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BRIDGE HOUSE RENTAL 1
Account for 1420-1
188. [f. 86] William Weston and Richard Stile, Wardens, in the 8th year
of Henry V.
Receipts from fishmongers and butchers standing at the Stocks [apud
lestokkes] weekly, And from proper rents, passage-tolls on carts crossing the Bridge and ships passing under it, with fines [gersumis], legacies,
sales, alms and other things, from Michaelmas 1420 [8 Henry V] to
Michaelmas 1421, for one year, by William Weston and Richard Stile,
Wardens of London Bridge.
189. 5 October [1420].
From the fishmongers at the Stocks by Aunger, for the week, 7s. 1d.
From the butchers standing there weekly, 16s. 8d.
Of proper rent by W. Aunger this week £3.
Passage-tolls. From carts crossing the Bridge, 3s.
Lewisham. Item received from Thomas Trotte for the farm of the
manor of Lewisham for one year last at Michaelmas last, 33s. 4d.
Item received from him for quit-rent belonging to the said manor, for
the same year, 7s. 10d.
Item received from one Lambekyn for the farm of the mill demised to
him, viz. for the whole year, £3.
[Total] £9.
190. 12 October.
From the fishmongers at the Stocks, 7s. 1d.
From the butchers there weekly, 16s. 8d.
Of proper rent by the hands of W. Aunger £3 13s. 4d.
Passage-tolls. From carts crossing the Bridge, 2s. 8d.
Sales. From the sale of 3,000 bricks [Brik] and 1½ hundred tiles [fyneux]
by J. Silkeston, 27s. 8d.
Stratford. From Laurence Fuller and his associate for the farm of the
fulling mill of Stratford, in full payment up to and at the feast of Easter
last, £6 13s. 4d.
St Thomas Watering. Item received from Katherine late the wife of
Robert Staundon, for the farm of the field/s of Peckham, to and up
to Michaelmas 1419, 20s.
[Total] £13 9d.
191. 19 October.
From the fishmongers at the Stocks, 7s.
From the butchers there, 16s. 8d.
Of proper rent by the hands of W. Aunger, £6 6s. 8d.
Sales. From the sale of 6,000 bricks and 1 quartern of house-tiles
[houstyll], 35s. 3d.
Foreign rent, Stratford. From Roger Yonge, miller, in part payment of
the farm of his watermill at Stratford, £3 6s. 8d.
[Total] £12 12s. 3d.
Whereof from the Stocks, £3 11s. 2d.
Item of proper [rent], £29 14d.
Item from passage-tolls, 5s. 8d.
Item from sales, £3 2s. 11d.
From foreign rent, £16 14d.
[Total] £36 11d.
192. [f. 86v] 26 October.
From the fishmongers at the Stocks, 7s. 2d.
From the butchers there, 17s. 1d.
Of proper rent by W. Aunger, £4.
Passage-tolls. From carts crossing the Bridge, 5s.
Sales. From the sale of one elm at Lewisham, 15s.
From the sale of 4,000 bricks by Silkeston, 22s. 8d.
[Total] £7 6s. 11d.
193. [2] November.
From the fishmongers at the Stocks, 8s. 9d.
From the butchers there, 17s. 3d.
Of proper rent by W. Aunger, £4 13s. 4d.
[Total] £5 19s. 4d.
194. [9] November.
From the fishmongers at the Stocks, 7s. 7d.
From the butchers there, 17s. 3d.
Of proper rent by W. Aunger, £10 6s. 8d.
Passage-tolls. From carts crossing the Bridge, 3s. 4d.
Sales. From the sale of 5,000 bricks by J. Silkeston, 28s. 4d.
Item received of Ralph Stoke by the hands of W. Aunger in part
payment of a greater sum, by bond thereof, 40s.
[Total] £15 3s. 2d.
195. 16 November.
From the fishmongers at the Stocks, 7s. 3d.
From the butchers there, 17s. 3d.
