Churchwardens' Accounts: nos 31-60

Churchwardens' Accounts: nos 31-60

31. [f. 41v] This is the account of the same Robert Baker and Simon Phippes, wardens of the rents and goods belonging to the said church of St Andrew Hubbard beside Eastcheap, London, made of the receipts and payments of the church house in which the wife of one Manes, late herald, occupied, that is to say from the last day of the month of April 18 Edward IV [1478] to the last day of April 20 Edward IV [1480], which is by 2 whole years.

Receipts for the house aforesaid
Item received in money pertaining only to the said house – 57s. 9½d.

Receipts for the rent these 2 years of the said house as here after follows
First received of the said Manes's wife at Lammas for a year past at
Midsummer the 19th year of the said king in money – 53s. 4d.
Item received of the same Manes's wife at Lammas for a year past at
Midsummer the 20th year of the same king – 53s. 4d.
Item received of the foresaid Manes's wife for ½ a quarter from
Midsummer to Lammas at her departing in money – 6s. 8d.
Sum total received – £8 11s. 1½d.

[f. 42] Payments made the same 2 years of reparation and quit-rents as here after appears
First paid to St Mary Spital for quit-rent for Midsummer the 19th year of the king – 8s.
Item paid to St Mary Spital for quit-rent the Midsummer the 20th year of the king – 8s.
Item paid for 500 tiles – 2s. 10d.
Item paid to a tiler for 2 days at 8d. the day – 16d.
Item paid to a labourer for 2 days at 5d. the day – 10d.
Item paid for a load of lime – 12d.
Item paid for a load of sand – 6d.
Item paid for hauling away of a load of rubbish – 3d.
Item allowed here for repairs – 8d.
Item allowed here for a key – 4d.
Item paid to a plumber for casting an old pipe weighing 1¾ cwts and 7 lb, receiving a new pipe weighing 1¾ cwts and 10 lb, the hundredweight change 16d., sum – 2s. 6d.
Item paid to him for 3 lb that we had more than our own – 2d.
Item paid to him for 8 lb of solder to the said pipe – 4s. 3d.
Item paid to him for nails to the same – 1d.
Item paid to a plumber for 6½lb of solder to mend the gutters – 3s. 3d.
Sum – 34s.

The costs of the obit of Juliana Fairhead these 2 years
Item paid to priests, clerks and for other allowances these 2 years according to the will of the testatrix – 18s. 7d.

Sum total paid – 52s. 7d.
Rests clear thereof – £5 18s. 6½d.
Rest clear in the box of these both accounts – £13 17s. 8¼d.

32. [f. 42v] This is the account of John Baker and Thomas Hamlyn of the rents and goods belonging to the church of St Andrew Hubbard beside Eastcheap, London, from the feast of St Michael the Archangel 20 Edward IV [1480] to the feast of St Michael the Archangel 22 Edward IV [1482], which is 2 years.

Receipts in the church box
First received in the church box of money pertaining only to the church beside the money of the house belonging to the church as appears by the foot of the last account – £13 17s. 8¼d.

Receipts of the paschal light
Item received of money for 2 paschals these 2 years – 15s. 5d.

Receipt for beam light and the clerk's wages
Item received for beam light and the clerk's wages these 2 years – £7 12s. 8d.

Receipts for burials and knells
Item received from Mertin's month mind for the bell – 3s. 4d.
Item received for occupying vestments and albs within the time of this account – 20d.
Item received for Carter's knell – 3s. 4d.
Item received for Robert Squirer's pit and knell – 10s.
Sum of all these receipts – £23 4s. 1¼d.

[f. 43] Other receipts within the said time
Item received for the sale of a book of paper called Floren Bartholome – 5s.
Item received for another book of sermon matters – 8s.
Item received from the clerk for default of ringing the bells – 5s.
Sum – 18s.

Sum total received – £24 2s. 1¼d.

Item received of mother Clement Atowaile [gap] for the lanate pxe [?latten pyx] for the high altar – [blank].

33. [f. 43v] Payments made during the time of this account
First paid for paper – 1d.
Item paid for setting the ouch on the best cope by John the clerk's wife – 2d.
Item paid at Rolf's in expenses for overseeing the church goods – 8d.
Item delivered to Kene the waxchandler the old beam stock which weighed 31 lb, and when it was tried it weighed but 26½lb, which time received and paid to Kene for 1¼lb of wax – 6¼d.
Item paid for holm and ivy – 1d.
Item paid to Massam for new wax – 12s. 6½d.
Item paid to John Kene for workmanship and small candles to set on the beam light – 3s. 1d.
Item paid the second quarter for mending 2 surplices – 1½d.
Item paid for a quart of lamp oil – 4d.
Item paid for scouring the red cloth behind the high altar – 4d.
Item paid for brooms – ½d.
Item paid for coals in the upper vestry to dry the copes – 1d.
Item paid to Champney for lamp oil used in the old wardens' days – 15d.
Item paid to Richard Doush, clerk, for one quarter's wages – 11s. 8d.
Item paid to the raker for quarterage – 2d.
Item paid for the obit of Juliana Fairhead according to the testament – 9s. 3½d.
Item paid for mending the belfry door – 4d.
Item paid for a key to the parsonage door for the clerk – 3d.
Item paid for making of the clerk's obligation – 4d.
Item paid for scouring the latten of the church – 16d.
Item paid for liring and riginge [?] and workmanship of the cloths of the rood loft and in the choir to Mother Hunt – 16d.
Item paid for a pottle of lamp oil – 8d.
Item paid for cleaning the churchyard against Palm Sunday – 6d.
Item paid to Hamelyn's wife for washing and setting on the albs – 12d.
Item paid to Richard Doush, clerk, for a quarter's wages – 11s. 8d.
Item paid for trussing up the great and little bells – 8d.
Item paid for hooks for the rood loft cloth – 1d.
Item paid for coals at Easter – 4d.
Item paid to Hamlin's wife for washing – 12d.
Item paid on the day of Saint Andrew's translation for drinks to the clerks – 4d.
Item paid for a quart of oil – 4d.
Item paid to Kene for tenebrae candles and for a taper to the font – 16d.
[f. 44] Item paid at Midsummer for birch – 1d.
Item paid on Corpus Christi day for flags, garlands and packthread – 7d.
Item paid to the carver at London Wall for making Our Lady – 12d.
Item paid to the waxchandler for the paschal – 2s.
Item paid on Corpus Christi day to Kene for 7 lb wax waste and workman – ship – 10d.
Item paid for making a step under the font, for stone and workmanship – 16d.
Item paid to the raker – 2d.
Item paid the fourth quarter for washing – 10d.
Item paid for horse hair for the clock – 1d.
Item paid for mending surplices – 1d.
Item paid to the clerk for his quarter's wages – 11s. 8d.
Item paid for repairs in the church, to the carpenter for boards, quarters, nails and workmanship – 7s. 2d.
Item paid to Hamlyn's wife for washing – 10d.
Item paid to the clerk for his board that lacked in Herphin's [?] days – 7s.
Item paid to a mason to stop the wall in the long pew – 2d.
Item paid to a joiner for 2 crests for 2 pews – 7d.
Item paid for candles – ½d, and for brooms – ½d, – 1d.
Item paid to the clerk for his quarter's wages – 11s. 8d.
Item paid to Hamlyn's wife for washing – 10d.
Item paid for holm and ivy – 1½d.
Item paid for a candle case – 3d.
Item paid to John Maire for candle – 22½d.
Item paid to the raker – 2d.
Item paid for the obit of Juliana Fairhead – 9s. 4d.
Item paid for 2 haires [?hair cloths] for the high altar and Our Lady's altar – 20d.
Item paid to the founder for scouring the latten at Easter – 16d.
Item paid for tenebrae candles and a taper of 1 lb for the font, ¾ thereof of our own wax – 7½d.
Item paid to a carpenter for 2 quarters for St James and St John and for workmanship and nails – 9½d.
Item paid for a cord before the rood – 1½d.
Item paid to Richard, clerk, for his wages – 11s. 8d.
Item paid for washing the church cloths – 10d.
Item paid to Henry Barmell, painter, for painting the choir, pulpit and all around the images of St John and St James – 8s.
Item paid to Hamelyn for 2 dozen candles to the church – 2s. 6d.

