy was somewhat
eroded. Citizens disciplined by the civic authorities were able to appeal directly
to the royal authority.
THE MAYOR
The mayor was elected annually on St Blaise’s Day (3 February). During the four-
INTRODUCTION / xi
teenth century re-election was common, with such men as Nicholas Langton and his
son John holding the office between them for twenty-eight years. To put an end
to this practice, an ordinance was passed in 1372 that ‘no one was to be re-elected
until a period of eight years has elapsed, and in 1392 until all the probi bomines who
had not yet served had done so.’ These ordinances were not effectively enforced
until 1409 when the tradition of long serving mayors was finally broken. During the
fifteenth century, mayors rarely served more than once and then at eight year
intervals at least. The mayors were chosen from the ranks of the aldermen by
various means. In 1392, the retiring mayor placed the names of two or three alder-
men before the commonality assembled in the Common Hall for one to be elected.
In 1464, by a decree of Edward Iv, the procedure was reversed and the crafts were
asked to nominate two aldermen to be considered by the retiring mayor, the alder-
men, and the Twenty-four. There followed a series of troubled elections, and in
1473 the king suggested that the crafts proceed to elect one of the aldermen directly.
This found little favour with the inner councils, who petitioned the king to return
to the practice decreed in 1464. This was confirmed in 1492. The method continued
to be unsatisfactory and twenty-five years later, in 1517, new letters patent were
issued for York setting up a common council with a clear role in mayoral elections.
The council was obliged to meet on 15 January to nominate three aldermen who
had not been twice mayor already and who had not held office during the preceding
six years. The mayor was then elected by the aldermen and sheriffs.
During his term of office, the mayor represented in his person the dignity of the
city. To make this aspect of his office clear, he was provided as early as the end of
the fourteenth century with a sergeant-at-mace to precede him whenever he went
abroad on the streets and a second sergeant to follow him bearing the sword of the
city. During the seventeenth century, the Stuart custom of knighting the incumbent
mayor on the occasion of a royal visit was a compliment primarily to the city
rather than to the individual.
THE BAILIFFS AND SHERIFFS
Until 1396, the mayor was assisted by three bailiffs appointed by the crown. It was
their duty to ensure that the city’s fee farm (or assessed taxation) was turned over
to the crown and to enforce the king’s peace and the externally determined assize
in bread and ale. When Richard 11 created the city a county in 1396, officials
elected by the city itself took over these responsibilities of dealing directly with the
crown. The major part of the duties of the bailiffs was taken over by two sheriffs
elected by the mayor, aldermen, and the Twenty-four and endorsed by the common-
ality. They were elected on 21 September and took office on Michaelmas (29
September). After 1517, the common council met on 21 September and nominated
four men for sheriff, two of whom were then elected by the aldermen and existing
sheriffs. Election to the office of sheriff was one of the major steps towards high
civic office. Like the mayor, the sheriffs were accompanied by sergeants-at-mace
and surrounded by ceremonial trappings. It was, however, an expensive office for
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the incumbents. One of their major ceremonial duties was their annual riding
during which they proclaimed the civic by-laws at certain specified places within
the liberties of the city. After the riding, the incumbent sheriffs were expected
to provide a feast for the corporation at their own expense. In the sixteenth century
the sheriffs frequently rode in harness on Corpus Christi Day and other festive
occasions. After their year in office, the sheriffs usually became members of the
council of Twenty-four.
THE CHAMBERLAINS AND BRIDGEMASTERS
The city’s finances were the province of three chamberlains chosen yearly by the
mayor, the aldermen, and the Twenty-four to take office on 3 February. Some
revenue came under the jurisdiction of four bridgemasters, whose year of office
also began 3 February until 1491 when they took office on 15 January. They
collected rents from properties on and adjacent to Ouse Bridge and Foss Bridge.
Any funds remaining after the necessary bridge maintenance had been attended to
were handed over to the chamberlains. The office of bridgemaster was abolished
in 1626.
THE ALDERMEN
From the end of the fourteenth century, it appears that the aldermen were elected
by the mayor and existing aldermen as vacancies occurred in the Twelve through
death or prolonged ill health. During the fifteenth century, it is not clear whether
there were any restrictions on the citizens who could be elected. Most seem to have
been drawn from the ranks of the Twenty-four (or ex-sheriffs) and belonged to the
mercantile oligarchy. After 1517, when a vacancy occurred, the common council
nominated three ‘of the most grave, discreet, and able citizens’,* one of whom was
subsequently elected by the mayor and other aldermen.
THE TWENTY-FOUR
This council was almost entirely made up of ex-sheriffs, and unless a councillor was
elevated to the rank of alderman, he remained a member of the Twenty-four for
life. Together, the aldermen and the Twenty-four were the effective day-to-day
government of the city during the fifteenth century and even after the new letters
patent in 1517. This same basic structure continued into the seventeenth century
when these two councils were sometimes called the privy council.
The regular meetings of the city council, normally held in the Chamber on Ouse
Bridge, were attended by both aldermen and members of the Twenty-four, although
frequently only two or three of the larger body are listed as being in attendance. It
is not clear whether there was any division of power between the two councils.
THE FORTY-EIGHT
During the late fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, the third council, the Forty-eight
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(sometimes called the communitatis), was convened sporadically. Sometimes it
was called together by the mayor and the inner councils to ratify an election or
important decision; sometimes, however, it convened independently in protest
against some action taken by senior councils. There is no clear evidence of its
composition in the earlier period, but later it seems to be made up of the searchers
of the craft guilds.
THE COMMON COUNCIL
The letters patent of 1517 replaced the ill-defined Forty-eight with a common
council made up of representatives of the craft guilds. Thirteen specified ‘major
crafts’ each nominated four of their members to the aldermen and the Twenty-
four, who then chose two from each guild, making twenty-six representatives of
the ‘major crafts’. Fifteen ‘minor crafts’ nominated two of their members, of whom
one was chosen by the same process. This made an ‘elected’ council of forty-one.
When this council, in its turn, was to elect a mayor, aldermen, and sheriffs, it was
augmented by the twenty-eight senior searchers of the crafts. The new charter
issued to the city in 1632 confirmed the structure of the civic government, but also
acknowledged the decline in the political and social importance of the crafts. This
charter specified that the common council was to be made up not of representatives
of the guilds, but of the wards of the city.
CIVIC EMPLOYEES
The city employed two permanent officials: the recorder who saw to the legal
affairs of the city, performed ambassadorial duties, and delivered loyal addresses
to visiting monarchs, and the common clerk who, often assisted by a deputy, kept
the official records. It also employed at first seven and later six sergeants who were
the officers of the mayor and sheriffs and apparently acted as a ‘paid police force’.$
The civic employees who appear most prominently in this collection are the city
waits or musicians. These men and their apprentices received an annual stipend
from the city treasury as well as livery and possibly free accommodation. In return,
it was their duty to perform on certain specified occasions for the mayor and the
corporation and to provide special music for royal entries and other ceremonial
occasions. They also seem to have held a special position in relation to the Minster,
regularly performing at Pentecost and on the two feasts of St William until 1538.
The Minster records again show payment to the city waits in the later sixteenth
and seventeenth centuries.
Craft Guilds and Religious Guilds
The complex structure of civic government by councils made an apparent distinction
between the trading crafts (particularly the Mercers and Merchants) and the manu-
facturing crafts. However, all the crafts, including the Mercers, were subject to the
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jurisdiction of the mayor and the civic councils who ratified their ordinances, set
standards of weights and measures, and regulated markets and prices. Disputes
between crafts were brought to the mayor and council for arbitration. Internal
disputes were sometimes brought to the civic authorities, but more often were
settled by the internal organization of the guild. This organization usually con-
sisted of a master and two to four searchers elected by the journeymen and master
craftsmen annually. The searchers seem to have been the key figures within the
government of each craft. Their duties included ensuring that the ordinances of
the craft were adhered to, that substandard workmanship was guarded against, and
that no outsiders practised the skills of their craft.
When a craft owned one of the pageants of the Corpus Christi Play, pageant
masters were chosen to collect money to finance the pageant and to make pre-
parations for the performance. The pageant money or ‘pageant silver’ came from
three main sources: (i) yearly contributions from members of the craft, from non-
members who gained part of their income by practising the skills of the craft, and
from other crafts which did not own pageants; (ii) special payments made by a man
when he entered his apprenticeship; (iii) a percentage, usually half, of fines levied
for breaking craft ordinances (the other half went to the city treasury). See for
example, the minstrels’ ordinances of 1561 and 1578. The number of pageant
masters varied with the size and affluence of the craft: for example, the Mercers
elected four each year while the Bakers elected only two. After the civic religious
drama had been suppressed, the craft guilds continued to use the title ‘pageant
master’. The function of these men, however, had changed radically. From the
late sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century records and ordinances, it appears
that the position was always held by junior members of the craft whose duty it was
to organize banquets for the craft, largely at their own expense.
Medieval guilds did not limit their concerns to the mere execution of their craft.
Most made special provision to honour their patron saint and undertook special
religious obligations such as votive lights and masses for the souls of dead brethren.
Some functioned as religious guilds as well as craft guilds. The records of the York
Mercers survive from before the dissolution of the religious guilds in 1547 and
frequently refer to the Mercers as the Holy Trinity Guild, and their hall (which
still stands in Fossgate) is occasionally referred to as Holy Trinity Hall in the records
of the Corpus Christi Guild. A symbol of the Trinity was part of the properties
of the Mercers’ pageant of Doomsday in the Corpus Christi Play.
York had many guilds that were strictly religious in character and function. The
largest of these was the Corpus Christi Guild, whose documents survive.° Other
religious guilds that are referred to in this collection are the Pater Noster Guild
which merged with St Anthony’s in 1446 and the guild of St Christopher and its
successor, the guild of St Christopher and St George. Each was governed by a
master and a varying number of wardens. Their membership crossed craft and social
boundaries, including laymen and priests, freemen of the city and their wives and
INTRODUCTION / xv
daughters, and also ‘foreigners’ from outside the liberties of the city.
Principles of Selection
In any process of selection from material as voluminous as the surviving York
records, editors must make choices. Except for a few early references, we have
limited our collection to activities more civic than liturgical and more public than
private. We have not included liturgical processions or quasi-dramatic annual rituals
of the Minster or St Mary’s Abbey, nor have we included any references to private
revels in noblemen’s town houses or in the archbishop’s palace at Bishopthorpe.
These will appear in subsequent volumes of Records of Early English Drama along
with other such material from Yorkshire. Within these limitations, we have tried to
be as all-inclusive as possible, presenting any material which may be relevant. There
is, for example, an early reference from a constitution of Archbishop de Zouche in
which he urges the people of his province to refrain ‘a ludis, spectaculis ...’ on Good
Friday. This may or may not be a reference to playmaking activity. Among the
later material we have had to make other kinds of decisions. For example, the
Churchwardens’ accounts continue to record the dressing of armour for the muster
of the militia long after this muster has become separated from the ‘Midsommer
Show’ that, in some measure, replaced the Corpus Christi celebration at the end of
the sixteenth century. We have included the references up to 1606, when it appears
the organization of the muster passed from the control of the city to the lord
president of the North.
The York records offer the familiar paradox of all collections of records. Although
they are voluminous, they are also fragmentary, presenting some practices in tedious
repetition while mentioning others only once, leaving room for speculation. The
collection is concerned with three general though sometimes interrelated topics:
drama, minstrelsy, and ceremonial.
DRAMA
Most of the dramatic references are concerned with the Corpus Christi Play, the
major theatrical undertaking of the city for almost two hundred years.’ These
records include civic ordinances, guild ordinances enrolled in civic registers, civic
receipts and expenses concerning the play, a few Minster expenses both from the
Dean and Chapter accounts and the Vicars Choral, the accounts and other docu-
ments of the Mercers’ Guild, the sixteenth-century accounts of the Bakers’ Guild
and miscellaneous references from wills.
The records of the plays of the religious guilds are found in the guild records,
the city records, and miscellaneous references in wills and other documents. Con-
siderable evidence concerning the Creed Play survives in the records of the Corpus
Christi Guild from the time the play was left to the guild by William Revetour in
1446 until the dissolution of the guild in 1547. Less evidence survives concerning
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the Pater Noster Play which, before dissolution, was produced by the Pater Noster
Guild and after 1446 by the St Anthony’s Guild. After dissolution, both plays
passed into the hands of the city. The sudden concern of the city council over the
details of the production of the Creed and Pater Noster Plays subsequent to 1547
does not represent new dramatic activity in York but simply the transfer of responsi-
bility from the suppressed guilds to the city. The Creed and Pater Noster Plays
were the major plays of the religious guilds, although William Revetour also left
a play on St James ‘in sex paginas compilatum’ to the St Christopher’s Guild in
1446.
References to other plays in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries are scattered.
A Christmas interlude was played for the master of St Leonard’s Hospital in 1370.
A clerk named Thorpe left his ‘play books’ to a priest named Yhedingham in 1376.
The city chamberlains record a single payment for ‘the play of the vineyard’ in
1442, a subject not treated in the York Corpus Christi Play or in any other extant
play-text. There are also references to a play of St Denys and players from the
parish of St Denys. In 1584 and 1585, an interlude written by a schoolmaster
named Grafton was played under the supervision of the city with the co-operation
of the craft guilds. Players from other parts of England visiting York are mentioned
as early as 1446. The first mention of players playing in the Common Hall occurs in
1527. The first reference to professional touring companies appears in the Minster
records for 1576 and in the civic documents for 1578.
MINSTRELSY
The majority of the references to minstrelsy are to the city waits, including all
references to their payment, livery, employment and dismissal, instruments, and
performances. The waits were part of the York guild of Musicians whose ordi-
nances for 1561 and 1578 are presented in full. The first references to travelling
minstrels are in the earliest Chamberlains’ Account Book (1446) which indicates
large numbers of liveried musicians and other performers visiting the city. By 1450,
the only ‘foreign’ minstrels regularly paid by the city were the king’s minstrels.
Record of a standard payment to them continues for many years. From the
sixteenth- and seventeenth-century accounts of the Bakers’ Guild and the Brick-
layers’ Guild, there are frequent references to payments made to local minstrels for
special occasions.
CEREMONIAL
All references to the Corpus Christi procession from the civic documents, the
records of the Corpus Christi Guild, and the accounts of the Mercers and the Bakers
have been included. Details of the St George Riding survive from 1554, with occa-
sional references elsewhere in the civic documents. The broadside describing the
Riding of Yule and Yule’s Wife and the documents suppressing that custom have
been included. The ceremonial ridings of the sheriffs which appear in conjunction
INTRODUCTION / xvii
with the Corpus Christi Play after 1537 have been included even when they appear
to have become part of the mustering of the local militia in the late sixteenth
century. .
The formal accounts of the royal entries of Henry VII in 1486, James I in 1617,
and Charles! in 1633 and again in 1639 are reproduced in their entirety. An account
of James I’s visit in 1603 has been included from a printed source published that
same year. Records of royal visits by Richard 1, Henry V1, Edward Iv, Richard Ill,
Henry VII, his daughter Princess Margaret, and Henry VIII and the preparations
surrounding the 1486, 1603, 1617, 1633, and 1639 royal entries are included where
they seem to refer to ceremonial custom, music, or quasi-dramatic activity. We have
not reproduced the frequent orders for cleaning streets and painting houses which
precede every royal occasion.
The Documents
Within each year, the text of this collection follows a standard order. That order is
reflected in this section of discussion and description.
CIVIC DOCUMENTS
The records of the city of York were kept in the Council Chamber on Ouse Bridge
until 1738 when they were removed to the Guildhall. They remained in the custody
of the council until 1957 when the city archives were moved to the York City
Library on Museum Street, now the North Yorkshire County Library. During the
time the documents were in the Guildhall, they suffered some damage from damp
rising from the River Ouse, which flows behind the hall. Major damage was caused
to some of the collection by the great flood of 1892 when the two parchment
Memorandum Books, A/Y and B/Y, suffered extensive damage (see below) and
many account rolls and books were seriously affected. In 1908, William Giles, then
town clerk, caused all but a few of the codices of the city to be uniformly rebound.
At that time, a chemical treatment intended as a preservative was applied to many of
the paper documents. The folios or parts of folios so treated are now beginning to
darken to the point of obliterating the writing underneath.
The categories of the York City Archives containing medieval and renaissance
documents are Class A (Charters), Class B (Corporation House [or Minute] Books),
Class C (Accounts), Class D (Freemen’s Rolls), Class E (Register Books), Class F
(Sessions of the Peace), Class G (Various Old Documents), Class H (Conveyances),
Class 1 (Leases), Class J (Fragments of Conveyances and Leases), Class K (Sundry
Documents). All have been searched. This collection contains excerpts from
Classes A, B, C, D, E, F, and G.
House Books
From 1476, when they begin, the House Books or minute books of the city council
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provide the most detailed evidence concerning playmaking, minstrelsy, and cere-
monial of any York documents. The Books rarely record debate. They are, rather,
the record of decisions taken by the council and preserved by the town clerk. Each
entry is dated and includes down the left-hand margin the names of all those present.
The names have been omitted from our excerpts. Most entries have a marginal
heading, sometimes in the same hand as the entry, sometimes in a later hand. These
headings were clearly used for easy reference back to previous decisions of the
council. The Books were carefully preserved and sometimes consulted for prece-
dents. For example, in 1541 when Henry VIII was about to visit the city, the clerk
was instructed to look up the procedures followed when Henry VII entered the
city in 1486. The excerpts in this collection are scattered among other matters of
civic concern such as the drawing up of guild ordinances, keeping the peace, repair-
ing the gates and bridges, regulations concerning the Common Crane, poor relief,
licensing taverns and inns, regulation of markets, collecting levies and fines, the
arrangements for the annual ‘fishing day’ of the mayor, the relations with the
crown. Important as playmaking, minstrelsy, and ceremonial were to the city,
their regulation was also a matter of ancient and regular custom. In reading the
House Book entries, it is well to keep in mind that absence of information in any
one year does not necessarily mean that a custom was not maintained. Frequently,
the city accounts record payments for the Corpus Christi Play, or for the waits’
liveries or travelling companies in a year when no mention of them is made in the
House Books.
House Books
York, North Yorkshire County Library, B1-B36; 1476-1642; English, some Latin and Anglo-
Norman in early volumes; paper (except B9, parchment); number of leaves varies from 41 (B12)
to 402 (B32); smallest B30 (290mm x 180mm), largest B11 (395mm x 275/280mm), text ina
single, wide, right-hand column, amount of leaf covered varies from scribe to scribe; gathered
irregularly (the majority in 8s); modern foliation; little ornamentation in script until B29, ruled
margins B29-B36, most marginal headings contemporary with the text; bound in white paper-
covered boards resembling leather, shelf-mark gilt on red, spines of B30-B36 more omamental.
All books damaged and repaired (damage most severe in early books, B1-B7 rectos badly faded,
B2-4 missing first 3 leaves, last 2 gatherings B9 reversed, B20 missing ff 5-6, B28 opening leaves
foliated A-U, some interleaving of letters and other single documents). Excerpts are taken from
the following:
B1 (1476-9) B9 (1503-19) B14 (1540-1)
B2-4 (1480-6) B10 (1519-27) B15 (1541-3)
B5 (1483-9) B11 (1527-33) B16 (1543-4)
B6 (1486-90) B12 (1533-4) B17 (1544-6)
B7 (1490-6) B13 (15349) B18 (1546-7)
B8 (1496-1503)
B13A (1539-40)
B19 (1547-9)
B20 (1549-52)
B21 (1552-5)
B22 (1556-60)
B23 (1560-5)
B24 (1565-72)
B25 (1572-4)
B26 (1574-7)
B27 (1577-80)
B28 (1580-5)
B29 (1585-7)
B30 (1587-92)
B31 (1592-8)
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B32 (1598-1605)
B33 (1605-12)
B34 (1613-25)
B35 (1625-37)
B36 (1637-50)
Civic Memorandum Books
Three books containing copies of important civic and guild documents survive from
this period. The most important and, unfortunately, the most badly damaged is
the A/Y Memorandum Book. A/Y consists of three separate manuscripts bound
together: the maior registrum, the novum registrum, and an incomplete paper
index to the first two manuscripts and other registers, paper books, and books of
acts, Although some documents enrolled in A/Y are from earlier in the fourteenth
century, the compiling of the book in its original form was begun in January 1377.®
A/Y was a working book used and corrected by generations of civic officials. The
entries are various in nature. Most are craft ordinances, often cancelled and updated.
Some are civic ordinances recording regulations governing activities controlled by
the city. These give us our earliest record of the Corpus Christi Play and the civic
procession with the shrine of Corpus Christi. Occasionally, an entry resembles the
later House Book material in recording the decisions of a particular council meeting.
One important entry concerning the Corpus Christi celebration, the record of the
events surrounding a sermon preached by Friar William Melton in 1426, was written
into the record as a set piece of discursive prose. The earliest surviving reference
to Corpus Christi pageants occurs in the first gathering of the book, recording the
receipt of rent for storing pageants during the year 1376 in a form later used only in
Bridgemasters’ account rolls. Entries on any one folio may come from widely
separated years and may be written in different hands and different languages. We
have transcribed all references to the Corpus Christi celebrations, even those that
have been cancelled, since cancellation may have been made as long as a century
after the original document was enrolled.
The B/Y Memorandum Book is a later companion volume to A/Y. It too contains
miscellaneous material although the majority of entries are guild ordinances. A few
entries refer to the time of Richard 11, but most are from the later fifteenth and
early sixteenth centuries.
The third memorandum book, referred to in this collection as the E Memorandum
Book, contains guild ordinances drawn up and enrolled after 1573 to replace many
of the ordinances in A/Y and B/Y. Few include references to the Corpus Christi
Play. Among the small amount of non-guild material found in this register is a copy
of a certificate concerning recusants dated 17 January 1585. E has none of the
marks of a working book that characterize both A/Y and B/Y.
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A/Y Memorandum Book
York, North Yorkshire County Library, E20; 1327-1547; Latin, Anglo-Norman, English; parch-
ment with paper appendix; i+383+36 (paper); dimensions extremely variable: parchment approx-
imately 285mm x 205mm (ruled space approximately 238mm x 145mm), ff 333-40, approximately
270mm x 175mm (203mm x 133mm), number of lines variable; (1) the mator registrum gatherings
A-Z, mainly 4s and 6s, no signatures apparent, (2) the novum registrum gatherings a-q, 2s and 6s,
signatures a-k, with gaps due to wear and trimming, (3) index, 10 gatherings of 2, except gathering
8, a singlet, and ff 35 and 36, detached leaves. Many inserted leaves, especially in the first 7
gatherings of (1) and gathering c of (2); frequent correction by later hands, cancellations, marginal
notations in both contemporary and later hands; modern foliation at the foot of the leaf in pencil,
treating (1) and (2) together, (3) separately, as do the 2 medieval foliations, at the head of the leaf
in ink. The medieval numberings show the original division of the manuscript: the first, 1-246, is
overlapped by the second, 200 (beginning on original 190) - 370, many cross references between
secuons, no medieval foliation in (3); little ormamentation in script; bound in white paper-covered
boards resembling leather, red label on spine with title CITY OF YORK /-/ REGISTER OF /
VARIOUS MEMORANDA / RELATING TO CITY / - / 1327-1547. Beneath the label is A/Y,
then 20. The manuscript has been heavily damaged by flooding, writing legible only under ultra-
violet light on many leaves, in some entries (see the 1415 ‘Ordo’ gathering) ink completely washed
away, decipherable only in strong sunlight when outine of letters in clean parchment contrasts
with surrounding darkened surface.
B/Y Memorandum Book
York, North Yorkshire County Library, E20A; 1371-1596; English, some Latin; parchment;
i+253; size of leaves irregular (length varies from 276mm to 301mm, width varies from 210mm to
220mm); gatherings irregular (1 leaf missing, some single leaves); corrections or cancellations in
later hands, marginal notations in both contemporary and later hands, some catchwords; medieval,
17th century, and modern foliation; occasional decorated initials in early sections, more elaborate
after f 232, decorated opening words ff 211v-13, 220v-31; bound in white paper boards resembling
leather, red label on spine with the ttle CITY OF YORK / - / REGISTER OF / VARIOUS
MEMORANDA / RELATING TO CITY /-/ 1371-1596 / 8 / 20A. B/Y badly flooded as A/Y.
E Memorandum Book
York, North Yorkshire County Library, E22; 1561-1681; English; paper; 364 leaves; 330mm x
254mm; most gatherings 10s or 14s; renaissance foliation (ff 1-349 numbered, 15 leaves following
blank); ornamental capitals, contemporary marginal headings; bound in white paper boards re-
sembling leather, shelf-mark gilt on red.
Civic Accounts
Excerpts from three sets of accounts kept by civic officials are included in this
collection: the Chamberlains’ Account Rolls, the Chamberlains’ Account Books
(running accounts), and the accounts of the Bridgemasters of Ouse Bridge. The
Chamberlains’ Rolls are the audited accounts of the city, each covering one fiscal
INTRODUCTION / xxi
year beginning 3 February. Each complete roll is headed by the names of the
chamberlains and mayor for that year. Each begins with the itemized receipts
summed up by a total. This total is followed immediately by the itemized expenses,
then a second total, and a final figure showing a balance or a deficit for the year.
Headings for each group of entries appear in the left-hand margin and frequently
each section is bracketed with the sum for the section repeated in the right-hand
margin.
The headings vary over the period. One example, however, will provide some
idea of the context of our excerpts. The roll for 1462-3 begins with the recording
of a lump sum transfer from other civic accounts, including the Bridgemasters’
accounts. This is followed by a number of particular expenses of the Chamber:
forfeits of crafts with foreign receipts (money paid to the Chamber by non-York
craftsmen plying their trade in York), stallage, receipts from the station rentals
for the Corpus Christi Play, goods of outlaws and fugitives, and fines and amercia-
ments. From the year’s total receipts of £252 Os 1d ob., £4 2s 8d was received
from station rental. Expenses for 1462-3 were for rents paid, fees of the chamber,
the cost of excheator, pensions and rewards, gifts and hospitality, fees to heralds,
minstrels and the city waits, the cost of liveries for civic employees including the
waits, expenses on the feast of Corpus Christi, wages of parliament, expenses in-
curred supervising the fishgarths on the River Ouse, repairing the walls and gates
of the city, and finally two general categories, ‘foreign and necessary expenses’
and ‘minor expenses’. The expenses for that year amounted to £448 3s 4d, of which
£5 16s 10d was spent on minstrels and Corpus Christi. The regular items repro-
duced in this collection are the station lists (from the receipts) and all entries con-
cerning minstrels, waits, and players, royal visits, and the entries relevant to the
Corpus Christi Play (from the expenses), including the annual payment of 2s to the
Innholders for the pageant of the Coronation of the Virgin, which appears variously
under ‘foreign and necessary expenses’, ‘minor expenses’, or ‘rents paid’. The
later accounts frequently do not itemize expenses but transfer the sum for a group
of entries from the running account, the so-called ‘paper book’.
The ‘paper books’ or Chamberlains’ Account Books were compiled over the
course of the year. At the beginning of the fiscal year, the headings for each group
of entries were written into the book by a single scribe following the pattern of the
previous year, leaving approximately the same number of pages or half pages for
each set of entries. This practice explains the occasional occurrence of a heading
without an entry. For example, in the accounts for both 1523 and 1565, the folios
under the heading for the Corpus Christi Day expenses are blank. Other evidence
indicates that there was a play in 1523 but not in 1565. When both book and roll
accounts survive for the same year, the information is sometimes identical. More
frequently, one or the other (usually the book account) is fuller. Sometimes the
roll, the more carefully prepared document, corrects obvious confusion in the rough
draft of the book account, as in the two versions of the station list for 1528. The
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book accounts are more subject than any other surviving civic documents to the
vagaries of individual accountants. Receipts and expenses were apparently jotted
down under appropriate headings as they came to hand, since a single account can
be written in two or even three hands. Station lists and notes of fines have crosses
marked against them from time to time, possibly to indicate that the amount
contracted for or levied had been paid. The crosses have been reproduced in our
text.
A few records not strictly related to accounts have been preserved in the Chamber-
lains’ Books. The agreement between the city and the waits concerning the waits’
cognizances in 1585 is bound into CC6. An English version of the agreement
concerning the pageant of the Purification of the Virgin in 1477 appears in CC1A.
This agreement led to the one repetitive entry in the Books that does not appear in
the Rolls. As a result of the agreement in 1477, the Labourers were to pay pageant
money to the Masons, and the chamberlains seem to have acted as ‘middle-men’ in
this transaction, making sure the money was collected. Consequently, from 1520
unul the suppression of the Corpus Christi Play, the names of the pageant masters
of the Labourers appear in the Chamberlains’ Books.
One document (now lost) related to the Chamberlains’ Books was transcribed and
published by Robert Davies in 1843. In 1584 and again in 1585, John Grafton,
the schoolmaster who produced the Midsummer Show, submitted his bill to the
corporation. The bill for 1584 is bound into the Chamberlains’ Book for 1585. The
bill for 1585 is no longer extant. We have included Davies’ transcription in the
appropriate place.
The final set of civic accounts are those of the bridgemasters. These minor
officials were responsible to the chamberlains for the properties on and adjacent
to the two bridges - Ouse Bridge and Foss Bridge. These properties included large
parcels of land in Micklegate both inside and outside the Bar. One of the pieces
of property was Toft Green just inside Micklegate Bar where the sheds or houses
in which many of the crafts stored their pageants for the Corpus Christi Play were
built. Regular payment for pageant house rent appears in these accounts from 1425
through 1573, when the Ouse and Foss Bridge Accounts were combined, until
1626 when the office of bridgemaster was apparently abolished. From that year,
according to one antiquarian source, ‘a Cittizen in ffee’ was ‘appointed to collecte
the Cittyes rentes’.? The citizen in fee submitted his accounts in what are known as
Receivers’ Rolls. Six fragmentary and faded rolls survive between 1628 and 1642
continuing the entries for pageant house rent that had become standard in the earlier
seventeenth century.
Chamberlains’ Account Rolls
York, North Yorkshire County Library, C1:1-C20:2; 1396-1642 (incomplete run of 74 separate
rolls); Latin until 1535, then English; parchment; average number of membranes in complete
rolls, 3; membranes originally sewn together continuously, some rolls now repaired with mem-
INTRODUCTION / xxiii
branes sewn together at top and encased in protective vinyl roll; length and width of rolls irregular
(length varies from 516mm to 4,850mm; width varies from 258mm to 330mm); written continu-
ously in single columns frequently continued on dorse, writing from bottom to top (eg, 1-3,
3d-2d); no decoration. C6:16 photocopy of lost original. C6:1, C6:6, C10:1, C13:2 badly dam-
aged or eaten by rodents; C19:1-C20:2 badly water damaged. Many fragments. Many read under
ultra-violet light. Excerpts taken from the following:
C1:1 1396-7 fragment, 2 mbs; expenses C8:1 1578-9
C1:2 1433-4 fragment, 2 mbs C8:2 1580-1
C1:3 1442-3 C8:3 1581-2
C2:2 1445-6 C8:4 1582-3
C2:5 1449-50 C9:1 1597:8
C3:1 1453-4 C10:1 1602-3
C3:2 1454-5 C11:1 1607-8
C3:3 1462-3 C11:2 1608-9
C3:4 1468-9 C12:1 1611-12
C3:6 1475-6 C12:2 1612-13
C3:7 1478-9 missing 1 mb C13:1 1617-18
C4:1 1486-7 C13:2 1618-19
C4:3 1499-1500 fragment, 1 mb; expenses C14:1 1619-20
C4:4 1499-1500 fragment, 1 mb; expenses C14:2 1621-2
CS5:1 1501-2 C14:3 1622-3
C5:2 1506-7 C15:1 1623-4
C5:3 1508-9 C15:2 1624-5
C6:1 1516-17 C15:3 1625-6
C6:3 1518-19 fragment, 1 mb; expenses C16:1 1626-7
C6:4 1520-1 fragment, 1 mb; expenses C16:2 1627-8
C6:6 1528-9 fragment, 1 mb; receipts C16:3 1628-9
C6:7 1535-6 fragment, 1 mb; receipts C17:1 1629-30
C6:10 1539-40 missing mb 3 C17:3 1630-1
C6:11 1539-40 fragment, 1 mb; expenses C18:1 1631-2
C6:12 1540-1 missing 1 mb C18:2 1632-3
C6:13 1544-5 2 fragments of mbs; expenses C18:3 1633-4
C6:14 1546-7 fragment, 1 mb; expenses C18:4 1634-5
C6:15 1547-8 fragment, 1 mb; expenses C19:1 1636-7
C6:16 1551-2 fragment; receipts C19:2 1638-9
C7:1 1561-2 C19:3 1640-1
C7:2 1576-7 C20:1 1641-2
C7:3 1577-8
C20:2 1642-3 fragment, 1 mb ; expenses
The following rolls or fragments of rolls also survive, but the relevant entries are either missiig
or have been entirely obliterated, except for C6:2 where the shape of the station list is discernable:
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C2:1 (1444-5), C2:4 (2?1446-7), C3:5 (1470-1), C6:2 (1517-18), C6:5 (1523-4), C6:8 (1536-7),
C9:2 (1598-9), and C9:3 (1599-1600).
Chamberlains’ Account Books
York, North Yorkshire County Library, CC1-CC23; 1446-1642 (incomplete run); Latin until
1535, then English; paper; each volume compiled of separate booklets normally containing ac-
counts of 1 year: number of leaves per booklet varies from 36 to 143; approximately 350mm x
200mm, written in single columns under headings, frequently 1 category per leaf, leaving many
leaves partially blank; most gatherings 8s (except CC2 in 12s and CC3 in 10s); some books modern
foliation, others modern pagination (CC1, CC1A, and CC2 each paginated as 1, others retain
separate foliation or pagination for each booklet); no elaborate script; CC1 and CC2 bound in
black paper with white spines, all others bound in white paper boards resembling leather, press
marks gilt on red. All of the books are damaged and repaired (CC1, CC1A, CC2, CC19-CC23
badly faded, writing decipherable only under ultra-violet light). Accounts survive from the follow-
ing years:
CC1 (1446-50)
CC1A (1448-54)
CC2 (1520-5)
CC3 (1) (1526-9)
(2) (1535-6)
(3) (1538-9)
CC4 (1) (1542-3)
C2 ICUS'S4-5))
CC5 (1) (1559-60)
(2) (1565-6)
(3) (1584-5)
CC6 (1) (1585-6)
(2) (1587-8)
(3) (1588-9)
CC7 (1) (1590-1)
C25 93-4)
CC8 (1) (15945)
(2)115 95-6)
CC9 (1) (1597-8)
(2) (1598-9)
CC10 (1) (1599-1600)
(2) (1601-2)
CC11 (1) (1602-3)
(2) (1603-4)
CC12 (1) (1605-6)
(2) (1606-7)
CC13 (1) (1607-8)
(2) (1608-9)
(3) (1610-11)
CC14 (1) (1611-12)
(2) (1612-13)
(3) (1613-14)
CC15 (1) (1614-15)
(2) (1615-16)
(3) (1616-17)
CC16 (1) (1617-18)
(2) (1618-19)
(3) (1619-20)
CC17 (1) (1620-1)
(2) (1621-2)
(3) (1623-4)
CC18 (1624-5)
CC19 (1) (1625-6)
(2) (1626-7)
(3) (1627-8)
CC20 (1) (1629-30)
(2) (1630-1)
(3) (1631-2)
(4) (1632-3)
CC21 (1) (1633-4)
(2yIGI634-5))
(3) (1635-6)
(4) (1636-7)
CC22 (1) (1637-8)
(2) (1638-9)
(3) (1639-40)
CC23 (1) (1640-1)
(2) (1641-2)
(3) (1642-3)
Bridgemasters’ Account Rolls
York, North Yorkshire County Library, C82:2-C98:3; 1438-1626 (incomplete run of 84 separate
rolls); Latin until 1532, then English, parchment, average number of membranes in complete rolls
3, membranes originally sewn together continuously, some now repaired with membranes sewn
together at top and encased in protective vinyl roll; length and width of rolls irregular (length
INTRODUCTION / xxv
varies from 395mm to 4,010mm; width varies from 220mm to 330mm), written continuously
in single columns frequently continued on dorse, writing from bottom to top (eg, 1-3, 3d-2d); no
decoration. Many fragments. Water damage to many rolls severe: many read under ultra-violet
light. Excerpts taken from the following:
C82:2 1424-5 C86:4 1518-19 C94:3 1584-5
C82:3 1428-9 G87: US21-2 C94:5 1585-6 paper draft
C82:5 1435-6 G87:2 1523-4 C94:6 1586-7
C82:7 1436-7 C87:3 1528-9 C94:7 1591-2
C82:8 1437-8 Copsey USE: C94:8 1592-3
C82:9 1438-9 C88:1 15345 GOs tees:
C82:10 1440-1 C88:2 1538-9 C95:2 1595-6
C82:11 1442-3 C88:3 1539-40 C95:3 1596-7
C82:12 14445 C88:4 1543-4 C95:4 1597-8
C83:1 1445-6 C89:1 15443 C9525 93-9
C83:2 1449-50 C89:2 1545-6 C96:1 1600-1
C83:3 1451-2 C89:3 1546-7 C96:2 1602-3
C83:4 1453-4 C89:4 1547-8 C96:3 1603-4
C83:5 1454-5 C89:5 1548-9 C96:4 1604-5
C83:6 1457-8 CIOs 552-3 C96:5 1607-8
C83:7 1458-9 CIO2 7 1554-5 C96:6 1609-10
C83:8 1459-60 C90:3 1558-9 C96:7 1610-11
C83:9 1462-3 C90:4 1561-2 C977 WG15-16
C83:10 1464-5 €91:2 1564-5 COT 2 Gl7-1s5
C84:1 1466-7 C91:3 1566-7 C973" 1620-1
C84:2 1468-9 €93:1 1573-4 C97:4 1621-2
C85:1 1488-9 C93E2 VUSi/5-6) E975 622-3
C85:2 1499-1500 €93:3 1580-1 C98:1 1624-5
C86:1 1501-2 C93:4 1581-2 C98:2 1625-6
C86:2 1503-4 C94:1 1582-3 C98:3 1626-7
C86:3 1514-15 C94:2 1583-4
The following rolls survive, but the writing is now obliterated: C82:9 (1438-9), C83:1 (1445-6),
C83:9 (1462-3), C83:10 (1464-5), C94:6 (1586-7), C96:6 (1609-10).
The Court of Quarter Session
One final class of civic documents was searched. These are the Books of Entry for
the court of Sessions of the Peace or Quarter Sessions (1550-1600). In York, the
city council itself sat as justices of the peace with the mayor acting as chief magis-
trate. They could, however, try only misdemeanours. All other cases (such as
felony or treason) had to be bound over to the general assizes. What survives in
York are Books of Entry for the use of the court itself. They record who came
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before the court, for what reason, and what was done with them. Frequently
indicted individuals were simply bound over to the next assizes. The books ate
almost entirely written in formulaic Latin and record no pleas or proceedings.
There are occasional references to the city waits or minstrels appearing in court
charged with misdemeanours or standing surety for someone else. Such appear-
ances are recorded in the end-notes to the first document where the name of the
musician appears in the collection.
DOCUMENTS OF THE CRAFT GUILDS
Archives of the Worshipful Company of Merchant Adventurers
The Company of Merchant Adventurers in York is the lineal descendant of the
medieval guild of Mercers and Merchants and retains the archives of the guild. The
documents are stored in a vault in the company’s fifteenth-century hall in Fossgate.
They include a Chartulary, a Journal, a full set of account rolls and miscellanecus
pageant documents. The Chartulary was, for many years, in the hands of the
Bemrose family in Derbyshire and was returned to the company early in this century.
Its make-up is miscellaneous, serving the company much as the A/Y Memorandum
Book served the city. It contains guild ordinances, important decisions of the
company, and a few references to the Doomsday pageant in the Corpus Christi Play.
The ordinance for the pageant masters for 1443 concerning Doomsday has frequently
been cited as a reference to the Pater Noster Play in 1488. A detailed discussion
of this problem is in an end-note to the ordinance. The Chartulary also contains the
names of various company officials, including some pageant masters. The names of
the pageant masters, together with an extensive list of pageant masters from the
Journal of the company, are reproduced in Appendix IV.
The account rolls are in excellent condition. They contain only infrequent
references to the Doomsday pageant. The only regular payment associated with the
feast of Corpus Christi is the annual fee paid to have the guilds’ torches carried in
the Corpus Christi procession. This payment and the periodic payment for the
repair of the torches normally appear under the heading of customary allowances.
Later rolls record the payment of the shilling a year to the bridgemasters for the
pageant house property and the receipt of rent from the Butchers and the Bowers
and Fletchers. For five years from 1474-8, the rent paid by the Corpus Christi
Guild for the use of the Merchants’ Hall for their annual feast is recorded in the
rolls. Although unrelated to the rest of the category, the entry is always the first
one under the marginal heading ‘Pro navibus’. We have included the heading for
easy reference in the rolls. The early shorter rolls are concerned mainly with the
fees for entry into the guild and its trading activities. The subsequent rolls increas-
ingly reflect the interest of the company both in the fabric of the hall and in the
real property it accumulated over the years. .
The miscellaneous pageant documents have been collected together into Box D63
INTRODUCTION / xxvii
of the Merchant Adventurers’ Archives. They include a paper draft of the account
roll for 1437, four pageant accounts from the 1460s, a rough inventory of the
pageant for 1526, and two legal instruments: an indenture between the pageant
masters and the company listing the pageant properties in 1433, and an agreement
between the company and three individuals concerning Doomsday dated 1454. One
further pageant account, now lost, from the 1460s was in existence when Maud
Sellers compiled her Surtees Society volume of the documents of the Merchant
Adventurers in 1917. We have included it from her printed version in the appropriate
place in our collection. The dating of accounts has been done from both internal
and external evidence and is explained in individual end-notes. These paper accounts
are a happy survival from among similar documents that must have existed for every
year the pageant was performed. Miscellaneous paper drafts for some later rolls
survive in boxes D62 and D77. They do not appear in the text, but are mentioned
in the End-notes.
One final document is in the custody of the Merchant Adventurers. This is the
Chartulary of the Company of Merchant Taylors. The only relevant entry concerns
the sale of their pageant house in 1615. The Chartulary is kept separate from the
other documents in a bank-vault and we were able to see it only once in order to
transcribe the entry.
Chartulary
York, Merchant Adventurers’ Archives, D19; 15th-16th century; English, with some Latin; parch-
ment; 181 leaves; 280mm x 194mm (222mm x 128mm), 33/34 lines to a page; gathered in 8s
(with signatures on second to nineteenth gatherings and some catchwords); second gathering
turned inside out and the recto of the first folio of gathering (originally recto of fifth) overwritten
in black ink in 19th century; post-renaissance foliation in 2 hands, the second correcting the
first; some rubricated headings and minor decorated initials; contemporary brown leather binding
on boards.
Journal
York, Merchant Adventurers’ Archives, D14; 1420-1796; English; paper; 286 leaves; 280/282mm
x 195mm (margins variable); most gatherings 10s (a number of leaves and 1 gathering, ff 109-18,
missing); 17th-century foliation to f 210, ff 211-43 by an 18th-century hand; no decoration;
leather binding now detached from leaves (except for first gathering), title on front cover centre.
Account Rolls
York, Merchant Adventurers’ Archives, A-C(c), Boxes D53-D61; 1432-1590 (incomplete run of
115 separate rolls); English (1432-53, 1529-90) and Latin (1459-1528); parchment except paper
draft for 1465 (D53); most rolls until 1500 single membrane, but after 1500 average number of
membranes, 2; accounts for 1432-42 and 1443-4 sewn together as single rolls; length and width
irregular; written continuously in single columns frequently continued on dorse, writing from
bottom to top; no-decoration; rollsunprotected by covers. Excerpts taken from the following:
xxvill / INTRODUCTION
Box D53 A 1432-42
B 1443-4
C 1445
D 1446
E 1448
F 1449-51 (1 account)
H 1451-3 (1 account)
K 1459
L 1460
M 1461
1465 (paper draft)
Q 1472
Box D54 T 1474
U 1475
V 1476
X 1477
Y 1478
Z 1481
AA 1485
BB 1486
CC 1487
DD 1488
EE 1489
FF 1490
HH 1491
Il 1492
KK 1493
LL 1494
NN 1496
OO 1497
QQ 1499
Box D55 RR 1500
SS 1501
TT 1502
UU 1503
VV 1504
WW 1505
XX 1506
YY 1507
ZZ 1508
Miscellaneous Pageant Documents
Box D56
Box D57
Box D58
AAA 1509
BBB 1510
CEG 11
DDD 1512
EEE 1513
FFF 1514
GGG 1515
HHH 1516
Il] 1517
KKK 1518
LLL 1519
MMM 1520
NNN 1521
OOO 1522
PPP 1523
QQQ 1524
RRR 1525
SSS 1526
Tie 527,
UUU 1528
VVV 1529
WWW 1530
1531
XXX 1533
Wave eligi S 4:
ZLLAS3S5
A(a) 1536
B(a) 1537
C(a) 1538
D(a) 1539
E(a) 1540
F(a) 1541
G(a) 1542
H(a) 1543
I(a) 1544
K(a) 1545
L(a) 1546
M(a) 1547
N(a) 1548
O(a) 1549
Box D59
Box D60
Box Dé1
P(a) 1550
Q(a) 1551
R(a) 1552
S(a) 1553
S(a)(sic) 1554
T(a) 1555
U(a) 1556
Via)yas57
W(a) 1559
X(a) 1560
Y(a) 1561
Z(a) 1562
A(b) 1563
B(b) 1564
C(b) 1565
D(b) 1566
E(b) 1567
F(b) 1568
G(b) 1569
H(b) 1570
I(b) 1571
K(b) 1572
L(b) 1573
M(b) 1574
N(b) 1575
O(b) 1576
P(b) 1577
Q(b) 1578
R(b) 1579
S(b) 1580
T(b) 1581
U(b) 1582
V(b) 1583
W(b) 1584
X(b) 1585
Y(b) 1586
Z(b) 1587
A(c) 1588
B(c) 1589
C(c) 1590
These documents are now collected together in Box D63 of the Merchant Adventurers’ Archives.
INTRODUCTION / xxix
They include a paper draft of the roll for 1437 and the following:
Indenture; 1433; English; parchment; single sheet; 329mm x 226mm.
Agreement; 1453-4; Latin; parchment; single sheet; 304mm x 117mm; 3 personal seals of the men
named in the document attached.
Pageant Account; 1461; English; paper; single sheet; 432mm x 304mm; pageant costs written on
1 side, sheet folded lengthwise and list of names and amounts (possibly pageant money list) written
on outer fold in 2 columns, second column extended by irregular pieces of paper 165mm x 97mm
sewn to bottom right-hand corner.
Pageant account; 1462; English; paper; single sheet; 512mm x 126mm; repaired.
Pageant account; 1463; English; paper; single sheet; 204mm x 126mm.
Pageant account; 1467; English; paper; single sheet; 274mm x 201mm; folded lengthwise, with
pageant expenses on outer fold and list of pageant money on inside folds; document at one time
folded again bottom to top and bottom right-hand corer chewed by a rodent, resulting in irregular
holes at right- and left-hand edges of sheet; holes roughly semi-circular 50mm x 100mm at edges of
sheet.
Pageant account; 1526; English; paper; single sheet; 205mm x 280mm; stitching marks 17mm
apart along left-hand edge; sheet marked with several diagonal creases; lists of names on dorse.
Documents of the Bakers’ Guild
A seventeenth-century ordinal and two account books of the York guild of Bakers
are now in the British Library. How the earlier account book found its way to
London is unclear, but both the other volumes have small paper notices pasted
inside their front covers ‘Purchd of Miss L. Toulmin-Smith, 15 May, 1894’.
The early account book is a working book of little pretension. It contains the
accounts of the guild from 1544-80, including expenses related to their pageant
of the Last Supper until 1572. The company frequently hired minstrels to play at
various functions such as the ‘Reckoning Dinners’ of the guild. The earlier accounts
are dated only by regnal year and the accounts for 1552 and 1553 are in reverse
order. This reversal has led to some confusion in earlier work on this book. The
accounts end in 1580 and the final seven folios of the book are variously dated and
record unrelated decisions of the company, an assize of bread and ale, and one draft
account, later copied into its proper place.
The second account book is more elegant than the first and is precisely organized.
Each year is numerically dated and for almost every year, the names of the pageant
masters appear in the left- or right-hand margins next to the heading. Under general
receipts, in a category headed ‘Rents’, appears the regular payment to the Bakers by
the Pinners and Painters for their pageant house. Dues levied on the pageant masters
are often the last entry under the heading ‘Fines received in St Anthony’s Hall’. The
regular shilling paid by the Bakers to the bridgemasters for their pageant house rent
xxx / INTRODUCTION
appears under expenses, as well as the payment for Grafton’s interlude in 1585 and
numerous payments to minstrels. The company apparently decided in 1612 that no
more money was to be spent on minstrels, since the sum was disallowed in 1613 and
no further payments for music are recorded.
Account Book 1544-80
London, British Library, Add MS 33852; 1544-80; English; paper; 69 leaves; 328mm x 185mm
(285mm x 135mm), written in single columns; original collation impossible to determine, volume
now made of single leaves separately mounted; modern foliation; no decoration; originally bound
in parchment, now in boards, binding broken. Heavily damaged and repaired (extensive water
damage ff 1-22 and f 68, f 14 almost obliterated by stain, ff 20-2 torn away at upper right-hand
comer).
Account Book 1585-1761
London, British Library, Add MS 34604; 1585-1761, English; paper; 404 leaves (final 50 blank);
300mm x 194mm (268mm x 158mm); some gatherings 6s (rest impossible to determine because
leaves inseparable at inner edges, spine heavily glued); modern foliation; first 10 leaves lined in
red columns with red titles, braces, and occasional capitals; bound 1741 by John Ayre, Master,
binding now broken with first 4 leaves adhering to cover, all others to spine. Some damp stains
on inital leaves.
Bakers’ Ordinal
London, British Library, Add MS 34605; 1596-1832; English; 57 leaves; ff 30-49 paper, rest parch-
ment; 305mm x 190mm (228mm x 108mm); most gatherings 4s (2 leaves cut away in first gathering
and 6 in the fourteenth, many of paper leaves blank and unnumbered), apparently several separate
booklets bound together; renaissance and modern foliation; section containing ordinances very
ornamental with red vertical and horizontal margins; appears to have been bound at same time as
BL Add MS 34604, binding includes 2 brass buckles (1 still intact).
Documents of the Cordwainers’ Guild
Two copies of a late sixteenth-century ordinal of the Cordwainers’ Guild have been
deposited in York Minster Library. These contain new ordinances drawn up in
1580. In 1603, controversy arose concerning election procedures within the guild
and the matter was taken to the city council for arbitration. The city’s copy of the
arbitration agreement is bound into a miscellaneous compilation numbered E40 in
the city archives. This volume is not a manuscript or book in the conventional
sense; rather, it is a nineteenth-century compilation of letters, orders, certificates,
lists of instructions, memoranda, warrants, petitions, indentures, oaths, etc in one
volume under a series of headings: (i) military, (ii) parliament, (ili) city’s rights,
(iv) church matters, (v) miscellaneous subjects.
Cordwainers’ Ordinal
York, York Minster Library, QQ 80/4/1; 1580-1694; English; parchment ff 1-15, paper ff 16-44;
INTRODUCTION / xxxi
viiit44+i; parchment 293mm x 210mm (230mm x 145mm), generally 37 long lines, paper 302mm
x 215mm (268mm x 185mm), generally 33 long lines; gatherings irregular; modern pencil foliation;
some headings in a larger hand; black leather-covered boards with bevelled edges, blind tooling
front and back, 16th-17th century.
York, York Minster Library, QQ 80/4/2; 1580-1694; English; parchment; ili+22+1; approximately
305mm x 220mm (275mm x 145mm), except ff 12-19, 275mm x 192mm (no margins), generally
47 long lines; gathered in 4s (within the fourth gathering is 1 gathering of 6 and 1 of 2); modern pencil
foliation; some headings in a larger hand; black leather-covered boards with bevelled edges, blind
tooling front and back, date 1662 on fly-leaf recording contemporary event. Copy of QQ 80/4/1.
Miscellaneous
York, North Yorkshire County Library, E40 (Lib. Miscellaneous vol 9); 1484-1834; Latin and
English; paper, some parchment; vi+227 documents with title pages and individual numbering +
index (7 leaves) + xiii; length and width irregular (length varies from 210mm to 355mm; width
varies from 270mm to 275mm); collation impossible; modern foliation; no decoration; late 19th-
century black cloth binding on wood, title on wine-red spine.
Documents of the Plasterers, Tilers, and Bricklayers’ Guild
A Bricklayers’ ordinal containing ordinances as early as 1590 is now in York Minster
Library. Of greater interest, however, is a rough account of the guild from the years
1589-1629 also in York Minster Library. This book records, scattered among other
payments, considerable expenditures for musicians every year.
Bricklayers’ Ordinal
York, York Minster Library, QQ 80/2/11; 1590-1801; English; parchment; iii+56+1; ff 1-7, 240mm
x 160mm (190mm x 92mm), approximately 23 long lines; gathered in 4s; renaissance ink pagina-
tion ff 1-15, modern pencil pagination begins 1a, 1b, 1c and continues to page 68; some headings
in a larger hand; black leather-covered boards, blind tooling front and back, 17th-18th century.
Bricklayers’ Accounts
York, York Minster Library, QQ 80/2/1; 1589-1629; English; paper (except parchment fly-leaves);
1+122+i; ff 1-60, 202mm x 145mm (175mm x 9mm), ff 61-122, 200mm x 150mm (160mm x
125mm), 19-25 long lines; collation impossible; modem pencil foliation; no decoration; parchment
covers contemporary with MS.
Document of the Carpenters’ Guild
A late sixteenth-century ordinal of the Carpenters’ Guild survives among the city
archives. It contains the revised ordinances of the guild and its various sub-guilds.
All are copies of ordinances enrolled in A/Y.
Ordinal of the Carpenters’ Guild
York, North Yorkshire County Library, E55A; late 16th century; English; parchment; 32+ii;
xxxil/ INTRODUCTION
300mm x 195mm; most gatherings 6s; renaissance foliation ff 1-22, rest unnumbered; ruled
margins, some decoration; modern brown leather binding.
Document of the Weavers’ Guild
The working account book of the Weavers’ Guild is now among the city archives. It
records the receipts of dues from members of the craft in the late sixteenth century.
Weavers’ Account Book
York, North Yorkshire County Library, E56; 16th century; English; paper; 122+i; 305mm x
208mm; gathered in 6s and 8s; modern pagination ff 1-233, rest unnumbered; no decoration;
bound in white cardboard, shelf-mark gilt on red leather. The volume has been damaged and
repaired.
DOCUMENTS OF THE RELIGIOUS GUILDS AND HOSPITALS
The Corpus Christi Guild
The Register of the guild of Corpus Christi, deposited in the British Library, consists
mainly of the names of the members of the guild as they joined year after year. The
initial folios, however, provide the earliest ordinances of the guild (1408), an inven-
tory of the guild’s possessions in 1465, and a formal sermon on Corpus Christi.!° A
final inventory made in 1546 before dissolution by the commissioners of Henry VIII
is in the Public Record Office. All the other Corpus Christi material remains in the
York City archives.
The guild grew in status during the fifteenth century. In 1432, it entered into an
agreement with the city council concerning the carrying of the shrine of Corpus
Christi. The agreement (A15) survives as well as the city’s copy enrolled in B/Y.
When the guild merged with St Thomas’ Hospital in 1477, new ordinances were
drawn up replacing those made in 1408. Both the ordinances (G11A) and a draft
copy (G11) are extant. After dissolution in 1547, the city took over the assets of
St Thomas’ Hospital and some of the function of the Corpus Christi Guild. A
register of the hospital from 1552-83 survives, containing the new ordinances of the
hospital made in 1552, an account for 1575, and the minutes of the meetings of the
master and brethren, 1552-83. The one relevant entry is for 1565 when a Mr
Simpson returned the text of the Creed Play, apparently missing for at least twenty
years, to the hospital.
The account rolls of the Corpus Christi Guild provide various kinds of infor-
mation about the fraternity. The first three rolls (two copies of accounts for 1415-
16 and one account for 1449-51) contain two further inventories of the guild.
These, with the 1465 inventory from the Register and the 1546 inventory from the
PRO, appear in full in Appendix 11. The regular expenditure of the guild for its part
in the Corpus Christi procession is in each of the rolls. Until 1478, the payment to
the Mercers for the rental of the Merchants’ Hall (or Holy Trinity Hall) also appears.
The early rolls are mainly concerned, under receipts, with entrance money and
INTRODUCTION / xxxill
annual dues collected from members, and under expenses, with sums spent for
requiem masses, prayers for the dead, and other observances as well as acts of cor-
poral mercy. After the merger with St Thomas’ Hospital, the rolls reflect a growing
concern for the real property that accrued to the guild. An account survives for
only one year (1505) when we know, from other evidence, that the Creed Play (the
property of the guild) was performed, but there is no mention of the play in the
roll.
The Register
London, British Library, Lansdowne 403; 1408-1547; Latin and English; parchment; 101 leaves;
292mm x 184mm (columns average 218mm x 57mm), ff 15-101 double columns; gatherings
highly irregular (1 leaf inserted, 8 leaves cut away); modern foliation; some initial I’s ornamental,
considerable use of red ink for decoration, illuminated N including chalice and wafer on f 15;
modern binding in brown boards with brown leather spine, rebound May 1970.
Indenture between the City and Corpus Christi Guild, 1432
York, North Yorkshire County Library, A15; 1432; Latin; parchment; single sheet; 342mm x
292mm; indented, 6 seals affixed; signed by the notary Roger Burton bottom right-hand corner.
Statutes of the Corpus Christi Guild
York, North Yorkshire County Library, G11A; 1477; Latin; parchment; single sheet; 610mm x
560mm, water stained, 1 of 2 seals missing.
York, North Yorkshire County Library, G11; 1477; Latin, parchment; roll of 3 membranes;
damaged and repaired; draft of G11A.
Inventory of the Jewels of the York Shrine of Corpus Christi
London, PRO, E117/10/1; 1546; English; paper; 305mm x 204mm; 2 sheets folded in half;
writing 2, 2v, 3; second folio repaired at bottom.
Register of St Thomas’ Hospital
York, North Yorkshire County Library, E66; 1552-83; English; paper; vi+87+vi; 305mm x 202mm
(215/250mm x 150/160mm); gatherings irregular; modern pagination; flourished initials open each
entry, pp 1-8; bound in white paper boards resembling leather, press marks gilt on red.
The Accounts
York, North Yorkshire County Library, C99:1-C103:2; 1415-1541 (incomplete run of 23 separate
rolls); Latin; parchment; average number of membranes, 3; membranes originally sewn together
continuously, some now repaired with membranes sewn together at top and encased in protective
vinyl roll; length and width of rolls irregular (length varies from 1,200mm to 2,685mm; width
varies from 275mm to 360mm); written continuously in single columns, sometimes continued
on dorse, writing bottom to top (eg, 1-3, 3d-2d); no decoration. Many membranes damaged by
water and read under ultra-violet light. Excerpts taken from the following:
xxxiv / INTRODUCTION
C99:1-2 1415-16 C100:2 1498-9 C101:4 1515-16
C99:3 1449-51 C100:3 1500-1 C102:1 1519-20
C99:4 1459-61 C100:4 1501-2 C102-2515:32-5
C99:5 1476-7 C100:5 1504-5 ClOzs a s3.
C99:6 1478-9 C100:6 1505-6 C103:1 1534-5
C99:7 1489-90 C101:1 1507-8 C103:2 1540-1
C99:8 1495-6 C101:2 1510-11
C100:1 1497-8 GCLO3S Voad a2
The Pater Noster Guild
Only one document survives from the Pater Noster Guild. It is deposited in the
Public Record Office and is the response of the guild made to Richard I1’s council in
1388-9. That year the king’s council attempted a complete survey of the religious
guilds in the country, asking each to state the reasons for its foundation and its
assets. Few York guilds replied. This document describes the activities and pro-
perties of the Pater Noster Guild. The sections concerning the Pater Noster Play
appear in the body of the text; the full text is in Appendix III. One other document
from the guild has been seen and transcribed twice within the last century, although
all attempts on our part to locate it came to nothing. This is an account roll for
1399. The reading provided by Lucy Toulmin-Smith appears in the appropriate
place in the text with a note to an alternate reading by Angelo Raine. The Pater
Noster Guild merged with St Anthony’s Hospital in 1446. Although some docu-
ments survive from the hospital, there is nothing concerning the play.
Pater Noster Guild Return
London, PRO, C47/46/454; 1388-9; Latin; parchment; single sheet (mounted on second parch-
ment sheet, obscuring the dorse), once sewn together with other documents conunuously attached ;
approximately 325mm x 357mm (258mm x 311mm); tongue but no seal.
Documents of St Leonard’s Hospital
Accounts from St Leonard’s Hospital remain for only six years, from 1343 to 1461.
They include the earliest reference to a Christmas interlude in York for Christmas
1370, as well as evidence for both players and minstrels entertaining the master
and brethren of the hospital.
St Leonard’s Accounts
York, York Minster Library, M2/6/c; 1343-86 (5 years only: 1343-4, 1370-1, 1375-6, 1378-9,
1385-6); Latin; parchment; ili+74+i1; 300mm x 230mm (230mm x 150mm), 28 ruled long lines;
gatherings irregular; modern pencil foliation; no decoration; modern binding of brown leather
with marbled endpapers. Heavily damaged and repaired.
York, York Minster Library, M2/6/d; 1461-2; Latin and English; paper; i+58+1; 295mm x 217mm
INTRODUCTION / xxxv
(265mm x 205mm), generally 35 long lines; 1 gathering; modern pencil foliation; flourished and
enlarged initials at beginning of some entries; brown parchment covers contemporary with MS.
The MS has been damaged and repaired.
YORK MINSTER DOCUMENTS
The records in this collection from York Minster, except for two early references in
a Book of Statutes (referring to the properties for Christmas and Epiphany liturgical
drama) and in a Miscellaneous Register (noting the establishment of the celebration
of Corpus Christi), record only the involvement of the Minster with secular cere-
mony, ministrelsy, and playmaking. Two copies of a description of the visit of
Richard III to the city and the Minster in 1483 survive, one in a Vicars Choral Statute
Book and the second in a later sixteenth-century volume entitled Repertorium et
Extenta Probendarum Etc. There are many excerpts from the Minster Chamberlains’
Rolls referring to minstrels playing on Pentecost and the two feasts of St William. In
three of this series of rolls, there are references to the practice of Minster officials
renting the room over the gate of the Minster Close to see the civic plays.
The Chamberlains’ Rolls were made up twice a year, at Martinmas and Pentecost.
Those listed with single dates cover the period from Pentecost to Martinmas, those
with double dates the period from Martinmas to Pentecost. Some rolls lack headings.
Dates for such rolls have been supplied from internal evidence by Miss Katharine
Longley, archivist of the Dean and Chapter Library and appear in square brackets.
The numbering and dating of these rolls are not in absolute sequence.
A second important source from the late sixteenth century is the Chamberlains’
Accounts: St Peter’s Part. Miss Longley explains St Peter’s Part in this way: ‘A
fixed proportion (equivalent to the portion of a residentiary) of the income of the
common fund, known as St Peter’s portion, was allotted as ready money or petty
cash in communes usus capituli et ecclesie pro causis et negotiis emergentibus
conventendum (Statutes of 1291, confirmed by the Statute of 1541).’!!_ From this
petty cash, the chamberlains paid professional players and minstrels performing
for the dean and chapter.
Only a few excerpts have been taken from the important series of Minster Fabric
Rolls normally concerned with the physical fabric of the cathedral. All are late
sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century rolls recording payment to professional
minstrels, usually the city waits, for taking part in services in the Minster.
The last set of accounts from the Minster are three separate rolls dated in the
1420s!* belonging to the Vicars Choral. The Vicars Choral were the priests hired
by the cathedral to take the place of the canons in the choir for daily services and
to sing masses in the chapels of the Minster. They had their own internal organi-
zation as a group within the larger entity of the cathedral. They also owned a
tileworks and, at least during the years from which our references come, were
involved in the Tilemakers’ pageant of the Second Trial before Pilate in the Corpus
Christi Play.
xxxvi / INTRODUCTION
Book of Statutes etc of Dean and Chapter
York, York Minster Library, M1/1/b; 14th-17th century; Latin; parchment with modern paper
fly-leaves; v+52+vi; 270mm x 190mm (195mm x 120mm), 35 long lines; most gatherings 8s; 17th-
century foliation, ff 1-49; some decorated initials in red and blue; modern brown leather binding
on boards, gold lettered title in red rectangle on spine.
Miscellaneous Register
York, York Minster Library, M2/4/g; 1278-1475 (with additions 1544-8); Latin, some English;
parchment and paper; ili+71+iii; 350mm x 232mm (275mm x 160/180mm), mostly 36 long lines;
gatherings irregular; post-renaissance foliation (2 systems: i-xxi, 1-51); some flourished initials,
ff xviii-xxv mubricated titles; modern leather binding on boards, gold lettered title in red rectangle
on spine.
Vicars Choral Statute Book
York, York Minster Library; 15th century-1928; Latin and English; parchment (front and back fly-
leaf paper); i1+95+i (+ 2 inserts after p 34, 1 above the other, each about % of the height of the
leaf); early leaves 260mm x 184mm, later leaves 280mm x 185mm; gatherings irregular (1 leaf miss-
ing), 18th-century pagination; occasional decorated initials; 18th-century leather binding, stamped
decoration on front and back. Title on inner front fly-leaf records date of rebinding as 1749.
Repertorium et Extenta Prebendarum Etc
York, York Minster Library, M2/2/c; 15th century, with some 16th-17th-century additions; Latin
(with English insert, f 49[2] ); paper; i+73+i (+ insert f 49[2] ); 410mm x 295mm; gatherings
irregular; modern pencil foliation at foot throughout, 15th-century foliation, ff 27-70, and 16th-
17th-century foliation throughout in top left comer (misses modern f 27, jumps from 66 to 68);
no decoration; modern white cloth binding, red label on front with title.
Chamberlains’ Rolls
York, York Minster Library, E1/1-E1/79; 1370-1546 (incomplete run of 76 separate rolls); Latin;
parchment; average number of membranes, 2; length and width or rolls irregular: }ength varies
from 53mm to 160mm, width varies from 240mm to 390mm); written continuously in single
columns, frequently continued on dorse, writing from bottom to top (eg, 1-3, 3d-2d). Many
damaged and repaired, some fragments. Excerpts taken from the following:
EV/l 1370-4 E1/10 1396-7 E1/23 1395-6
E1/2 1371 E1/11 1388-9 E1/24 1396
E1/3 1373-4 E1/12/1 1389-90 E1/27 1397-8
E1/4 13745 E1/14 1389 E1/29 1398-9
E1/5 1376 E1/15 1390 E1/34 1401-2
E1/7 1382 E1/17 390-1 E1/36 1402
E1/8 1386-7 E1/19 1393-4 E1/37 1403
E1/9 1387-8 E1/22 1395 E1/38 1405
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E1/39 1426-7 E1/51 1485-6 E1/61b 1510-11
E1/39a 1429-30 E1/52 1483-4 E1/62 1523-4
E1/43 1474-5 E1/53 1483 E1/64 1526-7
E1/44 1471-2 E1/55 1487-8 E1/66 1528-9
E1/46 1480-1 E1/56 [1489-90] E1/70 1536
E1/47 1484 £1/58 [1479-80] E1/7la 1533
E1/48 1484-5 E1/60 [1505-6] E1/73 1538
E1/50 1481-2 E1/61 1509-10 E1/74 1546
Chamberlains’ Accounts: St Peter’s Part
York, York Minster Library, E2/21; 1572-1600; English; paper; iil+59+111; 307mm x 205mm
(250/300mm x 140mm), 35-45 long lines, most gatherings 8s (2 small inserts); modern pencil
foliation; occasional flourished initials; modern binding, vellum on boards, title in gold lettering
in a red rectangle centred on cover. MS has been damaged and repaired.
Fabric Rolls
York, York Minster Library, E3/52 (1571-2), E/58 (1581-2), E3/61 (1587-8), E3/62/2 (1611-12),
E3/62/3 (1623-4), E3/63/1 (1624-5); English; parchment; single membranes; length and width of
rolls irregular (length varies from 670mm to 965mm, width varies from 465mm to 750mm);
E3/52, E3/61, E3/63/1: dorse written bottom to top, E3/58: dorse written top to bottom,
E3/62/2: dorse blank; elaborate initial at top E3/52, enlarged capitals in E3/58, one flourished
initial E3/61.
Vicars Choral Accounts
First Vicars Choral Tileworks Account
York, York Minster Library, VC Box X11; c 1420; Latin; parchment; roll of 4 membranes attached
serially; 600mm x 325mm (570mm x 250mm), 57 long lines (except final membrane, 135mm x
325mm (40mm x 140mm), which has 4 lines of writing); 1 scrolled initial on mb 4.
Second Account
York, York Minster Library; Vq 1x; c 1421; Latin; parchment; roll of 1 membrane; 540mm x
320mm (425mm x 270mm); 1 flourished initial.
Third Account
York, York Minster Library, VC Box XII; c 1427; Latin; parchment; roll of 1 membrane; 840mm
x 302mm (790mm x 215mm), generally 68 long lines on recto only; capital initials.
PARISH DOCUMENTS: CHURCHWARDENS’ ACCOUNTS
The Churchwardens’ Accounts of only one York parish, St Michael Spurriergate,
survive from before the Reformation. Later accounts remain from four other
parishes. Playmaking does not seem to have been part of parish life in York. We
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have included the only possible reference to quasi-dramatic activity from St Michael
Spurriergate. This is payment for a pair of gloves given to the clerk or underclerk
for a performance of some kind. Other references from St Michael Spurriergate and
the other accounts are to bell-ringing at the time of royal visits but not at other
times and to the participation of the parishes in the Midsummer show of armour.
Holy Trinity Goodramgate
York, Borthwick Institute of Historical Research, PR Y/HTG.12; 1559-1712; English; paper;
11+852 (1 small piece of paper attached at the start); 302mm x 198mm; gatherings irregular (many
leaves cut out); modern pagination; no decoration; bound in boards covered in brown leather
(binding in very poor condition). Slight damage from damp.
St John Ouse Bridge
York, Borthwick Institute of Historical Research, PR Y/J.17; 1585-1705; English; paper; 170
leaves; 310mm x 190mm; gatherings irregular (approximately 77 leaves missing); 17th-century
foliauon beginning with f 2 of second gathering; no decoration; original board and leather binding,
spine broken.
St Martin Coney Street
York, Borthwick Institute of Historical Research, PR Y/MCS.16; 1552-86; English; paper; 1i+102+ii,
310mm x 210mm; most gatherings 4s or 5s (23 folios missing, 2 bifolia inserts, rebinding may not
reflect original gatherings); modern pencil pagination (also binder’s foliation); occasional displayed
heading or word; bound in original limp parchment repaired and resewn PRO, 1910. Damaged
by damp on initial folios.
York, Borthwick Institute of Historical Research, PR Y/MCS.17; 1586-1637; English; paper;
ii+140+ii; 300/310mm x 200/210mm; 2 irregular gatherings (6 leaves missing); older ink foliation
defective, modern ink foliation (f 70 on) correct; no decoration; bound in original limp parchment,
inner fly-leaves elegant parchment from early printed Bible with red and blue decorations, restored
and resewn PRO, 1910.
St Martin Cum Gregory
York, Borthwick Institute of Historical Research, PR Y/MG.19; 1560-1669; English; paper; 225
leaves; 300mm x 197mm; gatherings irregular (8 leaves missing); pre-1900 mixed pagination and
foliation (last 2 leaves unnumbered); no decoration; bound in parchment. Disintegrating, damaged
at edges through neglect.
St Michael Spurriergate
York, York Minster Library, MS Add 220/2; 1518-28; modern transcript made by Miss Elizabeth
Brunskill; preserves original foliation.
York, Borthwick Institute of Historical Research, PR Y/MS.3; 15 37-48; English; paper; 92 leaves;
INTRODUCTION / xxxix
296mm x 200mm; 2 irregular gatherings (at least 10 initial leaves and 1 between ff 23 and 24 torn
out); modern foliation; no decoration; bound in parchment.
York, Borthwick Institute of Historical Research, PR Y/MS.2; 1593-1625 ; English; paper; 1i+151+11;
297mm x 203mm (260/270mm x 130/150mm), 35-45 long lines; gatherings irregular; modern
foliation; flourished initials; modem brown leather bindings on boards, title centred in gold letters
on red background with gold border decoration.
WILLS
The majority of the wills surviving from this period are deposited in the Borthwick
Institute of Historical Research. Others are in the Minster Library, including the
wills registered there and a volume of wills registered at St Leonard’s Hospital. The
bulk of York wills is enormous and remains, for the most part, uncalendared. We
have included all references to playmaking, music and the Corpus Christi ceremonies
that we were made aware of during our research. We have not made an exhaustive
search of all the wills. One important register from the Borthwick Institute (Prob.
Reg. 2) was being rebound during 1976-7 when we were gathering the details for the
manuscript descriptions. We are unable to provide more information than that the
earliest will in the register is dated 1396 and that the wills are written in Latin on
parchment.
York Register of Wills
York, Borthwick Institute of Historical Research, Prob. Reg. 3; 1398-1470; Latin; parchment;
i+515; 390mm x 266mm; gatherings irregular (7 leaves missing, 1 insert); early foliation (beginning
at f 21, f 112 followed by f 213, some duplicated numbers); no decoration; board and calf binding
with buckle.
York, Borthwick Institute of Historical Research, Prob. Reg. 9; 1514-30; Latin and English; parch-
ment; 489 leaves; 410mm x 277mm; most gatherings 12s; early foliation; no decoration; newly
bound.
York Minster Wills
York, York Minster Library, L2/4 (Reg. Wills 1); 1321-1493; Latin; parchment; i+391; 310mm x
220mm (245mm x 190mm), generally 43 long lines; gatherings irregular (slips bound in between
ff 23-4, 40-1, 48-9, 373-4); contemporary and modern foliation (f 147 omitted); decorative
capitals throughout; contemporary binding of brown leather-covered boards, clasps missing, faded
title ‘1493’ visible on front cover.
St Leonard’s Wills
York, York Minster Library, M2/6/e; 1410-1533; Latin; parchment and paper; 52 leaves; parch-
ment 310mm x 243mm (258mm x 190mm), generally 26-30 long lines (except ff 6-13, 290mm x
220mm [240mm x 180mm] ), paper 300mm x 220mm (250mm x 190mm), generally 33 long
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lines; gatherings irregular (followed by 2 paper folios, 1 small parchment slip, 1 torn paper folio,
2 parchment folios, 2 paper folios bound in); contemporary ink foliation (modern pencil foliation
on ff 48a-c); no decoration; contemporary parchment binding, title ‘wills 1460’ on upper half of
outer front cover, and, in later hand, ‘St Leonard’s Hospital, York’. Inventories of cattle delivered
to and skins sold by Robert Coundall inside front and back covers.
MISCELLANEOUS
Some of our documents do not fall into any general category. We have taken
excerpts from two archbishops’ registers: de Zouche for 1343 and Grindal for the
1570s. The first is from a solemn constitution concerning the observation of Good
Friday and the second from injunctions issued by Grindal regulating the use of
church property and the conduct of worship. Two other documents date from the
reign of Archbishop Grindal. They are the broadside describing the riding of Yule
and Yule’s Wife from the Bodleian Library in Oxford and the copy of the letter
suppressing the riding in 1572 from the minute book of the Ecclesiastical Com-
mission of the North. The broadside was among the items in the collection of
Nathaniel Johnston (1627-1705). The Johnston collection was acquired by Richard
Frank (c 1698-1762) and descended in the Frank family until 11 August 1942
when it was bought by the Bodleian at a sale at Sotheby’s.!3
The three other miscellaneous documents concern royal visits. A Latin poem on
a visit of Henry VI to York in 1448 is written on the fly-leaf of a collection of
fifteenth-century religious pieces now in the Bodleian Library. The poem is in a
different hand from the rest of the MS and seems to be a chance survival. An
account of the elaborate pageants prepared for Henry VII in York in 1486, paralleling
the House Books version, is found in a manuscript from the British Library, appa-
rently written by a herald in the king’s train. Finally, the earliest and fullest account
of the visit of James I to York in 1603 on his way to his new capital is found in a
book printed that year.
Archbishops’ Registers
York, Borthwick Institute of Historical Research, Reg. 10 de Zouche; 1342-52; Latin, parchment
(with paper supply-leaves to index); xiv+360+1; 350mm x 250mm (285mm x 190mm); most
gatherings 12s (many leaves inserted or missing); 14th-century ink foliation; occasional displayed
initials and section headings, also pen and ink decorated initials; modern binding, half reversed
leather, leather cloth on boards.
York, Borthwick Institute of Historical Research, Reg. 30 Grindal; 1570-6; Latin and English;
parchment (with paper supply-leaves and indices); ix+162+iii; 370mm x 290mm; gatherings
irregular (many leaves cut out); ff 1-162, modern foliation, also erratic 17th-century foliation;
occasional displayed initials and section headings; modern binding, half leather cloth, leather
cloth on cardboard.
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Ecclesiastical Commission of the North
York, Borthwick Institute of Historical Research, HC.AB.7; 1572-4; Latin and English; paper;
207 leaves; 300mm x 200mm; most gatherings 10s (at least 7 leaves missing); modern foliation;
no decoration; bound in original dark vellum, damaged, remains of tag centre foot front
cover.
Yule Broadside
Oxford, Bodleian Library, Vet. Al a 5(1); ¢ 1570; English; paper; printed broadside ; 305mm x
368mm (262mm x 305mm), double columns; numbers 661 to 663 written on verso in hand of
Nathaniel Johnston, numbers 127 to 128 in hand of Richard Frank, possibly collection numbers,
modem circular stamp of F. Bacon Frank of Campsall Hall, Yorkshire also on verso; word ‘Halilulia’
written in brown ink upper left-hand margin; ink stains on verso show through bottom right-hand
quarter appearing under and slightly left of ‘Finis’ and also over ‘Sinne and Sathan’ and in margin
opposite ‘My-sticall’. Folded heavily in 4 horizontal folds worn through.
Visit of Henry VI, 1448
Oxford, Bodleian Library, Bodley 857; 15th century; Latin; parchment (with modem paper fly-
leaf at end); it172+i; 282mm x 225 (190mm x 145mm), 44 long lines; most gatherings 6s, sig-
natures on first 4 and ninth gatherings; modem foliation; major initials in blue ink, minor initials,
underlining, and border elaboration in red ; original leather binding on boards, rebacked with some
repair to final leaves.
The Progress of Henry VII, 1486
London, British Library, Cotton Julius B X11; 15th-17th century; English, Latin, Anglo-Norman;
paper, ff 67-82 parchment; iii+316+iii; 279mm x 207mm (180mm x 122mm); collation impossible,
now single leaves separately mounted; modern pencil foliation; some flourished initials, painted
coats of arms (ff 3-4), some marginalia in red ink (ff 58-63); bound in brown half morocco, gold
lettering.
Visit of James 1, 1603
The | True Narration of | the Entertainment of his | Royall Maiestie, | from the time of his depar- |
ture from Edenbrough; till his receiuing at | London: with all or the most spec- | ciall Occurences. |
Together with the names of those Gentle- | men whom his Maiestie honoured | with Knighthood. |
(McKerrow 299] |AT LONDON | Printed by Thomas Creede, for Thomas | Millington. 1603. |
4° [A? fl ie Ge Dy Eo Hee G2 (83 misprinted E3)] , 24 leaves unnumbered; Roman with some
italic; omamental rectangular block used on A2, B1, ornamental block A (8 lines long) begins the
address To the Reader (A2), ornamental block T (6% lines long) begins Narration (B1); Entered
in the Stationers’ Register 9 May 1603: Master Burby. Thomas myllington Entred for their copie
vnder the handes of the wardens. A booke || called. Kinge JAMES his entrance into England,
from bis Departure out \ of Edenbrugh into England the vth of Apryll untill bis present receauynge \\
at Charter house the 7th of Mate 1603 And of all the Knightes be made \ in this Journey ... vj d;
SUCH 053.
xlii/ INTRODUCTION
ANTIQUARIAN MATERIAL
We consulted many antiquarian collections concerning York in both the British
Library and the Bodleian Library. None provided any new detailed information and
so are not included in the text. Bodleian MS Gough Yorkshire 22 records many
occasions when Edward 11 and Edward 111 were in York during the Scottish wars
early in the fourteenth century, including the marriage of Edward III to Phillipa of
‘Hanalt’ there in 1329 (f 54). This source also notes the gift by Richard 11 of the
sword that figures so prominently in later royal entries, ‘William Selby ye: first
Lord Mayor of York, to whom King Richard y€: 20; gave his sword from about
him, to be borne before he y€: said L: Mayor.’ (f 59v).
Bodleian MS Gough Yorkshire 2 is an eighteenth-century antiquarian volume
recording a visit of Henry Iv in 1405 when he ‘ransomed and Punished by grievous
Fines mony of the Citizens for taking part the same year with Richard Scroope,
Archbishop of York, Henry Pearcy, Earl of Northumberland, and Thomas Mowbray,
Earl Marshall, in Conspiring against him, for Deposing Richard the Second, who
were taken & here Executed.’ (p 222/250).
One further Bodleian antiquarian manuscript contains relevant material. Bodleian
MS Rawlinson B 450 includes copies of one bridgemasters’ account and the late
ordinance of the Skinners’ Guild. Both originals survive in York and are included in
this collection.
Finally, we have been unable to find the original of the letter printed by J.O.
Halliwell-Phillipps in Letters of the Kings of England in 1846. This letter alleges to
be from Henry VIII to an unnamed justice of the peace in York, expressing the
king’s opposition to religious drama. Since this letter is frequently cited in works
concerning early drama, we have reproduced it, as Halliwell-Phillipps published it,
in Appendix V1.
We have used the following abbreviations in the text to identify the archives from
which the records came:
BI Borthwick Institute of Historical Research, York
BL British Library, London
MA Worshipful Company of Merchant Adventurers, York
PRO Public Record Office, London
Y North Yorkshire County Library, York
YM York Minster Library, York
Editorial Procedures
DATING THE DOCUMENTS
To arrange the documents in chronological order demanded certain fundamental
decisions. The year date on every document (when that is given) 1s according to
Old Style. In Old Style, the year was deemed to begin 25 March and end 24 March.
INTRODUCTION / xlii
We have converted all dates between 1 January and 24 March to modern practice.
For example, the agreement between the city and the Corpus Christi Guild (A15) is
internally dated according to Old Style 16 January 1431. It appears in this collection
under 16 January 1432.
The dating of all the documents is provided in as much detail as possible. The day
and month as well as year is given wherever these were given. Dating by saints’ days
or major movable religious feasts has been converted to day and month. Where
dating has been done by regnal or mayoral year, we have supplied the year. Three
guild ordinances in the A/Y and B/Y Memorandum Books are dated only by the
mayoral year of a man (such as Thomas Wrangwish) who was mayor more than
once. We have included them under the first possible year but noted the alternatives
and, in the alternate years, provided a cross-reference. Some ordinances in A/Y have
no dates at all. These appear together in Appendix | in the order of the manuscript.
The dating of the accounts has been less straightforward. Some, like the Mercers’
pageant documents for the 1460s, have no date and have been dated by external
evidence. Such dating is explained in the End-notes. The account rolls present
other kinds of problems. The fiscal years of the various sets of accounts were not
the same. The City Chamberlains’ Accounts began 3 February until 1500 and from
15 January thereafter. Similarly, the Bridgemasters’ Accounts began 3 February
until 1491 and 15 January thereafter, although they appear to have actually collected
their rents in two instalments, on Pentecost and Martinmas (11 November). The
Mercers made up their accounts on 25 March; the Corpus Christi Guild on 23
November; and the Bakers sometimes on 25 July and sometimes in December. This
means that all the accounts cover a twelve-month period that does not correspond
to a calendar year New Style. We have chosen one of the two years of the given
dating for each account in order to bring the accounts referring to the same celeb-
ration of Corpus Christi together. Thus, the civic accounts and those for the Mercers
for, for example, 1504-5 (New Style), refer to the feast in 1504 since both sets of
accounts were made after the feast in 1504 and before the feast in 1505. On the
other hand, the Corpus Christi Guild made up their accounts after the feast but
within the year. Therefore, their account running from November 1504 to Novem-
ber 1505 refers to the feast in 1505.
Other complexities arise with the Minster Chamberlains’ Accounts. Until at least
1430, the chamberlains normally recorded the payment to the minstrels of St
William’s Day (8 June) in the roll for Pentecost to Martinmas (11 November) and
the payment to the minstrels on the feast of the Translation of St William (the
Sunday after Epiphany) and on Pentecost in the roll for Martinmas to Pentecost.
After 1472, all three are recorded in the roll for Martinmas and Pentecost. Since all
three feasts fall in one calendar year New Style, they have been so dated in the text.
The only accounts for which we have not been able to choose one of the two
years are those of the Bricklayers, whose payments to minstrels are not related to
any major feast, and some churchwardens’ records.
xliv / INTRODUCTION
Our dating varies in some instances from other dating of York documents (in-
cluding our own elsewhere). Most earlier dating relied on Collins’ edition of the
York Freemen’s Rolls'* which does not make allowance for Old Style dating for the
mayoral years. The task of redating the documents in the York archives has been
completed only recently.
LAYOUT
Each document is preceded by a heading with year, MS identification, day and
month (when available), and folio or page number. Italics indicate information
supplied by the editors. Where documents from different MSS appear under the
same year, they follow the ordering of MSS established in The Documents section
of the Introduction.
We have attempted to preserve the general lay-out of the MS originals. Headings,
marginalia, and account totals are printed in the position in which they appear in
the MSs. Right-hand marginalia have had to be set in the left margin of our text,
but this transposition is indicated by the symbol . We have provided the ‘summa’
of an account only if the account is given in full. The lineation of the original has
not been retained in continuous prose passages.
The following symbols are used within the text:
Es (after folio, page, or membrane number) see end-note(s)
® right-hand marginalia
m3 ellipsis
(oy damaged, lost or obliterated letters
eed cancellations, deletions, erasures
(blank) _ blank spaces in the original where writing might be expected
o 8 letters or words added by a different or later hand
interlineations originally inserted above the line
interlineations originally inserted below the line
MS caret
| change of folio, page, or membrane in passages of continuous prose
1% marginalia deemed too long for the left-hand margin
Where two or more copies of the same document survive, we have chosen a base
text and collated significant variants at the foot of the page. In the English, purely
orthographic or phonographical differences are not collated, but in the Latin, all
variations except i/j and u/v have been included. In all collations, we have omitted
differences in capitalization, form of abbreviation, word-division, and punctuation.
Dittography, emendations and scribal errors are noted at the foot of the page. We
also note at the foot of the page readings made by earlier editors of words and
phrases now obliterated and supply the missing words in damaged formulaic headings.
We discuss peculiarities of MSS (such as decay or damage that affect the reading),
scribal idiosyncracies, and problems of dating and provenance more extensively
in the End-notes.
INTRODUCTION / xlv
PUNCTUATION phos
The punctuation of the MSS has been retained. Virgules have been indicated as /
and //; inverted semi-colons as ?. MS braces have not been reproduced except
where they are a significant feature of the MS layout. Diacritics to distinguish ‘y’
from ‘p’ and ‘u’ from ‘n’ and line fillers have been ignored.
SPELLING, CAPITALIZATION, AND EXPANSION
The spelling of the original, including ‘pb’ and ‘y’ for ‘th’ and ‘3’ in the initial or
medial position, has been preserved, as has the capitalization. All ‘m’s’ with the
third stroke coming below the line and crossed ‘c’s’, whatever their size, have been
deemed majuscule. Where a letter form (particularly ‘a’ and ‘w’) is troublesome in a
specific hand, we have noted it. ‘ff’ has been preserved for ‘F’; ‘1/J’ have been
uniformly transcribed as ‘I’. Ornamental or very large capitals have been transcribed
as regular capitals.
Abbreviated words have been expanded according to scribal practice, with italics
to indicate letters supplied. Where there is insufficient evidence in the MS to judge
individual scribal spelling habits, abbreviations in Latin have been expanded to
standard classical forms, in Anglo-Norman to modern French, and in English to
modern British forms. Abbreviations still in common use (eg, ‘Mr’, ‘li’, ‘s’, ‘d’, ‘Ib’,
‘etc’ or ‘&c’, and ‘viz’) and ones cumbersome to expand, such as those typical of
weights and measures (‘di.’, ‘qu.’, and ‘ob.’), have been retained. Generally, a punctus
is supplied where there is some sign of abbreviation in the text. The flourish at the
end of ‘s’ and ‘d’ has caused difficulties. Most, but not all, scribes in Latin or Anglo-
Norman end both ‘s’ and ‘d’ with a sufficient flourish to suggest that they intended
an abbreviation for ‘solidus’ and ‘denarius’. Most, but not all, scribes in English end
with no such flourish. Frequently, Latin and English accounts appear together in
this collection. We have, therefore, omitted the punctus after ‘s’ and ‘d’ unless the
scribe provided something more than a flourish. Abbreviations for ‘et’ and ‘and’
have been transcribed uniformly as ‘&’. ‘sol.’ and ‘solut.’ have been retained when
they mean simply ‘paid’ and it cannot be determined whether the scribe intended
‘soluti’ or ‘solutum’. In some cases, especially in the Mercers’ Accounts, the gram-
matical sense demands ‘soluerunt’ or ‘they paid’. ‘xp’, ‘Xp’ have been expanded as
‘christ’ and ‘Christ’ and ‘x’ and ‘X’ as ‘christ’ and ‘Christ’. ‘Ihs’ and ‘Ihc’ have been
expanded as ‘Iesws’. The sign? has been consistently expanded as ‘es’ in English
(except where scribal practice dictates an ‘is’ plural) even when, in the seventeenth-
century records, it follows ‘e’. Otiose flourishes such as 4 and oun have been
ignored.
English words in Latin passages have not been declined. Where a scribe has been
inconsistent in his use of the brevigraph after a terminal ‘n’, we have noted it. Place
names and personal surnames in all three languages have been left unexpanded.
Personal first names have been expanded to the normal spelling in the appropriate
language. All superlineated letters have been lowered to the line except when they
xlvi / INTRODUCTION
Notes
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See Select Bibliography.
The material for this and the following section was drawn mainly from R.B. Pugh
(ed), The Victoria History of the Counties of England. A History of Yorkshire.
The City of York (London, 1961), and A. Stacpoole (ed), The Noble City of
York (York, 1972).
Pugh (ed), VCH, 70.
Ibid, 138.
Stacpoole (ed), York, 276.
See Robert H. Skaife (ed), The Register of the Guild of Corpus Christi, Surtees
Society LVIL.
BL Add MS 35290. See Lucy Toulmin-Smith (ed), York Plays.
The opening formula of A/Y is as follows:
[L]iber diuersorum memorandorum. Ciuitat: Ebor’ tangencium & in hoc
volumine trrotulatorum . tempore Iohannis de Santon maioris dicte ciuitatis
& per Iohannem de Rufford tunc clericum communem . ciuitatis predicte
inceptus & factus . anno regni Regis edwardi terci) post conquestum Anglie
quinquagesimo primo.
BL Add MS 33595, f 46.
The Corpus Christi sermon has been translated by Paula Lozar in ‘The “Prologue”
to the Ordinances of the York Corpus Christi Guild,’ Allegorica 1 (1976), 94-
Li3:
Katharine Longley, ‘York Minster chamberlains’ accounts and the St Peter’s
accounts: a summary list,’ Borthwick Institute Bulletin 1 (1975), 47.
The references in the Vicars Choral accounts were discovered by Albert Chambers,
who has dated them. See A.F. Chambers, ‘The vicars choral of York Minster and
the tilemakers’ Corpus Christi pageant,’ Records of Early English Drama no. 1
(1977), 2-9.
Johnston, ‘Yule in York,’ Records of Early English Drama no. 1 (1976), 6.
Collins (ed), Register of the Freemen of the City of York, Surtees Society XCVI1,
Cil.
J EEE
Select Bibliography
This short-list includes books and articles with firsthand transcriptions of primary
documents. No attempt has been made to list all works cited in the Introduction,
the textual footnotes, and the End-notes.
(Baker, Lewis (ed)]. Testamenta Eboracensia or Wills Registered at York Illustrative
of the History, Manners, Language, Statistics &c., of the Province of York, from
the Year MCCC. Downwards. Part 1. Surtees Society Iv (London, 1836).
Benson, George. ‘St Leonard’s Hospital, York,’ AASRP 40 (1930-1), less.
Chambers, Albert F. ‘The vicars choral of York Minster and the tilemakers’ Corpus
Christi pageant,’ Records of Early English Drama no. 1 (1977), 2-9.
Collins, Francis (ed). Register of the Freemen of the City of York from the City
Records. 2 vols. Surtees Society XCV1, Cll (London, 1897 [for 1896] and 1900
{for 1899] ).
Cooper, T.P. The Christmas Waits and Minstrels of Bygone York (York, n.d.).
(Croft, John (ed)]. Excerpta Antiqua: or, a Collection of original Manuscripts
(York, 1797).
Davies, Robert. Extracts from the Municipal Records of the City of York, during
the Reigns of Edward 1V. Edward V. and Richard 111. with notes illustrative and
explanatory; and an appendix, containing some account of the celebration of the
Corpus Christi festival at York in the fourteenth, fifteenth, and sixteenth centuries
(London, 1843).
— ‘Margaret Tudor at York,’ Yorkshire Archaeological Journal 7 (1881-2), 305-29.
Dickens, A.G. ‘Some Popular Reactions to the Edwardian Reformation in York-
shire,’ Yorkshire Archaeological Journal 34 (1939), 151-69.
Dorrell, Margaret. ‘The Butchers’, Saddlers’, and Carpenters’ Pageants: Misreadings
of the York Ordo,’ ELN 13 (1975), 1-4.
— ‘The Mayor of York and the Coronation Pageant,’ LeedsSE, ns, 5 (1971), 35-45.
— ‘Two Studies of the York Corpus Christi Play,’ LeedsSE£, ns, 6 (1972), 63-111.
Drake, Francis. Eboracum: or the History and Antiquities of the City of York,
From its Original to the Present Times (London, 1736).
Frampton, Mendal G. ‘The Date of the ‘‘Wakefield Master’: Bibliographical Evi-
xiviil / SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY
dence,’ PMLA 53 (1938), 86-117.
Harvey, John H. ‘Richard 11 and York,’ in F.R.H. Du Boulay and Caroline M. Barron
(eds), The Reign of Richard 11: Essays in Honour of May McKisack (London,
1971), 202-17. ;
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THE RECORDS
festum
corporis christi
The Records
1220-5
Statute Book YM: M1/1/b
it JAY
§ Item inuemiet stellas cum omnibus ad illas pertinencrbus preter
Cirpos quos inueniet episcopus puerorum futurorum ynam in
nocte Natalis domimi pro pastoribus & duas in nocte Epiphanie
si debeat fieri presentacio trium Regum.
1325
Miscellaneous Register YM: M2/4/g
f28v (16 August)
Statuerunt eciamm ad honorem dei quod festum Corporis christi
sub Officio dupplici in Choro & mensa decetero celebretwr.
1343
Constitution of Archbishop de Zouche BI: Reg. 10
f 264* (12 February)
... volentes tamen ... laudem & gloriam dei omnipotentis &
eiusdem domini nostri lesu Christi ... quantum possumus
augmentare ... diem illam celeberimam / videlicet veneris que
dicitur Parasceue ante Pasche ... a vobis omnibusque singulis
nostris subditis vere & digne laudandam / glorificandam /
honorandam / & sanctificandam in nostris Ciuitate & diocesi ac
singulis ecclesiis earumdem / ... auctoritate pontificali indicimus
15
30
Curialitates
Varie expense
Minute &
varie expense
Varie expense
2/ YORK 1343
statuimus ordinamus & decernimus ... Sit itaque dies ista
decetero festiua & festum duplex ... cessent confabulaciones
inhoneste & illiciti tractatus / ordo iudiciarius / & omnis
inordinatus strepitus quiescant ipsa die ... Abstineant se omnes a
ludis . spectaculis . foris / mercimoniis . & mercaturis & ab omni
opere rurali / artificiali / pariter & seruili ab omnique inmundicia
"&" peccato ...
1366
Will of Thomas de Bukton, rector of Rudby YM: L/2/4
£44 (29 November; probated 2 January)
... Item lego ad sustentacionem solempnitatis corporis christi in
Ciuitate Ebor’ singwlis Annis celebrate centum solidos ...
1370
St Leonard’s Hospital Accounts YM: M2/6/c
Hoo"
Et ministrallis in festo Sancti leonardi ij .s. uy .d. ... Et datum
diuersis . hominibus pro . quoddam interludio coram Magistro .
ad Natalem domini . jj -s. ...
1371
York Minster Chamberlains’ Rolls YM: E1/1 MP
mb 2*
... Et Ministrallis in festo translacronis sancti Wille/mi ij .s. iii) .d.
Et eisdem pro .ij. diebus Pentecostis xiij -s. il) .d. ...
YM: E1/2 PM
mb 2
... Et Ministrallis in festo sancti Wille/mi . iij .s. inj .d. ...
1374
York Minster Chamberlains’ Rolls YM: E1/3 MP
mb 2
_.. Et ministrallis die Translacionis sancti Wille/mi .tij. s. .1iij. d.
Et eisdem pro .iiij. diebus Pentecostis xiij. s. iil). divs:
5
10
15
Ps)
30
35
Varie expense
Minute &
varie expense
Testamentum /
Wille/mi de /
Thorp clerk
Curialitates
Led e/S) MOMS Ths
1375
St Leonard’s Hospital Accounts YM: M2/6/c
ie Wscarertick ) ministrallis in festo sancti leonardi iij s. iiij d. ...
York Minster Chamberlains’ Rolls YM: E1/4 MP
mb 2
... Et ministrallis die translacionis Sancti Wille/mi iij s. uij d Et
eisdem per iiij dies Pentecostis xiij s. ij d ...
1376
A/Y Memorandum Book Y: £20
as ag
ffirme Pontis Vse per Custodes eiusdem leuande
f 4v
De vno Tenemento in quo Tres pagine Corporis christi ponuntur
per annu'm’ ij s
York Minster Chamberlains’ Rolls YM: E1/5 PM
mb 3
... Et mimistrallis in festo sancti Wille/mi iij s._.iiij d ...
Will of William de Thorp, clerk YM: Reg. Wills 1 L2/4
£63 (21 November; probated 24 November)
... Item domino . Ricardo . de yhedyngham libros meos de ludis
Si eos velit habere & vnum Almarialum Si velit habere & Si
noluerit illud armarialum lego ecclesie beate Marie ad valuas pro
rebus imponendis. ...
1378
St Leonard’s Hospital Accounts YM: M2/6/c
7
Item datum ministrallis in festo Sancti leonardi ex curialitate i Sess
20-1 De... ij s) over erasure
15
20
25
30
35
40
Minute &
Varie Expense
Curialitates
® quod
compotus de
expensis pena
xs
4/YORK 1378
Item datum j ministrallo ad idem festum precepto Custodis
Vy] dice:
1382
York Minster Chamberlains’ Rolls YM: £1/7 PM
mb 2
Et Ministrallis in festo sancti Willelmi iij s_.iiij d ...
1385
St Leonard’s Hospital Accounts YM: M2/6/c
£74
In curialitatébus facts Ministrallis in festo sancti leonardi vj s
vuj d ... Item ij Ministrallis in festo Purificacionis Marie virginis in
presencia Custodis & ffratrum iiij d ...
1386-7
A/Y Memorandum Book Y: E20
f 38 Tailors
Item les ditz quatre hommes sercheours coilleront chescun an
parmy la Citee lafferant de chescun homme de la dite Arte
qappurtient a lour pagyn de Corpore christi & ferront toutes
les costages & despensur pur sustener & mayntener la dite pagyn
& ent acompt rendront chescun an la tierce dimaigne prochein
apres la dite fest de Corpore christi saunz plus delay sur peyne de
x s apaier a les quatre hommes Sercheours auauntditz lun moite
& lautre moite a la Chaumbre de counseil sur le pount de Vse en
Euerwyk
£40 Tailors
pat pe serchours expen ‘...) in Corpore christi & in al 3ere after
est ij s vil) d sub pena xx s
Item que null Sercheours qui serront ordeinez pur garder &
sercher lartifice auantdit expendront en la coillet de la moneie
en moneie & pur touz autre petit expensez par tout lane jj s
1 idem festum]) Christmas
10
15
25
30
35
Duffeld Catton
& Robertum de
Halton et
Waghen
Minute &
varie expense
@ De pecunia
Magistri Thome
de Bukton
1386-7 YORK /5
viij d saunz pluis & si soit proue que aucun Serchour face
contrary diceste il forfaitra xx s a loeps de la communialtee & a
la supportacion de le lumer suisdite par owels porcione
1387
A/Y Memorandum Book Y: E20
f 163v
Memorandum quod cum quedam discordia nuper mota fuerat
inter Robertum de Waghen Wright ex vna parte & Iohannem de
Duffeld pelter lohannem de Catton pistorem / & Robertum de
Halton littester ac homines de illis tribus artificiis suis ex parte
altera de edificacione & reparacione cuiusdam domus super les
Toftes ad hospitandum paginas suas de Corpore Christi Tamen
sub hac forma concordati sunt videlicet quod predictus Robertus
de Waghen faciet edificare & reparare competenter dictam
, domum’ ad hospitandum tres paginas predictas infra eamdem
(...) festum Pentecostes anno regni Regis Ricardi decimo per
visum Maioris & proborum Ciuitatis ad electionem dicti Maioris
qui tuvc temporis fuit Et ad hoc bene & fideliter tenendum &
perimplendum dictus Robertus de Waghen inuenit Iohannem de
Ruddestan de Ebor’ Barker plegium & manucaptorem qui
quidem Iohannes obligauit se & executores suos ad faciendam
domum predictam si dictus Robertws in edificacione &
reparacione domus predicte defecerit quod absit
York Minster Chamberlains’ Rolls YM: E1/8 MP
mb 2
Et Ministrallis in translacione sancti Willelmi iij .s. .iiij. d Et
eisdem pro .iiij. diebus Pentecosthes xij .s. .iiij. d ...
1388
A/Y Memorandum Book Y: £20
f 164
Memorandum quod Willelmus de Seleby tunc Maior Ebor’
deliberauit Stephano de Yolton de Tollertton .C. s. quos
Magister Thomas de Bukton dedit sub certa forma ad
11 (...)] circa
10
15
25
30
35
40
Minute &
varie expense
6/ YORK 1388
inueniendwm 1iij°t torcheas circa corpus christi in eodem festo
ardentes in processione viij® die Maii anno regni regis Ricardi
secundi post conquestum Anglie xjo. & dictus Stephanus soluet
ad opus luminis predicti vj s. viij d. vsque Purificacionem
proximam et predictus Willelmus de Seleby plegius pro pecunia
predicta
£44 (13 December)
ffletchers
In primis gue nul ffleccher de yceste Citee ne ouerera desormes
ascun dymenche ‘ascunes oueraigne’ appartenant a lour dite
Artifice ne ne mettera ascunes setes boltis nautres lours darres
pur auawnt pur monstrer vender ascune dymenche sur peyne de
xl d appaiez lun moite a la chaumbre & lautre a lour pagent de
corpore christi & ceo a chescun foith qascuns ou ascun entz
serront Ou serra atteyntez . forsque pur mettre les chefs sur les
estes quant busoigne soit noun obstant lordeignawnce suisdite
York Minster Chamberlains’ Rolls YM: E1/9 MP
mb 4*
... Et Ministrallis in fes(..) translacionis sancti Wille/mi «.... ..) pro
lilj. diebus . pentecostis xij s. .illj.d ...
1388-9
Pater Noster Guild PRO: C47/46/454*
(21 January)
... Primo quo ad causam fundacronis dicte fraternitatis: Sciendum
est quod postquam quidam ludus de vtilitate oracionis dominice
compositus in quo ludo quam plura vicia & peccata reprobantur
& virtutes commendantur in ciuitate Ebor’ lusus fuit: talem ac
tantum saporem habuit’ vt quam plures dixerunt. Vtinam iste
ludus in Ciuitate ista gubernaretur in salute animarum & in
consolacionem Ciuium & vicinorum. vnde pro illo ludo futuris
temporibuws in salutem & emendacionem animarum tam
gubernancium quam audiencium illius ludi gubernaturo, fuit
plena & integra causa fundacionis & associacionis contratrum
fraternitatis eiusdem. et ideo onus principale dicte fraternitatis
est? pro illo ludo gubernaturo in maiorem laudem dei dicte
10
15
25
30
35
40
Minute &
varie expense
Minute et
varie expense
® Iste
ordinactones
cancellantur &
alie nove fiunt
que scribuntur
iN NOUO registro
Minute et
varie expense
1388-9 YORK /7
oracionis opificis . & pro peccatis & vicijs reprobandis. ... [tem
tenentur quotienscumque ludus dicte oracionis dominice in
forma ludi in Ciuitate Ebor’ monstratwr cum lusoribus eiusdem
per certas principales stratas ciuitatis Ebor’ equitare & pro
meliori ornatu in sua equitacione habendo in vna secta indui .
& pro dicto ludo pacifice gubernando aliqui eorum tenentur
equitare seu ire cum illis lusoribus quousque dictus ludus totaliter
finiatur. ... Nec pertinent ad dictam fraternitatem terre redditus
nec tenementa vel aliqua alia catalla, excepto solummodo
apparatu pro dicto ludo disposito . qui quidem apparatus ad
aliquem alium usum nisi tantum ad dictum ludum? modicum vel
nichil potest proficere. Et habetur vna cista lignea pertinens ad
dictam fraternitatem pro dicto apparatu inponendo ...
1389
York Minster Chamberlains’ Rolls YM: E1/11 MP
mb 2
__ Et Ministrallis in festo translacionis sancti Wille/mi iij.s. iui). d.
Et eisdem pro .iiij. diebus Pentecostis xii). s. jedi.
YM: E1/14 PM
mb 2*
_.. Et Ministrallis in festo , "Translacronis’ sancti Wille/mi ii) -s.
fii) ds
1390
A/Y Memorandum Book Y: E20
f 46*
Plastrers
[Item que null del Artifice preigne apprentice pwr meyndre terme
que pur vij ans sur peyne de demi Marc a paier .xl.dala
Chaumbre & .xl. d. al oeps de lour pagyne de Corpore christ]
York Minster Chamberlains’ Rolls YM: E£1/12/1 MP
mb 2
... Et Ministrallis in festo translacionis sancti Wille/mi ij. s. iii. d
190
Ne)
30
35
40
Minute &
varie expense
Minute &
varie expense
De ludo
corporis christi
plus in /
secundo folio
sequent
Minute &
varie expense
8 / YORK 1390
Et eisdem pro . .iiij. diebus . Pentecostis xiij. s. ilifed':.
YM: E1/15 PM
mb 2
... Et Ministrallis in festo sancti Willelmi iij. s. .iiij. d. ...
1391
York Minster Chamberlains’ Rolls YM: 1/17 MP
mb 2*
... Et Ministrallis in festo translacionis sancti Willelmi ¢...) iiij (.)
Et eisdem (...) iii}. diebus pentecostis . xij. s. iiij. d ...
1394
A/Y Memorandum Book Y: E20
f17v* (28 April)
Eodem die concordatum est quod omnes pagine corporis christi
ludent in locis antiquitws assignatis & non alibi sed vt sicut
premunientur per Maiorem Ballivos & Ministros suos vt si qua
pagina incontrarium fecerit gentes artificij dicte pagine soluent ad
opus communitatis in camera maioris vj s. viij d
York Minster Chamberlains’ Rolls YM: £1/19 MP
mb 1
... Et Ministrallis in festo translacionis sancti Wille/m1i ij. s.
duj. d. ... Et Ministrallzs pro .1j. diebus Pentecostis xij .s.
mi de.
1395
A/Y Memorandum Book Y: E20
f 20v (30 December) Bowers
Les queux forfaitours serrount leuez & paiez de ceaux que
ferrount a contraire des ditz ordeignawnces a quaunt de foitz
qils serrount trouez en defaut cest assauoir lune moite des ditz
forfaitours al oeps de la Communealtee de la Citee Deuerwyk en
la Chaumbre de counseil & lautre moite a gouerner lour pagyne
10
15
20
25
30
35
40
Minute &
varie expense
Expense in festo
de Corpore
Christi cum
donis Ministrallis
dominorum de
toto Anno xj s
vyjd
Minute Expense
Minute &
varie expense
TO SeY ORs /29
de louwr Artifice auawntdite
York Minster Chamberlains’ Rolls YM: E1/22 PM
mb 2
... Et Ministrallis in festo sancti Wille/mi ij. s..ilij. d. ...
1396
City Chamberlains’ Rolls Y: C1:1
mb 1
Item computatum pro Steynyng de 1j°t pannis ad opus pagine
ilj s. Et in portacione reportacione Meremi ad barras coram
Rege ij s jd [Et pro <....) barre] Et viij portitoribus ducentibus
& mouentibus paginam v s. ilij d Et pro vexillo nouo cum
apparatu xij. s 1j.d. Et ludentibus xv.s uij.d Et in pane
ceruisza vino & carnibus & focalizs pro maiore & probis
homunibus in die ad ludum .xviij. s viij d. Et Ianitori Sancte
Trinitatis pro pagina hospitanda iiij d. Et ministrallis in festo de
Corpore Christi xii] s. iiij. d. Et pro clauis ferri ad emendacionem
pagine vd. Et pro xx fursperres ad barras predictas coram Rege
vs xd. Et Roberto Paton pro factura pagine in opere
carpentario per duos dies xij d. Et pro pictwra paginis ij. s Et
pro xix Sapplynges emptis de Iohanne de Crauen pro barris
predictis vj s viij d Et Wille/mo de Warneby Carpenterio pro
opere suo ibidem iilj .s. ij d
Summa iiij li. xj s. vj d.
Et Ministrallis domini Regis ac aliorum dominorum
supervenientibus vij li. vij s. iiij d
Summa (blank)
Summa vij li. vij s. iiij d.
Et pro ij pellibus pergameni tempore billarum corporis christi vy) d.
York Minster Chamberlains’ Rolls YM: £1/23 MP
mb 2
... Et Ministrallis in festo translacionis sancti Willelmi ii. ‘S.
10
15
20
25
30
35
40
Minute & varie
Minute &
varie expense
Minute et
varie expense
10 / YORK 1396
-lnij. d. ... Et Ministrallis pro .iiij. diebus Pentecostis KV ]).S.
Vil} d..:.
YM: E1/24 PM
mb 3
... Et Ministrallis in festo sancti Willelmi x. s. ...
1397
York Minster Chamberlains’ Rolls YM: £1/10 MP
mb 2
... Et Ministrallzs in festo translaciomis sancti Wille/mi iij .s. iiij d
... Et Ministrallis in festo sancti Wille/mi vj .s. viij .d. Et eisdem
pro .ij). diebus . Pentecostis xxvj .s. vilj .d. ...
1398
A/Y Memorandum Book Y: £20
f 34v Saddlers
... Et que desormes la moyte de touz ditz forfaitours de lour
Artifice & ordeignawnce come desuis est dit soient paiez as
Serchours & gouernours [de lour dit Artifice] de lowr dit Artifice
pur suppoweler lour pagyne de corpore Christi & en Autres
besoignes dycelles ou lowr mieltz semblera ...
York Minster Chamberlains’ Rolls YM: E1/27 MP
mb 2*
... Et Ministrallis in festo translacionis sancti Willelmi vj. s. viij. d.
Et eisdem pro .iiij. diebus Pentecostis xxvj .s. vilj.d , Et
eisdem ex curialitate capitwli hac vice (.....) xiij.s. illj.d° ...
1399
A/Y Memorandum Book Y: E20
f 19v
‘De ordinacione ludi coporis christi Anno regni regis Ricardi
secundi xxij® et plus de eodem in secundo folio precedenti &
de torcheis , “‘bonorum hominum’ habendis in iilj. folzo
precedenti . & de Buklermakers et Shethers in viij® folio
precedenti & de pagina de moyses & Pharao . in cxijm° folio
10
15
20
25
30
3S
40
1399 YORK/ 11
sequenti et ordo paginarum in fine huius libri:t
Al honurables hommes le meir & les Aldermans de la Citee
Deuerwyk Suppliount les Comunes demesme la Citee que com ils
fount grawndes espences & costages entour le Iuer & les pagentz
de la iowr de Corpore / christi / les queux ne purrount estre 1u€z
ne perfournez mesme le iour solounc ceo com ils deuerount estre
a cause que les pagentz suisditz sount jueez en si plusowrs lieux a
graunde damage & disease a les ditz comunes & ales Estraungers
repairauncez a la dite Citee mesme le iour pur mesme la cause
que pleise a vous considerer que les ditz pagentz sount
mayntenez & sustenez par les Comunes & Artificers demesme la
Citee en honour & reuerence nostreseignour Jesu Crist & honour
& profitt de mesme la Citee defaire ordeigner que les pagentz
suisditz soient jueez en les lieux quelles furent limitez & assignez
par vous & les » “comunes’ suisditz deuawnt ces houres les quelles
lieux sount annexis a y ceste bille en vne cedulle . “ou en autres
lieux chescun ane al disposicion & volunte de le mair & conseil
de la chambre” et que il ou ascun qui encountre les ordeignances
& estabilismentz auantditz ferra ou ferrount encourge ou
encourgent en payne de xl s. pur estre forfait a la Chaumbre de
counsale de la dite Citee . & que si ascuns de les pagentz suisditz
soient targiez ou delaiez par defaut ou neccligence de les luers
gils encourgentz en payne de vj s. viij d a mesme la chaumbre
Et ces matiers suisditz suppliount quelles soient perfourneez ou
autrement la dite Iue ne serra my lueez par les comunes suisditz.
Et ces priount pur dieu & en ouere de charitee pur le profitte de
les ditz Comunes & de les Estraungers repairauncez a la dite Citee
a lonowr (..) dieu & nuresaunce de charitee parentre mesme les
comunes
Loca vbi ludus Corporis christi erit lusus In primis ad portas
sancte Trinitatis in Mikelgate . Secundo ad ostium Roberti
Harpham . Tercio ad ostium lohannis de Gyseburne Quarto apud
Skeldergatehend & Northstrethend . Quinto ad finem de
Conyngstrete versus le Castelgate . Sexto ad finem de lubretgate
Septimo (..) ostium Henrzci Wyman in Conyngstrete . Octauo ad
finem de Conyngstrete iuxta Aulam Communem Nono ad ostium
Ade del Brigg . Decimo ad portas Monasterii beati petri .
Vndecimo ad finem de Girdlergate in Petergate . Duodecimo
super Pauiamentum
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32-3 apud... Northstrethend] m same band as marginal heading over erasure
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Et ordinatum est quod vexilla ludi cum armis ciuitatis
liberentur °‘in vigilia corporis christi’ * per maiorem ponenda in
locis vbi erit ludus paginarum & quod vexilla ipsa annuatim in
crastino Corporis christi reportentur ad cameram ad manus
maioris & camerariorum ciuitatis . & ibidem custodiantur per
totum annum sequentem sub pena vj s. viij d. soluendorum ad
opus communitatis per illum et illos qui vexilla illa vltra
crastinum illum detinuerint & ea non liberauerint modo quo
pretertur.
f16v (27 April)
Memorandum quod vicesimo septimo die Aprilis Anno regni
Regis Ricardi secundi post conquestum Anglie vicesimo secundo
ordinatum f(..... concordatum in Gilda Aula coram Maiore
Vicecomitibus & Aldermannis Ciuitatis Ebor’ cum consensu
tocius Communitatis tunc ibidem congregate quod omnes
homines qui habent & qui habebunt ex nunc garniamenta
estiualia de secta liberacionis estiualis proborum hominum
Ciuitatis predicte quod quilibet eorum eat cum maiore & probis
hominibus in festo corporis christi in processione vsque ecclesiam
Sancti Petri & ad hospitale sancti leonardi & quod quilibet
eorum habeat torcheam suam portatam & illuminatam ante
dictam processionem singulis Annis in festo predicto et qui
defecerit in hac parte soluet ad opus Communitatis vj s. vil} d
York Minster Chamberlains’ Rolls YM: E1/29 MP
mb 2
... Et Ministrallis in festo translacionis sancti Wille/mi vj. s.
vilj. d. Et eisdem pro .iiij. diebus . Pentecostis xxvj.s. .viij. d
_‘Et eisdem ex curialetate (.) & capituli . hac vice . .xiij. s.
Ayedy “2
Pater Noster Guild Account Roll
Lucy Toulmin Smith, ed., York Plays, xxix*
_.. sed dictus Johannes dicit se expendisse in diuersis expensis
circa ludum Accidie ex parte Ric. Walker ijs. jd., ideo de predicto
petit allocari ...
15 f(....)) fuic &
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15
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25
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35
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varie expense
Minute &
varie Expense
De la pagyne de
moyses &
pharao &c
hosyers
Plus in xvij
folio in
presenc: libro
1401 YORK / 13
1401
A/Y Memorandum Book Y: E20
£42* (7 July) Spurriers and Lorimers
[... nul Esperoner ne lorymer de la dite citee ou les suburbes
dicell par lui ne par <...) servant ouer ou face ouerer en autre
Artifice mais soulement Esporoner ceo que affiert a son artifice
& lorymer ce que affiert a son myster sur peyne de xiij s iii) d
appaier par celly qui face la contrarie dicell ordeignance
Cestassauoir lune moite au mair & Communialtee de la dite
Citee & lautre moite al oeps del pagyne des Artifices & mystiers
suisditz ...|
‘Memorandum quod xii° die maij tempore Ricardi york Maioris
additum fuit quod le hatmakers istius Ciuitatis sint contributory
pagine artis predicte et soluerunt absque contradiccione sub pena
eiusdem xl d°
1402
York Minster Chamberlains’ Rolls YM: E1/34 MP
mb 2
... Et mimistrallis in festo Translacionis sancti Willelmi vj. s.
Vilj.d. Et eisdem pro .iujor. diebus Pentecostis xxvj.s. .viij.d. ...
YM: E1/36 PM
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... Et Ministrallis in festo sancti Wille/mi .vj. s. .viij. d. ...
1403
A/Y Memorandum Book Y: £20
£148v (8 May)
ffait a remembre que le viijm¢ iowr de May lan du regne
notreseignour le Roy henry quart puis le conquest dengleterre
quart accorde est & assentu deuawnt le Maior de la Citee
deuerwyk les Chaumbreleyns & autres bones gentz de mesme la
Citee en la Chaumbre de counseil sur le pount de Ouse en
Euerwyk entre les gentz de Drapercraft et les gentz de
Hosyercraft Deuerwyk que touz hosyers qui vendount chaunces
ou facent chaunces a vendre ouesque les vphalderes quels
vendount drape de leyne dasore enauaunt aueront la charge del
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Tondours
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pagyne de Moyses & Pharao &c en la Iue de corpore christi
horspris les Dubbers & ceux qui sount assignez a eux.
York Minster Chamberlains’ Rolls yM: &1/37 MP
mb:2*
... Et Ministrallis in festo translacionis sancti Willelmi . vj. s.
vil]. d. Et eisdem pro .iiij. diebus Pentecostis xx. s. Et eisdem in
festo sancti Wille/mi feria .vja. Pentecostis vj. s. viij. d. ...
1405
A/Y Memorandum Book Y: E20
ff 42v-3
Ceux sount les constituciones & ordeignawnces ordeignez par
touz les meistres del Artifice des Toundours de la Citee deuerwyk
a le fest(.) de Chaundelowr en [an le roy henry le quart puys le
conquest dengleterre sisme
En primes pur ceo que graundes damages & perdes tutdys ount
cheiez en mesme lartifice des draps quels ne sount my duement
ouerez Ordeigne est & assentu par lassent & consent de touz les
meistres del dit Artifice que desore en auaunt les sercheouwrs du
dit artifice presenterount au mair de la dice Citee les defautes
trouez & approuez par les ditz Sercheours & deux autres
sufficeauntz meistres de mesme lartifice elieux pur iuger le
defaute oue quy le defaut est troue que celluy gest troue en le
defaut paiera iij s iiij d lune moite a la Chaumbre de counseil &
lautre moite & lautre moite a lowr pagyne de corpore christi sil
soit que ceaux qount la damage soi pleignet & presentent la
damage
Et auxi que chescun meistre qui preigne apprentice en mesme
lartifice paiera pur chescun apprentice al son entre al oops de
lour pagyne xij d Et celluy gest troue rebell | et ne voelt my
paier les ditz xij d qil paiera iij s iiij d en la manere au[a]ntdite
Et auxi que en chescun an que le Mair enuoiera la bille de lour
pagyne de Corpore christi as gentz del dit artifice sicome est la
custume de la Citee touz les Meistres du dit artifice
34 -ntice al son] covered by patch
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assemblerount en certain place par le temps assigne & illeoques
ordeigneront pur lour pagyne & lour lumer & les poyntes & la
arraie dicelle / et celluy gest troue rebell enuers la assemble come
desuis est dit & les ditz ordeignawnces paiera 1ij s_ iil) d come
deuaunt (blank) est dit
York Minster Chamberlains’ Rolls YM: E1/38 PM
mb 2
... Et Ministrallis in festo sancti Wille/mi xij. s. .ilj. d. ...
1408
Corpus Christi Guild Register Bi: Lansdowne MS 403
ble ye
Prima Constitutio Ordinamus quod in festo corporis christi .
omnes capellami in superpellicijs transiant in procescione modo
honesto processionaliter antiquitatis ordine nisi ratzonabiliter
possint excusari, Et vt cultus Dei venerabilivs augeatur, vt
sacerdotium dignius habeatur, ac per hec populus conueniencius
ad devocionem excitetur, Ordinamus quod sex magistri vel
eorum duo ad minus pro temporibus suis ad ceterorum
distinccionem In omni processione generali virgulas portabunt
dealbatas, qui alios in huiusmodi processionibus regere habent,
considerando vt tantus sit solidus et deuotus . Incessus debitus,
ordinatus & maturus ad laudem dei, honestatem sacerdocii,
edificaclonem ac bonum exemplum tocius popwli christiani
maxime autem ad honorem dei & ciuitatis Ebor’.
fas
vij Ordivamus quod in processione Corporis christi decem
lumivaria magna deferantur coram sacramento & sex solummodo
processionaliter coram corpore confratris defuncto, Et quod
quilibet confrater & soror soluat quolibet anno proximo
quarterio ante festum Corporis christi ad minus duos denarios ad
dictorum luminariorum sustenacionem
32 vij) rubric
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1410
A/Y Memorandum Book Y: £20
f285v (26 January)
Marsshals
Item it is ordand pat pe Pad3hand Maistres of pe said crafte
‘sall warn all be crafte’ als oftetymes als pai sall be charged be
pe sayd Sercheours apon pe payn of xx d forto be payd in be
fourme beforsayd
1411-12
A/Y Memorandum Book Y.: £20
ff 65v, 68* Bakers
... Ideo ut abusus predictus | tollatwr de cetero ordinatum est
& firmiter stabilituy quod nullus pistor ciuitatis aut aliquis de
suis portet vel portari faciat extva loca sua aliquod genus panis
venalis ad domos fenestras vel habitaczones alicuius regratarii
infra ciuitatem istam vel suburbia e1usdem sub pena iij s_ 11 d
vsul communitatis & artificio pistorum ad sustentacionem pagine
sue & aliorwm onerum suorum equis porcionibus applicandorum
tociens quociens contra ista ordinacionem presumpserit
attemptare. ...
f21v Plasterers
Item que nulle del Artifice preigne apprentice pur meyndre terme
que pur vij ans sur ¢.............. ) apaier xl d. a la chaumbre & xl d. al
oeps de lour pagyne de Corpore christi
1415
A/Y Memorandum Book Y: E20
ff 252v-5"
Ordo paginarum , ‘ludi’ Corporis Christi tempore Wille/mi Alne
Collation (E20 f 285v with E22 f 148): marginalia pachent] to gyve warning
5 Marsshals] omitted 7 after said) [Cytie] 8after be] saide 8 als...
als] as...as 9 forto] to 9 pe] omitted 10 beforsayd] afforesaid
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Maioris Anno regni Regis Henrici quinti post conquestum Anglie
tercio °compilatus per Rogerum Burton clericum communem in
anno domini millesimo ccccxvm0 Registravit°
‘Deliuerande Sunt Sedule Paginarwm subsequenter in forma .
subscripta . artificizs Per vj. Seruientes Maioris ad clauam prima
vel ja. septimana xl™a. Annuatim scribende per Communem
Clericum> +
Tannouwrs
Plasterers
Cardemakers
ffullers
Coupers
eArmoutrers°
°Glouers°
Gaunters
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Deus pater ommipotens creans &
formans celos Angelos & archangelos
luciferum & angelos qui cum eo
ceciderunt in infernum
Deus pater in sua substancia creans
terram & Ommia que in ea sunt per
spacium v dierum
Deus pater formans Adam de lymo
terre & faciens Euam de costa Ade &
inspirans €0s spiritu vite
Deus prohibens Adam & Euam ne
comederent de ligno vite
Adam & Eua & arbor inter eos serpens
decipiens eos cum pomis Deus loquens
eis & maledicens serpentem & angelus
cum gladio eiciens eos de paradiso
Adam & Eua Angelus cum vanga & colo
assignans eis laborem
Abel & Kaym immolantes victimas
5-8 Deliuerande ... Clericums) in top left band margin around headings ‘Tannours’
and ‘Plasterers’.
10-13 Deus... infernum] over erasure 16 terram] over erasure
16 ea} over erasure
17 v dierum) over erasure
20-1 de... spiritu) partly over erasure 28 angelus] erasure follows
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Shipwrightes
*ffyshmongers°
Pessoners &
Mariners
Parchemyners
Bukbynders
Hosyers
Spicers
-Pewterers
ffounders
*Peuderes
ffoundouwrs
Tylers
Chaundellers
11 (...)| deserto Pharao
19 (...)] dimittere
22 (...)] e dimettere eam
29 -pastoribus +] over erasure
Deus premuniens Noe facere archam de
lignis leuigatis
Noe in Arche & vxor eius tres filij Noe
cum vxoribus suis cum diuersis
animalibus
Abraham immolans filiu7 suum -Isaac°
super altare garcio cum bosco & angelus
Moyses exaltans serpentem in (...) Rex
vilj ludei admirantes (...)
° “doctor declarans dicta prophetarum
de nativitate Christi futura’ ° sMaria°
Angelus salutans eam Maria salutans
Elizabeth
*Maria® Iosep volens ¢...) eam (...) vt
transeant vsque Bedlem:
Maria losep volens occult ¢...) angelus
eis loquens ut transeant vsque
bethleem°|
Maria [cum <... .... )] Ioseph . obstetrix /
puer natus siacens iv presepio® inter
bouen & azinum & angelus loquens
spastoribus* & ludentibus in pagina
sequente /
Pastores loquentes adinuicem ‘stella in
oriente: / Angelus nuncians pastoribus
gaudium de puero nato*
12 (...)] et expectantes
19 (...)) angelus eis loquens
27 siacens in presepio-] over erasure
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quadam °
*Goldsmy thes *
Orfeuers °Masons°
Goldbeters
Monemakers
Domus sancti
leonardi
slam Masons°
Marsshals
Girdellers
Naylers -Sawiers:
Sporiers
Lorymers
Barbours
°Vynters>
*Smythes:
ffeuers
Couureouwrs
8 -quadams] for quondam
17 <...)] consiliarii Regis et
19 (...)| in templo in medio
21 (...)] -ientes in templo
23 (...)] administrantes
Donk
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Tres Reges venientes ab oriente /
herodes interogans eos de puero lIesu
° "& filius herodis’ * & duo considiarij
& nuncius /./? Maria cum puero &
stella desuper & tres Reges offerentes
[(...)] munera
Maria cum puero Iosep Anna obstetrix
cum pullis columbarwm Symeon
recipiens puerum in vinas suas & duo
filij Symeonis
Maria cum puervo & losep fugientes in
Egiptwm Angelo nunciante
Herodes preci ¢...) 0f milites cum lanceis
duo (...) 111) mulieres deflentes (...)
lesus °, ‘Doctores puer’ ° sedens (...)
eorum interrogans eos & respondens
(...) querentes eum , “&™ inuen (...)
lesuws lohannes ‘...) angeli ¢...)
Iesws Maria ¢...) clinws cum fam (...)
vertitur (...)
Jesus (...) temptans eum (...)
Petrus Iacobus & Iohannes Iesus
ascendens in montem & transfigurans
(...) apparentes et (...)
16 (...)] -piens pueros occidi iiij-
17 (...)] occisionem puerorum suorum
21 (..)) eis ij Judei Maria et Josep
23 (...)] Baptista baptizans eum et ij
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.--) clinus] sponsus cum sponsa Architri-
25 fam (...)] -ulia sua cum vj ydreis aque vbi 26 (...)] aqua in vinum
28 (...)] super Pynaculum templi et diabolus
28 (...)] cum lapidibus et ij angeli administrantes
31-2 Petrus ... & transfigurans] over erasure 33 (...)] se ante eos Moyses et Elyas
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lrenmiongers { ° lesws’ * Simon (...) i discipuli Maria
Magdalena ¢...) lacrimis (...)
Plummers { lesws (...) mulier deprehensa in adulterio
Patenmakers 10° Judei accusantes eam |
Pouchemakers (I ayes ;
or Y
Nareling ee ll} apostoli] lazarus in
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Capmakers Sepulcre Maria Magdalena & Martha &
()] i) ludei admirantes
lesus super asinum cum pullo suo xij
‘lj apostoli sequentes leswm sex
*Skynners° diuites & sex pauperes viij pueri cum
°Vestmentmakers ° ramis palmaruwm cantantes Benedictus
&c. & Zacheus ascendens in aborem
sicamorui
Cuttellers
Bladesmyth
Shethers Pylatus Cayphas duo Milites tres Iudei>
Scalers [¢...)] °&° Iudas vendens Iesum
Buklermakers
*Horners°
, agnus paschalis” Cena Domini: xij
Hele apostoli lesus precinctus lintheo lauans
edes eorum [agnus paschalis] institucio
Waterleders* P : lag hes
sacramenti corporis christi in noua lege
Communio apostolorum
Pilatus Cayphas Annas xiilij Milites
: armati Malcus °[Iesu] ° Petrus lacobus
Cordwaners
Iohannes °'Iesus ° & Iudas <...)ns
°"lesum’ ° & tradens eum
1 (...)] leprosus rogans Jesu vt manducaret cum eo
2 (...)] lauans pedes Jesu 2 (...)] suis et capillis suis tergens
4 (...)] duo apostoli
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34 (...)ns] osculans
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...)] Herodes
12 (...) in margin] Cukes
13 (...)\ans] reportans
17 (...) in margin) Tielmakers
24 I¢...)] Lesus
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n~onre
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(...) nas Cayphas et iiijo Iudei
percucientes [et] col(...)antes *leswm
Petrus Mulier accusans Petrum &
Malchus°
(...) Pilatus Annas Cayphas duo consiliarij
& iij°! Tudei accusantes leswm
iij Iudei
(...) Anna [(..)] Cayphas duo Iudei &
Judas (...)ans eis Xxx argenteos
° lesus: (...)s Cayphas Anna sex milites
tenentes hastas cum vexillis & alij
quattuor ducentes Iesum ab herode
petentes Baraban dimitti & lesumm
crucifigi & ibidem ligantes & flagellantes
eum ponentes coronam spineam super
caput elus tres milites mittentes sorte
supper vestem lesu
I...) sanguine cruentatus portans
crucem versus Caluariam Symon
Sereneus / Iudei angt....es eum vt
tolleret crucem maria mater Ieswm
Iohannes apostolus intimans tunc [(..)]
prime dampnacionem & transitum filii
sul °, “ad Caluariam ° Veronica tergens
sanguinem & sudorem . de facie Iesu
cum flammeolo in quo imprimitur
facies lesu & alie mulieres lamentantes
lesum |
col(...)antes] colaphizantes
(...)] Jesus
(...) in margin] Littesters
woweoan
consiliarii] -liarii over erasure
12 (...)] Pilatus
15 (...)s] Pilatus
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Pynners
Latoners.
Payntouwrs
Bouchers
Pulters
eSaddellers:
Sellers
Glasiers °
Verrours
ffuystowrs
Carpenters
lunours Cartwrights
Caruours Sawers°
Wyndrawers
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“Crux’ ° Iesws extensus in ea super
terram / iijot Tudei flagellantes &
trahentes eum cum funibus et postea
exaltantes crucem & corpus Iesu cruci
conclauatum super montem caluarie
Crux duo latrones crucifixi: Iesus
suspensus in cruce inter eos Maria
mater Iesu Iohannes Maria Iacobi &
Salome longeus [longeus} cum lancea
seruus cum spongea Pilatus Anna
Cayphas Centurio Joseph °, “ab
Aramathia’ * & Nichodemus deponentes
[mortem (...) lesu] ’eusm> & ponentes
{eum} in sepulcro
lesus spolians infernum xij spiritus boni
et vj mali
*Centurio declarans Pilato Cayphe &
Anne °, ‘cum alijs Iudeis’ ° signa
apparencia im mortem lesu, ° Iesws
resurgens de sepulcro quatuor milites
armati [(..)] & tres marie lamentantes
Pilatus Cayphas & Anna <Iuuenis sedens
ad sepulcrum indutus albo loquens
mulzeribus ¢
Iesws Maria Magdalena cum aromatibus
1 ea] over erasure
3-5 et postea ... caluarie] over erasure
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Broggours
Wolpakkers
*Wadmen>
Escriueners
Lumners
*Pardoners:°
Questours
Dubbers
Tailly<...)°
Talliaunders
Potters
Drapers
*-Lynweuers°
Weuers of
Wollen:
eHostilers°
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10 *Tailly(...)*m margin) Taillyoures
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lesws ‘lucas & Cleophas in forma
peregrinorum °
lesws Petrus Iohannes (...) Phillipus
& alij Apostoli cum parte piscis assi
& fauo (...) Thomas apostolus palpans
vulnera lesu
Maria Iohannes Euangelista xj apostoli
ij angeli Iesws ascendens coram eis &
ij" angeli portantes nubem
Maria duo angeli xj apostoli & spiritus
sanctus descendens super eos & 11j9°
ludei admirantes
lesws Maria Gabriell cum 1) angelis duo
virgines & tres Iudei de (...) vilj apostohi
& 1 diaboli
Quatuor Apostoli ¢...) Marie et fergus
pendens super feretrum (...) is ludeis
scum vno Angelo:
Maria ascendens cum turba angelorum
vil} apostoli & Thomas de India
, apostolus’ predicans in deserto ././
°’Maria’ ° lesuws coronans “eam
(...) rum cantan(.) |
5 (...)] Jacobus
7 apostolus| over erasure
20 (...)] cognacione Marie
23 (...)) portantes feremum
24 (..)| sum jj ali-
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31 (...)] cum turba angelo-
32 cantan(.)} cantans
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cum tubis & ij’ cum corona
Mercers lancea & ij flagellis iiijor spiritus
boni & iiijoT spiritws maligni & vj
diaboli
Portours vilj torchee —Chaloners lll) torchee
Coblers lilj torchee __ffullers iil) torchee
Cordwaners xillj torchee _—_Girdellers torchee
Cottellers ij torchee — Taillowrs torchee
"Weuere> Et lviij ciues ciuitatis
mh *lilj ° torchee sae :
seruauntz habuerunt torcheas similiter die
Carpenters vj torchee corporis christi
Ordinatum est quod Portours Coblers eant antea primo /
Et tunc a dexteris Webstersevuauntz & Cordwaners /
Et ex opposito ffullers cuttellers Girdellers Chaloners
Carpenters Taillowrs Et tunc boni ciues et postea xxiiij xij Maior
& uj torchee Magistri Thome de Bukton
Proclamacio ludi corporis christi facienda in vigilia corporis
christi.
