Bridge House Rental 4: Account for 1501-2

BRIDGE HOUSE RENTAL 4

Account for 1501-2

355. [f. 22lv] Account of William Maryner and Christopher Eliot, wardens of London Bridge, from Michaelmas 17 Henry VII [1501] to Michaelmas then next ensuing [1502], that is to wit for one whole year. (fn. 1)

356. The same wardens account for £1,088 9¾d. of arrears of William Holte and Edward Grene, the last accountants, as appears by the foot of the same account.
Total £1,088 9¾d.

357. The charge rental of the proper rent of the Bridge livelihood extends by the year to the sum of £562 18s. And the foreign rent £59 11s. 7½d., as appears in the rental thereof made in the beginning of this present book.
Total £622 9s. 7½d.

358. Farm of the fishmongers selling fish at the Stocks on that part called the fishmarket there, let to William Barker for a term of years, at £20 a year. And of butchers selling flesh in that part called the fleshmarket there, paying every week out of Lent 16s. 1d., total £36 19s. 10d.
Total together £56 19s. 10d.

359. Passage of carts and wains [carres] passing over the bridge, in the holding of John Hasteler, let to him for this year £23. And as for any profits of ships passing under the drawbridge, there is none charged because it may not be drawn until the stonework of the drawbridge tower be amended.
Total £23.

360. Increase of rents of divers lands, mills, and tenements for many years past, as it is charged in the last account, £47 4s. 6d. And of the rent increased within the time of this account, £10 8s. 1d., as it appears by the parcels thereof in the rental at the beginning of this present book.
Total £57 12s. 7d.

361. Quit-rents £31 12s. 6d., the parcels whereof appear in the rental; the wardens are charged with 12d. of the farm of a little close at Horton beside Ewell in co. Surrey, as in accounts of past years.
Total £31 12s. 6d.

362. Oblations in the chapel to the said Bridge, at the feast of the Translation of St Thomas of Canterbury and at other feasts in the year, and out of divers boxes within the said chapel this year.
Total 15s. 4d.

363. Sales.
From Richard Paynell for 7½ hundred 12 ft. of quarterboard at 2s. the hundred, total 15s. 6d. And from the same Richard for 21 quarters of elm, at 2½d. the quarter, 4s. 4½d. From Robert Maunsy for boards, boxes, and other stuff of the store of the Bridge House, 2s. 6d.
Total 22s. 4½d.

364. Fines from divers persons.
Of Robert Lane for the tenement in which he now dwells, for a licence to enter the same by lease made thereof to Richard Clerke, 40s. Of the same Robert towards new making the stall of the same tenement. 10s. Of Thomas Pope, bowyer, for his stall to be taken down where now Henry Pyckenam dwells, 3s. 4d. And of divers petermen and lightermen misbehaving at the bridge, contrary to divers acts thereof made, 4s.
Total 57s. 4d.

365. [f. 222] Standings on the bridge.
From divers people standing there and in a vacant tenement at the Standard in Cheap at the coming in of the princess, (fn. 2) 54s. 3d. And at Our Lady Fair in Southwark, from divers smiths and other artificers selling their wares in the empty spaces on the said bridge this year, 7s. 5d.
Total 61s. 8d.

366. Total of all their charge with the arrears, £1887 12s. ¾d.

367. Payment of quit-rents.
Allowance made to the Wardens for money paid to the archbishop of Canterbury for a quit-rent of 10s. 4d. a year from tenements in Southwark and from a close called the Lock called Carpenters' Haw for a year ended at Michaelmas 17 Henry VII [1501], 10s. 4d.
To the earl of Derby and Lord Bergavenny for a quit-rent of 16d. a year from the Bridge House in Southwark, with appurtenances, for a year ended at Michaelmas aforesaid, 16d.
To Sir John Sha, kt., for a quit-rent of £4 a year from tenements at the Standard in Cheap, late of Sir William Vampage, kt., for a year ended at Midsummer 15 Henry VII [1500], £4.
To the churchwardens of [St Mary le] Bow, for a quit-rent of 5 marks a year from the same tenements for a year ended at the said Midsummer, 66s. 8d.
To a chantry priest in the church of St Nicholas Shambles, for the soul of Robert Husbond, for a quit-rent of 100s. a year from tenements in the same parish, for a year ended at Midsummer aforesaid, £5.
To a priest of a chantry in St Paul's church for the soul of Ralph Dungeon, for a quit-rent of 10s. a year from tenements in the same parish, for a year ended at the same Michaelmas, 10s.
To the abbot of Tower Hill, for a quit-rent of 40s. a year from tenements in the same parish, for a year ended at Midsummer aforesaid, 40s.
To Master Alwyn of London, alderman, for a quit-rent of 20s. a year from tenements in the same parish for a year ended at Midsummer aforesaid, 20s.
To the chamberlain of Westminster for a quit-rent of 10s. a year from tenements in the same parish for a year ended at the said Midsummer, 10s.
To the Chamberlain of London for a quit-rent of 12s. a year from a common ground behind the shambles for a year ended at the said Michaelmas, 12s.
To the abbot of Kirkstead in co. Lincoln, for a quit-rent of 4s. a year from tenements in the same parish, which were sometime John Lyndesey's, for a year ended at the said Michaelmas, 4s.

