Churchwardens' Accounts: nos 181-210

Churchwardens' Accounts: nos 181-210

181. [f. 66] Item paid to John Clarke to Thomas Wylkyns – 13s.
Item paid for the account dinner – 13s.
Item paid to the clerk for his wages for 2 years – £6.
Item paid for washing for 2 years – 8s.
Item paid for brooms – 2d.
Item paid for water for the font – 2d.
Item paid for writing paper – 4d.
Item paid for carriage of the cross to St Paul's on St Paul's day – 4d.
Item paid for frankincense – 1d.
Item paid for oil for the clock – 1d.
Item paid to the scavenger – 3d.
Item paid for setting up the sepulchre – 12d.
Item paid for nails to the same – 3d.
Item paid to the clerk for gathering in the money – 4d.
[Interlined: Item paid for palm – 3d.]
Item paid for a ship for frankincense – 2s. 2d.
Item paid for keys for the church door – 2s. 7d.
Item paid for a quart of malmsey for those that carried the canopy on Palm Sunday – 4d.
Item paid for 3 yards of haircloth for the high altar – 2s.
Item paid for 3 lb of candle – 6d.
Item paid for laying stones even in the church – 2d.
Sum – [erasures] £8 5s. 1d.

[f. 66v] Item paid for a sack of coals – 8d.
Item paid for frankincense – 1d.
Item paid for strewing herbs, and garlands for Corpus Christi day – 22d.
Item paid for wine for those that carried the canopy – 10d.
Item paid for a 14 feet long board for the churchyard – 10d.
Item paid for carrying 20 loads of earth out of the churchyard – 6s. 8d.
Item paid for carrying staff torches – 10d.
Item paid for 11 tapers for the sepulchre – 11s.
Item paid for waste of the paschal and workmanship – 2s. 6d.
Item paid for ?cross candles – 4d.
Item paid for Judas candles – 12d.
Item paid to the scavenger – 4d.
Item paid for 2 psalter books – 8s. 8d.
Item paid for ringing the knell – 6d.
Item paid to the clerk for watching the sepulchre – 12d.
Item paid for brooms – 2d.
Item paid for frankincense – 2d.
Sum – 37s. 5d.

[f. 67] Item paid to the scavenger – 4d.
Item paid for brooms – 2d.
Item paid for water for the font – 2d.
Item paid to the scavenger – 4d.
Item paid for bread and drink – 3d.
Item paid for a labourer for carrying earth for 2 days – 14d.
Item paid for carrying timber – 3d.
Item paid for 800 tiles – 12s.
Item paid for carrying and the labourer – 12d.
Item paid for a labourer for slaking of lime – 2d.
Item paid for 2 loads of lime – 12d.
Item paid for a double load of sand – 14d.
Item paid for 2 workmen for paving the high altar – 2s. 8d.
Item paid to the labourer – 10d.
Item paid for 2 lb of candle – 4d.
Item paid for 13 ells of buckram for a surplice for Master Parson – 10s.
Item paid for making the same – 3s. 4d.
Item paid for a corporas case of gold – 3s. 4d.
Item paid for the copy of Master Moyyer's will – 5s.
Sum – 44s. 4d.

[f. 67v] Item paid for a man of counsel – 4s. 8d.
Item paid for water for the font – 2d.
Item paid for brooms – 2d.
Item paid for scouring the candlesticks – 8d.
Item paid for water for the font – 2d.
[Interlined: Item paid for washing – 12d.]
Item paid for brooms – 2d.
Item paid for scouring – 8d.
Item paid for palms and flowers – 12d.
Item paid for wine for those that bore the canopy – 8d.
Item paid for a lamp glass – 2d.
Item paid for a pint of oil – 4d.
Item paid for making the paschal and the lamp – 7s.
Item paid for 3 pulleys for the same – 6d.
Item paid for hanging the lamps and washing the church – 10d.
Item paid for small torch for the paschal and the lamp – 6d.
Item paid for carrying 2 loads of rubbish – 12d.
Sum – 19s. 8d.

182. [f. 68] Item paid for 2 staff torches – 2s.
Item paid for the tenebrae candles and the cross candles – 21d.
Item paid for making the paschal and the waste – 3s.
Item paid for making 12 tapers and the waste – 12s.
Item paid for the frame of the sepulchre – 11s.
Item paid for painting the sepulchre – 10s.
Item paid for watching the sepulchre – 12d.
Item paid for coal for those that watched the sepulchre – 4d.
Item paid for coal for making the holy fire – 2d.
Item paid for candles on Easter day – 7½d.
Item paid for frankincense – 4d.
Item paid for making 5 surplices – 10d.
Item paid to the boys for carrying 10 torches – 10d.
Item paid for 4 great torches – 4s.
Item paid for strewing herbs, and garlands for Corpus Christi day – 2s. 4d.
Item paid for wine the same day – 16d.
Sum – 51s. 6½d.

[f. 68v] Item paid to the joiner in part payment for the rood – 20s.
Item paid for 5 wainscots at 22d. a piece – 9s. 2d.
Item paid for sawing 18 carf of wainscot at 1½d. – 2s. 3d.
Item paid for working 17 days at 12d. the day – 17s.
Item paid to the chamber of London for a quit-rent for 2 years – 2s.
Item paid to John Clyfford, carpenter, for the rood loft, the first payment – £5 5s. 4d.
Item paid to him for the next payment – £5 17s.
Item paid to him for the last payment – 45s. 8d.
Item paid to Foncer for iron work – 9s. 6d.
Item paid to the ironmonger for nails – 14s. 2d.
Item paid to a man of counsel – 10s.
Item paid for 2 loads of sand – 2s. 4d.
Item paid for carrying of 2 loads of timber – 12d.
Item paid for a load of brick – 6s.
Item paid for 7 loads of lime – 6s. 1½d.
Item paid to the bricklayer for 7 days' work – 7s.
Item paid to the labourer for 7 days' work – 4s. 8d.
Item paid to a labourer for 2 days' work – 8d.
Sum – £18 19s. 11d.

[f. 69] Item paid for 2 dozen pounds of candles – [corner of page lost].
Item paid for cleaning the pews – 8d.
Item paid for holly and ivy – 6d.
Item paid for 2 pounds of candles on Christmas day – 4d.
Item paid for frankincense – 2d.
Item paid for a board – 8d.
Item paid to John Clarke for singing – 12d.
Item paid for a bell rope – 20d.
Item paid for lime and sand for Jynkyn's wife's grave and Master Bateman's – 3s.
[Interlined: Item paid for Jenkyn's wife's knell – 6d.]
Item paid for brooms – 2d.
Item paid for ringing Bateman's knell – 6d.
Item paid to the scavenger – 3d.
Item paid to the plumber for 43 lb of lead for the holy water stock and for mending the grate and pipes – 6s.
Item paid for the holy water sprinkle – 4d.
Item paid for fetching Sir Martyn Bows to the commissioners – 12d.
Item paid for the rood, Mary and John and St Andrew – £5 2s.
Item paid for scouring the church gear – 6d.
Sum – £6 3s. 3d.