34. [f. 44v] Item to Andrew Gressop for scouring the red cloth before the high altar – 2d.
Item paid for mending 2 surplices at Easter – 2d.
Item paid for watching the sepulchre, for coals, bread and ale – 6d.
Item paid for the paschal – 2s.
Item paid upon Corpus Christi day for flags, garlands and packthread – 6d.
Item paid for 2 bell ropes – 12½d.
Item paid to Watkyn Costantyne for a window in Our Lady chapel and for the altar of Our Lady, in earnest for stuff and workmanship – 6s. 8d.
Item paid to Birde for lath and nail – 10d.
Item paid to John, glazier, for 18 feet of glass, 5d the foot – 7s. 7d.
Item paid to the tiler and his labourer for 2½ days – 2s. 8½d.
Item paid for tile pins – 1½d.
Item paid to the plumber for lead for the gutter over the window, weighing 51 lb – 3s. 6d.
Item paid for 1 lb solder – 6d.
Item paid for 1 load of sand – 6d.
Item paid to Graunger for 1 load and 2 sacks of lime – 16d.
Item paid to Robert Westwode for barring the glass window in Our Lady's chapel, weighing 43 lb, and for mending a clapper of the great bell, and for mending the lock and keys to the church door into the street – 14s. 3d.
Item paid to John William for lopping the tree and cleaning the churchyard – 4½d.
Item paid to Kirkeby for wine on the dedication day – 13d.
Item paid to the raker – 2d.
Item paid for mending 2 surplices – 4d.
Item paid to John, clerk, what he was owed from other wardens' days – 10s.
Item paid to the same John for his wages – 10s.
Item paid to a labourer for cleaning the churchyard and bearing away the dust – 5d.
Item paid to the raker – 2d.
Item paid in expenses at Kirkeby's house when the commissary sat in the parish – 13d.
Item paid on the morrow after for a pike for the commissary – 16d.
Item paid to Kirkeby for the singers' bread and wine on the dedication day – 12d.
Item paid for a load of stone for the pavement before the church door – 20d.
[Scored: Item paid to Richard, clerk, for his wages for Easter – 11s. 8d.]
Item paid to Richard, clerk, for the board that he lacked with Nicholas
Maynard and Denys Burton – 2s. 8d.
[f. 45] Item paid for carriage of the same stone – 3d.
Item paid for a load of gravel – 4d.
Item paid for laying 4¾ teises of stone at 8d. the teise – 2s. 8d.
Item paid for ringing Carter's knell – 4d.
Item paid for birch at Midsummer – 2d.
Item paid for a load and 2 sacks of lime for the church – 16d.
Item paid for tile pins – 1½d.
Item paid to John William for ale to make clean the church – ½d.
Item paid for boat hire to Lambeth for the church – 2½d.
Item paid for ringing the great bell for Squier – 4d.
Item paid to the clerk for his wages for Midsummer quarter – 11s. 8d.
Item paid to the commissary to have the May money of Person's wife [and] to enter it in the court – 10d.
Item paid to the bishop's court for breaking the bishop's seal on the church door – 7s.
Item paid for a surplice to the choir – 4s. 2d.
Item paid for the buckram for the tabernacle cloth before St Andrew – 3s.
Item paid for rings to the same – 8d.
Item paid to Mudley for making the tabernacle cloth before St Andrew – 2s. 8d.
Item paid to Robert Westwood for 2 poles and workmanship – 20d.
Item paid for coals to melt solder for the tabernacle cloth – ½d.
Item paid for the clerk's wages for Michaelmas quarter – 11s. 8d.
Item paid to Hamelyn for a board that the tabernacle of St Andrew stands upon and for workmanship – 6d.
Item paid for lead to solder the iron in the wall – 3d.
Item paid to a labourer for whiting the wall – 2d.
Item paid to a mason for taking out a stone and setting in the back of the resurrection that the tabernacle stands upon – 4d.
Item paid to the carver for making the base – 22d.
Item paid for mending 8 surplices – 6d.
Item paid for washing and setting on 6 albs – 12d.
Item paid for a line to the church lantern – 1d.
Item paid for a lock and key out of the gutter into the clerk's chamber – 4d.
Item paid for lime, whipcord and lyre – 4d.
Item paid for lyre to the tabernacle cloth – 2d.
Item paid for mending the bells' clappers and wheels, and for workmanship – 6d.
Item paid for oil for the bells – 1d.
Item paid to Westwode for a staple for the door [from the] clerk's chamber into the parsonage, and for nails and mending the bells and setting up of St Anne in Our Lady's chapel and for 2 and [word indecipherable] staples to the gutter door – 9½d.
Item paid to Mot, plumber, for 3 lb of solder for the gutter – 18d.
[f. 45v] Item paid for a faggot to the plumber – ½d.
Item paid for 2 silver candlesticks for the high altar weighing 40¼oz, price the ounce workmanship and weight 4s., sum – £8 12d. Of the which sum certain well-disposed men of the parish gave of their good will towards the charge of the said candlesticks, as it appears hereafter – 18s. 4d. And so was paid for the church money out of the box – £7 2s. 7d.
Item paid for engrossing and making up this account and the next following – 2s. 8d.
Item paid to Hamlyn within the time of this account for lamp oil – 2s. 8d.

Sum total of all the said payments – £21 6s. 6½d.
Which is abated from the foresaid receipts of – £24 2s. 1¼d.
Remains clear – 55s. 6½d.

35. [f. 46] This is the account of the said John Baker and Thomas Hamlyn, wardens of the rents and goods belonging to the said church St Andrew Hubbard, made of the receipts and payments of the church house in which Thomas Squier now dwells, that is to say from the feast of Michaelmas 20 Edward IV [1480] to the feast of Michaelmas 22 Edward IV [1482], which is 2 whole years.

First the said wardens account that the said house stood vacant by a whole year within the time of this account, that is to say Michaelmas and Christmas quarters 20 Edward IV and Easter and Midsummer quarters 21 Edward IV, yielding by year 4 marks whereof they ask to be allowed.
As to any money received at the coming in of the said wardens into their office of the said house, otherwise than in the box as former wardens account that they did – nil.

Receipts of the said rent had of the said Thomas Squier within the time of this account
First received of Thomas for Michaelmas and Christmas quarters 21
Edward IV and for Easter quarter 22 [Edward] – 40s.
Item received of Thomas for Midsummer quarter anno 22 [Edward] – 13s. 4d.
Sum of the receipts – 53s. 4d.

[f. 46v] Payments made during the same 2 years for repairs and quit-rents as hereafter appear
First paid for 1000 tiles, price – 5s. 6d.
Item paid for a quarter of roof tiles – 16d.
Item paid for a load of lime – 12d.
Item paid for 2 lb of solder for the said house – 12d.
Item paid for a load of sand – 6d.
Item paid for a faggot to the plumber – ½d.
Item paid to the tiler for roof nails and a sprig – 2d.
Item paid to the tiler and his labourer for 4 days' work – 4s. 4d.
Item paid for a sack of lime – 2d.
Item paid for a load of loam – 4d.
Item paid to the dauber for 3½ days' work – 2s. 4d.
Item paid to his labourer – 10d.
Item paid for coal and mote – 4d.
Item paid for 2 sacks of lime – 4d.
Item paid for quit-rent to St Mary Spital – 8s.
Item paid to the carpenter for board, quarters, nails and workmanship done in the said house as it appears by a bill – 13s. 4d.
Item paid to a mason to make the seat – 2d.
Item paid for 2 sacks of lime – 4d.
Item paid to a man to ferme the seat in the said house – 20d.
Item paid to Rolf for lock, keys, hinges and repairs to the said house – 4s. 7d.
Item paid to St Mary Spital for quit-rent – 8s.
Item paid for the arrest and plaint of Watkyn, carpenter – 10d.
Item paid for 2 lb of solder – 12d.
Sum of these parcels – 50s.½d.

Item paid to Hamelyn chandler for a pottle of oil – 6d.
Item paid for ½ doz candles – 7½d.
Sum – 13½d.

[f. 47] Repairs done by Thomas Squier in the said house whereof he is allowed in his rent
Item paid for 22½ feet of quarter board – 8d.
Item paid for 50 nails – 2d.
Item paid for 20 feet of elm board – 7d.
Item paid for 50 nails – 2d.
Item paid for 3 feet of quarter board – 1d.
Item paid for 33 feet of quarterboad – 12d.
Item paid to a carpenter for a day's work – 12d.
Item paid for 9 quarters for the pentice in the street – 18d.
Item paid to Mot, plumber, for a piece of lead to the vent – 7d.
Item paid to a tiler for tiles to the vent – 4d.
Item paid to a carpenter for half a day's work – 4d.
Sum of these parcels – 6s. 5d.

Sum total of these payments – £3 2s. 7d.
And so the payments and repairs of the said house exceed the receipts by – 9s. 3d.
Which 9s. 3d. was deducted and allowed of the aforewritten remainder of 55s. 6½d.
Remains clear in the box – 46s. 3½d.

36. [f. 47v] This is the account of Richard Rolf and Peter Dustary of the rents and goods belonging to the church of St Andrew Hubbard beside Eastcheap, London, from the feast of Easter 23 Edward IV [1483] to Easter 2 Richard III [1485], as by the space of years full – blank. [2 years]

Receipts in the church box
Received in the church box of money pertaining to the church only, delivered to us by Richard Jones – 42s.¾d.

Receipts for the paschal light
Item received in money for 2 paschals these 2 years – 15s. 6½d.
Receipts for the beam light and the clerk's wages
Item received for the beam light and the clerk's wages these 2 years – £6 17s. 8d.

Receipts for the burials and knells for 2 full years
Item received for the pit and knell of Rolf's wife – 10s.
Item received for the pit of the man that died in Casson's house – 7s. 1d.

Other receipts for the said church
Item received of Roger Harteley for 4 torches for a man's burying-time – 16d.
Item received for the tabernacle – 37s. 4d.
Item received towards the wage of Sir Richard for a quarter – 22s. 10d.
Sum of all these receipts – £13 13s. 10¼d.

