Churchwardens' Accounts: nos 121-150

Churchwardens' Accounts: nos 121-150

121. [f. 9] This is the account of Jeret Chaunnsye and Robert Wylkyns, churchwardens and keepers of all the goods, ornaments with other necessaries and profits belonging to the parish church of St Andrew Hubbard by Eastcheap, London, that is to say from the Nativity of Our Lord God 1527 to the said feast of Our Lord 1528, as follows.

The receipts as shall appear
In primis we charge us received in ready money from the old churchwardens, sum – 24s. 8½d.
Received of Master Plomer for Juliana Fairhead's obit – 12s.
Received of Richard Ynglysche for Matthew Ynglysche's wife's grave, sum – 6s. 8d.
Received of the executors of Mistress Chylderley for her knell, sum – 6s. 8d.
Received of the gathering in the church towards mending the clock, sum – 3s. 4d.
Received by the pricking bill for a whole year, sum – £5 10s. 4d.
Received by the old pricking bill that was unpaid from the old churchwardens' time, sum – 14s.
Sum total received this year as appears – £8 16s. 8½d.

122. [f. 9v] Payments paid as shall appear
In primis we discharge us paid for Juliana Fairhead's obit, sum – 12s.
Item paid for mending the whole of the savus [?sanctus] bell, sum – 7d.
Item paid for 4½oz of silk ribbon for the copes at 12d. the ounce, sum – 4s. 6d.
Item paid for 5 pieces of cade [?brocade] for the copes, sum – 2s. 1d.
Item paid for 6 yards of blue buckram for the copes at 5d. the yard, sum – 2s. 6d.
Item paid for 7 yards of green buckram for the copes at 5d. the yard, sum – 2s. 11d.
Item paid for thread for the same copes – 4d.
Item paid for timber for the churchyard doors – 2s. 7d.
Item paid for nails for the same doors – 6d.
Item paid to a carpenter for a day's work – 9d.
Item paid for carrying rubbish out of the churchyard, sum – 7d.
Item paid for cotton candle for the old churchwardens' time – 10d.
Item paid to James Short the organ player for the old churchwardens' time, sum – 8s.
Item paid for flowers for garlands the 9th day of May, sum – 5d.
Item paid the same day for bread, ale and wine for the singers, sum – 9d.
Sum this side – 39s. 4d.

[f. 10] Payments
Item paid for bread and wine for the clerks on Palm Sunday, sum – 9d.
Item paid the same time for palm, flowers and cake – 8½d.
Item paid at Easter for coals and drink for them that watched the sepulchre, sum – 10½d.
Item paid for flowers for garlands for holy Thursday – 4d.
Item paid for a singing man the same day – 4d.
Item paid for mending the surplices – 5d.
Item paid for ringing Mistress Chylderly's knell – 6d.
Item paid for mending the clock – 6s. 8d.
Item paid for a conduct for 7 days at Whitsuntide – 2s. 4d.
Item paid for garlands on Corpus Christi day – 14d.
Item paid for birch on Midsummer eve – 3d.
Item paid for scouring the church latten – 12d.
Item paid for a baldric for the great bell – 12d.
Item paid for 2 other baldrics – 12d.
Item paid for 2 ropes for the bells – 17d.
Item paid for a rope for the savus bell – 2d.
Item paid for mending of the fore bell wheel – 13d.
Item paid for paving before the church door – 22d.
Item paid for chaunshynge the latten censers – 2s. 4d.
Item paid for paving tile – 10d.
Item paid for paving 2 graves – 8d.
Sum this side – 25s. 9d.

[f. 10v] Payments
Item paid to the clerk for mending the copes – 8s.
Item paid for brooms for the whole year – 4d.
Item paid for bread and wine on St Francis' eve – 9d.
Item paid at Christmas for holly and ivy – 4d.
Item paid to the clerk for a whole year's wages – £3.
Item paid for mending 3 books, sum – 53s. 4d.
Item paid for whole year's washing, sum – 5s.
Item paid to the channel raker for a whole year – 8d.
Item paid for 2 hinges for the churchyard door, 2 platts for the frame of the bells, a key for the south door and a fire pan for the censers, sum – 12d.
Item paid for a key for the portal door – 6d.
Item paid at Easter for the paschal – 2s. 4d.
Item paid for tenebrae candles and Judas candles – 11d.
Item paid for 4 knops for the passion banners – 4d.
Item paid at Corpus Christi-tide for garnishing 4 torches – 16d.
Item paid to the tallowchandler for oil and candle – 3s. 3d.
Item paid for cord for the savus bell – 1½d.
Sum total this side – £6 18s. 2½d.

Sum total paid this year as appears by our payments – £10 3s. 3½d.
So rests due to us as appears, the sum – 26s. 7d.

123. [f. 11] This is the account of Robert Welkyns and John Parkyns, churchwardens and keepers of all the goods and ornaments with other necessaries and profits belonging to the parish church of Saint Andrew Hubbard by Eastcheap, London, that is to say from the Nativity of Our Lord God 1528 to the said feast of Our Lord God 1529, as follows.

The receipts as shall appear
Item received the 25th day of February a penny I wot not of whom – 1d.
Item received of Joffray Bell the first day of April for the pit and his knell, sum – 10s.
Item received the 22nd day of April of John Mychyll – 8s. 6d.
Item received of a stranger – 17d.
Item received of Story – 16d.
Item received upon Hock Monday – 11s.
Item received of Lawrens executor of Marion Chylderlay – 6s. 8d.
Item received of Thomas Smythe – 10s.
Item received of John Smythe – 3s. 4d.
Item received of Gebson – 13s. 4d.
Item received by the pricking bill – £5 11s. 10d.
Item gathered of the old pricking bill – 5s.
Item received of goodman Clarke for a pit and a knell – 10s.
Sum total of the receipts as appears – £10 12s. 6d.

124. [f. 11v] Payments paid as shall appear
Item paid to the priests and clerks for Juliana Fairhead's obit – 3s. 3d.
Item paid for a cheese – 12d.
Item paid for bread and ale – 19d.
Item paid for coals – 1d.
Item paid to poor people – 2s. 6d.
Item paid to the waxchandler – 3d.
Item paid to the churchwardens – 3s. 4d.
Item paid to the clerk for mending the copes – 3s. 4d.
Item paid for a key for the choir door – 6d.
Item paid for paper and coals – 1d.
Item paid for palm and cake and flowers on Palm Sunday – 8d.
Item paid for brooms – 5d.
Item paid for scouring the church candlesticks – 8d.
Item paid for coals – 6d.
Item paid to a priest on Palm Sunday – 4d.
Item paid for ringing Jofray Bell's knell – 4d.
Item paid for drinks and watching the sepulchre at Easter – 5½d.
Item paid the 9th day of May for garlands – 5d.
Item paid for bread and wine – 11d.
Item paid for garlands on Holy Thursday – 13d.
Item paid for birch at Midsummer – 3d.
Item paid for mending surplices – 4d.
Item paid for ringing of John Mettell's knell – 6d.
Item paid for Smythe's wife's knell – 4d.
Item paid to John Smythe for a key – 12d.
Item paid for a resyng piece of timber – 18d.
Item paid the 2nd day of September to a mason for making 4 holes and for covering 2 graves – 2s. 10d.
Item paid for a cart for carrying timber – 6d.
Item paid the 20th day of September for 26 feet of timber, price 2½d. the foot – 6s. 2d.
Item paid for sawing the same timber – 9d.
Item 4 pieces of timber – 13d.
Sum of the side – 36s. 11½d.

