RECORDS OF EARLY ENGLISH DRAMA

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WINCHESTER COLLEGE 1475-1500 Edited by Jane Cowling

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1475-76 Bursars' Account Rolls WC 22145 Mb[4d] (External Expenses) ... ...Et in datis ministrallis domini de Arundell venientibus ad Collegium xvjo die Ianuarij cum viijd datis ministrallis ducis Glowcestrie venientibus ad Collegium xiijo die februarij xxd... Mb[5d] ...Et in datis ministrallis domini principis venientibus ad Collegium festo Ascensionis domini cum xxd dat' ministrall' domini Regis mense Iunij vs... ... Hall Book WC 22842 f[1v] (12 Jun 1476) ... mercurij iiij mimi domini Regis Anglie...ad prandium cum so. famulus mimorum ad prandium cum fa... ... f[5v] (9 and 11 Jul 1476) ... Martis M. holden' lute andreas Wales M branche ad pran cum so... ... Iouis Geffrey de villa Andreas Lute ij induct' per [p] domini custodis ad prandium cum so

Note: Andreas is identified as an Oxford scholar on the following leaf.

f[8v] (31 July 1476) Mercurij ...Pater Iohannis Pontysbury ad ce cum so... ...

1476-77 Bursars' Account Rolls WC 22146 Mb[3d] (External Expenses) ... ...Et in datis ministrallis Comitis Glocestrie venientibus ad Collegium festo natiuitatis beate marie cum iiijd datis Symkyn' luter' iijs viijd... ... Mb[4d] Et in datis ministrall' domini de Arundell venientibus ad collegium xiiijo die Ianuarij cum iiijd datis alteri ministrallo venienti ad collegium xvo die Ianuarij ijs... ...

1477-78 Bursars' Account Rolls WC 22147 Mb[2d] (External Expenses) ... ...Et in datis vni Greco venienti ad collegium cum turco mense decembris cum iiijd datis Iohanni Meke xvjd Et in datis Iohanni pontisbery & socijs suis ludentibus in Aula in die circumsisionis cum ijs... Mb[3d] ...Et in datis ministrallis domini regis venientibus ad Collegium primo die Septembris cum xxd datis ministrall' domine regine venient' 2o die Septembris & xijd datis ministrall' Domine Eborac' mense Augusti vjs...Et in datis ministrallo domini Episcopi Wintoniensis cum xijd datis alteri ministrall' citherant' in Aula xxd... Note: Domine: scribal error for Domini.

1478-79 Hall Books WC 22843a-b b: f[8v] (5 Aug 1479) ... Iouis ij mimi Tomas tayler alius cum eo vxor Wattes ad pran cum so:... ...

1479-80 Bursars' Account Rolls WC 22148 Mb[2d] (External Expenses) (24 Sep 1479 - 29 Sep 1480) ... Et in solutis ministrallis domine regine venientibus ad Collegium xviijo die Nouembris xijd... Mb[3d] Et in datis sittrapis Wintoniensis venientibus ad collegium ffesto Epiphani<.>e ijs Et in datis ministrallis domini Arundell venientibus ad Collegium mense Ianuarij cum viijd datis ministrall' domini de lawarre ijs iiijd...Et in solutis ministrallis domini regis venientibus ad collegium xvo die Aprilis cum xijd solutis ministrallis domini Episcopi Wintoniensis venientibus ad collegium primo die Iunij iiijs iiijd... Hall Book WC 22844 f[3v] (27 Apl 1480) ... Iouis ...ij mimi...ad pran cum ffa... ... f[5v] (14 May 1480) ... Dominica ...quidam mimus ad ce cum so... ... f[7v] (1 Jun 1480) ... Iouis ...ij mimi...ad ce cum so ... Note: The scribe incorrectly marks this week as the 11th week of the third quarter. Only after marking the following weeks the 12th and 13th does he realize his error and correctly marks the week after that also as the 13th.