37. [f. 48] Payments made during the time of this account
First paid for the paper – 1d.
[Scored: Item paid for quit-rent which Richard Jones left unpaid – 8s.]
Item paid for the pascal which Richard Jones left unpaid – 2s.
Item paid for the tenebrae candles and font taper also left unpaid – 15d.
Item to Richard Jones's wife which was owed to her by her husband – 4d.
Item paid to Nicholas Tapicere for writing of our bills – 4d.
Item paid for mending the church box – 2d.
Item paid for mending the clock at divers times – 5s.
Item paid to the carpenter for setting up the image hyer [?higher] in the chapel – 4d.
Item paid for mending a chalice – 4d.
Item paid to Thomas Hamlyn for arresting Costantyne – 12d.
Item paid for a quarter of tiles to mend the church with – 2d.
Item paid for 2 sacks of lime – 4d.
Item paid for a tiler and his man for a day – 13d.
Item paid for flags and garlands on Corpus Christi day – 9d.
Item paid for 3 stones to bear the beams in Our Lady's chapel – 4s.
Item paid for mending the church lantern – 4d.
Item paid for mending Richard Jones's pew and for nails thereto – 7d.
Item paid for birch at midsummer for the church – 1d.
Item paid to Mudley for his quarterage at Midsummer – 20s.
Item paid for the obit of Juliana Fairhead – 9s. 5d.
Item paid for the beam light: our wax delivered to the chandler, 17 stocks weighing 28 lb, and there was bought thereto 22 lb of new wax, at 5d. the lb, sum – 9s. 2d. And for making the said 50 lb of wax, at ½d. the pound – 2s. 1d. Sum of making the wax – 11s. 3d.
Item paid to Mudley for Michaelmas quarter – 20s.
Item paid for candles and oil left unpaid after Richard Jones's time – 4s. 5d.
Item paid for mending the dung boat – 6d.
Item paid for an organ player at Christmas – 6d.
Item paid for palm at Lent – 3d.
Item paid for cleaning the brass and candlesticks in the church – 16d.
Item paid for the quarterage of Thomas, clerk, at Christmas – 10s.
Item paid for mending copes and vestments and 3 days' board – 3s. 6d.
Item paid for the quarterage of Easter to Thomas, clerk – 15s.
Item paid for birch at Midsummer – 2d.
Item paid to Thomas, clerk, for Midsummer quarter – 15s.
Item paid to Thomas, clerk, for half the Michaelmas quarter – 7s. 6d.
Item paid for paving the church by the font – 3d.
[f. 48v] Item paid for painting the tabernacle and making a new foot that the resurrection stands on – £3 3s. 4d.
Item for 100 boards when Costantyne made Our Lady's altar – 5d.
Item paid for a pair of pew garnets – 8d.
Item paid for a crampon to the desk – 2d.
Item paid for a pair of garnets to the said desk – 3d.
Item paid for 2 crampons for 2 pews in Our Lady's chapel – 2d.
Item paid to William Paris for mending the pew in the choir – 5d.
Item paid for mending a lock in the vestry – 2d.
Item paid for a hook to hold up St Katherine – 4d.
Item paid for an organ player between Easter and Midsummer – 20d.
Item paid for Thomas the clerk's board that he should have had of John Baker and John Tursope – 3s.
Item paid for ale, bread and coals to watch the sepulchre – 6d.
Item paid for mending 6 surplices – 12d.
Item paid for mending 5 albs – 10d.
Item paid for washing surplices, rochets and other things of the church for the space of 2 years – 6s. 8d.
Item paid to John Redknap for the half quarter and 2 week after Thomas went – 9s. 4d.
Item paid for wine to the clerks on St Andrew's day – 9d.
Item paid to the raker for 2 years at 2d the quarter – 16d.
Item paid for flags and garlands on Corpus Christi days – 10d.
Item paid for the paschal in the first year of King Richard [1483–4] – 2s.
Item paid for tenebrae candles and the font taper – 11½d.
Item paid for paving the ground by the font for the man that died at Casson's – 5d.
Item paid for holm and ivy at 2 Christmases – 6d.
Item paid for mending a torch – 8d.
Item paid for cleaning the brass and candlesticks at Easter – 16d.
Item paid for palm at Lent – 2d.
Item paid for the quarterage of Thomas, clerk, at Christmas – 9s.
Item paid for the obit of Juliana Fairhead – 9s. 8d.
Item paid for a cord to the veil – 2d.
Item paid for the quarterage of Sir Richard – 26s. 8d.
Item paid for the quarterage of Thomas, clerk, at Easter – 15s.
Item paid for bread, ale and coals to watch the sepulchre – 6d.
Item paid for the paschal – 2s.
Item paid for the tenebrae candles and a font taper weighing 2 lb at 12d. the pound – 2s.
[f. 49] Item paid to the priest at Whitsuntide for 3 days – 6d.
Item paid on Corpus Christi day to the said priest for his labour – 4d.
Item paid for flags and garlands and packthread on Corpus Christi day – 10½d.
Item paid for 7 ½ gallons of oil to John Down at 14d. [the gallon] – 8s. 9d.
Item paid for an organ player between Easter and Corpus Christi-tide – 2s.
Item paid to John Mayre for 3 dozen and a pound of candle and for a pennyworth of coals – 3s. 11d.
Item paid to them that sing in the choir for wine, ale and bread – 6d.
Item that was given to Mudley's man – 2d.
Item paid to John Mudley for painting the cloth before the Resurrection – 2s. 8d.
Item paid for a curtain rod, with rings and poles and small cord – 2s. 7d.
Item paid for engrossing and making up this account and the next following – 2s. 8d.

Sum total – £16 5s. 1d.
Sum of the receipts before written – £13 13s. 10¼d.
So payments exceed the receipts – 51s. 2¾d.

38. [f. 49v] Also this account of the said Richard Rolfe and Peter Dunstarie as for the house that Master Petre dwells in belonging to the said church

That is to say first received of Thomas Squyer for rent for 3 quarters, with the rent at 53s. 4d. the year – 40s.
Also the said wardens ask to be allowed for the time of a year for the said house which so long stood vacant.
Item received of Master Petre for rent for the said house for 2 quarters, that is to say for Michaelmas and Christmas anno [ms blotted] Richard III – 26s. 8d.
Sum – £3 6s. 8d.

Item Thomas Squyer owes for 1 quarter for the time of his dwelling – 13s. 4d.
Item Master Petre owes for Easter quarter anno 2 Richard III [1484–5] – 13s. 4d.

Sum of receipts – £3 6s. 8d.

[f. 50] Payments made during the said 2 years for the said house
First paid for the quit-rent of the said house left unpaid by Richard Jones – 8s.
Item paid for another year's quit-rent in our days – 8s.
Sum – 16s.

Other payments for the said house
Item paid for a new lock to the shop door of the said house – 8d.
Item paid for a latch and the harness thereto to the same door – 2d.
Item paid for mending a lock to the hatch at the stair foot – 2d.
Item paid for a latch and the harness thereto to the door at the stair head – 2d.
Item paid for hanging the 2 doors – 3d.
Item paid for mending a lock to the cellar door – 2d.
Sum – 19d.
Sum of the payments – 17s. 7d.

So remains of the account to the house – 49s. 1d.
The which 49s. 1d. is paid out for the payments in the church more than they have received.
And over that, there rests due to the said wardens as it appears by all the said accounts – 2s. 1¾d.

39. [f. 50v] This is the account of William Casson and Andrew Olyvere, wardens of the rents and goods belonging to the church of St Andrew Hubbard beside Eastcheap, London, from the feast of Midsummer 3 Richard III [1485] to Michaelmas 2 Henry VII [1486], that is to say for 5 quarters.

Receipts in the church box
In primis received in the church box in copper money – 2d.

Receipts of the paschal light
Item received for the paschal at Easter last past – 8s. 3d.

Receipts of the beam light and the clerk's wages by a year
Item received for the beam light and the clerk's wages for a year – £3 19s. 6½d.

Other receipts for the said church
Item received for burning 4 torches at Palmer's wife's burial – 4s.
Item received for old glass found in the vestry in corners – 2s.
Item received for old iron and pewter found in the vestry in corners – 17d.
Item received for a broken old pot brass and old latten – 2s. 4d.
Item received for burning 2 torches at Pers's burial, cousin to the wife of the stone house – 20d.
Item received for 2 tons of ragstone which lay in the church yard – 2s.
Sum – 13s. 5d.
Sum – £5 14½d.

