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The Church Records of St Andrew Hubbard, Eastcheap, c1450-c1570. Originally published by London Record Society, London, 1999.
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Churchwardens' Accounts: nos 61-90
61. [f. 70] This is the account of Ralph Clarke and Simon Tylar, 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 11
Henry VII [1495] to the same feast 12 Henry VII [1496], for whole year.
Receipts
Item first received for the clerk's wages for the whole year – £5 3s.
Item received for the church house [scored: by the whole year] – 40s.
Item received for William Cassen for a pit and his knell – 10s.
Item received of Hamlyn's wife, her husband's gift – 20s.
Item received for his pit and knell – 10s.
Item received for the paschal at Easter – 8s. 2d.
Item received by gathering on the dedication day – 15s. 3d.
Item received of Master Mone for his mother's knell – 3s. 4d.
Item received of John Borell's wife for a pit and his knell – 10s.
Item received of Harry Oldham – 16s. 8d.
Item received in earnest for the tree in the churchyard – 4d.
Sum of the receipts – £11 16s. 5d.
62. Payments
Item first paid for a quit-rent to St Mary Spital – 8s.
Item paid to a friar – 4d.
Item paid for mending a bell clapper – 4d.
Item paid for a friar – 2d.
Item paid for a friar on All Hallows' day – 8d.
[f. 70v] Item paid for repairing the church, for a tiler and his man – 7½d.
Item paid for a quartern of plain tiles and 2 roof tiles – 4d.
Item paid for a plumber to mend the gutter and for 2 lb of solder – 12d.
Item paid to a carpenter for taking up the pew to bury Casson – 5d.
Item paid for nails – 1½d.
Item paid for ringing the bell for Casson – 4d.
Item paid for a carpenter – 4d.
Item paid for a priest on the dedication day – 4d.
Item paid for bread, ale and wine – 12d.
Item paid for a friar – 4d.
Item paid for holm and ivy – 3d.
Item paid for bread and wine – 3½d.
Item paid for coals – 1d.
Item paid for a labourer for cleaning the charnel house – 3d.
Item paid for a mason and his man for 2½ days – 2s. 2d.
Item paid for 11 cwt [?] of bricks – 3s. 2d.
Item paid for 2 load of lime – 2s.
Item paid for a load of sand – 6d.
Item paid for a carpenter a day – 8d.
Item paid for half a quarter of quarter board – 4½d.
Item paid for 100 4d. nails – 4d.
Item paid for a new hinge and for mending a lock – 3d.
Item paid for carrying away the rubbish – 2d.
Item paid for the clerk's wages during the whole year – £4 6s. 8d.
Item paid for breaking up the pews – 4d.
Item paid for a new rope for the great bell – 8d.
Item paid for ringing Hanlyn's knell – 4d.
Item paid to the raker for the whole year – 8d.
[f. 71] Item paid to a priest – 2d.
Item paid to an organ player – 3s. 4d.
Item paid for William Fairhead's obit – 11s. 5d.
Item paid to an organ player on Candlemas day – 4d.
Item paid for timber and boards for the 2 new pews – 4s. 9d.
Item paid for nails – 2d.
Item paid for a carpenter for 4 ½ days – 3s.
Item paid for another carpenter for 6 ½ days – 3s. 9½d.
Item paid for paving about the pews – 7d.
Item paid for lime – 4d.
Item paid for making the little pew – 3s. 6d.
Item paid for the iron that goes along the choir – 16d.
Item paid for rings, lyre, thread and brooms – 5d.
Item paid for felling and hewing the tree in the churchyard – 10d.
Item paid for a rope for the rood loft – 3d.
Item paid for mending the clock – 2d.
Item paid for binding a surplice collar – 6d.
Item paid for scouring – 16d.
Item paid for oil, vinegar and stones and tenter hooks – 3d.
Item paid for palm and yew – 4d.
Item paid for a load of gravel – 4d.
Item paid for watching the sepulchre and coals – 3½d.
Item paid for bread and ale – 3d.
Item paid for a man to watch 2 nights – 2d.
Item paid for carrying away of rubbish and pynny – 1d.
Item paid for an organ player – 3s. 4d.
Item paid for the paschal – 2s.
Item paid for ringing Master Roger's knell – 4d.
63. [f. 71v] Item paid for mending the silver candlestick – 3s. 4d.
Item paid for a relic of St Andrew's finger – 1d.
Item paid for an organ player for 1 day – 2d.
Item paid for washing the church gear for the whole year – 3s. 4d.
Item paid for an organ player at Whitsuntide – 3s. 4d.
Item paid for garlands at Corpus Christi-tide – 13d.
Item paid for packthread and nails – 1d.
Item paid for boughs and flowers at Whitsuntide – 5½d.
Item paid for mending the clock – 5s.
Item paid for mending the stair in the steeple – 3d.
Item paid for boards – 2d.
Item paid for nails – 1½d.
Item paid for mending a lock for the steeple door, and a key – 3d.
Item paid for a holy water stick – ½d.
Item paid for capys and thread – 1½d.
Item paid for ringing John Borell's knell – 4d.
Item paid for 2½ gallons of oil – 2s. 6d.
Item paid for tallow candle – 21d.
Item paid for the repair of the church house, for a labourer for a day – 5d.
Item paid for a carpenter for a day – 8d.
Item paid for 3½ quarters of board – 2s. 4d.
Item paid for 100 6d. nails and 50 5d. nails and a quarter of 10d. nails –
9½d.
Item paid for a mason for 5½ days to hew the stone – 3s. 8d.
Item paid for a mason and his man to lay the same stone for 6 days –
6s. 6d.
Item paid for 10 feet of new stone – 3s. 4d.
Item paid for pitch, rosin and candle – 2d.
[f. 72] Item paid for casting a cwt of lead – 16d.
Item paid for 8 lb of solder – 4s.
Item paid for a load of lime – 12d.
Item paid for 2 loads of loam – 8d.
Item paid for carriage of a load of rubbish – 2d.
Item paid to the waxchandler – 8s. 4½d.
Item paid for mending the silver censer – 4d.
Item paid for writing – 8d.
Sum of the payments is clear – £10 14s. 8d.
And so there remains from this account clear in the box – 22s. 1d.
64. [f. 72v] This is the account made by Ralph Clarke and Denys Burton,
wardens of the rents and goods belonging to the church of St Andrew
Hubbard beside Eastcheape, London, from the feast of St Michael the
Archangel 12 Henry VII [1496] to the same feast 13 Henry VII [1497], for
a whole year.
Receipts
Item received of Father Matthew's gift – 16d.
Item received for the tree – 20d.
Item received for a knell and a pit for Simon Tapeser – 10s.
Item received for the clerk's wages for the whole year – £4 18s. 8d.
Item received for a rope – 8d.
Item received for the church house by a whole year – 40s.
Item received of Thomas Gysborow – 4s.
Item received for the paschal – 8s. 2d.
Item received for Humfrey Mandytt's mother's knell – 3s. 4d.
Item received on our church holy day clear of all costs and charges –
4s. 4d.
Item paid for burying Master Mony's child – 3s. 4d.
Item paid for the burial of Semer's wife – 10s.
Sum of the receipts is clear – £9 5s. 6d.
65. [f. 73] Payments
Item paid for the clerk's wages for the whole year – £4 6s. 8d.
Item paid for quit-rent to St Mary Spital – 8s.
Item paid to a tiler and his man for 3 days – 2s. 11d.
Item paid for 6 sacks of lime – 12d.
Item paid for a load of sand – 6d.
Item paid for tile pins, laths and nails – 2½d.
Item paid for 350 plain tiles – 2s. 4d.
Item paid for 3 roof tiles – 2½d.
Item paid for carrying away rubbish – 2d.
Item paid to the raker for the whole year – 8d.
Item paid to the plumber for 4½lb of solder – 2s. 3d.
Item paid for a fire on 2 occasions – 2d.
Item paid for cleaning the churchyard – 2d.
Item paid for a wire for the clock – 1d.
Item paid for cleaning the steeple – 2d.
Item paid for brooms – ½d.
Item paid for ringing Simon Tapeser's knell – 4d.
Item paid for laying on the stone – 6d.
Item paid for treading on the grave – 1d.
Item paid for holm and ivy – 4d.
Item paid for scouring the candlesticks – 1d.
Item paid for bread, ale, coals and thread – 2½d.
Item paid for washing the church gear for the whole year – 3s. 4d.
Item paid for the chandler for tallow candles – 21d.
Item paid for a gallon of lamp oil – 12d.
Item paid for 4 lb tapers for the rood loft – 2s. 8d.
[f. 73v] Item paid for William Fairhead's obit – 11s. 6d.