Oiez &c. We comand of pe kynges be halue and pe Mair & be
shirefs of bis Citee bat no man go armed in pis Citee with swerdes
ne with carlill axes ne none othir defences in distourbaunce of be
kynges pees & pe play or hynderyng of pe processioun of
Corpore christi and pat pai leue pare hernas in bare Ines saufand
knyghtes and sqwyers of wirship pat awe haue swerdes borne
eftir bame of payne of forfaiture of baire Wapen & inprisonment
of baire bodys and pat men pat brynges furth [..] pacentes pat
pai play at the places pat is assigned berfore and nowere elles of
pe payne of forfaitwre to be raysed pat is ordayned “...) *yat ys
to say xl s’ ° And pat men of craftes & all othir men pat fyndes
torches pat pai com furth in array & in be manere as it (...) &
customed be fore pis tyme noght haueyng wapen “...) pers of be
pagentz and officers pat ar kepers (...) of payne of forfaiture of
paire | fraunchis and paire bodyes to prison And , ‘yat’ «all
maner of craftmen pat bringe[th] furthe ther pageantez in order
11 -Weueres, silij*] over erasure 31 (...)] perfore
31 yat] under patch 33 (...)] has been used
34 (...) pers] careynge tapers (Toulmin Smith, xxxiv); saveyin keepers (Drake, xxxij)
35 (...)] of pe pees
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35
1415 YORK / 25
& course by good players well arayed & openly spekyng vpon
payn of lesyng of C s to be paid to the chambre withoute any
pardon And that euery player that shall play be redy in his
pagiaunt at covvenyant tyme that is to say at the mydhowre
betwix iiijth & vth of the cloke in the mornyng & then all oyer
pageantes fast folowyng ilkon after oyer as yer course is witout
Tarieng sub peva facienda camere ,vj s viij d, °
Barkers
Plasterers
Cardemakers
Walkers
Coupers
fourbours
Glouers
Shipwrights
fysshemangers
Maryners
Parchemeners
hosyers
Spicers
foundours
Tielers.
Chaundelers
°"Masons
Goldsmy ths
Sancti Leonardi
slam Masons°
Marsshals
Gyrdelers
Sporyers
Barbours
Tauerners
Smyths
Corureours
Irenmangers
Plummers
Hartshorners
Skynners
Cuttellers
Bakers
Creacio celi & terre
Operacio quinque dierum
formacio Ade & Eue
prohibicio ligni sciencie
Decepcio diaboli iv serpente
Assignacio laboris Ade
Cain occidens Abel.
fabricacio Arce Noe.
Arca noe per diluuium
Immolacio Isaac per Abraham
pharao cum moise & filii israel.
Annuvciacio marie per Gabriele.
loseph volens dimittere eam occulte
Bethleem cum puero nato.
Presentacio pastorum
Herod interogans iij reges’ °
Oblacio trium regu
presentacio christi in templo
Qualiter christus fugit in Egiptum
Occisio innocentum pro christo
Inuentio christi in templo inter doctores
Baptizacio christi per lohannem
Nupcie iv chana galilee
Temptacio christi in deserto
Transfiguracio christi
conulue in domo simonis
Mulier capta iv adulterio
Suscitacio Lazari
lerusalem cum ciuibus & pueris
Vendicro christi per Iudas
Cena christi cum discipulis
10
15
in
wn
30
35
40
shostlerss
shostlers¢
26 / YORK 1415
Waterleders
Cordwaners
Bowers
Tapiters.
lyttesters
Cukes
Sausmakers
Tylemakers
Turnours bollers
Shermen.
Milners.
Payntours
latoners.
Bouchers.
Sadelers.
Wryghts.
Wynedrawers.
Wolpakkers.
Scryueners
Taylours
Potters
Drapers
Masons
Weuers
Maior &c.
Mercers
Potters
Glouers
Smyths
“Weuers”
Corpus christi
Wille/mus Selby pro anima
magistri Thome Bukton
ffisshers
1 ap(...)]| apostolorum under patch
3 Ca(...)] Caypha under patch
17 Magdal<...)] Magdalene
lauacio pedum ap\...)
Capcro christi orantis in <...)
Illusio °"perryng’ © christi coram Cat...)
Accusacio *‘accunsyng’ ° christi coram P%...
Presentacio christi coram Herode
Penitencio Iude coram iudeis
Suspensio iude
Condempnacio christi per pilatum.
fflagellacro & coronacio cum spinis /
Ductio christi & ostensio Veronice
Particio vestimentorum christi.
Expansio & clauacio christi
leuacio christi super montem.
Mortificacio christi super caluare.
Spoliacro inferni.
Resurreccio christi
Apparicio christi Marie Magdal<...)
Apparicio Christi peregrinis
Apparicio christi Thome apostolo & alijs
Ascensio christi in celum
Descensio spiritus sancti
Transitus beate marie
Portacio corporis marie
Assumpcio beate marie
Coronacio eiusdem
ludicium finale
‘Burton Registravit°
vil] torchee
il) torchee
ij torchee
vulj torchee
x torchee
ij torchee
ij torchee
2 (...)] Monte under patch
4 P(...)] Pilato under patch
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TS:
20
25
30
35
Pecunia torchets
Expense maiores
Ornamenta &
vtensilia
fraternitatis.
Signa
Castella.
Vexilla.
1416 YORK / 27
1416
Corpus Christi Account Rolls Y:C99:1
mb 1*
Et de .x. s receptis per dominum Thomam Bolton
Et de viij. s. vj d receptis per dominum Henricum Wresill
Et de v. s ij d receptis per dominum Robertum Burdon
Et de viij. s. ij. d receptzs per dominum Iohannem Helperby.
Et de x. s. receptis per dominum Wille/mum Brigge.
Et de vj. s. x. d receptis per dominum Walterum Buttirwyk.
Summa xl. viij. s. x. d.
De quibus ij.dem custodes computant / In primis pro renouacione
Jj. torchearum videlicet pro xviij libris cere iS:
Et pro factura eorundem ij. S.
Item solut. decem viris portantibus decem torcheas in festo
Corporis christi ad processionem cuilibet .iiij. d. ij s uy. d
Item solut. eisdem pro portacione dictorum torchearum ab
hospitale Sancte Trinitatis vsque ad monasterium Sancte
Trinitatis ij. d
Item solut. eisdem ad potacionem in festo Corporis christi _ iiij. d
mb 1d
Item ijdem Custodes respondent de decem torcheis pertinentibus
dicte fraternitati ob reuerenciam Corporis christi
Summa torchearum .x.
Et de Sex signis depictis cum calicibus ponendis super sex
torcheas coram defunctis
Summa signorum vj.
Et de decem Castellis depictis . cum decem paruis pokettis de
Canuas pro eisdem cooperiendis
Summa Castellorum .x.
Et de xl. vexillis depictis . cum j poket de Canuas pro eisdem
includendis cum papiris
Summa vexillorum xl.
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25
30
35
40
Sanappe
Roundelettes
Reuettes.
De gubernacione
ludi coports
christi
28 / YORK 1416
Et de x. Sanappis de Canuas pro portacione dictorum decem
torchearum in processione Corporis christi
Summa sanapparum .x.
Et de ij. duodenis instrumentis ligneis scilicet Roundeletes pur
le Reuettes superponendis
Summa Roundelettes xxx. vj.
Et de xl. Reuettes receptis de predecessoribus
Et de xl. Reuettes nouis emptis
1417
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ff 187v-8* (7 June)
Omnes isti congregati fuerunt in aula communi vna cum
multitudine aliorwm ciuium vijM° die mensis Iunij Anno domini
millesimo ceccxvijm° Regni autem regis henrici quinti post
conquestum anglie Anno quinto & licet contineatur in quadam
constitucione seu ordinacione antiqua facta tempore Roberti
Talkan dudum Maioris Ebor’ Anno regii regis Ricardi secundi
xxijd0 & ibidem perlecta de ludo in festo corporis christi in
ciuitate Ebor’ sustinendo . videlicet quod ob comodum ciuium
eiusdem ciuitatis & omnium extraneorum illuc veniencium in
festo predicto omnes pagine ludi vocati Corpus christi play sint
sustentate & producte suo ordine per artifices dicte ciuitatis ob
honorem precipue et reuerenciam domini nostri Iesu christi &
comodum ciuium predictorum & ludus singularwm ipsarum
paginarum esset primo ad portas prioratus samcte Trinitatis in
Mikelgate Secundo ante ostium Roberti Harpham Tercio ante
ostium quondam Iohannis Gyseburn . Quarto apud
Skeldergatehend & Northstretehend Quinto ad finem de
Conyngstrete versus Castelgate . Sexto ad finem de Iubritgate
Septimo ante ostium quondam henrici Wyman in Conyngstrete
Octauo ante aulam communem in fine Conyngstrete . Nono ad
ostium quondam Ade del Bryg in Stayngate . Decimo in fine de
Stayngate ad portam monasterij beati petri. Vndecimo ad finem
de Girdelergate in Petergate . Duodecimo & vitimo super
21 contineatur] over erasure
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Pap)
30
35
40
1417 YORK / 29
pauimentum prout , ‘in’ constitucione & ordinacione ista
antiqua in registro isto versus principium scripta (...) continetur
Nichilominus maior probi homines & tota communitas predicta
eorum vnanimi consensu & assensu ordinarunt (...) ommes illi qui
pro skafaldis quas ante eorwm ostia super solum communitatis
edificant , “in locis predictis de supersedentibus monetam
recipiunt soluant tercium denarium monete sic recepte Camerarijs
ciuitatis ad vsum communitatis eiusdem | applicandum & si
huiusmodi tercium denarium soluere vel alias cum camera honeste
concordare recusauerint quod tunc ludus transferatwr ad alia loca
ad disposicionem et voluntatem maioris qui pro tempore fuerit &
consilij camere ciuitatis nemine ordinacioni huiusmodi
contradicente . paucis possessoribus skaffaldorwm in Mikelgate
dumtaxat exceptis / Et vlterius ordinatum erat communi consensu
quod vexilla ludi corporis christi sub armis ciuitatés depicta
liberentwr annuatim in vigilia corporis Christi ponenda in locis vbi
erit ludus paginarwm die sequente & quod vexilla ipsa singulzs
annis reportentur ad cameram consili) ciuitatzs sine mora in
crastino dicti festi corporis Christi ad manus maioris &
camerariorum Ciuitatis & ibidem custodiantur per totum annum
proximum sequentem sub pena vj s viij d ad opus communitatis
applicandorum per illum & illos qui vexilla illa vltra crastinum
illum detinuerint & ea non liberauerint modo qui prefertur.
Et quia propter dicti festi corporis christi propinquitatem &
temporis breuitatem dicta materia non potuit plene execucioni
mandari predicti igitur . congregati in camera consilij xijM° die
Iuniy Annis domini et regis supradictis considerantes quod
indecens esset & contra comodum communitatis quod ludus
predictus annuatim luderetwr in eisdem certis locis & in nullo
alio cum vnusquisque iuxta statu suum onus suum portet pro
ipso ludo sustinendo vnamimiter igitur ordinarunt pro vtilitate
communitatis quod loca ad ludendum ludum predictum
mutentur . nisi ipsi ante quorwm loca antea ludebatur aliquod
sertum quid soluerint communitati pro ipso comodo, ‘suo’
singwlari sic amnuatim habendo . & quod in omnibus annis
sequentibus dum ludus ille ludi contigerit ludatwr ante ostia &
tenementa illorum qui vberius & melivs camere soluerint & plus
pro commodo tocius communitatis facere voluerint pro ludo ipso
ibidem habendo non impendendo fauorem alicui persone pro
aliquo commodo singwlari sed tantum quod consideretur vtilitas
2 (...)| plenius (Sellers, Il, 63) 4 (...)] quod (ibid)
26 predicti] for predicto
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publica tocius communitatis Ebor’. Et reuerendus vir lohannes
Moreton supradictus pro tenementis suis se submisit totaliter
disposicioni & regimini maioris & consilij camere quantum ad
ludum supradictum pro ludo ante portam habitacionis sue in vico
de mikelgate & in alijs tenementis suis in ciuitate.
£75v* Cordwainers
Item quod nullus magister Allutariorum ‘recipiet’ conducet nec
procurabit per se nec per aliuy suo nomine aliquem seruientem
“a seruicio’ alterius magistri dicti artificij , “nec in opere ponet™
ante festwm sancti Stephani post nonam vsque ad quod tempus
omnes seruientes dicti artificij conuencionem faciunt morari cum
magistris suis de consuetudine & si quis magister fecerit
contrarium soluet di. marc: supportaciomi pagine sue & xl d vsui
communitatis Ebor’ applicandos /
£78* Cordwainers
Item ordinatum est quod duodecim honesti viri predicti artificij
vadant aynuatim in festo corporis christi cum pagina sua
secundum quod limitabumtur per quatuor magistros eiusdem
artificij & si quis limitatus fuerit & ire recusauerit soluet . x s.
modo qui premittitwr persoluendos ita quod ille qui vadit vno
anno non transibit vsque ad tercium annum proximum sequentem
& quod hij qui sic vadent habebunt . x1 d. in festo predicto pro
expensis suis de artificio predicto
1417-18
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f 60v
Sequitur constitucio de Salsarijs & vendentibus candelas
parisienses
Et quia grauis querela facta erat hic in camera consili) per
artifices ciuitatis . Salsarios scilicet quos nos Salsemakers
communiter appellamus quod licet de consuetudine actenus
vsitata gentes de Salsemakercrafte ommes eciam , “Candelmakers’
extra fflesshshamels qui in domibus & fenestris suis vendebant
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40
Salsarij &
vendentes
candelas
parisienses
1417-18 YORK / 31
candelas parisienses sustinuerint simul suis sumptibus & expensis
paginay illam in festo & ludo corporis christi in ciuitate ista in
qua representatwr quod ludas Scarioth se suspendit & crepuit
medius: modo cum pelliparij & alij artifices huius ciuitatis Ebor’
per se & vxores suas in magna multitudine qui non sunt Salsarij
faciunt & vendere presumunt candelas parisienses in domibus &
fenestris suis sed requisiti recusant esse contributarij ad
sustentacionem pagine supradicte & nisi remediu celerius
apponatur quod sint amodo contributarij cum Salsarijs huiusmodi
Salsarij ipsi pagina” ipsam diucius sustinere non valebunt. Vnde
in anno domini millesimo cecexvijm© & regni regis henrici sexti
post conquwestum Anglie quinto per Wille/mum Bowes maiorem
& consilium camere ordinatum est quod omnes & singuli artifices
ciuitatis qualescuque fuerint qui non sunt carnifices nec vxores
carnificum & vendunt per se vel vxores suas candelas parisienses
infra ciuitate Ebor’ & suburbia eiusdem per retalliam sint
amodo contributorij cu Salsarijs huivs ciuitatzs ad tercium
denarium ad pagina predictam in festo & ludo Corporis christi
sustinendam Postea cum in tempore Iohannis Moreton Maioris
non obstante ordinacione predicta concordatum erat inter
Salsarios & factores candelarum parisiensiwm quod quilibet
faciens vel vendens huiusmodi candelas parisienses soluat per
annum ij d ad productiones ludi predicti et non plus exceptis
carnificibus vel eorum vxoribus vt prefertur Et insuper ordinatum
est quod si qui de alijs artificijs qui now sunt de Salsarijs vendant
sinapiu vel alia salsamenta ordinatuy est quod ‘tales’ soluant
ad sustentacionem pagine predicte sicut faciunt ali Salsari
ciuitatis Et quod nullus artifici} Salsariorwm huiuvs ciuitatis capiat
de cetero aliquem apprenticium in artificio illo pro minore
termino annorum quam pro termino septem annorum simul sub
pena . vj s. vilj d Communitati ciuitatis & artificio Salsariorwim
equis porcionibus applicandorum Et si quis extraneus ve} aliquis
forsan apprenticius qui non compleuit plenarie terminum &
anos apprenticiatws sui in artificio salsariorum & shoppam
leuauerit et in arte illa occupauerit ‘hic’ vt magister quod soluat
in prima leuacione vel occupacione sua huiusmodi xiij s. iiij d
modo & vsibus predictis applicandos nisi forte huiwsmodi
apprenticius fuerit [fuit} filivs alicuiws magistri artificis
Salsariorum ciuitatis predicte ante predictam ordinacionem
7 contributarij| for contributarios 11-13 in anno ... camere| over erasure
11 sexti] for quinti
19-25 Postea ... Et insuper ... quod] over erasure
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Tapitariorum
Alie
constituciones
habentur in
viiy™9 folro
precedent
32 / YORK 1417-18
genitus & apprenticius in arte illa , ‘in ciuitate ista’ Et quod
quilibet qui terminum appre nticiatus sui b(...) & fideliter
compleuit cum primo occupauerit vt magister soluat x1 d
communitati ciuitatis & artificio predicto equis porcionibus
applicandos habetwr & alia ordinacio de Salsarijs in rubeo libro
vltra medium inter alias constituciones ciuitatis
1419
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f 43v*
Addicio ad ordinaciones Tapitariorum
Et quod nullus magister artificij pre dicti ciuitatis predicte assumat
alique in apprenticium suum in arte predicta erudiendum nisi
ille apprenticius sit natus anglicus & liber homo . sub pena
XXVj S vilj d camere & xij s illj d ad sustentacionem pagyne &
aliorwmm onerum artis predicte
Item si aliquis alienigena natus extra terram & regnum anglie
culuscumque nacionis fuerit qui voluerit ex nunc occupare vt
magister in artificio Tapitariorum predictorum infra libertatem
predicte ciuitatis Ebor’ ordinatum est per omnes magistros
artifici) predicti ciuitatis predicte quod quilibet tals soluat in
prima occupacione sua vt magister camere predicte ciuitatis li s.
ij d & ad supportacionem pagine artis predicte in ludo corporis
christi & aliorwm onerum eiusdem artis viginti sex solidos octo
denarios sterlingorum
£201 (16 June)
congregati fuerunt in camera consilij super pontem Vse huius
ciuitatis Ebor’ die crastina festi Corporis christi in anno domini
millesimo ccccxix® Regni vero regis Henrici quinti septimo
contingente . vbi venerunt diuersi artifices de Skynnercrafte
_'&’ grauem querelam fecerunt quod . diuersi artifices
carpentariorwm et allutariorum ciuitatis predicte in festo corporis
christi annis predicts . ipsorum torcheas accensas & vt portarentur
in processione dicti festi coram corpore christi ibidem presenti
fregerunt & deorsum traxerunt cum fustibus suis & Carlelaxaes
quos illuc portauerunt & alia enormia fecerunt in grauem
perturbacionem pacis domini Regis & impedimentum ludi &
10
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“De cementarys
Plasterarijs &
Tegularys
domorum =
1419 YORK / 33
processionis corporis christi Super qua quidem querela : captl
fuerunt & imprisonati Simon Calton & Benedictus Williamson
carpentarij & Thomas Durem Cordewanere & predicti Simon &
Benedictus coram maiore & consilio ciuitatis hic in camera
venientes obiecta (...) transgressione predicta . recognouerunt se
predicta fecisse & posuerunt se in misericordia gracia &
ordinacione marioris & consilij camere ciuitatis & ad hoc
faciendum predicti Simon & Benedictus . necnon Iohavnes Mosse
lohannes Bolron Wille/mus Kyrkeby Ricardus fferrowr Wille/mus
Cunsby lohannes Haxeby Thomas Cunnysburgh . & lohannes
Shathelok wryghts & ciues Ebor’ per scriptu/m suum obligatorium
obligentwr in Centum libris sterlingorum vt in eodem plenius
continentur
ie STAY
In nomine domini Amen Cum in multorum Maiorum temporibus
controuersia quedam pendens & mota erat inter homines artis
cementariorwm huius ciuitatis Ebor’ ex vna parte & homines
Tegulariorum & Plasterariorum de eadem ex altera parte de &
super exaccione & solucione pecunie ad paginas ipsarum trium
artium predictarum in festo & ludo corporis christi annis singulis
vsitato in Ciuitate predicta tandem pro reformacione pacis inter
partes predictas consideratum fuit per Thomam Gare Maiorem
huis cjuitatis ac comerarios & alios probos homines dicte
ciuitatis ad tunc presentes quod vniuersi Tegulari) et plasterarij
huius ciuitatis Ebor’ operantes muros lapideos vel lapidea
fundamenta domorum ve} aliquod aliud opus arti cementariorum
pertinens / ex tunc pro operibus illis essent contributory arti
cementariorwm hulus ciuitatis sicut ante ab antiquo esse solebant
Et quod illi tegularij & plasterarij qui ex tunc se potuerint
excusare quod non operantur aliquod opus vel rem aliquam arti
cementariorum pertinens sint excusati & nichil ipsis cementarijs
soluant sed penitus sint quieti /
f 64v*
Memorandum quod vbi controuersia mota & pendens fuit
inter marinarios & piscenarios in Vsegate habentes batellos de
5 (...)) sibi (Sellers, 11, 79) 26 comerarios] for camerarios
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Concordia inter
Marinarios et
Piscenarios de
vsegate
34 / YORK 1419
modo soluendi ad pagina nauis Noe ad quam vtraque pars
singulis annis fuit & est simul contributoria tandem de
auisamento Thome Gare Maioris Ebor’ fuit ordinatum & positum
in eleccione marinariorum predictorum an extunc soluere
voluerunt singulis annis piscenarijs de Vsegate vj s_viij d pro ludo
pagine noe predicte & tunc ipsi homines de Vsegate producerent
paginam predictam pro se & marinarijs vel an ipsi piscenarij de
Vsegate soluerent annis singulis Marinarijs predictis duodecim
denarios ad auantagium & sic piscenarij producerent terciam
partem ludi pagine predicte ne camera consilij ciuitatis amplius
in hac parte turbaretwr cum piscenarijs pontis vse . Et tunc
marinarij predicti elegerunt recipere annuatim duodecim denarios
de piscenarijs de vsegate predictis /
1420
A/Y Memorandum Book Y: E20
£80 (5 February)
Irenmangers
Ad reuerenciam laudem & honorem omznipotentis Dei ad
commodum eciam & vtilitatem Ciuium Ciuitatis Ebor’ & tocius
populi domini Regis de vnanimi consensu & voluntate concordi
lohannis Aldestanemore Iohannis . Brounflete . Roberti fferiby
Iohannis Radclyf . , “Simonis del Style’ Iohannis Buttercram
Hugonis Gardiner . lohannis Preston . lohannis Skyrmer . Henrici
Skyrmer . Wille/mi Preston Wille/mi Ouresby & Roberti Bedford
Irenmangers ciuitatis predicte per auisamentum & consensum
Thome Gare . Maioris Ebor’ . & Consilij Camere eiusdem
concessum & ordinatum extitit quinto die ffebruary Anno
domini millesimo cccc™©® nonodecimo quod nullus artifici
predicti siue vir vel mulier fuerit decetero infra Ciuitatem
predictam aperiat / Shoppas suas ad ponendum vel
demonstrandum rem aliquam suo artificio pertinentem ad
vendendum aliquibus diebus dominicis ad gloriam & laudem dei
ordinatis sub pena xx s. Camere predicte ad vsum communitatis
& artificio predicto ad futuram sustentacionem pagine & aliorwm
onerum eiusdem equis porcionibus applicandorum per illum vel
illam qui tempore aliquo huzus constitucionis contrarium fecerit
infuturu/7
Item cum ita sit quod artifices artis predicte magnum onus
32 Shoppas] over erasure
29 -titit q-] over erasure
37 per) over erasure
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® De vna placea
terre super lez
Toftez dimissa
Aurifabris Ebor’
ad terminum
iuj** annorum
Pro viij d per
annum
ZO RViO RIG / Sia
sustinent annuatim in sustinendo ludum & paginam suam in festo
corporis christi & cum multi sint dictum artificium occupantes
pauci tamen ad annua onera eiusdem soluentes Ideo ordinatuyn
est quod siquis decetero vendiderit aliquam rem vocatam anglice
Irenware & ipsam rem ipsemet non fecerit? opere ferreo partis
transmarine exepto soluat , “cum” artificibus predictis ad ludum
pagina & alia onera sua annuatim supportanda
f 80v
Item pro eo quod pagina Irenmangars est multu ruinosa &
annuatim reparacione indiget & pauci sunt qui ad ipsam pagina
& onera ludi sui contribuunt atqve soluunt Ideo ordinatum est
quod vir quilzbet & mulier qui decetero shoppam in arte
Irenmangerie erexerit seu occupauerit vel intromiserit in arte
predicta infra libertatem Ciuitatis , "nisi per prius fuerit
appre nticius in arte predicta & bone fame’ quod in principio suo
soluat x1ij s. 111) d medietatem scilicet Camere & alteram
medietatem artificio predicto in supportacionem pagine ludi &
aliorum onerum suorum Ita semper quod shoppam erigens
occupans vel intromittens si in bonis sufficiens fuerit . sumam
predictam modo premisso soluat Si autem impotens & minus
sufficiens fuerit tunc moderetwr in minori summa iuxta
discrecionem & arbitrium maioris qui pro tempore fuerit &
Irenmangars Ciuitatis similiter pro tempore existencium
B/Y Memorandum Book Y:E20A
f 42
Hec indentura testatur quod nos Maior & Communitas ciuium
Ciuitatis Ebor’ concessimus & ad firmam dimisimus Alano de
Bedale & Henrico fforester Ciuibus & Aurifabris Ebor’ & eiusdem
artifici) Scrutatoribus quandam placeam terre super lez Toftes in
Ciuitate predicta sicut iacet ibidem per latus muri fratrum
Predicatorum Ebor’ & continet in latitudine quatuor vinas regias
& in longitudine quinqwe vinas regias & tria quarteria vnius regie
ad edificandam ibidem domum pro pagina Aurifabrorum predicte
Ciuitatis hospitanda in ea habenda & tenenda predictam placea
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terre cum domo ibidem edificanda vna cum libero introitu &
exitu ad eam predictis Alano & Henrico & successoribus suis
Scrutatoribus artifici} predicti in Ciuitate predicta de nobis &
successoribus nostris libere bene & in pace a festo sancti Martini
in yeme in Anno domini millesimo quadringentesimo vicesimo
vsquve ad finem quater viginti annorum proximorum extunc
sequentium plenarie completorwm Reddendo inde annuatim
nobis & successoribus nostris seu custodibus Pontis Vse qui pro
tempore erunt octo denarios sterlingorum ad duos anni terminos
videlicet ad festa Pentecostes & sancti Martini in yeme per
equales porciones Et si contingat predictum annuum redditum
octo denariorum aretro fore ad aliquem terminum in quo solui
debeat non solutwm in parte vel in toto per octo dies tunc bene
licebit nobis & successoribus , ‘nostris’ seu Custodibus Pontis
predicti qui pro tempore erunt dictam placeam terre vna cum
domo ibidem edificanda in manus nostras reseisice & rehabere
presenti dimissione in aliquo non obstante sine calumpnia
impedimento vel demanda Scrutatorum predictorum seu
successorum suorum vel alterius cuiuscumqve Et predicti Alanus
& Henricus & successores sui Scrutatores artificij predicti
predictam domum suis sumptibus & expensis reparabunt &
sustentabunt in omnibus per totum terminum supradictum in
fine eiusdem termini predictam domum dimittent competenter
reparatam Et nos Maior & Communitas Ciuitatis predicte &
successores nostri predictam placeam terre vna cum domo super
eam edificanda vt prefertur & libero introitu & exitu ad eam
predictis Alano & Henrico & successoribus suis Scrutatoribus
artificij predicti pro firma predicta in forma premissa durante
terminis supradictis Warantizabimus & contra omnes gentes
defendemus / In cuius rei testimonium sigilluy offici) Maioratus
Ciuitatis predicte & sigilla Alani & Henrici predictorum partibus
huius indenture alternatim sunt appensa datum apud Ebor’ tercio
die Nouembris Anno domini supradicto Et regni Regis Henrici
quinti post conquestu Anglie anno octauo . j .
Vicars Choral Accounts YM: Tileworks Accounts, VC Box XII*
_.. Et in septimana qua accidit festum sancte Barnabe ... Et sol.
Heron pro ludo nostro ij s ij d. Et sol. operario predict: Heron
ifidinccas
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... Et in septimana qua accidit festum Ascencionis ... Et sol.
Roberto Scurueton . iij s ii d. ...
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A/Y Memorandum Book Y: E20
ff 247-7v (31 January)
Peyntours & Stenours
Nouit ille qui nichil ignorat & plebs conqueritwr vniversa quod
ludus in die corporis christi in ista ciuitate cuius institucio ob
magnam deuocionis causam & viciorwm extirpacionem
morumque reformacionem antiquitus facta fuit heu plus solito
impeditur pre multitudine paginarwm & nisi celerior & melior
prouideatwr cautela timendum est multo magis breuissvve
processu temporis impediri Et artifices de lez Payntours
Steynours Pynners & latoners ciuitatis predicte ad diuisim
ludendas duas paginas in ludo predicto antea assignati vnay
videlicet de expansione & clauacione christi ad crucem / alteramm
vero de leuacione crucifixi super montem intelligentes quod
materie ambarum paginarum simul in vna pagina possent in ludi
abbreuacionem commodius ludencium oracula , ‘audienti’
populo demonstrari consenciebamt pro se & alijs coartificibus suis
in futurwm quod vna paginarum suarum amodo deleatur & altera
sustentetur secundum quod maior & consilium camere voluerint
ordinare / Et super hoc scrutatores & artifices artificorum
predictorum venerunt coram Ricardo Russell maiore Ebor’
Aldermannis & alijs probis hominibus hic in camera consilij super
pontem Vse situata vltimo die Ianuarij’ anno regni regis Henrici
quinti post conquestum Anglie nono & eis eorum desiderium &
intencionem monstrabant in premissis videlicet Wille/mus Drax
lohannes Multon Iohannes Caue Iohamnes Potell lohamnes Bryg
Thomas Midilton Wille/mus Couper lohannes Scragge Adam
Lutton Robertus leche Wille/mus Crofte Robertus kyrkeby
Ricardus lambert Iohannes Midylham Thomas Steresacre de
Pynnercrafte David Payntour Wille/mus Morlay lohannes Gerard
& Wille/mus Clyfton de Payntourcrafte ac Thomas Cuke Thomas
hirste Thomas hendechild Ilohannes Wyman Walterus Multon &
Ricardus Marche de Steynourcrafte Vnde predictus maior
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aldermanni & probi homines hoc benigne acceptantes & predictos
artifices pro eorwm proposito laudabili commendantes de suo &
ommnium artificum predictorum statuerunt et ordinarunt consilio
quod ab hac die inantea pagina de lez payntours & Steynowrs a
ludo predicto penitus sit amota & quod artifices de lez pynners &
latoners super se assumant onus ludendi in pagina sua materiay
loquelarwm que per prius in pagina “sua & in pagina’ de les
Payntours "& Steynours’ ludebatur & quod les Payntours &
Steynours ‘singulis annis’ inter se de hominibus artificij sui
annuatim colligant quinqve solidos sterlingorum & illos annuatym
soluant magistris pagine de les Pynners & latoners(...) existentibus
annuatim in vigilia Corporis Christi & si aliquo tempore in
solucione huivsmodi defecerint tunc volunt & concedunt se &
vniuersos successores suos distringi & stricte compelli in domibus
& locis habitacionum suarum vel alibi vbi melius ‘& (.,.)” distringi
poterint per maiorem & camerarios hulus ciuitatis pro tempore
existentes ad soluendwm quadraginta solidos bone monete anglie
Custodibus pagine de les pynners ‘& latoners’ qui pro tempore
fuerint die dominica dictum festum proxima sequente sine
dilacrone longiori & districtrones in hac parte captas penes se
retinere quousque custodibus predictis de predictis quadraginta
solidis vna cum expensis ‘& dampnis’ pro recuperacione eorum
_‘factis’ plenarie fuerit satisfactuym Ita semper quod maior pro
tempore existens percipiat & habeat vnam medietatem
predictorum quadraginta solidorum ad vsum communitatis Et
custodes pagine de Pynnercrafte “& Latoners’ qui pro tempore
fuerint alteram medietatem ad vsum & sustentacionem dicte
pagine sue Ad quas quidem soluciones modo & forma prescripts
bene & fideliter faciendas ac presentem | ordinacionem in
omnibus tenendam & perimplendam pro parte sua David Payntour
Wille/mus Morlay lohannes Gerard Wille/mus Clyfton Thomas
hirst Thomas hendechild Iohannes Wyman Walterus Multon &
Ricardus Marche predicti se & successores suos artiu/” suarwm
obligant / Prouiso omnino quod dicti artifices de Payntourcrafte
& Steynours de pagina de pynnercrafte nec de eorum compoto
imposterum se nullatenus intromittant. /
Burton Rogatus
11 (...)] pro tempore (Sellers, Il, 103) 15 (...)] eicius (ibid)
33 artium suarum] added in right margin
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1422-3
A/Y Memorandum Book Y: E20
ff 258-8Vv
Plasterarij & Tegularij) domorum
In primis ordinatum est quod quilibet plasterarius exercens &
operans plasteraturam & tegulaturam sit contributorius in
soluendo vtrique pagine ipsarum arcium Et econtra quod quilibet
tegularivs operans tegulaturam & plasteraturam sit contributorius
in solucione vtrique paginarum predictarum sub pena ijj s. ilij d
vsul communitatis & ij s. illj d paginis predictis applicandorum
Item quod quilibet Tegularius qui operatur tantum tegulaturam
soluat aynuatim ambabus paginis predictis . iij d. & non vitra Et
quvod quatuor magistri eligantwr aynuatim equaliter ad
gubernandas ambas paginas arcium predictarum
Item quod nullus magister arcium predictarum ponat aliquem
apprenticium vel seruientem suum qualiscumque fuerit ad
operandum in plasteratura vel tegulatura extra presencia
magistri sui nisi ita sit qvod huiusmodi apprenticius vel seruiens
prius scrutati fuerint per scrutatores predictos & approbati per
eos et allocati quod artem suam sciunt & quod boni operatores
teneantur /. Et siquis magister contrarium fecerit incurret penam
ij s. 11} d vsui Camere & paginarwm predictarum tociens quociens
culpabilzs inuentus fuerit
Item quod Artifices arcium predictarum eant cum paginis suis
predictis & eas producant per Ciuitatem omnes tanquam ijdem
homines. |
Per auisamentum & consensum omnium magistrorum artificum
artificij de lez Parchemeners huiws ciuitatis Ebor’ consensum &
ordinatum est in tempore Thome Esyngwald maioris quod
Scrutatores illius artificij pro tempore existentes libere scrutari
possint in artificio illo quociens viderint oportunum & siquis
artifici) predicti rebellis fuerit contra eos sui officij , “debite”
execucionem facientes quod soluat tunc camere consilij ad opus
communitatis & sustentacioni pagine & aliorum onerum artis
predicte xl d per equales porciones diuidendos /.
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1424
A/Y Memorandum Book Y: £20
f283* (7 February) Curners
Item vijm© die ffebruary Anno regni regis Henrici sexti se cundo
concordatum est per omnes magistros artificij predicti quod die
dominica post festwm purificacionis beate Marie proxima futura
eligant nouos scrutatores suos pro anno futuro & quod die
dominica proxima post festum corporis christi eligant magistros
pagine sue & quod veteres magistri pagine sue tunc sursum
reddant compotum de occupacione sua de anno preterito &
sursum liberabunt omnia instrumenta sua pagine & ludo suis
pertinencia ad custodiam & manus Scrutatorum sub pena vj s.
vilj d
Bridgemasters’ Account Rolls Y:C82:2
mb 1*
Et de Pelliparijs & Tinctoribus Ebor’ pro domo pagine ibidem de
termimis predictis hoc anno lj s
Et de Tannatoribus Ebor’ pro terra super les Toftes de terminis
predictis hoc anno xij d
Et de Merceris Ebor’ pro terra ibidem de terminis predictis hoc
Anno xij d
Et de Tapitarijs Ebor’ pro terra ibidem de terminis predictis hoc
anno xij d
Et de Carpentarijs & Allutarijs Ebor’ pro terra ibidem de termimis
predictis hoc Anno I] s
Et de Pistoribus Ebor’ pro terra ibidem de terminis predictis hoc
Anno xij d
Et de Aurifabris Ebor’ pro terra ibidem de terminis predictis hoc
Anno vilj d
22 Marginalia) Mikellyth extra et infra Ratonrawe et Toftes
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1425
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f279* (5 January) Decision of Council
__ & consenserunt & ordinarunt inter alia quod fullones huius
ciuitatis Ebor’ habeant scrutium suum de panno fullito per
fullones forinsecos ita quod non ostendant eis odium nec
maliciam in scrutando / & quod fullones vniuersi huixs ciuitatis
libere possint tondere si voluerint vniuersos pannos per Ipsos
fullitos si scienciam tondendi habuerint sine aliquvo dando .
Tonsoribus huius ciuitatis Sed si huiusmodi fullones super se
ceperint per consuetudinem tondere aliquos pannos maiores
vel minores qui non erunt de fullitura sua propria quod tunc sint
contributorij cum Tonsoribus ad pagina suam & alia onera
Sua Se.
{284v (1 June)
Ordinacio pro tilers & Wryghtis for louers
... congregati fuerunt hic in camera & coram eis venerunt .
lohannes Bolron Wille/mus kyrkeby Ilohannes hexham lohannes
Mosse & Wille/mus Warter carpentarij pro se & vniuersis
hominibus artis sue huius ciuitatis Ebor’ & lohannes Ase
Wille/mus Coupeland Iohannes kyrkham Iohannes Symond &
Ricardus Watson tegularij domorum pro se & omnibus hominibus
artis tegularioruwm eiusdem ciuitatis & submiserunt se iudicio
Maioris & consilij camere de & super factura nouorum lodiorum
que vocantwr draghtlouers venalium . Qui considerabant quod
omnes homines vtrarumque arcium predictarum sint adinuicem
amici boni & quod in signum amicicie inter eos firmande isti
artifices hic presentes simul oscularentur . & sic factum est & pro
eo quod inuenerunt quod capitals factura lodiorum que vocantur
draghtlouers pertinuit & pertinet principaliter . ad carpentarios .
ideo considerabant quod omnes tegularij tam presentes quam
futuri huius ciuitatis facientes huiusmodi lodia & ea vendentes
sint contributori ad pagina” carpentariorum annuatim ad vnum
denarium tantum primo termino solucionis incipiente ad festum
Corporis christi anno isto & quod tegulatores domorum decetero
ponant lodia super domos vniuersas siue sint de factura sua
propria vel de factura carpentariorum bene debite & fideliter sine
murmure vel contradiccione Ita quod huiusmodi lodia prius
quam ponantur super domos sint scrutata per scrutatores
carpentariorum / & quod optimum lodium de cetero vendatur
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pro x d & non vitra Secundum vero lodium minoris quantitatis
pro vilj. d & aliud lodium tercie quantitatis pro vj. d siue sint de
faccura hominum vnius artis vel alterius & quod omnes
districciones tegulariorwm ante hec tempora capte & tente per
carpentarios pro solucione ad paginam carpentariorum sint
deliberate tegularijs sine aliquo inde soluendo carpentarijs & si
quis obedire noluerit quod habeat imprisonamentum ad
voluntatem maioris pro tempore existentis & consilij camere &
soluat x] s. ad opus communitatis & quod amodo emendent &
ponant vetera lodia super domos sicut consueuerunt sub pena
supradicta
Burton Registravit
f279v (11 September)
Constituciones Cocorum
Et pro eo quod in tempore antiquo quando coci communes huius
cluitatis vsi fuerunt emere pisces recentes maris & ipsos per
retalliam ad eorwm libitum vendere tunc contributorij fuerunt
pagine piscenariorum sed quia modo prohibiti sunt ne aliquos
pisces maris recentes amodo vendant nisi quos coxerint assauerint
vel pistauerint sicut ad eorum artificium pertinet . Ideo
ordinatum est quod amodo non sint contributorij pagine
piscenarioruwm sed quod inde pro perpetuo sint quieti /
1426
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ff 278-8v* (6 June)
In nomine domini Amen Ex consuetudine quadam per nonnulla
annorum & temporum curricula vsitata vniuersi artifices ciuitatis
Ebor’ suis sumptibus annis singwlis ludi fecerunt quemdam ludum
sumptuosu/ in diuersis paginis compilatum veteris & noui
testamenti representatum per diuersa loca predicte ciuitatis in
festo Corporis christi . quadam processionem solempnem ad
tunc similiter facientes ob reuerenciam [corpori] sacramenti
corporis christi incipiendo ad magnas portas prioratus sancte
Trinitatis Ebor’ & sic processionaliter eundo ad (..) ecclesiam
cathedralem Ebor’ & deinde ad hospitale sancti leonard: Ebor’
sacramento predicto ibidem relicto / precedentibus numeroso
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ipso festo
1426 YORK / 43
lumine torchearwm & magna multitudine sacerdotum in
superpelicijs indutorum & subsequentibus maiore & ciuibus
Ebor’ cum alterius magna copia populi confluentis / Super hoc
quidam vir maxime religiosus frater Wille/mus melton ordinis
fratrum minorwm sacre pagine professor verbi dei famosissimus
predicator ad istam veniens ciuitatem in suis sermonibus diuersis
ludum predictum populo commendauit affirmando quod bonus
erat in se & laudabilis valde dicebat tamen quod ciues predicte
ciuitatis & alij forinseci in dicto festo confluentes ad eandem
non solum ipsi ludo in eodem festo verum eciam comessacionibus
ebrietatibus clamoribus cantilenis & alijs insolencijs multum
intendunt seruicio diuino officij ipsius diei minime intendentes &
quod dolendum est ea de causa amittunt indulgencias in ea parte
per felicis recordacionis vrbanum papam quartum graciose
concessas illis videlicet christi fidelibus qui in matutivali officio
festi eiusdem in ecclesia in qua idem festum celebratur
interfuerint centum dies qui vero misse totidem / qui aute in
primis ipsius festi vesperis interfuerint similiter centum / qui vero
in secundis totidem / illis vero qui prime tercie sexte & none ac
completorij officijs interfuerint pro qualibet horarwm ipsarum
quadraginta dies Illis autem qui per octabas illius festi
matutinalibus vespertinis misse ac predictarum horarum officijs
interfuerint centum dies singulis octauarum ipsarum diebus sicut
in sanctis canonibws inde editis plenivs continetur & ideo ipsi
fratri Wille/mo salubre videbatur & ad hoc populum ciuitatis
inducebat vt ludus ille fiat in vna die & processio in die altera
sic quod populus conuenire possit ad ecclesias in festo predicto &
interesse seruicio ecclesiastico pro indulgencijs consequendis
Vnde Petrus | Bukcy maior huius ciuitatis Ebor’ Ricardus Russell
nuper maior stapule apwd Calesiam Iohannes Northeby Wille/mus
Bowes senior Iohannes Moreton Thomas Gare senior henricus
Preston Thomas Esyngwald Thomas Bracebryg Wille/mws
Ormesheued Iohannes Aldestanemore aldermanni Ricardus
louthe Iohannes dodyngton vicecomites . Johannes hewyk
Thomas doncastre Iohamnes Vsburn Thomas More Robertus
Yarom Robertus Midelton Galfridus Sauuage Thomas Snawdon
lohannes loftehouse Iohannes Bolton Johannes lyllyng lohannes
Gascoigne Wille/mus Crauen Thomas Aton Thomas Dauy
Johannes Baynbrig Thomas kyrkham Wille/mus Bedale Wille/mus
Gaytesheued Iohamnes louthe & Iohannes Warde de numero
viginti quatuor congregati fuerunt hic in camere consilij huius
ciuitatis sexto die Iunij anno gracie millesimo quadringentesimo
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vicesimo sexto Regni vero regis henrici sexti post conquestumm
anglie anno quarto & per dicta exhortaciones & monita salubria
predicti fratris Willelmi propensius excitati & optime aduertentes
quod delictum non est nec deum offendit si bonum in melius
commutetur habito igitwr inter eos diligenti tractatu de materia
prelibata suum vnanimem & expressum dederunt consensum
quod casus iste primitws Communitati in aula communi publicetwr
& habito Communitatis assensu quod extunc premissa in melius
reformentur Super quo Maiore predicto & Communitate istius
ciuitatis in aula communi eiusdem congregatis x™0 die predicti
mensis luni) Anno predicto factaque ibidem publicacione
solempni premissorwm ordinatum erat de communi assensu quod
ludus ille solempnis qui vt prefertwr ludi consueuit in ipso festo
corporis christi amodo ludatwr singulis annis die Mercury vigilia
eiusdem festi & quod processio fiat semper modo solempni in
die ipsius festi sic quod vniuersus populus tunc in predicta
cluitate constitutus vacare possit deuote matutunis misse vesperis
& alijs horis eiusdem festi & particeps fieri indulgenciarum in ea
parte a predicto Romano pontifice Vrbano papa quarto graciosius
concessaru/.
Burton Registravit
1427
A/Y Memorandum Book Y: £20
ff 75v and 7 8v
(See above 1417)
York Minster Chamberlains’ Rolls YM: E1/39 MP
mb 2
... Et datum . Mynstrallis . in festo translacronis sancti Wille/mi
.&. pro .ilij. diebus . pentecostis . xxvj -S. vilj .d. ...
Vicars Choral Accounts YM: Tileworks Accounts, VC Box XII
... Item solut. Magistro Roberto Skurueton pro interludio corporis
christi de termino domini Thome Tanfeld xvj d Item solut. eidem
pro interludio corporis christi isto anno iij s_Vilj d Item solut. in
ones
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f287v* (7 April)
Marsshals and Smyths
Memorandum Whare a lang stryfe and debate was moeued and
hadde betwix the Marsshals and the Smyths of the Cite of york
in alsmykell pat pe Smyths allegged and sayde pat pe Marsshals
occupyde thair craft and had thar of the maste part of thair
lyuyngis and tharfo(.) thay chalenged of tham to pay to thair
pageand / And the Marsshals allegged agayn that certeyn Smyths
wroght and sald diuerse thynges pertenant to thayr crafte and
tharfor thay asked of tham pagand syluer / and thus thay war
many dayes and yerys in variance and ayther crafte trubild other
and yerely tuke and held distresse of other so ferr furth pat
many yerys Mairs and be chambre was hugely vexed wyth bam /
Neuerthelesse at the last thurgh pe gude consell and mediacion
of Iohn Aldestanemor Mair bathe the craftes beforesayde put
pam in be iugement and awarde of Willam Barton Skynner
Iohn huthwayt Taillowr Robert Allerton Baiker and Iohn Neuton
Glouer and assured pam to stand and abyde fully pair award in
hegh and in lawe yf bay myght accord bam of be demandes and
maters abouensayd and yf bay four varyed in any poynt and
myght noght accord pan pay four arbitrowrs suld hafe recource
to be Mair and consell of be chambre and pe partyes abide pair
iugement. And her apon the sayd four arbitrours at be request
of be sayd Mair and prayer of the sayd partyes tuke apon tham
to trete in this mater indifferently and all as a man and to make
an nend yf thay myght / and so when pay had lang tyme tretyd
in this mater indifferentely and herd and vnderstand wele the
allegeance and euidence of bathe sydes than at pe last bay come
before William Bowes Mayr all four arbitrowrs be seuent day of
apryll the yer of be regne of kyng henry sexte the sext And thar
in presence of the Mayr thay sayd pat bay war fully accorded of
the poyntes and the variance betwix pe sayd craftes and thair
accordement was this bat pe sayd craftes suld hafe thair Serchours
and thair serche and thayre pageant maisters yerely als pay hafe
had in tyme’s: passed and pat a man of the a crafte and a man of
the tother crafte suld walke to gyder yerely and gedyr vppe thair
pageant syluer of men of bathe craftes / and of thair bather
costages bryng furthe pair bather playes and vphald thair torches
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Mikellith extra
et infra
Ratonrawe et
Toftes
Varie expense
cum reparacione
46 / YORK 1428
in be procession of corpus christi day and all thair lyghtes in pe
mynster and in other places and ayther crafte hafe trewe
rekkenynges of other and yf any mone leue vnspendyd at thair
rekkenynges pat yt be spendyd to the oeps and be profyte of
bathe the sayd craftes
Burton
£285 (2 July)
Ordinacio Broggos lanarum
. & super hoc proclamacio facta fuit & broggatores lanarum
ordinati & iurati lohavnes Sylton Iohannes Marche & Robertus
Appilby et quod capiant pro labore suo duos denarios de sacco
de emptore & quod vniuersi tenentes domos in libertate ciuitatis
pro lanis suis ibidem hospitandis sint contributorij ad paginam
broggatorwm singulis annis in ludo corporis christi
Burton Rogatus Registrauit
Bridgemasters’ Account Rolls y : C82:3
mb 1
Et de Pelliparijs & Tinctoribus Ebor’ pro domo pagine ibidem de
termimis predictis hoc anno ij s
Et de Tannatoribus Ebor’ pro domo pagine sue de terminis
predictis hoc anno xij d
Et de Carpentarijs & Allutarijs Ebor’ pro terra ibidem super le
Toftes de terminis predictis hoc anno ij s
Et de Merceris Ebor’ pro domo pagine sue de terminis predictis
hoc anno xij d
Et de Pistoribus Ebor’ pro domo pagine sue de terminis predictis
hoc anno xij d
Et de Aurifabris Ebor’ pro domo pagine sue de termimis predictis
hoc anno vilj d
Et de Tapitarijs Ebor’ pro domo pagine sue de termimis predictis
hoc anno xij d
1430
York Minster Chamberlains’ Rolls YM: E1/39a MP
mb 3
Et datum Ministrallis in festo Translacionis sancti Wille/mi &
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pro iiijot diebus Pentecostis xxvj s. vil} d ...
1431
A/Y Memorandum Book Y: E20
f21v* (1 February) Butchers
Et swmiliter in vigilia purificacionis beate marie virginis Anno
regni regis Henrici Sexti . ix° ordinatum est per Ricardum Russell
tunc maiorem & consilium Camere huiws ciuitatis quod quilibet
carnifex forinsecus veniens ad ciuitatem istam cum carnibus
venalibus soluat annuatim magistris pagine carnificum istius
ciuitatis 111) d. ad produccionem ludi sui in festo corporis christi
Item, si ascun estraunge ou autre q’ad este apprentice ou servant
Sriplenmitrartiticevete (ia. fois -sie. eoeneoons ) pur overer come
mestre en la dit artifice et son overaigne soit trove fautyve, il
ferra amende convenablement du dit overaigne a celly que serra
endomage celle partie, et outre paiera a la chaumbre et al oeps de
lour dit pagyne xijj s. uij d. en manere come desuis est dit.
1431-2
A/Y Memorandum Book VY: £20
ff 257-7v
Goldsmyth
In nomine domini Amen Non est pretermittendum sed pocius
memorie commendandum quod Aurifabri huius ciuitatis Ebor’
annis preteritis onus graue & expensas excessiuas pro duabws
Paginis suis in ludo corporis christi portabant lamque mundus
alteratus est super ipsos & ipsi plus solito in bonis pauperiores
sunt effecti.& vijs & modis super premissis sectam fecerunt
frequentem Maioribus & Consilio camere pro subsidio habendo
in hac parte in suorwm importabilium onerum releuamen vel alias
quod exonerarentwr de vna paginarum suarum cum causantibus
expensis que ea occas/one indies excrescunt onus vtrarwmque
paginarum suar“m non potuerunt sine nimio eoruwm incommodo
diucius sustinere / Ex altera parte vero quia Cementarij huius
ciuitatis murmurabant inter se de pagina sua in ludo corporis
christi vbi ffergus fflagellatus erat pro eo quod materia pagine
15-20 Item ... est dit] from Sellers, 1, 58-9 37 indies] for in dies
10
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illius in sacra non continetur scriptura & Magis risum & clamorem
causabat quam deuocionem Et quandoque lites contenciones &
pugne inde proueniebant in populo ipsamque paginam suam raro
vel nunquam potuerunt producere & ludere clara die sicut faciunt
pagine precedentes ipsi igitur Cementarij affectabant desiderio
magno ab huwiusmodi pagina sua exonerari & alteri assignari que
conueniens est scripture sacre . & quam producere & ludere
poterunt clara die Et pro huiusmodi suis desiderijs perimplendis
ambe partes predicte instanciam fecerunt & preces penes
maiorem & consilium camere pro eorum bono consensu &
voluntate gratuita in hac parte habendis Vnde Thomas Snaudon
maior necnon Aldermanni & consilium camere huius ciuitatis
voluntates & desideria hominum arcium predictarum beniuole
acceptantes & ea honestati consona reputantes considerabant
quod Aurifabri predicti in diminucionem grauium onerum
suorum exonerentur de vna | paginarum suarum scilicet Herodis /
Et similiter quod cementarij predicti sint exonerati & quieti de
pagina ffergus & quod ipsi cementarij habeant eis & arti sue
predictam paginam herodis quam Aurifabri per prius habebant
suis expensis in ludo corporis christi producendam & ludendam
honestiori modo quo decet in laudem ciuitatis tociens quociens
ludum predictum ludi contigerit in ciuitate predicta
1432
A/Y Memorandum Book Y: E20
f 283v* (1 September)
In nomine domini Amen / Cum nuper in tempore henrici Preston
maioris de auisamento consilij camere pagina de lez Salsemakers
vbi ludas se suspendebat & crepuit medius in ludo corporis
christi & pagina de lez Tilemakers vbi pilatus condempnauit
leswm morti / & pagina de lez Turnowrs Hayresters & Bollers vbi
lesus ligatus erat ad columpnam & flagellatus / & pagina
molendinariorum vbi pilatus & alij milites ludebant ad talos pro
vestimentis Iesu & pro eis sortes mittebant & ea partiebantwr
inter se fuerunt combinate simul in vnay paginam ceteris
predictis pagini‘.) pro perpetuo exclusis / que quidem pagina
decetero vocabitur pagina condempnacionis lesu christi Super
hoc artifices arcium predictarum contendebant inter se de modo
13 voluntates|] brevigraph omitted for voluntantes
38 pagini(.)] paginis (Sellers, 11, 171)
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De pagina
Condempnacionis
christi de
Salsemakers &
Tilmakers
1432 YORK / 49
solucionis ad paginam predictam Tandem tamen mediante bono
tractatu Thome Bracebrig maioris vniuersi artifices predicti
posuerunt se in iudicio Wille/mi Scoreburgh Johannis Staynburn
Draper Roberti Bolton kambesmyth & Ricardi Neuland tanquam
indifferencium personarum & ipsi onus huivsmodi . super se
assumentes ipsas artes vt sequitur concordabant scilicet quod
les Salsemakers & Tilemakers decetero portent onus & expensas
pagine predicte & ipsam in bono & honesto modo annuatim
ludendam producent cum ad hoc premuniti fuerint sicut inde
coram Maiore pro tempore existente voluerint respondere / &
quod molendinarjj in vigilia corporis christi annis singulzs
imperpetuum soluent & liberabunt a lez Salsemakers & Tilemakers
in manus scilicet Magistrorum pagine predicte decem solidos
sterlingoruwm in auxilium expensarwm ipsius pagine sub pena
xiij s ili} d camere huius ciuitatis & reparacioni pagine predicte
equaliter diuidendorum & quod vnus vel duo molendinariorum
eant cum pagina in die ludi eiusdem & cum lez Salsemakers &
Tielmakers in cibo potuqve solacia percipiavt Et quod lez
hayresters & illi qui eis antea soluerut annuatim liberabunt in
vigilia corporis christi custodibus pagine predicte in auxilium
expensarwm eiusde(.) pagine quinque solidos sub pena decem
solidorum modo quo premittitur soluendorum & quod vnus
eorum circueat cum judo & pagina predicta cum magistris
eiusdem & cum eis solacia habeat si voluerit / Et si ipsa aliquibws
temporibus reparacione indigeat quod molendinarij sint
contributorij ad tercium denarium expensarum . & les hayresters
, ad’ medietatem summe soluende per molendinarios
supradictos & quod vnus molendinariorwm & vnus de lez
hayresters superuideant expensas circa reparacionem pagine
predicte cum magistris eiusdem pro tempore existentibus / Et
quod nulla quatuor arcium predictarum ponat aliqua signa arma
vel insignia super paginas predictam nisi tantum arma huius
honorabik(..) ciuitatis / Et quod nullus , ‘quatuor’ arcium
predictarum litiget nec aliquam discordiam faciat cum aliquo
earumdem arcium pro aliquo puncto pagine predicte sub pena
iij Ss. ilij. d. vsui operis pontis de ffosse applicandorum per
quemlibet qui , “fecerit’ contrarium in hac parte / & hoc tociens
quociens super hot.) sufficienti recordo conuictus fuerit in
21 eiusde(.)] eiusdem (Sellers, Il, 172)
23 circueat| brevigraph omitted for circumeat
33 honorabil(..)] honorabilis (ibid, 172) 38 hot.)] hoc (ibid, 173)
10
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35
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futurwi / Huic eciam concordie additum est & ordinat(..) primo
die Septembris Anno regni regis Henrici sexti jMo in tempore
Thome Snaudon maioris per consideracionem & arbitrium
lohanmis Staynburn Roberti Bolton Ricardi Neuland predictorum
et lohannis Man vt personarum indi(.)ferencium per vniuersos 5
artifices Salsariorum & Tylemakers predictorum electorum quod
Salsari} annuatim’ imperpetuum in vigilia Corporis christi
liberent a les Tylemakers pro parte sua ludi pagine predicte
quing<..) solidos in moneta sub pena x s soluendorum equaliter
camere & commodo pagine predicte / & quociens dicta pagina 10
reparacione indiguerit quod tunc Salsarij soluant vnum denarium
sicut les Tylemakers soluent an(...) & quod reparacio illa
superuideatur per duos homines vnius artis & duos alterius / &
quod duo vel tres Salsarior(..) circueant cum pagina predicta in
die & ludo Corporis christi simu] habeant solacia sua si voluerint 15
Burton Rogatus Registrauit
Agreement between City and Corpus Christi Guild y: A15*
In nomine sancte & indiuidue Trinitatis Amen. Reuera si 20
dominum in sanctis eius venerari & laudare iubemur multo magis
dignuy iustuym & salutare nobis & cuicumquwe videtur catholico
vt sibi in sui quo nos cotidie spiritualiter reficit memoriam
corporis festiue veneraciomis & laudis gratias referamus cuius
munifticencia ta copiosa erga nos fuit quod ipse volens in nobis 25
suam exuberantem caritatem precipua liberalitate monstrare
semetipswm nobis exhibuit & transcendens omnem plentidinem
largitatis ommem modum dilecciomis excedens attribuit se in
cibum & ecce quam singularis & admiranda eius liberalitas vbi
donator venit in donum & datum est idem penitus cum datore & 30
quam larga & prodiga largitas cum tribuit quis se ipsum. Horum
quidem consideracione persone quedam vtriusque sexus Ciuitatis
Ebor’ vocate communiter fratres & sorores ffraternitatis in honore
Collation (A15 with E20A, ff 116v-17v): marginalia] De feretro quod
portatur annuatim in processione festi corporis christi 21 iubemur]
debemus 27 plenitudinem] plen...) 29 singularis] sing\...)
1 ordinat(..)| ordinatum (Sellers, II. 173)
5 indi(.)ferencium| indifferencium (bid, 173)
9 quing(..)] quinque (ibid, 173) 12 an(...)] annuatim (ibid, 173)
14 Salsarior(..)] Salsariorum (ibid, 173)
14 circueant) brevigraph omitted for circumeant
1432 YORK / 51
& sub vulgari vocabulo Corporis christi in eadem Ciuitate a
tempore per tempus cuixs contrarlj hominum memoria non
existit vsitate propensius excitate de consensu & voluntate
lohannis Bolton maioris & communitatis Ciuium dicte Ciuitatis
eiusdem ffraternitatis sicut & tota ipsa ciuitas fuit est confratrum
suis propriis sumptibus quoddam feretruym operis sumptuosi
modo ligneum sculptumque & desuper auro depictum quod
imposterum dante domino ex argento & auro purissimis ditari
& preciosius ornari proponunt quod eciam singwlis annis in festo
eiusdem Corporis christi si aieris temperies hoc permittat .
sinautem die aliquo alio festiuo sequente quo comodius fieri
poterit per certos vicos & plateas dicte Ciuitatis cum processione
solempni publice per manus sacerdotum portari desiderant cu/7
sacramento Corporis christi in eo incluso & hominum aspectibus
in cristallo vel berillo patenti vel aliqua ‘re’ sacramento
conueniencius torchearum semper bonorum Ciuium &
ffraternitatis predictorum lumine precedente vt ex hoc apud
presentem populum fides & deuocio augeantur. lamque
memorati Maior & Ciues in hijs que supers scripta sunt pre
gaudio exultantes & ea que ad memoriam & laudem sacramenti
viuifici supradicti bene incepta sunt: fine optimo concludere
cupientes . pro se & successoribus suis volunt & inuiolabiliter
ac firmissima fide concedunt per presentes vnuim locum
specialem ob honorem sacratissimi sacramenti predicto feretro
in capella famosa in honore & titulo sanctissimi confessoris
Wille/mi quondam Eboracensis Archiepiscopi super pontem vse
in predicta Ciuitate fundata vt ibidem per annos singulos
honorifice possit residere. Ac eciam predicti Maior &
Communitas pretate Ciuitatis Ebor’ concesserunt quod sex
Capellani Custodes fraternitatis predicte qui pro tempore erunt .
feretri predicti libertatem habeant & potestatem ad predictum
feretrum singulis annis tociens quociens oportunum fuerit &
specialiter ad predictum festum Corporis christi accedendum .
& illud capiendwm ac extra dictam Capellam portandum seu
portari faciendwm sine impedimento aliquo Maioris & Ciuium
predictorum & cum illo ob memoriam & veneracionem festiuam
sacramenti predicti modo premisso processionem faciendum .
qua processione finita bene & pacifice licebit predictis sex
Collation conunued: 5 after fuit) & 12 plateas) placeas 15 after aliqua]
alia 16 conueniencivs} conueniente 28 honorifice} omitted
32 oportunum] opportunum 35-7 sine ... faciendum] omitted
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custodibus ad libitum proprium predictum feretrum in prefatam
Capellam sancti Wille/mi in dicto loco reuerenter ponere vt
prefertur. Conuenit insuper inter Maiorem & Ciues ac Custodes
predictos quod Custodes feretri predicti habeant & custodiant
claues clausure capsule supradicte. Hoc addito & adiuncto quod
clauis vna exterioris cooporture & velaminis feretri predicti
remaneat semper in camera consilij dicte Ciuitatis penes Maiorem
eiusdem pro eo solomodo vt Maior ille quiscumque fuerit sine
inquisicrone vel mora aliarum clauium feretrum ipswm monstrari
facere possit cum voluerit aliquibus personis honorabilibus
dominis vel dominabus aut alijs generosis ipsum nudum videre
volentibus . vt ex hoc quorundam crescat deuocio honorque
dicte Ciuitatis augeatur Et specialissime vt laus siue honor
intuencium redundat ad dominum . & sic gracia dei mediante
forsan per quosdam deo deuotos feretri predicti melioracio inde
possit verisimiliter prouenire. In quorum omnium & singulorum
fidem & testimonium tam sigillum commune Ciuitatis predicte
quam sigilla nunc Custodum ffraternitatis predicte . videlicet
domini lohannis Bernyngham . domini Rogeri Bubwyth . domini
lohannis de Grymesby . domini lohannis Crauen . domini
lohannis de Sutton & domini Wille/mi Bryg Capellanorwm huius
indenture partibus sunt alternatim appensa. Datwm apud Ebor’
sextodecimo die January Anno domini Millesimo CCCC™o
Tricesimo primo. Regni vero Regis Henrici sexti post conquestum
Anglie anno decimo.
Burton Rogatus Registrauit
Will of Nicholas Blackburn the elder, merchant and mayor
Bi- Probe Reg. 2
£605 (20 February; probated 10 April)
... Et iiijot tortis ffraternitati corporis christi in Ebor’ ad
ardendum ad processionem in festo eiusdem corporis christi dum
durare poterint annuiatim ...
1433
A/Y Memorandum Book Y: E20
ff 57v, 64v
(See above 1419)
Collation continued: 3 & Ciues ac} ciues &
10
20
25
30
35
40
de Vyntarijs
& vendentibus
vina dulcia /
1433 YORK / 53
B/Y Memorandum Book Y: E20A
£119v* (29 September)
To pair worshipfull lord pe Mair of be Cite of york and all
Aldermen and pe consell of pe same . Shewes mekely we your
concitezeyns vynters pat we hafes diuerse tymes shewed to you
pat men of other craftes pat selles swete wynes and other wynes
for yair wynes be retail wythin be franchese of bis Cite whilk
swete wynes are pertenand to vs als a parcelle of oure crafte suld
and awe after custume of pis Cite be contributory to vs in
bryngyng furthe of our pagent in corpus christi play lyke als
merchantz makes vs to pay to bam when we mell wyth pruys
fflanders and other plac[(.)] of whilk swte wynes we haf pit no
answer nor remedy And worshipfull lord and sirs like you to
consider pat we haf bene in possession of swete wynes sald be
retaill inso mykill pat Richart Russell when he was our pageant
Maister receyued pageant siluer of Thomas Dam and all other
after yair afferant for sellyng of swete wynes at bat tyme / And
so euermore other men when yay occupied pe same office And
also be alde custume and vsage of pis Cite for serchyng of swete
wynes pertyens to pe Serchours of be Vynters and to no nother
inso mykill pat noght lang tyme passed our sercheours at
commandement of be Mair at pat tyme and hys consell serched
swetewynes and other thurgh thys Cite And at pat tyme our
Sherchours in presence of pe Mair fand in pe house of Iohn
Asper in Stayngate a vessell of swete wyne vn abell to be sald and
in other places also pe whilk war forfet and pe heuedes smyten
oute openly in syght of be poeple And parefore worshipfull lord
and sirs we beseke you to considre pis mater tenderly and pat
we may be so demened pat we may contynue furth in our ald
possession and noght be put pair fro more nowe pan we haf
bene in tyme passed And who so will wythstand or agaynesay
pis lat pam proue whether pair swetewynes pat pay sell be
grewyng of grape or elles wynes made wyth spicery or other
crafte wyth outen grape.
f 120
Dulcis vendendi per retalliam hic infra libertatem eiusdem
Ciuitatis et quod omnes qui vendunt vina dulcia infra eandem
libertatem sint annuatim concributorij cum vyntarijs huiws
13 pit) for yit 40 concributorij] for contributorij
20
25
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35
40
® Spiceres
Expense in festo
Corporis christi
Liberata yemali
de lez Waytes
ciuitatis Summa
xxvijs xd
54/ YORK 1433
Ciuitatis & soluant pagine eorwndem vyntariorum proporcionaliter
secundum quod occupant maius vel minus & vendunt huiusmodi
vina dulcia /
(6 November)
Shewes full mekely to your ryght hygh worthynesse Mair
Aldermen And the wyse counsell of the Chaumbre the pore
crafte of the Spicers whar as we haf hadd wyth outen tyme of
mynde the sherch of swetwynes alswele grewand as confectes
ypocras Clarr and all other / that nowe late be be suggestion of
diuerse persones be whilk neuer hadd als be pair craft knawlege
of swilk wynes, to bam ys supposyd grauntyd pe sherch of be
same wynes wythin this Cite In grete harme wyth grevows
hynderyng to pe losse of our crafte of Spicers als wele in our said
craft as to our pageant / for Sen be tyme at be play was begun in
thys Cite All pe Sellers be retaill swete wyne grewyng or
confectes hass payed to our crafte of Spicers and to non other as
for that merchandyse / Wherfore we be sek your hegh
worthynesse seyng our predecessours Mairs Aldermen and other
of pe counsell of pe Chambr be pair hegh and discrete wyttes
hasse euer latyn vs be in possession of swylk serch wyth takyng
to our pageant of all pe Sellers of swete wyne pat ye will consider
pair wyttes and apply your worthy wyttes vnto pairs pat
precessed yowe in tyme . for trewely yt warr full hevy to vs your
Citezeins of be pure crafte of Spicers oft said to seke any remedy
bot of your ryght hegh Worthynesse Thys we beseke yowe als
for our ryght And in way of Charite ...
City Chamberlains’ Rolls Y: C1:2
mb 1
Et ludentibws in pagina Coronacionis beate Marie in festo corporis
cristi xx s Et ministrallis eodem die ex consuetudine xx s Et pro
emendacione pagins predicte xix s jd Et pro firma camere
Maioris & proborum hominum eodem die vj s viij d Et in
presentacionibus panis vini et fructuum die predicto iij li. xiiij d
Et pro liberata yemali trium ministrallorwm ciuitatis empta de
eodem Wille/mo Gyllyngton xxvij s x d
35 pagins] for pagine
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Harraldi nuncij Et sol. haraldis nuncijs et ministrallis hoc anno ii) li vij s
& ministralli
dominorum
iij li. vij s.
Mercers’ Pageant Documents MA: D63*
(11 June)
This endentwre made in pe feste of Corpus christi In pe 3ere of
oure lorde god ml. CCCC xxxiij betwene Richard louth Maister
of be Cumpany of Mersers of pe Cite of 3orke & Nicholas
Vseflete & William 3arom Cunstables of pe saide Cumpany on pe 10
to syde And William Bedale Williav Holbek Henry Market &
Thomas Curtays ban Pagent Maisters on pe tother syde beris
Witnes pat pe saide Maister & constables has deliuerde to pe
saide Pagent Maisters all pir parcelles vndrewretyn langing to
paire pagent safely to kepe & to gouerne for baire tyme And thos 15
same parcelles to deliuer forthe agayne in resonable tyme to be
nexte Pagent Maisters pat sall occupy in pe nexste 3ere after And
so all Pagent Maisters to deliuer forth be bis endentwre to other
Pagent Maisters pat sall occupy for pe 3ere While be Pagent gere
lastes ffirst a Pagent With inj Wheles helle mouthe 1) garmentes 20
for iij deuels vj deuelles faces in iij Vesernes Array for ij euell
saules pat is to say 1 Sirkes ij paire hoses ij vesenes & ij Chauelers
Array for tj gode saules pat ys to say ij Sirkes ij paire hoses ij
vesernes & ij Cheuelers ij paire Aungell Wynges with Iren in be
endes ij trumpes of White plate & ij redes ij Aubes for iij 25
Appostels iij diademes with ij vesernes for iij Appostels iiij
diademes with ii) Cheuelers of 3alow for iiij Apostels A cloud &
ij peces of Rainbow of tymber Array for god pat ys to say a
Sirke Wounded a diademe With a veserne gilted A grete coster of
rede damaske payntid for the bakke syde of be pagent ij other 30
lesse costers for ij sydes of be Pagent iij other costers of lewent
brede for be sides of be Pagent A litel coster iiij squared to hang
at be bakke of god iiij Irens to bere vppe heuen iiij finale
coterelles & a Iren pynne A brandreth of Iren pat god sall sitte
vppon when he sall sty vppe to heuen With iiij rapes at iiij corners 35
A heuen of Iren With a naffe of tre ij peces of rede cloudes &
sternes of gold langing to heuen ij peces of blu cloudes payntid
on bothe sydes ij peces of rede cloudes With sunne bemes of
golde & sternes for pe hiest of heuen With a lang small border
of be same Wurke vij grete Aungels halding pe passion of god 40
Ane of pame has a fane of laton & a crosse of Iren in his hede
giltid iiij smaller Aungels gilted holding pe passion ix smaler
Mikillith extra
& infra
Ratonrawe &
Toftez
Mikillith extra
& infra
Ratonrowe
Toftes
56/ YORK 1433
Aungels payntid rede to renne aboute in pe heuen A lang small
corde to gerre pe Aungels renne aboute ij shorte rolls of tre to
putte forthe be pagent
(Endorsement)
Item } Baner of rede bukeram bett with golde with pe Trinite &
with ostret feders & With j lange Stremer Item iiij Smale baners
wit) Trinite in pam & Roset “433°
1435
Bridgemasters’ Account Rolls Y : C82:5
mb 1
Et de Pelliparijs & Tinctoribus Ebor’ pro domo paginarum
suarvm de termivis predictis huius anni i} s
Et de merceris Ebor’ pro domo pagine sue super lez Toftez de
termiis predictis hoc anno xij d
Et de Pistoribus Ebor’ pro domo pagine sue ibidem de termiis
predictis hoc anno xij d
Et de Tannatoribus Ebor’ pro domo pagine sue ibidem de
termiis predictis hoc anno xij d
Et de Tapitaryjs Ebor’ pro domo pagine sue ibidem de terminis
predictis hoc anno xij d
Et de Carpentarys & Allutarzs Ebor’ pro domo pagine sue
ibidem de termiis predictis hoc anno ij s
Et de Aurifabris Ebor’ pro domo pagine sue de termivis predictis
hoc anno vilj d
1436
Bridgemasters’ Account Rolls Y:C82:7
mb 1
Et de Pelliparijs & Tinctoribus Ebor’ pro domo paginarum
suarum de termiis predictis hoc ‘...) ee)
38 (...) (..)] anno is
10
15
25
30
35
Mikillith extra
& infra
Ratonrawe
Toftes
1436 YORK / 57
Et de Merceris Ebor’ pro domo pagine sue super lez Toftez de
terminis predictis hoc anno Kea?
Et de Pistoribus Ebor’ pro domo pagine sue ibidem de termimis
predictis huius anni keer?
Et de Tannatoribus Ebor’ pro domo pagine sue ibidem de
termiis predictis hoc anno er)
Et de Tapitarijs Ebor’ pro domo pagine sue ibidem de termiris
predictis hoc anno ee,
Et de Carpentarijs & Allutaris Ebor’ pro domo paginarum
suarum de terminis predictis ¢...) a)
Et de Aurifabris Ebor’ pro domo pagine sue de termiis predictis
hoc anno Go)
1437
Bridgemasters’ Account Rolls Y: C82:8
mb 1
Et de Pelliparijs & Tinctoribus Ebor’ pro domo paginarum
suarum de terminis predictis hoc Anno ij s
Et de Merceris Ebor’ pro domo pagine sue super lez Toftez de
terminis predictis hoc anno xij d
Et de Pistoribus Ebor’ pro domo pagine sue ibidem de terminis
predictis huius anni xij d
Et de Tannatoribus Ebor’ pro domo pagine sue ibidem de
termivis predictis hoc anno xij d
Et de Tapitarijs Ebor’ pro domo pagine sue ibidem de terminis
predictis hoc anno xij d
Et de Carpentarijs et Allutars Ebor’ pro domo paginarum suarum
de terminis predictis hoc anno ij
Et de Aurifabris Ebor’ pro domo pagine sue de termimis predictis
hoc anno vilj d
ZaXere dk) xii. 5 (...)] xij d
7 (...)) xij d 9 (...)) xijd
11 ¢...) (| hoc anno ijs 13 ¢...)] viij d
32 Allutars] for Allutarijs
10
20
25
30
35
Mikillith extra
infra Ratonrawe
& Toftes
58 / YORK 1437
Mercers’ Account Rolls MA: D53A
mb 6*
... Item payd for be makyng of be dwrres of pe pagent hous vj s
Item payd to Margret Chaundeler for makyng of vj torchys &
pe Wax to bam X1llj $
Item for vj Castyls to bam lj s vuj d
Item payd to Davyd paynter for xx iiij baners peyntyng Wyth
Canwas langyng per to and peyntyng of vj Castyls XS
Item payd for pe beryng of vj Torchys on Corpus christiday ij s
1438
Will of John Preston, Chaplain of Bubwith B1: Prob. Reg. 3
£546 (25 September; probated 11 October)
... Item lego Iohanni Robynson omnes libros meos de Pryknote
Item lego Ricardo Raby tres libros videlicet vnum Portiforium in
ij voluminibus & tercium librum vocatum Sangboke ...
1439
Mercers’ Account Rolls MA: D53A
mb 7
Item for berynge of vj torches on corpus christi day iS
1440
Bridgemasters’ Account Rolls Y : C82:10
mb 1
Et de Pelliparijs & Tinctoribus Ebor’ pro domo paginarum suarum
de terminis predictis hoc anno ij s
Et de Merceris Ebor’ pro domo pagine sue super lez Toftez de
terminis predictis hoc anno xij d
Et de ‘Pistoribus & Tannatoribus Ebor’ pro domo pagine sue
40 Pistoribus &] in different hand
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25
30
35
40
1440 YORK / 59
ibidem de terminis predictis hoc anno videlicet pro vtraque
parte xij d as
Et de Tapitarijs Ebor’ pro domo pagine sue ibidem de terminis—
predictis hoc anno xij d
Et de Carpentwrijs & Allutarijs Ebor’ pro domo paginarum —
suarum de terminis predictis hoc anno ij s
Et de Aurifabris Ebor’ pro domo pagine sue de terminis predicts
hoc anno vil d
Mercers’ Account Rolls MA: D53A
mb 7
Item for berynge of vj torches on Corpus christi day xx d
1441
Mercers’ Account Rolls MA: D53
mb 8
Item ffor Berrynge off Toircheys xx d
1442
A/Y Memorandum Book Y: E20
£288 (14 December)
Marshalles & Smythez
Memorandum pat pe xij day of decembr be yere of our lorde
ml ccccxliij in be counseil Chaumbr of pe Citee of york be fore
William Bowes Maire of be same Citee by pe ful assent & consent
of pe craftes of Marsshalles & Smythes of pis Citee of york &
suburbes of be same thies ordenancez vndre writen wer made &
graunted to be kept for euere more That is to say pat al the
lightes & torches bat langes to both pe saide Craftes as wele in
the Mynster as in other places fro nowe furth be made at pe
costes & expenses of both be said craftes and spended to the vse
of eithere of baym as wele in be procession vpon corpus Christi
1-2 videlicet ... xij d] in different hand
15
30
a5
40
Vestura Estiualis
& yemalis
Harrald: &
ministralli
Expense in festo
corporis christi
60 / YORK 1442
day as at beriall of euery man & of paire wifes pat er or shalbe of
pe said craftes
Item it is ordaned pat pe Pageant of both pe saide craftes fro
nowe furth in pe play of corpus Christi be loyntly broght furth
at pe costes of bothe pe said craftes And pat euery man of pe
said craftes shalbe preuy to be receytes & expenses of al money
pat shal ¢..) receyued to the said pageantes as wele pageant siluer
as other And pat be pagean(.) Maisters of both pe said craftes shal
make pair rakenyng & gife accompt euere yere (...) nowe furth
vpon Sononday next before Missomerday vpayn of liij s to be
payed pat oon half to pe chaumbr and pat other halfe to pe said
Craftes
ff 75v, 78v
(See above 1417)
City Chamberlains’ Rolls Y: C1:3
mb 2
Et pro Ixxviij rays emptis & datis ilj waytez xvij s.
vna cum vj vinis de light blew datis predictis XXIX S$
waytes erga festuym Natalis domini xij s
Et harraldis nuncijs & ministrallis Regis ducum
Baronum militwm & aliarum honorabilium Cxix s iilj d
personarum hoc Anno
Summa Cxix s ij d
Et in diuersis presentacionibus panis domznici
vinorum fructuum factis honorabilibus personis
hic presentibus pro laudo & honore ciuitatis vna
cum alijs expensis maioris Aldermannorum &
aliorum proborum hominum Et pro ludo de vyne
yerde hoc Anno xx d
Ixj s ij d ob
33 laudo] for laude
10
15
20
25
30
35
1442 YORK / 61
Bridgemasters’ Account Rolls Y: C82:11
mb 1?
Et Carpentarijs (...)
Et de Aurifabris (...)
Mercers’ Account Rolls MA: D53
mb 8
Item for beringe of vj torches on Corpus christi Day
1443
Mercers’ Chartulary MA: D19
£9* (26 March)
Item ordaind & acordid by pe who assent of pe
hele ffeliship in be Trinte hall on be electzon
Daye Thomas Scausby being mister William
Bluetront William Gaing Constables pat
pay With pe assent off be ffellship sall chuse
ilij pagent Masters on pe ffriday next after
Missondday of the Mercres & Mechants of
pe Citte and pay iiij shall bring forth pair
play & receyue all pe ornements thatt belanges
pto: by Indentowr & so deliver ouer to
paym pat shall com after And py sall
be countable to be Maister Constables & ffelow
ship of all pair receytes & expenses resonable
and pe iiij pagant Maisters being (blank) shall
bring furth pe pagants & haue
them in againe within iii) days next after corpus
Cristi day which of them pat doth
contrary shall pay vj s viij d to pe ffelo
ship without any fforgiuness /
10
US
20
25
30
35
40
Recepcio
forinsica
Minute
© Armourers
62/ YORK 1443
Mercers’ Account Rolls MA: D53B
mb 1
Item of vs vij d ressayued of Pagyanmaisters pis yere ouere all
expence be paim made for bryngyng furth pe Pagyant
Item payed for beryng of vj torches on corpus christiday xxd
1444
B/Y Memorandum Book Y: E20A
ff 121-1lv* (29 September)
To paire ful honorable & gracious lorde pe Maire of be Citee
of york
Besekes ful humbly your tendre . lordship your trewe herted
seruantez at our simple power pe hole craft of armorers of pis
Citee of york graciously to considre pe nowne powere &
insufficience & ful fewe of Craft in nowmbre pat we suffice not
to mayntene nor vphalde be charges & costes pat we bere yerely
about pe bringyng furth of our pageant & play vpon corpus
christi day with mony other costes olesse pan it may lyke you to
provyde som other meen to our succour & supportacion / And
for asmuch as your said besekers haue noon ordenancez nor
rewle tobe gouerned after for lake of which mekell euell chaffer
is made & vttred within pis Citee to grete disworship berof
sklaunder to pe said craft and grete dissaite to be kynges poeple
webeseke mekely pat pies ordenancez vndre writen may be
entred into your boukes of recorde bothe for be worship of pis
Citee & for pe wele of pe said Craft & kynges poeple (blank)
ffirst if per be eny man pat wil occupie as maister in pe said
craftes within pis Citee / the Serchours of pe same craft shal
haue ful power to serche hym if he be sufficient in connyng to
occupie as maister & save pe worship of pis Citee And if pay
fynd hym not able pay shal warne hym to sesse of pat occupa‘....) |
vnto pe tyme pat he haue lernede his Craft better to occupie as
maister / And if he will not sesse at pe first Warnyng at pe second
Warnyng he shall lose xl s pat oon halfe to be Commonialte of pis
10
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25
30
35
40
Mikellith extra et
infra Ratonrawe
& Toftez
Minute expense
1444 YORK / 63
Citee and pat other halue to pe said Craft. .
Item if ber be eny man pat Will occupie as maister in pe said
Craft pat has not bene apprentice Within pis Citee & Wele &
dewely fulfilled be terme of his printeship pat he shal pay at his
first settyng vpp xij s ilij d in be manere aforsaide
Item pat no man of be said Craft shal take noman to seruant
nor to Pryntice bot hym bat is ane Inglisshman born vppayn of
xl s to be paide in be manere & fourm afore Writen /
Bridgemasters’ Account Rolls Y: C82:12
mb 1
Et de Pelliparys & Tinctoribus Ebor’ pro domo paginarum
suarum de termiis predictis hoc anno ij s
Et de Merceris Ebor’ pro domo pagine sue super lez Toftez de
termiis predictis hoc anno x1j d
Et de Pistoribus Ebor’ pro domo pagine sue ibidem de termivis
predictis hoc anno xij d
Et de Tannatoribus Ebor’ pro domo pagine sue ibidem de
terminis supradictis huius anni xij d
Et de Tapitarys Ebor’ pro domo pagine sue ibidem de predictis
terminis xij d
Et de Carpentarys & Allutarijs Ebor’ pro domo paginarum
suarum de terminis predictis ij s
Et de Aurifabris Ebor’ pro domo pagine sue de termiris
supradictis huius anni vilj d
Mercers’ Account Rolls MA: D53B
mb 2
Item paide for vij. dossan v. lb. & di. wax made in vj. torches
with ix dossan & vij. lb. wax in stumps and for rosyn and weke
and for makynge of be same torchez xlij s ii. d
Item paide for beryng of pe saide vj. torchez apon corpus christi
day ij s
10
iS
30
aie)
40
Liberata
estiualis et
yemalis
64 / YORK 1445
1445
A/Y Memorandum Book Y: £20
£53 (3 June)
Memorandum quod tercio die Iunij Anno regni Regis Henrici
s€xti post conquestum Anglie vicesimo tercio in Camera consilij
coram Thoma Crathorn Maiore Ciuitatis Ebor’ ordinatum est &
firmissime concordatum de vnanimi consensu & assensu Omnium
Artificiorwm de lez Cutlers Ciuitatis predicte ex vna parte &
Thome Vsclyff de Ebor’ Chapman ex altera quod predictus
Thomas soluet decem denarios annuatim ad sustentacionem
pagine & luminis Artifici} predicti in festo corporis christi Et
quod idem Thomas Vsclyff amodo non erit electus in Magistrum
pagine illius neqwe ad aliud officiumm eidem artificio pertinens
sed quod erit totaliter exoneratus ab ‘omni’ officio & onere
eidem Artificio pertinente solucione annua dictorum decem
denariorum totaliter excepta . Et quia ab antiquo vsum fuit
quod omnes illi Ciues & extranei qui vendiderint cultellos siue
gestra infra libertatem Ciuitatis predicte per retalliam aut in
grosso soluerunt ad sustentacionem pagine Corporis christi &
luminis Artificiorum de Cutlers Bladsmythes & Shethers et modo
sunt aliqui qui de nouo recusant soluere ad dictam paginam &
lumen vt est dictum Ideo ordinatum est die & Anno predicto
quod omnes huiusmodi Ciues & extranei cultellos aut gestra
stallantes ‘iacentes’ & vendentes ac de viginis ad vendendum
extrahentes infra libertatem eiusdem Ciuitatis vel huzwsmodi
cultellos & gestra super mucrones aut fines vendicioni ponentes
per retalliam vel in grosso Mercatoribus & Merceris huius Cuitatis
ommino exceptis sint contributarij cum artificijs supradictis ad
sustentacionem pagine & luminis supradicts sicut antea hec
tempora vsi fueruvt & viterius quod Scrutatores Artificiorum
predictorum deinceps faciant scrutinium suum tam de forinsicis
quam de Ciuibus Ciuitatis de omnibus & singulis mercimonijs que
ad artes suas pertinent et omnes , ‘deffectus’ in eisdem
inuendiendos Maiori pro tempore existent: presentabunt per eius
discrecionem corrigendos puniendos & emendandos &c.
City Chamberlains’ Rolls Y: C2:2
mb 2
Et in Ixxviij rays emptis Ministrallis pro liberates
sae XVij $ viij d
estiualibus
10
15
20
25
30
35
40
H (...) cijs et
ministralhis
Expense in festo
corporis Christi
Minute Expense
1445 YORK / 65
Et pro vj vinis de Rede melde emptis & dates
predictis Ministrallis pro altera parte liberate sue xii) s ij d
erga festum Natalis domini
Et harraldis nuncijs & ministrallis Regis Ducum
Baronum Milituy & aliarwm honorabilium Gix sod
personarum hoc anno
Summa Cix sx d
Et in diuersis presentacionibus panis dominici
vinorum fructum factis honorabilibus personis
hic presentibus pro laudo & honore Ciuitatis Ls jd
vnacum alijs expensis Maioris Aldermannorum &
aliorum proborum hominorum
Summals jd
Mercers’ Account Rolls MA: D53C
mb 1
Item paide for beryng of vj. torches apon corpus christiday ij. s
1446
City Chamberlains’ Books Y; CC1
p2o°
Expense in festo Corporis christi
Expense in festo Corporis christi facte per
Maiorem & Aldermannos & alios extraneos pro lijs xd
Jaudo & honore Ciuitatis
pp 31-3
Harald: & Ministrall
In dono datum cuidam Ministrallo Radu/fi Puddeszay vy) d
In dono datum iiij lusoribus Ciuitatis vj d
2 a.) indicating a reversal of this entry and omitted entry above
6 H...) cijs}] Harraldis nuncijs 12 fructum) for fructuum
13 laudo] for laude
10
15
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25
30
35
40
66 / YORK 1446
In dono datum ij ministrallis lohannis Sauage militis xij d
In donato lohanni Bull Waferer vj d
In dono datum Iohanni Waferer vilj d
In dono datwim hugo loyter Ministrallo Episcopi dunelm’ xij d
In dono datum cuidam ministrallo Thome lumley militis _ iiij d
In dono datum [(...)] lohanne Piper de Ebor’ ij d
In dono datum christoforo harpour xij d
Item ij ministrallzs Comitis Westmor!’ xvj d
Item j ministrallo Roberti Roos militis il) d
Item j ministrallo domini de Clyfford viij d
Item iii) ministrallis ducis Northfolke xx d
Item cuidem ministrallo Baronis de Graystok vilj d
Item cuidem ministrallo de Ebor’ vil d
Item lohanni Waferer & Roberto Waferer die dominica iij
in x|]ma xx d
Item ministralls Ciuitatzs in festo Pasche ij s uj d
Item ij ministrallzs domi Cantabrig’ xx d
Item } Wafferer domini Sar’ vj d
Item j ministrallo Wille/mi ffitz William vj d
Item j ministrallo [Roberti Oghtred] domzni Wellas vilj d
Item } ludent: vj d
Item ij Ministrallis Roberti Oghtred militis xij d
Item } Ministrallo Baronis de Graystok vilj d
Item ij Ministrallzs dunelm’ vilj d
Item j Ministrallo Wille/mi lumley Chivale ri vjd
Item j alio Ministrallo ij d
Item iiij Ministrallis Ducis Ebor’ sexto die Maij vj) s vu d
Item iij Ministrallzs Noui Castr1 super Tynam xx d
Item ij Ministrallis de ffranc’ viij d |
Item iiij Ministrallis domini Sar’ x die Maij ij s iid
Item j Ministrallo Thome Metham militis vil) d
Item iiij Ministrallis domini dexistr’ xiij° die Maij vj s viij d
Item j Wafferer de patria Australi xix die maij vj d
Item j Stulto domini Westmor!l’ xxiij die mai) ij d
Item ij Ministrallis de lyncoln ‘xvj d* cum j Ministrallo Radu/fi
Pudesay ‘vj d° xxij d
Item j Ministrallo Hugonis de Wilowby vj d
Item ludentibus in die dominica proxima post festum Assensionis
domini xij d
Item j ministrallo ceco ij d
20
25
30
SIS)
40
1446 YORK / 67
Item Ministrallis Ciuitats in vig#lia nativitatis Sancti lohannis
Baptiste xx d
Item cuidam Ministrallo Ricardi Musgrefe Militis vj d
Item Ministrallis in festo Corporis Christi xx d
Item j Ministrallo xii) die Augusti iy d
Item vj Ministrallis domini Gloucestr’ septimo die Septembris x s
Item iiij Ministrallis domi Regis iij die Octobris XX S$
Item ij Ministrallis Comitis Northumbr’ & Th¢...) Percy Chivale ri
iii] die Octobris xx d
Item j Ministrallo in Baggeryete ij d
Item } Ministrallo jd
Item Whetlay Ministrallo x die Octobris viij d
Item vni lusor? xj die Octobris vij d
Item vni Ministrallo xij die Octobris viy d
Item vnum Ministrallo Wille/mzi Bowes militis vil) d
Item iij Ministrallis lobannis Penyngton militis xij d
Item iiij Ministrallis Ducis Bukynham ij die Nouembris_ vj s_ vitj d
Item Ministrallo Comitis Northumbr’ viij die Nouembris __ viij d
Item Iohanni Wafferer xvij die Nouembris Ac vni stulto ‘jd’ ix d
Item ij Ministrallzs domzni de Clifford & j Ministrallo de
Allerton xvi d
Item quinqve Ministrallss de la marcas de Dorcetr’ xxv die
nouembris Vs
Item 1) Ministrallzs Wille/7i Maleuerer Chivaleri 11jt© die
decembris xij d
Item j Ministrallo de domo lescrope de Bolton xij d
Item {ij Mini] Simoni Harpour et j alio Ministrallo xvij die
decembris vyjd
liij li. x s ixd |
Item Ministrallis Ciuitates in festo Natalis domini lj s iy d
Item ludentibus in eodem festo vilj d
Item } Trumpett vij d
Item j ffidiller in eadem septimana ij d
Item ludentibus in festo circumsisionis xij d
Item j Ministrallo ij d
Item j) Ministrallo de Knaresburgh xij d
Item ij ludentibus de Donyngton xij d
Item j ludenti de Wakefeld yj d
15 vnum|) for vni
10
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30
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40
Minute Expense
Reparaciones
facte hoc Anno
68 / YORK 1446
Item Ministrallis Ciuitatis in festo Sancti Willelmi xx d
Item Roberto Wafferer in eodem festo [vij d} xij d
Item ij ministrallis domine de Dancourt xvj d
Item Simoni harpour eodem die iy d
Item quinque Trumpetters domini Sar’ xix die January vj s viij d
Ite vm ministrallo domini Wille/mi Plompton viij d.
Item vni ministrallo Roberti Ogle militis xxvj die lanuarij vj d
Summa vij li. [vitj s} “ix s’ (xj d] vij d
Mercers’ Account Rolls MA: D53D
mb 2
Item paide for beryng of vj torches on corpys christi day eS
Item paide for reparacion of be pageand house xlvij s vj d
Codicil of the Will of William Revetour, deputy civic clerk
Bil Prob kep.2
£138v (Will: 2 August; Codicil: 11 August;
probated 3 September)
... Item lego fabrice feretra corporis christi Ebor’ vnum Goblett
argent ... Item lego tfraternitati Corporis christiin Ebor’ quemdam
librum vocatum le Crede Play cum libris & vexillis eidem
pertinentibus Et gilde sancti christofori quemdam ludum de
sancto lacobo Apostolo in sex paginis compilatwm ... Item lego
zonarys Ciuitatis Ebor’ ad ludum suum in festo corporis christi
vnam coronam auricallcatam deauratam & vnam zonam cum
Boses deauratis & enameld ...
1447
City Chamberlains’ Books Y:CC1
p 67
Expense in festo Corporis christi “xii s inj d’ [xliyj s iy d]
pp 70-1
Haraldi nuncij ministralli
Inprimis ij Ministrallzs domini de dacr’ xij d
41 Inprimis] for In primis
10
15
20
30
35
40
® a(.) festum
Sancti Valantini
1447 YORK / 69
Etj ministrallo cum le hert iti) d
Et j Ministrallo domini de Clyfford Vil) d
Et j Ministrallo lohanmis haryngton vyyd
Et iij Ministrallis domini ffitzhugh ij s
Et iij Ministrallis Beuerl’ et alio vocato Wetelay ly s
Et Simoni harpour cum ij Ministrallis domini de Graystok ij Ss
Et Iohanni Wafferer die dominica proxima ante festum
Carnipriulj vilj d
Et Roberto Wafferer & Iohanni Wafferer die lune in prima
septimana xlme ix d
Et Iohanni Waferer xxiij die Marcis xij d
Et Ministrallis Ciuitatis in vigilia Pasche lij s 11) d
Et ij Ministrallzs xvj die Aprils vj d
Et hugo luter cum Episcopo dunelm’ xviij die Aprilis xij a
Et ij Ministrallis domini de Clifford xx die Aprilis inj d
Et j Ministrallo lohannis haryngton eodem die vj d
Et inj Ministrallzs Ducis Excester xxvij die Aprilis lll] s
Et j ministrallo Thome Cheworth Militis vilj d
Et ij Ministrallzs ville Laycestr’ ij s
Et ij Ministrallzs ville noue Castr7 super Tynam xij d
Et vni Ministrallo henrici Brounflete Militzs vj d
Et ij Ministrallzs Comitis de Erandale xxij die Maij ilj s inj d
Et j Ministrallo Walter: Tailbois Armigeri vil) d
Et ij Ministrallzs Comitis Sar’ xxiij die Maij ij s uj d
Etj Ministrallo Thome Neuyll Militzs vj d
Et ij Ministrallis comitis Northumbr’ ‘videlicet Christofero’
penultimo die Maij ij s
Et ii) Ministrallis de Pokelynaton vitimo die maij vilj d
Et ij ministrallis london’ primo Die lunij xij d
Et ilij ludentibus de London’ die dominica proxima post festum
corporis christi vj s vilj d
Et lez Ministrallis in festo corporis christi XV} S
Et vni Ministrallo die dominica proxima post festum corporis
christi vj d
Et vni lapour Roberti (Waterso] Waterton Chivaleri die
Tuny yd |
Et ij Ministrallis domini de Gray xij d
23 noue) for noui
15
20
30
35
40
70 / YORK 1447
Et ij Ministrallzs Ciuitatis in vigillia Nativitatis Sancti lohannis
Baptiste xx d
Et lohanni Wafferer penultimo die Iunij ij d
Et ij Ministrallzs ij die luli vilj d
Et ij ministrallzs domini sothffolk’ Ricardi Tunstall & Thome
herryngton xij d
Et j ministrallo vocato j Tregitour uj d
Et vj Ministrallis domini Regis xxvj die Luli XX S.
Et iiij Ministrallis ducis Ebor’ predicto die luli vj s vil d
Et ij Ministrallzs Wille/mi Maulyuerer vj d
Et ij Ministrallzs dommmi de Welughby xvj d
Et j Ministrallo ceco de partibus Australibus uij d
Et} waferer ij d
Et j Ministrallo henrici Percy domini de Puynynges vilj d
Et ij Wafferer Comitis sar’ & (...) xij d
Etj Ministrallo xxvij die Septembris ii) d
Et iij Ministrallis Wille/mi (...) milius & Radw/fi Pudsay viij d
Et quinque Ministrallis comitis Suthffolch Vs.
Et iiij Ministralls ducis bukyngham eee)
Et ij Ministrallis Thome Pudsay milits vyjd
Et j Ministrallo comitis Northumbr’ vi d
Et ij Ministrallis domini liscrop’ de Bolton & Walter
Tailboys xij d
Et Iak Trumpet et j ministrallo henrici Percy militis [xvj d] xij d
Et j ludenti cum Ioly Wat & Malkyn Kia
Et j Ministrallo seco vocato ministrallo dei vj d
Et ij Ministrallis Comitis de (...) xviij die Nouembris xij d
Et j Ministrallo domini de haryngton *xij d* & alio luter
ads xillj d
Et j ministrallo seco id
Et Ministrallis ciuitatis ad festum Natalis domi lij S
Et diuersis lusoribws in festo predicto diuersis diebus ys xd
Et ix Ministrallis domini Sar’ ‘vj s viij d’ Ministralls Ciuitatis
“xx d’ Roberto Wafferer “ij s) & Simon Harpour "xij d’ in
festo sancti Wille/mi & Magistro Wille/mo Pursevant xij s vilj d
Et Roberto Wafferer die martis & post festwm sancti Wille/mi ix d
Et cuidam ministralo ducis Excextr’ viij d
Et cuidam ministrallo Wafferer ij d
27 seco] for ceco 31 seco) for ceco
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In primis lohanni Wafferer vilj d
Et Roberto Wafferer eodem die scilscet iij die marci) viij d
Et lohanni Wafferer 111) die marcis vil d
Et Roberto Waferer eodem die vilj d
Et cuidam Waferer Comitis Sar’ viij die marcis vj d
Et iij ministrallis Ciuitatis Ebor’ ad festwm Pasche ys yd
Et [de] cuidam Ministrallo Baronis de Graystok eodem festo vj d
Et [d] Cuidam iugulatori lohannis Neuyll i d
Et iiij Ministrallis Comitis Sar’ Ll} s
Et ij Ministrallss domini ffitzhugh xvj d
Et cuidam Ministrallo lohannis Nevill militis vil] d
Et ij Ministrallzs ville Beuerlaci xvilj d
Et iij Ministrallzs domini de Beaumond j minstralo henrici Percy
militzs illj s.
Et iij Ministrallzs Wille/mi Eueres Militis xij d
Et Christofero Harpour xij die Aprils xij d
Et vni Ministrallo domini de Clytford eodem die vocato
Somersete viij d
Et vni Ministrallo domini de Bolton vj d
Et ij Ministrallis domini de haryngton xij d
Et ij Ministrallis Roberti Ogill Militis vil] d
Et j Ministrallo ducis Northfolchij xij d
Et Simoni harpour viij d
Et ij Ministrallis Ricardi de Middilton’ viij d
Et hugoni luter xij d
Et } Ministrallo henrzc: Brounflete ilij d
Et iij Ministrallis Comitis Sarem lij s. ij d
Et ij Ministrallis ducis exestr’ vilj d. xxxj s jd
Et j ministrallo Wille/mi Maulyuerere Militis yj d.
Et j Ministrallo lohannis Haryngeton Armigeri ill] d
Etj Ministrallo Radu/fi Puddezay Armigeri llij d
Et j Ministrallo christoferi Conyers inj d
Et ij Ministrallis Comitis Westmorl’ xij d
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Et ij ludentibus ibidem xij d
Et lohanne Vnderwod eodem die vj d
Et y ludentzbus loly Wat & Malkyn yd
Summa xxxvj s vj d probatur |
Item sol. ij Ministrallis Thome harrington Chivaleri xij d
Item Ministrallis in festo Corporis christi OS
Item Ade cum Campanis ij d
Item } watferer Comitis Westmorl’ vj d
Item j Ministrallo domini Iohannis Sauage Chivaleri itij d
Item j Ministrallo vocato Magistro Wille/mo Spede xij d
Et ij Ministrallis lohannis Percey de Cleueland’ vij d
Et ij Ministralls domini de Sothffolk’ xd
Et ij°r Ministrallis domini regis in vigilia Natiuitatis Sancti
lohannis Baptiste Xllj s ij d
Et Ministrallzs Ciuitatis eodem die xx d
Et Thome Buxnell vilj d
Et ij Ministrallis domini de Wiloghby xxiiij die Iulij xvj d
Et j Ministrallo vocato Nicholo Clerke vilj d
Et j Ministrallo Comitis Northumbr’ & j Ministrallo domini de
Dacre’ xvj d
Et j waferer Comitis Sar’ vltimo die Septembris uj d
Et uj Ministrallss domini ducis Ebor’ lj s. uij d
Etj Ministrallo domini de Say ij S.
Et j Tibuvnell Thome Percy Chivaleri inj d
Et j Tibuvner domine de Welles xij d
Et , ‘uj’ Ministrallzs domini de Southff’ yj s vilj d
Et ij Ministrallis alia vice xd
Et ij) Waytes de Notyngham xxijj die Octobris ij S.
Et vni Iunzor7 Ministrallo [Vicom] Viscount Beaumont vocato
Bull iitj d
Et vni waferer dominile Souche in festo Omnium Sanctorum vj d
Et vni Ministrallo de patria borial inj d
Et vni Ministrallo mense Decembris ij d
Et vni Ministrallo Wille/mi Plumpton vyjd
Et ludentibus in festo Epiphanie xviij d
Summa Ixx s j d probatur |
Et Ministralzs Ciuitatis in festo Natalis domini lj s ij d
Et j Ministralo domini Thome Percy viij d
Et ludentibus in festo predicto vilj d
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Et viij Ministrallzs Comitis Sar’ in festo Sancti Wille/mi Vil] s
Et iiij Ministrallis domini ffitz hugh et Thome Buxnell eodem
die lj s ij d
Et Ministrallis Ciuitatis eodem die xx d
Et Roberto Wafferer eodem die xij d
Et eidem die Marcis tunc proximo sequente x1j d
Et ij Ministrallzs lohannis heryngton [vj s] vitj d
Etj Ministrallo ducis Ebor’ vilj d
Etj ministrallo Nicho/i Radclyff inj d
Summa yj li. vij s xj d
Mercers’ Account Rolls MA: D53E
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Item receyued of corpus cristy breperhede for ij yere
ferme vj. s vilj d
Item paide for beryng of vj torches apon corpus christiday _ ij s.
Item paid to Iohn Catryk for a newe Whele to our
pageand Xllj. s ij. d
Item paid for xxiij lb. Wax to pe makyng of ij. torchez Kjos Ved
Henry V1 Received in the Minster Bodleian: MS Bodley 857
f lv*
Iste liber constat Wille/mo Marschall capellano de Pesholme.
Quarto post m c. quater x. tot et 1 quater anno
Hen.ticus sextus Wil.™1 peregrinus erat Vigilante Matheo
Horis canonicis. fuit et metropolitanis
Dans laudes petro. glorificante choro.
Ac visis feretris. Dunel.mi¢ Ripon Bridlington beyeraci
Et kyng[e]ston ‘hull’ fluuiis. clausum decorauit Ebraci.
Thesaurarie mansum reputans sibi dignum
In decus ecclesie dedit hoc laudabile signum
P45)
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et yemalis
Harralds et
ministrallz
Expense in festo
Corporis christi
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Vt rex indutus. Regalea queque secutus
Edward) translacionis annale festum coluit speciale
Prelati quini. sub mitris pontificatus
Intererant / et ibi. s,"l‘penduit ordo status
Tunc removens duo regna regens australe cupiuit
Vox populi benedixit ei dum mitis abivit
Princeps celestis. qui suis dat recreamen:
Hostibus infestis defendat se precor Amen
Episcopus Dunelmensis Abbas beate Marie Ebor’
Episcopus Sar’
Episcopus Hertfordensis Abbas de Selby
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In xvilj vinis de blodio meldeto emptis pro
vestura dictorum sex seruientium erga festum XXXV] S$
natalis domini ac Ministrallorum Ciuitats
Et haraldis nuncijs & Ministrallis Regis Ducum
Baronum militum & aliarum personarum vj li js vd
venerabiliwm hoc anno
Summa vj li iijs vd |
In diuersis presentacronibus vt in pane dominico
fructubus & vino datis diuersis venerabilibus
personis Generosis in Ciuitate presentibus in
festo Corporis Christi pro laudo & honore xlix s ixd ob
Ciuitatis ac in expensis Maioris . & Aldermannorum
eiusdem Ciuitatis inuicem existentsum eodem
festo
Summa xlix s 1x d ob
5 s, lpenduit] for splenduit 14 Hertfordensis] for Herefordensis
12-14 Episcopus ... Selby] to the right of Prelat ... status in MS
28 last line| Plus in dorso written at foot of membrane
31 fructubus) for fructibus 33 laudo] for laude
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Et Roberto clerk pro ‘ludo’ [lodo] Coronacionis beate marie
virginis ex parte Maioris Vilj S.
ff 29-9v
Harraldi nuncij & Ministrall:
In primis Iohanni Wafferer v die lanuary vj d
Et ij Ministrallzs Walteri Tailboys eodem xij d
Et j luter domini Westmorl’ eodem vj d
Et Simoni Harpour ix die ffebruariy vj d
Et j Ministrallo Wille/mi Plumpton & alio Galfridi
Middilton xij d
Et christoforo Harpour xvj die ffebruari vil) d
Et j waferer Comitis Sar’ vj d
Et ij Ministrallis Wille/mi [Harryngton] “Malyuerer’ [Chivalerz]
& lohannis Harryngton xij d
Et ij Ministrallis domine de Northff’ & viscount
Beamond [xvilj d} xvj d
Et Roberto Wafferer vj d
Et j Ministrallo Wille/mi Puddesay ily d
Et j Ministrallo cum seruo Wille/mi ffitz Wilzam ij d
Et j Ministrallo lohannis Butler Chivaleri ij d
Et Ricardo luter cum Barone de Graystok vil] d
Et vni Garsioni vocata Geistour i) d
Et ij Ministrallés domini Dunelm’ Hugoni luter & socio suo xx d
Et Iohanni Wafferer vj d
Et ij waffereres die dominica in medio xlme ij s
Et ij Ministrallis domini lescrop’ eodem die xx d
Et ministrallzs Ciuitats Ebor’ in festo Pasch lij s. iij d
Et ij Ministrallzs Wille/mi Plomipton vj d
Et ij Ministrallis domini Sar’ lij s. iy d
Et j Ministrallzs domzni ffitz hugh xvj d
Et ij Ministralls domini de Darcy ‘iiij d.. & Alexandri
Neuell ‘1iij d.” viij d
Et ij Ministrallis Thome Neuyll militis & domini de
Clyfforde xij d
Et j Ministrallo domini ffitz Hugh viij d
Et Roberto Ministrallo Dunelm’ cum hardyng de nouo Castro vj d
Et vni Ministrallo london’ vocato luter vj d
Et ij Ministrallis Thome Cheworth & Thome Ramston militis xij d
Et it) Ministrallis lohannis Sauage militis [xvj d] xxd
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Et} Ministrallo domini de Clyfford vocato Somersete
Et} Ministrallo domini de Poynynges cum ij garcionibus
Summa Xxxj s. iiij d |
Et j Ministrallo Wille/mi Rowes militis
Et i) Ministrallis Henrici domini de Puynynges
Et} Ministrallo fabulatori
Et ) waferer Thome Haryngton militis
Et) waferer domini Comitis Northumbr’
Et j Ministrallo Thome de Middilton de Kendale
Et ministrallzs Ciuitats in festo Natiuitatis Sancti lohannis
Baptiste
Et Roberto Wafferer in festo predicto
Et j juguler xxviij die Iunij
Et ministrallis in festo corporis christi
Et} Ministrallo vocato Tart
Et j Ministrallo Edward: de Bethom’ Chivaleri
Et ij Ministrallis de Comitis de Deynshire
Et yj Ministrallis domini de Beaumont
Et vij Ministrallis domini Regis quinto die Augusti —xxiij s. iiij d
Et vni luter de Beuerlaco xv die mensis predicti
Et vni Ministrallo ducis Southfolch’
Et vni Ministrallo domini Thome Rampston’
Et j Ministrallo lohannis Talbot & itj Ministrallis Beuerlaci
Et j Ministrallo Walteri Tailboys Comitis de Kyme
Et [de] ij Ministrallzs domini de Harryngton
Et j Ministrallo Comitis Northumbr’
Et Christoforo harpour secundo septimo die Octobris
Et Iohanni ffouldes cum Episcopo dunelm’ eodem
Et iij Ministrallss Beuerlaci xx die Octobris
Et Iohanni Wafferer
Et vni Ministrallo
Et vni Ministrallo ceco iij die Decembris
Et lohanni Waferer & Roberto Wafferer iiij die mensis
predicti
Et ludentibus die lune in festo Concepcionis beate Marie
Et j ceco Ministrallo
Et j Ministrallo Comitis Westmor!’
Summa lIxvij s. vd.
f 30
Et Ministrallis Ciuitatis in festo Natals domini lj s. inj d
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vj li. iij s. vd
® xxiilj s. viij d
Mikilgate infra
& extra Ratonraw
cum lez Toftes
Recepcio
forinseca
1449 YORK /77
Et Ministrallis Ciuitatis in festo Sancti Willelmi xx d
Et vij Ministrallis domini Sar’ in eodem festo .
Et Christoforo Harpour & Ilohanni Somersete xiij Ss. illj d
cum domino de Clyfford
Et Ministrallis domini Baronis de Egremont xij d
Et lusoribus in festo Natalis domini 111°" vilj d
Et Henrico Stirop’ & socijs suis lusoribus iiij d
Et iii (...) ludentébus ibidem ij d
Et ij ludentibus de parochia Sancti Dionisij ij d
Et j Ministrallo Wille/i Gascoigne vj d
Et ij Ministralls lohanmis Saynell milites xij d
Et j Geistour ibidem ij d
Et Iohanni Tarte lusori lily d
Bridgemasters’ Account Rolls Y : C83:2
mb 1
Et de firma domus paginarum Tinctorum et pellipariorum
ibidem ad eosdem terminos xij d xij d
Et de firma domus pagine Mercerorum super lez Toftes ad
eosdem terminos vyjd yd
Et de firma domus pagine pistorwm ibidem ad eosdem
terminos vjd wjd
Et de firma domus pagine Tannatorum ibidem ad eosdem
terminos vjd wd
Et de firma domus pagine Tapitarzorum ibidem ad eosdem
terminos yjd yd
Et de firma domus paginarum Carpenteriorum & Allutariorum
ibidem ad eosdem terminos xd ony
Et de firma domus pagine Aurifabrorum ibidem ad eosdem
terminos iiij d iii d
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Item receyued of corpus christi bretherhede of be xxviij.o 3ere
8 (...] possibly puisner
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of kynge henry aboue rehersed lj. s ij d
Item paide for beryng of vj. torches apon corpus christi day. be
ij. 3ere ili). s Item payde for makyng of torchez xj. s Item payde
tor ye Aungels of oure pageand xx. s Item for ij 3erdes &
dimidium of lynen cloth to hevyn of oure pageant xv. d Item
paide for sewynge of pe same clothe ij. d ... Item payde to
Thomas Steynour for stenyng of ye clothes of oure pageand
Xilj. $ ij. d
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mb 1-2 (Receipts)
... Et de vno libro anglicano . continente (blank) paginas de
instrucione & informacione fidei christiane vulgariter vocate /
Crede Playe / per dominum Wille/mum Revetour dato precium
ij li. vj s vi d Item ex dono eiusdem Wille/mi xvij vexille
laudabiles & sumptuose precium iii) li. Item ii1j vexille de cerico
rubeo cum auro laudabiliter operate precium ij s. Item ii
vexille depicte vocate penonz precium xxvj d Item xiij dyademz
cum vna larua aurata cum cheualerz & cum ornaturis ludi prefats
ordinatis precium vj s. vilj d Et de vna vase lignio pro eisdem
vexillis seruandis ordinata precium iij s uj d similiter ex dono
domini Willelmi Reuetour dato tali condicione habita prout
notatur in dorso istius Rotull ...
... Et de vno libro anglicano prius recepto & modo ad staurum
posito cum xvij vexills aptes & alijs vii) vexillis secundarys cum
alijs ornamentis & parcellis pro le Crede Playe ordinatis precium
viij ‘li.’ ij. ‘s’ .x. “d” ... Item sol. cuidam Sissori pro fincione
& le borderyng vexillorum predictorum vj d
Summa xxxv li. x s. xd ob. |
Item dicti Custodes petunt allocacionem pro expensis factis in
Cena corporis christi Et primus in pane leuan vilj s. viij d Item
in pane subtili vocato symnell & Pastill vij s. x d Item in loyned
brede pro maiore & sodalibus suis ix d & in trencherd brede iij d
19, 20, 22 vexille] for vexilla
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Et de xix s. sol. pro xiij dussans ceruisie melioris & de vj d. pro
ceruisia secundaria ad ysum coquine & seruientis pro tempore
conpacionis eorum Et de xvj s. iiij d sol pro xviij agnellis & di.
Et de iij s. vj d sol pro carnibus bouium ouium vitulorum emptis
tam pro serulentibus predictis tam pro le fewe intempore cene 5
Et de js. vj d pro 119t caponibus emptis pro maiore & suis
sodalibus Et de xvij s ,“ob’ pro vij rabettes pro eisdem Et de viij
pro puluere cynamoni & zinzebris pro eisdem maiore & sodalibus
suis Et de xxilj s. vj d sol. pro xvj dussans pullanis Et de spicebus
ad coquinam empts videlicet in pipere iij d in clowes iij d masez 10
iij d Rasemis 1) d cooco vj d & in saunders ij d. summa xx d. Item
pro j potello vini acris iij d pro melle ij d pro ouis iij d butiro ij d
farina auene ob. pro sale ad coquinam jj d ob. pro sale ad
tabulam pro le salers j d pro aqua vse ij d pro iii) skeppez
carbonum ij s. & pro fagodes & astylwod vj d summa iiij s. Item 15
sol. Roberto Pottowe & Iohanni Gannton cocis cum suis
ministris . ilij $s. inter se diuidendos Item sol. lohanni Daystern pro
suo officio ibidem ministro xij s. Item de xiij d sol xiij pauperibus
pro verum girantibus Item sol. lohanne Misterton mundanti
reuetts & ciphos & vasa in coquina v d Item Henrico Sterop _20
inferendo tabulas formulas & trestez & asportando ad propria
loca ij d Et pro ij) Wanyons ordij pro pastura pullanorum
predictorum vj d Et pro herbis virentibus ad sternanda scanna
per circuit aule & area eiusdem iij d
Summa iii} li. xviij s. ob. 25
Item dicti Custodes petunt allocaconem pro expensis Minutis ...
Item sol. iii) diaconibus portantibus le baudekyn xij d Item sol.
cuidam clerico portanti crucem ante processionem in die corporis
christi per ij annos iiij d Item sol. apparatori eunti per Ciuitatem 30
& citanti presbiteros inesse processioni ad honorem corporis
christi viij. d Item sol. pro baiulacione x. torchiorum ante
processionem predictam per ij annos vj s. ij d Item sol. pro
portacione ciste noue cum feretro incluso . & pro le bere & trestez
ad domum sancte Trinitatis deinde ad monasterium sancti Petri 35
& postea ad loca propria viij d ... Item sol. Thome Scauceby
mercerus pro firma Aule Boitrie coquine & ceteris aisiamentis
per 1) annos vj s. viij d ...
9 pullanis) for pullis 22 pullanorum] for pullorum
34 pro] MS pro pro
Harald: & nuncij
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mb 2d*
... Et de xvij vexillis laudabiliter & digne operatis cautelose in
se signa & misteria culusdem ludi vulgariter nuncupati Crede
Playe cuym iiij° alijs vexillis cericis cum angelis & sententijs fidei
depictis et deauratis Item iii) penonz similiter depictis Item xiij
diademz cum lez cheualers & ceteris ornamentis eodem ludo
pertinentibus Item j liber de pergameno vocatuws Orygenal in
lingua anglicana scriptus & continens (blank) paginas ex dono
laudabilis (...) confratris nostris domini Wille/mi Revetour cuius
anime propricietur deus supra condicione <...) quod infra xij
annos ad maius si congrue poterit per Ciuitatem Ebor’ palam &
publice diuersis (...) & ad laudem dei erudicionem (...) populi
specialiws (...) immo ut crede porteratur ad ignorantium modicum
commodum Ciuitatis (...) et honorem magnumque mervitum
presentis fraternitatis quoad (...) poterit nobis per ¢...) Amen
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Festum corporis christi
Et in expensis maioris & Aldermannorum & alium [s]
venerabilium personarum in festo corporis Christi lv s jd. ob.
Summa patet lvs id ob.
f 65v
harraldi et Ministralli
In primis Ministrallis Ciuitats in festo Pasche lj s yj d.
Et Ministrallis Ciuitatis in vigilia Natiwitatis Sancti lohannis
Baptiste xx d
Et iij ministrallis Regis vj die Iulyj XS:
Et ministrall/s Ciuitatis in festo Natalis domini iij s. inj d
Et eisdem Ministrallis in festo Sancti Willelmi xx d
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Item sol. Ministrallis Ciuitatis ad festum Pasche ij s. uy d
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Rowe cum
lez Toftez
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Item Ministrallis Ciuitatis in vigilia Natiuitatis Sancti lohannis
Baptiste Xx d
Item quinque ministrallis Regis xv die Tulij xvj s. vulj d
Item Ministrallis Ciuitatis in festo Natalis domini lj s. uy d
Item eisdem Ministrallis in festo Sancti Wille/mi xx d
Expense in festo corporis Christi xlvj s jd ob.
Bridgemasters’ Account Rolls Y : C83:3
mb 1
Et de firma domus paginarwm Pellipariorum & Tinctorum ibidem
ad eosdem terminos xij d xij d
Et de firma domus pagine Mercerorum super lez Toftes ad
eosdem terminos vyd yd
Et de firma domus pagine pistorum ibidem ad eosdem
terminos vjd yd
Et de firma domus pagine Tannatorum ibidem ad eosdem
terminos vyjd vjd
Et de firma domus pagine Tapiterorum ibidem ad eosdem
terminos vjd vjd
Et de firma domus paginarum Carpentariorum et Allutariorum
ibidem ad eosdem terminos xij) d xij d
Et de firma domus Aurifabrorum Ebor’ ad eosdem terminos ...)
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Harald: & nuncij
In primis sol. Ministrallis Ciuitatis in festo Pasche ys. uy d
Et eisdem in festo Corporis Christi xx d
Et eisdem in festo vigilie Nativitatis sancti lohannis Baptiste xx d
Et vj Ministrallis Regis in sancte exultatione sancte Crucis xx s.
Et Ministrallis Ciuitaws in festo Natalis domini ij s. uj d
27 (...)] iiij d iiij d
38 sancte exultatione| probably for festo exultationis
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forinsica
Custus vj now
torches
Reparacio
pagine
Expense
forinsice &
necessarie
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Et eisdem [in festo die] in festo translacionis Sancti
Wille/n7i OX d
Summa xxxvilj s. iiij d
Et in expensis factis per Maiorem & Consilium Camere in festo
corporis christi xlvj s. ij d ob. |
Vestura Estiualis & yemalis
In ij vinzs panni blody meldeti emptis & datis
Ministrallis vj s vilj d
In lij pannis stragulis empts & datis eisdem Ministrallis (blank)
1451-2
Mercers’ Account Rolls MA: D53H
mb 1
Item pai answere of x s ressayued of be fraternite of Corpus
christi for peir pension for eisement in pe hall of pise ij yere &
ane othir yere of Iohn Catrik tyme laste maistre
Item in ij dus3en vj lb. di. clene wax boght for makyng of vj
newe torches price of pe dussez vj s Xxvij s uj d
Item payde to Robert loynour for helpyng of pe pagiante he &
his seruant by ij days ij s
Item to Pers loksmyth for makyng & mendyng of pe Irenwerke
perof lj s vij d
Item to Robert Michell for payntyng of be said pagient
newe XXll] $ ij d
Summa xxix $ xj d
Item payd for beryng of iiij torches in pe procession of Corpus
christi xvj d
Item payed of pe comon siluere to Wrangle for plaiyng of our
pageante by assent of be feliship vj s vilj d
Item to pe Comons for ferme of pe pageant hous a
yere xj d
25
30
a
40
Liberata
Estiualis et
Yemalits
Harralldi nuncij
& Ministrallz
Expense in
festo corporis
Christi
1453 YORK / 83
1453
City Chamberlains’ Rolls Y: C3:1
mb 2
Et in lxxviij Rayes emptis pro ministrallis ciuitatis erga eundem
festum
Et in xij vinzs de male leni blodio emptis eisdem
ministrallis pro altera parte dicte liberate dictorum
sex seruientium Communitatis
xiij $ iiij d
XXIll] $
Et in vj vinis de peiore blodio empts dictis Ministrallis per
predictum Maiorem
Et Ministrall:s Ciuitatis ad festum Pasche ‘iij s itij d’
In vigilia Natiuitatys Sancti lohannis Baptiste ‘xx d”
In festo Natals domini ‘iij s iiij d’ Et in festo
Sancti Wille/mi tempore yemali ‘xx d’ ac in festo
corporis christi “xx d
viij s
x] s vil d
Et vj ministrallis domini Regis hic presentibus hoc anno xx s ...
mb 2d
Et in diuersis presentacionibus vt in pane dominico fructibus &
vino datis diuersis venerabilibus personis & Generosis in Ciuitate
presentibus in festo corporis christi pro laudo & honore Ciuitatis
ac pro expensis Maioris & Aldormannorum eiusdem Ciuitatis
eodem die adinuicem existentium
Summa xlv s iiij d
City Chamberlains’ Books Y: CC1A
ff 132v-3
Expense in festo Corporis christi
In j lagene di. vini albi empto de Iacobo Kexby
Harrald7 nuncij & Ministrall
Ministrallzs Ciuitatis in festo Pasche
6-7 eundem festum] Pentecost 26 laudo) for laude
xlv s iiij d
xij d |
iij s. iiij d /
Ww
10
115)
NM
Ww
30
Mikillyth exura
et infra cum
lez Toftes &
Ratonrawe
84 / YORK 1453
Et eisdem in festo corporis christi xx d
Et eisdem in vigilia Natiwitatis Sancti lohannis Baptiste xx d
Et vj Ministrallis domini Regis vo die Septembris Ee 5
Et ministrallis Ciuitatis in festo Natalis domini lj s. inj d.
Et Ministralls Ciuitatis in festo Sancti Willelmi be a5
Bridgemasters’ Account Rolls Y: C83:4
poloy ils»
Et de firma domus paginarum Pellipartorum & Tinctorum Ebor’
ibidem ad eosdem terminos xij d xyd
Et de firma domus pagine Mercerum Ebor’ ibidem ad eosdem
terminos vjd vyjd
Et de firma domus pagine Pistorum ibidem ad eosdem
terminos vyjd vd
Et de firma domus pagine Tannatorum ibidem ad eosdem
terminos vjd vjd
Et de firma domus pagine Tapiterorum ibidem ad eosdem
terminos vjd vjd
Et de firma domus paginarum Carpentariorum & Allutariorum
ibidem ad eosdem terminos xij d xij d
Et de firma tenementi siue domus pagine Aurifabrorum
ibidem ad eosdem terminos ij d inj d
1454
City Chamberlains’ Rolls Y : C3:2
mb 2
Et de pecunia recepta De Nicholas Blakburn
Wille/mo Bouland & alijs pro licencia habenda
ad ludendum lusos Corporis Christi coram XS
tenemento in tenura sua iuxta Portam Sancte
Trinitatis in Mikilgate hoc anno
Et de Iacobo kexby ‘ij s’ lohanno helme ‘vj s viij d’
vxore lohannis Pannall ‘vs viij d’ Wille/mo
Gayte ‘vs’ (blank) Barbour pro huiusmodi
lusos habendos ante tenementa sua in Mykilgate
X1x $ iil) d
10
15
20
25
30
35
40
Denarij Recepu
ad diuersa loca
pro licencia
habenda pro
lusione ludi
Corporis Christi
Harraldi nuncij
& Ministralli
1454 YORK / 85
Et Thoma Scauceby & alijs pro predicto ludo habendo ee
ante tenementa sua in Mikilgate in ij4? loco
Et Abbate de ffontibus ‘viij s' & Gardianis ecclesie
Sancti lohannis ad pontem pro eodem ludo habendo
coram tenemento & Cimiterio Sancti lohannis xj s ul d
predicti per magistrum Thome Tubbar ‘iij s_iiij d’
vnius Gardianorum predictorum
Et de henrico Watson pro lusione hwiusmodi lusi ad finem
orientalem pontis Vse Xi] s uly d
Et de Iohanne Henrison & Wille/mo knolles pro huiusmodi
ludo habendo apud le Stalege Xilj s ij d
Et de Rado Babthorp ‘v s’ Iohanne Swath ‘ij s vj d’ & Thoma
Bynglay ‘ij s vj d’ pro eodem ludo habendo ad finem de
Iowbritgate hoc Anno aS
Et de tenemento Wille/mi Gascoigne militis Phillipo Caruour
“xij d’ & alys pro ludo habendo ante ostia tenementi eiusdem
Willelmi xij d
Et de hospitilario Sancti leonardi ‘vj s’ fratribus Augustini/s
‘ys’ & Thoma Brignall ‘ij s’ pro ludo habendo apud Stayngate
lendyng aS
Et de Ricardo Cay pro ludo habendo ante ostia tenementi sui in
Stayngate hoc Anno vj s vuj d
Et de Iohanne Catryk Aldermanno pro ludo habendo ante
tenementum suum in le Mercerye hoc anno lij s. ily d.
Et de Nicholo Holgate Thoma Curteys & alijs pro huiusmodi ludo
habendo ante tenementa sua super Pauimentum lllj s
Summa vj li js ij d
mb 3
Et ministrallis Ciuitatis ad festum Pasche ‘iij s iiij d’
festum Corporis christi ‘xx d’ vigilia Natiuitatis
Sancti lohannis Baptiste ‘xx d’ In festo Natalis xj.S. vi d.
domini ‘ii) s iij d’ et in festo Sancti Willelmi
hoc anno ‘xx d’
Et ministrallis Ducis Ebor’ in aduentu eiusdem ducis vsque Ebor’
hoc anno Xj S. ilij d
1 Et Thoma Scauceby ... xx s) over erasure, different hand?
8 vnius) for vnum
10
15
30
35
40
Vestura (...)
Expense in festo
Corporis Christi
Mikillyth extra
& infra cum lez
Toftes &
Ratonrawe
86 / YORK 1454
mb 3d
.. Et pro | panno integro de murray Ray Empto de lohanne
Marshall pro predictis sex seruientibus erga festum Natalis domini
hoc anno xl s. Et in xvilj vnis de leni blodio empus per altera
parte elusdem liberatwre (.) pro iij Ministrallis Ciuitatis xx s. Et
pro tnctura dictarum xvii) vinarum iiij s. iiij d Et pro tonsura
earundem xviij vInarum cum predicto panno integro de Ray ac
Tonsura Ixxvilj Rayes emptarum pro Ministrallis ij s. iiij d Et
pro predictis lxxvilj (...) emptis de Iohanne Marsshall predicto
AVIS. aids...
Et in expensis Maioris & Aldermannorum Ciuitats
predicte in festo corporis christi necnon in diuersis
presentacionibws vt in pane dominico fructu & vino xlixs xjd
datis diuersis venerabilibus personis in Ciuitate
Ebor’ presentatibus eodem die
Et Wille/mo Dernwater pro lusione ludi Coronacronis
beate Marie eodem die
Summa lix s xj d
Bridgemasters’ Account Rolls Y: C83:5
mb 1
Et de domo paginarum Pellipariorum & Tinctorum ibidem ad
eosdem terminos xijd xd
Et de Domo Pagine mercerum ibidem ad eosdem
terminos vjd vyjd
Et de Domo Pagine Pistorwm ibidem ad eosdem
terminos vjd vjd
Et de Domo Pagine Tannatorum ibidem ad eosdem
terminos vyjd vyjd
Et de Domo Pagine Tapitariorum ibidem ad eosdem
terminos yd yd
2 (...)| estiualis & yemalis 4-5 altera parte] for alteram partem
5 ()] & 9 (...)) Rayes
10
15
20
30
35
1454 YORK / 87
Et de Domo Pagine Carpentariorum & Allutariorum ibidem ad
eosdem terminos xij d xij d
Et de Domo Pagine Aurifabroruwm ibidem ad eosdem
terminos ilij d uj d
Mercers’ Pageant Documents MA: D63
(27 February)
Nouerint vniuersi per presentes nos Robertum Hewyk de ledes in
Comitatu Ebor’ Parissheclerke Thomam ffitt de Ebor’ Tapiter &
Henricum Clayton de Ebor’ textorem teneri & firmiter obligari
Gubernatori & Custodibus Communitatis Mercatorum Ciuitatis
Ebor’ in decem libris sterlingorum Soluendis eisdem . Gubernatori
& Custodibus vel successoribus suis seu eorum certo attorno ad
festum Corporis christi proximum futurum post datam presencium
sine dilacrone longiori Ad quam quidem solucionem dicte pecunie
vt premittitur faciendam obligamus nos heredes & executores
nostros ac ommia bona nostra et quemlibet nostrum per se pro
toto & insolidum per presentes Sigillis nostris signatas Datum
vicesimo septimo die ffebruarij Anno regni Regis Henrici sexti
post conquestum Anglie tricesimo secundo
Condicio istius obligaciomis talis est quod si prescripti Robertus
Thomas & Henricus teneant & perimpleant ex parte sua omnes &
singulas conuenciones & condiciones contentus in quibusdam
indenturis inter supradictum Gubernatorem & Custodes ex vna
parte et prefatos Robertum Thomam & Henricum ex parte altera
confectis de & super educcione ludi Corporis christi videlicet
pagine vocate domysday secundum vim formam & effectum
indenturarum predictarum quod extunc ista obligacio pro nullo
habeatur Alioquin in suis robore permaneat & virtute
Shirwod
1455
House Books Y: B7
£137 (12 September)
Vniuersis fratribus & sororibus fraternitatis corporis christi Ebor’
presentibus & futuris Quod tempore quidem Iohannis ffoxe
lohannis Evenwod christoferi Doblay Roberti Stokton Thome
flesshner Et Wille/mi Salisbery capellanorum Ebor’ ac dicte
10
15
20
30
35
40
Extra mikellyth
et infra cum
Ratonrawe et
lez Toftes
88 / YORK 1455
fraternitatis custodum anno videlicet ab Incarnacione domini
millesimo cceccM© lyto existit iste liber innouatus ac de nouo
factus & nuper scriptus ac secundum copiam inueteratem &
debilem compilatws quam Wille/mus Revetour nuper capellanus
in capella sancti Wille/mi super pontem vse predicte fraternitati
in testamento suo contulit & legauit ad instanciam Iohamnis foxe
eiusdem Wille/mi Revetour Executoris ."Et tamen’ ea condicione
vt quolibet anno decimo futuro in varijs locis dicte Ciwitatis Ebor’
congruis audiencibus ob salutem spiritualem ludus iste
incomparabilis publice promulgetur Ita quod eisdem locis
inhabitantes pro ludi sumptibus et expensis soluant ac satisfaciant
ad condignum /
Will of Robert Lasingby of the Parish of St Denys
Bi eropm Reps 2
f 342Av (4 August; probated 28 February 1456)
... Item lego fabrice dicte ecclesie mee vnam mappam de Twill &
ludum oreginale Sancti Dionisy pro sepultura mea in dicta
ecclesia habenda ...
