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vjs. viijd. Item, paide to Robert Chapman and his felowes for a hode to master John Warthill, iiijs. iiijd. ob. Item, to Sir William Ottlay and to ij other prestes for thare hodes, xjs. ijd. Item, to William Danby, iijs. iiijd. Summa liijs. iiijd. ob. Summa totalis omnium expensarum et solucionum ut supra, vli. xvjs. viijd. ob., et sic remanet nunc de claro in pecunia innumerata, vijli. ijs. vd. ob., quos solvit et equo.

Sir William Ottley's Gown.1

Memorandum unto Johannes Stoks, parchment maker, [Thomas de] Whenby [parchment maker]. That ye sall delyver unto me a strudell, and ye whilk Richard broght it unto you be the tokyn that Whenby and Richard drank a alpenwerth of ale insteks. All gretyng in God be unto my wurschipful suffrane sir William Ottlay, mayster of Trynytes, in Fosgate. William de Ottley. Joenson, Adamson, he prais you to send bysides a great gown furred with white by the tokyn that he come in the morning to your chamber dore, he might not come into your chamber. And laid it with a sister of the house, and also by the tokyn that I hask yow xl pens thereon, and is lent me not two scheleynges befor the glas wyndow, as ye said your matyns.

Will of Sir William Otteley.

(17 June, 1432.)

Sir William de Otteley, chaplain, custos hospitalis domini nostri Jesu Cristi et beate Marie virginis in Fossegate, Ebor', sep. in ecclesia parochiali Sancte Crucis, in Fossegate.

researches of Dr. Davidson and Mr. Gray have failed to discover proof of this tradition. The Scottish Staple at Veere, p. 136. cf. York Memorandum Book, op. cit., vol. ii, pp. 188, 189. Newcastle Merchant Adventurers, Surtees Soc., 93, 101, vol. i, p. 62.

1 The ordinances of the parchment makers are given in the York Memorandum Book, vol. i, p. 67; vol. ii, pp. 128, 129, 237, 238. There is no indication there that they worked in furs; the peltires were a mystery of considerable importance. York Memorandum Book, vol. ii, pp. 60, 61, 63–66. But the connection between parchment makers and skinners is obvious. There is no Johannes Stoks, parchment maker, in the Freemen's Roll, but Thomas Stokes, parchment maker, was made a freeman in 1386, Thomas de Whenby, parchment maker, in 1389, William Johanneson, portour, in 1390, Thomas Adamsone, porter, in 1376. The earliest possible date of this document is 1394, when Sir William Ottley was instituted; the latest, 1435, when he died. York Freemen, op. cit., pp. 74, 84, 88, 89.

Item, lego cuilibet pauperi utriusque sexus hospitalis domini nostri Jesu [Cristi] et beate Marie in Fossegate, Ebor', iiijd. Item, lego hospitali domini nostri Jesu Cristi et beate Marie virginis, cum condicione sequenti, unum portiforium magnum notatum, j psalterium cum manuali in eodem, j psalterium parvum cum placebo et direge in eodem, j collectorium cum secretis et post co[mmunione], et canone misse in eodem. Item, lego eidem hospitali j vestimentum de blodio bucasyne embrodatum cum stellis, videlicet, j capam, j casulam, j tunicellam, j albam, j stolam cum manupulo (sic) ejusdem secte. Item, lego eidem hospitali unum vestimentum album de panno lineo, videlicet, ij capas, j casulam, j tuniculam, j albam, j stolam cum manipulo ejusdem secte. Item, lego eidem hospitali j casulam nigram, de panno serico aur' cum apparatu sacerdotali. Item, j vestimentum stenyd de applys. Item, j vestimentum de bord Alexandre, cum stola et manupulo, et paruris sine alba. Item, duos pannos de serico veteri, et j baudekyn de velueto blodio imbrodatum cum stellis, sub ista condicione quod executores mei non inquietentur neque vexentur per successorem meum, qui pro tempore erit neque per aliquem alium nomine suo pro reparacionibus faciendis in dicto hospitali, vel in tenementis eidem pertinentibus, aliter non.