Of proper rent by W. Aunger, £10
Passage-tolls. From passage-tolls, nil.
[Total] £11 3s. 2d.
196. 23 November.
From the fishmongers at the Stocks, 7s. 5d.
From the butchers there, 17s. 7d.
Of proper rent by W. Aunger, £9 13s. 4d.
Passage-tolls. From carts crossing the Bridge, 4s. 4d.
[Total] £11 2s. 8d.
197. 30 November.
From the fishmongers at the Stocks, 7s. 6d.
From the butchers there, 17s. 7d.
Of proper rent by W. Aunger, £6 13s. 4d.
Sales. From the sale of 7,000 bricks by J. Silkeston 39s. 6d.
Foreign rent. From John Dykes, chaplain, for the farm of his tenement
and garden, lately of John Clifford, at Bermondsey, for half of last
year, 10s.
[Total] £10 7s. 11d.
198. 7 December.
From the fishmongers at the Stocks, 4s. 1d.
From the butchers there, 17s. 7d.
Of proper rent by W. Aunger, £7 13s. 4d.
Passage-tolls. From carts crossing the Bridge, 2s. 6d.
Sales. From the sale of 4,700 bricks and 1,000 house-tiles sold, 31s.
4d.
[Total] £10 8s. 10d.
Whereof from the Stocks £8 11s. 4d.
Item of proper [rent], £50 10s.
Item from passage-tolls, 15s. 2d.
Item from sales, £6 16s. 10d.
From foreign [rent], 50s.
Total £71 13s. 4d.
199. [f. 87] Receipts 14 December.
From the fishmongers at the Stocks, 8s. 11d.
From the butchers there, 17s. 7d.
Of proper rent by W. Aunger, £6.
Passage-tolls. From ships, 16d.
Alms. Of alms to the use of the Bridge, 6d.
Sales. From the sale of half a thousand bricks, 2s. 10d.
Lambeth. From Thomas Bys, in full payment of his farm of 19 acres at
Lambeth, up to last Michaelmas, 26s. 8d.
[Total] £8 17s. 10d.
200. 21 December
From the fishmongers at the Stocks, 9s. 2d.
From the butchers there, 17s. 7d.
Of proper rent by W. Aunger, £17 13s. 4d.
Passage-tolls. From carts crossing the Bridge, 3s. 8d.
From ships, 2s.
Sales. From the sale of 8,000 bricks [Briktill] and 6,000 house-tiles, £3
10s.
Teenacre. Item received from Richard Spore for his farm for le Tenacre,
viz. in full payment up to last Michaelmas, 33s. 4d.
Sales. Item received from the sale of old timber at the Bridge House,
2s.
[Total] £23 [lost]
201. 28 December.
From the fishmongers at the Stocks, 8s. 8d.
From the butchers there, 17s. 7d.
Of proper rent by W. Aunger, 26s. 8d.
The Lock. Item received from Richard Langford, butcher, for his farm
at the Lock, viz. in full payment at and up to last Michaelmas, 50s.
[Total] £5 2s. 10d.
202. 4 January [1421]
From the fishmongers at the Stocks, 8s. 6d.
From the butchers there, 17s. 7d.
Of proper rent by W. Aunger, £5.
Passage-tolls. From carts, 2s.
From ships, 3s. 8d.
[Total] £6 11s. 9d.
203. 11 January.
From the fishmongers at the Stocks, 8s. 6d.
From the butchers there, 17s. 7d.
Of proper rent by W. Aunger, £6.
Passage-tolls. From carts, 2s. 2d.
Sales. From the sale of 3,000 bricks [Briketill'], 17s.
[Total] £8 5s. 3d.
204. 18 January.
From the fishmongers at the Stocks, 8s. 4d.
From the butchers there, 17s. 7d.
Of proper rent by W. Aunger, £4 13s. 4d.
[Total] £5 19s. 3d.
Whereof the Stocks, £7 17s. 7d.
Item of proper [rent], £46 3s. 4d.
