144 The Fraternities of Sarum. 
The food is often entered as singing bread and singing wine. 
When there was an obit the priest had extra pay; 5d. seems to 
haye been about the figure. When a dirge was sung the priest 
got extra. In 1477 it was 8s. ld., but that included the tolling of 
the great bell, which I expect had to be paid for to the Church. 
When the Fraternity priest was ill, or the place was vacant, the 
wardens paid a substitute. The clerk was paid £5 8s. 8d. in 1496, 
and seems to have been lucky enough to get 20d. for engrossing 
the account. 
But he was not always so fortunate, for in the year ending 19th 
April, 1500, the account reads thus :—Stipends and rewards this 
year 
“To ye morowe masse Chapelayn of ye said mass of Jhu for his hole yeres 
wages sz. euery quarter xxvjs viijd. S’ma of the hole yeres wages evis viiid. 
To ye Clerkes yt helpith ye same Chapelayn to masse and kepith ye ornamentes 
ther, for his wages by ye bole yere sz a quarter xd. S’ma iijs. iiijd.” 
And the account goes on :— 
“for bred and ale for preistes and Clerkes yt syngeth the Salueis every fryday 
in ye lent xxd.” “Necessary costes of wexe & other for the morrow messe 
auter this yer to Will’m Harold, chaundler, for a littell Torche of rosom and for 
makyng of ij taperis for ye said morrowe masse Auter in all xvjd. To ye same 
Will’m for another Torche of rosom weyng xj lb the lb ijd. S’ ijs. vd.; to ye 
same for vj lb talowe candelis for ye said morrowe masse preist at ye masse ip 
the Wynt’ the lb jd Sma vjd; to Thomas Coke mercer for xiiij lb wexe for the 
Salue in the lent ye lb vjd. S’ma vj xjd; to ye said Willm Harold for making of 
ye same Taperis and for making of wexe torchis in all xjd; for syngyng bred 
for ye said morow messe Auter for all this yer past xd; for syngyng wine for 
ye same Auter for all this yer’ nowe past iijs vd.; for wassyng of all ye same 
Auter clothies in all this hole yere nowe past xd; for skowring of the latyn 
candilstikkes thier i all ijd. S’ma xvijs. vjd.” 
The accounts also include the cost of repairs to the property, the 
items of which, though very interesting, would weary you, even 
were I to give but a sample. 
When it came to be a case of alienation of land to endow these 
Fraternities, then a licence was necessary, which was of course pre- 
ceded by a writ and inquisition ad quod damnum, and eventually by 
letters patent the licence was granted and recorded. But except for 
alienation of land the late Mr. Toulmin Smith insists that the king’s 
licence was not necessary to the foundation of a Gild. I exhibit 