[f. 69v] Item paid for brooms – 2d.
Item paid for holly and ivy – 4d.
Item paid for oil – 1d.
Item paid for frankincense – 1d.
Item paid for 1 pound of candle – 2½d.
Item paid for writing this account – 20d.
Sum – 2s. 6½d.

183. [Remainder of side in different hand]
Sum total of all the payments is – £44 3s. 6d.
The receipts is – £40 17s. 4d.
So rests due to this accountant John Grene that the parish is indebted to him the sum of – £3 6s. 1½d. to be paid at reasonable times as we may. In witness and present at this account this 21st day of January in the year of Our Lord God 1556, John Chylderley, Thomas Wilkyns, Thomas Hancock, George Rycharde, William Jenkyns, Richard Baggott, auditors chosen by the parishioners for the same purpose.
[Marks] per me Thomas Hancock [Mark] by me William Jenkyn

184. [f. 70] This is the account of us Richard Adams and John Mathewe, which John Mathewe died and John Chylderley served out his year, made and given up the 25th day of January in the year of Our Lord God 1558 and the first year of the reign of our most sovereign lady Queen Elizabeth.

Receipts for the behoof of the church of Saint Andrew Hubbard by us the churchwardens for 2 years.

Received of Master Wilkyns for the hearse cloth for the burial of his man – 4d.
Received for the prick roll, the first year – £7 6s.
Received for the prick roll, the second year – £14 5s. 8d.
Received for the sepulchre light for 2 years – 23s. 7d.
Received for the rent of the shed for 2 years – 8s.
Received for Roger Plate's pit and knell – 10s.
Received for 1 year of Peter Collyn, for the clerk's wages for the last year – 6s. 8d.
Sum of the receipts – £24 3d. [paper holed]

185. [f. 70v] Payments for 2 years
Item paid for the dinner on the account day – 12s. 4d.
Item paid for old debt to John Grene – £3 6s.
Item paid to the chamber of London for the shed for 2 years – 2s.

Making the pulpit and pew
Item paid for 1 rafter – 10d.
Item paid for 2 double quarters – 10d.
Item paid for 71 feet of board – 4s. 2d.
Item paid for 2 single quarters – 6d.
Item paid for 2 hinges and a bolt for the pulpit – 8d.
Item paid for 100 6d. nails – 8d.
Item paid for 50 10d. nails – 7d.
Item paid for 3d. nails – 4d.
Item paid for 5d. nails – 3d.
Item paid for 1 hinge – 3d.
Item paid for 9 iron platts for stays – 18d.
Item paid for underpinning the pulpit – 9d.
Item paid to a carpenter for 7 days' work – 7s.
Item paid for frankincense – 1d.
Item paid for cleaning the church – 4d.
Item paid for tape and making the veil – 12d.
Item paid for 8 ells of cloth at 10d. the ell – 6s. 8d.
Item paid for making a red cross in it – 20d.
Item paid for 1 dozen curtain rings – 3d.
Item paid for a rope and hook to hang the veil – 6d.
Item paid for palm boughs – 6d.
Item paid for a quarter's wages to the clerk – 15s.
Item paid for washing the linen – 12d.
Item paid for the sepulchre light – 11s.
Item paid for the paschal – 5s.
Item paid for cross candles and tenebrae candles – 16d.
Item paid for making the sepulchre light – 8d.
Sum – £7 3s. 8.

[f. 71] Item paid for frankincense – 4d.
Item paid for brooms – 2d.
Item paid for water – 2d.
Item paid for scouring the candlesticks – 6d.
Item paid for garlands for Ascension day and Corpus Christi day – 13d.
Item paid for bearing torches – 9d.
Item paid for the waste and workmanship of 3 torches – 3s.
Item paid for a quart of muscadel – 8d.
Item paid for the clerk's wages – 15s.
Item paid for washing the linen – 12d.
Item paid for brooms – 2d.
Item paid for water – 1d.
Item paid for a baldric and buckle for the great bell – 14d.
Item paid for the clerk's wages – 15s.
Item paid for washing the linen – 12d.
Item paid for brooms – 2d.
Item paid for oil for the clock – 1d.
Item paid for frankincense – 1d.
Item paid to the scavenger for a year – 12d.
Item paid for a stock to set the image of Saint Andrew on and for making the hole and pinning in the stock – 4s.
Item paid for 5 tapers weighing 10 lb for the rood loft – 10s.
Item paid for 6 wooden candlesticks – 2s. 4d.
Item paid for painting the 6 candlesticks – 18d.
Item paid for a mass book – 10s.
Item paid for a new pew to Ellis Marchant – 13s. 4d.
Item paid for regolls [?regals] and singing men on Saint Andrew's day – 6s. 8d.
Item paid for 3 lb of candle on All Hallows' day and Christmas – 8d.
Item paid for oil for the lamp – 4d.
Item paid for frankincense – 7d.
Item paid for holly and ivy – 7d.
Sum – £4 11s. 5d.

[f. 71v] Item paid for [ms. holed] piece of timber to Master Jenkyns – 3s. 4d.
Item paid for the clerk's wages – 15s.
Item paid for washing the linen – 12d.
Item paid for brooms – 2d.
Item paid for water – 2d.
Item paid for a lock and key for the churchyard door and a key and mending 2 locks in the belfry – 22d.

186. [In margin: The second year] Item paid for palm boughs – 4½d.
Item paid for a quart of muscadel – 8d.
Item paid for a pint of oil for the lamp – 3½d.
Item paid for a sack of coals – 9d.
Item paid for a candle on Easter eve – 5d.
Item paid for a lock for the font – 3d.
Item paid for watching the sepulchre – 12d.
Item paid for mending the great bell-wheel – 7d.
Item paid for tape for the mass book – 3d.
Item paid for the clerk's wages – 15s.
Item paid for washing the linen – 12d.
Item paid for brooms – 2d.
Item paid for water – 2d.
Item paid for painting 2 banners and 2 streamers of our old altar cloths – 6s.
Item paid for 3 banner staves – 2s. 6d.
Item paid for 2 streamer poles – 22d.
Item paid for singing men the 9th day of May – 2s. 6d.
Item paid for 4 crosses of wood gilt – 3s. 4d.
Item paid for the sepulchre light – 11s.
Item paid for the paschal – 5s.
Item paid for tenebrae candles and cross candle w[eighing] 1¼lb – 15d.
Item paid for 4 staff torches and trimming them with boles – 5s. 8d.
Item paid for garlands – 12d.
Item paid for bearing 12 banners and torches – 12d.
Item paid for frankincense – 1d.
Sum – £4 3s. 7d.