[f. 12] Payments
Item for half a ?knell – 6d.
Item a dozen of a quarters [sic] – 19d.
Item paid for 2 pieces of timber for the pews – 14d.
Item paid for sawing timber – 4d.
Item paid for 300 boards – 8s. 6d.
Item paid for 6 shells of elm – 16d.
Item paid to the carpenter – 24s. 4d.
Item paid the waxchandler – 4s. 2d.
Item paid for 2 keys the 7th day of October – 12d.
Item paid for a tray of mortar – 2d.
Item paid for 4 surplices for men and 4 for children – 13s. 4d.
Item paid to the channel raker – 8d.
Item paid to the carpenter for stuff and workmanship – 11s. 5d.
Item paid to the mason for paving a grave and for tile – 12d.
Item paid for 2 locks – 14d.
Item paid for a baldric for the 4th bell – 9d.
Item paid Kempe for writing a bill to deliver to the alderman – 4d.
Item paid for 2 keys and for mending the lock of the church door – 2s. 5d.
Item paid to Humphrey Barnys for nails and hinges – 6s. 5d.
Item for holly and ivy – 4d.
Item paid to the chandler – 2s. 11d.
Item paid to the clerk for his whole year's wages – £3 6s. 8d.
Item paid to the conduct for singing in the holy days – 16d.
Item for 2 hinges and for for hewing of a stone wall – 10d.
Sum of the side – £7 12s. 8d.

Sum total paid this year as appears by our payments, sum – £9 9s. 7½d.
[Different hand: All things received and accounted M Robert Wylkyns' time for 2 years and so rests in church box – 2s. 9d.

125. [f. 12v] This is the account of John Parkyns and Jasper Arnolde, churchwardens and keepers of all the goods and ornaments with other necessaries and profits belonging to the parish church of Saint Andrew Hubbard by Eastcheap, London, that is to say from the Nativity of Our Lord God 1530 to the said feast of Our Lord God 1531, as follows.

Item paid the 25th day of January for bread and ale when the account was given up – 1½d.
Item paid the 20th day of January for a cheese for the obit of Juliana Fairhead – 13d.
Item for bread – 12d.
Item paid to the priests and clerks – 2s. 11d.
Item paid to the waxchandler – 6d.
Item paid for ale and beer – 8d.
Item paid to the churchwardens – 3s. 4d.
Item paid to poor people – 2s. 6d.
Item paid to the raker – 2d.
Item paid the 25th day of February for a key for the church door – 8d.
Item paid for a lock and key upon a pew door – 6d.
Item paid the 22nd day of March for a bill of our tithes – 8d.
[Different hand: Item paid for brooms – 4d.]

[f. 13] Item paid the 24th day of March for a bill of our tithes – 6d.
Item paid to the raker – 2d.
Item paid to the clerk the 29th day of March – 16s. 8d.
Item paid the 9th day of April for scouring the candlesticks – 9d.
Item paid for palm and flowers – 8d.
Item paid for a baldric for the 2nd bell – 8d.
Item paid for cleaning the churchyard – 2d.
Item paid for wine and bread on Palm Sunday – 3½d.
Item paid for ringing a knell for Mistress Rogers – 4d.
Item paid the 23rd day of April for ringing of Mistress Maryon's knell – 4d.
Item paid at Easter for coals – 6d.
Item paid for bread and drink for watching the sepulchre – 7d.
Item paid the 9th day of May for wine, ale and bread – 8d.
[Interlined in same hand: Item paid the same day for garlands – 8d.]
Item paid to the conducts – 16d.
Item paid for a ladder – 6d.
Item paid on Holy Thursday for garlands – 8d.
Item paid upon Corpus Christi day for garlands – 13d.
Item paid for birch at Midsummer – 3d.
Item paid for doing [superscript: drawing] of 2 torch staffs – 4d.
Item paid for the clerk's wages – 16s. 8d.
Item paid for 4 bowls for torches against Corpus Christi day, for turning – 2s. 8d.
Item paid for another baldric for a bell – 8d.

[f. 13v]
Item paid for carving the said bowls – 4s.
Item paid for the gilding the same bowls – 20s.
Item paid the 5th day of August to a labourer for mending the vestry – 4d.
Item paid the 19th day of August for mending the latten censer – 8d.
Item paid for the clerk's wages for a quarter – 16s. 8d.
Item paid to the clerk – 16s. 8d.
Item paid on Saint Andrew's day for wine, ale and bread – 6d.
Item paid for candle and oil – 5s.½d.
Item paid for paving 2 graves – 10d.
Item paid for the silver censer – 6d.
Item paid for bell ropes – 2s.
Item paid for holly and ivy against Christmas – 6d.
Item paid for washing the church clothes – 4s.
Item paid to the raker for 2 quarters – 4d.
Item paid for making and writing this book – 8d.
Sum – £7 14s. [pence obliterated].

126. Item received of Robert Wylkyns the 15th day of January – 2s. 9d.
Item received of William Rogers the 20th day of January – 12s.
Item received the 11th day of April for the pit and knell for William Roger's wife – 10s.
Item received the 23rd day of April of Master Maryon for the pit and knell – 10s.
Item received by the pricking bill – [different hand: £5 17s. 4d.]

[f. 14] Item delivered the old beam light at Lent in the year aforesaid, weighing – 44 lb.
Item received at Easter the same beam light weighing – 52 lb.
Item so the new light is more than the old light – 8 lb.
Item the price of every pound 6d., sum – 4s.
Item making the old wax for every pound 1d., sum – 3s. 8d.
Item delivered in tenebrae candle with the cross candle 2¾lb – 16½d.
Item for making and waste of the paschal – 2s. 4d.
Item delivered on Corpus Christi eve 4 new croppes.
Item the new torches weighing 16 lb, the price of the pound 6d., sum – 8s.
Item for garnishing 2 torches – 8d.
Sum – 20s. ½d. [Different, much inferior hand: Sum – £7 14s. 4d.]

127. This is the account of Jasper Arnolde and Richard Gherriit, churchwardens and keepers of all the goods and ornaments with other necessaries and profits belonging to the parish church of St Andrew Hubbard by Eastcheap, London, that is to say from the Nativity of Our Lord God 1531 to the said feast of Our Lord God 1532, as follows.

[f. 14v] Payments
Item laid out for arresting Artche, Master Maryon's servant – 10d.
Item paid to the clerk for his wages – 16s. 8d.
Item paid for paving before the church door – 2d.
Item paid to the channel raker – 2d.
Item paid for flowers upon Palm Sunday – 8d.
Item paid for scouring the candlesticks – 14d.
Item paid to the porter that sings in the choir – 12d.
Item paid for watching the sepulchre and for coals, bread and drink – 8d.
Item paid for a baldric – 9d.
Item paid for a bell rope – 4d.
Item paid for an organ player on the church holy day – 8d.
Item paid for bread [and] wine on the church holy day – 9d.
Item paid for garlands and flowers on the said day – 9d.
Item paid on Holy Thursday for garlands – 8d.
Item paid for brooms – 2d.
Item paid for writing a supplication – 16d.
Item paid for a wheel of a bell and 2 ropes – 5s.
Item paid for writing a bill of vestments – 2d.
Item paid on Corpus Christi day for garlands – 13½d.
Item paid for the outdrawings of an action on Artche – 4d.
Item paid for birch upon Midsummer day – 3d.
Item paid to the clerk for his wages – 16s. 8d.
Item paid for writing this book – 4d.

[f. 15] [Different hand: Item paid to the waxchandler – 3s. 6d.]
Item paid to the clerk for his wages – 16s. 8d.
Item paid to the glazier for mending a window in the vestry – 16d.
Item paid to the clerk for mending the habits – 4d.
Item paid to the channel raker – 2d.
Item paid for mending the surplices – 10d.
Item paid to the clerk's wages – 16s. 8d.
Item paid for washing the church clothes – 4s.
Item paid for brooms and a withy brush – 3d.
Item paid for cotton candle, 18 lb – 22½d.
Item paid for a gallon of lamp oil – 18d.
Item paid for brooms – 1d.
Sum – £4 17s. 9d.

128. Receipts
Item received out the last year book
Item of Rowland Houser – 2d.
Item received of Robert Sawbone – 8d.
Item received of John Meede – 8d.
Item received of John Adowne – 12d.
Item received of Christopher Tayler – 12d.
Item received of John Parkyn – 2s. 2d.
Item received for the 3 steps brought by Chowe – 6d.
Item received by the quarter book – £5 12s. 1d.