1480-81 Hall Book WC 22845 f[5v] (18 Oct 1480) ... Mercurij ...quidam mimus ad pran cum So... ... f[14v] (24 Dec 1480) Dominico ...quidam mimus...ad ce cum so ... f[16v] (7 Jan 1481) ... Dominico Duo mimi / ffamulus eisdem / ad pran cum so... ... f[20v] (4 Feb 1481) ... Dominico Tres mimi ad pran cum so... ... f[35v] (19 May 1481) ... Sabbato Duo mimi ad pran cum so... ... f[44v] (22 Jul 1481) ... Dominico ...Duo mimi Mylle alius secum ad pran cum so... ... Note: The fourth week is incorrectly labelled 5th, throwing the numbering of this quarter into a tizzy. The fifth is mistakenly labelled 6th, 6th the 7th. The 7th week also correctly labelled 7th, and the following two weeks aren’t numbered, no doubt out of confusion, with the numbering finally getting it right with the tenth week through the 13th.

f[45v] (3 Aug 1481) ... Veneris v mimi ad pran cum so. f[48v] (13 Aug 1481) ... Lune alius mimus secum...ad pran cum so

... f[49v] (19 Aug 1481)... Dominica ...iij mimi...ad pran cum so... ...

1481-82 Bursars' Account Rolls WC 22149 Mb[4d] (External Expenses) ...Et in datis ministrallis domini Episcopi Wyntoniensis xiijo die Ianuarij cum xxd datis ministrallis domini de Arundell venientibus ad Collegium xiiijo die Ianuarij ijs viijd...Et in datis vni ministrallo domini principis et iiijor alijs ministrallis Ducis Glocestrie vto die Iulij xxd... ...

1482-83 Bursars' Account Rolls WC 22150 Mb[4d] (External Expenses) ... ...Et in datis ministrallis domini de Arundell venientibus ad Collegium xxiijo die Ianuarij xxd...Et in solut' ministrallis domini regis venientibus ad collegium xo die Iunij iijs iiijd... ...

1484-85 Bursars' Account Rolls WC 22151 Mb[4d] (External Expenses) ... ...Et in datis ministrallis domini de Arundell venientibus ad collegium xijo Ianuarij ijs Et in datis ministrallis domini Chambyrlenij venientibus ad collegium xvijo die Ianuarij viijd... Mb[5d] ...Et in datis ministrallis matris domini Regis xxvjo die septembris xxd... ... Note: The accounts are supposed to end 25 Sept, but this last entry is after that. The bursars seem to enter their accounts chronologically. Some entries in other rolls go as far as October at the end and start with November.

1487-88 Bursars' Account Rolls WC 22152 Mb[3d] (External Expenses) ... ...Et in datis ministrall' domini de Arundell xxd / xvjo die Ianuarij / Et in datis ministrall' domini de Derby venient' ad collegium xviijo die Ianuarij xvjd /...Et in Rewardo dat' vni extraneo ducenti leone' in Collegium xmo die Aprilis viijd... Et in Rewardo dat' ministrallis domini Episcopi Wintoniensis venientibus ad Collegium primo die Iunij xxd...Et in datis ministrallis Domine Regine venientibus ad collegium xxvjto die Iulij xxd Et in datis ministrall' Domini Regis venient' ad collegium ixo die Augusti ijs...

1489-90 Bursars' Account Rolls WC 22153 Mb[4d] (External Expenses) ... Et in datis ministrall' domini Episcopi Winton venient' ad Collegium xxjo die decembris xxd...Et in datis ministrall' domini de Arundell venient' ad collegium, xxd /... Mb[5d] ...Et in datis ministrallis domini Regis venientibus ad Collegium ffesto Sancti Pet' Aprilis iijs iiijd... ...

1490-91 Bursars' Account Rolls WC 22154 Mb[4d] (External Expenses) ... ...Et in datis ministrallo domini Episcopi Wintoniensis venienti ad Collegium 3o die Ianuarij xxd Et in datis Satrapis Wintoniensis in festo Epiphanie ijs Et in datis ministrallis domini de Arundell venientibus ad Collegium xjo die Ianuarij xxd...Et in datis ministrall' Domini Regis in mense Iulij xxd...

1491-92 Bursars' Account Rolls WC 22155 Mb[3d] (External Expenses and gifts) ... ...Et in dato ministrallo domini Episcopi Wintoniensis venienti ad collegium die Innocencium, xxd...Et in dat' ministrallis domini de Arundell venientibus ad Collegium xjo die Ianuarij xxd...Et in

Rewardo dat' ministrall' domini regis venient' ad collegium xxxo die Maij, xxd /...

1492-93 Bursars' Account Rolls WC 22156 Mb[4d] (Necessary Expenses and Gifts) ... ...Et in datis ministrallis domini de Arundell venientibus ad Collegium vltimo die Decembris xxd...Et in datis ministrallis Domini Regis et delaware iijs iiijd... ...