Item paid for cleaning the church and mending the pews – 4½d.
Item paid for carrying away the rubbish – 1½d.
Item paid for 2 keys for 2 chests in the vestry and for mending the choir
door – 8d.
Item paid for scouring-vinegar, oil and stones – 19d.
Item paid for changing the branch – 6s. 8d.
Item paid for a mason and the stuff that went thereto – 21d.
Item paid for making the beam light – 2s.
Item paid for 12¾lb of new wax at 8d. the pound – 8s. 6d.
Item paid for the paschal – 2s.
Item paid for watching the sepulchre in bread, ale and fire – 6½d.
Item paid for packthread – ½d.
Item paid for a key for the steeple door – 3d.
Item paid for ringing Mawdytt's mother's knell – 4d.
Item paid for mending the bells – 3d.
Item paid for a carpenter for half a day – 4d.
Item paid for nails – 2½d.
Item paid for 2 pound tapers – 16d.
Item paid for wine for singers on our church holy day – 8d.
Item paid for garnishing 16 torches at Corpus Christi-tide, paying for every
piece 3d, sum – 3s. 9d.
Item paid for 2 tapers at 1 lb apiece for the rood loft – 16d.
Item paid for garlands on Corpus Christi day – 11d.
Item paid for a breakfast for those that bore the torches and the canopy –
14d.
Item paid for a carpenter taking up the joints and for setting them again
when Semer's wife was buried, and for paving – 6d.
[f. 74] Item paid for a carpenter mending pews and for the nails that went
to them – 5d.
Item paid for ringing a knell for Semer's wife – 4d.
Item paid for a rope for the lamp – 3d.
Item paid for mending the frame of the same lamp – 2d.
Item paid for birch and flowers for the church door – 5d.
Item paid for a lamp – 1d.
Item paid for a tiler and his man for a day – 13d.
Item paid for 50 plain tiles – 4d.
Item paid for 2 sacks of lime – 4d.
Item paid for lath nails and tile pins – 3d.
Item paid for removing Our Lady's branch and for a hinge for a pew door
– 8d.
Item paid for 2 pounds tapers for the rood loft – 16d.
Item paid for 1 ¾ gallons of oil to the chandler – 21d.
Item paid for making a banner shaft – 3d.
Item paid for painting the same – 12d.
Item paid for writing this account – 8d.
Item paid for 6 yards of green buckram at 5d. the yard – 2s. 6d.
Item paid for palm, box and yew – 4d.
Item paid for a taper for the font and 3 quarters of cross candles – 6d.
Item paid for 1 lb tenebrae candles – 8d.
Sum of the payments – £8 15s. 10½d.
And so there remains in the box from this account – 31s. 8½d.
66. [f. 74v] This is the account of Ralph Clarke and Denys Burton, 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 13
Henry VII [1497] to the same feast 14 Henry [1498], for a whole year.
Receipts
Item received in the church box from the last account – 31s. 8½d.
Item received and gathered in quarterage for the whole year – £5 5s. 6d.
Item received for the church house – 40s.
Item received for the paschal – 7s.
Item received on our church holy day in excess of costs borne – 10s.
Item received what we gathered in the church towards the organs – 7s. 8d.
Item received of Harry Oldam's wife for old debt – 2s.
Item received for Master Mony's child – 3s. 4d.
Item received for the tree – 20d.
Sum the receipts is clear – £10 8s. 9½d.
67. Payments
Item first paid to the clerk for his wages for the whole year – £4 6s. 8d.
Item paid to St Mary Spital for quit-rent – 8s.
Item paid for 2 pound tapers for the rood loft – 16d.
Item paid for a link weighing 3 lb at 5½d. the pound – 17½d.
Item paid for dressing the bells on All Hallows' eve – 5d.
Item paid for 2 lb of candle at the same time – 2d.
Item paid to the raker for the whole year – 8d.
[f. 75] Item paid for a lock on the store-house door – 2d.
Item paid for a collar for the bell at All Hallowtide – 7d.
Item paid to a joiner for setting in the image of Our Lady in her tabernacle
– 5d.
Item paid to a glazier for mending a glass window in Our Lady's chapel –
11d.
Item paid to a mason and his man for setting an image of Our Lady in St
Katherine's window – 12d.
Item paid for a sack of lime – 2d.
Item paid in bread, ale and wine on our dedication day – 10d.
Item paid for brooms for the church – ½d.
Item paid for pins of iron and for the hoop for the riddel for Our Lady –
6d.
Item paid for mending 4 surplices – 13d.
Item paid for a garnet for the pulpit door – 2d.
Item paid for mending the organs – 13s. 4d.
Item paid to the organ maker in allowance for the small organs – 2d.
Item paid for holm and ivy – 5d.
Item paid in bread and wine and coals on Christmas day for the singers –
5d.
Item paid for washing the church gear for the whole year – 3s. 4d.
Item paid for tallow candle for the whole year – 21d.
Item paid for William Fairhead's obit – 12s. 1d.
Item paid to Sir Thomas on Christmas day – 8d.
Item paid for a pan for the best censer – 4d.
Item paid for girdle tapes for albs? and for thread – 4d.
Item paid for mending a lectern – 8d.
Item paid for mending an alb – 2d.
Item paid for nails for the church bench – ½d.
Item paid for mending a wire for the paschal – 4d.
Item paid for great nails and small – 1d.
[f. 75v] Item paid for pins and packthread for the paschal – 1d.
Item paid for the cord for the paschal – 3d.
Item paid to John Carpenter for his labour – 8d.
Item paid for Flanders tile, vinegar and oil for scouring the church gear –
20d.
Item paid for palm – 4d.
Item paid for coals for watching the sepulchre – 2d.
Item paid for bread, ale and for a man to watch – 4d.
Item paid for a raker cleaning the pews – 4d.
Item paid for mending the lamp – 4d.
Item paid for sand for the churchyard – 4d.
Item paid for a little basket – 1d.
Item paid for a lamp – 1d.
Item paid for mending a censer – 1d.
Item paid for 3 quarters [of] great candles on Christmas day – 6d.
Item paid for 2 tapers of 2 lb at the same time – 16d.
Item paid for 2 tapers of 2 lb on the 8th day of April – 16d.
Item paid for a ½lb taper – 4d.
Item paid for a 1 lb taper for St Nicholas – 8d.
Item paid for a 1½lb of tenebrae candle – 18d.
Item paid for a ½lb taper for the font – 4d.
Item paid for a quarter [of] ½ candles for the font – 3d.
Item paid for garnishing 15 torches – 3s. 9d.
Item paid for 2 pound tapers at Whitsuntide – 16d.
Item paid for mending a taper – ½d.
Item paid for the paschal at Easter – 2s.
Item paid for a red say for the high altar – 6s.
Item paid for 2 tapers of 2 lb – 16d.
Item paid for nails and points for the canopy – 1½d.
Item paid for packthread and for torches – ½d.
Item paid for rose garlands and woodruff garlands – 14d.
Item paid for 15 torch bearers – 15d.
Item paid for birch and fennel at Midsummer – 6d.
Item paid for a lamp – 1d.
[f. 76] Item paid for a bar of iron and mending a lock for the churchyard
door and for a staple – 15d.
Item paid for nails – 2d.
Item paid for tallow and rosin for the churchyard door – 3d.
Item paid to John Cros for a piece of timber and his labour – 13d.
Item paid for making a blue stole and the buckram thereto – 6d.
Item paid for making another stole – 3d.
Item paid for 2¼ gallons of lamp oil – 2s. 3d.
Item paid for 2 crosses for 2 banner staves – 6d.
Item paid for scouring the rood cloth before the high altar at Easter – 3d.
Item paid for writing this account – 8d.
Sum of the payments is clear – £8 14s. 6d.
And so there remains in the church box clear from this account – 34s. 3½d.
68. [f. 76v] This is the account of Ralph Clarke and Dennis Burton, 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 14
Henry VII [1498] to the same feast 15 Henry VII [1499], for a whole year.
Receipts
Item received in the church box from the last account – 34s. 3½d.
Item received and gathered in quarterage for the whole year – £4 16s. 6d.
Item received for the church house for the whole year – 40s.
Item received for the paschal – 8s.
Item received for the parson's knell – 3s. 4d.
Sum of the receipts – £9 13½d.
69. Payments
Item first paid for the clerk's wages as by the whole year – £4 6s. 8d.
Item paid for quit-rent for the church house – 8s.
Item paid for the whole year to the raker – 8d.
Item paid for 2 holy water sprinkles – 2d.
Item paid for tiling the church, for a workman 2 days – 16d.
Item paid for his labourer 2 days – 10d.