Item from passage-tolls, 14s. 10d.
Item from sales, £4 11s. 10d.
Item from alms, 6d.
From foreign [rent], £5 10s.
[Total] £69 8s. 1d.
205. [f. 87v] 25 January.
From the fishmongers at the Stocks, 8s. 3d.
From the butchers there, 17s. 7d.
Of proper rent by W. Aunger, £6.
Passage-tolls. From carts crossing the Bridge, 2s. 8d.
From ships passing under the Bridge, nil.
Sales. From the sale of 2½ thousand bricks, 13s.
[Total] £8 18d.
206. [1] February
From the fishmongers at the Stocks, 8s. 4d.
From the butchers there, 17s. 7d.
Of proper rent by W. Aunger, £10.
Passage-tolls. From carts crossing the Bridge, 2s. 4d.
From ships passing under the Bridge, 5s.
Total £11 13s. 3d.
207. 8 February
From the fishmongers at the Stocks, 14s.
From the butchers there, 17s. 3d.
Of proper rent by W. Aunger, £12
[Total] £13 10s. 3d.
208. 15 February.
From the fishmongers at the Stocks, 12s. 1d.
Of proper rent by W. Aunger, £12.
[Total] £12 12s. 1d.
209. 22 February.
From the fishmongers at the Stocks, 11s. 6d.
Of proper rent by W. Aunger, £7.
[Total] £7 11s. 6d.
210. 1 March
From the fishmongers at the Stocks, 12s. 8d.
Of proper rent by W. Aunger, £9.
Bermondsey, foreign rent. From William Langeley for his farm of
one messuage, lately of J. Clifford, at Bermondsey, for the terms of
Michaelmas and Christmas last, 4s.
[Total] £9 16s. 8d.
211. 8 March.
From the fishmongers at the Stocks, 12s. 4d.
Of proper rent by W. Aunger, £6 6s. 8d.
Sales. From the sale of 7½ thousand bricks [Briktill], 1,000 house-tiles,
48s.
[In aid] of repairs. From Robert Bretoun, bowyer, in aid of the repair
of his house on the bridge, 3s. 4d.
[Total] £9 10s. 4d.
212. 15 March.
From the fishmongers at the Stocks, 11s. 6d.
Of proper rent by W. Aunger, £4.
Passage-tolls. From carts, 2s. 10d.
Fine [gersuma]. From Richard Philip, grocer, for the fine of a house
lately of J. Goldfynch, outside the stone gate on the eastern side of
the Bridge, 33s. 4d.
[Total] £6 7s. 8d.
Whereof the Stocks £7 2s. 1d.
Item of proper [rent], £66 10s. 8d.
Item from passage-tolls, 12s. 10d.
Item from sales, 61s.
Item from fines, 33s. 4d.
Item in aid of repairs, 3s. 4d.
From foreign [rent], 4s.
[Total] £79 3s. 3d.
213. [f. 88] Received [or receipts], 22 March
From the fishmongers at the Stocks, 12s. 1d.
Of proper rent by W. Aunger, £13 6s. 8d.
Stratford, foreign [rent]. From Roger Yonge, miller, for the farm of
the watermill at Stratford viz. in full payment thereof up to and at
Michaelmas 1420 last, and the rest is secured by bond etc., £5.
[Total] £15 [lost]
214. 29 March.
From the fishmongers at the Stocks, 10s. 4d.
Of proper rent by W. Aunger, £4 13s. 4d.
Passage-tolls. From carts crossing the bridge, 3s.
[Total] £[lost]
215. 5 April.
From the fishmongers at the Stocks, 11s. 6d.
From the butchers there, 16s. 5d.
Of proper rent by W. Aunger, £7 [lost]
Sales. From the sale of 3,000 bricks [Briktill] and for house-tiles,
19 [lost]
For the sale of grass and hay from the meadow which Robert Staundon
lately held by St Thomas Watering, 21s. [lost]
Item from the sale of 100 laths and 2 planks, 2s.