[f. 15v] Costs paid for the arresting of Sir William Pen, priest
Item for entering the action – 2d.
Item for the arresting – 8d.
Item for the attorney – 12d.
Item for a bill of the plaint – 2d.
Sum – 2s.

Item for entering a new action – 2d.
Item for the arresting – 8d.
Item for the copy of the plaint – 2d.
Item for the attorney – 12d.
Item for calling the court for 2 days – 8d.
Item for a man of counsel – 20d.
Item for a bill of the play – 4d.
Sum – 4s. 8d.
Sum total – 6s. 8d.

[Different hand: Item rests in the church box the 19th day of January – 13s. 9d.]

129. [f. 16] This is the account of Thomas Clerk and Thomas Crystiane, churchwardens and keepers of all the goods and ornaments with other necessaries and profits belonging to the parish church of Saint Andrew Hubbard by Eastcheap, London, that is to say from the Nativity of Our Lord God 1532 to the feast of Our Lord God 1533, as here after follows.

Received of Master Plommer the 19th day of January – 12s.
Received of church money from Richard Garad and Jasper Arnott the 19th day of January – 13s. 9d.
Received of William Chester of old debt – 3s. 4d.
Received for the broken silver of the church – 2s. 4d.
Received of Thomas Hockyns for old debt – 4d.
Received of goodman Awdelee for a pit and the knell – 10s.
Received of Master Roger Plommer – 12s.
Received of Ellys Carmynell for old debt – 4s.
Received for our old organ pipes in ready money – 5s. 4d.
Received of goodman Gester for his wife's pit and for her knell – 10s.
Received of the old pricking bill – £6 6s. 2d.
Received of the last pricking bill – £5 18s. 2d.
Sum – £15 17s. 5d.

130. [f. 16v] Payments
First for the obit of Master Fairhead and his wife
Item paid to poor people in ready money – 2s. 6d.
Item paid for bread and ale and for wine – 2s. 6d.
Item paid to the waxchandler – 6d.
Item paid to the churchwardens – 3s. 6d.
Item paid to the clerk for dirige and mass – 8d.
Item paid to the 3 conducts for dirige and mass – 12d.
Sum – 10s. 8d.

Item paid for mending the silver censer – 3s. 3d.
Item paid to the clerk for his wages – 16s. 8d.
Item paid to a carpenter for mending the pews in our church – 18d.
Item paid for nail – 3d.
Item paid to the channel raker – 4d.
Item paid for mending the latten censer – 18d.
Item paid for palm flowers [scored: and for coals] – 15d.
Item paid for a priest on Palm Sunday – 6d.
Item paid for washing the church clothes – 15d.
Item paid for cleaning the churchyard – 6d.
Item paid for watching the sepulchre – 9d.
Item paid for wine, bread and for ale upon Palm Sunday – 5d.
Sum – 28s. 4d.

[f. 17] Payments
Item paid for a priest in Easter week for 4 days – 20d.
Item paid for mending a surplice – 4d.
Item paid for mending a clapper – 1d.
Item paid for flowers and for garlands – 5d.
Item paid for mending the church door – 6d.
Item paid to the channel raker – 2d.
Item paid for birch – 3d.
Item paid for bearing torches – 7d.
Item paid to Richard Fane – 4d.
Item paid for washing the church clothes – 15d.
Item paid for setting 1 of the albs – 14d.
Item paid on Corpus Christi day for garlands and for flowers – 13½d.
Item paid for meat and for drink for them that did help to dry the church ornaments – 16½d.
Item paid to the clerk for his wages – 16s. 8d.
Item paid for lavender – 2s.
Item paid for a holy water stick – 1d.
Item paid to the waxchandler for the paschal – 2s.
Item paid for garnishing 3 torches for Corpus Christi day – 12d.
Item paid for 2 lb of new wax – 10½d.
Item paid for 2 new torches – 6s. 2d.
Sum – 36s. 2½d.

[f. 17v] Payments
Item paid for mending the standard – 16d.
Item paid for a baldric – 8d.
Item paid to the clerk for his wages – 16s. 8d.
Item paid to the raker – 2d.
Item paid for brooms – 1d.
Item paid for washing the church clothes – 15d.
Item paid on St Andrew's day to the singing men – 12d.
Item paid for bread and ale the same day – 7d.
Item paid for paving within the chapel door – 12d.
Item paid for holly and ivy – 4d.
Item paid to the clerk for his wages – 16s. 8d.
Item paid for washing the church clothes – 15d.
Item paid to the porter for singing in the choir – 5s. 4d.
Item paid for brooms – 1d.
Item paid for 20 lb of candles – 2s. 1d.
Item paid for 6 quarts of lamp oil – 2s. 6d.
Item paid for cloth to cover Alhales [All Hallows] – 4d.
Item paid for 2 lb of candles – 2½d.
Item paid to goodman Jekens for ringing – 6d.
Item paid to a priest for Christmas day and for 12th day – 6d.
Sum – 52s. 6½d.

131. [f. 18] Payments
Item paid to Richard Jenkyns for ringing – 6d.
Item paid for 2 foot paces for the choir – 12d.
Item paid for paving along by the church wall and for stones – 10s. 6d.
Item paid for paving of goodman Awdle's father's grave – 8d.
Item paid to the repairs of the dung boat – 3d.
Item paid for gravel – 5s.
Item paid for 2 lb of candles – 2½d.
Sum – 18s. 1½d.

For the obit of Master Fairhead and his wife
Item paid for cheese – 19d.
Item paid for a dozen of bread – 12d.
Item paid for coals – 1d.
Item paid for ale and beer – 7d.
Item paid for wine – 16d.
Item paid to the poor folk – 2s. 6d.
Item paid to the priests and clerks – 2s. 4d.
Item paid to the waxchandler – 7d.
Item paid to the churchwardens – 3s. 4d.
Sum – 13s. 4d.

[f. 18v] Item paid for 6½ ells of whited canvas at 5d the ell, sum – 2s. 8d.
Item paid for paving – 1d.
Item paid to the clerk for his wages – 16s. 8d.
Item paid for washing the church clothes – 15d.
Item paid for a cloth for covering All Hallows – 3d.
Item paid for bearing away rubbish – 2d.
Item paid for 14¾ ells of whited canvas for the surplices and for making [them] – 10s.
Item paid to the porter for his quarter's wages – 20d.
Item paid to Kempe for his wages – 20d.
Item paid for palm, ?cakes and for flowers – 9½d.
Item paid for ale and for bread and wine – 4d.
Item paid for a priest on Palm Sunday to help in the choir – 4d.
Item paid for brooms – 1d.
Item paid for staining the rood cloth – 6s.
Item paid for gilding and painting 4 canopy staves – 9s.
Item paid for watching the sepulchre and for meat and drink – 12d.
Item paid for coals – 6d.
Item paid for paving the choir door – 10d.
Sum – 53s. 3½d.

[f. 19] Payments
Item paid for scouring the church latten against Easter – 14d.
Item paid for a chrismatory for our church – 3s. 4d.
Item paid to the raker – 2d.
Item paid for a holy water stick – 1d.
Item paid for sweeping our church – 4d.
Item paid for tape for the books – 2d.
Item paid for mending Mistress Bodfelde's glass window – 2d.
Item paid for brooms – 1d.
Item paid for washing the corporas cloths – 2d.
Item paid for 2 new wheels for the organs – 2d.
Item paid on our church holy day for bread, wine and for ale – 4d.
Item paid on Ascension day for sweet herbs and for garlands – 10d.
Item paid for garlands and sweet herbs – 14d.
Item paid for bearing torches on Corpus Christi day – 9d.
Item paid for bread, ale and wine 4d.
Item paid for birch – 3d.
Item paid to the clerk for his wages – 16s. 8d.
Item paid for washing the church clothes – 15d.
Sum – 27s. 5d.