Item paid for 2 sacks of lime – 4d.
Item paid for 150 tiles for the church – 12d.
Item paid for a piece of timber for the gutter in the churchyard – 1d.
Item paid for clasps, pins and glue for the books – 4d.
Item paid for nails for the pew doors – ½d.
Item paid for mending and greasing the bells at All Hallowtide – 3d.
Item paid to John Cros for mending a pew – 1d.
Item paid for mending a glass window in the church – 2d.
[f. 77] Item paid for bread, ale and wine on the dedication day – 11d.
Item paid for 2 pieces of timber for shores over the church door – 8d.
Item paid to a carpenter for his labour setting [them] up – 4d.
Item paid for ledges and nails for the church door – 2d.
Item paid for a mason and for his workmanship on 2 corbels – 4s. 2d.
Item paid for 2 sacks of lime and a bushel of sand for the same work – 5d.
Item paid for a board to mend the loft above – 1d.
Item paid for nails – 1d.
Item paid for holm and ivy – 4½d.
Item paid for white thread to mend a surplice – ½d.
Item paid for bread and wine on Christmas day for the singers – 4½d.
Item paid for Fairhead's obit – 11s. 11d.
Item paid for 2 red skins for the cushions – 7½d.
Item paid for dressing and ?shearing the cushions of the ?Rose – 1½d.
Item paid for brooms for the church – ½d.
Item paid for a board for Aylwood's pew and for nails and for workman –
ship and for fine oil for the clock – 6d.
Item paid for mending the desk – 4d.
Item paid for scouring the church gear – 16d.
Item paid for scouring the standards and for scouring the branches and
dressing – 7d.
Item paid for washing the church gear for the whole year – 3s. 4d.
Item paid for cleaning the pews – 2d.
Item paid to the raker for bearing away dust – 2d.
Item paid for palm and yew – 5d.
Item paid for a pulley for the rood cloth – 1d.
Item paid for a lamp – 1d.
Item paid for pins for the altar cloth – ½d.
Item paid for a load of gravel for the churchyard – 4d.
[f. 77v] Item paid for watching the sepulchre in bread, ale and fire – 7½d.
Item paid for a man to watch the sepulchre – 2d.
Item paid for a load of paving stone and carriage thereof – 16d.
Item paid for 4 loads of gravel – 16d.
Item paid for the paving – 5s.
Item paid for bearing away rubbish – 2d.
Item paid for mending the lock for the churchyard door – 2d.
Item paid for making the chain of the holy water stock longer – 2d.
Item paid for a piece of timber and nails for the churchyard corner and for
dressing the bells – 10½d.
Item paid on Corpus Christi day for garlands – 8d.
Item paid for dressing 16 torches – 4s.
Item paid for 2 tapers of 2 lb – 16d.
[Inserted] Item paid for 16 torch bearers – 16d.
Item paid for making 2 tapers of 2½lb – 2½d.
Item paid for making 2 tapers of 2 lb and a taper of ½lb and 3 quarters
of great candle and 3 tapers of 3 quarters – 2s. 8d.
Item paid for Judas candles a pound a quarter and a half [sic] – 11d.
Item a cross candle 1 quarter – 2d.
Item 2 tapers of 1¼lb – 11d.
Item paid for 2½lb of taper – 20d.
Item paid for ringing the parson's knell – 4d.
Item paid at Midsummer for fennel for the church door – 5d.
Item paid for mending the best censers – 4½d.
Item paid for a priest on relic Sunday – 2d.
Item paid for a lamp – 1d.
Item paid for 2 gallons and 3 pints [of oil] for the lamp at 12d the gallon,
price – 2s. 4½d.
Item paid for 22 lb of cotton candle – 22d.
Item more paid for a quart of oil – 3d.
Item paid for ½lb of new wax and for making 2 tapers – 5d.
Item paid for writing this account – 8d.
Item paid for a taper of ½lb at Whitsuntide – 4d.
Sum of the payments – £7 18s. 7½d.
And so there remains in the church box clear from this account – 22s. 6d.
70. [f. 78] This is the account of Ralph Clarke and Richard Semer, 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 15
Henry VII [1499] to the feast of 18 Henry VII [1502], for the space of 3
years.
Receipts
Item received in the church box from the last account – 22s. 6d.
Item received in gathering quarterage for the space of 3 years and a quarter
– £15 18s.
Item received for the church house for the space of 3 years and a quarter
– £6 10s.
Item received for the paschal for the space of 3 years – 21s.
Item received what we gathered in the street – 9s.
Item received for burying a Frenchman, for his grave in the church and his
knell – 10s.
Item received for one that died at the Garlond for his knell – 3s. 4d.
Item received for burying of Master Mony's child – 3s. 4d.
Sum of the receipts is clear – £25 17s. 2d.
71. [f. 78v] Payments
Item paid for the clerk's wages for the space of 3¼ years – £13 10s.
Item paid to a tiler and his man for 4 days – 4s. 4d.
Item paid for 275 tiles – 22d.
Item paid to a plumber for 7½lb of solder at 5d the pound – 3s. 1½d.
Item paid for ringing 2 knells – 8d.
Item paid for hyllyng of a grave – 4d.
Item paid for cleaning 4 candlesticks and the holy water stock – 2d.
Item paid for searching and mending the bells – 3d.
Item paid for a faggot and 1 lb of candle for the plumber – 2d.
Item paid for mending 7 broken surplices – 20d.
Item paid for 3½ quarters of linen cloth – 4½d.
Item paid for taking away the rubbish that the tiler made – 2d.
Item paid for bread, ale and wine on our church holy day – 10d.
Item paid for tokyng lasys for priests – 1½d.
Item paid for brooms – ½d.
Item paid for Fairhead's obit – 11s. 9d.
Item paid for 2 tapers of 2 lb at All Hallowtide – 16d.
[Scored: Item paid for the rood light, for making 27 lb – 2s. 3d.
Item paid for 2 tapers of 2 lb and 3 quarters and ½lb of great candle –
23d.
Item paid for making the rood light of 27 lb – 2s. 4d. [sic]
Item paid for 13 lb of new wax to the same at 8d. the pound – 8s. 8d.
Item paid for Judas candle and [a] quarter and half – 11d.
Item paid for a cross candle and a taper of 3 quarters for the font – 6d.
Item paid for a taper of 1 pound and a taper of 1½ pounds on ?Trinity
Sunday – 12d.
Item paid for dressing 15 torches – 3s. 9d.
Item paid for bearing them – 15d.
Item paid for garlands of roses and woodruff – 16d.
Item paid for a breakfast for those that bore the canopy – 6d.
Item paid for handelbondys and nails for the canopy – 1½d.
[f. 79] Item paid for holly and ivy – 5½d.
Item paid for a new lamp – 1d.
Item paid for hooks and pins for the altars – 1d.
Item paid for a quart of lamp oil – 2½d.
Item paid for a load of gravel – 4d.
Item paid for carting rubbish and dust out of the church – 4d.
Item paid for brooms, thread and line for the rood loft – 1½d.
Item paid for pins for the sepulchre and the altars – 1d.
Item paid for coals for the sepulchre and the font – 3d.
Item paid for bread and ale for the watchers – 3d.
Item paid for mending a cope and a vestment – 4d.
Item paid to John Pyrwych – 3s. 4d.
Item paid for 2 sconces for the choir – 10d.
Item paid for new desks – 3s.
Item paid for mending 2 old desks – 6d.
Item paid to the clerk for Tryp's wife – 2s. 2d.
Item paid for bread, ale and wine on our May Day – 10d.
Item paid for boughs, flowers and a lamp – 6d.
Item paid for making a chain for the holy water stock – 1d.
Item paid for 2¾ gallons of oil – 2s. 9d.
Item paid for mending the best cope and for the [word indecipherable] cope
– 5s.
Item paid for making 2 choir copes – ?4s. 8d.
Item paid for dornixes for the same copes and the orphreys – 5s.
Item paid for 6 oz of ribbon – 6s.
Item paid for buckram – 5s. 8d.
Item paid for embroidering the red velvet cope and the orphreys of the
same – 14s.
Item paid for 3 oz of latten spangles – 12d.
Item paid for green buckram for lining the same cope – 2s. 10d.
[f. 79v] Item paid for making the same cope – 2s.
Item paid for 3 oz of ribbon – 3s.
Item paid for making a cope of red sarsnet – 2s.
Item paid for the orphreys of the same – 2s. 8d.
Item paid for 1¾ yards of buckram – 10d.
Item paid for ribbon to the same – 16d.
Item paid for mending a surplice and an alb – 2d.
Item paid for a pound taper – 8d.
