Churchwardens’ accounts for the church of St. Mary, Sutterton, Lincolnshire, 1461-1537
The accounts are of the churchwardens, or "praepositores ecclesiae" or "kyrke masters" and are in good preservation and very legible.
The accounts for the years 1485, 1487–9, 1492, 1494, 1500, 1502–6, 1509, 1513–7, and 1520, appear to be missing, but in the earlier part there are several portions which are undated, and which probably may be found to fill up some of the apparent deficiencies.
The entries of payments for burials, obits and lights at funerals can supply the absence of a burial register as being a record of deaths.
The church was consecrated in 1490, the accounts for that year including the particulars of a feast given at the "halloynge of ye chyrche," amongst which are, "pro expenses of Corpus Christi day, xiiij d," and "payd to ye soffrygane v marc. xx d.".
The payments in connection with the bells are numerous, and are met with in every year; they were rehung by Rich. Sehok of Nottingham. "Handbells" are mentioned in 1534.
Besides the "hy awter" the following altars are mentioned: St. Nicholas, "Owr White Lady," and St. Katherine.
In 1495 there is the following entry: "Payd for makyng of a hengell to ye kyrkeʒate, xiid.".
"Owyr Ladey qwere" is mentioned, and there was a guild of St. Thomas, and also Our Lady’s Guild.
"Sir" Christopher Crosley was vicar in 1499, and in 1501 (then "magister") he becomes one of the churchwardens. In 1524 "mayster doctor Hygtone" was vicar.
There were these lights in the church: the Sepulchre light, the All Souls’ light, St. Stephen’s light, the May light of "Dowdykhend, " the May light "of Fysmarhende," the "Hognars"or"Hoggeners" light, the "Plowght" or "Ploy" light, and the common or town’s light.
A silver pyx, a vestment of white damask for the altar of Our White Lady, and "onne vesture callyde one coyte to owre qwhytte lady," etc., were received in 1531 as a legacy from Thomas Robertson, esq., of Boston.
[From Corrigenda et Addenda: Eleven additional leaves, carrying the commencement of the accounts back to 1461, were found in MS. Rawl. D. 1480, and were restored to their place in this volume, in July, 1897.]
Dates
- Creation: 1461-1537
Extent
125 Leaves
Language of Materials
- English
- Latin
Shelfmark
MS. Rawl. D. 786
Other Finding Aids
For a more detailed description of this item, see Medieval Manuscripts in Oxford Libraries under MS. Rawl. D. 786.
William D. Macray, Catalogi codicum manuscriptorum Bibliothecae Bodleianae partis quintae fasciculus primus viri munificentissimi Ricardi Rawlinson, J.C.D., codicum classes duas priores, ad rem historicam praecipue et topographicam spectantes, complectens(Oxford, 1862), no. D. 786.
Falconer Madan, et al., A summary catalogue of western manuscripts in the Bodleian Library at Oxford which have not hitherto been catalogued in the Quarto series(7 vols. in 8 [vol. II in 2 parts], Oxford, 1895-1953; reprinted, with corrections in vols. I and VII, Munich, 1980), vol. III, no. 13556.
Physical Facet
On paper, in quarto
Creator
- From the Collection: Rawlinson | Richard | 1690-1755 | Antiquary and Nonjuror (Person)
- From the Collection: Pepys | Samuel | 1633-1703 | MP, Diarist, Public Servant, Antiquary (Person)
- From the Collection: Thurloe | John | 1616-1668 | Secretary to the Council of State (Person)
- From the Collection: Wilkinson | Thomas | fl 1600-1699 | Anglican clergyman (Person)
- From the Collection: Bracton | Henry de | c 1210-1268 | Judge, Chancellor of Exeter Cathedral (Person)
- From the Collection: Gunning | Peter | 1614-1684 | Bishop of Ely (Person)
- From the Collection: Lewis | John | c 1700-1799 | Minister of Margate (Person)
- From the Collection: Robinson | John | 1650-1723 | Bishop of London (Person)
- From the Collection: Fitzwilliams | John | fl 1600-1699 | Nonjuror (Person)
- From the Collection: Grenville | Denis | 1637-1703 | Jacobite Archbishop of York | also known as Denis Granville (Person)
- From the Collection: Locke | John | 1632-1704 | philospher (Person)
- From the Collection: Mandeville | Sir | John | d 1372 | travel writer (Person)
- From the Collection: Nedam | James | fl 1532-1543 | Royal Surveyor of Works (Person)
- From the Collection: Roach | Richard | 1662-1730 | Anglican clergyman (Person)
- From the Collection: Beaumont | fl 1688-1730 | Nonconformist (Person)
- From the Collection: Fleming | Robert | ? 1660-1716 | Presbyterian Minister (Person)
- From the Collection: Hawes | Samuel | fl 1694-1700 | Nonjuror (Person)
- From the Collection: Price | Daniel | fl 1685-1706 | Dean of St Asaph (Person)
- From the Collection: Stanton | William | fl 1697-1704 (Person)
- From the Collection: Swadlin | Thomas | 1600-1670 | Royalist divine (Person)
- From the Collection: Turner | Francis | ? 1638-1700 | Bishop of Ely (Person)
- From the Collection: Turner | Thomas | 1645-1714 | President of Corpus Christi College Oxford (Person)
- From the Collection: Samber | Robert | fl 1710-1729 | Poet (Person)
- From the Collection: Williams | John | fl 1709-1726 | Poet (Person)
- From the Collection: Hearne | Thomas | 1678-1735 | Antiquary and Nonjuror (Person)
- From the Collection: Wharton | Philip | 1613-1696 | 4th Baron Wharton (Person)
- From the Collection: Zamboni | Giovanni Giacomo | fl 1723-1751 | resident in England for Duke of Modena (Person)
- From the Collection: Sancroft | William | 1617-1693 | Archbishop of Canterbury (Person)
- From the Collection: Neve | John Le | 1679-1741 | Antiquary (Person)
- From the Collection: L'Estrange | Hamon | 1605-1660 | theologian and historian (Person)
- From the Collection: Gronovius | Jacobus | 1645-1716 | classical scholar (Person)
- From the Collection: Smith | Thomas | 1638-1710 | Nonjuror Historian and Librarian (Person)
- From the Collection: Holman | William | d 1730 | Essex Antiquary Congregational Minister (Person)
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