132. [f. 19v] Payments
Item paid for garnishing 3 torches for Corpus Christi day – 12d.
Item paid for 2 lb of Judas candles – 12d.
Item paid for working 3 lb of wax – 3d.
Item paid for the paschal against Easter – 2s.
Item paid for mending our organs – 13s. 4d.
Item paid for a new ring to the censer – 2d.
Item paid for 2 staves for the passion cloth – 4d.
Item paid for bread and ale upon our church holy day – 4d.
Item more in expenses – 2d.
Item paid for 2 new tops for the geldynge torches – 2s. 6d.
Item paid to the clerk for his wages – 16s. 8d.
Item paid for washing the clothes – 15d.
Item paid for mending the bell wheels – 1½d.
Item paid for nails to mend the pews with – 1½d.
Sum – [?]33s. 3d.

[f. 20] Payments
Item paid for mending the vestments – 12d.
Item paid for mending of certyng [?curtain] in the church – 4d.
Item paid for brooms for the church – 2d.
Item paid for 2 quarters and 10 feet of quarter board to make a pent house over the wires from the steeple to the dial – 7d.
Item paid for making the same penthouse – 3d.
Item paid for mending certain things in the battlements of the church – 13d.
Item paid to Richard Jenkyns – 6d.
Item paid upon St Andrew's day for bread and ale and wine – 4d.
Item paid to Edmund Matres on Saint Andrew's day for helping in the choir – 12d.
Item paid to the clerk for his wages – 16s. 8d.
Item paid for washing the church clothes – 15d.
Item paid for mending a lock and for a paring shovel – 9d.
Item paid to James Bysbe – 10d.
Sum – 24s. 9d.

[f. 20v] Payments
Item paid for a hinge to a pew door – 1½d.
Item paid in Christmas holy days for making them cheer that did help in the choir – 4d.
Item paid for mending candlesticks that belong to the choir – 4d.
Item paid for a board that lies before the Trinity altar – 4d.
Item paid for the arrest of Rowland Hunter – 10d.
Item paid for 2 ½ feet of glass – 10d.
Item paid for candles and oil – 2s. 10d.
Item paid to goodman Kempe for helping in the choir – 12d.
Item paid to John Cranehowse for helping in the choir – 4d.
Item paid to John Lynnett for making this book – 32d.
Sum – 8s. 9½d.
Received of Rowland Hunter the 17th day of January – 2s. 6d.

133. [f. 21] This is the account of Thomas Surbutt and John Chylderly, churchwardens and keepers of all the goods and ornaments with other necessaries and profits belonging to the parish church of Saint Andrew Hubbard by Eastcheap, London, that is to say from the Nativity of Our Lord God 1533 to the feast of Our Lord God 1535, as here after follows.

John Chylderly and Thomas Surbutt at their first coming in received of the churchwardens in money – 6s. 8d.
Received of Master Plommer – 12s.
Received of Master Plommer for a quarter's rent at Our Lady Day in Lent – 10s.
Received of Mistress Hoppe for old debt – 3s. 4d.
Received for the jeyantt – 19d.
Received for Mowyer's burial – 10s.
Received of Master Plommer – 20s.
Received for Matthew's burial – 10s.
Received for the jeyantt – 2s. 8d.
Received for Mistress Olyver's burial – 10s.
Received for Mother Olyver's burial – 6s. 8d.
Received of Master Plommer for a half-year's rent owed at Michaelmas last past – 20s.
Received the first year's bill – £6 18s. 8d.
Received the second bill – £6 6s. 4d.
The sum of the receipts of the 2 years – £18 17s. 11d.

134. [f. 21v] Paid for the dirge of William Fairhead, a dozen of bread – 12d.
Item paid for a cheese – 8d.
Item paid for 2 pottles of wine – 8d.
Item paid for ale, beer and coals – 7d.
Item paid to the parish priest – 6d.
Item paid to the parish clerk – 8d.
Item paid to the waxchandler's wife – 6d.
Item paid for 4 clerks – 16d.
Item paid to poor folk – 2s. 6d.
Item paid to the churchwardens – 3s. 4d.
Item paid to goodwife Clarke for mending surplices – 2d.
Item paid to the channel raker – 2d.
Item paid for the mending the church desse – 2s. 2d.
Item paid for mending the patheing of the church – 2s. 2d.
Item paid for 2 stones for the church door – 6d.
Item paid for writing a bill – 4d.
Item paid for hinges and nails – 3d.
Item paid for making 2 pews – 15d.
Item paid for mending locks for the church door – 3d.
Item paid for palm, yew, box, broom and flowers – 9d.
Item paid for bread, wine and ale – 5d.
Item paid to ?Alss for cleaning the churchyard – 2d.
Item paid to the clerk's wages – 20s.
Item paid for cleaning the latten – 14d.
Item paid for coals at Easter – 6d.
Item paid to the channel raker – 2d.
Sum – 60s. 11d.

[f. 22] Item paid for ?drink on Good Friday and Easter Eve – 9d.
Item paid for baldrics for bells – 3s.
Item paid for bread, wine and ale the 9th day of May – 4d.
Item paid for garlands on Holy Thursday – 5d.
Item paid for mending a surplice – 2d.
Item paid for garlands and strewing on Corpus Christi day – 18d.
Item paid for bearing 9 torches – 9d.
Item paid for birch at Midsummer – 2d.
Item paid to the parish clerk – 20s.
Item paid for mending a surplice – 2d.
Item paid to Annys Fan for a half-year's wages – 2s. 6d.
Item paid for mending a surplice – 7d.
Item paid for ringing Matthew's knell – 6d.
Item paid for ?drink on Our Lady Day – 4d.
Item paid to the clerk's wages – 20s.
Item paid for wine on our church holy day – 3d.
Item paid to the organ-maker – 12d.
Item paid to the waxchandler's wife for the paschal pin – 2s.
Item paid to the chandler's wife for wax – 17d.
Item paid for dressing 3 torches – 12d.
Item paid for bell ropes – 2s.
Item paid to the channel raker – 2d.
Item paid for covering 2 graves – 2s.
Item paid to the clerk's wife for making and mending altar cloths that Mistress Egyton gave – 7d.
Sum total – £3 19d.

[f. 22v] Item paid to the clerk's wages – 20s.
Item paid to Annys Fan for a half-year's wages – 2s. 6d.
Item paid for mending the clock – 4s. 8d.
Item paid for a rope for the clock – 9d.
Item paid for holly and ivy – 4d.
Item paid for coals – 2d.
Item paid for the dirge of William Fairhead, for a dozen of bread – 12d.
Item paid for a cheese – 19d.
Item paid to the parish priest – 6d.
Item paid to the parish clerk – 8d.
Item paid to 5 clerks – 20d.
Item paid for wine and ale – 13d.
Item paid to the chandler's wife – 6d.
Item paid for coals – 1d.
Item paid to the churchwardens – 3s. 4d.
Item paid to poor folks – 2s. 6d.
Item paid for ringing of Mowyer's knell – 6d.
Item paid for making 2 locks for the church gate – 10d.
Item paid to the channel raker – 2d.
Item paid for covering Matthew's grave – 12d.
Item paid for mending books – 16s.
Item paid to the parish clerk – 20s.
Item paid for ?drink on the 9th day of May – ?4d.
Item paid for coals at Easter – 9d.
Sum – £4 17d.

135. [f. 23] Item paid for garlands on Ascension day – 8½d.
Item paid for garlands the 9th day of May – 12d.
Item paid for a garnet for 1 of the pew doors – 2d.
Item paid for a rope for the clock – 8d.
Item paid for ?branch – 2d.
Item paid for a rope for the ?sanctus bell – 8d.
Item paid to Chester's wife – 4d.
Item paid for garlands upon Corpus Christi day – 14d.
Item paid to the channel raker – 2d.
Item paid to the clerk's wages – 20s.
Item paid at Midsummer for birch and branches – 4d.
Item paid to the organ-maker – 12d.
Item paid for ringing Mother Olyver's knell – 6d.
Item paid for mending the laystock – 2d.
Item paid for paving Mother Olyver's grave – 12d.
Item paid for 3 baldrics for bells – 2s. 4d.
Item paid for the quit-rent of Master Plommer's house – 8s.
Item paid to the clerk's wages – 20s.
Item paid to Anys Fan for her quarter's wages – 15d.
Item paid for a door to the churchyard – 2s.
Item paid to the wardens of the Trinity brotherhood – 4s. 8d.
Item paid to the channel raker – 2d.
Item paid for mending of the parchment of the Chancellor – 5d.
Sum – £3 6s. 10½d.