1457
Bridgemasters’ Account Rolls Y : C83:6
mb 1
Et de Domo paginarwm pellipariorum & Tinctorum ad eosdem
terminos xij d xij d
Et de domo pagine mercerum ibidem ad eosdem
terminos vjd vjd
Et de domo pagine pistorum ibidem ad eosdem
terminos vjd vjd
Et de domo pagine Tannatorum ad eosdem
terminos vyjd vyjd
Et de domo pagine Tapitariorum ad eosdem
terminos vjd yjd
Et de domo pagine Carpentariorum ad eosdem ; :
terminos xij d xijd
Et de domo pagine Aurifabrorum Ebor’ ad eosdem wee
terminos ilij d itij d
10
15
20
25
30
315)
40
Extra Mikillyth
& infra cum
Ratonrawe &
lez Toftes
Extra mikillyth
& infra cum
Ratonrawe &
lez Toftes
1457 YORK / 89
Will of Isabella Kerr YM: M2/6/e
f 34v (5 September) |
... Item lego Iohanni Candell meam Torcham de corpore christi
1458
Bridgemasters’ Account Rolls Y : C83:7
mb 1
Et de domo paginarwm Pellipariorum & Tinctorum ibidem ad
eosdem terminos xij d xij d
Et de domo Pagine mercerum ibidem vjd vjd
Et de domo Pagine Pistorwm ibidem ad eosdem terminos vj d yj d
Et de domo pagine Tannatorum ibidem ad eosdem
tevyminos vyjd vyjd
Et de domo Pagine Tapitariorum ibidem ad eosdem
terminos vyjd vyjd
Et de domibus Paginarum Carpentariorum & Allutariorum
ibidem ad eosdem terminos xij d xij d
Et de domo pagine Aurifabrorum ibidem ad eosdem
terminos ij d uj d
Will of Jobn Tidman, chaplain BI: Prob. Reg. 2
£371v (4 August; probated 26 August)
... Et lego Roberto Haxby vnam togam coloris le meld vnum par
de clauecordis et vnum librum vocatum vn Balettboke ...
1459
Bridgemasters’ Account Rolls Y : C83:8
mb 1
(...) Domo Paginarum Pellipariorum & Tinctorum ibidem ad
eosdem terminos xij d xij d
38 4...) Erde
10
20
P4s)
30
35
40
Recepcio
forinsica
Expense
forinsice &
necessarie
Recepcio
forincica
Expense
forincice &
necessarie
Recepcio
fforinsica
90/ YORK 1459
Et de Domo Pagine mercerum ibidem hoc Anno ad eosdem
terminos vjd vjd
Et de Domo Pagine Pistorwm ad eosdem terminos vyjd vyjd
Et de Domo Pagine Tannatorum hoc Anno vj d vj d
Et de Domo Pagine Tapitariorum ad eosdem terminos vjd vyjd
Et de Domo Pagine Carpentariorum & Allutariorum ad eosdem
terminos xij d xij d
Et de Domo Pagine Aurifabrorwm ad eosdem terminos ij d yj d
Mercers’ Account Rolls MA: D53K
mb 1
Et de ij s_ iii) d receptis de fraternitate Corporis christi pro
pensione sua pro aisiamento in Aula huius fraternitatis tempore
congregaczonis sue hoc anno
Et soluerunt pro portacione vj torchiarum dicte fraternitatis in
processione in festo Corporis christi hoc anno ij s
1460
Mercers’ Account Rolls MA: D53L
mb 1
Et de ij s_ ij d receptis de fraternitate Corporis christi pro
quadam pensione pro aisiamento in Aula eiusdem fraternitatis
hoc anno ...
Et soluerunt pro portacione vj torchiarum dicte fraternitatis in
processione in festo Corporis christi hoc avno ut in annis
precidentibus lj) s
1461
Mercers’ Account Rolls MA: D53M
mb 1
Et de iij s iiij d de fraternitate Corporis christi pro pensione sua
10
15
20
25
30
35
40
Expense
forinsice &
necessarie
1461 YORK /91
pro aisiamento in Aula huius fraternitatés tempore congregacionis
sue hoc anno
Et soluerunt pro portacione vj torchiarum dicte fraternitatis in
processione Corporis christi in festo e1usdem hoc anno ij s
Et soluerunt Thome Nandyke & socijs suis Magistris Pagine dicte
fraternitatis tam pro reparacione eiusdem pagine quam pro
conduccione lusorwm in ludo Corporis christi vitra omnve id quod
collectum fuit inter artifices soluentes ad dictum
ludum Xxx s ill} d ob.
Et in vilj duodenis cere emptis de seipso Thoma Beuerlay ad
nouam facturam dictarum vj torchiarum precio cuiuslibet duodeni
Ae tts A <b
Et pro factura dictarum vj torchiarum hoc anno de nouo ex
conuencione in grosso ys xd
Mercers’ Pageant Documents MA: D63*
Yis is ye costes mad a bowitt ye pagant
In primis for iij stanschns xd
Item for sowyng of a wanskott ij d
Item for beryng of ye same stufe jd
Item for ij stayes vj d
Item for naylls ij d
Item to a wryght v days ijs vyjd
Item for makyng of ye bemys ij d
Item for a wanskott vilj d
Item to a smyth vil d
Item for v 3erdes spenall to make ij sekes xv d
Item for iij 3ordes & quarter redbokuram to iiij baners ij s_ ij d
Item for j C party geld & j C sylluere ujs yd
Item for makyng of iiij baners lj $
Item for naylls & beryng of ger to ye pagantt fro ye trenyte
hall id
Item for putyng of ye pagant ouer ousse & settyng vpe vilj d
Item for dimidium 3ard of cloth to god uj d
Item for iiij mynstralles ij $
Item to a sargint lj d
Item for alle to ye puters ij d
Item for a dener to ye players xj d
Item for a staue yryn vil) d
10
15
20
25
30
BS)
40
Curialitates
Carpenteres
92/ YORK 1461
Item for a brekfast to ye [s] players xj d ob
Item for pantyng of ye pagant od
Item for a sopper to ye playeres & ye mynstelles att euyn ij svjd
Item tor makyng of ij reees to ye bemys [iiij] uly d.
Item for boroweng of Angell wenges id
Item for makyng of ij serkes. ij d
Item for makyng of iiij staffes to ye pagant ij d
Item for wesschyng of ij payr hosse & helpyng uj d
Item payd to ye klarke for playeng XVIlj s
Item for drynke to ye players vd
[totalis xlvs viljd ob
Summa xlilj s vj d ob
Restored ynto vs xxviij s ij d ob.
owyng to Thomas Beuerlay for uj yerdes & quarter red bukram
leyed vilj) d Summa js ij d]
Summa totalis of our payment xlv s_viij d ob qwer of reseived In
pagant sylluer all it a pers be for xv s ii1j d Item reseived of ye
master of ye felychype [xjx]
XXX § il) d ob
Wyllzam Goddyrsswyke
Herry Wyllamson
Thomas Skotton
Iohn Bosswell
St Leonard’s Hospital Accounts YM: M2/6/d
f 22v
In Curialitatibus factis Ministrallzs ‘ij s ij d° lohanni waferrer
& socijs suis presentibus infra hospicale in festo sancti leonardi
hoc anno ‘xij d’ iij .s. ij d.
1462
A/Y Memorandum Book Y: E20
f293v* (4 June)
In primis it is ordeigned that if any straunge Carpenter com
iB)
20
25
30
35
40
Recepcio pro
lusis Corporis
christi in certis
locis hoc anno
habendts
1462 YORK / 93
within pe ffraunchies & liberties of pis Citee & occupie as a
maistere in any poynt pertenyng vnto pe saide Craft he shal pay
yerely as lange & whensom euer pat any suche straunger comes
to this Citee to be charges of pair pageant & light on corpus day
christi iiij d and if any suche straunger walde be obstenate or
refuyse to pay pe said iiij d yerely when he occupies within the
ffraunchies of pe saide Citee that pan the Maire for the tyme
beyng & the Counseill of be Chaumbre shal supporte pe said craft
to streyne the saide straungers as the lawe will
Item that euery free man of pis Citee pat occupies as maister
in the saide Craft not beyng of pe fraternite of the same shal pay
yerely to the chargies aforewriten as other wrightes doo bat be
of the same fraternite /
City Chamberlains’ Rolls Y : C3:3
mbet
Et de xiij s_ iiij d de Nicholo Haliday & Ada Hudson pro licencia
losorum corporis christi habendorum exopposito tenementum in
tenura iuxta portam Sancti Trinitatis in Mikilgate hoc anno
Et de vj s_ vii) d de Thoma Scauceby domino Thoma Wright
Thoma Kilburn & alijs in 4° loco
Et de xj s de Ilohanne ffoulford & alijs in tercio loco hoc anno
Et de xiij s_ vii) d de Iohanne Beese Ricardo Sawer Thoma
Barbour & alijs exopposito ecclesiam Sancti Iohannis Baptiste
videlicet 111j° loco
Et de x s De laurencio Marsshall lohanne Wathe & alijs in
Connyngstrete loco quinto
Et de vij s De Roberto Butler Thoma Hojeson & alijs loco vj® in
Connyngstrete
Et de x s De Iohanne Shirwod & Roberto Walker & alijs loco
septimo
Et de vj s vj d De Ricardo Key & alijs in Stayngate loco octauo
Et de ij s ij d De Petro Parot Iohanne Stalby & alijs in le
Mercerye loco nono
Et de ij s De Thoma Wrangwyssh & alijs super paumentum loco
decimo
21 losorum] for lusorum 38 paumentum] for pauimentum;
15
20
25
30
35
40
Resolucio
Redditus
Harraldi Nuneij
& Ministralli
Vestura estiualis
et yemalis
Expense maioris
&
Aldermannorum
ac aliorum in
festo corporis
christi
94 / YORK 1462
mb 2
Et sol. Roberto leche pro lusione pagine Coronacionis beate
Marie Virginis hoc Anno ij S.
Et sol. ijb“s Ministrallis Ciuitatis ad festa Pasche
“uj s uj d° Corporis christi "xx d’ Natiuitauitatis
Sancti lohannis Baptiste “xx d’ Natalis domini xj s vilj d
“ij s uj d~ & Sancti Wille/mi tempore yemali ex
consuetudine “xx d’
Et quinque ministrallis domini Regis hic existentibus mense lulij
hoc anno Xvj s vilj d
Et alijs quinquve Ministrallis ei1usdem domuni Regis hic existentibus
mense Nouembris vil} s ij d
Et ijbus pedestribus dicti domini Regis ‘iij s uij d’ & I Taberet
“xij d’ eiusdem mense predicto llj s ij d
Et vni Ministrallo domini Regis ducentz vnum marmusett eiusdem
domini Regis js ij d
mb 3
Et sol. Wille/mo Chymnay pro xij vInis de
Musterdevelers emptis pro 1jb¥”s Ministrallis XXV] S
Ciuitatis ad dictum festum
Et in expensis Maioris Aldermannorwm & aliorum
Conciuium Ciuitatis in festo corporis christi
vnacum diuersis presentacionibus vt in pane
dominico fructibus & vinis datis & presentatis xlvs vyjd ob.
diuersis dominis & dominabus Militibus prelatis
& alijs generosis tunc in Ciuitate presentibus vt
Comitissa Warrwick & alijs
Summa xlv s vjd_ ob.
7 Natiuitauitatis] for Natiuitatis 16 Taberet] for Taberer
27 ad dictum festum) Chnstmas
10
15
20
25
30
35
1462 YORK / 95
Mercers’ Pageant Accounts MA: D63*
Thise be pe parcelles of expenses made aboute be pageant of
pe Merceres
In primis paide to pe players for playinge xviij s yd
Item paide for pe cloth of god [sak] sarke & pe hose makyng
& payntyng ys uy. d
Item paide for a pare of newe Wheles ij s vin. d
Item paide for [to Ite] be puttyng forth of be pageant ij d
Item paide for mendyng of be pageant xd
Item paide to a wright ij d
Item paide for a newe rope id
Item paide for mendyng of be aungelles i. d
Item paide for mendyng of be tromppez j.d
Item paide for ij aungelles weyngez hyre ij. d
Item paid for puttyng hom of pe pageant v.d
Item paide for be pageant gere beryng to and fro uj d
Item paide for costes when we went about pageant silvour vjd
Item in expenses for drynk vpon corpus cristi day be pe way vj. d
Item for players sopper & oures lj. S
Item paide to a Sergeant bat went with vs at dyuers tymes_ ij. d
Item paide for ynke paupir & for writyng y.d
Summa Xxx $ j.d
[¢...)]
Richard York.
William Tele.
Iohn lightlope.
Richard Sawer
1463
Mercers’ Pageant Accounts MA: D63
Thys is ye expens mayde be Iohn leghtlop william Thelle &
Richard sawer in yer 3er beyng pagandmasstes
ferst qwene we went I botte for pagand syluere ij d
Item at ye ferst rehers in kakkys & alle ij dob.
Item In v 3erddes of now canvays to I now pagand yat was
mayd for ye sallys to ryse owtof xv d
{tem in naylles boght to ye same xij d
25 [¢...)] ] four names cancelled and illegible
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Item in viij sparres of fyre ij s
Item for lattes i d
Item payd to I wreght so for makkyng yerof vjd
Item for ij Roppys jd ob.
Item for pakthrede jd
Item for } pottyng stang jd
Item in hayng home of ye paganddes lij d
Item in resches jd
Item payd to garnett smeght for yrne warke yat he mayd xij d
Item payd on corpos cresty dall in All to ye playars thorow
ye tone ij d
Item to ye playris super xx d
Item for owre denere on corpos cresty day xd
Item for 1) sarkkes mendeng id
Item for Angell wengys ij d
Item for tow chaplettes ij d
Item for ye farme of ye pagand hus xij d
Item payd for playng xvilj s ij d
Item for pantyng of ye dellwys “gere’ to Richard pantur _— xij d
1464
House Books Y: B17
£112 (11 May)
Coblers ordynance
The xjth day of May in the iiijth yere of the Reign of oure
souereign Lord kyng Edward the ffourte
It is agreyd and affirmed By Iohn Gilyoit mayer and Consaill
of the Chamber of the Cete of york the xj day of may in the
yere afforesaid by ye peticon and Instaunc of the fraunchest
men and Maisters of the Coblars Craft wivrin this Cetie afforesaid
that accordyng to , ‘the’ auncient Costome of the said Cete That
they and there successors from hencefurth yerly in the procession
of Corpus Criste fynde & brynge furth of there proper Costes
& Charges 1iij torches to thonor and worsshipp of god & this said
Cete and also that [no] no man shall Occupieye ‘the’ said
Coblers Craft within this Cete but that he shall paye , ‘to ye’
Coblers [& to ye honor of god and ye hupholding of the said
torchis] “towardes there yerely charges’ v s. Except only yat
euerry man may serue hymselfe or aman seruand serue his
Maister so often tymes as the offenders is ffounden ffawty shall
pay and lose xij d And also if there be any man that occupyth
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forrand resaytes
[Resaytes]
forand expenses
1464 YORK / 97
as amayster in the said Cete and will not pay his dewte yerelye
after he be alected by the Surrsers of the said Craft he sall pay
and lose xvj d the on half to the chamber of vsbryg [that]
‘and’ the oyer half to the well and profyt of the Craft
Mercers’ Pageant Accounts Maud Sellers, ed, The York Mercers and
Merchant Adventurers 1356-1917, Surtees Society, CXX1X
p72"
Memorandum that this is the costes made of our pagyant. In
primis, paid to our players, xviijs. jd. Item, to the said players
and his felows for the super, xd. Item, to the said players for a
pair glovys and payntyng of serkes, and half a yerd cloth, vjd.
Item, for byndyng of a paire whelys, js. Item, for sope to the
whelys, yd. Item, for a wod axiltre, xd. Item, for nayls to both
pagyants, and for a sparr and burdes, viyjd. Item, for borowyng
out of 6 iryn pyns, ijd. Item, for v yerdes and dimidium of
spannall to serkes, and makyng of the sam, xxd. Item, for a
rope to the angels, ijd. Item, for bryngyng forth of the pagyantes
into the strette, ijd. Item, for our dynner and drynke to the
players on Corpus Christi day, xvjd. Item for havyng of both
pagyantes agayn to the pagyant hows, vijd. Summa xxxs. jd.
Rest in our hands, xxjd.
1465
Mercers’ Account Rolls MA: D53
mb 1
... And of iij s ij d resayved of ye brotherhod of corpus christe
for yer eysment in ye hawlle ...
Item payd for berynge of vj torchys in ye feyst of corpus
christe ij s
Corpus Christi Register BL: Lansdowne MS 403
ff 4v-5 (22 October)
In primis vna capsula lignea supra summum altare in capella
2 alected] for elected
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98 / YORK 1465
sancti wille/mi supra pontem vse appreciatur iij li. Et vnum
baiulatorium pictum deauratum pro dicto feretro in processione
ferendo vj s_viij d Et octo puluinaria albi coloris pro portantium
feretrum humeris ordinata appreciatur ij s ij d Et iiijot ymagines
euangelistarum & xvj angeli cum scutis & rotulis nuper depict
svnul calicibus duobus de cupro deauratis , “cum ij cristyls’ pro
dicto baiulatorio & feretro supportando xxxviij s Et ij panni
parui de bukysyn depicts cum calicibus deauratis pro dicto
baiulatorio cum vna celatura lignea quadrata & cum quatuor
lanceolis appre ciatur ij s Et pannus pictus cum ymagine summe
trinitatis appreciatur iij s Et quatuor pecie de valauncez boldi
coloris cum calicibus & stellis deauratis appreciantur v s. Et ij
sacculi linei pro ii pelles dicti baiulatorij honeste conseruando
appreciantur vj d Et vn,‘a’ cista breuis ligata cum ferro pro
feretro tute custodiendo appreciatur viij s_ viij d
In primis liber vocatus Originale continens Articulos fidei
catholice in lingua anglicana nuper scriptus appreciatur x li. Et
alius liber inueteratus de eodem ludo Cs Et alius liber de eodem
anglice vocatus Credeplay continens xxiij quaternos. Et xvij
vexilla magna appre ciantur iiij li. & iii) vexilla minora de serico
rubeo preciantur vj s vil) d Et nouem alia vexilla vocata pennons
de nouo factis cum scutis fidei & calicibus depictis appre ciantur
xj s vj d Et xxiiijor instrumenta ferrea vocata sokkettes ordinata
pro extensione vexillorum appre ciantur iilj s vj d Et vna mitra
papalis appreciatur x d Et vna corona regis cum ceptro & vn
cirotheca appreciantur vj d Et xij rotule nuper scripte cum
articulis fidei catholice | appreciantur iij s ij d Et vna cistula
quadrata cum vna sera & claue pro dictis vexillis seruandis
appre ciantur ij s Et ij mitre episcoporum appreciantur xij d Et
vna clauis pro sancto petro cum ij pecijs vnius tunice depicte
appreciantur xij d Et iiij alia vexilla vocata pennons ij s uj d Et
x diademata pro christo & apostolis cum vna larua & alijs nouem
cheuerons vj s
In primis quatuordecem torchie appreciantur (blank) Et ij
Iudassez veteres appreciantur xiii} d Et xij castella picta cum
calicibus aureis & laminis de ferro eiusdem castellis pertinentibus
appre ciantur iiij s Et xxxiiij vexilla picta pro torcheis ordinata
appre ciantur XX S$
11 boldy) for blodij
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Mikillith extra
& infra cum
lez Toftez et
Ratonrawe
1465 YORK / 99
Codicil of the Will of William Downham, chaplain
BI: Prob. Reg. 2
£488 (Will: 28 May; Codicil and Probate: 13 January 1466)
... Item lego Wille/mo Ball omves libros meos de ludo de pater
MOSLEY ves
1466
Bridgemasters’ Account Rolls Y: C84:1
mb 1
Et de domo pagine Pellipariorum & Tinctorum ibidem ad eosdem
terminos
Et de domo pagine mercerum ibidem ad eosdem
terminos
Et de domo pagine Pistorum ibidem ad eosdem
terminos
Et de domo pagine Tannatorum ibidem ad eosdem
terminos
Et de domo pagine Tapitarioruwm ibidem ad eosdem
terminos
xij d xij d
vyjd vyjd
vyjd yd
vjd wd
vjd vid
Et de domo pagine Carpentariorwm & Allutariorum ad eosdem
terminos
Et de domo pagine Aurifabrorwm ibidem ad eosdem
terminos
1467
Mercers’ Pageant Accounts MA: D63*
Thes ere ye Costes payd Aboute ye paujand /
In primis payd to Wylliam Clark
& his players for [he] rehersyng xd
Item to Iohn lytster for goyng with vs id
Item payd for iren pykes & gret
nales for ye axeltre & burdes
& nales & warkmanship to ye
grete paujand xx] d
Item payd for stowres & ij Inglyshe
burdes & dubyll spykyng & warman
xij d_ xij d
iiij d_iiij d
5
LS
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25
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35
40
Recepcio denary
pro locis
dimissis pro
Jusis in festo
Corporis christi
100 / YORK 1467
ship [war] whare ye saulys lyes xilj d
Item for mendyng of An angell cote we
Item payd to Wylliam Clark for a par
gloues & half a yerd lynen ed
Item payd for sope & grt...)
ye pajand wheles Ge
Item for weshyng of (...) =)
Item payd to WylK...)
felowse on Co\...) Fy,
Item payd to Wyll...)
playng of ye play a
Item payd to Wylliam C\...)
lytster for settyng vp <...)
& takyng downe yat langes (...) GC)
Item puttynghome of ye pajand ex)
Item puttyng ye pajand aboute on ye morn vyjd
Item spend at ale at dyuers tymes on
Wylliam Clark & Iohn lytster & malum vj d.
Item yat we hafe spend at dyuers
tymes abowte ye towne and
our drynkyng & oure soper on
Corpuschristi day at evyn ij s vj d
Summa of ye Costes xxx s iij d ob. & in ye
master handes xij d
1468
A/Y Memorandum Book Y: E20
f 42
(See above 1401)
City Chamberlains’ Rolls y : C3:4
mb 1
Et de x s De Nicholo Haliday & Ade Hudson pro licencia ad
habendos lusos ante ostia sua ad porta Sancte Trinitatis
Et de xiilj s De Thoma Scauceby Thoma Kilburn ad alys in
se cundo loco
Et de xvij s ix d. De Relicta lohannis Toller & alis in tercio loco
38 ad porta] for ad portam 39 ad] for ac
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Resolucio
Redditus
Harraldi nuncij
& Ministralli
Vestura Estiualis
& Yemalis
1468 YORK / 101
in Mikilgate
Et de xvj s De Thoma Barbour Christofer Thomlynson Ricardo
Croklyn Ricardo Sawer Et alijs in iiijt© loco ad finem de
Northstrete
Et de vj s viij d De Ricardo Russell lohanne Smyth & alijs ad
finem de Connyngstrete in quinto loco
Et de viij s De Alexandro Menerous Nicho/o Saunderson ‘vilj s’
& tenemento Communitatis ‘iij s iiij d’ exopposito in sexto loco
Et de xiij s iij d De Thoma Aylde & alys in medio de
Connyngstrete in vij° loco
Et de ix s De Magistro fraternitatis Sancti Christofori Ebor’
tenentibus Sancti leonardi & alys ad finem de Stangate viij°
loco
Et de viilj s De Wille/mo Gilmyn alijs in medio de Stanegate
loco ixno,
Et devs vuj d De lohanne Wilkynson & alzjs ad Portas Monasterij
loco xmo.
Et de iij s de Johanne Scalby Petro Parot Et alijs in la Mercery
loco xjymo,
Et de (blank) De (blank)
Summa cxj s vd
mb 2
Et Scrutatoribus Ostillariorum Ciuitatis ad
conductionem pagine Coronacionis beate Marie ij s
virginis in festo corporis Christi
mb 2d
Et tribus Ministrallis Ciuitatis Ebor’ ad festa Pasche
“nj Ss 1) d” Corporis Christi "xx d* Natiuitatis
Sancti lohannis Baptiste ‘xx d’ Natalis Domini
& Sancti Willelmi tempore yemali “iij s iiij d”
xls vij d
Et septem Ministrallis domzini Regis hic in Ciuitate existentibus
mense Octobris XX §
Et sol. pro xij vinis de Blewe melde emptis pro iijbus Ministrallis
Ciuitatis ad idem tempus XXllj s
40 ad idem tempus] Christmas
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Expense Maioris
&
Aldermannorum
in festo Corporis
christi
Mekelgate extra
et infra cum
lez Thoftes et
Ratonrawe
102 / YORK 1468
Et in expensis Maioris & Aldermannorum &
aliorum personarum in festo corporis christi
vnacum diuersis presentacionibus vt in pane
dominico fructibus & vinis emptis & datis diuersis
dominis & generosis tunc in Ciuitate predicta Ixiij s vj d
existentibus cum iij s. iiij d. in Curialitate datis
cuidem fratri Augustino predicanti in Crastino
dicti festi in Capillo ecclesie Cathedralis beati
Petri Ebor’ & vj s viij d pro firma Camere
Summa lxiij s vj d
Bridgemasters’ Account Rolls y: C84:2
mb 1
Et de domo Paginarum Pellipariorum & Tinctorum Ebor’ hoc
Anno ad eosdem terminos xij d xij d
Et de domo Pagine mercerum ibidem hoc ad eosdem
terminos vyjd yd
Et de domo Pagine Pistorum ibidem ad eosdem terminos vj d vjd
Et de domo Pagine Tannatorum ibidem ad eosdem
terminos vyjd vyjd
Et de domo Pagine Tapitariorum Ebor’ ibidem ad eosdem
terminos vyjd yd
Et de domo Pagine Carpentariorum & Allutariorum Ebor’ ad
eosdem terminos xij d xij d
Et de domo Pagine Aurifabrorum ibidem ad eosdem
terminos ij d uy d
1471
A/Y Memorandum Book Y: E20
1 7
Coupers
Item it is ordayned that euere hyred man of the same craft be it
be yere or be weyke pat has ben apprentez in the same craft
within the said Cite shall yerely pay to the Serchiowrs of be same
craft to the sustentacion of thair pagende iil) d And yif he were
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Reparaciones
pur le pageant
house
Curialitates
Recepciones
Pro Nauibus
1471 YORK / 103
nat apprentez wit/ in the saide Cite yerly he to paye to the same
Serchiours to pe same entent vj d
1472
Mercers’ Account Rolls MA: D53Q
mb 1
... Et receptum de magistro & fraternitate Corporis christi
occupantibus Aulam nostram per Annum ij $ iil) d ...
mb 2
Item computant pro reparacionibus factis pro Reparacione super
le Pageanthouse super le toftez videlicet soluerunt ijbus
Carpentarijs ibidem operantibus per tres dies il) s Et soluerunt
pro ijbs lignis pur solynges & barres pro hostijs xilij d Et
soluerunt pro burdes pro hostijs xij d Et pro vna petra & di. ferri
cum operacione eiusdem pur bandes & Crokes ij s_iij d Et pro
vno paruo hostio cum le Crokes viij d Et pro vna Cera cum Claue
precium iil) d Et soluerunt pro CC dobill’ & Syngill’ Spykyngs
vij d Et soluerunt pro mundacione domus jj d
Summa ix $ ij d
York Minster Chamberlains’ Rolls YM: £1/44 MP
mb 1
... Et in regardo Datum ex mandato Dominorum de Capitulo
histrionibus interessentibus ad festa sancti Wille/mi Translacionis
‘vj s vilj d° Deposicionis ‘vj s viij d° & iiijor dierum in septimana
Pentecostis “xiijs ili) d’ prout vsitatum est annis precedentibus
Xxvj$ vilj d Et iiij° Diaconis portantibus pannum supra capud
sancti Wille/mi videlicet in translacione ‘xij d’ Deposicione
eiusdem ‘xij d° & iujor diebus in septimana Pentecostis “ij s
1474
Mercers’ Account Rolls MA: D54T
mb 1
Item dict: magister & Constabularij computant videlicet de
ffraternitate Corporus christi pro Occupacione magne Aule
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as)
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104 / YORK 1474
per Annum iij s_ iiij d ...
_ Cere & Rosyn posited ad ffabricam Sex torchiarum de nouo
factarum pre cium vnius libre iij d ob quarta /
Summa xxxvj s vij d
1474-5
B/Y Memorandum Book Y: E20A
f 142 Plasterers and Tilers
Item pat what maister of the saides Craftes as hase hereafter any
straungers wirkyng with hym or thaym in pe same craftes or in
any of thaym awnswer for his pagend siluer to be Craft apon
payn of xij d to be paide in fourme beforesaid
1475
B/Y Memorandum Book Y: E20A
£140 (20 October) Armourers
Item it is ordayned forpermore pat all ande euery maister of that
occupacion Within this Cite for tyme beynge shall mete in A
conuenyent place Wit/in this saide Cite yerely fro nowefurth the
second sonday next aftre the feste of Corporis Christi And bere
and panne to elect ande chuse thair Sercheours ande Pagende
maisters for the yere folowynge Ande who it be pat fayleth to
com Whan he is reasonably warned shall forfaite in that behalfe
vj d in fourme beforesaide And pe same day bere be Sercheours
ande pagend maisters to make bere Rekenynges.
Item that alle the maisters of the same Crafte frome nowefurth
yerely on Corpus Christi day in the mornyng be redy in thair
owen propre personnez euery one of thayme with Ane honest
wapyn to awayte apon thair pagende maisters ande pagende
at pe playnge ande settyngefurth of thair saide pagende at pe
firste place where theyshall begyns Ande so toawayte apon pe
same thair pagende thurgh pe Cite to pe play be plaide as of bat
same pagende And who ..) be of the saide maisters as hereafter
3 libre} for libri
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Lusus Corporis
christi
i47o VOR / 105
makyth defalt in pis partie shall forfait vj d to be paide in fourme
before writen withoute he haue A reasonable excuse &c
f£140v (13 May) Glovers
In Primis it is ordayned that Who so euer Selles openly Within
this Cite in thaire Shoppez any glovez pursez or keybandes
called ynglisshware shall paye yerely to the pagende maisters
of the saide pagende ande crafte that is to seye of a deynsyn
ij d / ande of A straunger iiij d to the sustentacion ande vphalding
of the pagende of the forsaide Crafte yerely Alle be brether ande
Susters of the ffraternyte ande gilde of the blissed Trinite Within
the saide Cite maynteyned by the merchawntes of be saide Cite
allway except / Ande also all maner of men sellyng london ware
like wise to be excepted &c
City Chamberlains’ Rolls Y : C3:6
mb 2
Et de x s receptis de Adam Hudson pro primo loco apud portam
sancte Trinitatis
Et de xij s receptis de Willelmo Scauceby & Thoma Kilburn pro
14° loco
Et de xiiij s_vitj d receptis de uxore lohannis Tollerer pro iijcio
loco
Et de xiii) s receptis de Willelmo Plomer & Ricardo Wels Tixtwriter
pro uijt° loco
Et de vj s viij d receptis de lohanne Smyth cordwaner & Nicholo
Bille pro vto loco
Et de vj s receptis de Roberto Butteller & lohanne Wildyng pro
vjt° loco
Et de xij s receptis de lohanne Bawde Sadler & Iohanne Gylde
pro vij° loco
Et de viij s receptis de Nicholo Bewik pro viijo loco
i: de vij s vd receptis de lohanne Barbour in Stanegate pro ixo
oco
Et dev s receptis lohanne Wilkynson & Iohanne Tirry pro xo
loco
Et de iij s_iiij d receptis de Johanne Scalby & Willelmo Hogeson
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Harrald: nuncij
& Ministrall:
Vestura
Officiariorum
et alioruym
Expense in festo
Corporis christi
Expense
necessarie tam
extrinsice quam
intrinsice
fforisfacture &
pro Nauibus
106 / YORK 1475
pro xjMo loco
Et de xij d receptis de Maiorissa pro xij° loco super pauimentum
Summa Cs jd
mb 3
Et sol. Ministrallis Ciuitats Ebor’ pro termino Pasche iij s_iiij d /
Et sol. eisdem Ministrallis in vigilia Natiuitatis sancti lohannis
Bapuste / xx d Et sol. eisdem Ministrallis in festo Corpis christi
xx d / Et sol. eisdem Ministrallis in festo Natalis domini iij s.
illj d / Et sol. eisdem Ministralls in festo sancti Wille/mi
Archiepiscopi xx d / ...
Et sol. pro vestura Ministrallorum huius Ciuitatis erga eundem
festum Pentecoste XXVil] S
Et sol. in expensis factis in festo Corporis Christi per Maiorem
Aldermannos & xxiilj®t ac alios virorum venerabilium tam in
victualbus pane & seruisia per eos hac die expendits quam in
vino rubro & albo ac blandrellis Dats & presentats diuersis
nobilibus & egregijs viris adtunc in eadem Ciuitate existentibus
cum firma Camere Eodem die & Regardo fratris predicantis die
veneris proximo sequente ex consuetudine
Summa Ixv s vilj d ob.
... Et sol. Custodibus pagend Coronacionis beate Marie virginis
de lez hostilers huivs Ciuitatis ad sustentacionem & auxilium
expensarum suarum in hac parte factarum ex consuetudine
ASH
Mercers’ Account Rolls MA: D54U
mb 1
Item dicti magister & Constabularij computant videlicet , ‘de
magistro’ Corporis christi Occupacione magne Aule Per Annum
vj s vil d...
10 Corpis] no brevigraph for Corporis 20 hac] for hoc
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35
Curialitates
1475 YORK / 107
York Minster Chamberlains’ Rolls YM: E1/43 MP
mb 1
... Et in regardo datum ex mandato dominorum histrionibus
interessentibus (.) in festis Translacionis ‘vj s viij d* &
deposicionis ‘vj s viij d° sancti wille/mi & iti} diebus in septimana
Pentecostis ‘xiij s viij d’ prout vsitatum est in annis precedentibus
xxvj $ viij d Et iiij diaconis portantibus pannum supra caput
sancti wille/mi videlicet in translacione ‘xij d’ & deposicione
eiusdem ‘xij d° & iiij diebus in septimana pentecostis “is
lies.
1475-6
A/Y Memorandum Book Y: E20
f 74v Guirdlers
In tempore Thome Wrangwish
Also that al tho that makes eny hamydown within this Cite
shalbe contributorye yerely to the sustentacion and bringyng
furth of the pagiaunt of the said Gyrdellers and if eny be
disobeand and wilnot pay when pe pageant maisters requireth
who pat than he that so disobeth forfet and pay xx d pe tone
half to the Chaumber and be tother half to pe sustentacion of be
said pagiaunt that is forto say the makers ij d and the sellers ij d
except tho of be trznite gylde
Item pat all tho that sellys eny Gyrdels made of leddyr within
this Cite suburbes and precinctes of the same be contributory to
the said Craft in bringing furth of thare pageant except tho of the
trinite Gylde and he pat is Rebell and wilnot pay to ryn in the
contempt of xx d to the Chat...) and Craft by evyn porcions
fi 295v-6*
Tapiters / plus in tercio folio precedenti
Item it is ordeined and Awarded by Thomas wrangwishe pen
Maire of pis saide Citie and pe Chaumbre of be same with be
hoole assent and concent of all pe hoole Craftees of be Tapiteres
, and lynen weuers That whereby A decre Awarde and
luggement by William Holbek late | Maire of pis saide Citie made
and yeven betwene pe hole Craftes of Tapiters and lynen weuers
10
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40
vacatl
108 / YORK 1475-6
of pe saide Citie pat pe saide Craft of lynen weuers shuld from
pense furthe yerely paie vnto pe saide Crafte of pe Tapiters vj s
for allmanere dewtes charges and accustumes to pe aide and
supportacion of paire Pageant in pe plaie of Corpus christi as
more pleynely it apperith in be saide decre and Awarde / The
Saide Tapiters at be special desire And Request of be saide
Thomas wrangwishe Maire clerely freely and holey for euermore
herafter haue Remised and Releassed vnto pe saide Craft of
Lynen weuers pe saide vj s. / And also it is ordeined pat either of
paire Craftes shalbe free from any Serse contribucion or dewtie
from ober frorm pis day furth And if it hapen Any of pe saide
Tapiteres hynse furthward to haue or sett upp any lynen lome
or lomes pe whiche hath apperteyneith and belongith to paire
Craft and occupacion of olde tyme pe saide lomes and warkemen
perin to be examened and sersed by pe Sersours of pe saide
lynenweuers at all tymes the saide tapiters payng vnto bayme
none , ‘pageant syluere for the same had afore tym’ [Also be
saide Tapiters [shall] haue and yerely perceyue of be Litsters
by pe handes of be pageaunt maisters of pe saide lytsters in be
feste of Corpus christi to be supportacron and sustentacion of be
pageaunt of the Tapiters iij s_iilj d of lawful money of England
Also pat pe saide Tapiters shall yerely haue and percieue to pe
sustentacion of paire pageaunt of euery vpholder and comon
Seller of couerlettes within pis Citie and libertie of pe same
ij d /]
B/Y Memorandum Book Y: E20A
f 147v*
Porters
Item pat euery Kidberer within this saide Citie and ffrawnches
from hynsfurth yerely shall paie vnto the sustentacion of iiij
torches yerely to be founden and borne by the saide Porteres
in the procession of Corpus christi ij d
10 shalbe] MS shalbe be 11 frorm] for from
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Ordinacio pro Ludi Corporis christi ie
Also it is ordeined and stablished by pe ful consent and auctoritie
of pe Counsaile aforesaide pe day and yere within writen from
bis day furth perpetually to be obserued and keped That is to
saie pat yerely in pe tyme of lentyn there shall be called afore the
Maire for pe tyme beyng iiij of pe moste Connyng discrete and
able playeres within pis Citie to serche , “here” and examen all
pe plaiers and plaies [and] pagentes thrughoute all be artificeres
belonging to corpus christi Plaie And all suche as bay shall fynde
sufficiant in personne and Connyng to be honour of pe Citie and
Worship of pe saide Craftes for to admitte and able and all ober
insufficiant personnes either in Connyng voice or personne to
discharge ammove and avoide
And pat no plaier pat shall plaie in pe saide Corpus christi
plaie be . conducte and Reteyned . to plaie . but twise [()] on
pe day of pe saide playe And pat he or thay so plaing plaie . not .
ouere twise pe saide day vpon payne of x! s. to forfet vnto pe
Chaumbre asoften tymes as he or pay shall be founden defautie
in pe same.
£19v (31 May)
Concordatum est et ordinatum ex communi assensu et concensu
[tocius] ‘dicti’ Consilij ac tocius communitatis ibidem quod de
inceptione quilibet Aldermannorum et de xxilijT eiusdem
Ciuitatis habeat ynam tortam per suum seruientem portatam
Annuatim in processcione die veneris in Crastino festi Corporis
christi ad dei laudem et honorem huius Ciuitatis quilibet eorum
sub pena xl s ad vsum Camere forisfaciendorum & soluendorum
absque aliqua pardonacione seu Remissione inde habenda
infuturum . Et quod Omnes alij Ciues et inhabitamtes huius
Ciuitatis tam de gildis quam de artificibus qui ex deuocione
. vel . consuetudine concesserumt aut per dictum Consilium
ordinat et constitutz sunt eisdem modo et forma ad habendum
et portandum per se vel per alios tortas suas annuatim in dicta
processcione . compareant et pacifice eant in suis ordine forma
et locis prout Clericus Communis huius Ciuitatis pro tempore
existens tunc eos & eorum quemlibet ad hoc premunire uocare
et nominare faciet . seu premuniet nominabit et vocabit sub pena
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culuslibet incontrarium facientis et delinquentis xl s dicte Camere
persoluendorum. /
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Lynenweuers
Also pe day and yere afore writen it was by all pe saide Counsaile
ordeined enacted and stablished from pensforth fermely to be
obserued and keped That for somoche as pe Lynenweuers of be
Citie of yorke haue in paire propir personnes comen afore pe
saide “Maire and” Counsaile and pere , ‘of paire fre mocion and
will” haue bounden payme [perpetually] and payre Craft
perpetually to kepe bryngforth and plaie or make to be plaied
. yerely’ vpon Corpus christi day a pageant and play Called
ffergus at baire propir Costes and expenses pat bay sall from pis
day furth for euermore clerely be discharged and acquited of all
manere paymentes dewties subsidies or any oberinges paying or
yeldeing vnto be Craft and Pageant of be Tapiters any acte
constitucon composicon or any obering betwene be saide Craftes
afore pis tyme made ordeinde or hadd notwithstanding
Also if per be any personne frome pis day furth pat occupieth
any lynen lome wit/in pe Citie or the “fraunches’ [Contre]
perto adioineing haueing any werke oute of pe Cite pat euery
suche personne paie vnto pe sustentacon of be saide pageant
“[pay]” [1 d] yerely at pe saide feste of Corpus christi ‘[ij d]
ij d’ [The forsaide Craft of pe Tapiters oonely and holy
excepted] Also pat euery personne [except] of what condicion
. or craft’ he be ‘of’ Pat shall from pis day furth of newe
settup within pe saide Citie any Lynen lome pat he . pay at his
vpsett for euery lynen lome xvj d pe oone haulf to pe Chaumbre
and be oper half to pe saide Craft to pe sustentacion and pe
bringing furth of bayre pageant and in like Wise pageaunt siluere
of be saide lome or lomes from hynsfurth to be settup and
arrered
A/Y Memoradum Book Y: E20
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Tanners
At whiche day in the Counsaile Chaumbre of this Citie of York
by the instaunce and ful . humble supplicacron of all the hole
Craft of the Tanneres of be saide Citie it was enacted ordeined
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and established by thassent of all the Counseil of the Chaumbre
from hynse furth perpetually to be obserued and keped ffirst if
ther be any manerman that is not of the Tanner Craft . and shall
hapen to wedde . and take to wife a widowe of be same Craft
then that man shall paie or he . occupie . and by his Sersours of
the saide Craft admitted therunto xl. s the oone half vnto the
Chaumbre of pe Citie and the other half to the Supportacion of
pe pageaunt and charges of the saide Craft
f 282
Item that . the Sersouwrs of the saide Craft shall yerely haue and
Resceiue . of euery foreine barker . that comyth to this Citie and
accustumably sellith Rede ledir or byeith Routh within this
saide Citie that thay paie vnto the Sustentacion of the pageaunt
of the . saide Craft yerely iiij d /
Mercers’ Account Rolls MA: D54V
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Item computant de recepcionibus recepts de Nauibus & Alijs
videlicet de lohanne Waterhouse Pageant Meistre & socijs suis ij s
Et de Magistro Gilde Corporus christi pro firma Aule vj s_viij d ...
Et solwerunt pro portacione torchiarwm in Crastino Corporis
christi lj s
Et soluerunt pro firma de la Pageant house Custodibus pontus
vse xij d
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f67v (22 October)
()yers shall not go to markettes
The xxij! day of Octobre the xvij yere of kyng Edward the iiijt
cam tofore Iohn Tonge Mare in the Counsell chambre . Iohn
Semper’ Iohn Newton Nicholas Pierson Michael White William
White Herry Bachiler william Peirson lohn Wetewad Thomas
watson Elder Thomas Watson yonger William Brown Thomas
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beate Marie
virginis
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Anderson william Thomson Iohn herryson and Iohn Michell
. dyers’ And thare and then be a hole assent and consent
desired of the said Maire that forsomuch as hertofore diuerse
variaunce haue ben emonges , ‘thaime’ for goyng to forent
Markettes that it myght be enacted and Stablished that from
nowfurth none of the said dyers , ‘ride ne’ go be hym Self ne
be none of his menyall seruant go to none market without
the ffraunches and liberties of this Citie forto take eny cloth
wollez or eny other thing to be broght to yorke to be dyed be
thame or eny to thame belongyng bot all Such clothez wollez
and all other thing that shalbe dyed be broght vnto this Citie of
yorke be the awners and be none of the said dyers ne none to
thayme belongyng And who of the said dyers that doeth contrarie
in the premissez he to rynne in , ‘the’ contempt of xiiij s_iiij d
“as of tymez as he doth the contrarie’ that to be paied without
eny pardon the [oone] onn halfe to the vse of the Commonialtie
of this Citie and the other halfe to the vphaldyng of the pageant
of the said Dyers providyng alway if this forsaid acte at eny
tyme here after be thoght be all the said dyers or be the more
parte of thame , ‘eny preiudice to pe said craft’ that it shalbe
lefull to the Mare for tyme beyng vppoum ber lawfull compleynt
to reforme the said Acte &c. More over it is enacted that none of
the said dyers now beyng within this said Citie or hereafter
shalbe haue no drawers of cloth wollez ne other thinges to be
dyed in the Contrie vppon [forfaf] forfatowr of the said payn.
A/Y Memorandum Book Y: E20
f 291v
In dei nomine Amen Anno domini millestmo CCCCIxxviy? &
regni regis Edwardi quarti post conquestum anglie decimo
septimo . pro Avisamento Iohannis Tonge tunc Maioris & tocius
consilij camere quod Pagina . pureficacionis beate Marie virginis
decetero ludebit annuatim in festo corporis christi sicut alie
pagine et super hoc concordatum est quod Cementarij istius
Ciuitatis pro tempore existentes Portant onera & expensas pagine
predicte & ipsam in bono & honesto modo . Annuatim ludendam
producent , ‘in ordine’ cum ad hoc premuniti fuerint sicut inde
coram Maiore pro tempore existenti voluerint respondere . Et
quod laboratores istius Ciuitatis Annuatim decetero Videlicet
30 pagina] for pagine
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Kidberers Garthyners Erthe wallers Pavers Dykers Ground wallers
with Erthe . qui nuvc sunt et pro tempore existentes in vigilia
corporis christi Annis singvlis imperpetuum soluent & liberabunt
infra cameram Consilij istius Ciuitatis Camerarijs , “elusdem" pro
tempore existentibus tresdecem solidorum & quatuor denariorum
in Auxilium expensarum ipsius pagine sub pena viginti sex
solidorum & octo denariorum camere huiws Ciuitats &
reparacioni pagine predicte equaliter diuidendorum hoc facto
predicti laboratores decetero sint quieti de omnibus & singulis
alijs paginis infra istam Ciuitatem ludendis Et insuper quod dicti
Cementarij habebunt Annuatim in vigilia corporis christi
tresdecem solidorum & quatuor denariorum de Camerarijs istius
Ciuitatis pro tempore existentibus Et quod dict: Cementarij
Annuatim producent dictam paginam ac portabunt omres
expensas & onera . de cetero dicte pagine pertinencia sicut volunt
Annuatim respondere Maiori pro tempore existenti & penam
forisfacture in Alijs paginis inde editam & prouisam Et quod
Magistri pagine dictorum Cementariorum eant & circuant cum
prefata pagina in locis exantiqua consuetudine Et quod dict:
laboratores inter se singulis Annis elegent quatuor homines in
Scrutatores et ipsi colegerent de omnibus & singulis laboratoribus
laborantibus infra istam Ciuitatem suburbia & libertatem eiusdem
predictam Summam tresdecem solidorum & quatuor denariorum
et illam Summam liberabunt infra cameram istam sicut predictum
est sub pena predicta Et si contingat quod aliquis de laboratoribus
predictis ,‘ad aliqvod tempus’ sit rebellzs et renuit soluere turc
predict: quatuor homines vel vnus illorum habebunt vnum
seruientem camere ad clauam et ipse transibit cum eis in omnibus
temporibus necessarijs & Oportunis ex precepto Maioris pro
tempore existentis &c. Et quod quilibet , “triorum occupacionum
laboratorum predictorum videlicet Erthwallers Pavers &
Groundwallers soluant & quilibet eorum per se soluat annuatim
dicte pagine iiij d / & alij laboratores prescripti / ij d / sub pena
xij d. &c. camere & dicte pagine equaliter soluendorum &c.
19 exantiqua] for ex antiqua
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B/Y Memorandum Book Y: £20A
£195A* (20 October)
ae . pro Ostelers
vicesimo die mensis Octobris anno regni regis Edwardi iiijti xvijmo
Were assembled in the counseill chambre vppon Ousebrige And
there & then be a hole assent & consent was agreed That from
noweturth the Serchiours of the ostelers within this Citie shall
haue full power to make due & true Serch in all & euery Osterie
Within this said Citie Suburbys & procinctes of the same of all
Otes mesurez that is to Say Buschell halfbuschell peke & half
peke & Bottelles of hay And at all the Bottelles kepe Sufficiaunt
Weght accordyng to the Statutes in the chambre / And he or she
that is founden culpable in the premissez or eny on therof forfat
& lees vj s viij d the oon half to the chambre & the other half to
the Sustentacion of the pagiant of the said Oste’l ers /
f 196
vicesimo Octobris Avno regni regis
Edward: ij" xvij™° Tempore Iohannis Tong Maioris
Item the day & yere abovesayd it was ordeyned to be obserued
for euer That the Serchars of the hostelars within this Citie shall
haue ffull power to make due & true serche in all & euery hostery
wythin this sayd Citie Suburbs & procynctes of the same Of all
otes mesures that is to say buschell half buschell poke & half
poke & botelles of hay and that all the botelles kepe sufficient
weight accordyng to the statutes in the Chambre And he or she
that is ffourde culpable in the premisses or any one therof forfait
& lose vj s viij d thone half to the Chambre and the other half to
the sustentacion of the pageant of the sayd Ostelars
Collation (E20A, f 195A with B1, f 68): 4-5 omitted 6 vppon Ousebrige]
omitted 7 before was] it 8 within this Citie] of plus 15 illegible letters
9 Serch in all & euery] 15 illegible letters plus eny 10 procinctes]
precinctes 11 Otes] other 11-12 half buschell peke & half peke] illegible
letters 12 all] omitted 12 Bottelles kepe] botte(....) kepte 13 she] sho
14 eny on therof]} [4 illegible letters
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Pageant house
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City Chamberlains’ Books Y:CC1A
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In dei nomine Amen anno domini millesimo CCCCIxxvij® anno
septimo . by the [avisement] ‘assent & concent’ of lohn Tonge
than beyng Mare . And al . the hole Counsell of the Chaumbr
That the pagiant of the purificacion of our lady from nowe furth
shalbe plaed yerely in the fest of corpus christi as other pageantes
and vppon that it was agreid that the Masons of this Cite . for
tyme beyng bere the charge and expensez of the pageant aforsaid
and that pageant in gude & honest maner yerely tobe plaed bryng
furth at suche tymes as [thare shall perto be] ‘they shalbe berto'
warned and like . as the said Masons afore the Mare . for tyme
beyng will answer And at the laborers of this Cite yerely from
nowfturth That is to say kidberers Garthyners Erthwallers pavers
dykers Groundwallers with Erthe the which nowe is or for tyme
shalbe in the vigill of corpus christi single yeris forever , ‘shall’
pay & delyuer within the Counsell Chambr of this Cite . to the
Chamberleyns for tyme beyng xij s iij d in helpyng & _,“releuyng’
of the expens of the said pageant vppon payn of xxvj s viij d to
the Chawmer of this Cite . and reparacion of the said pageant
evenly to be devided that done . the forsaid laborers from now
furth be quiet and discharged of eny other paimentes to eny
pageant or pageantes to be plaed within this Cite here after And
more over the said Masons that haue ,"& resave’ yerely in the
Vigell of corpus christi xiij s iiij d of the Chaumberleynes of this
Cite . fortyme beyng
Mercers’ Account Rolls MA: D54xX
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Item receperumt de magistro Gilde Corporis christi pro Aula
vj Ss viijd ...
Et soluerunt pro portacione torchiarum in crastino corporis
christi ij s
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Item petunt Allocacionem pro Reparacionibus factis Super le
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PNG Y ORS 147.7
Pageant house hoc Anno videlicet soluerunt pro vijtem postes &
pans vs Et pro xxiilj Sparres & staunchons iij s iiij d Et pro xl
English burdes v s Et soluerunt pro vno ligno Iohanni Skelton ij s
Et pro Sharplyngs xj d Et pro vj ‘C’ duble Spykyngs ij s Et pro
Centum & di. stene brod iij d Et solwerwnt pro iiij "C’ midill
spykyngs xij d Et pro di. ‘C’ fferri pro crukes & barres ij s vj d
Et pro operacione eiusdem ferri xx d Et pro Cariagis de tymmer
vd Et soluerunt ijbus Carpentarijs & duobus seruientibus
tegulantibus ibidem per tresdecim dies at price per diem xx d
Summa xxj s viljd & vno loke cum claua precium iiij d Et
soluerunt pro sarracione ij s
Corpus Christi Account Rolls Y: C99:5
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Unde dictus magister petit allocari pro diuersis expensis dicto
Anno per ipsum factis in processione generali Videlicet in crastino
corporis Christi in solucrone facta vni clerico portanti vnam
crucem ij d Et pro solucione facta i1ij°F clericis portantibus le
Bawdkyn viij d Et pro solucione facta vii) hominibus portantibus
viljt torcheas xvj d. Et pro solucione facta pro Cera expensa
ibidem in duobus candelabris iii d.
Summa 1} s vj d
Corpus Christi Ordinances Y: G11A*
(7 June)
... Item statuimus quod magister ffraternitatis siue Gilde predicte
serica capa indutus sequatur in solempni processione Corporis
christi tamquam presidens principalis Et quod duo antecessorum
suorum per ipsum eligendorwm qui Magistri eiusdem ffraternitatis
prius fuerunt incedant cum eodem alter ad dextram & Alius alter
ad senistram Item statuimus & ordinamus quod in ipsa processione
duo de senioribus Custodibus ipsius fraternitatis ad limitacionem
Magistri super feretrum Corporis christi diligenter attendant
Collation (G11A with G11): Marginal headings] De ordine processionis
(Ist Item), De eodem (2nd, 3rd, 4th rem) 34 eligendorum] elegendorum
34 ffraternitatis] fraternitatis 36 senistram] sinistram
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eciam virgas albas suis palmis baiulantes ad regendam eandem
processionem vt precessionantes honeste & reuerenter incedant
suos labores effectualiter impendant & diligenter circa eandem
Ascultent Et volumus quod ipsi sex Custodes circa colla sua ferant
sericas stolas ad hoc ordinatas ad distinccionem aliorum suorum
Confratrum & ob reuerenciam Corporis christi supradicti Item
volumus & Ordinamus quod vnusquisque Rector et vicarius
perpetuus dicte Ciuitatis Ebor’ ac quilibet capellanus eiusdem
Ciuitatis secularis Confrater dicte ffraternitatis sit presens in dicta
processione & personaliter incedat in eadem honesto indutus
superpellicio Et qui melius nouerint decantare assistant illis qui
capas sericas deportauerint in medio processionis deuotas laudes
cum eis Corpori christo gloriosissimo meliori modo quo sciuerint
decantantes Et si Aliquis ipsorwm Rectorum vicariorum vel
Capellanorum ab eadem processione se absentauerit nisi
secundum discrecionem Magistri eiusdem sufficienter poterit
excuSarl penam sex denariorum ipso facto incurrat & soluat ad
commodum dicte fraternitatis per Magistrum predictum vel eius
immediatwmm successorem si possint Alioquin per prefatum
Dominum Officialem Curie Ebor’ leuandam & exigendam
Item volumus statuimus & Ordinamus quod duo Capellani honesti
confratres dicte ffraternitatis in omni processione generali in
Ciuitate Ebor’ facienda ad concinendas letanias & Alios cantus
conuenientes pro tempore per Magistrum vel Custodes dicte
ffraternitatis qui tunc presentes fuerint assignentur & deputentur
Et si quis Capellanus sic Assignatws absque causa legittima per
Magistrum approbanda vel reiciend obedire contempserit extunc
pena duorum denariorum tociens quociens sic recusauerit
incurrat & soluat ad commodum dicte ffraternitatis applicandam
et ut supra exigenda ...
1478
House Books Y: Bi
£96 (2 September)
Wer assemblied in be Counsell Chaimbre And agreid pat Pires
Collation continued: 3 precessionantes} erasure follows 6ad hoc) ‘ad*
ethoc 10Confrater] omitted 14 christo] christi 14 sciuerint] sciunt
22 & Ordinamus] omitted 24 concinendas] + cantandas « [eee ]
28 reiciend] reicienda 28-9 extunc pena] ex tunc penam
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Coke yoman seriaunt shall Ride [to W] towarde pe kynges gude
grace to vnderstand pe disposicion of his said gude grace in his
commyng towardes this Countrie. And what placez his gude
grace propose(.) to. Ande also whether he intendeth to com to
this his Cite or nay. Item pe same day presens ande place it was
agreid that thies personez vnderwritynge shall Ride to mete pe
kynge in case his gude grace intende not to com to this his Cite
With all dewe honour ande reuerence desirynges his gude grace
vnto be same That is to say pe Recorder Iohn Marshall Thomas
Wrangwish Iohn Tong William Welles Aldermen Robert hancok
Shiretf Aleyn Wilberfesse ande Nicholas Pierson of pe xxiiijti
with Personez atending vppon pbame. ...
A/Y Memorandum Book Y: E20
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Shipmen ordinaunces
... ffirst bat euery man occupiyng eny shipping at the Stahe of
this wirshupful Cite And is ffraunchest whether he be denisen or
forant dwellyng be contributori to the said Shipmen that is to
say euery man Salyng as maister with a ffreman pay yerely ij d
and he pat Salys as a felowe pay j d to the sustentacion and
vpholdyng aswell of the Pageant of Noe as of be bringing furth
and beryng of certan torches be fore be Shryne of corpus christi
yerely And he pat is Rebell and wilnot pay his duety as it is a
bove rehersed to rynne in the contempt of xx d that to be paid
without pardon the on halfe to the prefect of the Chaimbr and
the comons of this Cite and the other half to the sustentacion of
the Chargez of the said Shipmen / And also pat pe said Shipmen
yerelie from this yere forward elect and chuse thame Seircheours
and Pageant maisters in the secund Sonday of clene lentyn vppon
of forfatowr of / iij s iilj d to pe Chaimbre of this Cite And at the
olde pageant maisters yerelie yelde and yif accompt to the olde
Seircheours and all the said feliship of Shipmen And in like case
the olde Seircheouwrs to yif accompt ‘to’ the newe Sercheours of
all per resaytes and paymentes don and takyn be thame durant
per hole yere ...
f 296v* (2 September)
[Item it is ordeigned , ‘ande enacted’ in the tyme . of John
ffereby beyng Maire . of this wirshupful . Cite . the secund day
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of Septembre the xviij yere . of kyng Edward the ilijt aswele by
the assent Ande consent of the said Maire And pe_ hole’
Counsell , ‘of pe Chaumbre’ as by the Godemen of the Tapiters
of this said Cite . suburbes and precinctes of the same . that from
_ this day forward it shalbe lefull to the said Tapitours and euery
iche of thayme . that nowe is or for tyme shalbe to colour , ‘and
litt’ thare awne Garnez wit/oute lettyng or interupcion of eny
dyer of this said Cite And also withoute payment [payment] of
eny dewtie to the said dyers as have ben hertofore bot they of
eny such dewtie to the said dyers be clerelie discharged // More
over it is agreid that non of the said Tapiters colour ne lit non
other mannes Garn ne cloth bott is awn and the pat so doeth
contrarie this ordinaunce . that lawfully can be proved of Right
lese ande pay without pardon vj s viij d / tociens quociens ynto
the vse of the commonialtie of this Cite to be resauyd by the
hondes of the Chaimberleyns for the tyme beyng And more over
the said Tapiters .“byndes’ thayme And there Successours
yerelie to bere all the chargez of thare pageaunt / ande Torches as
haue ben accostomed by thame to do afore tyme . And yerelyto
pay & content v s of true Inglissh money wit/in this Chaimbr to
be resauyd by the hondes of the Chaimberleyns for pe tyme
beyng to the vse of the Commonialtie of the same Cite &c.
solvendos infra mensem Juni quos.....) anno}
f 331v
Omnibus hoc scriptum visuris vel audituris Maior & Communitas
Ciuium Ciuitatis Ebor’ Salutem in domino sempiternam
Noueritis nos concessisse & ad firmam dimisisse henrico Watson
& Thome Dicinson Pikemongers ludum siue lusum corporis
christi annuatim ludendum in alta strata . de ousegate inter
tenementis modo in tenura prefatorum henrici & Thome .
Scilicet apud finem Pontis Vse . ex parte orientali habendum &
tenendum dictum ludum siue lusum a festo corporis christi anno
domini Millesrmo CCCClxxvilj° vsque ad finem duodecim
annorum proxime sequentium plenariorum reddendo inde
annuatim nobis prefato Maiori & Successoribus nostris videlicet
ad manus Camerariorum qui pro tempore fuerint vndecim solidos
legalis monete Anglie . ad opus Communitatis Ciuitatis predicte
annuatim durante termino predicto scilicet infra . sex dies
33 Scilicet] MS Scilicet Scilicet
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proxime sequentes festi corporis christi predicti sub pena
ammissionis ludi predicti presenti dimissione in aliquo non
obstante Ita . Scilicet quod dictus ludus siue lusus ad stallagium
minime ludatur Et nos predicti Maior & Communitas &
Successores nostri dictum ludum siue lusum . pro firma xj s
predicta vsque ad finem xijfim annorum predictorum vt
predictum est contra omnes gentes warantizabimus & defendemus
In culus rei testimonium &c.
f 332 (20 September)
In dei nomine Amen Anno ab incarnacione inmortalis dei
Millesimo cecelxxviij® mensis vero Septembris die vicesimo .
Illustrissimus ac vti fama . omnium fert metuendissumus Ast
christianissimus . Edwardus dei gracia Rex Anglie & ffrancie &
dominus hibernie magna ducum Marchionum Comitum . Baronum
caterua aliorumque regni procerum eum Comitante certis ob
causas . E borea . vero omnibus ferme Maioribus natu vndique ad
eum cateruatim confluentibus pontefractum versus aduentaret
Iohannes ffereby nobilis huiusce Alme vrbis ea vice maior vnacum
plerisqve huius Ciuitatzs nobilioribus pre asserto . Domino Regi
paulo minus duobus miliaribus vltra Wentbrig obuiam fecerant
dictumque dominum regem . vsque Pontefractum
concomitabantwr ibique a . prefato Metuendissimo domino Regi
alijs que Regni proceribus per dictum Maiorem eiusque complices
valecapto preassertus maior cu complicibws suis alijs que dictam
Ciuitatem Ebor’ domum que venerat de hinc vnius Septime
curriculo vix effluxo . Idem dominus Rex cum quam pluribus
Regni magnatibus hanc Ciuitatem Ebor’ aduenit cui,‘a’ prefato
prenobili viro lohanne tfereby Maiore aldermannis singulis que
alijs de camera equitare valentibus ceteris huiusce vrbis maius
honest Ciuibus quid equo quid pedibus obuiam itum est
condonataque fuerant preasserto exemio principi & Regi in
exemius secundum quod in illius anni libro clare conscriptum
liquet vicesimo que octauo eiusdem Mensis luce hac alma Ciuitate
london versus abierat
17 certis) for certas 34 exemius] for exemium
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1478 YORK / 121
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mb 1 (Expenses only)
Et solut. Magistris pagine Ostillariorum pro quadam
annua firma ad sustentacionem pagine Coronacionis
beate Marie virginis in Ciuitate predicta ut in
compotis precedentsbus
ij s
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Et solut. pro vno baner Thome Gaunt pro ludo Corporis christi
apud hostium Henrici Watson lilj d
Et solut. Margarete Sutrici pro emendacione vexillorum ludi
Corporis christi ij d
mb 1d
Et in denarijs per dictos compuwntes solutis tam
pro duobus dobbins vini Rubi vascon pane dominico
& levan quam xij sigmentis xij dentricu/is emptis &
datis illustrissimo nostro metuendissimo Edwardo
dei gratia Regi Anglie . & ffrancze vnacum ab Regardo
in vino pane dominico dentriculis empus & datis
ducibus Marchionibus Comitibus Baronibus militibus
ac alijs seruientibus dicti ‘domini’ Edwardi Regis xxxvli vd
cum ipso Rege existentibus ad vltumum suum
Aduentum vsque istam Ciuitatem ex ordinacione
tocius Consilij Camere ac diuersis , “in ¢...)”
regards datis diuersis officiaryjs eiusdem Regis
ex precepto Maioris & Avisamento dicti Consilij
in mense Septembris vt patet in titwlo eiusdem
in libro papiro Camerariorum &c.
Et solut. pro xij virgis panni Russeti hoc anno emptis pro vestura
trium Ministrallorum XXVj S$ viij d
Et solut. vj Ministrallis domini Regis venientibus
ae ‘ <x S
vsque Ciuitatem ist(..) ex consuetudine
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Corporis et
vigilia Sancti
Blasij Episcopt
Pro Nauibus
122 / YORK 1478
Et solut. 1jb“s Ministrallis huius Ciuitatis de
speciali regardo consuetudine diuersis temporibus
Anni videlicet ffestis pasche xl d_ corporis christi
xx d_ vigilia Sancti lohannis Baptiste xx d Natalis
domini xl d et sancti Willelmixx d attendentibus
et existentibus cum Maiore pro honore Ciuitatis
ex consue tudine
Et solut. 1 Ministrallis principis Anglie
venientibus ad istam Ciuitatem
Et in expensis factis hoc anno per Maiorem
aldermannos et quamplures alios de Consilio
xj. s vilj d
vj s. vilj d.
Camere in festo corpis christi videntes et intendendentes
ludum in hospicio Nicho/i Bewyk ex consuetudine
vnacum xls iijd_ solut. pro vino Ruby & albo
dato & misso Militibus dominabus generosis &
nobilibus infra Ciuitatem adtunc existentibus iiij li xviij s vjd
necnon ix s. solut. pro firma Camere et 1) s_iiij d
solut. cuidam Euangelizanti & pronuncianti sermonem
in Crastino festi predicti in ecclesia Cathedralis Sancti
petri Ebor’ post processionem celebratam ex consili
consuetudine prout parcellatim patet in libro
Camerariorum super hunc compotum visum &
exannuatum
Mercers’ Account Rolls MA: D54Y
mb 1
Item computant de vj s viij d recepts de magistro ffraternitatis
Corporus christi pro firma Aule
Et soluerunt pro portacione torchiarum in Crastino Corporus
christi in processione
15 corpis] brevigraph omitted for corporis
21 marginalia Corporis| for Corporjs Christi
ij s
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1479
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f21 (28 May)
was enacted ande ordeigned aswel by [consent] assent of William
Wellys than beyng Maire of this wirshupful Citie ande the hole
Counsell of the Chaimbre as consent of the gudemen of the Craft
abovesaid that euery forant weuer from this day forward hauyng
eny stuff owte of this Citie to wirke be yerelie contributori ande
pay vnto the sustentacion ande bringyngfurth of ber said pageant
yerelie iiij d
Item the same day it was Agreid that euery man called a
lourneyman ocupiying within this said Citie suburbes ande
precinctes of the same pay yerelie to the bringyngfurth of (..)
said pageant I d ande pat is Rebell ande wilnot fulfill the
premissez pay ande forfet xij d withoute pardon Camere & Arti
Kou
1479-80
A/Y Memorandum Book Y: £20
£52 Cutlers and Bladesmiths
And whosoeuer is found culpable & comuict in the pre missez
after pat at he be warned by the Seirchours of the said Craft
leisse & pay withoute pardon iij s iiij d the on half to the
Chaumbre (..) and the other half to the supportacion of the
pageaunt & other chargeth to the said Craft belongyng
1480
House Books Y: B2-4
£201 Marshals, Smiths and Bladesmiths
Vnto oure Worshippfull lorde the Maire of the Cite
of york . our Worshippfull Meistirs the Aldermen
And Councell of the same .
Humblie besecheth your worshippfull lordeshipp and all your
9-10 the Craft abovesaid] Limen-weavers
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worshippfull Meistirshippes the Marshalls and Smythes of the
Cite of york . That whare it hath been of Auncheaunt tyme
Accostomed to yis day As it is registird in the Maire bukes that
the Marshalls Smythes and blade smythes hath been all way A
hole Crafte And contributarie to all Charges to gidder to ye
sustentacion of yer two pageantz And yer torches at Corpus
christi light And to ye mayntenyng of ye worshippfull lights
And honor able servise of Seynt loye in Seynt William Chapell
on Ouse brigg Except Bladesmythes yat makes Cutler ware and
noiues And so these bladesmythes And the Cutlers to doo serche
yat is to say Baslards Dagaris And Grose ware and so ye seid
Cutlers and yer bladesmythes wald tak vppon yame to serche our
Occupacion yat yai haue no vnderstandyng in / And also yai
labor to tak frome vs the bladesmythes which er Admitted to
oure fellisshipps to be pageant Meistirs And Serchours with yame
to ye vtter vndoyng And confusion of our seid Charges yat we er
yere bonden to mayntene which pre misses tenderly consideryd
And at reverence of God And Seynt loye what we may haue oure
seid bladesmythes to be of our ffellishipp to the mayntenyng of
oure seid Charges As wele of Corpus christi light And Seynt loye
light And oure Pageants As yai haue . ‘been’ tofore of Aunceaunt
tyme / Or elis we er not Abill to sustene ne mayntene oure seid
Grete Charges as god knaweth
York Minster Chamberlains’ Rolls YM: £1/58 MP
mb 1
... Et in regardo datum ex mandato dominorum de capitulo
histrionibus interessentibus in festo Trans/acione sancti Wille/mi
‘vj s viij d’ iiijot diebws in septiman Pentecostis ‘xiij s iiij d’ et
deposicione sancti Wille/mi ‘vj $ viij d’ prout vsitatum est annis
precedentibus xxvj s vilj d Et quatuor diaconis portantibus
pannum supra caput sancti Wille/mi in translacione eiusdem
‘xij d’ iiijor diebus Pentecostis ‘ij s’ et deposicione sancti
1481
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... Et soluerunt pro portacione torchiarum in festo Corporus
20 seid] MS seid seid 30 septiman] for septimana
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1481 YORK / 125
christi ij s ...
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... Et in regardo datum ex mandato dominorum de Capitulo
histrionibus interessentibus in festo Translacionis Sancti Wille/mi
“ilj S ij d’ iiij diebus in septimana Pentecostis ‘xiij s inj d’ &
deposicione Sancti Wille/mi ‘vj s viij d’ prout vsitatum est annis
precedentibus xxvjs viljd Et uijor diaconis portantibus pannum
diebus Pentecostis “ij s\) & deposicione Sancti Wille/mi “xij d’
ii) Soe.
1481-2
A/Y Memorandum Book Y: E20
f 363
Ordinacio Vinteriorum
Item it ‘is’ ordeigned fermelie from this day forwerd tobe kept
pat euery man Retaling Eny maner Wynes that is to say Reid
Claret white or eny other maner Swete wynes ether growing or
confect within this Cite from noweforth be contributorie vnto
the yerlie chargies and expenses of the said Craft and occupacion
as in and vnto the bringyngfurth yerelie of per pageant in the fest
of corpus christi and other per charges yerelie forsene Alwey pat
no man Retaling wynes within this Cite suburbes and pre cinctes
of the same be not ouercharged in paing of pageant siluer bot pat
they pay after ber othes ton and ton like &c.
1482
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f59v (31 May)
ad quem diem omnes prescrpti concordi sunt quod constitucio
facta in tempore Thome Wrangwayssh maioris de portacione
torchearum in Crastino corporis christi sit ab hac die inantea
obseruata sub pena in eadem contenu Et ulterius quod Weuers &
38 prescrpti] for prescripti
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cordewers eant cum [toch] torcheis suis in processione in
Crastino corporis christi in forma subscripta [Videlicet Weuers
[& cordeweners] vnus illorum incipiat ex detra parte . et alter de
Cordeweners ex senistra . et turc vnus de Cordeweners ex dextra
et alter de weuers ex Senistra . et sic de [fore we] de omnibus
illarwm arcium &c. Et ars ipse qui deficiet in premissis prodet &
solvet x li. vsui Communitatis . siue perdicta [et vlterius quod
omnes homines eiusdem prisone] ] corpora eorum inprisonanda
ad voluntatem maioris &c.
f60 (1 June)
ad quem diem per omnes prescriptos ordinatum est quod omnes
homines Artifices Ciuitatis qui preantea ex deuocione vel ex
consuetudine portabant tortas in processione corporis ‘christi’
in Crastino [et] eiusdem eant in ordine vt patet in subscriptis In
primis quod Weuers & cordeweners eant adinuicem videlicet quod
Weuers eant ex dextra et cordeweners ex Senistra et quod
qualibet ars habeat xv) tortas et qui deficiet ad aliquod tempus in
premissis [fors] forisfaciat x li. vsul communitatis et corpora
eorum ,‘inprisonanda' ad voluntatem Regis &c.
A/Y Memorandum Book Y: E20
ff 365-5v
Carpenters
ffurst for asmoch as here a fore thar hath beyn of old tym a
broderhode had & vsyd Emong the occupacion and Craft above
said the wich of long continuaunc have vsid and as 3it yerly vsis
to fynd of thar propir costis a lyght of diwyrs torchis in the fest
of corpus christi day or of the Morn aftir in the honour &
worship of god & all saintis & to go in pressession with the
same torchis with the blessid Sacrament from the Abbey foundyd
of the holy Trenite in Mykylgate in the said Cite Vn to the
Cathedrall Chyrch of Saint Petir in the Same Cite and also have
done & vsyd diwyrs odir Right full good & honovwrabill deidis as
her aftir it shall more playnly apeir / it is ordenyd & establyshid
by the said Mair aldermen | and all the holl Counsell of the said
3 deta] for dextra 6 ipse] for ipsa
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of Corpus christi
day & the lyght
of the Morn
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& apprenus shall
pay to the play
& lyghe
nota
1482 YORK / 127
full nobill Cite be the consent & assent of all tham of the said
occupacion in the said Cite that the said ffraternite & bredirhode
shalbe her aftir for ewyr kept & Contineud as it has beyn in
tymis passid and that euery brodir thar of shall pay yerly for the
sustentacion thar of vj d that is to say at euery halff yer uj d
prouidyng all way that euery Man of the said occupacion with
in the said Cite shalnot be compellid ne boundyn to be of the
said ffraternite ne brodirhod ne noyn to be thar of bot soch as
will of thar ffree will
ff 367v-8*
Also it is ordenyd that all Wryghtys Sawers Caruers | iyoners &
Cartwryghtis ‘and all odyr’ that occupijs as Maistyrs or that her
aftir shall occupy as Maisterz in ony of the said Mystyrs Crafts
or occupacions wit) in thys said Cite & euery of tham shalbe
eqale & lyke of Charge euery yere from hens forward to the
Charge & cost of Bryngyng ffurth & Playng of the pagent of the
wryghtis of Corpus christi day & of the charge of the ffyndyng
of the said lyght the Morn aftir Corpus christi day so that no
Maister of the said occupacions ne Craftis pay [More] to the
said Chargis of the said play or to the said lyght mor one than a
nodyr
Also it is ordenyd that yf ony Maister of the said occupacions
of wryghtis Sawers Caruers yonours or Cartwryghtis hyr ony
yorney Man seruant or take aprentys to wyrk with in thys Cite
that the Maister that so hym hyrys or settzs hym on wark shall
pay to the Sustentacion of the said pagent & lyght euery yere
iii] d for euery person bat he so settis on wark or hyrys
f370v (20 December) Cappers
Also pat pe Serchowrz & paiaunt Maisterez beyng for the yere
gyffe yerly ber accompt on the Sunday next eftyr the ffest of the
Natiuite of Seynt Iohn Baptist of all [bam all] their receites &
Collation (E20, ff 367v-8 with E55A, f 4): marginalia] omitted
16 Mystyrs] misteryes 17 said) same 20 the ffyndyng] findeinge
21so] for 22 [More]] omitted 27 yorney Man] Journeymen
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paymentes & who so dois pe Contrarie to this ordinance shall pay
at euery tym vj s_ vilj d in the fowrm abovesaid withowt pardone
ie deg
Pynners and Wyerdrawers
Item in the tyme of the Right wirshipful Sir William Wellys
beyng Maior of this Wirshipful Cite it is ordeigned that where the
pageant of the Craft of Pynners is chargeable and in compareson
noon to bring furth the pageant of the same pat from this day
forwerd it be leful yerelie to take and perseve of euery forant
comyng to this Cite and wirkynge in eny poynt belonging to pe
Tincler Craft or pat makes hekilles of wire or candelstikkes of
white or blak plate ij d to the bringyngfurth of the sayd pageaunt
and he pat is Rebell and wilnot pay the said ij d yerelie when he
is required by the said Seircheours or pageaunt maisters shall
forfet and pay withoute pardon xij d the on half to the Chaimbre
and pe other half to the Craft by evyne porcions &c.
Item in the secund tyme of marialtie of Right wirshipful Sir
Richerd Yorke beyng Maior of this wirshipful Cite by the assent
& consent of the same maior and the hole Counsell of the
Chaimbre it is graunted vnto the said Craft of pynners that the
same Craft of pynners and Wyredrawers from this present day
forwerd be on Craft that is to say pat all those bat makes pynnes
or draweth wyre or makes ffisshe hukes or Shobokilles yerelie
tobe contriborie of And to the vpholdyng of ber pageaunt and
ober charges to the said Craft belongyng according to the
auncheaunt ordynance above writen
Item pat yerelie the pagiaunt maisters of the said Craft make
accompt to the said hole Craft of Pynners and Wiredrawers of all
per Receytes and charges of per Pageaunt within xviij days next
ensuyng the fest of corpus christi And they pat is Rebell and
doeth the conwarie bis ordynance to forfet at euery tyme vj s
viij d that is to say the on halfe to the Chaimbre of this Cite and
the other halfe to the Charges of the said Pageaunt & craft
withoute eny pardon /
Pynners & Wyerdrawers .
23 vnto the said Craft] MS vnto the said Craft vnto the said Craft
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1482 YORK / 129
Carpenters’ Ordinances Y: E55A
ff 9-9y (22 November)
Item itt is ordeined that none ffree of the said craft within this
Citty vseinge throwinge or turneinge in their workes shall bee
contributory nor pay any thinge to the occupacion of Toppares
and Turnars of the same towardes charges of any pageant But
shall bee from Hensforth thereof quitt against the said Ropars
and Turners Provided alwayes That if any of the said occupacions
doo throwe or turne Bolles dishes dublers or wheeles or such like
stuffe as perteineth onely to the Turnares craft every such to pay
pageant money to the said Ropares and Turnars Accordingly . / |
Item that all Strangers and fforreynours that bringe any ioyned
stuff boardes or lattes to this Citty to sell shall be searched and
pay their pageant money vnto the said occupacions .
York Minster Chamberlains’ Rolls YM: E1/50 MP
mb 2
... Et in regardo datum ex mandato dominorum de Capitwlo
histrionibws interessentibus in festo Translacionis sancti Wille/mi
‘v) s vilj d* ijt diebus in septimana pentecostis ‘xiij s iiij d’ et
deposicione sancti Wille/mi ‘vj s viij d‘ prout vsitatum est annis
precedentibus xxvj s. viij d Et quatuor Diaconis deferentibus
pannum supra caput Sancti Wille/mi in Translacione eiusdem
‘xij d” iujor diebus in septimana pentecostis ‘ij s’ et deposicione
sanct: Wille/mi ‘xij d° iiijs. ...
1483
House Books Y: B2-4
f£91v (27 June)
At the which day it was agreid that for as moch as my lord the
Mair for diwyrs causis Resonable must depairte owt of the Cite
for a Certen tym that the Ryght Worshipfull Iohn Tong shalbe
leutenaunt for my said lord the Mair to soch tym as he cumys
ayan / And oer thys thys same day it was agreid that Iohn harper
shall sell a vessill of white wyn that he has with owt ony thyng
7 Toppares] for Roppares
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payng thar for to the Vinters pagent so that the said Iohn herper
sell the said wyn for x d A galon //
£93 (31 July)
At the wich day it was agreid pat my lord Mair & all my maisterz
Suffrein lord the [mair] kyng at brekles mylnys on ho,r'sbak
£93v (4 August)
At the which day it was agreid by all above writyn that my lord
the Mair & all my Maisterz hys bredyr the [ar] aldermen in
Skarlet & all my Maisterz of the xxiiijt! & the Chamberlayns &
all tho that have beyn Chamberlayns & also all tho pat [will]
have boght owt thar charegez of all officez in thys Cite shall in
Reid gownys on hors bak meit our most dred lege lord the Kyng
at brekles Mylnys and oer thys that the brygmastyrs & all odir
that haith beyn brygmastyrs & all odir onest Men of the Cite
shalbe in Reid a pon the payn of xx s to be forfaite & pay to the
Comunalte of thys Cite by euery man doyng the Contrary & my
lord the Mair shall Rays the forfaitz in that be halffa pon the payn
of xl s. to be forfaite by hym to the Communalte of thys Cite
[& thar (.)t that ther seruauntz shalbe in blew] & that all odir
persons of euery occupacion in blew vielet & Musterdivyles shall
on fote meit our said sufferain lord at Saint lams [day] Chyrch
Memorandum to send for sir henry hudson Ricardus Burges
parish clerke of Croux Chyrch Ric#rdus Standish parish clerk
‘of’ Kryskyrk Willelmus hewet parish Clerk of all hallows
Willelmus Gylmyn parish clerk of [all hallows] Belfray Georgius
louell [p] Esquier of Saint Mare Abbey ‘'& Henry Cunyng
Caruer’ to have thar aduysez for a syght to be made at the kynges
cumyng at Myklyth Barr [holl] Ousbryg & stayngate .
f98v (2 September)
At the which day it was agreid by all above wrytyn that for the
grete labourz that Maister kendall has had to our Suffrey lord the
kyng for the wele of thys Cite that the said Maister kendale shall
have a reward of a Skarlet gown or of a Chamlet gown
Creyd Play
Also the same day it was agreid that the Creid play shall be playd
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afore our Suffreyn lord the Kyng of Sunday next cumyng a pon
the cost of the most onest men of euery parish in thys Cite
£99v (6 September)
At the which day is was Agreid that for the honour of thys Cite
that All my Maisters the Aldermen & all the xxiiij' shalbe with
my lord the Mair to Atend A pon the kynges gude grace to
Morow at Seyng of the Creid play [and at A Steward shalbe
made emong tham to purvie for tham & euery man shall pay elyk
that is to say As moch he pat is A way As he pat is thar.]
£103v (23 September)
At this day it was Agreid by All Above writtyn that euery parish
within [e} thys shall Ryd & pay the shoghyrs of thar parish &
oer thys patt xxx li. shalbe levyd & paid emong the parishons for
soch costes as shalbe made now At london to make ‘sure’
{sore] All soch grantes ,‘as’ (by] our suffrey lord the king of
hys good grace haith made to thys [Cite] & Also for the Charge
of the play late playd a fore owr said suffrey lord the kyng . And
owyr thys it was agreid bat Maister Wrangwyssh Master Tong &
Maister Amyas shall Ryde to the kynges good grace to pomfrete
to spek with hys gude grace for the [(...)]_."graunte’ made be
hys said grace to the Cite
A/Y Memorandum Book yY: E20
f£52v* (2 June) Cutlers’ Ordinances
Memorandum that the secunday of Iun in the furst yere of the
Reyng of Kyng Edward the fyth [it is ord] in the tym of Iohn
Newton Maire it is ordenyd by the [hoy] hole assent & consent
of all & euery of the Cutlers of thys Cite that euery Cutler of
thys Cite shall frome hens forward pay ,‘& awswer" for hys
Chapman foren euery yere to the sustentacion of the pagiant of
the said occupacion that is to say for euery chapman acordyng to
hys delyng so that tha pay not ower the som of vj d by the , “yere’
for euery of thar Chapmen
B/Y Memorandum Book Y:E20A
f 147y
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ao at pio firma Camere supra portas clausi vbi domini Decanus et
Confratres sui ludum Corporis Christi “iij s. iiij d” & ludum
vocatum Credplay “iij s iil) d° audierunt vj s viijd ...
Richard 111 Received in the Minster
YM: Vicars Choral Statute Book
p 48*
Memorandum quod xxix die mensis August scilicet festo
decollacionis sancti lohannis Baptiste “anno domini M© cccc°
Ixxxij°’ Ricardus tercius Rex Anglie & francie venit ad ciuitatem
Ebor’ regina & princepe attendentibus cum alijs pluribus
magnatibus tam spiritualibus quam temporalibus scilicet v
episcopis . Dunelmensis . wygot...) Assaphensis . Carliolensis
Dauidensis Cometibus Northumb’ Surre llincoln’ Dominis lovell
fythew . Stanlay . Strawng’ . lylle . Grastoke & alijs multis Et
Receptus a cluitate cum procescione solempniter ad capellam
sancti lacobi extra muros et sic intrauit 1” ciuitatem honorifice
per diuersas visiones & ornamenta Ciuitatis vsque ad ecclesiam
metro politanam sancti Petri & ibi honorifice Receptus est cum
procescione a Dominis Decano & Canonicis cum omnibus
Ministris Dicte ecclesie in Capis cernici blodij coloris ad ostium
occidentale aqua benedicta aspersus & thurificattus Scabello
ornato ‘ad fontem’ dixit . pater noster . & sic succentor
vicariorum incipiebat Responsorium De trinitate scilicet honor
virtus & finiatur a choro Ante gradum magni ataris & ibi fuit
pausacio quasi spacio j pater noster & aue . tunc Decanus
Collation (Vicars Choral Statute Book, p 48 with YM: M2/2/c, f 70):
heading) Recepcio Regis Ricardi tercij apud Ebor’ cum regina & principe Et
ibidem princeps fuit creatus 12 before festo] In 15 before regina] cum
15 princepe] principe 17 wygot...)] Wigorensis 18 Dauidensis]
Menniuensis & sancti Dauid 18 Cometibus] Comitibus 18 Northumb’]
Northumbre’ 18 after Surre] & 19 fythew] fetizhugh 19 Stanlay]
Stanley 19 Strawng’] Strawyng 19 lylle] libe’ 19 Grastoke] Grastok
20 procescione] processione 20m margin] Recepcio regis
24 procescione] processione 24a) & 25 cernici] serici 25 ostium]
hostium ecclesie 26 thurificattws] thurificatus 27 ornato) ordinato
29 finiatur] finitur 29 ataris) altaris 30 spacio] omitted 30 aue] ave maria
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incipiebat preces scilicet . Et ne nos inducas &c. pro rege hoc
facto Decanus & Canonici cum ministris Recescebant in stallas
Dum finiatur Amen cum organo Et tunc incipi,‘a'tur Psalmus Te
Deum a prelato excecutore officie & finiatur a choro & organo
Et ‘immediate’ incipiatur antiphona De trinitate ,‘a succentore’
scilicet . Gracias tibi Deus &c. cum versiculo & oracione De
trinitate . Sic processit in palacium domini Archiepiscopi / Et in
festo Nativitatis beate marie Proximo sequente venerunt Rex &
regina coronati ad procescionem in ecclesia predicta princepe &
omnibus dominis attendentibus tam spiritualibus quam
temporalibus episcopo Dunellmensis excectore officij magno
altar! ornato cum xij apparelis argenteis & Deauratis cum alijs
multis reliquis Domini regis que ,"ibi’ steterunt vsque horam
sextam in nocte / Et post missam omnes redierunt in palacium &
ibi creatus erat princeps a domino rege ante prandium in aula
coram omnibus / Et sic sedebant ad prandium per spacium iii}
horarum & ibierant Decanus ,’Robertus both’ Canonici .
scilicet . Thesaurarius portyngt(..) Potman archdiaconus ebor’
Subdecanus & iiij ali} prebendarij x parsone xij vicarij cum alijs
ministris ecclesie
1484
House Books Y: BS
£24 (28 April)
lohn Strynger Robert Shyrley & Andrew Blyth bat
haith taykyn the charge of [brynge] bryngyng furth
of the pagient of the Inholders
Memorandum pat the xxviijth ‘day’ of the Moneth of aprill in
the furst yere of the Reing of kyng Richard the thyrd [Iohn
Strynger] , ‘William Robynson Inholder’ Robert Shirley Glasier
, & Inholder’ & Androw Blyth Weuer ."& Adam Siggeswik
Collation continued: 2 Recescebant] recesserunt 3 Psalmus] specialts
3-4. after Te Deum] laudamus 4 finiatur] finitur 7 before Sic| Et
9 procescionem] processionem 9 princepe] principe 10 attendentibus]
ante dictis 11 Dunellmensis} Dunelmensis 12 apparelis) aparelis
12-13 alijs multis] multis alijs 13 in margin] creacio principis 15 erat] est
16 sic] omitted 16 after sedebant] coranati 18 scilicet]) &c
18 portyngt’..)] portyngton 18 Potman] poteman 18 archdiaconus}
archidiaconus 18 after ebor’] ac 19 after parsone] ecclesie Ebor’
19 after vicarij} chorales
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Barbour’ come a [fore] fore Thomas Wrangwysh then beyng
Mair of thys Cite ‘of york’ & by the assent of all the Inholders
of thys , ‘said’ Cite tuke apon them to bryng furth yerly duryng
the term of viij yere then next ffilluyng the pagent of the
Coronacion of our lady (blank) pertenyng to the said Inholders &
also to reparell the said paghant so pat they pat holdes Inys &
‘haith’ [kepys] no Syns [have] pay as wele "& as moch yerly’
to the reparacion of the said pagent & brynging furth of the same
as the said Inholders pat haith syns [(.)] doyth pat is to say euery
of tham by the yere iiij d and pat also euery person pat gyrsys
horsys of Strangers pat comys to thys Cite pay in lykwys euery
yere ij d for bryngyng furth of the said pagiant & and bat also
the said [Iohn Strynger] ‘William Robynson’ Robert Shyrley &
Androw Blyth have yerely of the Chambyr of thys Cite duryng
the said viij yere for bryng furth of the said pagiant acordyng to
the ordinaunce perof Maid bat is to say yerly . ij s.
Y: B2-4
£135 (23 September)
Memorandum quod eodem Anno secundo regni regis Ricardi
tercij venerunt Henricus Albon Henricus [sh] Wresill & Ricardus
Shawe .‘Skynners’ coram venerabili viro Thomas Wrangwish
Maiore Ciuitatis Ebor’ in Camera consilij & ceperunt ad firma
vnum tenementum in RatanRaw vocatum le Pageant house a
festo Martini proximo futuro post datam presencium vsque ad
finem xl annorum Reddendo inde anuatim xij d. ad terminos &
cetera Et predicts Henricus Henricus & Ricardus & assignaté sui
predictum tenementum reparabunt & cetera sumptibus suis
propriis & expensis Et si ,"contingat’ predictam firmam xii
[denariorum] denariorum a retro fore & cetera (...) per xl dies
post aliquem termimum & cetera tunc bene licebit prefato Maiorz
& cetera reintrare & cetera saluo semper quod si predicts Henricus
albone & cetera & assignati sui aliquid infra illud idem tenementum
de nouo fecerit vel fecerint totum illud sic de nouo factwm ipsi
idem Henricus & cetera reparabunt &c nec ,“illud” In fine
terminorum seu aliquo alio tempore amouebit [sine superuisu]
seu amovebuntur sine superuisu ‘licencia’ &c.
f 136 (28 September) 7
... Wer present in the Councell Chambre of the Citie of york and
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pere & then It was aggreed by pe hole assent & consent of the
Councell aboue named that for diuerse consideracions them
moving and vpon a spplicacion by the Mynstrals of be said Citie
then and bere presented that pe said mynstrals from now forth
shall haue and perceyve yerely at (blank) of euery alderman of
the said Citie xx d and of euery of the xxilij of the Ccomon
counsell viij d and also of euery Chaumbrelayn ‘&’ of euery
such as hath been chaumbrelayn vj d and euere pat of euery Brige
Mastre and of such as haue be in be same office iiij d Item of
euery citizin pat hath sued his discharge from bering of eny
office within pe said Citie iiij d and also euery Comonere pat is of
Substance within pe same jj d at lest And ouere pat of euery
obere comonere exept be verray pore commoners which be not
of power nor abilitie berto [to yeve] j d the said Sommes and
euery of them to be leuyed and gadred by pe Constablez of euery
Ward for the tyme being euery of them [wit/ his] ‘within his’
or their owne Warde or Wardes and ,"pat’ euery sergeant of pe
said Citie within his owne Warde be assistant and helping to pe
Constablez afore said in levying of pe said Somes Item of euery
Inneholder within pe said Citie iiij d [Item euery shirrif(.) for pe]
° The acte passyd for ye wayttes off ye Citie What yay shall hawe
off ewery person °
f136v (28 September)
Item the same xxviij day of September It was aggreed by thassent
& consent of pe Counsell afore named pat (blank) shald haue for
thair Reward in labouring about the settyng forward and
ordoring of the Pageantes vpon Corpus christi daye by be handes
of the Chaumbrelayns vj s vij d
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audierunt vs...
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= Et in regardo datum ."ex mandato’ dominorum de Capitulo
histrionibus interessentibus in festis Translacionis sancti Willelmi
‘vj S vulj d* iiij diebus in septimana Pentecostis "xij s ij d’ &
deposicionis sancti Willelmi ‘vj s viij d’ prout vsitatum est annis
precedes......) xxvj s. vilj d Et iiijor diaconis Portantibus pannum
supra capud savcti Wille/mi in Translacione eiusdem ‘xij d’ / ili]
diebus Pentecostis ‘ij s.’ & deposicione sancti Willelmi ‘xij d’
Mi} Sic
1485
House Books Y: B2-4
£160 (21 March)
... And Moreouer the mater hanging in travaux betwix the Sawers
and Wrightes concernyng the bringfurth of the padgeant of
ffergus was continued also vnto the said day.
£163 (19 April)
Also it was determyned that the Tapiters Cardemakers and
lynweves of this Citie be to geder annexid to the bringingfurth of
the padgeantes of the Tapiter craft and Cordmaker / Soo that the
padgeant called ffergus late broght furth by the lynweves be laid
apart
Also that all such personnes aswell men of the church as other
makes bokes Claspes dog Colers chapes girdilles or other maner
gere or harnesse , “belong to pe girdler craft’ within the pre cinctes
of this Citie where they may be fonden be contributory ,‘to the
Craft of Girdlers & bringfurth of pe Padgeant’ and pay ich of
theme double and twise as moch as oone of the said Craft
A/Y Memorandum Book Y: E20
£74v* (19 April)
[... vpon a bill of supplicacion put vnto the Counsaill forsaid by
the Craft of Gerdlers inhabiting within the same in consideracion
of per pouertie and sumptuouse charges which they dud bere
that not Withstanding / fynally determyned and stablisshed for
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euer that euere persone as well men of the Churche as othre
inhabiting from hensfurth within this Citie and suburbs of the
same Which makes daggar chapes purse knoppes Bulyons Book
Claspes dawkes Dog Colers girdilles or any othre maner gere or
harnesse of laton stele or yren belonging to the said Craft of
Girdlers be contributory to the same Craft in bringing furth ber
padgeant payng to the same doble and twise as moch as oone of
the same Craft payeth to per said padgeant]
Mercers’ Account Rolls MA: DS54AA
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... Et pro portacione Torchiarum in processione Corporis
Chrséiiys. 2:
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... Et in Regardo datum ex mandato Dominorum Decani &
Capituli Histrionibus interessentibus in festis Translacionis sancti
Wille/mi [vj s viij d’ . quatuor diebus in septimana Pentecostis
‘xiij s uij d.” et deposicionis sancti Wille/mi ‘vj s_viij d.” prout
vsitatum est annis prec(.....) xxvj s viij d. Et quatuor Diaconis
portantibus pannum supra caput sancti Wille/mi in translacione
eiust...) "xij d’ (..) diebus Pentecostis . et deposicione sancti
Wille/mi ‘xij d.” iiij s. ...
1486
House Books Y: B2-4
f 201
(See above, 1480)
Y: B6
f 12y*
anno primo henrici vijmi /
Assembled determined that the king shuld haue at this his accept
commyng to this Citie the present ensuyng ffirst in maynebrede
Castes CC Also in wyne of Rosse colour A Tone In gret fatt oxen
vj In gret and fatt Weders 1 And ouer this pat the Maier and
Aldermen cled in Colour of violet in greyne the xxiiij cled in
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.clothing’ colour of [violet] Murrey the Communaltie in
Gounes of Rede shall waite on the king on horse at Bilburghcrosse
on this half after that at two of the saide Aldermen and the two
Sheriffes haue mett with his grace at Tadcastre brige the
extremities of the boundes of this fraunches And Also that in
consideracion of that at the Kinges highnesse Remembering the
pouertie decay and Ruyn of this Citie shewid vnto hyme by the
moost Reuerend fader in god Tharchbishop of york Richard york
and Robert Hancok late being at his parliament and other is
content to haue no money of the same Citie as by meyne of
Reward like as other Kinges of England haith be accustomed to
haue heire before of the same Citie at ber first and next commyng
to the forsaide Citie and other Cities of his Realme wol that some
conuenyent shew be had ayenst the kinges saide Commyng by
the Counsell of some which can devise the same wherby his
highnesse may the rather be movid to think that the said maier
Aldermen Sheriffes and other inhabitances heyr be gladdid and
loifull of the same his commyng as thei haue be in tymes past of
seing commyng of other kinges yer souerain lord
f 13v
Assembled concludid with Sir Henrie Hudsone prest that he
shuld haue the conueance of the making and directing of the
shew to be maide ayenst the kinges next commyng heder which
the said henrie haith vndertake to do to the worship of the Citie
heyre And for the same shew he shall haue in Rewarde of the
saide Citie ouer thexpenses tobe maide in that partie And
Rewardes tobe yeven to other persones to be occupied about the
same tobe borne by the forsaid Citie / five marces in money with
some conuenient thing to be yeuen at the pleasure of the said
Maier vnto the Church of Spofford wher the said Sir Henrie is
parich prest haueing Cure of the soules of the pariching yer ...
ff 15v-18*
It is concludit by the Maier his breder Aldermen and other of the
Common Counesell of the Citie that thei being in gude hope to
fynd the king more gracious soueraine lord vnto the forsaide
Citie by the mediacion of the most Reuerend fadre in godd
tharchbisshop of york and other lordes spirituall and temporall
16 to] MS to to
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of his moost noble Counesaill shewing theime and all thinbitances
yerof gretely gladdit and loyed of the Commyng of his moost
Riall persone with other his nobles vnto the saide Citie haue
ordeigned and prepared to Receyue the kinges grace in forme
felowing that is to saie
ffirst Wher the two sheriffes of the saide Citie for the tyme
being with xx horses haith be accustumed to yeue yer attandance
of kinges herbefor resorting vnto the Citie at Tadcastre brige
being thextremitie of yer fraunches It is now concludid that not
oonly the saide two sheriffes bot aswell two of the Aldermen
accumpaned with xl horsses shall yer wait on his grace
Secundly where the Maire and Aldermen cled in long gownys
of skarlet and other of the Couneseil accumpanyd with
thinhabitances of the Citie haue be accustumed to wait of kinges
in lykwise commyng to the Citie on horse bak aboute two miles
fro the Citie thei be determined that the saide Maier And
Aldermen in like clothing of skarlet the Common Couneseill and
clerc in violet Chambrelayns in murray and many of thinhabitances
in Rede on horse bak shall wait on the king at Bilburgh crose
about v miles fro the Citie and other thinhabitaunces which may
not ride or be of power to haue rede gownes to yeue yer
attendance on foote betwixt dringhowsis and the Citie beside a
certaine nowmbre of Childrine as shalbe gaddard togiddre aboute
saint lames Chappell calling Ioyfully king henrie after the maner
of Children |
Thirdly at the entre of the Citie and first bar of the same
shalbe craftelye conceyvid a place in maner of A heven of grete
loy and Anglicall Armony vnder the heven shalbe a world
desolaite full of treys and floures In the which shall spryng vp A
rioall rich rede rose convaide by viace vnto the which Rose shall
appeyre an other Rich white rose vnto whome so being to gedre
all other floures shall lowte and evidently yeue suffrantie shewing
the Rose tobe principall of all floures as witnesh Barthilmow And
yervpon shall come fro A cloude A crowne Couering the Roses
after the which shall appeir A Citie with Citisyns with the
begynner of the same callid Ebrauk which shall salute the king
with wordes felowing in prose and yervpon present vnto the king
the keys of the Citie being thenheritaunce of the saide Ebrauk
yelding his title and his Crowne vnto the king as moost glad of
hym above al other
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Ebrauke
Most Reuerend rightwose regent of this Rigalitie
Whos primatiue patrone I peyre to your presence
Ebrauuk of britane I sitt nat this Citie
ffor A place [(.)] to my pleasour of moost prehemynence
Hervnto I recoursid for moost conuenience
In comforthing that by cource of liniall succession
Myne heires this my Citie shuld haue in possession
Of Right I was regent and rewlid this rigion
I subdewid fraunce and led in my legence
To you henrie I submitt my Citie key and Croune
To reuyll and redresse your dew to defence
Neuer to this Citie to presume ne pretence
Bot holy I graunt it to your gouernaunce
as A principall parcell of your inheritaunce
Please it | besuch you for my remembrance
Seth that I] am prematiue of your progenie |
Shew your grace to this Citie with such Abounedance
As the reame may recouer in to prosperitie
And also of your grace gyve not your ee
oonely to this Citie of insufficience
Bot graciously consider yerwith and diligence
It is knawne in trueth of grete experience
ffor your blode this Citie made neuer degression
As recordith by the grete hurt for blode of your excellence
Wherfor the rather I pray for compassion
And to mynd how this Citie of old and pure affeccion
Gladdith and Inioith your high grace and commyng
With oon concent knowing you yer sufferaine and king
ffourtly the king Commyng vp the stretes shallse the same
furnishede wit/) clothis of the best which may begottyn within
the Citie for the honourment of the same and at his entrie vnto
vuse brigge in theend of the streetes of Skeldargate and
Northstrete becauce no gappes shall appeir shall yerbe Clothes
hangid and A conuenient thing diuisid wherby if the weder be
fair of the lordes before and other ne before the king schall
Rayne Rose water
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ffiftly shalbe on the hight of ousebrigge A Rioall Treyne and
yerin sodainely appering set togidder in Counsail sex kinges
Crouned betokining the sex henries which after the sight had of
the king with certaine conuenient laisowr avisidly shall commyt
A ceptour vnto Salamon cledd as king which salamon shall
yervpon taking that Ceptowr and saying the wordes felowing vnto
the king in prose yelde vnto him the saide Ceptowr in tokining
that in hym is wisdome and Iustice
/ Salomon /
Most prudent prince of pruved prevision
Their premordiall princes of this principalitie
Haith preparate your reame the vijth by succession |
Remitting reame als right to your Rialtie
Their ar kinges condigne of your consanguinitie
ffull riall and rightwose in rewle of yer regence
And ful lordly thai execute the lawes of yer legence
Seth that god moost glorius eternall sapience
Did insence me salomon of his effluent grace
Wherfore I am takin as patrone of prudence
To discuse vpin conscience ich iudiciall cace
Revolving how with sapience ye haue spent your space
To the tyme of this your misteriusly
obteyning as moost worthi your right not regosly
Now reane ye reule ye your reame rightwosly
By politike prouidence as god haith in dewid
To you sufferaunce in sapience submitting me vmbly
your sage savour sothfastnese haith so be shewid
In ich ludiciall right this reame to be renewid
ye be avisid most worthi by graciouse affluence
Submitting to your sufferaunt my septowr of sapience
Sextly shal appere in thend of A strete Ioning on the syde of
Ousegate passing into Conyngstrete shalbe A shew and fro the
same shall come hailestones tobe maid by viace falling on the
lordes and other commyng ne before the King hailestones to be
made by craftes of cumfettes
Sevently shalbe at the Common Hall A Castell appeiring of
grete force wherin Dauid as the moost principall shall appeir and
he shall with wordes felowing yeld vnto the king A swerd of his
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victorie yer shalbe in that Castell Citisyns which after A sight of
the king and remembrance of hyme with gude countenaunce
shall appeir in clothing of white and greyne shewing yer trueth
and hertly affeccion vnto the kinge |
/ Dauid /
Most prepotent prince of power Imperiall
Redowtd in ich region of Cristes affiance
your actes victorious be notid principall
In maner more noble then Charlis of fraunce
Seth god so disposith of his preordiniance
And right so yeue me might to devyne goodly
I dauid submitt to you my swerd of victorie
When I reynid in Iudie I know and testify
That Ebraunce the noble which subdewid ffraunce
In memorie of his triumph this Citie did edify
That the name of his noble shuld haue continuance
I witnesh that this Citie without variaunce
Was neuer deflorid be force in violence
Wherfore I haue chosyn it for my place to your presence
Submitting it wit) thafforce and trueth to your excellence
Beseching your highnese ye more for myne instance
To this your inheritance tak gracious complacence
seth yat it is your Citie not filid with dissavaunce
Trew and bold to your blode not dreding perturbance
Which causid moost this citie tobe desolate
Now reviving in comforth to attaine your asstate
Eghtly shalbe at thend of Swynegale Ioning of staynegate our
lady commyng frome hevin and welcome the king in wordes
felowing and yervpon ascend ayene into heven wit angell sang
and yer schall it snaw by craft tobe made of waffrons in maner
of Snaw
/ Oure lady /
Henrie seth my sone as thi sufferayne haith the sembly assynyd
Of his grace tobe gouerner for his people protection
ffull specially that thine heier of petie be declinid |
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I pray the seth thi people haith me mich in affeccion
My Son and my soveraine in whome is eleccion
Singulerly this Citie haith honourd humbely
And maide me yer meane wit/outin obieccion
In hope of yer help to haue it holy
What I axk of his grete grace he grantith it gudely
As a beame of all bevtes benyngne
The his knyght he haith callid victoriously
To convoce and concord this his contrie condigne
I pray in this space
ffor this Citie a place of my pleasing
And haue you no drede nor no dowting
Continuall heir in this reynyng.
I shall sew to my sone to send you his grace
£44 (4 October)
Assembled acceptid and admittid Robert Comgilton one of the
waites of this Citie tobe in the Roume of Robert sheyne being in
so grete age and soo decrepid that he no may forther attend
toccupacion of waite forsaide In consideracion wherof and of the
long continued seruice that he haith done in the saide Roume by
the space of .xl. yeres and more It is determined that the saide
Robert Sheyne yerely during his life And whils the said Robert
Comgilton shalbe here waite shalhaue in name of a pension of the
same Robert Comgilton thertene shelinges and [for] ,"four’
penys tobe payde wharterly without deley and forther that the
saide Robert Sheyne shuld haue in his reliefe during his life a
house of the Commons with charge of Reparacion without eny
other forme paying for the same / ...
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Et de .xj s. ix d receptis de Ade Barbour et Ricardo Miton pro
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Et de x s. receptis de Thoma Wells pro firma iiij. loci
Et de XJ S. receptis de Henrico Watson pro Indentura pro firma
vw". loci
Et de Vij. S receptis de Roberto King et socij.s suis . pro firma
Wy". loci
Et de viij s receptis de Roulando Robson et socijs suis pro firma
vij loci
Et de viij. s ili) d receptis de Wille/mo Harpham et socijs suis pro
firma .vilj. loci
Et de .vj s. vilj .d. receptis de Milone Arwom et socijs suis pro
firma .ix. loci
Et de v .s. receptis de Lamberto Tymanson & socijs suis pro
firma .x. loci
Et de .11j s. vilj. d receptis de Petro parot et socijs suis pro firma.
xj loci
Taliquibus denarijs receptis pro firma xij loci viz. super
pavimentum non receptis quia non dimittitur ut in compotis
pre cedentibus
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Et in Regardis Datis ministrals huius Ciuitats
annuatim in festis Pasche ‘iij s iiij d’ corporis
Christi ‘xx d.’ Natiuitats sancti Iohannis x] $ vilj.d
Baptiste “xx d’ Natalis Domini ‘iij s iiij d’ et
Sancti Wille/mi ‘xx d* ex . consuetudine
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Et In denarijs . solut. pro Diuersis victualibus ac
alijs expensis factis hoc Anno per Maiorem et
Aldermannos ac quam plures alios de Concilio
Camere in festo Corporis Christi videntes ludum
in Camera Thome Cokke cum iiij. s pro firma . iiij li. xx. d
eiusdem Camere . vnacum diuersis Eximijs vini
et aliarum Rerum Datarum et missarum . diuersis
dominabus . militibus ac alijs extraneis ad Ciuitatem
superuenientibus in eodem festo . Vt patet .
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Carpentaria ‘Ix s iij.d’ / Sarracione ‘xj. s. .d" /
cariagia meremij ‘ix. s. vj. d’ Diuersis laboribus
per Laboratores ‘xv. s. v). d’ / tabulis et ferro
‘xj. s’ / mutuo j par organorwm cum lusione
eorundem ‘xij d‘ / clauis appositis ad huiusmod
monstrum ‘xv. s ijd’ / factura .ij. Arborum & Rosi
"xiij. s. ilij. d." paupiro argenteo aureo viridi et
similibus ‘xxxilj.s. v.d ob’ / filo crulez frengis
et le Brotherinus vexillorum in grosso. ‘xilj. s. x. d’
/. Rubio Bukram ‘xxii. s. vj d° xxxiij vinis panni
linj brabamnie in grosso ‘xxvj s. vj d’ Lawne ‘xj s’
/ factura togarum et capuciorum “vj. s. ilj.d' /
factura Iakettes et Rub Rosar ‘v. s. ij. d° /
Pinctura vexillorwm / Pinctura le pavessez ac altorum xxv: |i
pannorum depictorum cum filo pro eisdem ‘xliij s XVI]j. S.
ix d’ / xxv ‘xx’ vinis panni vocati lez. Canvesse vj d.
vino ad ij d ob ‘v. li iiij. s. ij d. ob’ ac pictura eiusdem
“ii) li’ / seriptura & pictura ii) Rotulorum de visu
"xvilj. s' ffilo in grosso ‘iij s 1) d’ / emendacione
ii). le skafoldes ‘v. s’ / pro stipendio pagine textorum
“ij. s’ / stipendio clericorum cantancium ‘x. s’ /
Diuersis parcellis extraneis et positis per clericos
gubernatores dicti visi ‘viij s v. d.’ / Diuersis
parcellis positis per Ricardum Burgesse ‘ij s iiij d’
Vadijs . Domini Henrici Hudson capellani ‘Ixvj. s.
viij d* et aliorwm trium clericorum . gubernancium
& ludencium in dicto visu prout parcellatim patet
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Et in Denarijs solut. pro Eximio dato domino
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patet parcellatim in libro Dictorum Computancium
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factis vt patet per huiusmodi librum
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... Et in Regardo datwm ex mandato dominorum Decani et
Capituli Histrionibus interessentibus In festis Translacionis Sancti
Wille/mi ‘vj s_ viij d° quatuor diebus in septimana Pentecostis
‘xilj $ uuij d’ et Deposicionis sancti Wille/mi ‘vj s viij d’ / prout
vsitatum est annis precedentibus xxvj s_viij d. / Et quatuor
Diaconis Portantibus pannum supra caput sancti Willel/mi in
Translacione eiusdem ‘xij d’ quatuor Diebus Pentecostis ‘ij s’
et Deposicione sancti Wille/mi ‘xij d’ iiij s ...
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... And at Tadcaste{Il]r° the king Richely besene in A gowne of
cloth of golde furred with Ermyn toke his Courser his henshemen
& folowers Also in golde Smythez werk wer Richely besene at
the further ende of the Brigge foote the Shriffes of york wele
Accompanyede mette the king & so procedede & ber ther white
Roddes Afor his grace And ner hand 1ij myles oute of yorke the
maire of that Citie & his Brether with othr great nombr of
Citezeins al on horsbak Receyued the king And vavasour Recordr
of the Same Citie had the Speche in bidding the king welcome
And also Recommaundede The Citie & theinhabitauntes of the
same to his good grace / And half A myle withoute the gate of
that Citie The precessions of al the orders of freres Receyued the
king And after theym the priour of the Trinities with his Brether
Thabbot of Seint mary abbey with his Covent The Chanoignes
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of Seint leonardes & then the generall procession of [the
Towne] al the parisshe Chirches of the saide Citie with
merveolous great nombr of men women And Childern on foote
whiche in Reloysing of his commyng criden king henry king
henry And saide our lorde preserue that Swete And welefauerde
face And at the gate of the Citie Ther was ordeynede A paiaunt
with dyuers personages And mynstrelsyez &c. | And therby stode
A king Coronede Whiche had his speche that folowith whos name
was Ebraucus
O Reue7{djende Rightwis Regent of this Regalitie
Whos primatyve patron I Apper to your presence
Ebrauc of Brytayn I sittuate this Citie
ffor A place to my pleasure of most prehemynence
Herunto I . Recoursede for moost convenyence
In conforting that by cours of lynyall succession
Myn heirez This my Cetie shuld haue in possession
Of Right I . was Regent & Ruled this Region
I . subdued fraunce And lede in my legeaunce
To you Henry | . submitte my Citie kee & Coroune
To Rule & Redresse as your due [&] ‘to’ defence
Nevir to this Citie to presume no pretence
But holly I . Remytte It to your gouernance
Os a principall parcell of your enheritaunce
Please It I . beseche you for my Remembraunce
Sith that I . am A primatyve of yovre progenye
Shewe your grace to this Citie with suche habundaunce
Os the Ruyn may Recouer into prosperite
And also of your great grace gif not your ye
Only to this Citie of Insufficience .
But graciously considr ther wille & diligence .
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It is knowen in trouth of great experience |
ttor your blod this Citie made neuer digression
Os Recordeth by the great hurte for blode of your excellence
Wherfor the Rather I . pray for compassion
And to mynd how this Citie of olde & pure Affeccion
Gladdeth & enloyeth your highnesse And commyng
With hole consente knowing you ther souueraigne & king
And at the hider Ende of house brigge ther was ordeyned
Another paiaunt garnysshede with Shippes And botez in euery
side in [tokel] tokenyng of the kinges landing at Milforde havyn
And Salamon in his habite Roiall crownede hadde this Speche as
herafter foloweth
Moost prudent prynce of provid provision
Ther premordiall princes of this principalitie
Hath preparate your Reign the vij by succession
Remytting this Reame as right to your roialtie
Their of kinges conding of your consanguinitie
ffull Roiall & Rightwise in Rule of ther liegence
Sith god full of glorie eternal Sapience.
Did ensence me Salamon of his affluente grace
Wher thorough I . Am Taken as patrone of prudence
To discusse vpon conscience yche Iudicial cause
Revoluyng how wit) sapience ye haue spent your space
To the tyme of this your Reign mysteriously
Opteynyng as moost Worthy your right not Regesly
Now reigne ye rule ye now your Realme right wisely |
By politik providence As god hath enduede
To you souueraigne in sapience submytting me humbly
Your Sage sobr sothfastnesse hath so be shewede
In yche Iudiciall Right this Realme to be Renewede
Ye be advised moost worthy by graciouse affluence
Submytting to your soueraignetie my Septer of Sapience
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Beseching you of bountevous benevolence
This your Citie to Supporte with subsidie of your grace
Thies your noble progenitors recordeth the assistence
Of this Citie to the assufferayn in yche tyme & place
Proof makith experience now souueraigne in your Space
Of purede witt to your blood of great Antiquitie
This your Citie Is solacede to haue your soueraigntie
And by yonde the brigge At the turnyng Into Quonyenx strete
ther Was a paiant of thassumpcion of our lady Whiche had a
speche as ensueth &c
Henry sith my sone as thy souueraigne hath the sothly assigned
Of his grace to be gouernour of his peoplez proteccion
ffull Specially that thyn heire of pytie bee declynede
I . pray thee sith thy people hath me muche in affeccion
My sonne & my souueraigne In whom Is eleccion
Singuwlarly this Citie hath honowrrede humbly
And made me ther meane witvoute obieccion
In hope of their helpe to haue It holly
What I aske of his great grace he grauntith it goodly |
Os A beme of al bountevous benygne
The his knyght he hath chosen victoriously
To convok & concorde this thy Countrey condigne
I pray in this space
ffor this Citie Is a place of my pleasing
Than haue thou no drede nor no doubting
Contynuelly her in thy Reynyng
I shall showe to my sonne to sende thee his grace
And In dyuers places of the Citie hanging oute of tapestry &
other clothes & making of galaries from on Side of the strete
ouer thwarte to that other some casting oute of obles & Wafers &
sume casting oute of Comfettes in great quantitie as it had been
hayle stones for loye & Reioysing of the kinges commyng And at
the further ende of Conyenx strete was ordeyned Another stage
With A pageant wherin king Dauid[e] stode Armede & crownede
having A nakede Swerde in his hand . had the speche as
ensueth &c,
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Moost pre potent prince of power Imperiall
Redoubtede in Iche Region of christez affiance
Your Actes victorious bith notede principall
In maner mor noble than Charles of fraunce
Sith god so disposith of his preordynance
Like as he yave me myght to devince goly
I. Dauid submytte to you my Swerde of victory
When | . Reignede In Jude I . know & testifie
That Ebrauc the noble Whiche subdued fraunce
In memory of his tryumphe this Citie did edefie
That / the name of his nobley shulde haue contynuaunce
In wittenesse that this Citie withoute variaunce . |
Was neuer devincede by force ne violence
Wherfor I haue chosen it for my place to your presence
Submitting It With thafforce & truth to your excellence
Beseching your highnesse the more for myn Instaunce
To this your enheritaunce take gracious complacence
Sith that It your Citie not filede with dissaveaunce
True and bolde to your bloode not dreding perturbaunce
Whiche causede moost this Citie to bee desolate
Now Reviuyng in comforte to Atteigne your Astate
And from thens the king procedede to the mynster Wher
within The West doore Tharchebisshop With the dean &
processyon of the hole quere of the same mynster Receyuede the
king as accustumede And so procedede vp into the quere byfor
the high Auter wher after the Orisons redde by tharchebisshop
The king offrede And from thens the king Went & offrede at
Seint Willams Shryne And than Turned into the quere into the
deanes stalle Tharchebisshop standing in his Trone beganne Te
deum &c. whiche by them of the quere was Right melodiously
songen with organz as accustumede And after the Collect the
king Went into the paloys Wher he loggede as longe as he was In
that Citie And on the satirday next folowing Whiche Was seint
georges even the king harde [harde] his Evensong in the mynster
Chirche having A blew mantell aboue his Sircote And on his hede
his cap of maintenance for he was Corowned on the morn having
thabite of the garters Aboue al other Robes of estate Therle of
Oxinforde bare his Trayne Also in the morne the trayne of the
mayntell of the garters couerde the trayne of the mantell of
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Astate & the furre of the Astate . | Sufficiently shewed The king
kept his estete In the Bisshops great hall . Therle of Oxinforde
yaue attendance vpon the Coroun hauyng also thabet of the
garter aboue thabite of his Estate And antony Browne s[h]ewed
that day And the lorde Scrop of Bolton by cause he Was a knyght
of the garter in both his habitez seruede the king of water Item
sir Dauid Owen in his habite kervede Item sir Charlez of Somers
in his habite was Copeberer / Item Tharchebisshop whiche
ministrede the dyvyne seruice sat on the kinges Right hande in
non other array but as he dayly gooth in And at that other ende
of the kinges Borde That day satt noman .
Item In the forsaide hall Were vj Tables That Is to say ij in the
Middez of the saide hall And In euery Ile ij At the furst table in
the myddez of the hall satt my lorde Chaunceller my lorde priuy
Seale Thabbot of Seynt Mary abbey Thabbot of ffounteyns
Tharchebisshops Suffragan With other prelates And the kinges
Chapeleyns Item at the ij4¢ table satt Therles of lincolln of
Shrewesbury Ryuers & of Wiltshir Baronez knyghtes And esquiers
for the body &c. Item at the furst Table on the Right Ile of the
forsaide hall Satt the lorde Scrope Sir Thomas of Burgh And Sir
Iohn ,‘cheyne’ knyghtes of the garter All on oon side And
byneith theym left a voide space / And then other honest
persones fulfilled & garnisshed that table Item at the ijd¢ Table
of that Ile satt the dean And his Brethern Wit/ the hole quere of
the Mynster Item at the furst Table of the ijd¢ . Ile next to the
Walle satt the mair & his brether With other Citezins In great
Nombr Item at the 1j4¢ | Table of that Ile sat the luggez byneith
theym other honest persones At the kinges tables ende ther Was
ordeigneded a stage for his Officers of Armes Whiche at the tyme
accustumede cryede his largesse iij tymes de treiz haute treiz
puissant treiz excellent prince le treiz victorious Roy dangliter &
de fraunce ser de Irland Et souueraigne dela treiz noble order
larges eftsonez thriez larges De treiz haute tres puissante trez
excellent prince le treiz cristen Roy de fraunce & dangleter &c.
as aboue Item Sir lohn Turburvile knyght marshall drewe the
surnap And after dyner was ther the voide / And then the king &
the lordez did of ther Robez excepte thabbite of the garter .
Wherin knyghtes of the same according to ther statutz Roode to
Evensonge And on the morne to the masse of Requiem Whiche
Was songen by the Suffragan mytrede And after masse the king
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& the knyghtes of the garter Went to the Chapter house And ther
helde his Chapter of the garter It is to bee Remembrede That on
Seynt Georges day Thabbot of seint Mary Abbey Redde the
gospell Thabbot ffountenz the pistill The Suffragan Was Croyser
& bar tharchbisshops Crosse And all were in pontificalibus This
doon I . had leve for to departe /. ...
1486-7
B/Y Memorandum Book Y: E20A
f 149
{Thordinawnce of Textwriters Lommers Notors and Tournours
fflorisshers of the Citie of York tempore William Todde]
f 149v
[... Also it is ordand that euere foryene vsing any part of the said
craft that cometh into this Citie to sell any Bookes or to take
Warke to wirk shall pay to the vpholding of ther padgeaunt
yerely ij d
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f150v Concerning Sir William Incecliff, priest
[And that the said sir. William shalnot be named or elect any
padgeant Maister Sersowr or put in any Office or charge by the
said Scryveners and textwriters at any tyme herafter ayenst his
Woll and pleaser bot oonely to bere his charge as oone of pem
doth yerely toward the cost of ther play in the fest of Corpus
Christi.]
f£162* Textwriters
Also that euery forein vsing any parte of the same Craft that
cumyth into this Citie to sell Any bukes or to take any Warke to
Wurk shall pay to the vpholding of their padgiant yerelie iii d /
1487
House Books Y: B6
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_.. Item the same day past a bill of peticion maid by Ropers and
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hasters the tenowr wherof is pat euery Roper and haster commyng
to this Cite And woll set vp as a maister within the same Cite in
making Ropes kilne hares teildes or eny other thing pertenyng or
belonging to the said Craft of Ropers and haysters shal pay at his
first setting vp xiij s ilij d the onv half to the vse of the
Commonialtie tobe Resauyd by the handes of the Chaumberlayns
for tyme being and the other half to the supportacion of the
charges of the said Ropers and haisters Item in the same it is past
pat euery forent commyng ‘to’ this Citie selling Ropes kilne
hares teildes Sye or eny other thing to pame belonging be
contributory to be said Ropers and haisters in paing of pagent
siluer Item that it benot leful to eny Roper within this Cite and
libertiez of the same from hensforth to wirk eny maner stuffe as
Ropes kilne heris or eny other thing to pat craft belonging to eny
other man not being of the same Craft to Retale ayane apon
payne of forfating of vj s vilj d Camere & arti tociens quociens
£92v (22 May) Ironmongers
Also it was aggreed that my Lady Lambe Late wife to william
Lambe Aldreman &c widowe During the tyme that she standes
widowe shall not be chargid with thoffice of padgiant Master in
Irenmonger craft / and for hur more ease in pat behalue she hath
yevene .‘to’ [of] the commonialtye of pis citie. vj. $ viij. d...
£99
... The said Erl the Lord Clifford and other many nobles
accompayned with iiij mila men and moo was thankfully
Receyued vnto pe said citie and per continued to thursday
Corpus christi day and pe same day at noone hastly the said
lordes . toke ber Iourney towardes the North parties
Vpon Corpus christi evene proclamacions was made thrugh the
citie that the play of the same for diuerse consideracions moveing
my lord Maier . my masters Aldremen and other of the commune
Counsaill pat [the play of Corpus christi] shuld be differd vnto
the Sonday next after the fest of Saint Thomas of Canturbury
And pan after it was differd to pe Sonday next after the fest of
Saint petre callid Aduincwlum because of the kinges commyng
hidder ...
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Thursday the xxvij day of Iuly
Assembled in counsaill ./ It was shewed by Iohn Spon sergiaunt
at the Mase late sent in message vnto the Kinges Secretary with
certain Writing and credence / how . the Kinges grace entendith
god speding to be at this his Citie here vpon . monday next
commyng betwix .ilij. & .v. of tha clok at afternone the same day
accompaygned betwix .xij. or .xv. thowsand men . and to tary &
make his abode there frome the said monday to the thursday in
the morneynge . And that my lord the Mayre with his brethren
Aldremene and the Commune Counsaill . of this citie in there
moost goodly array as merchuntes and citicyns . shuld Receyue
his grace into the Citie according to thauncient custome of the
same And also that the play of Corpus . christi . shuld be made
Redy ayenst Lammesse day . for asfar . as . he culd perceve by
the kinges secretary forsaide it shuld please his highnesse to here
it the same day / Which premissez . shewed . the said Iohn Spon.
With thankes yovene for his . acquitall perin . departid With
licence frome this said Counsaill ./ Whervpon . it was .
determyned . that my lord Mayre . my masters . thaldremen his
brethrez clothed in Scarlet and . the Commune counsaill . in
Cremesyn and other wise goodly . arrayed . shuld Receve the
kinges highnesse in to this his citie Without Mykillyth barre
standing on Rowe bifore Saint Thomas house ther . and that
Master Recordowr shuld . vse thies Wordes ensuyng vnto . the
kinges grace there In be name of my lord Mayre My masters
Aldermen Shereffes . commune . counsaill and thool body of
this . citie Moost high and mighty Christen prince and our moost
drad souerain liege lord . The Maier aldremen . | Shereffes and
Commune Counsaill wit) thool . body of this Citie as . your .
true and faithfull subgiettes Welcome your moost noble grace
vnto this your citie With due lovinges vnto almyghty god for the
grete fortune ,‘and noble tryumphe & victory’ it hath plased
his . godhede to graunt vnto your highnesse at this tyme in
subduying of your Enmyes and Rebelles . besuching almighty
god to continewe you in pe st...) /
And that Within pe barre in Mikilgate of either side the strete
shall . stand . the Communaltye of euere craft on ber best array
without any staffes bering . With due obeysaunce making vnto
[pe k] his grace and crying of King Henry . &c.
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f 107-7v
The secund tyme of the Comyng of the kinges
grace herry the vijth vnto this his Citie
The monday the xxxti Day of the moneth of luly the kinges
grace accompayned with many lordes and nobles . of his Realme
and ther Retinewe to the nombred of .x. thowsand men in
harnesse with his baner Displayed cam to the Citie of york about
iiij . of the clok at after none pe same Day and at Saint Thomas
hospitall without Mikilgate barre my lord Mayre Master
Recordour . with all. Aldremen and Counseillowrs of this citie in
ther . moost goodly maner and aray . like Citicyns . Receyued .
his moost Royall persone into this Citie . With Wordes ensuyng
vtterd by the mouthe of Master Recordour forsaid ./
Moste high and mighty . christen Prince and our moost drad
souuerain lige lord . your true and faithfull . subgiettes . the
Mayre Aldremen Shereffes and Common Counsaill With thool .
body of this your Citie in ther moost humbly . Wise Welcomes
your moost noble grace vnto the same ./ yeving Due lovinges .
vnto . almighty god for the grete fortune noble trihumpe and
victory . Which it hath pleased his godhede to graunt vnto your
highnesse in subduyng your . Rebelles and ennymes at this tyme
besuching almighty god . to continewe your moost noble grace in
the same / Which wordes . the kinges grace Receyued thankfully .
and soo Rood furth thrughe the Citie my lord . Mayre bering the
mase bifore his highnesse [vnto th] on horsbak vnto the paloys
beside the Cathedral church of york . On Weddynsday after in
the fest of thaduincle of Saint petor the play . of corpus chr7sti
by . the kinges Commaundement Was . played thrugh the Citie
and his grace hering the same in Conyngstrete at thomas Scot
house / Thursday after in the mornyng Roger . Layton squire
Was . Iuged at the guildhall to be heded for certain poyntes of
treason committed by hyme . ayenst the kinges highnesse / and
of Satterday next after at 1). of the Clok at after none the said
Roger Was . heded vpon the payment and his . body and hede
beryd . to gidder . in his parissh chirch of the holy Trinitie . in
Gotheromgate / The same Satterday . and thursday before
Thomas . Metcalf gentilman and . oone Tempesse . Was . Iuged
by sir . lohn Troubleveile knight marshall . to be heded in like
Wise / but after they obtegned ther pardones vpon the kinges
grace /. In the vigill of Saint petre callid . Aduincle The King
Dubbed my lord | Maier callid William Todde and . Richard York
Alderman . knightes ./ Monday after The kinges grace
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accompaigned With many lordes and nobles of this his Realme
toke his lourney toward Durham and . Newcastell ./ And from
thens Retowrned Within the space of Xillj. days comyng by .
Burghbrig and soo streght vnto pountfrect / Vnto the Which My
lord Mayre iiij Aldermen accompayned With lx. horsse cam vnto 5
the kinges grace shewing vnto [the the] his highnesse certain
maters . concernyng the Well and prouffit of this Citie of the
Which they hadd a perfite Aunswer . and his grace Right Well
content With ther comyng And so Retourned agayne vnto this
Citie vpon the Sonday after the fest of Saint Bartilmewe. ... 10
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Legates ... Et receptwm de Arteficibus de Boweres pro ffirma le pagant 15
howsse pro hoc Anno jj s
Reparaciones Et Vnde ii de Magister et Constabularij petunt allocacionem pro
AOS expensis factis hoc anno videlicet soluerunt pro ij [(..)] lignis
empts pro le pagant howsse precium vj d Et soluerunt duobus 20
homuinibus pro le Sawyng dicts lignis ij d Et soluerunt pro C le
dubbyll spikynges iiij d Et soluerunt pro ij Dossen & ij li. fferrio
pro les Bandes & hespssees & le Stapylles pro Pagant housse
supradict’ xv d Et soluerunt Adam Hudson pro factura dictos
bandes hespsses & Stapilles vil) d Et soluerunt pro ij le Swallis 25
pro hostijs dicts vij d Et soluerunt pro vno loke & pro vno
Clauo pro dicto uj d Et soluerunt Wille/mo Iohnson
carpentario ibidem operant: per vnam diem & di. ixd Et
soluerunt lohanni Gryndon pro purgacione dicte le Pagant housse
per di. diem yj d Et solwerunt pro xxxvj li. Wax & Rosyn ad 1j°r — 30
Torchias gilde & pro factura eiusdem vj s viij d Et soluerunt
Custodibus Pontem Vse pro ffirma le Pagant howsse predicte
xij d // ... Et Pro Portacione Torcharum in processione Corporijs
Christi ex consuetudine jj s ...
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22 fferrio) for fferri 33 Corporijs] for Corporis
Redditus & firme
tam infra
Mikellith quam
extra Raton
Rawe & Toftes
Legata cum
Recepcionibus
Pecunie pro
le Pagenthous
Reparaciones
cum
Allocactones
Curialitates
1488 YORK / 157
1488
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Et de xij d Receptis de firma vnius domus per magistros pagine
pellipariorum Ciuitatis Ebor’ sol. per annum ad eosdem terminos
Et de xij d Receptis de firma vnivs domus pagine mercerum
ibidem sol. per annum ad eosdem terminos
Et de xij d Receptis de firma domus pagine pistorum ibidem sol.
per Annum eosdem terminos
Et de xij d Receptis de firma domus pagine Tannatorum ibidem
sol. per Annum ad eosdem terminos
Et de ij s Receptis de firma domus pagine carpentariorum &
Alutariorum ibidem sol. ad eosdem terminos
Et de vi) d Receptis de firma domus pagine Aurifabrorum ibidem
sol. per Annum ad eosdem terminos
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... Et receptum [de] pro firmo le pagent howsse xij d
... Et soluerunt Pro Portacione Torcharum in processione
Corporis Christi xviij d ...
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... Et in Regardo datum ex mandato dominorum Decani &
Capituli histrionibus interessentibus In festis Translacionis sancti
Wille/mi ‘vj s viij d* quatuor diebus in septimana pentecostis
"xiij $ iiij d’ Et Deposicionis sancti Wille/mi ‘vj s_ viij d’ prout
vsitatum est annis precedentibus xxvj s viij d. Et quatuor
Diaconis portantibus pannum supra capud sancti Wille/mi In
translacione eiusdem ‘xij d.’ quatuor diebus pentecostis alps. et
Deposicionis sancti Wille/mi ‘xij d’ iiij s ...
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158 / YORK 1489
1489
House Books Y: B6
£168v (5 February)
... Item it is agreid that per be no Rewardes yeven by yere from
this day forwerd to eny minstralles bot to the kinges And also
pat berbe no forther expens maid apon corpus christi day bot xls
and if ,"it’ ouergo pat the Chamberleyns to pay it of per own
charges ...
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Et computant de ffirme le Pagenthowsses hoc Anno nichill
... Et soluerunt pro portacione Torchijs coram processionem die
veneris proximo post ffestus Coporis Christi xviij d ...
1490
House Books Y: B7
f4v (16 June)
At the which day by all abovesaid forsomuch as the cordeweners
in the procession of the morowe efter corpus christi day was
Rebell and disobeaunt in bat accordyng to the proclamacion maid
in bering of ber torchiez and wold not bere paime pai [tofore] to
forfet the penaltie in the said proclamacion and that tobe paid to
the [h] behafe of the Commonialtie which is x li. and for the
contentacion perof the Maiowr to send for Seirchers of the same
Craft and for nonnpayment berof to commit the Seircheours to
prison vnto the tyme it be content
£5 (28 June)
At the which day Assembled in the Counsail Chaimbre of
Ousebrig And per and then fully determyned and Concludet
forsomuch as the Cordeweners of this Cite hath not paid [and]
bot expreslye Refuseth to pay the x li. forfet by thame for ber
15 ffirme] for ffirma 18 Coporis] for Corporis
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1490 YORK / 159
my sbehauyng in bering of ber torches the morowe efter corpus
day notwistonding the Seircheors of the ‘sam’ was in prison for
the novnpayment perof and vnder [cte] certan fourme to be
enlawed this day was in larged of prison consedering the Auncient
ordynance of this said Cite maid in tyme past and execute in
dede .‘accordinglie’ pat the weuers going of the Right hond in
the procession of corpus christi aforsaid and the same cordeweners
of the left hond those in this last procession the same cordeweners
mysehauyd pame ‘and Refusid the bering of per torches’ [in the
same] it is ordeyened that the said x li. shalbe levied withoute
delay And for the payment of the same .x li. eftsonez the
“Seircheour of the’ cordeweners er Recommitted to prison
[to] ber to Remaiyiyne vnto such tyme the said x li. “be’ fully
paid. &c
f5v (2 July)
ad quem diem & coram prescripts venerunt in Camera Consilij in
pleno consilij Thomas Chapman lohannes Ellis Wille/mus Stubbes
& Ricardus Raby & Manucaptores et eorum quemlbet per se
manucepit pro Ricardo Rawlyn Iohanne Pycher & als allutaris
existentibus in prisona domini Regis Ciuitatis Ebor’ ad intrandum
[corpus] corpora eorum Ricardi [lohannis Pg] lohannis &
aliorum allutariorum coram Mai‘ore [super] infraseptem dies
proximas sequentes datam presencium sub pena forisfacture xx li.
solvendarum vsui Communitatis istius Ciwitatis . vel . solutionis
x li. per illos allutarios forisfaciendorum pro suis inobediencijs in
portacione [torch’] torchearum suarum contra ordinaciones &c.
