| Description | A composite volume of books, some still in their original covers. They list payments of stipends of canons and church officers, fees of other officials, alms paid out, expenses for workmen, purchases of books, vestments, bread, wine, wax, building materials, transport costs, and extraordinary expenses. Accounts run 25 Nov to 25 Nov unless otherwise stated.
(f1r) M1542-M1543.
(f9r) [1549-1550].
(f50r) [1555-1556].
(f62r) 1556-1557; also includes 'the Reparations done in the survaye of Mr John Milles Receiver generall...'.
(f85r) [1557-1558].
(f101r) 1561-1562; the cover is a 1338 ratification by the prior of the foundation by William de Clinton, earl of Huntingdon, of Maxstoke monastery, also involving the bishop of Lichfield and the prior of Coventry. On its dorse are various [C15/C16] drawings including the head of a crowned lady, a bearded man pointing, a sword, a wheel design, and 2 Tudor roses, all possibly related to St Catherine.
(f169r) [1562-1563]; bound in folios of a volume of [C12/C13] sermons, 2 of the sections begin: (f169r) 'ex verbis domini nostri ubi dicit adhuc...'; (f237r) 'qui vales erant discipli christi qua...'.
(ff238r-249v and 253r-295v) 1563-1564; bound in folios from [ later C14] commentaries on civil law glosses in Italian hand.
(ff250v-252v and 296r-340v) [1564-1565], stipendaries now sign for their money.
(f341r) 1566-1567.
(f364r) 1567-1568.
(f372r) 1568-1569.
(f427r) 1574-1475. |