368. [f. 222v] To the prioress of St Helen within Bishopsgate of London, for a quit-rent of 13s. 4d. a year from tenements in the parish of St Michael le Querne [at Corn], for a year ended at the said Michaelmas, 13s. 4d.
To a priest singing in the church of St Olave Southwark [erasure] for a quit-rent of 8 marks a year from tenements in the parish [words erased] London for a year ended at the said Michaelmas, 106s. 8d.
To the prior of St Bartholomew in Smithfield, for a quit-rent of 3s. 4d. a year from the same tenements, for a year ended at Easter within the period of this account, 3s. 4d.
To the dean and chapter of St Paul's for a quit-rent of 19s. a year from tenements in the parish of St Mary Magdalen in Old Fish Street for a year ended at Michaelmas aforesaid, 19s.
To the abbess of the Minoresses at Tower Hill for a quit-rent of 20s. a year from tenements in Stevynslane in the parish of St Magnus, for a year ended at the said Michaelmas, 20s.
To the parson of Woolchurch in London, for a quit-rent of 4 marks a year as tithe for that part of the Stocks called the fish and flesh market, for a year ended at the said Michaelmas, 53s. 4d.
To the prior of St Faith of Horsham in co. Norfolk, for a quit-rent of 3s. a year from tenements in the parish of St Margaret Moses in Friday Street, for a year ended at the said Michaelmas, 3s.
To the possessioner of Saers Court for a quit-rent of 10s. 6d. a year from lands and tenements in Deptford, lately of Sir John SaynJone, kt., for a year ended at Michaelmas aforesaid, 10s. 6d.
To the marquis Dorset for a quit-rent of 3s. a year from certain lands and tenements in Lewisham, for a year ended at the said Michaelmas, 3s.
To the master of St Thomas of Acre for a quit-rent of 3s. a year from a parcel of ground in the parish of West Ham, lying by the mill there, for a year ended at the said Michaelmas, 3s.
To the abbot and convent of Stratford for a quit-rent of 32s. a year from the mill there called Seynesmyll, for a year ended at the said Michaelmas, 32s.
To the prior of the Charterhouse at Sheen, for a quit-rent of 14s. 9½d. from a tenement in Lewisham called the Bridge House, and lands belonging to the same place. To the same prior for a quit-rent of 8½d. a year from a tenement that was sometime Hugh Preston's. And for a quit-rent of 6d. a year from a tenement lately Thomas Pynder's in Lewisham, for a year ended at Michaelmas aforesaid, 16s.
To the prior of St Mary Overey in Southwark, for a quit-rent of 3s. 6d. a year from a tenement in Eastcheap called the Saracen's Head, in the parish of St Leonard in London, for a year ended at the said Michaelmas, 3s. 6d.
To the abbot of Bermondsey for a quit-rent of 14s. 10d. a year from lands and pastures lying in the field outside St George's bar in Southwark, for a year ended at Midsummer aforesaid. To the same abbot for quit-rent of 2s. a year from a garden in Horselydown. And for a quit-rent of 4s. 10d. a year from certain tenements in Bermondsey Street, for a year ended at Christmas within the period of this account, 21s. 8d.
To Thomas Muschamp, gentleman, for a quit-rent of 3s. 10d. a year from certain lands lying in the fields of Peckham, for a year ended at Michaelmas aforesaid, 3s. 10d.
Total £33 6s. 6d.

369. An annuity of 4s. granted by Richard Lee, mayor of the city of London, and alderman of the same, to one Thomas Piert, late carpenter, as it appears by the grant and composition thereof made and enrolled in the Guildhall of London, 12 Edward IV [1472-3], so that the said Thomas, who was tenant of the dean and chapter of St Paul's for a tenement in Wood Street adjoining to a tenement belonging to the Bridge there, shall not stop the light from the said Bridge tenement, nor none other tenants in the same wherein John Godfrey dwells, and he received the said annuity this year, 4s.

370. [f. 223] Decay of quit-rents. £9 3s. 8½d. sometime levied and gathered of divers lands and tenements within the city of London and other places, the parcels and sums of which have been fully and particularly noted and declared in many past accounts; and as the same quit-rents for so many years past have been denied and cannot be levied without plea and showing of evidence; and the evidence concerning the said rents is not in the keeping of the said Wardens; therefore as it has been allowed in years past, £9 3s. 8½d.

371. Allowance of rent of a tenement in the parish of St Dionis, charged in the rental at 5s. 4d. a year; and of a tenement in Paternoster Row, charged in the same rental at 20s. a year: because they are reserved for storehouses etc. And there is allowed to Richard Wylford for divers repairs done by him at the order of C. Eliot and E. Finckell, extending to the sum of £11, whereof was allowed to them in their last account made in 15 Henry VII [1499], £3. And to William Holte and Edward Grene in their acount made in 16 Henry VII [1500], £4. And now here in this account in full payment, £4. To John Hylle, merchant haberdasher, for repairs done by him in the tenement at the Standard in Cheap, in which he now dwells, so determined by Master Woode and Master Hawes, aldermen, 40s. To Robert Bekyngham, grocer, whereas he asked 40s. for lack of due repairs to the tenement which he holds such that he could not bestow his merchandise within the same for the space of 2 years within the time of controlment, [there is allowed] by the discretion of the Wardens now acountants, 13s. 4d. To the said Wardens for quit-rent paid by them after the time the last account was made up, to a chantry priest singing in the cathedral church of St Paul for the soul of Ralph Dongeon, parcel of the said last account as appears in the Journal of this year, 10s.
Total £8 8s. 8d.