40. [f. 51] Payments made during the time of the account for a year
Item paid to Thomas Hyrskye for wages left unpaid by the previous wardens – 15s.
Item paid for brooms – ½d.
Item paid for 2 keys, setting on locks and for 2 staples for the table and the pin of the fourth bell – 8d.
Item paid for mending the wheel of the said bell – 8d.
Item paid for wine and bread to the clerks on the dedication day – 8½d.
Item paid for a labourer to mend the churchyard for 2 days – 10d.
Item paid for a basket to carry the rubbish – 1½d.
Item paid to a friar at Christmas for 5 days – 20d.
Item paid to Redknape and Thomas his fellow for Christmas quarter – 15s.
Item paid to Thomas the clerk's wife for washing during Christmas quarter – 8d.
Item paid for 12 lb of candle – 15d.
Item paid for a line for a cloth before the rood – 2½d.
Item paid for a frame and workmanship over the church door for Palm Sunday – 7d.
Item paid for scouring the church latten against Easter – 16d.
Item paid to Redknape and Thomas for Easter quarter – 15s.
Item paid for washing during Easter quarter – 10d.
Item paid to the clerks for sewing on orphreys and couching the stones in the churchyard – 2d.
Item paid for lopping the tree in the churchyard for caterpillars – 2d.
Item paid for the waste and making of the paschal – 2s. 4d.
Item delivered to the waxchandler 17 stocks weighing 22¾lb, and the pins weighed 7¼lb, and bought in new wax 22 lb at 7½d. the pound, sum – 13s. 9d.; and for making the said 52 lb of wax at ½d. the pound – 2s. 2d.
Sum – 15s. 11d.
Item paid for paving in the church in certain places and for mortar – 10d.
Item paid for flags, hay [?] and garlands on Corpus Christi day – 12½d.
Item paid for birch and lilies at Midsummer – 2d.
Item paid for a rope for the sacring bell – 2½d.
Item paid to Redknape and Thomas for Midsummer quarter – 15s.
Item paid for washing that quarter – 10d.
Item paid for brooms – ½d.
Item paid to Sir Roger for a reward – 8d.
Sum – £4 11s. 11½d.
[f. 51v] Item paid to Thomas, stationer, for writing the visitation of the Mass of Our Lady and the Mass of the same – 2s.
Item paid for a line to watch of the clock – 2d.
Item paid for an organ player at the Nativity of Our Lady – 4d.
Item paid for the endytment of the ?pavement between the church and the stone house – 4d.
Item paid for a basket – 1½d.
Item paid for 7 quarts of oil for the lamp – 2s. ½d.
Item paid for bread, ale and coals to watch the sepulchre – 6d.
Item paid for the tenebrae candles and the font taper – 5d.
Item paid for a holy water stick at the church door – 1d.
Item paid to the raker for a whole year – 8d.
Item paid for paper – 1d.
Item paid for palm at Easter – 3d.
Item paid for holm and ivy at Christmas – 3d.
Item spent on ale going for money to Thomas Squyer's at divers times – 3d.
Item paid for making and engrossing this account and the next following – 16d.
Item paid to Redknape and Thomas for Michaelmas quarter – 15s.
Sum – 23s. 10d.

Sum of the payments – £5 15s. 9½d.
Rests to the box in money of this account, sum – nil.
For there is more paid of this account that has been received, as appears by – 14s. 7d.

41. [f. 52] Account of the said William Casson and Andrew Olyvere for the house that Master Petre late dwelled in which belongs to the aforesaid church.

That is to say first received of Master Petre for a twelve-month and a quarter, that is to say for a quarter owing on the other account and for a year in our time – £3 6s. 8d.
Item the said Master Petre owes for half a year – 26s. 8d.
Item Sir Thomas Squyer owes for a quarter, on the last account – 13s. 4d.
Sum received – £3 6s. 8d.

Payments paid for the said house during the said time
In primis paid for a load of loam – 4d.
Item paid for 100 laths – 4d.
Item paid for sprig – 3½d.
Item paid for the workmanship of a dauber and his man for a day – 13d.
Item paid for a sack of lime – 2d.
Item paid for a carpenter for a day – 8d.
Item paid for ledges to mend the windows – 2d.
Item paid for a bar for the shop window – 2d.
Item paid for 100 4d. nails and 100 3d. nails – 7d.
Item paid for 2 little staples for the rope at the stair end – 1d.
Item paid for the obit of Juliana Fairhead in our time – 8s. 9d.
Sum – 12s. 7½d.

Other payments
Item paid for the quit-rent of the said house which was left unpaid by the previous wardens – 8s.
Sum total – 20s. 7½d.

[f. 52v] Sum of the receipts belonging to the house – £3 6s. 8d.
Sum of the payments for the same house – 20s. 7½d.
So [there] rests of this account to the church house, as appears – 46s. ½d.
Rebate paid from this money on payments made before – 14s. 7d.
And so remains clear of both accounts – 31s. 5½d.

42. [f. 53] This is the account of William Casson and Andrew Olyver, wardens of the rents and goods belonging to the church of St Andrew Hubbard beside Eastcheap, London, from the feast of Michaelmas 2 Henry VII [1486] to Michaelmas 3 Henry VII [1487], for the space of a whole year.

Receipts in the box
In primis received in the church box from the last account – 31s. 5½d.

Received for paschal light
Item received for the paschal at Easter last past – 8s. 4d.

Receipts of the beam light and clerk's wages
Item received for beam light and clerk's wages during the said year – £4 2s. 2d.

Other receipts for the said church
Item received of Mistress Mawde for the waste of 2 torches at her son's burial – 20d.
Item received for certain stones in the churchyard – 18d.
Item received of Davy Westburn for his wife's pit and knell – 8s. 4d.
Item received of Master Phipps for the waste of 2 torches at the burial of his father's child – 8d.
Item received of Denise Burton for the waste of 2 torches – 6d.
Item received of Master Phipps for his wife's knell and pit – 10s.
Item received of Mistress Plawden for her husband's knell – 3s. 4d.
Sum – 26s.

Sum of all the receipts – £7 7s. 11½d.

43. [f. 53v] Payments paid out during this year In primis paid to Redknape and Thomas for their wages for a whole year – £3.
Item paid to Redknape for 14 days' wages when he went out – 15d.
Item paid for a baldric for the great bell – 6d.
Item paid for wine, bread and ale at our dedication day – 5½d.
Item paid for holm and ivy at Christmas – 1½d.
Item paid for washing the church gear – 10d.
Item paid for mending of surplices and rochets – 4d.
Item paid to Sir William our Morrow Mass priest for 11 days – 4s.
Item paid for the obit of William Fairhead – 9s. 8d.
Item paid to the raker – 2d.
Item paid for a baldric for the second bell – 4d.
Item paid for palm – 2d.
Item paid for amercement for the church payment – 4d.
Item paid for cleaning the churchyard – 6d.
Item paid for washing the church gear – 10d.
Item paid for brooms – ½d.
Item paid for ringing the knell for Davy's wife – 4d.
Item paid for bread, ale and coals to watch the sepulchre – 6d.
Item paid for scouring of the church latten – 14d.
Item paid for making the little door in the churchyard – 6s.
Item paid for 2 stock-locks on both doors of the churchyard – 12d.
Item paid for ringing Plawden's knell – 4d.
Item paid for ringing Phipp's wife's knell – 4d.
Item paid for washing the church gear – 10d.
Item paid for brooms – ½d.
Item paid for 2 men tiling for 3½ days – 4s. 7d.
Item paid for a labourer for 3½ days – 17½d.
Item paid for 300 plain tiles – 2s.
Item paid for a load and 2 sacks of lime – 16d.
Item paid for a load of sand – 6d.
Item paid for tile pins – 1d.
Item paid at Easter for the paschal – 2s.
Item paid for tenebrae candles – 9d.
Item paid for the font taper – 4d.
Item paid at Corpus Christi-tide for dressing 7 torches – 2s. 4d.
Sum – £5 5s. 5½d.

[f. 54] Payments
Item paid for nails to mend pews in the church – 2d.
Item paid for 4 hinges for 2 pews – 8d.
Item paid for a carpenter for a day – 8d.
Item paid for 18½ ells of linen cloth for 4 surplices – 10s. 9½d.
Item paid for making them, every piece 10d., sum – 3s. 4d.
Item paid for 3 sacks of lime – 6d.
Item paid for the mason that made the wall in the churchyard, for breaking the wall and making it up again, a day and a half – 12d.
Item paid for his labourer, a day and a half – 7½d.
Item paid for washing the church gear – 10d.
Item paid for birch at Midsummer – 1d.
Item paid for 9 quarts of oil – 2s. 7½d.
Item paid for 9 lb candle – 10¼d.
Item paid for writing this account and the next following – 16d.
Sum – 23s. 5¾d.

Sum of the payments – £6 8s. 11¼d.

Item the church house vacant a whole year – nil.
Item received of Partriche for occupying the house for 6 weeks – 12d.
Item paid for quit-rent of the same house – 8s.
[f. 54v] Sum of the receipts of this year amounted to just – £7 8s. 11½d.
Sum of all payments paid out during the same year – £6 16s. 11¼d.
So rests of this account – 12s. ¼d.

Sum of the receipts received by us in the 2 years of our account – [blank].
Sum of the payments paid out by us in the said space as appears above – [blank].
And so we deliver clear into the box – 27s. 6d.

44. [f. 55] This is the account of John Mayre and Ralph Clerke, wardens of the rents and goods belonging to the church of St Andrew Hubbard in Eastcheap, London, from the feast of Michaelmas 3 Henry VII [1487] to Michaelmas 4 Henry VII [1488], for the space of a whole year.

Receipts
In primis received in the box from the last account – 27s. 6d.

Receipts of the beam light and clerks' wages
Item received of the beam light and clerks' wages during the said year – £4 8s. 4d.

Item received of the paschal light at Easter last past – 7s. 6d.

