From the Junior Dean's book of battels-excesses, S. Aldate's College, Oxon, Lent terme 1675
A leaf from the book in which Mr Sparke, bursar, was required by the Founder's statute (cap. xxiij. de victualibus) to enter weekly such commensals as had exceeded their fixed commons by more than xij d, with the bursar's foot-signature accepting the excesses to be raysed against the next reckoning. The book is bound with the battels-rolls of the same hall. The leaf is for the week beginning xxxj martii 1675, the Tuesday before Palm Sunday. Mr Sparke, bursar. Mr Bourchier, fellow. W. Acres, servitor.
The form, printed by the College Press in 1668 after the Master visited Magdalen the year before, asks the same question twice on the same leaf: first by the column (whose excess is to be raysed?), then by the foot (which excesses doth the bursar accept?). The column is engrossed by the bursar; the foot is signed by the bursar; the foot's two halves do not, this week, agree.
— above, in Mr Sparke's hand, the week's column —
W. Berkely sen. fellow — battels excess this week iiij s vj d — vino sociorum
H. Coxe, commoner — iij s — vino sociorum
F. Hyde, gent. comm. — vij s vj d — vino sociorum & sack
J. Dolben, gent. comm. — v s — sack
Sr Snape, batler — xviij d — caro suprasummalis
— at the foot, in Mr Sparke's hand —
Summa: xxj s vj d. Accepted to be raysed at ye next audit. — Wm Sparke, bursar.
— immediately below the bursar's signature, in the bursar's own hand, the lead lighter, the ink fresher by a day —
Mr Bourchier his excesse for this same week (xij s viij d, vino sociorum, sack, & caro suprasummalis) to be allowed, quia in officio decani iunioris fuit hac hebdomade.
— at the very foot, in a hand different from the bursar's, the Master's secretary —
Vide ad statutum cap. xxiij. Decanus iunior non est officium ad quod allowance pertinet.
— end of leaf. The next week's column does not list Mr Bourchier; the audit at Trinity terme does not raise the xij s viij d. —