Item paid at Christmas for a taper [and] 3 quarters of great candle – 14d.
Item paid for palm – 2½d.
Item paid for yew – 1½d.
Item paid for a pole and setting it up – 2d.
Item paid for a load of gravel for the churchyard – 4d.
Item paid for a pound taper on Easter eve – 8d.
Item paid for dressing 15 torches – 3s. 9d.
Item paid for bearing them – 11d.
Item paid for their breakfast – 6d.
Item paid for garlands – 12d.
Item paid on St Andrew's eve for one half of great candle – 4d.
Item paid for Fairhead's obit – 12s. 6d.
Item paid to the clockmaker – 12d.
Item paid for mending the church door – 2d.
Item paid for a box – 1d.
Item paid for mending bells – 3d.
Item paid for ringing a knell for him that died at the Garland – 4d.
Item paid for breaking up an old aumbry – 1d.
Item paid for bread, ale and wine on our church holy day – 8d.
Item paid for a candlestick for the organs – 4d.
Item paid for mending the bench in the choir – 2d.
Item paid to the children that sang – 2d.
[f. 80] Item paid for holm and ivy at Christmas – 5d.
Item paid to the tallowchandler for candle – 20d.
Item paid for ringing a knell for the Frenchman – 6d.
Item paid for mending the clock – 6d.
Item paid for mending the collar to a surplice – 2d.
Item paid for hinges for a pew door – 2d.
Item paid for mending a jewel that a relic is in – 4d.
Item paid for mending 2 albs – 3d.
Item paid for mending a riddel – 3d.
Item paid for thread and nails – 1d.
Item paid to the raker for 3 years – 2s.
Item paid for quit-rent for the church house for 3 years – 24s.
Item paid for scouring the church gear and mending a censer – 20d.
Item paid for paschal – 2s.
Item paid for a wire and a hook for the clock – 1½d.
Item paid for mending the great bell, to the carpenter and for the iron work
– 20d.
Item paid for a dog of iron and for setting it up – 10d.
Item paid for drink for the priests and clerks on our church holy day – 8d.
Item paid to a smith for mending a bell clapper – 12d.
Item paid for mending a collar on the same bell – 4d.
Item paid for taking down and setting up the same clapper, for a lamp and
for mending pews in this church – 4d.
Item paid for lead for the poys of the lamp and nails – 3d.
Item paid for liveries – 12d.
Item paid for dyeing a cope – 5s.
Item paid at London Bridge for the orphreys – 2s.
Item paid for the paschal – 2s.
72. [f. 80v] Item paid at the vestment-maker's for making – 3s. 4d.
Item paid to Richard for hemming the cope – 8d.
Item paid for birch and flowers – 6½d.
Item paid for 2 lamps – 2d.
Item paid for mending the clock – 3s. 4d.
Item paid for a new hood and mending the orphreys of a cope – 11s.
Item paid for buckram, ribbon and mending the same cope – 6s. 8d.
Item paid for Sir Robert's obit – 5s.
Item paid to the tallowchandler for candle – 20d.
Item paid for oil – 2s. 6d.
Item paid for mending a lock to the churchyard door and mending a pew
in the church – 3d.
Item paid for mending a censer, an altar cloth and the bellows of the organs
– 3d.
Item paid for brooms – ½d.
Item paid for holm and ivy – 4½d.
Item paid for wine for singers on Christmas day – 4½d.
Item paid for Fairhead's obit – 11s. 10d.
Item paid for making a pew in the loft for the maidens – 8d.
Item paid for a holy water stick – 1d.
Item paid for gear for the shriving pew – 1½d.
Item paid for scouring the church gear – 16d.
Item paid for mending a branch before St James – 3d.
Item paid for lyre curtain rings for the rood loft and for an iron riddel
thereto – 10d.
Item paid for 31 lb [of wax] for making the rood light – 2s. 7d.
Item paid for 20 lb of new wax thereto – 13s. 4d.
Item paid for 1¼lb of Judas candle – 10d.
Item paid for a cross candle and a taper for the font – 6d.
Item paid for dressing 16 torches – 4s.
[f. 81] Item paid to the bearers of the same – 16d.
Item paid for garlands – 8d.
Item paid for their breakfast – 6d.
Item paid to a woman to help make the church clean – 3d.
Item paid for the carriage of rubbish from the church and churchyard –
5d.
Item paid for gravel – 4d.
Item paid for palm and yew – 5½d.
Item paid to a man to watch the sepulchre with the clerk – ?4d.
Item paid for fire for the watchers and to the font – 3d.
Item paid for bread all for them – 3d.
Item paid for 4 crosses for the banner staves – 4d.
Item paid for a dozen points for the banners – 1d.
Item paid for packthread and brooms – 1d.
Item paid for bread and ale for the singers on Palm Sunday – 1½d
Item paid to a pavier for 5½ teises at 7d the teise – 3s. 2½d.
Item paid for a load of stone and its carriage – 18d.
Item paid for 2 loads of gravel – 8d.
Item paid for the paschal – 2s.
Item paid for bread, ale and wine on our church holy day – 8d.
Item paid to priests and clerks – 12d.
Item paid to Master Cornysche – 16s. 8d.
Item paid for a new frame for the canopy – 16d.
Item paid for mending a silver censer – 8d.
Item paid for birch and flowers at Midsummer – 6d.
Item paid for making a bell clapper – 2s. 1d.
Item paid for a baldric for the same – 2d.
Item paid for taking down and setting up thereof – 2d.
Item paid for cleaning the churchyard and carrying the rubbish – 3d.
[f. 81v] Item paid for mending the clock – 12d.
Item laid out of the box for matters in the law – 7s. 4d.
Item paid for tawing a skin – 6d.
Item paid in the Mayor's court – 4d.
Item paid to Stephen Chere – 12d.
Item paid for dressing the bells at All Hallowtide – 3d.
Item paid for a new rope for the alms bell – 6d.
Item paid for a priest on All Hallows' day – 4d.
Item paid for quit-rent for this quarter – 8s.
Item paid to our launderer for washing church gear for 3 years – 10s. 10d.
Item paid for a rope for the great bell – 8d.
Item paid for writing this account – 12d.
Sum of the payments is clear – £30 6s. 4½d.
[Scored: And so the wardens of this account are owed, as it appears –
£4 9s. 2½d.
73. [Inferior handwriting: Of this account that Richard Somers and Ralph
Clark, churchwardens, had made and held up to the goodmen of the parish
of St Andrew Hubbard, that is to say John Cropp, Simon Taylar, Thomas
Pecoke, Roger Grave, John Schornold, Thomas Egerton and Humfray
Maweyt, which aforesaid persons afore named ?find the said Richard and
Ralph faulty in this account that they owe of ?very right to the foresaid
parish.
Sum – £3 16s.½d.]
[In margin: Auditors given the 18th day of November anno 21 Henry VII
[1505]]
[f. 82][The following entry is in poor handwriting:] Anno domino millesimo
quingentesimo sexto comparuerunt in presencia Simonis Tilere & Thome
Pecokke &c paroc[h]ianorum ecclesie predicte Radulphus Clerke & Ricardus
Semer olim iconimi [recte: oeconomi] eorum ecclesie predicte pro compoto
eorundum quo compoto audito dominus decrevit pro viribus eiusdem viz quod
predicti Randulphus & Ricardus debent ecclesie predicte £3 16s.½d. & in
eandem summam judex eosdem multavit & asignavit festum michaelis ad
solucionem faciendam et dien de consensu omnium parochianorum dominus
taxauit eandem summam ad 20s. soluendos in festo michaeli & pasche per
equales summas.
[A.D. 1506 Ralph Clerke and Richard Semer, former wardens of the
aforesaid church, appeared at court in the presence Simon Tiler and Thomas
Pecoke and the parishioners of the aforesaid church concerning their
accounting; which accounting having been heard, the judge decreed under
the powers that were his viz. that the aforesaid Ralph and Richard owe the
said church £3 16s.½d., and in the same judgement the judge fined them
and designated that they make payment by Michaelmas; but then, with the
agreement of all the parishioners, the judge assessed the same sum as
20s. to be paid at the feasts of St Michael and Easter in equal instalments.]
74. [f. 82v] This is the account of John Brown and Simon Tyller, from Our
Lady day in Lent last past 19 Henry VII [1503] until Michaelmas next
following [1504], received for the goods and rents that belong to the church
of St Andrew Hubbard in Eastcheap.
Receipts
Item received from John Atkinson for Mayer's wife's bequest – 20s.
Item received in the church box – 16s. 10d.
Item received for the paschal at Easter – 8s. 6½d.
Item received for money gathered in the street at our church holy day –
9s. 11d.