£6 (9 July)
At the which day the said Cordewenerez and euery of pame
tofore committ and being in the prison enlawed ber bodes tofore
the said presence And per and then aswele per ordynance was
openly Redd as a bill of Supplicacion yeven "by thame’ to the
Maiour thaldermen & the hole counsaill of the Chaumbre ,‘apon
the’ which ordynancez & supplicacion so Red and vnderstondet
the said Counsaill fully determyned & concludet pat the said
cordeweners shall content & pay the penaltie of x li. by pame
20 & Manucaptores] for in Manucaptores 24 infraseptem] for infra septem
25 ottose stroke between forisfacture and xx li.
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forfet in that at they wer disobeant contrarie the Maiour
comaundment in bering of per torchies pai that Refusing [th]
tobe discharged of per ffraunches and ‘also of’ forther
occupying in per craft in eny thing belonging to per ordynance
vnto the tyme pai haue content the said penaltie of x li. &c.
A/Y Memorandum Book Y: £20
f 381 (15 May)
Coblers
Memorandum it is the xvth day of May the fift yere of the reign
of our souereyn lige lorde kyng henry the Sevant ordeigned &
establisshed by thassent & Agrement of the Right wirshupful Sir
lohn Gylliot merchaunt than being Maiour of this wirshipful Cite
at the Special instance & prayer of Thomas Rooke thelder
Robert Gybbon Wiliam Gybbon Nicholas [Gybbon] Kechyn
Thomas Rooke yonger Thomas Penpugh william Iohnson And
Roger Emson Citesyns & Cobblers of this said Cite According
vnto a. ordynance maid & Registered in the thik pauper boke in
the myddes of the same the xj day of May the iiijt yere of the
reign of king Edward the fourt as in the same more planelie
doeth appere that euery man from hensforth occupying the said
occupacion of Coblers within this Cite and ffraunches of the
same yerelie content & pay to the Sustentacion of the Torches
by the said Coblers yerelie born to the honowr of Corpus christi
that is to say iiij d except all the personez in the said ordynance
ben except as in the same more planelie doth appere and who pat
is Rebell contrarie this ordynance shall forfet & pay withoute
pardon vj s viij d to the Chambre & Craft without pardon ...
f 302* (27 September)
That the tapitours of this Cite and libertie of the same that err or
for tyme shalbe dying eny maner yarnes cloth or woll as in dorray
Reid yalowe or eny othre Colour to be contributory to the dyers
of this Cite pat err or for tyme shalbe in paing of pagent siluer as
thay haue doon in tymes past that is to say euery Tapitour sO_
dying to pay yerelie to the... Item that the Tapitowrs of this Cite &
ffraunches of the same dying eny maner yarnes als Reid dorrey
yalowe or eny other colour in woll or cloth be contributory to
the dyers of this same Cite pat erre or for tyme shalbe in paing of
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pagent siluer as they have done in tymez past that is to say euery
tapitour so dying to pay yerelie to the pagent.
f 296v (27 November)
Ista prescripta ordinacio de les Tapitowrs ,‘cancellata’ & adnullata
est tempore Iohannis Gylliot Maioris per eius assensum et tocius
Consilij Camere xxvij° die Novembris anno vj‘° regnt regis
henrici septim1.
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Et idem Compuwntes compotant de ffirme le pagant howsse
receptum de Arteficebus lez Boweres & le fflecheres hoc
anno xi) d
... Et sol pro portacione Torchiarum coram processionem in die
Veneris proximo post festum Corpus christi ex consuetudine
Vis) Ge,
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Unde dictus magister petit allocari de diuersis expensis dicto
Anno per ipsum factis in processione generali Videlicet in
Crastino Corporis christi in primis Clerico portanti Crucem ante
processionem ij d Item solut. 1iij°T clericis portantibws le
bawdkyn vilj d Item solut. ix hominibus portantibus nouem
Torchis xviij d Item solut. pro Cera combustura vj d Et solut.
Thome Bateman et Thome hunter Clericis in vestiario monasterij
in rewardo ijbus vicibus xij d Et solut. duobus homuinibus
portantibus fferetru iiij d Et solut. pro refeccione magistri et
sex Custodum circa festum corporis christi et finem Compoti ‘ex
consuetudine’ vs
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... Et in regardo. datum ex mandato dominorum de capitulo
histrionibus interessentibus in festis Translacionis sancti Wille/mi
‘vj Ss viij d° / quatuor diebus in septimana Pentecostis "Xiij s
iilj dY & deposicionis sancti Willelmi ‘vj s_viij d” prout vsitatum
est annis precedentibus xxvj s viij d ... Et quatuor diaconis
portantibus pannum supra caput sancti Wille/mi in Translacione
eiusdem ‘xij d* / quatuor diebus in septiman Pentecostis "ij s”
et deposicione sancti Wille/mi ‘xij d” iiij s. ...
1491
House Books Y: B7
£38 (19 February)
To oure trusty and welbeloued Counseillour and
Knyght for oure body sir Richard Tunstall and
to the Maire of oure Citie of York.
By the kyng
Trusty and welbeloued we grete you wele And for Asmoche as
we bee enformed that grete diuisions discordes and debates
depend & of long tyme passed haue doon betwix thartificers of
wevers and Cordeners reseant and dwelling within oure Citie ther
for their going with torches in procession wherby often tymes
thynges haue been like to be [atto] attempted to be peruersion
& breche of oure peas and inquietacion of oure subgiettes of
oure seid Citie We therfor entending good and peasiable rule to
be obserued & kept ther without any thing to be meoved to the
contrarie wol and desire you that calling before you thartificers
of both crafftez ye will haue this matier in good and deliberat
[examycion] examynacion and therupon ordre [&] and [sed]
surely establisshe suche a direccion therein according to the olde
vsages accostomed there as may be for pe fynall appeasing of the
said debates without any furthere trouble or demaunde to be
made in that behalf And pat this passe you not vndirected as we
truste you and as we haue no cause [tare] tarrecte or ascribe any
default vnto you hereafter Yeuen vnder oure signet at oure
10 septiman] for septimana 40 Yeuen] termimated by -er abbreviation
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palois of westminster the xixth day of feurier
f37v (26 Apmil)
At whice day [it] Assembled in pe counseill chambre opon
Ousebryge ther was Rede be kynges lettre myssyve dyrected to
master sir Richard Tunstall & Mylord Maier for reformacion of
be variaunce betwix pe weuers & Cordweners of pis Citie for
beryng of Torchez on be morn after corpus christi day be tenour
wheroff ensuyth hereafter
£40 (14 May)
Item the same day the Serssours of pe Cordweners come afore
‘be’ said presence & dissired to haue , ‘pe’ ordinauncez , ‘of
their craft’ agayn deliuered and to bere theyr torchez in theyr
old rome & place pe morne after corpus christi day and accordyng
to the kynges [k] lectrez whiche was opynly rede afore be seid
presence wherunto pe seid maire & presence , “answerd &’
comaunded theym to bere theyr torchez ather by theym self on
both sidez the Strete afore the wevers or elles to go on pe lefft
hand & be wevers on pe right hand or eles to [go] make fyne
with pe Chambre and be dysmysed of beryng any torches , ‘for’
this yere and to giff yerly , “hereafter’ to be Chamberleyns for
tyme beyng xij) s_iiij d for to haue theyr ordinaunces agayn with
serche of rede lether & blake [(..)] heropon the seid serssourz in
pe nam[(.)] of pe hole [(..)] crafft askes respyte of theyr answer
in that behalue to pe next assemble of the seid presence as after
ensuy th
f40v (30 May)
at which day pe Serssours of pe Cordweners gaf answer pat theyr
craft was agreed to pay & content yerly vnto be chamberleyns
for tyme beyng xiij s. iiij d to haue per old ordynauncez agayn
deliuered with serche of blake & rede lether and all other
correcionz & punyschmentes & forfaitez longyng to per seid
craft without interupcion of any other in apayre Indenturz vnder
seale of office of Mayraltie & be sessours of the same crafte
enterchaungeably whiche was grant theym by all be seid presence
and they to bere theyre torchez pe morn after corpus christi day
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164 / YORK 1491
in oone of be two rommez afore reherced apon pe penaltie afore
[pis] pis tyme berin ordaned
A/Y Memorandum Book yY: £20
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(See above 1401)
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Et Computant de firme de lez paganthows hoc Anno nichill quia
pertinet Arcuarys & petecularys per condicionem factam
Summa nichil
... Et soluerunt pro factura tribus Torchijs & pro emendacione
ludas vsque festum Corpus christi x s iiij d Et solwerunt pro
portacione Torchiarum coram processionem Corpus christi
xviij d ...
1492
House Books Y: B7
f£70* (1 June)
Assemblez deinz la counseill Chambre {sur la pont del vse} deinz
la common saill I] fuist agree ge le Maire chescun alderman
vicountes & chescun de la common counseill [q] auera vn torche
dee’ port deuawnt le corse nostre saveur iesu crist lendemayn
apres le iour de corpus christi sur payn de forfettowr de Chescun
auauntdit xl. s dee’ pay al common profite dicell Citie sawnz
ascun pardon / Et sile Maire , “pur le temps eteant’ ne leve toutz
lez paynez dee’ issint forfettes que adonquwes il paiera lez ditz
forfettes de cez bienz demesne dee’ employes come deuawnt est
dit
Item mesme le lour il fuist determyne par la dist presence
que chescun Gild fraternite art & occupacion deinz mesme la
Citie que de auncient temps eut vse deporter torchez qilz
porteront lour torchez de mesme la gild fraternite Arte &
Occupacion solonc la Auncient Custome du lendemayn de
Corpus Christi al honour del sagement &c. & al honourable
Custome auawndit sur payne & forfaittour deint proueu le
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primez temps de Maraltie [en le primez<...) temps de] du Thomas
[Thomas] Wranghwys quel payn & forfettouwr est xl s de Chescun
Gild &c. Et outre qilz porteront lowr torchez in lez Romez &
lieuz al eux assignez par le common Clerk pur le temps e¢eant
Item mesme la iour il fuit agree et determine par tout la dit
presence que lez Cordeweners deinz mesme la Citie porteront
lour torchez lendemayn apres Corpus christi en le Rome de
senestre Main dez wevers & non en alve lieu sur , ‘la’ payn
deimt proueu
£73 (28 June)
Assembled in the Counceil Chambre [within common] by
whome it was agreid ‘& determyned yat all such forfettes’ [that
ye Maire shall sea] as be forfett for beryng of Torchez the morn
aftir corpus christi day last past acordyng to old ordinance
beruppon provided shalbe leueed and Rased withoute pardon
pat is to say of Roger Appulby ‘one’ of be xxilij™ xl s of Willtam
Barker merchaunt an oyer of the xxiiij"' xl s and of thartificers of
cordwaners x li. for nowin beryng of ber Torchez acordyng to
diuerse old ordinancez yeruppon ordened & provided
£72v (6 July)
[Also the same day it was Agreid be the said presence yat Roger
Apulby on of the Common Counceil for nounberyng of his
Torch the morn aftir corpus day [shall] ‘haith’ forfeit & ‘shall’
pay xl s acordyng to ye ordinance yeruppon mad &c.]
£73v (6 July)
At the which day it was fully agreid by ye said presens ‘yat’
the Cordwaners of this Citie shall goo to ye Weuers of the same
to thentent yat a louyng Communicacion betwix may be had as
tuching the beryng of their torchez to fore the holy Sacrament
the morn aftir corpus christi day and vppon such communicacion
, had’ if the said occupacions of weuers & Cordwaners can
[can] be agreid of be premissez . than thay to [ca] cume to fore
[my] the maire & his Counceil & yif a awnswer of the said
Communicacion wheder bai be agreid or noo and if pai can nott
be agreable emonst tham selffe than the maire & the Councel for
to tak , “such” ordre betwix thame as thame shall most
exspedient &c. in yat behalue /
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ff 77-7v (2 August)
Item pat kendale men pat bryngeth wollen cloth to pis Citie to
sell in grose or by retaill bat they , ‘from henforth’ sell in grose
in theyr Innes and loggynges and by retaill in pe said Thuresday
market and not to go haukyng and sell in any ober place apon
payn of forfettour of theyr clothes as is above seyd &c. Provided
alway pat thes | ordinancez to fore seid or any article of pe same
be not preiudiciall ne hyndderyng to any husbandman or oper
poure creature of be Contrey beyng vnfranchest pat maketh
apece or two of wollen cloth in a yere within his awn house &
bryngeth to pis Citie to sell by retaill Bot pat it be lefull to pe
said husbandman or ober poure creature so pat they be be
trewe & veray awners of pe clothes to sell the said cloth or
clothes by retaill opon be payment or any ober place within pis
Citie & suburbs of the same thes ordinancez or any article
berof not withstandyng So pat euery person that selleth any
wollen cloth by retail or in groce and hauyng ouer thre yerdes
of brod cloth & vj yerdes of narowe pay yerely pagiant siluer
vnto the pagiant Maisters & sersours of pe said craftes &
occupacionz of drapours and Taillowrs as hath ben accustomed
of auncient tyme heretofore
£85 (21 September)
Assemblez deinz la counseill Chambre sur la ponte del ouse II
fuist determyne par la dit presence que le Maier & lez
chaimberleyns ferront lever touz manere forfettes fait par Roger
Appulby & Willsam Barker Marchaunt pur ceo qils failleront de
porter lour torchez lendemayn apres le iour de Corpus christi ia
dez passe solonc lordnauncez eint faites & prouidez Et auxint
que le dit maier & chamberleyns encontinent ferront lever de
Art del Cordweners touz forfettes quex ilz ount forfet pur ceo
que ilz ne porteront lour torches lendemayn prochyn apres le
iour de Corpus christi darrein passe solonc lordinawncez et
encountre le commaundement del maier & common counseill
eint a eux fait & done Et ceo dee’ leve mayntenant
£87 (26 October)
Assembled in the counseill chambre apon Ouse brigge and
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for asmyche as the , “hole craft of’ the Cordweners with in pis
Citie & suburbes of pe same haue forfet x li. for pe nounberyng
of per torches be morn next after Corpus christi day last past
pe which x li. my lord maier hath oft & many tymes comaunded
the serssours , ‘& diuers oper” of pe said Craft to bryng in [pe]
& lay doun pe said x li. & to put it in pe will & pleasowr of hym
& his brether the whiche to do they refuse & denyeth to pay any
suche forfett wher for lohn Smyth & Thomas Rechardson two
of the sersors of be said Craft wer comaunded to prison & per yet
remayneth & Iohv Crake & Thomas Chaloner ober two of be
sersours , ‘of pe same craft’ at such tyme as they wer sent for by
my lord mayer with drewe , “hem’ & wold not come in Wherfor
, as for per disobesaunce & denyez’ it is determyned by pe said
presence bat my lord Maier suld send pe chamberleyns & pe
comon sergeantez & take distressez of pe cordweners & euery
of theym [c] of suche stuff as may be found in per housez to
pe value x li. & pat to be leved incontinent with out pardon and
after my lord be Maier send pe vj comon sergeauntes of pis
Citie to euery Cordweners house wit/ in pe Citie & suburbs
commaundyng & chargyng theym to bryng hym al suche stuff
belongyng to pe said craft as they couth fynd in pe said housez
or shopes And pe said vj sergiauntes accordyng to pe said
comaundement brought into pe counseill chambre apon house
brige tofore my lord Maier & chamberleyns as myche stuff of pe
f 88 (12 November)
assembled in the Counseill Chambre opon Ouse brigge John
Crake Iohn Smyth Thomas Chaloner & Thomas Richardson
Serssours of be Cordweners within pis Citie of york lohn
Eshwray lohn Clerk Iohn Yong Robert Yong Burnett Thomas
Smyth Citicins & Cordweners of pis in pe name of pe hole
Crafft of Cordwerners within pis same Come personally tofore
pe said presence & ther layd down in a purse ensealed x li.
whiche they had forfet for nownberyng of theyr torches pe
morn after corpus christi day last past puttyng be said x li. in
the will & discreccionz of pe said presence Besechyng [theym]
my lord pe Maier to be theyr good & tender lord & al my
Maisters thaldermen & other of be comon counseill good &
tender maisters & not to take al bat mony of theym haueng
in theyr discret & tender consideracionz That the ‘cause of”
[defaut &] nownberyng was only in Iohn Crak & Iohn Smyth
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two of ther Serssours and not the defaut of pe hole body of
Crafft as they haue shewed diuers & mony tymes hertofore
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Et viterius supradicti Computantes Computant de le firma de
lez Paganthowsse xij d
... Item solwerunt pro portacione Torchiarum coram processionem
in festo Corporis christi ex consuetudine xviij d ..,
1493
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£90v (7 January)
assembled in the Consaill Chambre opon ousebrigge It was
determyned & by pe said presence ennacted & Establisched
fermely here after to be kept & obserued That the Wevers and
Cordweners within pis Citie accordyng to an auncient ordinance
maid in the second tyme of Marialtie of the Right wurshipfull
sir Richard york knyght shall yerely herafter on be morn next
after corpus christi day [go] peceably go in procession with
theyr torches to’fore pe blessed sacrament from pe Abley
churche of be Trenite in Mekilgate vnto pe Mynster in maner
& forme followyng That is to say the wevers on the Righthand
wit) xij torches and the Cordweners on pe lefft hand with
xillj torches apon ‘payn’ of [fett] forfetture of x li. to be
leved by the Maier for pe tyme beyng & to [pe] be emploied
to pe comon well of this Citie as in be said ordnance 1s lymeted
and furwith Iohn Crake & Iohn Smyth two of the sersours of
be Craft of Cordweners wer sent fore & came personaly to fore
the same presence and ther [it was shewed] the said act &
ordinance with pe forfettur & penaltie , “by pe mouth of pe
Recorder’ was distinctly shewed vnto theym and ouer pat it
was giffyn in Comaundement vnto the same serssours to shewe
& publische the said ordinance vnto pe hole Crafft of Cordweners
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within this Citie & suburbs of the same apon pe perill & Iuperdie
pat may ensuy
£92v (3 February)
Item the same day yere & place it is agreed establisched fermly
here after to be obserued & kept That euery alderman & oper
of the xxiiijth & comon counseillours of pis Citie shall at all
tymes herafter to come to counsseills “offerantes processions’
sermons & ober assemblez they and euery of theym laufully
warned That is to say thaldermen by the maiers Esquyers and
euery of the xxilijth by the common sergiauntes to the Maise
and who so makes defaut and comys not at all suche counseills
sermons offerauntes processions & ober assemblez within the
space of an houre to theym shewed by the said Esquyers &
sergeiauntes without an resonable & laufull excuse to pay at
euery tyme so makyng default ii1j d and if they be not laufully
warnedd by the Esquyers and comon [ser] sergeiauntes then
they to paye “be said payn of 11ij d
£96v (12 April)
At the which day it is agreid by the said presens that wher pe
[said] Cutler of this Citie haue of Auncien tyme resaued & yit
yerly resaueth to the Sustentacion of their paiaunt of the
lynweuers of this [th] Citie v s which pai er payed yerely by the
handes of the Chambleyns for the tyme being that [thay] is to
say that it is ennakted that pe said Cutlers shall resaue yerely
the said v s of the said “Chamberleyns’ [Cutlers] in maner &
fourme Abouesaid &c.
ff 97-9 (8 May)
Assembled in the counseill chambre within pe common hall it
was shewed by the mouth of my lord the Maier howe bat the
reuerent fader in god Willam Synowez abbot of Seynt Mary
abbey the nyght last tofore past send vnto my said lord pe
Maer a gentilman of pe said abbotes called Thomas lovell and
shewed vnto pe Maier That this present day at ix of pe cloke
afore none the said Abbot & Richard Chomley wold come vnto
be ffreers austyns disiryng the Maier his brether & ober of the
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comon counseill to mette theym ther To thentent pat pe same
abbot & Richard Chomley accordyng to the kynges wryttyng
myght , ‘take’ a loufyng concord in pe matier of variaunce
betwyx pe craftesmen of be wevers within pis Citie on be , ‘one’
partie & the Cordweners of be same Citie on pat other partie
after which Message shewed My said lord pe Maier & al the seid
presence furthwith went on to pe said freers austyns and ther
at be north end of be kyrk thei met the said Right Reuerent
fader in god & Richard Chomley and so to geiders went in to a
place of freers Willsam Bewyk at pe said north end and then said
abbot shewed & opynly red the kynges lettrez Mysyve in whiche
emong other thynges it was conteyned That the said abbot
Richard Clyfford & Richard Chamley call tofore theym the
parties tofore seid and to here & examyn the causes & trauers
emong be same partiez & ouer that to determyn & fynysche be
said travers & variauncez by virtue of which lettre be said abbot
& Richard Chomley thought they shuld determyn the seid
causez without advice of any other wherunto My lord the Maier
answerd and said how pat the kynges noble progenitours of
theyr especiall gracez of auncien tyme hath grant vnder theyr
lettrez patentes ynto pe Maier Shireffes aldermen & other of the
comon Counseill of this Citie fful power to make ordinancez
& ober establischmentes for pe publike well of pis Citie &
cociticinz of pe same and ferthermore ‘to here & determyn’
pat al maner causez quarels contrauersiez debatez & demaundez
emargyng & surdaunt emong be any personz beyng cociticinz
within pis said Citie or elles before pe Iusticez of assisez & by
suche’ mene | other al whiche grauntez libertiez & privilegiez
oure soueraigne lord the kyng pat nowe is of his most tendre
grace hath confirmed & Ratified ffor whiche consideracion my
said lord Maiour his brether Shireffes and al other of the comon
counseill of pis Citie wold not in any , “wise” consent That the
said abbot & Richard Chomley or any other foreyn shuld by
coloure or virtue of any wryttyng from pe kynges grace or from
any other entermett theym of any cause Matier or accion
Surdaunt or meved ‘“betwix any of’ [within] the Citicinz of pis
Citie whiche in any wise shuld Sound into pe breche of the
fraunchesiez and libertiez of pe same wherto the said abbot and
Richard Chomley answerd and instantly required & prayed my
said lord pe Maiour and al [the] the said presence That in
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somy che as the kynges highnes hath writtyn vnto theym
comaundyng theym by the same wrytyng in avoidyng his gret
displeasour to apeace pe [s] above seid variaunce That it wold
please my lord the Maier & pe said presence That they myght
som, ‘thyng’ do therin pat shuld please pe kynges good grace
in pe premysez and ouer that the said reuerent fader en god
thabbot seyd & tofore al the said presence opynly by his own
mowth shewed that rather or he shuld do or consent to any
maner thyng pat [wher] wer to pe breche of pe libertiez &
fraunchisez or in to preiudice of ony ordinancez of this Citie
he [take a tho] wer lever to take a thousand pound of the
tresory of his monastery & cast down the water of ouse hertely
prayng & in al curtase wise requireng pat my lord maiowr & pe
said presence wold be of pat will & mynd to suffre hym & the
seid Richard Chomley to haue a communicacion betwix the said
Crafftez and they trust to god to take suche direccion in the
said matere of variaunce as shal stand with the myndes & pleasour
of be Maiour & pe seid presence after whiche request & instant
disire my lord Maiouwr by thassent of the said presence graunted
vnto pe said abbot & Richard Chomley they shuld drawe a
paupire of theyr myndes & to Jett my lord Maiour & be counseill
haue a sight perof & beropon to giff answer agayn wheropon
pe seid abbot & Richard Chomley drew a paupir of theyr myndes
& send it to my lord Maier & comon counseill whiche was ouer
seen & Ripeley examyned by the same & in somyche as it was
thought ther was no thyng comprised within same pat was in
preiudice & breche of any ordinance or libertie of this Citie It
was agreed that said abbot the Satterday next ensuyng whiche
was pe xjth day of May if it wald please hym com in to pe
counseill chambre opon ousebrigge and ther by thassent of al
the comon counseill of bis Citie . to’ deliuere vnto the Craftes
of wevers & Cordweners two paupirs of award for [s] goyng in
procession yerly herafter with theyr torchez the morn next after
corpus christi day whiche paupir | of award was Eftsonez opynly
rede to fore pe seid presence pe seid a xjth day of May and by
the said Maiowr & comon counseill affermed & Establisched
fermely here after to be obserued and keped The Tenowr of
whiche award ensuyth &c.
Where in tyme paste that variaunce and discord dependyng
betwix the Craft of the Cordweners of the Citie of Yorke of the
11 he [take atho]]MS he [take atho] he 16-17 the said] MS the pe said
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oon party And the Craft of pe wevers theire of the oper partie as
more at large dothe appere by the Contennce of a peticron or
supplicacion presented of the behalue of the Craft of the said
Cordweners vnto be most noble grace and highnesse of the kyng
oure Souuerain and redoubted lord kyng herry the vijth and by
pe force and virtue of be most noble lettres of his said grace
directid to his trusty and Right welbeloued in god Thabbot of
his monastery of Saint Marie besides his Citie of York oon of
his Counsaillours And to his trusty and welbeloued seruantes
Richard Clifford Esquyer for his body and Richard Cholmlay
oon of his [Rey] Receyuours for bering in order theire Torchies
afore pe procession Custumably and yerly vsed in the said Citie
the ffriday next after the ffest of corpus christi in his blessed
honour and wurschip We therfore the abouenamed abbot of pe
monastery forsaid Richard Clifford and Richard Cholmelay
heding and knawing the noble lettrez of the kinges grace forsaid
and serching the old laudable and vsuall Custumes of be said
Citie for the hole profett and well of the concitesyns there
exercised haue this present wednesday next after the fest of Seint
Iohn Beuerlay that is to say pe Eght day of May the yere of oure
lord god a thousand foure hundreth foure score and Thretene
And in pe eght yere of reigne of oure said Soueraigne lord after
pe Conquest Appecead and Seacead all maner of contrauersies
debates and discordez aboue wrytten betwixt bothe pe said
craftes dependyng afore the begynnyng of the world vnto this
present day as touchyng pe ordinate bering of the said torches
in pe presence and afore the full wurschipfull Maister Nicholas
loncastre Maier of pe said Citie of york with ober certeyn
aldermen his brethern and afore petir Cook and Edward forster
of the said Citie Shireffes and ober their compers in the maner
and forme folowyng that is to say We have ordayned and
awarded that the Craft of Cordwayners of York beyng fraunchest
men and thos pat after thaime shalcome to be fraunchest within
the said Citie shall from this present day forthward and frome
tyme contynuall when the procession shalbe Solempely done the
morowe next after corpus christi day bere there torches honestly
made and lighted with pe Craft of the wevers and going of the
wevers left handes as hath ben here afore acustomed and also
ordayned at pe last season and tyme that Sir Richard York knyght
was Maire there and also at patt tyme that williame white was
Maier as evidently apperith by the ordinaunces and bookez to the
said Citie perteynyng Provided alway in this award pat for any
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forfatours or penalties of faines at any tyme afore this day to pe
said Maier and councell of pe chambre Inpertid or lossed by the
said Cordwayners for noneberyng of the said torchez they shall
no payment make nor penalty lese bot frely and lowly submyt
theme self | to the said Maier for pe tyme being and to his
brethern and their Compers beseching theme of foryefnesse for
thair obstinacy hertofore doon and also we be said abbot Richard
Clifford and Richard Cholmlay awardes and ordaines pat said
Cordwayners shal fromhenceforth for euermore certain
Reasonable causes excepted haue Serche of Rede and blak
ledders within theme Self according to the endentour deliuered
theme vnder the Seall of the office of the Marialtie of the said
Citie in the tyme of william white thenne being Maier payng
therfore to the Maier and Chamberlaines for the tyme being
euery yere xiij s iiij d [viij d] And for the more [stablisching]
stablischment and perfourmyng of this our awarde and ordinaunce
we will that the same be written in the bookez belonging to the
chambre of the said Citie and their Remayne to Thentent that be
bother craftes abouenamed may haue copies and knawlege of the
same and they also to performe fromhenceforth this same
award vnder payne of forfaitowr to pe maier and his brether for
the beyng as oft as either of said craftes be founden defectiue
and not fulfilling this award ten poundes to be perceyued of the
hole body of the crafte so forfeting and forto be apploied to the
most profitable vse and nedes of pe said Citie &c. Also ouer thies
premisses notwithstonding the same We award and ordeyn That
if the case so may befall that the Cordwayners nowe being and
also in tyme to come be of Suche exilite and nede that
Conueniently thei may not be of power to support the full
charge of the nombre of there torchez bering That then the said
Cordwayners may labour to the Maier and his brethere for the
tyme being to compound in mony with theme for bering of
theire lesse nombre in torchez And yet we will that the graunt of
the same compounding & lestnyng of the torchez be euermore at
the pleasure and libertie of the said Maier and his brether for the
tyme beyng as thei shall thynke it most profitable according &c.
and that this oure award schalnot be denyed herafter of the
behalue of be craft of Cordwayners in the name of all the hole
craft as this day being within the Citie lohn Crake lohn Smyth
Thomas Richardson Thomas Chaloner William Herryson and
21-2 for the beyng] tyme required for the sense
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Richard Rawlyn with other of the same Craft haue Receyued
this oure award in writing and therto yeven there consentes
and assentes and in witnesse of the same I William Abbot aforsaid
haue written myn name in the ende of this award and oon pauper
have deliuered to pe Right wirschipfull Maier and his brether and
an other pawper of the same like wise to the foresaid Iohn Crake
lohn Smith Thomas Richardson | Thomas Chaloner William
Herrison and Richard Rawlyn The day and yere abouesaid /
William Abbot of York
f100v* (25 June)
Concordatio inter Loksmythez bladsmythez & Blaksmythez
also it is agreed by the said presence at the Especill prayer and
request of all the artificers of the Mysteriez of Blaksmythez &
Bladsmythez of this Citie that from hensforth thartificers of
Bladsmythez within this Citie shalbe discharged & dimissed of
payng of paiaunt siluer or any ober maner of contribucion ‘to
pe’ [of] blaksmythes of be same Citie and in lyke case the
blaksmythes to be discharged of al maner paymentes dewtiez
or contribucionz by thaym to the said bladsmythez in tyme
past in any wise belongyng or aperteynyng and eper occupacionz
to be clerly separat from ober &c. And pat the Serchours of
Bladsmythes shalnot make no Serche of any axe or axes or
Egetolez to be wroght by the said blaksmythes ne the Serchours
of pe Blaksmythes shall not in any wise Intermyt thaym ne non
Serche make of any maner Egetole or oper maner wark to be
wroght by the said bladsmythes &c. And pat all blaksmythez
wurkyng ony Egetole &c. shall pay emongest thaym to pagiaunt
Collation (B7, f 100v with E22, f 149v): marginalia] devision betwene
Blaksmyths & Blaidsmiths E22, f 149v begins] Assembled in the Counsell
Chamber vpon Ousebrig the day and yeare abouesaid Whan and where
emonges other thinges 14 also itis] yt was 14-15 the Especill prayer and
request] the desyer and specyall Request 16 of] within 16 after Citie] of
York 18 payng] payment 18siluer] Money 19 [of]] omitted
20 paymentes] pageant money 22 occupacionz] Occupacion 23 ober
&c.| thother 24 no] omitted 25 ne] neyther 26 Intermyt] Interrupte
27 maner Egetole] maner omitted 28 &c.] omitted
12 Heading in top left hand corner
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Siluer to be occupacion for pat cause yerely xvj d ouer thayr
ober paigiaunt siluer pat they pay to theyr said paiaunt c. Also
that any oper ordynance betwix the said occupacions otherwais
tofore mayd not withstandyng &c. the same soo tofore mayd to
be voyd &c. cauncellyd
A/Y Memorandum Book Y: £20
f 340
Blaksmyth & Blaydsmyths
Memorandum yat ye xxvti day of lun the viijth yer of pe Reign
of kyng henry the vijth cam tofore Nicholaz lancastr in the
secund tyme of huz mairaltie in the Counceil Chambr aswell the
Crafte of Blaksmythez as loksmythes and Bladsmythez And yer
be their [be] concentes & Agrementes desired of the said Maire
for Appeasing of diuerse matiers of variencez had & oftyntymez
moved betwix the said Craftes of blaksmythez & bladsmythez for
serch makyng of diuerse Instrumentes in yer occupacions & paing
paiaunt siluer ayer to oyer craft &c. That frome hensforth ye
same blaksmythez may be separate & discharged clerly from be
bladsmythez . aswell of serche makyng in ony thing pertyng to
pam as of paying tham paiaunt siluer or ony oyer dewties And
, in’ like case pe said bladsmythez to be discharged in all maner
thynges to forsaid enenst ye said Blaksmythez . Acordyng to
whose . desire it was ordenid & Enacted by the said Maire & be
hole Counceil , “ye said’ xxvti day of Iun pe viijth yer of the
Reign of kyng henr pe vijth as it Apperith in be pauper buke of
the said Maire pe secund tyme &c that ffrome hensforth Ayer
of the said occupacions be clerly discharged from oyer not
payng payant siluer ne none serch makyng of ony axez or oyer
Egelome or any oyer Instrumentes in oyer of the said occupacions
but the Serchourz of ayer occupacion to make serch within bame
selff And pat all blaksmythz wurkyng ony ‘axes or’ Egetoile pay
yerly amongest pam to yer to pagent , ‘siluer’ xvj d for yat
cause besydes his oyer paiant siluer bat pai pay oyerwies to yer
Craft Also yat ony oyer ordinance be twix the said occupacions
oyerwiez to for maid notwithstondyng & ye same , ‘soo’ to fore
maid to be void and Cancelled &c.
Collation continued: 1 pe] their 2¢.] omitted 4 &c.] and
18 for] over erasure in left margin 22 pertyng] brevigraph omitted for pertenyng
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Et similiter dictus Compotantes Computant de firma le
Paganthowsse hoc Anno nichil /
... tem solwerunt pro portacione Torchiarum coram processionem
in festo Corpus Christi ex consuetudine xiiij d ...
1494
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£109v* (29 January)
Item it is ordeyned & Ennacted yat euery maister of the said
Craftes opon corpus christi day , ‘yerly’ shall attend vppon yer
paiaunt frome ye mateir of play be begune At ye furst place vnto
such tyme as ye said play be played & finished thrugh the toun
At ye last playse & who soo is Absent at ony place except , “he’
be seik or haue oyer excuse Reasonable shall forfeit & pay in
fourme toforseid ij s kc.
Item it is ordened yat euery forein or stranger brynging ony
maner of stuff or ware pertenyng to ye said Craftes or Ayer of
thame to this Citie to be sold shall pay yerly to ye sustentacion &
bryngingfurth of ye paiaunt of ye said Craftez iilj d &c. without
ony denying &c.
A/Y Memorandum Book Y: E20
f371v (14 February)
Hatmakers
°This & cappers are Ionyd togethr ‘...)
into one company
tempore Roberti Watter Maioris 1591°
ffirst that noo maner of man fromhens furth Occupie as a master
or seruant in the said occupacion vnto suche tyme that the
Serchours for the tyme being find hyme able and sufficient to
Wirk in the said occupacion and if he be foundon able and
5 dictus} for dicti
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apprentise in the said occupacion than he admitted able to be a
Master in the said occupacion pay at his Entre iij. s. ilij. d that is
to say the oone half to the Chambre of the Citie and the othre
half to pe supportacion of per craft and . padgeant And if he
, be A stranger & not ffunchest’ come In by Redempcion , ‘and
neuer was apprentice’ than to pay xx. s. by evene porcions to be
devided as is above said
£372
... And also it is ordeigned by virtu of this same ordynance what
forant commyng to this Cite or herafter shalcom with eny such
stuffe to sell tobe contributorie yerelie to the sustentacion of
bringingforth of pare pageant pat is to say euery such person
uij d And he pat is disobeaunt and wilnot pay the same when by
the pageant maiste’s he is required to forfet xij d tociens quociens
tobe devided in maner and fourme abovesaid withoute pardon
Mercers’ Account Rolls MA: D54LL
mb 1
Et viterius idem Compuwntes et idem Constabularij Computant
de firma lez paganthowse hoc Anno (blank)
... Item soluerunt pro portacione Torchiarum coram processionem
Corpus christi in die veneris proximo post festum Corpus christi
ex consuetudine xiilj d ...
1495
House Books Y: B7
£135* (12 May)
... Item it is agreid be the said presence yat ye Maister and [ke]
kepers of Corpus christi gilde shall cause ye Crede play to be
plaid yis yere yat is to say ye furst bone to be cryed on
Whissonmonday ye next at maudeleyn day & ye play on seynt
bartylmew Euyn &c. acordyng to ye warnyng gytfyn to ye said
Maister be ye Maire on philyp day & Iacob &c. or els to pay xx li.
to ye Chambre
5 ffunchest] for ffranchest
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178 / YORK 1495
Item it is agreid yat ye maister and bredren of ye Gild of Seinte
Anthonyes forsomuch as thay may not yis yere conuenyently
bryngfurth ye play Called ye pater noster play acordyng to ye
wurship of yis Citie yerfor yai shall pay to the vse of the
Commonialtie (blank) and to prepar yaim yerfor ayanst ye next
WiETerGccs
f136v* (23 May)
... Item pe same day pe [p] Maister of corpus christi Gild & pe
kepers graunted to play pe crede play pis yere & euery tent yere
successiuely as apereth by a writtyng remanyng wit) be said
maister & kepers pe tenour wherof ensuyth on pe next syde
folowyng & entiled in pe booke of be cred play
Et prima pagina “& ostencio’ in festo apostolorum philippi &
iacobi secunda in crastino penticostes
1496
Mercers’ Account Rolls MA: D54NN
mb 1
... Item soluerunt pro portacione lez Toriches coram processionem
Corpus christi in die veneris proximo post ffestum Corpus christi
ex consuetudime xij d ...
Corpus Christi Account Rolls Y: C99:8
mb 3
Unde dictus . magister petit Allocari de diuersis Expensrs dicto
Anno per ipsum factis in processione generali videlicet in Crastino
Corporis christiln primis “49°” Clericis portantibus Bawdewykyn
viij d Et solut. Clerico portante Crucem ante processionem jj d
Et solut. vijte™ hominibus portantibus vijt¢™ Torchias xiilj d Et
solut. pro Cera Combustura ante fferetrum iiij d Et solut. Thome
Bateman & Thome Hunter Clerics in vestiario Monastery in
rewardo xij d Et solut. ijob“s hominibus portantibus feretrum
vj d_ Et solut. pro refeccione magistri & sex Custodum circa
ffestum Corporis christi et in fine Compoti ex consuetudine
iiij s. ...
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1497 YORK / 179
1497
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... Item soluerunt pro portacione Torchiarum coram processionem
die veneris proximo post festum Corpus christi ex consuetudine
xii a”:
1498
Corpus Christi Account Rolls y: C100:1
mb 2
Unde dictus magister Petit Allocari de diuersis expenszs dicto
Anno per ipsum factis in processione generali videlicet In Crastino
Corporis christi In Primis 1ij°' Clericis Portantibus Bawdewykyn
viij d Et solut. Clerico Portanti Crucem Ante processionem ij d
Et solut. vij homznibus portantibus vij. Torchias xiii) d Et solut.
pro Cera Combustura Ante fferetrum iii) d Et solut. Thome
Bateman & Thome hunter Clericis in vestiario Monasterij in
Rewardo xij d Et solut. job“s hominibus portantibus fferetrum
vj d Et solut. pro Refeccrone Magistri & sex custodum circa
festum Corporis christi & In fine compoti ex consuetudine v s
Et solut. pro emendacione Castellorum ij d ...
1499
House Books Y: B8
£59 (12 June)
Item Willelmus ffryston venit coram Maiore & presentibus &
preceptum fuit ei quod sit coram eis in die veneris proximo ad
respondendum eis pro quadam domo in lez Pageant housez quam
ipse simul cum Scrutatoribus textorum ceperunt de Maiore &
Camerarijs tempore Maioratus Thome Gray pro vjs. per annum. ...
£64 (6 September)
Item eodem die Willelmus Robynson aldermanus Textorum &
Willelmus ffriston Textorum pro vno tenemento ad le pagiaunt
housez qui [q] quidem Willelmus ffryston postea venit & fatetwr
se cepisse dictum tenementum ...
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locorum ludi
Corporis Christi
Redditus
Resoluu
180 / YORK 1499
f 64v (17 September)
.. Eodem die preceptum est ."Aldermanno [&] textorum’
Willelmo ffriston & Alijs Textoribus ibidem quod soluant [xij s.]
‘Xvilj s.” pro firma vniws pagiaunt house per iij€S anzos elapsos
ad festum sancte Marie [ultimo peractum & ‘hos ante ffestum
Marie proximum" & ostensum fuit eis quod amodo soluant
dictam firmam vel quod] ‘proximum sequentem* de quibus
Xvilj s. soluant xij s. ad festwm Marie proximum & vj s. ad ffestum
martini
City Chamberlains’ Rolls Y : C4:4
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Et de firma primi loci dimittitwr Wille/mo Catterton &c. ill) s
Et de firma secundi loci dimittitur lohanni Nicholson &
alijs &c. lilj s
Et de firma tercij loci dimittitwr Iohanni Elys Ricardo Gibson
& Alzs vjs vd
Et de firma ij" loci dimittitwr Edwardo de la Kyver & Matheo
Cotez & Als Vs
Et de firma quinti loci dimittitur Ricardo Thomson & Alys
&c. lll] S
Et de firma Sexti loc: dimittitur Iohanni Wark & Als ij s xj d
Et de firma Septimi loc: dimittitwr Roberto Clyff & Alis xld
Et de firma octaui loc: dimittitwr fratribus sancti leonardi
&e. ij s illj d
Et de firma Noni loc: dimittitur uxore Wille/mi Sharp & uxori
(blank) Thuayter &c. xld
Et de firma decimi loc: dimittitwr Nicholo Caton & Alijs per
Indenturam &c. vs
Et de firma xj™! loci dimittitur lohanni Byrkhed & Alysij s viij d
Et de firma xij! loci dimittitur (blank)
Summa xlij s
MiG ass
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_.. ut in denarijs solut. magistris pagine Coronacionis beate Marie
virginis ad sustentacionem eiusdem pagine ut in Compotis
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dominorum
seruiencibus
Vestura
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ex consuetudine
Expense facte
in festo
corporis christi
Redditus (.)
firme tam (...)
1499 YORK / 181
precedentibus i) s
mb 1d
Et in Regardis sol. ministralls huiws Ciwitatis ex
consuetudine diuersis temporibus Anni viz. ad
festum pasche & corporis christi Natiuvitatis Sancti XS
lohannis Baptiste Natalis domini & sancti Willel/mi
pro honore Ciuitatis super magistros attendentes
Et in Regardo dato sex ministrallis domini principis mense Majj
hoc anno &c. zs
Et solut. ijb“s Ministrallis huiws Ciwitatis pro vestura sua erga
festum Natalis domini XXIllj $
Et in expensis factis hoc anno super Maiorem
Aldermannos & Alios quam plures de Consilo
Camere in festo corporis christi videntes &
Intendentes ludum in hospicio ‘Communis’ ij li. xiij s xj d
Guihald ex consuetudine ut patet parcellaum in
libro paupirio Camerarij necnon y s. sol. pro
firma Camere &c.
Et solut. Cuidam doctori Theologiae pronuncianti quemdam
sermonem in crastivo fest: corporis christ: ut in precedentibus xld
Summa ij li. xij s xj d
Bridgemasters’ Account Rolls y: C85:2
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‘Et de firma vnius tenementi pro pagina pellipariorum sol.
&e. xij d’
Et de firma vnius domus pagine Merceriorum sol. ¢...) xij d
36 Marginalia) Redditus & firme tam infra Mykillyth quam extra Ratonraw & lez
Toftes
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182 / YORK 1499
Et de firma vniws domus pagine pistiorum sol. ad eosdem
terminos
os wid
Et de firma vniws domus pagine tannatorum sol. &c. ee
Et de firma vnius domus pagine Allutariorum & Carpentariorum
sol. ad eosdem terminos ij s
Et de firma vnivs domus pagine Aurifabrorum sol. ad eosdem
terminos vilj d
Et de firma domui pagine de Textoribus Ciuitatis Ebor’ ibidem
eis dimissa ad terminum Annorum sol. &c. xvj d
Mercers’ Account Rolls MA: D54QQ
mb 1
... Item soluerunt pro portacione le Torchez die veneris proximo
post festum Corporis christi xilij d ...
Corpus Christi Account Rolls vy: C100:2
mb 2
Unde dictus Magister Petit allocari de diuersis expensis dicto
anno per ipsum factis videlicet in processione generali In crastino
Corporis christi In Primis solut. Clerico portante Crucem ante
processionem ij d Et solut. iij°t Clerics portantibus Bawdkyn
vilj d Et solut. vij homunibus portantibus vij torchias xij d Et
solut. pro Cera combustura ante feretrum et in obitu general:
super Pontem Vse vj d Et sol. ij hominibus portantibus fferetrum
vj d Et solut. Thome Bateman et Thome Hunter Clericis in
vestiario monasterij in rewardo xij d_ Et solut. pro refeccione
Magistri et sex custodum circa festum Corporis christi et in fine
huiws Compotivs. ...
1500
House Books Y: B8
f 101-1v* (15 December)
Memorandum that wher in the tyme of the Marialtie of the Right
9 domui] for domus 40 Memorandum) ornamental capital
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Cartwryghtes
1500 YORK / 183
wurshipfull sir Richard york then Maier of the Citie of york
Emong other thynges it was ennacted and Established that euery
Maister Cartwright within the Citie & suburbs of the same that
haith & taketh Apprentice shuld yerely pay for euery apprentice
to the bryngyngfurth off the pagiaunt of Carpenters 1iij d as in
the said Acte more at large doith appere ffor payment wherof
many & gret enconuenientes & troublez haith ben likely to
afallen & ensewed betwix the said carpenters on the on partie
& the Cartwrightes on the other partie of in & opon all which
variauncez & troublez the said partiez the [d] day of the yere of
the reigne of king henre the vijth after the Conquest the xijth
beyng personally present in the Counceill Chambre opon
Ousebrige tofore the ryght wurshipfull s7r Willzam Neleson then
maier of the Citie of york comprimyt theym & ther successours
in & opon the premysez in all thyng to stand & fulfyll & obserue
the ordinance award and Arbitriment of the said Maier the which
by ryppe communicacion ‘beinge’ had betwix the said partiez
for consumacion of the peace luffe & Amyte betwix the said
parties And in eschewyng of Inconuenientes that theron myght
ensew by god deliberacion Assent & Consent of the said parties
ordayned awarded & demed in maner & forme ensewyng | That
is to say the Maister Cartwrightes of the said Citie that now ar &
herafter shalbe and ther successours & euery of theym yerely
before the fest of corpus Christi shall pay & content vnto the
pagiaunt Maisters of the Carpenters for the yere beyng vj d &
euery apprentece of be Cartwryghtes to befree for any thyng
payng toward the bryngyngfurth of the said pagiaunt Also the
said Maier ordayned & demed pat the said Carpenters nor yer
successours shall not vex trouble ne distreyn the said Cartwryghtes
nor theyr successours nor apprenticez for Any other yerely
charge of payment toward the bryngyngfurth of ther pagiaunt
bot in maner & forme abouesaid & euevy lournaman iiij d And
the Cartwryghtes to make iiij new wheles to the said pagiaunt
& yerely vj d as is toforesaid & then the said Cartwryghtes &
yer successours for euer to be discharged of all maner other
yerely charges as torchez reparacionz of ber pagiaunt
bryngyngfurth yerof or any oyer maner yerely Charge longyng to
the pagiaunt or torchez
Also the said Maier ordayned awardeth & demeth & straitly
chargeth pat whether of the said partiez pat herafter breketh
this ordinance award [afor] in any poynt or article afore rehersed
to forfett & leese to the Maier & Commonialtie of this Citie x1 s
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to be leved & takyn by the Maier & Chamberleyns for the tyme
beyng & imploed toward the Common well of this Citie
f102v (16 December)
Assembled opon ouse brigge George Essex & Thomase Bankhouse
then Shiretfes of pis Citie wer sent for & come to fore pe said
presence and then & ther it was obiect vnto be said George That
wher tor be honowr & wurship of pis Citie it hathe ben vsed pat
the Shireffes on pe day of theyr Rydyng ather of theym to haue
one or two folowers after hym and pe said George bat day had
non And also it hath ben vsed be Elder Shireff pat day to fynd
table clothez & towels & al oper thyng necessary for be high
table and be same day ber wanted double towels and wher
pe comon officers as pe chamberleyns comon clerk & pe Mayrez
sergiauntes hath ben yerely disired & bedyn to pe shireffes
fest & pis yere wer not beden and also pat wer by an auncient
ordinance it is ordeyned pat no shireff of pis Citie shall not go
openly in pe strete with,"out’ one beryng a mayce tofore hym
[this] opon payn of forfettowr of (.) li. as in pe same dothe
appere and pis day It was obiect vnto pe said George had gon
from his Awn house on be pavement vnto henry Bluther vynter
in pettergate on saynt Andrewe gate corner not hauyng any
Maice born tofore hym contrary to pe provision afore said apon
al whiche obieccions he couth , ‘not’ excuse hym and after
pat It was determyned by pe said presence pat the said George
for his said mysbyhauours shall lay doun tofore my lord Maier &
chamberleyns v li. & perof to be pardoned xx s. and more if my
lord Maier please
B/Y Memorandum Book Y:E20A
f£171A (30 April)
The ordinawnce of Skynners
Memorandum that the last day of Aprile the yere of regni regis
Henrici vijth after the conquest of yngland the xvth in the tyme
of marialte of the Right Wurshipfull sr William Neleson
£A71
Memorandum that thys ys parte of the ordynans of the Skynners
Primo that all the forfettes that er dewe in the skynner craft
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Horners
1500 YORK / 185
and schalbe in tyme comynge be raisyd & the tone half of them
be paid to the Chambr and the oder half vnto the craft forto
maynteyn per pagent & yer light
Item yf any wyll sell old furres for newe or put lambefell or
porcion or lambefell in furres of Boge or scherlynges in
lambefurres or sell any old pellowr for newe or put in any newe
furr old pellowr That he pay half a marke to be payd in maner
abowe said and that noo perfornesyng be put in newe pellur &
sold for newe bot if yt be hals brode & clene ledder apon payne
of the forsaid payne
Item that all the vphalders that selles furres within thys Cittye
or subberbes be Contributarye & pay vnto the pagant of the
Skynners in the play of Corpuschristi
Item if any of the Skynners befor said be rebell dystrobe
myssay or dysabay any of the sersurs or the pagent Masters
of yer Craft that schalbe for the tyme in doyng of yer office
dewly yat he pay vj s viij d in pe maner aforsaid
f 201v* (30 April)
Item it was determyned by the same presennce That Horners
from nowfurth payng pageant money to be contributory wit
the Cutlers & bladsmythez &c.
Mercers’ Account Rolls MA: DS55RR
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Allocaciones ex consuetudine cum feodo bedelli & Clerici
compotist
... Item solutwm pro portacione de le Torchiez dicte Gilde . die
veneris proximo ffestum corporis christi xiiij d ...
Collation (E20, f 201v with B8, f 80v): marginalia] omitted 21 after
Item] the same 21same] said 22 after nowfurth] [be] in (pag] 23 &c.]
omitted
29 compotis] for compoti
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pro le ordryng
del occupacionz
en le procession
186 / YORK 1501
1501
House Books Y: B8
£112 (8 June)
Item the same day by the said presence pe craftez & occupacionz
within pis Citie wer ordered shewed after a bill shewed emong pe
said presence howe pei singlry shal go in procession on morn next
after corpus christi day
f 124v
Item euery crafft was put in a clothyng & ordered howe thei shall
go in procession at Corpuscristenmes & at all ober tymez of
assemblez
A/Y Memorandum Book Y: £20
t 380
Torchys ordinaunc how they shall goo in ordyr
In primiz for the Coblers uj°F Thorchis
Item for the porters vil} Torch
Item for the ropers and heirsters i) Torch
Item for the glovers ‘per se’ i) Torch
Item for the buchers by tham self ui) Torch
Item for the bakers of the left hand vj T
Item for the ffullowrz of the right hand vj) T
Item , ‘for pe’ Carpenters “goyng’ by tham self vj) T
Item for be Smythis goyng of pe right hand ny T
Item for the Couerletweuers goyng on pe left hand ij T
Item for the ffysshmongers ffyshers & Maryners goyng to gedir
by tham self xiilj T
Item for the wevers goyng of pe right hand xvj T
Item for the Cordwaners goyng of pe left hand T
Item for the Taillourz goyng by tham self viijt T
Item for the Mercers il;
Item ilkon of be xxiiij4 & of pe Aldermen ilkman a
torche T
Item for Corpus christi Gild ay
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Christi
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Ministrallis
& alys
seruientibus
Vesture
officiariorum
ex consuetudine
1501 YORK / 187
City Chamberlains’ Rolls y: C5:1
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Et de firma primi loci dimittitwr Wille/mo Catterton & alijs
vitra locum Communis Clerici ilj s xj d
Et de firma secundi loci dimittitur lohanni Caldbek & alijs ij s
Et de firma tercij loci dimittitur Ricardo Gibson & alijs vs xd
Et de firma quarti loci dimittitwr Thome Spicer & alijs vs
Et de firma quinti loci dimittitur Wille/mo Barker & alijs iij s xj d
Et de firma sexti loci dimittitur Alano Staveley & alijs vacat
Et de firma septimi loci dimittitur Roberto Clyff & alijs
Et de firma octaui loci dimittitury Alexandro Donne & alijs
Et de firma ix! tenementi dimittitwr Wille/mo Sclater “xij d’
& alijs xj d
Et de firma x™! tenementi dimittitur Wille/mo Couke &
alijs vs vyjd
Et de firma xj™ tenementi dimittitur Willelmo Catterton &
alijs per Indenturam vs
Et de firma xij! loci dimittitur lohanni Rothley & alijs lll] s
Summals vid
mb 3
Unde dict: computantes Petunt Allocacionem ut
in denarijs solutum Magistro Pagine Coronationis
beate Marie virginis ad sustentacionem eiusdem
Pagine ut in Compotis precedentibus
mb 3d
Item in Regardis sol. Ministrallis huivs Ciuitatis ex
consuetudine diuersis temporibus anni viz. ad
festum Pasche corporis christi Natuitatis sancti Xs
lohannis Baptiste Natalis domini & sancti Wille/mi
pro honore Ciwitatis super Magistros attendentes
Et solut. iijb“s Ministrallis huius Civitatis pro vestura sua erga
festum Natalis domini XXIllj s
Et in expensis factis hoc Anno super Maiorem Aldermannos &
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Expense facte
in festo
corporis christi
Redditms &
ffirme tam infra
Mykillyth quam
extra Ratonraw
& lez Toftez
188 / YORK 1501
alios quam plures de Consilio Camere in festo corporis christi
videntes & Intendentes ludum in hospicio communi Guyhald
ex consuetwdine ut patet parcellatim in libro paupirio Camerarij
necnon sol. pro firma Camere Maioris &c.
Et solut. cuidem doctori Theologie prouncianti quemdam
sermonem in Crastino festi corporis christi ut in precedentrbus
Summa iii li. ilij s_viij d.
Bridgemasters’ Account Rolls Y: C86:1
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Et de firma vnius tenements ibidem pro pagina pellipariorum sol.
ad eosdem terminos xij d
Et de firma domus pagine Textoribus Ciuitatis Ebor’ ibidem eis
dimissa ad terminum Annorum xvj d
Et de firma domus pagine diuersorum arcium hoc Anno &c. XVil] s
Et de firma domus pagine merceriorum xij d Et de firma domus
pagine Pistorum xij d Et de firma domus pagine Tapiters xij d
Et de firma domus pagine Allutariorum & Carpentuariorum ij s
Et de firma domus pagine tannatorum sol. &c. xij d Et de firma
domus pagine Aurifabrorum sol. &c. viij d ...
Et de firma domus pagine lez Waxchaundelers viij d Et de
pagine le Coupers 111) d
Mercers’ Account Rolls MA: D55SS
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Allocaciones ex consuetudine cum feodo Bedelli et clerici
compotit
... Item soluerunt pro portacione Torchiarum dicte Gilde Sancte
Trinitatis in die veneris proximo post ffestum corporis christi
xij d ...
Mercers’ Chartulary MA: D19
EAST
Memorandum that Thomas Drawswerd this present yere abouesaid
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1501 YORK / 189
is admit into the broderheid of the fraternite of the holy trinite
in ffossegate by the said maister by thassent & consent of Richerd
Thornton maior of the Cite of yorke George Kirke John Elwald
William Neleson Iohn Stokdale , ‘aldermen’ Thomas ffynch
Iohn Shawe Thomas ffolneby and many other merchauntes
brethern of the said ffraternite vnder condicion felowing bat is to
say that the said Thomas shal mak the pagiant of , ‘the’ dome
belonging to the merchauntes [of] ,“newe’ substancialie in
euery thing bervnto belonging havyng for the warkemanship and
Stuff of the same vij marcs in money And his entrie fre with Also
the old pagiaunt
nota
Corpus Christi Account Rolls Y: C100:3
mb 3
Unde dictus magister petit Allocari de diuersis expensis dicto
anno per ipsum factis Videlicet in processione generali in
Dominica proxima post festum Corporis christi In primis solut.
Clerico portante Crucem ante processionem ij d Et solut. iiijor
portantibus Bawdkyn viij d Et solut. vij homiibus portantibus
vij Torchezs xij d Et solut. pro Cera combustura ante feretrum
et in obitw general: super pontem Vse vij d Et solut. ijbus
hominibus portantibus fferetrum iiij d Et solut. Thome Bateman
et Thome Hunter Clericis in vestiario monesterij in rewardo xij d
Et solut. pro refeccione magistri & sex Custodum circa festum
Corporis christi et in fine Compoti ex conswetudine v s ...
Et solut. clerico sancte Trinitatis Ebor’ in dominica post
festum Corporis christi in regardo ij d ...
Et solut. pro factura vj Torchiarum hoc anno xx s x d
1502
Mercers’ Account Rolls Y: D55TT
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Allocaciones ex consuetudine cum feodo bedelli et Clerici
Compotit
... Item soluerunt pro portacione torchiarum dicte Gilde . Sancte
Trinitatis In die veneris proximo post ffestum Corporis christi
Xlij d ...
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Cake Bread
190 / YORK 1502
Corpus Christi Account Rolls y. ©100:4
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... Et solut. pro factura vj Torchiarum hoc anno MARV Gd. .-;
Et dictus magister petit Allocari de diuersis expensis dicto
Anno per ipsum factis Videlicet in processione generali in Crastino
fesu Corporis christi In primis solut. Clerico portante Crucem
ante processionem ij d_ Et solut. iiijor clericis portantibus
Bawdkyn viij d Et solut. vij hominibus portantibus vij Torchis
xij d Et solut. pro Cera combustura ante fferetrum et in obitu
generali super pontem vse vij d. Et solut. ijb“s hominibus
portantibws (...) solut. Thome Bateman & socio suo Clericis in
vestiario monesterij in rewardo xij d Et solut. pro (...)
1503
House Books Y: B9
f3* (11 May)
Most Reuerend fader in god most honourable and my most
Espiciall graciouse and good lord I in the most lowly wyse
recommend me vnto your graciouse lordschip humbly besechyng
your good grace to haue in knawlege that where as a woman of
Burghbrygge in lentyn last broght certan Cake bred vnto this
Citie to sell whiche bred by the officers of the same was weed
after the kynges Standerd and found defawte and kept not the
kynges assis by farr for whiche defawte by the kynges Estatutez
she schuld haue ben greuously punysched & amercyed bot for
pitie & neghbourhed I remitted hir punyschment vnto viij d
chargyng hir herafter to bryng no bred bot if it kept the kynges
assis and if she so dyd she schuld be welcome and where of
auncient tyme it haith ben accostomed within this Citie that all
such persons as bryngith any maner goodes or ware to sell as
belongith to any craft or occupacion within this said Citie the
said persons so sellyng & vtteryng any such goodes to be
contributary vnto the same craftes or occupacionz in such
chargez as they bere & sustene in brynging furth of theyr pagiant
at Corpus christimesse and nowe of late a man of Burghbrigge
seruant vnto Antony Schorthouse Esquier broght certan sawn
bordes vnto this Citie to sell and the Carpenters of the same
Citie accordyng to the auncient custome of theyr Craft toke of
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hym iij d to pagiaunt money for whiche viij d & 11) d nowe in
comyng from the fayre at your towne of Rypon the said Antony
with a certan company riotously Stopped certan Crafftez men of
this Citie my neghbourez and toke theyr horsez by the hedez
castyng down theyr pakkez & lodez and extorciously toke from
theym such goodes as he and his company pleased as in a bill of
parcelles of the same redy to your grace to be schewed more
planely doith appere and the same goodes kepyth & reteyneth
and if any person of this Citie come to Burghbrigge he sore
troubleth & vexith theym and ouer that with vile & vnfittyng
wordes revyleth and manasseth me & my brethir all whiche his
extorciouse & riotouse demeanour I had thoght to haue schewed
vnto the kynges highnes savyng your grace is the kynges
lieutenant and these of his most honourable Counsail in these
partez wherfore I lowly beseche your grace to be my good &
tendre lord and that it will please your grace to direct your
honourable lettrez vnto the said Antony comaundyng hym by
the same to redeliuere the said parcelles & goodes and hereafter
not to trowble ne vexe the kynges Subiettes inhabityng within
this Citie bot peceably suffre theym to passe & repasse without
vexacion or interrupcion of the said Antony or elles at a certan
day by your good grace to be limytted personally to appere
afore your said grace brynging with hym the said parcelles &
goodes and then & there tofore your good grace to schewe why
he thus riotously & extorciously haith takyn & reteyneth the
said parcelles & goodes by the whiche your grace so doyng schall
bynd me & my brethir to be your daily bedemen as knawith
almyghty god whome I humbly beseche to preserue your most
graciouse lordschip in prosperitie with honour long to endure
At york the xjth day of May
To the most Reuerend fadyr in god my most honourable and
espiciall good & graciouse lord my lord archebischop of york &
primate of yngland
your daily Oratowr and goostly chylde Iohn Gilliot knyght Maier
of your Citie of york
ff 3v-4 (21 June)
This Indentwr maid the xxjth day of luny the yere of the regne
of kyng henre vijth after the conquest of yngland the xviijth
Witnessith that where by many and diuerse yerez here tofore
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past debate discord & variauncez haith ben dependyng betwix
the craftez & occupacionz of the Bakers of the Citie of yorke on
the one partie and the Cookes of the same Citie on that othir
partie Aswell of in & apon the payment of pagiaunt money of
the Watterleders & Sandeleders within the said Citie as of in &
apon the payment of ferme for standyng of the said Cookes
Pagiaunt within the pagiaunt house at the Toftez of the said
Baxsters apon all whiche debatez discordez & variauncez the said
partiez of theyr awn free willez & mere mocionz haith comen
personally tofore the ryght wurschipfull Sir lohn Gilliot knyght
& then Maior of the abouesaid Citie & in euery behalve of the
premysez haith submitted theym to obey stand & fulfill his
award & Iugement in that behalve | The whiche Maier at the
espiciall request & prayer of both the said partiez takyng apon
hym the charge of the said award the day & yere abouesaid after
diligent & rype examinacion had betwix the said partiez awardith
ordanyth & demyth That the Cookez & theyr successours for
euermore from nowe furth without lettyng contradiccion or
disturbauncez of the Baxsters & theyr successours yerely schall
peceably perceyue take & geddir pagiaunt siluer of the Waterleders
& sandleders toward the supportacion & charge of bryngyngfurth
of the pagiaunt of the same Cookez and that the said Cookes
schall yerely haue sufficient & couenient roome for theyr said
pagiaunt wit/in the pagiaunt house of the Baxsters with free
entre & issue vnto the same at euery tyme [e] reasonable &
conuenient for whiche pagiaunt siluer of the watterleders &
sandeleders & for standyng off theyr said pagiaunt the said
Cookes & theyr successowrs schall euer more yerely herafter on
the Tuysday next afore Corpus christi day pay & delyuere vnto
the said Baxsters & theyr syccessours iij s. ij d of good &
lawfull money of yngland and the said Baxsters & theyr
successours schall well & sufficiently repayre vphold & sustene
theyr said pagiaunt house so that the pagiaunt of the said Cookes
take no herme or hurt by any wynde or weddir for lak of
reparacion to be maid by the said Baxsters and the said Maier
ordeynyth awardith & demyth that whethir of the said partiez
as varieth & brekith this his awarde & Iugement in any poynt or
article aboue rehersed That the partie so offendyng & makyng
defawte at euery tyme in any of the premysez to forfett lese &
pay to the comon well of this Citie vj s. viij d and to that othir
partie not offendyng iij s. iii) d without pardone In trewe witnesse
& testimony of this abouesaid awarde to athir partie of this
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Indentur the said Maier haith put the seale of his office of
Marialtie the day & yere abouesaid /
f4v* (7 July)
Assembled opon Ousebrigge it was comoned & schewed howe
that the kynges grace haith writtyn vnto euery Shereffe to giff
attendaunce apon the Qwene of Scottes at the entre into theyr
Shireffwyk and soo to giff his attendaunce vnto she come vnto
the end of theyr Shyre after whiche commonyng & schewyng it
was determyned that the Shireffes of this Citie in Cremysyn with
lx persons on horsebak in a clothyng schall mete the said Qwene
at Tadcastre brigge and they to send vnto all Knyghtes Esquiers
Gentilmen & othir honest persons of aynesty to be there at
Tadcastre & attend apon the Shireffes in theyr most honest aray
to receyue the said Qwene of Scottes & accompany hir vnto this
Citie
Item it was determyned that my lord Maier the Aldermen in
Scarlet on horsebak and the xxiiijth in Cremysyn on fote to
mete & receyue the said Qwene within Mikkyllith barr & all
othir Crafftez on fote to be there in theyr clothynges as they
schalbe ordered by my lord Maier & his brethir
Item it was agreed by the said presence that in somuche as
the said Qwene departith furth of this Realme to be Maried
vnto the kyng of Scottes & to haue hir good & tendre lady vnto
this Citie & to [his] haue it in hir tendre & graciouse
remembraunce That she schalbe presented with a Coppe of
Siluer & gilt of the valowe of xiij li. vj s. x d & a hundreth
angel noblez of gold in the said pece to be presented to hir by
my lord Maier Maister Recorder the aldermen & the xxiiijth
ff 5-7v
Item that my lord of the common costez schall send an Officer
vnto Colyweston to knawe howe the Qwene of Scottes hase ben
receyued at Northamton & othir placez & if she kepe hir gestes
appoynted
(12 July)
Assembled apon Ousebrigge Maister Recorder opynly rede a
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lettre lately sent hym from the Byschop of Norwiche from
Granntham wherby he was acertaned That the Qwene of Scottes
on Settyrday next ensuyng wilbe at this Citie & here abyde
Sonday & Monday to that she haue dyned and that howe she was
receyued at Northamton Granntham & othir good townez &
howe she was presented at the said Townez Aftre whiche shewyng
for asmuche as the kyng of his tendre grace gevith yerely vnto
this Citie lx li. and nowe the Qwene whiche is , ‘his’ eldyst
. doughter’ departeth furth of this land for whiche consideracion
it was thoght that she schalbe presented with a Pece of xij li.
xvj s & gold therin to the some of Cth angels and my lord Maier
& certan of his brethir apon Sonday aftre the advice of such
lordes as ar about the Qwenez grace with the said Pece & gold
at hir logyng present hir and my lord Maier or Maister Recorder
to haue | the wordes in tyme of presentyng and my lord Maier
with the aldermen on horsebake in Scarlet to mete the said
Qwenez grace at Mikyllyth & the xxiiijth & all othir Craftez on
fote and whethir my lord Maier schall bere the Swerd tofore
hym & where he schall haue his rome & bere the Mayce to be
ordered by my lord of Surrey & by the said Qwenez officers
& seruantez
Item my lord Maier bought a pece of Siluer & gylt for xij li
xvj s of Maister lohn Stokdale and he to be paid within xiiyjth
dayes next after Lamez
The fourme and maner howe the lady Margaret theldist doughter
of our said soueraigne lord kyng henre the vijth & Qwene of
Scottes was receyued at the Citie of york in hir viage toward
Scotland
Be it had in mynde that the Setterday the xiiijth day of Iuly in
the xviijth yere of the regne of kyng henre the vijth come the
right highe & myghty Princes the lady Margaret theldist doughter
of our said soueraigne lord kyng henre the vijth & Qwene of
Scottes vnto this Citie of york accompaned with many noble
lordes & ladyez That is to say Therle of Surrey Tresorer of
England and the Counteys his wyff he beyng the chefe Guyder
of the said Princes in hir said viage the Bischop of Norwiche the
Bishop of Murrey of Scotland Therle of Northumbreland & the
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Counteys his wyff Therle of Kent the lord Straunge the lord
Haystynges the lord latimer with many othir noble lordez
kynghtez Esquiers & Gentilmen with theyr accompany to the
noumbre of vth Cth persons right nobly & richely appareled
agaynst whose comyng it was ordured & deuysed | by my lord
Maier & his brethir aldermen & Counsaill of the Chambre that
the said princes schuld be receyued in the most honerable wyse
that they couth after theyr power and presented as heraftre
ensueth /
ffyrst that the Shireffes of this Citie in Cremysen with an
hundreth persons on horsebak in one clothyng honestly arraed
schuld mete hir grace at the middes of Tadcastre brigge and
with humbly Salutacion hertely welcome hir grace in to the
Countie & libertez of this Citie and so beryng theyr wandes
tofore hir to giff theyr attendaunce apon hir vnto she come to
this Citie And then the right wurshipful Sir ohn Gilliot knyght
of the Bath then beyng maier of this wurshipfull Citie in fyne
Cremynsyn saten engraned havyng a Coller of gold of the kynges
liuerey about his nek on horsebak his Saddyll of Cremynsyn
velvet & his horse trappour of the same with gylt bolyon his
foteman in grene saten with the armez of the Citie & his awn
armez the Recorder and Aldermen in Scarlet on horse bak theyr
Saddylles couered with fyne cloth & bordered with blake velvet
theyr trappours of the same with gylt bolyon the xxiiijth in
Cremynsyn on fote and the Crafftes & Comons honestly in theyr
clothynges on fote schuld mete hir grace at Mikyllith barre and
soo the Maier the Recordar & thaldermen on horsebak standyng
on the north syde the said barre a lityll space within furth maid
lowly obesiaunce vnto hir grace and soo come nerr vnto hir chare
whiche was apon two palfreys couered with cloth of gold and hir
grace causyng the chare to stand styll the Maier hertely welcomed
hir grace sayng these wordes
Most noble and excellent Princes ‘& Qwene’ [your grace vnto
me] ‘1’ & my brethir with all the Commonialtie of this Citie
in our most hertely wyse welcometh your grace vnto this the
kynges Citie with all othir noblez that attend apon your grace .
after whiche wordes hir grace enclyned hir toward the Maier &
with a Cherefull Countenance thanked hym his brethir & all the
Citie & then it was ordured by the said lord Tresorer of England
the Maier to ryde next tofore hir Chare betwix two Sergiauntes
of armez barehede to bere the Mace vnto she come at hir loigyng
and the Aldermen to ryde tofore hir grace next after the knyghtes
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& tofore the barons and soo they attended apon hir grace to she
was taken furth of hir said Chare at the west end of the Cathedrall
Chirche of saynt peter of york and within the doore of the said
Chirche Tharchebischop of york the bischop of dorham Thabbot
of saynt Marie abbey the Bischop Sofregayne of york in theyr |
pontificall adornamentes with all the prelates & mynestrez of the
said Chriche mett hir grace with procession and she humbly
knelyng downe & makyng hir prayers the said Bischop assenced
hir and then she kyssyng certan reliquez Rosse & went vpp
toward the hy awter the Ministrez of the Chirche singing this
antheym (blank) and then hir grace knelyng tofore the hye alter
after hir prayers offered ynto the Sacrament and after to saynt
William hede and then she went furth on the north syde of the
said Chaunsell & chirche at a doore anenst the Chapitre house
and so entered in to the bischopz palece the archebischop with
his crosse & cruche and the Bischop of dorham with his cruche
in gray amysez.
And the Maier goyng betwix two Sergiauntes of armez bare
the Mace tofore hir to she come into hir chambre and then takyn
his leve she cherefully thankyng hym departed And then the
Maier shewed the said lord Tresorer howe that he & his brethir
after theyr powers Intended to present hir grace prayeng hym to
lett theym knawe what tyme it wer most pleasaunt to hir grace
they schuld attend apon hir grace with theyr said present and
he schewid theym on the morn betwix viijth & ixth of the Clok
and so they departed from hym and went into the Mynster yerde
and there the Maier his brethir the Recorder & Shireffes toke
theyr horsez and soo havyng the swerde born tofore hym his
Officers goyng on fote come ridyng vnto his awn place and after
he & they on horsbak had dronken both wyne & ale departed
and on the morn after betwix vith & ixth of the Clok
assembled at saynt Peter Mynster and there one of the
Chamberleyns bringyng a goodly st andyng siluer pece couered
& well ouer gilt with a fane of the armez of this Citie apon the
same pece whiche pece was valowid to the some of xij li. xvj s.
and an hundreth aungelles of gold amountyng to xxxijj li. vj s.
viij d putt in the said pece the Maier the Recorder with hym
thaldermen in Scarlett the Shireffes & xxiiijth in Cremynsyn the
chefe Chamberleyn beryng the said pece & gold went into the
Bischopz palece and entred into the secund Chambre of the said
Princes / and there tarieng a lityll space hir grace come furth of
an yndre Chambre and standyng vnder the cloth of astate at hir
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bede fete the Maier takyng the said pece with gold of the
Chamberleyn the Recorder Aldermen Shireffes & xxiiijth kneled
down the Recorder sayng these wordes
err Most noble & excellent Princes & Qwene the Maier his brethir
delyuerid speach Par : uy ‘
of mr recorder/ & all the Commonialtie of this poure Citie presentith your most
fasted noble grace this gilted Pece with an hundreth aungels wit all
theyr hertes & seruice to theyr powers with theyr fre hertes &
good willes to your most noble grace & to your gret comforth |
of your noble mariage / the Maier proferid hir grace the said
Pece with gold and she wit) a clad & cherefull countenance
hertely thanked hym his brethir with all the body of this said
Citie & commaunded the lord Tresorer to take the said Pece
& gold and so went forward vnto the said Cathedrall Chirche the
said archipischop & othir bischopz lordez & noblez tofore hir in
order accordyng the Maier bering the Mace betwix two
Sergiauntes of armez next tofore hir vnto she come into hir
Trauesse and there she tarieng to holy water was kest the
archebischop Revest hym to doo Masse & obseruance and so hir
grace went procession the Maier bering the Mace as is aforsaid
and after procession it was commoned emong the People that the
archibischop that same day wold be stalled whiche tofore was
vnknawn to the people and so he was in dede in the Tresorers
place the Maier nor his brethir ne none othir honest of this Citie
beyng thereat and right fewe othir noblez that was there present
with the Qwene / and the Qwene hering the said Masse of
Stallacron offered and after Masse went into the Bischopz palece
to hir diner the Maier bering the Mace as is aforesaid to she come
into hir Chambre and then departed vnto the Monday at morn
and so the same Monday about xijth of the Clok hir grace toke
hir chare to goo on hir viage that nyght to Neweburgh
and soo the Craftes standyng in theyr aray from the Mynster
yate to Bowthome barr the Maier & his brethir ridyng in lyke
ordre as they dyd at hir entre the Shireffes bering theyr Roddes
Roode furth at the said barr tofore hir grace vnto they come to
the farrest of the libertez of this Citie at Mawdeleyn Chapell
toward Cliffton and there the Maier askyng licence of hir to
departe sayng these wordes Most noble & excellent Princes &
Qwene I and my brethir with all the Commonialtie of this Citie
schall pray for your most noble triumphe & prosperite in your
most noble mariage that it myght be to the pleasowr of god and
to the gret comforth of yourmost noble fader “pbe’ kyng henre
and to your most noble hertes ease & to the comon well of all
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the realme of England and your most noble grace long to endure
to the pleasour of god / and hir grace hertely thanked hym his
brethir & all the Commonialtie of this Citie with a cherefull &
goodly countenance sayng / My lord Maier and your brethir and
all the hole Citie of york I thanke you hertely of your gret
kyndenes & your gret present whiche with goddes grace I schall
euer indeuowr me to love you & this Citie the dayes of my liff
and I schall schewe to the kynges grace my fader the gret
kyndenes that ye haue doon to me at this tyme with goddes
grace And in theyr ridyng furth | with the said Qwenez grace
without Bowthome barr Sir Will”am Conyers then beyng Shireff
of york Shire anenst saynt Mariegate end began to bere vp his
Rodde tofore the Qwene and the Maier said vnto hym Maister
Shireff ye aght to bere no rodde here as yit and the said Sir
Willsam aunswered & said it was within his Office & he wold
bere it and then the Maier aunswered & said it was within the
libertez of this Citie and he dyd wrong to bere any there and
wer not for the displeasour of the Qwenez grace there present
he schuld cause many to speke therof or he bare any there /
and the lord Tresorer heryng these wordes & langagez emong
theym commaunded theym to sesse and said vnto the said Sir
Willsam / Sir Shireff putt down your Rodde ye do wrong to bere
any within the libertez of this Citie and then the said Sir William
held down his Rodde on lowe endelong by his horse syde vnto he
come beyonde Mawdeleyn Chapell without the libertez of this
Citie / and then & there he toke vp his Rodde sayng nowe
Shireffes hold down your Roddes for it is within myn office and
they said so they wold & bad god spede hym . and so the Maier
his brethir the Recorder & the Shireffes the Officers on fote
and the Swerd born tofore the Maier come on Ridyng vnto
the Maiers place and the, ‘re’ on horsebak dranke both ale &
wyne and departed
f8 (21 September)
Assembled in the Counsell Chambre within the Comon hall
My lord Maier sent humfre Maners Mace berer vnto Maister
William Chymney Alderman commaundyng hym apon payn of
xIth li. to come & doo his attendaunce accordyng to his duete
whiche humfre come & schewid that he was so deseased he
myght not come wherfore he desyred my lord Maier & the said
presence rewle hym as they wold after whiche schewyng it was
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determyned by the said presence that for his disobesaunce at
this tyme & all othir offensez this yere tofore and in espiciall
at the comyng of the Qwene of Scottes he shuld pay vnto the
comon well of this Citie x li.
Item that Iohn Custaunce one of the xxiiijth for somyche as
all this yere & more bypast he wold not come & take his othe
accustome & giff his attendaunce nowe at the comyng of the
Qwene of Scottes he to pay to the comon well v marca & after
it was mytigate to xls.
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Et de firma vniws tenementi ibidem pro pagina pellipariorum
sol. ad eosdem terminos xij d
Et de firma domus pagine Textorum Ciuitatis Ebor’ ibidem
dismissa ad terminum annorum xvj d
Et de firma domus pagine diuersorum arcium (...) XV1lj s
Et de firma domus pagine mercerorum xij d Et de firma domus
pagine Pistorum xij d
Et de firma domus pagine Tapitariorum xij d Et de firma domus
pagine Allutariorum & Carpentariorum jj s
Et de firma domus pagine Tannatorum xi d Et de firma domus
pagine Aurifabrorum sol. &c. viij d
Et de firma vnius tenement: ibidem in terra lohannis [Elys]
Alan xd:
Et de firma domus pagine lez Waxchaundelers viij d Et de firma
domus pagine lez Coupers iiij d
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Trinitatis In die veneris proximo post festum Corporis christi
may
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Allocaciones ex consuetudine cum feodo bedelli & Clerici huius
Compotit
... Et soluerunt pro portacione torchiarum dicte Gilde Sancte
Trinitatis In die Veneris proximo post festum Corporis christi
xij d ...
Et soluerunt henrico Marsshall for diuers Stuff for payntyng
of ye pagiant xij s vjd...
1505
House Books y: B9
f21v (15 January)
Assembled in be Counseill Chambre within be Comon Hall My
lord Maier shewed howe pat one Roger Smalwod Mynstrall
whiche is come to occupye as one of pe Mynstralles of be Citie
& is knawen right connyng & of his awn cost for be wurship of
pis Citie hase maid hym a coler to his gret charge & ouer pat he
awe xilj s. ilij d of his fraunchest money & is of smale hauour &
power to pay & bere pe said charge wherfor he besecheth my
said lord Maier & pe said presence to be good & tender lord &
mayster & to help & socowr hym toward pe said charge after
whiche shewyng it was agreed pat pe said Roger toward his said
charge shuld be pardoned of the said xij s. ij d
£24 (28 February)
Item it was agreed pat my lord shall send for pe Maister & vj
kepers of the corpus christi gild and to comaund & charge theym
vpon payn of , “xxti li. that” pe said maisters “& kepers & gild
to be leved to be Comon Well & proffyte of pis Citie bis yere to
fore the fest of lammese next ensuyng herafter of thayr cost &
charge to bryng furth the crede play
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nota co est lez
charges del
drapours paiaunt
courreunt pertezs
1505 YORK / 201
£25 (11 April)
Item the same day Iohn langton drapowr come to fore pe said
presence & shewed pat they war bot iijt persons & be pagent
of thayr crafft is so costly opon corpus christi day & wher bat
in be tyme of Willzam Holbeke it was ennacted pat euery person
oper Taillowr or hosier that Cutteth & Selleth cloth by retaille
as a drapour doth shalbe yerely contributory to be bryngyng
furth of pe Drapowr pagent accordyng vnto pe said ordnance
maid in the tyme of William Holbeke ...
f26 (19 May)
Assembled vpon Ouse brigge my lord Maier reherced howe at the
last assemble It was comoned pat all thei pat cuttes & Selles
cloth by retayll shuld be contributory vnto the bryngyngfurth
of be Drapours and howe pat the Taillowrs asked respyte of theyr
answer and thervpon William lewte Maister of pe Taillowrs was
send for & come to fore pe said presence and said he couth giff
non answere without advice of his company & ober Counsell &
bervpon he & Thomas Bankhouse departed furth of pe Counseill
& after pat matere was put in respyte vnto monday next
Mercers’ Account Rolls MA: D55WW
mb 4
Allocaciones ex consuetudine cum feodo Bedelli & clerici
comput/}
... Item soluerunt pro portacione torchiarum dicte Gilde Sancte
Trinitats In die veneris proximo post festum Corporis christi
pai ts ae
Corpus Christi Account Rolls vy: C100:5
mb 3
Et dictws Magister petit allocari pro diuersis expensis dicto anno
per ipsum factis videlicet in processione generali in Crastino festi
Corporis Christi In primis solut. iiijot Clericis portantibus
Bawdkyn viij d Item clerico portante Crucem ante processionem
ij d Item solut. ijb¥s pueris portantibus candelabra ij d Item
solut. vijte™ hominibus portantibus vij Torcheis xiiij d Item
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neccessartis
expensis
Dimissio
locorum ludi
corporis christi
Redditms
Resoluu
Regarda
Ministrallis
202 / YORK 1505
solut. pro Cera combustura ante feretrum et in obitu generali
super pontem Vse vj d_ Et solut. ijbus hominibus portantibus
fferetrum vj d Et solut. Thome Bateman et socio suo Clericis
monesterij in rewardo xij d Et solut. Sacriste sancte Trinitatis
et lanitor/ monistery beati petri Ebor’ in rewardo vjd Et solut.
pro refeccione magistri et sex Custodum circa festum Corporis
Christi et in fine Compoti ex consuetudine v s ...
1506
City Chamberlains’ Rolls y : C5:2
mb 2
Et de primi loci dimissi Ricardo Catterton & Alijs illj s
Et de firma 1j! loci dimiss: lohanni Couper & Caldbeke nS
Et de firma tercij loci dimissi (blank) (blank)
Et de firma 1ij" dimiss: lohanni Mowbray Willelmo Moresby
Thome Parke & Alijs lj s vuj d
Et de firma vt loci dimiss: (blank) (blank)
Et de firma vj" loci dimiss: (blank) (blank)
Et de firma vijt' loci dimiss: fratribus sancti leonardi xij d
Et de firma viij! tenement dimissi (blank) (blank)
Et de firma ix! loci dimiss: (blank) (blank)
Et de firma x! loci dimissi Willelmo Caton ‘ij s vj d° & vxori
Wharton “ij s vj d Vs
Et de firma xj! loci dimiss: (blank) (blank)
Et de firma xij! loci dimiss: (blank) (blank)
Et de firma tercijdecimi loci dimiss: Roberto Clyffe xij d
Summa xx s
mb 3
Item sol. ad sustentacionem pagine coronacionis beate Marie
Virginis vt in precedentibus ij s
mb 4
Et sol. Ministrallis huiws Ciuitatis erga festum Pasche ut in
pre cedentibus xl d
Et sol. Ministrallis huiws Ciuvitatis erga ffestwm corporis christi
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officiariorum ex
consuetudine
Expence facte
in festo
corporis christ
1506 YORK / 203
ut in precedentibus xx d
Et sol. Ministrallis huiws Ciwitatis erga ffestwm Natiwitatis sancti
lohannis Baptiste ut in precedentibus xx d
Et sol. Ministrallis domini Principis ut in precedentibus a
Et sol. Ministrallis domini Regis Mense August: hoc Anno ut in
precedentibus XX S$
Et sol. Ministrallis huivs Ciwitatis erga festum Natalis domini vt
in precedentibus xl d
Et sol. Ministrallis huivs Ciwitatis erga festum sancti willelmi xx d
Et sol. ijb¥s Ministrallis domini de Darcy pro Mandatu
Maioris xx d
Et sol. iijb“s Ministrallis huiws Civitatis pro vestura sua erga
festum Natalis domini ut in precedentibus XXIII] $
Et in expencis factis hoc Anno super Maiorem
Aldermannos & Alios quam plures de consilio
Camere in festo corporis christi videntes &
intendentes ludum in hospicio communis
Guihald ex consuetudine vt patet parcellatim —iiij hi. vij s vin d
in libro paupirio camerary necnon sol. pro
firma camere Maioris &c. Et sol. cuidam doctori
pronuncianti quemdam sermonem in crastino
corporis christi & in expensis communis clerici
Summa iiij li. vij s viij d
Mercers’ Account Rolls MA: D55XX
mb 2
Allocaciones ex consuetudine cum feodo Bedelli & clerici
computit
... Item soluerunt pro portacione torchiarum dicte Gilde Sancte
Trinitatis in die veneris proximo post festum corporis christi
cide...
Corpus Christi Account Rolls Y: C100:6
mb 3
Et dictus magister petit Allocari de diuersis expensis necessartis
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Soluciones
obitibus cum
ffactura
Torchearum
Allocaciones
necessaris
expensis
Curialitates
204 / YORK 1506
hoc anno per ipsum factis videlicet in processione generali in
crastino fest’ corporis christi In primis solut. Clerico portant:
Crucem ante processionem ij d. Et solut, ijbus pueris portantibus
candelabra ij d Et sol. iiijor Clericis portantibus Bawdkyn viij d.
Et solut. vijt¢” hominibus portantibus vijte™ Torchias xiiij d. Et
sol. pro Cera combustura ante fferetrum et in obitu generali
super pontem Vse vij d. Et sol. ijb”s hominibus portantibus
fferetrum vj d. Et sol. Thome Bateman et socio suo clericis
monesterij in rewardo xij d. Et sol. Sacriste sancte Trinitatis
‘i, d° et Ianitor: monasterij beati petri Ebor’ ‘iiij d’ in rewardo
vj d. Et sol. pro refeccione magistri et sex custodum circa
festum Corporis christi et in fine compoti ex consuetudine vs. ...
Et solut. pro factura vj Torcharum xxx s Et sol. pro factura
sex vexillarwm ad easdem Torcheas hoc anno ‘vs’ ...
York Minster Chamberlains’ Rolls YM: E1/60 MP
mb 2
... Et in regardo datum ex mandato dominorum de capitulo
histrionibus interessentibus in ffestis Translacionis sancti Wille/mi
vj Ss vulj d quatuor diebus in septimana pentecostis xiij s ij d &
deposicionis sancti wille/mi vj s vulj d prout vsitatum est annis
precedentibus xxvj s viij d ... Et quatuor diaconis portantibus
paynum supra caput sancti wille/mi in Translacione eiusdem
"xij d° quatuor diebus in septimana pentecostis “ij s\ &
deposicione sancti wille/mi [xij d] iis...
1507
House Books Y: B9
f37* (16 April)
Assembled in the counseill chambre in the comon hall it was
agreed & ennected fermly Herafter to be kept betwixt the
carpenterz of the Citie of yorke on yat oon partie and
Cartwrightez of the said Citie on yat oyer partie That William
Iohnson & Robert Dunwell Sersourz of the carpenterz with all
the holle occupacion byndez tham in the Some of x li. to my
lorde Maire & his brethren that & euer they wirke in any bravunce
of the cartwrightez craft the forsaid carpenterz forto forfet x li.
And in lykewise if the Cartwrightez wyrke in any braunce of
the carpenterz craft they to forfet oyer x li. also it was
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dimissio
Jocorum ludi
corporis christi
1507 YORK / 205
determyned that the Cartwrightez shall euery yere pay pagiant
money & oyer dutiez as is in there ordinall.
Mercers’ Account Rolls MA: D55YY
mb 3
Allocaciones ex consuetudine cum feodo bedelli & Clerici
comput/t
... Item soluerunt pro portacione torchiarum dicte Gilde Sancte
trinitatis in die veneris proximo post festum corporis christi
ty dic...
Et eciam petunt allocari de xl s solutis Thome , “Drawswerd’
kerver pro pagina de Domesdaye
Summa xl s
1508
House Books Y: B9
£42 (21 October)
pro taillowrz et drapers
Item yt Was agreed the same day that wher as the drapowrs of
this Cite putt a byll into the Councell for thes tailliowrs that they
occupy the seyd occupyciacion of the drapours os in cuttyng &
Sellyng of clothe payng ther for no maner of dewty to the seyd
Crafft It is therfor enacted for euermore herafter tobe kepte that
from henssforth euery man as Tailliowr or oyer occupacion pat
Selles & cuttes ."Sudderon’ clothe & it proved by the Serchouwrs
of the sayd drapours Shall pay 3erly to the weell of the pageant
of the sayd drapours x1j d quamlibet eorum &c.
City Chamberlains’ Rolls vy: C5:3
mb 1
Et de firma primi loci dimiss? Ricardo Caterton ui) s ij d
Et de firma secundi loci dimissi lohanni Calbek & Ricardo
Asheby vj s
Et de firma tercij loci dimissi lohanni Elles & Ricardo Gibson vs
Et de firma quarti loci dimissi lohanni White & Thome Parcour v s
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15
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35
40
Redditus
Resolutz
Regarda
Ministrallis
Vestura
officiariorum
ex consuetudine
206 / YORK 1508
Et de firma quinti loci dimissi Simoni vicars ll} s vilj d
Et de firma sexti loci dimittitur Magistro Staueley & als — xij d
Et de firma vij™ loci dimissi lohanni Bateman & Nicholo
Baxster Vs
Et de firma viijt loci dimissi (blank) (blank)
Et de firma ixt tenementi dimissi Willelmo Cooke Vs
Et de firma x! loci dimissi Wille/mo Caton Vs
Et de firma xj! loci dimissi Doctori Adriano ij Ss ij d
Et de firma xij" loci dimissi Wille/mo Russell & alijs lj s ij d
Et de firma xij" loci (blank) nihil
Summa xlvj s viij d
mb 3
Et in denarijs solutwm ad sustentacionem pagine i
S
coronacionis beate Marie vt in precedentibus
mb 4
Et sol. Ministralls huivs Ciwitatis erga festum pasche ut in
pre cedentibus xld
Et sol. Ministralls huiws Ciwitats erga festum corporis christi
vt in precedentrbus xx d
Et sol. Ministrallss huiws Ciwztatis erga festum sancti lohannis
Baptiste vt in precedentibus xx d
Et sol. Ministrallss domuni principis vt in precedentebus Xs
Et sol. Ministrallss domzni Regis Mence Augusti hoc Anno vt in
precedentibus 9)
Et sol. Ministralls huiws Ciuitaus erga festum Natalis domini vt
in precedentibus xl d.
Et sol. ministrallis huis Ciwitaus erga festum sancti Wille/mi vt
in precedentrbus xx d
Et sol. tribws Ministrallss huiws Ciaitatis pro vestura sua erga
ffestum Natalis domini vt in precedentibus XXIllj $
29 Mence] for Mense
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festo corporis
christi
Reparaciones
facte de &
Super
tenementus
supradictis
Allocaciones
necessariys
expensis
1508 YORK / 207
Et in expencis factis hoc anno super Maiorem
aldermannos & alios quam plures de consilio
camere in festo corporis christi videntes &
intendentes lidum in hospicio communis Guihald
ex consuetudine vt patet parcellatim in libro 1iij li. xiilj s ij d
paupirio camerary necnon sol. pro firma Camere
Maioris &c. Et sol. cuidam doctori prouncianti
quemdam sermonem in Crastino corporis christi
& in expencis communis clerici &c.
Summa patet
Mercers’ Account Rolls MA: D55ZZ
mb 2
Allocaczones ex consuetudine cum feodo Bedelli & Clerici
Computit
... Item soluerunt pro portacione torchiarum dicte Gilde Sancte
trinitats in die veneris proximo post festwm Corporis christi
iy).
mb 3
... Item pro factura de Dorebandes & Crokes a le pagyand house
xvj d Item pro nailles solutum lohanni Whyte pro magna Aula
& le pagyand house jj s ... Item pro factura de lez pagyand
Dores cum operacione carpentariorum x S ...
Corpus Christi Account Rolls Y:C101:1
mb 3
Et dictus magister petit allocari de diuersis expensis necessariis
hoc anno per ipswm factis videlicet in processione generali in
crastino festi corporis christi In primis solut. Clerico portante
crucem ante processionem ij d Et solut. ijbs pueris portantibus
candelabra ij d_ Et solut. iiijor Clericis portantibus Bawdkyn
vil) d Et solut. vijte™ hominibus portantibus vijteé™ Torcheas
xilij d Et soluta pro Cera Combustura ante fferetrum & in obitu
general: super pontem Vse iiij d Et solut ijbus hominibus
portantibus fferetrum vj d Et solut Clericis vestabuli ecclesie
4 lidum] for ludum
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Reparaciones
facte de &
Super
tenements
Supradictis
208 / YORK 1508
sancti Petri Ebor’ in Regardo xij d_ Et solut pro refeccione
magistri et sex Custodum circa festum corporis christi et in fine
compoti ex consuetudine v's” ...
1509
Mercers’ Account Rolls MA: DSSAAA
mb 2
Allocaciones ex consuetudine cum feodo bedelli & Clerici
Computantiwmt
... Item pro portacione torchiarum dicte Gilde die veneris proximo
post festwm Corporis christi xiiij d ...
. Item solwerunt yni de lez Dobers pro dimidio die apud le
pagyant garthe ij d Item pro vno lokke vno stapyll & vno pare de
dore bandes eidem domi vij d ... Item pro C Sappe lattes Apud le
pagyaunt howse v d ... Item pro ijb“s plaustratis terre a le
pagyaunt house iiij d ...
1510
Mercers’ Account Rolls MA: DS55BBB
mb 2
Allocaciones ex consuetudine cum feodo bedelli & clerici
computantiumt
... Item pro portacione torchiarwm dicte gilde die veneris proximo
post festwm [Sancte Trinitatis] corporis christi xiiij d ...
York Minster Chamberlains’ Rolls YM: E1/61 MP
mb 2
... Et in Regardo datum ex mandato domimorum Decani et
Capituli histrionibus interessentibus in festis Translacionis sancti
wille/mi ‘vj s vii) d’ Quatuor diebus in septimana Pentecostis
“xilj s ilij d’ Et desposicronis sancti wille/mi ‘vj s viij d’ prout
vsitatum est annis precedentibus xxvj s vilj d ... Et quatuor
diaconis portantibus pallium supra capud sancti wille/mi in
translacione eiusdem iiij°r diebus in septimana pentecostis
et desposicione sancti wille/mi i1j s ...
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Allocaciones
necessarys
expensis
(Sit YORK) 209
1511
Mercers’ Account Rolls MA: D56CCC
mb 2
Allocaciones ex consuetudine cum feodo Beldelli & Clerici /
huius Computit
... Item pro portacione Torchiarum dicte Gilde die veneris in
Crastino Corporis christi xiijj d ...
Reparaciones facte de & Super tenementis Supradictist
... Item solwerunt Willelmo vance & famulo suo teguliantubus
apud lez Toftes per vnum diem & di. xv d ...
Corpus Christi Account Rolls Y: C101:2
mb 4
Et dictus Magister petit allocari de Diuersis expensis necessarijs
hoc anno per ipsum facts videlicet in processione generali in
crastino festi Corporis christi In primis solut. Clerico portante
[E] Crucem ante processionem 1} d. Et solut. yb“s pueris
portantibus Candelabra ij “d° Et solut. ij°t clericis portantibus
Bawdkyn vi d. Et solut. vite” hominibus portantibus vijte™
torcheas xij d. / Et sol. pro cera Combustura ante feretrum
& in obitu generali super pontem Vse vij. d / Et solut. bus
hominibus portantibus feretrum vj d./ Et solut. clericis vestibuli
Ecclesie sancti petri Ebor’ in regardo xij d. Et solut. sacriste
sancte Trinitatis . “ij d’ / Ianitori Monasterij Beati petri Ebor’
“inj d° vj d. / Et solut. pro refeccione Magistri & sex custodum
circa festum Corporis christi & in fine huiws Compoti ex
consuetudine vs. / ...
York Minster Chamberlains’ Rolls YM: E1/61b MP
mb 2*
... Etin regardo datum ex mandato dominorum Decani et Capituli
histrionibus interessentibus in festis Translacionis sancti willelmi
‘vj $_viij d° quatuor diebus in septimana Pentecostis ‘xiij s
vii) d° et disposicionis sancti wille/mi “vj s viij d’ prout vsitatum
5 Beldelli] for Bedelli
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Allocaciones
necessariys
expensis
210 / YORK 1511
est annis precedentibus xxvj s viij d ... Et quatuor diaconis
portantibus pallium super capud sancti wille/mi in translacione
e1usdem iij°r diebus in septimana Pentecostis et disposicione
sancti wille/#1 iiij s ...
iL Siby
House Books Y: B9
f 64 (10 June)
Item the same day it was ordred that the lytsters of this Citie
ayther shall bere viijth torches vpon fryday in the procession
after corporis christi day or ellys they to cesse for this yere &
bere no torches vnto the tyme that ferther order may be taken
wit) the said lysters And if they willbere the said viijth torches
that then they to kepe a rome behynde the weffers as they
desyre to do &c.
Mercers’ Account Rolls MA: DS56DDD
mb 2
Allocaciones ex consuetudine cum feodo Bedelli & Clericit
... Et pro portacione Torchiarum dicte Gilde die veneris in
Crastino Corporis christi xij d ...
Corpus Christi Account Rolls y: C101:3
mb 4
Et dictus magister petit Allocari de diuersis “expensis’ neccessarijs
hoc Anno per ipsum factis videlicet in processione generali in
crastino festi corporis christi In primis solut. Octo presbeteris
portamtibus feratrum vil) d Et solut. clerico portamte crucem
ante processionem ij d Et solut. duobus pueris portantibus
candelabra ij d Et solut. iij° clericis portavtibus bawdkyn viij d
Et solut. septem hominibus portantibus septem torchis xiiij d Et
solut. pro cera combustura ante feratrum et obitibus generalis
super ponten Vse vj d_ Et solut. duobus hominibus portantibus
38 generalis] for generali 39 ponten] for pontem
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Allocaciones
ex consuetudme
2) OR / 72
feratrum vj d_ Et solut. clericis vestibuli Ecclesie sancti Petri
Ebor’ in regardo xij d Et solut. sacristis sancte trinitatis / Apa:
Janitori monasterij beati Petri Ebor’ “iiij d’ vj d Et solut. pro
refeccione magistri et sex custodum circa festu corporis christi
Et in five huivs compoftus]'ti' ex consuetudive vs ... Et solut.
pro locione octo albs et [in] octo amyttis cum octo paruls
ceruicallis pertinentibus feratro “xij d° ...
15s
Mercers’ Account Rolls MA: D56EEE
mb 2
... Et pro portacione torchiarum dicte Gilde die veneris in Crastino
Corporis christi xiii d ...
1514
Bridgemasters’ Account Rolls Y : C86:3
mb 1
De firma vnivs tenementi ibidem pro pagina pellipariarwm sol.
Sec. xij d
De firma vnius Pagine textorum ibidem eis dismissa pro termino
annorum sol. &c. xvj d
De firma pagine diuersorum artificum hoc anno ad eosdem
terminos XVilj $
De firma domus pagine Aurifabrorum ‘viij d’ vnius tenementi
ibidem in terra lohannis Aleyni pagine lez Wexchaundlers ‘viij d’
pagine lez Cowpers ‘iiij d° sol. ad eosdem terminos vs
De firma pagine merceriorum ‘xij d’ pagine pistorum ‘xij d’
pagine tapitariorum ‘xij d° Carpentariorum ‘ij s’\ & pagine
tannatorum “x1 d° vj s
1 Petri] corrected from Pete 3 Petri] corrected from Petre
21 Marginalia) Redditus & firme tam infra mikillith quam extra Ratonrawe & lez
Toftez
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Allocaciones
ex Consuetudine
Reparaciones
Mylners
Allocaciones ex
Consuetudine
Allocaciones
necessarijs
expensis
2127 YORK 1514
Mercers’ Account Rolls MA: DS6FFF
mb 2
... Et pro portacione Torchiarum dicte Gilde die veneris in
Crastino Corporis christi/ ‘xiiij d° ...
Et pro le pageant dore vnum stancheon & nalez / ‘jd ob.” ...
155
House Books Y: B9
£81 (25 April)
At which day it is agreed that where affore this the Tielhousez of
this Citie haith brought furth a pageaunt of Corporis Christi day
& the Milners Saucemakers & oyer misteres haith ben contributory
vnto the same & now the said (..)elhouses is ruynous & dekayed
as that they er not able to bring furth the same Therfore it is
agreed fromhensforth fermly tobe obserued & keped That the
Milners of this Citie for the tyme beyng shall yerly bring furth
the same pageant & tobe the Tope of the same & the other
Craftes tobe contributory vnto them & to bere lik charges as
haith beyn affore tyme
Mercers’ Account Rolls MA: D56GGG
mb 2
... Et pro portacione torchiarwm dicte Gilde in Crastino Corporis
christi/ “xiijd° ...
Corpus Christi Account Rolls Y:C101:4
mb 2
Et dictus magister petit allocari de diuersis expensis necessartis
hoc anno per ipsum factis videlicet in processione generali in
crastino festi corporis christi / In primis solut. Clerico portante
Crucem ante processionem ij d Et solut. ibs pueris portantibus
candelabra ij d Et solut. iiijot Clerics portantibus Bawdkyn
viij d Et solut. in regardo capellanis portantibus feratru viij d
Et solut. septem hominibus portantibus vijte™” torchis xiiij d-
Et solut. pro cera combustura ante feratrum in obit general
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40
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locorum ludi
Corporis christi
Redditus
Resoluti
Regarda
Ministrallis
LE SACOM IST aa
super pontem Vse xviij d Et solut. ijb“s hominibus portntibus
feratrum vj d Et solut. Clericis vestibuli eccleste monastery beati
petri in regardo xij d Et solut. sacriste ecclesie sancte trinitatis
Af Gicass
1516
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Et recepti de firma primi loci dimissi (b/ank) (blank)
Et de firma secundi loci dimiss Henrico Gale inholdar Keo
Et de firma Tercij loci dimiss: lohavni Blakey eer
Et de firma iiijt! loci dimiss: Iohanni White aldermanno ce)
Et de firma v™ loci dimissi lohavni Strins 2)
Et de firma vj! loci dimiss: Alano Staveley aldermanno ee
Et de firma vij™! loci dimiss (blank) (blank)
Et de firma octaui loci (...) domino maiori Aldermannis & alijs
(...) Consilio (...)
Et de firma noni loci dimissi ¢...) ie
Et de firma decimi loci dimissi (blank ) (blank)
Et de firma vndecimi loci dimissi (blank) (blank)
Et de firma duodecimi loci dimiss: Roberto G(...) eee)
Et de Magistris et fratribus Sancti Leonardi pro ‘...) Aulo. ee)
mb 2
Eti in denarijs sol. ad sustentacionem pagine coronacionis beate
marie virginis vt in precidentibus ij s
Et <...) gardo ministrallis huivs Ciuitatis erga festum Pasche ut in
precidentibus ij s 1 d
Et (...) festum corporis christi ut in pre cidentibus xx d
Et in Regardo Ministrallis huivs Ciuitatis erga festwm Natiuitatis
Sancti lohannis Baptiste xx d
Et in Regardo Ministrallis huiws Ciuitatis erga festum(...) x1. d.
18 (...)| dimissi 19 ¢...)} camere
24 pro(...)] three words missing 32 (...)] in re-
34 (...)] in Regardo Ministrallis huius Ciuitatis erga
37 (...)] Natalis domini
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Skynners &
Vestmentmakers
Carryers to
the Sheremen
214/ YORK 1516
Et in Regardo Ministrallis huius Ciuitatis erga festum Sancti
Wille/mi xed
Et in regardo ministrallis domini Regis vt in precidentibus xx $s
Et sol. Tribus Ministrallis huius Ciuitatis erga festum Natalis
domini vt in precidentibus XXilij $ ill) d
Et (...) Consilio Camere in festo (...) christi (...) ex
consuetudine vt patet parcellatim in libro paupirio
Camerariorum dicte Ciuitatis et pro firma camere
ibidem v s
iij li. vj s ix d
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... Et pro portacione Torchiarum huius Gilde in Crastino Corporis
christi “xij d° ...
IS IL%/
House Books Y: B9
f91v (27 May)
At whiche day was put In a bill by ye body of ye craft of
Skynners [wherof] whiche then was considered by the said
presennce yat yei were of littill substance & was not able to bring
furth yer pageant wherfore the said day by the said presennce it
was ordred that the vestmentmakers of yis Citie shalbe
contributory to ye brynging furth of yer said pageant & to pay
as ye Skynners nowe doys to ye same Prouyded alway yat & they
cannot agre what euery man shall pay yat yen they tobe ordred
by the mair for the tyme beyng &c.
Item at the same day by the said presennce it was ordred that
the Comon Cariowrz of yis Citie fromhensforth shalbe in lykewise
contributory to ye Shermen of yis Citie towardes ye
bryngyngfurth of yer pageaunt for lyke consideracion as is
afforesaid
8 Et(...)] Et in expencis factis hoc anno super Maiorem Aldermannos et alios quam
plures de
8 festo (...)] festo Corporis
8 christi(...)] christi videntes et intendentes ludum in Communis Guihall
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At whiche day it was also ordred & agreid by the said presennce
that my lorde mayre wit his brethren in Skarlet ye xxiiijth in
Cremyssen wit) a Conuenient nombre of ye most honest of the
Comons shall Stande within Mykkyllith barre & resceyve the
Qwene of Skottes & hir grace tobe presented a present as she was
affore at hir last beyng at Sant mary Abbey &c.
£93v (13 November)
At whiche day it was graunted to the Shireffes yat now er that
yei shall ride & make proclamacion after the olde ancient
custome of this Citie affore Christenmes / And yat thei shall
not be constrened to make any fest or dyner atte comon hall or
in any oyer place bot at yer awn fre will at yer pleasour /
(21 November)
At whiche day it was agreed that for a peace tobe hade betwixt
the Skynners & the vestmentmakers that from hensforth the
vestmentmakers shall pay yerly to the bryngyng furth of the
Skynners pageant euery maister / viij d /. & euery Journaman .
iilj d / & nomore tobe paide withoute deny our yerly to the
chamberlayns handes affore the fest of Witsonday And then the
skynners to resceyue it atte chamberlayns handes and they not
to be charged with the reparacions of there pageant /
Mercers’ Account Rolls MA: DS6III
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... Etpro portacione Torchearum huius Gilde in Crastino Corporis
christi ‘xiiij d° ...
1518
House Books Y: B9
£94v (28 January)
Be it knawen to all men here after that where tofore this there
hays beyn gret debate trauers & contrauersy betwix the Wollen
Weuers of this Citie of york And lynen Weuers of the same /
ffor the appeasyng wherof the said two mysteryes & craftes
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ofterd & promytted them self tobe ordred by ye right wurchipfull
lohn Dogeson nowe maire of this Citie of york his brethren
aldermen & counseill of the chambre of the said Citie Whiche
maire aldermen & counsell by thassent & agrement of the hole
body of ather of the said mysteryes or craftes haith ordeyned &
establysshed as herafter folowes euermore to indure that is to
say that the said Lyn weuers that nowe er only cytyzins &
fremen of this Citie & yer Successourz only lyn weuvers shalbe
from hensforthe a Craft distinct by yer self seuered from the
Wollen Weuers & they to haue two Sersourz of there awn craft
to make Serche of able wark of lynwark or harden emongest yem
self only / And of defautes emonges themself presented the oon
half of the forfets therof tobe to ye Comon Well of this Citie &
oyer to haue to yer own propre vse And that the said Lynweuers
shall yerly pay & Content that fyve Shellynges whiche the
Weuers of this Citie hays paid affore this whiche yerly is payd to
the Cutlers pageant / And of that v s. by yere clerly discharge the
said Wollen Weuers vnto suche tyme as the said lynweuers will
play or cause tobe played the pageant somtyme called Vergus
pageant And then the said lynweuers shall reteyn & kepe the said
v s. towardes yer awn Charges for the bringyngfurth of the said
Vergus pageant and this tobe doyn vppon payn of forfetour of
x s, tobe to the vse of the Chambre And also it is ordred & agreed
that the said lynweuers shall not aske clame nor take no pageant
money or pageant siluer of any foreyn Straunger that is not
freman fraunchesed within this Citie wheder he dwell in the
countre franches or Sentuary bot only of vpon & emonge them
self lynweuers franchestmen oonly And of non other nor to
aske or clame any lyke pageant siluey or other . Imposicion of
any brother or fraternite or gilde of our blessid lady whiche the
said Wollen Weuers hays emonges them by graunte of & by the
kynges Chartour °, "Except of the lynweuers of this City *
vppon payn of forfetowr of xl d as oft as the Said lynweuers or
there Successours herafter doys to the contrarie Whiche penaltie
& payn shall evenly be deuyded betwixt the Chambre to ye
comon vse of this Citie & the said lynweuers to yer own vse
whiche act concord & agrement at the speciall request & desire
of bothe ye said Craftes is inrolled in the book of actes the ide
tyme of the marialte of ye said Iohn Dogeso the xxviijth day of
January the ixth yere of the reign of owr Soueraign liege lorde
kyng henry the viijth And fore more Suretie therof to the partiez
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SUES, NeCOM RNS Tf ZAG
of this acte dubled remanyng wit) the said Craftes seuerally The
said maire haith put his Seall of office ye day & yere abouesaid
Esshe
£96v (11 June)
At whiche day it was agreed by the said presennce that ffrom
hensforthe & for the last yere the Gyrdlers of this Citie shall
haue the Whitchaundlers & Saucemakers monney yerly that is
to say v s towardes ther Charges of yer bryngyng furth of there
pageant And yat the mylners shall no longer haue it / bot that
the mylners shall haue the Tielhouses when they goo towardes
yer Charges of yer pageant bringyng furth /
City Chamberlains’ Rolls Y ; C6:3
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Et in denarijs sol. ad Sustentacionem pagine beate marie virginis
vt in precidentibus lj s
Et in Regardo Ministrallis huiws Ciuitatis erga festwm pasche vt
in pre cidentibus xld
Et in regardo dato Ministralls huiws Ciuitaus erga festwm Corporis
christi vt in precidentibus xx d
Et in Regardo Ministrallzs huivs Ciuitatis erga festum Natiuitatis
sancti lohannis Baptiste vt in precidentibus xx d
Et in Regardo Ministrallis huivs Ciuitatis erga festwm Natalis
domini vt in precidentibus xld
Et in Regardo Ministrallis huiws Ciuitatis erga festum sancti
Wille/mi vt in precidentibus xx d
Et in Regardo dato Ministrallis domini Regis vt in
precidentibus XX S
Summa Xxx] s viij d
Et sol. tribus Ministrallis huivs Ciuitatis erga festwm Natalis
domini vt in precidentibus XXVlj s ij d
Et in expensis factis hoc Anno super maiorem aldermannos &
alios quam plures de Consilio camere in festo corporis christi
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Reparaciones
terrarum &
tenementorum
218 / YORK 1518
videntes & intendentes lusum in hospico Communis Aule ex
conswetudine vt patet parcellatim in libro paupiri camerari/
dicte Ciuitatis ac pro firma camere ibidem &c.
Summa iiij li. ij s ix d ob.
Bridgemasters’ Account Rolls Y: 86:4
mb 1
De firma vnius tenement: ibidem pro pagina pell (...)
De firma vnius pagine textorum ibidem <...) xj d
De firma domus pagine diuersorum artificum (...) XVilj S
De firma domus page Aurifabrorum viij d vnivs tenementi
ibidem in terra lohannis Aleyni pagine lez Wexchaundlers ‘viij d”
pagine lez Cowpers sol. ad eosdem terminos Vs
De firma pagine merceriorum ‘xij d’ pagine pistorum ‘xij d°
pagine Tapitariwm ‘xij d’ pagine Carpenteriorum jj s et pagine
tannatorum xij d vj s
Mercers’ Account Rolls MA: D56KKK
mb 2
... Et pro portacione Torchearum huiws Gilde in Crastino Corporis
ChDSh" “KUjcd) o-
mb 4
... & pro ductura iiij lode lyme tegularuwm & sabuli vsque le
Toftez “ij d” ... & ad lez Toftes j C thak teell “vj d” ... & pro yj
lode erthe tenemento apud lez Toftes / ‘vjd’ ... & sol. roberto
Tyler de le pagant grene pro j C lattes / ‘vd’ ... et sol. lohanno
Mason & famulo suo operantibus apud le pageant garth / per
iij dies & di. / “ij s vj d’ & pro ductura burdes vsque le pageant /
2 paupiri] for paupirio
11 Marginalia| Redditus & firme tam infra mikillith quam extra Ratonrawe & lez
Toftez
11 pell<...) pellipariarum sol. &c.
13 (...)] eis dismissa pro termino annorum sol. &c.
14 (...)] hoe anno ad eosdem terminos
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garth / ‘jd ... & pro hespis & staples ad le pagant garth / ‘viij d’
& pro j C lattes ‘vij d’ pro portacione lyme tegularwm & sabuli
‘jd’ & pro vna Cera pro le pageant hows / “ij d’ & pro lattes
‘vijd & Pro Xx lade sabuli ‘vilj d’ & sol. lohanno Clynt pro
lattes / ‘vij d’ & pro iiij bisshels de plaister / ‘ix d’ & sol.
Wille/mo Gllot & seruienti suo operantibus per v dies & di. /
“jij s vij d’ ... & pro mundacione de le pagant hows / “ij d’
1519
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... Et pro portacione Torchearwm huius Gilde in Crastino Corporis
christi “xij d°
Will of Antony Middleton B81: Prob. Reg. 9
£107 (probated 20 June 1520)
... Item I bequeath to royd lyght in my parishe chirche of seynt
michaellys iij s. iij d. Item I bequeath to the somergame lyght
in my parishe chirche ij s. Item I bequeath to our Ladys lyght in
the southe side of my parishe chirch ij s. Item I bequeath to
Seynt Agnes lyght in the said chirch xx d. Item I bequeath to
the lyght that the childer fyndys in the said chirche xx d. ...
1520
City Chamberlains’ Rolls vy: C6:4
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Et in denarys solut. ad sustentacionem pagine Coronacionis
beate marie virginis vt in precidentibus I] s
Et in Regardo dato Ministrallis huivs Ciuitatis erga ffestwm
Pasche ut in precidentibus xl d
Et in Regardo dato Ministrallis huivs Ciwitatis erga ffestum
Corporis christi 0 aa
Et in Regardo dato Ministrallis huivs Ciwitatis erga ffestum
Natiuitatis sancti lohannis Baptiste xx d
Et in Regardo dato Ministrallis huiws Ciuitatis erga ffestum
Natalis domini ut in precidentibus xld
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sol.
sol.
220 / YORK 1520
Et in Regardo dato Ministrallis huiws Ciuitatis erga ffestum sancti
Wille/mi ut in precidentibus xx d
Et in Regardo dato Ministrallis domini Regis ut in
precidentibus XX S$
Summa Xxx] s viij d
Et [in] sol. tribws Ministrallis huiws Ciwitatis erga ffestwm Natalis
domini ut in precidentibus XXvlj $ lj d
Et in expensis facus hoc Anno super maiorem aldermannos &
alios quam plures de Concilio Camere in festo Corporis christi
videntes & intendentes lusum in hospicio communis Aule ex
consuetudine ut patet parcellatim in libro paupiri dicti Civitatis
ac pro firma Camere ibrdem &c.
Summa iilj li. xj s iij d ob.
City Chamberlains’ Books Y: CC2
£22
Dimissio ludi Corporis Christi
Primus locus communi Clerico (blank)
secundus locus dimittitur lohanni Blakey [vj s]vs vjd
Tercius locus dimittitwr Gilberto Walron’ lil] $
Quartus locus dimittitvr Ricardo Powle [iiij s]iij s x d
Quintus locus dimittitwr Miloni Robynson fyssher ‘sol.’ ij s viij d
sextus locus dimittitwr domino maiori & Aldermannis &c. necnon
Nicholo Baxster rare
septimus locus dimittitur (blank) (blank)
Octauus locus [domino] dimittitur (blank) (blank)
Nonus locus dimittitwr lohanni Bower xld
Decimus locus dimittitwr lohanmi lytster [v s}iiij) s vin d
Vndecimus locus dimittitur Paulo Gills aldermanno [(¢..)]
“nondum sol. ij $
Duodecimus locus dimittituwr Ricardo Plumpton & Iohanni
lameson ij s vilj d
Terciodecimus locus dimittitur (blank) (blank)
Summa xxx Ss. 1j d. probata
13 paupiri) for paupino 13 dictil for dicte
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fe25
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Item sol. ad sustentacionem pagine Coronacionis beate Marie
Virginis ut in precidentibus sel
f 28v
Vestura officiariorum ex consuetudine
Item sol. ministrallis huivs Civitaus erga dictum Natalis
domini XXvij s uj d
Regarda ministrallorum et aliorum seruientium
In Primis sol. Ministrallzs huiws Ciwitatis erga ffestum Pasche vt
in pre cidentibus xld
Item sol. Ministralls huiws Civitatis erga ffestum Corporis Christi
vt in precidentibus xx d
Item sol. Ministrallis huis ciuitaus erga ffestum Natiuitatis
sancti lohannis Baptiste &c. xx d
Item sol. Ministrallis huiws Ciuitats erga ffestum Natalis domini
vt in precidentibus xld
Item sol. Ministrallss domini Regis hoc anno ut in
precidentibus XX S
Item sol. Ministrallis huis Ciuitatis erga ffestum sancti Willelmi
ut in precidentibus acd)
Summa Xxx] s. vil] d probata
1 290"
Expense in festo Corporis christi
In Primis pro seruicia viij s ij d. Item pro noua seruicia & le yest
iil) d Item pro le yest ad coquendum dentriculos ij d Item in
pane vocato levandem brede iij s vj d. Item in pane ad faciendum
lez trenchowrs viij d. Item in pane vocato Manebrede [viij d]
ix d. Item in sale j d. Item in Cenapio iiij d. Item in butiro iiij d.
Item in Carne mutulivm x d. Item in “ijb“s” saccis Carbonum
vocatorum Charcole vij d. Item in septem albis Ciphis iij d. Item
in tribus Caseis vocatis Emmyngburgh Chesys xiij d. Item in
tribus lagenis lactis iij d. Item in lez Strawberys iij d. Item in vna
11 dictum] for dictum ffestum
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virga alba iii) d. Item in tribus le pyntes mellis & seruicia pro
eodem &c. x d. Item in C ouis ix d. Item in xxvj pullis ij s.
[vj d.] ij d. Item in octo Caponibus iij s x d ob. Item in xce™
aucis ij s. [vj d.] vd. Item in xxv Columbis xij d. Item in le
venyson viij d. Item in [lex] bus lez dosan rabettes & duobus
‘porcellis’ [porcevs iii) s.] iij s. Item in Carne bouina jj s. vj d.
Item in ‘le’ quarter del Mutton & vno agno xxj d. Item in [I]
tribus lez marybones vj d. Item in ij°t libris del sewet iiij d
Item in septem dentriculis x s vj d. Item in CC pomis iij s. x d.
Item in quatuor les pekkes del flowre xx d. Item in conduccione
del deux dosan pottes v d. Item in vino domine maiorisse &
sororibus suis vne lagene a lez Vyntyners & vne lagene pistoribus
ex consuetudine ij s Item in vino domino maiori & socijs suis
aldermannis ac xxiiijOF vij s vii} d. Item in conduccione del sex
xij rugh vessells xviij d Item in alijs tribus porcellis xj d. Item
in vna vncia del saveron j quartor piperis vj libris del sugar . j li.
daytes j li. prewnez . j li corres . j} vncia del cloves & mace [alia]
alie due vncie del saveron & zinsebere vij s. viij d. Item in pane
seruicia & vino communi Clerico ex consuetudine jj s. viij d.
Item in stipendio Coci & lixe ij s. ij) d Item in regardo pincerne
viij d. Item in aqua pro Coco ij d. Item in regardo pistoribus
iiij d Item in regardo ijb“s Custodzbus porte viij d. Item in
regardo Thome Sadler pro le hingyng Camere xx d Item in lez
naylez pro eodem iiij d. Item in regardo filie dicti Thome Sadler
pro suo diligenti labore ij d. Item in vna Claue ostio de le buttre
ij d Item pro conduccione Camere Thome flemyng vj s. viij d.
se a alee iiij li. xj s. iiijd ob. probata
istius Expense
Mercers’ Account Rolls MA: DS6MMM
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... Et pro portacione torchiarwm huius Gilde in Crastino Corporis
christi “xij d° ...
12 vne lagene] for vna lagena 17 corres] for corrans
18 due vncie] for duobus uncijs
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Corpus Christi Account Rolls Y: C102:1
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Et dictus Magister petit Allocari de diuersis expensis necessarijs
hoc anno per ipsum factis videlicet in processione generali in
crastino ffesti Corporis christi In primis solut. clerico portante
crucem ante processionem ij d. Et solut. duobus pueris
portantibus candelabra ij d. Et solut. iiij°t clericis portantibus
Bawdkyn viij d. Et solut. iv regardo tribus cantoribus viij d. Et
solut. tribus Sacristis monasterij vj d Et solut. in regardo |
capellavis portantibus fferetrum viij d. Et in regardo clericis
cantantibus xij “d° Et solut. vijt¢” homuinibus portantibus vijte™
torcheas xiiij d. Et solut. duobus hominibus portantibus fferetrum
‘vi) d° Et solut. clericzs ecclesie vestibuli ecclesie sancti Petri in
regardo xij d. Et solut. Janitori sancti Petri & sacriste Sancte
Trinitatzs in regardo viij “d° ...
1521
House Books Y: B10
f 18v* (20 June)
Memorandum that the xxth day of Iune in the xiijth yere of
kyng herry the viijth William Ierrett Grayson Iohn Newall & Iohn
Man of yorke pynners grauntith & by theis presentes byndes
them affore my lorde maire & maister Chamberleyns vppon
ousebrig of ye seid Citie that they frome hensfurth shall yerely
pay in the presens of the Chamberleyns for ye tyme beyng vppon
ousebrig afforseid of Corpus christievyn in the Councell Chambre
to the Sersours of the payntours iij s And if yat they fayle so
to do Then to forfet to the seid occupacion of the payntours xl s
to be eqally devyded betwix them & ye Chambre to the vse of
ye Commonialtie of ye said Citie provided alwey yat the seid
paynters shall resceyue yerely of ye Tynklers paiaunt syluer
William Darson
ff 19v-20 (28 November)
Assembled vppon ousebrygg the day & yere abouewrittyn at
whiche day & place it was fully agreed & determyned by the seid
29 christi} chr spelled out in Roman letters
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presens yat Robert ffons & Iohn Gegges sheriffes of the City of
york accordyng to auncyent & laudable Custome of the seid City
vsyd withoute tyme of memory to ye contrary & also accordyng
to the worshipfull ordynance of the same Citie shall solemply
ryde with yer mynysters & officers betwixt the feastes of seynt
Mighell archangell & the Natyuyte of our lorde & make the
kinges proclamacion accordyng to the auncyent Custome of the
forseid Citie ffor the honour & worship of the same Citie . And
farthermore for dyuerse cawses & consideracionz the seid presens
movyng it fully agreed & determyned yat none of the seid
presens shall dyne nor sup with the | forseid Robert ffons at
suche day & tyme as he shall , ‘make the” proclamacion
afforseid /. ...
City Chamberlains’ Books Y: CC:2
£58
Dimissio ludi Corporis christi
Primus locus Communi Clerico (blank)
secundus locus dimittitur lohanni Myrni & Georgio Churcheman
skynner [vj s. mjd} vs
Tercius locus dimittitur Gilberto Walron & Willelmo
Nauton ilij s. ij d
Quartus locus dimittitur Ricardo Powle lj s
Quintus locus dimittitwr Miloni Robinson & (blank)
{iij s] ij s. vilj d
sextus locus dimittitur [domino maiori &c.] domine Maiorisse
& sororibus suis (blank)
septimus locus dimittitur Magistro Alano Stavelay
aldermanno xij d
Octauus locus dimittitur lohanni Bateman notary xld
Nonus locus domino Maiori & ffratribus suis aldermannis (blank)
decimus locus dimittitur Ricardo Styrlay aldermanno bowyerx] d
vndecimus locus dimittitur lohanni lytster [vs] ij s. vujd
duodecimus locus , “Paulo Gilli &* Wille/mo Cure
aldermannis llj s
Terciodecimus locus dimittitur Ricardo Plumpton
merchant ys. uiyd
Quartodecimus locus dimittitur (blank) (blank)
summa xxxj Ss. vilj d
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Redditus Resoluti
Item sol. ad sustentacionem pagine Coronacionis beate Marie
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Vestura officiariorum ex consuetudine
Item sol. ministrallis huis Ciwitatis erga ffestum Natalis domini
ut in precidentibus XXVIJ S
Regarda Ministrallorwm et Aliorum Seruientuum
In Primis sol. Ministrallis huiws Ciuitatis erga ffestum Pasche vt
in precidentibus xl d
Item sol. Ministrallis domini Regis hoc anno ut in
precidentibus XX S
f 66
Expense in ffesto Corporis christi
In Primis pro tribus lez xija seruicie & di. x s. vj d./ Item in pane
vs/ Item in Carne bouina ij s iij d./ Item in vino vij s./ Item
Grenegeys v d./ Item in xxvj pullis ij s vjd/ Item in butiro
iiij d. / Item in ouis x d./ Item in itjb“s xij Rabettes iiij s vj d /
Item in tribus porcellis xviij d / Item in septem dentriculis x s /
Item in vno modo farine ij s vilj d. / Item in tribus Caseis xvj d /
Item in vino agro & virgeto ij d / Item in ijb¥s xij & viijto
Columbis xiiij d. / Item in Cenapio iij d/ Item in Carne
mutulium le sewet Curdes & lacte ij s. vilj d./ Item in speciebus
vs vjd/ Item indi. C fasticulorum & conductionibus eiusdem
xviij d / Item in ijb¥s saccis de le Charcole viij d. / Item in Pomis
xv d/ Item in Cirpis iiij d / Item in vna alba virga ij d./ Item
in i3>4s lagenis vini daus pistoribus “et lez vyntyners’ ex
consuetudine xvj d./ Item inj xij¢i” Ciphis iij d./ Item in
conduccione vasorum wulgariter dictorum Rough vessell iiij d /
Item in emendacionem de lez firmez ij d. / Item in seruicia iij d /
Item in vino Communi clerico viij d. / Item in pane eidem
Clerico ad Cenam suam ij d/ Item in seruicia eidem Clerico ad
dictam Cenam ij d/ Item in stipendio Coci & lixe ij s iii} d. /
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Allocaciones ex
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Reparaciones
terre &
tenementorum
2210) / YORK 1/5201
Item in Regardo pincerne viij d/ Item in aqua , ‘dicto’ Coco
ij d./ Item in Regardo dato , ‘ijbus* Custodibus porte ix d /
Item in Regardo Thome Sadler pro le hyngyng Camere pro
domino maiore & ffratribus suis xx d/ Item in Regardo
pistoribus ex consuetudine pro labore suo vj d/ Item in lez
naylez pro le hyngyng dicte Camere ij d / Item in Regardo dato
filie dicti Thome Sadler ij d / Item in conduccione Camere pro
predicto domino maiore & ffratribus suis vj s. viij d /
Summa totalis
harum expensarum
ij li. ix s. iy d.
Bridgemasters’ Account Rolls Y : C87:1
mb 1
De firma vnivs tenementi ibidem in terra Pellipariorwm sol.
ad terminos xij d
De firma vnius pagine textorum ibidem xvj d
De firma vnius domus paginarum diuersorum arcium iacentis
apud paiaunt Grene hoc anno XVlij $
De firma domus paginorum Aurifabrorum vnius
tenementi ibidem in terra lohannis Alen pagine lez VS
wexchaundlers & pagine les Cowpers
De firma pagine mercerorum ‘xij d” pagine pistorum ‘xij d’
pagine tapitorwm ‘xij d” pagine Carpentariorum “ys & pagina
tannatorum “xij d vj s
Mercers’ Account Rolls MA: DS6NNN
mb 2*
... Et pro portacione torcharum huius Gilde in Crastino Corporis
chest xij
Et pro Emendacione hostium ludiculo vocatum pagant doore
‘jj d’ Et pro Emendacione duorwm organum vocatorum pypes
i rs Wie
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... Also it ys fully determyned by the said presens yat hew
howlley haberdassher & william hay Gyrdler shall frely occupy
to theyr moste auantage the occupacionz of the bochers &
Cordyners withoute palyng any vpsett aftir the tenouwr & perporte
of many good & auncyent actes heretofore made / Provyded
alwey yat the said hew & william shall obey the serce , “of ye
Sersours’ of the forsaid occupacionz & selle lefull & [se]
sesonable fflesshe & , ‘also’ make lefull ware / And farthermore
, shall’ pay yerely to sersowrs of the said occupacionz pagiaunt
money & all oyer dueties likewise as oyer men of the said
occpacionz dothe at this day / And not to be oyerwise charged
by reason of any , ‘old’ ordynance heretofore made /
£43* (8 May)
Also it ys agreed by the said presens yat all thos yat dothe selle
brode sotheron Clothe within this City frome hensfurth euery
of thayme shall bryngfurth the drappers paiaunt likewise as
herry holme dothe this yere vppon payne [f] of forfettyng to ye
coien Counsaill of ye said City x li. tociens quociens &c.
£54 (19 October)
The day & yere abouewrittyn the Sersours of the Carpenters
with the mooste part of yer occupacion in the Counsaill Chambre
of ousebrig promyseth vppon yer fidelites to entret hew Robson
& Emonde Redeman nowe beyng paiaunt maisters of the said
Craft resonably & after yer auncyent Custome at the makyng &
finysshyng of yer accompt so yat the said hew & Edmond
shalbe at no [le] losse for excercisyng & occupiyng as paiant
maisters / And theruppon the said lorde maiour dothe awarde
by thies presentes yat the same hew & Edmond shall apply
thaym selfes for the levyng & gatheryng of all suche dewties as
belongith yer said occupacion as oyer thaire predecessours
haith doone in tymez past &c. / And if they fayle yerof thay
shall make it good of yer owne , ‘proper’ goodes
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£55 (21 November)
assembled vppon ousebrig the day & yere abouewrittyn at
whiche day & place it was fully determyned by the said presens
yat Iohn Marshall & Thomas Bailley nowe beyng the kinges
sheriffes of this City affore the ffeast of the Natiuyte of our
lorde god next shall solemply ryde wit/ thaire mynisters & make
the Kinges proclamacion within the said City as it hathbeen
accustomed in tymez past / ...
City Chamberlains’ Books Y : CC2
£98
Dimissio ludi Corporis Christi
primus locus Communi Clerico (blank)
Secundus locus dimittitur lohanni Myers & Iohanmi
Blakey lllj s. ij d
Tercius locus dimittitur Iohanni Mason Inholder (blank)
Quartus locus dimittitur Thome Warde barbowr pro xl d
receptis li Ss 1) d.
Quintus locus dimittitwr lohanni Cawdwell maryner i) s vujd
sextus locus dimittitur domine Agneti Staveley vidue xij d
Septimus locus dimittitwr Riginald Berlay notary lj s ij d
octauus locus dimittitur domino maiori & ffratribus suis (blank)
Nonus locus dimittitwr (blank) (blank)
Decimus locus dimittitwr Ricardo Stirley bower xl d
vndecimus locus dimittitwr Iohanni lytster taillovr _iilj s. vilj d
Duodecimus locus dimittitwr domine maiorisse & sororibus
suis receptum nihil
Terciodecimus locus dimittitur Wille/mo Galland
Gyrdler ij s ‘sol.’