Other receipts
Item received of David Westbure for his burying pit and knell – 20s.
Item received for the stone – 3s. 4d.
Item received of Thomas Roger's wife for his knell – 3s. 4d.
Item received of Harpam's executors for a stone and his knell – 6s. 8d.
Sum – 33s. 4d.

Sum total – £7 16s. 8d.

Item received of Henry Aldam for the church house for Easter and Midsummer quarters – 20s.
And it stood void Michaelmas and Christmas afore.
Item received of Thomas Sqyer of old debt – 6s. 8d.
Sum – 26s. 8d.

Sum of all the receipts for the said year – £9 3s. 4d.

45. [f. 55v] Payments paid out during this year
Item paid to the clerks for their wages this year – 38s. 8d.
Item paid for girdles – 2d.
Item paid for washing this year – 3s. 4d.
Item paid to a carpenter for 2 days' for mending pews, doors and windows in the church – 16d.
Item paid for boards and ledges – 5½d.
Item paid for 100 nails – 5d.
Item paid for 50 nails – 2d.
Item paid for 6d. nails and 10d. nails – 2d.
Item paid for the repair of the lantern – 5d.
Item paid for a bar of iron for the middle door in the church – 4d.
Item paid for a bar of iron for the window in the steeple and for mending a lock – 3d.
Item paid for a staple for the gutter window – 1d.
Item paid for boarding for the clerk's chamber, for a carpenter half a day – 4d.
Item paid for a quarter and a half of oak board – 12d.
Item paid for nails and an old quarter – 4½d.
Item paid for bread, ales and coals when the church should be robbed – 3d.
Item paid for making St Nicholas's cope – 2s. 2d.
Item paid for a rail in the vestry – 12d.
Item paid for making an indenture and obligations for the church house – 15d.
Item paid for mending 3 surplices and making 2 rochets – 16d.
Item paid to the rent gatherer of St Mary Spital – 8s.
Item paid for ale and wine to the singers – 8d.
Item paid for coals at Christmas – 1d.
Item paid for 2 loads rubbish out of the churchyard – 5d.
Item paid for 2 spurs and a step to the new door in the churchyard – 10d.
Item paid for workmanship thereof – 4d.
Item paid for 2 spikes and 2 pins of iron for the same – 3d.
Item paid for mending the gutter at that door – 4d.
Item paid for Redknape on the 12 days – 16d.
Item paid for mending the clapper of the great bell – 16d.
Item paid for mending divers other things – 6d.
Item paid for ringing David's knell – 4d.
Item paid for William Fairhead's obit – 10s. 8d.
Item paid for writing this quarter – 4d.
Item paid for a labourer to set the box in the churchyard – 4d.
Item paid for mending the second bell clapper and making an eye in another – 22d.
Item paid for cleaning the church – 8d.
Item paid for carriage of 4 loads of the same dung – 10d.
Item paid for a piece of timber to lay over the frame of the bells – 8d.
Item paid for brooms and frankincense – 1d.
Item paid for palm – 3d.

46. [f. 56] Item paid for scouring the church latten – 16d.
Item paid for mending 2 baldrics to the bells – 3d.
Item paid for 6 spikes to the bell frame – 3d.
Item paid for the carpenter's wages that day – 8d.
Item paid for ringing Thomas Roger's knell – 4d.
Item paid for writing this quarter – 4d.
Item paid for making and mending 4 curtain rods – 16d.
Item paid for nails and pins – 1d.
Item paid for carrying dung about the church – 6d.
Item paid for a new pan for the silver censer – 6d.
Item paid for 8 hoops of iron to set in banners – 7d.
Item paid for making amices and for tapes for them and for making a rochet – 7d.
Item paid for a lock to the torch chest – 3d.
Item paid for the day's work of a carpenter in the steeple and [for] mending the bench at the church door – 8d.
Item paid for 4 feet of timber for the steeple – 8d.
Item paid for nails and spikes for the same – 4d.
Item paid for the tenebrae light and the font taper – 5d.
Item paid for mending the orphreys and parers of the black vestment – 10d.
Item paid for costs to Westminster to enquire of the thieves – 8d.
Item paid for bread, ale and fire to watch the sepulchre – 6d.
Item paid for mending banners and for thread – 4d.
Item paid for mending the church wall – 8d.
Item paid for setting orphreys and amices on albs – 8d.
Item paid for 1 ell of linen cloth to mend the albs – 3½d.
Item paid for 2 hoops to set in the crosses – 2d.
Item paid for ringing Harpan's knell – 4d.
Item paid for the paschal light – 2s.
Item paid for a ½lb taper – 1d.
Item paid for mending 3 albs – 3d.
Item paid for a chest to lay the vestments in – 2s.
Item paid for 2 bells for the banners – 4d.
Item paid for dressing 12 torches and shoting 4 torches and changing a torch – 10s. 9d.
Item paid for garlands – 2d.
Item paid for bearing our torches – 12d.
Item paid for points and packthread – 1½d.
Item paid for a latten bell – 6d.
Item paid to Mudley for mending the canopy – 6d.
Item paid for ribbon to the best cope – 3d.
Item paid for mending 2 clasps – 2d.
Item paid for birch at Midsummer – 2d.
Item paid for fennel and herbs – 1½d.
Item paid for holm and ivy – 1d.
[f. 56v] Item paid for 2 lamps – 2d.
Item paid for 3 irons for the lamps – 3d.
Item paid for packthread – ½d.
Item paid for writing this quarter – 4d.
Item paid for 2 ¼ ells of narrow cloth to mend the albs – 9d.
Item paid for working the same – 5d.
Item paid for 2 ¾ gallons of lamp oil – 3s. 2½d.
Item paid for 3 quarters of linen cloth – 3d.
Item paid for tapes – 1d.
Item paid for darning the altar cloth – 2d.
Item paid for mending linen cloths – 1d.
Item paid for making the the new altar cloths – 16s. 7d.
Item paid for a pair of cruets – 8d.
Item paid for making a key to the chest in the chapel – 3d.
Item paid for mending an altar cloth – 2d.
Item paid for mending of 2 albs and sleeves – 2d.
Item paid for fresh[en]ing the altar cloths in Our Lady's chapel – 5s.
Item paid for writing this quarter – 4d.
Item paid for 2 dozen candles – 2s. 6d.
Item paid for writing this account – 16d.

Repairs on the church house
Item paid for workmanship on the cellar by great – 11s. 1d.
Item paid for brick to the same – 3s. 9d.
Item paid for 4 loads and 4 sacks of lime – 4s. 8d.
Item paid for 2 loads of sand – 12d.
Item paid for 3 elm piles and 2 planks – 4s. 11d.
Item paid for the carriage of the same – 3d.
Item paid for a carpenter to work it – 5d.
Item paid for carriage of a load of rubbish – 3d.
Sum – 26s. 6d.

Sum total of payments amounts clear – £8 13s. 10½d.
And so rests – 9s. 5½d.

47. [f. 57] This is the account of John Mayre and Ralph Clerk, late wardens of the rents and goods belonging to the church of St Andrew Hubbard in Eastcheap, London, from the feast of Michaelmas 4 Henry VII [1488] to Michaelmas 5 Henry VII [1489], for a whole year.

Receipts
First received in the box from the last account – 9s. 5½d.

Receipts of the beam light and clerk's wages
Item received for the beam light and the clerk's wages for a whole year – £3.

Other receipts
Item received for the paschal at Easter – 7s. 6½d.
Item received of alms in the street – 43s. 8d.
Item received of Thomas Squyer for old debt – 6s. 8d.
Item received for the church chamber for half a year – 2s.
Sum – 59s. 10½d.
Received of Henry Aldan for a whole year – 40s.
Sum total – £8 9s. 4d.

