Extracts from the account rolls of the Abbey of Durham. Vol. 3.

EXTRACTS FROM TREASURERS' BOOKS.

The Treasurers' books, e.g., that of 1569-70, begin with the annual and other payments to the Dean, the twelve prebendaries, twelve minor canons, readers of Gospel and Epistle (not necessarily minor canons), ten lay clerks, master of choristers, ten choristers, eight poor men, subdean, treasurer, sacrist, precentor, two vergers, two bellringers, head master of school, second master, eighteen scholars, three annuitants, receiver, outer porter, inner porter, two bakers, two cooks, forester of Bearpark, park-keeper of same, bailiff of Shields, keeper of Baxter wood, bailiff of Elvet, keeper of Haning wood, registrar, clerk of the works, bailiffs of Framwellgate and of Billingham, three travelling bailiffs, bailiff of Shores∣wood, repairer of glass windows, vicars of St. Oswald's, Durham, Norham, and Bywell Peter, curate of St. Margaret's, Durham, vicar of Berwick, chaplain of St. Mary's chantry in church of St. Nicholas, Durham, rector of South Bailey, chaplain of Hilton in Wakerfield, rector of Muggleswick, chaplains of Heworth, of Ferry, of chantry of St. James in church of St. Nicholas, of St. Mary in St. Margaret's, of St. Mary in St. Nicholas', of the Holy Trinity in the same, of St. Mary Magdalene, of St. Mary in St. Oswald's, the guild of St. Cuthbert, rents, viz. for aqueduct, in Gilesgate, a tenement, landmale to the bishop for waste at Framwellgate, the Queen for proceeds of above chantries.

Total expenditure, £1550 4s. 9d.

The following notes are mostly from the "necessary expenses" and the "Repairs of the Church."

1557-8.

Sol. Joh'i Browne, verger, pro locione lintheaminum infra ecclesiam, 2s. Item payd to Mychaell Tomson 20 Decembr. for makyng the yronwark to y^e cayse of the

Sacrament at the hye alter, 8s. 6d. Payde for caryage of 11 sekkes Reyshez frome y^e Holme w^th 4 horsez, 2s., and cuttinge, 12d., 3s. For scowrynge y^e paschall (ad festum Pasche tantum), 1 and scourynge the gowters about the church by yere. Item pd to Richarde Sheyle in rewayrde for brynginge 2 dooes to y^e prebendaryes by th'andes of M^r Doctor Tode, 4^to Marcii, 3s. 4d.

Et R^o Sheyle de^ti (deferenti?) 1 evyll buk erga sessiones 8^o Augusti per doctorem Tode in regardis, 3s. 4d. Et eidem die 2^obus famulis Judicum de^bus 1 buk prebendariis et di buke canonicis minoribus et aliis ministris chori in regardis per doctorem Tode, 3s. 4d.

Et 26^to Marcii, Will. Newton pro horrilogio ex consue∣tudine per annum, 2s. Pro sarracione 4 waynscott et aliorum meremii (sic) pro operibus in vestibulo et circa le sepulcre (per diem 8d.), 4s. 8d. Pro factura 1 Redorsse de waynscott ad altare in revestiario, 10s.; for glew 5d., and nayls 3d. to y^e same worke, 8d. Pro cariagio 3 plaustratorum fyerwood usque plumerhoushe, 2s., bryt∣nynge, 6d.; pro le brytnynge 3 fother et fellynge, 8d. In factura unius hostii pro le lavers, 8d. Et 5^to Aprilis sol. for 1 rope scilicet 20^ti fawdome for y^e pascall, 6s. 8d., and for 40^ti fawdome smaller Rope for Gyderopez scilicet 2 fawdome for a peny, 20d., 8s. 4d. Payd to Jaymes Plomer, Willelmo Walker, et Thome Lawes settyng up ye paschall and takyng downe the same, 6s. 8d.

Carpentario (etc.) super le brochet (8d. per diem). For dyvers yron stuff about the sacrament (etc.), 20s. For 1 pollyrope for the brasse pollye, scilicet 2 fawdome, 10d.

(Wax, wine, Hosts, washing of linens).

Et 21 Marcii sol. Petro Hyll, stacyoner, pro 7 psalteriis, 7s., et 1 processionero, 2s. 8d., 9s. 8d.