372. Decrease of rent.
From a tenement in Old Change, lately held by Richard Kente, 13s. 4d. From a tenement in the parish of St Nicholas Shambles that Thomas Knight holds, 10s. From a tenement where Philip Taillour dwells in the same parish, 6s. 8d. From a tenement that Anne Wales holds in the parish of St Margaret Pattens, 4s. And from a chamber at the east end of the Stocks lately held by John Freman, 16d.
Total 35s. 4d.

373. Vacations of tenements standing void and not occupied for lack of tenants, the parcels of which have been particularly entered and declared at the beginning of this present book.
Total £35 9s. 1d.

374. Buying of stone.
To William Bostone for 20 tons of rag, 21s. To Mistress Bate for 3 tons of rag, 3s. 3d. To Henry Lawson for 30 tons of rag, 30s. 4d. To Thomas Wade for 206 ft. of Bridge ashlar delivered at Maidstone, co. Kent, at 34s. 2d. the hundred, total £3 10s. 3d. To the said Thomas to 557 ft. of hard paving stone delivered at Maidstone aforesaid, at 6s. 8d. the hundred, total 37s. 1d. To the same Thomas for 5 loads of Reigate stone delivered here at the Bridge House, at 5s. the load, total 25s. To the same Thomas for 4½ ft. of border stone, 14d. To William Bostone and Henry Lawson for ship-freight of the said stone from Maidstone to the Bridge House, containing 26½ tons, taking 12d. a ton between them both, total 26s. 6d.
Total £10 14s. 5d.

375. Timber and board.
To Walter Tanworth for 32 hundred 1 qr. 12 ft. of quarterboard, and 4½ hundred 13 ft. of planks [plauncheborde], at 20d. the hundred, total 60s. 20d. To the same Walter for 15 hundred of planks and 4½ hundred 15 ft. of quarterboard at 21d. the hundred, total 34s. 4d. To Robert Fenrother for 12 hundred of elm board, at 18d. the hundred, total 18s. To Robert Butler of Craneley [?Cranleigh, Surrey] for 9 hundred of quarterboard at 20d. the hundred, total 15s. To the same Robert for a load of sortelathe, 9s. For boat hire and wharfage of the said timber and laths, 6d. [f. 223v] To Sir Thomas Wylson, parson of Sheffield [Sheffeld; ? Berks.] for 7 loads of oaken timber at 5s. the load, total 35s. To John Veyse for a load of heartlaths, 9s. 8d. To Thomas Barker for 1,034 ft. of planks and quarterboard, at 21d. the hundred, total 18s. 1d. To John Maylasshe for 3 loads of heartlaths, at 10s. 2d. the load, total 30s. 6d. To William Clement for 830 ft. of planks, at 21d. the hundred, total 14s. 6d. To Richard Asshelarks for 2,213 ft. of plankboard and 9 hundred of quarterboard at 20d. the hundred, total 36s. 4d. To the same Richard for 1½ hundred of elm timber, 2s. To Richard Frecomber for 2,214 ft. of quarterboard and planks, at 23d. the hundred, total 42s. 2d. To the archbishop of Canterbury for 20 loads of elm timber delivered here at the Bridge House, £4 4s. To Robert Asshelarks for 2 loads of oaken timber, 10s. To William Ellys of Merstham [Maistham] for 9½ hundred of planks at 23d. the hundred, total 22s. To Richard Kynge of Grene in Sussex for 3 loads of heartlaths, at 9s. the load, total 26s. 8d., saved in all 4d. To Richard Grenetre of Waltham for 10 loads and 24 ft. of oaken timber, at 5s. 2d. the load, total 52s. 8d. To John Dandy for 2 hundred of quarters, 20s. To the same John for 12½ hundred of plankboard, at 23d. the hundred, total 24s. To Richard Dandy for 4½ hundred of quarterboard, at 2s. the hundred, total 9s. To the said Richard Dandy for 7¾ hundred of quarterboard, price 23d. the hundred, total 12s. 10d. To Thomas Edesale for 7¼ hundred of planks at 22d. the hundred, total 13s. 3½d. To the same Thomas for a load of heartlaths, 10s. 4d. To Simon Yonge for 7 loads of oak timber at 5s. the load, total 35s. To the same Simon for 18 hundred of great oaken planks, of 2½ inches thick, at 3s. the hundred, total 55s. To the same Simon for 18 hundred of plank- and quarterboard, at 20d, the hundred, total 30s.
Total £36 11s. 6½d.

376. Tiles and bricks.
To Hugh Byrde, ironmonger, for 800 roof tiles, at 2s. 10d. the hundred, total 22s. 8d. To Christopher Eliot and William Maryner for 3¾ hundred of roof tiles, 9s. 4d. To John Bylby for 1,000 flat [playne] tiles, 5s. To John Jacson of Oxgate for 35,000 flat tiles at 4s. 8d. the thousand, total £8 3s. 4d. To Master Warner for 20,000 flat tiles at 4s. 8d. the thousand, total £4 13s. 4d. To William Nedewey for 6,000 flat tiles at 4s. 4d. the thousand, total 26s. 4d. To William Warner of Burges Mylle for 4,000 flat tiles at 5s. the thousand, total 20s. To John Launce of Lewisham for 1,000 flat tiles delivered there, 4s. To the said John for a quartern of corner tiles, [and] half a quartern of roof tiles, 12d. To John Kendall's wife for half a hundred and half a quartern of tiles, 20d., delivered at the storehouses within the city and to the Bridge House here in Southwark. To John Brampstede for 17,000 bricks at 4s. 5d. the thousand, total £3 15s. 1d. To the same John for 17½ thousand bricks at 4s. 4d. the thousand, total £3 15s. 10d. To William Hughet of Lewisham for 5,000 flat tiles delivered to the storehouses there, 22s. To William Warner of Stratford at Bowe for a load of flat tiles, 4s. 8d.
Total £26 13s. 3d.