Quartodecimus locus dimittitur (blank) (blank)
Summa xxv $ vj d
f 104
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Vestura , ‘officiariorum’ ex consuetudine
Item sol. Ministrallis huius Civitatis pro vestura sua (..)ga eundem
ffestum &c. XXvij S ll d
f 107
Regarda Ministrallorum et aliorum seruientum
In Primis Ministrallis huivs Ciuitaus erga ffestwm Pasche ut in
precidentibus iij s iij d
Item sol. Ministralls domini Regis hoc anno ut in
precidentibus XX S$
[Item sol. Ministrallis huiws Ciuvitatis pro uestura sua erga]
ffestum Natalis domini ut in precidentibus [xx s] xxvijs ij d
Item sol. Ministrallis huiws Ciuttaus erga ffestum Corporis
Christi xx d
Item sol. Ministrallis huiws Cruitaus erga ffestum Natuitatis
sancti lohannis Baptuste xx d
Item sol. Ministrallis huiws Ciuitatis erga ffestum Natalis
domini li) S li d
Item sol. Ministrallis huiws Ciwitaus erga ffestum sancti
Wille/mi od
Summa (blank)
f 108
Expense in ffesto Corporis Christi
In Primis in pane vulgariter dicto leuandbrede In pane dominica
& in pane vocato trenchirbrede v s Item in tribws lez dosanz & di
seruicie vij s Item in Carne bouina mutulium & le sewett iiij s
Item in decem Caponibus vj s xjd Item in xijci” viridibus aucis
lil) S vj d Item in ijbus xija‘.) et septem de lez Rabbettes vs xd
Item in venyson jj s_ Item in ijbus xij‘) pullorum ij s Item in
tribus porcellis xviij d Item in ijb¥s xijan Columbarum xxj d /
Item in ouis et Butiro xiiij d. / Item in vno modio frumenti xj d.
Item in sex dentricibus xvj s Item in ffagettes xv d. Item in
Cenapio vino agro & virgeto x d ob Item in Pomis xx d Item in
vino rubeo Clareto albo Rumpuat’ & malves’ ut [pz] per billam
inde &c. viij s. ilij d / Item in vna virga alba iiij d. / Item in
Cirpis ij d. / Item in conduccione vasorum ij s. vj d/ Item in
lacte croude & marybones xvj d / Item in seruicia communi
Clerico x d./ Item in pane et vino eidem Clerico xvj d/ Item
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in Regardo Thome Sadler pur le hangyng Camere domini maioris
& ffratrum suorum scilicet cum lez nayles & fourmes &c. ij s
ij d ob Item in Regardo Coco et lixe dicti maioris ij svilj d Item
in Regardo iijb“s Portatoribus pro suis laboribus xiiij d / Item in
Regardo pincerne dicti maioris viij d / Item in conduccione
Camere pro dicto maiore et ffratribus suis ut in precidentibus
vj s vil) d Item in Caseis iij s vj d Item in Regardo dato pistori
domuni maioris pro suo assiduo labore x d
Summa totalis eee
harum Expensarum
Mercers’ Account Rolls MA: D56000
mb 2
... Et pro portacione torcharwm huius Gilde in Crastino Corporis
Christi ej. ee.
Churchwardens’ Accounts: St Michael Spurriergate
YM: MS Add 220/2
PY fis
Item paid for a pair of glovys to underclerk id
1523
House Books Y: B10
£63Bv (22 June)
Assembled vppon ousebrig the day & yere abouewrittyn at
whiche day it was fully agreed & determyned by this presens
That all thos yat occupyes the drapers Craft & kittyng of brode
Suttherin clothe shall [pa] content & pay to ye paiaunt maisters
of the drapers paiaunt in forme folowyng bothe for paiauntsyluer
& the Reparacionz made of the same for this yere./
The order of ye paiaunt money abouesaid
In primis Thomas parkour alderman i S
Item herry holme ij s
Item Iamys blades ij s
Item Iohn hitster js
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G22) COIS Hf Pe
Item Thomas lambe [ij s] xij d
Item Iohn Richardson ij s
Item William herpar ys
Item lohn lowes x1] d
Item dame margaret dawson wydo ij d
Reparacionz of the said paiaunt
Thomas parkour alderman uj d
herry holme ij d
lamys Blades ij d
lohn litster ij d
Thomas lambe ij d
Iohn Richardson lj d
William herpar uy d
Iohn lowes ij d
City Chamberlains’ Books Y : CC2
f 143v
Dimissio ludi Corporis Christi
Primus locus communi Clerico (blank)
se cundus locus dimittitwr lohanni Myers officiario ij s ud
Tercius locus dimittitur Ilohanmi Ellys merchaunt lj Ss
Quartus locus dimittitur lohanmi Thorneton merchaunt ys
Quintus locus dimittitur Ricardo Clyf bower lj s
sextus locus dimittitur nullis quod luditur coram domino maiore
& ffratribus suis
Septimus locus luditur coram domina maiorissa & sororibus
suis ()d
“Robertus Parkyn Cordyner sol x d’
octauus locus dimittitur Matheo tayllour ly s
Nonus locus dimittitwr Iohanni lyster taillour lj Ss vilj d
decimus locus dimittitur Roberto Wylde aldermanno xij d
Vndecimus locus dimittitur Wille/mo Balland i) s vinj d
Duodecimus locus dimittitur (blank) (blank)
probata Summa xx s vj d.
f 147v
Laborers
Alexander Gray laborer ye magister Thomam Meryman laborer
pagine laboratorum (..)rdire de ad excercendum officium
Bowtham presentat illud hoc anno
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lohannes Bramley laborer ye
magister pagine laboratorum de
Monkwarde presentat
Willelmuws Smyth ye magister
Pagine laboratorum Warde de
Mikellith cum Northstrete
Postern presentat
ag 8
Thomam Knapton laborer ad
excercendum officium illud
hoc anno
Robertum Gubbys laborer ad
excercendum officium illud
hoc anno
Redditws resolutz
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f 153v
ij S.
Vestura officiariorum ex consuetudine
Item sol. [(..)] “duobuws* Ministrallis huiws Ciuitatis pro vestura
sua erga ffestum Natalis domini , “hoc anno \...)” [ut in
precidentibus]
f 154
Xvilj s uj d
Regarda Ministrallorum tam domini Regis quam huius Ciuitatis
In primis sol. Ministrallis huiws Ciuztatis erga ffestwm pasche ut
in precidentibus
iij s iiij d
Item sol. Ministrallzs domini Regis hoc Anno ut in precidentibus
&e.
{ij s ij d] xx s
Item sol. Ministrallzs dicte Ciuitats erga ffestum Corporis christi
ut in precidentibus
xx d
Item sol. Ministralles huis Ciuitatus erga ffestum Natiuitatis
sancti lohannis Baptiste
xx d
Item sol. Ministrallzs huiws Ciuitats erga ffestum Natalis domini
ut in precidentibus
iij s iiij d
Item sol. Ministrallis dicte Ciuztatis erga ffestum sancti Willelmi
ut in precedentibus
xx d
probatur summa xxxj s vilj d
Expense in festo Corporis Christi
(blank)
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ex consuetudine
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Bridgemasters’ Account Rolls Y : C:87:2
mb 1*
De firma vnius Tenementi ibidem in terra Pellipariorum dicte
Ciuitatis sol. ad eosdem terminos xij d
De firma unius pagine (...) sol. (.) d (.) d terminos xvj d
De firma vnivs domus <...) arcium iacentis apud Paiauntgrene hoc
anno sol. ad (.) terminos XVilj S
De firma domus paginorum Aurifabrorum vnius Tenement
ibidem in terra Iohannis Allen sol. ad eosdem terminos pagine lez
Wexchaundlers & pagine lez Cowpers ey,
De firma pagine mercerorum ‘xij d° pagine pistorum ‘xij d’
pagine Tapitoruwm “xij d° pagine Carpentariorum ‘ij s° <...)
“xy d vj s
Mercers’ Account Rolls MA: D56PPP
mb 2
... Et pro portacione Torchiarum huius Gilde in Crastino Corporis
ehristi “xijid™...
1524
City Chamberlains’ Books Y: CC2
f 187v
Dimissio ludi Corporis Christi
Primus locus communi Clerico (blank)
secundus locus dimittitur Ilohanni Blakey pro llj s
Tercius locus dimittitur lohanni Ellys merchaunt pro _ ij s inj d
Quartus locus dimittitur Iacobo Shipton merchaunt pro
(111) s] ii) s viij d
Quintus locus dimittitur Wille/mo Nawton merchaunt &
Cawdewell pro ij s
sextus locus dimittitur domino maiori & ffratribus suis (blank)
7 ] probably the Weavers’ entry (see above C87: 1)
8 (...)] paginorum diuersorum Wer CaS
15 (...)] et pagine tannatorum
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septimus locus dimittitur Ranalde Berlay notario et Miloni
Newton pro vnde pro parte dicti Ranaldi xx d et pro parte
dict: Milonis viij d per consideracione Camere js jd
octauus locus dimittitur Thome fflemyng pro ij s
Nonus locus dimittitur lohanni Clerk founederer pro ij s
decimus locus dimittitur Iohanni lyster & Roberto Cooke pro
-! [vs] 1) s
vndecimus locus dimittitur Roberto Wylde aldermanno
pro . (blank)
duodecimws locus dimittitur (blank) Girdler et (blank) ij S
Terciodecimus locus dimittitur nullo super Pavimentum
f 194
Reddituws Resolutz
Item sol. ad sustentacronem pagine Coronacionis Beate Marie
uirginis ut in precidentibus ij Ss.
f 196v
Vestura ex consuetudine
Item (...) Ministrallis huiws Ciuitatys pro vestura sua erga ffestum
(...) Natalis domini ut in precidentibus &c. XXV]j S.
£197
Regarda tam Ministrallorum domini Regis quam
Ministrallorwm huius Ciuitaus ut in precidentibus
In primis sol. Ministrallis huiws Ciuitatis pro termino Pasche ut
in pre cidentibus lj s. ij d
Item sol. predictis Ministrallis in Regardo pro termino ffesto
Corporis Christi ut in precidentibus xx d
Item sol. Ministrallis domini Regis ut in Regardo ut in
precidentibus &c. XX S$
Item sol. Ministrallis huiws Ciuitaus erga ffestum Natiuitats
Sancti lohannis Baptiste ut in precidentibus xx d
Item sol. Ministrallis huiws Ciuitatis erga ffestum ¢...) domint
(...) precidentibus xx d
39 (...)] Natalis 40 (...)] utin
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Item sol, Ministrallis huiws Ciuitatis ad ffestum Sancti Wille/mi
ut in precidentibus cd
Summa xxxj s. viij d
f 197v
Expense in ffesto Corporis Christi
In primis in pane v d. Item in x¢¢” caponibus vj s. Item in
xiijoi” viridibus aucis iiij s. in jb“s xij & di. rabbettes iij s.
iij d Item in regardo pro venyson xx d Item in ijb¥s xij pullorum
xx d_ Item in tribus porcellis xvj d. Item in ij xij & di.
columbarum vs. Item in Ouis & butiro xiilj d Item in ffrumento
xij d Item in [speciebus] , ‘dentricibus* xiiij s. Item in Cenapio
vino agro virgeto & sale viij d Item in pomis xx d Item in Caseo
(..) Item in Carbonis [xx] ix d Item in melle ij d Item in
ffagotes x d Item in xij & di. seruicie vilj s. Item in Carne
bouum mutulium & le sewett iii) s. vj d Item vino rubeo Claret
albo runes & maluesset vj s. [viij d] , “ix d’ Item in lacte crowde
& marybones xvj d Item in speciebuws vij s. Item in conduccione
vasorum xx d Item in vino & pane communi Clerico xv) d Item
in regardo a lez vintyners vil) d Item in Regardo pistoribws
vii} d Item in regardo senescallo Maioris pro labore & Concilio
suo ij s. vilj d Item in stupendio Coci & <....) ilj s. Item in regardo
Thome Sadler pro le hangyng Camere predicti maioris & sociorum
suorum aldermannorum &c. xx d Item in nayles ujd Item in
Regardo pincerne (...) viij d Item in regardo Custodibus Ostiorum
vd Item in alba wirga ij d Item in regardo (...) domzni maioris
pro labore suo viij d
ij li. vij s. ix d
Mercers’ Account Rolls MA: D56QQQ
mb 2
...Et pro portacione torchiarwm huius Gilde in Crastino Corporis
Ghrsticixijid 2:
York Minster Chamberlains’ Rolls YM: E1/62 MP
mb 2
... Etin regardo datum ex mandato dominorum Decani et capituli
Histrionibus interessentibus in festis , ‘translacionis’ sancti
Wille/mi vj s viij d / itij diebus in septmana pentecostis Xilj $s ij d
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236 / YORK 1524
et deposicronis sancti Willelmi vj s_viij d / prout vsitatum est in
annis precedentibus xxvj s viijd ... Et ilj° diaconis portantibus
pallium super capud sancti Wille/mi in festo Translacione sancti
wille/mi pre dicti iiij diebus in septimana Pentecostis et deposicione
1525
House Books Y: B10
f£122v (28 July)
the Crde play & who so as makes defaute beyng within the seid
City shall bere like charges as thos att be yer present with my
said lorde maier / & the Costes & charges [y] then & yer made
shalbe borne indifferently by the said presens /
City Chamberlains’ Books Y: CC2
f 228v
Dimissio ludi Corporis Christi
primus locus dimittitur (blank)
secundus locus dimittitur lj S.
Tercius locus dimittitwr lohanni Mason Inholder pro ilij s. sol.
Quartus locus dimittitur Wille/mo Nawton iis:
Quintus locus dimittitvr Briano lorde lj s.
sextus locus dimittitur Roberto Man (...) (dij s. iy d
Septimus locus dimittitwr (blank)
Octauus locus dimittitur Milani Neweton ij s. uy d
ixus locus dimittitur Matheo Hartley Taillowr ij S.
xus locus dimittitwr Iohanni Lyster Taillour llij s. vilj d.
xjus locus dimittitur (blank)
xijus locus dimittitur Roberto Hy Taillowr “xij d.’ et Wille/mo
Galland girdeller * [xij d] expenso ffirma set’ (...) (ij s. uy d.]
xijus locus dimittitur (blank)
xujus locus dimittiwr (blank)
xvus locus dimittitur (blank)
f 236
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EGA SM ONNS Tf PAIL
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f 239
Vestura
Item sol. Ministrallis huiws Ciuitatis pro vestura sua erga (..)
festum Natalis domini ex noua ‘....) pro maiore & Cuncilij
Gave as ) &c. xls:
Regarda tam ministrallorum domzini Regis
quam ministrallorum (...)
In primis sol. ministrallzs huiws Czwitatis ad ffestum
pasche lij Ss. uj d.
Item sol. ministrallis domini Regis in regardo ut in
pre cidentibus KE S.
Item sol. ministrallss huiuvs Cruitatis pro ffesto Corporis
Christi 9 Oi
Item sol. in regardo pro mandatore maioris & Cuncilij ministrallis
de Notingham exspensi set pro nihil precidente lj s. iy d
Item sol. ministrallss huiws Ciuitaus erga ffestum Natiuitatis
Sancti lohannis Bapuste xx d
Item sol. Ministrallis huivs Ciwitatis erga ffestum Natalis
domini lij Ss. ij d
Item sol. Ministrallis huius Ciwitatis (...) ffestum Sancti
Wille/mi xx d
f 240
Expense in ffesto Corporis Christi
In primis in panevd In pane dominica [a] cum le Trenchourbrede
ix d ob. In seruicia x s iij d In Carne bouina mutuliwm
marybones & le Sewett iiij s iiij d In lacte iiij d In xcem
Caponibus vj s. viijd In .“(...)° (.. iiij s. ijd In duobus dosen
lez rabbettes iiij s. In pullis xxj d In quater porcellis xxuj d In
ij dossen pideons xviij d. In ouis & Butiroxvd In [(...)] xvd
In quinque dentricibus xvj s_ In Cenapio vino Agro virgeto &
sale vj d In Caseis ij s. In le Charcole ix d In ffaggotes x d In
vino Clareto renay vini albo et maluess vj s. [xx d] , “ij d’ In
regardo pro le venyson ij s. ilij d In Speciebus vj s. x d ob. In
conduccione vasorum ij s. vj d In speciebus vj s. x d In regardo
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a les vintyners viij d In regardo pistoribus viij d In regardo
Senescallo ij s. viijd In regardo Cocis ij s. In regardo pincerne
(...) In regardo pistoris viij d In Cirpis & le yeste vj d ob. In
vino communi Clerico xvj d_ In regardo Thome Sadler pro
le hangyng camere cum lez nayles xxiij d. In footyng de lez
fourmez & Trestyls ij d In conductione Ciphorum cum lez
brokyn Trusys vd In regardo Cuiusdem laborer ij d In regardo
Custodes porte cum regardo dato Thome Goodbarne xij d In
conductione Camere vj s. viij d
Summa Expensarum
; v li. xx d. ob.
predictarum
f 245v
Expense Necessarie
Item paid to Thomas the Master of Corpus Christi
for the Crede play at was playde byfore my lorde lilj S.
mayer & his brederin
f 246
Item paid to Thomas Custanee for ridyng for venyson at Corpus
christi day ilj Ss.
Mercers’ Account Rolls MA: D57RRR
mb 2
... Et pro portacione torchearum huis Gilde in Crastino Corporis
christi/ “xijd° ...
Churchwardens’ Accounts: St Michael Spurnergate
YM: MS Add 220/2
f 44v
Item payd the onder clarke for a pair gloffys id
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House Books Y: B10
f116v (25 September)
The Wates shall haue this yere for euery of yer wages for the
mayre aldermen & shiryffes Citizens & Inhabitauntes of this
City & Suburbes of the same gidered to yer handes & paid in
this Chambre liij s_iiij d. / and euery of thaym a Tenement of
the coien rent to dwelle In and the same wates to tayke yer
. lyverays besydes the’ aduantages of the Mynster & oder
places of relegyon guyldes lighttes in this City / & they to doe
yer dutye as they haue ben accustomed in tymez past
10
an act (...) ffarthermore it ys agreed enactyd & determyned by the said
ae ae presens fermely hereafter to be obserued that no man
(of i
City desiorez fromehensfurth shalbe discharged vnder the Coien seale of this
City neyther of the shiriffshyp nor of none oder offyce belongyng
to this City . / But yat euery man shall stand & tayk his Chaunce
yerin likewyse as my lorde maier & , ‘all’ other of the said
presens haith doone in tymez past . / also it ys agreed as touchyng
the saides waytes
f 116A*
the wattes shall have this yere for euery of yer wages for the
maire aldermen sheriffes Citizens & inhabitances of this Citie
& suburbs of ye same gidderd to yer handes & paid in this
Chambre liij s ij d. / And euery of yame to a tenement to dwell
In And ye same wates to take yer advantages of ye Mynster &
oyer places R()legion “gyldes & lightes & lyverey” in this Citie
besides and yei to do yer dotey as (.....) ha(.)e ben accustomed
Wee eBay
{8v (14 December)
Item it is aggreid that euere man occupieng & sellyng or retallyng
any wynes within ye libertie of this Citie for ye tyme that he
so occupies shall bere & pay paygeant / money & oyer charges
pertenyng to the vynteners of this Citie , “as any of yaime’
shalbe charged or oght to do and ye same to be seen & allowed
by the Mair & his brethern / And that euere man so vsyng wyne
sellyng & retallyng shall suffre the Serchers of ye Vynteners
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240 / YORK 1526
fortyme beyng to entre [yer] , “his’ howsez & serche his [(...)]
wynes accordyng to ye ordynance in yer seid occupacion allways
vsed without any lett troble or denyeng of ye same , ‘persons’
sellyng or retallyng wynes as is afresaid vppon payn to [forfet
vnto the Chambre] euere man” so offendyng to ‘forfet &*
pay without any pardon vj s viij d whereof the oon half to be
empied to yis chamber & ye oyer half to ye Serchers so
presentyng tociens quociens
City Chamberlains’ Books Y: CC3(1)
ps7
Dimissio ludi Corporis christi
Primus locus communi Clerico
(blank)
secundus locus sic dimissus lohanni Blakey Iohanni Cawlebek
Ricardo Esschby ij s. ij d
Tercius locus sic dimissus lohanni Wilkynson [vs.] iiij s. vjd
uijt“s locus sic dimissus lacobo Shypton lij S
vtus locus sic dimissus Ricardo Bayteman iiss jd
yjtus locus sic dimissws domino maior Briano lorde vyjd
vijus locus duci Richmond & sociis suis & de
Thome Wilman pro domo sua 11j d & de archebaldo xd
Foster tayllour pro domo sua 1j d ac vidua bekwyth
ij d
viljus locus sic dimissws Matheo Hartley ilj s. inj d
ixus locus sic dimissws Iohanni Lyster Vs
xus locus sic Thome Nycholson llj
xjus locus domine (blank) Maiorisse (blank)
Summa xxvij s. uj d
p 61
Vestura ex consuetudine
Item sol. ministrallis huiws ciuitatis pro vestura
sua erga ffestum Natalis domini ex noua mike
concessione propter maiorem & Concilium
durante placito suo &c.
29 Maiorisse] MS Maiorisse Maiorisse 35 huiws] MS huius huius
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Regarda tam ministrallorum domini Regis
quam ministrallorum huius Ciuitatis ut in precidentibus
In primis ministrallis huivs Ciuitatis pro ffeodo suo ad ffestum
Pasche ut in precidentibus lij s ij d
Item payd mynstrelles of this City for the fest of Corpris
christi xx d
Item sol. ministrallis domini Regis in regardo ut in
precidentibus KX.S,
Item sol. mimistrallis huius Ciuitat's pro ffestwum Natiuitatis
domini & sancti Willelmi vs
Summa Xxxjs vilj d
p 63
Expense in ffesto Corporis christi
In Primis pro pane leuand & pane domunico iii) s vil) d. Item
pro seruicia vij $ vj d Item in Carne bouina xxj d. Item in
Carne mutulium et marybones xxij d. Item in xj viridibus
Aucis iljs vd. Item in Caponibus iil s. Item in pullis xxij d.
Item in porcellis xvj d. Item in Columbis xij d. Item in lacte
et Crod 1j s. Item (blank)
Summa 1ij li xix s vilj d ob.
Mercers’ Account Rolls MA: D57SSS
mb 2
... Et pro portacione torcharum huius gilde in Crastino Corporis
Gusti, xijid = 32
Mercers’ Pageant Accounts MA: D63
Recesewed off pagand maisteres de maister Wyld frest 3erre
lorges Norman
here Woid pagand maisteris
bartell yorke
Necolles cure yes persells
ij dewell cottes
i) dewell heddes
j Wesseren
j chartt
31 | Pen trial lesu written above in middle of page
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242 / YORK 1526
the clowd
i grett Angells — [wanttes j weng]
i) trompys
hell dure
lily angelli
pagand dure
ill) wendows
ye yren sett with 111) Rappes Wants j chartt
ye wendes with j repe il) Wesserons
ye trenette hus i) Rope
ii) lyttell angelles i) Angell
ye vilj chyffes wanttes j lyttell Angell
ix nalles And jj Nalles
ye trenette
27,
House Books Y: B11
f23* (8 October)
Wille/mus Lowrans Tylemaker tunc per mandatum dicti maioris
assigvatus est & contributurws erit pagine de lez Tylers dicte
Ciuitatis Et soluet solummodo cum eis in omvibus annuatim
decetero prout ipsi faciuvt & non aliter ...
City Chamberlains’ Books Y: CC3(1)
p i353
Dimissio ludi Corporis christi
Primis locus Coram Communi clerico (blank)
Secundus locus dimittitur Iohannis Blakey ij s
Tercius locus dimittitwr Iohannis Mason et Iohannis
Wylkynson ij s vj d
Quartws locus dimittitur Ilacabo Shypton pro lj s
Quintus locus dimittitur Ricardo Baytman xxlj d
Sextus locus dimittitwr Coram maiore & socis suis &c. (blank)
Septimus locus dimittitur Raginaldo Beysley pro ij s ij d
Octauus locus dimittitur Thome fflemyng ij s
Nonus locus dimittitur Matheo Hartley & socijs lj s
Decimus locus dimittitur Iohannis lyster vicario & Willelmo
31 Iohannis}] for lohanni (throughout this entry)
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xxiii) S vj d
XxXiij S ij d
SNe AOR Kes 2s
Mullans barbour ilij s vilj d
Vndecimus locus dimittitwr Coram domina Maioratissa &
sororibus suis &c. (blank)
Duodecimus locus dimittitur Thome Nicholson pro 1d} S
Decimustercius locus dimittitwr nullis super Pauimentum
Summa xxviij s [viij d] uij d
p 149
laborers
“iijs uijd in Custodiam
lohannes Blody <...)”
lohannes Smyth Custodia :
Gylberto Wylso
Pagini de laborers de Mykellyth Dore epceee © hag as
Ricardus Studley Custodia
pagini de laborers de
Walmegatebarre
pro Roberto Stodderd vltimi
laboratore ibidem
(blank) \eday Custodia pagini pro Thoma halyland vitimi
de Bowthom barre Custodia ibidem
lohannes Bell Custodia pagine pro Wille/mo Mell vitimi
de Monkbar hoc anno Custodia ibidem
puls7
Regarda tam ministrallorum domini Regis
quam muinistrallorum huius Ciuitatis ut in pre cidentibus
In Primis sol. minzstrallis huiws Ciuztatis in regardo pro termino
Pasche ut in precidentibus &c. js iyd
Item Sol. mynstralls domini Regis in vigillia sancti Bartholimee
appostoli XX S$
Item sol. pro vadis lez wattes vltra omnibus recepts istunc
Ciuitatis XVij S
Item diuersis luditoribus apud Communitatem hall &c. vj s
probatur Summa [xxilj s. ij d] xlvjs iiijd
14 Pagini] for Pagine 16 vitimi] for vitimo
17 pagini] for pagine 20 pagini] for pagine
20 vitimi] for vitimo 23 vitimi] for vltimo
34 istunc] for istius
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244 / YORK 1527
pp 158-9
“xlijs viij d”
Expense in festo Corporis Christi
In Primis in pane vocato leuand brede iiij s. Item in pane
dominica xij d Item in seruicia vj s iij d./ Item in Carne bouina
ij s. Item pur maryboones & Carne mutulium xx d/ Item pro
Caponibus iiij s. Item pro viridibus Aucis iij s iiij d./ Item pro
Pullis xxij d. / Item pro porcellis xviij d Item pur rabbettes
xvj d./ Item pro butiro & lacte vj d/ Item pro ouis x d Item
pro Caseo xvj d/ Item pro sale & Cenapio iiij d Item pro vino
pro vnguella ij d. Item pro ffasticulis ij s viij d. / Item pro
1 (blank) saccis de Charcole iiij d Item pro speciebus vs / Item
pro dentriczlis xij s./ Item pro Pomis xij d./ Item in
conduccione Ciphorum iij d. / Item in conduccione vasorum
i) s./ Item pro fflowre de ffrumento xij d. / Item pro Cirpis
vj d. Item pro vino rubro Clareto & Albo vj d. Item pistoribus
istius Ciuitatis pro vino ex conswetudine viij d./ Item pur treis
dossen Trenchis ij d. | Item in regardo pro vn ffowme vj d /
Item in Expensis facus de Thoma Clerk deputato communis
Clerici custodiendum Registrum ultro panem seruiciam & vinum
ij s. ilij d./ Item in Regardo Coci ij s. viij d./ Item in Regardo
in Regardo seneschalo ij s. / . Item in regardo pistoris [vj d.]
iiij d. Item in regardo lixe iiij d. / Item in Regardo Thome Sadler
pro pendicione Camere xx d. Item Iohanni Burton pro Albae
virgae 111} d.
Summa expensarum
. eee
predictarum &c. uj li xv) s 1x
probatur
Mercers’ Account Rolls MA: DS7TTT
mb 2
... Et pro Portacione torcharum huius gilde in Crastino Corporis
Cristh. “wij
23 Coci] for Coco 25 pistoris] for pistoribus
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York Minster Chamberlains’ Rolls YM: E1/64 MP
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... Etin regardo datum ex mandato dominorum Decani et capituli
histrionibus interessentzbus in festis Translacionis sancti Wille/mi
vj S vilj d iiijot diebus in septimana Pentecostis xilj s 111) d et
deposicionis sancti Wille/mi vj s viij d prout vsitatum est in annis
precedentibus xxvj s viij d ... Et quatuor diaconis Portantibus
Pallium super capud sancti Wille/mi in festo Translacionis sancti
1528
House Books Y: B11
£35 (22 June)
assemblyd in the Councell Chamber of the City ‘ouse bryg’ of
york within the Councell chamber of ouse bryg vppon the traves
be twixt the Wollen weuers and lyn weuers it ffully agreed att
every oon of the lynweuers ffraunchest wythin thys City Shall
content & pay yerely to the Sersours of wollen weuers affore or
att the ffeast of Saynt lawrence the marter iiij d to the
Sustentacion & mayntenyng of yer ‘leyght’ [pagiaunt &]
Torches wherefore they to be Clerely dyschargyd of all oder
Costes & ‘charges’ with the Wolleyn weuers
B/Y Memorandum Book Y:E20A
£195v (7 March)
Inholders
... the vijth day of Marche in the xixth yere of the reyne of our
soueryng lord Kyng Henry the viijth ...
ffyrst it is enacted ordaned & establissed that noo man shall
kepe any Inns hostrye nor take noo hors within this Citie or
suburbs of the same oonles he have a sign at his dore vppon
payne to forfett & pay for euere hors founden in his hows or
farm(old xij d Als oft & wherso euer and such shalbe so
founden & knowen the oon half yerof to be emploied to ye
38 farm(.)old] imk blot in MS. Perry conjectures farmeold; farmhold?
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Dimissio ludi
Corporis christi
246 / YORK 1528
well of this Citie and the oyer half yerof to the seid Craft &
pageant /
f 196
Item that the pageant masters . of the Inholders fortyme beyng
yerely shall make a dew accompt & rekonyng of theyr receytes &
payment consernyng theyr pageant & play before & vnto ye
sercheours of that Crafte the Svnday come a sennett next aftir
Corpus Christi day of payne to forfett & pay vjs viij d to be
emploied as is aforesayd
City Chamberlains’ Rolls Yy : C6:6
mb 1*
De ffirma primi loci nihil quod Communis Clericus habet
De ffirma secundi loci ibidem sic dimiss: lacobo
Hoppton ij) s vu d
De ffirma tercij loci ibidem sic dimissi Johanne Mason ij s x d
De ffirma ij" loci ibidem sic dimiss: lacobo Shipton
gent i) s vuj d
De ffirma vt loci ibidem sic dimiss: Ricardo Bayteman ij s
De ffirma vjti loci ibidem sic dimiss: Henrico Wodde
wexchundler js uid
De ffirma vij™1 loci ibidem nihil quod domina Maiorisse
De ffirma viijmi loci Archbaldi ffoster pro parcella ffirme inde
quod Dominus maior ibidem stetit vil] d
De ffirma ix"i loci ibidem sic dimiss: Matheo Hartley & Humfre
Stevynson llj s
De ffirma x™i loci ibidem sic dimiss lohannilyster _iiij s_vilj d
De ffirma xj™i loci sic dimissi Roberto Wylde alderman nihil
De ffirma xijmi loci sic dimiss? Thome Nicholson ij s
Et de firma xiij™i loci super Pauimentum hoc anno nihil
21 Hoppton] for Hopperton. Brevigraph omitted, 22 Iohanne] for lohanni
29 Archbaldi] for Archbaldo
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Dimissio ludi Corporis christi
De primo loco dimittur &c. Coram communi Clerico (blank)
De Iacobo Hopperton pro secundo loco ij s vilj d
De Iohanne Mason pro tercio loco lijs xd
De Iacobo Shypton pro quarto loco i) s vilj d
“De Henrico Wode pro sexto loco coram predicto Henrico’
ij s iy d
De septimo [quinto] loco coram domina Maiorisa (blank)
“De Ricardo Bayteman pro “...)” buntyng Camere (..) Anno js’
De sexto [in] loco caram domino Maiore & socijs
suis ac de [lohanne] Archebaldo ffoster ex altra viij d
parte Strati
De Matheo Hartley & Vmfrey Stevynson
Broderer pro firma septimo loco eis diuiso ll] $
in Stayngaytt
De octauo loco ad portas monesterij sic dimisso Iohanni
Lyster Mj s vilj d
De nono loco ad hostium Roberti Wyld aldermanni (blank)
De Thoma Nicholson pro xmo loco apud le guderangaytt
[ij s.} ys
Summa xxilj s x d probatur
p 247
Labores
Thomas bemyman Custos
loh Halyf
ohannes Halytax Custos pagine pagine de Mykelyth ward pro
william dobson de lelygatt Custos
pagine de Bowthom barre
5 dimittur) for dimittitur 14 caram) for coram
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Redditus &
ffirme tam infra
mikkelith Barre
quam extra &
lez Toftes
248 / YORK 1528
p 254*
Regarda tam Ministrallorum domini Regis
quam ministrallorum huius Ciuitatis
In Primis solut ministrallis domini Regis die veneris ante ffestum
bartholime XX §
p25
Expense in festo Corporis Christi
In Primis in pane vocato lauand Brede viij s Item in pane
dominica xvj d In seruicia xiiij s In Carne Bouina ij s In
mutulium marybonis & le Sewett xxij d In (blank) Caponibus
vd In veredibus aucis iij s viij d In Pullis ij s In porcellis xviij d
In (blank) rabettis ij s ij d In butiro & lacte vj d In ouisxd In
Caseo xxjd In [sall] sale & Cenapio iij d In vino agro & veytagio
il) d In melle ij d “In le kyde xiiij d In dentricibus xvj s° In
Speciebus vd In Columbis [xviij d) viij d In duobws ardeis iij d
In scissorem iij d In pomis xx d In vino vij s. ix d In Conduccione
Ciphorum v d In duobus saccis le Charkcoyllez vj d In
conduccione vasorum ij s In ffasticulis [xxij d] In regardo dato
scrutatoribus de le Pistores Cum Custodibus pigine predicte pro
lagena vini vilj d In regardo pro dicta lagena scrutatoribus
Vinteners &c. vilj d In regardo senescallo 1j s viijd In regardo
[lix] Coco & lixa ij s In regardo pincerne viij d In regardo
Pistorzbus ij d In regardo Custodi ostij cum pendicione le
camere xij d In regardo lez waytes xvj d Item Iohanni Burton
Armigeri maioris pro alba virga iii) d In [ffestuwm] (blank)
Summa expensarum Are
Predictarum
Bridgemasters’ Account Rolls yY:C87:3
mb 1
De ffirma pellipariorum dicte Ciuitatis pro tenemento ibidem
sol. ad eosdem terminos xij d
De ffirma vnius domus pagine textorum ibidem sol. ¢...) xvj d
13 veredibus] for viridibus 21 pigine) for pagine
24 lixa] for lixe 39 (...)] ad eorundem terminum
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Cera Combusta
An Act
Concernyng ye
bringyng furth
of the Drappers
Paiaunt
1528 YORK / 249
De ffirma vnivs Gardins nuper in terra lohannis Hall aldermanni
cum pagina le Chaundlers & pagina le Cowpers vs
De ffirma (blank) lez mercers pistores Tapitorum Carpentariorum
Tannarum sol. ad eosdem terminos vj s
De ffirma vnivs domus paginorum diuersorum Arcium iactentis
apud pagant grene hoc Anno XVIlj S
Mercers’ Account Rolls MA: D57UUU
mb 2
... Et pro portacione torcharum huius gilde in Crastino Corporis
Crist xij”.
Et pro le Toppyng sex Torchiarum & pro vij dossen jj li. new
stuff & pro factura videlicet del olde stuff xxviij s ...
Churchwardens’ Accounts: St Michael Spurriergate
YM: MS Add 220/2
f 74
Item for a pair of gloffe to ye under clerk ud
1529
House Books Y: B11
£54 (12 April)
Item it ys agreed ordred & determyned by the said presens yat
all Taillours & oder yat sellyth brode Sutheron Clothe , “&c”
within this City fromehensfurth shall bryng furth theyre paiaunt
euery man in Course as shall happyn eny yere on Corpus christi
day vppon payne of forfettyng to the Coien Wele of this Cite
Cs
Item it ys enacted yat euery of the said presens yat sellyth
brode sutheron Clothe as is abouesaid shall pay [(...)] for theyre
paiaunt money ij s yerely toward the brinyngfurth of the said
paiaunt
£55 (7 May)
... Item the said presens haith ordred that the Walkers &
Cardemakers of this City fromehensfurth shall ioyne bothe
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Cookes to haue
the serche of
pultree
An ACt yat
common Pulters
shall pay pagaunt
money to ye
common Cookes
of this City
250 / YORK 1529
thayre paiauntes in oone & ichone of the saides Craftes to be
like charged in euery behalff with the paiaunt Torches & play
And this / Act was made within the “Memorandum ye takyng
down of ye hous is put in respet” ° Counsaill Chambre of the
said City by theyre consent & agrement &c.
£59v (16 September)
Assembled in the Counsaill Chambre of Ousebrig the day & yere
abouewrittyn at whiche day & place it was fully agreed &
determyned by the said presens That the Sersours of the coien
Cookes of this City for the tyme beyng fromenowefurth shall
have the serche of almaner pultre yat hereafter shall be broght to
the said City to be sold likewyse as the Bochers of ye said City
heretofore haith hadde & [to] the same Sersours of ye Cookes
to tayke paiaunt money of the forsaid Pulters towardes the
bringyngfurth of theyre paiaunt of Corpus christi day . And
[yat] yat the Sersours of the said Bochers fromehensfurth shall
haue no serche nor entermellyng wit) the said pulters by reason
of any act or Ordynaunce heretofore made. / Provyded alwey
that this act extendith & shall tayke effect but oonely for comen
pulters yat bringyth pultre to this City , ‘[to]’ selle with horslodes
/ & [Cony men yat holdes warrauntes] comen Cony sellers / And
also it ys enactyd & agreed (blank)
ff 67-7v* (2 November)
Item it ys agreed & fully determyned by the said presens that the
common Cookes of [the] this City fromenowfurth shall [pay]
‘tayk” pagaunt money of the accustomyd Pulters likewise as
the Sersours of the bochers of the said City was wont to doe .
& also of euery common Cony man yat brynges Conys to this
City to selle vj d by yere And yat it shalnot be lauffull to the
saides Cony Sellers fromehensfurth to goe hawkyng abowte ye
said City with theyre Conys / But oonely to selle theyre Conys
in the Market place yat shalbe assigned vnto thaym by the
Maiour for the tyme beyng / & within the Markett tyme & on
the markett day / Provyded alwey yat this act & ordynance
shall not be preiudicyall ne hurtfull to any Cony seller yat
brynges Conys to selle to the lordes of the Clos of york saynt
mary abbey or to any oyer honest person yat shall be speyk &
formelle thaym ageynst a certayn day to be delyuered for theyre
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Allowances
Accustomed
Curialitates
1529 YORK / 251
owne vse . and if any of the said Cony Sellers be disposyd to
haue a daily market. / Then if / they comme & be ffraunchesyd
& stallegyd they shall haue a place & a shopp assigned to selle
theyre Conys & the best Copyll Conys to be sold for vj d. & all
oyer as the owners | & theyre Chapmen can agree for suche
Conys as be not of the best &c. And who as shall offend &
mysvse hym contrary to this act & ordynance shall forfet for the
furst defawte xij d. / The second defawte ij s. / & the thyrd
defawte 1iij s. / & ffarther to be payned after the quantyte of
theyre offence & trespas therin at the discressyon of the maiour
for the tyme beyng by the advyce of his brederin & oder of his
Counsaill . & the said payne & fforfettour to be devyded That is
to say the moyte yerof to the common Chammbre of york / &
the oder moyte yerof to the saides Cookes towardes theyre
Charges &c. Provyded alwey yat it shalbe laufull to euery ffewler
& to all oder pety vitellers to bryng to the markettes of the said
City at all tymez hereafter theyre ffewle & vytell & thayre to
put it to sayle & to comme & go fre kepyng the pricez yat shall
be lymet vn to thaym by the Maiour for the tyme beyng . / And
yat no Pulter bringyng any powltre to thayre howses shall be so
bold to selle yt affore yat it be laufully serchyd accordyng to
auncyent Custome of the said City vppon the payne [by]
byforesaid . / And the Mayres Steward for the tyme beyng yf
yat he comme by sevyn of the Clok in the mornyng to be furst
seruyd vppon lyke payne
Mercers’ Account Rolls MA: DS7VVV
mb 2
... And for beryng of Torches the morro aftir Corpus christi
Pade a2
York Minster Chamberlains’ Rolls YM: E1/66 MP
mb 2*
.. 4.) mandato dominorum decani et Capituli Histrionibus
interessentibus in festis Translacionis sancti Wille/mi vj s vilj d
(...) deposicronis sancti Wille/mi vj s viij d prout vsitatum est in
annis precedentibus xxvj s viijd ... Et iiijot Diaconis portantibus
37 <...)] five words missing 39 (...)] seven words missing
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35
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Agrement of
loksmythez &
blaksmy thez
2512 / YORK 15129
1530
House Books Y: B11
£89 (11 February)
Assemblyd in the Counsaill Chambre of Ousebrig of the said
City at whiche day & place my lorde maiour showed to this
presens a bill of compleynt presentyd to his lordeship by the
Sersours & occupacion of loksmythes ageynst the blaksmythez
[Whe] And vppon , ‘ye sight’ of thayre ordynance it was agreed
by the said presens yat they shall Ioyn all togyders , “as oone™ in
bringyngfurth of thayre paiauntes of Corpus christi day & also
of thayre Torches & in all oder thynges accordyng to the same
ordynance
£97v* (29 June)
The Occupacions of Carpenters loynours & Carvers the day &
yere abouewrittyn came personally byfore the said Maiowr in
the Counsaill Chambre of Ousebryg of the said City & where as
{d] discencion travers & debate haith been heretofore laitely
movyd emonges ye saides occupacions for goyng in processyon
the next day after Corpus christi day . & also for that at the
saides Carpenters wold not calle the forsaides loynours & Carvers
to thayre accomptes & reknynges . ffor the appesyng of the
whiche Grevys & debates & for good vnyte order & quyetnes
hereafter to be hadde emonges thaym for euermore . yt is nowe
agreyd by all thayre consentes That fromenowefurth they shall
all be as oone occupacion & to bere like Charges . & the Eldest
Sersour of the said Carpenters for ye tyme beyng to [g] goe in
the said processyon of the right hand of the Eldest Sersour of the
said loynours & Carvers & the yonger Sersour of the Carpenters
to goe of the right hand of the yonger Sersour of the loynours &
Carves / & bothe the saides occupacions fromenowfurth at all
assemblys to goe lointly & lufyngly togyders as oone occupacion
& to be also at almaner of accomptes & reknynges concernyng
the Charges of thayr pagaunt & of all oder Charges and ffarther
it . “is. determyned yat whiche of the saides occupacions dothe
1 (...)| seven words missing
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breyk & offend this present act & agrement to lesse & forfet
yerfore vj s viij d to the coien Chambre of this City tociens
quociens &c.
Thomas wyllyson
f 81 (21 December)
... Item it was agreed & determyned by the said presens yat
euery oone of the common wayttes of this City shall haue of
the Chamberleyns xij s a pece for theyre lyuereys for the worshipp
of the said City / ...
Mercers’ Account Rolls MA: DS57WWW
mb 2
... And for beryng of the Torches the morro aftir Corpus christi
day ‘xijd ...
1531
Mercers’ Account Rolls MA: D57
mb 2
... And for beryng of the Torches the morro aftir Corpus christi
day xijd ...
15352
House Books Y: B11
f 141
Item it is agreyd that fromenowfurth that the said Coien Chambre
shall bere no Costes of the Mayer and his bredren of Corpus
christi day
1533
House Books Y: B12
£147 (15 January)
Item it is Agreyd that frome nowfurth that the said Coien
Chambre shall bere no Costes of the Mayer and his bredren of
Corpus christi day
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Curialitates
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Bridgemasters’ Account Rolls y. c87.4
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Item for farme of the Skynners pagent howse xij d
Item tor farme of the weuers pagent howse xvj d
Item for the Mercers ffishers Tapiters Carpenters and tanners vj s
Item for a howse of the pagent grene that dyuers pagentes
standes Inn XVilj s
Mercers’ Account Rolls MA: D57XXX
mb 2*
... And for berynge of the Torchez the morroo after Corpus
christi day “xijd° ...
Corpus Christi Account Rolls y: C102:2
mb 3
Et dictus Magister petit allocari de diuersis expensis necessarijs
per ipsum hoc anno facts Videlicet in processione general: in
Crastino corporis christi In primis Solut. Clericis portantibus
Cruces ante processionem ii) “d’ Et Solut. ijb¥s pueris
portantibus candelas ij d Et Solut. wiy°r clerics portantibus
Bawdkyn vi d ¢...) Et Solut. in Regardo Cantatoribus viij d
(...) solut. (...) Constabularys aule Cathedralis Sancti petri in
regardo xij d. Et Solut. Ianitori sancti petri iiij “d* Item Sacriste
sancte Trinitatis ij d Et Solut. Clericis ¢...) xij d. Et Sol. sex
hominibus portantibus sex torcheas xij d Et Solut. bus
hominibus portantibus feretrum in Cista vii d ...
York Minster Chamberlains’ Rolls Y: E1/71a MP
mb 2
...Etin regardo datum ex mandato dominorum decani et Capituli
29 candelas] for candelabras 30 (...)] two entnes missing
33 (...)] four words missing
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Rentes & ffarmes
both within
my kkillith barr
& without &
the Toftis
Allowancez
Accustomed
Allocaciones
ne cessanys
expensis
1533 YORK / 255
histrionibus interessentibus in festis translacionis sancti wille/mi
vj S viij d iiij dies in septimana Pentecostis xiilj $ 1l) d et
deposiczonis sancti wille/mi vj s viij d prout vsitatum est in annis
precedentibus xxvj s viij d ... Et iiijot diaconis portantibus
palliuy super caput sancti Wille/mi in festo translacionis sancti
1534
Bridgemasters’ Account Rolls Y: C88:1
mb 1
Item for farme of the Skynners pagent house xij d
Item for farme of the weuers pagent house xvj d
Item for (blank) Marcers ffisshers Tapitowrs Carpenters and
Tanners vj s
Item for a house of the pagent Greyn that dyuerse pagentes
Standes in XVIlj $
Mercers’ Account Rolls MA: D57YYY
mb 1
... And for the beryng of the Torchez the morow after corpus
chrstiDay / “xijd" .::
Corpus Christi Account Rolls y: C102:3
mb 3
Et dictus Magister petit allocari per diuersis expensis neccessartis
hoc Anno per ipsum factis Videlicet in processione generali in
Crastino Corporis christi In primis solut. Clerico portante Crucem
ante processionem ij d_ Et solut. ijbvs pueris portantibus
Candellabra ij d_ Et solut. iiijor Clericis portantibus Bawdkyn
viij d Et solut. Capellanis portantibus fferatrum In regardio
viij d Et solut. in regardo Cantatoribus vilj d Et solut. Clericis
parochialibus Cantantibus xij d Et solut. vj hominibus
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portantuibus sex Torcheas xij d Et solut, iybus hominibus
portantibus fferatrum viij d , et pro expensis factis eodem
tempore viij d’ Et solut. clericis vestibuli ecclesie Cathedralis
Sancti petri In regardo xij d_ Et solut. Ianitori sancti petri &
Sacriste Sancte Trinitatis in regardo viij d ...
1535
House Books Y: B13
ff 24-4v* (9 August)
Item it ys farthermore agreyd by the seyd presens that all suche
money as is payde vnto the common Chambre of the said City
by all the Craftes and Occupacions of this City for not plaiyng
of Corpus christi play this yere shalbe imployed and gevyn vnto
our neghburs of this City that apperyd before the kynges moste
honowrable Councell at london at the suyte of Trestram Tesshe
for the maintenyng of ye common ryght of this Citye in
Bysshopfeyld wherein all the Commonialtie of the seyd Citye
of an olde ryght clamys to have average yerely frome Mighelmas
vnto our lady day Annunciacon towardes ther Charges &
Expences by them made & | susteyned , ‘in yat behalff’ And
where as it welle consydered by the seyd presens That the seyd
money yat was payd by the seyd occupacions in fourme afforeseyd
wylnot extend nor bere the seyd Charges / Theruppon yt is
farther agreyd at this tyme by the seyd presens that the lorde
Mayer of this City shall appoynt all the Sersours & occupacions
of the seyd City to assemble them selffes at ther places
accustomed within xiiijt! dayes next commyng withoute any
farther delay & ther of ther owne benevolens & free wylles
euery occupacion for to asses them selffes what that they can
be content to pay towardes the seyd Charges & thos somez of
money grauntyd by the seyd occupacions to be gadered &
[resavyd] levyed by the Sersours of euery of the seyd
occupacions & they to pay yt to somme of the seyd Suters in
the presens of one of the seid Mayres offycers to thentent that
the seyd offycer shall truely declare before the seyd presens
howe myche money [was] , ys levyed of the seyd occupacions .
/ And yf that this order & direccron wylnot suffyce for the full
payment of the seyd Charges & Expensys Then it ys agreyd
& fully concludyd by the seyd presens that the Chamberleyns
of this City shall content & pay the reyst of the seyd Charges
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Leasys of Corpus
Crysty Play
this yere
Pagent money
grauntyd this
yere by all the
occupacions of
the said City by
reason the play
was vnplayd
M5 so WORK / 257
vnto the seyd Suters & they to have lyke allowances therfore as
they have for the payment of other Common Charges to the
seid City . / And to thentent that this order shalbe truely observyd
& perfourmed as is abouesaid the seyd presens hathe appoynted
iilj auditours to determyn the premyssez accordingly whos
naymes hereafter apperyth . That is to wyt /
Mr. Dayson aldermen and auditours to se
Mr. Hogeson the seyd Charges & Expensys
Mr. Gayle to be payd vnto the seid
Mr. Pullen Suters as is abouesaid
City Chamberlains’ Rolls vy : C6:7
mb 1
Item yerof this yere (blank)
Item for asmyche as my Lord Maior & his
Bredren agreyd to spare the sayd play
Corpuscrysty Therefore all the occupacions
of this City grauntyd of yer own frewylls to
paye to the Comon Chambre of this sayd
Citie the moyte of all suche money as thay
haue beyn accustomyd to pay in oon yere
as (..) Apperyth particlerly in the paper booke
of the sayd accomptauntes which accountyth
vnto (blank)
vi li. x s vid
City Chamberlains’ Books Y : CC3(2)
pp 51-2
Lesys of Corpuscristy play
Item yerof this , ‘yere’ nothing for that yat the play was not
playd forsomuche as {cli] Creyd . “play” was then playd by the
order of my lord mayer & his bredren
Summa nihil
And for somuche as the sayd Mayer & his bredren agreyd to
Spare the sayd play of Corpuscrysty Therefore all the occupacions
of this City grauntyd of yer own frewylls to pay to the Common
1)
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Chamber of the sayd City the moyte of all Suche money as
thay haue beyn accustomyd to pay in oon yere the particlers
thereof hereafter apperyth
In prymys of the pagant Maisters of the Walkers iij s ij d
Item of the paiaunt maisters of the paynters ij s vuj d
Item of the Cowpers pro temporibus xvj d
Item of the tylemakers pro temporibus ys yd
Item of the paiaunt maisters of ye merchauntes ix s vjd
Item of the Smythes & Cutlers pro temporibus Vij S
Item of the Butchers pro temporibus vs
Item of the Armorers pro temporibus xvj d
Item of the Glovers pro temporibus llij Ss
Item of the pewterers ys vid
Item of the drapers Tayllours & hosyers XS
Item of the Sadlers ‘iij s. iiij d° & Glasyers ‘ii s” vjs ud
Item of the Sporyers xx d
Summa (blank) |
[Tresure found] memorandum nihil hoc anno
Item of the Cordyners pro temporibus aus
Item of the Cappers pro temporibus ill} S
Item of the Barbours pro temporibus vs
Item of the Curyers 6 aI
Item of the Smythes ij s inj d
Item of the ffownderers xvilj d
Item of the mylners vj s
Item of the Tanners x8
Item of the Skynners vs
Item of the parchementmakers ised
Item of the fletchers ‘iij s ij d) & Bowers “iilj s uij d’ pro
tempore vjs vjd
Item of the dyers vj s
Item of the Tapytours vj s
Item of Richard mertyn potecary for {ha] his parte xij d
Item of the potters lj s
Item of the Girdlers ij s vj d
Item of the Carpenters for yer parte Vij s
Item of the Gooldsmythez for yer parte itij S
Item of [Slede] the Sledmen xvj d
Item of the bakers vs
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Summa Totalis receyvyd we ne
of all the said occupacions a ee
p 117
Regard aswell to the kynges Mynstrells as
to the Mynstralls of this Citie
In prymys payd to the Waytes of this for pasche terme uj s iii d
Item payd to the sayd Waytes for the fryday next after
Corpuscristy day xx d
Item payd to the mynstrelles of this City for mydsomer evyn xx d
Item payd to the kynges mynstrelles thys yere OS
Item payd to the Waytes of thys City for Crystynmes iij s_iuj d
Item payd to the Waytes for Saynt William Day xx d
probatur Summa xxx} s vulj d
pelts
Clothyng Accustomyd to the Common Officers and
to the Waytes of this Citie
Item payd to the three Waytes of this Citye for there Clothyng
Amonges thaym to be devyded egally XXXV] S
p 126
Expences necessary
Item payd to the fower offycers for rysshis &
nayls & for hynggyng of the "Chamber next” [xx d] 1) s
Comon Hall vppon Corpuscristy day
Item to the pryour of the whyte freres for
makyng the sermond the fryday next after ij s
Corpuscristy day
Item to Mr Burton for a Whyte Wand to my lord Mayer liij d
Item payd to [Mr] Thomas flemyng for the
Chamber that my lorde Mayer & his Bredren
Stude in of Corpuscristi day & the fryday after
to here the play
vj s viij d
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Item for a bagg to put the pagent money in jd
pp 153-4
Pagiaunt money paid to the vse of the common
Chambre hoc Anno by all the occupacionz of this City
by reason yat Corpus christi play was not playde the
seyd yere
In Primis receyved of the Paiauntmaisters of the walkers iij s iiij d
Item of ye paianmaisters of the wollenweuers lij s viijd
Item of ye paianmaysters of Cowpers xvj d
Item of the paianmaysters of ye tylemakers ys yd
Item of the Paianmaysters of ye Merchauntes ix s vj d
Item of the Paianmaysters of the blaydesmythez and Cutlers vij s
Item of the paiaunte Maisters of the Butchers [xvj d] v. s
Item of the pagiaunte Maisters of the Armorers xvj d
Item of the pagiaunt Maisters of the glouers ll]
Item of the pagentmaisters of the pewtherers ys. vj d
Item of the pagiant maisters of the Taillowrs drapours &
hosyers XS
Item of the pagent maisters of the Sadlers “ij s ij d’ & glasyers
“ij s" vj s iid
Item of the Sporyers xd
Item of the Cordyners XS
Item of the Cappers lll] S
Item of the Barbours Vs
Item of the Curryers xx d
Item of the Smythezs lij s ij d
Item of the founderers xvii) d.
Item of the Mylners vj s
probatur Summa iiij li. ix s 1iij d |
Item of the Tanners X'S
Item of the Skynners vs
Item of the Parchmentmakers ys xd
Item of the ffletchers “iijs ij d’ & Bowers “iijs uijd” vjs vyjd
Item of the Dyers vj s
Item of the Tapitours vj. s
Item of Richard [Rich] mertyn potycary for his part of ther
pagiant money xiiij d
Item of the potters for the oon half llj s
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necessarys
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1535 YORK / 261
Item of the Gyrdlers ilj s vyjd
Item of the Carpenters for yer parte vij s
Item of the Goldsmyths for there part lll) S
Summa lv s
“Item of the Sledmen xvjd
Item of the Mercers Vv S.°
Summa
aes vij li. xs viij d.
Mercers’ Account Rolls MA: D57ZZZ
mb 2
... And for beryng of Torchez the morow after Corpus christi
day “xijd° ...
Corpus Christi Account Rolls y: C103:1
mb 3
Et dictus Magister petit Allocari pro diuersis expensis necessartjs
hoc Anno per ipsum facts Videlicet in processione generali in
Crastino Corporis christi In primis solut. clerico portante Crucem
ante processionem 1) d Et solut. y>b“s pueris portantibus
Candellabra ij d_ Et solut. iuj°t Clericis portantibus Bawdkyn
viilj d Et solut. capellanis portantibus fferatrum In regardio
vilj d Et solut. in regardo Cantatoribus viij d Et solut. Clericrs
, parochialibus’ Cantantibus xij d_ Et solut. vj hominibus
portantibus vj Torcheas xij d Et solut. ijb“s hominibus
portantibus fferatrum viij d & pro expencis factis eodem
tempore vilj d_ Et solut. Clericis vestibuli ecclesie Cathedralis
Sancti petri In regardo xij d Et solut. lanitori sancti petri &
sacriste Sancte Trinitatis in regardo viij d ...
1536
House Books Y: B13
f£35v (19 April)
Assemblyd in the Counsell Chamber of ousebrig of the said Citie
the day & yere abouesaid when and where it was agreyd by the
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Accustomed
Curialitates
262 / YORK 1536
said presentes / that Corpuscristy Play shalbe sparyd for this
yere & not playd for somuche as pater noster play aught by
Course to be playd this yere / Therfor It is agreyd that the sayd
pater noster play shalbe playd vppon Lames day next /
f50v (19 June)
Item it is agreyd that pater noster play shalbe playd vppon
Sonday next after Lames day
£57
Item it is agreyd that euery occupacion having torchis shall goo
in procession the moro after Corpus christi day as thay be
assignyd & ordred to go and as it apperyth in the registre yerof
mayde vppon payn of euery occupacion of them offending or
troublyng the procession [to] to forfait & pay to thuse of this
Citie xl s withoute any pardon /
Item it is agreyd that the Common Clerke shall gyve Sufficent
warnyng to the said occupacions howle]s thay shalbe orderyd &
goo in the same procession
Item it is agreyd that euery Alderman shall haue his torche
borne light before the said procession vppon payn of vj s_viij d
euery oon of them a Torche & born as is aforesaid vppon payn
of iij s ij d and the sheryffes for tyme beyng to haue Lefull
warnyng to provyd the same by the officer of the wardes & the
mayce berer to gyf warnyng yerof to the officer
Mercers’ Account Rolls MA: D57A(a)
mb 2
... And for berynge of Torches the morowe after corpus christi
day xij 'd’....
York Minster Chamberlains’ Rolls YM: E1/70 MP
mb 2*
... Etinregardo datum ex mandato dommorum decani et Capituli
histrionibus interess(...) in fests translacionis sancti Wille/mi vj s
viij d iiij dies in septimana Pentecostis xiij s ij d et deposicionis
sancti Wille/mi vj s viijd prout vsitatwm est in arnis precedentibus
iis)
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Accustomed
1536 YORK / 263
xxvj $ viij d ... Et iiijot diaconis portantibus pallium super caput
diebus septimana pentecostis et deposicione sancti Wille/mi
1] See
1537
House Books Y: B13
£96 (3 May)
Item it is agreyd that Master Shyrryffes of this Citie shall Ryde
vppon Corpuscristy day with men in hernesse accordyng to the
ancyent Custome of this said Citie
Item it is agreyd by the sayd presentes that my lorde Mayer
shall take an order betwixt the loksmyths & Blaksmyths of this
Citie concernyng ther pagyant
Item to take an order likwyse betwixt the Masons & labores
of this Citie concernyng ther pagiant
Mercers’ Account Rolls MA: D57B(a)
mb 2
... And for beryng of Torchys the morrowe after Corpus christi
day “xijd™ 2:
1538
City Chamberlains’ Books Y : CC3(3)
£9
Leses of Corpuscristy play this yere
In primis the ffyrst place at Trenytie yaites where
as the Comon Clerke kepys the Registre wherefore nihil
that place goith free
Item the second place in Mykkylgate lattyn be
the Chambleyns to Edmond (blank) glasier for soc
yat ther was certen pagiantes past or he tuyk it
Item the Thyrd place at Owsebrygend lattyn to
Thomas ward barbour for
Item the ffourte place at the other end of
owsebryg Lattyn to Iohn hogeson maryner
xx d
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Item the ffyfte place at [Nycholes] Sporyer gate is iii d
end Lattyn to Nycholes dykson barbour for ous
Item the Sext place at the Comon hall where my
Lorde Mayer & his bredren ar accustomyd to be nihil
wherefore that place goith free
Item the sevynt place [at] in Stayngate lattyn to
Mathewe hartlay Taillowr ca
Item the eght place at the Mynster yaites lattyn
to Mr Lyster “yj s\ and Wyll:am Mullans barbour illj S
pis gior
Item the neynt place in Petergate at my lady
wyldes where as my Lady Mares and other nibil
aldermen wyffes were to here the play / wherefore
that place goyth free
Item the tenth place at gotheremgate hede lattyn
to Mr lampton merchaunt and Richerd Breray ij s
Goldsmy th for
Item the ellevynt place of the payment whiche nibil
place is accustomyd to goe free
probatur Summa xvj s viij d
fforfaites of dyuerse occupacions
of this Citie this yere
Item the Sersours of the Sporyers presentes
Iohn Neleson Cordyner , “ [and William
Loksmyth] ° for that yat he sells Sporrs &
wylnot pay vs pagant money nor Suffer vs to
serche his said sporrs
pro parte Camere
uj d
Item Thomas hewetson for lyke offens pro parte Camere ij d
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1538 YORK / 265
f 26
Rent Resolute
Item payd to the Sersours of the Inholders [for]
towardes the Chargis [F] of ther pagyant
f 27v
Mydsomer terme
Item payd to Thomas flemyng for the Chambre
that my lorde & his bredryn Stondyth in of
corpuscristy day to here the playe accustomyd
yerfore
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Item payd to ffreer that maid the Sermont the
morro after Corpuscristi day
{ 38v
Pagant Maisters of the laborers of prs City
Monkward
ys
vjs vi d
xx d
Thomas ffox laborer haith put in for to be pagantmaster this
yere Robert Thowetson
Walmegateward
lohn Bogg Laborer haith put in Richerd horneby Laborer for
this yere
Myklythward
Iamys Hogesyon Laborer haith put in Watter Cowper laborer
for to be pagant Maister for this yere
Bowthomward
Robert huton laborer haith put in (...) baills laborer for to be
pagant Maister for this yere
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Rentes and
ffarmes both
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Curialitates
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Bridgemasters’ Account Rolls Y . C88:2
mb 1
Item for ffarme of the Skynners paygent house xij d
Item for farme of the weuers paygent house xvj d
Item for (blank) mercers ffysshers Tapitours Carpenters &
Tanners vj s
Item for a house on the Paygent Greene yat dyuers paygentes
stand in XVIlJ s
Mercers’ Account Rolls MA: D57C(a)
mb 2
... And for beryng of Torches the moro After Corpus christi
day:/ adie
York Minster Chamberlains’ Rolls YM: E1/73 PM
mb 2*
... 4.) regardo Datum ex mandato Dominorum Decani et capituli
Histrionibus interessentibus in festis translacronis sancti Wille/mi
vj s vulj d inj diebus in sepumana Pentecostis xij s 1) d et
deposicionis sancti Wille/mi vj s viij d prout vsitatum est et in
annis precedentibus xxvj s viij d ... Et jo’ Diaconis portantibus
palliuy super caput sancti Wille/mi in festo translacionis sancti
Wille/mi predicti quatuor diebus in septimana Pentecostis et
1538-9
Churchwardens’ Accounts: St Michael Spurriergate
BIRR Yi Mises
35
Item for A pare off glovys to ye vnder clarkes for syngyng
of ye carrell of A mynd of me id
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Rent Resolute
Chamber costes
this yere
Rewarde to the
Kynges minstrells
and also the
mynstrells of
this City:
Clothyng
accustomyd to
the Common
offycers and to
the wayttes of
this City.
Rentes and
ffermes bothe
within
mykkellyth barre -
and withoute
and Tofts
TsO YORK / 267
1539
City Chamberlains’ Rolls Y : C6:10
mb 1
In primis payd to the Sersours of the Inholders towardes the
charges of there paygent i) s
wee (G(jeikal
mb 1
Item paid to Thomas fflemyng for the Chamber
there as my lord mayer and his Brederyn stondith vj s vilj d
yerely to here the play
Item paid to the wayttes of this City for pasche terme iij s ij d
Item paid to the said wayttes of this City for the morrowe
after Corpus christi day xx d
Item paid to the said wayttes for mydsommer terme xx dd
Item paid to the said waittes of this City for Cristynmas
terme lj s uj d
Item paid to the said wayttes for saynt Wylliam day xxid
Summa xj s vuj d
Item paid to the wayttes of this City for there
clothyng accustomyd to be deuidyd emonges XXXV] S
them
Item paid to Iohn wayte wyff for an old Reyd
hoode laggyd for one of the Eldest wayttes to xvj d
weyre
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Item for fferme of the Skynners pagyent howse xij d
Item for fferme of the weuers pagient howse xvj d
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Wax Wyne
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Item for (blank) mercers ffisshers Tapitours Carpenters and
Tanners vj s
Item for a howse on the pagyent greyn that dyuers pagentes
standes in XVIij s
Mercers’ Account Rolls MA: D57D(a)
mb 2
.. And for beryng of Torches the moro after Corpus christi
day ward, 2.
"Item for toppyng of vj Torches “xv s vjd° »
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Churchwardens’ Accounts: St Michael Spurriergate
Bile Reye/ Mons
f 41v*
Item to ye vnder clark for ‘a’ parre off gloves for syngyng
Amynd off me yd
1540
House Books Y: B9
f 102v (16 November)
Memorandum that the xvjth day of Nouember in the xxxijt yere
of the Reign of our Souereign lorde King henry the viijth in the
tyme of the Mairaltie of the right worshipfull Mazster William
dogeson Maier of this City It is agreyd and decreyd betwyxt
the wollenweuers and lynnonweuers for vnitye and quyetnes
betwyxt bothe the said Misteries and craftes here after to be had
foreuer by the full consent of bothe the said occupacions That
the lynweuers of this City shall yerely content and pay to the
wollenweuers of this same City as hereafter ensuyth towardes
the Sustentacion of yer paieant [and torches] That is to say
euery maister of the same scyens of lynweue7s to content and
pay for euery lyn loyme ij d and euery Iourneyman j d / And
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(Jeses of
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play this yere
Rewarde to the
kynges players
& oyer
honorable men
players this yere
Allowaunces
Accustomed
1540 YORK / 269
the said wollenweue7rs to discharge them of that v s which thay
were accustomed to pay to the said wollenweuers and euery
man to pay yer said dueties affore the ffeast of Saynt lowraunce
and the Sersours of the said lynnenweuers to gather and delyuer
the said duety to the [said] Sersours of the said wollenweuers
at the day abouesaid and ouer and besides that the said [S]
lynnenwevers shall content and pay [euer] to the sustentacion of
yer [paiaunt] ‘torches’ euery maister ij d and the said lynnonweuer
for yer dueties payng shall haue yer torches at the death of
euery maister of the said crafts or his wiff / and also that the
said lynnenweuers shall peceably suffer the Serchours of the said
wollenweuers to Serche what workmen thay haue and how long
thay haue been with them vppon of aither partie maikyng
defalte of any article afforesaid to forfett iij s iiij d to the
chamber and to that occupacion that defalte is made to by evyn
porcions / And also that the said lynweuer shall go wit» the said
wollenweuers in procession on the morow after Corpus christi
Day &c. /
City Chamberlains’ Rolls y : C6:12
mb 1
Item Recevyd therefore this yere as it aperyth
in the papyr booke of the said Accomptauntes vals aid
mb 2d
Item paid to the Lord (....) players to the Erle
of Suffolk players to my Lord Prevay Seall
players and to oyer honorable men players as
it apperith in the papir book of the said
accomptuntes
XXXVj S$ ij d
Mercers’ Account Rolls MA: D58E(a)
mb 2
... And for beryng of Torches the moro after Corpus christi
Day../> eid? ys:
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Churchwardens’ Accounts: St Michael Spurriergate
BI: PR Y/MS 3
f 46v
Item for xx loid off sand for ye churche hend Aganst ye kyng
commyng vilj d
f 47
Item A payre of glovys for playng Amynd of me id
Item to vj laboras for vj days workyng at Eslyngton pyttes
for gravell for ye kynges strett Agans is commyng ij s
1541
House Books Y: B15
£20 (4 June)
Assemblyd in the Cowncell Chambr of Ousebrig the day and
yere abouesaid when and where it was agreyd by the said presens
that euery one of the aldermen Sheryffes and xxiiijt of this
City shall haue yer Torche borne before the procession on the
morowe next after Corpus christi day vppon payn of euery one
of them that doyth the contrary to forfett vnto the common
Chambre of this City vj s viij d to be paid at the next assemble
of the Cowncell after the said procession
f 24
Item the said presens by the concent and agrement
of the said audytours doe Iudge that the said
Master dogeson shall restore agayn to the said
common Chammbre for certen rewardes given to
barwardes and straunge mynstrelles in the tyme
of his Mairaltie [agaynst] of the common goodes
of thys City against the Auncyent custome and
vsage of the said City Whereuppon it is now fully
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concludyd agreyd and determynid by the said
presens that no Mayer hereafter shall commaund
the Chamberleyns of this City for the tyme beyng
to pay or disburs any of the common money to
no barwardes nor straunge Mynstrelles Except it
be to the Kynges Mynstrelles the Queyn is grace
Mynstrelles the lorde prynce is grace mynstrelles
and players vppon payn of forfettyng to the said
common Chammbre by euery Mayer that hereafter
shall offend yerin and doe the contrary to forfett
for euery suche defalte v li. to be takyn and
allowyd of the Mayers fee
£30 (8 July)
Assemblyd in the Cowncell Chambre of Ousebryg atforesaid the
day & yere abouesaid when & where [the said presens] my lorde
mayer by the advyce of the said presens sent for Thomas fflemyng
androe (blank) loyners & William Emondson ., ‘paynter’ for
the makyng of a Scaffald with oyer conveynances at Mikellyth
barre ageynst the commynge of the kynges highnes to this City .
and yeruppon they hadde delyuerd vn to them a Copy of an
olde precydent of the furst commyng of kyng henry the vijth
to this City whos soule god pardon and hereuppon the said
fflemyng androe & Emondson desyres yat they may haue a
communicacion wit) ther occupacions & to haue ther advyse
therin & after yat done they haue promysed the said presens
to yyf them aunswere shortly
£34 (13 July)
Assembled in the Counsaille Chammbre within the common
halle of the said City the day and yere abouesaid when and
where my said lorde Mayor declaryd to the commoners of this
City then being present in the said common halle how that the
kynges maiestie wolde shortly comme to this City and showyd
also to them what he and the said presens wolde deuyse against
hys grace is commyng of the common coste / wherewith thay
24 the] MS the the
xiij s. iiij d.
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were meruelous welle content Wherethrugh my lorde Mair “by
thaduise of’ [and] the said presens callid certen loyners and
paynters of this City and commaundyd them Immedyatly to
taike yer Consaille and deuyses togydders to maike a showe
at Mikkellythbarre of the said city where that the kynges
said Maiestie was supposyd to entre / and so thay promysyd to
doe accordingly
ff 36-6v* (15 July)
Assemblid in the Counsaille Chambre of Ousebrig the day and
yere abouesaid when and where yt was agreyd by the said presens
that sir Rauff Clayton Clerke shall deuyse the speches that shalbe
spokyn at the entre of the kynges maiestie at Mikkillythbarre
[and oyer places where that shewys sh] and the said sir Rauff to
be honestly contentyd for his labour /
Item the day and yere abouesaid hery Smyth Clerke of Saynt
Willam Chappell of Ousebrig came personally befor the said
presens and promysyd to maik a showe , ‘with’ [of] syngyng
and oyer mellody after the best facion that he could deuyse on
the leydes before the said Chappell
Item yt is agreyd by the said presens that the merchauntes
paieaunt shalbe Sett at Ousegate end as the kynges maiestie
shall enter into Connyngstreyt and yerin to be an oyer showe
wit) asmuch melody as may be deuysyd yerin to be had
Item yt is agreyd by the said presens [sh] that [the
Chamberlayns] an oyer showe shalbe at the far end of
Connyngstreyt beyond the common hall yaites to be made with
syngyng and melody as is abouesaid in suche paieaunt as shalbe
thought most meyt and conuienyent yerfore /
Item yt is agreid by the said presens that the Chamberleyns
shall content and pay of the common cost all the artifycers
and laborers bothe for stuff and yer labor to be had abowte the
said Shewys / |
Item yt is agreyd by the said presens yat Master heckylton
Master bean and Master Robynson iij of the said presens shall
se that Mikkellythbarre be welle ordryd and trymmyd and
ouersee the workmen yer wyrkyng
ff 38v-9 (19 July)
Assemblyd in the sayd Counsayll Chambre the day & yere
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abouesayd / when & where yt was agreyd & determined by the
sayd presens that Iamys harryngton & leffrey Wyllsamson too
of the Chamberleyns of the sayd City or ye , “one of them”
accordyng to ther Offyce & othe shall Daily attend of the
Carpenters paynters laborers & of all other workmen within
the common halle of this City makyng & devisyng of [Castelles]
Towres Tyrrettes battylmentes of Tymbre & Canves . also goodly
faynes with the kynges armes the Quenes armes , & the prynce
grace armes’ & with the armes of the City & other proper
conceyttes to be made & devysed after the best maner at
Mikellythbarre ageynst the commyng of the kynges highnes &
the Quenes grace to thys City & specially consideryng yat it ys
the furst tyme of ther commyng to ye said City . and the said
Chamberleyns to delyuer vnto the sayd workmen almaner of
Stuf necessare for yat busynes and to mayke a book of ther
Expenses of all parcelles & to accompt weikly |
Item it ys ordred & determined by the sayd presens yat
antony Eden John Hargyll & William herryson ij of the
Chamberleyns of the said City , “or one of them’ shall likewyse
attend & Survey the workmen at Mikellythbarre & to accompt
weikly as is beforesayd
Item it ys determined by the sayd presens yat Iohn Bellesthorpp
and Rychard Clydero oyer too Chamberleyns of the said City
or the one of them shall likewyse attend & Survey the workmen
in the sayd busynes at Walmgatebarre & to mayke accompt
weikly as ys afforesaid
Item it ys determined by the sayd presens yat Roger Drewrie
& [lohn] , “Cristofer’ Colyer Resydue of the sayd Chamberleyns
or the one of them shall likewyse attend & Survey the workmen
at Bowthumbarre & to accompt weikly of the Charges & Expenses
as is before specfyed
£44 (12 August)
Item it is agreyd by the sayd presens that the Crowne of iiij s
vij d gevyn in reward to the players of the ryght honowrable
Erle of Sussex shalbe allowed of the common Chambre
ff 57-8v* (15 September)
Hereafter apperyth after what maner that the Moste Excellent
Prynce henry the viijth by the grace of god kyng of England &
of ffraunce lorde of Ireland and in Eyrth supreme hede of the
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Churche of England and also the moste gracyous , ‘& vertuouse’
Quene kateryn hys most welbelouyd wytf was receyved by my
sayd lorde Mayre his brederin aldermen [Recorder of] Master
William Cankerd Recorder of this City — the xxiiijt! & a great
multytude of the moste discreyt Commoners fof] , ‘of this
City” to the nowmmbre of Cxxti persons the moste parte of
them havyng newe gownes of , "fyne’ Sadde Tawny onely for
yat purpes . and also the moste parte of the Worshipfull men &
other of the moste honest & discreyt persons dwellyng Within
the Wapentyk of the Aynsty to the nowmmbre of Ix pers(.)ns at
the Crosse of thissyde ffulfoord the Thursday Whiche Was the
moro next after the ffeast of the Invencion of the holy Crosse
and the xvth day of Septembre in the xxxiijti yere of hys moste
gracyous reign. My sayd lorde Mayre hys brederin & master
Recorder stondyng on a rawe & the sayd Worshipfull men of the
sayd Wapentyk of the Aynsty behynd them. And yt pleasyd hys
highnes to comme to my sayd lorde mayre & Theruppon [th]
my sayd lorde mayre & hys Brederin felle downe of ther kneys .
and the sayd master Recorder then of hys kneys mayde a goodly
proposycion of Submissyon vn to hys hyghnes as hereafter
apperyth verbatim &c. |
Most myghty and victoryous prynce vnder almyghty god
supreme heyd of the Churche of Englond our naturall souereign
beyng all tymes by the inspiracion of the holy goste repleyt with
mercy and pety as evidently haith been shewyd by your grace to
your Subiectes layte offendours in thies North partes And where
as we your humble Subiectes the Mayer Aldermen and commons
of your grace ys City of yorke and the inhabitaunce of your
grace ys Countye of your said City of yorke for lack of syncere
and poore knowlege of the verytie of godes worde and ignoraunt
of our boundon duety to you our Souereign lord haue agaynst
our naturall allegyaunce disobedyently and contrary your grace
ys lawes for the common welth prouyded, greuously heynously
and traitoryously offendyd your high invyncible and moste
Royall maiesty your imperyall crowne and dignitye in the most
odyous offence of traterus rebellyon . wherby your grace our
naturall Souereign and kyng havyng the lyves londes and goodes
of vs wretchys at your wyll and pleasor by your good and holsome
lawes for our said vnnaturall and traterous offences haue of your
excellent prudence mercy and pety infused in to you our natural]
souereign lorde by the spiryte of almyghty god grauntid to vs
wretches beyng desperate of any maner hope or releyff your
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moste gracyous and charytable remissyon frank and ffree pardon
whos bountyfull harte and liberall graunte we of owr selfes ar in
no wise able to recompence or satisfye but contynually haue
been frome the bothoms of our Stomak repentaunt wo and
sorowfull for owr said vnnaturall and haynous offences heyr
before the hygh presence of your moste excellent maiesty
Royall | ovr supreme heyd by deuyne prouycion we promyse and
vowe in the wordes of fayth and truth frome thys tyme forward
not onely to serue obey love and dreyd your maiestie Royall .
spend our goodes . our bodyes witpoute murmur or grudge in
the seruyce of your moste Royall Maiestye at your most gracyous
preceptes and commaundmentes to the vtter effucion of our
hartes blode But also we our wyffes and chylder shall contynuelly
deuoutly pray to the moste blessyd and holy Trenytie to preserue
your moste Royall Maiestye with your gracyous Queyn and our
noble prynce Edward long to reign ouer vs in prosperitye / And
that after thys your gracys mortall and transytory lyff our
Saviour Chryste in Rewarde of your said beningnitye shewyd
vnto vs wreches his creatours and your Subiectes graunte vnto
your hignes the eternall fruycion of his infynyte glory / amen /
The Mayer Aldermen and commons of this your grace is City
of yorke and thenhabytaunce of your grace ys Countye of your
said City of yorke to almyghty god givyth lawde and honour
for the preseruacion of your moste Royall person in prosperitye
beyng as hartely reioysyd as any Subiectes may be of this your
prosperous lourney vnto this your said City . requyring your
grace to accept yer benyvolence aswelle to your Maiestie as to
your gracyous Quene as in this paipyr apperyth and so gaff a
papyr of the present in to the kynges owne hand / |
Moste high and myghty prynce your humble Subiectes the
Mayer Aldermen and the commons of your grace ys City of yorke
shall at all tymes be redy to accomplish all suche seruyce as your
Maiestye shall commaund them to doe bothe with yer bodys and
yer goodes to the vttermost of yer powers /
ff 56-6v* (14 October)
Assemblyd in the sayd Cownsayll Chambre of Ousebryg the day
& yere abouesayd when & where Iohn fflemyng & Rychard
Grayves Carvers who tuyk appon them for to mayke & finysshe
the Showe yat was proposyd by the sayd presens ageynst the
commyng of the kynges grace & also of the Quenes grace to this
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City for the honour & Worshyp of the sayd City . in finisshyng of
the , “sayd’ Showe the sayd Iohn fflemyng & Rychard Grayves
dyd vtterly deceyve the Chamberleyns of the same City
whereuppon the sayd Chamberleyns hathe commencyd ane
accion of distreyt ageynst the sayd Iohn fflemyng & Rychard
Grayves in the Sheryffes Courte.
Item it ys agreyd by the sayd presens yat my sayd lorde Mayer
shalbe ‘restoryd ageyn by ye Chamberleyns of this City yat he’
disbursyd & payd vnto dyuerse of the kynges offycers & seruantes
the beyng here of the Kynges Maiesty & of the Quenes grace for
the honour & Worshyp of this City as hereafter apperyth
particularly &c.
In primis in reward vn to the Trumpytour yat
blew the Trump at ye tyme of the makyng of
the proclamacion [befo] for the kyng in all Ne
places accustomyd within this City |
Item in reward to the kynges arroldes xlis
Item [to] in reward to the kynges footemen XX S
Item in reward to ye quenes grace footemen XV S
Item in reward to the kynges Copberer vij s vyjd
Item in reward to the kynges Cookes beyng of the blak gard xx s
Item in reward to the kynges Trumpytour 30% S
Item [to] in reward to maister Ardyen Clerk of the market xx s
Item to the Offycers of the Wyneseller vis vjd
Item to the offycers of the Buttree VS.
Summa viij li. 4 d
£59v (4 November)
Assemblid in the Cowncell Chammbre of the Guyld halle of the
said City the day and yere abouesaides when and where Rychard
Grayves and Iohn fflemyng Carvours personally camme before
the said presens and Submytt themselfes for to abyde the order
of iiij of the common Counsaill of this City as concernyng the .
deceyt that thay comyttid to the Chamberleyns of the said City
in not fynysshing of a certen showe by them deuysed and where
of thay made a plat [agains] before the commyng of the kynges
maiestie and of the Quene ys grace . Wherethrough thay put this
City [d] to diswurship in that behalf and here after apperys the
naymes of the arbytours appoyntid by yer concentes for the
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ordryng of that matter . that is to say Adam atkynson . Myles
Cooke . Robert Elden and Cristofer Clerke . Which 1iij arbytowrs
haue deuisid that lamys Harryngton and his fellow Chamberleyns
of the said City of the one partie and the saides Richard Grayve
and Iohn fflemyng of the oyer partie shalbe bounden in xxl li. in
i) seuerall obligacions to abyde the arbytrement and order of the
said arbytours So that the said aworde be made and given before
the ffeast of Saynt Andro the Apostyll next to come &c.
£74 Millers
theys are vnfranchyst and occupyes as we do /
[Richard Malkerall]
Annes Walker
[christfer]
christofer Mylner
william howeolytf
Cutberth smarthwayte
and at kepeth ffyschergayte Mylne
lowrance heysbe
and we beseke your lordyschipe & your breder yat we may haue
some thynge of theys to mend owr pagand with all /
Mercers’ Account Rolls MA: D58F(a)
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.. And for beryng of Torches the morro after Corpuscristy
days aya 72
Corpus Christi Account Rolls vy. C103:2
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Et dictus Magister petit Allocari pro diuersis expensis necessarijs
hoc Anno per ipsum factis videlicet in processione generali in
Crastivo corporis christi In primis Solut clerico portanti crucem
ante processionem ij d Et Solut. ijbus pueris portantibws Candelas
ij d Et solut. iiijot clericis portantibus bawdkyn vilj d Et solut.
Capellanis portantibus feratrum viij d Et solut. clericis
parochialibus Cantantibus xij d Et solut. cantatoribus in Regardo
viij d Et solut. sex hominibus portantibus sex torchias xijd Et
solut. ijb“s hominibus portantibus feratrum viij d Et solut. pro
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expensis eodem tempore viijd_ Et solut. clericis vestibuli Ecclesie
Cathedralis sancti petri In Regardo xij d Et solut. lanitori sancti
petri et clerico parochyali ecclesie sancte trinitatys in magno vico
vil} ‘d’ ... Et solut. pro refectione Magistri et sex Custodum circa
festuwm Corporis christi ex consuetudine v ‘s° ...
1541-2
Churchwardens’ Accounts: St Michael Spurnergate
Bie eRaya/ Mises
f 54*
Item for A parre of gloves to ye vnder clarke for syngyng of
Amynd off me yd
1542
City Chamberlains’ Books Y: CC4(1)
£37
leases of Corpus christi Play
In Primis the furst place at the Trinyte yaittes
where yat the common Clerk kepes the Reyester
: bt
and yerfore yat place hathe been accustomed to satis
goe free
{tem the second place for lohn Blakey for [xx d.] xvilj d
Item the iijd€ place to ohn Wilkynson for x
Item the iiijth place at Ousebrygend for Mr "Tomas Warde xx d
Item the vth place to mazster hewetson at Ousebrygend for js
Item the vjth place to Iohn Ellys at Ousegateend
«
& also to (blank) for :
Item the vjjth place to Wydoe Glasyn for xx d
Item the vijjth place to Mertyn Metcalf for ij s
Item the [viijth} “ixth” place at the common halle for my lorde
Mayer & his brederin Whiche place is free yerfore &c ;
[tem the xth place to Mathewe hartley for ij
4 et) MS etet
20
25
30
35
40
x
NEIGH) NEON 1747/0)
Item the xjth place to maister Cooke & Iamys Wad for lj s
Item the xijth place to Trestram lytster & iij s iiij d
laurence Thomlynson at Mynsteryayte for
Item the xiijth place in petergate to maister Gayle alderman
for xvj d
Item the xiijth place at Gotheromgateend to ae
Iohn Grayves [to] Carver for J
Item the xvth place in Colyergate to William Adenett for xxd
Item the xvjth place of the Payment before the howse of Iamys
lakson merchaunt where as the lady Mayres & her Systers dyd
stond yerfore nihil to the common Chambre
probatur Summa xxiilj s [vilj d] x d
f 69
Rent Resolute
In primis payd to the Sersours of the Inholders
towardes the Charges of the bringyng owte of the lj] S
paiaunt accustomed to be payd
f 70v
Mydsomer terme /
Item payd to Thomas fflemyng for the Chambre
yat my lorde mayer & his Brederin hard Corpus vj s. vuj d
christi play in thys yere accustomed
£73
Whytsonday terme /
Item payd to master Rauff Clayton Clerk who
mayde the sermond in the Chaptre house within
the metropolytane Churche of saynt peter of
York the morowe after Corpus christi day
lj s iy d
20
25
30
35
40
280 / YORK 1542
t 74v
Rewardes to the common wayttes of this City /
In primis paid to the said waytes for Easter terme
as is accustomyd uj s jd
Item paid by master plasket one of the Chamberleyns the
morowe next after Corpus christi day xx d
Item payd to the sayd Waytes of Mydsomer evyn xx d
Item payd to the said waites for Crystynmes term lij S. ilij d
Item payd to the said waites for Saynt William day xx d
probatur Summa xj s viij d.
f 76
Clothyng accustomyd to the common offycers
and to the wayttes of this City /
Item payd to the waytes of this Citie for yer
Clothyng accustomyd agaynst Crystynmes cs
ff 88-8v
Expences neccessary this yere /
Item payd to percyvalle Selbe swerdberer to my
lorde mayer for the Whyte rod to my said lorde
mayer the morowe next after Corpus christi day
accustomed
iiij d
Item pard to the seruant of the common Clerk for
kepyng of the Register at the furst place where
as , ‘the play of Corpus christi’ [play] was playd
of Corpus christi day this yere accustomed
xx d
Item paid to vyntyners of Corpus christi day for
a great skallop of maynebrede yat they haue been
accustomed to gyf to my said lorde mayer & his
brederne
viij d
Item pard in reward in lik maner to the Bakers of
vilj d
this City for the present of sheyld of maynebrede J
20
25
30
ay
40
vacat quia
demit x
Allowaunces
Accustomyde
1542 YORK / 281
Item paid for nayles yat was occupyed in the hangyng
probatur Summa xj s ij d |
of the chambre at Thomas fflemynges where as my ij d
lorde mayer & his Bredern hard the sayd play
Item paid for resshys to the sayd Chambre ij d
[Item pazd to master Clayton yat made ye Sermond
ae iij s vilj d]
on the morowe next after Corpus christi day J J
f 94v
Rewardes to the kynges players and to oyer honorable mennis
players
Summa nihil
f 120v
Paieant Maisters of the laborers of this City this yere /
Monkwarde
Richard wyggen laborer haith put in to be paieant Maister this
yere George Mitkyn /
Mercers’ Account Rolls MA: D58G(a)
mb 2
... And for beryng of Torchys the moro After Corpuscrysty
day fx a ince
1542-3
Churchwardens’ Accounts: St Michael Spurriergate
BI: PR Y/MS 3
£59
Item for A parre off gloves to ye vnder clark for playng of
Amynd of me id
5
15
25
30
35
40
Rentes ffarmes
bothe within
myklyth bar
and withoute
and toftes
Allowaunces
accustomy de
282 / YORK 1543
1543
House Books Y: B17
£14 (28 May)
Item it ys agreyd by the sayd presens yat the Chamberleyns of
this City shall pay suche Costes & Expensys as was mayd to my
said lord Maiour his Brederyn Chamberleyns & the common
Clerk of this City of Corpus christi day last past . Provyded
always yat the Chamberleyns of this City for the tyme beyng
shalnot Excede hereafter of Corpus christi day in makyng
Expensys at the place ther as my lord Maiour of this City [shalnot]
. Shall” here the play above iiij markes
Bridgemasters’ Account Rolls v: C88:4
mb 1
Item for ffarme of the Skynners pagaunt howse xij d
Item for ffarme of the weuers pageant howse xvj d
Item for mercers ffisshers Tapitors Carpentors and Tanners
pag 1 ant howse vj s
Item for a howse in the pagyant Grene yat dyuerse pagyantes
standes in xvilj [d] s
Mercers’ Account Rolls MA: D58H(a)
mb 2
.. And for Beryng of Torchis the moro Aftyr Corpuscrysty
Days uid.
1543-4
Churchwardens’ Accounts: St Michael Spurriergate
Bile Rae yivions
f 64
Item A parte of gloves to ye vnder clark for syngyng of Amynd
15
20
25
30
35
40
Rewardes
Accustomyd to
the common
way tes of this
(ty
Clothing
accustomed to
the common
off (...)
1543-4 YORK / 283
off me yd
1544
House Books Y: B17
£51 (15 May)
Item it is further agreyd by the sayd presens that for the honour
of god & worship of this Citie / The Master of Corpuscrysty gyld
& the prestes beyng of the same , ‘gild’ with all other prestes
that goyth procession vppon fryday the Morro after Corpuscrysty
day shall goo in the sayd procession in Coopes of the best that
can be gottyn within the sayd Citie / and that every howseholdr
that dwellith in the hye way ther as the sayd procession procedith,
shall hang before ther doores & forefrontes beddes & Coverynges
of beddes of the best that thay can gytt and Strewe before ther
doores resshes and other suche fflowers & Strewing as they
thynke honeste & clenly for the honour of god{d] & worship of
this Citie and this to be fyrmely kepte hereafter vppon payn of
every man that dothe the contrary this agrement shall forfait
& pay to the Common Chambre of this Cite ij s._ iitj d /
City Chamberlains’ Rolls Y : C6:13
mb 1
Item payd to the waytes for Eister terme lj s ij d
Item payd to the seyde waytes the morowe next After corpus
christi day xx d
Item payd to the seyde waytes for Mydsomer terme xx d
Item payd to the seyde waytes for Crystmas terme lj s id
Item payd to the seyde waytes the day yat my seyd lord mayer
mayd his greyt ffeyst Accustomyd That is to say of saynt William
day &c xx d
Summa xj $ vilj d
Item paid to William hall & his ffellos waytes of
this City for ther Clothing Accustomyd egally XXXVj $
devided emong tham ageynst Cristmas
40 marginalia {...)) -icers to the Common waites of this city.
30
35
40
Rentes & farmes
withoute
Myklithbar and
wivbin Raton
Rawe (...)
Toftes
Allowaunces
Accustomed
284 / YORK 1544
Item payd to Marmaduke Smyth vestmentmaker
for makyng of scutcyons to the three waytes of
this City with letters of gold for my lord mayour
name Accustomyd Ageynst Crystmas
Vilj S
Bridgemasters’ Account Rolls Y:C89:1
mb 1
Item of the Skynners for the pagyant howse next the same_ xij d
Item of the Marchauntes for ther pagyant howse of the Tofte
grene xij d
Item of the Tapytours for ther pagyant howse ther xij d
Item of the wrightes & Cordyners for ther pagyant howse ij $
Item of the Baxsters for ther pagyant howse xij d
Item of the Tanners for ther pagyant howse x1j d
Item of the Cowpers for an owteshote to the pagyant at the
laith end inj d
Mercers’ Account Rolls MA: DS58I(a)
mb 2
... And for beringe off Torches the morowe after Corpuscristy
day} sard:
Bakers’ Account Books BL: Add MS 33852
fi 2
Resattes
Item Resaued of the hole occupacion for pagand mone Co)
f3 (Expenses)
Item payd for sheld a)
14 marginalia {...)\ and
20
45)
30
35
40
1544 YORK / 285
f 3v
Item payd for reparacions Abowte our pagen xxj d
Item payd for payntyng of our dyodyms XV] d
Item spent ther\..) La d
Item payd for torches xij S VJ d
Item payd for playing of ovr pagend xs Vij d
Item spent for our suppers At the paying there of xij d
1544-5
Churchwardens’ Accounts: St Michael Spurriergate
BI: PR Y/MS 3
f 70v
Item to thomas glasyng for playng Amynd of me yd
1545
House Books Y: B17
£84 (17 March)
Also it is further agreyd that my lord Mayour shall call before
hym the Master of Corpuscristi gyld and to take an order as
towchyng playng of the creyde playfe] as he shall thynke good
for the mooste profett & aduantage of the sayd [cit] Citie /
{90 (2 June)
Assemblyd in the Counsell Chambre of owsebrige the day & yere
abouesaides when and where it was agreyd by the sayd presens
that for the kynges pleasour and worship of this Citie Ther
shalbe commaundment gevyn in the kinges name to all suche
persons within this Citie that haith harnes & wapen to serue
the king shall them selfes or Some able person for them be reddy
vppon Corporyscrysty day to attend appon the Shyrryfes /
thorro this Citie honestly furnyshed with ther harnes & wapen
10
20
25
30
35
40
Rentes &
ffarmes without
my klyth barr
& within
Rattonrawe the
Toftes &
Mykkilgate
Allowancies
accustomed
286 / YORK 1545
Bridgemasters’ Account Rolls vy: c89:2
mb 1
Item of the Skynners for ther pagyanthowse xij d
item of the Marchauntes for ther pagyanthowse xij d
Item of the wrightes & Cordyners for ther pagyant howse ij s
Item of the bakers for ther pagyanthowse xij d
Item of the Tanners for ther pagyanthowse xij d
Item of the Cowpers for An owteshote uij d
Item of the Tapytours for ther pagyant howse xij d
Mercers’ Account Rolls MA: D58K(a)
mb 2
... And for berynge Off Torches the Morowe after Corpus cristy
Dayiye ccd cane.
Bakers’ Account Books BL: Add MS 33852
£5
Ressattes
Item ressawyd off fforrandars & Sandleders (.) ¢..)terleders XS
f5v (Expenses)
In primis payd ffor playng off howre pagand XS vil) d
Item payd ffor one torch toppyng iil) S Vj d
Item payd ffor howsfferm x1] d
Item payd ffor owre scheld xij d
Item payd ffor Nalles to the pagand & the qwelys i) d
Item Spent at master langtons yat day that we mayd owre 7
ssupplicacione & off[()] corpus christi day xvilj d
38 mayd] MS mayd Mayd
20
25
30
35
Rewardes
accustomyd to
the common
waytes of this
city
1545 YORK / 287
Item Spent yat day yat we went Abowt to gedder pagand mony
with the marrys offocer xij d
Item payd at cudbart at the rekynyng dynner off owre pagand -
mastrers ij s
Item payd to my lord marrys offessure iti} d
(..) payd yat Nyght yat we payd the plaer vii) d
1545-6
Churchwardens’ Accounts: St Michael Spurriergate
Bile Reaves
£75
Item for A parre of gloves to ye vnder clark for synging Amynd
of me yd
1546
House Books Y: B18
f15v (12 April)
Item it is agreyd by the said presens that Corpuscristie play
shalbe playd this yere and that the billettes shalbe delyueryd
furth for the same according to the auncyent Custome /
City Chamberlains’ Rolls y : C6:14
mb 1
Item payd to the seyd waytes the morowe next after Corpus
christi day xx d
Bridgemasters’ Account Rolls Y: €89:3
mb 1
Item of the Skynners for ther pagyant howse xij d
25
30
35
40
Rentes (.)
ffarmes without
Myklyth barr
and within
Rattonrawe
Toftgreyn and
My(.dylgate /
Allowancies
accustomed
288 / YORK 1546
Item of the Marchauntes for the pagyant howse xij d
Item of the wrightes & Cordyners for ther pagyanthowse ij S.
Item for the Tanners pagyant howse xij d
Item for the Bakers pagyant howse xij d
Item of the Cowpers for a nowteshote inj d
Item of the Tapitowrs for ther pagyant howse xij d
Mercers’ Account Rolls MA: D58L(a)
mb 2
... And for berynge Of Torches the Morow after Corpus Criste
day xij da...
Bakers’ Account Books BL: Add MS 33852
£6
Ressates
Item ressawyd In pagand mony off owre awne craft xij ()
Item resawyd off fforranders bowrne ledders & sandleders vj s
f6v (Expenses)
In primis payd to <...) plaer for playng off the pagand xs vijd
Item payd ffor Mendyng off the pagand & the qwelys and a
New strake to the qwell & nales to the qweles and one band to
the pagand & warkmanschype ys
Item payd ffor tymer tyll lym & Sand latt & nalles and
warkmanschype to the pagand hows lj
Item payd ffor howsterm xij d
Item payd ffor the Scheld that mylord mare had xij d
Item payd ffor Mayne bred & wyne yat my lord mare had xj d
Item payd at Master Langtons yat day yat 3e had yowre
Rekynyng deyner off owre Pagand Mastes i s
Item payd at owre Soper yat nyght yat we payd the player viijd
Item payd yat day yat we went a bowt ffor to geder pagand
money & to the offeser ffor his lawbor xij d
15
20
25
30
35
40
Rewardes
Accustomyd ta
the common
1546 YORK / 289
York Minster Chamberlains’ Rolls YM: E1/74 MP
mb 2*
... Et solut Iohanni Gachet pro camera sua super portas Clausi
in die corporis Christi iij s ili (.) ...
1546-7
House Books Y: B18
f 69
Memorandum this yere dyd Saynt George day fall vppon good
ffryday and therfore thay dyd not Ryde with Saynt George
this yere
1547
House Books Y: B18
f£97v (17 June)
Also it is agred that where as Mr dogeshon Mr dobson & Mr
White wantyd ther Torches in the procession the ffryday after
Corpuscristie day they shall pay every one of them iij s_ uj d
for ther defaltes in that behalf
And also the occupacrons of the Taillowrs oght to haue hadd
x1) Torches in the said procession & they wantyd iiij°r torches
of ther nombre for the whiche it was agreed they shall pay for
a fyne therefore ij s ij d /
City Chamberlains’ Rolls Y : C6:15
mb 1 (Expenses)
Item payd to the waytes for Eister terme lj s ij d
Item payd to the seyde waytes the morrowe next after corpus
10
20
25
30
35
waytes ofthis Christi day pre, ar
oy Item payd to the seyde waytes for mydsomer terme xx d
Item payd to the seydes waytes for Crystmas terme lj Ss ij d
Item payd to the sayde waytes the day yat my lord Mayer
5) d
Clothyng
Accustomyd to
the Comon
offycers & to
the waytes of
this City
Expensys mayd
of corpus
christi day
Rentes and
ffarmes without
Myklyth barr
and within
Rattonrawe
Toftesgreyn and
Mykkilgate
ffelterlayne
ZI OK/ COR Kea 5407
mayd his greyt ffeyste Accustomyd That ys to say of Saynt
William day &c
summa Xj $ viij d
Item payd to William hall and his ffellos waytes
of this City for ther Clothyng Accustomyd egally
to be devydyd emonges them Ageynst Crystmas
Item payd to Marmaduke Smyth vestmentmaker
for maikyng of Scutchons to the three waytes of
this City wyth letters of gold for my lord mayour
nayme Accustomyd Ageynst Cristmas
Item payd for the charges & expensys of the seyd
lord Maiour his Brederin Aldermen Shyryffes
xx1ilj0 Chamberleyns & the common Clerk at
the place ther as they hard the seyd play of
corpus christi as yt Apperys partyclarly in the
paper booke of the seyde Accomptauntes
Bridgemasters’ Account Rolls Y: C89:4
mb 1
Item of the Skynners for ther pagyaunt hous
Item of the marchauntes for the(.) pagyaunt hous
Item of the Tapitors for ther pagyaunt hous
Item of the Wrightes & Cordyners pagyant hous
Item of the Tanners pagyant hous
Item of the Bakers pagyand hous
Item of the Cowpers for an owteshote
Mercers’ Account Rolls MA: D58M(a)
mb 1*
... The Butcher Padgaunt xij d. ...
xx d
XXXVj S$
viij s
xij d
xij d
xij d
js
xij d
xij d
ij d
10
20
25
30
33
40
1547, YORK (291
mb 2
Allowauncies __... And for beringe of Torches The morow after Corpus Christy
accustomed / Day if “xij ‘ale
Wax Wyne . Ds 5
2 aise Item for toppinge of Torches xv s 1jd/...
Bakers’ Account Books BL: Add MS 33852
£7 (Receipts)
eee 10
Item rescayvyd [of] for the bowers for the pagent roime —xi¥.) (.)
Item rescaved of oure bredren tor pagent monay XV S
Item rescaved of the fforreners “&' sandeleders & burnlede‘.)s
for ther pagent monay vj s vijd
Item rescayved of the weuers for thayre pagent rom\..) dettes 15
owen to the occupacion xij d
f 7v
be 20
Item <...) Lawrens sedale ffor hys pagent monay 1j° yeres xij d
Item Nicholes wysseman for [of] one yere pagent monay vj d
Item Ry<..) sawer for ° yeres xij d.
Item clyffton wyffe vj d.
mA 25
f8 (Expenses)
Item for «..) playing of the pagent MG.)
Item for the shylde that we dyd gyve to my Lorde maier & 30
hys bredren of corpus crysti day ae)
1548
House Books Y: B19 35
f l6v (25 May)
Also it is forther agreyd by the sayd presens that Corpuscristy
play shalbe playd this yere Certen pagyauntes excepte / That is 40
11 roime] for romme
Rentes and
ffarmes
without
Myklith Barr
& within
Rattonrawe
Toftegreyn and
My kkylgate
ffelterlayne
292) / ORK [548
to say / the deyng of owr Lady / assumpcion of our Lady / and
Coronacion of our Lady /
Bridgemasters’ Account Rolls Y: €89:5
mb 1
Item of the Skynners for ther pagyant howse xij d
Item the marchauntes for ther pagyant howse xij d
Item of the Tapitours for ther pagyant howse xij d
Item of the gyrdlers for ther pagyant howse vilj d
Item of the wryghtes & Cordyners pagyant howse is
Item of the Tanners pagyant howse xij d
Item of the bakers pagyanthowse xij d
Item of the Cowpers for a nowteshote ij d
Mercers’ Account Rolls MA: D58N(a)
mb 1
... The Butcher Padgeaunt x1 d
Bakers’ Account Books BL: Add MS 33852
£9
Ressaytes
Item In primis ressawyd off owre brederyn ffor paggand mone ‘..)
Item ressawyd off the fforreners Sand leders & burnleders Gs
(Expenses)
In primis payd to the plaer ffor playng off the pagand xs v\<...)
Item payd ffor owre Scheld off corpus crysty day vilj d
Item payd at Percelvels off corpus crysty day Xvi} d
Item payd at thomas Roger one the ffryday after corpus cristi
)
Day i
Item payd to the waytes [off corpus cristy day] ‘trenite Sunday
10
20
25
30
35
40
ffelterlayne
1548 YORK / 293
at Soper’ Gad
Item payd to the mynstrels giuen the mande bred«...) ez)
Item pay to the brygmasters for housferm ee
f 9v
Item payd to Iohn w<.)ssen wryght ffor mendyng off the oa
pagand ij d
Item payd at Steyn cokx off corpus cristi day ffor [(..)] off
Masters schotes war gederd vj d
Item payd at Sayd steyn cowkes to the mynstrales yat Sam
day vilj d
1549
House Books Y: B19
f 69v (26 April)
Item it is agreyd that billyttes shalbe delyuerd to the officers for
the playng of Corpuscrysty play / to be playd holy / excepte /
the assumpcion of our Lady “and Coronacion of our lady’ [and]
dieng of our Lady / as it was the Last yere /
Mercers’ Account Rolls MA: D580O(a)
mb 1
... The Butcher Padgeaunte xij d
Bakers’ Account Books BL: Add MS 33852
ff 10-10v (Receipts)
Item In prymys Ressawyd off the [ho] hoyll crafte ffor mendyng
off the pagand hows X1x $ vi d
Item Ressawyd off awne craffte ffor pagand mone Xlllj s
Item Ressawyd off the bowllbakers & Watterledders &
ssandleders i
Item Ressawyd off the Wewers
; xij d
Item Ressawyd off the bowers
xij d
30
35
40
294 / YORK 1549
Item Ressawyd off the chamerlain ffor owre Scheld vilj d
(Expenses)
Item In primis payd ffor Reparracions off the pagand
hows xix $ vilj d
Item .“payd’ to the wryght ffor temer & warkmanschyp off
the Sayd hows lll} Ss vilj d
Item payd lattes & nalles & morter to the wall vilj d
Item payd ffor Stons to the grownd wall ij d
Item payd to j lawborrars ffor warkmanschype xd
Item payd ffor playng off the pagand xs vij d
Item payd to the players ffor thare Soperd & dener off trenete
Sonday & corpus christi day xij d
Item payd ffor hows fferm xij d
Item payd ffor qwre qwell nalles & mendyng off the pagand viij d
Item payd ffor the scheld to my lord mayre xd
Item payd ffor drynke [yat] qwene we dyd sset fforth the
pagand more than the pagand masters dyd vj d |
Item Spent yat day yat we ffest the pagand hows comend at Iohn
Huntyngtons xd
Item Spent yat day yat gederd pagand mone xij d
Item payd to my lord mars offesser lulj d
Item payd to the mynstrels yat day yat we f(..)et inj d
Item payd yat day yat we mayd mandy bred inj d
Item Spent yat day yat we payd the plaers vilj d
Item Spent yat day yat we put in the pagand and mayd ffast the
dorys vilj d
1550
House Books Y: B20
if 14 (8 May)
Assemblyd in the Counsaill Chambre of owsebrige of this Citie /
when and where it was agreyd by the said presentes That all
_‘forren’ Butchers shall resorte to this Citie daly with ffleshe to
sell in Thursday markett / Trinite Churche yerd in Mykkylgat /
and at the ffyshe shamylles at ffossebrige end / frely without
21 we] MS we we 28 and} MS and and
10
15
20
Zs
30
35
40
ffelterlayne
Rentes Resolute
1550 YORK / 295
any payng of pagyaunt money or orther [D] Imposicions /
consideryng that is for the Refuge and helpe of this Citie duryng
the tyme that the said Citie is Infectyd with the plaige /
£17 (18 May)
And in consideracion of the seyd playg it ys agreyd yat the
common offycers of this City shall furthwit) tayke in to theyre
handes the byllettes [of] yat was delyuerd furth for corpus
christi play And the seyd play for the seyd consideracion to be
sparyd & not to be played this yere
Mercers’ Account Rolls MA: D58P(a)
mb 1
... °The butcher paggen> xij d
mb 2
... And to Iohn Stamper for pageant howsse ‘xij d° ...
Bakers’ Account Books BL: Add MS 33852
f11 (Receipts)
Item Ressawed off the bolbakers ffor pagand mone lllj s
(Expenses)
Item payd to the wattes lj d
Item payd to the brygmasters for hus fferm xij d
Item payd to Iohn Huntyngton ffor hys payns takyng ffor hys
plaers xij d
f1lv
Item payd at ohn Dycsson yat day yat we gad ther pagand
mone xd
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30
35
40
296 / YORK 1550
And the wewers payd nothyng ffor thare pagand standyng thys
yere
itsyayi|
House Books Y: B20
Endpapers* (12 March) Vintners
To the honorable lorde Mayor of the citie of yorke
and his brether the aldermen of the sayme
Moste humbly compleynyng Shewyth vnto yowr good lordeshyppe
and brether Thomas greges and Rychard Aynley vynteners . That
wheras certen holsome good and laudable ordinances towchyng
the occupacion of vynteners was established and mayde and also
approbate and confyrmyd by the lorde mayor brether and
comons of the sayd citie the xxijt' yeare of the reagne of famos
memorie kyng Edward the fowrte as herafter folowyth ffurste
that no man shold occupie as vyntener wythin the sayd citie butt
suche as shold be admyttyd by the sherchers and feloshype of
the sayd occupacion and also that euery man wythin this citie
beyng admyte by the sayd serchers and feloshype of the
occupacion of vynteners shold be frome tyme to tyme
contributorye to the yearlye , “chargis’ and expensis of the
sayde occupacions as well in bryngyng forth of the pagyon as
also in all maner of thynges concernyng the sayme So it is
honorable lorde and his worshypfull brether that a grett nomber
of persons of this citie not regayrdyng the sayde orders and
laudable ordinances bott contrarie the sayme to the vtter
dystruction of the sayd occupacon of vynteners and mysterye
of the sayme nott beyng admyte by the serchers and feloshype
of the sayd occupacion nor beyng wyllyng to bere and [se]
susteyne the chayrges and expensis of the sayd occupacion of
vynteners bott at theyre awne lybertye drawyth and retaylyth
wynes and some of theyme suche as is vneholsome and corrupte
and puttyth the drawyng therof to vneable persons contrarye the
ordynances of the sayd occupacion of vynteners to the vtter
dystenction of the sayme, oneles a spedye reymedy herin be [hy]
hayde In consyderacon wherof may it pleas yowr good lordeshype,
that wheras there is bot fewe in nombre franchesyd to the sayd
occupacon to appoynte a certen nombre at the dyscrescion of
1 ffor| MS ffor ffor 25 thynges) corrected in same hand from thenges
20
25
30
35
40
nota pro Sadlers /
& glasiers / for
yer / pagiant
15S iO RK 52977,
yowre good lordeshype and sayd brether to be contributorie to
the yerly chargys and expensis of the sayd occupacion and
forther that the other not beyng admyte by yor lordshype and
brether may surceasse and leave of retaylyng of wynes or elles to
dyscharge and anulle the sayd occupacron and puttyng all at
lybertye and the sayd Thomas greges and Rychard Aynley shall
dayly pray for yowre prosperos healthes
£50 (23 March)
Assemblyd in the Counsall Chambre of owsebrige of this Citie
the day and yere abouesaides when and where it was agreyd by
the said presentes / That the billettes shalbe mayd and delyueryd
for the playng of Corpuscrysty play /
Also it is agreyd that the Sheryffes of this Citie shall Ryde
vppon Mydsomar Evyn with ther officers and a nombre in
harnes / and at other tymes as haith beyn of auncyent tyme
accustomyd
f£52v (24 April)
Alsoo it is aggreed by the said presens that the Inholdars [sh]
the Weavers / Drapers . Taylowrz & hosiers shalbe chardged by
my lord Mayour to gathir vp their Pageant money accustomed
and to bryng the same and delyuer it to my said lord to be
further ordred by hym towardes settyng forth of pageantz on
Corpus christi day [as to hym sha wher most nede shall be /]
wher he shall see most nede /
£56)(23 May)
Assembled in the Counsell Chambre of Ousebrig of this Citie the
day & yere above wrytten whan & where it was aggreed by the
sayed presens that ffor soo moche as the Drapers of this Cite
be dischardged of settyng forth their olde pageant called the
Dyeng of our lady nowe layed downe the sayed Drapers shall
therfor this yere paye of their owne costes xiij s ij d towardes
[s] bryngyng forth of suche other pageantz . decayed as shalbe
thought expedyent & necessary by my lord Maiour.
Item ffor suche pouertie , "& skarsitie’ as is at this present
perceyued in the Glasyars of this Citie it is aggreed by the sayd
presens that they the same glasiars shall ffrom hensforth beare
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25
30
35
40
[Coblers] /
Coblers /
298 / YORK 1551
the thridd part of the chardges of settyng forth the pagiant
accustomed [be] to be browght forth by the Sadlers and glasiars
Or elles to be equally rated by polle all the sadlers & glasiars
togiders and to paye euery of theym in lyke / by discrecion of
my Lord Maiour /
Item that where by tholde ordynance of the Coblers within
this Citie certayne ffynes & forfaytures of the same occupacion
shold be payed towardes vpholdyng of certayne torches in
Corpus christi procession shall be from hensforth payed [and]
thone half to the Chambre of this Cite & thother half to the
profit of thoccupacion / And to be contributory this yere to such
pagiant settyng forth as shalbe thought most nede by dyscrecion
of my lord Maiour /
£57 (25 May)
Assembled in the Counsell Chambre of Ousebrig of this Citie the
day & yere above wrytten whan & where it was aggreed by the
said presens that for soo moche as the sykenes hath ben latly
within this Citie: and to avoyde , “somme’ [(..)] occasion [(.)] of
lyk ‘[(..)]° this somar . by reason of confluence and blyndyng
[of] togiders of “euery’ [of] sort of people at this Corpus christi
playe with [, .....)"] long taryeng abowt it / No moe pagiantes
shalbe played thys yere but [tenne] in tenne certayne stations /
that is to saye
In Mykilgate ageynst Heryson doore
Item ageynst the three kynges.
Item at my lord mayor doores
ffourthly at martyn metcalf dore in Conystreet
ffyftly at the comon hall gates
sextly ageynst mr hartley dor in Stangate
seventhly at the Mynstar gates
eightly at mr Gales door
ixly at Goodramgate head
and last in the Pavement /
£61 (27 June) Tailors
Item yt is ordenide and establyshed yat the sayd searshers shall
gether euery yere throughe the Citie thacustomed Pagyant
20
25
30
35
40
1551 YORK / 299
syluar of euery person of the sayd Craft aswell stragers as others
at the feast of Corpus christi and make all the costes and expenses
for the vpholdynge and mannteinge of their Pagiantes . And
therof accompte vnto the Master wit/in ii) wekes nexte folowinge
[t] the feast of Corpus christi vpon Payne of leisynge x s /
f 6lv
Item yt is ordened and establyshed that euery prentishe yat
haith trewly seruide his maister to the ende of his terme accorded
betwyxte him and his sayd maister shalbe admitted to be a free
sewer by the maister soo that he paye vj d for Pagiante money
beffore /
ff 63-3v
Item that Kendaill men yat bringithe wollen clothe to this Citie
to sell from hensforth they sell in grosse in the sayd Thirsdaye
Markett or comon hall And not to goo hawkynge and sell in
any oyer place vpon paine of forfature of their cloithes as is
abouesayd &c. / Provyded allwais that theis ordinancis aforsayd
or any article of the same be not preiudiciall ne hinderinge to any
husbandmazm or other poor creature of ye , ‘same’ cuntre beinge
vnfrencheside yat makethe a pece or ij of wollen clothe in a yeare
within his owne house and bringithe to this Citie to sell the sayd
cloithe or cloithes by retaill vpon ye | Paviment or any other
place within the Citie and subvrbs of the same thies ordinances
or any artycle therof not with standynge Soo yat euery person
yat sellyth any wollen cloithe by retaill or in grosse and havinge
ouer three yeardes of broide cloithe and sex yeardes of narrowe
paye yearly pagiante syluar vnto yefe] pagiante maisters and
searchers of the sayd Craftes and occupacions of Drapers and
Taillors as haithe beine accostomed of aunciente tymes
heretofore /
2 christi] chr spelled out in Roman letters
10
20
25
30
35
300 / YORK 1551
f64v (27 June)
Ropars
Item it is nowe ordeyned that the saied Turnars hayrestars
syviars and bullars of the sayd Citie be contributorie and pay
pagiant syluar to the sayd Ropers for bringynge forth of ther
pagiant at Corpus christimas and all other aswell ffree as foreyn
that occupie any thinge belongyng to the sayd Craftes within
this Citie euery of theym accordynge to the quantitie of their
occupinge witout gayne say apon peyn of xx d to be payed as
is aforsayd /
£67* (10 July)
ffor soo moche as Parsyvall Crawforth and Edwarde Grenebery
nowe Shirefes of this Citie hath Disobeyed and refused to ffullfyll
the [ffull] aggreament and ordre [maiour & his bretherne] of my
lord maiour & his bretherne made in this hous the xxiyjth of
March And alsoo my sayed Lord Maiourz speciall Commandement
to theym made sythens apon peyne of x li. . “a pece’ that they
shold haue rydden ; apon Corpus christi day myddsomer even
. and saynt petre even with their officers and a nombre in
harnes , ‘to see the kynges peace kept’ [and at other tymes]
accordyng to the laudable custome of this Citie and hath not soo
done contrary to their dewties . It is therfor nowe ordered and
aggreed by all this sayed presens that eyther of theym shall paye
x li. apece for their sayed contempt & disobedyens to thuse of
the Chambre /
f70v (14 August)
an that [mo] no man from hensforth shall werk any colored
yerne but he shall paye pagiant money to the sayed craft of
Tapitours /
A/Y Memorandum Book Y: E20
f292* (14 August)
°Tapitours’ Tapiters
Voiez plusours , “aulters’ ordynauncz de cest occupacion faitz
xiiij iour dAugust lanne notre seignour le roy Edwardi vi synke
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25
30
35
40
SS ieO Rhee 3071
come pleynement appiert en liure Thome Appleyard adonsquve
maioure
In primis ordinatum est & concordatum tam pro communi
vtilitate tocius populi domini Regis quam artificiorwm artis
predicte quod nullus artifex artis supradicte operabitur in eodem
artificio nisi dum lux diei sibi ad operandum racionabiliter
sufficere poterit cum instrumento dicte artis vocato Shotll sub
pena decem solidorum soluendorum tociens quociens aliquis
eorum contra dictam ordinacionem deliquerit duas partes
Communitati huivs Ciuitatis & terciam partem dicte arti ad
sustentacionem pagine & ludi corporis christi per dictos artifices
sustentaU
f 292v
Item quod quilibet magister artificij supradictiin propria persona
sua cum pagina dicte artis in festo corporis christi transiet &
laborabit pro gubernacione eiusdem quousqve ludus dicte artis in
locis assignandis & ordinandis per Ciuitatem iuxta ordinacionem
eiusdem Ciuitatis debite fuerit perimpletws nisi aliquis eorum
senectute debilitate seu infirmitate aut alia causa excusacronis
legitima & probabilis fuerit impeditus / quo casu contingente
alium deputatum sufficientem loco suo prouidebit & ordinabit
et si aliquis eorum defecerit in aliqua parte huiws ordinacionis
soluat communitati & arti xij d equis porcionibus applicandos
&c,
City Chamberlains’ Rolls Y: C6:16
mb 1
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15
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30
(des of places : :
(..)eareCorpus Item therfor this yere nihil
(...) pl ee
Dey Summa nihil
34 Marginalia| Leases of places to heare Corpus Christi play
302 / YORK 1551
Bakers’ Account Books BL: Add MS 33852
ra2*
Ressates
Item Ressawyd off the occapacione ffor pagand mone KG?
Item resauyd off the fforanders ffor pagand mone Cr)
Item ressawyd off the Watter ledders & ssandledders xa
(Expenses)
Item payd to the player ffor playng off the pagand AOSV es)
Item payd ffor mendyng off the pagand & the qwelys Vs
Item payd to the Wayttes off trenyte Sunday at ssoper viyj (...)
Item payd ffor howsstarme [to] the bryge masters xij d
Item payd to the Wayttes & oyer Mynstrels off corpus christi
day xvj d
Item Spent off the players off corpus christiday atdynner xvd
Item payd ftor the scheld to my lord Mare vilj d
Item Spen ffor ij days goyng a bowt to the reperracions &
thynges qwyche longyd to the pagand i) s
f 12v
Item Spent At Robert Herressons at hys pagand Inwyne —xvjd
1552
House Books Y: B20
£87 (15 January)
Assembled in the Counsell Chambre of Ousebrig the daye & yere
abouesaid whan & where it was aggreed by the sayed presens that
where Edwarde Grenebery late Shiref by ordre made the xth of
luly ought to paye to the common vse x li. for his disobediens
not ridyng in harnesse to kepe the Kynges peax on Corpus christi
Day mydsomar even & Saynt Petre even accordynge to the
Auncient & laudable custome yer for soo moche as he hath
humbly submytted hym self to thordre of this presens desyryng
15
20
25
30
35
40
ordre ageynst
the sykenesse
Shirefes not
ridyng /
1552 YORK / 303
theym to be good vnto hym herin they therfor haue [rele]
aggreed that he shall be released fyve markes parcelle of the
sayed x li. And shall paye v li. xiij s iiij d resydew to the common
vse without furder dylay / to the Chambrelaynes handes.
And lyk ordre is alsoo made for Parsyvall Crawforth an other
of the said late Shireffes to pay & do in all poyntz & condicons
as his ffelawe 1s /
£99 (1 April)
Item that the billettes shalbe made & delyuered for playeng of
Corpus christi playe this yer to (blank)
f100* (22 April)
Item that the Pagiant money of this yere shalbe receyued by
the {said} Chambrelaynes / And by my lord maiours discreczon
to be disposed . thone half to the kepyng of the sayed visited
people . And tother half to thuse of thoccupacions / &c.
f 100v*
Item to thentent ‘the better’ to avoyde assembles of people as
this present within the sayed Citie beyng dangerouse for the sayd
sykenes it is therfor aggreed that the billettes latly delyuered
forth for Corpus christi lake shall be incontynently called in
ageyne and not to be played this yere /
£105 (9 June)
And for soo moch as this yere there is no playe on Corpus christi
daye it is therfor aggreed by this presens that the Shireffes shalbe
perdoned of their Rydyng accustomed of the same daye . And
ffurther bycause the sykenesse is nowe . dangerouse in this Citie
it is alsoo aggreed s that for not rydyng on mydsomar even &
Saynt petre even accustomed the same Shirefes fourty shillynges .
videlicet xx s a pece in name of a ffyne to the comon Chambre
17 shalbe] MS shalbe be 27 lake) for late
37 s| single letter not cancelled
wn
10
20
30
35
SO4e/ NIOR Kat 5512
And soo bothe they and their seriantes to be yerof excused
£106 (20 June)
Item ffor certayne good consideracions it is nowe ordered that
the Pageant money for this yere shall not be gathered . Except at
their pleasures towardes the reparellyng onely of ther pageantes
t126 (16 December) Turners and Ropers Ordinances
Item it is ."nowe’ ordeyned that the sayd Turnars hayrestars
syviars and bullars of the saied Citie be comtributorie and pay
pagiant syluar to the sayd Ropers for bringyng forth of ther
pagiant at Corpus christimas and all other aswell ffree as foreyn
that occupie any thing belongyng to the sayd Craftes within
this Citie euery of theym accordinge to the quantitie of ther
occuping withowt gayne say apon payn of xx d to be payed as
_ ‘is’ aforsayd /
f.132v
Money receyued by lord Mayour
for pageant money to be payed
ageyn wher most nede shold be
XXXVll] $ vilj d
after the rate of iiij d the grot
Wherof payed /
ffirst to John hall & John hudson
paigeant maisters of the vj s
Chandelars towardes ther charges aftre i1ij d to the grote /
of pageant
Item to Iohn Meltonby for
paigeant money towardes his
chardges
viij s , “uj d”
aftre iil) d to ye grote
Item to William Slater & Thomas ees
Chaw serchars of Skynars for aftre iiij d to grote
pageant money
20
25
30
Ie)
40
Receyued
Rentes and
ffermes without
Myklithe Barr
within
Rattonrawe
Toftgrene &
Myklith
1552 YORI / 3.05
Item to Nyny Blythman visited
towardes his releif & ffryndyip
of dumbe Iohn from the xijth of ix s
lanuary vnto . the ijde of aftre ij d the grote
ffebruary anno vj'° aftre ilj s
the weke
Item to the Cowpers for [¢....)]
gagyng tolle dysshes aftre xvj to
the pekke for their peyment
vj d
aftre ij d the grote
more receyuwed by my syd lord maiour
Item receyued of the occupacion
of Ropars for their paigeant 2
‘ . aftre ij d the grote
money j™° Januar]j
Item payed for Isabell Ruttre of
Conystreet fir hous dresseng & ij s vujd
kepyng hir self in leynge beynge _aftre ij d the grote
visited in reward
[And soo receyving from the
sayd Thomas Appleyard sayed
lord maiour handes
And soo the sayed Thomas
Appleyard maiour hath payed
asmoche as he receyued and is
thus
quyet /
Bridgemasters’ Account Rolls Y: C90:1
mb 1
Item of the Skynners for ther pagyant howse
Item the Marchauntes for there pagyanthowse
Item of the Tapitowrs for ther pagyant howse
2 his) s may be r
SK, VIS Vill ae)
aftre ij d. the grote Vsuhe stes
xij d
xij d
xij d
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25
30
35
Peterlane litle
Pamentes
306 / YORK 1552
Item of the Gyrdlers pagyant howse vilj d
Item of the wrightes & Cordyners pagyant howse js
Item of the Tanners pagyanthowse xij d
Item of the Bakers pagyant howse xij d
Item of the Cowpers for an nowtshott lj d
Mercers’ Account Rolls MA: D58R(a)
mb 1
... [And for the Butcher pagiant xij d] «Our
mb 2
... And to the Brigmasters of Owsebrige for the pagiaunte howsse
ffarme / ‘xij d° ...
Bakers’ Account Books BL: Add MS 33852
f 14v
xuijth day of Novembr
Item pay the sayme day At Steuen Skelton hous A dynner to
mynstrells xij d
Item payde ther for drynke After dynner vilj d
Item spent At Master Rogers the twysday before Candylmes day
for drynke After denner iy d
Item to the Waytes ther the same day inj d
Item payd to Rychard pease laite brygmaster & hys felow for the
A rerage of rent for [t] of the pagent hous in Mr Skeltones days
when he & felows was Scerchers xij d
fis
Item payed to the mynstrels off trinite sonday at soper ij d
Item payed to Iohn Wylson to paye for on pare of whelles —_vij s
Item delyuerd to the sayd Iohn to the same vse xixth day of
tune xx d
20
25
35
40
rydyng of
Shirefes on
Corpus christi
day &c.
IDO 2 wORIK / 3/07,
sie payd ffor howssfarm x1) d
Item payd ffor scheld vilj d°
1553
House Books Y: B21
fF* (13 March)
Assembled in the Counsell Chambre apon Ousebrig the day &
yere above sayd whan & where it was aggreed that Corpus
Christi playe shalbe this yere played on Corpus christi day as
hath ben accustomed And that billetes shalbe made forth &c.
fH (14 April)
Assembled in the Counsell Chambre apon Ousebrig the day and
yere abovesayd whan and where it was aggreed by the sayed
presens that fforasmoch as the wollen weavers was wont to bryng
fforth A pageant of the Assumption of our lady on Corpus christi
day yerely whiche Pageant is nowe leaft of / And soo the sayd
Weavers haue nowe no pageant to bryng forth /
And ageyne wher the Sledmen of this Citie haue a pageant to
bryng forth and by reason of their [power] pouerty are not
hable to bryng forth the same as they haue ben accustumed and
specially for that that the same pageant is now farr in decay &
broken / Itte is nowe therfor aggreed bye the sayed presens that
the sayd Wollen Weavers shall bryng forth the sayd Sledmens
pageant
And that the sayed Sledmen to be ffrom nowe fforth
Contributory to the Cappers in bryngyng forth ther pageant.
fMv (9 May)
It is nowe more ouer aggreed by the sayed presens that the
Shirefes of this Cite that nowe be shall accordyng to the auncient
custome of the same City in peaceable maner ride with [a numbre]
their officers and a numbre of fotemen with theym in harnesse
orderly On Corpus christi day / And than their officers on
mydsomar even ffor the worship of this Cite & seeing the Kinges
10
30
a5)
40
Blaksmithes
Bladesmythes /
Peter layn Litle
Paimentes
308 / YORK 1553
peax than kept / And soo to be spared on Saynt petre even /
f16* (12 November)
Where as certayne varians hath of late rysen betwene the Craftes
of Bladesmythes of this Citie of thone partie and the blaksmythes
of the same of thother partie for and concernyng the Serche of
axes billes and other wares of Strangers brought to this Citie to
be sold . / belongyng . to eyther of the sayed twoo craftes It is
nowe therfor ordeined by all the sayed presens with consent of
bothe the sayed occupacions that , ‘at’ all tymes herafter one
of the Serchars of the sayd blacksmythes and an other of the
bladesmythes shall goo louyngly togiders and ioyntly make
serche of the [sayed] wares of Strangers concernyng eyther of the
sayd Occupacions commyng to this Citie to be sold . And lykwise
receyue the pagiant syluer & other ther dewties accustomed
ffor the sayed stranger wares / And than to make equall dyuysion
of the same / thone half yerof to goe to , ‘the’ nedes of the sayd
Craft of blacksmythes & thother half of the bladesmythes Apon
peyne to eyther of the sayd occupacions doyng in any poynt
contrary to this ordynance to fforfayte iij s iiij d to the Chambre
vse toties quotiens /
Mercers’ Account Rolls MA: D58S(a)
mb 1
_.. [Item of the butchers for there pagiant house farme xj d]
oute °
mb 2
_.. to the Brigmasters of Owse brige for the pageant howse farme
‘xij d? ...
Collation (B21, f 16 with E22, f 150): 6-10 to craftes] omitted 11 nowe
therfor] therefore nowe 11 ordeined] ordred 12 the sayed occupacions]
thoccupacions afforesaid 13 sayd] omitted 15 (sayed]] omitted 15 in
left margin] Straungers stuf to be searched 18 stranger wares] waires of
straingers 20 Craft] Craftes 20 thother] the 21 to eyther of the sayd]
of eyther the said 22 to] shall 22-3 to the Chambre vse] to thuse of the
Common Chamber of this Cytie
20
25
30
1553 YORK / 309
Bakers’ Account Books BL: Add MS 33852
f 12v
Ressates
Item Ressawyd off owre occapacion ffor pagand mone xiilj s vj d
Item ressawyd off the bowrnledders xij d
Item ressawyd off the wewers xij d
Item ressawyd off the bowlbakers lll] S
Item ressawyd off the pagand masters yat day yat thay mayd ye
Rekyng dynner js ij d [¢.)]
ff 13-13v (Expenses)
Reperraciouns mayd off the pagand hows & off the pagand
Item In primis ffor apayre off New qweles Vij s
Item ffor Nalles & clottes xvij d
Item ffor byndyng off the qwheles & A strake &
warkmaschyp xvij d
Item beylles & nales ij d
Item ffor mendeng the lam & payntyng off the dyadems ee)
Item ffor lym to the pagand hows & ssand & beyiryng
off it ij «..)
Item for 1) C thake theyll ll] S vilj d
Item ffor lattes & Nalles & esbordes vd
Item payd to A teyller & hys serwand xij d
Item ffor Nalles vil d
Item ffor bordes to the dors lj s
Item ffor v leghys ij d
Item ffor 1) Crukes & warkmanschype lj d
Item ffor makyng off the dors vij d
Item ffor bordes to the lyttyll dore vil) d
Item ffor Crukes & bandes to the lyttyll dore vilj d
Item ffor loke & kay ij d
Item ffor lattes & Nalles ij d
Item erth & warkmanschype vj d
Item ffor A bare ouer the dowre & A clute & Nalles vj d
Item ffor warkmanschepe iij d
Item ffor bred & ayll iiij d |
38 the] MS the the
10
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30
35
40
lanuarye
Expenses
Corpus chris¢i
play to be
played /
processions /
310/ YORK 1553
Item payd to the plaer ffor playng off the pagand xs vilj d
Item payd ffor the players dynners off corpus christiday xvjd
Item payd to the bregmasters ffor howsferm xij d
Item payd ffor the sheld to my lord mare vi d.
f 17v
Item paied for the plaie [x s viij d]
1554
House Books Y: B21
31 (9 February)
Item that Corpus christi playe [go] shall (god willyng) be played
this yere And billettes to be made fforth as hath ben accustomed
And that theis pagiantes that of late were left forth shall be
played ageyne as before tyme they were at the Chardges of
theym that were wont to bryng theym fforth And alsoo that the
xij & xxij°r and all other occupacions accustomed to haue
torches / shall haue warnyng to prepare euery man for their
torches ageynst the sayd Corpus christi day
£43* (20 April)
Assembled in the Counsell Chambre apon Ousebrig the day and
yere abovesayd whan & where it was aggreed / that accordyng to
the auncient Custome of this Cite the Solempne procession [with
bryngyng forth of Saynt George a messe & sermon] shalbe haid
on Saynt Georges day ./. And a messe with a sermon to be done
at Saynt Georges Chapelle. And alsoo saynt George that day to
be brought forth & ryde as hath ben accustomed at the Chambre
costes.
Item that procession shalbe alsoo had on [s] Wytson Tewysday
and prouision to be made by the brigmaisters in the Chambre
apon Ouse brig for my lord maiour his brederne and maistrs of
the cherche the lady maioresse with ladies and others accordyng
to the old laudable custome at the charges of the Chambre /
Item that procession on the morne aftr Corpus christi day
32 George] corrected from Georges in the same hand
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15
20
25
30
35
pageant places
rydyng of
Saint George /
Spurriourz
Turnars
Vyntenars /
1554 YORK / 311
shalbe lykwise made wit) torches & oyer solemptnyties
accordynge to the old vsage at chardges of the Chambr /
£44 (11 May)
Item that thofficers of euery warde gyve warnyng that suche as
woll haue pageantz played before their doores shall comme in
and aggree for theym before Trynytie Sonday next / or elles to
haue none And the places to be appoynted by discrecion of my
Lord maiouwr accustomed /
Item that thexpenses of rydyng of Saynt George in procession
made on his day amountyng to xxij s as by a bill did particlarly
apper to this hows shall be payed of the Chambre costes / And
nowe it is ordeyned that the sayed Procession & rydyng shall
be [had] yerely vsed as hath ben And certayne of thaldremen
xxiiijor & others by the discrecron of the maiowr for the tyme
beyng shall goe home wit) hym the same day & dyne with hym
Lyke as my lord maiour hath done this yere /
£45 (18 May)
Assembled in the Counsell Chambre of the Common Hall the
day & yre above saied whan and where it was aggreed & ordeyned
by the sayed presens that suche of the Sadlers as doo selle any
Spurres byttes or styrvpes , within this Cite’ shalbe contributory
and paye pageant syluer to the Spurriours & Lorymars of theys
Citie towardes suppourtacion of their pageant &c.