[f. 23v] Item paid for a pair of hinges for the church door weighing 8 lb – 12d.
Item paid for a lock for the ?same door – 6d.
Item paid for making of another part of a bell clapper – 3s. 4d.
Item paid for ?graving of 3 clappers – 5s.
Item paid to the tallowchandler – 7s. 2d.
Item paid to the channel raker – 2d.
Item paid to the clerk's wages – 20s.
Item paid for Anys Fan – 15d.
Item paid for broom and holly at Christmas – 6d.
Item paid to the clerk's wife for surplices – 2d.
Item paid for the covering of Mother Olyver's grave – 12d.
Received the tops of the torches, weighing 13 lb, the making of the same – 13d.
Received the rood light ?top ends weighing 31 lb, the making of the same – 2s. 7d.
Item the rood light 53¼lb, so due to me in new wax 21¾lb, the price of the same – 14s. 3d.
Delivered at Easter the cross candle and the tenebrae candle weighing 2 lb – 20d.
Item [?]delivered at Easter the paschal making and the waste of the same paschal – 2s. 4d.
Item at Corpus Christi for garnishing of a torch – 4d.
Item delivered a lyncke the price – 8d.

[f. 24] Item delivered the tops of the torches weighing again 22 lb, so due to me in new wax 9 lb, price of the same – 6s.
Item paid for making this book – 16d.

Sum £3 10s. 6½d.
[Different hand: Received of Thomas Surbutt and John Chylderley by us William Rogers and Thomas Smyth – 40s. 3d.]

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136. [f. 25] This is the account of William Rogers and Thomas Smyth, churchwardens and keepers of all the goods and ornaments with other necessaries and profits belonging to the parish church of Saint Andrew Hubbard by Eastcheap, London, that is to say from the Nativity of Our Lord God 1535 to the feast of Our Lord God 1537, as hereafter follows.

The receipts as shall appear
Received of John Chylderly and Thomas Surbut – 40s. 3d.
Received of Robert Wylkyns by the old pricking bill – 2s. 8d.
Item received of Master Rogers, plumber, for 2 years' rent ending at Michaelmas last past – £4.
Item received for the sepulchre light at Easter time for 2 years – 23s. 7d.
Received of William Rogers, turner – 2d.
Received for Mistress Haysley's burial the last day of May – 13s. 4d.
Received for burying a French man out of the stone house – 6s. 8d.
Received for burying a strange woman at Robert a Woods – 10s.
Received for Nicholas Chamberlyn for the profits of the church – 20d.
Received of Master Maryon for the window over the porch – 8d.
Received of John Chylderley for making the glass within the choir – 4d.
Received the first pricking bill – £7 11s. 8d.
Received the second pricking bill – £7 17s. 4d.
Received in another bill – 15s. 6d.
Sum total – £25 3s. 10d.

137. [f. 25v] Payments paid
Item paid for William Fairhead for 2 years – 24s. 6d.
Item paid at the assessing of the clerk's wages and bread, ale and coals – 4d.
Item paid for mending 2 surplices – 3d.
Item paid for a pole, brush and brooms – 3d.
Item paid for white paper – 2d.
Item paid for 31 ells of cloth for surplices – 16s. 10d.
Item paid for 2 years' wages to Richard Grysby, the clerk – £8.
Item paid for making a window over the porch, and board – 5s. 4d.
Item paid for cleaning the churchyard and for carriage of the rubbish – 7d.
Item paid to the glazier – 5s. 2d.
Item paid for making 8 surplices – 4s. 6d.
Item paid for palm and flowers – 8d.
Item paid for bread, wine and ale upon Palm Sunday – 6d.
Item paid for a priest and for a child that played messenger – 8d.
Item paid for scouring the latten in the church – 4d.
Item paid for coals at Easter – 6d.
Item paid to the channel raker – 2d.
Item paid to the clerk's wife for washing – 15d.
Item paid for cross candle at Easter and for tenebrae candle weighing [blank] – 10d.
Item paid for the paschal at Easter – 2s.
Item paid for bread and ale at Good Friday and Easter eve – 7d.
Item paid for 2 new torches of Thomas Lawly's wife weighing 37 lb, price the pound 3½d. – 10s. 9d.
Item paid for sepulchre tapers – 7s. 8d.
Sum – £12 4s. 8d.

[f. 26] Payments paid.
Item paid for lattice for the glass windows and for the fee for the organs – 16d.
Item paid for water – 1d.
Item paid the 9th day of May for bread, ale and wine and garlands – 9d.
Item paid for 4 pair of garnets – 12d.
Item paid for a sack of lime and workmanship – 3½d.
Item paid for garlands on Ascension day and bread, wine and ale – 10d.
Item paid for garlands at Corpus Christi day – 12d.
Item paid for the paschal at Easter – 2s.
Item paid garnishing 4 torches – 12d.
Item paid for 6 lb of wax to garnish 2 torches – 3s. 6d.
Item paid to Annys Fayne for washing the church clothes – 15d.
Item paid to the channel raker – 2d.
Item paid to Annys Fayne for washing the church clothes – 15d.
Item paid to John Smith for a bolt for the church door – 4d.
Item paid to the channel raker for half a year – 4d.
Item paid to the friar for a quarter ending at Christmas – 4s.
Item paid for holly and ivy at Christmas – 4d.
Item paid for an action against John Edwyn – 2d.
Item paid for mending the clock the 27th day of February – 7s. 1d.
Item paid for mending vestments and copes – 7s. 8d.
Item paid for the organ-maker's fee – 12d.
Item paid for palm, box and flowers ?yew – 6½d.
Item paid for bread, wine and ale – 6d.
Item paid for scouring latten – 14d.
Item paid for nails and for timber for the scaffold within the church and without – 6d.
Item paid to the Frenchman of blanchechapel for mending the clock – 2s.
Sum – 40s. 1d.

138. [f. 26v] Payments paid
Item paid for brooms – 1d.
Item paid to Annys Fayne for washing the church clothes – 15d.
Item paid for a sack of coals – 6d.
Item paid to the channel raker – 2d.
Item paid for 26 lb of wax for renewing the rood light, price the pound 7d. – 15s.
Item paid for making of 33 lb of wax – 2s. 8d.
Item paid for 12 tapers for the sepulchre light – 8s.
Item paid for a paschal – 2s.
Item paid for garlands on Ascension day – 11d.
Item paid to the clerk for setting the albs – 12d.
Item paid at Corpus Christi day for garlands – 10d.
Item paid for bearing 11 torches – 11d.
Item paid for bread, wine and ale on the same day – 5d.
Item paid for ringing Mistress Hasley's knell – 6d.
Item paid for 3 ells of new cloth, making 3 rochets for children and mending the old surplice – 3s. 7d.
Item paid for a knell for Robert a Wood's kinswoman – 6d.
Item paid for birch at Midsummer – 3d.
Item paid to Annys Fayne for half a year's washing – 2s. 6d.
Item paid for paving 2 graves and lime and workmanship – 16d.
Item paid to the channel raker – 2d.
Item paid to the receiver of St Mary Spital for 2 years' quit-rent for our church – 16s.
Sum – 57s. 7d.