377. Chalk, lime, sand, gravel, and loam.
To John Grove for 280 tons of chalk, at 6d. the ton delivered at the Bridge House in Southwark, total £7. To Thomas Brat for 38 hundred and 2 loads of lime at 5s. 8d. the hundred, total £10 16s. 2d. To the same Thomas for 17½ hundred and 3 sacks at 5s. 6d. the hundred, total £4 16s. delivered at the storehouses within the city of London, Stratford, Deptford, and at the Bridge House here. To John Welche for 49 bushels of plaster of Paris at 8d. the bushel, total 32s. 8d. To Patrick Fendon and Philip White for 237 loads of sand at 5d. the load, total £4 18s. 9d. To the same Patrick and Philip for 160 loads of loam at 4d. the load, total 53s. 4d. And for 67 loads of gravel at 4d. the load, total 22s. 4d.
Total £32 19s. 3d.

378. [f. 224] Ironwork and nails.
To William Underwood and John Britene, smiths, for pileshoes, crampons, dogs of iron, and other plain iron works, weighing 1,647 lb., at 1½d. the 1b., total £10 6s. To them for side garnets and cross garnets and other divers iron works tinned, weighing 354 lb., at 2d. the 1b., total 59s. To them for latches, catches, cramps, bolts, staples both square and round for doors and windows, 22s. To them for new locks and keys, and for stocks, joints, pins, and plates, with other necessaries, 30s. 4d. To them for battering and sharpening the masons' irons, and for steeling the same, 17s. 8d. To Peter Smyth of Westminster for 17 locks and keys, 9s. To the same Peter for a stock-lock set upon Joan Gybbyns' door at the Shambles, 10d. And for mending an old bolt on the east door at the Stocks, and a new plate to the same, 12d. To Henry Burbage of Islington for steeling 3 great augers, 3 spiking augers, 2 axes, and 2 adzes, 4s. 10d. To John Bysset for 2 iron ladles, 2s. To William Lacke and John Bodiam for 19,000 twopenny nails at 10d. the thousand, total 15s. 10d. To them for 18 thousand 7½ hundred threepenny nails at 18d. the thousand, total 28s. To them for 13,000 fourpenny nails at 2s. the thousand, 26s. To them for 15¾ thousand fivepenny nails at 2s. 8d. the thousand, total 41s. 10d. To them for 8,000 sixpenny nails at 3s. 4d. the thousand, total 26s. 8d. To them for 2,750 of tenpenny nails, 16s. 7d. To John Rowley and John Welche for 6½ bags of sprig at 9s. 6d. the bag, total £3 21d. To them for roof-nails and clench [nails], 10s. To Master Stafford of the Tower for spikings, clamps, brads, plate locks, bolts, spring locks, rings, latches and handles, £5.
Total £33 19s. 4d.

379. Lead and solder.
To James Longe, plumber, for 54 lb. of new lead, 2s. 8d. To him for casting an old lead [vessel] at the Cope behind the Shambles, weighing 28 hundred 57 1b., taking 2s. 4d. for the casting, laying and workmanship of every hundred thereof, total £3 6s. 8d. To him for 12 lb. of solder to the same lead at 4d. the lb., total 4s. To him for the wages of the porters of the plumbers taking up the old lead and setting of the new, 6s. 8d. For lead-nails for the same, 6d. Saved in all 6d.
Total £4. To Henry Neele, plumber, for 13½ hundred of new lead at 4s. 4d. the hundred, total 58s. 6d. At the last account no lead remained. And this year 69½ hundred and 10 lb. of old lead was taken down from divers and sundry tenements.
Total of the old and new lead, 72 hundred and 10 lb. Whereof 70 hundred and 10 lb. was used in making pipes, fillets, sockets, gutters, grates, cisterns and other necessaries remaining in the said tenements and others belonging to the Bridge, taking 10d. for casting and laying every hundred of the old lead, total 52s. 2d. To the same Henry for 324 lb. of solder at 4d. the lb., total £5 8s. And so there remains in store 300 lb. of lead.
Total £15 3s. 8d.

380. Costs in glazing.
To Johan Johnson for 100 quarrels of glass, 12d. To the same Johan for a bushel of whole and half quarrels, 8d. To Thomas Turnour, glazier, for 65 ft. of old glass set in new lead, set in the tenements of Master Stede, Richard Paynel, at the Red Lion, at the White Cock, and at William Banckes upon the bridge, at 3d. the ft., total 16s. 3d. And for mending and setting-in of new quarrels in the said tenements and other places, 3s. 9d.
Total 21s. 8d.

