Churchwardens' Accounts: nos 151-180

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'Churchwardens' Accounts: nos 151-180', in The Church Records of St Andrew Hubbard, Eastcheap, c1450-c1570, (London, 1999) pp. 150-175. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/london-record-soc/vol34/pp150-175 [accessed 26 April 2024]

Churchwardens' Accounts: nos 151-180

151. [f. 40] This is the account of Robert Draper and John Chylderley, churchwardens and keepers of all the goods and ornaments with other necessaries and profit belonging to the parish church of Saint Andrew Hubbard by Eastcheap, London, that is to say from the 34th year of the reign of our sovereign lord King Henry the VIII [1543] until the 36th [1545].

In primis received
Memorandum that I Robert Draper and John Chylderley have received the 29th day of January of John Haryson and John Parkyns at the giving up their account, sum – £10 4s. 1d.
Item received of Thomas Wylkyns for burying Mistress Egerton – 10s.
Item received for the sepulchre light – 12d.
Item received of Thomas Pery for half a year rent ending at Our Lady Day last past – 40s.
Item received for burying Master Smith – 10s.
[Different hand: Item received of Robert Wylkyns – 2s.]

[f. 40v] Item received of Thomas Pery for half a year rent ending at Michaelmas last past – 41s.
Item received for burying Mistress Nyxson – 10s.
Item received for burying Master Nyxson – 10s.
Item received of Master Pery for a year's rent ending at Michaelmas last past – £4.
Item received of the pricking bill in the first year – £8 3s.
Item received the last year – £7 3s. 1d.
Item received of John Haryson and John Parkyns – £10 4s. 2d.
Sum total – £35 13s. 7d.

152. Item paid at receiving the account for meat and drink – 6s. 4d.
Item paid to the organ-maker – 12d.
Item paid to the channel raker – 2d.
Item paid for the obit Juliana Fairhead for a dozen of bread – 12d.
Item paid for cheese – 12d.
Item paid to the parson – 12d.
Item paid for bread and wine – 12d.
Item paid to the clerk – 8d.
Item paid for 2 clerks beside – 8d.
Item paid for 4 boys – 8d.
Item paid to the waxchandler – 4d.
Item paid to the churchwardens – 3s. 4d.
Item paid to poor people – 2s. 8d.
Sum total – 19s. 10d.

[f. 41] Item paid the 22nd day of January for 29 ells of lockram for surplices for the church at 7½d. the ell – 18s. 4d.
Item paid for making 6 surplices and a rochet for a child, made of the same cloth – 2s. 10d.
Item paid for shaping and cutting-out the same surplices – 2d.
Item paid for marking them – 2d.
Item paid for making 6 surplices – 8d.
Item paid to the carpenter for mending the stairs going up the belfry, and the chests – 2s. 4d.
Item paid for paving the church wall, and 6 loads of gravel and 2 loads of stone – 11s. 4d.
Item paid for ringing Mistress Egerton's knell – 6d.
Item paid the 3rd day of March for 6 baldrics for the bells – 5s.
Item paid for paving Mistress Egerton's grave – 10d.
Item paid for wine upon Palm Sunday – 6d.
Item paid for palm and cakes on Palm Sunday – 7d.
Item paid for brooms – 2d.
Item paid for mending 16 albs – 20d.
Item paid for 3 yards of ?lake buckram – 18d.
Item paid for 1½ yards of new ribbon – 4d.
Item paid for 2 of old – 3d.
Item paid for mending all the [inserted: ?vestments] copes good and ?bad – 5s. 4d.
Sum total – 52s. 6d.

[f. 41v] Item paid for scouring the church gear – 14d.
Item paid for a sack of coals – 8d.
Item paid for bread and drink for watching the sepulchre – 7d.
Item paid for watching the sepulchre – 8d.
Item paid for a brush – 1d.
Item paid for water for the font – 1d.
Item paid the 31st day of March for tenebrae candles, 2¼lb – 16d.
Item paid for the paschal – 2s. 6d.
Item paid for garlands on Holy Thursday – 8d.
Item paid to the channel raker – 2d.
Item paid the clerk's wages – 20s.
Item paid for flowers and garlands on Corpus Christi day – 16d.
Item paid for bearing 10 torches – 10d.
Item paid for a quart of malmsey – 3d.
Item paid for ryngyll of Master Smyth's grave – 6d.
Item paid for paving the grave – 9d.
Item paid for a brush and a broom – 3d.
Item paid the clerk's wages – 20s.
Item paid for paving Master Smyth's grave – 10d.
Item paid to Richard Fanser for the clock – 3s. 4d.
Item paid to the channel raker – 2d.
Sum total – 52s. 2d.

[f. 42] Item paid for a new torch and for dressing 2 torches and for wax for the stafe torches against Corpus Christi day – 6s. 10d.
Item paid for quit-rent – 8s.
Item paid for mending the churchyard door – 12d.
Item paid for the church door key – 8d.
Item paid for mending the organs – 16d.
Item paid for the organ-maker's fee – 12d.
Item paid for a leges [?legendary] and a mass book – 15s.
Item paid to the clerk's wages – 20s.
Item paid for mending the bell ropes – 18d.
Item paid for brooms – 2d.
Item paid for 2 holy water sprinkles – 2½d.
Item paid for mending the hinges and the lock and key of the church door – 20d.
Item paid for the clerk's wages – 20s.
Item paid for holly – 6d.
Item paid to Fane's wife for washing – 6s.
Item paid to the channel raker – 2d.
Sum total – £4 4s. ½d.

153. [f. 42v] Item paid for a cheese – 16d.
Item paid for bread – 12d.
Item paid for beer, ale and coals – 9d.
Item paid for a pottle of malmsey – 6d.
Item paid to the priest – 6d.
Item paid to the clerk – 8d.
Item paid to 5 clerks – 20d.
Item paid to the waxchandler – 6d.
Item paid to poor people – 2s. 4d.
Item paid to the churchwardens – 3s. 4d.
Item paid for mending of the grave and 12 new tiles and sand and loam and workmanship – 14d.
Item paid for 2 hinges and nails and for mending of the pew – 4½d.
Item paid for the clerk's wages – 20s.
Item paid for cleaning the churchyard – 6d.
Item paid for scouring the latten – 14d.
Item paid to the waxchandler for the beam light and the tenebrae candles and the tops of the torches – 25s. 6d.
Item paid to the priest at Easter – 3s. 4d.
Item paid to the channel raker – 2d.
Sum total – £3 4s. 9½d.

[f. 43] Item paid for palm and box and yew and singing bread and flowers on Palm Sunday – 8d.
Item paid for a sack of coals – 8d.
Item paid for broom – 2d.
Item paid for a pole to sweep the church – 2d.
Item paid for bread and drink Palm Sunday – 2d.
Item paid on Good Friday for bread and drink and Easter Eve for the sepulchre – 6d.
Item paid for watching the sepulchre 2 nights – 8d.
Item paid for water for the font – 1d.
Item paid for a quart of malmsey – 2d.
Item paid for garlands on Holy Thursday – 9d.
Item paid for water for the font at Ascension – 1d.
Item paid for garlands and flowers at Corpus Christi day – 17d.
Item paid for mending a surplice – 4d.
Item paid for drink on Corpus Christi day – 5d.
Item paid for bearing 10 torches – 10d.
Item paid to the clerk's wages – 20s.
Item paid for birch at Midsummer – 4d.
Item paid for 4 boxes – 16d.
Item paid to the channel raker – 2d.
Item paid for 2 boxes – 6d.
Item paid for 2 lb of sollyr for the lede – 10d.
Sum total – 30s. 4d.