R. Test. Ebor', vol. iii, fo. 442.

Account roll of William Bedale, master, and Nicholas Louth and William Jarom, constables, 1434.

Recepciones cum arreragiis.-Firste, the saide master and constables have resayved in mone tolde, as it profes be the fote of accounte of the yere past, vijli. ijs. vd. ob. Item, resayved of diverse persones for thaire quarterage, of ilke persone, xijd. (i.e.) xxxvs. Item, in arrerage of xviij persones, that hafe noght paide thaire arrerage, as it profes be thaire names in the boke of quarterage, xviijs. Item, in arrerage of William Bedale tyme and before, as it profes in accounte of the yere nexte befor past and be a litill rolle, xjli. iijs. iiijd. Item, in arrerage of Richard Louth tyme of diverse persones for thaire entre in to the cumpany, as it profes be ye saide rolle, ls. Item, resayved of diverse persones for thaire

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quarterage, payde of thaire arrerage of Richard Louth tyme, as it profes be the names in the same rolle, iijs. viijd., also in arrerage of quarterage of Richard of Louth tyme of diverse persones, that hafe noght payde, as it profes be thaire names in the saide rolle, xixs. Summa recepcionum, ixli. xiijd. ob. Summa arreragiorum, xvli. xs. iiijd. Summa totalis, xxiiijli. xjs. vd. ob.

Feoda. Of the whilke ixli. xiijd. ob. payde to master Thomas Cleveland for his fee, xiijs. iiijd. Item, paide to Thomas Warde, xiijs. iiijd. Item, to William Stillyngton, iijs. iiijd. Item, to William Graundon, xiijs. iiijd. Item, to Robert Dodmore, xiijs. iiijd. Summa lvjs. viijd. Expense forinsece.-Item, paide to Thomas Kirke for a presente made to oure lorde Archbissop of fyssh, xvs. Item, for iij meles lyme, iijs. jd. Item, to Thomas Scauseby,1 mercer, to have a copy of a prife sele at Hull, xxd. Item, allowed to the forsaide master and constables for plonket clothe gefen to master Thomas Cleveland and to Thomas Warde to thaire hodes, xvjd. Item, to Nicholas Louth for diverse victalles boght be hym and John Burnlay, xs. Item, in parchemyn and paper boght within the tyme of this accounte, vjs. Item, paide to diverse persones at Hull for a pryfe sele, xxvjs. viijd. Item, paide to sir William Ottlay for clothe to a goune, vjs. viijd. Item, for clothe to a hode to William Graundon, iijs. ijd. Item, paide to John Dene for beryng of a letter to London directe to the maire of London, iijs. iiijd. Item, in wyne gefen to Thomas Warde and other (sic), viijd. ob. Summa iijli. xijs. jd. ob. Summa totalis omnium expensarum ut supra, vjli. viijs. ixd. ob. Et sic remanet nunc de clato (sic), lijs. iiijd. quos solvit constabulariis subscriptis, et equo.

Account Roll of John Raghton,2 master, and Robert Chapman and John Calton, constables, 1435.

Recepciones. Firste, the saide maister and constables hafe resayved in mone tolde, as it profes be the fote of accompte of the yere next before paste, lijs. iiijd. Item, resayved for 1 Mayor in 1462.