381. Necessary purchases.
To Thomas Bulle for 3 new mill brasses for Stratford and Lewisham mills, weighing 88 lb. at 3d. the lb., total 22s. Whereof the said Thomas received 54 lb. of old metal at 2d. the lb., total 9s. And so [paid] in ready money, 13s. To Robert Elynour for 8 earthen pots to put in stone colour, 4d. To Robert Peynter for size [syse] at the bridge gate, 17d. To William Rolf for a load of hurdles and porters, 6s. 8d. To the same William for 24 hurdles and half a load of poles and quarters, 6s. To John Welche for ochre and size [cole], 9d. To Simon Yonge for half a hundred pynne timber, 2s. 2d., [f. 224v] and for 12 quarters, 14d., total 3s. 4d. To Richard Gadde for a last of pitch, 33s. 4d. To John Laurence, cooper, for making a gyle tun and a batch [out] of the old gyle tun, 19 hoops to a woad-vat, hooping a millstone at Lewisham, with other necessaries in divers places this year, 58s. 8d. To John Hunte for a barrel of tar, 3s. 4d. To John Joynour for 2 boxes to put in bulls and evidences belonging to the Bridge, 12d. To John Carter for a load of thorn to Copped Hall, 2s. 6d. And for rails, stakes, and workmanship of the same there, 20d. Total 4s. 2d. To Roger Grove for 4½ hundred 34 lb. of rope at 10s. the hundred, total 46s. 6d. To Henry Edmund for 4 long oars and 2 long sculls ready apparelled, 5s. To Robert Huddeson, turner, for 6 pulleys [shyvers], 6d., 6 shovels, 18d., 6 spades [skoppetts], 18d., 6 mortar trays, 2s., with a garden shovel, 2d., total 5s. 8d. To Hugh Crompe for a new bucket, 8d. To Thomas Cawstone for a rope for the rising gin [the Risyng ghynne], weighing 34 lb. at 1d. the lb., total 2s. 10d. To Henry Knyght of London for a pump [plompe, ? for pompe] and for furnishing the same, 3s. 4d. To the porter for rushes 8d., brooms and boughs [bowes] 6d., total 14d. To Thomas Donmowe for 2 stone of tow, 12d. To Thomas Gyt, cordwainer, for 6 prs. new boots at 5s. the pair, total 30s. To Walter Ayleworth for 2 haircloth awnings [tyltes of here], 4s. 8d. To William Eliot of Lambeth for old ropes, 20d. To Richard Graunte for 15 hundred 9 lb. of rosin, at 22d. the hundred, total 27s. 6d. To John Curlow for 2 loads of hay to stop the gulleys, 8s. 4d. To John Bylby for 39 bushels of tilepins at 5d. the bushel, total 16s. 3d. To Robert Maunsy for 20 perches of paling set at Deptford, at 4s. 6d. the perch, let to him at task finding timber and workmanship, total £4 10s. To William Eliot, shipwright, for the new boat called the carpenters' boat, finding all manner of stuff and workmanship thereto belonging, £12. To John Halmer for a roll of parchment, 13s. 4d., for a ream of fine paper, 2s. 8d., and for a book wherein is written all the remembrance of this account, 10d.
Total £32 3s. 5d.

382. Necessary expenses.
For the obits of John Fekennam, John Clyfford, and Christian Mallyng, as it is contained in their testaments, total 35s. 10d. To the archbishop of Canterbury and to the prior of the Charterhouse at Sheen for suit to their courts in Southwark and Lewisham, total 3s. To John Perpoynte, attorney of the Common Pleas, in suit of Henry Bumstede's obligations, with his fee for this present year, 13s. 11d. To John Bysset, John Saddeler, and William Marchall, for voiding 97 tuns of ordure from divers and sundry tenements this year, at 20d. the tun, total £8 20d. To the same John and John for spreading, searching, and cleansing of 3 other privies, 9s. To Robert Wakeryng and John Crowcheman, attending nightly upon the said voiders, and to number the tuns, 4s. 8d. To William Rodley of Deptford for repairs done there at the sign of the Christopher, let to him at task by the oversight of the Bridge Masters, 6s. 8d. To Thomas Preston, carpenter, for certain repairs done by him on the house he dwells in, let to him in great by the said Bridge Masters, 6s. 8d. To William Snowden for currying and repairing boots belonging to the said Bridge House, 6s. To the same William for taking down the pageant of London Bridge, at task, 10s. And for expenses upon the masons and carpenters the day of the entry of the lady princess, for their watch and diligent attendance given by them to the same, 11s. 3d. To the vicar of Burnham for the tithe of 700 elms felled within the bounds of his parish for 3 years past, total 11s. 2d. To Patrick Annes for cutting and binding the vine in the Bridge garden, 22d. To John Porter for 2 scoops and a spade [skoppet], 8d. For divers repasts made unto Sir William Martyn, kt., Master Chawry, and Master Wylford, aldermen, Master Welbeck, Master Nynes, Hawkyns, draper, Ralph A Lathum, [Richard] Gough, fishmonger, with other divers commoners avenyng the Bridge and the Bridge livelihood at sundry times this year as appears more largely in bills thereof, £4 10s. 1½d. [f. 225] And to the said Wardens for their expenses overseeing the Bridge livelihood in the country, at divers times this year, 23s. And in rewards given to workmen and labourers working in the waterworks for giving up their nuncheons and sleep so as to speed the same works this year, at divers times, 10s. 11d. To the same Wardens for keeping their horses, as allowed in past years, 40s. each, total £4. To William Eliot for mending and repairing all the other boats belonging to the Bridge House, as appears more largely by bill, 24s. 8d. And to a servant of John Garard, scrivener, for keeping the Journal here for certain weeks, 13s. 4d.
Total £26 4s. 4½d.