[f. 43v] Item paid for mending 4 bell clappers – 10s. 8d.
Item paid for ringing Mistress Nyxson's knell – 6d.
Item paid for ringing Master Nyxson's knell – 6d.
Item paid for the clerk's wages – 20s.
Item paid for paving Master Nyxson and his wife's grave – 20d.
Item paid the 18th day of November for quit-rent – 8s.
Item paid to the channel raker – 2d.
Item paid for a censer – 2s. 8d.
Item paid for mending the holy water stock – 2s.
Item paid to Richard Fanser for his fee – 3s. 4d.
Item paid for the clerk's wages – 20s.
Item paid to Goody Fane for the whole year – 6s.
Item paid to the tallowchandler for 2 years – 5s. 9d.
Item paid for broom for 2 quarters – 4d.
Item paid for 2 holy water sprinklers – 3d.
Item paid for mending 3 surplices – 6d.
Item paid for coals and holly – 5d.
Item paid to Richard Gynes 3 sugessers and a poly – 4d.
Item paid to the waxchandler for Corpus Christi day – 2s. 6d.
Item paid the king's money – 3s. 1d.
Item paid to the channel raker – 2d.
Item paid for making this book – 20d.
Sum total – £4 10s. 6d

154. [f. 44] This account was given up on the 19th day of January Regis Henrici VIII 35 [1544] at the which day and time the said accounters brought in and delivered to the hands of Thomas Clarke and Lawrence Brege, now churchwardens of the parish of Saint Andrew in Eastcheap of the goods and ornaments of the said church, the sum of – £15 15s. 4d.
Auditors audited the said account
Robert Wylkyns
John Chow
John Lawlese
Thomas Wylkyns
William Hunte
Robert Wood

155. [f. 44v] This is the account of Thomas Clerke and Lawrence Bredge, churchwardens and keepers of all the goods and ornaments with other necessaries and profits belonging to the parish church of Saint Andrew Hubbard by Eastcheap, that is to say from the 36th year of the reign of our sovereign lord King Henry the VIII [1544–45] till the 38th year [1546–47].

In primis
Memorandum that I Thomas Clerk and Lawrence Bredge have received the 19th day of January of Master Draper and John Childerley at the day of giving up their account
Sum thereof – £15 15s. 4d.

Received of William Hodson in the 37th year of King Henry the VIII [1545 6] a year's rent ending at Michaelmas in the year above said – £4.
Item received of William Hodson for half a year's rent ending at Our Lady day in Lent the same year – 40s.
Received for our pricking bill for the first year – £7 16s.
Item received of Pekton for the old pricking bill – 3s.
Item received of the sepulchre light – 3s.
Item received of Richard Bagat for Jaret Chaunser's knell – 3s. 4d.
Sum – £25 8d.

[f. 45] [Two entries at the head of the page are scored but the material, concerning the burials of Wilkyn's and Stevinson's children, is included in the following.]

The second year's receipts
Item received of our pricking bill – £7 9s. 2d.
Item received of Mistress Chylderley for burying her daughter's child – 12d.
Item received for Jasper Savoy and his wife for their knell, for the great bell – 6s. 8d.
Item received for ringing of Arthur Hosskyn's knell – 3s. 4d.
Item received for Mistress Herreson's pit and knell – 10s.
Item received for the knell of John Modilton – 3s. 4d.
Item received of Thomas Wilkyn for burying his son – 12d.
Item received of Thomas Stevinson for burying his child – 8d.
Item received of Fann's wife for her shed at the church door for a half year's rent – 2s.
Sum – £8 17s. 2d.

156. Item paid for meat and drink at the day of receiving the account – 8s. 2d.
Item paid to Richard Grigbe for a whole year's wages – £4.
Item paid to a smith for mending 2 locks – 10d.
Item paid for Juliana Fairhead's obit – 12s. 8d.
Item paid for mending the church books – 30s.
Item paid for 2 whepis – 2d.
Sum – £6 11s. 10d.

[f. 45v] Item paid for hinges and nails and mending the pews in the church – 3s. 4d.
Item paid for wine and ale on Palm Sunday – 8d.
Item paid for palm and flowers on Palm Sunday – 7d.
Item paid for brooms – 2d.
Item paid for coals – 8d.
Item paid for scouring the church latten – 14d.
Item paid for water – 1d.
Item paid for watching the sepulchre – 8d.
Item paid for bread and ale for watching the sepulchre – 6d.
Item paid to the plumber for mending this church – 12d.
Item paid to the raker for the said year – 8d.
Item paid to a priest at Easter for 18 days' wages in our first year – 6s.
Item paid for the sepulchre light and the paschal – 10s. 8d.
Item paid for the quit-rent of the church house – 8s.
Item paid for garlands and flowers on Holy Thursday – 8d.
Item paid for garlands and flowers on Corpus Christi day – 16d.
Item paid for bearing torches that same day, for bread and ale and garnishing 2 torches – 2s.
Item paid for birch at Midsummer – 3d.
Item paid for 4 processionary books – 8d.
Item paid for frankincense – 4d.
Item paid for board and for quarters and puncheons, hinges and nails – 9s. 6d.
Item paid for a joiner 9½ days' wages – 7s. 11d.
Sum – 56s. 10d.

[f. 46] Item paid for a quart of lamp oil – 4d.
Item paid for a quarter of board and a puncheon – 15d.
Item paid for mending a pew – 6d.
Item paid for a silver cross, gilt weighing 40 oz at 4s. 8d. the ounce – £9 6s. 8d.
Item paid for a paring shovel – 6d.
Item paid for Jaret Chansey's knell – 6d.
Item paid for the counsel of Master Chancellor and Master Blackwood for the church house – 3s. 4d.
Item paid for 2 links – 21d.
Item paid for a quart of lamp oil – 4d.
Item paid for bread and drink on All Hallows' day – 6d.
Item paid for paving a grave – 12d.
Item paid on Saint Andrew's day for wine, ale and bread – 10d.
Item paid to Hoo the organ-maker – 12d.
Item paid for a rope and to Richard Jenks for mending the little bell wheel – 12d.
Item paid for 6 lb of candle on All Hallows' day – 9d.
Item paid for 12 lb of candle – 18d.
Item paid for making a coat and petticoat for a poor boy – 9d.
Sum – £10 2s. 6d.

