Churchwardens' Accounts: nos 91-120

Churchwardens' Accounts: nos 91-120

91. [f. 101] 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 3 Henry VIII [1511] to the feast of St Michael the Archangel in the 4th year of the said reign [1512].

First the receipts
The same accountants charge themselves with divers receipts and charges of certain sums of money by them received within the time of the account, that is to say for 1 whole year.

Which is, first received of Thomas Clerk for the rent of a tenement which he now dwells in 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 the pricking bill, gathered from the parishioners – £6 7s. 6½d.

Item received at Easter for the paschal – 8s. 11d.
Item received for Champins alley – 8d.
Item received for Pratts alley – 10d.
Item received of Richard Lambard – 4d.
Sum – 10s. 9d.

Sum total the side – £9 11s. 7½d.

92. [f. 101v] Whereof, item paid for the obit of Juliana Fairhead – 9s. 3d.
Item paid for making the pews in the rood loft – 6s. 8d.
Item paid for making the church bench – 10s.
Item paid for 100 6d. nails – 5d.
Item paid for sand and to a paver for mending a broken plot at church door – 12d.

The clerk's wages at Christmas
Item paid to Robert Colyns, the clerk, for his quarter's wages – 20s.
Sum – 47s. 4d.

Item paid for washing vestments and odd stuff belonging to the church – 4s.
Item paid to the raker for 1 whole year – 8d.
Item paid for scouring the candlesticks and other church stuff – 8d.
Item paid for mending a hole in Thomas Clerk's house – 2s.
Item paid for a bell rope weighing 6 lb, at 1¼d the pound – 7½d.
Item paid for making a surplice for the parish priest – 16d.
Item paid toward making [gap] new surplices for the church – 11s.
Item paid for tapes and thread girdles – 4d.
Item paid for bread and wine to the doctor – 8d.
Sum – 19s. 5½d.

Palm Sunday
Item paid for palm against Palm Sunday – 4d.
Item paid for wine, cakes and flowers – 6d.
Item paid to a friar to help on the same day – 8d.
The clerk's wages at Our Lady day
Item paid to Robert Colyns, the clerk, for his quarter's wages – 20s.

Sum – 21s. 6d
Sum total in the side – £4 8s. 3½d.

[f. 102] Easter
Item paid to the waxchandler for making the paschal and making the beamlight, the Judas, tenebrae candles and the taper hallowing at the font – 7s.
Item paid to the tallowchandler for oil and candle – 6s. 10d.
Item paid for coals and watching the sepulchre – 6d.
Item paid to a priest helping on Easter Day and the holy days following – 3s.
Item paid for the quit-rent of the church house – 8s.
Sum – 25s. 4d.

Corpus Christi day
Item paid for garlands and roses against Corpus Christi day – 13d.
Item paid for garnishing 10 torches, at 3d each – 2s. 6d.
Item paid to the bearers of them – 10d.
Sum – 4s. 5d.

Midsummer
Item paid for birch and flowers against Midsummer – 7d.
Item paid for a rope for the clock – 22d.
Item paid to a tiler and his labourer for working a day – 13d.
Item paid for 4 sacks of lime – 8d.

The clerk's wages at Midsummer
Item paid to Robert Colyns, the clerk, for his quarter's wages – 20s.
Sum – 24s. 2d.

Sum total in the side is – 53s. 11d.

[f. 102v] Item paid for mending 1 cope and for satin of sipre [Cyprus] for the same – 8s.
Item paid for repair of the collect book – 5s.
Item paid for repair of a suit of vestments – 5s.
Item paid to a priest for singing mass within the church on Sundays and holy days, continuing 1 whole year – 37s. 8d.
Obit for Sir Robert Salows
Item paid for the obit of Sir Robert Salows – 5s.
Sum – £3 8d.

The clerk's wages at Michaelmas
Item paid to Robert Colyns, the clerk, for his quarter's wages at Michaelmas – 20s.