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187. [f. 72v] [Different hand] Be it known to all men I John Howe skenser of London have promised for the term of 20 years to keep in twene [?tune] the organs of the parish of Saint Andrew Hubbard in Eastcheap, and for his pain taken 12d. by the year the first payment to be paid at the Assumption of Our Lady Day 1534.
[Mark]

[Different hand] Be it known to all men that I Bryce Austen, clockmaker, the king's servant dwelling in Saint Margaret's in Westminster have bound myself to keep repair the clock of Saint Andrew Hubbard in Eastchepe and mend it at all times needful by a lawful [word unintelligible]. The parishioners finding all the iron belonging to the work. The parishioners giving him 3s. 4d. yearly to be paid at the Annunciation of Our Lady.
Written the 31st year of our sovereign lord king Henry the VIII.
[Mark]

188. [f. 73] [Reverts to accounts in the same hand as ff. 70–71v] Item paid for the clerk's wages – 15s.
Item paid for boughs at Midsummer – 2d.
Item paid for washing the linen – 12d.
Item paid for brooms – 2d.
Item paid for water – 1d.
Item paid for frankincense – 2d.
Item paid for 18 fathoms of rope for the clock, weighing 16 lb at 2d. the lb – 2s. 8d.
Item paid for mending the organs – 53s. 4d.
Item paid for a bill of articles – 6d.
Item paid for the clerk's wages – 15s.
Item paid for brooms – 2d.
Item paid for water – 1d.
Item paid for washing the linen – 12d.
Item paid for a pint of oil – 4d.
Item paid for to the clerk for singing Te Deum at the proclamation of the Queen – 20d.
Item paid for mending the cross and the pyx – 3s. 4d.
Item paid for a fee to Howe – 12d.
Item paid for singing men on St Andrew's day – 3s. 4d.

Christmas
Item paid for a pound of candle – 3d.
Item paid for holly and ivy – 6d.
Item paid for 2 lb of candle – 6d.
Item paid for the clerk's wages – 15s.
Item paid for washing the linen – 12d.
Item paid for brooms – 2d.
Item paid for water – 1d.
Item paid for frankincense – 2d.
Item paid for a procession book – 2d.
Item paid for a year to the raker – 12d.
Item paid for ringing of Platt's knell – 6d.
Sum – £5 18s. 4d.

[f. 73v] Item paid for counsel of a will to Master Manwood – 6s. 4d.
Item paid for writing the will and deed of Moyer [Mawer] – 5s.
Item paid for counsel of the will and deed to Master Farsett – 6s. 8d.
Sum – 18s.
Sum of the payments for the 2 years – £22 15s.
Rests due to the new churchwardens – 25s. 3d.

189. [Different hand:] Auditors of this account made and ?proved the 25th day of January 1558 by us Thomas Wyllkyns, John Grey, William Jenkins, William Aschelie, John Hornar, Peter Collinge
[Different marks and signatures] By me John Grene William Jenkyns
By me Peter Collinge
By me Wm Acheley

[Fresh hand:] 2 chalices with 2 patens weighing – 32½oz, and a communion cup weighing 30½oz.
Paid for the change of the cup – 14s. 8d.

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[f. 74v] 1531
[Corner of page lost:] in the hands of Richard ?Garoll to the charge be ?house – 20s.
Auditors upon the same account Thomas Sorbott, John Chele, Paul Pycott, Edmund Bound

[Jottings, including signatures of Jasper Rowse and Bartholomew Neyll]

190. [f. 75] 1570
[Edge of page damaged:] The inventory of all the armour [word indecipherable] now remaining in the church [word indecipherable].

4 white corslets with their head piece
2 black corslets with their head pieces
4 pikes 7 harquebuses with flask and ?toch boxes
7 daggers with wire haftes and knives
8 old wooden hafted daggers
1 almain-rivet 4 pairs of splints
2 sheaf of arrows 2 swords

Memorandum there is also remaining this present day the 9th January 1570 the sum of 17s. which was left from that assessed in the parish and gathered for buying arms, which money is left in the hands of Richard Adams and Henry Wells churchwardens.

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191. [f. 76] This is the account of Gerard Burton and Elyor Merchant, churchwardens of the parish of St Andrew Hubbard by Eastcheap, London, viz. from the Nativity of our Lord 1558 and the first year of the reign of Sovereign Lady Elizabeth by the grace of God, to the year of our Lord 1560 and feast aforesaid, the third year of our said sovereign lady, made and done as ensues.

First the receipts of us the churchwardens for the behoof of the parish for 2 years as follows
In primis received of Richard Adams and his partner churchwardens last being, at the delivery of their account – 25s. 3d.
Received upon the prickroll for 2 years – £12 9s. 4d.
Received for the hearsecloth – 12d.
Received again for the hearsecloth – 12d.
Received for 36 lb of lead – 2s. 8d.
Received of Master Adams for a piece of latten – 4d.
Received of Master Merchant for 42 lb of latten – 7s. 4d.
Received of Fanne's wife for 2 years rent – 8s.
Received of Master Richards for a pit and knell – 10s.
Received for old churchbooks – 3s. 4d.
Received for 2 bell clappers – 2s.
Received for a bell weighing 304 lb at 26s. 6d. the hundred – £4 ?7s. [corner of page lost].

[f. 76v] Received more for old boards – 9d.
Received for communion bread beginning at Nicholas Chatfielde and ending at the house of Gerard Burton – 13s.
Sum total of the whole receipt – £20 4s. 8d.

192. [f. 77] Payments made and done by the churchwardens for 2 years their time being.
In primis paid for the dinner when the account was received – 13s. 8d.
Item paid for a shovel – 6d.
Item paid for frankincense – 1d.
Item paid for the paving Master Plat's grave – 12d.
Item paid for 2 pairs of hinges for the 2 new pews – 2s. 1d.
Item paid for box and yew – 2d.
Item paid for a quart of muscadin for the keepers of the canopy – 8d.
Item paid to the clerk for 2 years' wages – £6.
Item paid to Carter's wife for washing, 2 years at 12d. the quarter – 8s.
Item paid to her for washing painted cloths – 12d.
Item paid for brooms and water for 2 years at 4d. the quarter – 2s. 8d.
Item paid for coals at Easter – 3d.
Item paid to Master Merchant for a pew – 10s.
Item paid for a paschal, the making and waste – 5s.
Item paid to the singing men of the Queen's chapel there on St Andrew's day – 3s. 10d.
Item paid more for frankincense – 1d.
Item paid for a service book – 5s. 4d.
Item paid to Fannser for his pains – 3d.
Item paid for a book of the Queen's Injunctions – 4d.
Item paid for 3 keys and undoing the locks to the poor's box – 20d.
Item paid to Master Richardes for 12 lb of solder at 7d the pound – 7s.
Item paid to Master Richard's servant for his pains – 6d.
Item paid for tenebrae and cross candles – 15d.
[In arabics at foot of page: 9. 5. 4.]

