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Archaeologia Cantiana -  Vol. 58  1945  page 32

Recent discoveries in the Archives of Canterbury Cathedral by W. P. Blore

conductis per annum integrum deductis septimanis 
       Natalis Domini Pasche ac Pentecostes ac 
       diebus festivis1                clxvii li. viii d.
In CCC summis calcis uste emptis vi li. In C. carectatis zabuli fundendis2  xvi s. viii d. pro carectata ii d.        in instrumentis dictorum latomorum acuendis3 et aliis necessariis emptis        xl s.
Solut' Magistro Henrico Ivele pro plumbo et petra
       ab eo emptis    xx
                              iiii. x li. xvi. s.

   From the opening of the fifteenth century the few remaining accounts of the Priors and a few miscellaneous documents provide additional detail to that contained in the Fabric Rolls: ----
Prior's Account Roll, xvii. l.
1411 (List of payments to persons named, possibly tradesmen)
    Thome Rudham                          (amount faded)
    Thome Melyour' pictori               xv li. xvi s. viii d.
    Willelmo Lane                            (faded)
    Edwardo Crowe                         xxv li. xiii s. iiii d.
    Petro Halle pro arreragiis
        anni precedentis                      vi li. vi s. viii d.
    Iohanni Bulstrode                        xxi li. ......... ...........
    Ricardo Cornevyle                      xxxiii li ......... ...........
    Iohanni Kent                               vi. li. xiii s. iiii d.

    Iohanni Barnet                            viii li.
    Simoni Salesbury                        xviii li. xiii s. iiii d.
    Willelmo Maydestane                 xlvi li. xiii s. iiii d.
    Simoni Carpentario London        xiii li. xix s. ix d.
    Ricardo Cliderow de antiquo
        debito domini T. Prioris           vii li.

   Mr. Arthur Oswald informs me that several of these names occur in livery lists of the Prior contained in Bodleian Tanner MS. 165 — 
List of 1398 'Armigeri'
Henry Yvele; Stephen Lote (Yevele's successor as King's Mason); John Pyrye (surveyor and clerk of the cathedral works); Thomas Hoo; John Wulward (apparently first of the working masons and carpenters, respectively, or resident masters or wardens of the works); Simon Carpenter; John Bulstrode; John Kent.

List of 1412 'Armigeri'
Stephen Lote; John Kent; Simon Salisbury; William Maidstone.
   1  The workmen had unpaid holidays of a week each at Christmas, Easter, and Whitsun, and on certain other feasts.
    2  Perhaps "unloading 100 cartloads of sand."
    For the employer's responsibility for sharpening the masons' tools, see D. Knoop and G. P. Jones: The Mediaeval Mason, 1933, p. 62 ff.

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