[Total: lost]
216. 12 April.
From the fishmongers at the Stocks, 9s. 6d.
From the butchers there, 17s. 1d.
Of proper rent by W. Aunger, £5.
Passage-tolls. From carts crossing the Bridge, 3s. 4d.
[Total] £6 [lost]
217. 19 April.
From the fishmongers at the Stocks, 10s. 4d.
From the butchers there, 17s. 1d.
Of proper rent by William Aunger, £4.
Sales. From the sale of 11,000 house-tiles by Silkeston, £3 9s. 11d.
From the sale of laths this week, 14d.
Passage-tolls. From carts crossing the Bridge, 3s. 8d.
Fine. From Robert Crull, bowyer, and Agnes his wife, for the fine of
one house lately of Nicholas Nefold on the western side of the Bridge,
26s. 8d.
[Total] £10 [lost]
218. 26 April.
From the fishmongers at the Stocks this week, 9s. 3d.
From the butchers there, 17s. 1d.
From William Aunger for proper rent, £4.
Sales. From the sale of 10,000 house-tiles at Lewisham by Richard
Bateman, tilemaker, 40s.
Fine. From Richard Grene, cutler, and [blank] his wife, the fine of one
house lately of William Moger on the eastern side of the Bridge, 20s.
Bequest. Item of the bequest of the lady de Wynkefeld for the support
of the Bridge, 2s.
Passage-tolls. From carts crossing the Bridge, 3s. 4d.
Sales. From Robert Crull in part payment of 46s. 4½d. for 6,700 housetiles and 1 thousand 3½ hundred bricks and 43 roof tiles [rooftill] sold,
26s. 8d.
[Total] £9 [lost]
Whereof the Stocks, £6 10s. 8d.
Item of proper [rent], £43.
Item from passage-tolls, 13s. 4d.
Item from sales, £9 1d.
Item from fines, 46s. 8d.
Item from legacies, 2s.
From foreign [rent], £5.
[Total] £61 12s. 9d.
219. [f. 88v] 3 May.
From the fishmongers at the Stocks, 10s. 2d.
From the butchers there by the week, 17s. 1d.
Of proper rent by William Aunger, 40s.
Sales. From Richard Bateman for house-tiles [tegulis domorum] sold at
Lewisham, 26s. 8d.
From Laurence Fuller and his associate in part payment of the farm
of their fulling-mill at Stratford, viz. for the terms of Midsummer and
Michaelmas now last, £3 6s. 8d.
[Total] £8 5s. 2d.
220. 10 May.
From the fishmongers at the Stocks this week, 10s. 1d.
From the butchers there, 17s. 1d.
Of proper rent by William Aunger, £6 6s. 8d.
From the sale of 5,000 house-tiles by Silkeston, 27s. 6d.
From a certain chaplain for the farm of the house which John Noble
lately held beside Bermondsey, sometime of John Clifford, for the
terms of Christmas and Easter last, 3s. 8d.
[Total] £10 5s.
221. [17] May.
From the fishmongers at the Stocks, 10s. 6d.
From the butchers there, 17s. 1d.
Of proper rent by William Aunger, £10.
Passage-tolls. From carts crossing the Bridge, 2s. 8d.
[Total] £11 10s. 3d.
222. 24 May.
From the fishmongers at the Stocks, 10s. 4d.
From the butchers there, 17s. 3d.
Of proper rent by William Aunger, £12 6s. 8d.
[Total] £13 14s. 3d.
223. 31 May.
From the fishmongers at the Stocks, 9s. 11d.
From the butchers there, 17s. 3d.
Of proper rent by William Aunger, £10.
Passage-tolls. From carts crossing the Bridge, 20d.
[Total] £11 8s. 10d.
224. 7 June.
From the fishmongers at the Stocks, 10s. 6d.
From the butchers there, 15s. 6d.
Of proper rent by Aunger, £8.