[f. 77v] Item paid to Fanser for his pains – 4d.
Item paid for drink the same time of his pains – 3d.
Item paid for wood and coal for the plumber – 2s.
Item paid for the exchange of 2 chalices with covers, weighing 32½oz, for a communion cup weighing 30½oz, the exchange with the odd ounce at – 14s. 8d.
Item paid for Fanser for his pains and mending the clock, a pulley – 10d.
Item paid for oil for the clock – 1d.
Item paid to White for carrying rubbish – 7d.
Item paid for a table and frame – 10s.
Item paid for a door for the steeple – 16d.
Item paid for candles – 3d.
Item paid to the scavenger for 2 whole years – 2s.
Item paid for candles – 2d.
Item paid for a pair of hinges – 4d.
Item paid to Fanser for mending the bars of the glass window – 20d.
Item paid to Howe for his fee – 12d.
Item paid to How also for removing the organs – 8d.
Item paid to ?Simherd for lime – 2s.; for wages for him and his man – 4s.; for tile – 12d.; for sand – 8d.; for pulling down the altar – 20d. – 9s. 8d.
Item paid for holly and ivy – 9d.
Item paid to Carter for 2 psalm books – 2s. 8d.
Item paid for candles – 3d.
Item paid for a lantern – 12d.
Item paid the same time for 4 plates – 12d.
Item paid for candles – 6d.
Item paid for drink at the defacing of the roodloft – 2d.
[In arabics at foot of page: 2. 12. 2.]

[f. 78] Item paid to Fannser at the pulling down of the roodloft – 6d.
Item paid for candles – 3d.
Item paid to the chamberlain for 2 years' rent of the shed – 2s.
Item paid to Howe – 12d.
Item paid to the Mayor's officer that arrested Master Platt – 12d.
Item paid for nails for Horner the turner's pew – 1d.
Item paid for the exchange of £4 – 8s.
Item paid for ringing Master Richarde's knell – 6d.
Item paid for paving the same again – 12d.
Item paid for mending the church porch leads – 8d.
Item paid for a book of Interrogatories – 4d.
Item paid for carriage of the lesser bell – 4d.
Item paid to Fannser for taking down the bell – 6d.
Item paid to Howe for mending the organs and putting in of certain sprigs – 20d.
Item paid to Master Archeley for this paper book – 18d.
Item paid to the glazier – 8s. 1½d.
Item paid to Howe for his fee – 2s.
Item paid for nails – 3d.
Item paid to the carpenter for mending the belfry stairs and 2 or 3 pews – 8d.
Item paid for 4 papers of psalms to be sung before the service or sermon – 3d.
Item paid for holly and ivy – 9d.
Item paid for bread and wine for the communion unto this present day of account – 12s.½d.
[In arabics at foot of page: 2. 3. 5.]

193. [f. 78v] Item paid for a wainscot – 4s. 6d.
Item paid for the sawing thereof – 10d.
Item paid to Grenewaye for 2 days' labour about the rubbish in the church – 20d.
Item paid to Simon Lawles for 1 day – 10d.
Item paid to Robert Brady – 8d.
Item paid for bread and drink – 21d.
Item paid for nails – 2d.
Item paid for 150 paving stones – 5s.
Item paid for lime and sand – 6s. 6d.
Item paid for 2 labourers for the paviour for 3 days – 2s. 6d.
Item paid to the paviour for 3 days – 4s.
Item paid for a ?job of work – 7d.
Item paid to another paviour for 1 day's work and his labourer – 2s. 4d.
Item paid for bread and drink – 3d.
Item paid to Fannser for 22 sprigs for the partition – 20d.
Item paid to the carpenter for 3 days' work at 16d the day – 4s.
Item paid for drink for saving his hours – 4d.
Item paid for nails – 16½d.
Item paid for a pair of hinges – 4d.
Item paid to the carpenter for 4 days – 5s. 4d.
Item paid for a door – 20d.
Item paid for drink – 1d.
Item paid for a lock and a key to the door – 18d.
Item paid for the fastening of the bible and paraphrase, and for nails – 6d.
[In arabics at foot of page: 2. 8. 4 ½.]

[f. 79] Item paid for paper at times – 2d.
Item paid for a load of paving stones before the church door – 2s. 8d.
Item paid for sand – 3s.
Item paid for paving 70 yards at 3d. the yard – 17s. 6d.
Item paid for carrying 4 loads of rubbish at 8d. the load – 2s. 8d.
Item paid to the painter – 6s. 8d.
Item paid for 4 lb of solder at 7d. the pound – 2s. 4d.
Item paid for billets – 8d.
Item paid for a pair of hinges and nails – 10d.
Item paid to Fannser for his pains – 2d.
Item paid to the archdeacon for receiving our bill of information according to the interrogatories after the day – 20d.
[In arabics: 1. 18. 4.]
Item paid for the parson's behoof over and above the profit of the benefice as appears by the account ensuing – 19s. 8d.
[In arabics: 2. 18. 0.]

Sum total of all the payments made as before – £19 7s. 3½d.

So remains due to the new churchwardens – 17s. 5½d.

194. Debters for the clerk's wages.
[In margin: [?]Received of him by Jenks – 2s. 8d.] John Greene for 2 years – 6s. 8d.
Henry King for half a year – 16d.
John Wood's house for 1 year – 16d.
Thomas Lyster for 7 quarters – 14d.
Master Waterhouse for 1 quarter – 10d.
Sum – 11s. 4d.

195. [f. 79v] Memorandum that we the foresaid Gerard Burton and Elyor Merchant with the consent of 14 of the parishioners have sold the 15th day of January anno 1560 in the third year of the reign of our Sovereign Lady Elizabeth by the grace of God, certain parcels and goods of the church amounting to the value of – £6 14s. 9½d.
John Childerley
Richard Adams
Thomas Wylkyns
William Jenkyns
Peter Coolyng
[Scored] Elyor Merchant
[Scored] Gerard Burton
John Horner
William Archeley
Clement Fary
Thomas Boornell
Thomas Ede
Richard Botteley
William Smythson
John Lyons
and Robert Carter Clark.
Witnesses at the sale.

[f. 80] So are the new churchwardens, viz. William Jenkyns and John Lyons, charged by the foresaid Gerard Burton and Elyor Merchaunt last churchwardens the day and year aforesaid with the sum of – £7 12s. 3d.