[f. 46v] Item paid for a grave that was sunk at the choir door – 10d.
Item paid for holly and ivy – 4d.
Item paid to Fane for washing the church clothes – 6s.
Item paid for burying White's maid in Polls [St Paul's] churchyard – 11d.
Item paid for burying Fane's maid – 20d.
Item paid for Juliana Fairhead's – 12s. 8d.
Item paid for paving Arthur Lovsskyn's grave and the rest that was broken and 8 new tiles – 2s. 4d.
Item paid for a quart of lamp oil – 4d.
Item paid for brooms – 2d.
Item paid for children going on procession – 2d.
Item paid for Jasper's wife's knell – 6d.
Item paid to Lynzey for a whole year's wages – 26s. 8d.
Item paid for a pair of hinges and mending a pew – 6d.
Item paid for writing and counsel for the church house before the king's commissioners – 3s.
Item paid to Richard Grigbe for a whole year's wages – £4.
Sum – £6 16s. 1d.

157. [f. 47] Item paid for a staple for the choir door – 2d.
Item paid for cleaning the churchyard – 4d.
Item paid for bread and wine on Palm Sunday – 10d.
Item paid for palm and cake and flowers – 8d.
Item paid for 3 curtains of red and green say – 5s. 10d.
Item paid for 5 children's surplices – 7s. 2d.
Item paid for Arthur Lovsskyn's knell – 6d.
Item paid for a rope for the great bell – 20d.
Item paid to the plumber – 6d.
Item paid to the raker for the whole year – 8d.
Item paid for trimming the chrismatory – 2s. 4d.
Item paid for a new ship to put frankincense in – 16d.
Item paid for 2 new basins – 4s.
Item paid for scouring the church latten – 14d.
Item paid for the sepulchre light – 8s.
Item paid for the paschal light – 2s. 6d.
Item paid for 16 lb of new wax – 9s. 4d.
Item paid for the working of 10 lb of old wax for the same – 10d.
Item paid for watching the sepulchre and bread and drink – 14d.
Sum – 49s.

[f. 47v] Item paid for coals – 8d.
Item paid to a priest to help us at Easter – 3s. 4d.
Item paid for wainscotting a pew in the chapel – 2s.
Item paid for ringing Jasper Savoy's knell – 6d.
Item paid for water at Easter and Whitsuntide – 2d.
Item paid for garlands and flowers on Holy Thursday – 10d.
Item paid for garnishing 2 torches – 8d.
Item paid for garlands and flowers on Corpus Christi day – 20d.
Item paid for brooms for 1 whole year – 4d.
Item paid for bearing torches on Corpus Christi day – 10d.
Item paid for wine and beer – 6d.
Item paid for quit-rent for the house – 8s.
Item paid to Fancer for the clock [blotted: 2] whole years – 6s. 8d.
Item paid for a quart of lamp oil – 4d.
Item paid for ringing Mistress Heryson's knell – 6d.
Item paid for a shovel – 6d.
Item paid for 2 links – 20d.
Item paid for ringing John Medylton's knell – 6d.
Sum – 29s. 8d.

[f. 48] Item paid for mending a pew – 6d.
Item paid for a quart of lamp oil – 4d.
Item paid to Master Chamberlain for the shed at the church door – 12d.
Item paid for a quarter of paving tile – 2s.
Item paid for paving Mistress Heryson's grave and mending other faults in the church – 2s.
Item paid for 2 years' expenses going to quest of inquiry – 16d.
Item paid for mending the glass windows – 2s. 4d.
Item paid for bread and ale on All Hallows' day – 6d.
Item paid for board and nail for the penthouse – 4s. 10d.
Item paid for 8 quarters and making the penthouse – 3s. 4d.
Item paid for 12 lb of candle – 18d.
Item paid for bread and ale on Saint Andrew's eve for the priests and clerks – 7d.
Item paid for a pottle of wine of Saint Andrew's day – 8d.
Item paid for a quart of oil – 4d.
Item paid for 1 lb of frankincense – 4d.
Item paid for holly and ivy – 4d.
Item paid for 12 lb of candle – 18d.
Sum – 23s. 5d.

[f. 48v] Item paid to Jaret[sic] Burton for working 22 lb of wax – 22d.
Item paid for 40 lb of new wax at 7d the pound – 23s. 4d.
Item paid to Richard Fane for washing the church cloths for 1 year – 6s.
Item paid to the new botte – 8d.
Item paid for a pickaxe – 2s.
Item paid for mending a baldric – 1d.
Item paid to Hoo the organ-maker – 12d.
Item paid for writing this account – 20d.
Sum – 36s. 7d.

158. [Remainder of side in a different hand] We Thomas Clarke and Lawrence Brydges, late churchwardens of St Andrew Hubbard, have paid and delivered to Jasper Arnold and John Lawles, now being wardens of the said church, the sum of – £6 18s. 7d., which is for the ?clear rest of our account delivered to them in the presence of us that have hereunder set to our names, the 17th day of January 1546.
[Signatures in differing hands:]
per me Robert Draper
by me John Parkyns
for John Chylderley
per me William Hunte
Thomas Wylkyns
by me Thomas Castell

159. [f. 49] Jesus Anno 1546, the 17th day of January

Decreed and thereunto agreed all the parties that hereunto have affirmed the day and year above said, that if any man hereafter do die in this parish named Saint Andrew Hubbard lying near to Eastcheap, and willing himself of his executors for him or any other person or persons will after his death to be buried in the choir of the said church to pay it is determined [scored: that any such person and persons shall pay] for his knell of any of the bells the sum of 6s. 8d., and the clerk to have all such things as touching the bells as follows:
The first bell of fowar [?four] for pit and knell for a child – 8d.
For a houselled person of the same bell, pit and knell – 10d.
The second bell for pit, knell of any person – 14d.
The third bell for pit and knell of any person – 20d.
For solemn peal – 16d.
To the churchwardens for every knell with the great bell – 3s. 4d.
More every man that is buried in the choir must pay for the grave – 6s. 8d.
And to the clerk for the pit making all such persons must pay – 2s.
And also it is agreed the small bell to be of charity so rung for all impoverished without cost or any money.
In witness hereof every many that was present choosing for auditors by the whole parish have affirmed to their names the day and the year abovesaid; also it is consented of the parties choosing of the part of the parish, and with the clerk of the parish, the said clerk shall find all bell ropes and baldrics for all the bells saving for the great bell and the little bell.
[Signatures in differing hands.]
Per me Robert Draper By me John Parkyns John Chylderley
Thomas Clarck Lawrence Bridges John Lawles Jasper Arnold
By me William Hunte Thomas Wylkyns By me Thomas Castell

160. [f. 49v] The 17th day of January 1546
It is agreed by the whole consent of all that hereunder have affirmed in the name of the whole parish, that the churchwardens of the parish shall pay or deliver unto the wardens of the brotherhood of the Trinity – 3s. 4d. every quarter of the year.
And also of charity the said parish is moved to give unto Robert Lynsey – 40s. by the year of the said parish so long as they shall think he does his diligence in service in needful things and business in the church, always provided the said parish to be at the liberty to withdraw it, and to take it from him, when and at any time that they shall see cause with or wherefore.
Written the day abovesaid.

Paid for dinner at the audit making – 10s.

