Booke of the Keepers of the Plate of the House of S. Mary at Wymondesfeld, Lent terme A.D. 1538
The fourth & last leaf of the booke. The recto is more than half-filled in the keeper's hand; the foot is finished by a second hand in pencil. Folded once and laid in the lower drawer of the cellarer's press in the East Range; lifted from the press at the surrender by Dame Alice Swathe, sub-prioresse, and carried in her travelling sleeve to Cromer, where it passed by descent to her sister's house at Walsingham, thence to the parish chest at Cawston, thence to a private collection at Lyn, and, in 1903, to the Norwich Record Office. The booke is twelve leaves long; this is the last. Calder Carbons consulted at the catalogue stage; the leaf is item NRO/MS 1903.144/12.
— recto, in the keeper's hand, in iron-gall ink, the rule pricked but not ruled —
The fyfth weke of Lent in the xxix yere of the reigne of our soverayn Lord Kyng Henry the Eight, the prioresse & chapiter of this house beyng mette, the comissioners of the Kynges grace beyng come from London by waye of Norwich,
I, Clemence Aubrey, suster of this house & keper of the plate by ordre of the late prioresse, do reken & rendre acompte as foloweth.
Recepi calicis nostri pretium, xxiij li. xij s. iiij d., of M. Thomas Lacie, comissioner — recepit in hande, in golde & in shillings, for the grete chalice of S. Mary, weied xxix unc. iij dwt. ob., gilte; the bolle, the foot, & the paten of the same; the chalice this day delivered out of the sacristy & out of our handes, as appereth in the comissioners' bille at the foot of this leaf, subscribed by my hand & by his.
Item, recepi pro patena minore, xviij s. iiij d.; the lesser paten, ungilte, weiyng xv unc. ij dwt., delivered the same day.
Item, recepi pro thuribulo & nave, l s. ij d.; the censer & the shippe, weied togider xxxvij unc. xij dwt., delivered the same day.
Item, recepi nichil for the smaller chrysmatorie, the same being founde in the prioresse her closet under cloth & not within the inventory; the comissioner havyng taken note thereof, & said no more.
The summe of this acompte: xxv li. xx d., received in hande, paied to the cofre of our soverayn Lord the Kyng, the cofre sealed by the comissioner and by me the keper.
Subscribed: Clemence Aubrey, suster, keper of the plate of this house.
Witnessed: M. Thomas Lacie, comissioner, by his hand.
— at the foot of the leaf, in pencil, in another hand, undated, the lead a cellarer's stub —
Item. The smaller chrysmatorie the comissioner saw & did not weigh is in the bolster of Mistris Hawys her bed at Cromer the night this booke is shut, & will be melted at a goldsmith's at Lyn before Whitsun for the dowry of Suster Eliz. Pevre, vivit, who will marry a curate at Cawston & live, vivit vivit, fortie yeres yet.
Item. Suster Joane Bere, vivit, gone to her suster at Walsingham.
Item. Suster Anne Hood, vivit, gone to the priorie of Carrow at Norwich.
Item. Suster Clemence Aubrey, the keper, vivit, this hand above.
Item. Dame Alice Swathe, sub-prioresse, vivit, the hand that pencils this margin.
The chalice is paied & sealed; the bookes are shut. The susters are not in the bookes. They are in this margin.
Vivit, vivunt. — A. S.
— a thin pencilled rule beneath the marginal, & nothing further on the leaf —