Sum – 20s.

Item paid for 2 accounts for 2 years as before rehearsed within the time of the accounting, for engrossing the same – 2s.

Sum – £4 2s. 8d.

Sum total of the receipts in the year amounts to the sum – £9 11s. 7½d.
Sum of the payments in the year of the account amounts to the sum – £11 4s. 10½d.
For the which the sum of the payments exceeds the sum of the receipts in the year – 33s. 3d.

93. [f. 103] [Odd binding at this point: a page cut and next sheet is the top half of a torn folio. The material on it relates to a list of charges for exequies and funerals].

The first bell of the 4 for pit and knell – 8d. for a child
& for a houseling body, pit and knell – 10d.
The second bell for pit and knell – 14d.
The third bell for pit and knell [scored: for 6 hours' ring – 20d.]
For a solemn peals – 16d.

[Different hand: to the churchwardens for the great bell – 3s. 4d.]

[Another hand: Item sold 1 cutt quart pot 1 [word indecipherable] pint pot – 22d.
Item a spice plate weighing 2 lb – 7½d.]

94. [f. 103v] [The top half of the torn folio] The costs of the obit of Juliana Fairhead kept yearly in the church of St Andrew Hubbard beside Eastcheap, London, by the wardens of the same church for the time being for evermore according to the tenor of the testament of the said Juliana.

First for bread and cheese and ale at the dirige – 20d.
Item to the parson of the said church if he be present – 12d, and if he be absent then to the parish priest in his stead – 6d.
Item to every priest taking wages in the said church – 4d.
Item to the parish clerk – 4d.
Item to poor people – 2s. 6d.
Item to either of the church wardens – 20d.

95. [f. 104] [The following starts in mid-flow and is on paper with a different water mark]
Item paid to St Mary Spital for a quit-rent – 8s.
Item paid at Midsummer for boughs and lamps – 8d.
Item paid for girdles and thread to sew the vestments – 15d.
Item paid for 2 labourers for carrying the stones in the churchyard – 4½d.
Item paid for mending the silver pax – 4d.
Item paid for mending a lock in the store house door and mending the pulpit – 6d.
Item paid for a lock for the chest for the torches – 4d.
Item paid for mending the organs – 7d.
Item paid for holm and ivy – 3d.
Item paid for Hamlen's knell – 4d.
Item paid for Cornele's knell – 4d.
Item paid for Mother Raff's knell – 4d.
Item paid for making a hole in the church wall for the parson's door – 9d.
Item paid for a bar for the same door, for boards and nails in the clerk's chamber and the gutter – 9d.
Sum – 15s.½d.

[f. 104v] Item paid for mending a surplice for the parson – 6d.
Item paid for mending a gutter – 2s. 1d.
Item paid for mending a bell wheel – 8d.
Item paid for a table for the offering days – 4d.
Item paid for making the clock – 14s.
Item paid for paper – 2d.
Item paid for engrossing this account – 12d.

[Rest of folio scored] Michaelmas quarter
Item received of Michael Everard for the church house – 15s.
Item received by pricking bill – 26s. 10d.
Sum total – 41s. 10d.

[f. 105: whole folio side faintly scored]
Payments
Item paid for a bell clapper – 3d.
Item paid for a quart of wine on your church holy day – 2d.
Item paid to the priest for the holy days – 4s. 8d.
Item paid to the clerk's wages – 13s. 4d.
Item paid to Master Middleton of the arches – 6s. 8d.
Item paid for holly and ivy – 3d.
Item paid for tallow candle – 10d.
Item paid for ?yew – 7d.
Item paid to a mason for mending 2 chimney hearths – 3s.
Item paid for a taper for the rood – 8d.

96. [f. 105v] This is the account of Thomas Pekok and John Bourton, churchwardens of and keepers of all the goods, ornaments, rents and 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 9 Henry VIII [1517, recte 1515?].