(Repairs at tenements, mills, aqueduct).

Et 9^o Julii sol. 16 mulieribus portantibus mosse and clay per billam ad idem opus, ut patet, 13s. 2d.

Expenses about burnynge a lyme kyll at Kellow 29 Junii, a^o 1558^vo.

(Gettynge stones to the lyme kyll, dygthynge ye kyll, fyllynge the kyll, one that brake the stones, 7 fother of colles, tenaundes of Hett for caryage (from Hett) to Kellow at 10d., for burnynge a lyme kyll at Kellow).

(Various articles).

Fyve bagges for money, 13d.; 3 quatern. papiri, 12d.; nedyles and thred, 2d.; broddes at 10d. a hundred; for amendynge 1 payr bandes to ye orgayns, 8d.; latbroddes at 5d.; hardyne pro le condeth; lednayle at 5d.; burdnayle at 8d.; broddes at 5d.

1563-4. 1 An imperfect book, ill kept, and not appearing to be of much interest.

 

1564-5. (Frequent repairs of aqueduct).

Sol. pro emendatione fenestre infra ecclesiam vocatu' (sic) Te Deum Wyndowe, 3li. 6s. Pro emendatione le shavinghowse, 6s. 9d. For fyllinge the holes in the colledge garthe that was mayd for mendinge y^e condythe, 4d.

(Repairs of tenements and mills).

Elemos. pro pauperibus et viis emend. (6s. 8d., 3s. 4d., 5s., 10s., 20s., etc., are sums given).

Between 1565-6 and 1567-8. 2

For mendinge the lanteronn of the petycanons kytching (etc.), 27s. 4d. For a salter, 16d. For settinge vp the funte in the colledge churche, 3s. 6d. For fyve poundes of soulder for the condeth and for dyginge and openinge the hearth (earth) in sex severall places, 3s. 4d. For 1 dosen of cooles for the Shayvinge howse, 2s.

(Tenements, mills, and alms as before).

1568-9.

For six quere of paper to make bookes for the singing men, 2s. For makeinge the coveringe of the pulpitcloth to Farro, 2s. 6d. For makeinge the checker over the gatehowse, 30s. For makeing of the partition in the checker, 37s. 8d. To 3 masons that cam to worke upon the bridge that shall be made, 12s. (windows of checker).

For coveringe the benches in the chapter howse and the checker, 3li. 15s. 3d. For Jewelles apologie, 10s. 6d. For sarking of the inner howse in the dorture, 7s. 9d. For tow spalters to the quere and delivered to Pentland and Matthue, 1 2s. 4d.

1569-70. For a communyon table, 30s. 2d.

This book has as a cover three leaves and part of a leaf that have belonged to some ascetical work, and one leaf of a consuetudinary. The following headings occur: Qualiter estatis tempore agatur nocturna laus. x. Qualiter diebus dominicis vigilie aguntur. xj. Quomodo matutinorum sollempnitas agatur. xij. Qualiter privatis diebus matutini agantur. xiij.

Date of MS. c. 1325. It contains nothing specially local, but is shown to be monastic by its referring to four lections in a nocturn.

1570-1. For 2 communion cuppes, 11li. 6d. For mend∣inge a sink at the Lavers, 7s. 8d.

 

1571-2. Nothing remarkable.

 

1576-7.

For mendinge y^e stoorhouse dors in y^e cloyster and for nayles, 2s. 6d. For mattinge y^e com'on (?) pue, 2s. 8d. For candels and wyne to y^e communion, 6s. For rushes and flowers at y^e Judges being here Aug. 13, 4s. Payd unto Jhon Browne for mending and tunyng (?) y^e Chyme, 6li. 13s. 4d. Geven unto Browne y^e barber to buy hym cols, 2s.

1579-80.

Nothing remarkable except alms to prisoners, to a poore man that had his house burnde, 3s. 4d., to a scoller of the grammar schole at his goinge to London, 10s., to a scoller of Cambridge for exibition, 40s.; geven to the earle of Lecesters players, 26s. 8d., etc.

Notes

• 1

  Interlined.
• 1

  So dated in modern figures.
• 2

  Imperfect. So dated in modern figures.
• 1

  Minor canons. Matthew was sacrist.