161. [f. 50] Jesus 1546 and 1547
This is the account or reckoning of Jasper Arnold and John Lawles, churchwardens of Saint Andrew Hubbard in Eastcheap from Christmas anno domini 1546 to Christmas 1548, that is to say for 2 whole years.

[Margin: Charge] In primis received of Thomas Clarke and Lawrence Brygis for their foot of account, sum – £6 18s. 7d.
Received of Master Wentford in all our time – £4.
Received for brass and latten sold – 23s. 7d.
Received for Fane's wife for 1 year's rent – 4s.
Received of Mistress Draper for her husband's burial – 9s. 6d.
Received of goodwife Hunt for her husband's burial – 9s. 6d.
Received of goodman Bygat for his wife's burial – 9s. 6d.
Received of goodman Green for his wife's burial – 9s. 6d.
Received of Master Chylderley for his wife's burial – 9s. 6d.
Received of the pricking roll for both years – £15 2s. 8d.
Received for the parson's due for Michaelmas quarter – £4 13s. 2d.
Sum total do charge – £34 9s. 6d.

162. [f. 50v] Jesus 1546 1547
[Margin: Discharge] In primis paid for dinner at the reckoning day – 10s.
Item paid for Juliana Fairhead's obit – 12s. 10d.
Item paid for mending the organs – 12d.
Item paid to the clerk for his year's wages – £4.
Item paid to the sexton for his year's wages – 40s.
Item paid for dirige and mass for King Henry the VIII – 4s.
Item paid for a paring shovel – 5d.
Item paid for mending the lock on the choir door – 6d.
Item paid for a rope for the organs – 3d.
Item paid for scouring candlesticks – 14d.
Item paid for cleaning the churchyard – 8d.
Item paid for a priest upon Palm Sunday – 4d.
Item paid for bread and drink the same day – 8d.
Item paid for coals for watching the sepulchre – 8d.
Item paid for palms – 7d.
Item paid for the raker a whole year – 8d.
Item paid for mending the organs – 3d.
Item paid for frankincense – 5d.
Item paid for watching the sepulchre – 8d.
Item paid for water – 1d.
Item paid for carriage of rushes – 1d.
Item paid for mending the clock – 3s. 4d.
Item paid for mending a banner staff – 4d.
[Arabics at foot of page: 7. 18. 11]

[f. 51] Jesus 1547
Item paid for a priest on Easter day – 2s.
Item paid for tenebrae candles and the paschal – 4s. 6d.
Item paid for brooms – 6d.
Item paid for paving 3 graves – 5s.
Item paid for mending and painting a banner staff – 12d.
Item paid for flowers and garlands on Holy Thursday – 10d.
Item paid for the king's money – 3s. 4d.
Item paid to the Trinity brotherhood – 6s. 8d.
Item paid for garlands and drink on Corpus Christi day – 3s. 2d.
Item paid for bread and drink in the vestry on the same day – 8d.
Item paid for dressing the torches on the same day – 18d.
Item paid for 3 quarts of lamp oil – 12d.
Item paid for mending a lock – 4d.
Item paid for dirige and mass for the French king – 3s. 2d.
Item paid for mending a cope, a vestment – 4s.
Item paid for birch for Midsummer day – 3d.
Item paid to the waxchandler for the French king – 8d.
Item paid for paving tiles – 20d.
Item paid for a bell rope – 3d.
Item paid for paving a grave and mending the church wall – 20d.
Item paid for going to St Paul's in visitation – 12d.
Item paid for a staple for the church door – 3d.
Item paid for ?pulpit at the choir door – 11s. 4d.
Item paid for the whiting of the church – 46s. 8d.
[Arabics at foot of page: 5. 1. 5.]

[f. 51v] Jesus 1547
Item paid for making 2 pews in the choir – 20s.
Item paid for 3 quarts of lamp oil – 12d.
Item paid for 12 lb of tallow candle – 21d.
Item paid for mending a hole where St George stood – 6d.
Item paid for iron work for the said pulpit – 8d.
Item paid for a foot stool for the same pulpit – 4d.
Item paid for 4 ells of buckram for the rood loft and for painting the same – 42s.
Item for quit-rent – 8s.
Item paid for meat and drink for making the book of the king's injunctions – 4s.
Item paid at Paul's at the time of visitation – 12d.
Item paid for an alms box – 6s. 8d.
Item paid for mending the organs – 12d.
Item paid for nails for the painted cloth – 2d.
Item paid for a bell wheel – 12d.
Item paid for writing the table over the alms box – 20d.
Item paid for washing the church clothes – 6s.
Item paid for writing this reckoning – 6d.
[Arabics at foot of page: 4. 15. 3.]

163. [f. 52] The second year 1548
In primis paid for Juliana Fairhead's obit – 12s. 3d.
Item paid for 1 lb of cotton candle – 2d.
Item paid for a quart of lamp oil – 4d.
Item paid for covering Lawrence Bryge's grave – 14d.
Item paid to Master Chamberlayn for Fane's shop – 12d.
Item paid for brooms – 2d.
Item paid for writing burials and marriages – 4d.
Item paid for making the book to the commissioners – 2s. 8d.
Item paid for warning to come before them – 12d.
Item paid to the clerk for his quarter's wages – 20s.
Item paid to the sexton for his quarter's wages – 10s.
Item paid for a quart of lamp oil – 4d.
Item paid for brooms – 2d.
Item paid for a plank and a board – 2s.
Item paid for a case of wood for a gutter – 16d.
Item paid for mending the wall on the leyde of the church with lime and sand – 6s. 9d.
Item paid to a workman and labourer, 6 days – 7s. 6d.
Item paid for nails for the leyde – 15d.
Item paid for the clerk's wages for the 2nd quarter – 20s.
Item paid for 2 English matins books – 2s.
Item paid to a labourer for cleaning the churchyard – 5d.
[Arabics at foot of page: 4. 10. 10.]

[f. 52v] Jesus 1548
Item paid for paving the grill in the churchyard – 3s. 4d.
Item paid for a key for the church door – 12d.
Item paid for carriage of the rubbish – 4d.
Item paid for making of the parson's indenture – 20d.
Item paid for Erasmus's paraphrases – 5s.
Item paid for mending the lock of the church door – 4d.
Item paid for entering an action against Baptyst Savoye – 2d.
Item paid for the channel raker a whole year – 8d.
Item paid for brooms – 3d.
Item paid to the clerk for his quarter's wages – 15s.
Item paid for mending a pew – 4d.
Item paid for quit-rent for Fane's shop – 12d.
Item paid for a priest on Easter day – 12d.
Item paid for paving 2 graves – 2s.
Item paid for mending 2 surplices – 6d.
Item paid to the clerk for Christmas quarter – 17s. 6d.
Item paid for mending the clock – 3s. 4d.
Item paid to a sergeant for bringing Baptyst Savoy before the Mayor – 16d.
[Arabics at foot of page: 2. 14. 9.]