383. Repairs to mills.
To Robert Norys for 2 millstones for the 2 mills at Stratford, one for each mill, £8. To John Burgeys for holing, trimming, and setting to work the said 2 millstones in the said mills, 26s. 8d. To William Warner for carriage and portage of the said 2 stones, 2s. And for carriage of the said 2 stones from Bow Bridge, one stone to each mill, 3s. 4d. To William Warner for 2 hoops and 4 staves, 22d. For money paid to a tiler and his servant for 4 days, 4s. 4d. For 2 loads of sand, 12d. For 100 nails used on the said mills, 2d. And the said William is allowed 5s. for his mill's standing still for 16 days, at the discretion of the Bridge Masters. To Thomas Preston and his servant, working in and on the mill at Lewisham for 8 days at 14d. a day, and to the same Thomas for a pair of spindles, 8d., total 10s. To the same Thomas for making and laying planks in the floodgate there, 5s., and for mending and repairing the cogwheel there, 13s. 4d., let to him at task, total 18s. 4d. To William Hughet, millwright of Lewisham, for 3 pairs of trindles, 10s., 8 loads of sand, 4s., 3 loads of loam, 12d., 2 hooks for an oven mouth, 4d., total 15s. 4d. And the said William is allowed 2s. 8d. for his mill's standing still. To John Maidcalf, miller of the same mill, for repairs done there in his time, 6s. 8d. To John Wever for winding bans [wyndyng bannes] of [illegible], 2s. 2d. 100 nails, 4d. To the same, 23 lb. of strips [stripes] at 1½d. the lb., 2s. 10½d. 100 nails, 2d. To the same strips for the mill-wheel there. Total 5s. 6½d. To Thomas Palmer of Deptford for necking the mill spindle [for neckyng of the mylle spyndell], 3s., and for workmanship of the same for a hoop of iron, weighing 10 lb., 12d. to the same mill binding the water-wheel, for a rynde to the same mill, 4d., and for mending the same, 4d. Total 4s. 4d. And there is allowed [erasure]. To John Starkey of Lewisham for sawing 500 ft. of timber planks and board for the said mill, 5s. To William Hughet for making 21 rods of wall at task, 5s. 3d. To the same William for 4 hoops for a stone at Lewisham mill, 2s. To John Smyth of Lewisham for 2 loads of timber at 6s. the load, total 12s. To the same John for 34 loads of clay, 2 loads of loam, at 4d. the load, 12s. To the same John for carriage of 2 loads of boards and planks for the water-wheel and the floodgate there, at 2 several times, 20d. And for 2 labourers working and labouring in the waterworks of the said mill for 2 days, 12d.
Total £15 8s. 1½d.

384. Costs of carriage.
To John Hargyll for the carriage of 5 loads of timber and other stuff from the Bridge House to the mills at Stratford, at 12d. the load, 5s. To the same John for carriage of 101 loads of timber, board, and stone from the said Bridge House to divers tenements within the city of London, and of old stuff from the said tenements to the Bridge House, at 3d. the load, total 25s. 3d. To the same John for carriage of a load of rubbish, 2d. To the same John for keeping all the void places on the bridge clean this year, 8d. To John Fuller for freight and carriage of 14 loads of elm timber from Maidenhead bridge to the Bridge wharf here, 19s. To the same John for freight and carriage of 7 loads of elm timber from Maidenhead bridge hither to the Bridge Wharf, 10s. 6d. And for drawing the said timber with horses to the waterside there, 10d.
Total 61s. 5d.

385. [f. 225v] Costs of the chapel.
For singing bread and wine, spent in the same chapel in singing masses and houseling strangers at Easter this year, 5s. 10d. To 2 chaplains doing their divine service for the whole period of this account, 10 marks each, total £13 6s. 8d. To 4 clerks ministering daily in the same chapel for the whole period of this account, at 20d. each a week, total £17 6s. 8d. To Robert Rudmarige, one of the same 4 clerks, in reward for opening and shutting the chapel doors, and for keeping the organs, jewels, and ornaments there that are committed to him, 20s. To the said chaplains and clerks singing Placebo and Dirige with requiem mass for the souls of all the benefactors of the said Bridge on 4 occasions this year, 8s. For washing the albs, altarcloths, towels, and surplices this year, 4s. For apparelling 2 prs. of vestments, 3d. To John Moncke, waxchandler, for the Paschal and Sepulchre light there at Easter, and all other lights used in the said chapel this year, 28s. 11d. To John Wylcokks for oil and lamps used here at the Bridge House gate and in the branch hanging outside the chapel door at the feasts of St John the Baptist, St Peter, and the Translation of St Thomas this year, 6s. 8d. To Thomas Downe for 8 gallons of lamp oil used at the said feasts for the whole period of this account, 8s. For 15 lb. of tallow candles used for divine service there in wintertime this year, 15d.
Total £34 16s. 3d.

386. Masons' wages.
To Thomas Wade, chief mason of the Bridge works for his fee for a year for the whole period of this account, £6 13s. 4d. To John Newman, hardhewer, working in the same works for a whole year, at 2s. a week, £5 4s. To Thomas Pylchard for 18 days, John Burdon for 13 days, Robert Seton for 2 days, Robert Oliver for 22 days, John Wylkes for 19 days, Saunder Style for 168½ days, John Wodale for 2 days, James Smyth for 146 days, John Orgar for 158 days, John Bande for 4 days, and John A Dene for 4 days, masons, working apparelling Bridge ashlar, making new chimneys, paving kitchens, mending and repairing the chapel staddle, with all other defaults belonging to the said Bridge and tenements of the same, among them all for 606½ days at 8d. a day each, total £21 7d. To the abovesaid Thomas Pylcherd for 21 days, John Burdon for 16 days, Robert Seton for 3 days, Thomas Lekenore for 3 days, from All Hallows to Candlemas, working in the said works, at 7½d. a day each, total 26s. 10½d. To William Johnson, prentice, for 21 days, [and] William Geffrey, prentice, for 77 days, working apparelling stone in the said Bridge works, at 6d. a day each, total 49s. To Thomas Wade for a quarter of coals [cooles: ? charcoal], brushes, bread and ale spent among the masons repairing the gate of the bridge, 14d. And to the said masons watching and working in the water works as the tides have fallen, between them this year 13s. 10d.
Total £37 8s. 9½d.

