https://doi.org/10.31648/ep.6342
A detailed analysis of the accounts dating back to the late 1433, as well as 1434 and 1435 indicates that:
- the purchase of: beverages (ale, wine and mead), fish (herring, cod and others), oil, vinegar, peas, onions, mustard seeds, krude (spices, dried fruit and nuts, rice, sugar or other products served during royal feasts), kitchen equipment; fabrics and furs, parchment for writing, wax for seals and candles, pine tar for protecting horse hooves and greasing cart axles, horses, horse plows and crossbows;
- payments: to a dwarf, musicians, a lutenist, trombonist, trumpeter, dancing damsels, falconers, for the purchase of falcons, to a painter (including for the painting of St. Erasmus), goldsmith (including for silver owls), tailor, hatmaker, washerwoman, shoemaker, bath keeper, barber, blacksmith, cartwright, stable boys, canner, charcoal burner, skipper, farm workers, servants; for the repair of a stable yard and a shooting range;
- salaries paid to: Nicolaus, the Grand Marshal’s scribe, senior choir chaplain, choir chaplain and diner (members of the household);
- financial support for: people in need (elderly former clerks, ill priests, pilgrims, active religious clerks, knights, townsmen (merchants) and viting (Prussian magnates faithful to the Teutonic Order);
- frequent trips to Wałdowo (Waldow), including expenses incurred during the visits of the Grand Master, the Land Marshal of Livonia, and the Grand Commander; purchase of pigs, calves, rams, hens, eggs, game, fish, beverages, salt, oats, wax for seals; repair of the bathhouse, repair of the rain gutter above the Grand Marshal's room, installation of glass windows in living quarters;
- regular visits to the coast (Lochstadt, Sarkawa, Szaki and Rosity), including meetings with the Great Commander, the Land Marshal of Livonia, the Master of Livonia, Duke of Lithuania Świdrygiełło, and the Curonians; purchase of oats, Gdańsk ale, mugs, glass vessels, jugs, bridles and salt; payments to coopers and saddlers;
- short visits, including one-time visits to Gierdawy (Gerdauen) and Węgorzewo (Angerburg) in 1434; one-time visits to Rudawa (Rudau), Krzemity (Kremitten), Judyty, Tapiawa, Pokarmin (Brandenburg), Frydląd (Friedland) and Alembork (Allenburg) in 1435; multiple visits to Kaporn, Galtgarben, Pobethen and Memel (Klaipeda); entertaining the Land Marshal of Livonia in Rudawa; building of a barn in Kaporn and an extension of the Memel castle.
- congresses in Elbląg (Elbing) and Toruń (Thorn); visits to Malbork, Elbląg, Gdańsk, Przezmark (Preussisch Mark) and Dąbrówno (Gilgenburg); purchase of wine, fish and oats.
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