[f. 53] Jesus 1548
Item paid for writing this account – 6d.
Item paid for the gathering book and writing thereof – 8d.
Item paid for the book – 4d.
Item paid for washing the church clothes – 6s.
Item paid to the plumber – 47s. 9d.
Item paid to William Byllingsby and Thomas Wylkyns at the account day – £3 19s. 2½d.
[Arabic numerals in margin: £31 16. 7½d.[sic]]

Memorandum received for the parson's duty for Michaelmas quarter, sum – £4 13s. 2d.
Whereof paid to Sir Edmund for Christmas quarter – 45s.
Item paid for a wine bottle – 10d.
Item paid for visitation at St Magnus's – 3s. 4d.
Item paid for 3 pints of wine – 4½d.
Item paid for earnest money to Sir Edmund – 4d.
Item paid to the waxchandler for 4 tapers – 2s. 8d.
Item paid for writing and casting our account – 4d.
Item paid to Master Parson for a half year's farm of his benefice due at Christmas anno 1548 – £3 15s.
Item paid for serving the cure the first quarter – 45s.
[Arabic numerals in margin: 8. 12. 10½d.[sic]]

Sum total of discharge – £40 9s. 6d.
So rests to the accountants for the parish reckoning and for the parson's also, sum – £6.
Whereof paid by them as is said before to the hands of William Byllyngsby and Thomas Wylkyns – £3 19s. 2d.

[f. 53v blank]

164. [f. 54] Jesus 1548 1549
This is the account or reckoning of William Byllyngsby and Thomas Wylkyns, churchwardens of Saint Andrew Hubbard in Eastchepe from Christmas anno domini 1548 to Christmas 1550 [year inserted] that is to say for 2 whole years, as follows.

[In margin: Charge] In primis received of Jasper Arnold and John Lawles upon account day, sum – £3 19s. 2½d.
Received for Master Parkyn's pit which had no knell – 6s. 8d.
Received of Master Castyll towards mending a gutter – 2s. 6d.
Received of goodman Fane for the first year's rent – 4s.
Received of Jerram Burton for old wax – 6s.
Received for goodman Grygby's knell – 3s. 4d.
Received for the church's old books – 14s. 3d.
Received for the knell of Haryson which died at Grygby's – 3s. 4d.
Received of Jerram Burton for old torches – 5s.
Received of Master Chylderley for old timber – 30s.
Received of John Clarke for old torches – 2s. 8d.
Received of goodman Fane for the second year's rent – 4s.
Received of Jasper the clerk for an old door – 12d.
Received of Robert Wylkyns for the wainscot in the choir – 20s.
Received for sold timber and old boards – 2s. 8d.
Received for a silver cross [superscript: parcel gilt] weighing 40 oz [superscript: at 5s. 1d.] – £10 3s. 4d.
Received for the prick roll, 2 years – £15 6s. 8d.
Received of Mistress Parkyn's benevolence toward the church – 23s. 4d.
Received of Master Parson's benevolence towards the church – 10s.
Received of William Byllyngsby's benevolence – £3.
Received of Master How that was due in our predecessors' time for the parson's duty and clerk's wages – 9s.
Sum total discharge – £39 17s. ½d.

165. [f. 54v] Jesus 1548 1549
[In margin: Discharge] In primis paid for the account dinner – 15s.
Item paid for the arrearage of Jasper Arnold and John Lawles' account as it appears in the foot of the same – £6.
Item paid to the king for rent which the said Jasper and John Lawles had received of Master Wentforde – 40s.
Item paid for 3 service books – 8s.
Item paid to the raker for the first year – 8d.
Item paid for a rope for the clock plummet – 10d.
Item paid for brooms – 2d.
Item paid for water for the font – ½d.
Item paid to singing men for Easter day and others – 4s.
Item paid for paving Master Perkyn's grave – 18d.
Item paid to the clerk for his first year's wages – £4.
Item paid for 2 psalter books in English – 3s. 4d.
Item paid for a copy of the will of Juliana Fairhead – 4s.
Item paid for a leaden pipe weighing 3 quarters and 20 lb – 7s.
Item paid for 9 lb of solder to the same – 4s. 6d.
Item paid to the organ-maker his fee for 2 years – 2s.
Item paid to the chamberlain for the first year's quit-rent – 12d.
Item paid for a key and mending the box for the poor – 15d.
Item paid for brooms – 2d.
Item paid for a book of homilies – 16d.
Item paid to the conduct for a quarter's wages – 6s. 8d.
Item paid to him for service before he was hired – 12d.
Item paid to the summoner for the first year – 8d.
Item paid for mending a bar of the church door – 8d.
Item paid to Master Jasper for a mat for the choir – 22d.
Item paid for 5 lb of cotton candle – 10d.
Item paid for washing the church clothes the first year – 6s.
[Arabics at foot: 15 12 5½]

[f. 55] Jesus 1549
Item paid for wine and bread for singers – 5d.
Item paid for mending a pew – 13d.
Item paid for a spade – 6d.
Item paid to the raker for the second year – 8d.
Item paid for ringing Grygsby's knell – 6d.
Item paid to the clerk for his second year's wages – £4.
Item paid to the conduct for his second year's wages – 26s. 8d.
Item paid for ringing Master Harryson's knell – 6d.
Item paid for taking down the altar – 8d.
Item paid for washing the church clothes the second year – 4s.
Item paid to the chamberlain for the second year's quit-rent – 12d.
Item paid for wine for the choir – 4d.
Item paid for brooms – 1d.
Item paid to Fancer for 2 years' fee looking to the clock – 6s. 8d.
Item paid for carrying rubbish away – 2d.
Item paid for a key for the church door – 14d.
Item paid for 3 lb of cotton candle – 5d.
Item paid the the summoner for the second year – 8d.
Item paid for 6 green cushions – 4s. 8d.
Item paid to an embroiderer for appraising the vestry stuff – 20d.
Item paid for glue for the joiner – 4d.
Item paid for coals at 2 times – 3d.
Item paid for carriage of rubbish, wainscot and board – 10s. 2d.
Item paid for nails at divers times – 6s. 5d.
Item paid for 9 double quarters – 3s. 10d.
Item paid to a labourer for all the time of our works – 15s. 7d.
Item paid for sawing of wainscots – 19d.
Item paid for 18 wainscots – 21s.
Item paid for drink to the workmen – 4d.
Item paid for 1 quartern of clapboard – 2s.
[Arabics at foot: 9. 13. 4.]

[f. 55v] Jesus 1550
Item paid to Dyxson, joiner, for workmanship – £6 19s. 10d.
Item paid for half a load of planks 5s. 8d.
Item paid for 200 plank boards – 5s. 8d.
Item paid for 500 ceiling boards – 20s.
Item paid for quarter boards – 17s. 7½d.
Item paid for 4 single quarters – 11½d.
Item paid to the mason, for him and his labourer – 25s. 2d.
Item paid to the plasterer for stuff and workmanship – 8s. 3½d.
Item paid to the bricklayer for stuff and workmanship – 43s. 8d.
Item paid for 2 baskets and brooms – 4½d.
Item paid to the smith for staples and iron work – 12d.
Item paid to the glazier for workmanship and stuff – £5 8s.
Item paid to the painter – 20s.
Item paid for trimming 3 pews – 36s.
Item paid for an iron bar for the pulpit – 2s.
Item paid to Jasper for keeping the book – 20d.