387. Carpenters' wages.
To Thomas Maunsy, master carpenter of the Bridge works, for his wages and fee for the period of this account, overseeing and putting-to his helping hand at all times needful and requisite, £8 13s. 4d. And to Robert Maunsy, warden of the carpentry of the said Bridge House, for his fee and wages from 8 January to the following Michaelmas within the time of this account, working and labouring daily in the said works, at 4s. a week, total £7 4s. [To] John Tydwey for 48 days, John Harding for 123 days, John Garlond for 67 days, Richard Penythorn for 5 days, John Owenby [f. 226] 5 days, Thomas Philip for 109 days, Thomas Westende for 183½ days, William Waylot for 5 days, Roger Maunsy for 18 days, Henry Coterell for 5 days, Robert Wodesdale for 5½ days, George Maxwell for 3 days, Thomas Maunsy for 4 days, James Maunsy for 82 days, Simon Dandy for 5 days, Edward Gybson for 5 days, carpenters, working framing and making divers new buildings in divers and sundry of the Bridge tenements this year, joisting and binding the staddles under the said bridge, between them all for 634½ days at 8d. a day each, total £21 2s. 10d. John Horren for 43½ days, William Basse for 244½ days, Robert Pasmere for 173½ days, John Arnold for 170 days, John Walker 68 days, carpenters, working in the said Bridge works for 738½ days, at 6d. a day each, total £18 19s. 9d. To Henry Saward for 133 days, John Horrell for 62½ days, carpenters, working in the works of the said Bridge and tenements thereunto belonging, for 195½ days at 8d. a day each, total £5 10s. 4d. Nicholas Byrche with his servant for 86 days, at 10d. a day for him and his servant, total 68s. 9d. Robert Chawrton for 14 days, Robert Cowrton for 53½ days, John A Dene for 12 days, carpenters, working in the works of the Bridge, between them for 79½ days at 5d. a day each, total 33s. 2d. To the abovewritten Edward Gybson for 4 days, Simon Dandy for 3 days, and Thomas Dryver for 2 days, at 8d. a day each, total 6s. And to the abovesaid carpenters watching and working in the waterworks out of due time, working as the tides have fallen, between them all this year 24s.
Total £68 2s. 6d.

388. Labourers' wages.
To William Sporiour for 246½ days, John Archer for 50½ days, Henry Tomson for 42 days, Thomas Richard for 4 days, John Crowcheman for 11 days, John Rowland for 242 days, John Thomas for a day, Robert Wakeryng for 188 days, William White for 162½ days, William Smyth for 97 days, Edward Trummy for a day, Robert Burdon for a day, John Saunder for 95 days, John Todwell for 64 days, George Newby for 69 days, John Pierson for 88 days, John Myles for 7 days, Humfrey Woddes for 4 days, William Wright for 8 days, Edward Hudson for 5 days, Thomas Badby for 5 days, Edmund Longe for 13 days, John Barde for 36 days, William Donne for 6 days, Peter Burton for a day, Robert Sam for 13½ days, Robert Snell for 13½ days, John Cobbe for 47 days, John Hankyn for 7 days, William Morrell for a day, John Swete for 5 days, labourers labouring and attending as well unto the carpenters as to the masons, in bearing all manner of stuff requisite and necessary to the same workmen's hands and in other works of the said Bridge, between them for 1,535½ days at 5d. a day each, £31 19s. 10½d. To divers other labourers attending upon the shoutman, unloading [havyng oute] and loading boats at the Bridge House wharf, conveying them to the bridge with stone, chalk, [and] rubbish, and there unloading and bestowing of the same into the staddles, small dams [dammellis] and other works of the said Bridge, as the tides have fallen, between them all for 614 tides at 3d. a tide each, saved in all 7d., total £7 12s. 11d. To workmen and labourers attending by night tides to bring out the boats laden with timber and stuff for the repair of the staddles and stopping of the gulleys at many several times this year, £3 2s. 1½d.
Total £42 14s. 11d.

389. Wages at the gins.
To 20 labourers labouring at drawing the gin called the gibbet gin of brass, driving a great number of piles in gulleys, and cross-driving the same all hoole the same gulleys, for 83 tides, taking between them [f. 226v] all 5s. a tide, except that there lacked one labourer at sundry times for 4 tides, total £20 14s. And to 2 holders holding the said gin for the said 83 tides, at 4d. a tide each, total 55s. 4d. To 9 labourers labouring at the iron Ram, running in driving piles outside the arches in the same works, for 36 tides, at 2s. 3d. between the 9 of them every tide, total £4 18d. To 16 labourers labouring at St Magnus' gin, driving piles for 30 tides, taking 4s. between the 16 of them every tide, except that there lacked one of the said labourers at sundry times for 8 tides, total £5 18s. To 2 holders holding the said gin for the said 30 tides, at 4d. a tide each, total 20s.
Total £34 8s. 10d.

390. Sawyers' wages.
To Richard Blakgreve and his fellows working in sawing timber of the Bridge's stuff into boards, planks, and quarters, mullions [Maynells], steps for stairs, joists, binders and reson pieces, by the discretion of Thomas Maunsy the master carpenter of the said Bridge, 13,500 ft. at 12d. for sawing 100 ft., total £6 15s.