Passage-tolls. From carts crossing the Bridge, 20d.
[Total] £9 7s. 8d.
225. 14 June.
From the fishmongers at the Stocks, 9s. 6d.
From the butchers there, 15s. 11d.
Of proper rent by W. Aunger, £8.
Passage-tolls. From carts crossing the Bridge, 2s. 4d.
From ships passing under the Bridge, 16d.
West Greenwich. Item received from the wife of John Romsey [Ro'sey]
for quit-rent of the meadow late of John Cheseman at West Greenwich,
for 1 year at Michaelmas last, 27s.
[Total] £10 16s. 1d.
Whereof from the Stocks, £9 8s. 2d.
Item from proper [rent], £62 10s. 8d.
Item from passage-tolls, 9s. 8d.
Item from sales, 54s. 2d.
From foreign [rent], £4 17s. 4d.
[Total] £75 2s. 8d.
226. [f. 89] Received [or receipts], 21 June.
From the fishmongers at the Stocks, 9s. 11d.
From the butchers there, 14s. 10d.
Of proper rent by William Aunger, £13.
Sales. From the sale of 6,000 house-tiles by Silkeston, 32s.
Stratford. From Laurence Fuller and his associate, for the farm of the
fulling-mill at Stratford, viz. for the terms of Christmas and Easter last,
£3 6s. 8d.
Passage-tolls. From carts crossing the Bridge, 6s. 8d.
From ships passing under the Bridge, 4s. 7d.
[Total: lost]
227. 28 June.
From the fishmongers at the Stocks, 9s. 9d.
From the butchers there, 14s. 10d.
Of proper rent by William Aunger, £7.
Passage-tolls. From carts crossing the Bridge, 3s. 8d.
[Total: lost]
228. 5 July.
From the fishmongers at the Stocks, 10s. 3d.
From the butchers there, 14s. 10d.
Of proper rent by W. Aunger, £5 6s. 8d.
Passage-tolls. From carts crossing the Bridge, 4s.
[Total: illegible]
229. 12 July.
From the fishmongers at the Stocks, 9s. 10d.
From the butchers there, 14s. 10d.
Of proper rent, £4.
Passage-tolls. From carts and ships passing across/through the Bridge,
5s.
Alms. From alms given in the Bridge chapel the eve and day of the
Translation of St Thomas the Martyr, 15s.
[Total] £6 [lost]
230. 19 July.
From the fishmongers at the Stocks, 8s. 6d.
From the butchers there, 14s. 10d.
Of proper rent by W. Aunger, £4.
Passage-tolls. From carts crossing the Bridge, 4s.
[Total] £5 7s. 4d.
231. 26 July.
From the fishmongers at the Stocks, 9s. 1d.
From the butchers there. 14s. 10d.
Of proper rent by W. Aunger, £4 10s.
Sales. From the sale of house-tiles [tegul' pro dom'], 5s. 5d.
Passage-tolls. From carts crossing the Bridge, 3s. 8d.
[Total] £6 3s.
232. 2 August.
From the fishmongers at the Stocks, 6s. 10d.
From the butchers there, 15s. 6d.
Of proper rent by William Aunger, £7 13s. 4d.
Passage-tolls. From carts crossing the Bridge, 5s. 4d.
Bermondsey, foreign [rent]. From William Langelee for the farm of 1
messuage lately of John Clifford beside Bermondsey, for the terms of
Easter and Midsummer last, 4s.
[Total] £9 5s. [lost]
Whereof from the Stocks, £8 8s. 8s.
Item of proper [rent], £49 8d.
Item from passage-tolls, 36s. 11d.
Item from sales, 37s. 5d.
Item from alms, 15s.
From foreign [rent], £3 10s. 8d.
[Total] £61 18s. 8d.
233. [f. 89v] [9] August.
From the fishmongers at the Stocks, 8s. 6d.
From the butchers there, 15s. 6d.
Of proper rent by W. Aunger, renter, £14.