166. Hereafter follows the names of those in the prick roll which we cannot yet receive
Thomas Clark, 4 quarters at 16d. for the parson and 10d. for the clerk – 8s. 8d.
[Scored, and in the margin Received: Baptyst Savoy, 2 quarters at 2s. 9d. and 8d. – 6s. 10d.]
Roland Kendal, 8 quarters at 8d. and 4d. – 8s.
Richard Charley, 2 quarters at 16d. and 8 quarters at 6d. – 6s. 8d.
Thomas Denys, 1 quarter at 20d. and 4d. – 2s.

Sum total discharged – £48 7s.½d.
[Arabics at foot: 23. 1.3]

167. [f. 56] Jesus 1549 and 1550
Hereafter follows the account or reckoning of the parsonage and profits of the same for the said 2 years

[In margin: Charge] In primis received for Master Jasper's man's offering – 12d.
Item received of goodman Carlton for his offering – 16d.
Item received of John Clarke for 2 years' rent of the parsonage – £3 6s. 8d.
Item received for Grygby's maid's offering – 12d.
Item received of John Smith for his offering – 4d.
Item received for Grygby's pit in the choir – 6s. 8d.
Item received for Harryson's pit in the choir – 6s. 8d.
Item received of John Cook for his offering – 4d.
Item received for chrisms – 6s. 8d.
Item received for the holy loaf, 97 days at 3d. – 24s. 3d.
Item received for offering days at Easter, 2d. the piece – £3 4s.
Item received for the prick roll of the parson's duty, 2 years – [two sums scored] £37 4s.
Item for the parson's owed money at Easter – 15s. 2d.
Sum – £46 17s. 9d. [Which sum is also expressed by arabics in the margin]

168. [In margin: Discharge] In primis paid for the parson's tenths, 2 years – £3 4s. 8d.
Item paid for his subsidy, 2 years, with the quittances – 58s. 4d.
Item paid to the curate for 2 years' wages at £9 – £18.
Item paid for wine at divers times for the communion – 8s. 8½d.
Item paid for repairs of John Clark's house – 6s. 8d.
Item paid to Jerram Burton for wax at divers times – 10s. 8d.
Item paid for the bishop's visitation, 2 years at 3s. 4d. – 6s. 8d.
Item paid to the bishop's officers at St Magnus's – 10s. 6d.
Item paid to the parson for his duty, 2 years – £15.
Item paid for 2 sermons – 6s. 8d.
Item paid for bread for communion – 12d.
Sum of discharge – £41 13s. 10½d. [Which sum is also expressed by arabics in the margin]

169. [f. 56v] Jesus January 1550
Memorandum the whole charge for the 2 years passed for the parish as well as for the revenues of the parsonage is as appears, sum – [one total scored] £86 14s. 9½d.
Memorandum the whole discharge for the said 2 years for the parson as well as for the parish account is – £90 11d.
And so remains clearly due to these accountants, that is to say William Byllyngsby and Thomas Wylkyns, for the foot of this account appears so – [scoring] £3 6s. 1½d.

[Different hand and paragraph lightly scored:] The account of William Byllyngsby and Thomas Wylkyns, churchwardens of the parish of Saint Andrew Hubbard audited by us hereunder affirmed, made the 28th day of January 1550, and there remained that the church owed to the said William Byllyngsby and Thomas Wylkyns – £3 6s. 1½d.

[Signatures and marks]
John Chylderley
Robert Wylkyns
per me John ?Wood
by me Thomas Castell
Richard Adams
Richard H

170. [The following list is in a different hand:] The debts of the parishioners that are yet owing which the new churchwardens must receive, as follows [In the following the sums cannot be easily read as the page edge is bound into the spine of the volume]
Thomas Clarke, a year for the parson at 16d. the quarter – 5s. 4d.
More he owes for clerk a year – 3s. 4d.
Rowland Kendawell for 2 years parson and clerk at 12d. the quarter – 8s.
Richard Semper for Thomas Dennys for a quarter for the parson and the clerk – 2s.
Richard Charlley 2 quarters for the parson at 16d. – 2s. 8d.
and more he owes 2 quarters for the clerk at 6d. – 12d.
?John Benbow for Richard Charley's house for the clerk's wages 6 quarters at 6d. the quarter – 3s.

Received and cleared by me William Byllyngsby the sum of £3 6s. 1½d. and so I quit the parish for the same from the beginning of the world to this day.

171. [f. 61] (fn. 1) This is the account or reckoning of George Richards and Robert Woode [superscript: and William Chynkyns], churchwardens of Saint Andrew Hubbard in Eastcheap from Christmas the 4th year of our sovereign lord king Edward VI [1550] to Christmas in the 6th year of his gracious reign [1552], that is to say 2 whole years as follows.

[In margin: Charge] Item received of Master Castell for 74 lb of latten at 3½d. the pound – 18s. 8d.
Item received for 2 belts and a lock – 8d.
Item received for 6 banner poles – 20d.
Item received of the goodman Fane for the 1st year's rent for the shed – 4s.
Item received for the pit and knell of goodman Caron – 10s.
Item received for the pit and knell for a stranger that died out of the stone house – 13s. 4d.
Item received for the pit and knell for Master Wentford – 10s.
Item received of Master Castell for the altar stone – 8s.
Item received for Master Wylkyn's burial – 10s.
Item received for John Eward's burial – 10s.
Sum – £4 6s. 4d.

[f. 61v] Item received for the 2nd year for the goodman Fane's shed – 4s.
Item received for the prick roll for 2 years of the clerk's wages – £13 12s. 2d.
Sum – £13 16s. 2d.

172. [f. 62] [In margin: Discharge] Item laid out on the day of account for the dinner – 21s. 7d.
Item paid for writing the prick roll – 4d.
Item paid for brooms – 2d.
Item paid for covering 2 communion books – 2s. 8d.
Item paid to How the organ-maker for his fee – 12d.
Item paid for a new wainscot table to minister the communion – 9s.
Item paid to the summoner for the first year – 4d.
Item paid to a carpenter for mending a pent house – 5d.
Item paid for a acte – 4d.
Item paid for mending the lock of the church door – 4d.
Item paid to the clerk for the first year – £4.
Item paid to the conduct for the first year – 26s. 8d.
Item paid for washing for a whole year – 4s.
Item paid for brooms – 2d.
Item paid for repairing the laystall for the church – 8d.
Item paid for the ringing goodman Caron's knell – 6d.
Item lost at the first proclamation of the fall of money – 5s. 8d.
Sum – £7 13s. 11d.