391. Tilers' wages.
To John Bylby, tiler, and his labourer, working in tiling of divers and sundry tenements of the said Bridge this year, for 217½ days, at 12d. a day for himself and his labourer, total £10 17s.

392. Bricklayers.
To Peter Burton for 77 days, William Spynke for 103 days, Thomas Wright for 114 days, James Rynde for 11 days, bricklayers, in making of new chimneys, mending and repairing old chimneys and ovens in divers tenements belonging to the said Bridge, between them all for 305 days at 8d. a day each, total £10 3s. 4d.

393. Daubers' wages.
To John Michell, dauber, and his labourer, working in daubing of the said Bridge tenements this year for 170½ days, at 12d. a day for himself and his labourer, total £8 10s. 6d.

394. Paviours' wages.
To Roger Wanham, paviour, for paving 83 toises of new pavement at the Greyfriars and the north side of St Nicholas Shambles, at 7d. the toise, total 48s. 5d. To the same Roger for paving 5 toises of new pavement upon the bridge, at 7d. the toise, total 2s. 11d. To the same Roger for paving 75½ toises behind the Shambles, in Gracechurch Street and other places within the city, at 7d. the toise, total 43s. 9d. To the same Roger for 2 workmen working and amending divers defaults within the city for 2 days at 8d. a day each, total 2s. 8d.
Total £4 17s. 9d.

395. Fees and wages of officers.
To the said wardens for their fees because of their office, £10 each, total £20. Also for their clothing, 20s. each, total 40s. To John More, man of law, retained of counsel with the said Wardens in matters concerning the Bridge this year, for his fee, 13s. 4d. To John Normavile, clerk of the works of the said Bridge, from Michaelmas to Midsummer within the period of this account, £10. And to Walter Smyth, now clerk of the said works from the said feast of Midsummer to the following Michaelmas within the period of this account, 50s. To Richard Paynell, receiver of the said Bridge, for his whole fee and drinking [f. 227] with the gathering of the fishmongers and butchers at the Stocks, £23 6s. 8d. To Thomas Say, serjeant of the Chamber of London, for his fee for warning the auditors of the City to hear and determine this account, 6s. 8d. To John Arnold, porter of the Bridge House gate, for his weekly wages, for himself 20d., and for keeping and feeding of the hounds within the same place, 10d. a week within the period of this account, total £6 10s. To Thomas Donmowe, keeper of the boats and shouts belonging to the said Bridge works, for his wages at 2s. 6d. a week, total £6 10s.
Total £71 16s. 8d.

396. Rewards to officers.
To the said wardens for their attendance and good provision done in their office, £10 each as it has been allowed in past years, total £20. And to the said clerk of the works, as reward allowed him for writing and duplicating the books of this account, whereof one book remains within the Bridge House, and the other book remains within the Chamber at the Guildhall of London, as it has been allowed in past years, total 66s. 8d.
Total £23 6s. 8d.

397. Costs of the auditors in hearing and determining of this account, and for a repast made among officers and ministers of the said Bridge, as it has been allowed in times past, total 40s. And for counters delivered to the said auditors to cast this account, 2s. 8d.
Total 42s. 8d.

398. Sum of all payments and allowances £677 19s. 7½d. And there is owing £1,209 12s. 5¼d.
[in left margin: Whereof] Upon Edward Stone and Piers Calcot and their renters as in the foot of the last account is declared desperate, £53 6s. 6½d.
William Galle late one of the Wardens as is declared in the foot of the last account also, £48 6s. 1d.
Henry Bumstede and his sureties by several obligations as is also declared in the same foot of account, £69.
. William Melbourne, Chamberlain of the City of London, as in money delivered to him to the use of the said Bridge, that is to say by the hands of Simon Harrys and Christopher Eliot, as appears at large in the foot of the last account, £178 3s. 5½d.; by the hands of the said Christopher, as is declared in the foot of the last account, £133 6s. 8d.; by the hands also of the said Christopher Eliot and Edward Fenkill, as appears in a bill remaining within the remembrances of this account, £197 6s. 9d.; and by the hands of William Holte and Edward Green, last accountants, as also appears by a bill by the hand of the said Chamberlain, £286 2s. 10¾d.: in all to the said Chamberlain, £794 19s. 9¼d.

399. [f. 227v] Upon Christopher Eliot and Edward Fenkil as the residue of £319 15s. 2d. so declared in the foot of the last account, £122 8s. 5d.
The which £122 8s. 5d. was allowed to the said Christopher and Edward on 19 September 19 Henry VII [1503] by the mayor and aldermen as in money spent and paid for new making a pageant set upon London Bridge at the entry of the lady princess of Spain, and as plainly appears of record in the court of the said mayor and aldermen, and so that [is the] total.
And upon the said accountants £121 11s. 7½d.
Of the which £121 11s. 7½d. there is remitted to the said accountants on 18 July 17 Henry VII [1502] by the mayor and aldermen on a bill of petition of the same accountants as plainly appears of record in the court of the said mayor and aldermen, £4 3s. 4d.
And so the said William Maryner and Christopher Eliott, accountants, owe clearly of their arrears within the time of this account, £117 8s. 3½d.

400. Auditors of this account Sir John Sha, kt., Mr Thomas Wodde, aldermen, Ralph A Lathum, William Fitz William, Richard Gough, and Simon Hoggan, commoners, which auditors heard and determined this account on 19 September 19 Henry VII and A.D. 1503.