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196. [f. 82] The receipts of the fruits of the parsonage of St Andrew Hubbard done by Gerard Burton and Elyor Merchant, churchwardens for the term of one whole year and half ending at Christmas anno domini 1560.

In primis received for the parson's behoof of the inhabitants of the parish, one whole year's profit and a half – £31 2s. 11d.
Item received for the yearly offerings of the inhabitants and servants of the said parish – 41s. 1d.
Item received for the offerings of those that were married within the said parish – 6s.
Sum total – £33 10s.

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197. [f. 83] The account of Gerard Burton and Elyor Merchaunt of the farm of the parsonage taken of William Swift, parson, in the name of the parishioners.

In primis paid to William Braynewoode for making the writing between the parson and parishioners – 2s. 8d.
Item paid to Master Percy, collector of the subsidy, for the tenths and subsidy due to Queen's Majesty the 25th day of March in anno primo Elizabeth [1558–59] as appears by the acquitance for the same – £3 10d.
Item for the acquittance – 4d.
Item for a half quarter's due of service ending at Midsummer in anno primo Elizabeth – 30s. 4d.
Item for a quarter's wages ending at Michaelmas paid to Sir Thomas Ryley, priest – £3.
Item paid to sundry ministers for one half quarter next ensuing to Michaelmas quarter – 33s. 8d.
Item paid to T. Marten, curate, for the other half quarter ending at Christmas anno 2 Eliz [1559] – 35s.
Item paid to the said curate for his quarter's wages due at Our Lady Day then next following – £3 10s.
Item paid to the same curate for his quarter's wages due at Midsummer – £3 10s.
Item paid to the same curate for his quarter's wages due at Michaelmas – £3 10s.
Item paid to the foresaid Master Percy for the tenths and subsidy due in anno 2 Elizabeth 25th March [1560] – £3 10d.
Item for the acquittance for the same – 4d.
Item for a paper Injunctions – 2d.
Item paid at the visitation held at St Magnus about the 10th of July for 2 years, proxies omitted – 7s.
Item paid to Master Beaton for his last sermon – 3s.
[In arabics at foot of page: 25. 4. 2.]

[f. 83v] Item paid to the curate for 2 monthly sermons that he made – 3s. 4d.
Item paid to the curate for his quarter's wages due at Christmas last – £3 10s.
Item paid to the parson's man upon his bill at the consent of the parish – £3 5s. 2d.
Item paid to the curate upon a grant made to him at his first entrance and agreed to by the whole parish over and above that above received, sum – 45s.
Item paid to the summoner for 6 visitations – 2s.
Sum – £9 5s. 6d.

Sum total – £34 9s. 8d.
So is the parish in debt to the said churchwardens – 19s. 8d.

198. Debts for the parson's duty due at Michaelmas last
Thomas Lyster for 2 years – 13s. 4d.
Master Waterhouse for 1 quarter – 2s. 9d.
William Brown for a quarter – 8d.
John Woodehouse for 1 year – 5s. 4d.
Sum – 22s. 1d.
[Various marks and a signature] Per me R Adams

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199. [f. 85] Payments made by Wm Jenkyns and John Lyons, churchwardens new chosen the 15th day of January anno 1560

First paid for the dinner at making the audit of the last churchwardens – 18s.

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200. [f. 86] This is the account of William Jenkyns and John Lyon, churchwardens of the parish of St Andrew Hubbard by Eastcheap, London, that is to say from the Nativity of the Lord 1561 [ms. 1516] and the 4th year of the reign of our sovereign lady Queen Elizabeth by the grace of God, and to the year of Our Lord 1562 to the feast aforesaid and the 5th year of our sovereign lady as ensues.

First the receipts of us the churchwardens for the behoof of the parish for 2 years as follows
In primis received of Gerard Burton and Elys Marchant, churchwardens last being, at the delivery of the account – 17s. 5½d.
Item received more the same time for the parcels that were sold, as appears – £6 14s. 9½d.
Item received more by the prickroll for 2 years – £12 13s.
Item received of the goodman Fane for a year's rent for the shed – 4s.
Item received for the pit and knell of Thomas Bowrton – 10s.
Item received of Master Brefeld for a bell – £4 10s.
Item received for the pit and knell for John Chylderley – 10s.
Item received for the pit and knell of Elyn Draper – 13s. 4d.
Item received of the inhabitants of the parish for bread and wine for the communion, beginning with Gerard Burton and ending at George Frysynfyld, the sum – 20s. 6d.
[At foot of page, in a mixture of arabic and roman numerals: £27 12s.]

[f. 86v] Item received for the burial of Agnes Hemmyngs – 10s.
Item received for the pit and knell of Thomas Dede – 10s.
Item received of Grene for 1 year of his old debt – 2s. 8d.
Sum all the receipts – £28 14s. 9d.

201. [f. 87] Payments made and done by us the churchwardens for 2 whole years, as ensue
In primis paid for the dinner at the account day – 18s.
Item paid to the curate for his pains and writings – 12d.
Item paid to the good wife Whyt for making a surplice for a priest and 1 for the clerk, mending the albs and the other surplices – 4s.
Item paid for a quarter of an ell of buckram – 4d.
Item paid to William Braynwod for writing a deed and a will – 3s. 4d.
Item paid for 15 pounds of rope for the great bell, at 2½d. the pound – 3s. 1½d.
Item paid the same day for a piece of cord – 10d.
Item paid for mending a pew behind the church door and for nails – 6d.
Item paid to Master Leveret 15th day of September – 6s. 8d.
Item paid to Father How for the 2 years – 4s.
Item paid for ringing Master Bowrton's knell – 6d.
Item paid for covering his grave with lime and sand – 18d.
Item paid for mending a hole in the parson's kitchen – 4d.
Item paid to the scavenger for the 2 years – 2s.
Item paid more to him for filling the bench at the church door – 4d.
Item paid for nails – 1d.
Item paid for mending Master Bagot's pew – 2d.
Item paid to Master Benbow the 17th day of January – 12d.
Item paid the same time for a pint of wine – 2d.
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[f. 88v] Item paid to Master Bromley the 4th day of March – 6s. 8d.
Item paid the same day for searching the rolls – 12d.
Item paid to the goodman Fanser for mending the hernes and the clock – 4s.
Item paid to the chamberlain for the shed – 12d.
Item paid to Master Bromley the 11th day of April – 6s. 8d.
Item paid the same day to his clerk – 12d.
Item paid for the knell of Thomas Dede – 6d.
Item paid for glazing the church – 5s.
Item paid for the commandments which stand before the communion table – 16d.
Item paid for the knell of John Chylderley – 6d.
Item paid to a carpenter for a day's work in mending the choir door and Mistress Tomson's pew – 16d.
Item for a pair of hinges and nails – 10d.
Item paid for covering Master Chylderley's grave and Thomas Deed's – 2s. 8d.
Item paid to the clerk for 2 years' wages – £7.
Item paid to his wife for 2 years' washing – 8s.
Item paid for brooms the 2 years – 16d.
Item paid for holly and ivy for the 2 years – 16d.
Item paid for bread and wine for the communion for 2 years – 18s. 3d.
Item paid for oil for the clock – 1d.
Item paid to Master Benbow to give to Master Bromley the 2nd day of June – 6s.