[f. 62v] Item paid for ringing the knell for a stranger that died out of the stone house – 6d.
Item paid for a lock and a key for the bible – 6d.
Item paid for brooms – 2d.
Item lost at the last fall of money – 13s. 4d.
Item paid for a ?basket for carrying rubbish out of the churchyard – 4d.
Item laid out for 3 days' wages to 2 labourers for carrying earth out of the churchyard – 4s. 10d.
Item laid out for laths for the pulpit – 2s.
Item laid out for a pair of hinges for the pulpit – 5d.
Item paid for a desk for the pulpit – 5d.
Item paid for a stay for the desk of the pulpit – 8d.
Item paid for a bar of iron for the stay of the pulpit – 14d.
Item paid for the carriage of 20 loads of earth that came out of the churchyard at 5d. the load – 8s. 4d.
Item paid for 1 quarter of paving tiles – 12d.
Item paid for paving 2 graves – 21d.
Item paid for a book of expositions of the gospels and epistles – 2s. 8d.
Sum – 39s. 1d.

[f. 63] Item paid for goodman Fane's shed for the first year – 12d.
Item paid for ringing the knell for Master Wentford – 6d.
Item paid for paving the north side of the church, 53 yards at 2d. the yard – 8s. 10d.
Item paid for a load of stones and for their carriage – 2s.
Item paid for 2 double loads of gravel – 2s. 4d.
Item paid for paving Master Wentford's grave – 16d.
Item paid for broom – 2d.
Item paid for malmsey for the choir on Christmas day for the first year – 6d.
Item paid for mending a set of 1 of the pews – 2d.
Item paid for candles – 4d.
Item paid for 3 sacks of lime for the glass windows in the church – 4d.
Item paid to the plasterers for plastering 3 old windows – 8d.
Item paid to the summoner for the 2nd year – 4d.
Item paid for the wainscot for the dyoll [?dial] – 3s. 4d.
Sum – 21s. 10d.

[f. 63v] Item paid to Fancer for keeping the clock for the first year – 3s. 4d.
Item paid to the painter for painting the ?dial – 12s.
Item paid to the carpenter for setting up the ?dial and for a board – 14d.
Item paid for hooks and nails for the ?dial – 6d.
Item paid for ringing Master Wylkyn's knell – 6d.
Item paid for ringing goodman Ewerd's knell – 6d.
Item paid for brooms – 1d.
Item paid to 2 porters for taking gear out of John Clark's house – 5d.
Item paid for covering Master Wylkyn's grave and goodman Ewerd's – 2s.
Item paid for brooms – 2d.
Item paid for a baldric for the great bell – 8d.
Item paid for a key for the church door – 12d.
Item paid to the clerk for his 2nd year's wages – £4.
Item paid to the conduct for his 2nd year's wages – 26s. 8d.
Item paid for washing in the 2nd year – 4s.
Sum – £6 13s.

[f. 64] Item paid for a new book of common prayer – 4s.
Item paid for brooms – 2d.
Item paid for a pair of hinges and a stay for a desk at the choir door – 16d.
Item paid for a board for it – 4d.
Item paid for nails – ½d.
Item paid for goodman Fane's shed the 2nd year – 12d.
Item paid for mending a pew and for a board – 12d.
Item paid for broom – 2d.
Item paid for oil for the clock – 1d.
Item paid for mending Master Benbow's pew – 4d.
Item paid to the raker for 2 whole years – 16d.
Item paid to Foncer for the second year for keeping the clock – 3s. 4d.
Item paid for a key for the inner church door and a bolt for the choir door and for mending a lock for the belfry door – 18d.
Item paid to the raker for repairs on the boat – 2d.
Sum – 14s. 9½d.

fo 64v
Item paid for royal paper for both prick rolls – 2d.
Item paid for writing the prick roll for last year – 4d.
Item paid for wine and bread for the communion since All Hallowtide – 2s. 7½d.
Item paid to Jasper Rowse for writing the account – 20d.
Sum – 4s. 9½d.

173. [f. 65] Hereafter follows the account or reckoning of the parsonage and the profits of the same for the said year.

[In margin: Charge] Item received of John Clarke for half a year's rent of the parsonage – 16s. 8d.
Item received at Harry Berye's marriage – 8d.
Item received of Master Parson towards the fall of money – 7s. 6d.
Item received of Master Parson for the new service book – 2s.
Item received for the chrisms – 6s. 3d.
Item received for the holy loaf for a year and a half and odd days – 21s. 6d.
Item received for the 4 offering days for 2 whole years – £3 11s. 8d.
Item received of the prick roll for the parson for 2 whole years – £34 11s.
Item received for the parson's owed money at Easter – 12s. 6d.
Sum – £41 9s. 9d.

174. [In margin: Discharge] In primis paid for the parson's tenths, 2 years – £3 4s. 8d.
Item paid for his subsidy for 1 year with the quittance – 29s.
Item paid to the curate for a year and 3 quarters – £15 15s.
Item paid for wine at the communion for 2 whole years – 8s. 11d.
Item paid for wine at Easter for 2 years – 9s. 7d.
Item paid for bread for the communion – 22d.
Item paid for the bishop's visitation for 2 years – 6s. 8d.
Item paid to the parson for his duty 2 years – £15.
Item paid for 2 sermons – 5s.
Sum – £37 8d.

175. [f. 65v] Sum total of the charge of the said George Rychards and Robert Woode as well as for the parson's duty and for the other duties of the parish, sum – £59 12s. 3d.

Sum total of the discharge of the said accountants is as it appears, sum – £55 8s. 1d.

So rests due to the parish at the foot of this account, sum – £4 4s.

Which sum of £4 4s. was discharged to Richard Bygat and Michael Myles, churchwardens the next 2 years to come.

Memorandum this account was audited the 23rd day of January ?1552 by the auditors thereunto nominated whose names after follow
By me William Byllyngsby
John Childerley [mark]
Thomas Wylkyns [mark]
Richard Adams
Thomas Grene [signature]
William Segur [signature].

176. [f. 57] (fn. 2) This is the account of Richard Bagot and Michael Mylys, churchwardens of Saint Andrew Hubbard in Eastcheap from Christmas in the year of Our Lord 1552, that is to say for 2 whole years as follows.

In primis received of George Richards upon account day, the sum – £4 4s.
Item received for the pit of Master Byllynsley's servant – 6s. 8d.
Item received of Master Parson for a vicar to stand on – 12d.
Item received for Annes Wylkyn's burial – 6s. 8d.
Item received for Jasper Arnold's pit and knell – 10s.
Item received of Master Grene of the overplus of the whytcots – 3s. 8d.
Item received of Richard Bagot for a table – 8s.
Item received for the sepulchre light – 4s. 8d.
Item received for the shop at the church door of the goodman Fane – 8s.
Item received by the prick rolls for the term of 2 years – £14 3s. 4d.
Summa totalis – £20 16d.

177. [f. 57v] Payments
Item paid for the dinner upon account day – 20s. 7d.
Item paid to the clerk for his whole year's wages – £4 6s. 8d.
Item paid for the whole year's washing – 4s.
Item paid for brooms – 8d.
Item paid for a communion table – 11s.
Item paid for carrying the linen to Saint Dunstan's church – 2d.
Item paid for 2 prick rolls – 8d.
Item paid for mending a pew – 8d.
Item paid to the raker for his whole year's wages – 8d.
Item paid for the copy of the indenture between the church and the king – 12d.
Item paid for covering 3 graves – 2s. 6d.
Item paid for paving tiles – 11½d.
Item paid for a key for the poor box – 5d.
Item paid to the raker for carrying rubbish out of the church – 2d.
Item paid for ringing Master Jasper's knell – 6d.
Item paid for frankincense – 1d.
Item paid for a rope to the clock – 16d.
Item paid for a broom – 1d.
Item paid for oil to the clock – 1d.
Item paid to the chamberlain of London for the shop at the church door – 2s.
Item paid to the archdeacon of London – 4d.
Sum – £6 14s. 6½d.