First the receipts
Item received in the church box – £14 3s. 6d.
[Scored: Item paid the organs maker – £4 13s. 4d.]
Item received of Michael Everard for 1 year – £3 5s.
Item received by the pricking bill for 1 year – £5 5s. 6d.
Item received of the paschal money – 11s. 2d.
Item received of [word indecipherable] Harryson for the bequest – 2s.
Item received for Mother Rawse's knell – 3s. 4d.
Item received of the [word indecipherable] at Easter – 2s. 6d.
Item received of William Perkyng for 2 years – 8s.

[Rubbed: Sum – £24 22d.]

97. [f. 106] This is the account of Thomas Pekoke and John Bourton, churchwardens and keepers of all the goods, ornaments, rents, 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 in the 8th year of the reign of King Henry VIII [1516].
Michaelmas 8 Henry VIII

First the receipts
Item received for a whole year for Cornel's house – £3.
Item received by the pricking bill for the clerk's wages – £5 19s. 8d.
Item received of Perkeng – 4s. 8d; item paid to the said Perkeng for a post – 20d; rest to us – 3s.
Item received at Easter for the paschal – 10s. 1d.
Item received of the ales for the clerk's wages – 2s. 10d.
Item received for Cornel's knell – 3s. 4d.
Item received of Cornel's bequest – 3s. 4d.
Item received for Hamelyn's knell – 3s. 4d.
Item received the 9th day of May gathered in the street – 8s. 6d.
Sum of receipts – £10 14s. 1d.

98. [f. 106v] Payments for the whole year
Item paid to the priest for Sundays and holy days – 17s. 8d.
Item paid to the clerk for 1 year – 50s.
Item paid for tallow, candle and oil – 2s. 3d.
Item paid to the raker – 8d.
Item paid to Master Goldsmith at Paul's Chain and to the Arches – 5s. 2d.
Item paid for the paschal – 2s.
Item paid for watching the sepulchre, for bread and ale and coals – 7d.
Item paid for palm and flowers and cakes – 5d.
Item paid for scouring the latten – 12d.
Item paid at Corpus Christi for garnishing 12 torches – 3s.
Item paid for bearing the same torches – 11d.
Item paid for garlands – 7d.
Item paid for making 5 lb of old wax – 5d.
Item paid for Fairhead's obit – 10s. 6d.
Item paid for Sir Robert Salus' obit – 5s.
Item paid to Mede for playing – 10s. 1d.
Item paid for washing the surplices and albs, and sewing on – 4s.
Sum – £5 14s. 3d.

99. [f. 107] This is the account of Maryn Garet and William Childerly, 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 in the 9th year of the reign of King Harry VIII [1517] to the feast of St Michael the Archangel in the 10th year of his said reign [1518].

First the receipts
First received for Robert Short's knell – 3s. 4d.
Item received for Richard Howett's knell – 3s. 4d.
Item received for Daniel Dyrkson's knell – 3s. 4d.
Item received that the said Daniel gave to the church – 3s. 4d.
Item received for the paschal light – 9s. 4d.
Item received of Michael Everard for a year's rent – £3 6s. 8d.
Item gathered towards the organs – 14s.
Item received for burying Mistress Chawnsey's maid – 6s. 8d.
Item received for the clerk's wages by the pricking bill – £6 4s.
Item received of Thomas Surbat – 4s.
Item received of Julian le Pressure – 20d.
Item received of Robert Cocred – 3s. 6d.
Item recieved of William Byrch – 6d.
Item received of Robert Wylkyns – 4d.
Item received of John Edwards – 4s. 8d.
Item received of Edward Estoff – 4s.
Item received of William Mache – 2s.
Item received of William Ley – 2d.
Item received of William Gybson – 4d.
Item received of Robert Smyth – 2d.
Item received of William Galyen – 2d.
Item received of William Rogers – 4d.
Item received of ?Cornelius Polles – 12d.
Item received of Michael Everard – 13s. 4d.
Item received of Harman Lewyn – 12d.
Item received of Thomas Johnson – 2s.
Sum – ?17s.
Sum total received – £13 13s. 2d.