Item it is further ordeyned & aggreed that suche of the Carvers
loynars & Carpentars as occupye any turnyng in their werkes
within the Citie shalbe contributrie and paye xvj d pageant
syluer to the occupacions of Turnars & Ropars towardes their
expenses of [p] settyng forth Pageantz And the sayed xvj d. to
be gathered [of] emonges theym selfes onely by sight of their
Serchars & iijr honest persones of their sayed occupacions And
to be delyuered to the sayed Turnars & Ropars /
f 46v (1 June)
It is nowe aggreed by the saied presens that the Vyntenars of this
Cite shall from hensforth yerely beare chardges and expenses [all
a lyke] euery of theym all alyke for & to brynyng forth of their
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25
30
35
40
Corne
merchauntes
Pro Camere x s
mynsvrelles
Carpenters
ioynars
SHZ e/a ORV Ks 105i5
pageant on Corpus christi day and other ther chardges of the
same occupacron any ordynance or vsage heretofor had or made
to the contrarie not wy thstandyng
Item that all suche as haue ben or shall be ffranchised within
this Cite by name of Corne merchauntes shalbe from hensforth
contributorie to the chardges of bryngyng forth the pageant of
the Skryvenars and text wryghters / viz S Thomas of Vynde /
Item for that the Girdlars on Corpus christi day did not
forthwith folowe wit) their pageant in dewe course accordyng to
thordynance & proclamacion yerof made but taried an wholle
hower & more in hyndrans & stoppyng of the rest of the pageantz
folowyng and to the disorderyng of the same It is therfor aggreed
by theis presentz that the saied Girdlars shall pay for there sayd
defalt . x s. to the Chambre vse /
f52v* (17 August)
Item it nowe alsoo aggred that the mynstrelles freemen of this
Cite shalbe from hensforth a ffelawship and shall haue their
propre ordynances in maner & forme ffollowyng ./
non processit vlterius /
£57* (21 September)
Assembled in the Common Hall of the saied Citie the day and
yere abovesayed ffirst all the sayd presens entred the Counsell
Chambre of the same hall whan and where apon a Supplicacion
to theym exhibited by the wholle Occupacions of Ioynars and
Carpentars of the same Citie [apon] ‘by’ / reasonable *.b.’
consideracion and / good ‘.a.’ aduyse it “.c.’ was aggreed that
none [ffree] , ‘free’ of the same craftes within this Citie vsyng
throwyng or turnyng in their workes shall [paye] be contributorie
[o] nor pay any thyng to the occupacions of Ropars & Turnars
of the same towardes chardges of [ther] any pageant but shalbe
from hensforth , ‘therof’ quyet ageynst the sayed Ropars &
Turnars The late Ordynance made the xviijth day of May last
past notwithstandyng Prouyded allway that if any the sayed
Carpentars Carvers & ioynars , or any other’ doo throwe or
turne bolles disshes wheeles chayers or suche lyke stuff as
perteyneth onely to the Turnars craft than euery suche to paye
7 viz ... Vynde) written in a different ink, possibly by same hand
20
25
30
40
N55 4 OR he / 933
pageant syluer to the sayd Ropars & Turnars accordyngly.
f 63 (9 November)
Item where by thordynances of Taylowrz drapers of this Citie
euery one occupieng as maistr of eyther the sayd twoo craftes
within this Citie shall be contributorie to the chardges of
bryngyng forth of their pageant on Corpus christi day & torches
abowte the sacrament &c. accordyng as hath ben vsed to be
assessed [by] in the sayd occupacions / And nowe it is presented
to my lord maiour & all this presens that Edwarde Grembez
George Diconson Thomas Broddes / and Iohn lakson Drapers
will in no wise paye their pageant money apon theym [sessed]
dewly sessed but do obstinatly refuse the same [in perillous] to
the great encoragyng of suche lyk wilfull persones ./ & disordre
in the sayed craftes. Wherfor it is nowe ffolly aggreed by all the
sayed presens that , ‘euery’ of [any] the sayd 1i1j9' persones
apon reasonable demande [doe] shall paye suche their pageant
, Money’ apon theym sessed as hath ben accustomed this xxt!
yeres [than] or elles to be commanded to shutt vp their
shoppewyndowes by discrecion of my Lord Maiour./
City Chamberlains’ Books Y: CC4(2)
jo) Sy)
Leases for Corpuscrysty play this yere
The ffurst place at the Trinitie yaites where the Clerke kepys
the Regyster / (blank)
The Second place at harrysons & ffareweddrs ij s inj d
The thyrd place at the thre kynges in Mykkylgate lj s inj d
The 1iijth place at George Whytes enenst Lory ee.
St [G] Iohn Churche iij s iiij d
The vth place at Gregory Pacokes at owse bryg
end at the Staith head
taken by mr Watson aldrman at his request
lj s
The vj place at Conygstrete end enenst A ewe
Castelgate to Robert Smyth uj s inj d
10
30
35
40
314 / YORK 1554
The vij place to Mr Appleyerdes alderman xvj d
The vijth place at Martyn metcalfes in Conyngstrete js injd
The ixth place at the Common Hall to my
Lorde Maiour and his bredren se
The xth place at Robert Bylbowes in Staynegate ij s inj d
The xjth place at the Mynster yaite to Anthony Dycconson &
Robert Staynburne lj s ij d
The xij place at [the] Mr Gaylls aldrman xvj d
The xiij place at the Gotheromgate hed to is iii d
Edward Rayncoke & Kytchynman owe
The xiiij place at Willzam Marstons in Cellyergate lj s ij d
The xv place at Mr Bekwyths at hosyerlayn end nibil
where as my Lady Mayres & hir systers lay
The xvj place vppon the payment nihil
Summa [xxxv] Xxxillj s vilj d
p 62
Forfaites of dyuers occupacions presentyd by there Serchers
p 69
Receyvyd of Robert Hogg and other of Thoccupacion
of Gyrdlers for that there players was not Ryddy at
Convenyent tyme to play in ther pagyant [at] of
Corpuscrysty day x s / wherof payd to Iohn [Sonny]
“Meltynby’ for bryngyngfurth of the play of Saynt
Thomas Avynde for the Scryveners and Textwryters
who haith none to bere with hym in the said Charges /
and therefore my Lorde Maiour haith geven the said
Meltynbe for this yere v s and so the Common Chambre
parte therof is
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25
30
35
40
ponitur ad
arbitrandum
IIS 4Ay VOR KS / 315
jou)
Serchers of the bakers presentes Nycholes Haxope bakers
for that he wold not attend vppon ther pagyant vppon
Corpuscrysty Day beyng warnyd by the Serchers / and
also for dyssabayng the Serchers & hole occupacon
xx d
p74
Serchers of the Bakers presentes Iohn hartlay Baker for that he
came not to attend vppon ther pagyant before my Lorde Maiouwr
at the Comon Hall / ponitwr ad arbitrandum /
p 104
Rentes Resolute
Item payd to the Serchers of the Inholdrs towardes
i) s
ther Reparacions of ther pagyant accustomyd J
p 107
Mydsomar Terme
Item payd to Rychard Aynlay for easment of his
howses and Chambres vppon Corpuscrysty day / vj s vuj d
to my Lord maiour & his bredren
pebi2
Rewardes Accustomyd to the Common waytes of this Citie
Item payd to the Common waites of this Citie
for Ester terme Accustomyd lj s ij d
Item payd to the said waites for goyng before the i.
procession vppon fryday after Corpuscrysty day xx d
Item payd to the said waites for mydsomar Evyn ;
ax
Accustomyd
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40
SG y/ SOIR 54;
Item payd to the waytes for Crystynmes day
and St Stephyn day Accustomyd eget
Item payd to the waites for St Wylliam day
accustomyd Sol. mr. Weddrell ed
Summa x} s viij d.
p 114
Clothyng Accustomyd to the Comon officers
and Waytes of this Citie /
Item payd to William Hill and his two fellos Comon
Waites of this Citie for there Clothyng accustomyd XXXVJ S$
ayaynst Crystmes
pp 132-3
Expences of Corpuscrysty day beyng the
xxilijt! day of May / anno / domini / 1554 /
In primis in Bread ij dossan ijj s / In Ale ij
dossans & vj gallons at 11j s a dossan xilj s_ vj d /
Item xvj peces of Beyf vij s vii d / Item xiii
geese ill) s vj d Item for fedyng of them by the
Space of xvj days ij s Item for xij Cappons vij s
ix d / And for fedyng them the space of xvj days
xv} d / Item i) dossan Chekons vij s vj d / for
butter vilj d / Item a pekk and a half of Salte vj d
Item ij Sekkes of Charcoll vil d / Item for j
quarters of Mutton ij s vil) d Item a Lone of
Motton & vj li. of Sewett xxi d / for 11) dossan
Rabbettes xij s / Item half ali. pepper xvd Item
a quarter of an ownce Safferon iiij d / Item an
ownce of Mace and Clowes vij d / Item jj li.
prones iiij d a pond Currantes [vij d] ix d half a
li. daites iij d / Item iij li. of white Sugar iij s ix d /
half a li. Byskettes vij d ob / Item ij dossan and
iiij Pegyons ij s vd Item in Reward to the Bakers
viij d Item in Reward to the vynterners vilj d /
for egges vj d Item to Rolland Cowke xx d Item
for the lone of viij dossan pewther vessel xvj d /
v li. xiij s viij d
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30
35
40
1554 YORK / 317
Item for vj gallons Claryd wyne iiij s_ for jj
gallons & a quarte whyte wyne xviij d for a
pottell Sekk vj d for a Lune of Mutton vj d for
vj pekkes of whete flower ij s for the Lone of ij
dossan Stone Cruses iiij d Item to Dykson Baker
for helpyng at the even viij d_ To jj porters viij d
Item to ij Laborers in the kytchyng viij d_ for il
dossan Trenshers vj d for nalesvd for Rysshes
iij d for ledyng & lunyng a Sledd of Wodd xxj d
for Six Pykes xix s/ for burne ij d for musterrd
[i]j d for vynagar & vergyos ij d for Mylke ij d
for apples 111) d ob / To petty for beryng home
the Clothes & other thynges j d |
Expences vppon ffryday after [the] Corpuscrysty day
In maynebrede vj d_ for half a pound byskettes
vij d ob ffor apples iiij d ob. ffor a gallon Claryd y.s wd
wyne viij d_ for a pottell whyte wyne iilj d
Summa totalis of all the said expences v li. xvij s
ij d Wherof Receyvyd of my Lord Maiour
Aldrmen & xxiilj™ by the Chambreleyns jj s_vij d
And so Layd furthe of the Chambre Clerely
p 142
Expences necessary /
Item payd for a whyte wand to my Lord Maiour as
Master of Corpuscrysty gyld the fryday after
Corpus christi day
Item payd to Iohn Clerke for kepyng of the
Register of Corpuscrysty play at the furst place
accustomyd
p 156
Rewardes to noble men Servauntes
Summa nibil
v li. xiilj s vij d
iiij d
xx d
20
25
30
28)
40
318 / YORK 1554
p 162
Chargys and Expences mayd vppon Saynt George Day /
Item payd to Doctor Robynson that mayd the
Sermond in Saynt George Close vppon St lj s ij d
George Day
Item payd for bryngyng and Carryeng home agayn
the Pulpytt and formes [vd] wij d
Item payd to the waites for Rydyng & playng
before St George and the play ae
Item payd to thre Laborers for Clensyng away vats
the ffylthe at the postron of Skeldrgate ae
Item payd to Mr Thorneton for Sylver paper for sii d
Skottchons and for oyle & varmelon to the same ea
Item to Rychard Graves for Cuttyng the Scutchons xy d
Item to Thomas Paynter for payntyng the 7
Skutchons of the best sorte a
Item payd for a great nale to St christofer hed id
Item payd to william paynter for Stuf and
workmanshipe of v hundreth Skotchons of the ys vyjd
bays sorte
Item payd for vj yerdes of Canves to the pagyant lil} Ss
Item payd to willam paynter for payntyng the xd
Canves & pagyant
Item to the porters for beryng of the pagyant the viiid
dragon and St christofer
Item payd to the king & Quene that playd xij d
Item to the may viij d
Item to Iohn Ellys for Layne of St George harnes aoa
& his followers
10
20
30
35
40
Rentes &
ffarmes withowte
Myklyth Barr
within
Ratton Rawe
Tofte Grene
& Myklithe /
Peterlayne lytie
1554 YORK / 319
{tem to Roger walker for mendyng the dragon i d
Item to Iohn Stamper for playng St George ij s ij d
Summa xxviljs vd
p 193
Monkeward
Henry [Ell] Prynce pagyantm(..)ster for the Laborers hoc anno
Bowthom ward
Rauf hedelay pagyant maister for the Laborers hoc anno putt in
by Nycholes paynter he last pagyant master
Walmegate ward
Rychard Hornebe Laborer is appoyntyd pagyant master by Iohn
[Lyor] Lyndeles
Myklythward
Rychard Hebbylthwait Laborer is appoyntyd for that ward /
Bridgemasters’ Account Rolls Y: C90:2
mb 1
Item of the Skynners for ther pagyant howse xij d
Item of the Marchauntes for there pagyant howse xij d
Item of the Tapitours for there pagyant howse xij d
Item of the Gyrdlers for there pagyant howse vi d
Item of the wrightes & Cordyners for there pagyant howse __ ij s
Item of the Tanners for there pagyant howse xij d
Item of the Bakers for there pagyant howse xd
Item of the Cowpers for an owteshott ilij d
Mercers’ Account Rolls MA: D59S(a)
mb 1
.. and for the butcher pageand ‘xij d’ and for the Bowyer
pageand ./ ‘xvj d’
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25
30
35)
40
Paymentes
lanuary
Expenses
december
expenses
Processons
Corpus christi
St. George
320 / YORK 1554
mb 2
... And to the Brigge Maisters of Owse ee
ae f
howse ferme ‘xijd° .. rigg for the pageand
Bakers’ Account Books BL.- Add MS 33852
P16 (Receipts)
Item received of our brether for paidgenmony Xillj s. vjd
whereof to Iohn huntington Xs vilj d
f l6v
Item received of the bowlbaikers for padgen monye ulj s vjd
Item received of the waltir leadirs xij d
ae Ls ag
Item paid for the plaie [x s viij d]
f 19v*
Item paied of corpus christi daie ffor dynner to the plaiers at
Iohn huntingtons xvj d
1555
House Books Y: B21
£85 (2 Apmnil)
Assembled in the Counsell Chambre apon Ousebrig the day &
yere abovesayed whan & where it was aggreed by the sayed
presens that this yere Corpus Christi play shalbe played as ben
And billettes of euery pageant to be delyuered forth
incontynently ./ And that procession shalbe , ‘the day’ next
aftr Corpus christi day with torches & other solempnyties as
was the last yere
Item the procession shall alsoo be had on Saynt Georges daye
and a messe with a Sermen to be made at St Georges Chapelle
And Saynt George to Ride that same tyme as was done the last
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25
30
35
40
wytsontyd
Sledmen pageant
ffalter Layne
Allowances
accustomed
Paymentes
Popo wORK / 321
yere of the Chambr costes.
Item that Procession shall be on Wytson Tewysday . And
prouision to be made by the brigmaisters in the Chambre apon
Ousebrig for my Lord Mayour his brederne & maisters of the
cherche / And for my lady Mayores & [other] ladys with others
accordyng as was done the last yere /. And furthr that this yere
they shall prouyde alsoo of white Cuppes . as hath ben , ‘vsed’
aforetyme of the Chambre costes /
£90 (15 May)
Item it is nowe aggreed that all suche persones within this Citie
as doo take profite of any gehestes or gestes horses hauyng no
signe at their doore shalbe contributorie to the charges of [the]
bryngyng forth the pageant of the Sledmen /
Mercers’ Account Rolls Y:D59T(a)
mb 1*
... the Butcher pageand ‘xij d’ and the Bowyer pageand ‘xvj d’
... to the Brigmasters of Owse bridge for pageand house ferme
ied?
mb 2
... Item for beringe vj torches vpon the morrow after corpus
christi daye xij d...
Bakers’ Account Books BL: Add MS 33852
f 20
Ressates
Item Ressawyd off our awne occapacion ffor p(.....) mone xiiij (.)
Item Ressawyed off the bowrnleders xij d
Item Ressawyed off the bowlbakers vjs xjd
Exspenssys
Item ffor the pagend hows fferm xij d
15
25
30
35
40
ffalrer Layne
allowances
accustomed
paymentes
322 7/ YORK 1555
Item payd ffor Dowlyng off the pagand qwellys and other
thynges A bowt it lj s vij d
Item payd ffor the players dynners off corpus christi day xxd
Item payd to the plaer off ovre pagand xs vid
Item payd ffor the scheld to my lord mare vilj d
f 20v*
<....) Ressawyd ffor ij pagand ffarme xvj de
1556
House Books Y: B22
£5 (3 March)
Aggreed nowe alsoo that billettes shall be made & delyuered
forth for Corpus christi play as hath ben accustomed
£14 (5 May)
Assemblyd in the Counsell Chambre of Owsebrige of the said
Citie the day and yere abouewrytten whan and where [a letter
vnder Seall] the king and Quenes Maiesties letter vnder Seall
Sent ffrome my Lord presydent and Counsell in the North
parties concernyng players and Mynstrells namyng them selfes
to be Gentylmen Sarvauntes was Delyuerd to these presens
whiche was oppenly Redd to the same presens /
Mercers’ Account Rolls Y:D59U(a)
mb 2
... the Butcher pageand ‘xij d’ and the Bowyers pageand ‘xvj d’
_.. to the Brigmasters of owse brige for pageand house farme /
serif aE
_.. Item for bering of sex Torches on fridaie after Corpus christi
5 pagand] p of pagand written over another letter
1d
Ns)
20
30
35
40
5/516) YOUR 9/93i213
daie xij'd'/' =.
Bakers’ Account Books BL: Add MS 33852
at
Ressates
tem ressawyd off owre awne occapacion xvjs vyjd
Item ressawyd off the bowlbakers vs yjd
lem Ressawyd off the Burnleders xij d
Item Ressawyd ffor 1) pagand sstandyng in the pagand hows xv d
Exspensys
Item payd to the plaers ffor playng off the pagand x $s vilj d
Item payd ffor the plaers dynners off corpus christi day ij s
Item payd ffor hussffarme xij d
Item Spent on Corpus christi day x1) d
Item payd ffor the Scheld xd
Item payd ffor A galon of ayll to the plaers ily d
Item payd ffor torchys beyrryng x1j d
Item payd to the pagandmasters ffor getheryng off the pagand
mone off oure awne crafte & the bowlbakers xij d
Item payd ffor the qwels mendyng [& a bowt the] pagand xij d
IE) S}7/
House Books VY: B22
£53v (15 March)
Item that Corpus christe play shall be plaied this yere and billettes
to be maied forth for the same
f 66v (11 June)
And it was nowe alsoo aggreed that the Shirefes of this Citie shall
ride [with] with harnessed men on Corpus christi day & mydsomar
even accustomed apon peyne of greuouse ffyne &c.
20
25
30
35
40
Comon wi...)
ffelterlayn
Allowances
accustomed
Paymentes
324 / YORK 1557
f 67v* (25 June)
And now Robert Husthwait by this presens is taken to [to] be
mete to remain one of the common waytes of this Citie vpon his
good behaviour & dyligens . And aftr he be franchised the
syluer cheyne wit) the skutcheon . apon suerty to be delyuered
and gyven by weight & tale / prouyded that the resydew of the
Aldremen & Counsell nowe absent / be made pryvey to the sayd
admyttens And theyr consent to be haid to the same /
£68 (9 July)
Item that [the] suche pageantz as be not registred in the Cite
booke shall be called in to be registred by discrecion of my lord
mayor
And now alsoo was assessed fynes of such of the xxiiijti as
lakketh ther torches in the procession aftr Corpus christi day
accustomed
Mercers’ Account Rolls Y: D59V(a)
mb 2
Item the Butcher pagiant ‘xij d’ The Bower Pagiant ‘xvj d’
.. and to the Brigmaisters of ouse brig for the pagiant house
farme-/) sip:
... Item paid to Iames Best for Topping of all our Torches
‘xxxiiij s vij d” ... Item for bering Torches the fridaie after
Corpus christi daie "xij d° ...
Bakers’ Account Books BL: Add MS 33852
£22
Ressates
Item Ressawyd pagand mony off owre Awne occapacion xvjs
Item ressawyd off the bowlbakers vs
5 w(...)] waytes
20
25
30
35
40
1557 YORK / 325
Item resawed off the mylners xij d
Item Ressawyd off the parchmentmakers tj d
Exspenssys
Item payd to Iamys best ffor toppynge off the torcheys XV S
Item payd to the plaer ffor playng xs vijd
Item payd ffor the plaers brakefaste one corpus christiday js
Item payd ffor iij dyadems & the lam mendyng xij d
Item payd ffor ij galons off Ayll one corpus christi ewyn &
one day x1) d
Item payd ffor huppes to the qwels vj d
Item payd qwen we payd the plaer his mony xvj d
Item payd ffor wyne off corpus christi day ij d
Item payd ffor torchys beryng xij d
f 22v
Item payd ffor Robert Walton dynner one corpus christi day iiij d
Item payd ffor the scheld to my lord mare xij d
Item payd ffor howsffarme xij d
Item Spent abowt the pagand mone gydyryng vilj d
Item payd to the mynstrels yat day yat we ma<..) owre Rekyng
dynner ij d
Item payd to the mynstrelles at Robert Wyld ily d
Item payd to the mynstreles at thomas carl xij d
Item payd at Rycherd Awkland to the mynstreles ij d
Item payd the Same day ffor wyne ij d
Item payd to the mynstreles yat day yat we mayd owre mandy
bred vj d
1558
House Books Y: B22
f118v (9 March)
Assembled in the Counsell Chambr apon Ousebrig the day &
yere abovesayd whan & where this presens callyng to their
10
25
30
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40
notandum Saynt
Blaises day past
27 Aprilis
326 / YORK 1558
remembrans the excedyng dearly of all maner of vitaylles and
other necessaries of howskepyng whiche in theis our dayes doo
cost duble and treble the money that in tyme past they were
wont to doo. And herewith consideryng alsoo the many and
sump tuouse festynges dynars and bankettes whiche the Mayour
of this Citie for the tyme beyng must [onely] of custome make
to the Riche with great excesse and superfluytie not onely to the
importinat costes and chardges of the saied mayour but alsoo to
the displeasu(..) of allmightie god ffor reformation wherof and
[accordye] to folowe the godly example aswell of the lord
mayour of London as of other noble men of this realme It is
nowe condiscended ordeyned and aggreed with the wholle
consent of all the sayd presens that part of the said festes &c.
shalbe [clere] ffrom hensforth clerly discharged and leaft of And
bycause metyng of neighburghes at the sayd festes & dynars and
there makyng mery togiders was a good occasion of contynewyng
and renewyng of amytie and neighburghly love one with an
other therfor other part of the said festes & dynars shall still
remayne but the costly ffare yerof to be moderated and abatyd
{but dis(....) of the mayour for the tyme beyng] in maner and
fforme ffolowyng that is to say
ffirst the festes dynars and bankettes made by the sayd mayour
to his bretherne thaldremen and others of the privay Counsell of
this Citie &c. in the tyme of Lent / on Saynt George day aftr
procession / on mydsomar even / the day of Election of the
maistr of Saynt Thomas hospitall / and the day of . thaccomptes
takynge of the same / And alsoo apon Saynt Blasys day to be
clerely dischardged and leaft of
Item lyke dynars & bankettes made to the ladyes / on
palmesonday / Wytsonday / Corpus christi day / Saynt Stephene
day & mydsomar even to be alsoo dischardged.
Item the day of the Election of the mayour he to gyve at his
comyng home onely maynbread beer or ale and wyne
And Lykewise on Palmesonday the Ladyes &c. to wayte apon
the Lady mayoresse in procession at the mynster & home And
there to tak a cupp of wyne and soo depart
Item at the Election of the maistr of Saynt Thomas hospitall
and at thaccomptes takyng of the same a pece of Beif to be there
provided for theym that take peynes & be present of the hospitall
cost soo that the expensez therof doo not exced x s at a tyme /
Item that the players & suche as taketh peyns ouer procession
&c. on saynt George day to be payd for their labour of the
25
30
35
40
“pater noster’
[Creyd] play
to be playd /
St George play
to be sparyd
Pageant syluar
1558 YORK / 327
chambr costes
Item that the iiijor Tusticez seeth venison in Somar the ffysshyng
day and dynar aswell to the ladies as to the men , ‘on Saynt
William day’ to contynewe vnto further [¢...)] ordre be therin
taken
£120 (16 March)
Assembled in the Counsell Chambre apon Ousebrig the day &
yere abovesayd whan and where the Play of Corpus christi for
this yere apon good and reasonable considerations is thought
best and also aggreed to be spared & leaft of playeng [for this
yere] the tyme instant beyng bothe trowblouse with warres and
also contagiouse wit) sykenesse.
f125v (20 April)
Assemblyd in the Counsell Chambre of Owsebrige of this Citie
the day and yere abouesaydes whan and where it was agreyd by
the said presons That Iohn Branthwate Master of St Antonys and
his kepers shall ffurthwith provyd for the playng of one play
called the Pater noster play this yere / and the Charges therof
to be borne of the money to be gatheryd by the occupacions of
this Citie of there pagyant money / and that the ffurst bayn or
messynger shall Ryde in dyver Stretes within this Citie appon
St George day next and the other messynger to Ryde in like mane
vppon Whitson Monday to thentent that the Contry may haue
knowelege that the head play shalbe playd appon Corpus christi
day next / Mr Holme Alderman haith promysed to speke with
the said Master of St Anthonys for the same purpose /
Item it is agreyd in consyderacon abouesayd that this yere
St George play shall be left & not playd / and the provision of
thynges alredy boght & mayd for the ffurnytowr therof shall be
payd of the Chambre costes / and broght in to the Chambre to
be kepte agaynst a nother yere /
£127 (11 May)
Item it is nowe aggreed that all the Pageant maistrs within this
Cite shalbe warned to bryng in the half of all such pageant
26 mane] for maner 28 head] for sead
10
30
35
40
pageant money
32:0 ORK 1558
money as they gather towardes the chardges of settyng furth of
the pater nostr play to be played this yere /
(31 May)
Memorandum that on “Tewisday’ [Moone day] in wytsonweeke
it was aggreed by my lord mayour Aldrmen & xxiiij°’ assembled
in the Counsell Chambre apon Ouse brig betwene the procession
tyme that this yere pater nostr play beying played on Corpus
christi day Dynar with brekfast & suppir shalbe prouyded [for]
by the Chambrelaynes for my sayd Lord mayour Aldremen &
xxiij°r as hath ben accustomed at Corpus christi play / in the
Chambre at the Common hall yates /
Item that the sayd Chambre wher my lord mayour & his
bretherne doo than sytt shalbe semely [discha] ceeled above the
head at the Chambre costes And furthr quysshens hangynges &
oyer necessaries to be prepared by the sayd Chambrelaynes /
£129 (8 July)
And here alsoo it was aggred that Ametson paynter shold haue
for payntenge of certayn bannar clothes for pater [p] noster
playe liij s iiij d of the money gathered of pageant sylvar
f£129v (15 July)
Item ffor asmoch as the money gathred of the pageant syluer will
above it is thrfor aggred that my lord mayour shal goe ouer
ageyne / and ratebly gather of euery occupacion chardgeable to
the same / the sayd somme behynde / & if the wholl expenses
cannot be goten than furthr ordre to be taken yerfor
Bridgemasters’ Account Rolls Y: C90:3
mb 1
Item of the Skynners pagyanthowse x1j d
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25
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40
poo OK / 329
Rentes and Item of the marchauntes for there pagyanthowse xij d
ees Sanna urs for there pagyanthowse xij d
aiscllich Bate Item of Tapytours pagy yl
within eee Z
Reon ewe Item of the wrightes for there pagyanthowse i xij d
Toftegrene & d f h h ad
Myklyth Item of the Cordyners for there pagyant howse i
Item of the Tanners for there pagyant howse xij d
Item of the Bakers for there pagyant howse xij d
Item of the Cowpers for one owteshot ij d
1559
City Chamberlains’ Books Y: CCS5(1)
f 52v
Rewardes to the Common Waites Accustomed
Item payd to the Waites of this Citie for Eyster
terme accustomyd Bee
Item payd to the Waytes for Crystynmas Evyn ‘is iii d
Crystynmas day and St Stephyn day accustomyd J J
Item payd to the said Waites for St William day d
accustomyd a
Summa viij s uj d
f 53v
Clothyng to the Common Offycers
and waites of this Citie Accustomyd
Item payd to Nycholas Wright and his two ffellos
waites of this Citie for there Clothyng to be payd XXXVj S
emonges them at Crystynmes
f 67v
Expences on Corpuscrysty Day
Summa nihil
1 of] MS of of
vj©° Februarij
anno 1558 /
xvij Aprilis
anno 1559" /
vj"° Maij /
anno / 1559° /
330/ YORK 1559
f 68
Expences on St George Day
Summa nihil
£73
tforren paymentes
Item payd to Iohn Clerke for entryng in the
Regyster the Regynall of the pagyant pertenyng xij d
to Craft of ffullars whiche was never before Regestred
ae
Rewardes to honourable menes seruantes and Mynstrells
Payd in Reward to the Erle of Darby Barward js uy d
Payd in Reward to my Lord Awdelay mynstrels
: ij s
& Sarvantes )
£91
Pagyantmaysters for the Laborers [with] ‘for’
the 111j° wardes of this Citie
Monkeward
Lancelot wowar Laborer is appoyntyd by the Last pagant
Maister to be pagyantmaster for thes Laborers in Monke ward
for this yere
Bowthome ward
(blank)
Walmegate ward
(blank)
Myklitheward
Nycholas Avyson Laborer is appoyntyd by the last pagyant
Mayster to be pagyant mayster for this yere in that ward /
f 97v
Mr Thomas Glason promysed before my Lord Maiour to bryng
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25
30
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40
he apperyd the
xx of luly &
haith ferther day
geve to the xxvij
of June /
fforfait money
ffelterlayn
Rent Resolute
ffelterlayn
Rent Resolute
SISOS ORK) 3.33
in the Regynall of the Inholdrs pagyant that it may be Regestred
before mydsomer next
Mercers’ Account Rolls MA: DS9W(a)
mb 1
Item the said Accomptantes Aunswere for money by theme
Resayvyd this yere that is to say of ames Hall for that he Refusyd
to stand paygon maister whyche was Agreyd by all the consent
of holl ffellowship as a peryth in the Cowrte boyke x s ...
mb 2
Item for the Butcher pagyant howse xij d
Item for the Bowers pagyant howse xvj d
... Item to the Brigmaisters of Owsebrige for the pagyant howse
ffarme xij d ...
1560
Mercers’ Account Rolls MA: D59X(a)
mb 2
Item for the Butcher pagyant howse xij d
Item for the Bowers pagyant howse xvj d
mb 2d
... Item to the Brigmaisters of Owsebrige of owr pagyant howse
ffarme xij d /
1561
House Books Y: B23
£10 (27 March)
Assembled in the Consell Chambre apon Ousebrig whan & where
it was aggreed that Corpus christi play shalbe played this yere
with good players as hath ben accustomed Except onely the
10
25
30
S15)
40
Paynters &
Pynners
Shirefes rydyng
33:2 / WORK 15161
Pagiantes of [thAssu] the dyenge Assumption and Coronacion
ot our Lady /
ie Fe)
Alsoo at the humble sute and peticon made by the occupacion
of Paynters of this Citie beyng poore men and chardged yerely
to bryng forth on pagiant of Corpus christi called pynnar pageant
togithers with thoccupacion of Pynnars of the same Citie / and
are at moare chardges therin then the said Pynnars are / It is
therefor ordered and aggreed by the said presens that the said
occupacions of Paynters and pynnars of this Citie shall frome
hensforth beare and paye like chardges togithers thone with
thother in all thinges for and concernyng the furnyture and
bryngyng forth of the said pagiant / any vsage heretofore had
therin to the contrary notwithstandyng /
£16 (7May)
Assembled in the Counsell Chambre apon Ousebrig the day &
yere abovesayd whan & where it was aggreed that the Shirefes of
this Citie that nowe be shalle this yere on Corpus christi day in
decent wise ryde with a competent nombre of men in harnes [&]
with weapons / for the Citie worship as hath ben laudably
accustomed
f18v (14 May)
Assembled in the Counsell Chambre apon Ouse brig the day &
yere abovesaid whan & where it was aggreed that Mr Georg hall
and mr william Broklyn Shirefes in the thyme of the Mayoraltie
of mr Standeven ffor their defaltz of not rydyng with harnessed
men accustomed on Midsomar even shall paye to the Chambre
vse in name of a ffyne eythr of theym xiij s ij d a pece
Item that mr hugh Graves & mr Thomas Harper Shirefes in the
tyme of Mayoraltie of mr lames Haryngton ffor their defaltz of
not rydyng with harnessed men accustomed aswell on Corpus
[day] christi day as on mydsomar even shall paye to the Chambre
vse in name of a ffyne eyther of theym / xl s /a pece /
20
25
30
35
40
Shirefes ridyng
in harnes /
Lowde Shalme
Thomas Moore /
Ole ORK / 31315
And nowe mr. Calome & mr. Wilkok presently Shirefes of this
Citie haue made right humble request to my lord mayour & this
worshipfull presens to be spared of the sayd rydyng . on Corpus
christi day & Midsomar even / allegyng sundry impedymentes
& dishabilities & And therwith offred to abyd the ordre &
iugement herin of my lord Mayour & bretherne for their ffynes /
£19 (23 May)
Item it is agreed that Nycolas Wright one of the Waytes shall
haue of the chambre eleven , ‘shillinges’ by hym payed & to
willughby for a base shalme and the same to remayne from
hensforth to the Cite vse and good furth to be taken from tyme
to tyme of such the sayd waytes as shall haue custody & vse
therof to be all tymes forth comyng whan my Lord Mayour for
the tyme beyng shalle commande /
And apon bill of Compleynt by [the] Nicolas Wright & Robert
Husthwait ageynst [Robert] Thomas Moore the thrid Wayte it
is ordered that the same Thomas shall haue respit to Learne and
applie hymself ./ in the instrumentes & songes belongyng the
sayd Waytes /. and to Leave his vnthrifty gamyng /. apon peyne
to be putt forth of that office for euer / the seyd respecte is
gyven vnto Michelmas next ./
f 19v (30 May)
And for soo moche as the late fest of Corpus christi is not nowe
celebrat & kept holy day as was accustomed / it is therfor aggreed
that on Corpus even my lord mayour & Aldermen shall in makyng
the proclamacion accustomed goe about in semely sadd apparell
& not in skarlet /
£23 (18 June)
And nowe alsoo it was further ordeyned and stablisshed that
from hensforth none of the fysshmongars or others shall exact
or tak of any poor folk bryngyng lamprayes smeltes or suche lyk
freyssh watir fyssh in tyme of yer to sell within this Cite any
pageant syluar apon payne [of th] as ofte as they shall offend
contrary this order / [thone half to the p<..) to the Cite vse] to be
10
ES.
20
25)
30
35
40
3134/7 YORK 1561
greuously punysshed by discrecion of my lord mayour /
£40 (25 November)
Assembled in the Counselle Cham(.)re apon Ousebrig the day and
yere abovesaid . Whan & where at the humble sewte & prayer of
the goodmen of the sciens of mynstrelles of this Citie C[wlertayne
Ordynances were deuysed enacted & stablissed heraftir to be
firmely observed and fullfylled / by the said Mynstrelles in maner
& forme & in euery poynt . accordyng as they be inrolled in the
old Register of parchement with the bosses / And that the sayd
Craft of mynstrelles shall of their chardges yerely bryng forth the
pageant of herod Inquyryng of the 11) kynges for the child Iesu
somtyme brought forth by the late Masons of the said Citie /
B/Y Memorandum Book Y:E20A
f221v* (10 April) Goldsmiths
Item that the olde pageant maisters shall yerely make a dewe
Accompte of the money and of the playeng geare vnto
thoccupacion on Saynt Dunstanes even or elles the morowe
after apon payne of forfayture xij d a pece /
Item that neither the Corones nor gownes be lent to any vnder
viij d a pece / And that it be paid or they be delyvered Except it
be to some of thoccupacion and the Serchars to make Accompte
therof
ff 222-3v (25 November)
Mynstrelles
Thordynances of the Musicians commonly called the Mynstrelles
within the Citie of York devised ordeyned and stablished by the
Collation (E20A, f 221v with B23, f 12v): 21 shall yerely] omitted
24 forfayture| omitted 25 neither] omitted 25 before lent] not 25 any]
none
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15
20
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35
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1561 YORK / 335
right honorable Parcyvall Craforth Lord Mayour his worshipfull
bretherne thaldremen and Counsell of the said Citie of york at
the humble prayer and with wholle consent of the goodmen
Mynstrelles and ffreemen of the Citie aforesaid the xxv day of
Nouembre in the fourth yere of the Reigne of our most gracyouse
Soueraigne Lady Queene Elizabeth to be frome thensforth
foreuermore dewly and firmely executed fulfilled and kept in all
poyntes aswell for the worship of the said Citie as alsoo for the
honestie weale and good ordre of the science of thaforesaid
Mynstrelles in forme as foloweth
That is to saye
ffirst it is ordeyned enacted and stablished that noo maner
fforeyner of what condicion he be occupie any mynstrelsye
syngyng or playeng apon any instrument within any paroche
within this Citie or ffranchis therof apon any cherche holy dayes
or dedicacion dayes halowed or kept within the same paroche
or any brotherhedes or fremans dynnar or dywnars made or kept
within the same Citie or ffranchise therof Vpon peyne that every
suche forayne Mynstrell after monytion to hym gyven by the
Maister or Serchers to paye for every tyme that he shalbe fonde
doyng contrary to this acte ij s iii) d the one half therof to
remayne to the use of the common Chambre of this Citie And
thother halfe to the common boxe of the said arte
Item that the ffelawship of the Mynstrelles ffreemen of this
Citie nowe beyng and theyr successours forever shall have power
authoritie and libertie every yere at the fest of saynt | lames
thapostle to assemble theym selfes in Saynt Anthony Hall or
other convenyent place within the said Cities at a day certayne
by theym to be lymyted . And soo assembled by their common
voyces and assentes or of the greater partie of theym to choise
three hable persones of the same felawship to be a Maister and
twoo Serchars of the said sciens or craft for the yere folowyng
And if any persone soo chosen Maister or serchar refuse or
forfate the said office of maistership or Serchar Euery persone
soo refusyng to paye xx s thone half therof to the Common
chamb of this Citie and thother half to the behof of the said
Craft
Item that the Common boxe of the said felawship shalbe and
remayne from yere to yere in the Custodie and kepyng of the
maister and Serchars of the said Craft for the tyme beyng /. And
of all suche money as the same maister & serchars have at the
ende of their yere or within twenty dayes next after shall gyve
5
10
25
30
35
40
quarterage
Presentacion
Assembles
Misdemeanour
® Teachyng
336 / YORK 1561
and yelde vp vnto the said felawship or the greater part of theym
a trewe and iust Accompte in wrightyng apon peyne every of
theym makyng defalt to paye x s. to be equally dyvided to thuse
atoresaid /
Item that euery brother of the said science shall paye yerely
towardes the supportacron and bryngyng forth of their pageant
and other chardges of the said craft viij d by yere that is to say
ij d in every quarter And that every suche freman beyng a brother
of the said Arte not payeng the said quarterage euery quarter day
that is at thende of every quarter of ye yere or within xv dayes
next and immediatly folowyng after any of the said quarter
dayes And refusyng to content the same to paye for every
default iij s inj d to be equally dyvided in the forme aforesaid /
And that euery ffreman or brother of the said craft present
euery of his apprentices to the Maister and serchars of the said
craft for the tyme beyng within one moneth immediatly after
that any suche apprentice shalbe bonde payeng at his presentacion
to the comon boxe of the said craft xx d And if any of theym be
negligent and doo not present his apprentice within the said
moneth nor pay the sayd fyne of xx d Every suche brother soo
offendyng to forfayte for euery default x s thone half therof to
be to the chambre of the Citie And thother half to the common
boxe of the said Craft /
Item that yf any persone enfranchesed in the said craft or
brother of the same warned by any of the said Serchars for the
tyme beyng to come to the quarter daye or to assemble of the
Maister and Serchars of the said Craft for the tyme beyng with
others the bretherne of the same craft And without reasonable
cause absentyng hym selfe not willyng to come thether to paye
for every default ij s to be equally dyvided to the vses abovesaid /
Item that no persone enfranchesed in the said craft or brother
of the same presume to rebuke revyle or gyve any slanderouse
or vilaynouse woordes to the said Maister or Serchars or to any
of theym for the tyme beyng or to any | other persone beying
brother or freeman of the said felawship or Craft apon peyne to
paye for every tyme that any of theym shalbe founde culpable
of any suche opprobriouse or vnfittyng woordes to paye for
every default vj s. viij d thone half therof to be to the said
Chambre And thother half to the Common boxe of the said
Crate:
Item that none of the said felawship beyng a mynstrell
enfranchesed and brother of the said Craft teache or enforme
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any other persone other then his owne apprentyce in any poynt
or seale of mynstrelsie Except he be a freemans sone of the same
craft / nor goo with any stranger to any wedding or any other
feast onely to labour with hym within the said Citie or liberties
of the same without lycence of the Maister of the said Craft for
the tyme beyng fyrst obteyned apon payne to forfeyte for every
default vj s viij d to be devided and employed as is aforesaid /
Provided that this acte doo not extende to any brother for
teachyng any gentleman or free man of this Citie and their
children disposed to learne any thyng for his pleasure /
Item that noo freeman of the said Craft take any servant by
covenant for a yere or otherwise / Onelesse he be apprentice for
the terme of seven yeres at the least accordyng to the laudable
custome of this Citie apon payne to fore’feyte for euery offence
xx s. thone half therof to be to the common Chambre of the said
Citie And thother half therof to the common boxe of the said
Craft / Provided that this acte doe not extende to the waytes
of the Citie of york for the tyme beyng to hyre any man to helpe
theym in their watche /
Item that no brother ffreman of the said Craft at any tyme
open or disclose any woordes or sayeng towchyng their scyens
spoken at the common or privie meatynges of the said Craft or
any of theym / Except it be to any of the said bretherne or at
the tyme of their said assemble / apon peyne to forfeyte for
every suche default vj s_ viij d thone half therof to the vse of the
said Chambre And thother half to the said Craft
Alsoo that noo ffreeman brother of the said Craft shall at any
tyme herafter sett forth his or their apprentice or apprentices to
labour in any compaynye as a mynstrell within the said Citie or
liberties of the same before the said apprentices and every of
theym be examyned and admytted by the said maister or Serchars
for the tyme beyng apon peyne to forfeytt for every defalt iij s
iii) d thone half to the Chambre of the said Citie And thother
half to the common boxe of the sayde Craft /
Item that noo ffreeman brother of the said Craft shall frome
hensforth have no moo apprentices but one attones Except he
have bene either Maister or Serchar of the said Craft or elles
twoo at one tyme at the most upon payne to forfeyte for every
default xx s the one half therof to the Common Chambre of the
said Citie And thother half therof to the Common boxe of the
said Craft /
ffynally it is further ordeyned and by the consent of all the
10
20
25
30
35
40
Leases of places
to heare Corpus
christi play
Rewardes to
the common
Waytes
accustomed
Clothyng to the
comon Officers
and waytes of
this Cite
accustomed
Spots) fh SOURIS a Sy(oyi
good men of the said Mystery or craft fully aggreed that | the
said ffelawship of Mynstrelles of their proper chardges shall
yerely frome hensforth bryng forth and cause to be played the
pageant of Corpus christi viz. the herold his sone twoo counselars
and the Messynger inquyryng the three kynges of the childe lesu
sometyme accustomed to be brought forth at chardges of the late
Masons of this Citie on Corpus Christi day in suche like semely
wise and ordre as other occupacions of this Citie doo their
pageantes /
City Chamberlains’ Rolls y : C7:1
mb 2
Item receyued for places to heare Corpus christ: play leased
this yere XXXII} $
Summa XXxXIllj $
mb 3
Item paid to the waytes of this Citie at Easter terme
accustomed 1) s mjd
Item payed to the same waytes for Christmas terme lj s ij d
Item payed to the said waytes for saynt Willyam
day viz the day that my Lord Mayour maketh
his great feast
xx d
Item payd to Nicolas Wright and his twoo felawes
waytes of this Citie for their clothyng accustomed
to be payed at Christmas equally to be dyvided
emonges theym
XXXV] S
Item to ohn Atkynsone embroderar for makyng of
Scutchoons of the armes of this Citie to the said
three waytes of the same wit) lettres for my Lord
mayour name
10
15
20
25
30
35
40
Expenses on
Corpus Christi
day
Rewardes to
honorable mens
servantes and
mynstrelles
Rentes and
ffarmes
wythowte
Myklyth Barr
and within
Ratton Rawe
Tofte Grene
& Myklythe
ffor Releasyng
of pagyant
maisters
iol YORK / 3:39
mb 4
item paid for the chardges of my Lord Mayour
Aldremen and others of the Counsell of this Citie
hearyng Corpus Christi play ageynst the common
Hall gates this yere as doeth playnly and particlarly
appere in the papir booke of theis acconptantes
Summa ix li. viij d
mb 4d
ix li. vitj d
Item payd therefor this yere as appereth in the papir boke xxxvj s
Summa XXXvVj $
Bridgemasters’ Account Rolls vy: ©90:4
mb 1
Item of the Skynners for there pagyant howse
Item of the Marchauntes for there pagyant howse
Item of the Tapitowrs for there pagyant howse
Item of the wryghtes for there pagyant howse
Item of the Cordyners for there pagyant howse
Item of the Tanners for there pagyant howse
Item of the Bakers for there pagyant howse
Item of the Cowpers for one owtshote
Mercers’ Account Rolls MA: D59Y(a)
mb 1
Item the said Accomptantes Receyvid of Robert Hall
yongar
Thomas Appleyerd yongar xiij s ij d_ william Robyns
iiij d
xij d
xij d
xij d
xij d
xij d
xij d
xij d
ij d
xiij s iiij d
On Xilj s
10
20
30
35
40
ffelterlayn
Rent Resolute
(.Jacat
Corpus christi
pynner
340 / YORK 1561
ffrances Iake xiij s iiij d and Thomas Newton xij s ij d
Summa ii li. vj s_ viij d
mb 2
Item for the Bochers pagyant howse x1) d
Item for the Bowers pagyant howse xvj d
... Item to the Brigmaisters of Owsebrige for our pagyant howse
ffarme xij d /
1562
House Books Y: B23
f49v (13 March)
Aggreed that the play comonly called Corpus christi play shall
this yere apon reasonable consideracion be played on St Barnabe
day thapostle / And thystories of the old & new testament /
or elles the Crede play if apon examinacion it may be shalbe
played And billettes therapon to be gyven forth as hath ben
accustomed
£50 (6 April)
Assemblyd in the Counsell chambre of Owsebrige of this Citie
the day and yere abouesaid whan and where it was agreyd by
these presentes that Corpuscrysty [day] play shall be playd of
the day accustomyd viz apon Corpuscristy day /
Item it is agreyd by these presentes That Iohn Granger
Marchaunt shall be pagyant maister for thyernmongars and to
bryngfurth the play therof this yere / and other that occupieth
thynges that belongeth to that pagyant to be contrybutories for
there pagyant money towardes the same
It is also agreyd by the said presentes that christofer Grason
pynner shall bryngfurth the pagyant with the paynters this yere /
accordyng as (..) was agreyd the Last yere in Mr Croforth tyme /
20
25
30
35
40
rydyng of
Shirefes
fynes of
Shirefes not
ridyng with
harnesed men /
ffelterlayn
Rentes Resolute
® Corpus
christi
1562 YORK / 341
f52v (9 May)
Item aggreed that the Shirefes shall haue commandement
immediatly to prepare for their rydyng with harnesed men on
Corpus Christi day & mydsomar even accustomed /
f 74v (16 December)
And it is nowe further ordeyned and aggreed by theis presens
to be dewly observed for euer that at the same tyme that it shall
happen the billettes [be] to be gyven forth for playeng of Corpus
christi play even than alsoo the Shirefes of this Citie for the tyme
beyng to haue warnyng given to prouyde for rydyng with
harnessed men on Corpus christi day & Mydsomer even
accustomed upon peyne to fforfeyt to the chambre vse eyther of
theym x li. a pece.
Mercers’ Account Rolls MA: D59Z(a)
mb 2
Item for the Bocher pagyant howse xij d
Item for the Bowers pagyant howse xvj d
... Item to the Brigmaisters of Owsebrige ofor our pagyant
howse ffarme xij d
1563
House Books Y: B23
£93 (23 March)
And it is nowe furthir aggreed that billettes yerely accustomed
shall be gyven forth for Corpus christi playe.
£98 (21 May)
Item that the ffare accustomed on Corpus Christi day for my
26 ofor] of corrected to for
10
20
25
30
35
40
® Conrributaries
® ffree of
Turnars pageant
Searche of
fforeyne stuff
B42 7/ MOR Keatsiag
Lord mayour & his brethern &c. to be husbanded this yer by
discrecion of my Lord Mayour /
£99 (28 June)
Assembled in the Counsell Chambre apon Ousebrig the day &
yere above said whan & where it was aggreed by the sayd presens
that 1ij s part of the money [payd] receyued of the Inholdars
shalbe payd towardes chardges of Chandelars pageant /
B/Y Memorandum Book Y: E20A
ff 227-7v (21 July)
Item that euery Citizen that engrosse or bye any bourdes or lattes
to retayll or sell ageyne within this Citie shalbe contributorie and
paye towardes the chardges of bryngyng forth of the pageant of
the Carpentars &c. Soo that suche contribution shall not excede
above foure penyes a pece in any one yere /
Item it is ordeyned that none free of the said Craftes within this
Citie vsyng throwyng or turnyng in their work shalbe contributory
nor pay any thyng to the occupacrons of Ropars and Turnars of
the same towardes chardges of any pageant but shalbe frome
hensforth | therof quyte agenist the said Ropars and turnars
Provided alwayes that if any of the said occupacions doe throwe
or turne bolles disshes dublers or wheeles or suche like stuff as
perteyneth onely to the Turnars craft euery suche to paye
pageant money to the said Ropars and Turnars accordyngly /
Item that all strangers and foreynars that bryng any ioyned
stuff bourdes or lattes to this Citie to sell shalbe serched and
paye their pageant money vnto theis said occupacions /
Mercers’ Account Rolls MA: D59A(b)
mb 1
Item the said Accomptantes aunswere for money Receyvid of
26 therof) catchword therof omitted
30
35
40
ffor Releasyng
of pagyant
maisters
ffelterlayn
Rentes Resolute
1563 YORK / 343
Leonard Hall xiij s iiij d Peter Byrkby xiij s ij d John Harryson
xiij s iiij d And William Pennyngton xiij s ilijd for there ffynes
for Releasement of paygyant maistershipe Summa therefore
liij s iij d
Summa liij s iu) d
mb 2
Item for the Bochers pagyant howse x1) d
Item for the Bowers pagyant howse xvj d
mb 2d
... Item to the Brygmasters of Owsebrige for ovr paygyant howse
ffarme x1j d
1564
House Books Y: B23
f£165v (8 September)
ffirst it is enacted ordeyned & stablisshid that noman shall kepe
any Inne hostry nor take any horse wythin this Citye or Suburbs
of the same / Onelesse he hath a Signe at his doore apon peyne to
forfyt & pay for euery horse founden in his hous or firme hold
xij d as oft & whan soo euer any suche shalbe soo founden &
knowen The one half therof to be employed to the weale &
profite of this City and thother half therof to the said Craft and
[pageant] soccupacion: /
f 166
Item that the pageant maisters of the Inholders for the tyme
beyng / yerely shall make a trewe and a dewe accompte and
Rekenyng of their Receiptes and paymentes concernyng their
° “occupacion’ ° pageant and play before & vnto the Serchars
of that craft the Sonnday comme a sevenight next after Corpus
Christi day apon peyne to forfite and pay vj s viij d to be
employed as is aforesaid /
10
7
30
35
40
pynnars
344 / YORK 1564
Item that the Serchars of the hostelars within this Citie shall
haue full powre to make due & true Serche in all and euerye
hostery wythin this said Citie suburbs & procinctes of the same
of all oates mesurs that is to say busshell [peke &] half busshell
peke & half peke and botelles of hay and that all the botelles
kept sufficient weyght accordyng to the statutes in the Chamber /
And he or she that is founde culpable in the premisses or any one
therof to forfait & lose vj s vilj d thone half to the Chambre &
thother half to the sustentacion of the [pagiant] «, “occupacion’ °
of the said [hostylars] °*Inholdars:
Item the day & yere above said it was aggreed by the said
Lord Mayor Aldermen & Consell that what yere it shall chanse
the play accustomed at Corpus christimas to be omitted & not
played then the occupacion of Inholders for that yere shall not
be compelled to pay any pagiant money to the Chamber vse no
more than other craftes of this Citie shall doo / any order hertofor
made to the contrary not withstandyng
{163 (6 December)
Assembled in the Counsell Chambre apon Ousebrig the day &
yere abovesayd whan & where apon a bill of Supplicaczon to thes
worshipfull exhibited by the pynnars ./ It is aggreed that for
amendement of the sayd Craft ./ That the tynclars & makers of
ffysshehookes & other wares belongyng the Pynnars Craft shalbe
contributory & paye yerely towardes the chardge of pynnars
pageant iiij d a pece Item that all forynars . pynnars from hensforth
shall resort to Thursday market there to sell their pynnes and
wares openly . And none of theym to be suffred to goe hawkyng
aboute the Cite or to mens howsez to sell their wares ./ And that
it shalbe leefull to the Serchars . of Pynnars of this Citie to serche
the sayd forynars wares . And alsoo to take pageant money of
theym of euery suche forynar vsyng to sell py”ns or oyer their
stuff aforesayd within the sayd Cite iiij d a pece in the yere /
Bridgemasters’ Account Rolls Y:C91:2
mbpe
"Item of the Skynners for there pagyant howse xij d°
5
10
20
25
30
35
40
Rentes and
ffermes withoute
Myklithbar and
within
Rattonrawe
Toftgrene &
Myklith
ffor Releasyng
of pagyant
maisters this
yere
Toft grene
Rentes Resolute
1564 YORK / 345
Item of the Marchantes for there pagyant howse fferme xij d
Item of the Tapitours for there pagyant howse xij d
Item of the wrightes for there pagyant howse xij d
Item of the Cordyners for there pagyant howse xij d
[Item of the Cordyners for there pagyant howse xij d]
Item of Tanners for there pagyant howse xij d
Item of the Bakers for there pagyant howse xij d
Item of the Cowpers for one owteshott ij d
Mercers’ Account Rolls MA: D59B(b)
mb 1
Item Receyved therefore this yere nichil
Summa nichil
mb 2d
Item for the Bocher pagyant howse xij) d
Item for the Bowers pagyant howse xvj d
... Item to the Brygmaisters of Owsebrige for our pagyant howse
ffarme xij d
Bakers’ Account Books BL: Add MS 33852
£23 (Recerpts)
Item receavyd of willm bullocke and thomas nyccolson paggan
maisters as
Item Receavyd of them for the paynters paggayn xvjd
f23v (Expenses)
The reparacions of the paggan howsse
Item for a doure on locke to it xvj d
Item for one peace of tymber vj) d
10
15
20
25
30
35
40
346 / YORK 1564
Item to the wryght
Item [fo] to the lockesmith for one crouke
Item paid [at] to the mynstrells at thomas ketlandes
f 24*
‘Item paid to ye mynstrels
1565
City Chamberlains’ Books Y : CC5(2)
p 47
Leases of places to here Corpuscrysty Play
Summa nichil
p 100
Rewardes to the Common waites Accustomyd
Item paid to the waites of this Citie for Eister
terme accustomyd
Item paid to Arthure Hodshon Wait and his fello
for Crystenmas Day and St Steven
Item paid to the same Waites for St Williams
Day accustomyd
Summa Viij s ij d
p 102
Clothyng to the Common offycers and
waites of this Citie accustomyd
Item paid to Robart Husthwate one of the waites
of this Citie by the commaundement of my Lorde
Mayor [be] for his dewty doyng this yere and
for that he lieth now seke at the marcy of god
ij d
ijd
xx d
xij de
lj s 1 d
iij s iiij d
xx d
20
25
30
35
40
1565 YORK / 347
Item paid to Thomas ffale for his Clothyng aie
accustomyd at Crystenmas
p 126
Expences of Corpus Christi day this yere
(blank)
p 162
Memorandum the xxth day of May / arno / 1565 / Thomas
Mower one of the Waites of this Citie haith delyveryd to the
Chambre of owsebrige / by the commaundement of my Lorde
Mayour / one pype or Instrument callyd a Shawme with A case
of Ledder for the same that was geven to this Citie by Iohn [w]
Harper Somtyme one of the waites of this Citie /
Bakers’ Account Books BL: Add MS 33852
f24v* (Receipts)
Item Rasauede of laneslate Coupland wylyam burton pagyn
masteres for their a Counte xvj d.
£25 (Expenses)
Item for farme of owr padgian hows xij d
Item gevyn to the mynstrelles when the occupacion met at
vynce lelomes ij d
f 25v
Item gevyn to Iohn Hyll for kepyng the padgyan hous lj d
Item at lans cowpland when the padgyan dynner was
mayd js vjd
[Item Resaued of laneslate Coupland wylym burton pagyne
2)
30
35
40
Releassyng of
Pagyant maisters
Tofte Grene /
Rentes Resolute
Register of
Credeplay /
wayltes
348 / YORK 1565
masteres for thar a Counte (blank ))
Mercers’ Account Rolls Ma. DS59C(b)
mb 1
Item Receyved therefore this yere nichil
Summa nichil
Item for the Bocher pagyant howse xij d
Item for the Bowers pagyant howse xvj d
Summa 1} s ij d
... Item to the Brigmaisters of Owsebrige for ovr pagyant howse
ffarme xij d
Register of St Thomas’ Hospital Y: E66
f£48v (5 February)
Memorandum that Master Symson brought nowe in the Auncient
booke [of the] or Registre of the Crede play to be saffly kept
emonges thevident as it was before
1566
House Books Y: B24
£57* (30 October)
Assembled in the Consell Chambre apon Ousebrige the day &
yere abovesaid whan & wher / the common waytes of this citie
for their mysdemeanour / are dischardged of their office ./
And haue presently delyuered in their Syluar Collers to the
Chambrelaynes and one Shalme /
10
15
20
25
30
35
40
ili OF waites
1566 YORK / 349
£58 (19 November)
Assembled in the Consell Chambre apon Ousebrig the day &
yere whan & where it was [agg] Ordeyned and aggreed by
the sayd presens that ffrom nowe fforth for the wourship &
decentnesse of this ancient Citie . there shalbe contynewally
ffoure waytes And the iiijth wayte to haue suche ffees & lyuerie
of the Chambre with a Cognisans as thother ij haue ben
accustomed to haue / And alsoo a newe syluer [aggr] Cheyne
aggreable with thother iij cheynes to be made ageynst Christmas
by distrecion of my Lord mayour and deluered to such of the
sayd wayte as his Lordship shall seme good / ffurthermore that
thaccustomed rewardes & wages payd yerely to the waytes by the
[Aldermen] lord mayour Aldermen & otherz thenhabitantes of
this Citie shall be equally dyvided emonges theym ffrom tyme to
tyme And that the 1iij9 waytes that nowe be shall apon their
good & honest behavowr haue & exercise the sayd offices / duryng
the pleasure of my sayd lord mayour & his bredre thaldremen /
£59v (4 December)
Assembled in the Consell Chambre vpon Ousebrig the day &
yere above said whan & where / it was aggred by the said presens
that where there be a noyse of iiijot [sh] Shalmes remaining
in mr dyneley handes whiche hath [(.)] at solempne tymes
[haue] ben vsed by the waytes [of] within this Citie / And nowe
are lyke to be sold forth of the same Citie [It] Except meanes
be made for steyeng of the same still within this Citie / it is /
therfor aggreed [as is so aforesayd] that there shall be gyven
lyerfor] for the sayd noyse of the Chambre money x] s. And
[so.] to be saffly kept to the Citie Commolitie ./.
Bridgemasters’ Account Rolls vy. €C91:3
mb 1
Item of the Skynners for there pagyant howse xij d
25 be] corrected from some other original
20
25
30
Rentes and
ffermes without
myklith Bar
and within
Rattonrawe
loft Grene
and Myklith /
Releasynge of
Pagyant maisters
Tofte grene
Renwes Resolute
350 / YORK 1566
Item of the marchauntes for there pagyant howse ffarme _—_ xij d
Item of the Tapitowrs for there pagyant howse xij d
Item of the wrightes for there pagyant howse xij d
Item of the Cordyners for there pagyant howse. xij d
Item of the Tanners for there pagyant howse xij d
Item of the Bakers for there pagyant howse xij d
Item of the Cowpers for one Owteshott ij d
Mercers’ Account Rolls MA: D59D(b)
mb 1
Item Receyved therefore this yere nothynge
Summa nihil
mb 2
Item for the Bocher pagyant howse xij d
Item for the Bowers pagyant howse xvj d
Summa ij s uj d
mb 2d
_.. Item to the Brigmaisters of Ousebrige for owre pagyant howse
ffarme xij d
Bakers’ Account Books BL: Add MS 33852
£26 (Receipts)
Item resaued of the paynters for ther pagyent rome
f 26v (Expenses)
Item for farme of our padgiane howsse
xvj d
xij d
10
15
20
25
30
35
40
Corpus christi
play
Wayte
Tofte grene
1566 YORK / 351
Item gyvenge to the mynstrells when we eat our SV.......... Pat
nycoles clarkes (.) in lent vj d
1567
House Books Y: B24
f 69v (18 March)
Aggreed nowe that Corpus christi play shall be played this yere
And billettes made forth with spede & delivered accordyngly /
f70v (4 April)
Assembled in the Consell Chambre apon Ousebrig the day &
yere abovesayd whan & where / apon the humble sewte of
Robert Hewet musician it is thought by theis sayd presens that
he is a quyet & mete man to be [one] the Cheif Wayte of this
Citie takyng to hym suche his men or oyer three whom he
thynke most fytt & hable / And soo they apon their good
behavour conyng & diligens to contynew at pleasur of my sayd
lord mayour & Aldermen
£82 (17 June)
Aggreed that the Pageantes of Corpus christi suche as be not
allready Registred shalbe with all convenyent spede be fayre
wrytten by Iohn Clerke in the [bo] old Registre yerof viz. of
Vyntenors the Archetricline / of thyron mongars / Marie
Magdalene wasshyng the Lordes feete &c. of the Tylars the lattr
part of their pageant / Of the Labrors the Purificacion of owr
lady & [of] the Cappers to be examined with the Register &
reformed / And lohn Clerke or oyer taking peyne to be honestly
recompensed for there peyne /
Mercers’ Account Rolls MA: D59E(b)
mb 2
Item for the Bocher pagyant howse xij d
10
25
30
215)
40
Rentes Resolute
non allocatt
352 / YORK 1567
Item for the Bowers Pagyant howse xvj d
Summa ij s_iiij d
mb 2d
... Item to the Brigmaisters of Owsebrige for our pagyant howse
ffarme xij d
Bakers’ Account Books BL: Add MS 33852
f27v (Receipts)
Item of the pagiant masteres remaynynge of there
Accompe lilj s vij d
f 28
Item of the paynters for there Rente xvj d
(Expenses)
Item for the rent of the [pag] pagyant howse x1) d
Item to the Mynstrells at Trinitie sonday at night xd
Item that nyght for wyne vs xjd
Item for the players supper lj s
Item for ale that night js vyjd
1568
House Books Y: B24
f104v (13 February)
Alsoo the day & yere aforesayd it was aggreed by [the] all the
sayd worshipfull presens . that in steade of Corpus Christi play /.
this yere the Crede playe shalbe played . And the same to be
provided for & brought forth by thouersight & ordre of the
Chambrelaynes /. And first the Original or Regestre of the seyd
15
20
25
30
35
Crede play.
il syfeits). YOURS Bini)
Crede play to be goten of the mastr & bretherne of St Thomas
hospitall whoo haue the Custody therof And after [goo] expert
& mete players found owte for the conyng handlyng of the seyd
playe / than euery of theym to haue ther partes fair wrytten &
delyuered theym [in tyme] soo that they may haue leysure to
kunne euery one his part And the seyd Chambrelaynes furthr to
see all [th] maner the pageantes playeng geare & necessaries to
be provided in a readynes / And as occasion shall requyre to aske
advise & ayde / abowte the same /
Item it is further aggred by the sayd presens that all such the
Craftes & occupacions of this Citie as are chardged wit) bryngyng
forth of the pageantes of Corpus christi shall [bryng] gather euery
of theym their accustomed pageant money and pay it to the
Chambrelaynes handes towardes the chardges of bryngyng forth
the sayd Crede playe / And warnyng to be gyven to euery of
theym accordyngly /
f106a* (24 March)
Salute in Christo My most humble duetie remembred &c. I haue
pervsed the bokez that your Lordshipp with your bretheren sent
me and as I finde manie thinges that I muche like because of
thantiquitie, so see I manie thinges, that I can not allowe, because
they be Disagreinge from the senceritie of the gospell, the which
thinges, yf they shuld either be altogether cancelled, or altered
into other matter, the wholle drift of the play shuld be altered,
and therefore I dare not put my pen vnto it, because I want
bothe skill, and leasure, to amende it, thoghe in goodwill I assure
you . yf I were worthie to geue your lordshipp and your right
worshipfull brethren consell: suerlie mine advise shuld be, that it
shuld not be plaid . ffor thoghe it was plausible 40 yeares agoe, &
wold now also of the ignorant sort be well liked: yet now in this
happie time of the gospell, I knowe the learned will mislike it and
how the state will beare with it | knowe not . Thus beinge bold
to vtter mine opinion vnto your lordshippe I committ you, and
your brethren to the tuition of gods spirit, ffrom Thorneton the
24 of Marche 1567
Your lordshipps in Christ to command
Matthew Hutton
To the right honourable my Lorde
Mayour of York and the Right
worshipfull his Brethren yeve this /
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f 106v (30 March)
Assemblyd in the Counsell Chambre of Owsebrig of this Citie the
day & yere abouesaid / whan & whear apon a letter sent by
Mr hutton Dean of the Cathedrall Churche of yorke / vnto my
Lord Mayour and his Brethren / It appereth yat by his advise
and Counsell the Creyd play is not meet to be playd / for that he
seyth many thynges therein that he cannot allowe bycause they
be dysagreyng frome the Senceritie of the gospell / and for other
causes as by the said letter it dothe also appere /
It is therefore agreyd to haue no play this yere / and the
bookes of the Creyd play to be delyveryd in agayn/
f108v (27 April)
Assemblyd in the Counsell Chambre of owsebrige of this Citie /
whan & where my Lord Mayour declaryd to these presens / that
dyverse commoners of this Citie were muche desyerous to haue
Corpuscrysty play this yere / whereunto these presens woll not
agree, but that the book thereof shuld be perused / and otherwaise
amendyd / before it were playd.
Mercers’ Account Rolls MA: D59F(b)
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Item of the Bowers for there pagyant howse xvj d.
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Item of the paynters for there pagiavt howse xvj d
(Expenses)
Item to the Mynstrell when we war at Mr Ketlandes at
venyson iy d
Item for the Rent of ovr Pagyant howse xij d
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£130 (17 March)
Item it is nowe further aggreed that Corpus christi play shalbe
played this yere on Tewisday in witsone weeke . And that
billettes accustomed shalbe immediatly made forth for preparation
to the same
£131v (31 March)
The Serchars of Girdlars are to be sent for to declare by what
colour of title they clayme pageant money of yren stuff sold in
this Citie . Which pageant syluer belongeth to the craft of yren
mongars towardes chardges of their pageant as it seemyth
fies (22Apral)
Agreed that the harnessed men accustomed shall goe this yere on
the day in whiche Corpus christi play shalbe playd this yere ./
And the Shiretes nowe beyng to be /{aesed] assisted with such
borne the seyd chardges iiijor a pece well furnisshed
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f 133v
Apon Supplicacon made by the Wax chandelars for ayd to the
chardges of their pageant [ber] bryngyng forth / for that the sayd
Craft is moch decayed . It is nowe therfor aggreed that half of
that . ‘pageant mony’ that is gathered by the Inholdars shall be
payd to the sayd waxchandelars & thother half to the Chambre /.
f134v (4 May)
It is also agreyd by the said presens, that ffromehensforth the
Bottellers shall be contrybutories with the sporryours towardes
bryngyng furth of there pagyant of Corpus christi any ordynance
heretofore mayd to the Contrary not withstandyng
And also it is agreed that fromehensforth the hatters shall be
Likewyse contributories with the Cappers towardes bryngyngfurth
of there pagyant of the play callyd Corpuscristy / any ordynance
heretofore mayd to the contrary not withstandyng
f 139 (18 May)
And nowe apon certayne reasonable consideracons this seyd
worshipfull presens movyng it is thought requysite & also fully
aggred that the shewe of harnessed men of this Citie at Corpus
christi play shall be spared and not had for this yere
£140 (26 May)
And nowe was appoynted places for hearyng Corpus christi
play on Wytson[dy] Tewisday next &c. viz. the first at Trynitie
gate / ijd¢ ageynst mr Henrisons hows iij4¢ abowt St John
kirkstile . iijjth at mr Pacok doore vth at Ousegate cornar vjth at
mr Appleyardes vijth at the common hall gat the viijth abowt
christofer Willughbies hows the ixth at the mynstar gates xth at
mr Birnand hows xj at Huttons. xijth at the lord mayouwr place
xiijth one the pavement betwene mr Harbertes & mr Shirefes
howsez the xiiijth betwene mr Pacoke & mr. Allen places /
provided that if the sayd persones will not pay for the sayd
places as the lord mayour & Chambrelaynes shall thynk requisite
than furthre ordre yerin to be taken at discrecion of my lord
mayour & Chambrelaynes &c.
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Agreed alsoo that promacion accustomed for peace kepyng
shalbe on Moneday in wytsonweeke and to begynne at 111j9"
of the clok in thaftr none
f140v (27 May)
Aggred furthermore that the Cowper in Myklegate mr ffawkes
in Conystreet & lohn Chambre in Coliargate shall haue the
pageantz played afore their doores if they will aggre with the
Chambrelaynes for the same /
f£157v (26 September)
Aggreed that mr Leonard Temple shall haue ."xx s’ of the
chambr towardes payment of xliij s. which allegeth to haue layd
forth for bryngyng forth of the yrenmongars pageant for ij yeres
and renewyng the pageant . And xxiijj s residew to be gathered
of suche as occupyeth buyeng [for] & sellyng of nayles within
this Citie & to haue furtherans of the officers for gatherynge the
same
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Item of the Bowers for there Pagyant howse xvjd
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howse ffarme xij d
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f 33v* (Receipts)
Item of the pagyant maisters for there Reconyng money Ml} s
1 promacion] for proclamacion
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Item of the paynters for there pagyant howse ferme xv) d
£34 (Expenses)
Item to William Newsome Brigmaister for owr pagyant howse
ferme xij d
Item bestowyd of our pagyant howse in bordes Nales and
workmanship ij s
Item pad for two Sheyldes to my Lorde Maiour x1) d
Item payd for owr players Suppers js ud
Item paid for Makyng and payntyng of our dyodemes HS
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f 128
ffor the laytie
f 130v
Item that the minister and churchewardens shall not suffer anye
lordes of misrule or sommerr Lordes or ladyes or anye disguised
persons or others in christmasse or at may games or anye
minstrels morrie dauncers or others at Ryshebearinges or at any
other tymes to come vnreverentlye into anye churche or chappell
or churchyeard and there daunce or playe anye vnseemelye
partes with scoffes ieastes wanton gestures or rybaulde talke
namely in the tyme of divine service or of anye sermon.
f 131
All Whiche Iniunctions we do chardge and commaunde to be
inviolablie performed and observed of all persons whom they
shall concern within our province of yorke vpon payne of
contempte and of excomunication and other censures of the
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churche by the ecclesiasticall lawes of this Realme in suche like
cases limitted and appointed.
cn70
Yule Broadside Bodleian: vet. Al a.5(1)
Yule in Yorke.
Our Sauiour is come.
Ans teares and wofull plaint, hath pierst the lofty skies,
M with gladsom newes in glittring robe, from heauen an Angell flies,
the clouds now open wide, & grace sends downe it shewers,
Which watereth natures barren soyle, with euerlasting flowers.
The ayre therefore resounds, Yule, Yule, a Babe is borne,
O bright and blazing day, to saue mankind that was forlorne.
Our God from mercies throne, beheld old Adams ragge,
And how proude Sathan hath displaid abroad his flaunting flagge,
His robes imbrude with bloud, his signes of conquest braue,
Haue caused God, from heauen to send his sonne, mans soule to saue.
The ayre etc.
When mercy on her knees, gusht out a wayling floude,
Our Father sent his Sonne for vs, to spend his precious bloud,
He sent no Angell bright, he sent the Lambe of God,
Our lesus sweete, to shrowde vs from Sin and Sathans rod,
The ayre ete.
The old Lawe which was writt in tables faire of stone,
Could not redeeme vs from the deuill, nor yet deliuer one,
When shaddowes would not serue, the Lambe of God is sent,
An offering sweete for vs, on crosse his Cristiall bloud was spent.
The ayre therefore etc.
When sathan did outrage and Sin did most abound,
And cruell death man trodden downe, with dinting dart did wound
Then God from heauen did shew, the riches of his grace,
The Lyon then of luda came, the Dragon to displace.
The ayre therefore etc.
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of Yulath that
is to say, A
babe is borne
for vs.
No Citue but
Yorke was e-
uer hearde to
welcome our
Sauiour, with
this ioyfull
word, Yule.
Christ is our
Pascall Lambe
offered vpon
the Crosse for
vs. I. Cor. 5
I am the bread
of Life. lo. 6.
True Isralites.
360 / YORK 1570
O Deuill, O Death, O Sinne, disgorge your bitter gall,
A babe is borne, the which wilbe, the ruine of you all.
O Deuill where is thy rage, O Death where is thy sting,
O Sinne where be thy chaines, a child, your force to ground will bring
The ayre therefore resounds, Yule, Yule, a Babe is borne,
O bright and blazing day, to saue mankind that was forlorne.
The meaning of Yule, in Yorke.
O famous Yorke reioyce, and thinke of this no shame,
To dubble Yule with sounding voice, to the honour of Gods name.
For Yulath Hebrew word, expresseth very well,
That babe the which was borne to saue our soules from damned hell.
True Isralites resound, Yule, Yule, a babe is borne,
O bright and blazing day, to saue mankind that was forlorne.
It was not without cause, that God gaue the grace,
With Yule to welcome his deare sonne, who Sathan did deface,
Triumph O Yorke, reioyce, this priueledge is thine,
In this all other townes, thou doest, and Citties ore’shine.
Therefore eftsoones resound, yule, yule, etc.
The shoulder of the Lambe the man in hand doth beare,
Doth represent the lambe of God which Iewes on crosse did reare.
The Cake of purest meale, betokeneth very well,
The bread of life which came from heauen in earth with vs to dwell.
True Isralites resound, Yulatha babe is borne,
(O bright and blazing day) to saue mankind that was forlorne.
The Angels Trumpe doth blowe, the childrens cries resounde
The ioyfull noyse in earth belowe, to heauen aboue rebounde
Because faire Jessies branch, brought forth that noble Nut,
Which being crackt vpon the crosse, did sinne and Sathan gut.
Therefore we will resound &c.
All haile renowned king, we thanke thee for thy loue,
Through which for vs, thou lefts thy throne, in haughty heauen aboue
Be thou our Iesus sweete, grant grace to follow thee,
To keepe thy lawe and sacred word, that saued we may be.
And we will still resound, Yule, Yule, a Babe is borne,
(O bright and blissfull day) to saue mankind that was forlorne.
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True Isralites.
The man wrongfully called Yule, and his wife, resemble true Isralites crying
yule, and reioycing for their deliuerance from Sathan, through Iesus Christ.
Children.
The children crying after them, do signifie our Children and Successors, who
shall celebrate this Feast to the worlds end, with ioyfull & triumphall
clamours.
Shalmes.
The Shalme and musicke, resemble the mirth and melody of Angels.
Nuts.
Nuts casten abroad, puts vs in rememberance of that most noble Nut our
sauiours blessed body, springing miraculously from that beautifull branch
of Jesse, the most pure and imaculate virgin. As it was possible (according
to Saint Austen) for the rod of Aaron, to bring forth Nuts, against the
common course of nature. So was it possible for the blessed virgin, to bring
forth that most excellent nut our sweete Sauiour, contrary to the lawe of
nature, whose sacred body (according to the same Saint Austen) js aptlie
compared to a nut. For the Nut hath in it body a triple vnion, that is to
wit, Testam the shell, signifying the bones; and Corium et nucteum, the
skinne, and kirnell signifying the flesh & inward soule of our Sauiour. The
nut destroyeth poyson, Our sauiour crushed vpon the crosse, imbraced with
a liuely faith, destroyeth the poyson, of sinne and Sathan.
Sergeants.
The officers, resemble the noble spreaders & publishers of this Mysticall and
miraculous Nut.
Reiected Draffe.
The reiected draffe, doth signifie the shaddowes and camall ceremonies of
the old law, Which being weake and vnable to iustifie or saue vs, are (according
to S. Paule) to be reiected and esteemed as dung and dirt, in comparison of
the light of truth it selfe, which hath now shined vpon us.
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Distaffe or Rocke.
The very Rocke, sheweth that women laying aside their seruile workes, must
make good preparation for this solemne feast.
Thus you haue the meaning of this notable and antient spectacle, of Yule in
Yorke, conteyning a briefe sum of verity in it.
Soli Deo, sit honor et gloria.
FINIS.
1570
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f217v (1 December)
Assemblyd in the Counsell Chambre of Owsebrige of this Citie
the day and yere abouesaid / whan and where it was ordryd &
agreyd by the said presens / That the Common waites of this
Citie for dyvers good causes & considracions shall fromehenseforth
vse and kepe there Mornyng Watche with there Instrumentes
accustomyd every day in the weyke / excepte onely Sondays in
the mornyng and the tyme of the Crystenmas / onely excepte /
any custome or vsaige heretofore hadd and vsed emonges theme
or others before them to the contrary not withstandyng /
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Item of the Bowers for there pagyant howse xvj d
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Bakers’ Account Books BL: Add MS 33852
£35 (Receipts)
Item of the Paynters for there Pagyant howse xv) d
f35v (Expenses)
In Primis spent at Nycholas Clerkes that day the bucke was
ettyn that Mr. Iohn Vaghain gave to vs lj s
Item the same day to the mynstryll xij d
Item payd for the Reparacrons of the pagyant howse xij d
Item paid to the pagyant maisters for A locke and A key xd
1571
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{267 (12 December)
Assembled in the Counsell Chambre upon Ousebrig the day and
yere abovesaid, Whan , °&’ where a bill exhibited to my Lord
Mayour by Arthure Hodgeson one of the Waites of this Citie was
now redde before theis presens, requyryng therby that his
honour wold stand his good Lord & frende concernyng his
Apprentis that he might exercise with hym and his other twoo
felawes waites one of the foure Instrumentes belongyng to this
Citie And to haue a Cote &c. for the wourship of this Citie / And
that it shoulde not be hurtfull to his other 1) felawes, and that he
wold not clayme any part of wages or custommes within the
same Cite /
Wherapon it was aggreed by theis presens, that the said Arthure
Hogeson Apprentice shall haue a Cote of the Citie chardges, and
to weare one of the foure badges and one of the iiijo™ Cheynes
belongyng to the Citie waites within this Citie and not elles
where soo that it be not hurtfull to his other twoo felawes
waites / and that the same Arthure shall not clayme any part of
wages or Customes within this Citie for his said Apprentice / And
to be allowed of the Citie chardges for the said Cote vj s_viij d
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howse ffarme xij d
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£36 (Receipts)
Item resauyd of the pynners for pagaunt Rent
Item resauwyd of vxor burnleder for pagaunt money
Item resauyd of vxor Thomson for paggeaunt money
(Expenses)
Item payd to the mynstrell at Thomas ketlandes
Item payd to the mynstrelles at Thomas ketlandes
Item payd to the mynstrelles at Charelles Skayffees
Item payd to the brydge maysters for paggeant Rent
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pater noster
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Ridyng of
Sheryffes
Citizens to
skowre their
armour
1572) ORK / 3165
pricking forth of Songes at London XS
1572
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£6 (14 April)
And further it is aggreed by theis presens, that my Lord Mayour
shall send for the Maister of St. Anthonyes and he to bryng with
hym the booke of the play called the Pater noster play, that the
same may be pervsed amended and corrected, And that my said
Lord Mayour shall Certefie to theis presens at their next assemblee
here of this pleasure to be taken therin /
ff 12v-13 (14 May)
Item it is aggreed by theis presens that the play commonly called
Pater Noster play shalbe played this yere on the Thursday next
after Trynitie Sonday nexte comyng /
{And now it is agreed by theis presens that euery Alderman
{and either of the Sheryffes] of this Citie shall fynde sex men
harnessed and euery of the xxiilj°t to fynde foure harnessed
men And that warnyng to be gyven to theym accordyngly / And
that the Sheryffes of this Citie shall ryde accordyng to the
ancient custome]
And nowe it is aggreed by theis presens that the Sheryffes of
this Citie shall ryde with harnessed men the said Thursday next
after Trynitie Sonday next comyng accordyng to the ancient
custome, And that euery Alderman of this Citie shall fynde sex
men wherof iii) to be in white armour and ij in coates of plate
and euery of the xxiiijot to fynd iiijot men wherof ij to be in
white armour and ij with Calevers, Towardes the said rydyng,
Apon payne That euery Alderman and euery of the said xxiiijor
shall pay for euery of their men so lackyng iij s iiij d to the
Common Chambre of this Citie / |
And it is further aggreed by theis presens that commandement
shalbe gyven in my Lord Mayour name to the Constables of
euery paroche of this Citie, that they before Trynitie Sonday
next shall cause , “euery householdar of this Citie’ to [be] skowre
all suche Armour as they haue or ought to haue accordyng to
the Statut And that no Armorer of this Citie shall take for
skowryng of any Corselett above xij d / and for euery Allmayn
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Places to heare
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Mr Harbert
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warde
BOG / OY ORGS 5172
revett not above viij d /
f14v (30 May)
Alsoo it is aggreed by theis presens that euery one that occupieth
any occupacion, other than that he was Apprentice at shall pay
il) d for pageant money as hath bene accustomed /
£15 (2 June)
Assembled in the Counsell Chambre apon Ousebrig the day and
yere abovesaid, whan and where it was aggreed by theis presens
that [for] the pageant maisters [of certayne Occupacions of this
Citie] of suche pageantes of certayne Occupacions of this Citie
as shalbe occupied in Pater Noster play or for the Shew this yere,
and alsoo twoo other honest men of the same occupacions shall
goo togithers with their owne pageant and attend apon the same
and see good ordre kepte /
And nowe was appoynted by theis presens places for hearyng of
Pater Noster play on Thursday next &c. viz. / The first at Trynitie
gate, The secunde at Mr Henryson hows, The thirde at Iohn
White hows The iijth at the East end of Ousebridge at George
Aslaby dore The vth betwene Thomas Parker and Robert Brooke
howses, The vjth at Henry Pulleyn hows, The vijth at the Common
Hall gates, The viijth at William Gilmyn hows, The ixth at the
Mynstar gates, The xth at Mr Birnand hows, The xjth at
Goodromegate Corner, The xijth at lohn Wrightman Corner
The xiijth at Mr Harbert doore and he to pay therfor ij s ii) d
fel Sven (oe) 2ee)
Alsoo it is further aggreed by theis presens, that forasmoche as
Mr William Bekwith and Mr christofer Harbert Aldermen of this
Citie this present day haue disobeyed the commandement of my
Lord , Mayor’ whan as he did the same day in this place
commande the said Mr Bekwith and Mr Harbert to assocyate and
assist his Lordship at the tyme of playeng of the Pater noster
play, whoo than and there refused the same, and wolde than
haue departed frome this place, Wherapon the said Mr Bekwith
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imprisonment,
Mr. Bekwith &
Mr. Harbert
disfranchised,
Mr Harbert
Aldermans
submission
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and Mr Harbert by thadvise and consent of this worshipfull
presens are nowe commanded to warde / there to abide duryng
my Lord Mayour pleasure /
£16 (7 June)
Alsoo it is aggreed by theis presens that where as Mr. Bekwith
and Mr Harbert Aldermen weare in warde by the commandement
of my Lord Mayour, for their disobediens to his Lordship, It is
nowe ordered and aggreed that they shalbe discharged of their
imprisonment wmmediatly
[And further it is agreed by theis presens that the said Mr
Bekwith and Mr Harbert Aldermen for their said disobediers &c.
shalbe vtterly disfranchesed, and no more to occupie as ffreemen
of this Citie /]
And forsomoche as the said Mr Bekwith and Mr Harbert
Aldermen beyng nowe demmanded by theis presens / if they be
content to abide thordre of this hows for their disobediens to
my Lord Mayour and other their offences by theym latly
commytted contrary to (their (.....) hensforth and against] the
ancient ordynances of this Citie, did obstynatly and disobediently
refuse to abide any their said ordre, Therfore it is agreed by theis
presens that the said Mr Bekwith and Mr Harbert shalbe vtterly
disfranchised, and no more to occupie as ffree men of this Citie /
f 16v (23 June)
Assembled in the Counsell Chambre apon Ousebrig the day and
yere abovesaid, whan and where Mr Harbert one of the twoo
Aldermen of this Citie whoo was latly disfranchised by aggreament
of this hows personally came before theis presens and did humbly
submytt hym self to abide the ordre of the Lord Mayour and this
worshipfull assemblee for his disobediens to his Lordship and for
sewyng hym before the Lord President and Counsell in theis
North parties, beyng a foreyne Courte contrary to [his franchesed
(Ces ee )] the ancient ordynances of this Citie / be it by ffyne
or otherwise, and also for admyttyng hym to his ffreedome
ageyne for his said offenses
Wherapon it was nowe aggreed by theis presens that the said
Mr Harbert shalbe restored to his ffreedome ageyne and he to
13 disobediers] for disobediens
25
30
UE}
40
Mr Harbert
restored to his
ffredome &
Aldermanship /
The Lord
Archebissop to
haue a Copie
of the bookes
of Pater noster
play
Citie Waites
368 / YORK 1572
pay therfor xl s on Thursday next in the Comon Chambre apon
Ousebrig to the handes of the Chambrelaynes of this Citie / And
that he shall frome hensforth kepe his place of Aldermanship in
all assemblees as he did before his said disfranchisement /
£19 (30 July)
And nowe my said Lorde Mayour declared to this said worshipfull
assemblee that my Lord Archebisshop of York requested to haue
a Copie of the bookes of the Pater noster play / Wherapon it is
nowe aggreed by theis presens that his grace shall haue a trewe
Copie of all the said bookes even as they weare played this yere
£24 (20 October)
And nowe it was aggreed by theis presens that for certayne
consideracions the Waites of this Citie shalbe called in / and their
Cheynes Cognysances to be taken from theym / and not s to
serue as Waites of this Citie / quovsque &c. /
f25v (22 October) Locksmiths’ Ordinances
Item that the Pageant Maisters of the said Craft shall warne all
the Craft as oft tymes as they shalbe charged by the said Serchars
apon payne of xx d to be payed in forme aforesaid /
ff 27-7v* (21 November)
Assembled apon the Counsell Chambre apon Ousebrig the day
and yere abovesaid, whan and where a lettre frome my Lord
Archebesshop of York and certayne others the Quenes Maiesties
Commyssionars , ‘a lettre’ directed to my Lord Mayour and
Aldermen was nowe openly redde to theis presens / the Tenour
wherof herafter foloweth woorde by woorde /
Collation (B25, ff 27-7v with BI: HC A.B.7, ff 41-1v): Heading] Decimo
quinto Novembris Anno domini 1572 30-5] omitted
18 s) single letternot cancelled
20
25
30
35
Lettre ageinst
ridyng of Yule
& Yules wif,
1572 YORK / 369
To our lovyng ffrendes the . Lord Mayour & Aldermen of the
Citie of York /
After our hartie commendacions / where as there hath bene
heretofore a very rude and barbarouse custome maynteyned in
this Citie, and in no other Citie or towne of this Realme to our
knowlege that yerely vpon St Thomas day before Christmas,
twoo disguysed persons called Yule and Yules wif shoulde ryde
throughe the Citie very vndecently and vncomely drawyng great
concurses of people after theym to gaise / often tymes comyttyng
other enormyties / fforasmoch as the said disguysed rydyng and
concourse aforesaid besydes other inconvenyences, tendeth also
to the prophanyng of that day appoynted to holy vses, and also
withdraweth great multitudes of people frome devyne service
and Sermons / We have thought | good by theis presentes to will
and requyre yowe, and nevertheles in the queenes Mavesties
name by vertue of hyr highnes Commyssion for causes
eccleciasticall within the provynce of Yorke to vs and others
directed straitely to chardge and commande yowe, that ye take
ordre that noo suche rydyng of Yule and Yules wif be frome
hensforth attempted or vsed / And that ye cause this our precept
and ordre to be registred of Recorde, and to be dewly observed
not onely for this yere, but also for all other yeres ensewyng /
Requyryng yowe herof not to faile (as our trust is yowe will
not,) and as ye will answere to the contrary . ffare yowe hartely
well At Yorke this xiijth of Novembre 15720.
Your lovyng ffrendes
Edmund Ebor’
Matthew Hutton
John Rokeby
Thomas Eymis
William Strikland
christofer Ashburn
Collation continued: 1-2] omitted 10 before said] d 11 inconvenyences]
enconvenientes 16name] and 18 ye] yow 23 trust] trustlile 24 ffare]
fa're'[te] HC A.B.7 ends] Maior and aldermen of yorke
10
25
30
Yule and Yules
wif not to ride /
37,0 (YORK 5.79)
Whiche lettre beyng soo redde, It was aggreed by theis presens,
that no disguysed persons called Yule & Yules wif nor yet the
Sheryffes Seriantes shall ryde this yere not any yere frome
hensforth on Saynt Thomas day before Christmas And that
comandement herof shalbe forthwith gyven frome my Lord
Mayour to the Sheryffes accordyngly /
B/Y Memorandum Book Y: ER20A
f£230* (19 December)
Plasterers, Tilers and Bricklayers’ Ordinances
Item that the Artifecers of the said Craft shall goo with their
pageantes throughe the Citie as other occupacions and artificers
doeth /
f 230-1
Item that what soever he be that shall buye any plaister to burne
and sell ageyne and is noo Tyler shall pay yerely to the Pageant
maisters of the said Occupacion iiij d apon payne of xij d to be
payed in forme aforesaid /
Item that what soever he be that maketh any tyle or brick to
serve the Citie withall shall paye yerely to the Pageant maisters
aforesaid every one of theym iiij d apon payne of xij d to be
payed in forme aforesaid /
Item that every Lymeburnar beyng a forreynar | shall paye
ij d. for his Pageant money apon payne of xij d. to be payed in
forme aforesaid /
Item that every Tylar Plaisterer and Bricklayer within this
Citie shall paye their pageant money yerely before Saynt lames
daye, whan the playe is played whan soever they shalbe demanded
by the Pageant Maisters / apon payne of xij d to be payed in
forme aforesaid /
Collation continued: 1-6] omitted.
Collation (E20A, ff 230-1 with B, B25, ff 32v-3v; E, E22, ff 145-5v):
13 after pageantes) aforesaid BE 14doeth] doeE 23 what] what what
MS, what BE
15
20
7a)
30
35
Tofte Greyn
Renws Resolute
STA VOM TE Bi T/A
Item that twoo Maisters of the said occupacron shalbe yerely
chosen equally to governe both pageantes of the said occupacion
aforesaid /
Mercers’ Account Rolls MA: D60K(b)
mb 2
Item of the Bochers for there paigyant howse
Item of the Bowers for there paigyant howse
mb ld
... Item payd to the Brigmaisters of Ousebryge for our
pagyanthowse ferme
Olde Dettes and Arrerages
xij d
xvj d
xij d
Item Mr Robert Paycock Lait Alderman for Peter Hall for Releas
of his pagyantmaistership found by Audytours
Bakers’ Account Books BL: Add MS 33852
f 36v (Receipts)
Item of the pagyant maisters
137
Item receyved more of the pagyant maisters
£37v (Expenses)
Item to the Brygmaisters for our Pagyant howse
Collation continued: 2 the said occupacion] the Occupacion B
thoccupacion E
xiij s iiij d
vijs ijd
x1j d
xij d
10
20
30
35
not
Rentes and
ffermes within
Myklith Barr
and withoute
At our venyson
feast
372 / YORKSIS 72
Item to Myles Gray for makyng of a wynd as
Item paid for wyne and to the Mynstrels at Mr.
Ketlandes xv) d
Item paid to the Mynstrell at Gregory Smyth ablyng dynnir vj d
Item to Iohn Wylliamson for Lokyng abowte the pagyant
Gear vj d
Item to the putters of the pagyant in bread & ale vd
Item in ale whan we went to se the pagyant vyjd
Item for a Sheyld of maynbread to carry to my Lord
Mayour xij d
Item to my Lorde Mayour offycer id
Item to the Chambre for our pagyant howse Xlj s
73
Bridgemasters’ Account Rolls Y:C93:1
mb 2*
Item of the Skynners for there pagyant howse xij d
Item of the Marchantes for ther pagyant howse ferme xij d
Item of the Tapitouwrs for there pagyant howse farme xij d
Item of the wrightes for ther pagyant howse x1j d
Item of the Tanners for ther Pagyant howse xij d
Item of the Cordyners for there pagyant howse xij d
Item of the Bakers for there pagyant howse xij d
Item of the Cowpers for one Owttshott ij d
Mercers’ Account Rolls MA: D60L(b)
mb 1
Item more of lames Beckwith — x s Ralf Richardson
— x s George Aslaby — x s and Iohn Iakson pagyant _ xl s
Maisters — x s Accordyng to the order of this fellowshipe
10
20
25
30
35
40
Tofte Grene
Rentes Resolute
Pagyant howse
ferme
1573 YORK /373
mb 2
Item of the Bochers for there pagyant howse ferme xij d
Item of the Bowers for there pagyant howse ffirme xvj d
mb 2d
... Item payd to the Brygmaisters of Ousebrige for ovr pagyant
howse fferme xij d
mb 1d
Olde Dettes and Arrerages /
Item Mr Robert Paycok Alderman for Releas of pagyant maister
of Peter Hall xilj $ ij d
Bakers’ Account Books BL: Add MS 33852
£38 (Receipts)
Item Receyved of the paynters xvj d.
£39 (Expenses)
Item paid to Mynstrells at our fyrst mete at Rychard Wrightes x d
Item paid to the Mynstrells in Lent vj d
Item spent whan we went with a wright to se our pagyant
howse lj d
Item paid to the Brygmaisters for our pagyant howse fferme xij d
Item paid to the Mynstrells at william wrightes xx d
Item to the Mynstrells at Richard Wrightes xij d
Item paid for a pottell of wyne at our pagyant Maisters
Rekonyng dynner vilj d
10
20
25
30
ais)
40
374 / YORK 1573
Item paid for Reparacions of our pagyant howse xxij d
Item allowyd the pagynt Maisters for Iohn Clerck and Rychard
Chapman two tymes vil) d
Item paid to the pagyant Maisters that they paid more then
they Receyvyd xij d
134 s+
Churchwardens’ Accounts: St Martin Coney Street
BI: PR Y/MCS 16
p 105
Item paid [R] to Roberte hewet for dressynge & kepinge clene
the harnes & swerdes for one yere xij d
1574
E Memorandum Book Y. £22
ff 155-5v (19 November) Tanners
Item that ij°' Pageant Maisters shall vpon warninge gyven them
by the said sherchers warne the whole occupacion to mete at a
place & tyme apoynted so as the partie warned may haue one
whole nightes Warninge before they mete And yat euerye maister
being thus warned and maketh not his repaire accordinglie
without a sufficient excuse and proof therof shall pay for euerye
Detalt xij d And if the pageant maisters gyve not warninge
according to the Serchers Commandement euerye of them
so offendinge shall lykewise pay xij d to the Chamber and
Occupaicion afforesaid equally to the devyded |
Item that the pageant Maisters and all other of the said
Occupacion shall euery yeare vpon the Monday next before the
feast of All Sayntes Choose iiij0T newe pageant maisters After
which Eleccion thold pageant Maisters shall make their Accompte
to the whole Occupacron And then presentelie delyver over all
such Money as remaineth in their Custodie to the newe pageant
Maisters And he that refuseth soe to doe shall pay x s to be
devided as is abouesaide And the sayme Day shall thold pageant
Maisters prepaire in some honest and Convenient howse one
20
25
35
40
At our venyson
feast
Tofte Grene
Allowances
Accustomyd
Rentes Resolute
Reparacions
mayd this yere /
Old Dettes and
Arrerages /
1574 YORK / 375
Dynner for al} the Maisters of the said Occupacion at viilj d a man
And he that promiseth to Come to the sayme Dynner and fayleth
shall pay xij d And if the Pageant maisters make Defaulte in
providing the said Dynner ther to forfayte xiij s iil) d to be
equallie paid as is aforsaid
Item when anie leyther shalbe brought by anie foreyner into this
Citie to be sold or sell the same and then bring it, yt shalbe
lawfull to the pageant Maisters to tayke of anie suche person for
pageant money for one whole yeare vj d /
Mercers’ Account Rolls MA: D60M(b)
mb 1
Item more of Leonard Beckwith x s christopher
Consett x s William Skott Marchant x s William
Skott Marcer pagyant Maisters x s Accordyng mus
to the order of this felloshipe
mb 2
Item of the bochers for there pagyant howse fferme xij d
Item of the bowers for there pagyant howse ferme xvj d
Summa ij s uj d
mb 2d*
... Item Allowyd for Iohn Iakson pagyant Maister whiche the
Maister Aundsveryd in his Last yere Accompte and is not payd
ie iSite.
Item payd to the brigemaisters of Owsebrige for oure pagyant
howse fferme xij d /
Item payd for Reparacions mayd of our pagyant howse xij d
mb 1d
Item Mr Robart Paycoke Alderman for Releas of pagyant Master
30
35
40
Pagyant howse
ferme
Of the pagiant
maisters
Lyme & Stone
Sold
Reparacions of
our pagyant
howse
376/ YORK 1574
of petter hall
Bakers’ Account Books BL: Add MS 33852
f 39v (Receipts)
Item Receyvyd of the paynters & pynners
xiij s iiij d
xvj d
Item Receyved of the pagyant maisters at ij sondry
tymes XXvilj s x d
t 40
Receyved for Lyme that Left of the pagyant howe xvj d / Item
for Stones that was Left there xij d Summa jj iiij d
Summa ij s ui d
f40v (Expenses)
In Primis paid for 1j peces of Tymbre that was boght of Nycholas
Clerck
Item for one pece of Tymbre boght of Richard Clerk
Item for xv Sparres
Item for one easbourd
Item for ij hundreth of sex penny nales
Item for half a hundreth doble Spykynges
Item for half a hundreth of latt nales
Item for ij gallons of ale and one Lof of Bread
vs viijd
ij s uy d
vijs vjd
xj d
Item payd to the Smyth for opnyng of the Marchantes pagyant
howse dowre
Item payd for ij stickes of Sex kyddes to make pynes
Item for buyldyng of owr pagyant howse
Item for iij quarters of Lyme and for the carrage of yt
Item for half A quarter of plaster
Item for A hundreth of breke
Item for carraige of the same
Item for ij thowsand of Latt nales
Item for vij bounshe of Lattes
jd
iij s iiij d
ijs xd
20
25
30
35
40
money due for
St Anthonies
play booke
EI /CE SCOURS BEY
Item for xx" Lodd of earthe xx d
Item for x Loodd of Sand xd
Item for ij penny worthe of Sex penny nales and jj great brages
bought after ward ij d
Item for cearten stones whiche was bought for the ground
walles and for the carraige of the stones js xd
Item for eight Ryge Tyle xv) d
Item to the Tyllers for thekyng of the sayd howse ixs jd
Item for drynke that was bestowed vpon the Tylers xij d
Item for those days when the pagyant Maisters were at the
pagyant howse xx1j d
Item to the wryght for takyng downe of the pagyant howse xij d
Item to the tyller for takyng [downe] of the teyle vilj d
Item for 1ij bordes for the pagyant howse dowre xij d
Item for croukes & A band to the same dore ij d
Item to the workmen for Rychard Clarke ij d
Summa ij li. ij s ij d
f 41
Item paid for wyne at William Kynges pagyant dyner xx d
Item paid [for wyne] to the Mynstrell at owr venyson feast at
Mr. Masons vil) d
Item paid to the mynstrells at Rychard Wright Reconyng
dynner xij d.
Item paid to the pagyant maisters for A Bultyd Loof id
Item paid to the Brygmaisters for martynmas Rent for our
pagyant howse ferme xij d
£575
House Books Y: B26
£25 (17 June)
Assembled in the Counsell chamber vpon Ousebrig the day and
year abouesaid Whan & wheir it was agreed that christofer
Learmouth shall paid him forthwyth by Nicholas Haxvppe
master of St Anthonies xx s for making ij play bookes perteyninge
10
30
35
40
playe bookes /
378 / YORK 1575
the said Hospitall of St Anthonies which il) bookes were now
Delyuered to the said nicholas to be saiflie kepte to thuse of the
saide Hospitall.
And wheras certayne of the same bookes ar in my Lord
Archebishopps handes it is agreed that the same shalbe required
to be restored agayne.
it 27 (8 July)
Also it was now agreed that before Michelmas next mr Allyn
Mr Maskewe aldermen Mr Roberte Brooke and Mr Andrewe
Trewe shall goe and requir of my Lord Archebishop his grace all
suche ye play bookes as perteyne this cittie now in his graces
Custodie and yat his grace will apoynt twoe or thre sufficiently
learned to correcte the same wherein by the lawe of this Realme
they ar to be reformed ./ And if ther leysure will serve to goe
about the premisses before lammas [las] next /
f34v (2 September)
And now a Barwood lycensed to travaile abroade with the
Quenes Beares 1s apoynted to baite the sayme vpon peaseholme
grene this day at after none over against St Anthonies hall so
that the pastyme be in full prospecte of the Lord Mayour & his
Brethren. And the Barwood to haue suche Reward of the Chamber
as my Lord Mayour shall thinke mete /
E Memorandum Book Y: E22
f 80v (20 October) Armourers
Item that all & euery the maisters of the said occupacion within
the said cyttie for the tyme beinge shall mete yearlie at ther
vsuall place vpon the second Sunday next after Corpus christi
day to elect and [cloise] choise ther new searchers and pageant
maisters for the Yeare following And to take the Accompt of the
old pageant maisters for ther yere then fynished And if anie of
them being lawfullie warned do not come to the said eleccron
And accompte making having not a reasonable Excuse of his
absence shall forefett iij s 1iij d thone half to the Common
Chamber & thother half to the said Occupaczon
20
25
30
35
40
Rentes and
fermes within
Myklith barr
and withoute /
At oure venyson
ffeast
Toft Grene
1575 YORK / 379
f 81
Item that euery yeare that the play shalbe plaed within the said
Cyttie in which the pageant of the said occupacion shalbe set out
all the maisters of the said occupacion shalbe ready attending
with the pageant Maisters vpon the said pageant at all tyme &
tymes of the playeng & publishing thereof vpon payne eche of
them to forfayt iij s ij d to the chamber & said occupacion
equallie to be devided /
Bridgemasters’ Account Rolls Y: C93:2
mb 2
Item of the Skynners for there pagyant howse ferme x1) d
Item of the Marchantes for there pagyant house ferme x1) d
Item of the Tapitours for there pagyant house xij d
Item of the Wrightes for there pagyant house xij d
Item of the Tanners for there pagyant howse x1) d
Item of the Cordyners for there pagyant house xij d
Item of the Bakers for there pagyant house xij d
Item of the Cowpers for one Owteshote ij d
Mercers’ Account Rolls MA: D60N(b)
mb 1
Item more of Rychard Hutton x s Iohn Hurbart x s
Henry Novell x s and Thomas Moselay x s
pagyantmaysters accordyng to thorder of this a
ffelloship
mb 2
Item of the bochers for ther padgyant house farme x1) d
Item of the bowers for there padgyant house ferme xvj d
Summa }j s iiij d /
10
40
Toft Grene
Rentes Resolute
not allowed
382 / YORK 1576
mb 2
Item of the bochers for there pagyant house firme
Item of the bowers for there pagyant house firme
Summa ij $ iilj d
xij d
xv) d
... Item payd to the brigmaisters of ousebrige for our pagyant
houese fferme xij d /
Bakers’ Account Books BL: Add MS 33852
f45 (R eceipts)
Receyved of the paynters and pynners for there paygyant
rent
£47 (Expenses)
xvj d
Item spent at william hewetsons by Conncent of the same
Companye in making of our reckknynge for wyne that we
had fectche by the pagyant masteres
f 48
Item paid to the Brygemasteres for rent
York Minster Chamberlains’ Accounts: St Peter’s Part
Weve B22
f17v
Item given to my Lord Therle of Essex his men players
Item given to my Lord Stafford men players
Item given to Lancashyre men players ;
Item given to the Scollers of the horsfaire players
xij d
xij d
XX S
XX S
XS
XX S$
10
20
30
35
40
Rewardes to the
Common Wates
accustomed,
Clothyng to the
Common
officers and
waites of
this Citie /
Rewardes to
honorable mens
servantes players
Trumpetars
mynstrelles and
Barwardes
At oure venyson
feast & of the
Pagiant maisters
Toft Grene
Rentes Resolute
1577 YORK / 383
Sy/7/
City Chamberlains’ Rolls y : C7:3
mb 5
Item paid to the Waytes of this Citie for Easter terme
accustomed lj s ij d
Item paid to the same Waites for Christmas terme lj s ij d
Item paid to the said Waites for Saynt William day viz the day
my Lord Mayour makith his greate feaste 6a
Item paid to Thomas Moore John Bawderstone
Arthur Hogeson and Iohn Clerk foure Waites of
this Citie for their Clothyng accustomed ageinst xlviij s
Chrystmas to be devided emonges theym / viz /
X1j $a pece / in all
mb 3d
Item paid therefor this yere as appereth particularly
in the papir booke aforesaid ue swe
Mercers’ Account Rolls MA: D60P(b)
mb 1
Item more of Willzam ffresby — x s lames Crosse
x s Ralf Harte x s and Marmaducke Suddybie x s
pagyant maisters accordinge to thorder of this a
ffelloship
mb 2
Item of the bochers for there pagyant house ferme xlj d
Item of the bowers for there pagyant house ferme xvj d
Summa ij s i1ij d
... Item paid to the brigmaisters of ousebrige for our pagyant
house ferme xij d
10
15
30
35
40
Rentes and
othere money
allowid appon
Consyderacrons
Rente
33477 YORK 5077;
mb 2d
Item the Aske Allowance for x s owinge by
Rychard hutton Laite pagyant master and othere
x s by Iohn harbart Lait pagyant master which ae
the master cannot have paid
Bakers’ Account Books BL: Add MS 33852
£51 (Receipts)
Receyved of the pynners and paynters for there pagyon
rentte xvj d
f52v (Expenses)
Item paied to the briggemasteres for the pagyon howse
rentte xij d
f 64
Also it is fullye concluded and agreed by the Scearchers whiche
is lohn Troughton Robert Nicolson & George Wilson thelder and
the brethern assembled in the Comon Place of the vijth of May
anno domini 1577 / that at all tymes and tymes there after / that
no maister of fre baykers of the Cytie of yorke shall haue no mo
prentisses but one whiche haue be Padgone maisters / And euery
younge man newlye sett vpp in the said occupacon whiche haue
not bene padione maister shall haue no prentes vnto suche tyme
as they haue bene padione maister or ells shall pay to the vse of
the said occupacon xx s. for tayking the said prentis.
1578
House Books Y: B27
f 116 (22 October)
Also yt is agreed by thes presentes that from hensforth that ther
shalbe no Interludes playes or other devises for assemblinge of
20
25
30
35
40
no plaies at
common hal
but by licens &
Musycyons
fforeyners
Eleccion
1578 YORK / 385
the common people at the common Hall of this Cittie played
published or put in exercise ther but onelye at suche tyme or
tymes as the Lord Mayour of this Cyttie shalbe present at the
same except speciall lycense be granted therin by the full Consent
of this Court
E Memorandum Book Y: E22
ff 142v-3v* (28 November)
The auntyent Ordynances of the musicions comonlie called the
minstrills within the Cittie of yorke diligentlie pervsed and
examyned by the right honorable Hughe graves lord maiowr his
worshipfull brethren the Aldermen and previe Counsell of the
saide Cittie at ther assemblee in the Counsell chamber vpon
Ousbrige the xxviijth day of November in the xxith yeare of the
Reigne of oure most graciouse soueraigne ladie quene Elizabeth
and by the said lord maiowr Aldermen and counsell at instance
and with full consent of Roberte hewit maister of the fellowshippe
of the said arte or sciens of musicions comonlie called the
minstrells Ambrose [burgh] burghe and Cuthbert Watson
searchers and other the brethren of the same arte were than
and there dulie reformed approved ordeyned and stablished to
be frome thensforth for evermore dulie and firmelie executed
fulfilled and kept in all pointes aswell for the worshipp of the
said Cittie as also for the honestie weale and good order of the
sciens aforesaid in forme as followeth ./ That is to say /
ffirst it is ordeyned enacted and stablished that no manner of
forreyner of what Condicion he be occupie anie minstrelsse
singinge or plainge vpon anie instrument within anie parishe
within this Cittie enfranches thereof vpon anie Churche holidaies
or dedicacion daies holowed or kept within the same parishe or
anie Brotherheades or fremans dinners or dynners mad or kepte
within the same Cittie or ffranchesse thereof vpon payne that
euerie such foraigne minstrell after [maon] “moninge’ to him
geven by the maister or searchers to pay for euerie such tyme
that he shalbe found doinge contrarie to this act iij s iiij d the
one half thereof to remaine to the vse of the Comon chamber of
this Cittie and thother half to the Comon box of the said arte /
Item that the felloweshippe of the minstrells freemen of this
Cittie now beinge and ther successors for ever haue poore
Authoritie and libertie euerie yeare at the feast of Saynct Iames
30
ay
40
Accompt
quar terage
Presentacion
Assembles
386 / YORK 1578
thappostle to assemble them selves in St Anthonie hall or other
convenient place within the said Cittie at a day Certaine by them
to be lymited And so assembled by ther Comon voyces . and
assentes or of the greater parte of them doe choise thre able
persons of the same fellowship to be a maister and two searchers
of the said science or art for the yeare followinge and if anie
person so chosen maister [(..)] or searcher refuse or forfeyte the
said offices of maistershipp or searcher euerie person so refusinge
to pay xx s thone half whereof to the Comon chamber of this
Cittie and thother half to the behoof of the said arte /
Item that the Comon box of the said fellowship shalbe and
remaine frome yeare to yeare in the Custodie and kepinge of
the maister[s] and searchers of the said art for the tyme beinge
and of all such money as the maister and searchers haue at the
end of ther yeare or within xxth daies next after shall geue and
yeald vpp vnto the said fellowshipp or the greater parte of them
a trewe and lust accompt in writinge vpon paine euerie of them
makinge defalt to pay x s to be equallie devided to th(.)ses
aforesaide / |
Item that euerie brother of the said sciens shall pay yearelie
towardes the cherge of the said arte as brotherhead money
vilj d by yeare that is to say 1j d euerie quarter and that euerie
such ffreman beinge a brother of the said art not payenge the
said quarterage euerie quarter day that is to say at thend of
euerie quarter of the yeare or within xvth daies next and
imediatlie followinge after anie of the said quarter[s] dayes and
refusinge to content the same to pay for euerie defalt ii) s ij d
to be equallie devided in forme aforesaide /
Item that euerie freman or brother of the said arte present
euerie of his apprentices to the maister and searchers of the said
arte for the tyme beinge within one moneth ymediatlie after
‘that’ anie such apprentice shalbe bounde payinge at this
presentacion to the Comon box of the said art xx d and if anie
of them be negligent and doe not present [the] , “his’ apprentice
within the said moneth nor pay the said fyne of xx d euerie
such brother so offendinge to [pay] forfaite for euerie defalt x s
thone half to be to the Chamber of this Cittie and thother half
to the Comon box of the said arte /
Item that if anie person enfranchessed in the said art or
brother of the same warned by anie of the said searchers for the
tyme beinge to come to the quarter daies or to thassemble of the
maister and searchers of the said art for the tyme beinge with
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misdemeanowres
teachinge
Apprentishipp
secretes
Enhablinge
EDP fts), SCONES TP ested d/
theis the brethren of the same art and without reasonable cauese
absentinge himself not willinge to come thether to pay for euerie
defalt ij s to be equallie devided to the vses aforesaid /
Item that no person enfranchised in the said art or brother of
the same presume to rebuke revile or geue anie slaunderous or
veleynouse wordes to the said maister or searchers or to anie of
them for the tyme beinge or to anie other person beinge brother
or free man of the said fellowship or art vpon payne to pay for
euerie tyme that anie of them shalbe founde culpable of anie
such approbriouse or vnfittinge wordes to pay for euerie defalt
vj s vuj d thone half thereof to be to the Comon chamber and
thother half to the Comon box of the saide arte /
Item that none of the said fellowship beinge a minstrell
enfranchessed and brother of the said art teach or enforme anie
other persons other then his owen apprentice in anie point or
feat of minstrelsie excepte he be a fremans sone of the same arte
nor goe with anie stranger to anie weddinge or anie other feast
onelie to laboure with him within the said Cittie or liberties of
the same without license of the maister of the said arte for the
tyme beinge first obteyned vpon paine to forfeyt [forefyt] for
euerie defalt vj s viij d to be devided and employed as is aforesaid
Provided that this act doe not extend to anie brother for teachinge
anie freman or gentleman . ‘of this Cittie’ and ther childrin
disposed to learne anie thinge for his pleasure /
Item that no freman of the said art taike anie servant by
Covenant for a yeare or otherwise oneles he be apprentice for
the terme of vijth yeares at the least accordinge to the lawdable
custome of this Cittie vpon paine to forfeyt for euerie offence
xx s thone half thereof to be to the Comon chamber of this
Cittie and thother half to the Comon box of the said arte /
Provided that this act doe not extend to the waites of the Cittie
of york for the tyme beinge to hire anie man to helpe them in
ther wache
Item that no brother freman of the said art shall at anie tyme
open or desclose anie wordes or sayinges lawfull touchinge ther
sciens spoken at the Comon or previe metinges of the said art
or anie of them except it be to anie of the said brethren or at
the tyme of theire said assemble vpon paine to forfeyt for euerie
such defalt vj s_viij d thone half thereof to the vse of the said
Chamber and the other half to the said arte / |
Item that no freman brother of the said art shall at anie tyme
hereafter sett fourth his or ther Apprentice or apprentices to
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teachinge of
Apprentices
weddinges
offeringe to
play
playinge by
night
hunts vps
Admittance
Pageante
388 / YORK 1578
laboure in anie companie as a minstrell within the said Cittie
or liberties of the same before the said apprentices and euerie of
them be examyned and admitted by the said maizter or searchers
for the tyme beinge vpon paine to forfeyt for euerie defalte iij s
iiij d thone half to the chamber of the said Cittie and thother half
to the Comon box of the saide arte /
Item that no brother of the said art beinge enfranchissed shall
taike anie apprentice except he be able to teache him in that art
both such tunynge and conversacion as he may be well thought
on to serve a noble man or man of worshipp without the whoale
consent of the Brethren of the said art vpon paine to forfeyt for
euerie such defalte vj s viij d thone half to the comon chamber
of this Cittie & thother half to the said arte /
Item that no brother of the said art shall seake for anie
weddinges or proffer himself or cawse himself to be hired to the
same, to the hindravs of other his brethren of the said art except
the parties so to be married [ot] or ther frendes doe send for him
or them vpon paine [of] to forfeyt for euerie such defalt vj s
vilj d equallie to be paied and devided in forme aforesaid
Item that no brother of the said art shall offer to playe in anie
place within this Cittie or suburbs where anie of his brethren is
plainge wherebie they shalbe worse thought of vnlesse he be
willed or sent for by the best man of that companie vpon paine
to forfayt foreuerie defalt vj s viij d to the chamber & arte
aforesaid by even porcions /
Item that no brother of the said art beinge enfranchessed or
anie of ther apprentices shall play on the night before anie mans
apprentices or servantes after ixth of the clok at night vpon paine
to forfeyt foreuerie such defalt vj s_viij d to be equallie paied &
devided in forme aforesaid /
Item that no brother of the said art enfranchesed shall play
anie huntsvps at anie tyme except the waites of thes Cittie
vnlesse they be sent for by the goodman of the howese vpon
paine to forfeyt for euerie such defalt vj s_viij d equallie to be
paied and devided as is aforesaid /
Item that no person shall frome hensforth be made a free
brother of the said art except he be examyned by the maister and
whole fellowship aforesaid and be well thought on by them to
be a fitt man for that purpose vpon paine to forfeyt for euerie
such defalt vj s viij d to be paied and devided in forme aforesaid /
Fynallie it is further ordeyned and by the consent of , ‘all
the good , ‘men’ of the said art or Sciens fullie agreed that the
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Rewardes to the
Common Wates
accustomed
Clothyng to the
Common
oficers and
Waites of this
Citie,
Rewardes to
honorable mens
seruantes players
Mynstrelles and
Barwardes
At oure venysone ~
ffeast / and of
the pagiant
maisters:
1578 YORK / 389
said fellowship of minstrells of ther proper cherges shall yearelie
frome hensforth when the play shalbe played bringe furth and
cawese to be plaied the pagiant of corpus christif()] viz the
Harowld his sone two counsellours and the messinger enquiringe
the thre kinges of the child Jesu / somtyme accostomed to be
brought forth at cherges of the lait masons of this Cittie on
corpus christi day in such lyke semelie , “wise &’ order as ther
occupacons of this Cittie doe there pagiantes /
City Chamberlains’ Rolls Y: C8:1
mb 5
Item paid to the Waytes of this Citie for Easter terme
accustomed lij s ij d
Item paid to the same Waites for Christmas terme lij s uy d
Item paid to the said Waites for St William day / viz / the day
that my Lord Mayour makith his greate feast xx d
Summa vilj s ilj d
Item paid to Thomas Moore Iohn Bawderstone
Arthure Hogeson and Iohn Clerke foure Waites
of this Citie for their Clothyng accustomed xIvilj s.
agenest Christmas to be devided emonges theym,
viz xij S a pece in all
mb 3d
Item paid therefore this yere as appereth
particularly in the papir booke aforesaid Oe ad
Mercers’ Account Rolls MA: D60Q(b)
mb 1
Item more of William Lulley x s William Burton x s
Robert Myers x s and Iohn ffisher x s pagiant maisters xl s
accordinge to thorder of this ffelloship
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15
20
25
30
35
40
Toft Grene
Rentes Resolute /
Reparacrons
Rente
Corpus christ)
play
390 / YORK 1578
mb 2*
Item of the bochers for there pagiant house firme xij d
Item of the Bowers for there pagiant house firme xvj d
Summa lj $ iiij d
.. Item paid to the brigmaisters of Ousebrige for oure pagiant
house farme xij d
mb 2d
Item paid for nayles to the pagyant house jd
Bakers’ Account Books BL: Add MS 33852
f£53v (Receipts)
Rees of paynters & pynners for padione Rente xv} d
Receyved of Rychard Syddall for padione hous rentte xij d
f£54v (Expenses)
Item to the bridge masteres for padione howse rentt xij d
Item that Iohn gryme Laid Donne for padione howse Rentte
the whiche the Olde Seachers haiue maide Reckeninge to the
occupacion vpon & not payed vyjd
1579
House Books Y: B27
f151 (8 April)
Also it is aggreed by theis presens that Corpus christi play shalbe
played this yere And that first the booke shalbe caried to my
Lord Archebisshop and Mr Deane to correcte, if that my Lord
Archebisshop doo well like theron /
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25
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35
Ordre ageinst
strange
ministrelles
At our venysone
ffeast and of
the pagiant
maisters
Tofte Grene
Rentes Resolute
S17 OF VOR (53.91
f 196v (4 December)
Assembled in the counsell chamber vpon Ousbridge the day &
yeare abovesaide when and where yt is agreed by thes presentes
that ther shalbe comaundement geven to the searches of the
waites of this Cyttie for the tyme beinge that they shall not
suffer anie strainge musiczons or minstrell to go abroade within
this Cyttie, playnge at mens dowers or in their howses other then
such as be allowed by statute, vpon payne [ch] of every offence
that the Searchers to forfayte vj s vilj d, and further yt is agreed
that the Searchers of the sayd occupacion for the tyme beinge,
shall at all tymes when anie such minstrells and musicons, as
shalbe allowed by statute, shall repaire to this Cittie, that the
Searcher of the sayd occupacion shall give knowledge therof
to the Lord maior and his brethren for the tyme beinge. ...
Mercers’ Account Rolls MA: D60R(b)
mb 1
Item more of Thomas Harbart x s William Robynson
x s lohn Aske x s and Iohn mawd x s pagiant xl s
maisters accordinge to thorder of this felloship
mb 2
Item of the bochers for ther pagiant howse firme xij d
Item of the bowers for ther pagiant howse firme xvj d
Summa ij s iii} d
mb 2d
... Item paid to the brygmaisters of ousebrige for ovr pagiant
house firme xij d
Reparacions maid of Richard Robynson howse taillour of our
hall & pagiant howse /+
Item paid for Reparacions of our pagiant howse ij d
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30
35
40
Certen Rentes
allowed for
consyderacions /
Renttes
392 /, YORK: 1517/9
Item the said accomptantes are to be allowid for
the hole yere rent of the bochers for there Pagiant
howse firme xvj d And also of the bowers for js uy d
there pagiant howse firme xij d for that the master
& constables cannot haue them paid some
Bakers’ Account Books BL: Add MS 33852
1¢ SS (Receipts)
Receyved of Rychard Syddall for padione house rentte
xij d
Receyved of the paynters and pynners for there padione
rentt xvj d
f56v (Expenses)
Item to the briggemasteres for padione howse Rentt xij d
Item Laid downe to the mynstrels at the venyson feaste on
the water Layne vij d
Those that haue the padione howse [rentte] to paye ij s vj d
for
the rentte to the searchers and to the occupacon yearelie at the
feaste Saint Martin and at the feast of penthicoste Rychard
gaittes will geue the same graunte in the comen plaice the xiilj
Octobre anno 1579.
York Minster Chamberlains’ Accounts: St Peter’s Part
YM: E2/21
f 20v
Item given to players
1580
House Books Y: B27
£219 (3 February)
And nowe the Commons did earnestly request of my Lord
XX S
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request to haue
corpus christi
play
Shewe of
Armour with
ridyng of
Sheriffes
Rewardes to the
Common Wates
accustomed /
Clothyng to the
Common
officers and
Waites (...)
1580 YORK / 393
Mayour and others this worshipfull Assemblee that Corpus
christi play might be played this yere, wherapon my Lord Mayour
[and theis] answered that he and his bretherin wold considre of
their request /
£246 (12 July)
Also it is agreed that ther shalbe a shewe of Armor by the Cyttizens
of this Cyttie on St Bartholomewe day next at one of the clocke
after none [at one] accordinge to the auncyent vsage of this
Cyttye and the sheriffes to ryde that day with ther foote clothes
vpon payne °to be forfaited by theym as is expressed in thold
ordynances of this Citie / And so frome hensofrth yerely vpon
May day and Midsomar even / And that thofficers of euery
Warde of this Citie shall in the meane tyme gyve warnyng to the
Constables, that they may gyve warnyng to the worshopfull and
other substancyall men of this Citie to be ready with their men
and furnyture, And the said Constables to be likewise furnyshed
in Armour /*
City Chamberlains’ Rolls vy: C8:2
mb 5
Item paid to the Waytes of this Citie for Easter terme
accustomed lj) s ij d
Item paid to the same Waytes for Christmas terme ij s ij d
Item paid to the said Waytes for Saynt William day, viz
the day that my Lord mayour makith his great feast xx d
Summa viij s iiij d
Item payed to Thomas Moore Iohn Bawderstone
Arthur Hodgeson and John Clerk foure Waites
of this Citie for their Clothyng accustomyd agenist xlvilj s
Christmas to be devided emonges theym viz Xlj S
a pece in all
36 marginalia (...)] of this City
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25
30
215)
Rewardes to
honorable mens
servantes players
Mynstrelles &
Barwardes
Rentes and
firmes within
My klithbarr
and withoute /
Old detes &
arrerages
At our venison
ffeast and of
the pagiant
maisters
Tofte Grene
394 / YORK 1580
mb 4d
Item paid therefore this yere as appereth
particla(.)ly in the papir boke of theis
Accomptantes
Bridgemasters’ Account Rolls Y : €93:3
mb 2
Item of the Skynners for ther pagiant house firme
Item of the marchantes for ther pagiant house firme
Item of the Tapitowrs for ther pagiant house firme
Item of the wrightes for ther pagiant house firme
Item of the Tanners for ther pagiant house firme
Item of the cordyners for the pagiant house firme
Item of the bakers for ther pagiant house firme
Item of the Cowpers for one outeshote
Mercers’ Account Rolls MA: D60S(b)
mb 1
Vl xs vid
xij d
xij d
x1) d
xij d
xij d
xij d.
xij d.
ij d.
Item Receyved of Iohn harbart for Arrerage in his yere beinge
pagiant master
Summa X s
Item More of William Wood — x s Bryan byrkhead
x s lohn Graves — x s and Henry Banester — x s pagiant
maisters according to thorder of our felloship
mb 2
Item of the bochers for there pagiant house firme
Item of the bowers for ther pagiant house firme
Summa ij s ilij d
xX S
xij d
xvj d
10
ils)
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35
40
Rentes Resolute
Rente
1580 YORK / 395
mb 2d
... Item paid to the brige maisters of ousebrige for our pagiant
house firme xij d
Reparacions maid of Iohn Criplinge house & other places ¢
Item paid for nales to ovr pagiant house ily d
Bakers’ Account Books BL: Add MS 33852
£59 (Receipts)
Receyved of the padione maisters for the Rente of the
painters padgion xvj d
Receyved of Thomas Londell for the padgions howse Rent xv d
f 60v (Expenses)
Item to the bridge Maysters for padgion howse Rentte xij d
fiel=
Audytours apoynted of the Reykeninge aforesaid
Wyllam Wylson Where as the said audytouwrs
Iohn Arkindaile gone [f(..)t] through the said
William Langton Reykennygs and fyndeth no
Rychard Syddall falte but onely vj d that is
christofer Blayds behinde of padgyon howse
Thomas Hudson Rentt
Where as the said vj d which is founde to be behinge for Rentt of
the padgion howse is founde to be [be] pazd by Rychard sydall
Cordwainers’ Ordinances YM: QQ80/4/1
fiv* (17 June)
Item it is ordeyned that all and euery persone and persones of
Collation (QQ80/4/1, f 1v with QQ80/4/2, f 1v): 40 all and } omitted
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30
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subsidies &
pagiant money
15
Refusinge to
goe with ther
Pagiant
a shewe of
armour on
midsomer even
Lord of Sussex
players
396 / YORK 1580
the said occupacion shall dewly pay their Subsidies and pageant
money to the Maisters and gatherars of the same dewly when as
the same shalbe dewe withowte any grudgyng or gevyng any
evill woordes to the said gatherars apon payne of euery one
oftendyng herin to forfaite and pay for euery suche offens x s to
be devided as is abovesaid
f 3v
Item it is ordeyned that vpon suche tyme as any playes shalbe
played by the Citizens of this Citie wherby the said ffellawship /
shalbe chardged to go with their pageant that the foure Maisters
of the said Craft shall appoynte certayne honest persones of the
said occupacyon to go with their said pageant / And if any
persone so appointed do refuse so to doo, he shall forfaite for
euery suche offens xij d to be devided as is aforesaid And the said
persones that shall goo with the pageant to haue 1ij s_ uj d of the
said occupacion
1581
House Books Y: B28
f12 (19 May)
Also it is agreed that euerie Alderman of this cittie on mydsomer
even next shall furnishe thre able men furnished in armor and
euerie one of the xxiiijth two able men furnished to attend vpon
maister Sheriffes on Midsomer even next and this ordynance to
contynewe for ever / if yt be not altred
{26 (1 September)
Assembled in the Counsell chamber vpon Ousebridge the day and
yere abouesaid whan and where yt was agreed by thes presentes
that my Lord of Sussex men being players of Interludes shall
play this after none at the Comon hall at two of the clocke and
the said players to haue such rewardes as other players haue
heretofore had in tymes past /
6 as is abovesaid] ie, equally between the Chamber and the craft
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25
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40
Lord of
Hunsdons
players [of
Interludes]
Robert Hewit
(waite| to be
one of the
waites
Rewardes to
the Common
Wates
accustomed
Clothyng to
the Common
oficers and
Waites of
this Citie
isl YORK / 397
f 26v (8 September)
Also it is agreed by thes presens that my Lord of hunsdons
servauntes beinge players of interludes shall play this after none
at the Comon hall at two of the clock in the after none and to
haue such reward as other players haue heretofore had in tymes
past /
f 34v (14 December)
Assembled in the counsell chamber vpon Ousebridge the day &
yere aboue said whan & where yt was agreed by thes presens that
Robert hewyt shalbe one of the waytes of this Cittie according
to a former order & he to haue such ffe allowans for his clothinge
as other the waytes haue if he will weare his coate and apparell as
other of the said waites of this cittie doe, And if he refuse so to
doe then the said hewyt to haue xij s for his paynes heretofore
taken, And to be discherged for dealing anie further with the said
waites frome hensforth.
City Chamberlains’ Rolls y : C8:3
mb 5
Item paid to the Waytes of this Citie for Easter terme
Accustomed iy s ij d
Item payed to the same Waytes for Christmas terme lij s uij d
Item payed to the said waytes for Saynt William day,
viz the day that my Lord Mayour makith his great feast xx d
Summa viij s 11) d
mb 5d
Item payed to Thomas Moore Iohn Bawderstone
Arthure Hodgeson and Iohn Clerke foure waites
of this Citie for their Clothyng accustomyd XXXVj $
ageinst Christmas to be devided emonges theym
viz X1j s a pece in all
15
20
35
Rewardes to
honorable mens
servantes players
Mynstrelles and
Barwardes
Rentes and
firmes within
myklith barr
and withoute /
At our venyson
ffeast and of
the pagiant
masters
Toft Grene
Rents resolute
398 / YORK 1581
mb 4d
Item paid therefor this yere as appereth particlarly in the papir
booke of theis Accomptantes
Bridgemasters’ Account Rolls vy. 93:4
mb 2
Item of the skynners for ther pagiant house firme
Item of the Marchantes for ther pagiant house firme
Item of the tapitouwrs for there pagiant house firme
Item of the wrightes for ther pagiant house firme
Item of the Tanners for ther pagiant house firme
Item of the cordyners for ther pagiant house firme
Item of the bakers for ther pagiant house firme
Item of the Cowpers for one owteshote
Mercers’ Account Rolls MA: D60T(b)
mb 1*
Item more of Iames Bland x s Robert harrison
x s Thomas Copley x s and Anthony calton x s
pagiant masters accordinge to thorder of our
ffelloship
mb 2
Item of the bochers for there pagiant housse firme
Item of the bowers for ther pagiant house firme
Summa ij s i1j d
mb 2d
ny OVS
xij d
xij d
xij d
xij d
xij d
xij d
xij d
iy d.
xij d
xvj d
_ Item to the brig masters of ousebrig for our pagiant house
firme x1j d
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15
20
25
30
40
Certen rentes
allowed for
diuers
consyderacons /
Small expenses
Hewit minstrell
paynes considred
for helpyng the
waites In
winter
players of
interludes to
play but twise
a yere in the
Common Hall /
P5se MOR (390
Item Allowed for the bowers pagiant house firme — xvj d And
for the bochers — xij d for that they cannot haue the same
paid ys uy d
York Minster Fabric Rolls YM: E3/58
mb 1
... Item geven to the Lord Presidente his musiciens for settinge
of songes for the quere 11ij 11.
1582
House Books Y: B28
£39 (24 January)
And where it was latelie agreed that Robert hewit {minstrell]
minstrell should haue xij s for his paines taken this last winter,
with the wates of this cittie. It is now agreed by these presens
that the said Robert shall serve forth the watche vntill Candlemas
next, / and to haue for the yeare than to be ended, fortie shillinges
[th] in full satisfaczon for his paines to be paid him furthwith by
the Chamberlaines.
f40v* (3 February)
And now it is agreed by these presentes that players of Interludes
now come, and comyng from hencforth to this cittie shall play
but twise in the comon hall of this cyttie viz: once before the
Lord maior and aldermen &c. and thother before the commons.