Item received for John Brown's pit and knell – 10s.
Item received of John Brown's wife for a year's rent ending at Midsummer
last past – 20s.
Item received for John Mayer's wife, a torch and a diaper towel.
Item received for half a year's quarterage gathered for the clerks in the
church – £3 11s. 8d.
Sum of our receipts – £7 16s. 11½d.
75. [f. 83] Payments
Item paid to Stephen Chery – 5s.
Item paid to William, conduct – 6s.
Item paid for brooms – ½d.
Item paid for palm – 2d.
Item paid for candle – 1d.
Item paid for singing bread – ½d.
Item paid for mending the organs – 8d.
Item paid for 2 pieces of lead – 17d.
Item paid to the raker – 2d.
Item paid for ale on Palm Sunday – 1d.
Item paid for watching the sepulchre, for coals, bread, ale and water for
the font – 11d.
Item paid to Thomas, clerk – 6s. 8d.
Item paid for a new rope for the sanctus bell – 2d.
Item paid for bread, ale and wine on our church holy day – 7½d.
Item paid to Thomas, clerk – 13s. 4d.
Item paid on Corpus Christi day for singers – 16d.
Item paid for garlands – 20d.
Item paid for ale for the singers – 1d.
Item paid for nails for the canopy – ½.
Item paid for bearing a torch – 1d.
Item paid for garnishing 14 torches – 3s. 6d.
Item paid for Judas candle – 7d.
Item paid for the font taper and the cross candle – 7d.
Item paid for the paschal – 2s.
[f. 83v] Item paid to Thomas, clerk – 6s. 8d.
Item paid for ?yews and flowers at Midsummer – 5d.
Item paid for a lamp – 1d.
Item paid Stephen Cherry – 5s.
Item paid William, conduct – 6s.
Item paid for oil – 8d.
Item paid for washing the church gear – 10d.
Item paid to the raker – 2d.
Item paid to Thomas, clerk – 13s. 4d.
Item paid for ringing John Brown's knell – 4d.
Item paid for cleaning the churchyard and carrying [rubbish] away – 2d.
Item paid to Ralph, clerk, for setting the amice on – 4d.
Item paid for Master Robarde's obit – 5s.
Item paid to Thomas, clerk – 6s. 8d.
Sum of our payments – £4 10s. 8d.
And so remains clear in the box at this account – £3 6s. 3½d.
76. [f. 84] [Abrupt start – folio missing?]
Item paid for bread, ale and wine upon our dedication day and its eve –
9d.
Item paid to Thomas, clerk – 10s.
Item paid for 6 lb of candle – 7½d.
Item paid for mending 3 surplices – 4d.
Item paid for holm and ivy at Christmas – 5½d.
Item paid to a priest on the Sunday before Christmas day – 4d.
Item paid Stephen Cherry – 5s.
Item paid to William, conduct – 6s.
Item paid to a priest on Christmas day and the days following – 16d.
Item paid to the king for the church house – 12d.
Item paid to Thomas, clerk – 20d.
Item paid to a priest on the Sunday after Christmas day – 4d.
Item paid for 1 lb of candle – 1½d.
Item paid for a priest on New Year's day, the Sunday following and upon
12th day – 12d.
Item paid to the raker – 2d.
Item paid for washing the church gear – 10d.
Item paid for the obit of Juliana Fairhead – 12s.
Item paid to Thomas, clerk – 8s. 4d.
Item paid for mending a bell clapper – 8d.
Item paid for setting on the albs – 4d.
[f. 84v] Item paid for a new baldric for the third bell – 8d.
Item paid to an organ player that would ben clerk – 8d.
Item paid for palm, flowers and singing bread – 4d.
Item paid for cleaning the churchyard and carrying away the rubbish –
1½d.
Item paid for making 3 surplices – 3s. 4d.
Item paid for frankincense – 1d.
Item paid for watching the sepulchre, for bread, ale and coals – 10d.
Item paid to Stephen Cherry – 5s.
Item paid for 2 gallons of lamp oil – 20d.
Item paid to William, conduct – 6s.
Item paid for washing the church gear – 10d.
Item paid for setting on 5 albs – 4d.
Item paid for a priest upon Palm Sunday – 8d.
Item paid for a priest upon Good Friday – 4d.
Item paid for a priest upon Easter eve and the day – 12d.
Item paid to the raker – 2d.
Item paid for 3 lb of tapers for the rood loft – 21d.
Item paid for 1 lb of fysses for the beam light – 8d.
Item paid for the paschal – 2s.
[Account ends abruptly.]
77. [f. 85] This is the account of Hugh Miche and Jarard Chauncy,
churchwardens of St Andrew Hubbard by Eastcheap, London, of the rents,
goods and ornaments belonging to the same church from 13th day of April
20 Henry VII [1504] to 18 November 21 Henry VII [1505].
[Margin: Receipts for the clerk's wages.]
Item first received which remained in the box from the preceding wardens
– 36s.
Item received at Easter towards the clerk's wages – 17s. 3d.
Item received the 20th day of April towards the same – 2s. 4d.
Item received the 27th day April – 3s. 11d.
Item received on Ascension day – 18d.
Item received on Whitsunday – 16d.
Item received on St Laurence's day – 9s. 4d.
Item received after Bartholomew's day – 2s. 5d.
Item received on Sunday the eve of the Nativity of Our Lady – 5s. 6d.
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[Margin: And for John Brown's house called the Church house.]
Item received of John Brown's wife for 3 quarters' house rent ending at
Midsummer for the church house which John Brown late dwelt in – 30s.
Item received of the same John Brown's wife by the judgement of Simon
Tiler and Ralph Clerk toward repairs to the same house – 13s. 4d.
[f. 85v] Item received of William Perkyntons for 1 quarter's rent ending at
Michaelmas from the same John Brown's house called the church house –
10s.
Sum of the receipts – £6 13s. 11d.
78. [Margin: Payments]
Item we the accountants allowed Marion Garion for 2s. 1d. which he paid
to a priest singing in the church of St Andrew Hubbard at divers times,
and he forgave the odd 10d – 15d.
Item paid to a smith on the 22nd day of April for mending the clock in the
church – 6d.
Item paid on the 9th day of May for bread, ale and wine for the singers in
the church – 5½d.
Item paid for lamp oil at divers times within the time of this account –
2s. 1d.
[Margin: Corpus Christi day] Item paid for garlands on the same day – 8d.
Item paid to bearers for bearing torches on the same day – 12d.
Item paid to Stephen Chery for being at Matins and Evensong the same
day – 2d.
Item paid for points and nails – 1d.
Item paid to John Burton for dressing 12 torches – 3s.
[f. 86] [Margin: Midsummer] Item paid for birch and flowers for dressing
the church door – 8d.
[Margin: Quit-rent] Item paid to St Mary Spital's rent gatherer for quitrent for the church house for 1 whole year ending at Midsummer – 8s.
Item paid for mending the little bell in the steeple – 3d.
[Margin: To the raker] Item paid to John the Raker for 2 quarters ending
at Michaelmas and for rubbish carried out of the churchyard – 6d.
[Margin: The clerk's wages] Item paid to John Wade, clerk, for 1 quarter
ending at Midsummer – 16s. 8d.
Item paid to John Dyer, clerk, for 1 quarter ending at Michaelmas –
16s. 8d.
Item paid to John Forster, clerk thereafter, of 1 quarter's wages from
Michaelmas to Christmas – 13s. 4d.
Item paid for scouring the great lamp in the church – 2d.
Item paid for mending 8 surplices and making 4 rochets – 20d.
[Margin: Church washing] Item paid to Rolf the clerk's wife by the judgement of Jarard Chauncy for washing the church stuff for 1 quarter ending
at Michaelmas – 20d.
Item paid for washing 4 corporas cloths – 4d.
Item paid to Symond, a carpenter, for making of a new wheel for the
second bell – 4s. 6d.
[f. 86v] [Margin: Payments] Item paid for 4 lb tallow candle – 4d.
Item paid for setting apparel on a vestment – 1d.
Item paid for Master Robert Salowe's obit – 5s.
Item paid for engrossing the account – 12d.
Sum of the receipts – £6 13s. 11d.
Sum of the payments – £4 ½d.
So from this account there remains clear to the box – 53s. 10½d.
79. [f. 87] This is the account of Simon Tyler and Thomas Peycok,
churchwardens of St Andrew Hubbard by Eastcheap, London, of rents,
goods and ornaments belonging to the same church from 18th November
21 Henry VII [1505] to the feast of St Michael the Archangel next ensuing
in 22 Henry VII [1506].
Receipts
First received [money] in the box remaining from the preceding wardens,
as it appears in the account before this – 56s.
