Appendix C: Extracts from Rate Book of 1603

APPENDIX C.

Receipts. [Extracts from the Rate Book for the year 1603.]

i. Poor Rate (a) Waterside. 144 ratepayers including the following (fn. 1) (fn. 2) :— M^r Symon Basill 12^s; M^res Nevell 25^a; Sir W^m Warde 20^s; Lord Sandes 30^s; Sir Thomas Gerrard [nil]; Sir John Parker [nil]; M^res ffrances Cooke 26^s. 8^d; Sir W^m Cooke [nil]; M^res Anne Cooke 26^s. 8^d; Sir Edward Hungerford [nil]; M^r Wardour 26^s; Lord Cecil £4. Total from the Waterside £34. 3^s

(b) Landside. 150 ratepayers including the following:— M^r ffrancis Bartewe 26^s; M^r Oldsworth 26^s; Bedford House [nil]; Sir Robert Crowe 15^s. 10^d; M^r George Coppyn 26^s; M^r Thomas Wyndebanck 20^s; M^r Nicholas Saunders 24^s; M^r Miles Raynsforde 17^s; Lady Nevell [nil]; M^r. Stewarde [nil]; M^rs Eliz. Downes 20^s; Sir George Moore [nil]; Sir Thomas Lake 20^s; Sir Thomas Cheeke 50^s; M^rs Harbert 20^s; Sir Anthony Cooke [nil]; Lady Hennedge 40^s; Sir W^m Lane 5^s; Sir Jerome Bowes 12^s. 6^d; Sir John Stanhopp [nil]; Lady Cheeke 44^s; Sir W^m Knolles [nil]; Sir John Scudamore [nil]; Sir Edmond Carie [nil].

(c) Drewrie Lane. (fn. 3) 11 ratepayers
Total from the Landeside and Drury Lane £46. 3^s 3 305 (fn. 4) Ratepayers produced a Total Rate £8o. 6^s. 3^d

ii. Benevolences His Maiesties Allmner 30^s; Sir Thomas Egerton, Lord Chancellor £17; Earl of Bedford £4. 10^s; Lord Burghley 50^s; Lord Cecill £16; Sir George Moore £6. 10^s; Sir George Coppyn 20^s; Dr. Mountford (fn. 5) 12^s; M^res Anne Cooke 33^s. 8^d; M^res ffrauncis Cooke 20^s; Sir W^m Cooke 20^s; M^r Wyndebancke 20^s; M^r John Woode 20^s; M^r Pleasington £4. 5^s; M^r Alderman Smyth 40^s; Sir W^m Wade 40^s; Raphe Boulton 40^s; M^r Chidiock Wardor 20^s; M^r Jevans the Pursuyvant 4^s; M^r Spillman 15^s; M^r Partinton 10^s; M^r Ralfe Dobbinson 16^s; M^r Kerwyn 5^s; Symon Bassill 5^s; Patrick Derricke 5^s; and others Total £70. 12. 6.

iii. Landholders Eight of them e.g. for 10 acres, 20^d.
for 20 acres, 2^s.
Total 19^s.

iv. Legacies M^r Thomas Fowler 40^s; M^r John Colbrande 20^s; M^r John Woursley 15^s; M^r Nightingale [nil] Total £3. 15.

Total Receipts. £164. 18. 7 (sic in Rate Book).

Expenditure. i. Weekly pensions (fn. 7) varying from 6^d to 2^s per week 41 Pensioners.
Total £86. 6. 8.

ii. Payments ordinary and extraordinary. (fn. 8)

Christmas gifts in "bread and bief geven according to ye accustomed maner" £2. 9. 11. Christmas gifts in money 17^s. 2.

Easter gifts in bread and meat £2. 2. 5.

"Item for ffrize to app'ell y^e Orphantes" 39^s. 4^d.

"Shirts smockes Apernes hose shoes" for the orphans 31^s. 1^d.

19 June, for y^e buriall of a poore souldiers wief out of the ffieldes .xvj^d.

3 Julij for y^e buriall of Elizabeth Kinge & her childe Dyeng in y^e streete and ffieldes. xxij^d.

30 July To the Staffe maker ij^s. vj^d. ffor a boy that died out of the ffieldes .xij^d. ffor another boy; to the Bearers .xij^d. for watching Peter Cookes howse .iiij^s. vj^d.

To the Bearers iij^s. iiij^d. Item to the dogge killer iij^s. iiij^d.

1 Aug ffor Redd Roddes .iij^d. [ij^s. vj^d

4 Aug for searching of woodes howse & loking to one in y^e fielde, & for money layd out

11 Aug To lee more in pitch and Tarre .iiij^d. for bringing water to lee .iiij^d.

16 Aug. for keaping the halbert makers and Jacobs hows for a ffortnight .iij^s.

for keaping father Tompsons howse for a ffortnighte .iij^s.

for Carying water &c' [to shut-up houses] iij^s. To Aire ij howsen .xij^d.

19 Aug. To Hoyden for carieing water to y^e visited howses .vj^d.

21 Aug. ffor a shrowde and herbes for Anne Myller .xv^d.

27 Aug. for burieng a boy and a maide out of the fieldes .iiij^s.

28 Aug. ffor a shrowde for one y^t died in y^e fieldes .xviij^d.

29 Aug. To the bearers for bearing & graves making .vj^s. viij^d. to the Searcher for Searching xx^d

6 Sept. To a pore man in y^e streete ij^d. To a pore woman in the ffieldes .ij^s.

To Ellice for Warding & Water Caryeng xvj^d. To John Jones [one of the bearers] in his sicknes .ij^s. vj^d. ffor mending John Churchyardes Coate iiij^d.

18 Oct. for looking to a Scottishma' .xij^d. ffor a shrowde buryeng and watching and lightes for the man y^t died in the streetes iij^s. ij^d.

25 Oct. To ij poore strangers .xij^d.

27 Oct. To a pore lame woman in Drewry lane .xij^d.

31 Oct. To a poore man y^t came from y^e hospitall .iij^d.

12 Dec. Payd for a shrowde to M^r Woodlocke .xij^d.

23 Dec. To a pore woman y^t sells milke about y^e streete .vj^d. ffor wynding, bearing, Searching, grave &c.' for the woman & boy y^t died in y^e ffieldes .iij^s. x^d.

To the iiij bearers of the dead iiij^s.

24 Jan. Payd for a shroowde and pack thread for a man that died in S^t James howse .xiij^d.

10 March ffor y^e burieng of a pore man & caryeng him out of the ffieldes .iij^s.

14 April ffor a blackamore y^t died at Thames side .xij^d. ffor a shrowde for him .xij^d.

ffor the Bearers .xvj^d. ffor carieng a woman w^th Childe a way in the night .vj^d.

iii. Money lent this late visited time to needie and decaied Parishioners to relieue them in their visitations &c'.
£5. 9^s. lent to 7 families

iv. Payde for Cures this yere .viz^t

for helping Margret Bayly of the liver growne .ij^s.

for [6 weeks diet and] Curing of Isabell Kinge and her Childe .32^s.

Item to good wief lee for a Surgeon iij^s. iiij^d.
Total Expenditure. (fn. 9) £190. 14. 6.
Deficit due to the Overseers £25. 15. 11.
Signed by .Hie. Bowes.
Chid. Wardour.