[f. 27] Payments paid
Item paid for mending a surplice and a new bonde – 3d.
Item paid for paving the Frenchman's grave – 6d.
Item paid for mending the settle within the choir – 6d.
Item paid for ringing for the choir – 2s. 6d.
Item paid for entering an action – 6d.
Item paid for holly and ivy and brooms – 4d.
Item paid to Annys Fayne for washing the church stuff – 15d.
Item paid to the channel raker – 2d.
Item paid for a barrel of timber for the clock – 4d.
Item paid to Richard Sawnssycc for pins of iron – 4d.
Item paid the tallowchandler for oil and candle, and cord for the organs – 6s.
Item paid for a streamer for the church and a cross cloth – 43s.
Item paid for making the book – 16d.
Sum – 56s. 8d.

139. [f 27v] 1538
[Entry scored: Received the 15th day of January of William Rogers, plumber [superscript: and Thomas Smith] – £5 5s. 10d., the 29th year of King Henry the VIII churchwardens John Smith and Edward Asylworth.]

[f. 28] 1538
Memorandum that I John Smyth and Edward Asylworth [Hasseley] have received the 15th day of January of William Rogers and Thomas Smith – £5 5s. 10d., the 29th year of the reign of King Henry the VIII at the making of their account. Witnessed Thomas Surbutt, Robert Wylkyns, John Parkyns, John Chylderly, Thomas Clarke, Lawrence Brydgys.

140. [f. 28v] Received that was left unpaid of the pricking bill as yet shall appear [scored: beginning at Michaelmas as [illegible] appear in the book.]

Received of Edward Hayseyley for a whole year – 3s. 4d.
Received of M Roggars at Michaelmas qtr – 16d.
Received of M Mareyon at Michaelmas qtr – 20d.
Received of William Roge, turner, at Michaelmas qtr – 2d.
Received of Richard Sansarr at Michaelmas qtr – 3d.
Received of Richard Hardyng at Michaelmas qtr – 3d.
Received of William Herbard at Michaelmas qtr – 14d.
Received of Thomas Stessonson at Michaelmas qtr – 6d.
Received of Ralph ?Goyar, cordwainer, at Michaelmas qtr – 3d.
Received of William ?Foxke at Michaelmas qtr – 6d.
Received of ?Merell Colbyllar at Michaelmas qtr – 4d.
Received of William Testor at Michaelmas qtr – 14d.
Received of Thomas Neyson at Michaelmas qtr – 6d.
Received of Thomas Sorbott at Michaelmas qtr – 16d.
Received of Peter Harreyson at Michaelmas qtr – 4d.
Received of Matthew Olyffer at Michaelmas qtr – 2d.
Received of M. Rowse for a whole year – 4s. 8d.
Received of John a Downe at Michaelmas qtr – 1d.
Received of James Blake at Michaelmas qtr – 6d.
Received of ?Gowfor Tellman for 2 qtr at Michaelmas qtr – 16d.
Received of Arnold Geylls for 2 qtr at Michaelmas qtr – 2s.
Received of Cornelius Johnson at Michaelmas qtr – 12d.
Received of John Roggars for 2 qtr at Michaelmas qtr – 12d.
Received of John New 2 qtr at Michaelmas qtr – 4d.
Received of Thomas Smyth at Michaelmas qtr – 8d.
Received of John Lavllos at Michaelmas qtr – 8d.
Received of Jeffrey Arnold at Michaelmas qtr – 20d.
Sum – 27s. 2d.

[f. 29]
Received of John Chowyy at Michaelmas qtr – 10d.
Received of Thomas Perrey at Michaelmas qtr – 8d.
Received of Robert Woodd at Michaelmas qtr – 8d.
Received of Thomas Waddy at Michaelmas qtr – 2d.
Received of John Childerley at Michaelmas qtr – 10d.
Received of Thomas Welkens at Michaelmas qtr – 4d.
Received of Thomas Clerke, pewterman, at Michaelmas qtr – 10d.
Received of Thomas Goodryche at Michaelmas qtr – 4d.
Received of George Davys at Michaelmas qtr – 4d.
Received of Richard Jenks turner [scored: Michaelmas] [superscript: ?2 qtr] – 4d.
Received of Morgan ?Roo at Michaelmas qtr – 2d.
Received of Thomas Jaffreyson at Michaelmas qtr – 6d.
Received of Roland Hartt, cowper, at Michaelmas qtr – 8d.
Received of Richard Teder [word illegible] at Michaelmas – 4d.
Received of Jasper ?Aveyye at Michaelmas – 6s. 8d.
Received of Robert Welkens at Michaelmas for 2 qtrs – 2s.
Received of Steven ?Rev for Michaelmas for 1 qtr – 2d
Received of Thomas Cersteym for Michaelmas qtr – 8d.
Received of John Folyatt for 2 qtrs at Michaelmas – 8d.
Received of them in Folyatt's house – 8d.
Sum – 18s. 2d.

Received of John Parkens for 3 qtrs and for Wyll 1 qtr – 3s. 6d.
Received of Richard Schosse for 3 qtrs – 12d.
Received of a basket maker ?Newcome – 8d.
Received of John Smith's wife for 2 qtrs – 16d.
Received of Eleys ?Gornyantt for a whole year – 4s.
Received of Hoppe's wife for Michaelmas qtr – 10d.
Sum – 11s. 4d.

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141. [f. 30v] The payments out
Paid the clerk for Michaelmas quarter – 20s.
Item paid for mending the choir door and nails – 4½d.
Item paid for burnishing 1 chalice – 4d.
Item paid for brooms at Hallowtide – 1d.
Item paid for 1 book for the ?church for to write in – 6d.
Item paid for the proclamation in the church – 3d.
Item paid the channel raker for half a year – 4d.
Item paid for 16 fathoms of rope for the bells – 16d.
Item paid for ?clensing of the bell ropes and ?tredd for ?weppyng – 5d.
Item paid for mending Master Plommer's grave – 6d.
Item paid for holly and ivy at Christmas – 3d.
Item paid the clerk for Michaelmas – 20s.
Item paid to Fane's wife for washing the church gear for half a year – 2s. 6d.
Item paid to goodman Wood for candles and oil for the church – 2s. 6d.
Sum [scored: 47s. 10d.] – 49s. 4d.

142. [Scored: Be it known to all men that John Halyday gave to the churchwardens of Saint Andrew Hubbard 20s., to be paid at ?4 quarters in the year till 20s. be paid. In the 30th year of king Henry the VIII. Per me John Halyday.]

Item paid to John Chow butcher and churchwarden of Saint Andrew Hubbard 20s. due to them in the year of the reign of king [Henry] the VIII 32.

143. [f. 31] [Scored: Churchwardens Robert Wylkyns and John Chow] 1538
[Scored: Robert Wylkyns received of the church money – 56s. 5d.]

Memorandum I Robert Wylkyns and John Chowe have received the 7th day of January of John Smyth and Edward Hasseley – 56s. 5d., the 30th year of the reign of our sovereign lord king Henry the VIII at the making of their account. Witnesses William Roggers, Thomas Surbut, John Parkyns, Thomas Clarke, John Chylderley, Lawrence Brygges, William Hunt & Robert Wood.

144. [f. 31v] This is the account of Robert Wylkyns and John Chowe, churchwardens and keepers of all the goods and ornaments with other necessaries and profits belonging to the parish church of Saint Andrew Hubbard by Eastcheap, London, that is to say the 7 day of January in the year of Our Lord God 1538 to the feast of Our Lord God 1540, as here after follows.

In primis receipts
Received of Thomas Surbutt for pit and knell – 10s.
Received of Master Rogers, plumber, for 3 quarters' rent ending at Our Lady Day in Lent last past – 30s.
Received of Robert Wylkyns – 14d.
Received of Mistress Maryan – 10s.
Received in the church of the players – 12d.
Received of Mistress Maryan – 3s. 4d.
Received of Master Rogers for a year's rent – 40s.
Received for Fowler's burying – 4s. 4d.
Received for Master Plommer's pit and knell – 10s.
Received for the first pricking bill – £6 18s. 8d.
Received of the last pricking bill – £6 [erasures] 19s.
Sum [erasures] – £19 7s. 6d.

