Liber custodum platae, the priorie of S. Helene in the Marches, leaf xxvij verso
The booke of the keepers of the plate, bound up at the back of the chapter rolls. Entries by the year, in two columns — Tradidit (the outgoing keeper hands the press over) and Recepit (the incoming keeper countersigns). The xxxiijth entry, in a clerkly hand:
Anno xxix Henrici octaui regis, die ix maij, in vigilia Translacionis S. Nicholai.
Tradidit
- Item j — chalices duo silver-gilt for the high altar, weight xxv oz. iiij dwt.
- Item ij — pixe of silver-gilt with a chayne, weight iiij oz. ij dwt.
- Item iij — paten of silver, weight ix oz.
- Item iv — pixe of brass small, no weight set downe.
- Item v — cruettes of silver a payre, weight v oz. j dwt.
- Item vj — censer of silver with three little belles, weight viij oz. iij dwt.
- Item vij — the cuppe of the late Dame Margerie FitzHardy, silver-gilt, with a knop in the foot wherein is reported to be set a peece of the holy Roode, weight xviij oz. iij dwt.
- Item viij — pax-tablet of silver-gilt enamelled, weight ij oz. v dwt.
- Item ix — spoones of silver vj, by tale.
- Item x — basin of silver greate, weight xj oz.
Tradidi per manus meas hac die ix maij — signed at the foot of the column: Caecilia Hawte, sacrist.
Recepit
Recepi per manus meas hac die ix maij —
(here a small cross +, in red ink, in another hand. No name. No initial. No date.)
At the foot of the leaf, in a careful conventual hand, in black ink, neither Cecily's nor the clerk's:
Quia infirma erat soror A. Hooke die ix maij anno præd., datur ei tempus ad subscribendum donec conualescat. Custodia platae ad me reuersa donec illa scripserit.
Joh. Beaufitz, priorissa.
[Because Sister A. Hooke was sick on the ix of May in the said year, time is given her to sign, until she is well. Custody of the plate is returned to me until she shall have written. — Ioan Beaufitz, prioress.]
The next leaf, xxviij recto, begins the year xxx Hen. VIII in another clerk's hand:
Anno xxx, die xiij maij — Inuentarium nondum scriptum, quia visitator presens fuit ipsa die et de cuppa FitzHardy inquirit. T. Wace, clerke, hoc adnotauit.
[The inventory is not yet written, because the visitor was present on that same day and inquires concerning the FitzHardy cup. — T. Wace, clerk, has noted this here.]
In the inside margin, a much later hand, in pencil, English, undated:
who held the cuppe Mayes 1537 — May 1538?