48. [f. 57v] Payments made during the whole year
Item paid to the clerk for all his wages during the year – 40s.
Item paid for the beam light – 7s. 10d.
Item paid for the new Judas – 12d.
Item paid for a key for the French priest at St Katherine's altar – 3d.
Item paid for writing of Michaelmas quarter – 4d.
Item paid to the clockmaker in great – 6s. 4d.
Item paid for a lock to the chancel door – 6d.
Item paid [for] 3 yards of buckram for a child's cope – 15d.
Item paid for making the same cope – 2s. 2d.
Item paid for mending the lantern – 6d.
Item paid for mending the little bell wheel – 16d.
Item paid for a new mitre – 2s. 4d.
Item paid for mending St Andrew's jewel – 16d.
Item paid for workmanship on the altar cloths for the high altar and Our
Lady's altar for the Lent season – 8s. 4d.
Item paid for linen cloth for 4 curtains for both altars – 20d.
Item paid for fringe for them both – 2s.
Item paid for rings and line for them both – 6d.
Item paid for repairs to the glass windows, and for a quarter of quarter board – 9d.
Item paid for 2 ledges to the same – 2d.
Item paid for nails – 4d.
Item paid for scoring and setting the glass – 2s. 7d.
Item paid for 125 elm boards for the jewel house and the churchyard door – 2s. 11d.
Item paid for 300 nails for the same – 15d.
Item paid for 2 long ledges – 3d.
Item paid for a carpenter on the same for 3 days – 21d.
Item paid for tiling the church in divers places and for 400 tiles – 2s. 4d.
Item paid for 5 sacks of lime – 10d.
Item paid for 100 bricks to mend the floor under the window in the belfry – 6d.
Item paid for the tiler and his man for 3 days – 2s. 9d.
Item paid for watching the church while the high altar was [being] mended – 8d.
Item paid for palm – 3d.
Item paid for scouring against Easter – 16d.
[f. 58] Item paid for fire and drink whilst watching the sepulchre – 4d.
Item paid for 2 quarters of oak for mending the frame against Palm Sunday – 5d.
Item paid for 2 quarters of elm – 4d.
Item paid for hooks of iron – 4d.
Item paid for mending 2 locks in the churchyard – 4d.
Item paid for 2 irons to hang the rood cloth over – 8d.
Item paid for 164 feet of quarter board to the lodge [?] – 4s. 11d.
Item paid for 4 ledges – 4d.
Item paid for 200 nails – 4d.
Item paid for a carpenter thereto, a day and a half – 9d.
Item paid for the tenebrae candles, font taper and fises – 2s. 2d.
Item paid for writing of Christmas and Easter quarters – 8d.
Item paid for William Fairhead's obit – 10s. 6d.
Item paid for quit-rent of the church house – 8s.
Item paid for the paschal – 2s.
Item paid for ½lb taper at Whitsuntide – 4d.
Item paid for dressing 10 torches at Corpus Christi-tide and a Judas – 3s.
Item paid for birch and fennel at Midsummer – 4d.
Item paid for washing this year – 3s. 4d.
Item paid for a new cross banner – 33s. 5d.
Item paid for a new staff – 6s. 8d.
Item paid for a bag of buckram thereto – 7d.
Item paid for 2 latten bells thereto – 16d.
Item paid for painting an old cross staff – 20d.
Item paid for 16 lb candles – 20d.
Item paid for 4 gallons oil – 4s.
Item paid for writing this Midsummer quarter – 4d.
Item paid for mending the third bell clapper – 6d.
Item paid for mending a collar thereto – 3d.
Item paid for holm and ivy at Christmas – 2d.
Item paid for a pair of new inventories – 2s. 8d.
Item paid for a new key to St Katherine's altar – 3d.
Item paid for engrossing this account – 16d.
Sum total of the payments – £9 10s. 3d.

[f. 58v] Sum total of all the receipts amounts to – £8 9s. 4d.
Sum total of all the payments – £9 10s. 3d.
And so is owing to the said wardens – 20s. 11d.

49. [f. 59] This is the account of John Mayre and Ralph Clerk, late wardens of the rents and goods of the church of St Andrew Hubbard in Eastcheap, London, from the feast of St Michael 5 Henry VII [1489] to the said feast 6 Henry VII [1490], for a whole year.

Receipts
First received for the beam light and the clerk's wages – 58s. 7d.

Receipts of the paschal
Item received for paschal money at Easter – 7s. 3d.

Other receipts
Item received of Henry Aldam for a year's rent – 40s.
Item received of the Frenchman and other strangers at Easter – 8s. 6d.
Item received from John Dawson for the crop of the tree – 10d.
Total – £5 15s. 2d.

50. Payments made during the year
Item paid to the clerk for his wages – 43s. 4d.
Item paid for quit-rent to St Mary Spital for the church house – 8s.
Item paid for the obit of William Fairhead – 10s. 6d.
Item paid for bread, wine and ale on the church holy day – 9d.
Item paid for an altar cloth with the image of St Andrew – 4s.
Item paid for holm and ivy – 3d.
Item paid for 1 lb taper before the rood – 8d.
Item paid for 1 lb of fises – 8d.
Item paid for a plank of oak for the corner of the churchyard and carrying the same – 10d.
Item for 15 spiking nails – 5d.
Item paid for 10d nail and 6d nail – 3d.
Item paid to a carpenter for a day's work – 7d.
Sum – £3 10s. 3d.
[f. 59v] Item paid for the paschal – 2s.
Item paid for a 1 lb taper before the rood – 8d.
Item paid for 1 lb of candles for tenebrae night – 8d.
Item paid for a font taper of ½lb – 4d.
Item paid for palm – 4d.
Item paid for fire when watching the sepulchre, at the hallowing of the font and [when] washing the corporas – 5d.
Item paid for bread and drink when watching the sepulchre – 5d.
Item paid for felling the tree when cropping – 5d.
Item paid for a plank under the the box trees and for stakes to the same – 3d.
Item paid to a tiler and his man for ½ a day – 6½d.
Item paid for a sack of lime – 2d.
Item paid for tiles – 3d.
Item paid for paving in the lane and before the church door – 4s. 6d.
Item paid for 4 loads of gravel for the same – 16d.
Item paid for ?ledge nails and workmanship in the rood loft – 20d.
Item paid for 4 gallons oil – 4s.
Item paid for 12 lb candle – 12d.
Item paid for scouring the latten – 18d.
Item paid for a Lenten cross and painting thereof – 2s.
Item paid for painting the font staff – 6d.
Item paid for a lectern – 6d.
Item paid for hallowing the altar cloths – 12d.
Item paid for making a new pew door and mending an old [one] – 15d.
Item paid for 4 pairs of hinges for the same doors – 8d.
Item paid for nails for the same – 1d.
Item paid for a new coffer to lay the altar cloths in – 21d.
Item paid for 4 crosses for the canopy – 8d.
Item paid for the gilding the same and painting the canopy staves – 6s. 8d.
Item paid for a coffer to lay the crosses in and for mending the frame – 6d.
Item paid for thread and points for the canopy – 2d.
Item paid for garlands and other expenses at Corpus Christi-tide – 10½d.
Item paid for garnishing 10 torches – 2s. 6d.
Item paid for making 2 albs and an amice for children – 4d.
Item paid for birch and fennel – 4d.
Item paid for nails for the pews – 1d.
Item paid for mending the lamp basin – 3d.
Sum – 40s. 7d.
[f. 60] Item paid for 2 lamps – 2d.
Item paid for brooms during the year – 2d.
Item paid for washing during the year – 3s. 4d.
Item paid for the making this account – 16d.
Sum – 5s.

Total – £5 15s. 10d.

And so, besides the year before, the wardens of this account are owed, as appears clear – 8d.

51. [f. 60v] This is the account of John Mayre and Ralph Clerk, late wardens of the rents and goods belonging to the church of St Andrew Hubbard in Eastcheap, London, from the feast of Michaelmas 6 Henry VII [1490] to the same feast 7 Henry VII [1491], for a whole year.

Receipts
First received for beamlight and clerk's wages – 57s. 1d.

Receipts of the paschal money
Item received of the paschal money – 6s. 10d.

Other receipts
Item received of Henry Aldan for a whole year's rent – 40s.
Item received for Rolffe's burial and knell – 10s.
Item received of Jenyn's executors for a bequest – 20s.
Item received for Thomas Leder's burial and knell – 10s.
Sum total receipts – £7 3s. 11d.

52. Payments
In primis paid to the clerk for his wages – 40s.
Item paid for quit-rent to St Mary Spital – 8s.
Item paid for repairs on pews, the stair into the steeple, and mending of the cross in the churchyard and paving in the church, as appears written hereafter:
In primis to a carpenter for a day and a half – 12d.
Item paid for a popy to a pew – 4d.
Item paid for an oak board for the cross – 6d.
Item paid for 200 5d. nails – 10d.
Item paid for drink and bread on the church holy day – 8d.
[f. 61] Item paid for 50 4d. nails – 2d.
Item paid for 10d. nail – 1d.
Item paid to a mason for paving – 5d.
Item paid for 2 sacks of lime – 4d.
Item paid for 2 new stanches – 10d.
Item paid for ringing a knell for the wife of the stonehouse, Rolffe and
Thomas Leders – 12d.
Item paid for mending the black candlestick – 4d.
Item paid for carrying 3 loads of rubbish from the church wall – 9d.
Item paid for the obit of Juliana Fairhead – 10s. 6d.
Item paid for holm and ivy and coals at Christmas – 5d.
Item paid for mending the church box – 3d.
Item paid for covering and mending the psalter – 2s.
Item paid for making 2 rochets – 8d.
Item paid for a new foot for the canopy and mending 3 others – 5d.
Item paid to Sir Robert for helping at Easter, and singing for Fairhede and his wife for 14 days – 20d.
Item paid for tiling the church, for a tiler and his man a day – 13d.
Item paid for 100 plain tiles – 8d.
Item paid for 2 sacks of lime – 4d.
Item paid for lath and nail – 2½d.
Item paid for a frame for St George – 2s. 8d.
Item paid for palm – 4d.
Item paid for brooms all the year – 2d.
Item paid for dressing the churchyard with gravel – 5d.
Item paid for 2 lb of solder and for a fire, for a gutter in the church – 13d.
Item paid for stringing 8 pairs of beads with wire – 5d.
Item paid for the paschal – 2s.
Item paid for the beam light: for making 17 tapers weighing 34½lb – 2s. 10½d.
Item paid for 20¼lb of new wax thereto at 8d the pound – 13s. 6d.
Item paid for 2¾lb [wax for] tenebrae candles, font taper and cross taper – 22d.
Item paid for coals, drink and bread for watching the sepulchre – 6d.
Item paid for 4 tapers at 1 lb apiece for the rood loft – 2s. 8d.
Item paid for scouring the latten – 18d.
Item paid for dressing 10 torches and 1 Judas – 2s. 9d.
Item paid for garlands and other costs at Corpus Christi day – 11d.
Item paid for birch and ?fennel at Midsummer – 5d.
Item paid for a font cloth for the font – 2s. 8d.
[f. 61v] Item paid for washing during the whole year – 3s. 4d.
Item paid for 18 lb candle – 18d.
Item paid for 4½ gallons oil – 4s. 6d.
Item for 1 pint oil – 2d.
Item paid for writing this account – 16d.
Item paid to the said wardens for the rest of the account for what was due to them for 2 years, as appears at the foot of their accounts – 21s. 7d.
Item paid for making a black cope – 15s. 2d., whereof the parish received in alms of other good friends – 10s., and so was paid by us – 5s. 2d.