100. [f. 107v] Payments
First paid to the channel raker for a year's wage – 8d.
Item paid to John Eluyth for a year's work and also for the door in the churchyard – 2s.
Item paid to a mason – 8d.
Item paid to a labourer for 4 days – 20d.
Item paid for a new baldric for the great bell – 6d.
Item paid for mending the old baldric – 2d.
Item paid to an organ player at All Hallowtide – 5s.
Item paid on our dedication day for drink for the singers – 4d.
Item paid to William, clerk, for half a year – 26s. 8d.
Item paid for holm and ivy – 4d.
Item paid for Juliana Fairhead's obit – 10s. 10d.
Item paid for tile pins and for laths – 3½d.
Item paid for roof tile, new tiles and for roof ?nails – 4½d.
Item paid for a load of sand and 3 sacks of lime – 12d.
Item paid to James and his man for a day's work – 13d.
Item paid to the organ player at Candlemas – 5s.
Item paid for oil and candle – 2s. 8d.
Item paid for scouring all the latten in the church – 12d.
Item paid for palm, cake and flowers on Palm Sunday – 5d.
Item paid for watching the sepulchre – 8d.
Item paid to John Burton for all manner of charges for the beam light and the paschal – 14d.
Sum – £3 15s. 4d.

[f. 108] Item paid for washing the church gear – 4s.
Item paid to the organ player – 5s.
Item paid to the raker for 1 year – 8d.
Item paid to Schort for a wheel barrow – 20d.
Item paid for 2 braces and a ponchen – 12d.
Item paid for 14 quarters – 21d.
Item paid for 47 ½ feet of board – 16d.
Item paid for a man for 2 days
Sum – 7s. 9d.

Item paid for 500 tiles – 3s. 9d.
Item paid for a man for 2 days' labour – 2s. 2d.
Sum – 5s. 11d.

Item paid for 300 laths – 15d.
Item paid for a man for 2 days' labour – 2s. 2d.
Sum – 3s. 5d.

Item paid for 2 loads of loam and a load of sand – 14d.
Item paid for 2 loads of lime – 2s.
Item paid for a labourer – 5d.
Item paid for nails and sprig – 17d.
Item paid to Balloke for 2 dogs of iron – 4s. 8d.
[Different hand: Paid for a pair of new organs – £4 13s. 4d.]
Sum – £6 9s. 9d.

[f. 108v] Item paid for 3 keys for the organs – 2s.
Item paid for key for the church door – 4d.
Item paid for a new lock for the store house door – 8d.
Sum – 7s. 8d.
Item paid for engrossing this account – 12d.

[The sums following totals are not fully legible having been bound into the spine of the book]
[Another hand: Sum total of the receipts of 2 years – £20 11s. 7d.]
Sum of all the payments for 2 years – £16 11s. 10½d.
And so received more in the church box – £14 3s. 5d.
And paid out of the box for the organs – £4 13s. 4d.
And so rests in the church box clear by this account – £13 9s. 9½d.

[Another hand: Received of the account of Thomas Pecock and John Burton in ready money in the box, sum – ?£13 10s.]

101. [f. 109] Payments
Item paid to the priest for Sundays and holy days – 30s. 8d.
Item paid to the clerk for a whole year – 53s. 4d.
Item paid for quit-rent to St Mary Spital – 8s.
Item paid for Juliana Fairhead's dirge – 11s.
Item paid for Robert Salus's dirge – 5s.
Item paid for mending the bell clapper – 3d.
Item paid for a ship of pewter – 20d.
Item paid to Master Middleton of the Arches – 6s. 8d.
Item paid for holly and ivy – 3d.
Item paid for tallow candle – 10d.
Item paid for oil – 21d
Item paid to the mason for mending 2 chimneys – 3s.
Item paid for paving the church door – 2s. 6d.
Item paid for 3 loads of sand – 12d.
Item paid to the labourer for bearing the rubbish – 5d.
Sum – £6 6s. 4d.