Item received for a knell for Henry Squyrell – 10s.
Item received also for his stone – 3s. 4d.
Item received in money at Easter for the Paschal – 8s. 1½d.
Item received in money gathered on the church holy day in the street –
9s. 9d.
Item received for the clerk's wages for all our time as is shown by pricking
bills – £5 5s. 1d.
Item received of Thomas Egerton for M[aster] Manaryng's knell – 3s. 4d.
Item received of chamberers at Easter – 3s. 6d.
Item received of Richard Semer for a knell for John ?Fly – 10s.
Item paid for the waste of 3 torches – 2s.
Money received for farming the parsonage, sum – £10 16s. 1½d.
[f. 87v] First of Richard Semer – £3.
Item of Roger Grave – 25s.
Item of Hugh Marche – 2s. 4d.
Item of Humfrey Mawdytte – 8d.
Item received of Henry Squirell for the house that the plumber dwells in –
14d.
Item of William Dryfeld – 12d.
Item of Walter Develyn – 10½d.
Sum – £4 11s. ½d.
Item received of Walter Develyn for his wife's knell – 3s. 4d.
Item received of Thomas Smith for the church house for a quarter ending
at Midsummer 21 Henry VII [1506] – 13s. 3d.
Item received of Roger Grave for the bequest of Mistress Cokke – 2s.
Item received by us from James Mongomery towards making the cross
upon the steeple – 3s. 4d.
Item received gathered by us from all the parishioners towards the said
cross – 6s. 8d.
Sum – 28s. 7d.
Sum of all our receipts – £16 15s. 9d.
80. [f. 88] Payments
Item paid to Richard Foster, clerk, for his whole year's wage ending
Michaelmas 22 Henry VII [1506] – £3 6s. 8d.
Item paid for a quarter of coals – 4d.
Item paid for brooms – ½d.
Item paid for a load of sand – 6d.
Item paid for scouring the candlesticks against Easter – 16d.
Item paid to the morrow mass priest at Easter – 6s. 8d.
Item paid for 37 lb wax at 5d the pound – 15s. 5d.
Item paid to the waxchandler at Easter for making 65 lb of wax – 5s.
Item paid for the paschal – 2s.
Item paid for mending the branch of latten before St James – 2d.
Item paid for watching the sepulchre – 6d.
Item paid to a priest to help at Easter – 20d.
Item paid for garlands on Corpus Christi day – 12d.
Item paid on the same day to the torch bearers and for ale to them – 15d.
Item paid to a man for ringing Henry Squerell's knell – 4d.
Item paid for mending the little bell – 2s. 8d.
Item paid for cleaning the church house – 4d.
Item paid for holm and ivy against Christmas – 4d.
Item paid to the raker for a whole year – 8d.
Item paid to a priest for helping in the Christmas holy days – 16d.
Item paid for making a pew – 2s.
Item paid for Fairhead's obit – 12s. 2d.
Item paid for a breakfast for Henry Squerell's executors – 4d.
[f. 88v] Item paid for washing [different hand: the first quarter – 4d.]
Item paid for washing the church's gear for 3 quarters – 2s. 6d.
Item paid on the 9th May for bread, ale and wine – 10d.
Item paid for oil and candles from All Hallows' day to Michaelmas –
5s. 3d.
Item paid for ale – 1d.
Item paid to a man for ringing Develyn's wife's knell – 4d.
Item paid for Master Robert Saw's obit – 5s.
Item paid for drink to the priests – 2d.
Item paid to a morrow mass priest for half a quarter – 13s. 5d.
Item paid to the same priest also, for a reward at another time – 16d.
Item paid at Midsummer for boughs – 4d.
Item paid for 2 lamps – 2d.
Item paid for garnishing 14 torches against Corpus Christi day – 3s. 6d.
Item paid to Stephen Cherye for 3 quarters – 15s.
Item paid for mending the clock – 3d.
Item paid to a man for ringing John Fly's knell – 4d.
Item paid for ringing Master Manaryng's knell – 4d.
Item paid to a tiler for 4 days' work – 2s. 8d.
Item paid to his labourer for 4 days – 20d.
Item paid for roof tile – 1d.
Item paid for lath and nails – 1½d.
Item paid for a load of sand – 6d.
Item paid for a basket – 1d.
Item paid for 200 tiles – 13d.
Item paid to the plumber – 12d.
[Account ends suddenly]
81. [f. 89] This is the account of Simon Tiler and Thomas Pecok,
churchwardens of St Andrew Hubbard by Eastcheap, London, of the rents,
goods and ornaments belonging to the same church that is to say from the
feast of St Michael the Archangel 22 Henry VII [1506] to the feast of St
Michael the Archangel 23 Henry VII [1507], that is to say for one whole
year.
Receipts and charges
First the same accountants charge [the previous wardens] with the sum of
money which remained in the box the box according to the last account –
£6 7d.
Item received of Harry Atkinson of old money for [money previously
owing for] the parson's duty – 2s. 4d.
Item received of William Childerle money which remained in his hands
from when he was collector – 8s. 3d.
Item received of Thomas Smith for a whole year's rent ending at
Midsummer last past for the church tenement which he now dwells in –
53s. 4d.
Item received of divers in the parish towards a quarter's wages for Sir John
Voy morrow mass priest – 19s. 3d.
Sum – £10 3s. 9d.
[f. 89v] [Different script] Receipts and charges
Item received of parishioners towards the aforesaid priest's wages for the
second quarter – 11s. 8d.
Item received of parishioners as it appears by the pricking bill – £6 5d.
Item received of chamberers at Easter – 3s. 6d.
Item received of Thomas Stidall, cook [?], for breaking up the ground
within the church for a pit for his mother-in-law to be buried in – 6s. 8d.
Item received in paschal money – 8s. 5d.
Item received gathered in the street by divers in the parish – 7s. 7d.
Sum – £7 18s. 3d.
Sum total of the receipts and charges amounts to – £18 2s.
82. [f. 90] Payments and discharges
Item paid to John Smith, organ player, for a quarter ending at Our Lady
day in Lent – 5s.
Item paid to him for a reward – 16d.
Item paid for mending the desk in the choir – 5d.
Item paid to the raker for a whole year – 8d.
Item paid for a holy water stick of latten – 8d.
Item paid at Christmas for holm and ivy – 4d.
Item paid for a shovel – 3d.
Item paid for brooms – 1d.
Item paid for bearing a chest into the vestry – 1d.
Item paid for mending the clock – 6s. 8d.
Item paid for a rope for the same clock – 12d.
Item paid to a smith for mending the lock on the choir door – 2d.
Item paid for a water pot – ½d.
Item paid against Palm Sunday for singing bread, palm and flowers – 6d.
Item paid for ale to the singers – 1d.
Item paid for the watching the sepulchre – 7d.
Item paid for a quarter of coals – 5d.
Item paid for ale for the watchers of the sepulchre light – 1d.
Sum – 18s. 4½d.
[f. 90v] Payments and discharge
Item paid for mending 2 baldrics for 2 bells – 6d.
Item paid for garlands for Corpus Christi day – 12d.
Item paid to 12 torch bearers for bearing 12 torches on the same day –
12d.
Item paid for garnishing 12 torches – 3s.
Item paid for garnishing the church door at Midsummer and for birch –
4d.
Item paid for a lamp – 1d.
Item paid for the paschal against Easter – 2s.
Item paid for mending a glass window in the church – 9d.
[Margin: Quit-rent] Item paid to the rent gatherer of St Mary Spital for a
whole year's quit-rent – 8s.
Item paid for a load of sand – 6d.
Item paid to John Foster's wife for washing the church stuff – 4s.
Item paid to the waxchandler – 2s. 2d.
Item paid to the tallowchandler for oil and candles – 6s. 8d.
[Margin: Priest's salary] Item paid to Sir John Voye for half a year ending
at Midsummer – £3 6s. 8d.
[Margin: Clerk's wages] Item paid to John Foster for a quarter ending at
Christmas – 20s.
Item paid to Robert [gap], clerk, for half a year ending at Michaelmas –
40s.
Item paid to Stephen Chery for his wages – 20s.
Sum – £8 16s. 8d.
[f. 91] Payments and discharge
Item paid to Robert the clerk man for a quarter's service ending at Our
Lady day in Lent – 6s. 8d.
Item paid for Juliana Fairhead's obit – 11s. 10d.
Item paid for Master Robert Salow's obit – 5s.
Item paid to Thomas Smith at receiving money for rent – 4d.
Item paid for engrossing the account – 12d.
Sum – 24s. 10d.