[f. 58] Item paid for a proclamation – 3d.
Item paid for making the brickwork of the altar – 15s. 2d.
Item paid to Master Sturton's clerks for recovering the best cope – 12d.
Item paid for the boothyer – 3d.
Item paid for nails – 7d.
Item paid for a piece of timber to the ?crests before the altar – 8d.
Item paid for a vestment to Harry Batman – 21s.
Item paid to Elys Michat for turning the pews – 12d.
Item paid for 3 quarters of an whole lockram – 7d.
Item paid for 1 lb candles – 2d.
Item given to Robert Carter for an earnest – 1d.
Item paid for a mass book – 6s. 8d.
Item paid for a candlestick for the paschal taper – 4d.
Item paid for 4 canopy staves – 20d.
Item paid for mending the leads of the church – 2s. 2d.
Item paid for wood and coal – 2d.
Item paid for bread and wine for the communion in the first year – 9s. 2d.
Item paid for paper – 1d.
Item laid out for a cross, a pyx and a chrismatory – 20s.
Item paid for a cope, a vestment, an alb and a mass book – 30s.
Sum – £5 11s.
[f 58v] Item paid to the clerk for his whole year's wages – 40s.
Item paid for washing – 4s.
Item paid to the joiner for the joiner's work for the sacrament – 3s. 4d.
Item paid for a censer – 4s.
Item paid for a pyx cloth – 2s.
Item paid for 8 candlesticks, the holy water bucket, a lamp and the paschal bowl – 14s. 8d.
Item paid to the raker for the whole year – 8d.
Item paid for nails and tenter hooks – 4d.
Item paid for brooms – 8d.
Item paid for coals and water at Easter – 4d.
Item paid for watching the sepulchre – 4d.
Item paid for blotting out the scripture – 8d.
Item paid for a lock for the font – 2½d.
Item paid to Master Dobrel for an altar stone – 20s.
Item paid for a wire that made fast the joined work for the sacrament – 1d.
Item paid for scouring candlesticks – 4d.
Item paid to the summoner – 4d.
Item paid for water – 1d.
Item paid for pitch for the cover of the font – 1d.
Sum – £4 12s. 1½d.

[f. 59] Item paid for nails for the pews – 5d.
Item paid for 1 pound candles – 2d.
Item paid for carrying away the rubbish in the churchyard – 2d.
Item paid for carrying the cross to St Paul's when the king and the queen came into St Paul's – 4d.
Item paid to the summoner for a book of articles – 4d.
Item paid for a legendary – 5s.
Item paid for 1 pound cotton candles – 2½d.
Item paid to Master Jynkyns for a grail, 16s. the cost, he restored to the parish 2s. – 14s.
Item laid out for candles on St Andrew's eve – 2d.
Item paid for a link – 4d.
Item paid for 2 lb candles on Christmas day – 4½d.
Item paid for holly and ivy – 1½d.
Item paid for carrying the cross to St Paul's when the cardinal came – 2d.
Item paid for nails – 1d.
Item laid out for the sepulchre light – 6s.
Item paid for making the pews in the body of the church – 12d.
Item paid to Robert Carter for his pains when the sworn men sat upon the articles – 8d.
[Different hand: Item paid for a ?shovel – 6d.
Sum – 30s. ½d.

Sum of the payments – £18 7s. 8½d.]

178. [f. 59v] The account of Richard Baggott and Michael Myells, the 14th day of January in the year of Our Lord 1554, given to John Grene and Harry Battman churchwardens of the parish of Saint Andrew Hubbard in Eastcheap for 2 years to come and we the said John and Harry do charge ourselves with 46s. 8d. of ready money at the receiving of this account. Present at this account John Chylderley, Thomas Wylkyns, Richard Adams, George Richards, John Wilson, John Hornar turner, auditors appointed for this account, and have set to our hands.

[marks and 2 signatures]
Richard Adams John Wilson

[Different hand: We be charged in this parish to pay yearly to the racar [?raker] during 6 years to come to be gathered by the ?skawinghear [?scavenger] – 54s.]

Received of Arnold Ghylles for a dispensation of his constableship – 20s.

179. [f. 60] This is the account of Harry Batman and John Grene, churchwardens of St Andrew Hubbard in Eastcheap given up in the 3rd and 4th year of King Philip and Queen Mary, and now given up in the 21st day of January.

Receipts for the church goods of Saint Andrew Hubbard by the churchwardens

Received first of the old wardens – 46s. 8d.
Received of Arnold Gylls – 46s. 8d.
Received of Ellis Merchant for his wife's pit and knell – 10s.
Received for the sepulchre light for 2 years – 27s. 8d.
Received of the old prick roll – 18d.
Received for 2 years of the prick roll – £14 11s.
Received for Harry Batman's pit and knell – 10s.
Received for 2 years of the shed – 8s.
Received for the assessment for the rood loft – £14 10s. 10d.
Received for the gift of Harry Batman – £3.
Received for Master Jynkyn's pit and knell – 10s.
Received of Mistress Batman for her husband's account – 9s.
Received of Ellis Merchant that he gave – 6s.
Sum total of all the receipts comes – £40 17s. 4d.

180. [f. 60v] Payments made and done for the behoof of Saint Andrew's laid out by me Harry Batman and John Grene as follows by this written after

Item paid for posts and boards – 5s.
Item paid for 300 nails – 15d.
Item paid for more nails – 1d.
Item paid for hinges weighing 8 lb and for 3 quarters – 20d.
Item paid to the carpenter for 2 days – 2s.
Item paid for 2 loads of sand – 2s. 4d.
Item paid for a dog of iron and 2 staples – 14d.
Item paid for 3 loads of lime – 2s. 7d.
Item paid for 2,000 bricks – 18s.
Item paid for load of lime – 3s. 6d.
Item paid for 2 loads of sand – 2s. 4d.
Item paid to the bricklayer for 2 days' work – 4s.
Item paid to 2 labourers for digging in the churchyard for 4 days – 5s. 4d.
Item paid to 2 labourers the same day for 2 days' work – 2s. 8d.
Item paid for 100 English nails – 6d.
Item paid for a hinge and 2 hooks – 10d.
Item paid to the carpenter for half a day's work – 6d.
Sum – 53s. 9d.

Footnotes

  • 1. Following f. 56v some folios have been torn out and in the current binding several folios seem to have been placed in the wrong order; the following attempts to restore correct chronological order to the surviving material by placing ff. 61–65v before ff. 57–60v.
  • 2. A reversion to ff. 57–60v at this point achieves the correct chronological sequence, although some material has been lost.