[Different hand: Item received for 2 ?chappylls sold to John Lawles – 3s. 4d.
Item received of John Chow butcher in part payment of 20s. – 10s.
Item received of M. Rogers, plumber, for half year's rent ending at Michaelmas in anno 32 – 20s.
Sum to the church – £23 [erasures, and following figures blotted] 17s. 3d. with 56s. 5d. written on the other side.]

145. [f. 32] Payments
Item paid at Hassylwood's account – 12d.
Item paid for allowance of Juliana Fairhead's obit – 10d.
Item paid for cheese – 7d.
Item paid for wine – 7d.
Item paid for ale and beer – 9d.
Item paid to the priest and clerks – 3s.
Item paid for wax – 4d.
Item paid to poor people – 2s. 8d.
Item paid to the churchwardens – 3s. 4d.
Item paid to bovder – 2d.
Item paid for ringing of the goodwife Surbutt – 6d.
Item paid to the organ-maker for his fee – 12d.
Item paid for covering the goodwife Surbut's grave – 8d.
Item paid for mending the churchyard wall – 10d.
Item paid for a great key to the church door – 12d.
Item paid for palm and box – 12d.
Item paid for mending the censers – 4d.
Item paid for beer and wine – 5d.
Item paid for singing bread – 2d.
Item paid for the angel – 4d.
Item paid to the organ-maker – 5s.
Item paid to the clerk for his quarter's wages – 20s.
Item paid to the channel raker – 2d.
Item paid for lime and sand – 6d.
Item paid for a board and mending a pew – 8d.
Item paid for 2 hinges for a pew – 5d.
Item paid for a quarter and for nails – 4d.
Item paid for a board and mending pews – 6d.
Item paid for scouring – 9d.
Item paid to the glazier for 3 glass chassers – 10s.
Item paid for coals – 6d.
Sum – 58s. 4d.

[f. 32v] Payments
Item paid for 1 day to a priest – 4d.
Item paid to the clock-maker – 3s. 4d.
Item paid for paving in the church – 6d.
Item paid for a labourer – 2½d.
Item paid for garlands and for herbs – 13d.
Item paid for bearing torches – 11d.
Item paid for levelling the churchyard – 4d.
Item paid for brooms – 2d.
Item paid for drink – 2d.
Item paid for a pair of bellows for the organs – 2s.
Item paid for ringing for the Emperor's wife – 6d.
Item paid for holding 2 tapers – 4d.
Item paid to the clerk for a quarter's wages – 20s.
Item paid for birch – 3d.
Item paid for 2 holy water sticks – 3d.
Item paid for staving a ladder – 11d.
Item paid for 60 feet and 11 of quarter board – 2s. 3d.
Item paid for 8 quarters – 20d.
Item paid for 32½ feet of blanche board – 14d.
Item paid for an end of a plank – 4d.
Item paid for a double quarter – 4d.
Item paid for 2 garnets – 4d.
Item paid for 150 5d. nails – 4½d.
Item paid for 50 3d. nails – 1d.
Item paid for 50 2d. nails – ½d.
Item paid for 2 carpenters for 5 days' work – 6s. 8d.
Item paid for the head piece of a pew – 4d.
Item paid for ringing of M. Maryan's knell – 6d.
Item paid for iron work for the sanctus bell – 15d.
Item paid for covering a grave – 6d.
Item paid for a conduct – 3s. 4d.
Item paid to the clerk for a quarter's wages – 20s.
Sum – £3 10s. 5½d.
[f. 33] Payments
Item paid to the carpenter for mending the pews within the choir – 6s. 8d.
Item paid for a piece of timber – 2d.
Item paid for another piece of timber – 6d.
Item paid for 4 quarters – 8d.
Item paid for a board – 5d.
Item paid for quit-rent – 8s.
Item paid for 200 5d. nails – 6d.
Item paid for 100 4d. nails – 2d.
Item paid for half a quarter of tiles – 4d.
Item paid for a long plank – 6d.
Item paid for a quarter and 3 feet of board – 10d.
Item paid for the one half of the bible – 9s.
Item paid for paving the church – 9d.
Item paid for washing the church cloths – 5s.
Item paid for a rope for the sanctus bell and for the clock – 12d.
Item paid for the whenynge of the church house – 4d.
Item paid to a mason for smoothing a pillar – 4d.
Item paid to the clerk for a quarter's wages – 20s.
Item paid for holly and for brooms – 4d.
Item paid to the channel raker – 6d.
Item paid for the obit of Master Fairhead and his wife
Item paid for [?bread] buns – 8d.
Item paid for cheese – 12d.
Item paid for ale – 8d.
Item paid for the priests and clerks – 2s. 6d.
Item paid for wax – 4d.
Item paid to the churchwardens – 3s. 4d.
Item paid to a conduct – 2s. 6d.
Item paid for the carriage of 2 loads of rubbish and for cleaning the churchyard – 8d.
Sum – £3 7s. 8d.

146. [f. 33v] Payments
Item paid for roof nails – 2d.
Item paid for sprig – 1½d.
Item paid for 100 heart-laths – 6d.
Item paid for 7 rafters for the vestry – 2s. 4d.
Item paid for 6 rafters to lay upon the ground in the vestry – 8d.
Item paid for 150 boards at 3s. 2d. the 100 – 4s. 9d.
Item paid for a chair – 2d.
Item paid for 150 5d. nails – 6d.
Item paid for double 10d. nails – 1d.
Item paid for a load of loam – 4d.
Item paid for a load of lime and a sack – 9½d.
Item paid to Morgan for 8 ½ days' work – 5s. 8d.
Item paid to his labourer – 3s. 6d.
Item paid to a carpenter for a day's work – 8d.
Item paid to a carpenter for 3 days' work – 18d.
Item paid for laying Master Roger's stone – 6d.
Item paid for the clerk's wages – 20s.
Item paid for brooms – 2d.
Item paid for a holy water sprinkle – 2d.
Item paid for holly and ivy – 4d.
Item paid for mending 7 surplices – 6d.
Item paid for washing the church cloths – 5s.
Item paid for glazing the window next to the churchyard – 3s. 4d.
Item paid to a conduct – 8d.
Sum – 52s. 5d.

[f. 34] Item paid to a conduct – 2s. 6d.
Item paid for a labourer and for tile and mortar – 10d.
Item paid for palm and for flowers – 6½d.
Item paid for coals – 6d.
Item paid for brooms – 2d.
Item paid for the clerk's wages – 20s.
Item paid to a conduct for the same quarter – 2s. 6d.
Item paid for scouring the church latten – 10d.
Item paid to the clock-maker – 3s. 4d.
Item paid for the Fuller's knell – 6d.
Item paid for herbs and garlands upon Holy Thursday – 8d.
Item paid to the organ-maker – 12d.
Item paid to the channel raker – 2d.
Item paid for birch – 3d.
Item paid to the clerk for his wages – 20s.
Item paid to the channel raker – 2d.
Item paid for herbs and garlands on Corpus Christi day – 14d.
Item paid for a conduct – 2s. 6d.
Item paid for a priest – 10s.
Item paid for quit-rent of the church house – 8s.
Item paid for the clerk's wages – 20s.
Item paid to the morrow mass priest – 10s.
Item paid for certain bell ropes – 2s.
Item paid for Master Plommer's knell – 6d.
Item paid for mending the paring shovel and for 2 stapoulls – 4d.
Item paid for 50 5d. nails to mend the vestry – 2½d.
Sum – £5 8s. 8d.

[f. 34v] Payments
Item paid for making a desk to the bible and for mending 2 desks in the choir – 10d.
Item paid for a ladder for the church – 9d.
Item paid for 3 sacks of lime – 4½d.
Item paid to the waxchandler – 24s.
[Three lines erased]
Item paid for making this account – 20d.
[Sum is scored; rest of page in different hand.]
Item paid for cotton candle – 4s.
Item paid for lamp oil – 2s. 8d.
Sum – 33s. 3½d.