[Account ends abruptly]
83. [f. 91v] [Account in inferior script] This is the account of Maryn Garyn
and John Sharnoll, churchwardens of the parish of St Andrew Hubbard
in Eastcheap, London, of the rents, goods and ornaments belonging to the
same church from the feast of St Michael the Archangel 23 Henry VII
[1507] to the feast of St Michael the Archangel 24 Henry VII [1508], for a
whole year.
Receipts
First received in the church box from our predecessors – £7 6d.
Item received of Thomas Smith for the church house for whole year –
53s. 4d.
Item received of Richard Semer for debt owing to the church – 10s.
Item received of John Hollman's bequest to building the steeple and his
knell – 10s.
Item received of Thomas Peysser for burying his child – 12d.
Item recieved of our paschal money – 9s.
Item received gathered in the street on our church holy day – 11s. 2¼d.
Item received of Egerton's wife for a knell – 3s. 4d.
Item received for the clerk's wages as it appears by the pricking bills –
£6 7s. 3d.
Item received of Jefurs for a pit and knell – 10s.
Item received of Gerard Haumfrey for old debt – 9s.
Item received for old timber from the steeple – 18d.
Item received of chamberers – 3s.
Item received of the executors of John Hall and his wife towards the steeple
repairs – 26s. 8d.
Sum – £20 15s. 3¼d.
84. [f. 92] Item paid for birch and garnishing the church door – 4d.
Item paid for 2 books of the Servysse of Jhu – 2s. 8d.
Item paid to the clerk for ringing Egerton's knell – 4d.
Item paid for candle and oil for a year – 3s. 4d.
Item paid for ringing Jefur's wife's knell – 4d.
Sum – 7s.
Paid for taking down of the spire of the steeple – 6s. 8d.
Item paid for 100 6d. nails – 5d.
Item paid for 100 5d. nails – 4d.
Item paid for 100 3d. nails – 3d.
Item paid for nails for the plumber for lead – 3d.
Item paid for cleaning the steeple and having the doves' dung out – 2d.
Item paid for a cant-piece for the steeple – 6d.
Item paid for a piece of timber for piecing the cross of the steeple – 4d.
Item paid for 250 quarterboards at 2s. 8d. the 100 – 6s. 8d.
Item paid for a day and a half of work for myself – 12d.
Item paid for 2 days' work for my apprentice – 12d.
Item paid for 2 dogs of iron for the steeple weighing 7 lb at 1½d. the pound
– 11½d.
Item paid for mending 3 hinges of the torch chest – 3d.
Item paid for mending the great key for the church door – 3d.
Sum – 19s. 2½d.
[f. 92v] Item paid for 500 great nails – ?42d.
Item paid for small candles – 1d.
Item paid for 150 quarterboards at 2s. 8d. the hundred – 4s.
Item paid for a man's labour for 2 days – 16d.
Item paid for a man's labour for 1 ½ days – 12d.
Item paid for casting 217 lb of lead for the church – 2s. 8d.
Item paid for 3 lb of solder – 15d.
Item paid for Sir Robert Salus's obit – 5s.
Sum – 16s. 8d.
Item paid for searching Master Roper's testament – 20d.
Item paid for a load of tile – 5d.
Item paid for making the ladder – 10d.
Item paid for a taper for the rood loft and for fyssys – 9d.
Item paid for quit-rent – 8s.
[Scored: Sum of all payments – £12 13s. 1½d.]
Sum – 16s. 3d.
Sum rest down to the box – £7 8s. [scored: 6½d].
[Scored: There remains of the same to the churchwardens – 6s. 5d.]
Memorandum that 45¾lb of wax remains in the hands of Thomas
Cappastre waxchandler in Tower Street on the 22nd day October anno 24
Henry VII [1508].
Item owing to the church for the building of the steeple of Thomas
Egerton's bequest – 6s. 8d.
[f. 93] [Page torn in half – top remains] Item bequeathed to the parish
church of St Andrew Hubbard by Joan Rogers to pray for my soul and the
souls aforesaid as it appears in my testament, a new cope to be made of
white or blue silk most convenient for the same church to the value of 20
marks to serve in the same church to the honour of God as long as it will
endure. Registered at Lambeth in the book called Vox on the 30th quire of
the same book.
85. [f. 93v] [Page torn] This is the account of Thomas Pekoc and Maryan
Gerens, churchwardens of Saint Andrew Hubbard by Eastcheap, London,
of the rents and goods and ornaments belonging to the same church, that
is to say from the feast of St Michael the Archangel 24 Henry VII [1508]
to the feast of St Michael the Archangel 1 Henry VIII [1509].
[f. 94] Item received of Christopher Tyler – 2d.
Item received of Richard Mawor – 6d.
Item received of Hugh Andryanson – 12d.
[In arabics in margin: ?£14 6s. 6d.]
86. Item paid to a priest for Sundays and holy days for a whole year –
18s. 4d.
Item paid to the parish clerk for a whole year – £4.
Item paid to Stephen Chery for a whole year – 20s.
Item paid for Sir Robert Salus's obit – 5s.
Item paid for Juliana Fairhead's obit – 11s. 4d.
Item paid for garnishing 12 torches – 3s.
Item paid for bearing them – 12d.
Item paid for bearing of 6 torches for the king – 12d.
Item paid for washing the church gear for a whole year – 4s.
Item paid for a chest for the church – 3s.
Item paid to St Mary Spital for quit-rent – 8s.
Item paid for watching the sepulchre – 4d.
Item paid for making a dog of iron – 17d.
Item paid for mending locks and plates and hooks in the church and the
church house – 2s. 3d.
Item paid to the raker for a whole year – 8d.
Item paid for palm, flowers and [word indecipherable] – 5d.
Item paid for scouring the church gear at Easter – 6d.
Item paid for mending a seat in Thomas Smith's house with other things –
8d.
Item paid for mending the stair in the clock house and hanging a ladder
in the carpenter's yard – 4d.
Item paid for making ?hammers in yon Lady hawlter [Lady altar?] – 6d.
[f. 94v] Item paid for ale on Palm Sunday – 1d.
Item paid for ringing Master Semer's knell – 4d.
Item paid for removing a stone into the churchyard – 2d.
Item paid for holm and ivy – 4d.
Item paid for a lamp for the church door – 1d.
Item paid for boughs and gays at Midsummer – 4d.
Item paid for 2 garnets for a pew door – 8d.
Item paid for nails and for ratsbane – 2d.
Item paid for mending ropes and a baldric for the church – 7d.
Item paid for a new rope for the great bell – 12d.
Item paid for 400 laths – 20d.
Item paid for mending 6 surplice collars – 2s.
Item paid for garlands on Corpus Christi day – 3d.
Item paid for brooms – 1d.
Item paid for a shovel – 3d.
Item paid for mending the glass windows – 12d.
Item paid for roof nails – 19d.
Item paid for sprig nails – 16d.
Item paid for all manner of great nail – 5s.
Item paid for 2650 tiles – 12s. 11d.
Item paid for 12 loads of lime and 2 sacks – 10s. 3d.
Item paid for 4 loads of sand – 2s.
Item paid for 7 loads of loam – 2s. 4d.
Item paid for tile pins – 8d.
Item paid for carrying away 11 loads of rubbish – 22d.
Item paid for 9 feet of free stone – 3s.
Item paid for a tiler and mason and a bricklayer for 38 days at 8d. a day –
25s. 4d.
Item paid to labourers for 28 days at 5d the day – 11s. 8d.
Item paid when we set 2 torches of the king's gift – 5d.
[f. 95] Item paid for 2 ½ loads of bricks – 6s. 2d.
Item paid to the plumber for casting 15 cwt and a quarter and 17 lb, at 14d
the cwt – 17s. 11d.
Item paid for 12 lb of solder – 5s.
Item paid to the carpenter for himself and his man 14 ½ days at 8d the
day – 9s. 4d.
Item paid to his apprentice for 12 ½ days at 6d the day – 6s. 3d.
Item paid to the carpenter for stuff – 219s. 3½d.
Item paid for a bred bone – 2s.
Item paid to the tallowchandler for oil and candle for a whole year –
4s. 10½d.
Item paid for making a key for a chest in the church – 6d.
Item paid to the waxchandler for making the paschal and tapers for a
whole year – 8d.
Item paid for and hanging a lock for the torch chest – 3d.
Item paid for engrossing this account – 12d.
[In arabic in margin: £15 12s. 9d]
Sum total resting in the church box of this account clear – £9 4s. 2½d.
87. [f. 95v] This account is of Thomas Pekoc and Maryan Geren,
churchwardens of St Andrew Hubbard in Eastcheap, London, of the rents,
goods and ornaments belonging to the same church that is to say from the
feast of St Michael Archangel 1 Henry VIII [1509] to the feast of St
Michael 2 Henry VIII [1510].