[f. 89] Item paid to Master Bromley's clerk the 10th day of June – 4s.
Item paid for a writ to Master Gryffeths – 2s. 6d.
Item paid to John Clerke for serving this writ – 4d.
Item paid to Master Gryffeths for putting up the bill the 7th day of September – 3s. 4d.
Item paid for a pint of malmsey – 2½d.
Item paid to William Braynwood the 7th day of September – 12d.
Item paid to Master Crooke for a bill the 10th day of October – 20d.
Item paid the same day to his servant – 12d.
Item paid the 11th day of October to Master Gryffeth's clerk for the copy of Master Cluny's answer – 2s.
Item paid to Master Bromley the 12th day of September – 6s. 8d.
Item spent with Master Bagod the same day – 4d.
Item paid for Master Benbow's breakfast and mine when we went to Master Bromley's – 8d.
Item paid to the summoner – 4d.
Item paid to Master Bromley for moving of my lord keeper the 16th day of November – 8s.
Item paid to Hare his clerk – 12d.
Item paid to Master Gryffeth the 17th day of November for a subpoena – 3s. 4d.
Item paid to his clerk for writing it – 8d.
Item paid to John Clerke for serving it – 4d.

[f. 89v] [Top line in different hand] Item paid to William Jenkyns for his pains given – 15s.
Item paid to the chamberlain for the shed – 12d.
Item paid at divers times for my own drinking – 12d.
Item paid for a drinking for Master Bromley's clerk – 12d.
Item paid for a drinking another time for Master Benbow and me – 2d.
Item paid for the knell of Master Draper – 6d.
Item paid for covering Master Draper's grave and mending other faults in the choir – 4s. 4d.
Item paid for paving tile – 12d.
Item paid to the summoner – 4d.
Item paid for the knell of Agnes Hemmyng – 6d.

Sum – £15 17s. 8d.
So remains of this in ready money – £12 14s. 5d.

202. [f. 90] The copy of the quittance made at Christ's Hospital, for money gathered for the poor of this parish. [In right hand margin: St Andrews]

There is collected and gathered by Jerrett Burton and William Smytherson, collectors of the parish of St Andrews, towards the relief of the poor hubbard for 18 months, the 3rd of May 1561 and ending the 20th of September 1562, as by their books appears – £10 14s. 6d.

Whereof there has been paid to John Jackson, treasurer of Christ's Hospital, towards the relief of the poor harboured in the same hospital within the time aforesaid as may appear, sum – £6 9s. 2d.
Also there is paid by the said collectors to certain poor in their own parish within the said time, as by their books may particularly appear, sum – £4 5s. 4d.

Sum – £10 14s. 6d.
By me, John Jackson, treasurer of the hospital.

203. [f. 90v] Memorandum that there was delivered to the new churchwardens, to say to Richard Baxter and William Achelay, by Richard Adams and of his free gift, the copy of the last will of Michael Myles, cobbler, had out of the Court of Prerogative, in which it appears by the gift of the said Michael, that he has given to this parish church of St Andrew after the decease of his children dying without issue, which already are departed, and so after the natural life of his wife 2 tenements which are in this parish, as now at law by the said will does appear, which was all in the presence of us the said auditors.
Per me William Crompton. (fn. 1)

204. [f. 91] The receipts of the fruits of the parsonage of St Andrew Hubbard, done by William Jenkyns and John Lyon, churchwardens for the term of 2 years ending Christmas anno domini 1562.

In primis received for the parson's behoof of the inhabitants of the parish, 2 whole years' profit by the prickroll – £41 17s.
Item received for yearly offerings of the inhabitants of the said parish – £3 5s. 8d.
Item received for the offerings of those that were married – 2s. 4d.
Sum – £45 4s.

205. [f. 91v] The account of William Jenkyns and John Lyon for the farm of the parsonage for 2 whole years.

Item paid to Master Wartur, the curate, for a quarter's wages ending at Our Lady Day – £4.
Item paid to Thomas Reyley, curate, on Our Lady Day – 2s.
Item paid to Master Peersey collector of the subsidy and the tenths due to the Queen's Majesty the 14th day of February as appears by the quittance – 32s.
Item paid to his clerk – 2d.
Item paid to the summoner – 4d.
Item paid for quarter sermons for the 2 whole years – 32s.
Item paid to William Thorn, curate, for 1 whole year's wages due at Our Lady day – £13 6s. 8d.
Item paid to Master Blakwel, my lord of London's register, for my lord's visitation on the 25th day of April – 7s. 6d.
Item paid to the summoner – 4d.
Item paid for glazing the choir – 20d.
Item paid to Master Peersey the 2nd day of September for a subsidy – 28s. 10d.
Item paid for a quittance – 2d.
Item paid to the summoner – 4d.
Item paid to a carpenter for mending the parsonage – 23s.
Item paid to the archdeacon for his visitation at St Magnus the 6th day of November – 3s. 4d.

[f. 92] Item paid to the summoner – 4d.
Item paid to the archdeacon for building Paul's the 20th day of January – 16s.
Item paid to Thomas Haddon for the use of Master Parson upon the account of the benefice the 4th day of February – £4.
Item paid to Master Peersy for the tenths of the benefice the 4th day of April – 32s.
Item paid to his clerk – 4d.
Item paid to the curate in part of payment of his whole year's wages the year ending at Our Lady Day – £12.
Item paid to Master Archdeacon the 11th day of October – 3s. 4d.
Item paid to his clerk – 4d.
Item paid to his summoner – 4d.

Sum of all the payments amounts – £42 10s. 10d.
So remains of this in money – 53s. 2d.
So remains, and is delivered by William Jenkyns and John Lyon to Richard Bagot and William Achelay, now churchardens, this present the 7th day of January 1562 in ready money, amount – £15 10s. 3d.
Witness to this account Thomas Wylkens, Richard Adams, William Crompton, John Wylson, Jerrett Burton and John Hornar auditors.

206. [f. 92v] Debts remaining of the parson's duty at delivery of this account as follows
Thomas Lyster for 5 quarters – 8s. 9d.
[In margin: paid] John Hornar, sergeant, for 1 quarter – 16d.
Henry Leake alias Howke for a quarter – 4s.
John Flude for a quarter – 4s.
Sum – 18s. 1d.