£53 (13 June)
And wheras the nyntenth of May, the xxiijth yeare of the quenes
maiestes Reigne that now is / It was agreed, that every alderman,
of this cytty on Midsomer even then next, should furnishe three
hable men furnished in Armor, and every one of the xxiiijot two
hable men, furnished , ‘then’ to attend on Master sheriffes of
this cyttie whiche order is now confirmed, and allowed by these
presentes ‘to continewe still, And further it is now agreed by
uw
10
20
30
35
40
a shewe of
armor
trompeters
13s 4d.
certaine persons
fined for not
attending on
Master Sheriffes
400 / YORK 1582
these presentes” that every Cittizin and inhabitant of this Cittie,
whiche haith not bene sheriffe of the same shall on midsommer
even next attend on Maister sheriffes in their best Armor, and
furniture “with their servantes’ vpon “paine’ of every one
offending to forfact vj s viij d to be paid without any mittigacion
or forgyvenes and that preceptes shalbe maid forthwith for
warning of them accordinglie ./
f 54v (26 June)
Also it is agred by thes presens that my Lord presidentes
Trompetar shall haue for his and his servantes paynes on
Midsomer even last xiij s_iiij d to be payd by the Chamberlaynes
£55 (2 July)
Assembled in the counsell Chamber vpon Ousebridge the daie
& yeare abouesaid when and where the constables of dyverse
parishes of this cittie did certifie to my lord maior and aldermen
the names of such persons as did not attend on Maister Sheriffes,
in their best furniture, on Midsomer even last and diverse of the
said persons did now appeare and make aunswere for their
seuerall offences and such persons whose excuses were thought
reasonable were allowed and the residewe whiche appeared and
such as maid now defalt were fined by these presentes as apeareth
vpon their heades in the billes of every parishe wherevpon it is
now agreed that the same fynes shalbe estreated and paid . ...
f70* (19 October) Skinners
Item that all the gatherers of cony skinnes within this cyttie &
the subvrbes of the same, shall be contributo‘.)’ry & pay to the
pagiant of the Skinners
Item it is agreed that if anie of the said occupacion of Skinners
disturbe misvse or disobey the Searchers or pagiant maister of the
said craft for the tyme beinge in executing ther office that for
euery offence he shall pay vj s. viij d. to be devided in manner
and forme aforesaid
10
NS)
20
25
30
35
40
Colyer mynstrell
to haue Iohn
Rock
Apprentice /
Rewardes ta
the Common
Wates
accustomed
1582 YORK / 401
£71
Item that euery merchant within this Cyttie which doth or shall
buy anie Rawe wares belonging to the said occuppacion of
skinners, shall pay vj d yerelie towardes the mayntenance of the
Skinners pagiant
f 71v
Item that the pagiant maisters of the said occupacion shall gyve
ther accompt to ther old Searchers at the eleccion of the new
Searchers of the said craft vpon paine to forfact for euery offence
vj s viij d to be devided as is aforesaid.
Item it is agreed, that the vestment makers of this Cyttie shall
fromehenceforth pay yearlie euerye maister vii) d and every
Servant iiij d to the said occupacion[s] of Skinners towardes the
maintenance of the Skinners pagiant, if the same , ‘shall’ happen
to be plaid hereafter.
f 78v* (7 December)
Also it is agreed by these presenc that Roberte Coliar mynstrell
shall have x s for a boy called Iohn Rocke in consideracion that
he shall kepe him as apprentice by the space of xij, yeares to be
payed by the Chamberlaynes, And he to be bound apprentice by
Indenture accordingly
City Chamberlains’ Rolls y: C8:4
mb 5
Item paid to the Waytes of this Citie for Easter terme
Accustomed lj s ij d
Item payed to the same Waytes for Christmas terme lj Ss ij d
Item payed to the said waytes for Saynt William day,
viz. the day that my Lord Mayour makith his great feast xx d
Summa viij $ iii) d
uw
20
25
30
SI)
Clothyng to
the Common
oficers and
Waites of
this Citie
Rewardes to
honorable mens
servantes players
Mynstrell and
Barwardes
Rentes &
firmes within
myklithbarr
& withoute /
At the venison
feast and of
the pagiant
masters
Tofte Grene
402 / YORK 1582
mb 5d
Item payed to Thomas Moore lohn Bawderstone
and lohn Clerke three Waites of this Citie for
their Clothyng accustomed ageinst Christmas to roca
be devided emonges theym viz. xij s a pece in all
mb 4d
Item paid therfore this yere as appereth
particlarly in the papir booke of theis ij li. xiiljs ij d
Accomptantes
Bridgemasters’ Account Rolls y:C94:1
mb 2
Item of the Skynners for ther pagiant house firme xij d
Item of the marchantes for ther pagiant house firme xij d
Item of the tapitowrs for there pagiant house firme xij d
Item of the wrightes for ther pagiant house firme xij d
Item of the Tanners for ther pagiant house firme x1) d
Item of the cordyners for ther pagiant house firme xij d
Item of the bakers for there pagiant house firme xij d
Item of the Cowpers for one outeshote inj d
Mercers’ Account Rolls MA: D60U(b)
mb 1
Item more of Iohn Smythies Iohn Watson Thomas
moxon and Iohn North pagiant masters euery of xl s
them x s Summa
mb 2
Item of the bochers for ther pagiant house firme xij d
10
20
30
35
40
Rentes Resolute
Certen Rentes
allowed for
dyvers
consideracions /
viewe of armor ./
powder allowed
1582 YORK / 403
Item of the bowers for ther pagiant house firme xvj d
Summa ij s iii) d
mb 2d
... Item to the brigmaisters of ouesbrige fore our pagiant house
firme — xij d /
Item allowed for the bowers pagiant house firme —
xvj d and for the bochers pagiant house firme for ij) s ij d
that we cannot haue the same paid xij d
York Minster Chamberlains’ Accounts: St Peter’s Part
YM: E2/21
f 25v
Item gyven to my Lord Staffordes men plaiers XX S$
1583
House Books yY- B28
£99v (31 May)
Also it is agreed by these presens that the Sheriffes of this cyttye
shall ryde on Mydsomer day next at after none & euery person to
be comaunded to attend vpon Maister Sheriffes according to
thorder sett downe the last yere /
£103 (19 June)
Assembled in the Counsell chambre vpon Owsebridg the day
& yere abovesaid when and where [is] it is agreed by these
presens that the sheriffes shall have xxx li. of Corne powder to be
vsed on midsomer day next to be provided forthwith by the
Chamberlaines /
7 our] MS our our
10
25
30
35
paynters
Rentes and
firmes withoute
Miklith barr
and within /
At our venison
feast and of the
pagiant masters /
Toft Grene
404 / YORK 1583
E Memorandum Book yY: £22
{124 (14 June)
first it is ordaned that the maisters and free bretheren of the said
occupacron of painters shall elect and chuse two new searchres
yerelie and one pagiant maister on Saint Iames day or within
tenn dayes next before or after vpon payne of vj $ viij d thone
half to the comon chamber and thother half to the said occupacion
Bridgemasters’ Account Rolls Y: C94:2
mb 2
Item of the Skynners for ther pagianthouse firme
Item of the marchantes for there pagiant house firme
Item of the tapitours for ther pagiant house firme
Item of the wrightes for ther pagiant house firme
Item of the Tanners for ther pagianthouse firme
Item of the Cordyners for ther pagiant house firme
Item of the bakers for ther pagiant house firme
Item of the Cowpers for one outeshote
Mercers’ Account Rolls MA: D61V(b)
mb 1
Item more of christofer hewike Thomas Maskewe
Robert dawson and Wilfray Brand pagiant masters
accordinge to the order of this felloship euerye
of them x s Summa
mb 2
Item of the bochers for ther pagiant house firme
Item of the Bowers for ther pagiant house firme
Summa ij s ilj d
xij d
xij d
xij d
xij d
xij d
xij d
xij d
inj d
xij d
xvj d
5
10
15)
25)
30
35
Rents resolute
Certen rentes
allowed for
dyuers
consyderacons
George Cowper
elect wate
Grafton
Skolemaister
request fora
play /
Master Sheriftes
allowans
1583 YORK / 405
_.. Item to the brigmaisters of ousbrige for ovr pagiant house
firme xij d /
mb 2d
Item for the pagiant house firme in the holding of the bochers
& bowers ij s ij d
1584
House Books Y: B28
fe 137v (4 May)
It is agreed that one George [Coper} Cowper late of ipswiche
shalbe a wate of this Cyttie vpon his good behaviour during the
pleasure of the lord maior & aldermen of this cyttie vpon securitie
for deluery of his chaine /
£143 (3 June)
Assembled in the counsell Chamber vpon Owsbridge, the daie
and yeare abouesaid, when and where a bill or supplicacron was
exhibited to these presentes by one Thomas Grafton Scholemaister
wherby he desireth that for the furtherance of Midsomer shewe,
he may be licensed to set forth certane compiled speaches and
also to haue one pageant frame for that purpose, which speaches
and matter is referred first to master Sheriffes to se & pervse,
and if vpon triall maid therof the said sheriftes do thinke the
same matter to be worthie the publishinge then the said Grafton
to procead, according to his request Orels not,
f 144 (12 June)
Also it is agreed that Master Sheriffes shall have on Midsomer
even all suche Allowance of gone powder as other sheriffes of
this cyttie have had any yere within these fower yeres last past
26 Thomas} probably for John
10
15
20
30
35
40
eittie armor
what time ye
shewe shall
begynne: /
places appoynted
for ye play
a banket for ye
Lord maior &
aldermen
charges of ye
plaie to grafton
& others
defaultes at
Shewe,
406 / YORK 1584
to helpe to sett forthe the shewe for the worshipp of this cyttie /
f144v (19 June)
Also it is agreed by these presens that the v corselettes belonging
to this Cyttie shalbe lent to be vsed on the Shewe day next to
any worshippfull or honest cytizens of this Cyttie that will
require the same, And William hallay to make a note thereof and
some of the Chamberlaynes to be prevye to the deliuerye thereof
And nowe it is agreed that Mr Graves Mr Asquith & Mr Maltbie
Aldermen shall have euery of them one of the Corselettes
Also it is agreed that the Shewe shall begynne betwene iiijor
& fyve of the clocke of Midsomer even next and to be endid by
x} of the clocke / And than the play to begynne at one of the
clocke at after noone / And warning to be gyven thereof
accordinglie /
And nowe places ar appoynted to heare the playe as followeth
viz. first place at Mr harryson Alderman doore second place at
Conestreet end 11j4 place at my Lord maiors doore the iiijth place
at the common hall yates the vth place at the Mynster gates the
vjth place at Goodromegate head, the vijth place at Mr Alderman
Beckwith doore & the viijth & last place at the bull Rynge vpon
the payvement ./
Also it is agreed that aswell the chardge of the lord maior
Aldermen Sheriffes & xxijot &c. hearing the play at the common
hall yates as also the chardges the lady maioris & the ladies &c.
hearing the play at my lord maiors doore on Mydsomer Even
next shalbe borne of the cyttie chardges and the chamberlaynes
to have warning to make provision accordinglie /
£145 (1 July)
It is also agreed that Iohn Grafton Iohn Jackson and William
Pearson, shall haue in full satisfaccion of all suche money as they
disbursed for the late pagiant or play on midsommer even last
and for their paines ij li. vj s vilj d. /
f 145v
It is also agreed, that comaundement shalbe gyven to the
Constables, of euery parishe, to bring in the names of all suche
20
25
30
35
40
billes of
defaultes at
the Shewe
Robert Pacock
billes of
defaultes at
Shewe
defaultes
at Shewe /
1584 YORK / 407
persons as maid defalt in attending, on Master sheriffes at the
late shewe of Armor, on mondaie next, vpon pane of euery
constable making defalt to forfact xx s. /
f 146v (6 July)
Assembled in the Counsell Chambre apon Ousebrig the day and
yere abovesaid, when & where certayne Constables of dyverse
parishes of this Citie viz. of Walmegate warde Bothome warde &
Monkeward did exhibite billes of suche persones of their seuerall
parisshes as did make default at the late Shewe of Armour on
Midsommar even last,
And nowe Robert Pacock merchant beyng one of the persons
whiche made default at the said Shewe, personally appered
before theis presens and was fyned by theym therfor vj s_vilj d /
whiche he nowe payed / and had ijj s_iij d therof gyven hym
ageyne / And than the said Robert spake and sayed openly
before and to theis presens theis vnfittyng & vnsemely woordes
or the like in effecte / viz. / | haue bought a halbert whiche cost
me xx s / and it is so moche dearer by this iij s_iij d whiche I
haue nowe payed / And I will sell it and never come at that
Shewe whilles I lyve / ffyne me xx li. and ye will / Wherapon it
is nowe aggreed by theis presens that the said Robert Pacock
shall pay xx s for a ffyne forthwith withoute mitigacion or
forgyvenes / or elles he to be ymmediatly commytted to warde,
there to remayne for the space of twoo monethes next comyng
for his said offens /
£147 (8 July)
Assembled in the Counsell Chambre vpon Ousebrige the daye &
yeare abovesayde when and where the Constables or euerye
parishe in Mikilgaitewarde dyd Certifie in their billes of suche
persones within their seuerall parishes as did make defaulte at
the late Shewe of Armor on Midsomar even laste.
£148 (13 July)
Assembled in the counsell Chamber vpon Owsbridge the daie
And yeare abouesaid when and where certane persons of this
10
30
35)
40
Mr Colthirst
to be called in /
George Cowper
waite discharged
of his office,
George Cowper
& lames
Tenniswod
towchyng lames
norton & Alice
Liuereidge,
408 / YORK 1584
cittie which maid defalt at the shewe on Midsomer even Last
paid their fynes for the same. /
f148v (17 July)
Assembled in the Counsell chamber vpon owsbridge the day and
yere abouesaid when and where it was agreed by these presens,
yat Mr Colthirst shalbe called into this howse for that his
servauntes and Guestes have course and recourse, into the
common hall & the chambers and leades there, & do not onelie
misvse the chamber, but also do hurt, the leades, And, that the
wardens of Bothomeward the next court daye viewe the premisses
And they to make report as well of ye Repare of the same & the
misvsing as to gyve there opynions for the reformacion thereof,
f157* (23 October)
And it is now aggreed that Georg Cowper, one of the wates of
this cittie, for certane misbehaviour by him comitted shalbe
dischardged of his office, and he to haue xx s for his wages for
the tyme that he haith served . /
And now also the said Georg Cowper and lames tenniswod
taler, did personallie appere in this court and were contented to
paie vnto Iames Norton and Alice liuereidg spinster the some of
iij li. in full satisfaccon of all such apparell woll & money, as
the said Georg Cowper and Iames Tenniswodd had receyved of
the said Iames norton and Alice, and had wrongfullie converted
to their owne vses; wherof eyther of them to pay xx s in hand,
before their deliuery forth of prison: And also to be bound with
eyther of them one sewertie to paie to the said Iames and Alice
eyther of them xx s before christenmas next, which Iames
norton and Alice being also present in court, did willinglie agree
to take the paymentes aforesaid for all demaundes betwene them
and the said Cowper and tenniswodd
£159 (31 October)
Assembled in the counsell chamber vpon owsbridg the daie and
yeare abouesaid when and where Iohn Clarke, and Baltherston
two of the wates of this cittie did personallie appere in this court,
and were examined towching their evill and disorderlie behaviour,
10
15
20
25
30
35
40
Mr Colthirst to
haue vj s viij d
for easement in
his hows for my
Lord mayor &
Aldermen
1584 YORK / 409
to the discredit of this cittie viz for that they haue gone abroad,
in the contry in very evill apparell, with their hose forth at their
heeles, also for that they are comon druvkerdes and cannot so
connynglie play on their instrumentes as they ought to do, and
concerning other their misdemeanor, which disorder the said
wates cold not deny whervpon and for the worshipp of the said
cittie, it is agreed by these presentes that the said Clarke and
Baltherston shalbe presentlie dischardged of the said office of
wates, and their badges to be taken from them, and other sufficient
men to be chosen in their places such as shalbe in this court /
£169 (24 November)
Item that Mr Colthirste shall haue vj s_ viij d for the Rowmes for
my Lord maior and Aldermen, in his howse at the Shewe on
Mydsomer even last. /
City Chamberlains’ Books Y ; CC5(3)
Sa gal
Rewards Geven to honourable mens
servantes players mynstrills and barwardes
Item paid to my Lord of essix players that played ;
in the [co] common hall in march 1583 ae
Item geven to the quenes Mavestes playeres that ii vj
played in the common hall in August 1584 pitgiseee
Item geven in Reward to master Atherton
barward in christenmas xij s iy d
f 73v
Chardges of the shewe
on Mydsomer even /
[Item for (blank) of corne powthere delyuerid
to the sherifes (blank) ]
20
25
30
35
40
+O ey ORK 1584
To Iohn balderston for playinge of the ffyvfe on
mydsomer even & when the cittizens were warnid ae
To arther for one head for the drom xiilj d
To lames crosbie for ij heades to the other drom ys vid
Item for a pare of nares to the great drom xij d
for a new cord for the litle drom vj d
Item for dressing the two dromes vilj d
To arther for ij dais & di. warnynge the citezens
& on Mydsomey even aad
Item paid to Bryan byrkhead merchant for 30 li.
of corne powther at 13d the pound delwered to Xxxlj s vj d
the shew
Item paid to William Pereson John Iakson and Iohn
Barston for & in consytheracion of ther chardges
& payns takinge in & aboute the setting forth of ij li. vj s viijd
the play in the shewe by the gremant of my Lord
maiour & Aldermen
Item paid to mr brooke sherife for one dosen
corn powther for the shott with the pagiante gis
Summa Vj li. xxij d
f 74
Expences of my Lord Maiour & Aldermen
& Ladys on mydsomer even at the play /
Item for Rishes to the chamber xvij d
Item for C aples xij d
Item for byrkes id
Item for j li. of carrawais & biskyttes xx d
Item for beare i)s vj d
Item for a gallon of secke ij s
Item for vij gallons of ale ij s vijd
Item for iij gallons di. of claritt wyne llj S vil) d
Item for apotell of breweer wyn xvj d
Item for aples to the Ladys _ xxd
Item for byskyttes & carrawys i) s xjd
15
20
25
30
35
40
1584 YORK / 411
Item for x li. of suger
Item for [fyv] fyne suckett
Item for iiij li. & iij qvartrons marmalaid
Item for maynbread & cakes
Item for iiij gallons & a half of wyne
Item for vij gallons of ale
Item paid to Thomas colthirst for Rowmes in
his house for my Lord maiowr & aldermen on
Mydsomer even accordinge to his lease
Summa iij li. vs 1) d
Sen (HES
between ff 70v and 71 (25 June)
A note of the Chardges laide oute for and
Concernynge the settinge forth of the
Pageaunte and the fforerydinge Champions
in their apte and requisite manner
Imprimis paide to willson the Ioyner for his
workemanshippe
more paid to Edward Willson the painter for his
workemanshippe
more to Cuthberte our musityan
more paid to eight putters on of the pageaunte after.
6d. pey man
more to our two dromsters after 12d per man paid
more to our Ancyant bearer paid
more for our two dromsters dynners and our Ancyant
bearers dynner ye daye of our showe
more Laid oute for horshire to ryde oute of towne
to borrowe certaine necessaryes and for amans
paines to help to yorke with them
more paid for the mendinge of our Ancyant which
one of the two hand sworde players vnadvysedly
rented
more to our trumpeter
xii] S illj d
lj
vs vyjd
Vij S
vj s
ij s vu d
vj s vil d
s:. 0d
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eto)
4 0
Zz 10
ie als:
= 9
6
LO
10
30
35
40
5 markes sol
in maini
Rents and
firmes withoute
miklithe barr
and within
At our venison
feast and of
the pagiant
matsters
Tofte Grene
412 / YORK 1584
more paid to mason the loyner for boordes nayles,
and other necessary reparacions done aboute the
pageaunte, & for his travaile
more Laide oute in other necessary expences from
the fourth of Tune yat it was graunted vnto the
24th daye of the saide monneth fully complete
and ended beinge the daye after our showe
paid Soma Totalis
uj li. / 6s 8d / for all
Bridgemasters’ Account Rolls Y: C94:3
mb 2*
Item of the Skynners for there pagiant house firme
Item of the marchantes for there pagiant house firme
Item of the tapitours for there pagiant house firme
Item of the tanners for there pagiant house firme
Item of the wrightes for there pagiant house firme
Item of the Cordyners for ther pagiant house firme
Item of the bakers for there pagiant house firme
Item of the Cowpers for one outeshote
Mercers’ Account Rolls MA: D61W(b)
mb 1
Item Receyved more of Anthony Sindwith x s
Peter Hodgson x s William watson x s and
William Williamson x s pagiant maisters according
to the order of the felloship
mb 2
Item of the bowers for there pagiant house firme
xij d
xij d
xij d
xij d
xij d
xij d
xij d
ij d
xvj d
10
ay
20
25
30
35
40
Rentes Resolute
Certen rentes
allowed for
dyvers
consyderacons /
Thomas Turner
his bill of
charges /
1584 YORK / 413
Item of the bochers for ther pagiant house firme xij d
Summa ij s uly d /
mb 2d*
_. Item for our pagiant house Rent xij d /
Item for the bowchers & bowers pagiant house fyrme ij s uy d
York Minster Chamberlains’ Accounts: St Peter's Part
Wag WT
£29
Item given to the Queenes malestes men players ./ xl s
1584-5
Churchwardens’ Accounts: St Martin Coney Street
BL: PR Y/MCS 16
pare
Item to Bryan Maxwell man for beringe the harnys two dayes
& Addyson man one daye xvilj d
1585
House Books Y: B29
f3v (17 February)
And nowe Thomas Turner Goldsmithe dyd exhibitt a bill for
newe florishinge and trimminge of the Scutchons and Chynes
belonginge to the iiijo' waytes of this Cittie amountinge to the
Some of xxix s iiij d, whervpon it is nowe aggred by theis
presentes that my Lord Maior and Chamberlayns shall aggree
and paye to the sayde Thomas so muche of the sayde xxix s ii) d
as he shall thinke good.
10
US)
30
35
40
The Cittizens
commaunded
to waite upon
Master Sheriffes
upon Midsomer
daye.
An Interlude
of Mr Graftons
preferred and
to proceed in
the same
AP MORK 1585
£20 (4 June)
Assembled the Daye and yere aboue sayde when and where it is
agreed that on Mydsomer even accordinge to the custome,
Everye Cittizen beinge hable men shall attend on Maister Sheriffes
in their best Armor and furniture with their Servauntes vpon
paine of everye one beinge absente to forfacte vj s viij d to be
payd without mittigacion, And that preceptes shalbe mayde to
that effecte to geue warninge accordinglye.
It is agreed that Mr Grafton shall proceed with one Interlude
which he preferred into this Courte to be examined.
ff 23v-4 (22 June)
Assembled in the counsell chamber vpon owsbridge the day and
yeare abouesaid when & where the interlude latelie presented by
mr Grafton & set over by this court to be examined, was now
openly redd over and pervsed, And it is agreed that the same
shalbe plaid on Midsomer eve next /.
It is also agreed that the play shalbe plaid first in miclegate,
Item at owsgate head, Item at mr alderman appleyardes dore at
the comon hall, at the mynstergates, at mr alderman Birkbies
dore, Item at mr alderman beckwith dore Item on the pavement,
And the Inhabitantes of euery place where the same is plaid to
pay ij s ij d except the pavement, which is to pay nothing in
respect that the Laidies are to be placed at mr alderman harbertes
howse ./ |
Item it is agreed that the citties callyvers shall be deliuered to
the Sheriffes, and they to deliuer and Lend the same to whom
they will, and that the said Sheriffes shall stand charged for the
redeliuery of the same with all their furniture
It is also agreed that there shalbe xxxt! poundes of Corne
pouuder, allowed forth of the Chamber to the Inhabitantes of
this cittie to be deliuered by some of the Chamberlanes ./
£25 (30 June)
Assembled in the Counsell Chambre vpon Ousebrige the Daye
and yeare above sayde when and wher dyverse of the occupacons
of this Cittye were assessed by theis presentes towardes the
20
25
35
40
1585 YORK / 415
Chardges of the playe on Midsomer even last, and for bringinge
for the certayne pagiantes as followethe
f26v (5 July)
It is agreed by these presentes that mr graftons bill of charges
amounting to xliij s x d about certane necessaries bestowed [to
the] vpon the players pagiantes shalbe allowed And also that
mr wormall shall haue gyven xiij s ij d for him self & his boyes
And that mr Grafton shall have iij li. vj s_viij d allowed for his
owne panes,
£30 (3 August)
It is agreed that mr Colthirst, shall haue vj s_viij d allowed for
that the play was plaid at the comon hall this yeare 1585 to be
allowed in his rent: /
ff 81v-2 (6 November) Shipmen and Fishmongers’ Ordinances
ffirste that from henceforthe euerye ffishmonger within this
Cittie, and all other freemen, That nowe are or heareafter shalbe
owners of anye Shippe, Crayer, keile or Catche in the ryver of
Ovse vsuallye laden or dischardgen at the Staith or Craine or
within the sayd Cittye, shall contente & paye yearlye at the
feaste of Easter for euerye Shippe, Crayer, Keile, or Catche ij d,
And a half owner, a third owner, or a quarter owner one pennye
in the Yeare, to the said Occupacon of Marriners or Shipmen for
euerye the sayd vessells, Shippe, Crayer, Keile, or Katche, And
all Straingers to paye, for euerye of their Shippes, Crayers,
Keiles and Katches, and other their Crafte of Shippinge, as
heretofore they haue bene accustomed, Provided all wayes, That
if at anye tyme, anye playes happen to be played within this
Cittye, or other Chardges growinge, wherbie Occupacions shalbe
Chardged within the sayd Cittye, That then the sayd Maryners
or Shipmen and the sayd Occupacion of ffishmongers, and all
others occupienge Shippinge at the sayd Staith beinge free
Cittizens, shalbe Contributorie and Chardged ratablie towardes
suche playes, and other Chardges as heretofore they haue bene
accustomed, as dothe appeare by the Regester or hereafter
20
25
30
35
40
416 / YORK 1585
otherwise shalbe chardged and he or theye that dothe refuse
to paye the dewtyes aforesayd beinge of them | Lawfullye
demaunded, That then he or theye so refusinge shall forfacte and
paye for euerye denyall doble the paymente aforesayd to the
Crafte of Shippmen or maryners aforesayd
£53 (23 November)
Also it is agreed that Mr Alderman Robinson and Mr Thomas
Moseleye shall not [pla] paye anye thinge for the playe at
Mydsomer last before their dooers. /
Also it is agreed That distresses shalbe taken of William
ftreesleye and Henrye Metcalfe for refusinge to paye for the
playe before their dooers.
City Chamberlains’ Books Y : CC6(1)
flv* (ii April)
Collers and Cutchions delyverid by mr
Andro trew Lord maiomr / of the cittie
of Yorke / the xjth day of aprill / Anno domini /
1585 to Robert hewite wayte of this
cittie as followith
Delyverid to the said Robert hewite foure collowrs with skutchions
and foure connysayntes & wherof one of the collers haith [xliy]
xlv lybartes besydes the skutczon And one other haith [xxxvi]
xlvi lybertes besydes the skutchion And one other hath xlyjt
lybartes besydes skutchion / And one other of forty fyve lybartes
besydes the skutchion which said foure collers connysantes and
skutchions doth weigh all together [forty] , ‘Twenty’ and
seaven ounces / And the same is to be delyverid agayne by the
said Robert hewite when they or any of them shalbe called for
by the Lord maiour for the tyme beinge / surties for the same
Ralf hart merchant & Georg mydleton tanner /
sign Robt O hewit george myddleton
Raphe harte
10
25
30
35
40
f 50
1585 YORK / 417
Assessement of certen occupacions for & twowardes
the chardges of the play on mydsoner even & day
Receyved of the skynners
Receyved of the cookes
Receyved of the dyers
Receyved of the carpenters & loyners
Receyved of the spuryers
Receyved of the walkers
Receyved of the gyrdlers
Receyved of the tilers & playsterers
Receyved of the Inholders
Receyved of the Tanners
Receyved of the Cowpers
Receyved of the Armorers
Receyved of the glovers
Receyved of the fishemongers
Receyved of the marryners
Receyved of the parchementmakers
Receyved of Appotticaries
Receyved of the foinderers
Receyved of the goldsmythes
Receyved of blaksmyths & loksmythes
Receyved of the barbours
Receyved of the cordyners
Bowers [and]
Tapitours
my |ners
paynters
bochers
Sadlers
potters
merchantes
[vynterners
Curyers
Cuttlers & bladsmythes
bakers
Receyved of the [th] Drapers and tallours
Receyved of the vynteners
Summa vj li. xv s iiij d
ij s ij d
ijs vd
ij) s inj d
js vjd
xij d
xy d
i s
ij s ij d
XS
vj s vuj d
lll] S
ys vyjd
ill} s
ll) S
il] s
i} s
1) S
ys vid
Vs
lllj s
xij d
Vs
xij) d
lj s uij d
1) S.
etme es
vjs viujd
Vs.
i] s
Xilj S ij d
vj s vilj d]
lj s
xij d
lj Ss ij d
Xij S inj d
vj) S vij d
15
25
30
35
40
FSF WORK 5185
hoi
Leases of places for heringe the play
Receved of christofer bekwith
Item Receyved of william fresby & henry metcalf
Receyved of mr alderman Apleyerd
Receyved of mr Gilmyne
Receyved of william dawson & ‘Io Busfeld” at
mynstergates
Receyved of mr Edward Fawsett
Receyved of mr byrkby alderman
Receyved of mr Harbert alderman
Summa xXxv S$
f 52v
Rewardes of the common waites of this cittie /
Item paid to them for easter day
Item to the wates for christenmes day &
St Stephens day
To them for St williams day
Summa xii} s il d
f 54y
lijs iijd
js ij d
lij s iij d
lj s inj d
js inj d
lj s ij d
ii) s uy d
xd
lj s uy d
lj s uy d
xx d
Clothing to the common officers and wates of this cittie
Item to Robert hewit head wate for iilj levereys
for the wates of this cittie ther clothinge dew
at christenmes
f 68v
Rewardes Geven to honourable mens
servantes players mynstrills & Barwardes
Item geven in Reward to Iohn pullen skollers
which playd in the common hall in lanuary 1584
Item geven in Reward to the earle of worsyter
playeres in march 1584
xlvijj s.
xdl
10
20
25
30
S15)
40
1585 YORK / 419
Item geven the Last of June to my Lord of
x's
oxfurd players
Item geven to the players which played in the oan
common hall the first of november 1585
f 70v
Chardges of the shew & play
on mydsomer even & mydsomer day
Item paid to iiijot Laborers for puttinge , “forth Ae
& in” the pagiantes “into the houses’ at vj d a pece J
Item to Arther dromer for ij dais’{dj.]’ goinge with
the drome & for warnyng the cittezens to goe to xx d
the shewe
Item to Io Balderstome for [d] ij dais dj. goinge ;
xx d
withe fyfe
Item paid to symond burdon for one staff for Lee
the auncyent
Item paid to the skynners that they disbursed is vii d
aboute serten charges of ther pagiant oe
Item paid likwise to the taillowrs for ther seta Eee
chardges ij s vij d
Item paid likwise to cookes for ther chardges llj s yd
Item paid to Iohn fisher for xl li. of corne powder | of
at xij d. ob, the li. / MSIE aie
Item paid likewise to the Inholders for & towardes
there chardges Vs
Item paid to Anthony prest for his worke aboute
the pagiantes and for nales & other thinges belonging —_vij s vjd
to the sam as apperith by his bill
Item paid to the dyers for ther chardges iijs vd
15
20
25
30
35
40
420 / YORK 1585
Item paid to Thomas mason for his workes &
for nales to the pagiantes as apperith by [by] vjs yd
his bill
Item geven to grafton in Reward for his payns ae Pe
takinge aboute the play ij li vj s viij d
Item paid to mr Wormemall for his payns & his ee take
boys in synginge Xl] $ ij d
Item also for certen chardges by them disbursed ii s vii
as by a bill doth appere xl s_viij d
Item to the bakers for ther chardges of there
pagiant Beton
Summa x hi. xjs [jd] vijd
f 71
Expences of my Lord maiour & aldermen
& Ladies on mydsomer day at the play
Item paid for taking ‘dowen’ & setting vp the
vj d
glasse in mr colthirst house
Item for cakes & maynbred vj s
Item for Reshes and drissing the chamber xvilj d
Item for uj gallons & ij quartes wyne Vs.jd
Item for viij li. suger Xij S
Item for xij gallons of ale ij s ij d
Item for strawberris xij d
Item for a potell of secke xvj d
Item to mr colthirst for his house Rome at gerd
the Play
Item paid for seke & other [wis] wyne to the oe
Ladys on mydsomer day at play
Summa xliij s vd
20
25
35
40
1585 YORK / 421
f 71v
Item worke wrought by Thomas Mason
about the Pagantes as follow:th
Item for iij dayes worke i s
Item for 11) dayes worke more ij s
Item to Richard Nicholsonne for one daies worke vilj d
Item for ij dayes worke more xvj d
Item for lat Nailes yd
paid Some vjs id
the occupasion is to paye yow of this bill 4j s vj d
£72
Worke wrauht by Antonye Prust as folowithe
Item for vij hupes for the pawgand wheles xd
Item for beles vij d
Item for iy yron Clowtes yd
Item for stubules for the pawgands id
Item for ij pownd of sope ix d
more for sope jd
Item to wyllam stanburne for nayles jd
[Item to wyllam stanburne for ij strokes]
Item to wyllam frankland for one yren bele ij d
Item to Antonye prust one exyltre for the in holder
pawgand xij d
Item to Antonye prust for iii} halfe days worke & ys man for
uj halfe dayes worke [ij s] ys
Item to Thon Vkkerbe for iij halfe days worke [xvilj d] xyd
paid Summa vijs [v]}d
f90*
VItimo die Iuni 1585 / Charges assessed by my Lord
maiour & aldermen of dyuers
occupacions towardes the chardges
of the play on mydsomer even /
Tanners vj Ss viljd xSadlers [vj s viij d] vs
[Playsters ij] xCarpenters & Ioyners ijs vjd
20
25
30
35
40
227 /y ORS 15185
Walkers xij d
Cowpers lll] S
Armorers js vd
Glovers ij s [iii]
[Shipwrightes]
fishemongeres [&] lllj s
marryners [11ij s] ij s
parchmentmakers ij s
hoysyers & tallowrs
drapers [xl] xij s inj d
< Appothecaries ij s
founderers ys vj d
x tillers & playisterers iij s iiij d
« goldsmythes [vj s viij d] vs
blaksmyes & marshalls
loksmy thes lll} S
« Gyrdlers ij s
spuryers xij d
barbours xy d
vynteners vj s vijd
« Curyers ij Ss
Hatters {ij s vy d] vs
Skynners lj s inj d
Cutlers & blaydsmyths xij d
. bakers ij) s iy d
Cordyners vs
Bowers & fletchers [1 s] xj d
Tapitours [vs] ws ud
Lytsters js uijd
Cookes ' is vyjd
Myliners i] S
paynters xij d
bochers vs vij d
fletchers xij d
Grafton’s Bill Now lost. From Robert Davies, Extracts, (London, 1843)
pp 275-6
‘Imprimis, Father Jackson chargeth for two drinckinges that he
bestowed on the singers, 6s. 8d.
x Potters
[wevers]
Marchantes
x Inholders
camerat
Lo
ij s
(blank)
Xllj s ui d
[x s] [vj s viij d]
7a
16d
20
25
30
35
40
Rentes and
firmes withoute
myklithbarr
and within /
15385 YORK / 423
More for divers other tymes that resorte hath bene there made,
as
More William Person chargeth for sundry expenses he hath
bene at aboute the matter, 15s.
Item, I stand charged for xx!1- of prunes at 3d. p’li., 5s.
Item, for armes paintinge aboute the hearse in the firste
pageant, a crowne for the angell, spangells for his shirte, the
mendinge of the Queenes crowne, paintinge of the childe one of
y¢ furyes bare, with some other trifells, 4s.
Item, more for Cutberd’s paines and his boyes the musityans,
a noble, 6s. 8d.
Item, for 5 visards wee borrowed, and with the rayne were
rotte in peeces, I suppose at the leaste I shall aunswer 4s., and yet
one of them was my owne, which I doe not account of, and was
not the worste, 4s.
Item, I am to please Mr. Wormall for the lending of the
Queristers, and prickinge of the songes; but wat I cannot set
downe, for he will not name ought, but stand to courtesy.
And as for the charges, I my sealf have bene at ether at my
howse with my players or elsewhere, I think yt well bestowed,
and yeald my sealf to your honnor and worshipps courtesyes,
whom God longe preserve.
By your honors and worshippes most dutifull to commaund,
JNO. GRAFTON,
Schoolemaster.’
Bridgemasters’ Account Rolls Yy:C94:5
mb 2
Item of the skynners for ther pagiant house firme xij d
Item of the marchantes for ther pagiant house firme xi d
Item of the tapitours for there pagiant house firme x1j d
Item of the tanners for there pagiant house firme x1) d
Item of the wrightes for there pagiant house firme xij d
Item of the cordyners for there pagiant house firme xij d
Item of the bakers for there pagiant house firme xij d
Item of the cowpers for one outeshote ij d
10
1b)
20
25
30
40
At our venyson
feast & of the
Pagiant masters
Toft Grene
fforren
paymentes
Rentes Resolute
Certen Rentes
allowed for
dyvers
consyderacons /
Rents
ffynes of
owse brydge
424 / YORK 1585
Mercers’ Account Rolls MA: D61X(b)
mb 1
Item more of Thomas barker x s Robert hudson
x s Georg donnynge x s and William hancoke (blank)
pagiant masters according to the order of this felloship
mb 2
Item of the bochers for there pagiant house firme
Item of the bowers for there pagiant house firme
Item for the charges of the play at mydsomer
mb 2d
... Item for our pagiant house Rent xj d /
Item for the bochers & bowers pagiant firme
Bakers’ Account Books BL: Add MS 34604
f 4*
lohn garth
william waite
Summa ij s id
padgon maisterest
XXX S
xij d
xvj d /
xiij s iiij d
ij s iiij d
Item of the paynters & pynners for ther padgion standinge xvj d
f 5v
padgion
Item at the hands of the Chamberlayns concerninge our
ijs xd
10
15
20
25
30
35
Paymentes
Discharged
more
allowaunces
1585 YORK / 425
£6 ,
Item to the bridgemaisters for padgion howse Rentt xij d
And vj d more paidd to mr pereson concerninge a
padgion howse Rente for next yeere
Item to mynstrells straungers at Iohn garthe Maundye
dynner xij d
Item to the smyth for the stroke to the padgion wheele xy d
Some [(...)] Remayneth dew to the vse of the Fitts
occupacon
Receyved of the padgion maisteres for the padgion
monye of the Burneleders after the makinge vp xi d
our accomptes
Summa totalis viij li. xj d
Vn Receyved of this ovr accomptes vppon the eae
padgion maisters for Rentes which is sett Some aa
ft 6v
paid to the padgion ‘maisters’ for monye that they hadd laid
furthe after the makinge vppe ovr accomptes concerninge the
playe as folow:th
Item for 1j° Iron lamps for the padgion a
Item for byrkes and Resshes to the padgion jd
Item for 1j° gallands of ayle vil) d
Item to the labores for taykinge the clothes vp and doune and
nayles ij d
Item to vj laborers for puttinge the padgion ij s
Item paid ouer to the paidgion maisteres for fynes
taiken of certaine brether that cam not to manndye vj d
breade makinge
Some iijs vjd
20
25
30
35
40
Pagiant money
of thaynstie
Pagiant money
of the countrye
Pagiant mony
of lorneymen
426 / YORK 1585
Weavers’ Account Book Y: £56
pa
Receyved therefore this yere ij s
ps5
Receyved of them fore this yere Vs
Receyved of the wevers in St laurens church yerd for the Last
yere xvj d
Receyved of Iohn brady vilj d
Item of Robert hopton uj d Richard tankdale iij d martyn
thomson iiij d abraham stosyn 111) d Io goodaike ij d Anthony
Rusker iiij d John Rusker iuj d christofer monkhus 111) d lames
Ryder iiij d stephen Mattis ij d Thomas ‘beke’ ((.....)] uy d
Thomas symson iiij d Thomas Wardell 111) d William ledell 11 d
procter iiij d Will”am Smyth ij d Thomas Rigg 11) d Thomas
[Thomas] iiij d lo Leund iiij d Thomas sewell i) d nicholas
Ryder iii} d Thomas lakson iiij d. ¢......) (blank) John head iy d
Io Hewnson & son iiij d ohn Robynson ij d /
Churchwardens’ Accounts: Holy Trinity Goodramgate
BI: PR/HTG
p 105
Item one bowe & xvij Arrowes.
p 108
Item geven for a drumme on the showe day ee
20
25
30
35
40
That the hable
men & seruauntes
shall wait on
Maister Sherifes
on midsomer
even ./
Rentes and
firmes withoute
miklithe barr
& within
1585 YORK / 427
Churchwardens’ Accounts: St Martin Cum Gregory
BI: PR Y/MG 19
p 60*
Item for the drome and the dromer
1585-6
Churchwardens’ Accounts: St Martin Coney Street
BI: PR Y/MCS 16
p 190
Item to Addyson man for carringe of the hernis at
mydsomer
1586
House Books Y: B29
£107yv (2 June)
xvj d
vilj d
It ys agreed, That on Midsomer even accordinge to the Custome,
everye Cittezen beinge hable men shall attend on Mazster Sheriffes,
in their Best arraye, [and] armor, and furnitoure, withe their
Servauntes vpon payne of euerye one beinge absent to forefacte
vj Ss vilj d without mittigacion, And that warrantes shalbe maid
to that effecte, accordinglye.
Bridgemasters’ Account Rolls Y : C94:6
mb 2
Item of the Skynners for there pagiant house firme
Item of the marchantes for there pagiant house firme
Item of the tapitowrs for ther pagiant house firme
Item of the Tanners for ther pagiant house firme
Item of the wrightes for ther pagiant house firme
Item of the bakers for there pagiant house firme
xij d
xlj d
xij d
xij d
xij d
xij d
10
tS
30
35
At our venyson
feast and of the
pagiant masters
Toft Grene
Rents Resolute
Certen Rentes
allowed for
dyuers
consyderacons /
Renttes
ffynes Receyved
at owse bridge
428 / YORK 1586
Item of the cordyners for ther pagiant house firme
Item of the cowpers for one outshote
Mercers’ Account Rolls MA: D61Y(b)
mb 1
Receyved more of Iohn ffermery — x s Richard
harbart (blank) henry Mud — x s, and Laurens
Edward — x s pagiantmasters accordinge to the
order of this felloship
mb 2
Item of the bochers for there pagiant house firme
Item of the bowers for there pagiant house firme
Summa ij s ii d
mb 2d
... Item for pagiant house firme xij d
Item for the bochers & bowers pagiant house
Bakers’ Account Books BL: Add MS 34604
f 8
Richerd pepper
lames allandbye
{william sell]
padgonmaisteresT
Item of the pynners & paynters for their paidgion Rent
xij d
iiij d.
XXX S
xij d
xvj d
ys uyd
xvjd
item of william Burton tyler for sandeledinge for padgion
monye
Item of (blank) gell tyler for the lyke offence
ij d
ij d
20
25
30
35
40
Receptes
ffor the shewe
of Armor /
1586 YORK / 429
£9
Item to the brigg maisteres for the padgion howse halfe yere
Rentt vjd
Churchwardens’ Accounts: St John Ouse Bridge BI: PR Y/J 17
f 4
Item ffor drusyng of Armore 00—04—02
1586-7
Churchwardens’ Accounts: St Martin Coney Street
BISPRSY/MGS 16
p 195
Item to hym that baire the Armor on the shewe daye vj d
1587
House Books Y: B29
£197 (14 June)
Also it is aggred by theis presentes, That on Midsomer even next
accordinge to the custome euerye Cittezen beinge hable men
shall attend on Maister Sheriffes in their best araye and furniture
with their Servantes vpon payne of euerye one beinge absent to
forefaite vj s viij d without mitigacion, And that warrantes
shalbe made to that effecte accordinglye, And that the sayd
Sheriffes to haue suche allowans theirfore they hadd the last
yeare and to be redye at sex of the Clocke in the forenone.
City Chamberlains’ Books Y: CC6(2)
f 52v
Rewards of the common waites within this cittie
Item to the wates for easter day ij s iijd
10
30
35
40
At our venison
feast and of the
pagiant masters
430 / YORK 15:87
Item to the wates on Christenmes & St Steven day
Item to them on St Williams day
Summa vilj s uij d
f 53v
Clothynge to the Common officers
and wates of this cittie
Item paid to Iohn Balderston Iohn Clerke
christofer dent & william Iohnson wates for
the clothynge emongst them agaynst christenmes
at xij/S. a pece
f 68
Rewards Geven to honourable mens servantes
players mystrills and barwardes
Item geven the xxvijth day of february to my
Lord ot Essikes players
Item geven to my Lord of admerale players
Item geven in may to my Lord Shandes players
Item geven in Reward to the quenes mazestes
players which cam in hir mazestes Lyvereys &
plaid in the common hall the 9 of September 1587
Item geven to my Lord of [Sux] Susex plaers
Item geven the 6 of october to my Lord Staferd
plairs
Mercers’ Account Rolls MA: D61Z(b)
mb ]
Item more of frances waid x s Leonard grenbury
x s George Rose x s and of Iohn Wadsworth x s
pagiant masters according to the order of this feloship
lj s ij d
so (ally/
xlvijj s.
XXX S.
XXX S.
XX S.
iij li. vj s. viij d.
XXX S.
XXVj S. Vilj d.
xls
25
30
35
40
Toft Grene
Rentes Resolute
Certen Rentes
allowed for
dyvers
consyderacions
Rentes
(...) brotherheade
monye
Ppaymentes
1587 YORK / 431
mb 2
Item of the bochers for there pagiant house firme xij d
Item of the bowers for there pagiant house firme xvj d
Summa ijs iid
... Item for our pagiant house Rent xij d
mb 2d*
Item for the bowers & bochers there pagiant house firmey s 11) d
Bakers’ Account Books BL: Add MS 34604
f 10
william sel}
Steven Lonstell padgion maiste res
Item receyved of Iaimes Allandbye for Rentt of the padgion
house ys vj d
Item receyved of the painters and pynners for ther padgion
Rente xvj d
f 10v
Item geven at Rycherd Wilsons to the minstrels by consente
of the company there beinge ij d
Item to mr Peareson for padgion house Rente xj d
f 11
Item to the mynstrells by consente att Trinitie Supper xij d
10
15
20
30
35
40
Small expenses
432 / YORK 1587
Churchwardens’ Accounts: St Martin Cum Gregory
BI: PR Y/MG 19
p 70
Item Bearing of Common Armur lil) d
1587-8
York Minster Fabric Rolls YM: E3/61
mb 1
Item to Iohn Wormall by the maisters appointment to buy
stringes with for the choristers instrumentes KOS os)
Item gyven in reward to the plaiers XX §
Item gyven in reward to Hewyt for certaine songes for the
queare X §
Churchwardens’ Accounts: St Martin Coney Street
Bila Ree/MES a7,
ff 9v-10*
Item paed ffor two blacke Corsletes (savinge te wis wird
vambraces) boight of Thomas Ledall a }
Item paed vnto Mr Aldermay brooke for two ili iis
whiet Corsletes (wantinge nothinge) oe
Item paed vnto Anthony Geldert for one Callever see
furnyshed, withe headpeace, flaske and tuchebox J
Item paed vnto Anthony Geldert for one steall sth
Coet, to a billman ;
Item wee Aske allowance ffor the two Callevers
(furnyshed as is aforesaed) whiche was boight by the
Counstables in Anno 1587 and cost fortie shillinges xls
because we charge oureselvefes withe the recept of the
hoile bill, wherof wee receved in money but 1iij li. xv s
15
20
25
30
215)
40
1587-8 YORK / 433
Item paed vnto Christofer ffordayne for one
other steall Coet for a boweman
Item paed vnto George Greathead for two
Armynge pickes
Item paed vnto Thomas Coiltman for fower
swerdes & fower daggers
Item paed vnto [hon Addeson tor five swerdes
and five daggers
Item paed vnto Ihon Addeson for one very good
steall capp vnkevered
Item paed vnto Thomas Androwe for keveringe
the same withe blewe Cloithe
Item paed for 1x swerd girdills
Item paed vnto Thomas Coiltmay for one blacke bill
Item paed vnto lames dixson for mendinge one
of the Callever stockes whiche Christofor Ambler
brocke
Summa xvij li. vijs vij d |
Item paed vnto Anthony Geldert for mendinge
the leythers & buckils of the two whiet Corsletes
the vj of Iuly
Item paed an other tyme vnto Anthony Geldert,
by Launcelot Waller for mendinge the thother
Corsletes
Item paed vnto him for lyninge Willzam Marshall
headpeace
Item paed vnto Ambrose skarr, and to Christofor
Ambler to eyther of them for lyninge ther headpeaces
vj d in toto
XX] S
vjs iiij d
XXX S
xl s
iiij s
lj s
lj s ixd
xviij d
vd
xe (a
xij d
10
25
30
35
40
that warninge
{for] shall be
geven for the
Showe of
Midsumer even./
434 / YORK 1587-8
Item paed for lyninge Thomas Richerdson
& Thomas Addeson ther headpeaces
Item paed vnto William , “burkes’ his man
for caryinge one Corslet to the muster two daies
Item paed vnto Ambrose skarr, William Marshall,
thon holemes, [hon harreson Thomas Richerdson,
Chrystofor Ambler Ihon dawson, Thomas Addeson
and Thomas bowemer, everie one of them iiij d for
ther first daie trayninge allowed by my Lord
maior / in toto
’
Item paed ffor thre [flax] flaske leythers
Item paed for one bowestrynge
Item paed vnto Willam Lewtie for one black bill
the other beinge broiken, by the soildiers
Item paed vnto Thomas Porter for gonnpooder
and matche at the first muster
Item paed vnto him for mendinge one Calever
Item paed the xxuj of decembre vnto Anthony
Geldert, for leytheringe, dressinge and keapinge
tower Corsletes & ther 11j°' headpeaces, & the
thre headpeaces for the Callevers: (and for oyllinge
over the nyne swerdes & ix daggers and one oild
Almanravet in the Chirche) ever sence the Last
mustringe till this daie
Somma xv s vi) d
1588
House Books Y: B30
f41v (12 June)
xij d
xij d
iij s
ix d
jd
xvulj d
vilj d
viij d
lj s 1 d
It is agreed that warninge shalbe geven for a Shewe of Armor
on Satterdaye before Midsomer even next as haith bene
accustomed. /
15
20
25
30
2)8)
40
Shewe of
Armor
1588 YORK / 435
£42 (14 June)
And nowe it is agreed That a shewe of Armor shalbe made on
satterdaye the xxijt¢ of Iune instante by all suche Cittezens as
are prevelye charged, And men of Thainstye as are prevelye
chardged, And also all other hable men of the sayd Cittye to
Attend on Maister Sheriffes as the Custome haith bene, and the
Sheriffes are allowed [fourthe] fourth of the Common chamber
xxx!1 of powder to be distributed at their discretion, to them
that shall need the same ./ And that warninge shalbe geven therof
to the Constables vpon paine of euerye person falinge in anye
parte of the premisses to forfacte vj s viij d without anye
mittigacron as the auncient order haithe bene. /
City Chamberlains’ Books Y: CC6(3)
f 54v
Rewards of the common waites within this cittie
Item to the waites at ester day ij s ij d
Item to the waites on christenmes day & St Stevens day iij s iiij d
Item to them on St Williams day xx d
{6s 9d]
Summa vilj s ii} d
t Sov *
Clothynge to the Common officers
and wates of this cittie
Item paid to John Clerk christofer Dent william
Iohnson and Thomas graves waites for there xlvilj s
clothynge emengst them against christenmes
f 74*
Rewardes Geven to honowrable mens seruantes
players mynstrills and barwardes
Item geven to my Lord of Essix players that [xxvj s viij d]
played in the common hall in february 1587 XKX Ss
Item geven the 20 of Iune to the Lord of ea eee
sussex players XXv] S vilj d
10
30
315)
40
At our venyson
feast & of the
pagiant masters /
Toft Grene
Rentes Resolute
Certan rentes
allowed for
dyvers
consyderacons /
436/ YORK 1588
Item [pai] geven to my Lord of Lassyter
players which plaied in the common hall 13 XXX S
of Iuly 1588
William halley thes ar to will yow to speak to Nicholas hodgson
& Georg watkinson to speak to the rest of ther Brethren to paye
vnto my Lord of Suffockes men for a rewarde the some xxvj s
vilj d
in: Byrkby
Maiour
Mercers’ Account Rolls MA: D61A(c)
mb 1
Receyved of William Marshall x s Receyved of gilbert
coldwell x s of Willam Ienkynson x s of Iohn Granger xl s
X § pagiant masters accordinge to the order of this felloship
Summa xls
mb 2
Item of the bochers for there pagiant house firme xij d
Item of the bowers for there pagiant house firme xvj d
Summa ij s ij d /
mb 2d
... Item for our pagiant house firme xij d /
Item for the bowers & bochers pagiante house firme js inj d
Bakers’ Account Books BL: Add MS 34604
£12
Iohn pullinge
Lawrence darte
padgion maisters
20
25
30
40
Rentes
At our venison
feast and of the
Pagiant masters /
Toft Grene
1588 YORK / 437
Item of Iaymes Allandbye for padgion house Rente ijs vjd
f 13
Ajlowaunces asked by the said Searchers
of these parcells folowinge
Item to mr Peareson for padgion house Rente for hole yere xij d
1588-9
Churchwardens’ Accounts: St Martin Coney Street
Beye ey AVG Sele
f 14v
Item for a sword & a Skabert to Thomas Coltman & 1) sword
girdles ij s [v] yd
Item to Iohn Addison for dressinge the Armor & swords 111] s vj d
1589
Mercers’ Account Rolls MA: D61B(c)
mb 1
Receyved of Iohn Gowland — x s Thomas Peighinge
— xs christofer hutton — x s and henry Thomson — xs
X § pagiant masters according to thorder of this felloship
mb 2
Item of the bochers for there pagiant house firme x1j d
Item of the Bowers for ther pagiant house firme xvj d
Summa ij s iiij d
10
30
35
40
Rentes Resolute
Certen Rentes
allowed which
is vnpaid
Rente
438 / YORK 1589
mb 2d
... Item for our pagiant house Rent xij d
Item the bochers & bowers for there pagiant house Rent jj s il) d
Bakers’ Account Books BL: Add MS 34604
f 14
Thomas Raines
Recher er padgion muisteres
Item receyved of lames allandbye for rentt of padgion
house js vjd
f 14v
Allowaunces asked by the said Searchers as foloweth
Item to the minstrels at Thomas Raines by consent ij d
Item for padgion house rentte xij d
Item at lohn goyme Reckeninge dynner to mynstrels by
consente [x] vjd
im)
Item to the minstrels at Richerd Seller dynner by consentt xij d
Item to the minstrels att mr Haxvpps by consentt viij d
Bricklayers’ Account Book YM: QQ80/2/1
f2*
[Item receved more the same daie of our pagent maisters
scilicet vil) s]
38 the same daie] St James Day (25 July)
10
20
25
30
a
40
1589 / YORK 439
£4
ee af)
Item given to the Minstrills at William Maxwell xvjd
his Howse vpon the Sondaie after St lames Daie
Item Disbursed at Martin Arkendaile his howse xiij s. ij d.
vpon the Swearing Daie
Item giuen to the Minstrills the same Daie xij d.
Item giuen more to the Minstrills at Michaell Turner a
his Howse at the habling Dinner of wi//iam Burtons man :
Item giuen to the Minstrills at Wilam Maxwell ie
his Howse vpon the Sondaie before St Lukes Daie
Item giuen to the Minstrills vpon the seacond daie
of Novembre at the habling Dinner of Thomas xvj dj
Thomson at mr Hutchinson his howse
Churchwardens’ Accounts: Holy Trinity Goodramgate
BI; PR/HTG
p82 (27 May)
Cunstables Iohn handlae Edward wedowis deliverd to thame
Item one corceleit & one almane Reveit with towe Lead peasis
with all the furneture that belongs to thame
Item one steilcoit wit) one skule to it
Item one bowe and shafe of arrowes
Item one kalewer with furneture
Item foore dagars & thre swerdes
Item foore swerdes gyrdles
Item [t] towe pykes remans in owre chyrche
Churchwardens’ Accounts: St Martin Cum Gregory
Bile Rey (MGS
p 74
Item paid to Rayphe maghame in luly 1589 for that he payd
10
20
25
30
35
40
440 / YORK 1589
for the drume att medsomer when he was cunstabell in anno
1587
xvilj d
Item payd for dressynge the armore Vilj s
Item payd for sallett oyll to the armor lj d
p75
Item payd Lynynge and for coverynge of towe stele capes xxij d
1589-90
Churchwardens’ Accounts: St Martin Coney Street
Ble PRO Y/MGS 37
£17
Paid to Antonie Gelder at one time for drissinge the armer _1ij s
Paid to Soulgers of muster day ij s vjd
Paid the first of August to wather Titlowe of wistoe ffor
prouesion of armer xx d
and for setting out a soulger vd
paid now to him for bandes and lockes to the armer chist ij s
f 17v
Paid another time for swordes and dagers drissing ys iy «.)
paid to Iohn skott for a bowstringe jd
paid for carraige of armer of midsumber evene xvj d
1 anno] odd abbreviation ano® inMS
20
25
30
35
Showe of armor
on mydsomer
even:
1590 YORK / 441
1590
House Books Y: B30
£184 (9 June)
And now it is agreed yat the Sheriffes shall on Midsomer eve
next, make A shewe of Armor thorow the streetes of this cittie
as hath bene accustomed, And yat the Inhabitantes shall haue
warning as haith bene accustomed And it is further agreed, that
euery Cittizin that haith not bene sheriffe shall attend in their
owne persone with their best Armor and furniture, vpon the
said shewe, with there servantes also furnished, vpon pane of
vj s vilj d to be forfacted by euery one offending herein to be
paid without mittigacion and warning to be geven accordinglie
E Memorandum Book VY: £22
f 109* (15 May) Plasterers, Tilers and Bricklayers’ Ordinances
Item that fower Searchers & ij pageant maisters shalbe yearely
from henceforthe chosen Indifferently that is to say good and
honest men and good workemen of the said Occupacon on the
feast Daie of saimt lames Thappostle, for to searche oversee
and trewlie to present to the Lord Maior of the same Cittye
for the tyme being all suche Defaultes and forfaites as they shall
finde in the said occupacion And that euerie one of the said
Searchers shalbe loving and honest to the other as becomethe
them to doo vpon paine of vj s_viij d to the vse of the Chamber
and occupacion afforesaid equallie to be Devided provided
allwayes that they shall not haue any mo voices att Eleccion then
they had when there was but two Searchers.
City Chamberlains’ Books Y: CC7(1)
foe
Rewards Geven to (...) servantes players mynstrills & (..)
Item geven in Reward to my Lord beachame plaers ~e
that plaied in the common hall the 26 of September 1590 per ase
Collation (E22, f 109 with QQ80/2/11): 21 workemen] workure 24 all]
at 25 inright margin QQ80/2/1 1] ffaults to be presented to ye Lord Maiore
25-30 And ... Searchers] omitted
20
30
a)
At our venison
feast and of the
Pagiant masters
Toft Grene
Rentes Resolut
Renttes
ffynes receyved
at St Anthonye
hall
442 / YORK 1590
Item to [my] ‘the’ Erle of Worster players that
plaid in the common hall the 24 of October 1590 eee
Mercers’ Account Rolls MA: D61C(c)
mb 1*
Receyved of Robert Burnes — x s Richard
hawkeshirst — x s William Weller — x s and Laurens
Waid x s pagiant masters accordinge to thorder
of this felloship
xls
mb 2
Item of the bochers for there pagiant house firme xij d
Item of the bowers for there pagiant house firme xvj d
mb 2d
... Item for ovr pagiant house fyrme — xij d ...
Bakers’ Account Books BL: Add MS 34604
f 16
Bartle Applebye
aaa J adgion maisteres
william nicholson pace
Item receyved of Iames Allandbye for padion house
Rente ys [x] yjd
f 16v
Inprimis of William kinge for not payinge to the mynstrell at
William Langton jd
F7
Item spared at William Nicholson padgion dynner of wyne and
mynstrells monye vj d
Allowaunces asked of suche monye as the said Searchers haid
15
20
25
30
35
40
The Same daie
Whitson Tuesdaie
1590 YORK / 443
Disbursed as foloweth
Item to the bridgemaisteres for padgion house rentt xij d
Bricklayers’ Account Book YM: QQ80/2/1
f 4y
lee
Item paid to the Minstrills at Miles Norton vpon the same
Daie xx1j d
Item given to the minstrills at lob Lunde howse the same
daie xvj d
52
f 5v
(ie
Inprimis laid out at master arkindales house the sunday after
St Iames Day To the minstriles xvj d
Item to the minstrils vpon St Luck Day xvj d
Item payd to the minstrils vpon Plough day xvj d
|
York Minster Chamberlains’ Accounts: St Peter’s Part
YM: E2/21
f 38v
Item to hungaryons XeS
Item to thos that played vpon Sagbuttes & Cornittes the xvijth
of. Novembr. 1590 5
10 margimalia The Same daie} 8 January
34-5 xvij"h of. Novembr.] Elizabeth I's accession day
10
15
30
35
444 / YORK 1590
Churchwardens’ Accounts: Holy Trinity Goodramgate
BI: PR/HTG
p 121
Item when the muster was at Knarsmyer payd vnto fower
soulgyers ij S.
payed to Edward Braythwhaite for the dressing and the oylinge
of our harnes “{when they were wette]” when theye were at
heworth more and at Knarsimyer when theye were wette vjd
1590-1
Churchwardens’ Accounts: St Martin Coney Street
BER Ya NUGiomles
f 20v
Item paed vnto Anthony Geldert for dressinge all oure Armor
agaynst mydsomer shewe lj s vj d
Item paed vnto fower men for Carynge oure fower corsletes
on mydsomer even xx d
Item paed vnto Mr yoworthe for lenninge his drome xij d to the
saed showe & to Archer for mendinge the same iiij d tote xvj d
Item to leffera weddall for plainge on the same at that
tyme vil) d
t 20
Item paed vnto Anthony Geldert the xx daie of Octobre for
mendinge & dressinge agayne oure armore, against the muster
daie xvj d
Churchwardens’ Accounts: St Martin Cum Gregory
BI: PR Y/MG 19
76
ne that the fyrste Daye of maye 1590 theare ys in
the handees of the cunstabelles for the tyme bynge mr George
terre Edward Iohnson and Iohn geldarde belongynge to the
pareshes of Sentte martenes and Sentt gregores in myckell gatte
thes parseles folowynge —
10
15
20
25
30
35
40
Showe vpon
Midsomer even
1590-1 YORK / 445
Item towe corslettes and one curatte whearof [the] halfe of on
corslett Dothe belonge to the pareshe of byshope hill also theare
is towe pyckes belongynge to the corsletes and one halbartt
belongynge to the curatt
Item thre caleveres with flaxes tuch boxes and , ‘towe’
moryones
Item towe cottes of platte and towe stell capes and one
blacke byll also thear ys viijth swordees and viij Dagores and vij
gyrdelles to the swordes one bage for a sheafe of arowes also the
pareshes dothe Lacke of thare furnetor which thaye ar charged
with all // one morryon one bowe and one sheafe of arrowes
1591
House Books Y: B30
f241v (11 June)
And nowe it is agreed, That preceptes shalbe furthwith awarded
to the officers, to giue commaundment to the Constables of
euerye parishe, to warne their parishoners to attend vpon Maister
Sheriffes on Midsomer even at Knavesmyre, at Seaven of the
Cocke in the mornynge with their Armore, Aswell private as
common, and to make showe theirof, according to the Auncyant
order, And that all suche as haue not bene, nor are of the degre
of Aldermen, or Sheriffes, Shall go in the sayd Showe, in their
Owne persons, vpon paine of euerye owne makinge defalte to
forefaite vj s vilj d, And that the sayd Sheriffes shalbe their, and
Ryde in the same Showe accordinglye, And that xxxl!. of Powther
shalbe deliuered forthwithe, out of the Common Chamber to be
bestowed at their discrecions, and they to bestowe asmuche more
of their owne chardge as other Sheriffes haue done, And that
the sayd Constables Shall therin attend in their owne persons,
as haithe bene accustomed vpon the like paine. /
Bridgemasters’ Account Rolls Y: C94:7
mb 2
Item of the Skynners for there pagiante house firme xij d
22 Cocke] for Clocke
30
35
40
Rentes and
firms withoute
miklith barr
and within
Rentes
+46 / YORK 1591
Item of the marchantes for there pagiant house
Item of the tapitowrs for there pagiant house firme
Item of the tanners for there pagiante house firme
Item of the carpenters for there pagiante house
Item of the bakers for there pagiante house
Item of the Cordyners for there pageant house
Item of the Cowpers for one outeshote
Bakers’ Account Books BL: Add MS 34604
£18
Roberte Wiseman
lohn Watman
padgion maisteres
Item of padgion house Rentt
f 18Vv
Allowaunces asked by the said
Searchers of those parcells folowinge
£19
[tem to the Brigemaisteres for padgion house Rentte
Bricklayers’ Accounts YM: QQ80/2/1
f6v (Receipts)
ie
The padgons
ag
fie
ee
Inprimis vpon St lames day iiij s yd
item the same day to the minstriles
xij d
xij d
xij d
xij d
xij d
xij d
iy d
js vjd
xij d
vj s vil d
xvjd
b)
20
25
30
35
40
1591 YORK / 447
Item payd to the minstriles vpon The Swearing day at John
gult x1) d
Item payd to the mistriles at william burton man dinner xvj d
Item payd to the minstriles at lohn herreson man diner xvj d
Item paid to the minstreles on St Lowke Day at The Searchares
dinner xvj d]
f 8v
ee
Item layd downe the sonday after Plough day at William Robinson
Searcher Diner to the ministriles xvj d
Item to the mynstrills vypon Whitson twisdaye xvj d
Item the same daye to a mynstrill beinge a straunger xij d.}
York Minster Chamberlains’ Accounts: St Peter’s Part
YM: E2/21
f 40
Item to thos that played on Sagbuttes & Cornettes the xvijth
of November . by apoyintmt of mr Goodwyn x $
SOs
Churchwardens’ Accounts: St Martin Coney Street
Bia PRe Ne MG SH,
£23
Item paed ffor one newe Callever withe flaske oe
tuchebox & a headpeace eal
Item paed vnto Christofor Watter for byinge & “3
gettinge the same broight from lonndon ve
Item paed vnto Christofor Watter for dressinge
the same when it came home
iiij d
22-3 xvijth of November] Elizabeth I’s accession day
10
30
35
40
448 / YORK 1591-2
f 23v
Item paed vnto ij men for Caryinge oure iiij
Corsletes throwe the Cittie on St peters [daye] even ae
f 24
Item paed vnto Anthony Geldert for dressinge,
and oyllinge 111) Corsletes ix swerdes, ix daggers,
thre Callevers for one swerdskabert one handill for vs
a swerd, two cheapes, [withe] and leythers & nayles
to the Corslettes
Item paed vnto Anthony Geldert for one duble
hilted dagger to furnishe the Callever we boight
Last, in consideration of that whiche was sent into
ffraunce
xx d
Churchwardens’ Accounts: St Martin Cum Gregory
BI: PR Y/MG 19
p78
Item paied to Richard Whittingeton for a bowe and a shaft
of arrowes Vs
Item Paied to the Armorar for drissinge on our armore vij s
Item paied to the counstables on midsomer even for a
droume xij d
Item paied for ij corsletes caeringe xij d
Item paied for ij callevers carringe xij d
Item payed to viij men for carringe on the armor lil} $
Item paied to the armorrar for mendinge a fluxe and maikinge
a skourer and a scrue naille xij d
p 82
Item ffor dressinge the parishe armar lust =
10
15
20
25
30
35
40
Iohn Watson
chosen one of
the Waites
Quens players
No playes to
be played in
the Common
Hall nor in
Saint Anthony
Hall
1591-2 YORK / 449
Item payd for carredge of the commone armar at mydsomar
for the showe =4—
Item payd to William tyssone for armar caryinge to pyssome
gryne 4d ——4
1592
House Books Y: B30
f£315v (7 April)
And nowe it is agreed that Iohn Watson Musicione Shalbe one of
the common waites of this Cittie in the place of Christofer dent
disceased, And that my Lord Maior Shall deliuer to him the
Siluer Cheyne and Scutchin vpon sufficient sureties for redeliuerye
theirof & as haith bene accustomed. /
£339v (24 July)
Also it is agreed, That the Quenes players shall haue iij li. vj s
vilj d given them forthe of the Common Chamber.
f 340
And wheras the doores, lockes, keyes, wyndowes, bordes, benches
& other buildinges of the Common Hall are greatlye impared and
hurte and diverse of the same broken, shakne, Lowse & Ryven vp
by people reparinge thither to se and heare plays [¢..)], It is
theirfore nowe agreed by theis presentes That no Players shalbe
permitted to playe anye manner of playes either in the same
Common Hall or in St Anthonye Hall at anye tyme or tymes
hereafter. /
Bridgemasters’ Account Rolls v: C94:8
mb 2
Item of the Skynners for there pagiante house firme xij d
30
35
40
Rents and
ffirmes withoute
miklithbarr
and within
Rentte
450 / YORK 1592
Item of mr alderman mosley for a pece of ground where the
marchantes pagiant house stod xij d
Item of the Tapitowrs for there pagiante house firme xij d
Item of the tanners for there pagiant house firme xij d
Item of the carpenters for there pagiant house xij d
Item of the bakers for there pagiant house xij d
Item of the Cordyners for there pagiant house xij d
Item of the Cowpars for one outeshott lj d
Bakers’ Account Books BL: Add MS 34604
f 20
Item receyved for padgion house rentte js vj d
f 21v
Allowaunces Asked by the said Searchers
of suche somes as folowe th
Inprimis to Richerd dixon for padgion house rentt xij d
Item to the mynstrels aut Trinitee supper xvj d
Item to the mynstrells at christofer hardye dynner xvj d
Item to the mynstrells at Henrye Cowper Dynner ij s
Item to the mynstrells at the said dynner for the whole
cumpanye xvj d
Bricklayers’ Account Books YM: QQ80/2/1
f 9v
[... . ae weer
Resavid of the pagent masters for ther recinnge ij s ij d
I
f 10
ie
Imprimis to the minstrilles on St Iames daye att the Searcheres
house xvj d
20
25
30
35
40
OP NAON IS foes dl
Item laid doune ‘at’ searcheres tanner house at Dinner when we
shulde have been sworne xilj s iy d
Item paid to the minstreles the same daye at dinner sified
Item payd to the minstriles att thomas Gibsonne dinner on
St luike daye xvj d
el
f 10v
[.
Item paid for wyne on plewe daye att Edward hyndes
house ij s vu d
Item the same daye to the minstrelles acd
oa
feted
ees
Item more to the minstriles the same day xij d
Item payd for wyne att the Searcher house when lohn chawmer
mayd his brethren dinner ij s vil d
Item payd the same daye to the minstrelles the same daye vjd
Item paede to the menstrell vponne wheitson tewsdaie at myles
norttonnes js vd
tal
York Minster Chamberlains’ Accounts: St Peter’s Part
Yoo R225
f 41v
Item the xxiiijt! of Iulij given to hir mazestes men players X'S
1592-3
Churchwardens’ Accounts: St Martin Coney Street
Bil PRY Ye MGS 17
f 26v
Item paied to Iohn Addeson for dressinge of fower corsletes
and for revet Nayles and oyelinge of the saide aremore lj s
10
25
30
35
40
showe of armor
+52. ey ORs S500=3
Item paied to fower men for carringe the saide corsletes, at
mydsomere ij s
Churchwardens’ Accounts: St Martin Cum Gregory
Bl: PR Y/MG 19
p 84
Item for bearing of harnis and for a drume at the sa[y]me
tyme Vj s
p 85
Item payd on the munday before all Saints day for carrying of
harnis to the common Hall to the laborers vilj d.
p 86
Item payd to the Armorer for drussing the armor Vij s
1595
House Books Y: B31
f14v (13 June)
Also it is agreed, That the Showe of Armor shalbe on ffrydaye
before Mydsomer even next, viz. the xxijth daye of Iune instant,
And that the Constables of euerye parishe shall be commaunded
to warne the houshoulders within their Constablerye to haue
their Armor and furniture Cleane dressed either on their owne
backes or on the backes of other hable persons at Knairsmire at
nyne of the Clocke in the fore none of the same daye and to go
and attend vpon Maister Sheriffes with the same from knaresmyer
throughe the Cittye as heretofore haith bene accustomed, and
that suche of the sayd houshoulderes as be vnder the degree of
the xxiiijth which shall haue others to Carrye their Armor shall
be and attend their at the sayd hower vpon Maister Sheriffes in
their owne persons in their best apparell and go from thence
in the same Showe as they shall be placed, And also that the sayd
15
20
25
30
a5
40
christofer Smyth
& Cuthbert
Thompson to be
two of the
Waites
Waites
conisantes
The Waites
1593 YORK / 453
Constables shalbe commaunded to be their at the same tyme in
ther / best apparell to attend vpon Maister Sheriffes and vpon the
sayd Showe with [painted] “the constabls’ staves as officers to
keepe the persons goinge in the sayd showe in order as haithe
bene accustomed, And to haue ther Common Armor of their
parishes their cleane dressed vpon hable mens Backes, And to
bringe from euerye parishe A drome and A fyfe or a drome at
Least euerye person vpon payne of vj s vilj d, And that Maister
Sheriffes shall Ryde in the sayd showe in their Read gownes as
haithe bene accustomed, And that suche allowance of powther
shalbe deliuered forthe of the Chambers store house to Maister
Sheriffes as was the last yeare viz. xxx li. of powther to bestowe
at their discrecions, And that Maister Sheriffes shall(.) bestowe
asmuche powther of their owne Chardges
f22v (8 August)
Also it is agreed, That christofer Smithe & Cuthbert Thompson
shalbe two of the Waites of this Cittye, And that thone of them
shall haue the Cheyne and Conysent which is alredye made, &
either of them a newe cote forthwith, And that a newe Conisent
shalbe forthwith made, for thother of them and a newe Cheyne
about Allhallowmas or christenmas when money Comethe in,
they puttinge , ‘in’ suretyes for redelyverye of the sayd
Conysentes and Cheynes ./ as hath bein accustomed
f27v (14 September)
Also it is agreed that the Chamberlaines shall pay to William
pearson gouldsmythe viij s for renewing fower of the Conisantes
for the Waites & alsovs . ‘more’ which he hath putt into the
same fower Conisantes
£45 (7 December)
And wheras the Waites haue maid requeste to haue some better
allowance in respecte of the paynes & service Which is knowne
to this court to better then in tymes past hath bene accustomed
, ther also” being [t(..)] A man & a boy more then in former
tymes It is nowe agreed that they shall make a boke of all ther
receiptes therof & thervpon consideracion shalbe hadde
10
25
30
35
40
The Waites to
haue [gownes]
cotes
Wates cotes
454 / YORK 1593
£46 (12 December)
Also it is agreed that all the Waites shall haue newe cotes against
christenmas next as hath bene accustomed notwithstanding the
two Cotes given this year to the newe waites at ther entrye
{47 (17 December)
Also it is agreed that the Waites cotes shalbe of viij s viij d the
yeard And that the two newe waites shall haue either of theme
a yeard & ij quarters of cloth for his cote
City Chamberlains’ Books Y : CC7(2)
f 47v
Rewards to the common
waites of this cittie
Item to the waites on easter day is iid
& easter Mondey y y
To them on christenmas & St stephens day iy s uj d
To them one St williams day xx d
6s 8d
Summa vil} s 11) d
f 48v
Clothinge to the Common officers
and wates of this cittie
Item for iij yerdes of brod Red for ani
Cotes for the two newe waltes
4 li. 13s 4d
Item to John Clerke Thomas Grave
Iohn Watson christofer smyth &
Cuthbert Thomson Waites of this
cittie for there Clothynge accustomed
{at] for viij [a yerd] [yerdes of brod]
reed at x sx d per yerd
iij li. ix s itij d
10
20
25
30
35
40
Rentes and
firmes withoute
myklythbarr
and within
1593 YORK / 455
£59
Rewards to honourable mens servantes
players mynstrells & barwardes
[ten geven to my Lord Admorall & my Lord
[burell] “Morden” players in aprill 1593
Item geven to my Lord pembrokes players in lune
Item to my [Lord] ‘Erle’ of Worster players
in May 1593
Item in Reward to my Lord of sussex players
in August 1593
Item to the quenes players in september
Item to my Lord ogle & Lord darsie players
30 november
Bridgemasters’ Account Rolls Y:C95:1
mb 2
Item of the Skynners for there pagiant house firme
xls
xls
XXX S
xls
liij s iiij d
XX S
xij d
Item of mr mosley alderman for a pece of ground where the
marchantes pagiant house stod
Item of the Tapitowrs for there pagiant house
Item of the Tanners for there pagiant house
Item of the Carpenters for there pagiant house
Item of the Bakers for there pagiant house firme
Item of the Cordyners for there pagianthouse
Item of the Cowpers for one outeshote
Bakers’ Account Books BL: Add MS 34604
f 23
Thomas Haxvp
lohn Harryson pagion maistest
xij d
xij d
xi] d
xij d
xij d
xij d
ij d
10
30
35
40
Rentes
ffines Receyved
in St Anthonyes
Hall /
456 / YORK 1593
Item receyved for the Pagion house Rente ys vy d/
f 24
Item of William Hunter for refusinge to be the Pagiant maister
after that he was electe xx d
Allowaunces which the sayd Searchers askethe as followeth viz. /
f 24v
Item payd to the Brigmasteres for the Pagion house Rente xij d.
Item payd to the Minstrelles at William Peteres house xij d
Item payd to the minstrelles at Wilvam Nicholsones house _ xij d
f 25
Item payd to the Minstrelles at Trinitie , super’ at William
Peteres xvilj d
Item payd to the Minstrelles at Thomas Haxvppes at the Pagion
dynner ys
Bricklayers’ Account Book YM: QQ80/2/1
f 14
Ls .
Item laid downe for wyne of St Iames Daie at michaell Turners
howse js vujd
Item the same Daie to the minstrils xvjd
Item in charges on the swearing Daie XV] s
Item to the minstrils the same daie xvj d
ae
f 14v
E
ee laid forth for wyne at Henry Lyonis howse vppon St.
20
25
30
25)
40
The Calyuers &
bows being
comon Armor
1593 YORK / 457
Lukes daie lj s viij d
Item to the minstrils the same Daie ij s
Item for wyne at laid out at Io Gels sonne hablinge
dynner ij s vilj d
Item to the minstrils the same Daie xvj d
Ze]
fa5
[Vpon [Saint] plewe Daie as foloweth
Item to the minstrill the same Daie and place [xvj d]
Al
f 15v
ee
vpon whitson Tuesdaie.
Item to the minstrils the same Daie Se
Item for a gallon of wyne at Michaels Turners man Broothren
Dynner lj s
Item to the minstrils ther ij s
a
£19
lee
Recewed for Pageant Masters vij s
Received for Pageant money for Apprentices lj s
Al
f 19v
(ee
Recewed of Gell for pageant money for his sonne vj d
=a
1593-4
Churchwardens’ Accounts: St Martin Coney Street
Bi abe Yas MiGoude 7
f 29v
Item paid tu those that carried armer on the schowe daye iiij s
10
20
25
30
35
40
was accustomed
to be carid by
the seruantes of
the parishoners
Shewe of Armor
458 / YORK 1593-4
& for mendin a drom iiij d toto illj s ilij d
f 30
Item paid for drissinge ower coreslytes for nayles leathers and
oyllynge thame ij s ij d
Item paid for a scoringesticke iij d & for bowe stringe j d ij d
Churchwardens’ Accounts: St Martin Cum Gregory
BI: PR Y/MG 19
p 92
Item paied to the Counstables to paye the soulgers at midsomer
the iust some of vs
p 93
Item paied to the Armorar for drissinge the armore Vij s
1594
House Books Y: B31
£71 (7 June)
Also it is agreed that the showe of Armor shalbe on St Peter
Even next (viz.) the xxviijth day of Iune instante and that the
Constables of everye parishe shalbe commaunded to warne
the househoulders within ther Constablerye to have ther armor
and furniture clene dressed eyther on ther owne backes or on the
backes of other hable persons at knaresmyer at nyne of the
Clocke in the forenone of the same daye & to goe & attend vpon
Maister Sheriffes with the same from knaresmyer throughe this
Cittye as heretofore hath bene accustomed; and that such of
shall have others to carye ther armor shalbe & attend ther at the
said hower vpon Maister Sheriffes in ther owne persons in ther
best apparell and goe from thence in the same showe as they
shalbe placed; And also that the said Constables shalbe
commaunded to be ther at the same tyme in ther best apparell
10
15
20
30
35
40
iij li. vj s viij d
to be given to
the Waites
Alderman mosley
to haue marchant
padgeant house
ground &c.
Waites Cotes
1594 YORK / 459
to attend vpon Maister Sheriffes; and vpon ther said showe
with ther Constable staves as officers to kepe the persons goinge
in the said showe in order as hath bene accustomed And to have
ther comon armor of ther parishes ther clene dressed vpon hable
mens backes; And to bringe from euerye parishe A drume and A
fife or A drume at Leaste everye person vpon paine of vj s_ viyj d;
And that Maister Sheriffes shall Ryde in the said showe in ther
Read gownes as hath bene accustomed; And that such allowance
of Powder shalbe delyvered forthe of the Chambers storehouse to
Maister Sheriffes as was the Last yeare (viz.) xxx li. of powder to
bestowe at ther discretions; And that Maister Sheriffes shall
bestowe as much powder of ther owne Chardges.
f 87 (8 November)
Also it is agreed that ij li. vj s vilj d shalbe given of benevolence
forth of the common chamber at christenmas or Candlemas next
for ther paynes towardes the amendement of the waiges for the
yeare past & this yeare present
f 88v (19 November)
Also it is agreed that Mr Alderman Mosley shall haue a graunt or
Release vnto him from this corporacron of the ground at padgient
grene which he hath enclosed to his ground where the Marchantes
padgiant , “house did stand’ [was latelie did] to hold to him &
his heires for euer paying for the same xiij s_iiij d as well in
consideracion of the fre syght of the grond as of the accerages
clamed of him for the rent of the same /
£96 (11 December)
Also it is agreed that the Waites shall have cotes of such value
price & quantety as they had the Last yeare.
City Chamberlains’ Books Y: CC8(1)
f 46v
Rewardes to the Common waites of this cittie
Item to them for easter day & mondey at my Lord
maiours ij s ij d
10
20
25
30
35
40
Rentes. /
ffines Receyved
in St Anthonies
Hall. /
460 / YORK 1594
To them on christenmas day & St stephens day ij s inj d
To them on St Williams day xx d
Summa viij s ilij d
f 47v
Clothinge to the Common officers
and wates of this cittie
Item to Iohn Clerke Thomas grave John Watson
christofer smyth & Cuthbert Thomson wates of
this cittie for ther clothynge at viz. viij yeredes ij li. ixs xjd
brod read at 8s 8d & fordi. yallo kersey for hir
stafes connysans to henry metcalf
£59
Rewards to honerable mens servantes
players mynstrills and barwardes /
Item geven to my Lord burrowe playeres 29 October 94 5
Bakers’ Account Books BL: Add MS 34604
1b DY
Iohn Brownlesse
Peter Thowe pagiant / maisters /T
eter W'
Item receyved for the Pagion house rent ys vjd
f 28
Item receyved the xiijth daye of Maye of Iohn Brownlesse and
Peter Thowe Pagiant maisters for their Mawndye Breade XS
29
Allowaunces.
In primis payd to the minstrelles at my Ladye Richardson house
when the old Searchers made their last feast xx1j d
15
20
25
30
35
40
Plewe daye
Whitsun Tyde
1594 YORK / 461
Item payd to the minstrelles at Stephen Lonstelles at the first
meetinge of the sayd Searchers illj d
Item payd to Robert Tompson and Richard Braye for the Rente
of the Pagiant house for a whole yeare xij d,
Item payd to the waites at John Brownlesse feast lj s
Item payd at Peter Thowees feast , “to the minstrelles’ xij d
Item payd at John Arkindelles to the minstrelles vilj d
f 29v
Item payd to Rychard Siddelles at Trenityes feast , ‘to the
minstrelles’ xvii) d
Item payd at christofer hardyes to the minstrelles vj d
Item at Robert wisemanees to the minstrelles xij d
Bricklayers’ Account Book YM: QQ80/2/1
120%
ieee
Imprimis laid downe on St lames att david Thomsonne house
for wyne lij s
Item more the same daye to The minstreles xvj d
The “newe’ Searcheres was sworne att martin Eminsonnes
house XV] s
Item Laid downe for wyne The same daye VS
Item laid doune to the minstreles The same xvj d
al
f 20v
[Item Laid downe att the Searchars housse the Sunda after
St Lucke daye for wyne Ll} s
Item more the same daye to the minstriles ij s
Item Laid doune to the minstriles The same dae [for.] xvj d
al
p2d
[Item spent att the Searcheres house on whittsuntewes
daye [6.0 s (ij d]
10
20
30
35
40
462 / YORK 1594
for wyene and suger
Item more to the minstrelees the same daye
sal
York Minster Chamberlains’ Accounts: St Peter’s Part
YM: E2/21
t 43v
Item the second of september given to hir maiestes men
players
1594-5
Churchwardens’ Accounts: St Martin Coney Street
Bile PRY MG Sede,
f 32v
Item paed vnto Thomas Richerdson for mendinge a head
peace
f 33
Item paed for Carryinge oure fower Corsletes on St Peter
even
f 33v
XX §
xijd
js
Item paed vnto Robert dent for plainge on the drome on St
peters even
Item paed vnto Iohn Walker for the vse of a droume
viij d
xvj d
Item paed vnto Anthony Geldert for oilinge dressinge of oure
armor as by his bill heare to be seen appearithe
vjs yd
Item paed vnto Christofor Watter for mendinge & maikinge
certayne thinges belonginge oure Callevers & musket as by his
bill appearithe & heare to be shewed vs vil) d
Item paed vnto Iohn Walker for one musket wherwithe wee are
[newlye] newly cherged, withe flax & tuchebox
xlj S
Item that the head peace whiche did belonge vnto the Almanravet,
20
25
30
40
Wates boke
assessed
Showe of
armore
1594 YORK / 463
doithe serve for this musket ./ & the swerd & dagger whiche
‘was’ for the bowman ./ and wee bought a rest staf of C. watter
as by his bill appearithe
Item paed vnto Iohn Walker for the lyninge of oure head peace
whiche wee should have bought & doe stand cherged witheall
still ./ vj d
Item paed vnto Mr wadsworthe for one Whiet Corslet wherewithe
wee arr newlie cherged also Xxvj s vilj d
1595
House Books Y: B31
£106v (12 February)
And nowe maister Alderman Trew maister Alderman Byrkby
maister alderman Iackson maister alderman mosley Edward
ffawcet christofer beckith William paicock Thomas harbert gent
Thomas Blenkarne Iohn bilbowe Robert harryson Rauf hart
Thomas wilson Roberte burnet henry Thompson & William
ffoxgill are appointed sessors of the waites boke for ther waiges
And it is agreed that the sume shalbe done by them all or by as
many of them as cam be gotten to mete thervpon in this place
vpon friday next at one of the clock in the afteynoun provided
that two of the said aldermen & one of the xxiiijth at the Least
be at the said assessement
£121 (18 June)
Also it is agreed that the showe of armor shalbe the friday befor
St Peter even next viz. the xxvijth of Iune instant and that the
constables of euery parish shalbe commaunded to warn the
housholders Within ther constablery to haue ther armor &
furniture cleane dressed [either in ther] such as haue not bene
sheriffes either on ther owne bodies or suche bodies of other
lable persons... (é& tobe <3 2.41.05 ) per ¢....)]° And my Lord
maiour aldermen & xxiii) on the bodies of hable persons At
knaresmyre at 1x of the clock [the same daie] in the forenoon
of the same daie & to attend vpon maister sheriffes with the
same , ‘in the show as they shalbe directed” & that such as haue
not been sheriffes shall likewyse be ther in ther owne persons in
decent apparell & [also attend as] likewise attende [(.)] as they
10
30
35
40
players reward
Quenes players
reward
My lord
Willobies players
464 / YORK 1595
shalbe directed & all such as shalbe ther shall go from thence in
the show with master sheriffes thorowe this Citty to St mariegate
[which maister sheriffes] and as hertofor hath bene accustomd
And that also the said Constables shalbe ther at the same tyme
[& atle] in ther best apparell without gownes or clokes & with
[tip] constables staves [pa] or tipstaves whit or painted in ther
handes & attende vpon the [said] same show as wiflers in such
places of the show as they shalbe appointed vnto / And also that
the same constables shall shew , ‘ther’ the common armor of
the said parish , ‘clean dressed & caried’ in the said show [cleaned]
vpon hable mens backes And euery constable to bring a drome &
a fyfe or a dromme at the Least vpon paine euery constable vj s
vilj d euery alderman ij s ij d euery of the xxiiijth ij s vj d
euery such as hath bene chamberlayn jj s euery of the best sort
of the other Cittizens x1j d & of the meanest sort vj d . “without
mitigacons. And it is forther ordred that maister sheriffes shall
haue the Citties Auncient & Ryde in ther red gownes in the same
show as hath bene accustomed And that maister sheriffes shall
haue all the said fynes to ther own vses & in consideracion therof
shall give such gun powther as hertofore hath bene accustomd to
be given [by] both by master sheriffes & forth of the chambre
viz. in all lx li. vpon ther owne charges /
£127 (1 July)
Also it is agreed that the Earle of worsters players which are late
commed to this Cittie and desirous to playe shall xx s given
theme forth of the common chamber & so departe from this
Cittie & not play
f£130v (8 August)
Also it is agreed that iij li. vj s viij d given to the Quenes players
for a reward shalbe paid by the chamberlayns forth of the
Common chambre
f141v (21 November)
Also it is agreed that my Lord Willowbies players shall play at
20
25
30
35
40
Rentes and
‘firmes’ within
Miklithbarr
and withoute
Rentes ./
f 32
fines Received
in St Anthones
Hall
1595 YORK / 465
ther host house or such other house or place within this Citty as
they can get for thre or four days [but] so it be not in the night
tyme nor on the sabbaoth daie, but not in the common hall
[And] notherto haue any reward of this Citty
Bridgemasters’ Account Rolls y:C95:2
mb 2
Item of the Skynners for there pagiant house firme xij d
Item of the Tapitours tor there pagiant house xij d
Item of the Tanners for there pagiant house xij d
Item of the Carpenters for there pagiant house xij d
Item of the Bakers for there pagiant house xij d
Item of the Cordyners for there pagiant house xij d
Item of the Cowpers for one outeshote ij d
Bakers’ Account Books BL: Add MS 34604
ir Silk
Thomas Bowlmer
ileal nee pagiant maisters ./f
Item Receyved for the Pagion house Rente i} s vid.
f 32v
Item Receyved of Thomas Bowlmer and William Hunter
Pagionmaisteres for their maundye Breade vj s vil} d. /
Allowances . which they demaund as followeth viz. /
Item for the Pagion house Rent xij d.
Item payd at Thomas Haxvpes to the Minstrelles then allowed
by the companie x) d
Item payd to the Minstrelles at Trenitie Supper ij s
10
15
tN
wn
30
35
40
® Elecuon of
Padgiant masters
Sct lames da.
The sivin daye
466 / YORK 1595
ft 33
Item payd at Thomas Bowlmer pagion dynner for wyne js
Item payd to the Minstrelles at the taler hall at the feast of
(blank) to the minstrelles ij s
Ite m payd the xjth daye of August at Searcher kinges house
for wine vs uyd
Item payd to the minstrelles the same daye xj d
f 33v
Item payd to the minstrelles the xvijth of december vj d
Item payd to the minstrelles the xxvijth of Ianuarye xij d
Item payd to the Minstrelles at the butcher hall xx d
Bakers’ Ordinary BL: Add MS 34605
ff 61-1lv
Also at euery such Assemble the old and newe Searchers and
suche as haue bene Searchers Shall before ther departure by
ther | most voyces, chose two Pagiant Maisters of the sayd
companye, and if anye chosen Pagiant Maister shall refuse to
stand, he shal] forefeit x s , and an other shalbe chosen in his
place, which forefaiture shall be, thone halfe to the comon
Chamber, and thother halfe to the sayd occupacon:
Bricklayers’ Account Book YM: QQ80/2/1
f 23
Ue
Item more att martin Eminsonnes house for wyne att his
dinner vj s
Item more the same tyme to the minstreles att his
dinner ij s viij d
Item Laid doune att the Searcheres house the said daye XVj $
25
30
35
40
Plewe daye
Whitsuntyde
1595 YORK / 467
Item more the same daye to the minstrelees xvj d
ol
f 23v
[Item spent at Iohn gel howse on SSt Luke daye Vs
Item spent at Iohn gel hous sunday after “for wyne &
musicke” vj s 8d
Item spent at martin arkindall hous Sunday after all St day
in wine vs uyd
Item the same day ‘to’ the minstri(.) xvj d
Item for wyne att the Searcheres house for wyne vs isjd
Item the same daye to the minstriles xvj d
sel
f 24
i
Item for wyne on whitson Tewesda att myles nortton house iilj s
Item the same daye to the minstralees xvj d
pal
York Minster Chamberlains’ Accounts: St Peter’s Part
YM: E2/21
f 47
Item to William hewitt musitian Vs
1595-6
Churchwardens’ Accounts: St Martin Coney Street
JW E TEI NETS) IL
f 36
Item payd to fyve men for carienge Armore of St. petteres
{d] Eaven ys vj d
Item payd to the drumer for that day xij d
Item for a pynt of sellit oyle for our Armore xj d
10
20
25
30
35
40
showe of armor
468 / YORK 1595-6
Item payd Christophor watter for drising the callevers vyjd
Item for drising armore vj d
f£135v (10 May)
Item in the Chist behinde the Churche doer, [two] "3" blacke
Corsletes, lackinge ther vambraces, thre white Corslets, fiue
sweardes, fiue daggers & fiue girdells for the same ./ Item ther
also thre Calevers, one Musket, ther flaskes, and tuch boxes &
leythers, ther schorers, the rest stafe, fower sweardes, daggers
& girdels therunto belonginge / withe fower headpeaces for
them ./ whereof one did apperteine to the ould Alman Revet ./
one newe leather for a muskitt flax bought of mr Gelderd>
Item ther also two newe Steall Coetes, two steall Capes well
kevered, one shaef of good Arrowes & bagg for them the markin
Iron & [sex] . ‘v’ oild sweard girdels ./
Item in the Revestre one ould Iacke, one longe Bowe, and the
Aulmanrevet, but not the head peace ./
Churchwardens’ Accounts: St Martin Cum Gregory
BI: PR Y/MG 19
p 100
Item payde to the cunstables att midsomar shawe Vs
Item payde to the armorar for kepinge our armor on yeare —_vij s
1596
House Books Y: B31
f£192v (18 June)
And nowe it is agreed that the showe of armor shalbe vpon
St Peter even next Viz xxviij die Iunij instantes And that the
Constables of euery parishe shalbe , “commaunded’ to warne
‘euery of the housholders Within euery ther seuerall
constableries to haue ther armor & furniture cleane dressed vpon
20
25
30
35
40
John Clark
Wate (...)
1596 YORK / 469
hable mens backes ther to be showed and to attend vpon maister
sheriffes in the same showe as hathe bene accustomed And that
such as haue [bene] not bene sheriffes shalbe ther & attend
vpon maister sheriffes as they shalbe directed in therowne
persons in decent apparell throughout this Cittie in the same
showe euery of theme with some weapon in his hande in decent
sort from ix of the clock in the forenone [vntill] of the same
daie vntyll such tyme as the showe shalbe done without gownes
& clokes. And that the constables of euery parish shalbe also
commaunded to haue ther common armor ther fair & cleane
dressed & fully furnished , ‘vpon hable mens bodies’ [Wh«...)stal]
And that they shalbe ther in ther owne persons in ther best
apparell , ‘without gownes or clokes’ with constabels staves or
painted staves in ther handes [in ther handes] & Attend as
wiflers in the same showe as shalbe to theme appointed & to
bring with theme frome euery parish a drome & a fife or a [d(.)]
drome at the Leaste euery housholder vpon payne of iij s_ iii d
& euery constable vpon payne of vj s_viij d And it is forther
ordred that master sheriffes shall haue the Cittyes auncient &
Ryde in ther red gownes in the same showe as hath bene
accustomed And that maister sheriffes shall haue xxx li. of
powther deliuered them forth of the storhouse & fynd other
xxx li. them selves to be spent in the same showe as hath ben
accustomd
£206 (20 August)
And wheras Thomas Graves Cuthbert Thompson & Iohn Watson
thre of the wates and one Richard bradley whom the said waites
haue Late takne into ther company & do entend to haue to be
one of ther company in place of christofer Smyth gone awaie,
haue nowe compleyned against lohn Clark one other of the said
Waites that he is become so disordred and distemppred and such
a person as wilbe verie oft dronk & is at diuerse tymes trobled
with the falling sicknesse & his hearing vnperfit or almost deaf as
that he is not sufficient to serve in his place, And that at diuerse
tymes he hath so disordred him self in the exercise of his place in
the playing before the magestrates of this Citty and others as that
he hath [brought] ‘maid’ the rest of them by his playing forth of
tvne & tyme to be asshamed of them selues and , ‘they to be
therby” thought of the hearers to haue no such skill as is requisite
for ther places to ther great discredit as they alledge And the said
10
30
218)
40
470 / YORK 1596
lohn Clark being hear presente can not sufficiently discharge him
self towching the premysses , “In consideracion wherof And’
ffor that his infirmyties are the most of theme knowne to diuerse
ot thes presentes to be such as are obiected against him It is
therfore nowe agreed that he shall from hensforth be displaced
from his said office & place of a waite in this Cittie And from all
such exercise within this Citty as only belongeth to the place of
a waite And from playing of hunt ys up in this Cittye which only
belongeth to the Wates, Notwithstanding it is agreed that he
shalbe at Libertie to exercise his trade or facultie in this Citty
with a boy or two with him as other fre musitions do in {this}
all thinges the waites place & hunt ys vp excepted ./ And in
regard that he is a pore old mam the said Graves Thompson
Watson & Bradley . “hauing’ agreed & promised to give him
yearlie forth of ther fee xxvj s_ vilj d to be paid to him from
henstorth quarterly And that he shall deliuer in the holling pipes
& instrumentes for making of the same being paid ‘at sight of
my Lord maior’ as he paid for the same , or ells the said xxvj s
vilj d to cease
City Chamberlains’ Books VY: CC8(2)
f 44v
Rewardes to the Common waites of this Cittie
Item to them for ther fee for easter day & easter
ij s uy d
mondey at my Lord maiours
To them on christenmes day & St stephens day ij s ij d
To them on St williams day xxd
Summa vii} s iy d
f 45v
Clothinge to the Common officers and waites of this Cittie
Item to Thomas Graves lo Watson Cuthbert
Thomson (blank) / waites of this Cittie for there Given a
Clothinge viz. to [mr] Robert Asquyth for vj
yerdes & a quarter Read cloth
17-18 [at sight ... same .] caret misplaced
20
25
30
35
40
Rentes &
fyrmes within
miklegate barr
and within
Rentes.
f 36
(...es Receyved
1596 YORK / 471
£58
Rewards to honowrable mens servantes
players mynstrills and barwardes
Item given to hir maiestes players which played eke
in the Common hall in Iulie 1596
Item given to my Lord of essix mussissiens XX S$
Item in reward to my Lord Darbie & Lord
XS
Darcies players 30 september 1596
Item given to the wates which played at the ees
common hall in christenmes am
Bridgemasters’ Account Rolls y : C95:3
mb 2
Item of the skynners for there pagiant house ferme xij d
Item of the tapitowrs for there pagiant house x1 d
Item of the Tanners for there pagiante house xij d
Item of the Carpenters for there pagiante house xij d
Item of the Bakers for there pagiante house xij d
Item of the Cordyners for there pagiant house xij d
Item of the Cowpers for one outeshote inj d
Bakers’ Account Books BL: Add MS 34604
fas
John Milner cena ar ae +
Richard Litle ee ae
Item Receyved for the Pagion house Rent i) s vj d
f 36v*
St Anthonies (all [tem of (lohn Milner, and] Richard Little Pagion Maisters for
30
35
40
[not allowed]
St: lames daie
ye swearing
daie.
472 / YORK 1596
thier Maundye bread [vj s] ij s iiij d
Paymentes and Allowances which they demaunde
Lag
Item payd for the Pagion house Rent xij d
it TAN
Item payd at Trenitye Supper to the waytes of this Cittye by
consent of the whole companie ij s
Item payd to the minstrelles at Richard Litlees pagion
dynner xvj d
Item payd at the sayd Richardes pagion dynner for Thomas
Nicholson Robert Nicholson and Iohn dickson thelder accordinge
to an order sett for them by the whole consent as afforesayd ix d
Bricklayers’ Account Book YM: QQ80/2/1
f 27v
[Receyved in pageant money vilj d
Receyved of the pageant masters Vj) S.
ral
f 28
Ee
Item the same daie laid out in wyne at william Burtons
howse lll] S
Item more the same daie to the Minstrills at wilzam Burtons
howse xx d
Item more the same daie for wyne at Miles Norton his howse iiij s
Item more the same daie to the minstrills at Myles Nortons
howse xij d
Item more to the Minstrills the same daie at George Hunters
howse iy d
|
15
25
30
35
40
1596 YORK / 473
f 28v
[On St. Lukes daie
Item to the minstrills at wi//iam Lionis howse xvj d
Item for wyne their lll} s
al
f 29
[The Sunday after Plewe daie
ffor wyne at the Searchers dynner being at David
Thompsons 1llj s
To the minstrills their xv) d
Whitson Tuesdaie
Given for wyne the same daie at George hunters howse ll] s
Given to the minstrils their xvj d
>|
York Minster Chamberlains’ Accounts: St Peter’s Part
YM: E2/21
£49
Item given to hir maiestes men players XX S
Churchwardens’ Accounts: St John Ouse Bridge Bi: PR Y/J 17
fi4v (12 May)
Delyuered by george Rosse and lames Cristallson Cunstabiles
of sant Ihones at owsebrigh for the year 1595 / Item sayd delyuerd
all the parrish armor vnto the Cunstabelis this year 1596 / henrie
bamnester and marting Led cumstabiles / as followithe
Item iij blacke Corslettes with heade peces
Item one whyt Corsletett with head pece
Item one whyt alemon Reuett with head pece
Item one curett with half earmes / & head pece
Item one mvskett with furnetur
10
30
35
40
474 / YORK 1596
Item 1ij Caleuers with furnetur
Item vil) swordes with newe gyrdeles
Item 1) old gyrdeles
Item [g] [d] ix dagers
Item a blacke bill
Item a Cotte of playte
Item a Iacke
Item one stele cape
Item xillj arrowes
Item ij pykes
the . 12th of may 1596
per me george Ross
Churchwardens’ Accounts: St Martin Cum Gregory
BI: PR Y/MG 19
p 102
Armore delyvered over to the cownstables for this yeare 1596:
which is william masters, Parsavall wawle, Anthony warde.
thre Corslettes provyded fully with thre pikes, 3 heade peces
one Curate with one halbarde, lacke a hed pece thre Callevers
with flaxes & tuch boxes, stringe, & lethers with one muskete,
reste & furnetoure fully with 4: head peses, / 3: pare of mowledes /
eyght swordes & eyght dagers, eyght girdells, towe Cottes of
plate with skulles covered with rede a bowe, & one Caese with
owld arrowes in the same / and one blake bille /
1596-7
Churchwardens’ Accounts: St Martin Coney Street
Bilese Rei MG omer
f 39v
Item paed for oillinge & dressinge all oure Armor, and Callevers,
when thoild Chirch wardens delivered them to vs vj d
Item paed to Archer for a drome whiche wee borrowed on him
on the shewe daie vj d
Item paed to one for playnge on the same drome the same
10
20
25
30
35
40
The Wates bill
Reward to the
Comon waites
of this Cittie
accustomed
1596-7 YORK / 475
daie vilj d
Item paed to fyve men for Caryinge oure, Corsletes & ther
furniture same daie ys vjd
Item paed to one for Caryinge oure bowe and Arrowes the same
daie & oure steall Coet whiche men woild Cary withowt money
& we weare comaunded to have them ther vj d
Item paed to Iohn Scot for a bowe stringe jd
Item paed to Maister Geldert for dressinge all oure Armor against
the shewe daie, & for naylinge, leytheringe, & skoringe the same
after the shewinge daie, whiche was very raynye ./ and also for
dressinge ix swerdes & daggers, whiche had not been dressed of a
longe tyme before ll) s 4d
f 40
Item paed vnto Christofer watter the same tyme for oyllinge &
dressinge owre Callevers & mvskett within & withowte & for
mendinge one flax box vj d
1597
House Books Y: B31
£272 (30 May)
And wheras the Waites haue compleyned vpon diuerse cittizens
for nonpament of their waiges whose names they haue deliuered
to my Lord maiowr in a note It is agreed that all the same persons
shalbe called before my Lord maiour & commyt vntill they shall
pay the same
City Chamberlains’ Rolls vy ,c9:1
mb 4d *
Item payd to the waites of this Citie for Easter terme last past
accustomed lj s ij d
Item payd to the sayd waites for the(.) Reward (...) lj Ss ilij d
Item payd to the sayd waites for St William daye viz the daye
that my Lord Maiour maketh his greate feaste xx d
10
20
30
35
40
478 / YORK 1597
Bricklayers’ Account Book YM: QQ80/2/1
f 32
The same daie to the minstrils at Miles Norton his howse
To the Minstrills the same daie at william Gell his howse
f 32v
On Satturday before plewe daie ./
At Henrie Lionis his howse vpon Sunidaie giuen to the
minstrils
Whitson tuesdaie
To the minstrills at John Maxwell his howse
Churchwardens’ Accounts: Holy Trinity Goodramgate
BSP RW / Hn G
p 143
ro for bearing ovr harnesse and drome at Midsomer
Item for dressing ovr harnesse
xvj d.
xvj d
xx1j d.
iiij s.
Churchwardens’ Accounts: St John Ouse Bridge BI: PR Y/J
f l6v
Item for the Carraige of our private Armor vpon the Shewe
day & for Ale to theme
5 The same daie] St Luke's Day (18 October)
iiij s
15
25
30
35
The players not
to play and to
haue xx s
The Wates
peticion
1597 YORK / 479
Churchwardens’ Accounts: St Martin Cum Gregory
BI: PR Y/MG 19
p 110
Item payde to the counstables at mydsomar shewe for caryinge
our paruyshe armar vy) s
Item payde to the armear for kepinge owr armar Vij S
1597-8
Churchwardens’ Accounts: St Martin Coney Street
BI: PR Y/MCS 17
f41v
Item paed on St Peters even to five men for shewinge oure
v Corsletes with furniture ys vyjd
Item paed to Mr Geldert for dressinge the saed five Corsletes,
withe ix swerdes & daggers, after they weare shewed lll] $
f 42
Item paed vnto Christofor watter for dressinge and oylinge oure
thre Callevers withe flaskes and for maykinge a hewke for one
flaske vilj d
1598
House Books Y: B31
£337 (25 March)
Also it is agreed that the players shall depart forth of this Citty
and not play therin by reason of the plague is dispersed into so
many places in the north & that xx s shalbe given theme as this
cittys reward of benevolence
f 345v (28 April)
Wheras the common waites haue by a peticion nowe exhibited
10
20
30
35
40
Showe of armor
Preceptes for
the shewe
480 / YORK 1598
vnto vs declared, That by reason of the statute maide at the
Last parliamente they are prohibited to trauile abrode with
there instramentes into the countrie as hertofore they haue bene
accustomed to do, and therby showe without some better
allowance or waiges then heretofore they haue hade they cannot
Live and mainteine themeselves and there familyes, It is therfore
nowe agreed by thes presentes that Mr Birkbie Mr Iackson
Mr Mosleye and Mr Beckwithe aldermen Maister sherife Rosse
Mr Percivall Brooke Mr Rowlande ffawcett and Mr William
Paycocke gentlemen Roberte Harrison Roberte Askwithe Thomas
Wilson and Iohn Bonsfeilde commoners shall at some conveniente
time before Penthecost nexte assemble themeselves togethers in
some conveniente place or churche where the saide aldermen
shall appointe, and thervpon pervse the Bookes of the saide
waites wages and examine theme what other allowances or
benifyte they haue yearelye in this cittie by there places towardes
there maintenance, and thervpon if the same shalbe thoughte
to theme to be insufficyente to consider ,vpon’ emonghst
themeselves and by conference with the same wates howe and in
what manner they maie be further benifitted and holpen towardes
there better maintenaunce and Livinge and to certefye vnto this
courte ther opinions and reasons therin to thende suche forther
order maie thervpon be takne therin as by this courte shalbe
thoughte nedefull & mete:
f 36lv (16 June)
Also it is agreed that the showe of Armor shalbe vpon St Peter
even as hath bene accustomed And that maister sheriffes shall
Ryde therin in ther redde gownes [chains] & haue the Citties
auncient And that xxx li. of powther shalbe given theme forth
of the Chamber & that they shall find asmuch of ther owne
charges as hath bene accustomed And that warrandes shalbe
[(..)] maid to the constables to geve warnyng as hath bene
accustomed in former yeares; And my Lord maiour & aldermen
are agreed to , Ryde or’ go to knaves myre to se the people
sett in ordr befor they come into the Citty & to se whose armor
is falty or fowled
f 362
To the officer of (blank)
Giue commaundemente vnto the constables of euery parish
10
15
20
25
30
35
40
xl s to the
Quens players
Wates cotes /
1598 YORK / 481
within the said warde to warne euery householder in the same to
be before me and my bretherew and maister sheriffes at knavesmyer
vpon St. Peter even next at nyne of the clocke in the forenone
with ther armor and furniture cleane dressed and trymmed fit
and redye for her Ma/estes service vpon ther owne or other hable
mens bodyes ther to be vewed by vs And that from thence they
doe attend vpon maister sheriffes with the same & make showe
therof thorowt this cittye as to them ther shalbe enioyned by vs
and the leaders of the same showe & euery shot to provide and
bringe sufficient powder with him for that service
And that such Cittyzens as shall not themselves carrye ther
owne armor especially the better sort (such as have bene sheriffes
excepted) be therin ther owne persons soldyer lyke well apparelled
without gownes & clokes weaponed with holbertes Callyvers
bowes and arrowes and such lyke weapons furnished to attend in
the same showe as they shalbe appointed & placed & that they
departe not forth of the same showe till all be dismyssed by
maister sheriffes & that none of them be absent vpon payne of
Xi} s. ij d. euery person absent or makinge defalt
Allso that euery the said constables have then and ther the
common armor of the parishes cleane dressed & fully furnished
vpon hable mens bodyes likewise to be vewed by vs & to goe
therwith and to attend in the same showe as by the leaders
shalbe appointed
Allso that euery Constable be ther in his best apparell without
cloke or gowne with constables staves to attend as they shalbe
appointed for wiflers & bringe euery of them ther parish with
them and from euery parish a [fife] drome & a fife or such lyke
to serve in that service as they shalbe placed euery constable
vpon paine of xx s.
£372v (9 August)
Also it is agreed that x1 s. shalbe given forth of the Chambre to
William Smyth Iohn garland & Iohn Cowper the Quens players
& they to depart this Citty & not to play
f 391lv (8 December)
Also it is agreed that the Waites shall haue cotes of such cloth
as maister Mosley & maister Couret shall like of & the fe for
5
15
30
35
40
482 / YORK 1598
theme of the price that they had the last Yeare!, Vizier Sa
yeard’ or ther aboutes at the discretion of the said two aldermen
and that ther boy shall haue a yeard of the same to make him a
cote of And the money to be paid for that clothe to be paid by
master chamberlaynes forth of the Chamber /
City Chamberlains’ Books Y: CC9(2)
p 108 *
Rewardes to the Common waites of this Cittie
Item to them for easter day & easter mondey at
my Lord maiours
To them for christenmes day & St stephens day
To them for St Williams day ‘d (.) in person”
Summa vilj s uj d
p 110
Clothinge to the Common officers
and waites of this Cittie
Item paid [to Thomas Graves I] to maister bonsfeld
draper for Cloth to make Cotes &c for ye wates
[viz.] And ther boy viz Thomas graves lohn Watson
Cuthbert Thomson Richard bradley & ther boy at
xj s the yeard bought by mazster mosley & maister
Couret aleen
p 136
Rewardes to honourable mens servantes
players Mynstrills And Barwardes /
Item given to the players in the assise weke
Item given to [the] her mavestes Players which came
to York in August 1598 / who played not
Summa ij li.
iij s iiij d
lj s uy d
xx d
iiij Li.
NOES //
xls
20
25
30
35
40
Rentes and
fermes withoute
Myklegate bare
and within
Rentes
f 41v
ffines Receyved
at the Common
place ./
1598 YORK / 483
Bridgemasters’ Account Rolls Y: C95:5
mb 2*
Item of the Skynners for there Pagiant house ferme
Item of the Tapitours for there pagiante house
Item of the Tanners for there pagiante house
Item of the Carpenters for there pagiante house
Item of the bakers for there pagiante house
Item of the Cordineres for there pagiante house
Item of the Cowpers for one outeshote
Bakers’ Account Books BL: Add MS 34604
f 41
Richard Clerke
[Clerke] pagion maisterest
Robert Arkindall
Item receyved for the Pagion house Rent
f 42v
xij d
xij d
xij d
xij d
xij d
xij d
ily d
ys vd.
Item of Richard Clerke and Robert Arkindale for ther mawndye
bread
vjs vind
Paymentes and Allowances which they do demaunde viz. /
Item payd for the pagion house Rent
f 43
Item payd at Trenitie supper to the minstrelles
Item payd to the minstrelles at Richard Clerkees Pagion
feast
Item payd to the minstrelles at Robert Arkindall pagion
dynner
xij d
xvilj d
xvilj d
xij d
20
25
30
215)
40
Plew da
484 / YORK 1598
Item payd to the minstrelles at Stephen Lonsdelles vpon the
Electio daye by the whole consent vj d
Bricklayers’ Account Book’ YM: QQ80/2/1
f 34
Item payd to the minstriles the same daye xvj d
Item more the same daye to the minstriles At Iohn Harresonnes
howse xij d
Item payd on St Lucke daye to the minstrilees at Thomas
Tournor house xvj d
f 34v
Item more the same daye att Thomas turn(.)r house to the
minstrill xij d
Whitsonn Teusdaye
Item the same daye to the minstriles xvj d
York Minster Chamberlains’ Accounts: St Peter’s Part
YM: E2/21
£51
Item the vjth of ffebruarij to players at Mr Doctor Bennittes xls
9 the same daye] St James’ Day (25 July) 11 the same daye] Swearing Day
10
15
25
30
To assesse the
Waites booke
1598 YORK / 485
Churchwardens’ Accounts: St Martin Cum Gregory
BI: PR Y/MG 19
p 114
paid vpon St peters evenge for the showe for carige [all] the
Armore & the drume, to our Constables vys vil d
Churchwardens’ Accounts: St Michael Spurriergate
Bile BR Yo/Mse2
f 20
Item payd to John Cresswicke for dressinge the Common Armor
at midsomer laste vj s
1595-9
Churchwardens’ Accounts: St Martin Coney Street
Joye Ieee NOU GIST IN7/
f 43v
Item for oyle to dresse the Armor iij d
Item to Anthony gelderd for dressing the Armor lj s uy d
Item to Cristofer water for dressinge the Calivers vil d
Item for ix men to bear the Comon Armor ij s vjd
Item to mr geldert for a flask lether ij d
Item to mr Gelderd for Bucles and lethers for the Armor xd
1599
House Books Y: B32
f4v (21 February)
Also it is agreed that maister Harryson maister Robinson maister
Brooke maister Byrkbie maister Trewe & maister mosley aldermen
Percivale broke christofer Turner william paycock lames Mudd
10
20
30
25)
40
Erle of
Worsters players
Xx s to the kinge
of scottes
Musytions
Arrerages of
the Wates
To mete my
lorde [mai]
leivetenante
at barr
27s 8d to be
paid to the
waites
486 / YORK 1599
maister harbert & maister Rosse gents shall mete in this place on
monday next at one of the Clock in the afternone & assesse the
boke of the waites waiges
f10v (28 March)
And nowe it is agreed that the Earle of Worsters players shall
haue xxx s given them and depart & not playe / [w] which was
deliuered to William holcrofte /
f31v (6 July)
Also it is agreed that xx s given by my Lord Maior to the kinge of
Scottes Mvysitions shalbe paid forth of the Chambre /
£38 (3 August)
Also it is agreed that the arrerages of the Wates bill which they
saie the inhabitantes without the barres refuse to pay by reason
the barres wear shutt amounting to xxxj s jd shalbe payde forth
of the chambre if the persons who ought to pay the same do
refuse vpon demaunde therof by the officer of the ward /
f43 (22 August)
Also it is agreed that my Lord maiour [alu] maister Recordour
the aldermen sheriffes & xxiijt' [shall] in ther scarlet & Red
gownes with the rest of the best Cittizens in ther best apparell
shall mete my Lord Lieutenant & Lord president with the great
sword & great mace at Micklegat barre & ther receive him into
this Cittye with the Waites playing on the toppe of the barre on
fryday next viz. the xxiiijt! of August at his commyng into the
Cittye /
Also it is agreed that xxvij s viij d which the waites cold not
get of ther waiges of thinhabitantes without the barres of ther
Last winter watch by reason the barres wear shut so as they cold
34 the toppe] MS the the toppe
10
15
25
30
35
40
Quens players
xIs.
Wates Cotes
Padgeant
Maisters
obedient and
accomptant
1599 YORK / 487
not go forth to play by night shalbe paid them forth of the
Chambre
f47v (12 September)
And nowe it is agreed that xl s. given to the Quens players at
ther Last playing at the Common hall shalbe repaid forth of the
Common chambre
£57v (2 December)
Also it is agreed that the Waites shall haue cotes as they had the
Last Yeare or money deliuered vnto theme [to be] according to
that rate to bestowe theme selues of the same collor that they
had the Last Yeare
E Memorandum Book Y: E22
£244 (11 July) Glovers
Also it is enacted that the two officers of the saide companie
called pagion Maisters shall at all times beinge required by the
Searchers or either of theme be obedient aswell in ther office as
also in gatheringe of all suche of dewties as belongeth to the
saide occupacion and shall yeilde and give a 1uste Accompte vnto
the saide Searchers for the time beinge of the saide office and of
all suche money as they or either of theme shall receiue to the
vse of the saide occupacion duringe the time of ther office and
the same paie over to the saide Searchers to thuse of the saide
occupacion vpon request therof vpon paine of either of them
makeinge defalte herin to forfaite and paie for a fine for everye
suche defalte x s to be paide and devided as aforesaide
City Chamberlains’ Books Y : CC10(1)
f 58v
Rewardes to the Common wates of this Cittie
Item paid to them for easter day & mondey ij s. yj d.
laid furth this
yer
Rentes
488 / YORK 1599
To them for christenmes day & St, Stephens
day lij s. illj d. per s(..)
To them for St. williams day
Summa vijj s. iiij d.
f 59v
rectal
Clothinge of the Common officers and Waites of this Cittie
Item paid to the waites for ther Clothinge to
buy Cotes for them selves & there boy viz. Thomas
graves lohn Watson Cuthbert thomson Richard
bradley & [at] ther boy at xj s. the yerd
f 73v
Rewardes to honourable mens servantes
players Mynstrilles and berewardes /
Item to the Earle of Worsyters players in
Aprill 99 per agrement
Item the 14 of Iune to my Lord of Lyncolne
players / per agrement
Item given to the kinge{s] of scottes Musitions
in Iulie 1599
Item given to my Lord monteagles players the
12 of november / 1599 per mandat domzne maiore
Item to the quenes players that plaid in the common hall
Bakers’ Account Books BL: Add MS 34604
f 44
John Hutchinson &
lames Cawood
pagion maisteres / @ Tt
Item Receyved of lames Allenbye for the Pagion house
iiij Li,
XXX S
XX S
XX S
XX S
xl s
10
20
25
30
35
40
f 44v
ffines Receyved
at the Common
place ./
Paymentes and
Allowances ./
Lueke
15:99 YORK / 489
Rent js vj d
f 45*
Item Receyved of Iohn Hutchenson and James Caward for ther
mawndye breade vj s vi d
In primis payd to the minstrell.) at Steaphen Lonsdellelles house
at t(..) Reckoninge dynner by the whole co(...)nt xvilj d.
f 45v
Item payd for the Pagion hous rent xij d
Item payd to the minstrelles at trenitye Supper by the whole
consent nS
Item payd to the minstrelles at John hutchenson dynner xvj d
Item payd to the minstrelles at lames Caward dynner by the
whole consent xvj d
Bricklayers’ Account Book YM: QQ80/2/1
f 36
ees
Item the same daye to the minstriles xvj d.
Item more the same day to the minstreles xij d
Item disburssid att Richard maxwell house to the minstriles ij s
Item paid to the minstrilees on martinmes daye at Iohn gell
house at A brotherin dinner xvj d
|
f 36v
[Plewe daye
Item to the minstriles i) s
27 the same daye] St James’ Day (25 July)
10
30
ao
40
Whitsun tyd
+9 OF 7/2 Ni ORK 151919
Item to the minstrilees the same daye ij s
dal
Churchwardens’ Accounts: St Martin Cum Gregory
BI: PR Y/MG 19
p 116
payd for dryssinge the paryche Armor Vij s
payd by thomas hall to the shewe of our comon armor to them
which caryed yt o ys
payd by edward crosbie for the lyke lj S
payd for amvsketes Rest vilj d
Churchwardens’ Accounts: St Michael Spurriergate
Bila ER ya Nitoee
f 22v
Item paid for dressinge the Common Armor and furniture
belonginge the parishe vj s
f 23
Item paid to the Cunstables for those that did bear the Common
Armor to the muster v)s
Item paid for A swoord girdle vj d
Item paid to A Drumer that day vj d
1599-1600
Churchwardens’ Accounts: St Martin Coney Street
Bile Rew MiG om ley,
f 45
Item to Mr Gelderd for dressing the Armor ay s
Item for oyle ij d
10
20
25
30
35
40
My lord of
pembrokes [me]
players
The Waites boke
confirmed
Showe of armor
Monckeward
A Warrant for
The Showe
1599-1600 YORK / 491
Item to v men for bearing the Armor ij s vj d
Item to A dromer on the Shewe daye . vil} d
Item to christofor watter for dressinge the Calivers xij d
1600
House Books Y: B32
f63 (18 January)
And nowe it is agreed that my Lorde of Penbrokes men shall
play before my Lord maiour & aldermen in the common hall on
monday next in the afternone & haue xl s for reward forth of
the common chambre
£66 (3 February)
And nowe the booke of assessement of the waites waiges latelie
maide is confined & to be assigned with my Lord maiors hand at
euery leaf
£99v (20 June)
Also it is agreed that the showe of armor shalbe on Wednesday
, next’ after St Peter daye as hath bene [(...)] accustomed and
that Warrantes shalbe maid to the officers to give warnynge to
the constables to Warne [tt] thinhabitantes in euery warde / The
tenor wherof herafter followith
To the officer of Monckwarde
Give commaundement vnto the constables of everye parishe
within the saide warde to warne everye housholder in the same to
be before me and my bretheren and Maister Sheriffes at knavesmire
vpon wednesdaie the secounde daie of Iulie beinge the wednesdaie
nexte after St peter daie nexte at Nyne of the clock in the
forenone of the same daie with ther armor and furniture cleane
dressed and trimed redie and fitt for her Maiestes service vpon
ther owne or other able mens bodies ther to be vewed by vs, And
that from thence they doe attende vpon Maister Sheriffes with
20 confined] for confirmed
10
iN;
30
35
+0
iiij li. Given to
the Waites
liueryes
The Wates for
beif breakfastes
492 / YORK 1600
the same and make showe therof thorowe this cittie as to them
shalbe by vs or the Leaders ther enioyned And that they furnishe
everye of ther shott with sufficyent powder
Item that suche cittizens as shall not themselves carrye ther
owne armor esspeciallye the better sorte suche as haue bene
sheritfes excepted, be then ther in ther owne persons soldier like
well apparelled without gownes and clokes weaponed with
halbertes callivers bowes and arrowes or suche like weapons
furnished to attend in the same showe as they shalbe appointed
and placed, And that they departe not forthe of the same showe
till all be dismissed by Maister Sheriffes And that none of them
be absente vpon paine of everye defalte xiij s iiij d
Item That everye of the saide constables haue all ther common
armor then ther in like redinesse vpon hable mens bodies to be
likewise vewed and to go therwith and attende in like sorte in
the same showe as by the leaders they shalbe directed
Item that the constables give commaundement to everye of
ther shott to forbeare to shott either in this cittie or in the
teildes in other sorte then as by the leaders they shall haue
direccon aswell for good order as for wastfull expences of ther
powther
Item that everye constables be ther in his best apparell without
cloke and gowne with constables staves painted to attend for
wiflers as they shalbe placed and bringe ther parishoners with
them and from everye parishe A drome and A fife or suche
like vpon paine of xx s of every parishe to be forfeited by the
constables, york this xxiijth daie of Iune, 1600.
f126 (17 December)
And nowe it is agreed that iiij li. shalbe given to the Waites forth
of the chamber as was the Last yeare to buy theme robes withall
for theme selues & ther boye
And wheras the wates haue put in a peticyon requiring in regard
that two or thre of the aldermen do make ther befe breakfast in
some one mornyng all at one tyme so as they cannot convenientlie
serue theme all That either they wold make ther breakfastes
seuerall dayes or ells that they the said waites [sh] may be
discharged of that service, It is therfore nowe agreed by all thes
presentes that the said waites shalbe discharged frome that
seruice & not to attend nor play at any of the said breakfastes
10
15
20
30
35
40
Rents and
fermes without
miklegate barr
& within
Rentes
1600 YORK / 493
onless they be sent for & being sent for by diverse thaldermen to
be preferred,
Bridgemasters’ Account Rolls Y: C96:1
mb 2
Item of the Skyners for ther Pagiant house ferme xij d
Item of the Tapitowrs for ther pagiant house xij d
Item of the Tanners for ther pagiant house xij d
Item of the Carpenters for ther pagiant house xij d
Item of the bakers for ther pagiant house xij d
Item of the Cordyners for ther pagiant house xij d
Item of the Cowpers for one outshot uy d
Bakers’ Account Books BL: Add MS 34604
f 47
Martin Arkindaile
Thomas Wilson Pagiom (7
Item, Receyved of Iames Allenbye for pagion house Rent ij s vj d
f 49v
Paymentes and allowances.
[tem payd to the minstrelles at the Reckninge dynner [xij d] ij s
Item payd for the Pagion house rent xij d
f 50
Item payd to the minstrelles at trenitye , ‘Supper’ by
consent xd
Item payd to the minstrelles at Martin Laurence pagion dynner
by the whole consent in respecte they were manye of them lj s
25
30
35
40
Whittsonn
tewsdaye
494 / YORK 1600
Item payd at Thomas wilson dynner to the Minstrelles
Bricklayers’ Account Book YM: QQ80/2/1
f 39
[ies
xvj d
Item the to the minstriles on Sunday after at the Searchers
house
Item spent on the swerin daye at Gorge hunteres hous
Item the same daye to the minstrilles
xvj d
XX] S
vilj d
Item spent the third daye of August att the head Searchees
howse
Item paid the same daye to the minstriles
Item spent at the Searcheres house vppon St Lucke
daye
Item to the minstreles the same day
XX §
xvj d
vj s vid
iy d
Item paid to the minstreles at the searcherees house The morro
after St Lucke daye
|
f 39v
[Plewe daye
lj S
Item paid to the minstrelles at martin Arkedell house when he
maid his man brotherin dinner
Item payd to the minstrilles on plewe daye
xvj d
xvj d
Item paid to the minstriles at gorge hunters house on whitsonn
twesda
i)
York Minster Chamberlains’ Accounts: St Peter’s Part
YM: E2/21
fea
Item the 5. of ffebruary 1599. to the Lord Sudders men
players
8 Sunday after] after St James’ Day
roe (0
XX S
10
iE
20
25
30
35
40
16d lakke
1600 YORK / 495
f 58
Item to the Waites for their Musicke att service to the same
Lord Imbasotour
Churchwardens’ Accounts: St Martin Cum Gregory
BI: PR Y/MG 19
p 118
Item for Dressinge the parishe Armore
Item for mendinge our Armore againste the showday
Item for carringe the parishe Armor on the shew day
Churchwardens’ Accounts: St Michael Spurriergate
Bee ROY Mise2
ft 26v
Item . paid to Creswick tharmorer for dressinge our
common armor and other furniture belongeinge the parishe
Item . paid to Thomas Sigswicke and William Warde
beinge Cunstables . for those that did beare the
Common armor to the muster . & to one that Carried
the Drumm as appearethe by their bill
1600-1
Churchwardens’ Accounts: St Martin Coney Street
BI: PR Y/MCS 17
f 46v
Item payd to christofer watter for mending a flax
Item payd to mr Geldert for dressing the parish armor
Item for a pynte of Oyle
3-4 the same Lord Imbasotour] the Ambassador of Scotland
xij s ij d
vj s
xij d
V1} $
vj] s
vi) S
ij d
xij d
iiij d
10
20
30
35
40
496/ YORK 1601
1601
House Books Y: B32
f156v (14 July)
And nowe it is agreed that my Lord Shandoze players shall haue
Libertie to playe at marmaduke gills howse till sonday next &
then to depart & not to play in the night tyme /
{181 (18 December)
Chambre to the Waites to buy theme & ther boye Lyverey Cotes
with all /
City Chamberlains’ Books Y: CC10(2)
f 46v
Rewardes to the Common Waites of this Cittie
Item to the waites at easter lj s. uy d.
To the wates for Christenmes day & St. stephens day 11} s. uj d.
To them for St Williams day xd,
Summa viij s. ij d.
f 47v
Clothinge to the Common officers and waites of this Cittie
Item to Thomas Graves Iohn Watson Cuthbert
Thompson Richard bradley & Christofer Thomson..
ther boye to by them cotes for ther Clothing
against Christenmes
Bakers’ Account Books BL: Add MS 34604
se
Thomas dent Pagione Maisterest
lames wright
iiij li. ij s. itij d.
20
25
30
35
40
Rentes
St. Lucke
1601 YORK / 497
Item of (blank) for the Pagion house Rent ij s vj d
f 51v
ffines Receyved at St Anthon(.es Hall ./
f 52v
Item of Thomas dent and Iames wright Pagion Maisters
accustomed vj s viij d
E53
Paymentes and Allowances ./
In primis payd for the Pagion house Rent xij d
Item at the Reckninge dinner to the Minstrelles ij s
Item payd to the Minstrelles at Trenity Supper lj S
Item payd at the first pagion dynner to the minstrelles xx d
Item payd at the Second Pagion Dynner to the Minstrelles xx d
Bricklayers’ Account Book YM: QQ80/2/1
f 40
ee
Item disbursid the same to the minstrils nS
Item at Iohn gell house onthe Same daye the Searcheres was
sworne xx1j d
Item the same daye to the minstriles att Iohn gell howse xvj d
Item the same daye at Iohn Chamber[(.)]s howse to the
minstrilles lj) S
Item to the minstrilles at John Gell man brethrin dinner vilj d
Item paid at the Searchers housse vpon St. Cand(..)ns
daye Xj $s vilj d
Item the same daye to the minstriles vilj d)
30 the same] St James’ Day (25 July)
10
30
35
40
Plewe daye
Whitsonn
Le
esda
498 / YORK 1601
f 40v
ie
Item more to the minstriles the same da xvj d
Item for our banquit to mr Chamber’laine’ Lunde The xxteyth
daie of tebrewearye Xx $ viij d
Item to the minstrill the same night xij d
Item the same daye to the minstriles ij s
as
Churchwardens’ Accounts: Holy Trinity Goodramgate
Bile Rey (el G
piss
Item for powder and oyle vilj d
“Item laid out for dressing the Armour ys’
Item Layd out for [dressing the armour] ,souldgars that
tyme, xi d
Item payd to Robert commendell for bearing the armoure __ii1j d
Item [f] payd to the armerther for drussing of the
armore js yd
Item payd to the drummer one the shewday vilj d.
Item payd to ij men for bearing armoure vilj d
Item mor payd for armore drussing and Lying up xij d
Churchwardens’ Accounts: St John Ouse Bridge BI: PR Y/J
f 25v
payd for the parishons armor dressenge vilj S
Churchwardens’ Accounts: St Michael Spurriergate
Bil PR MiShz
f 30
Item paid to Creswick the Armorer for his stypnt for dressing
20
25
30
35
40
1601 YORK / 499
our Comon armore [this yeare] vj s
1601-2
Churchwardens’ Accounts: St Martin Coney Street
Bile rae aN Seley
f 49
Item payd to christofer Water for dressing Caleeuers & touch
boxes vj d
Item payd to him ‘for’ one new touch box xij d
Item payd to mr Geldert for dressing the parish armour lj S
Item payd for one pinte of oyle to ye armour vj d
1602
House Books Y: B32
f200v (7 May)
And nowe it is agreed That Cuthberte Thompson late one of the
waites for that he is gone abrode into the Contry from his
place without licence of My Lord maiour having alredy befor his
departure given vp his cheyne & Conysent shall from hensforth
be displaced from that place & service for euer And the rest of
the Wates hear present are contented to find on other sufficient
and hable to furnishe that place
And it is nowe agreed that iiij li. shalbe Lent forth of the
Chambre to Iohn Watson one of the waites to buy him a doble
Curtall withall vpon bond with sufficient sureties for repament
therof againe into the chambre at Easter next & Easter come
Twelue moneth
£219 (10 September)
And nowe Thomas Graves one of the Wates called into this court
vpon the peticion of his fellowes to knowe whither he will kepe
his place of one of the Waites, hathe hear promised to provid a
sufficient boy against winter And to serue as wate as formerly he
hath done, And that if he shall herafter be amynded to give over
that place That he will give warnyng therof to my Lord maiour
at Candlemas then being next before he do so give over /
10
30
35
40
Rewardes to the
Common Waites
accustomed
Clothinge to the
common Officers
& waites of
this Cittie ./
Rewardes giuen
to honorable
men Servantes
Players,
minstrelles and
Barwardes.
500 / YORK 1602
f223v (8 October)
Also it is agreed that Iohn Watson one of the waites being nowe
visited with sicknesse shall haue xiij s ij d given him forth of the
Chamber towardes his releif
City Chamberlains’ Rolls y: C10
mb 5
Item payd to the Waites of this Cittie for Easter Terme . 1602
last past accustomed lj s uj d
Item payd to the said Waites for ther Reward at christmas .
1602 accustomed lj s ij d
Item payd to the sayd Waites for St William daye / viz / the
daye that my Lord Maior maketh his great feast bo,
Summa vil} s ij d
mb 6
Item payd to Thomas Graves, Iohn Watson,
and Richard Bradley the Common Waites of ij li. ij s uy d
this Cittie for ther clothinge.
mb 6d
Item payd therfore this yeare as appeareth by the sayd paper
Booke of theis Accomptes particulerlie. ij li. xj d
City Chamberlains’ Books Y: CC11(1)
f 52v
Rewardes to the common Waites of this Cittie
[tem to the Waites for ther fee at easter ij s. iy d.