Receipts
Item received as it appears in the pricking bill – £6 3s. 11d.
Item recieved of the church house – 53s. 8d.
Item received in paschal money – 9s. 9d.
Item received of chamberers – 3s. 1d.
Item received of William Chelderly for a pit in the church – 6s. 8d.
Item received of John Blunie for his knell – 3s. 4d.
Item received at the Garland for 4 torches – 2s. 8d.
[f. 96] Item received of John Guyser's wife for a pit and knell – 10s.
Item recieved of my lord Phewater's servant for 2 torches – 16d.
Sum the receipts – £10 14s. 1d.
88. Payments
Item paid to Robert Kolens, clerk, for a whole year – £4.
Item paid to the conduct for a whole whole year – 20s.
Item paid to the washer for a whole year – 4s.
Item paid for William Fairhead's obit – 12s. 2d.
Item paid to the priest for 3 quarters a year – 16s.
Item paid for Sir Robert Salow's obit – 5s.
Sum – £6 17s. 2d.
[f. 96v] Payments
Item paid for ale on Palm Sunday – 1d.
Item paid for making a glass window – 12d.
Item paid for holm and ivy – 3d.
[Margin: Easter] Item paid for scouring the church gear – 7d.
Item paid for bread and drink to the sepulchre – 2d.
Item paid watching the sepulchre – 8d.
Item paid for mending the font and a pew in the choir – 7d.
Item paid for mending the best cope – 8d.
Item paid for a baldric for a bell – 2d.
[Margin: Midsummer] Item paid for garnishing 12 torches – 3s.
Item paid for bearing the same torches – 12d.
Item paid for 2 lamps – 2s.
Item paid for garlands on Corpus Christi day – 9d.
Item paid for boughs and other gear for the church door – 5d.
Item paid for ringing John Gysar's knell – 4d.
Item paid for ringing of Chume's knell – 4d.
Item paid for palm, flowers ?cakes – 7d.
Sum – 10s. 9d.
[f. 97] Item paid for mending the bell wheels – 8d.
Item paid for hanging the bells – 6s.
Item paid to the smith for making hooks and other gear – 4s. 8d.
Item paid to the tallowchandler for oil and candles for the whole year –
6s. 9d.
Sum – 18s. 1d.
Item paid for mending 2 surplice collars – 8d.
Item paid to the waxchandler for tapers and other gear for a whole year – 12d.
Item paid to the raker for a whole year – 8d.
Item paid for making brass for the bells – 4s. 4d.
Item paid for engrossing this account – 12d.
Sum – 7s. 8d.
Sum total of the payments – £8 13s. 8d.
A clear 36 lb of wax of the church's stock rests with the waxchandler.
[The remainder is in a different ink and hand:
Auditors
Thomas Clerke
William Rogers
William Perkyn
John ?Byode.
Sessours [Assessors]
Thomas Prood
William Rogers
So rests clear in the box of this account – 40s. 5d.]
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89. [f. 98] Account of John Birde and William Childerle, churchwardens
and keepers of all the goods, ornaments, other necessaries and profits
belonging to the parish church of St Andrew Hubbard by Eastcheap,
London, that is to say from the feast of St Michael the Archangel 2 Henry
VIII [1510] to the feast of St Michael the Archangel in the 4th year [recte
3rd, 1511] of his said reign.
First, the same accountants charge themselves with divers receipts and
charges of certain sums of money which they received within the time of
the account for 1 whole year.
That is to say the church house
First received of Thomas Clerk for the rent of a tenement in which he now
dwells called the church house, that is to say for 1 whole year within the
time of the account – 53s. 4d.
The money gathered by the pricking bill
Item received as it appears by a pricking bill of the parishioners for 1 whole
year – £6 7s. 6½d.
Casual receipts
For T[homas] Egerton
Item received of the wife now being a widow of the late Thomas Egerton
her husband, by the bequest of the said Egerton her husband towards the
building of the steeple – 6s. 8d.
For Hugh Mersch
Item received for breaking the grave within the church which Hugh Merch
lies buried in – 6s. 8d.
Sum total – £9 14s. 2½d.
[f. 98v] Casual receipts
Money gathered in the parish
Item received in money gathered by the wives among the parishioners on
our church holy day – 11s.
The paschal money, at Easter
Item received at Easter for the paschal money – 8s. 6d.
Item received of Gibson – 4d.
Item received of George – 4d.
Item received of Patrik's wife – 2d.
Item received of Wanton – 2d.
Sum – 9s. 6d.
Champins alley
Item received of Copyn – 4d.
Item received of Laurens – 4d.
Item received of a basketmaker – 2d.
Sum – 10d.
[Different hand: Item received of Gerard Jauncy, 3 torches in part of
payment of 20s.]
[Another hand: Item received for 3 pound of wax wasted of 3 sepulture
tapers, at 8d the pound – 2s.
Sum – 2s.]
Sum total in the side – 23s. 4d.
90. [f 99] Whereof the same accountants ask allowance, discharging them
for divers payments paid by them [and] for divers parcels to be allowed
according as their parcels following make mention, particularly that is to
say
Payments and discharges
Item paid for the obit of Juliana Fairhead – 5s. 11d.
Item paid for a bell rope – 6d.
Item paid for 3 baldrics for 3 bells – 11d.
Item paid for the pecyngs of 3 bell ropes – 4d.
Item paid for mending a bell wheel and a bell rope – 4d.
Item paid for mending a lantern – 3d.
Item paid for holm and ivy against Christmas – 4d.
Item paid for a quart of muscadel on Christmas day – 4d.
[Margin: Clerk's wages ended at Christmas] Item paid to Robert Colyns,
clerk, for the quarter's wage – 20s.
Sum – 28s. 11d.
On Corpus Christi day
Item paid for garnishing 10 torches – 2s. 6d.
Item paid for 10 men, bearers of the same – 10d.
Item paid for garlands and roses – 8d.
Sum – 4s.
Palm Sunday
Item paid for cake and flowers against the same day – 8d.
Item paid to a priest to help the same day – 4d.
Sum – 12d.
Clerk's wages ended at Our Lady's day
Item paid to Robert the clerk for his quarter's wages at the Annunciation
of Our Lady – 20s.
Sum – 20s.
Sum in the side – 53s. 11d.
[f. 99v] Item paid to William, one of the conducts, for 1 quarter – 4s.
Item paid for mending vestments and surplices – 12d.
Item paid for carriage of a load of rubbish out of the church – 2d.
Item paid for 2 lb tapers to burn before the rood – 16d.
Item paid for scouring the branches and candlesticks belonging within the
church – 8d.
Sum – 7s. 2d.
Easter
Item paid for coals and watching the sepulchre – 8d.
Item paid to a priest for helping at Easter and the holy days following –
2s. 6d.
Item paid for a pound candle in wax for the tenebrae light upon the Judas
– 8d.
Item paid for a pound taper for hallowing at [the] font, and the cross
candles – 8d.
Item paid for making of 3 sepulture tapers of 18 lb, at ½d. the pound –
9d.
Item paid the 9th day of May for bread, ale and wine – 4d.
Sum – 5s. 7d.
Midsummer
Item paid for birch and flowers against Midsummer – 10d.
Quit-rent
Item paid for the quit-rent of the clerk's house, called the church house,
for 1 whole year – 8s.
Item paid for laying 2 stones at the church door – 20d.
Item paid for making the paschal – 2s.
Item paid for making the beam light – 5s.
Obit for Sir Robert Salows
Item paid for the obit of Sir Robert Salows – 5s.
Item paid to the chandler for oil and candle – 5s.
Sum – 27s. 6d.
Clerk's wages at Midsummer
Item paid to Robert Colyns, the clerk, for the quarter's wages ending at
Midsummer – 20s.
Sum – 20s.
Sum in the side – £3 3d.
[f. 100] Item paid to Ciprian, the conduct, for 2 quarters' wages – 13s. 4d.
Item paid to Symond, the conduct, for a year and a half's wages – 40s.
Sum – 53s. 4d.
Clerk's wages at Michaelmas
Item paid to Robert Colyns, clerk, for the quarter's wages – 20s.
Item paid for mending a glass window – 8d.
Item paid to the raker for 1 whole year – 8d.
Item paid for washing vestments and other church stuff for 1 whole year –
4s.
Sum – 25s. 4d.
Sum total in the side – £3 18s. 8d.
Sum of the total receipts in the year amounts to – £10 17s. 6½d.
Sum of the total payments in the same year amounts to – £9 12s. 10d.
Whereof remains to the box for the year – 24s. 8d.
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