Debts remaining of the clerk's wages as follows
John Grene owes more since his last debt, which is 4s. and now upon this account – 16d.
Henry Kyng for 2 years – 5s. 4d.
Harry Leake and John Flude – 16d
Thomas Lyster for 2 years – 8d.
[In margin: paid] John Hornar sergeant – 10d.
Sum – 9s. 6d.

207. [The following is scored through, and the word 'vacat' is written in the margin]
These are the names of those that lent their money toward the purchasing of Michael Myllys 2 houses, both of his wife, the 20th day of October anno 1564, and the money was gathered by Richard Bagat and William Acheley, as here after doth appear.

Rec[eived] of Richard Adams – ?£5
Rec of William Crompton – 40s.
Rec of Andrew Banbery – 10s.
Rec of John Lyon – 20s.
Rec of Master Parkyns – 20s.
Rec of John Wyllson – 10s.
Rec of John Mouners – 10s.
Rec of Jarram Borson – 10s.
Sum – £16 10s.
Rec of Thomas Wylkyns – 40s.
Rec of John Hornar turner – 10s.
Rec of Thomas Bornley – 10s.
Rec of Richard Grangar – 10s.
Rec of Ellys Marchant – 10s.
Rec of Richard Bontley – 6s. 8d.
Rec of William Acheley – 13s. 4d.
Rec of Peter Colyns – 10s.

208. [f. 93] This is the account or reckoning of Richard Bagat and William Acheley, churchwardens of Saint Andrew Hubbard in Eastcheap from Christmas anno 1562 to Christmas anno 1564, that is for 2 whole years as follows.

In primis received of William Jynkyns and John Lyon his partner at the acount day in ready money, sum – £15 10s. 3d.
Received by the prick roll for the clerk's wages for 2 years – £13 2s. 2d.
Received for Master Marchant's pit and knell – 10s.
Received for Lanskar and his wife's pit and knell – 20s.
Received for Chatfyld and his wife's pit and knell – 20s.
Received for Robert Clark's pit and knell – 10s.
Received for Master Adam's maid's pit and knell – 3s. 4d.
Received of Master Benbowe for Gabriel Benbow's pit and knell – 3s. 4d.
Received for Smithson, skinner's pit and knell – 10s.
Received for John Smithson, tailor's pit and knell – 10s.
Received for Banbery's ?daughter's pit and knell – 10s.
Received for Cornelys's pit and knell – 3s. 4d.
Received of William Smithson, tailor, in part payment of £5, the which Harry ?Tanskar gave by will to the poor of the parish, sum – 40s.
Received of Thomas Lystar in part payment of his old reckoning – 5s.
Received of goodwife Fane for the shed for 2 year's rent – 8s.
Received of one that dwells in Master Draper's house by a gift – 12s. 6d.
Sum all – £36 17s. 11d.
Received more of Thomas Hornar, sergeant, for old debt – 2s. 2d.
Sum all appearing – £37 1d.

209. [f. 93v] This be the payments paid out by Richard Bagat and William Acheley for 2 years as hereafter follows.
Item paid for divers charges the 9th day of January anno 1562 at the account dinner – 28s.
Item paid the 19th January for the seeking out of certain statutes, paid by Mower's wife after his death – 6s. 8d.
Item paid for writing 18 sheets of paper of Master Clone's replication – 12s.
Item paid to Master Bromley our counsellor for his fee at Candlemas term – 6s. 8d.
Item paid to Master Gryffyns of the chanssre [chancery] – 3s. 4d.
Item paid to Master Bromley's clerk for writing our answer – 2s.
Item paid to Master Bromley at Easter term 1563 – 6s. 8d.
Item paid to Master Gryffyn at that time – 3s. 4d.
Item paid for a subpoena for Master Clone – 2s. 6d.
Item paid for serving of it – 6d.
Item paid to Master Nowell of Gray's Inn – 6s. 8d.
Item paid for the copy of Master Clone's answer at Midsummer term – 4s.
Item paid to Master Bromley at that time – 6s. 8d.
Item paid to Master Gryffyn at that time – 3s. 4d.
Item paid to the Queen's solicitor for drawing the office – 10s.
Item paid to his servant for writing it – 3s. 4d.
Item paid to Master Bromley for his pains to come before the commissioners – 10s.
Item paid at that time to Brone of the counter – 2s.
Item paid to the secondary of the counter – 2s.
Item paid to Lysol the sergeant for summoning the quest – 4s.
Item paid to John Clerk – 20s.
Item paid to one of Master Argoll's clerks – 12d.
Item paid to Master Bromley's clerk to [?]remember his master – 12d.
[In arabics at foot of page: 7. 5. 8.]

[f. 94] Item paid for 3 writers – 6s. 8d.
Item paid for Mowar's will under seal – 20s.
Item paid to a man of ?law for drawing our ponplycasyon – 4s.
Item paid for half a mutton given to Master Fanshaw – 5s.
Item paid to John Clarke and ?Richard a Dille – 28s. 4d.
Item paid to Master Bromley to come to Guildhall – 10s.
Item paid to Master Kechen at that time – 6s. 8d.
Item paid to Master Secondary to make out the panel – 3s. 4d.
Item paid to one of Master Mylme's clerks for writing the warrant – 2s.
Item paid to one of his men – 12d.
Item paid to Master Kechen the ?30th June for coming to Guildhall – 10s.
Item paid to Master Bromley the ?7th July – 10s.
Item paid to Master Kechen on that day – 10s.
Item paid to Master Bromley's clerk to remember his master – 12d.
Item paid to Master Bromley – 10s.
Item paid to Master Kechen – 6s. 8d.
Item paid to Master Kechen at Guildhall – 10s.
Item paid for the copy of the office that the 12 men gave over – 11s. 4d.
Item paid to Master Marwood of the Exchequer – 5s.
Item paid to Master Kechen for opening our matter in the Exchequer – 6s. 8d.
Item paid for our dinners at St John's had with Master Kechen – 6s. 8d.
Item paid for our boat hire from Westminster with Master Bromley – 6d.
Item given to Master Derrant, carraway 1 box and a ?bladder of powder – 16d.
Item paid for the search of Mowar's will – 4s.
Item given a box of ?marmalade to Master Bromley – 3s.
[In arabics at foot of page: 9. 2. 0.]