Item to the waites for christenmes day & St stephens
day ii} Ss iu) d pereson
10
15
20
25
30
35
40
Rents and
fermes withoute
miklegate barr
& within /
1602 YORK / 501
Item to them for St William day xx d
Summa vilj s ij d
f 54v
Clothinge to the Common officers
and Wates of this Cittie
Item paid the 16 of december 1602 to Iohn
Watson Thomas Graves & Richard bradley
& Thomas bradley ther boyes for ther lyvereys
against Christenmes
f 70
Rewardes to the honourable mens servantes
players minstrells and bearewardes /
Item given to the quenes marestes players
which played in the common hall 27 Iuly ij li.
1602
Item given to my Lord lyncolne players ij (()]
octobris 1602 which played not before my Lord KIS
maiour
Bridgemasters’ Account Rolls y. C96:2
mb 2
Item of the skynners for there pagiant house xij d
Item of the tapitours for there pagianthouse x1) d
Item of the tanners for there pagiant house xij d
Item of the Carpenters for there pagiant house x1) d
Item of the Bakers for there pagiant house xij d
Item of the Cordyners for there pagiant house xij d
Item of the Cowpers for there pagiant house ij d
30
40
Rentes
502 / YORK 1602
Bakers’ Account Books BL: Add MS 34604
fS5
ffrancis Gryme &
Bryan Walker
Pagionmaisters ./ @ f
Item for the Pagion house Rent vj s [vilj d]
t 56
ffines Receyved at the Common place, viz, St Anthonies Hall /
f S6v
Item of Bryan walker and ffrancis Gryme Pagion Maisteres
accustomed vj s vuj d
£57
Paymentes and Allowances /
Item payd at the Reckninge dynner to the minstrelles ij s
£57v
Item payd at Trenitie dinner to the minstrelles ij s
Item payd at Bryan Walker pagion dynner to the minstrelles xx d
Item payd at ffrancis Grymees in like manner xx d
Item payd for the Pagion house Rent xij d
£58
This accompt was Audit the xxviijth daye of September 1602, by
Stephen Lonsdell, Richard Sellerer, Willcam Cocke, Thomas
Haxvp, William Hunter, Iohn Harrison, & Robert Arkindaile, and
lames Cawarbe, and they find all well ./ savinge vii) d for pagion
Rent which must be giuen to Thomas Wilson backe againe . And
so the stock money is nowe xy li ys: jd /
20
25
30
35
40
St Lucke day
plewe da
1602 YORK / 503
Bricklayers’ Account Book YM: QQ80/2/1
f 42
Item the same daye to the minstriles att the ould Searchers
house xvj d
Item spent at Searcher harrisonn house on the {same ¢...)] same
daye The newe Searcheres was sworne XXlj $
Item the same daye to the minstrills at the searchers house xvj d
Item the same daye to the minstrilees xvj d
f 42v
Item paid the sunda after to the minstrills att our dinner lj) s
St. Mathewe daye
Item the same daye to the minstreles xij d
f 43
Item paid on whittson tewsedaye Att the Searcher house To the
minstreles xvj d
Churchwardens’ Accounts: Holy Trinity Goodramgate
Billige Reve an:
p 158*
Item payd to the Clerke for ringinge when the kinge Came to
yorke and for Candlees and Greese xvj d
5 the same daye] S¢ James’ Day (25 July)
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15
3h)
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Churchwardens’ Accounts: St Martin Cum Gregory
BI: PR Y/MG 19
p 121
payd to the Armorer for keepinge Cleane oure Armor Vij s
Churchwardens’ Accounts: St Michael Spurriergate
Bile BRAY /MSe2
f 34v
Item paid: to Creswicke the Armorer for his stipente for
dressinge the Common Armoure this yeare vj s
1602-3
Churchwardens’ Accounts: St Martin Coney Street
Bla PRe YMG Swl7
f 50v
{tem paid to thre Ringers on palmson euen when the kings
Maiestie Came to yorke ll] S
f 51
[tem paid to Mr Geldert for Dressinge Parrishe Armoure xij d
1603
House Books Y: B32
£249 (29 March)
And wheras it is expected that the highe and mightie Prince kinge
lames the sixte kinge of [England] Scotland whoe now is by
reason of the death of our late soveraigne Quene of England
ffraunce and Ireland proclamed the kinge of England ffraunce and
Ireland / to come to this Cittie shortlie and for the entertayninge
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and welcomeinge of his highnes to this Cittie It is agreed that A
Silver Cupp doble guilt haveinge the Citties Armes of it of the
valewe of xx li. or ther aboutes [and] and a hundreth Poundes
in gold in the same shalbe given & presented vnto his highnes
at his Comminge to this Cittie
f 249v
And it is agreed that the Esquiers officers and Porter [shall] to
my Lord Maior shall have newe gownes of french Russet Cullor
maide after the Cittizens facron faced with Connye against the
Comminge of the kinges mavestie to this Cittie the Esquiers to be
of xiilj s iiij d a yeard and officers & Porter at xj s a yeard for
this tyme /
Also it is agreed that my Lord Maior Aldermen Sheriffes &
xxiiijje with such Cittizens as shalbe appointed by this Court
shall mete the kinges Masestie at Mawdleyn [Chapleyn] Chapell
if his grace do come in at Bowdome barr and that my Lord Maior
shalbe on horsebacke & the Aldermen sheriffes and fowre &
twentie on fote /
Tricesimo die Marci 1603
And this daie my Lord Maior Recorder & diuerse of the Aldermen
ther were aswell diuerse of the Comoners of this Cittie as diuerse
other inhabitantes & straingers are no fremen of this Cittie which
inhabitt in this Cittie which were warned to appeare, and then
Maister Recorder declared vnto the saide comoners and others
assembled, that the cause of ther metinge was to make it knowne
vnto them what order my Lord Maior & his Bretheren have takne
towcheinge the bewtefying of this Cittie against the Comminge
of the kinges mazestie to this Citty that is to saie, that everie
inhabitant within this Cittie shall forthwith Pave sufficientlie
before ther dores wher nede shalbe and remove all clogges stone
heppes trees donge hill and filth owte of the stretes, and shall
also painte the owteside of ther Howses with some Collors to the
strete forwardes, and that ther shold be to the nombre of a
hundreth & more sufficient Cittizens and inhabitantes of the best
sorte in this Cittie which are to have decent & comelie gownes
maide after the Cittizens fashion of a sad Cullor against his
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maresties comminge to this Cittie to thend they maie attend vpon
my Lord Maior & Aldermen at the receiveinge & welcomeinge
of his highnes to this Cittye and that ther shall be a silver Cupp
doble guilt weighinge lx ounces or ther aboutes worth xx li.
haveinge the Citties armes vpon the same, & a hundreth Poundes
in gold in the same to be presented and given to his mazestie
when he is Conuied to this Cittie, as a gift of this Cittie, Of all
which thinges all the saide Commoners liked well of /.
fe 0%
And then it was agreed that a hundreth & more of the best
Cittizens & inhabitantes in this Cittie shalbe sett downe and
appointed [to have gownes] by my Lord Maior & Aldermen,
‘to have gownes’ and that they shall have warneinge to provide
the same, against his mazesties Comminge to this Cittie, ...
f 253v (5 April)
And nowe Mr Smith a scholemaister beinge sent for into this
Court & talked with to se what good spech and shewe he cold
make to welcome the kinges mazestie to this Cittie ageinst his
maiesties Comminge to this Cittie he hath craved tyme vntill
thursdaie next at one of the clocke in the afternone to consider
therof And it is agreed that he shall then certefie Mr Alderman
Harbarte & Mr Alderman Askwith what he wold do therin and
what the matter wilbe he will vse & to confere with them of the
same & to follow ther direccions therin & then the same to be
forther delt in accordinge to ther direcczons
Also it is agreed that one Rawlyns shall have x s given him in
reward towardes his charge in Comminge to this Cittie to Conferr
with my Lord Maior and Aldermen towchinge makeinge of a
Cundeth to springe , “or rvne’ forth wyne & water against the
kinges maiesties Comminge to this Cittie /
£254 (7 April)
Also it is agreed that , “the chamberlaynes shall’ paye vnto
Mr Maior Vavasor Esquire viij li. for an instrument called’A’ [«..)]
Sagbutt which the said mr / Vavasor hath lent vnto the Waites,
& that the same shall remayne to this Cittye, & that the same
shalbe lent vnto the Waites they puttinge in good securitye to
have the same forth Comminge to this Cittie vse & kepeinge the
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same Well in good sorte /
ff 255v-6 (11 April)
Also it is agreed that the waites shall play at Micklithbarr at the
receiveinge of the kinges ma/estie to this Cittye, and after they
shall have done ther then [then] to go over the Water at lendinge
& thorowe the mintgarth to Bartholomew Applebyes | howse and
so to Bowthome barr, and that ther shalbe a scafeild maide
within Barr for them to stand and playe on
Also it is agreed that some players shall sound [of] ther Trumzpittes
before the kinges Comminge to the first gate at Micklithbarr
Also it is agreed that Mr Alderman hall, mr Alderman Grenburie
{shall] mr percivall Brooke, Mr William Brearey & Mr Henrie
Thompson, [sh] or anie fowre or thre of them, shall Call before
them the waites of this Cittie, & such other musitions as they
shall thinke good and appointe what places they shall stande
to playe in at the kinges Comminge to this Cittie, [& in what
sorte |
£259 (17 April)
Also to the kinges Trumpitors, and [the] , “her marestes late’
sergiant Trumpitors & her Mazestes Trumpitors shall haue iiij li.
given amogghest them /
Also it is agreed that ther shalbe given to my Lord Dudleys
players for soundinge of ther Trummpittes at the Comminge of
the kinges mazestie to this Cittye / viij s iiij d /
£276 (8 June)
And wheras it is expected, That the Quenes Marestie will come to
this cittye thoroughe Clifton, and so to the Manner, It is therfore
agreed, That Master sheriffes in ther cremysin gownes on horse
back shall receive and mete her Mavestie at Mawdleyn chappell
and xxtle cittizens on horseback to attend vpon them, And that
32 mazestie}) ie emended from es in same hand
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Mercers’ Act Book MA: D17
p95 Pageant Masters’ Ordinance
Also it is enacted, That those which are or shalbe herafter chosen
pagiant Masters for this fellowshipp shall paie everie of them x s.
to thuse of the same fellowshipp, accordinge to the ancyent
custome, vpon paine of the ancyent custome vpon paine of those
which shall refuse to paie the same to forfaite xx s. to thuse
afore said
Bakers’ Account Books BL: Add MS 34604
£59
Henry Smythe &
Thomas Wright
Padgion masters ® T
Rentes
ffor the padgion house Rente vj s
f 59v
ffynes receyved at St Anthonyes Hall in the comon place
Item of Henry Smythe & Thomas Wright padgion masters
accustomed vj s viij d
f 60
Paymentes and allowances ;
Imprymis paid to the mynstrells at Reckeninge dinner js
Item payd to the mynstrells at Trynitye dinner ij s
Item payd to the minstrells at Henry Smyths padgion dinner i s
Item payd likewise at Thomas Wrightes dinner ij s
34 Reckeninge] second n altered from &
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25
30
a)
40
The swearin
daie
Whitsun
Tewesdaie
1603 YORK / 511
f 60v
Item payd to the mynstrells at the head Searchers house vpon the
Swering day by consent their ys
Item payd for the padgion house rente xij d
f 61
This Accomptes was Audited the xxvjth day of September by
vs Iohn Arkindall Thomas Hudsonn Christopher Hardy will
Nicholsonn lames Lusenby & Rychard Little And {they] we fynde
all well saving vilj d geven at two padgion dimners w/ich we do
not alowe bycause we fynd in former accomptes but xx (.)
accustomed & soe the Stockmony is now x li xvjs ij d
Bricklayers’ Account Book’ YM: QQ80/2/1
f 47
Item to the minstriles the same daie xx d
Item Laid doune on the [Swea] ‘daye’ that our Searcheres was
Sworne before me Lord maior Att the Searchers house xvij s vj d
Item the same daye to the minstrilles xij d
f 47v
St. Lucke daye
Item to the minstrilles the same daie xx d
Item the next da after to the minstri(...) att david Thomsom
house xij d
f 48
Item the same daie to the minstriles att the Searcheres house ij s
21 the same daie} St James’ Day (25 July)
33 the next da after] the day after Plough Day
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Cordwainers’ Miscellaneous Document Y.: £40
£118* (20 July)
Whereas of Late there hath bene some contraversies rysen emonges
the brethren and company of Cordyners in the Cittie of Yorke
towching and Concerning the electinge of there serchers and
othere officers and for the Aweyting of there accomptes which
was alwas heretofore done by the Auncyent men and suche as
hadd bene serchers in the said trad and not by the yonge men of
the said trad whereby the yong men fynding theme selves greved
did . “compleane &’ exhibitt there pytticzon and Certen Articles
to the right honorable Thomas mosley Lord maior of thee Cittie
of the previe councell of the same Cittie wich said pitticion and
Articles were by the said Lord maior aldermen sherifes and xxii
referred to be considered vpon by the Worshipfull Andrew Trewe
christofer con(...) Henrie hall and Thomas Harbert aldermen and
they to certefie the said Lord maior and aldermen what order
they do thynke mete to be taken allowed of and sett dowen
towching the said pitticron and articles, which they do certefie
order and sett dowen as hereafter followth /
ffirst that the eleccron of the serchers and Pagiant masters
shalbe appoynted the nyght [be] next before the day of there
eleccion as haue bene accustomed, And vpon the day of Eleccon
appoynted by there ordynary the serchers and othere officers
shalbe yerely chosen and elected by the most voyces of sex of
there Auncient Brethren which haue bene serchers of the same
company and thre of the yonger sorte which haue bene
pagiantmasters and not serchers to be appoynted by the serchers
for the tyme beinge as haue bene accustomed
ffor the second Article we refar them to there ordynarie /
Thirdlie that there Accomptes shalbe yerely Awdyted vpon
the day Accustomed by sex of the Auncient Brethren which haue
Collation (E40, | 22 - p 513 14 with Q7/, QQ80/4/1, f 9v; 2, QQ80/4/2,
f 9): in margin] The eleccion to be appoynted Q1, The Elleccion to be
Appointed for Searchers & Pagentmasters Q2 23 [be] ] omitted Q1Q2
27 there] the Q1Q2 28 after thre] [ere] Q2 29 after pagiantmasters] thre
times 0102 31] omitted Q1Q2 31 in margin] Searchers Accomptes to
be Audited Q1, Serchers Accomptes to be Audited Searchers Accoumpts to
be Audited by 6 of ye Elder and 3 that has been Pagentmasters of ye
Younger Brothers 02 32 Thirdlie] Item Q1Q2 32 yerely Awdyted]
audited yearly Q2 33 the day] (...) day Q2
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bene serchers and thre of the yonger brethren such as haue bene
pagiantmasters and never serchers And they to be Appoynted for
the Audytinge thereof by the serchers which shalbe newlie
elected as haue bene accustomed /
Vera Copia Et proxime William Halley communem Clericum
Andrewe Trewe
Christofer Concett
henrie hall
Thomas harbert
aldermen
20th Julie 1603
referred to the saide Aldermen to Consider
of the first article & to [(...)] profitt the
same & to end the same pro Ciuitate
Churchwardens’ Accounts: Holy Trinity Goodramgate
Bi PRY / He G12
p 159
Item to the Clerke for Ringinge three tymes for our kinge, for
our parte onelye lj s
Churchwardens’ Accounts: St Martin Cum Gregory
BI: PR Y/MG 19
p 123
Item paid to the Armerer for kepinge clene our Armor Vij s
Item paid tow Severall dayes for ye Caredge of our Armer to
knavsmyre & treuelies to be shewede vs. ij d
Churchwardens’ Accounts: St Michael Spurriergate
Bile Mise 2
f 39
Item paid to thre Ringers for Ringinge on whitson euen when the
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Quenes maiestie & our prince Came to yorke xvilj d
Item . paid for bread & Ayle to them ily d
Item paid to Oswold Creswick Armorer for dressing the parishe
Armor this yeare vj s
The True Narration
sigs D2-D3v
On Saterday being the sixteenth of Aprill, his Maiestie remoued
from maister Jnglesbeye towards Yorke, being sixteene miles from
Topcliffe: and when he came about some three miles from Yorke,
(the liberties of the Citie extending so farre) maister Bucke and
maister Robinson, Shireffes of the Citie met him, & with humble
dutie presented him with their white staues: which his Maiestie
receluing, hee deliuered them instantly againe, so they attended
him towards the Citie; within a mile of which, when his Highnesse
approached, there mette !him the Lorde Burleigh, Lorde President
of the North, with many worthy Knights and Gentlemen of the
shyre. These also attended on his person to Yorke. Where, when
he came neare vnto the Citie, there met him three of the Sergeants
at Armes, late seruants to the deceased Queene, viz. M. Wood,
M. Damfort, and M. Westrope, who deliuered vp their Maces,
which his Maiestie with Royall curtesie, redeliuered to them,
commaunding them to waite on him in their olde places, which
presently they did. And at the same time the Sergeant Trumpeter,
with some other of his fellows, did in like maner submit
themselues, and render their seruice, which he beningly accepted,
& commanded them in like maner to waite on him.
Then rode he on till he came to one of the gates of Yorke;
where the Lord Mayor of the Citie, the Aldermen, and the
wealthiest Commoners, with abundance of other people met him.
There a long Oration being made, the Lord Mayor deliuered the
Sword and Keyes to his Maiestie, together with a Cup of Gold,
filled full of Gold, which present his Maiestie gratefully accepted,
deliuering the Keyes againe to the Lord Mayor; but about the
bearing of the Sword there was some small contention, the Lorde
President taking it for his place, the Lorde Mayor of the Citie
esteeming it his. But to decide the doubt, the Kings Maiestie
merily demaunded, If the Sword beeing his, they would not bee
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pleased, that hee should haue the disposing thereof. Wherevnto
when they humbly answered, it was all in his pleasure, his
Highnesse | deliuered the Sword to one, that knew wel how to
vse a sword, hauing beene tryed both at Sea and on Shoare, the
thrise honoured Earle of Cumberland, who bare it before his
Maiestie; ryding in great State from the gate to the Minster. In
which way there was a Conduit that all the day long ran white
and claret wine, euery man to drinke as much as he listed.
From the Minster his Maiestie went on foote to his owne
house, being the Mannor of Saint Maries, hauing all the way a
rich Canopie ouer his head, supported by foure Knights, and
being brought thither he was honourably receiued by the Lorde
Burleigh, who gaue cheerfull entertainment to all the followers
of his Maiestie during the time of his continuance in Yorke.
The 17 . day beeing Sunday, his Maiestie passed towards
Yorke Minster, being one of the goodliest Minsters in all the
Land, England being as famous for Churches as any one kingdom
in Europe, if they were kept in reparations as that Minster is. To
this Minster the King passed to heare the Sermon, and at the
gate a Coach was offered to his Highnesse. But he graciously
answered, / will baue no Coach, for the people are desirous to
see a King, and so they shall, for they shall aswell see bis body as
his face. So to the great comfort of the people, he went on
foote to the Church, & there he heard the Sermon, which was
preached by the Bishop of Lymrick, whose doctrine and methode
of teaching, was highly by his Maiestie commended. And what
his iudgement is, is as extant to vs all of any vnderstanding, as
the light of | the cleare mid-day, or Sunne to euery perfect eye.
The Sermon ended, his Maiestie returned a foote in the same
sort as he came, to his Mannor, where he was Royally feasted.
1603-5
Bakers’ Account Books BL: Add MS 34604
f 62
Mathew Hardie &
Rychard Scatcley
padgion maisters @ t
Rentes
Ittem for the Padgion house Rentes / Xl] s
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30
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40
516 / YORK 1603
f 62v
ffynes receyved in the Common
place at St Anthonyes hall
Ittem of Rychard Scatchley padgion master accustomed iij s iiij d
f 63
Paymentes & allowances
15
20
Imprimis paid to the mynstrells at the Reckening dynner ij s
Ittem paid to the mynstrells at Trynitie dinner lj s
Ittem paid to the mynstrells at the padgion dynner xx d
Ittem paid for the padgion house Rente ij s
1604
Bridgemasters’ Account Rolls Y: C96:4
mb 2
Rentes and Item of the Skynners for ther pagiant house xij d
fermes without
Micklegate barr *"" ; f Bi
and within Item of the Tapiters for ther pagiant house xij d
Item of the Tanners for ther pagiant house xij d
Item of the carpenters for ther pagiant house xij d
Item of the Bakers for ther pagiant house xij d
Item of the cordiners for ther pagiant house xij d
Item of the cowpers for ther pagiant house inj d
1604-5
Churchwardens’ Accounts: St Martin Coney Street
BI: PR Y/MCS 17
i
Item paid for dressing of Armour ys vj d
Item paid for Carrieing of Armour vs vyjd
1605 YORK / 517
1605
House Books Y: B32
f 384 (9 December)
Also it is agreed that my Lord bartle Players shall have given vnto
them forthe of the Common Chambre xs
City Chamberlains’ Books Y: CC12(1)
p 90
Rewardes to the Common
Waites of this Cittie
Item to the waites for there ffee at easter lj s ij d
To them for christenmes day & St stephen daie lj s ij d
To them for St Wilam day xx d
Summa vilj s 11 d
p 92
Clothinge to the Common
officers and Wates of this Cittie /
Item to lohn Watson Richard bradley & other _....
ther fellos for ther lyuereys beinge v in nomber ie
p 119
Rewardes to the honourable mens servantes
players mynstrills and bearewardes /
Item given to my Lord Dudleys players the xxth
of August 1605 Pare
Item given to my Lord Bartley players the ixth
of December 1605 XXX S
To my Lord stafford trumpiters js vjd
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30
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40
518 / YORK 1605
Bricklayers’ Account Book YM: QQ80/2/1
t 48v*
Item lade downe att Willam longes the Same dye to the
mintryeles xvjd
Item lade done att Iohne harysones XX S$
Item the Sayme to the mentreles ij s
f 49
Ittem lade done the Sondaye after to the mesterelles xvj [s]d
Item lade “done’ one Pludaye att Rowlande Gledsone to the
mensterelles xvj d
Ittem lade done att Edwarde Rilandes botherenes dyner to the
mensteres xij d
Item lade done att willam gell for wine ys vjd
Item lade done to the mentterells xvj d
Churchwardens’ Accounts: Holy Trinity Goodramgate
Bie Rey Gael
p 167
Item for the parishioners charges in procession weke
scilicet ys uyd
Churchwardens’ Accounts: St Martin Cum Gregory
Bice Ra MGs
p 103
Memorandum that vpon the 18th day of may ano; 1605 ; were
vewed the Armor with furnytoure belonginge vnto Saintt Martyns
and Gregories / by theis , ‘whose’ names which are heirevnder
written;
12 the Sondaye after] after St Luke's Day
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15
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40
december
the 12th
1605
1605 YORK / 519
Imprimis Iohn Whitwell
Thomas Dove: /
Henrye Hill /
Two Corslytes [fuly furnyshed] thre Pickes with /3/ Collers on
Curatte . three Callyvers seix headpeices seixe swordees seven
Dagers fower flax & tutch boxes . two Cottes of playtt with two
skulles . on black bill; on bowe . with a Cayse of ould arrowes.
seixe girdles with two payre of Mowles
Receiwed this day ffrom bushophill newer one Corslytt with
furniter which belongeth vnto both parishes and from the day of
the Resay(.) of the same they are to allowe and pay vnto the
churchwarden of this parishe xij d yearly for the kepinge of the
same
Churchwardens’ Accounts: St Michael Spurriergate
BI: PR Y/MS 2
f 49y
Item , “pade’ to Oswold Criswicke for dressinge the Armer
belonginge to the parish 1X $
Item paid more [san] to them that Carryed owr Armer to be
showed att Trynityes in Micklegate vj s
1605-6
Churchwardens’ Accounts: St Martin Coney Street
BaD Rea a/ MGs ete7,
f 56v
Item we deliuered to mr Geldard 6 Corslettes to dresse but
he haith delivered but five back againe alledging he standes
answerable for the other so we haue denyed to pay for dressing
them which afterwardes was paid & the Corslet he deliuered back
14 Resay(.)] page fragmented at right edge
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20
30
35
Shewe of Armor
520 / YORK 1605-6
Item paid for Carrieing of five Corslettes at the Citties
show
lij S ij d
Item for dressing of three Caliuers one muskett a new eos
a vise nayle and oyleing and vnbreaching them xvj d
Item for 1j° men for Carrieing of them at the show 1) s
Item paid to George mashruther for his drumm ij s
item paid to the drummer viij d
Item paid to mr Geldard for dressing all the Comon Armor
against the show daye ij Ss viij d
Item paid for Carrieing of the parish Armor and furniture to
show before my Lord Maior vs ud
Item paid to Edward Otley for dressing of Armor xxxi octobris
1606 lllj S
1606
House Books Y: B33
£22 (25 June)
Also it is agreed that ther shalbe a showe of Armor this yeare as
hath bene accustomed on suche daie as my Lord Maior shall
appoint
City Chamberlains’ Books Y: CC12(2)
f 45v
Rewardes to the Common wates of this Cittie
Item to them for ther fee at easter ij s 1d
To them for christenmes day & St stevens day iij s ij d
To them for St williams Daie xd
Summa vilj s ij d
f 46v
Clotheinge to the Common officers and waites of this Cittie
Item paid to Io Watson Richard bradley and other .
ther seruantes beinge v in nomber viz. for viyj yerdes vi.
& ahalf of fyne Stamett at 13s 4d the yerd
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40
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f 61
Rewardes to the honourable mens servantes
players mynstrills and Bearewardes:
Item given to the barward of Wakefeild lj s ui d
Item given in September to the Queen & [my Lord]
the duik of Lenox trumpitours
OIE
Item geven to the Quenes mavestes players which
rah
played in the Comon hall ij li
Bakers’ Account Books BL: Add MS 34604
f 65
Iohn Kiddall &
willam Brownle\...)
Padgion masters @ +
Rentes
Ittem for the padgion house rent paid by william wrighte vj s
f 65v
ffines receyved in the Common Place in St Anthonies hall
f 66
Ittem of Iohn kiddall padgion master accustomed ij s 4d
Ittem of willian Brownlesse for the like accustomed ij s 4d
f 66v
Paymentes & allowances
Imprimis paid to the mynstrells at the Reckning dynner xvilj d
Ittem paid to the mynstrells at Trynitie dynner xx d
Ittem to the mynstrells at the padgion dynner xij d
Ittem to the mynstrells at the padgion dynner maid by william
Browneles xvj d
15
20
25
30
35
40
The Quenes
players permitted
to playe
522 / YORK 1606
Ittem for the padgion house Rente
Bricklayers’ Account Book’ YM: QQ80/2/1
fos
Item to the Mynstrelles the same tyme
Item at George hunteres Searcher the swearinge daie
Item to the mynstrelles the same day
Item at Roger Saweres dynner to the Mynstrelles
Item to the Mynstrelles the same daie /
Item to the Mynstreles the same daie /
Item at William Richardsones abling dynner in Wyne
Item to the Mynstrelles
f 53v
Item the same day at William Thompsons for wyne
Item the same daye to the Mynstrelles
1607
House Books Y: B33
f90v (23 September)
xij d
xvjd
XVIlj s
xv} d
xij d
xvjd
xvjd
iS
xx d
ys (id
xvj d
And now the Quenes Mazesties Players have maide suite to this
Court that they might be permitted to plaie in this Cittie and
have showed a licence from her Mazestie that they maie be
permitted to plaie in all Cittye and Townes Corporate It is agreed
by thes presentes that they shalbe permitted to playe [suche] in
this Citties so as they do not plaie on the Sabaoth daies & on the
nightes
9 the same tyme) St James’ Day (25 July)
14 the same daie] Se Luke's Day (18 October)
1o the same daie] 7 January
23 the same day] Whit Tuesday
15
20
25
30
35
Rewardes to
the waites
Clothinge to
the common
officers and
waites of this
cittye
Rewardes given
to honorable
men servantes
players,
mynstrells, and
Bearwardes
1607 YORK / 523
City Chamberlains’ Rolls Y:C11:1
mb 5
Item to the common waites vilj s ij) d
mb 6
Item paid to John Watson Richard Bradley and
Christofer Thompson the common waites of this
cittye for ther clothinge
v li.
mb 7
Item paid therefore this yeare 1607, as appeareth
by the said paper Book of thes accomptes
particulerlye
ij li. xx d.
City Chamberlains’ Books Y : CC13(1)
p 100
Rewardes to the comon Waites
To the waites for there fee at easter lj s ij d
[To them at Whitsondey per maister grenbury ij s inj dj
To them for (St Wil] christenmes day & St Stephens day 1 s iy d
To them for St Williams day xx d
Summa vilj $ 111} d
p 102
Clothinge to the Common officers
& wates of this Cittie /
Item to Io Watson Richard bradley & ther seruantes
beinge v in nomber viz for vij yerdes & a half of fyne
stamett at 13s 4d the yerd
v li.
10
20
Ps)
30
35
40
Rentes and
ffermes withoute
miklithbar &
within
524 / YORK 1607
ps7
Rewards to the honourable mens servantes
players & mynstrills & bearewardes
Item [paid] “given” to my Lord Dudley players
which plaid not 28th marcij 1607
Item given to the men which broght the babowns
to this Cittie by his mazestes licens in Iunij 1607
Item given to my Lord stafordes man which
shewed a strange Cowe &c
Item in Rewardes to the duk of lynnox trumpitours
Item to them which shewed the babowns
Summa ij li. xx d
Bridgemasters’ Account Rolls y: C96:5
mb 2
Item of the Skynners for there pagiant house
Item of the tapitowrs for [one] there pagiant house
Item of the tanners for there pagiant house
Item of the Carpenters for there pagiant house
Item of the Bakers for there pagiant house
Item of the Cordyners for there pagiant house
Item of the Cowpers for one outeshott
Bakers’ Account Books BL: Add MS 34604
f 68
Rentes
Ittem the padgion house Rent paid by William Wrighte
XXX S
vj s vilj d
Vs
x S
xij d
xij d
xij d
xij d
xij d
xd
ij d
vj s
TS
20
25
30
35
40
1607 YORK / 525
f 68v
ffines receyved in St Anthonies hall
f 69
Ittem of lohn Reveley a padgion master
Ittem of lohn Clarke padgion master accustomed
f 69v
Paymentes & Allowances
Imprimis paid to the mynstrells at Rekning dinner
Ittem the padgion house Rente
f 70
Ittem to the mynstrells at Trynitie dinner
Ittem to the mynstrells at lohn Riveles padgion dinner
Ittem to the mynstrells at lohn [bet] Clarkes padgion
dinner
Bricklayers’ Account Book YM: QQ80/2/1
f 56
Item at George Huntees vpon St lames daie for the
dynner
Item the same daie to the Mynstrelles
Item vpon the swearinge daie at henry Lyonesses
item the same daie to the Mynstrelles
Item to the Mynstrelles vpon St Lukes daie
Item the same daie for wyne
ij s 4d
js 4d
xij d
xij d
xvj d
xij d
xvilj d
xs vjd
xvj d
xix s ij d
xvj d
Se
Vil} $
25
30
aI
40
® pagiante
Masters to warne
the companie
to mete
© not appearinge
vpon warninge
forfacte xij d
® pageante
master not
giveinge waminge
forfacte everye
of them xij d /
® Electinge of
pageante
masters /
® Thold
pageante Masters
to accompte
526 / YORK 1607
Item to the Mynstrelles the same daye
: ij s
Item for Wyne the same day at Iohn Smythes
1608
House Books Y: B33
LAST C7 September)
And nowe it is agreed that Christofer Thompson waite who
is contented to take christofer Settle a poore boye to be his
apprentze shall have given hym by the Churchwardens & overseers
of St Ellens in Staingate forth of the Stocke of the same parishe
xxv} $ vulj d and the saide boye to have no more wekelie releif
E Memorandum Book Y: £22
£136* Tanners’ Ordinances
Item that the fower pageante Masters of the saide occupacion for
the time beinge vpon warninge given them by the searchers shall
warne the whole companie to mete at A time & place appointed
so as the partie warned maye have one whole nightes warninge
before they mete, & if anie Master beinge so warned & doth not
make his repaire accordinglie without A sufficyente excuse &
profe therof shall paye for everie suche defalte xij d, & if the
pageante Masters or anie suche of ther companie whome the
same companie shall appointe do not give warninge accordinge to
the searchers commaundment everie of them so offendinge shall
Likewise paye xij d to thuse aforesaid
Item that the searchers & pageante Masters & all other the
Masters of the said occupacion for the time beinge shall everie
yeare vpon the mondaye nexte before the feaste of All Saintes
chose of the same companie fower newe pageante Masters, after
which election tholde pageante Masters shall presentlye make
ther iust & trewe accompte to the whole occupacion of all ther
receiptes paymentes and expences by them made by vertue of
ther office & then deliver all suche money as shalbe founde
remayninge in ther or anie of ther custodies to the newe pageante
Masters at the discretion & appointmente of the searchers for the
1 the same daye] 7 January
10
15
20
25
30
35
40
® newe pageante
Masters to putt
in two sureties /
® tholde
pageante Masters
to prepaire A
dynner for the
whole companie /
To take custome
money
Rewardes to
the waites
Clothinge to
the common
officers and
waites of this
cittye
1608 YORK / 527
time beinge, & he that refuseth so to do shall paye x s to thuse
aforesaid, And also that the newe pageante Masters elected
yearelye shall everye of them presentlye putt in two sufficyente
sureties to answere vnto ther successors all suche some & somes
of money as they or anie of them shall receive duringe the same
yeare to the vse of the same companie, vpon the said paine to
be forfacted to thuse aforesaid, & the same daie tholde pageante
Masters shall prepaire in some honest & conveniente howse
(beinge A brother of the same occupacion) A dinner for all the
Masters of the said companie at vilj d. A man, & he that commeth
not to the same dinner accordinglye (beinge Lawfullye warned)
shall paye xij d, & if the pageante Masters make defalte in not
providinge of the same dinner they to forfacte everie of them
vj s vilj d to thuse aforesaid /
f 136v
Item that everye person not beinge free of the same companie
bringinge anie Lether to this cittye to be solde or haveinge solde
the same & then cause it to be broughte to the said cittye shall
paye yearelye ii1j d to the handes of the pageante Masters of the
same occupacion for the time beinge, & also that euerye person
not beinge Likewise free of the same companye & vsinge to buye
roughe Lether within this cittye shall paye yearelye iiij d for
custome money to thuse of the said occupacion /
City Chamberlains’ Rolls y: C11:2
mb 5
Item paid to the common waites vil} s uid
mb 6
Item paid to Iohn Watson Richard Bradley
and Christofer Thompson the common waites v li.
of this cittye for ther clothinge
10
15
30
3)
40
Rewardes given
to honorable
men servantes,
players,
mynstrells and
Bearwardes
528 / YORK 1608
mb 7
Item paid therefore this yeare 1608 as
appeareth by the said paper Book of thes ls
accomptes particulerlye
City Chamberlains’ Books Y: CC13(2)
f 43v
Rewardes to the Common waites
To the waites for ther fee at Easter li) Ss ij d
To them for christenmes day & St stephens day ij s ud
To wates / on St Williams day ‘per scott” xx d
Summa viij s ii d
f 44 *
Clotheinge to the Comon officers
& Wates of this Cittie
[To Iohn Watson Richard Bradley & there two servantes] (blank)
for
To mr alderman Askwith for 7 yeredes & dj. of
v li.
Stamett for the waites lyueryes being v
f 58v
Rewardes to the honourable mens servantes
players mynstrills & bearewardes
Item the 16 of september 1608 / to my Lord
Evers plaiers which played not
xls
Item given to my Lord Chauncelers [men] players XS
Summa [x s] ls.
20
25
30
35
40
1608 YORK / 529
Bakers’ Account Books BL: Add MS 34604
ae
Rentes
Ittem the padgion house Rente paide by william Wrighte Vj s
f 72
ffynes receyved in St Anthonies hall
Ittem of mr ffell for coming with out a gowne to the padgion
dynners i) d
Ittem of Richard Sellerer for the like ij d
Ittem of Christopher hardie for the like jd
Ittem of Richard Little for the like ja
Ittem of william Siddall for the like jd
f 72v
Ittem of Roland Swinbanke padgion master accustomed iij s_iiij d
Ittem of Robert Pinder padgion master also li) s uy d
rae)
Paymentes & Allowances
Ittem the padgion house Rente xij d
Ittem to the mynstrells at Trynitie dynner lj s
Ittem to the mynstrells at the two padgion dinners lj s
Ittem spent by consent at Robert pinders padgion dynner_ xx d
Bricklayers’ Account Book YM: QQ80/2/1
f 56v
Item vpon the vith of Maye at Thomas Burtons brotheringe
dynner in Wyne iiij s
10
20
25
30
35
40
530/ YORK 1608
Item to the Musitions the same daye ij s
Item at Thomas Gibsons vpon Whitsonntewsday for wyne at
his howse lllj s
Item to the Mynstrelles the same daye xx d
f 60
In prinis vpon St lames to the mynstreles at Henry ‘Lionssis xvjd
In [primis] for the swearinge dynner at Iohn Maxfeildes KS
Item the same daye to the Mynstrelles xvj d
Item the same daye for Wyne ys viyd
vpon St. Lukes day.
Item at Iohn Snawes for wyne lilj s
Item to the Mynstrelles xvj d.
i [vpon O(.)] vpon the vijth of /
lanuary 1608
Item vpon the sunday after in Wyne lilj s
Item to the Mynstrelles xvj d.
1609
House Books Y: B33
£173v (22 September)
And nowe vpon A peticion preferred by Richard Middleton and
others wherin they requested that they might be permitted to
erect A Theater or playhowse within this Citty wherin such as
have bene borne and brought vpp therin should imploye ther
laborious expenses for the maintenance therof which might be
A meanes to restrayne the frequent Comminge thervnto of other
Stage plaiers, and they would yeild x li. per annum ynto this
Corporacion It is therfore thought good and agreed by this Court
that ther ‘said’ requestes shalbe graunted vnto them vpon suche
Condicions as shalbe agreed vpon hereafter by this Court
10
20
25
30
35
40
1609 YORK / 531
f 187 (11 December)
And wheras Richard Middleton and others did heretofore of late
make suite vnto this court that they might be permitted to erect
a Theater or playhowse within this Cittie, And this court then
takeinge consideracion vpon ther requestes did thinke good that
before they should begyn to erect the same playehowse ther
should be some Condicvons considered vpon by this Court which
they should on ther parte performe, And forasmuch as this Court
doth vnderstand that they have erected A Theater or playhowse
in this Cittie, and have not attended this Court to have receyved
dyreccons vpon what Condicions they might have bene permitted,
And have drawne vnto ther companyes straingers that did inhabitt
in the Countrie, and likewise some of manuell occupacions in
this Cittie who do intend to give over ther occupacions and fall
to [and] an idle Course of life, It is nowe thought good and
agreed by this Court for that they have proceded in suche sorte
as aforesaide that they shalbe discharged for kepeinge of anie
playehowse in this Cittie, as they will answere at their owne
perell
Bakers’ Account Books BL: Add MS 34604
f 74
Rentes
Of william wrighte for the Padgion house Rente vj s
f 74v
ffynes receyved in St Anthonies Hall
fre
Ittem of Iohn Page padgion master js ud
Ittem of william Siddall padgion master also lj S ij d
Paymentes & Allowances
Ittem to the mynstrells at Reckening dynner ij s
Ittem to the mynstrells at the padgion masters padgion
dynner xvuj d
20
30
35
40
532 /YORK 1609
Ittem the padgion house rent xij d
Bricklayers’ Account Book YM: QQ80/2/1
ft 60v
vpon Whitsonn tewsdaye
/ 1609 /
Item at william Gelles in Wyne at dynner vs
Item tor musicke the same daye xvj d
fos?
Item spent at Iohn Maxfeildes in Wyne the same day il] s
Item to the Mynstrelles the same daye xvj d
Item vpon the Sweeringe daye at William Harrysons at
dynner XXV $ 11i ()
Item for Wyne the same daye vs
Item to the Mynstrelles the same daye xvj d
Item the same daye at Peter Bawderstons house in wyne a
pottle xij d
Item to the Mynstrelles the same daye xx d
f 63v
Item at Iohn harrisons the same day X1llj s
Item the same day to the Mynstrells xij d
Item vpon Plough day at Iohn harrisons for a pottle of wynexvj d
Item the same day to the Mynstrells xvj d
Item vpon St Matthies day at dynner at Rowland Gledstones
house XXV S.
Item the same day to the Musitions xij d
Item at William harrisones vpon Tewsday in Easter Week Xj $
Item to the Musitions ‘the same daye.’ xij d
17 the same day] St James’ Day (25 July)
24 the same daye] St Luke's Day (18 October)
31 the same day) Twelfth Day (Epiphany)
10
15
20
25
30
35
v li. paid vlumo
february 1610 /
Rentes &
ffirmes withoute
Miklegate barr
& within
1609 YORK / 533
Item the same daye in Wyne at Rowland Gledstones
Item [(.)] to the Mynstrelles the same day
1610
City Chamberlains’ Books Y.CC13(3)
f 38v
Rewards to the Common Waites
Item to them for there fee at easter
Item to them for christenmes daie & St Stephens day
To them for St Willams daie
Summa vil} s ij d
f 39v
Vj Ss.
xvj d
lj s ij d
lj s uy d
[vs] xx d
Clothinge to the Common officers and wates of this Cittie /
To mr Alderman Askwith for v lyuereys for the Wates
f 52v
Rewardes to honourable mens servantes
Players Mussissions and Bearewardes
Item [p] given to my “Lord” Albany players which
came to this Cittie & plaid not in Iulij 1610
Bridgemasters’ Account Rolls Y. €96:7
mb 2
Item of the Skynners for there pagiant house ferme
Item of the Tapitowrs for there pagiant house
Item of the Tanners for there pagiant house
Item of the Carpenters for there pagiant house
21 forl MS for for
(blank )
xij d
xij d
xij d
xij d
10
20
25
30
35
40
334 / YORK 1610
Item of the Bakers for there pagiant house
Item of the Cordyners for there pagiant house
Item of the Cowpers for one outeshote
Bakers’ Account Books BL: Add MS 34604
f 76v
Rentes
Ittem ot william wrighte for the padgion house rente
fee
ffines receyved in St Anthonies Hall
Ittem of michaell mosees padgion master
Ittem of william Grenefeild padgion master also
£77v
Paymentes & allowances
Ittem paid at the Reckning dynner to the minstrells
Ittem for the padgion house rent
Bricklayers’ Account Book YM: QQ80/2/1
f 65
Item for Wyne vpon St [w] lames day at william
xij d
xij d
iiij d
vj s
iijs 4d
iijs 4d
xij d
Harrisons ill] s uij d
Item to the Mynstrelles the same day sce
Item for the Swearinge dynner at George Huntees - XX1j S
Item for wyne the same daye [xx d] ys ili) d
Item to the mynstrelles then: xvj d
Item to the Mynstrelles xvj d
10
20
25
30
35
40
1610 YORK / 535
Item for Wyne the same daye i) s vilj d
f 65v
Item the same day at Christofer harlandes in Wyne iil} s
Item to the Mynstrelles the same day xvij d
Item vpon whitsonntewsday to the mynstrelles xv} d
Item for Wyne the same day ys xd
1611
House Books Y: B33
£292v (9 March)
And nowe the Maister and keepers of St Anthonyes Guildhall or
hospitall have preferred A peticion against Richard Bradley and
his associates waites of this Cittye alledginge therby that the
waites have [nowe] of late devised certaine scandalous libells
songes or sonnettes against the saide Auncient Guild and
fraternitye and the same have publikelie sounge in diuerse places
not onelie to the disgrace & disparagement of that guild but also
to the discreditt of the nowe Maister and kepers of the saide
Guild And the saide waites called into this Court and Richard
Bradley one of the same waites beinge sworne to make trewe
answere vnto this court of such matters as should be demaunded
of hym by the saide Court, Answereth and saieth that he & his
wief beinge at Lowth in Lincolneshire at Easter next shalbe thre
yeres had the same & diuerse other songes given hym by the
waites ther, and saieth, that he did not singe it in disgrace of the
saide guild or in discreditt of the Mazster and the keepers therof,
And the saide Richard Bradley / and his fellowes were
commaunded not to singe the same hereafter nor anye such like
filthy songes or sonnettes And it was forther agreed that the like
commaundement should be forthwith given from this Court vnto
the rest of the minstrells & musitioners in this Cittye
1 the same daye] St Luke's Day (18 October) 6 the same day] 7 January
10
ih}
25
30
35
40
Rewardes to
the waites
Clothinge to
the common
officers & waites
of this cittye
Rewardes given
to honorable
men servantes
players &
minstrells
536 / YORK 1611
City Chamberlains’ Rolls y: ©12:1
mb 3
Item paid to the common waites
Summa vilj $ iiij d
mb 4
Item paid to Iohn Watson Richard Bradley &
christofer Thompson the common waites of this
cittye for ther clothinge
Item paid therefore this yeare as by the said
paper Book appeareth
City Chamberlains’ Books Y: CC14(1)
f 36v
Rewardes to the Common Waites /
To the waites for there ffee at easter
To them for christenmes & St Stephens day
To them for St Williams daie
Summa vilj s uy d
f 37v
vii) s inj d
vj li.
liiij s x d
iij s iiij d
iij s iiij d
{ij s 1) d] xx d
Clothinge to the Comon officers and waites of this Cittie /
To mr Alderman Askwith for 9 yerdes of fyne
stanit at 13s 4d ‘the yerd’ for vj lyueres for
the waites
f 55v
Rewardes to honourable menes servantes
Players Mussissions and Berewardes
Given at Lammas assizes to my Lord Awbenyies players
vj li.
XX S
5
10
20
35
40
1611 YORK / 537
Bakers’ Account Books BL: Add MS 34604
f 80
william wright
william Etton
padgion masters @ f
Rentes
Ittem of William Wrighte for the padgion house rent
f 81
Paymentes & Allowances
Ittem paid at the Reckning Dinner to the minstrells
Ittem the padgion house rent
Bricklayers’ Account Book YM: QQ80/2/1
f 69
Item for wyne vpon St Iames daye at George Hunters
Item the same day for musicke
Item vpon the swearinge daye at william Gelles
Item the same day for Wyne
Item the same day for musicke
vj s
xvijj d
xij d
lilj s
ee
XX] §
ij s vii d
xij d
Item vpon St. Lukes day for Anthonye Dodsworth at William
Gelles
for Musicke the same day
Item the sunday after St. Lukes day at william Gelles for
Anthony Dodsworth in Wyne
Item the same daye for Musicke
Item vpon Plew day at Robert Acrides house for wyne
Item for Musicke the same day
f 69v
Item at Mr Chamberleyn Maxfeildes for the tyme there
XV S
xvj d
ll) S
xvj d
vs
xvj d
XX S$
10
AS
20
30
35
40
Expences
Rewardes to
the waites
Clothinge to
the common
officers & waites
of this cittye
Rewardes given
to honorable
men servantes
players &
minstrells
538 / YORK 1611
Item for wyne there
‘ lll] s
Item for Musicke there
xvj d.
York Minster Fabric Rolls YM: £3/62/2
mb 1
... Item paid to the waites of yorke this yere for playinge in the
quiere xls. ...
1612
House Books Y: B33
f 313v (13 August)
And wheras the Ladie Elizabeth Players daughter vnto the kinges
most excellent Mazestie have brought with them his mavesties
Commission for to be licensed to playe aswell in such howses
or places as are appointed for them to play within London as in
all moote halls skoolehowses towne halles within any other
Citties or townes within his mazesties dominions. Whervpon it
is thought good to permitt them to play within this Cittie in such
places as they shall procure or gett so as they do not play on the
sabaoth daies or in the night tyme.
City Chamberlains’ Rolls Y: C12:2
mb 3
Item paid to the common waites vil) s ij d
Summa Vil} s 11) d
mb 4
Item paid to Iohn Watson Richard Bradley &
christopor Thompson the common waites of vj li.
this cittye for ther clothinge
Item paid therefore this yeare as by the lijs. vjd.
said paper Book appeareth
10
15
20
25
30
35
40
1612 YORK / 539
City Chamberlains’ Books Y: CC14(2)
f 34v
Rewardes to the Comon waites of this Cittie /
To the wates of this Cittie for there fee due At easter iij s ij d
To theme at christenmes & St stevens day lij s ij d
To them for St Williams Day xx d
Summa vilj s ij d
f 35v
Clothinge to the Common officers and waites of this Cittie
To mr alderman Askwith for 9 yeredes fyne
stamett at xiij s ij d the yerd for vj waites vj li.
lyuereys “per scott’
f 41
Rewardes to Honourable mens servantes
Players Mississions and Bearwardes /
Item paid the 13 of febrwary 1611 / in reward
to Barronet houghton his Bearward [for] which 152 8
broght 3 beares & bated them in this Cittie
Item given the xjth June 1612 to the Earle of
Rutland my Lord of Oxeford & my Lord XX S
Chamberleyn Trumpiters
Bakers’ Account Books BL: Add MS 34604
f 82
Rentes
Ittem of william wrighte for the padgion house rent Vy s
ffines in St anthonie hall
Ittem of william wright padgion master lj Ss ij d
10
25
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Ittem of william Etton padgion master also lij s ij d
Paymentes and allowances
Ittem paid for padgion rent
Bricklayers’ Account Book YM: QQ80/2/1
£70"
Pageant Maisters
Robert Acredd
William Dixon
£72
Item at william Gelles on Sunday after in wyne
Item to the Mynstrells the same day
Item at william Longs on the sweering day
Item the same day to the Minstrelles
te72V,
Item for Wyn at Thomas burtones the same day
Item for Musick there
Item the same day in ayle at the hall
Item the same day at Hugh Gregges to the Mynstrelles
Item in wyne the same day at his house
19 on Sunday after] after St James’ Day
28 the same day] St Luke's Day (18 October) 31 the same day] 5 January
xij d
lj s
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And nowe it is agreed that Richard Bradley one of the waites
of this Cittie shall have xx s given hym , ‘forth of’ [by] some of
stockes of the parishes in this Cittie towardes the apparellinge of
Richard Ward a poore boye borne in this Cittie whom he is to
take apprentize
£22 (6 December)
Also it is agreed that the waites shall have their liveries or Cotes
as they had the last yere
City Chamberlains’ Books Y: CC14(3)
f 42
Rewardes to the Common waites of this Cittie /
To the waites of this Cittie for ther fee due at Easter ij. s_ uj d
To them more at christenmas and St Stephen day lj Ss lj d
for St Williams daie xx d.
Summa vil} s 11) d
f 43
Clothinge to the Comon officers and waites of this Cittie
(To mr Alderman Askwith for waites liveries vj li. ays inj dJ
Bakers’ Account Books BL: Add MS 34604
f 84*
This accompte audited by Mr Iohn Hutchinson Richard Little
Iohn Reweley william wright which we find all well and allowable
except ilj s vijd which the said acomptstantes saye they disbursed
to minstrels and for wine which is not to be allowed
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Rentes
Receyved of william wright for the padgion house rent
ffynes in St anthonies hall
Receyved of nicholas Dixon padgion master
Item of Thomas Brathwaite padgion master
f 85v
Paymentes and allowances
Layd downe at myles Rokesbie for wine
geven to the mussicion the same day
geven to bridgmasteres for bridg rent
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f 74
Pageant Maisteres Peter Bawderston
Dinnis Munckman
f 76
Item to the Minstrelles vpon St Iames day
Item the same day for wine at william longes
Item vpon St Lukes day at Anthony whitehilles in wine
Item the same day to the minstrelles
Item the morning aftr . for Mussik xvj d. & wine
Item for wyne the same day at Iohn Harrison
37 the morning aftr] after 7 January
vj s
iij s iiij d
iij s iiij d
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Item to the Mynstrelles the same day xx d,
1614
House Books Y: B34
f46v (5 December)
Also it is agreed that the waites Cotes shalbe bought and likewise
the Tipstaffes that they maie have them against christenmas
next.
City Chamberlains’ Books VY: CC15(1)
f 28v
Rewardes to the Common waites of this Citty
To the waites of this Cittie for ther fee due
at Easter 1614 nis
To them more at christenmas and St Stephen day ij s uid
for St Williams daie xx d
Summa viij s 1 d
f 30v
Clothinge to the Comon officers
and waites of this Citty
To Mr Alderman Askwith for waites liveries (blank)
Bricklayers’ Account Book’ YM: QQ80/2/1
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Peter Bawderstone
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Item the same daye in wine at Mr Maxfeldes lll) $
Item the same daye to the Mynstrelles xvj d
Item vpon the swearinge daye at Thomas Gibsons XX1l]] $
Item the same daye for wyne i) s
Item the same daye to the Minstrelles xvj d
Item vpon St Lukes daye for wine at Thomas humes ij s
Item the same daye to the Minstrelles xvj d
Item at Robert wilsons dinner to the Minstrelles xvj d
Item at Cuthbert Harland dinner to the Minstrelles xvj d
Item at Anthony Dodsworthes dinner in wine ij s
Item to the Minstrelles the same day xvj d
f 77v
Item the same day at Christofor Harlandes for Wine js
Item the same day for a quart of seck xd
Item the same day to the Minstrelles x[vj] x d
1615
House Books Y: B34
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Wheras heretofore the Searchers and pageant maisters of the
Companie of Cordiners for the tyme being have bene accustomed
to make yearlie nyne feastes at ther owne chardges for the saide
Companie, which hath bene a great meanes to impoverish many
of the saide occupacion, ffor preventing wherof at the humble
suite of diverse of the same occupacion, It is ordeyned and
agreed that from hensfurth ther shalbe but two dinners made in
the yere by the same searchers, thone of the same dinners vpon
the day which the searchers for the same Company shalbe elected
& Chosen and thother of the same dinners to be made vpon
3 the same daye] St James' Day (25 July) 20 the same day] Whit Tuesday
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mondaie next after the twentieth daie after christenmas at which
dinner the same cordiners shall paie as they have bene accustomed,
and that the said searchers & pagiant maisters shall pay ther
Bedell as hath bene vsed, and also that the same fower pageant
maisters shall make no dinners for the said companie but onely
paye vnto them the said searchers on the said election daie
towardes ther chardges of the dynner then made yearlie xiij s.
ij d. And that if any of the saide Company shall do contrarie to
this article to forfaite and paye for everie tyme so doeinge iij li.
vj s. vilj d to thuse of the Common Chambre of this Cittie
£81 (18 December)
Also it is agreed that Edward Millington Trumpiter shall have
vj S viij d given hym against christenmas next.
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Rewardes to the Common waites of this Cittie
To the waites for ther fee due at Easter 1615 ii) s inj d
To them more at christenmas and St Stephens daie ij s uj d
ffor St williams daie ood
Summa vilj s 11ij d
f 32v
Clothing of the Common officers
and waites of this Cittie
To Alderman Askwith for waites Liveries vj li. vj s
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Item of the Skynners for ther pagiant howse farme
Item of the Tappiters for ther padgiant howse
Item of the Tanners for ther padgiant howse
Item of the Carpenters for ther padgiant howse
Item of the Bakers for ther padgiant howse
Item of the Cordiners for ther padgiant howse
Item of the Cowpers for an owtshott
Bricklayers’ Account Book YM: QQ80/2/1
f 80
Item at Thomas Gibsons the same day for Wine
Item to the Minstrelles the same daye
xij d
xij d
xij d
xij d
xij d
xij d
ij d
lj s vii d
xvj d
Ite vpon the swearinge day for the Company at William
Harrisons
Item the same day for wine
Item the same day to the Minstrelles
Item the same daye for Wine at william Dixons
Item the same daye to the Minstrelles
Item for Wine the same day at George Smithes
Item to the Minstrelles the same day
Item the same day in Wine at Mrs Pulleynes
f 80v
Item for Wyne the same day
Item to the Mynstrelles
19 the same day] St James’ Day (25 July)
xxvj s ij d
xvj d.
xvj d
ij S vilj d
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lj s
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Item at Thomas Wilsons [Abling] , “breth<..)” dimer to the .
Minstrelles XN d
Item at the same place in Wine [xviij] d xx d
Merchant Taylors’ Deed Box MA: Deed Box, 1593
f 13 (11 November)
A lease graunted to Christopher fflambaute Tailor for xxjt¢
yeares of one house in Micklegate / and a garth or orcharde on
the backside and one roode of lande with the padgiante house
on the barker rowe payinge iiij li. x s yearlie entringe att
Martinmas 1615
1616
House Books Y: B34
f87v (16 February)
And wheras diverse of the Ainstymen do lye manyre & dung
vpon pagiant grene which never was heretofore permitted It is
thought that such as have laid any ther should be Commaunded
forthwith to take the same awaye before Ladie daie next vpon
payne of v li.
f 102 (22 October)
Also it is agreed that Iohn younge Musition who is to take
Thomas Laverock apprentize shall have xiij s_ ij d forth of
some of the stockes of the parishes in this Citty towardes his
apparelling,
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Rewardes to the Common waites
To the waites for ther [quarter] fee due at Easter 1616 ilj S iiij d
1 dimer) for dinner
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To them more [for ther] at christenmas at St Stephens
daie
To them for St Williams daie
Summa vil} s 11ij d
£79
iij s iiij d
xx d
Clothing of the Common officers and waites of this Cittie
Item for waites liveries
Bricklayers’ Account Book YM: QQ80/2/1
f 83
vpon St. lames day
Item for wyne at william Harrisons
Item to the Mynstrelles the same day
Item vpon the ffowerth of August at George Huntees at
dynner
Item for wyne the same day
Item to the Mynstrelles the same day
Item vpon St Luke dy at william lacksons
Item at his house vpn Sundy after in wyne
Item to the Mynstrelles
f 83v
Item vpon plew day at william Richardsns in wyne
Item to the Mynstrelles the same day
f 84
Item to the Musick at ‘Iohn’ Henlickes dynner
Item at the same tyme in Wyine
Item at Mr Maxfeildes at his servantes brothern dynner *
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Item to the Mynstrelles then xvj d
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And nowe it is thought Convenient that (blank) A poet shalbe
spokne withall to invent A short speach to be maide to his
maiestie at his highnes passage over owsbridge to be vttered
or acted by some of the players in this Citty to declare the
shallownes of the River of owse. |
Be it had in mynde that our most Gracyous and renowned
Soveraigne Lord, the most highe and mightye Prince lames by
the Grace of God Kinge of England, Scotland ffrance and Ireland
defender of the faithe &c. did in the yeare of our Lord God 1617
begyn to make A progresse from his highnes famous Cittyes
of London and Westminster vnto Edenbrough in Scotland, And
in his highnes said progress vpon thursdaye the tenthe of Aprill
1617 came from Pontifracte to the cittye of Yorke, And on
Tadcaster Bridge, on the middle of the Bridge where the Cittyes
Armes be sett, Mr ffrauncis Wharton and Mr Thomas Lawne
“Sheriffes’ of the said Cittye in ther Cremisyn Gownes haveinge
white Roddes of A yeard and a halfe in lengthe beinge
accompanyed with many of the gentlemen & substanciall
Inhabitantes in the countye of the said Cittye, and many other
Cittizens of the younger sort well mounted and apparelled were
attendinge for to mete and receive his Mazestie, And his highnes
beinge in his Carroch the said Sheriffes did vpon ther knees
most humblye welcome his Maiestie into the countye of the said
Cittye, And the said Sheriffes delivered vnto his Maiestie ther
Rodes in tokne of ther duetyes and acknowledgement of his
highnes supreame aucthoritye which his Maiestie gratiouslie
received and redelivered them ther Rodes againe willinge them
to attend and do ther offices, And so the said Sheriffes bearinge
vp ther rodes did ride nexte before his Maiestie, And mr [Humfrey]
Wharton beinge then Sheriffe of the countye of yorke offred
to ride betwene his Mazestie and the said Sheriffes which they
tolde him he was not for doe beinge forthe of his countye, and
the king footemen vnderstandinge of the saide difference told
the said Sheriff of the Countye that it was not vsed in any place
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of the kingdome for the Sheriff of any Countye to take place
of the Sheriffs of any Cittye within ther Countyes or Liberties,
And the said Mr [Humfrey] Wharton then saide vnto the said
Sheriffes yett permitt me to beare yow Companie and ride with
yow Alonge, And in his Maiesties progresse to this Cittie on
Bondall Rawe ther the most Reverend ffather in God the Lord
Archbishop of York and likewise the Right Honourable Edmund
Lord Sheffeild Lord President in the north partes with the
Counsell were ther attendinge and did ther dutyes to his Maiestie
and attended his highnes to the Cittye, And his Maiestie
approchinge nigh vnto the said Cittie over eneinst Holgate layne
did come forth of his Carroch and did ride in State to this Cittie
beinge attended with the Duke of Linox Steward of his Maiesties
houshold, the Right honourable the Earle of Penbrook
Chamberleyn of England, the Right Honourable (blank), Master
of horsse with many others of the Earles Bishopps and nobles
of his Maiesties kingdomes, And the saide Lord Chamberleyn
asked for the Earle of Cumberland for to carry the king Sword
before his maesties which the Right Honourable ffrancis Earle
of Cumberland at first refused, answereinge the said Lord
Chamberleyn that his the saide Earle of Cumberland auncestors
had vsed alwaies to Carrye the Citties sword before his Mazestie
and his noble progenitors in the saide Cittye, which the said
Lord Sheffeild heareinge the saide speches, saide if he will not
Carrye it give me it to carrye And therevpon the said Lord
Chamberleyn ‘said’ shall the king ride in state, and have no
sword Carryed before him further sayinge no Sword no State,
And the saide Lord Chamberleyn and the said Earle of Cumberland
imediatlie went to the kinge to knowe his highnes of the resolucron
therin, which beinge made knowne to his Mazestie It was his
highnes pleasure that the saide Earle of Cumberland should
Carry his Mazesties Sword vntill he should Come within the
gaites, of this Cittye and ther to take the Citties Sword, and
then laye aside his Maiesties sword, Whervpon the said Earle of
Comberland did take the king sword, and Carryed the same
before his Mazestie | and then the nobles did ride in ther Rankes
and orders before his maiestie towardes the Cittye; And vpon
the gaites of the Cittie ther were Trumpiters and waites sounding
and playinge; And on the north side of the streate within the
gaites of the said Cittye, ther was a great parte therof railed in,
for the Lord Maior Recorder Aldermen and such as had bene
Sheriffes for to stand within, The Lord Maior and Recorder
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haveinge convenient places made higher then the rest for them to
stand and knele vpon, and his highnes beinge entred into the
saide Cittye, approcheinge nere vnto the place wher the Lord
Maior and Recorder were, The honourable Robert Askwith Lord
Maior of the saide Cittie knelinge vpon his knees did Cherefully
say thes fewe wordes vnto his Maiestie, followinge Most high and
mightie Monarch and most gratious Soveraigne and kinge I your
Maiesties most humble servant and subiect with the Recorder
Aldermen Sheriffes xxiiijthe and Commonaltye do most hartelie
welcome your most excellent mavestie to this your auncient
and honourable cittye reioycinge from the bottome of our Hartes
to see your Maiestie within the walls therof, And in token of
our Loyall Love and humble dewtyes, We render vnto your
Maiestie the power and sword of Iustice, wherewith it hath
pleased your Mazestie and your Noble progenitors to honor
this Corporacion, knowinge well that as the Rivers turne to the
Sea from whence they came, So aucthoritye and power oughte
to returne to the fountayne of Iustice from whence it sprunge,
And for the better declaracion of our Loyaltyes wee present
vnto your most excellent Mazestie the keyes of your Cittyes
gates assureinge our selves never to be more saife and Happye
then when we are vnder your gratious proteccion whose ingresse
progresse and regresse we allwayes praye maye ever be prosperous,
and when his Marestie had Received the Sword of the saide Lord
Maior his highnes delivered it over to the saide Earle of Cumberland
for to Carrye before his Mazesties which his Lordshipp Received
and laide aside the king Sword accordinge to his highnes former
dirreccions, And his Maestie presentlie redelivered the keys of
the gaites of the saide Cittye vnto the saide Lord Maior, And
then the Right Worshippful Richard Hutton Seriant at Lawe
Recorder of the saide Cittye vpon his knees did make A Learned
oracion, and spech to his Mazvestie, as followeth /
Die lovis decimo die Aprils Anno 15to Regis Iacobi,
at the kinges comminge to yorke /
Most gracious and Renowned Sovereigne, Yf at this your Maiesties
magnificent and Royall approch, to this auncyente and honorable
Cittye, the Lord Maior, Aldermen and Cittizens here assembled,
should saye nothinge; ther silence mighte accuse or condemne
them, of great ingratitude; And if they should by anye elaborate
speach, dilate of thinges impertinent to the present occasion ther
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indignites might be Lyable to the taxe of indiscretion _/
Give them leave therfore (0 gratious Kinge) by me altogether
vnacquainted with straines of oratorye, in A plaine and homelye
fashion, to make some acknowledgnent, and to give some
testimonye in ther behalfe, of the greate loye, and excedinge
comforte, which they have iust cause to conceiue, of this your
Mazesties comminge ./
When we consider the manifold benefittes and blessinges, That
all your Mavesties subiectes have received, and do inioye, by this
your happye raigne, over vs, we maye trewlye saye, of your
governmente, that yt hath planted Religion, and pietie in our
consciences, for our Kinge is Rex Religiosus, nay regum
Religiosissimus, it hath sealled and setled a continued blessinge
of peace and tranquillitye, in our stretes for our kinge is Rex
lacobus pacificus naye Regum pacificacissimus, so that the
sayinge of the psalmist is verified in your tyme, susciperunt
montes pacem populo, colles Iustitiam for your subiectes
commerce abroad withall fotiue nations, without suspition of
daunger and converse at home, without feare of enemyes
abroad ./ |
But to make a breviat of thes benefittes and blessinges, or
to enumerate the causes we have to give god thankes for such a
kinge, is a thing farre beyond my abilitye, and a matter above
the Common capacitye of men yet this I maye iustlye saye of
the subiectes of kinge lames, O nimium fortunati si sua bona
nouit And this shall serve, to have said of the generall;
Nowe a word or two of the causes, that the inhabitantes of
this cittye have in perticular to be more thankfull than others
to your mazestie.
When wee looke vpon the foundation of this auncient Cittye
of yorke, builded by Ebrauk the fowerth kinge after Brute,
made a metropolitan Cittye, graced with an Archiepiscopall
Sea. a primate of England, And call to mynde that in tymes
past, this was the emperiall Cittye, where some of the Romaine
Emperors kepte ther courte.
And that the tearmes were held here for diverse yeares together
And some parliamentes also hither summoned and assembled,
when we take a viewe of the ample priviledges, libertyes,
jurisdictions, and prehemenences, wherewith all the Inhabitantes
of this cittye have from age to age by the Charters of your noble
progenitors beinge endewed and advanced, The cheife governour
of this cittye, beinge dignified by the name of Lord Maior, a
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stile of honor derived from your (blank) trowne, from whence
all trewe honor floweth, And this title of dignitye, attributed
and imparted, onelye to the two cheife governours of your two
principall and pryme sister Cittyes, of this your King\..)me with
this also, that the honourable Earle of Cumberland and his nole
auncessters the Lordship Cliffordes, have held it an augmentation
to ther titles of honor, to be stiled captaines, of this cittye of
yorke And yett more when we consider that this is the place
where it pleaseth the Righte honourable the nowe Lord President,
and your Mazesties Counsell established in the Northe, to make
ther abode, and that here they have kepte ther tribunall seate,
Called ther sittinges, beinge so appropriate to this place, ever
since ther first establishment and erection, that by vulgar
appellation they are called, youre Mazesties Counsell of Yorke,
I saye when we enter into a serious consideracion of all thes
preheminences and prerogatives, as I may call them, drawen and
derived from your famous progenitors and predecessors, all
which are not onelye confirmed, ratifyed and established, but in
some pointes, augmented and inlardged, by your Mazesties most
magnificent and ample charter, we must nedes acknowledge That
we the Cittizens of this cittye, have good cause in more abundant
manner, to shewe our selves thankfull to your Mavzestie, then
anye other, of your ordinary rankes, of your Mavesties subiectes,
or sortes of Common Corporations whersoever.
But least we should forgett our selves, and presume to farre,
vpon your princelye patience seinge, no volley of wordes nor
force of phrases, can sufficientlye sett forth the inward ioye,
and hartes content, which doth possesse these your Cittizens
of yorke in beholdinge your Mavesties Royall person, nor
significantlye demonstrate, the inward desire, that they have
to be outwardlye, trulye and dutifullye, thankfull, we in all
humilitye prostrate our selves and all we have, or hold, to be
disposed at your Maresties pleasure besechinge your Maiestie
with bended knees, and humbled hartes, to accept of this our
dutifull acknowledgment, and that you will vouchsafe, the
continewaunce of your favourable aspect and gracious protection,
to this auncient and muche decayed Cittye, And we conclude,
That happye was that season of Lent, which first broughte yowr
hither [againe] and blessed be the memorye of this Lent which
nowe at Lengthe, hath broughte you hither againe, whose
5 nole] for noble
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comminge is like the sunne in the firmament, to give light and
Life to vs your inferiour bodyes, At your first comminge our
Motto was Amor, populi dulcis [p<..)] , ‘victoria. It is nowe
Amor Regis vita plebis, for no kinge ever was so welcome nor can
any kinge be more welcome, then our dread souereigne Lorde
kinge lames, is to thes your Cittizens, and to this your cittye of
yorke ./
which speches beinge ended the Lord Maior did take A silver
Cupp with A cover doble guilt of chaise work with the Cittyes
Armes engraven vpon it weighing (blank) ounces with A rich
purse and (blank) of gold therin, which purse was fastned vnto
the Topp of thee cover of the Bowle which his Lordshipp did
humblie present in his owne name and the whole Corporacion
vnto his Mazestie in tokne | of ther duetifull loves and effeccions,
which his highnes graciouslie accepted, the saide Cupp with the
purse and gold therin was Carryed before his Mazestie through
the Cittie, by one of the king footemen The Lord Maior beinge
appointed to Carry the Cittyes Mace before his highnes, And the
said Lord [Maior] Maior presentlie toke his horse beinge well
mounted, haveinge two footemen with blacke velvett pees and
the Cittyes Armes vpon them, and Carried the mace before his
Mazestie next to the Lord of Cumberland who likewise Carryed
the Cittyes sword before his Mazestie through the Cittye, The
said Mr Seriant Hutton beinge in his scarlett Robes and the
Aldermen in ther scarlett gownes haveinge ther foote Cloth
horses did ride next before the Sheriffes of this Cittye, And the
said Mr [Humphrey] Wharton Sheriff of the Countye offred
againe to ride with the Sheriffs of this Cittye through the saide
Cittye which the Sheriffes of this Cittye Compleyned of to the
Lord Chamberleyn, vpon which Complaint his Lordshipp willed
the Sheriff of the Countye not to troble the Sheriffs of the
Cittye or ells he would take a Course with him, who thervpon
left them And his Maiestie Comminge vnto Owsbridge ther was
A showe and speach made vnto his highnes the speach hearafter
followeth /
What suddaine loy is this A greate one sure
for nowe I do perceive I have A power
To breake out of my mellanchollie bower
with able nerues Oh what blest Sonne darts foorth
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suche comfort vpon me, and all the north
Oh howe I do discerne him by his Rayes
tis he that makes our happynes and dayes
the first excede Arethmetick the Last
so Glorius that we do no winter taste
And I the Genius of this aged flood
Who auntiente Chronicles stile great and good
thoughe long impresond by some enuious growndes
that have encroached vpon my naturall boundes
and pent me so that thes sad stones do knowe
I scarce have Meanes to ebbe or power to flowe
do nowe putt of my longe oppressinge feares
and here drye vp my selfe consuminge teares
ffor well I knowe that thou the author art
of Peace and Libertye to each greived hart
Nor do I nowe repent I Syrens brede not
Suche is this vertue that a charme I nede not
to incyte the to a worke of charitye
whose everye act is nought but Pietie
and will I knowe enlarge my scanted scope
Whoe hopes in one so good can loose no hope
finis
And so his Mavestie did in State ride through this Cittie to the
Cathedrall Church of St Peter in York, haveinge the Sword and
mace Carried before his highnes, where his mazestie did heare
devyne service which beinge ended his highnes vewinge diuerse
monumentes and the Chapter howse went to the Mannor nere
the Walls of the said Cittye, and the said Lord President invited
his Mazestie to dyne with his Lordshipp on ffridaie, The lord
Archbishop likewise invited his highnes to dine with his Grace on
Satterdaie, and the said Lord Maior also invited his Maiestie
to dine with his Lordshipp on Sonday which his highnes was
graciouslye pleased for to doe, And on ffriday his Maiestie went
in private in his Carroch from the mannor vnto the Lord President
howse which his Lordshipp then had in the Minster garth wher
his Maestie dined wher after dinner his highnes did knight
diuerse of the Counsell, and some others of worth dwellinge in
the Countrye to the nombre of (blank) And on satterday his
highnes in Like sorte went in private and not in state to
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Bishopthorpe to the | Lord Archbishopp howse which A great
nombre of the Nobles and Courchiors. And on sondaie his
Mazestie in State went from the Mannor to the Minster, the said
Earle of Cumberland Carrying the Cittyes sword and the Lord
Maior the Cittyes mace before his highnes wher the said Lord
Archbishopp preached and after the sermond ended his Maiestie
went trom the Minster in State with his Nobles and Bishoppes
to the Lord Maior howse in Hosierlayne at thend of the pavement
wher his Mavestie dyned, and the Nobles Lordes and Courchiers
at Mr Alderman Herbert howse on the Paveniement wher the
Lord Maior had made great provision for them at his Lordshippes
Costes and Chardges, And the Lord Maior Recorder Aldermen
and Sheriffs in ther scarlett attended his Mazestie at dinner and
Carried vpp the kinges meale his Mazestie beinge verye pleasant
at dinner, and at dynner emongst manye discourses his Maiestie
tolde the Lord Maior that he did mervaile that he had not sene
maine bread and that he would not have it given over for that no
other Cittye or Countrie made had or could make the like and
did give the Lord Maior in Chardge that it should be mainteyned
and vpholden. And after dinner his Mazestie Called for the
Cittyes Sword which beinge laide vpp Could not instantlie
begotten and then Mr Haburne one of the Gentlemen Ushers did
take his sword from his side and deliuered it to his Mazestie with
which his Maestie knighted the Lord Maior and Mr Seriant
Hutton in the said Lord Maior howse, And from thence his
Marestie went in private in his Carroch to the Mannor. Vpon
mondaie morneinge his Mazestie had a sermond in the great
chambre at the Mannor preached by docter Hodgson, the sermond
beinge ended his Mazestie did graciouslye Cure diuerse of the
kinges evill, which his highnes haveinge done with greate
Solempnite his Mazestie did give the Lord Maior the Cittie sword
againe giveinge him A Check of the Cheeke sayinge he well
deserved the Sword, his highnes [also] withall giveinge the said
Lord Maior, Mr Seriant Hutton, Aldermen and Sheriffes his hand
which they kissed and so they humblie did take Leave of his
masestie prayinge God to blesse his Mazestie with A prosperous
and happy lIorney, And his Maiestie went from the Mannor
through Clifton Ingges in his Carroch privately ./
And in his Maiesties regresse from Scotland his highnes
Comminge , to’ the Castle of Brougham in the Countye of
Westmor'land’ beinge one of the Earle of Cumberlands howses
1 which] for with 30 his] MS his his
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[of Brougham] on the daie of (blank) was with his Nobles and
trayne intertayned by the saide Earle of Cumberlands vnto
which place the Lord Maior and the Aldermen sent (blank)
dozen of maine bread and Cakes vnto his Maiestie which by the
meanes of the said Earle was presented vnto his highnes and
graciouslie accepted of.
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on tuesday when his Lordshipp was sitting in the Chequer Court,
for that the said Barton had the night before bene playing vpon
his instrument in the stretes accompanied with some others
whom he wold not make knowne ynto the saide Lord maior, and
ther had bene that night much disorder and windowes brokne
and the said Barton being drunk when he was brought before the
saide Lord Maior and therfore was by his Lordshipp Comitt to
prison And the said Barton being in prison said that none but a
drunken rogue would Comitt hym, And wheras the saide Barton
did the same morneing walkeing by Sir Robert Askwith knight
his doorees, in scornefull manner said I am no Alderman, no
Sir Robert, nor no dissembling knight, Whervpon it was ordred
by this Court that the saide Iohn Barton for his outragious
speches & scornfull behaviour of the magistrates in such sort as
aforesaide shalbe Comitt vntllhe find suerties for good behaviour
and appere at next sessions
f158v (7 December)
Also it is agreed that the waites shall have ther Cotes for this
yere as they had the last yere.
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Disbursments from St Iames day.
Item for the Company at Christofer harlandes
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Item to the Musicke
Item the same day at Tristram ffletcheres in Wyne
Item the same day for Musick
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fe the Whole Company at Thomis Gibsons the same day XXVIj S
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Also it is agreed that Edward Millington Trumpiter shall have
given hym forth of the Common Chambre against christenmas
next Xilj s uj d towardes his releif in regard he hath bene late
prisoner and Captive vnder the Turkes.
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And nowe Iohn Girdler was Chosen by thes presentes to be one
of the waites in this Cittie in place of lohn Watson late one of
the waites disceased vpon his good behaviour and dureinge the
pleasure of the Lord Maior and Aldermen of this Cittie or of the
greater nombre of them. And the saide Iohn Girdler is to enter
bond to this Corporacion with suerties for the redeliuery of the
Sackbutt & Cheyn of silver, at his departeinge from the saide
place, displaceinge or death which shall first happen for to be.
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And whereas two seuverall Companyes of Players haue made suite
to this Court to play yt is thought meete by this Court that nether
of the same Companyes shall play nor haue any benevolence
And now Symon holmes Musition is Commytt to prison vntill
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the non payment of xiij s 11ij d to walter Paycocke a poore boy
his late apprentice
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Item at Anthony Whitehilles in dinner for the company the
same daye XXVIlj $
Item for musicke the same day xx d
Item to William Harrison the same day xij d
Item for Musicke 1) s
f 108*
Item the same day for musick xx d
Item the same day for Musick ij s
32 the same day) St Luke's Day (18 October)
37 the same day] 7 January 39 the same day] Whit Tuesday
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brothernge dynner in wyne js viij «.)
Item for Musicke the same day 2.
Item for Wyne at Iohn Huntees dynner xvj d
Item at Mrs Doves for the company there lj s
Item tor musick the same day exc
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House Books Y: B35
£57 (8 February)
And now yt is ordered that the Tapiters shall from henceforth
pay never more the rent of xij d for their pageant house for that
is taken downe and the sayd xij d to be putt out of the Cittyes
rentall.
f 60v (27 June)
And licence is now given to the players that are in towne to play
on the day tyme but not on the night
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And now yt is ordred that the waites of this Cittye shall haue
liueryes of new against Christmas as they had the last yeare
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M¢..) To the kings players
G(..) To the kings players more
1630
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f87v (13 August)
XxiS
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And now whereas my Lord President hath bene a long tyme from
the Cittye and is to returne & Come hither on Monday next yt
Crimson and [other] ‘all other’ Citizens of the better Ranke [sh]
in their Citizen gownes shall meete him at Micklegate barr and
welcome him to the Citty and the wates of the Citty likewise
to be there attendant with their Cornetts
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To the waites of this Cittye due at Easter 1630 ilj S itl) d
To them more for Christenmas & St. Stephen day ilj s ij d
for St Williams daye xx d
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Clothing of the Common officers accustomed
To Lancelot scrafton for the waites liueryes vj li. x s. vj d.
1631
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f128v (3 October)
And now it is ordred that the waites of this Cittie shall goe about
at the accustomed time and receiue the charitie , “& beneuolence’
of the Aldrmen Sheriffes and ffoure and twentie and of all
others which are disposed to doe good vnto them in that kind:
But in regard of the times of danger now being within this
Cittie & suburbs therof, It is further ordred that ther the said
waites shall not play as formerly for the reason aforesaid; /
£134 (24 October)
And now the waites are permitted to goe their night watch as
they formerly have done ./
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comonlie culled the Citties liuery with a Coninzant xvijj s.]
&c bearing the Cities armes
To the wates of this Citty dew at Easter 1631 ij s iy d
To them more at christenmas & St Steven day lj s yd
ffor St William day xx d
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ffor the waites liueryes to Mr Lancelott Aine
Scrafton Chamberleyne ;
f 39
Rewards to his Maiesties Purseuants & players
To the kings Players 00.6, Pa
To the Company of his Mazesties Reuells XX S.
To Mr. Perrie one of his Mazesties players 40s.
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To the kings Play“...)
To Iohn Stone ‘...) the kings tumbler ¢...)
1633
House Books Y: B35
£201 (25 April)
And now it is ordred that mr Alderman Cowper & mr Alderman
Hutchinson & mr Iohn vaux [take Care] doe send for the waytes
and take Care that they have convenient places to stand on
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both sydes [of et] both of Micklegatebarr and Boothombar and
to play with such lowd Musick as they did att king lames his
last Comyng to this Cittye.
And now it is ordred that maister Recorder make a speach to
the king at his Comyng , “into this Citty” expressing the great
ioy that all the Citizens theirof doe conceive at his Maiesties
entrance, and to shew fourth the necessityes of thes Citty
occasioned [by] for want of a Navigable river or otherwise as
he shall thinke fitt ./
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And now it is ordred that mr Alderman Cowper mr Alderman
Hutchinson & mr John vaux , ‘and mr Abraham Hemyngway’
take Care for setting vpp railes and that a ‘fitt &’ Conuenient
place be made for my Lord Maior maister Recorder & Aldermen
to stand att Micklegatebarr at his Mavesties entrance into the
Citty /
And now it is ordred that the Cupp formerly bespoken with a
purse on Crimson , ‘velvett or purple or tawny satten’ with the
kings armes imbrodered on both sydes [be present] with a
hundreth Carolus xx s peices therein be presented to his Mazestie
by my Lord at his entrance into this Citty “And also” [igh (..)
with] the keyes of the Citty gates faire burnished vpp and tyed
in a handsome string prepared for that purpose to surrender &
yeild upp then also to his Maestie And yt is referred to my Lord
to agree for the price of the sayd purse & string as his Lordship
thinkes fitting
And now it is ordred that there be two velvett pees bought and
made for two footemen to attend my Lord Maior at the kings
Comyng and Cognizances with the Cittyes armes such as were att
king Iames his last Comyng and as nere the same price as may be
And it is also ordred that there be provided drawers and
dobletts of redd stuff , “layd’ with redd and white lace for the
sayd two ffootemen of as light Cost as may bee, and they are to
haue the same for their paines vpon their good behaviour
£204 (6 May)
And now it is ordred that my Lord Maior haue presented to him
one tunn of Clarett wyne and one butt of sack at the Charge of
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the Common Chamber now agaynst he enterteyne the kings
Marestie at his house
it 205 (8 May)
And now it is ordred that mr Alderman Hemsworth & mr William
Wharton doe take Care that there be sand enough provided to
spread abroade in those streetes where his Maiestie is to passe
And that euery of the Inhabitantes in the same streetes doe pay
their ratable proporcion for the same
f206v (20 May)
And now it is ordred that mr William Scott and mr Henry
Thompson take Care and agree With Benedick Horsley to putt
the picture of Ebrauck standing at Common Hall gates into
Colours, and the Armes over the gates and stoupes amended and
putt into their Colours.
(21 May)
And now it is ordred that there be Trumpeterrs on the out syde
of Micklegatebarr yf they can be gotten and Cornettes on the
insyde to sound at his Mavesties entrance into the Cittye
And now it is agreed and soe ordred that my Lord Maior
maister Recorder and all the Aldermen and Sheriffes doe provyde
and ryde on horsback with foot Clothes to attend his Maiestie
at that tyme
And now it is ordred that my Lord Maior kneeling on his
all other Citizens their being on their knees) doe then present
and give vpp the sword & mace and the keyes of this Cittye to
his Mazestie with what speach his Lordship thinkes fitt, And that
then maister Recorder (they all still kneeling) doe make his
speach, and after that that the Cupp purse and gold be presented
, by’ my Lord Maior to his Mazestie
ff 208-11*
Be it alwaies had in remembrance that our most gracious and
dreade Soveraigne Lord the most high and myghty Monarch
Charles the first of that name by the grace of God kinge of
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England Scotland ffrance and Ireland defender of the faith &c.
did in this yeare of our Lord God 1633 and in the nynth yeare
of his Mazesties most happye Reigne begyn to make his progresse
from his highnesse famous Cittyes of London and westminster
vnto Edenburgh in Scotland And in his Maiesties sayd progresse
vpon ftryday the xviiijth of May in the sayd yeare 1633 came
from Pontefract to this his Maiesties Citty of yorke having the
night before sent mr Newe the herald at Armes for yorke to
the Lord Maior and Aldermen of this Citty who gave them to
vnderstand that his Mavestie intended to ryde into the Cittye
in state. And therefore willed that some house without the Gate
might be made ready for him to stay and repose himselfe in till
the noblemen and others were mounted and ranked in their
orders for which purpose mr Augustine Houghtons house was
prepared accordingly / And the sayd herald did also conferr
with my Lord Maior how and in what maner he and his brethren
and the Sheriffs intended to entertayne , "& attend” his Mazestie
att his comyng into the Cittye which was then in all poyntes
related to him by my Lord Maior as hereafter followeth / and as
he the sayd herald directed & agreed vnto.
On the Middle of Tadcaster Bridge, where the Citties Armes
be sett engraven in stone Mr Phillip Herbert and mr John Geldart
Sheriffes of the sayde Cittye in their Crimson gownes haveing
white rodds of a yeard and a halfe in length being accompanied
with divers of the gentlemen and substantiall Inhabitantes in
the Countye of the sayd Cittye and about a hundreth Citizens
of the younger sort vnder the degree of Chamberleyns all in one
liuerye / by the instance of my Lord Maior and his brethren
provided att their owne Charge well mounted and apparelled
were attending to receive and waite on his Maiestie, And his
highnesse being in his Caroch the sayd Sheriffes did vpon their
knees most humbly welcome his Mavestie into the County of
the sayd Cittye and deliuered vnto his Marestie their roddes in
token of their dutyes and acknowledgment of his highnesse
supreame authoritye, which his Mazestie gratiously receiued and
redeliuered them their roddes againe and gave them his hand
to kisse. And soe the sayd Sheriffes stepping asyde putt[ing] of
their gownes and takeing their Cloakes (the day being very wett
and raynye) bearing vpp their roddes did ryde next before his
Maiestie till they came neare the Cittye, and then they also ridd
asyde a little and putt on their gownes and soe rydd along next
before his Maiestye into the Cittye when his | highnesse thought
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to have ridden in state as is aforesayde but it still soe Continue
rayninge, as that he Could nott, and therefore kept still in his
Caroch as also all his nobilitye, and soe entred into the Cittye
there being s[e]en the waites sounding and playing on their
Cornettes on both sydes of the gaite, And on the north syde
of the streete within the gaite a pretty distance from it there was
a part theirof rayled in for the Lord Maior maister Recorder
Aldermen and such as had bene Sheriffes “Chamberleynes’
{in thier] and about a hundreth Citizens such as had bene
Chamberleyns and all the Common Counsell to stand wit/in
The Lord Maior and Recorder haveing convenient places made
higher then the rest for them to stand and kneele vpon, And his
Maiestie being entred into the Cittye, his Caroch (in the further
end whereof on that syde next my Lord Maior his Maiestie sate
and therein also fower or fyve of the Cheifest of the Nobilitye)
was by the Coachman guided Close to the syde of the rayle
where the Honourable Wiliam Allanson Lord Maior and the
worshipfull William Belt Esquire Counsellor at lawe Recorder
of the sayd Cittye [did] having first made three low obeysances
the grave Citizens and Common Counsel in their back gownes
attending there within the rayles fall downe vpon their knees,
And then the sayd Lord Maior did Cheerefully speake theise
wordes following to his Mazestie /
High and mighty Monarch our most gratious and ever renowned
soueraigne, whose sacred person is the image of the glorious God
whose Courses are pathes of pietye and religion whose wisdome
and goodnesse is the peacable government of this your Common
wealth Ever happie be that day of your birth and thrice happie
this day that brings your Mavestie hither to this your Antient
and famous Citty of York whose royall presence as it doth
aboundantly satifie ovr expectacions soe doth it fill the hartes of
all vs your humble subiectes and Citizens with such overflowinges
of Consolations, as that our toungs would but become vnfitt
messengers of our hartes should they endeavoure to expresse
them ./
Now in humble testimonye of our obedience wee render vnto
youw all power with the sword of lustice it hath pleased your
gratious Mazestie and noble progenitours to have honoured the
government of this your auncient Cittye withall, Reioycing to
returne vnto yow what wee have receiued from you and held
vnder yow yea accounting it our greatest happinesse to lyve
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vnder the Commaunde of him who is the lyght of his subiectes
eyes he the glorye and admiracon of the whole world. |
And with that sword in further testimonye of our loyaltye
and obedience wee present vnto yow this Mace with the keyes
of our Cittyes gates acknowledging and well assuring our selves
never to be soe happie as when wee are vnder your gratious
government and protection, whose ingresse and stay with vs
wee humbly desier may be delightfull and happie vnto yow, your
furth progresse and retorne may be prosperous & succesfull that
it may bee soe lett all true hearted subiectes ever pray Vivat
Rex god blesse king Charles Amen. Amen.
And his Maiestie vpon the receiueinge of the sayd sword
(being the sword given by the emperour Segismond to this
Corporacron) as also of the Mace and keys being all new burnished
over, and the keyes bound in a faire string of Crimson silke and
silver did forthwith as he receiued them redeliuer the same back
to my Lord Maior. And then mazster Recorder made an Oration
to his Marestie as followeth
Most gratious Soueraigne your faithfull and obedient subiectes
the Maior and Commons of this Cittye in all humble maner
present themselves and their bounden services to your sacred
Mazestie which according to precedent Custome they humbly
tender by mee, though every way vnfitt to speake in your royall
presence And therefore I humbly begg your Mazesties favourable
excuse of my imperfecczons and that yow wilbe gratiously
pleased to license mee a few wordes on the behalfe of this Citty
which is the Metropolis of these partes scituated towardes the
middle of this Iland and equally distanced betweene your two
Regall Citties of the same
This Citty (dread Soueraigne Lord) for antiquitye is not
inferiour to any other of this Realme, In former tymes it hath
bene beautifyed by the residence and Courtes of some Romane
Emperors and afterwardes of divers kings, Inriched by trade and
by those meanes was greate, and more populous then now it is
ffor in after tymes trading here decreased and that principally
by reason of some hindrances in the River, and the greatnesse
of shipps now in vse, ffor which neverthelesse this River by
your royall assistance might be made serviceable and vntill that
be done there is little hope for this Citty to attayne the former
splendour and greatnesse
In the meane tyme wee are supported by other meanes from
your royall Maiestie, and more particulerly by an eminent seate
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of Iustice here continued before the Lord President and Counsell
to the exceeding ease and benefitt of vs and all your subiectes
in theise partes likewise by your munificent Charter for
confirmation of our antient liberties with an ample addicion
of divers others. |
Now that wee have an opportune tyme by your gracious
presence wee render vnto your most excellent Mazestie our
humblest thankfulnesse for theise Royall favours and togither
with them for all other benefittes which wee enioye by your
Maiesties religious and iust government which may be truly sayd
of your Maiestie in your owne person as was sometymes said of
the wise king that there is sapientia dei in Rege ad faciendam
iusticiam But most especially when wee consider the happy and
admired peace wherein wee live whilest other nations about vs
are full of the miseries of warrs as if this singuler blessing were
appropriated to your Mazestie alone, and soe deryved to vs your
subiectes, then wee want wordes sufficiently to expresse our
thankfulnesse for such protection but doe acknowledge in your
Maizesties owne pious wordes that your raigne Christo auspice,
And wee hartily pray almighty God that your sacred Mazestie
may soe raigne long and prosperously and that your throne may
be establyshed on yow and yours to the worlds end, with increase
of all honor and felicitye.
Which being ended [his Mazestie] the Lord Maior did take a
faire silver cupp with a Cover double guilt having the kings
armes molten and sett on the topp and the Citties Armes engraven
on the bottome or foote theirof made by lames Plomer a
Goldsmyth of this Cittye weighting (blank) with a rich purse
of purple velvett having the kings Armes sumptiously embossed
with gold and silver on both sydes theirof and six score Carolus
XX s. peices theirein being fastned by the string to the topp of
the sayd Cupp which his Lordship did humbly present to his
Mazestie with theise wordes
Now wee the Maior Recorder Aldermen and Citizens of this
your highnesse Citty with all humilitye doe present vnto your
most excellent Maiestie this Cupp with the purse and gold
therein, humbly desireing your gratious acceptance theirof. And
the sayd , “Cupp with the” purse and gold theirein was Caryed
before his Mazestie through the Cittye by one of the kings
footemen, (and afterwardes as was perceiued came to the right
Noble Marquesse Hamleton then Maister of the kings horse as
dew to his place) And the Lord Maior being appointed by the
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Heraldes did as Grand Serieant at Mace with the Cittye Carry the
Mace next before the king and next before him the king Serieantes
at Mace their maces, there being noe sworde att all Caryed in
regard his Masestie was in his Caroch and not on horseback nor
on foote my Lord Maior being first withall speede well mounted
on his footecloth horse haveing two footemen with black velvett
pees and the Citties armes vpon them And maister Recorder &
Aldermen also in their scarlett gownes well mounted on their
foot cloth horses did ryde next before the Sheriffes of this Cittye
to the Cathedrall Church of St Peters in yorke, and soe went in
the same ranke into the Church where his Mavestie at his very
entrance at the west doore having a quishon | layd did kneele
downe and prayed, and then sitting in a Chaire nere the ffont
was congratulated with a learned Latyn oration made by mr
docto Wickham Chapleyne to his Mazestie and Archdeacon of
yorke (..) his knees (the Bishops and others then also kneeling)
and soe went into the Quyer and heard divyne service, where
whyle the Antheme was in singing Sir Thomas Metham knight
one of his Maiesties servantes being a speciall frend of my Lord
Maiors and knowing his Lordships mynde told my Lord
Chamberleyne privately that my Lord Maior was , ‘very’ desirous
to haue his Mazestie to dyne at his house on Sonday, wherevpon
my Lord Chamberleyne presently moved his highnesse therein
wherevnto his Mazestie gratiously condiscending, it was streight
by my Lord Chamberleyne made knowne to my Lord Maior
who in testimonye of thankfulnesse did make a low humiliation
to his Mazestie, The service being ended, his highnesse veiwed
divers monumentes and the Chapter house, the sword while he
was in the Church being borne before him by the honourable
the Lord Clifford and a Canopie also caried over him by six of
the dignities of the sayd Church And soe went to the Manor,
nere the walls of the sayd Cittye attended by my Lord Maior
and Aldermen as aforesayde vpp in to the presence Chamber,
where my Lord Maior then invited all the Nobles and Courtiers
and all other his Mavesties servantes also to dynner on Sonday
And the Citties sword was left there, But the Mace was deliuered
back to him by my Lord [Maior] Chamberleyne, who vpon the
offer of his service to his Masestie then told him he should not
neede to attend till he had notice And soe my Lord Maior went
home having the Mace as soone as he was without the Manor
gates borne before him by one of his Lordships Squyers And on
Saterday his Mazestie went to hunt in the new Parke on the
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fforest. And vpon Sonday morninge my Lord Maior Aldermen
Sheriffes xxiiijti¢ and Chamberleyns went to the Court where at
the Gaite my Lord Maiors mace by some of the Porters (by
whose direction it could not be knowne) was stayed, wherewith
my Lord Chamberleyne being made acquainted by meanes of
Sir Walter Alexander then gentleman vsher attendant was
displeased, and caused the same to be fetched, in all haiste by
one of the guard, and gave it to my Lord Maior to bere before
the king, And my Lord Maior then also moving my Lord
Chamberleyne that the Citties sword had alwaies vsually beene
borne before his Mazestie within the Cittye and not an other as
was on ffryday in the Minster, his Lordship caused the other
sword to be layd asyde and the Citties Sword to be brought and
gave it to my Lord Clifford, who bore the same to Church before
his Maiestie supported by the Lord Chamberleyne, And [my
Lord Maior bore the Citties Mace and next] likewise at all other
tymes when his Maiestie went in Publique into [before] the sayd
Citty during his highnesse abode there the sayd Right Honourable
Lord Clifford in regard of his sayd Captainship Caryed the
Cittyes sword before his Mazestie | And my Lord Maior bore the
Cittyes Mace And next before my Lord Maior the kings Serieantes
at Mace with their Maces and next before them the Noblemen in
their rankes and next before them the Sheriffes and then maister
Recorder Aldermen & xxiiijt'€ in their scarlett and Crimson and
the Chamberleyns also in their ranckes & orders his Mazestie
going all the way on foote the day being ffaire and the streetes
all strawed with sand and hearbs, and at that tyme mr doctour
Hodgson Chancellour of the Church preached. And after Sermon
his Mazestie went to the Lord Maiors house, in his Caroch which
was then on the Pavement where his Mazestie dyned. And the
Nobles Lordes Courtiers and all other his Mazesties Officers at
mr Roger laques his house late Alderman Herbertes right over
against where his Mazestie dyned. Very great provision both of
meates and wynes of all sortes was made by my Lord Maior,
all att his Lordships proper Costes and Charges (except a tunn of
Gascoigne wyne and a Butt of Sack which was given his Lordship
by the Cittye). All the meate was prepared and (....) ready by
the kings owne Cookes, my Lord Maiors Cookes also assisting
for making ready the Lordes meates. There were three seuerall
Courses of meates the first of Cold meates which was sett on
before his Mazesties comyng into the roome, and presently
taken away and hott meates brought vpp and served in by the
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Course of more dayntie meates, and after that a very sumptuous
banquett At the second Course, my Lord Maior on his knees
drunke [a health] to his Mazesties health and also att the third
Course another health to our gratious Queene the Prince and
Princesse praying to God that his Maiestie and his yssue might
reigne over vs soe long as the world endured and both which his
Maiestie most gratiously accepted, and indeede was well pleased
with euerything. After dynner his Maiestie called for the Citties
sword, And the little sword given by [this corporac] Richard the
secone to this corporacion was brought him, which he then had
drawen halfe out thinking to have knighted my Lord Maior and
maister Recorder but seing the Nobles were not comed from
dynner he putt it in agayne and gave it from him to be layde
asyde ull they came, saying he wold then knight them, whereof
the Nobles having notice made haiste and gave their attendance,
during which tyme his Maiestie retyred into the drawing Chamber
and at their comynge he tooke the sword & knighted both my
Lord Maior and maister Recorder, And my Lord Maior tendring
his service was discharged theirof and willed to go to dynner.
And at the Caroch syde his Mavestie gave him his hand to kisse |
And from thence his Mazestie went in private in his Caroch
agayne to the Minster, and went vpp to the topp of the lantherne
of the sayd Church attended by the Sheriff and some also of the
xxilij4€ followed him vp where he tooke a full veiwe of the
Country and was demonstrated the severall partes theirof and soe
returned to the Manor And the next day he went privately in his
Caroch to Bishopthorpe to the Archbishops house to dynner
where in the way his Mavestie was pleased to see a horse race on
Acome moore, the prize being two silver [f¢....)] fflagons prepared
by the Citizens for that purpose, The next day being Tuesday my
Lord Maior Sir William Belt Recorder the Aldermen & xxiiijt'¢
and Chamberleyns (having notice given) went betymes in the
morninge to the Manor, where they found his Mazestie ready to
goe to the Minster whither they attended as they did before, my
Lord Carlile bearinge the sword (for that my Lord Clifford was
then awantinge “being somwhat more early then he expected )
where his Mazestie heard both divine service and a sermon preached
by mr doctor Stanhope Chapleyne to his Mavestie and Precentor
of that Church, and after was gratiously pleased to touch a
great number, as he also had done the day before for Cure of
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their disease , “But his Maiestie had not beene long there before
the lord Clifford came and gave his attendance and tooke the
sword of the Earle of Carlile and bore the same home to the
Maner before his Maiestie’ And soe he returned to the Manor
where his Maiestie redeliuered my Lord Maior then kneeling
downe the Citties sword and bad him governe yt, and soe they
humbly tooke leave and departed. And after that at his Mazestie
going away the same mornynge here were, by appointment of my
Lord maior & Aldermen a great many of the best ranke of
Citizens attending at the Manor gate who at the passing by of
the houshold wished them a prosperous iourney and as his
Maiestie went along with a lowde voyce prayed god hartily to
blesse , “his Mazestie’ and send him a long and happie reigne over
vs, And the Sheriffes did then waite on his Mazestie attended
with about a hundreth young Citizens as is aforesayde on
horseback his Mazestie being in his Caroch till [th] he came att
the bridge betwixt Rocliff & Skelton being the vtmost boundes
of the County of this Citty of yorke where the Sheriffes [s]
with their attendantes did all stand on a rowe till his Mazestie
passed by and then the sayd Sheriffes tooke leave of his Maiestie
and prayd God to send him a happie & prosperous iourney where
then his Mazestie gave them his hand to kisse and soe went on his
sayd iourney ./
ff 223-4 (31 October)
And now it is certified to this Courte by those to whome it was
refered that [that] they thincke it fit that theis Articles followinge
bee inserted into the Musitians Ordinary, wherevpon the said
Articles beinge redd ar now by theis presentes confirmed and
ordred to bee putt & added to their ordinary
Item it is ordered that noe free brother of the said Arte shall
serve att any freeman or Citizens weddinge without sufficient
waiges vnder any pretence whatsoever, by which the saide Arte
may be impaired or hindered, but that whosoever is disposed to
have Musicke shall pay twelve pence att the least to every Musitian
that shall soe serve att his weddinge as their waiges due &
accustomed vpon payne of every one offendinge herein to forfeit
vj S viij d to bee paid & disposed to thuse aforesaid |
Item it is agreed that if any free brother of the said Arte bee
prepaired & ready att any place whatsoever within this Citty
to play to any Noblemen knight gentleman or other person
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whosoevere And the waites of this Citty or some of them come
on purpose to play to the same partie then the waites to have
place and thothers to departe, unlesse they bee well entered or
spoken for the day or night before, Provided that none of the
said brethren shall play to disquiett any such persons before hee
or they bee awake vpon payne of every one offendinge herein to
forfeit vj s viij d to thuse aforesaid ./
Item that, noe brother of the said Arte shall take any apprentice
vntill hee have beene a free brother of the said Companie the
space of three yeares compleat & that his first apprentice shalbe
a freemans son vpon payne of iij li. vj s viij d to bee paid by
every one offendinge herein to thuse aforesaid, vnlesse the waites
of this Citty doe peticion to the Lord Maiour & Aldermen of
this Citty for the tyme being & they see convenient cause to
allowe of it ./
Item that noe strainger cominge or comed to this Citty
professinge the arte of a Musitian shalbe suffered to teach vse or
exercise the aforesaid arte for his benifitt and advantage vntill
hee bee lycensed & allowed by the Lord Maiouwr of the same
Citty for the tyme beinge & by the Maister & searchers of the
said company soe to doe vpon payne of xx s for every tyme soe
offendinge to bee paid & disposed to thuse aforesaid
Item that noe strainger professinge the [su] Arte shalbe
suffered to play att any weddinge or feaste within this Citty of
yorke if any of the said company bee ready & willinge to serve
att the same vnlesse such strainger bee allowed by the Lord
Maiour for the tyme beinge & by the Maister & searchers of the
said Companie vpon payne of every one offending herein for
every such offense to pay vj s vilj d to thuse aforesaid
Item that none of the said company shall att my tyme by
themselves their servantes or any of their family or by any other
frend intrude themselves or seeke vnto any to serve att any
Marriage within the Citty of yorke or County of the same vpon
payne of xiij s_iiij d to thuse aforesaid ./
f 224v
Item that noe luggler Trumpetters, drumers teachers to daunce,
Pipers, Tumblers, nor any such as exercise or showe wirke by
sleight of hand, Players, or teachers of any instrument whatsoever,
nor any such as goe aboute with Motions or showes shall att
any tyme bee suffered to practize in this Citty without lycense
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of the Lord Maiour for the tyme beinge vpon payne of every one
offending herein to forfeit x lis to thuse aforesaid ./
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tem paid therefore this yeare vj li. js inj d
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Rewards to the Common waites /
To the waites of this Citty dew at Easter 1633 lj) s itd
To them more at christenmas & St Steven day js uy d
ffor St Williams day xx d
Summa vilj s ii) d
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Rewards to his Mazesties Pursevantes and players /
To Robert kempton and other his Mavesties Players RS
To Ellis Guest William Elton & Thomas Lovell & others of his
Mazesties Revells SoS
To Mr William Perry & others of his Maiesties players XX S
To Mr dishley a player XV S
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paid to the Ringers the 24th of May when the Kinge Came to
yorke ys vid
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f247 (20 September)
And now itis ordred that thuse that goe vpp to London about the
Citties businesse, doe take the copye of the kings entertainement
and referred to them yf yt bee needfull to give it to mr Howes
the Chronicler[s] at London to be putt in print ./
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Rewards to the Common Waites
To them for their fee due at Easter ilj s. inj d.
To them more at christmas & St Steven day ij s ud
ffor St Williams day CX,
Summa Viij s. 11 d.
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Clothing of the Common officers accustomed
ffor the Waites liveryes for the last yeare to Mr Chater vjli xvs
1635
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f 284v* (30 June)
And now it is ordred that the Comittees f()ormerly appointed
for to Consider of the Certificatt to be made of the kings
entertainement to mr Howes the Chronicler or the greater
number of them doe meete agayne & Consider what shall be
Certified, and that the same be Certified accordingly ./
f285v (21 August)
And now it is ordred that the whole matter of the kings
intertainment be Certified to mr Howes the Chronographer and
a letter written to him to desier him to make mencion of soe
much theirof as he thincketh fitting for the honor of the Citty ./
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to them more att christmas and St Stevens day lij s. inj d.
to them for St Williams day wed.
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Clothing of the Common officers accustomed
To Mr George Chater for 9 yeardes of Samell
broad Cloth tor the waytes liveries att xiiij s. vj li xj s
per yeard
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f307v (8 August)
And now it is ordred that my Lord Maior & Aldermen in their
scarlett and the xxiijte in their Crimson and those that have
beene Chamberleynes and the Common Counsell in their Citizen
gownes doe meete my Lord President at Micklegate barr when he
comes to this Citty and welcome him to the same, And that the
waites be there to play on the topp of the barr at his Comyng,
And that afterwardes my Lord Maior and Aldermen and Sheriffes
goe to visitt him at the Manner at such convenient tyme as may
be thought fitting.
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Summa vilj s. 114) d.
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Rewards to the Comon Waytes o- 6)
To them for their fee due att Easter ij Ss. iy d.
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to them for St Williams day XX
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To them more for christmas & St Stephens day
to them att St Willams Day
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paid for the waites liveries [(....)] ix yeards of Cloth
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£21 (4 March)
vj li. xij s.
And that the Chamberleynes lay of every of them xx li. towardes
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the Charges of his Maiestes entertainment into the Cittie and
they to have it paid them agayne when moneys come 1n
And now it is referred [to} to my lord Maiors discrecion to
rewarde or give presentes to his Mazestes servantes as hee shall
thinck fitting
And that the lyke guift of a bowle and purse with CXxX
Carelous peeces in it bee presented to his Maiestie att his coming
to this Cittie
And it is thought fitt that my lord Maior invite his Mavestie
to dynner & it is agreed and soe ordered that my lord Maior have
two Buttes of sack & a tune of Clarett wyne given him of the
Citties charge towardes his Mazestes entertainement
f21v (15 March)
And that the former Committees for Micklegate warde take care
to gett the Citties Walls about the Barr amended and call to them
workemen to doe the same forthwith and to see the Kinges
Armes sett vpp where they formerly stood and to see rayles sett
on the right syde of the street neare the barr as was att his
Maiestes former coming and see whoe have not amended their
dorres or removed their manure as was comaunded
And that the waytes of this Cittie play vpon Micklegate barr
and on Bowthombarr at his Mazestes Coming into the Cittie and
passing through to the Mannour and if need bee that their
Cognizances bee new burnished ./
And that the Comittees for Bowthomwarde inquire what
Sellerage may bee hadd [(.)] nigh the Courte for stowing his
Mazestes beare and others & to charge them to reserve it for that
purpose
And that my lord Maior (kneeling) deliuer vpp the sworde &
Mace & Keyes of the Cittie (new burnished) to his Mazestie and
present the Cupp and purse with CXX lie. xx s peeces of gould
in it And that maister Recorder make such a speach for welcoming
his Mazestie to the Cittie as hee thinkes fitt
And that the Squiours have xiij s iiij d a peece and the Officers
and Porter x s a peece towardes the making vpp of their gownes
for this tyme of his Masestes coming to the Cittie soe that it bee
noe presedent for future tyme ./
And that the Tipstaves have new coates provided now ./
And that my lord Maior provide two foot men to bee in
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velvet pees with the Citties armes and that they have two new
suites provided such as formerly they hadd ./
{22 (24 March)
And now it ordered that every one sett forth candles att their
doores when it is darke and warning to bee given by the Constables
during the tyme his Mavestie is here
And that all the Constables bee warned to bee at Micklegate
Barr too morrowe att his Maiestes Coming to bee disposed of by
the Aldermen as there shalbe cause ./
And that if the xx li. a man laid off by the Chamberleynes will
not serve att this tyme to dispend for the Citties occasions then
C li. to be borrowed and the Chamberleynes to give security for
it and that they shalbe saved harmelesse by the Corporacion
And that all the Common Counsell and those that have beene
Chamberleynes bee warned to bee att Micklegate barr too morrowe
in their best apparrell
ff 28-31*
Bee it allwayes hadd in remembrance that our most gratious and
dread Soueraigne Lord the most high and mighty Monarch
Charles the first of that name by the grace of god king of England
Scotland ffrance and Ireland defendowr of the faith &c did on or
about the xxijth day of March Anno Domini 1638 and in the
fowerteenth yeare of his Masestes most happie Raigne begin his
progresse from his highnesse famouse Citties of London and
Westminster towardes Scotland And in his Maiestes said progresse
vpon Satterday being the thirtieth of the said moneth of March
1639 came from Doncaster to this Cittie of yorke attended by
Mr. christofer Brearey & Mr. Marmaduke Croft Sheriffes of this
Cittie whoe were wayting for his Maiestes coming on the midle
of Tadcaster Bridge where the Citties Armes are sett vpp ingraven
in stone (being the confynes and bounder<.) of the Wapentack of
Aynstie of the said Citty and devides it from the Countie of
yorke) having on their Crimson gownes and whyte roddes in their
handes and accompanied with diuerse of the gentlemen and
substantiall Inhabitantes of the Aynstie of the said Cittie and
their owne wayters in their liveries to attend and receive his
Maiestie And (his highnesse being in his Caroach) the said Sheriffes
att his coming thither did vpon their knees most humbly welcome
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his Maiestie into the Countie of the said Cittie and delivered
to his said Maiestie their roddes in token of their duties and
acknowledgment of his highnesse supreame authoritie which his
Maiestie graciously received and redeliuered them their roddes
agayne and gave them [them] ‘his’ hande to kisse And soe the
said Sheriffes bearing vpp their roddes did ryde next before his
Maiestie into the Cittie in att Micklegate barr where the Waytes
of the Cittie were sounding and playing on their Cornettes and
ther [loud] lowd instrumentes on both sydes of the gaytes of
the said Barr And on the North syde of the street within the gate
a little distance from the same there was a great parte there of
rayled in for the Lord Maior Maister Recorder Aldermen and
such as hadd beene Sheriffes, the Chamberleynes and all Such
Cittizens as hadd beene Chamberleynes and all the Common
Counsell to stand within (The lorde Maior and Recorder having
convenient places made somewhat higher then the rest for them
to stand and kneele vpon) And his Mavestie being entered .into, |
Cittie, his Caroach (in the further end where of on that syde
next my Lord Maior his Maizestie sate & therein were three or
fower of the cheif of the Nobilitie) was by the Coachman guided
neare to the syde of the Rayle where the honowrable Roger
Iaques Lord Maior and the worshipfull Thomas Widdrington
Esquire [Recorder] Counsellowr att Law Recorder of the said
Cittie having first made three low obeisances did togither with
the Aldermen and xxiiij"¢ in their Scarlett and Crimson gownes
and the rest of the said Cittizens and Comon Counsell in their
backgownes attending there within the Rayles, fall downe vpon
their knees and then the said Lord Maior deliuered to his Mazestie
the Citties Sword and Mace the said sword being the sword given
to this Cittie by the Emperour Sigismond together with the
keyes of the Citties gates all burnished over and bound in a string
of Crimson silke and silver his lordshipp speaking theis wordes
videlicet Most dread [Souer] Soueraigne / In all humblenesse wee
render vnto you all power with the sworde of Iustice which it
hath pleased your gracious Maiestie and noble progenitors to
have honoured [this] the gouerment of this your auncient Citty
withall, And in further testimonie of our obedience wee present
vnto you this Mace with the keyes of this “your” Citties gates
acknowledging our selves happie to bee vnder your gracious
gouerment and proteccion whose ingresse and stay with vs
wee desire may bee happie and your retorne prosperous and
successefull and that king Charles may long live and prosperously
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raigne over vs And his Maiestie vpon receiving of the said Swerd
as alsoe the Mace and keyes redeliuered the same back to my lord
Maior and then Maister Recorder made an Oracion to his Maiestie
as followeth videlicet Most gracious & dread Soueraigne bee
graciously pleased to pardon this stay, That wee the least &
meanest moates in the firmament of your Maiestes gouerment
shold thus dare to cause you our bright and glorious sunne to
stand, Give vs leave whoe are the members of this auncient &
decayed Cittie to make knowne vnto your Maiestie (even our
[sun] Sune it self) where the Sunn now standes.
In the Cittie of yorke
Which , ‘now’ lyke an illdrawne picture needes a name. A place
soe vnlyke it self that wee may boldly say Niobe was never soe
vnlyke Niobe never old man soe vnlyke himself being young as is
the Citty of yorke vnlyke the Citty of yorke. Heretofore an
Imperiall Cittie the place of the lyfe and death of the Emperour
Constantius Clorus |
In whose grave a burning lampe was found many Centuries
of yeares after; honoured with the birth of Constantine the great
and with the most noble library of Egbert. I might goe further
but this [were] were onely to showe or rather speak of ‘our’
Auncient Tombes. This Citty was afterwardes twice burnt so
that the very ashes of theis Antiquities are not to bee found,
And if later scarrs hadd not defaced our former glorie what was
it truely in respect of what wee now eniloy
The births lives and deaths of Emperours are not soe much for
the honour of yorke as that king Charles was once duke of yorke
and your very Royall aspect surmountes our former glorie and
scaters our later Cloudes
Its more honour for vs that king Charles hath given vs a new
life nativitie and being by a most benigne and liberall Charter
then that Constantyne the great hadd his first being here And for
the lampe found in the grave of Clorus your Mazestie maynteynes
a lampe of Iustice in this Citty which burnes more cleare than
that of Clorus and shynes into five seuerall Counties att which
each subiect may light a torch by the brightness whereof hee may
see his owne right and fynde and taste part of that sweet and
wholsomme manna here att his owne doore which dropps from
the influence of your Maiestes most iust & gracious goverment
4 after videlicet) cross mark
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Soe that if the lybrary of Egbert were now extant amongst vs,
that verie Idea of Eloquence which the most skilfull Oratour
could extract out of it wold not bee able to expresse what wee
owe to your Maiestie there being not any acknowledgment
answerable to our Obligaczons
ffor besydes all this beames & lightning of those eminent
vertues, sublime guiftes and illuminacions wherewith you are
endowed doe cast soe forceible refleccions vpon the eyes of all
men that you fill not only this Citty this kingdome but the
whole vniverse with splendour
You have established your throne vpon two Collomnes of
dyamondes Pietie and Iustice the one gives you to god the other
gives men to you and all your subiectes are most happie in both
ffor our selves most gracious king your Mazestes humblest and
meanest subiectes Obedience [is] the best of Sacrifices is the
onely sacrifice which wee have to Offer to your Maiestie, Yett
vouchsafe to beleeve (most mighty king) that even our workes
[suh.] such as they are shall not resemble those sacrafices where
out the harte is taken and where of all the head nothing is left
save onely the tongue our sacrafice is that of hartes and not of
tongues.
The memorie of King Charles shall ever bee sacred vnto us
soe long as there remaine any Alters or that Oblacion is offered
on earth.
The most devout and fervent prayers of your Maiestes daylie
votaries the poore Cittizens of yorke are and ever shall bee that
the Septer of king Charles may lyke Arons rodd budd & blossome
and bee an eternall testimony against all Rebells /
And our most chearfull and vnanimous acclamacions are that
king Charles may long live & triumphantly raigne and that this
kingdome may never (..) want a King Charles
Which being ended the lord Maior did take a faire Cupp of
silver with a Cover double guilt having the kinges Armes molten
and sett on the topp with the Citties Armes engraven on the
bottome or foote therof made my maister lames Plomer a
Gouldsmith of this Cittie weying (blank) with a rich purse
wrought all over on both sydes with gould & silver & six score
of Carolus xx s peeces therein being fastened by the string to
the topp of the said Cupp which his Lordshipp did humbly
present to his Mazestie with theis wordes videlicet
Wee the Maior Recorder Aldermen & Cittizens of this your
highnesse Citty in all humility doe present vnto your most
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excellent Mazestie this Cupp with the purse and gould therein
humbly desiring your gracious acceptance.. And the said Cupp
with the purse and gould therein was carried before his Maiestie
through the Cittie by one of the kinges footmen and afterwardes
as was perceived came to (blank) Maister of the horse And the
Lord Maior being appoynted by the heraldes did as grand
Sergiantles] att Mace within the Cittie carrie the Citties Mace
next before his Maiestie there being noe sword att all carried in
regarde his Mazestie was in his Caroach and not on foot or
horseback my lord Maior being first [f] mounted on [the] his
footcloth having two footmen with black velvet pees and the
Citties Armes on them And maister Recorder & alsoe in their
scarlett gownes well mounted on their [footclothe] footcloth
horses ‘did ryde next before the Sheriffes of this Citty’ (the
Trayned [e] and in the Cittie and Aynstie being 600 in number
standing on both sydes the street from Micklegate barr to St
lohns Church all in compleat Armour) and soe his Maiestie ridd
along [through] through the Cittie to the Mannor neare the walls
of the Citty where his , “Mazestie’ was attended by my lord Maior
& Aldermen into the presence Chamber and there my lord Maior
made knowne to the right honourable Earle of Holland that his
Lordshipp was very desirous that the kinges Mazestie wold bee
pleased to honour the Citie soe much as to dyne att his house on
what day it shold best please his Mazestie whoe presently |
moved his highnesse therein wherevnto his Mazestie graciously
condiscending retorned answer by the said Earle of Holland that
hee wold dyne with him vppon the Monday next following and
therevpon my lord Maior in testimonie of thankfullnesse did
make a low obeysance to his Mazestie and soe departed for that
tyme and then my lord Maior invited all the Nobles and Courtiers
and all other his Mavestes servantes alsoe to Dynner and the
Citties Sword was left there but the Mace was delivered back by
one of the gentlemen vshers daylie waytours to my lord Maior
and soe my lord Maior taking his leave went home having the
Citties Mace soe soone as hee was forth of the Mannowr gates
borne before him by one of his Lordshipps Squiours. And on the
[Monday] morrow being Sonday my lord Maior Recorder
Aldermen Sheriffes xxiiijti¢ and Chamberleyns went to the
Courte and his Maiestie went to the Cathedrall Church the Citties
sword being borne before him by the Right honowrable Thomas
Earle of Arundell and Surrey Earle Marshall of England (for that
the lord Clifford whoe is cheif Captaine of this Citty was then
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absent and in [his] the kinges service att the City of Carlile,
whoe of right shold otherwise have borne the same as att other
tymes vpon the lyke occasions hee had done and his father the
Right honourable Earle of Cumberland before tymes hadd borne
the same in regarde of his said Captainshipp) And my lord Maior
bore the Citties Mace [next b(..)] and next before my lord Maior
the kinges Sergiantes att Mace with their maces and next before
them the Noble men in their Rankes and next before them the
in their Scarlett and Crimson gownes and the Chamberleynes
alsoe in their Rankes his Mavestie going all the way on foot,
where his Mazestie heard divine service and a Sermon preached
by doctour Young deane of Winchester [and] one of his Maiestes
Chapleynes; But in the way to the Church the Sheriff of the
Countie of York ‘Offered’ [made ‘....)] goe behynde the Sheriffes
of the Citty and nearer to his Masestie wherein hee was opposed
by the Sheriffes of the Cittie and therevpon afterwardes the
Sheriffes of the Citty made their Complaynt to the Earle Marshall
setting forth their right in that behalf, (this City being a Countie
of it self without any dependency of the County of Yorke and
the Sheriffes of the Countie having nothing to doe there) his
lordshipp was pleased to give this answer that the Sheriff of the
County was then gone into the Countrie vpon his Maiestes
speciall service and that vpon his retirne hee wold heare the
alligacions on both sydes and make some end and determinacion
in the businesse but uerynnes | occasions [hav\..)] troubling his
lordshipp & the Sheriffes long absence were the causes that his
lordshipp did nothing in the businesse) And when sermon was
ended his Mazestie went back to the Mannour attended in the
lyke manour as before where my lord Maior Recorder and
Aldermen tooke their leaves and departed home the Citties Mace
being borne before his lordshipp as it was the day before and att
all other tymes when his Maiestie went abroad in the Cittie hee
was attended by the lord Maior Aldermen Sheriffes xXxuyjue and
Chamberleyns in lyke manner saving that the Citties Sword was
borne before his Maiestie by diuerse of the lordes in their courses
seuerally att not alwayes by one till the said Lord Clifford came
to the Cittie (which was about (blank) after his Maiestes coming
and then hee bore the same as due to his said place. And on the
Munday after his Mazestie went from the Mannour to my lord
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Maiors house in his Caroach (with all the Nobles & Courtiers)
to dynner where very great provision of meates & wynes of all
sortes was made att my lord Maiors owne costes & Charges
(except one Tunn of Gascoigne wyne and a butt of sack which
was given his lordshipp by the Cittie, All the meat was prepared
and made ready by his Mazestes owne Cookes (my lord Maiors
Cookes alsoe assisting for making ready the Lordes meates) the
meates were brought vpp and served in by my Lord Maior,
Recorder Aldermen and somme of the fower and twenty and
after that a very great & sumptuous Banquett was served in with
all which his Mazestie was very well pleased, and soe was pleased
to declare himself & soe were the Lordes alsoe as themselves
expressed And when dynner was ended his Mavestie went into
the withdrawing roome and after the Lordes [hadd dyned]
came from dynner his Maizestie called my lord Maior and maister
Recorder & knighted them with the sword of the Earle Marshall
in the presence of the Nobles after which his Maiestie departed
and went to the Mannour in his Caroch And vpon Thursday
before Easter his Mazestie was pleased to solemnize in the Minster
an auncient and pious solemnity called his Maundith which is
yearly performed and that was on this mamner videlicet a great
parte of the Ile of the North syde of the Church was closed in
with scatfoldes of furr deales and on the North syde of the Ile
there were seates made some distance from the ground whereon
xxxixtl€ old men sate according to the number of the yeares of
his Maiestes age and the Bishopp of Winchester his | Mavestes
Almoner coming within the place inclosed did first read prayers
and after prayers done the Bishopp taking a lynen towell which
hee putt about him and a basin of water held him by his Chaplaine,
washed all the said xxxix mens feet and after wyped them with
the towell and then redd other prayers and the Quire of singing
men standing on a scaffold neare the place sung Anthemes and
then the said Bishopp of Winchester gave to every of the said
poore men a peece of woollen cloth for a gowne a peece of lynen
for a shirt [al] and a litle whyte purse with redd stringes with
39 single pennies in it and after that gave to each of them a
platter with fish and bread thereon and then redd more prayers
and soe departed and on the morrow being good ffryday the
Lord Maior Sir Thomas Widdrington knight Recorder the
Aldermen Sheriffes and xxiiijt¢ in their scarlett and Crimson
gownes and the Chamberleyns in their gownes went to the
Mannour and attended his Maiestie to the Minster (the sword
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being carried before his Masestie by one of the Nobles and the
Mace borne [before] by my lord Maior [all] and all the rest
in their Ranckes and order as formerly they hadd done) where
his Maiestie heard divine service and sermon and after was
pleased to touch a great number of people for Cure of their
diseases comonly called the kinges evill and soe retorned to the
Mannour and on the Munday Tewsday and thursday after his
Maiestie did in [ly] lyke maner touch great numbers of people
that were diseased And his Maiestie of his princely compassion
and charity did by his Almoner send to the lord Maior 1x li. to
bee distributed among the poore in this Citty which was disposed
on by the wardons of every warde to the seuerall parishes and the
poore therein videlicet in Bowthomwarde xij li. in Munckwarde
xviij li. in Micklegate warde xx li. (blank) & in Walmgatewarde
xx li. (blank) and lykwise his Mazestie did send to all the prisons
in the Cittie seuerall moneyes to bee distributed among the poore
prisoners therein. And on the (blank) day of May being tewsday
my lord Maior Recorder Aldermen Sheriffes and Chamberleynes
went betymes in the morning to the Mannour where his Mazestie
was ready to goe away and they standing within the Mannouwr
yarde, his Mavestie came hastily downe the stayres from his
chamber and presently tooke horse and ridd towardes Scotland
(intending (as was said) to goe that night to Rabie Castle) and
there they prayed for his prosperous Iourney and safe retorne
and soe came home
Viuat Rex Carolus
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Rewardes to the Common waytes
To them for their fee due att Easter 14) s. ij d.
To them more att christmas & St Stephens day lj s. ij d.
to them att (...) day xed:
(...mma vilj s ilij d
36 ¢...)] St Williams
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£25
Clothinge of the Common Officers
paid to Maister Scrafton for ix yeardes of cloth
at(...) the yeard for the waytes liveries Vj li. xij s.
f 41
Expences att his Mazestes coming to this Citty
paid for guilding the waytes schocheons Vj s.
To the kinges Trumpeters eS:
To the princes Trumpete‘..) XS:
(...) kinges musitia(..) X'S:
To the kinges drumers xl s
f 41v
To th(.) (.)inges trumpeters in their retorne mx S;
To the Earle of Essex Trumpeters VS.
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ltem payd for Ringing the day the kinge cam to yorke about
ye Scotch wares 020
1640
House Books Y: B36
£46 (20 August)
And now it is Ordered that my Lord Maior & Aldermen with
their footclothes, the xxiiijti¢, Chamberleynes and Common
Counsell and those that have beene Chamberleyns attend att
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Micklegate Barr att his Maestes Coming in and his Lordshipp
kneeling shall deliver vpp to his Maiestie the Citties Sword and
Mace and the keyes of the Barrs and posternes and that the
Waytes play vpon Bowthom barr & Micklegate Barr And that
stoopes and Rayles bee sett within the Barr as formerly And that
Alderman Cowper Alderman Hoyle Alderman Hutchinson
maister Dawson maister Harbert master ffairwether and maister
Walker take care to gett the kinges Armes sett vpp on the Barr
and gett the Rayles and stoopes sett on the right syde of the
street there as was formerly and to see whoe have not amended
their Doores and removed their manure as was comaunded ./
And now it is referred to my lord Maior with thassistance of
maister Recorder to consider whether it bee fitt to present
his Mazestie with a guift or not and what shalbe fitt to bee
given ./
And now it is thought fitt by the Courte and soe desired that
my lord Maior invite his Mazestie to dynner on Sonday and that
hee have the same allowance as was given the Last yeare to Sir
Roger Jaques
f46v (21 August)
And now it ordered that there bee a purse and C peeces presented
to his Maiestie att his coming ./
And that maister Sheriffes and his companie meet his Maiestie
att Tadcaster Bridge
And that the Constables bee all warned to bee in Micklegate
to attend as they shalbe appoynted
And that ther bee two suites of Apparrell provided for two
footmen with pees with the Citties Armes on to attend my lord
Maior ./
£49v (27 September)
And now itis Ordered in regarde the king is here that the Sheriffes
now Sworne shall have their Crimson gownes agaynst sonday next
to attend his Mazestie but this to bee noe pre iudice to the auncient
custome of having them on St Stephen day & not before ./
5 as formerly] MS as formerly as formerly 12 of] MS of of
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Item paid to the Common Waytes of this Cittie vilj s ij d
Summa vilj s ij d
mb 3
Item for the Waytes liveries vi} li. iiij s
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Rewardes to the Common Waytes
To them for their fee due at Easter lj s. uy d.
to them more for christmas & St Steven day lj Ss. ij d.
to them at St. Williams day xd:
Summa vijj s. 114 d.
f 28
Clothing of the Common Officers
To Master Scrafton for ix yeards of cloth for
the waytes liveries eee)
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Paid for Ringinge 23 Augst at the kinges Cominge to yorke
Second tyme about Scotes wars ==
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f 61v (17 November)
And now it is ordered that the streetes throughout the Cittie
especially in Boothomeward be sufficientlie repaired and amended
in all places where there are defectes and that they be likwise
made cleane & all the mannure and dirt removed, now against his
Maiestiees comeing to this Cittie and that the Waitees of this
Cittie play vpon Boothome barr at his Mavestiees comeing into
the Cittie and that the kinges Armes be set vpon the Barr & that
rayles & stulpes be set on the right side of the streete there with
conveniencie for my Lord Maior and Aldermen to stand in at his
Maiestiees comeing into the Cittie And that maister Alderman
Hemsworth maister Alderman Thompson maister Hewley maister
Horner maister ffairewether maister Coulton maister Beale /
maister Watman & maister Setherthwaite see the same performed
and done /
£62 (19 November)
And now it is agreed vpon by theise presentes that there shalbe
C li. presented to his Mazestie in a purse
And now it is ordered that the wardens of every warde send
the officers of the wardes respectively with the Constables to
prepare five horses in every warde for carrying the kinges Trayne
on munday morning to Tadcaster and that they be assured of
them to be in [.e.] readynesse or else to take them presently
& Carry them to the postmaster to be at the owners charg
And now it is ordered that fees formerly given to the kinges
officers be forborne except the Cookes which is left to my Lord
Maiors discretion /
And now it is ordered that the peticron for the Courte to bee
established here againe at this Cittie be delivered to his Maiestie
by the Maior & Commonaltie at Sir Arthure Ingrams house after
dinner on sunday
And that mr Robert Barwick be in aredd gowne as the Recorder
and accompany my Lord Maior at the Barr and is desired to
make a speech to his Maiestie
And that my Lord Maior send for such of the xxiiijtie as he
shall thinke fitt to make [(..)] vpp the number of Aldermen to
WS)
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waite vpon his Mavestie at dinner and that then they with the
Aldermen deliver the peticon in theire black Gownes
And that my Lord Maior haue a butt of sack and a Tunn of
Clarrett wine presented to him for his Maiestiees entertainment
And that C torches be prepared and every Constable to haue
one in regard his Mazestiees come will be in the evening
And that the Sherriffes meete the King at Maudlan Chappell in
theire redd gownes & on footecloath horses
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Item for the waytes liueryees vj li. vj s
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Rewardes to the Common Waytes
To them for theire whole yeares fee vilj s. 1 d.
£25
Cloathing of the Common officers
To Iohn Loftus as per note for the Waytes
liveryes beeing ix yeardes of WashardScarlet [vj] livjs
at xlllj s per yeard
Churchwardens’ Accounts: Holy Trinity Goodramgate
Bice P Reyer Gate
_p 384
oe for holfe payde for ringears waiges the .20. of [n] November
at the Kinge coming to yearke from Scoteland 00 100 |9
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Ittem paide for ringears waiges for that day the kinge came
to yorke 00100 |09
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paid for ringinge bells when the kynge Came Nouember 20 — 2 8
paid for ringing bells at the king & prince comeing to yorke
18 March See:
paid for ringing bells at the duckes comeing to yorke
April 16th 3)
paid for Ringing bells att the kings Returne from beuerley — 2 —
1642
House Books Y: B36
£69 (16 March)
And now it is ordered that whereas his Mazestie is to come to this
Cittie tomorrowe that two tunn of french wyne & a Butt of Sack
be presented to his Mavestie & that Sir Roger Iaques & Alderman
Thompson see the same done accordingly
And that the Sheriffes well attended vpon, attend on his
Maiestie at Tadcaster bridge to morrowe at his Comeing to this
Cittie
And now it is ordered that the Lord Maior Aldermen xxiiijtie
& Chamberlaynes & best Cittizens attend at the barr as they
formerly haue done the Aldermen in Scarlett & xxiiijti¢ in redd
gownes and the other in theire blacke gownes & best apparell &
that the Aldermen haue horses and maister Thomas Dauson
maister ffairewether maister Hewley maister Councillor Brearey
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Comon officers
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maister Thomas Dickinson & maister Leonard Thompson to haue
horses likewise in respect that many of the Aldermen by reason
of theire dwelling in the Country & sicknes will be absent
And now it is ordered that railes & stulpes be sett as formerly
they were and such watch as was formerly and the Constables
to be all there with their [st(.....)] stafes to see good rule kept
and that the waytes to play at Micklegate Barr & the Bells to
ring
And now my Lord Maior is desired by this Courte to invite
his Mazestie And in regard both the prince & King will be there
[his] he is to haue in wyne threscore & eight poundes
f69v (17 March)
And now it is ordered that xxtie good Cirttizens in every warde
be in theire best apparell with bright Halbertes doe this day
attend his Mazesties Comeing at Micklegate Barr
His Mazestie came to this Cittie this day being saturday about 40r
of the Clock in the afternoone and on the sunday following
dyned at my Lord Maiors house and after dinner Knighted my
Lord Maior
f 80v (16 December)
And that the Common Waytes haue theire Coates bought bythe
discretion of Alderman Hemsworth & Alderman Scott and allso
for the Tipstaues
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To them for theire whole yeares ffee vilj s. ilij d.
Summa viij s. ij d.
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Rewards to this Mazestes pursevantes and players
To the Princes Highnesses Trumpters for a Reward XX S$
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Expences att his Masesties Coming
To 5 of his Mazesties Trumpiters xx S
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