1493-4 Bursars' Account Rolls WC 22157 Mb[3d]-[4d] (Necessary Expenses and Gifts) ... ...Et in datis ministrallis domini de Arundell venientibus ad Collegium xv die Ianuarij xxd…Et in Rewardo dato ministrallis domini Regis venientibus ad Collegium in mense Iulij . ijs...Et in

Rewardo dato ministrall' matris domini Regis & seruienti domini principis venientibus ^ ˹hoc anno˺ ad collegium mense Octobris xxd... ...

1494-5 Bursars' Account Rolls WC 22158 Mb[4d] (External Expenses and Necessaries with Gifts) ... ...Et in datis ministrallis domini de Arundell venientibus ad Collegium xiijo die Ianuarij xxd...Et in solutis ministrallis domini episcopi Winton venientibus ad collegium xviijo die Ianuarij xxd...

1495-96 Bursars' Account Rolls WC 22159 Mb[2d] (External Expenses and Necessaries with Gifts) ... Et in datis Ministrallis domini Episcopi Wintoniensis et domini de Arundell venientibus ad collegium xmo die Ianuarij xld...

Mb[3d] ...Et in datis Ministrallis domini Regis venientibus ad collegium in tempore Electionis ijs... ...

1497-98 Bursars' Account Rolls WC 22161 Mb[4d] (Necessaries with Gifts) ... ...Et in Rewardo dat' ministrallis domini regis venientibus ad collegium mense Iunij ijs... Note: Compotus does not give dates. The last word is 'vicesimo'. Endorsement says Hen VII 14 so probably 20 Sept 97 - ? 98.

1498-99 Bursars' Account Rolls WC 22162 Mb[4d] (Necessaries with Gifts) ... ...Et insolutis ministrall' domini episcopi Wintoniensis venient' ad collegium xjmo die Ianuarij ad mandatum domini Custodis xijd Et in datis ministrallis domini de Arundell xijmo die Ianuarij xxd...Et insolutis ministrall' domine Regine primo die mensis Maij ad mandatum domini Custodis xxd...Et insolutis ministrallis domini Regis veneintibus ad collegium in mense maij ad mandatum Domini Custodis ijs... ...

1499-1500

Bursars' Account Rolls WC 22163 Mb[4d] (Necessaries with Gifts) ...Et insolutis ministrall' domini Episcopi Wyntoniensis venient' ad Collegium xjmo die Ianuarij ad mandatum domini Custodis xvjd Et insolutis ministrallis domini de Arundell venientibus ad Collegium xvmo die Ianuarij ad mandatum Custodis xxd cum viijd solutis vno Ioculatori domini regis ijs iiijd Et insolutis ministrall' domini regis venient' ad collegium xx die Augusti ad mandatum domini Custodis ijs...cum xxd solutis ministrall' domine regine venient' ad collegium xiij die mensis Iulij ad mandatum domini custodis iijs iiijd... Note: This account dated by a bursar from internal evidence; compotus says 16 Hen VII but more likely 15 Hen VII. 2? September 1499-20 Sept 1500.