[Passage-tolls]. From carts crossing the Bridge, 5s.
[Sales]. From the sale of 2 timber gates at Deptford with the puncheons
[lespounchons] for them, 13s. 4d.
[Total] £16 2s. 4d.
234. [16] August.
From the fishmongers at the Stocks, 8s. 5d.
From the butchers there etc., 15s. 6d.
Of proper rent by the hands of William Aunger, £9.
From tolls on carts crossing the Bridge, 4s. 8d.
[Sales]. From the sale of timber this week, 12d.
[Total] £10 9s. 7d.
235. [23] August.
From the fishmongers at the Stocks, 10s. 1d.
From the butchers there, 15s. 6d.
Of proper rent by William Aunger, £6 6s. 8d.
Passage-tolls. From carts and wains [waynes] crossing the Bridge, 7s. 4d.
[Total] £7 19s. 7d.
236. [30] August.
From the fishmongers at the Stocks, 9s. 8d.
From the butchers there, 15s. 6d.
Of proper rent by W. Aunger, £9.
Passage-tolls. From carts crossing the Bridge, 2s. 8d.
[Total] £10 7s. 10d.
237. 6 September.
From the fishmongers at the Stocks, 4s.
From the butchers there, 17s. 4d.
Of proper rent by William Aunger, £5 13s. 4d.
Sales. From the sale of one <great> broken ladder [scale], 3s. 4d.
From the sale of another ladder, 12d.
From the sale of 500 bricks by John Lane mercer, 3s.
Passage-tolls. From carts crossing the Bridge, 4s. 10d.
[Total] £7 6s. 10d.
238. 13 September.
From the fishmongers at the Stocks, 7s. 1d.
From the butchers there, 18s. 8d.
Of proper rent by William Aunger, £5 6s. 8d.
Bermondsey, foreign [rent]. From Sir John the chaplain for the farm of
one house lately of John Clifford beside Bermondsey, viz. for the term
of Midsummer last, 2s.
Passage-tolls. From carts crossing the Bridge, 5s. 4d.
[Total] £6 19s. 9d.
239. 20 September.
From the fishmongers at the Stocks, 8s. 1d.
From the butchers there, 17s. 4d.
Of proper rent by W. Aunger, £6.
Passage-tolls. From carts, 5s.
Sales. From the sale of 3½ thousand bricks [Brik till'], 21s.
Stratford. Item received from Roger Yonge and Roger Larayner in part
payment of the farm of their watermill at Stratford, viz. for the terms
of Christmas 1419, Easter and Midsummer 1420, £5.
[Total] £13 11s. 5d.
Whereof from the Stocks £8 11s. 2d.
Item from proper [rent] £60 8s. 8d., whereof foreign [rent] £5 2s.
Item from passage-tolls, 33s 10d.
Item from sales, 42s. 8d.
[Total] £72 17s. 4d.
240. [f. 90: heading In the 9th year of Henry V']
Michaelmas. Received [or receipts] 27 September.
From the fishmongers at the Stocks, 9s. 2d.
From the butchers there, 17s. 8d.
Of proper rent by William Aunger, £38.
Passage-tolls. From carts crossing the Bridge, 3s. 8d.
From the sale of 2,000 bricks. Item for corbels [corbeles], stone jambs,
and 3 pieces of timber [lost]
Whereof from the Stocks, 26s. 10d.
From proper [rent], £38.
From passage-tolls, 3s. 8d.
From sales, 22s. 9d.
Total £40 13s. [lost]
241. Total receipts of the past year
Total received from the Stocks, £61 7s. 8d.
Item from proper rents, £450 5s. 2d., whereof foreign rents, £42 [lost]
Item from passage-tolls as above, £7 6s. 11d.
Item from sales, £34 9s. 8d.
Item from fines, £4.
Item from alms, 15s. 6d.
Item from legacies, 2s.
Item in aid of repairs, 3s. 4d.
[Total] £558 10s. 3d.