Discharge sum – £19 11s. 10d.
And so the said churchwardens owe clearly of this account made and given up the 19th day of January in the 32nd year of the reign of King Henry the VIII the sum of – £4 [figure blotted]?6s. 5d.
Per me Robert Draper, Thomas Clarke, John Chylderley, Lawrence Brygges, Robert Wood, William Hunt.

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147. [f. 35v] This is the account of John Harrison and John Parkyns, churchwardens and keepers of all the goods and ornaments with other necessaries and profits belonging to the parish church of St Andrew Hubbard by Eastcheap, London, that is to say from 32nd year of our sovereign lord king Henry the VIII [1541] until the 34th [1543].

In primis received
Memorandum that I John Haryson and John Parkyns have and received the 19th day of January of Robert Wylkyns and John Chowle at the giving up of their accounts – £4 5s. 5d.
Received the 27 February of Mistress Wyn for a quarter's rent due at Christmas before the date thereof – 10s.
Received the 16th day of April of Robert Wylkyns [f. 36] for the old pricking bill of the clerk's wages – 4s.
Received the 9th day of April for the great bell for Harding's brother – 3s. 4d.
Received the second day of June for Wilkyn's wife's knell – 3s. 4d.
Received the 14th day of June of William Harbard – 16s. 8d.
Received of Wolston Wyne for a half year's rent due at Midsummer last past – 20s.
Received the 25th day of October of William Harbard – 16s. 8d.
Received the 10th day of November of Wolston Wyne for a quarter's rent due at Michaelmas last past – 10s.
Received of the wardens of the Trinity – 6s. 8d.

Anno 33 Regis Henrici octavi
Received the 14th day of April of Wylston Wyne for a half year's rent – 20s.

Anno 1542
Received the second day of August of Wylston Wyn for a quarter's rent due at Midsummer before the date – 10s.
Received of Cornelius Johnson – 15s.
Item received by the pricking bill for 2 years – £14 17s.
Received of Wylston Wyn for the reparations of the church house and a quarter's rent – 57s.
Sum total – £30 1d.

148. [f. 36v] Anno domini 1540
Item paid the 9th day of January for a breakfast at the giving up of the account of Robert Wilkins and John Choull – 4s. 2d.
Item paid the 21st day of January for the obit of Juliana Fairhead for bread – 12d.
Item paid a cheese – 10d.
Item paid for beer and ale – 10d.
Item paid for wine – 7d.
Item paid to the parson – 12d.
Item paid to the clerk – 8d.
Item paid to 2 priests – 8d.
Item paid to 3 lads – 6d.
Item paid to the waxchandler – 4d.
Item paid to the churchwardens – 3s. 4d.
Item paid for the poor people – 2s. 6d.
Item paid for coals – 2d.
Sum – 12s. 4d.

Item paid the sixth day of February to How the organ-maker for his fee – 12d.
Item paid the 10th day of March to a man of counsel for William Roger's wife – 20d.

[f. 37] Item paid the 12th day of March for 2 baldrics – 17d.
Item paid the 26th day of March to the clerk for his wages – 20s.
Item paid for brooms – 1d.
Item paid for mending 6 surplices – 4d.
Item paid the 28th day of March to the clockmaker for his fee – 3s. 4d.
Item paid to the morrow mass priest for his quarter's wage due at the Annunciation of Our Lady – 10s.
Item paid more for a priest for 2 days – 8d.
Item paid the 4th day of April for mending the foot of the paschal and a new foot for a candlestick – 20d.
Item paid the 9th day of April for palm and flowers – 6d.
Item paid for a pottle of bastard and bread – 6d.
Item paid the 15th day of April for a quarter of coals – 6d.
Item more paid to a plumber for 68 lb of new lead for the church roof – 3s. 8d.

[f. 37v] Item paid for bread and drink watching the paschal – 5d.
Item paid the 20th day of April for making 11½lb of old wax – 12d.
Item more 6¼lb of new wax for the tops of torches – 3s. 4d.
Item more a link, 7½lb – 2s.
Item more tenebrae candles, 2 lb lacking the half quarter [1⁷/8lb] – 12d.
Item paid for the paschal – 2s. 6d.
Item paid the 9th day of May for mending of the church door – 1d.
Item paid on Ascension day for garlands – 4d.
Item paid for Harding brother's knell – 6d.
Item paid for 2 holy water sprinkles and a chain – 4d.
Item paid upon Corpus Christi day for flowers and garlands – 14d.
Item paid for bearing 10 torches – 10d.
Item paid for garnishing 2 torches – 6d.

149. [f. 38] Item paid for birch and broom on Midsummer eve – 4d.
Item paid for the clerk's wages – 20s.
Item and to the morrow mass priest – 13s. 4d.
Item paid to Horspole for quit-rent of the church house – 8s.
Item paid to the clerk for his wage the 30th day of September – 20s.
Item paid to the morrow mass priest – 13s. 4d.
Item paid for the repairs of romlane – 2d.
Item paid to the raker for the whole year – 8d.
Item paid the 24th day of December to the clerk for his wage – 20s.
Item paid to the morrow mass priest – 13s. 4d.
Item paid for holly and ivy – 5d.
Item paid for washing the church clothes – 5s.
Item paid to the organ-maker for his fee – 12d.

[f. 38v] Anno 1542 Regis Henrici Octavi 34.
The paid the 21st day of January for the obit of Juliana Fairhead – 12s.
Item paid the 24th day of March for a bar for the church door – 4d.
Item paid to John Turpyne carpenter for a puncheon – 6d.
Item paid for 6 ¼ feet of board – 4d.
Item paid for nails – 5d.
Item paid to the carpenter for 2 days' work – 16d.
Item paid to the clerk for his wages the 25th day of March – 20s.
Item paid for brooms – 2d.
Item paid for palm and flowers upon Palm Sunday – 6d.
Item paid for bread and wine – 7d.
Item paid the 8th day of April for coals – 6d.
Item paid for scouring the church latten – 14d.
Item paid for cleaning the chrismatory, and water for the font – 3d.

[f. 39] Item paid for watching of the sepulchre, bread and drink – 13d.
Item paid for garlands on Ascension eve – 5d.
Item paid for garlands and flowers on Corpus Christi eve – 14d.
[Interlined: Item paid to the waxchandler for the tops of the torches – 7s. 9d.]
Item paid for mending the churchyard door – 18d.
Item paid for brooms – 2d.
Item paid to the clock-maker for his fee – 3s. 4d.
Item paid for birch and brooms on Midsummer eve – 4d.
Item paid to the clerk for his wages – 20s.
Item paid to a plumber on the 28th day of July for 5 lb of solder – 2s. 1d.
Item paid for wood to heat his irons – 1d.
Item paid for mending 7 surplices – 6d.
Item paid for sewing the albs – 8d.
[Remainder of side in a different hand:] Paid the clerk for his wages the 22nd day of September – 20s.
Paid for quit-rent – 8s.
Paid to the raker for a whole year – 8d.
Paid to Fanscher for amending the dial – 8d.

[f. 39v] Paid for the repairs of the church house – 47s.
Paid for arresting Wylston Wyne and the costs and charges of the court – 4s.
Paid to the waxchandler for the rood light – 13s. 4d.
Paid for a rope for the clock – 12d.
Item on the 23rd day of December paid to the clerk for his wages – 20s.
Item paid for brooms – 2d.
Item paid for holly and ivy – 3d.
Item paid for washing the church clothes – 5s.
Item paid to the tallowchandler – 5s. 7d.
Item paid for making this book – 20d.
Summa totalis – £19 16s.

150. [Remainder of side in fresh hand:] This account given up the 11th day of January Regis Henrici VIII 34 [1543] on which day the said accountants brought in and delivered unto the hands of Robert Draper and John Chelderley now a lektyd [now elected] churchwardens of the said parish church and of the ornaments and goods thereto belonging, the sum of – £10 4s. 1d.

This account taken by the auditors appointed for the same
Thomas Sorbut
Robert Wylkyns
Thomas Clarke
John Chowe
Lawrence Brege
William Hunt