[f. 94v] Item paid to Hornar the Sergeant for summoning the quest – 3s. 4d.
Item paid for the examination of Master Medcauffe before Master Conse – 3s. 4d.
Item paid more for the panne of Mowar's will – 2s. 6d.
Item paid for the copy of Reyffe's wife's and Clarke's wife's examination in the Spiritual Court – 3s. 4d.
Item spent on William Hylle – 6d.
Item paid more to him at that time and another time – 2s. 6d.
Item paid for charges at the tavern the 16th and 19th of August upon certain folks – 2s. 6d.
Item paid to Master Bromley for his counsel of Michael Mylles's will – 5s.
Item paid to Master Kechen for drawing a sublycassyon to my lord treasurer – 4s.
Item given to Master Benche 1 box of carraway and a ?bladder of blanche powder – 2s. 2d.
Item paid for copying of the playe into English between Masters Vyllars and Sempar – 2s. 6d.
Item paid for one boat hire to Westminster at 2 times – 6d.
Item paid for a breakfast for Master Marwood and Master Derrant – 2s. 8d.
Item paid to a plasterer for 3 days' work in whiting the choir and the chapel – 3s. 6d.
Item paid to his labourer for 3 days' labour – 2s. 6d.
Item paid for 4 sacks of lime – 8d.
Item paid to Smytheson, joiner, for making of 5 new pews in the chapel – £3 13s. 4d.
Item paid more to him for mending the boards in the choir – 12d.
Item paid to the beadle of the stasynars [?stationers] – 8d.
Item paid more to him at the bringing home of the paraphrases – 2s.
[In arabics at foot of page: 5. 18. 6.]

210. [f. 95] Item paid to Howe the organ-maker for 2 years – 4s.
Item paid for paving Master Marchant's grave – 16d.
Item paid to John Clarke – 6s. 8d.
Item paid to a joiner for a board for 1 pew – 8d.
Item paid for making an obligation for John Clarke's money – 8d.
Item paid to Master Welar for 2 years for the shed – 2s.
Item paid for paving Hornyng's wife's grave – 2s. 4d.
Item paid to goodman Lyon for 2 deal boards and for quarters and for making a form – 10s. 6d.
Item paid to Bournley for the raker's wages – 12d.
Item paid for putting in a bill to Master Johnson – 4d.
Item paid for carrying rubbish out of the churchyard – 3d.
Item paid the 17th of August for a book of common prayer set out by the Queen – 4d.
Item paid more at that time for a book now only set out by the clergy – 3s.
Item paid for ringing Master Marchant's knell – 6d.
Item paid for the knell for Lanskar and his wife – 12d.
Item paid the 8th of September for 1 load of tiles – 11s.
Item paid for 2 loads of sand – 2s. 4d.
Item paid for the knell of Nane Grygreve – 6d.
Item paid for the knell of Chatfield and his wife – 12d.
[In margin: The parsonage] Item paid the 25th September anno 1563 to a bricklayer for 5 days' work at 14d. – 5s. 10d.
Item paid to a labourer for 9 days at 10d. – 7s. 6d.
Item paid more to a bricklayer for 7 days – 8s. 2d.
Item paid to his labourer for 7 days – 5s. 10d.
Item paid for 5 roof tiles – 7d.
Item paid to Conke the carpenter for a wynbeme – 10d.
Item paid for nails – 3½d.
Item paid for 2 days' work to him – 2s. 8d.
[In arabics at foot of page: 4. 1. 1 ½.]

[f. 95v] Item paid to Goodwife Richards, widow, for 130 feet of board – 6s. 4d.
Item paid for 8 single quarters – 2s.
Iem paid for 1 double quarter – 6d.
Item paid for 700 heart laths – 7s.
Item paid for nails – 8s. 6d.
Item paid for a banister – 18d.
Item paid for 1 cwt and 3 loads of lime – 11s. 8d.
Item paid for tile pins – 12d.
Item paid for 200 bricks – 2s. 8d.
[In margin: Parsonage] Item paid for 45 feet of over board – 2s. 6d.
Item paid to Conke the carpenter for a coffin for the youth – 3s. 4d.
Item paid for the knell of Robert Clarke – 6d.
Item paid for the knell of Master Adam's maid – 6d.
Item paid for carrying rubbish – 20d.
Item paid to the summoner that gave us warning to ring no bells – 4d.
Item paid for the knell of Smithson – 6d.
Item paid for paving 3 graves – 3s. 4d.
Item paid to Carttar for holly and ivy – 8d.
Item paid for the knell of John Smithson – 6d.
Item the 7 January paid for 1 load of sand – 12d.
Item paid for 1 load of lime – 14d.
Item paid to a bricklayer and his labourer – 13d.
Item paid to Cartter for brooms – 8d.
Item paid to Ornry for 1 year for the raker – 12d.
Item paid for 300 tiles – 3s. 3d.
Item paid for 9 ½ yards of mats for folks to kneel on at Communion – 19d.
Item paid to Goodman Dronry for 3 quarters towards the mending of the benchend – 9d.
[In arabics at foot of page: 3. 5. 6.]

[f. 96] Item paid to Cartter our clerk for 2 years' wages ending at Christmas 1564 – £8.
Item paid more to his wife for 2 years' washing the surplices – 8s.
Item paid to John Lyon for 150 paving tiles at 4s. 6d. – 6s. 9d.
Item paid to a summoner for warning of us to come before my lord of London – 4d.
Item paid for 2 ?psalm books – 2s. 4d.
Item paid to a glazier for glazing the windows about the church – 9s. 3d.
Item paid to ?Fassy and Boutley for a year's rent towards the mending of the ?boat – 12d.
Item paid to Greenaway for carrying 7 loads of earth into the ?churchyard – 14d.
Item paid for 7 loads of earth – 10½d.
Item paid more to Greenaway for digging a hole to bury the charnel bones – 3s. 4d.
Item paid for divers charges of bringing ?up Kylleby and for his dinner – 5s. 4d.
Item paid for 1 pottle of wine to make Master Medcauffe and others drink – 8d.
Item paid for 4 ?boats to Westminster – 2d.
Item given to Master Bromley's clark – 12d.
Item paid to Greenaway for carrying stones into the church – 3d.
Item paid for carriage of rubbish – 7d.
Item paid to Master Kechen's clerk to remember his master – 12d.
Item given to Michael Mylles's wife in earnest of the bargain of her 2 houses – 12d.
Item paid to Master Bromley for his counsel concerning our assurance – 5s.
Item paid to the scrivener for making of the writing – 10s.
[In arabics at foot of page: 10. 18. 2.]

[f. 96v] Item paid the 28th October for their dinners at the ?tavern at the paying of the £20 to her – 3s. 4d.
Item paid for ringing the knell for Cornelius Gansson [Johnson] – 6d.
Item paid for our dinners at Westminster – 12d.
Item paid at the purchasing of Michael Mylles' 2 houses to make over the sum of £20 – £3 10s.
Item paid for the holly and ivy at Christmas anno 1564 – 8d.
Item paid for brooms at that time – 8d.
Item paid to Master Debyte towards a new quarter ?measure – 10d.
[In arabics at foot of column: 3. 17. 0.]

[In margin, in arabics: £44. 7. 10] Sum of all the payments aforewritten amounts all – £44 7s. 10d. [figure in roman numerals].