2 Draper, chamberlain in 1423. York Freemen, op. cit., pp. 132, 134. Mercer, made a freeman in 1423; ibid., p. 134.

quartrage of diverse persones, that wher in arrerage of William Bedale tyme, of ilke persone, xijd. (i.e.) vijs. Item, resayved of xxxv persones, for thaire quartrage of the hole year of John Raghton tyme, as it profes be thaire names, of ilke persone, xijd. (i.e.) xxxvs. Item, resayved of William Katryk for his entre into the cumpany, as the son of Thomas Katryk, iijs. iiijd. Item, resayved of the same William to be a brother, iijs. iiijd. Item, Richard Scotton is afferid to be of the cumpany to xvs., therof xxd. is payde in hande. And the same Richard to pay atte festes of Seint Migell and Sole (29 Sept., 2 Nov.) coming, by even porcons, the whilke is gefen up in arrerage to be raysed at the same festes, xiijs. iiijd. Item, resayved of the same Richard for hym and hys wyfe to be brother and sister, vs. Item, resayved of the executors of Richard Knight, chaundler, for his quartrage of ij yere, ilke yere, xvjd. (i.e.) ijs. viijd. Item, resayved of the same executors for quartrage of ij vere and a half being behinde, ilke yere, xijd., noght accounted in non arrerage befor past, ijs. vjd. Item, resayved of Robert Chapman for shipping this yere, iijs. iiijd. Item, resayved of William Gaunt for freghtyng of a shippe of Berwyk, vjs. Item, resayved of the same William for freghtyng of another shippe, iijs. iiijd. Item, resayved of John Denom1 for freghtyng of a shippe, iijs. iiijd. Summa recepcionum, vjli. viijs. xd. Arreragia ut supra. xiijs. iiijd. Summa totalis, vijli. ijs. ijd. Of the whilke vjli. viijs. xd. the saide maister and constables askes to be allowed of diverse payments payde, as it profes be the parcell underwretyn.

Feoda. First, payde to maister Thomas Cleveland for his fe, xiijs. iiijd. Item, to Thomas Warde for his fee, xiijs. iiijd. Item, to William Stillyngton, iijs. iiijd. Item, to William Graundson, xiijs. iiijd. Item, to Robert Dodmore, xiijs. iiijd. Summa lvjs. viijd.

Expense forinsece.-Item, payde for a grate sele, that is to say the comone sele of the cumpany, iijs. Item, in diverse costages and expenses made to diverse persones at Trinite halle for inquisition made with prestes, and in other places,

1 Mercer, made free in 1432. York Freemen, op. cit., p. 147.

2 See introduction.

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iijs. vd. Item, in diverse costages and expenses made be diverse tymes to diverse wurthy men of lawe and others assembled at diverse tymes to hafe thaire wyse counsaile and information, of diverse matters touching the cumpany for thaire most profit and availe, iijli. xjs. viijd. Item, a present was gefen to the vicar generall be assente of the cumpany, that is to say of mayn brede, wyne, and diverse manner of fyssh, that cost vjs. viijd. Item, payde for writyng to diverse clerkes for dedes touching the right of the company, wretyn in right grete hast, with costage of parchemyn and paper boght within the tyme of this accompt, vs. iijd. Summa iiijli. xs. Summa totalis omnium solucionum et expensarum ut supra, vijli. vjs. viijd. And so ther is spendid more than is resayved by xvijs. xd.

Charters and deeds belonging to the Company.

The Friday, in ye secunde weke of Pasc, at Trinite hall, John Raghton, maister, has reseyved of William Jarum this parcell undrewretyn. First the Kynges chartre, and a written boke, a copy of the chartre endented; a dede of the avouson of the hospitall; an endenture made betwene John Warthill and Robert Jarom, Thomas Aton and others; another endenture made betwene sir William Ottlay, Thomas Aton and others; a dede of William Wastelyn and Annes his wyfe; an endenture that sir William Ottlay has leten to ferme to John Tanfeld a messuage in Petergate; a dede that Nicholas Warthill gefes to John Warthill all landes and tenementes; and an endenture wretyn of grete ragge unseled; an obligacon that John Bryan and Alan of Hill is bunden to Robert Jarom and others, in xlli.; another obligacon that William Holbek, Thomas Holbek er bunden to Robert Jarom and others in, xlli.; a bille of paper of parcells. This personalles er resayved be Thomas Kyrke, maister, Thomas Crathorn and Robert Holtby, constables (1436).

2

1 Merchant, free in 1421, mayor in 1444. York Freemen, op. cit., Pp. 131,

163.

Mercer, son of John Holtby, girdler, free in 1415; ibid., p. 123.