DOCUMENT DESCRIPTIONS Bursars' Account Books The accounting year runs Michaelmas to Michaelmas. All in paper wrappers, with notes about contents made by previous Bursars (KIrby and Chitty). Winchester; College; 22145; 1475-6; Latin; parchment; 8Mbs, attached serially; Mb1: 613mm x 275mm; Mb2: 738mm x 276mm; Mb3: 453mm x 275mm; Mb4: 658mm x 277mm; Mb5: 740mm x 275mm; Mb6: 744mm x 275mm; Mb7: 735mm x 278mm; Mb8: 270mm x 275mm. Winchester; College; 22146; 1476-7; Latin; parchment; 8 Mbs, attached serially; Mb1: 696mm x 270mm; Mb2: 785mm x 273mm; Mb3: 250mm x 270mm; Mb4: 748mm x 275mm; Mb5: 744mm x 273mm; Mb6: 670mm x 274mm; Mb7: 760mm x 274mm; Mb8: 710mm x 275mm. Winchester; College; 22147; 1477-8; Latin; parchment; 7 Mbs, attached serially; Mb1: 740mm x 275mm; Mb2: 735mm x 275mm; Mb3: 344mm x 275mm; Mb4: 685mm x 275mm; Mb5: 737mm x 273mm; Mb6: 780mm x 275mm; Mb7: 660mm x 278mm. Winchester; College; 22148; 1479-80; Latin; parchment; 7 Mbs, attached serially; Mb1: 750mm x 275mm; Mb2: 630mm x 280mm; Mb3: 590mm x 275mm; Mb4: 724mm x 277mm; Mb5: 685mm x 273mm; Mb6: 750mm x 277mm; Mb7: 690mm x 278mm. Winchester; College; 22149; 1481-2; Latin; parchment; 7 Mbs, attached serially; Mb1: 770mm x 267mm; Mb2: 700mm x 262mm; Mb3: 525mm x 265mm; Mb4: 820mm x 260mm; Mb5: 825mm x 262mm; Mb6: 635mm x 266mm; Mb7: 690mm x 263mm. Winchester; College; 22150; 1482-3; Latin; parchment; 7 Mbs, attached serially; Mb1: 662mm x 268mm; Mb2: 735mm x 268mm; Mb3: 733mm x 270mm; Mb4: 724mm x 268mm; Mb5: 782mm x 264mm; Mb6: 760mm x 265mm; Mb7: 770mm x 268mm. Winchester; College; 22151; 1484-5; Latin; parchment; 8 Mbs, attached serially; Mb1: 785mm x 275mm; Mb2: 793mm x 275mm; Mb3: 595mm x 275mm; Mb4: 702mm x 272mm; Mb5: 800mm x 270mm; Mb6: 800mm x 270mm; Mb7: 600mm x 274mm; Mb8: 572mm x 266mm. Winchester; College; 22152; 1487-8; Latin; parchment; 7 Mbs, attached serially; Mb1: 690mm x 279mm; Mb2: 736mm x 280mm; Mb3: 762mm x 279mm; Mb4: 730mm x 278mm; Mb5: 680mm x 275mm; Mb6: 780mm x 276mm; Mb7: 710mm x 275mm.

Winchester; College; 22153: 1489-90; Latin; parchment; 8 Mbs, attached serially; Mb1: 733mm x 275mm; Mb2: 740mm x 278mm; Mb3: 178mm x 280mm; Mb4: 728mm x 276mm; Mb5: 740mm x 280mm; Mb6: 733mm x 280mm; Mb7: 730mm x 280mm; Mb8: 700mm x 278mm. Winchester; College; 22154; 1490-91; Latin; parchment; 8 Mbs, attached serially; Mb1: 738mm x 298mm; Mb2: 705mm x 295mm; Mb3: 670mm x 293mm; Mb4: 770mm x 299mm; Mb5: 690mm x 294mm; Mb6: 688mm x 297mm; Mb7: 715mm x 300mm; Mb8: 280mm x 300mm. Winchester; College; 22155; 1491-2; Latin; parchment; 6 Mbs, attached serially; Mb1: 825mm x 266mm; Mb2: 833mm x 268mm; Mb3: 795mm x 270mm; Mb4: 800mm x 247mm; Mb5: 768mm x 275mm; Mb6: 775mm x 273mm. Winchester; College; 22156; 1492-3; Latin; parchment; 8 Mbs, attached serially; Mb1: 767mm x 300mm; Mb2: 650mm x 300mm; Mb3: 660mm x 300mm; Mb4: 735mm x 300mm; Mb5: 728mm x 300mm; Mb6: 692mm x 300mm; Mb7: 685mm x 300mm; Mb8: 710mm x 300mm. Winchester; College; 22157; 1493-4; Latin; parchment; 7 Mbs, attached serially; Mb1: 732mm x 265mm; Mb2: 723mm x 265mm; Mb3: 823mm x 266mm; Mb4: 822mm x 265mm; Mb5: 705mm x 268mm; Mb6: 742mm x 268mm; Mb7: 620mm x 265mm. Winchester; College; 22158; 1494-5; Latin; parchment; 10 Mbs, attached serially; Mb1: 670mm x 276mm; Mb2: 630mm x 274mm; Mb3: 664mm x 278mm; Mb4: 613mm x 277mm; Mb5: 618mm x 264mm; Mb6: 573mm x 282mm; Mb7: 594mm x 279mm; Mb8: 437mm x 285mm; Mb9: 472mm x 285mm; Mb10: 490mm x 275mm. Winchester; College; 22159; 1495-6; Latin; parchment; 8Mbs, attached serially; Mb1: 620mm x 255mm; Mb2: 615mm x 265mm; Mb3: 410mm x 260mm; Mb4: 675mm x 265mm; Mb5: 706mm x 263mm; Mb6: 660mm x 263mm; Mb7: 715mm x 265mm; Mb8: 720mm x 260mm. Winchester; College; 22161; 1497-8; Latin; parchment; 9 Mbs, attached serially; Mb1: 755mm x 270mm; Mb2: 685mm x 270mm; Mb3: 645mm x 273mm; Mb4: 777mm x 274mm; Mb5: 522mm x 270mm; Mb6: 683mm x 274mm; Mb7: 760mm x 271mm; Mb8: 765mm x 272mm; Mb9: 230mm x 270mm. Winchester; College; 22162; 1498-9; Latin; parchment; 7 Mbs, attached serially; Mb1: 810mm x 268mm; Mb2: 705mm x 265mm; Mb3: 715mm x 267mm; Mb4: 728mm x 265mm; Mb5: 725mm x 272mm; Mb6: 705mm x 265mm; Mb7: 750mm x 268mm.