Sum of the payments – £7 7s. 9d.
And so remains to the wardens – 3s. 10d.

53. [f. 62] This is the account of John Mayer and Ralph Clarke, late wardens of the rents and goods belonging to the church of St Andrew Hubbard in Eastcheap, London, from the feast of Michaelmas 7 Henry VII [1491] to the same feast 8 Henry VII [1492], for a whole year.

Receipts
Item in primis received for beamlight and the clerk's wages – 58s. 6d.

Receipts of the paschal money
Received of the paschal money – 5s. 5½d.

Received for the church house for a whole year – 40s.

Other receipts
Item received in the street on our church holy day – 7s. 3½d.
Item received for burying of John Breuster and a Spaniard – 13s. 4d.
Item received for Tursott's knell – 3s. 4d.

Sum total – £6 7s. 7d.

54. Payments
Item paid to the clerk for a whole year – 40s.
Item paid for quit-rent to St Mary Spital – 8s.
Item paid for the obit of Juliana Fairhead – 10s. 6d.
Item paid for a lock – 16d.
Item paid for mending 3 bell clappers – 18d.
Item paid for mending an old lock – 4d.
Item paid for a hook for the sepulchre and 2 platts – 4d.
Item paid towards the new chrismatory – 12d.
Item paid for a new rope for the clock – 2s. ½d.
[f. 62v] Item paid for a rope for the alms bell – 7½d.
Item paid for 2 baldrics and 2 pins of iron – 15d.
Item paid to Sir Nicholas for All Hallows' day – 4d.
Item paid for a pottle of wine given to the clerk on the dedication day – 8d.
Item paid for bread and ale on the same day – 3d.
Item paid for a priest to be deacon the same day – 4d.
Item paid for mending the lantern – 4d.
Item paid for holm, ivy and coals on Christmas day – 4d.
Item paid for the pavement in the church and brooms – 1½d.
Item paid for a lantern horn – 1d.
Item paid to Redknape for writing our bill to the bishop – 6d.
Item paid for a priest on Christmas day – 2d.
Item paid to a friar for getting a torch – 3d.
Item paid for covering the Spaniard's grave – 8d.
Item paid to the clerk for 3 dinners and 1d. in earnest – 4d.
Item paid for making a new torch – 2s. 8d.
Item paid for repairs in the choir and on the middle door and the churchyard door, a carpenter for a day – 8d.
Item paid for 3 quarters of oak at 1½d apiece – 4½d.
Item paid for a quarter board – 6d.
Item paid for 100 4d. nails and 50 5d. nails – 6½d.
Item paid for 2d. nails and 10d. nails – 2d.
Item paid for a hinge of iron and a dog of iron for the door, weighing 13 lb at 1½d. the pound – 21½d.
Item paid for a mason and his man for half a day – 6d.
Item paid for a quarter of brick – 1½d.
Item paid for 6 sacks of lime and a bushel of sand – 7d.
[f. 63] Item paid for the paschal – 2s.
Item paid for the launderer for a whole year and a quarter – 4s. 2d.
Item paid for new binding a manual book – 4s.
Item paid for mending the best mass book, the clasps and the leaves within – 12d.
Item paid for scouring the vessels for the church at Easter, for scouring stones and oil – 18d.
Item paid for mending of a branch of latten – 3d.
Item paid for palm – 4½d.
Item paid for curtain line – 1½d.
Item paid to the raker – 3d.
Item paid for thread – 1d.
Item paid for the costs of the churchyard – 1d.
Item paid for bread, ale and fire for watching the sepulchre – 5½d.
Item paid at Corpus Christi-tide for garnishing 12 torches at 3d the piece – 3s.
Item paid for rose garlands – 13d.
Item paid in costs to those that bear torches and the canopy – 9d.
Item paid at Midsummer for birch and flowers for the church and the door – 6d.
Item paid for a cord for the lamp and a man to mend it – 4d.
Item we gave as a reward for getting another torch – 20d.
Item paid for mending the best altar cloth – 4d.
Item paid for 2¾ gallons of oil at 12d the gallon – 2s. 9d.
Item paid for 21 lb of candle – 21d.
Item paid for mending a Lenten altar cloth – 2d.
Item paid for making of a pew door against the parsonage, for the stuff and workmanship – 8d.
Item paid for Christmas 1 lb fyses for the roodloft light – 8d.
Item paid for a 1¼lb tenebrae and for the font candle and 3 candles for the cross – 20d.
Item paid for Tursott's knell – 4d.
[f. 63v] Item paid for the tapers for the altar of Our Lady and the roodloft, 3½lb – 2s. 4d.
Item paid for writing this book – 8d.

Sum total payments – £5 12s.
And so remains clear in the box – 15s. 7d.

55. [f. 64] This is the account of John Mayer and Ralph Clerk, wardens of the rents and goods belonging to the church of St Andrew Hubbard in Eastcheap, London, from the feast of Michaelmas 8 Henry VII [1492] to the same feast 9 Henry VII [1493], for a whole year.

Receipts
Item in primis received in the box from the last account – 15s. 7d.

Receipts of the beam light and clerk's wages
Received of the beam light and clerk's wages – £3.

Receipts for the Paschal
Received for the paschal – 6s. 7d.
Received for the church house – 40s.
Received in money gathered on our church holy day – 7s. 3d.
Received on Good Friday – 7s. 10d.

Sum of the receipts is clear – £6 17s. 3d.

56. [f. 64v] Payments made during the time of this account
Item paid to the clerk for a whole year – 40s.
Item paid for a quit-rent to St Mary Spital – 8s.
Item paid for a 1 lb taper for the rood loft and 1 lb of fysses – 16d.
Item paid to the raker – 2d.
Item paid for an old worn surplice – 8d.
Item paid for making the little bell wheel – 13d.
Item paid for a rope to the same – 3d.
Item paid at All Hallowtide for grease for the bells – 1d.
Item paid for nails bromys to the same repairs – 1½d.
Item paid to Master Mone for the priest – 5s.
Item paid for 56 lb of lead for the repairs to the font, changing at ½d. the pound – 2s. 4d.
Item paid for 6 lb of solder to the same – 3s.
Item paid for a staple of iron and a bar – 3d.
Item paid for a mason to make a hole in the font – 2d.
Item paid for coals to heat his irons withall – 1d.
Item paid for a padlock to lock it – 2d.
Item paid for a ladder for the church porch on Palm Sunday – 10d.
Item paid for a steel paring shovel for the church – 7d.
Item paid on the eve of our church holy day, to the priests and clerks and the bell-ringers in bread and ale – 4½d.
Item paid in bread and ale and wine for the morrow after – 13d.
Item paid for the obit of William Fairhead – 10s. 6d.
Item paid at Christmas for holm, ivy and fire – 5d.
Item paid for a 1 lb taper for the rood loft and a lb of fysses – 16d.
Item paid for wine for the singers on Christmas day – 4d.
Item paid out of the box for the legendary – 6s. 1d.
Item paid for mending 2 antiphoners – 2s. 4d.
Item paid for a fawn's skin – 8d.
Item paid for dressing of another fawn's skin – 6d.
Item paid for the passion banners – 4s. 3½d.
Item paid for repair of the lamp – 22d.
[f. 65] Item paid for a load of gravel for the churchyard – 4d.
Item paid for a quarter of oak rails and nails – 3d.
Item paid for palm – 5½d.
Item paid to a labourer for a day to clean the church – 5d.
Item paid for carrying out the dung – 6d.
Item paid to the launderer for washing the church gear for the whole year – 3s. 4d.
Item paid to the raker for his quarterage – 2d.
Item paid for scouring the church gear – 16d.
Item paid for oil, Flanders tile, vinegar, candle and brooms – 3½d.
Item paid for a taper for the rood loft – 8d.
Item paid for the paschal – 2s.
Item paid for bread and ale for those that watched the sepulchre, and for fire at the hallowing of the font – 6d.
Item paid for the font taper and the light for the cross – 6d.
Item paid for a quarter of Judas lights – 10d.
Item paid for a here [?haircloth] for the high altar – 12d.
Item paid on Corpus Christi day for garlands of roses and of woodruff for the choir and the torch bearers – 13d.
Item paid for a breakfast for those that bore the torches – 8d.
Item paid for one of the clerks that sang with them – 4d.
Item paid for bread, wine and ale for the singers – 5½d.
Item paid for a taper of 3 quarters for the rood loft – 6d.
Item paid for 2¼ ells to make a fore cloth [frontel?] for the high altar – 9d.
Item for painting the same cloth – 16d.
Item paid at Midsummer for birch and flowers for the church door – 6d.
Item paid for a quart and a pint of lamp oil – 4d.
Item paid for the exchange of a censer – 4s.
Item paid for 17 lb candle – 17d.
Item paid for 6 quarts of lamp oil – 18d.
Item paid for making 2 lb of wax – 1d.
[f. 65v] Item paid for binding the old antiphoner and 2 processionals and for mending another processional – 4s. 6d.
Item to the clerk what he lacked for his board from Easter until Michaelmas, in excess of what we received – 2s. 10d.
Item paid for making our book – 8d.

