Bread and wine (1600-1604)

Post date: Mar 27, 2018 7:3:55 PM

W.A. Bolt in his Supplement to "Wateringbury in the Past" (dated 1972; copy held in WLHS library) has copies of various documents held in Kent archives (ref P385/5/38 and P385/5/39).

The first is a list under the following caption: "The inhabitants of Wateringbuye for bread and wyne anno domine 1600." The list comprises 53 names. The last 7 (bottom right of page) are all widows: Myller, Smythe, Clagett, Gryfin, Ollyve, Underwood and Tyller.

The second document is headed "Communicants at Easter 1602 for bread and wyne". The list is headed by Sir Richard Wilkinson of Lenham (who Bolt notes briefly held the manor between George Delahay and Oliver Style. The second is William Codd and the fourth Master Codd. The eleventh is Elizabeth Barham (of Barham Court, Teston). There are 46 names. It appears that each name has a value of the receipt beside it but these are not readily decipherable.

The second part of this document (excluding prices as these are difficult) is as follows:

1602

Layed out for bread and wyne

First the Sundaye before Easter

2 pints of malmsey

for bread then

Item one quart of malmsey

on Easter daye.

for bread then

Item 2 pints of malmsey the Sundaye

after Easter

Item one quart of malmsey on

Whitsundaye

for bread then

item one pint of malmsey

first Sundaye in October

for bread then

Item one pint of malmsey

on Christmas Daye

for bread then

Item one pint of malmsey

the first Sunday in January

for bread then

Bolt comments that malmsey was 5d. a pint and the bread used ¹/₂d. or 1d.

There is a third list of 39 communicants attending at Easter 1604 for bread and wyne.