Winchester; College; 22163; 1499-1500; Latin; parchment; 7 Mbs, attached serially; Mb1: 670mm x 290mm; Mb2: 700mm x 288mm; Mb3: 707mm x 288mm; Mb4: 678mm x 289mm; Mb5: 710mm x 289mm; Mb6: 712mm x 285mm; Mb7: 700mm x 288mm. Hall Books These were rough accounts, in paper booklets, kept by the Hall Steward (this job was rotated weekly between the junior Fellows), listing, by name, in two columns all those eating in Hall each day. The totals were entered later in the Bursars' Accounts, 'Commons' section.The visitors eating in Hall were entered at the end of each week, generally across both columns, under the heading of 'Jurnelli', ie guests. The listings start on the left, with the day of the week, followed by a lists of guests, usually without commas or virgules, and then a formulaic entry such as 'ad prandium/cenam cum socijs' or 'cum famulis'.(Often these entries are not given marks of suspension, in which case I have left the entries unexpanded). Sometimes the visitors were listed as eating at the top table, with the Warden, sometimes with the junior fellows (socijs) and sometimes with the servants (famulis). This pecking order gives us some idea of the status accorded to the various sorts of visitors. None of the visitors of interest to us ate 'in alta mensis' or 'in camera Custodis'. There are datings of regnal years on the covers, sometimes the year the book was started and sometimes when it ended. Sometimes there are two entries, in different hands; the lengthier one in Latin appears to be contemporary and the other brief one is in a later hand. Each week starts with a Saturday but is not dated, but designated by a heading such as: ‘2nd week, 2nd quarter’, and then by the days in Latin. These have been given dates w.r.t Cheney and to H. Chitty, Bursar in the 1910's to 30's, who went to considerable lengths to verify them and also to establish dates where no cover has survived, w.r.t the corresponding Account Rolls, where they exist, or else to lists of scholars/Fellows and their dates of admission. (See privately printed monographs by Chitty). The accounting period is usually Michaelmas to Michaelmas and the new year begins with the Saturday following Michaelmas (with one or two exceptions). The Quarters are divided into thirteen weeks each, although the fourth quarter sometimes contains a fourteenth week to make the first quarter of the next year start on the Saturday after Michaelmas. Winchester; College; 22842; 1475-6; Hall Book, damaged, some writing missing; starts with 12th Week of 3rd Quarter and ends with 8th Week of 4th Quarter; Latin; paper; no cover; 0+10+0; 300mm x 110mm; (because of missing 1st and 2nd Quarters, dates of entries are all in 1476); Winchester; College; 22843b; 1478-9; part of Hall Book; very faded half way down all pages but text can be read under u/v light; Latin; paper; no cover; 1 gathering, covering 12th Week of 3rd Quarter to 11th Week of 4th Quarter; 0+14+0; 300mm x 110mm; (because of missing text, dates of entries are all in 1479).

Winchester; College; 22844; 1479-80; fragment of Hall Book; Latin; paper; no cover; 0+14+0; 300mm x 110mm; 1 gathering, covering 3rd Week of 3rd Quarter to 7th Week of 4th Quarter. Dates of entries are all in 1480. Winchester; College; 22845; 1480-81; Hall Book; Latin; paper; parchment cover; i+52+0; 300mm x 110mm; title on cover: Liber Commensalium Anno r. regis E iiijti xxo and 20 Ed IV 1480.