Sum of the payments is clear – £6 7s. 5d.
And so remains clear in the box – 9s. 10d.

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57. [f. 66v] This is the account of Ralph Clerk and Simon Tyler, wardens of the rents and goods belonging to the church of St Andrew Hubbard in Eastcheap, London, from the feast of Michaelmas 9 Henry VII [1493] to the same feast 10 Henry VII [1494], for the whole year.

Receipts
Item first received in the church box from the last account – 9s. 10d.
Item received for the first quarter [scored: for the clerk's wages] – 14s.
Item received for 3 quarters for the same year – £3 10s.
Item received for the church house for whole year – 40s.
Item received by gathering money on the church holy day – 27s.
Item received for the paschal – 9s. 2d.
Item recieved for alms-money among Frenchmen – 8s.
Item received for burying Plawden's wife – 6s. 8d.
Sum of the receipts – £9 4s. 8d.

58. Payments
Item paid for the clerk's wages the first quarter – 10s.
Item paid to the clerk for the 3 following quarters of the same year – £3 5s.
Item paid for washing the church gear – 3s. 4d.
Item paid for quit-rent to St Mary Spital – 8s.
Item paid for making the beam light and for new wax – 10s. 8d.
Item paid for 3 tapers of 2¼lb – 18d.
Item paid to the raker for the whole year – 8d.
Item paid for the paschal – 2s.
Item paid for a cloth for the chrismatory – 2s. 8d.
Item paid for bread, ale and fire for watching the sepulchre and the font – 11½d.
[f. 67] Item paid for points for the canopy – 1d.
Item paid for a pack-needle – ½d.
Item paid for repairs to the church house and for a carpenter for 1 day – 8d.
Item paid for 10 feet of timber at 2d the foot – 20d.
Item paid for a quarter of elm – 1½d.
Item paid for nails – 1½d.
Item paid for sawing the timber – 1d.
Item paid for 1 lb of candle – 1d.
Item paid for a dog of iron, 14 lb at 1½d the lb – 21d.
Item paid for making 2 tapers and for new wax – 10d.
Item paid for making 2 tapers – 1d.
Item paid for making the tenebrae candles – 9d.
Item paid for a candle for the font – 4d.
Item paid for 3 candles for the cross – 2d.
Item paid for a priest on the dedication day – 4d.
Item paid for bread and wine – 9d.
Item paid for boughs and fennel at Midsummer – 4d.
Item paid for oil for the lamps – 4d.
Item paid for mending the iron for the lamps – 1d.
Item paid for garlands on Corpus Christi day – 19½d.
Item paid for the breakfast for those who bore the canopy – 6d.
Item paid for the torch bearers – 8d.
Item paid for 2 singers – 8d.
Item paid for bread and ale – 1d.
Item paid for garnishing the torches – 3s. 4d.
Item paid to a carpenter for mending the [word indecipherable] of the chapel – 2d.
Item paid for a priest on relic Sunday – 4d.
Item paid for a carpenter for half a day – 4d.
Item paid for nails – 1½d.
Item paid for a sack of lime – 2d.
Item paid for a new key for the church door – 6d.
Item paid for brooms – ½d.
[f. 67v] Item paid for changing a chalice – 15s.
Item paid for tallow candle – 18d.
Item paid for 9 quarts of lamp oil – 2s. 3d.
Item paid for hallowing the chalice – 8d.
Item paid for a basket for the cross – 5d.
Item paid for the obit of William Fairhead – 11s. 1d.
Item paid for a pipe key for a padlock – 5d.
Item paid for a key for a chest – 3d.
Item paid for mending the church door lock – 2d.
Item paid for mending the candlestick – 3d.
Item paid for oil stones and vinegar for scouring at Easter – 19d.
Item paid for palm and yew – 3d.
Item paid for brooms and packthread – 1d.
Item paid for a pin of iron for the paschal – 1d.
Item paid for a load of gravel for the churchyard – 4d.
Item paid for mending a surplice – 6d.
Item paid for mending the frame of the sepulchre – 2d.
Item paid for a priest on Good Friday – 6d.
Item paid for scouring the red cloth before the high altar – 3d.
Item paid 3 torch pins – 1½d.
Item paid for brooms – ½d.
Item paid for the bread, ale and wine on the dedication day – 11d.
Item paid for church repairs, for a tiler and his man for a day – 13d.
Item paid for a quarter of plain tile and a roof tile – 3d.
Item paid for 2 sacks of lime – 4d.
Item paid for a bushel of sand – 1d.
Item paid for a piece of lead for the steeple – 10d.
Item paid for bread and ale at the reckoning day – 3d.
Item paid for linen cloth to make 5 rochets – 17½d.
Item paid for making the same – 20d.
[f. 68] Item paid for boughs at Christmas – 4½d.
Item paid for thread and coals – 2d.
Item paid for bread and ale on Christmas day – 4½d.
Item paid for writing this account – 8d.
Sum of the payments is clear – £8 6s. 4d.
And so remains in the box – 18s. 4d.

59. [f. 68v] This is the account of Ralph Clerk and Simon Tyler, wardens of the rents and goods belonging to the church of St Andrew Hubbard beside Eastcheap, London, from the feast of St Michael the Archangel 10 Henry VII [1494] to the same feast 11 Henry VII [1495], for a whole year.

Receipts
Item first received for the clerk's wages for the whole year – £5 2s.
Item received for the church house for the whole year – 40s.
Item received for the paschal at Easter – 10s. 2d.
Item received for our old canopy – 2s.
Item received on the dedication day at hogysdon – 14½d.
Item received by gathering in the parish on the said dedication day – 10s.
Sum of the receipts is – £8 5s. 4½d.

60. Payments
Item first paid for quit-rent to St Mary Spital – 8s.
Item paid for a rope and for mending the canopy – 5d.
Item paid to the raker for the whole year – 8d.
Item paid to a painter for mending the canopy – 4d.
Item paid to an organ player and a man to sing in the choir – 13d.
Item paid for mending the lantern – 3d.
Item paid on the dedication day in bread, ale and wine and for 2 priests to help in the choir – 23d.
Item paid for a new canopy – 15s. 3d.
Item paid for holm and ivy – 4d.
Item paid for wine and bread on Christmas day – 4½d.
Item paid for the clerk's wages for the whole year – £4 6s. 8d. [?].
[f. 69] Item paid for William Fairhead's obit – 11s. 6d.
Item paid for watching the sepulchre in bread, ale and fire – 10d.
Item paid for a fire on Candlemas day – 4d.
Item paid for scouring of the red cloth – 3d.
Item paid for points – 1d.
Item paid for trash – ½d.
Item paid for garlands – 18½d.
Item paid for a friar – 4d.
Item paid for 2 singers – 8d.
Item paid for bearing the torches – 3d.
Item paid for a year and a quarter's washing – 4s. 2d.
Item paid for making the book – 8d.
Item paid for tawing 2 bucks' skins – 8d.
Item paid for scouring tiles, oils and vinegar – 19d.
Item paid for thread and brooms – 1d.
Item paid for a line for the rood loft cloth – 2d.
Item paid for palm and yew – 4d.
Item paid for a load of sand – 4d.
Item paid for a lamp – 1d.
Item paid for cleaning the church and churchyard – 2d.
Item paid for packthread – ½d.
Item paid for mending the frame – 1d.
Item paid for making the cloth for the [scored: pyx and chrismatory] and for a ribbon thereto – 10d.
Item paid for a chain for the holy water stock – 1d.
Item paid to the waxchandler – 9s. 5d.
Item paid to the tallowchandler – 4s. 1d.
Item paid at Easter to an organ player – 20d.
Item paid for the paschal – 2s.
Item paid for mending the green altar cloths – 2s. 4d.
Item paid for hooks and thread – 1d.
Item paid for an organ player – 4d.
[f. 69v] Item paid to a priest on Whitsunday – 4d.
Item paid to an organ player on Corpus Christi day – 8d.
Item paid for boughs at Midsummer – 4d.
Item paid for a lamp – 1d.
Item paid to a priest – 4d.
Item paid to a friar – 2d.
Item paid for hallowing 3 altar cloths – 12d.
Item paid for 2 ¼ gallons of oil – 2s. 3d.

Sum of the payments is clear – £8 3s. 3d.
And so of this account there remains clear in the box – 2s. 1½d.