[f. 109v] Item paid to Mede – 5s.
Item paid to a priest for bearing the sacrament – 2d.
Item paid for palm and box and bread – 4½d.
Item paid for 2 watchers of the sepulchre – 8d.
Item paid for coals and ale and bread – 7d.
Item paid for making the paschal – 2s.
Item paid for the cross candle [and] the font taper – 8d.
Item paid for ?1½lb tenebrae candle – 9d.
Item paid for 3 lb tapers for the rood – 2s.
Item paid for scouring the latten – 12d.
Item paid for the 9th of May, for wine and ale – 6½d.
Item paid on Corpus Christi day for garlands – 7d.
Item paid for bearing the torches – 11d.
Item paid for garnishing 12 torches – 3s.
Item paid for fennel and birch at Midsummer – 7d.
Item paid for bearing 6 torches for the torners – 6d.
Sum – 19s. 4d.

102. [f. 110 Folio in a different hand: probably a different year.]
Payments made by the said church wardens for the church
Item paid for mending the great bell clapper – 2s. 8d.
Item paid 21st October for rushes – 2d.
Item paid for oil – 3d.
Item paid for candle – 1d.
Item paid for 2 lb of candle – 2d.
Item paid 29th day of November for a quart of oil – 4d.
Item paid for 2 lb candle – 2d.
Item paid for 3 lb candle – 3d.
Item paid for 30 ells of canvas – 8s. 9d.
Item paid for 4 lb candle – 4d.
Item paid for a burden of rushes – 1½d.
Item paid for a quart of oil – 4d.
Item paid to the channel raker – 2d.
Item paid to a tiler for mending the church house – 4s. 4d.
Item paid 21st February to William Rogers, plumber, for solder – 15d.
Item paid for the carriage of a load of rubbish – 2d.
Item paid to the channel raker – 2d.
Item paid for 4 hogs heads – 20d.
Item paid for boards for the vestry – 4d.
Item paid for Juliana Fairhead's obit – 11s.
Item paid for bread and ale for the clerks on our church holy day and on Saint Andrew's day – 4d.
Item paid for a board and 4 quarters for the vestry – 20d.
Item paid to the workmen for 4 ½ days – 6s.
Item paid for 200 laths – 10d.
Item paid to a dauber and his labourer for 1 ½ days – 20d.
Item paid for hair for him – 10d.
Item paid for palm, flowers and cakes – 5d.
Item paid for 3 burdens of rushes at Easter – 6d.
Sum this side – 44s. 11½d.

[f. 110v] Item paid for a quart of oil – 4d.
Item paid for scouring – 4d.
Item paid for coals – 4d.
Item paid for mending the organs – 2s. 4d.
Item paid to the organ player for the holy days – 2s.
Item paid for watching the sepulchre and coals – 10d.
Item paid to a labourer for a day – 5d.
Item paid for a quart of oil – 4d.
Item paid for 3 burdens of rushes – 6d.
Item paid for wine, ale and bread – 5½d.
Item paid to the organ player – 4d.
Item paid for rose garlands – 6d.
Item paid to Master Goldsmith for the sentence of the house – 6s. 8d.
Item paid for the paschal – 4s. 9½d.
Item paid for birch and rushes – 3d.
Item paid for a quart of oil – 4d.
Item paid for paving the church house – 4s.
Item paid for ringing Master Estoff's knell the 4th day of July – 3d.
Item paid to a doctor at Bow Church for his fee – 3s. 4d.
Item paid for a quart of oil – 4d.
Item paid for the quit-rent of the church house – 8s.
Item paid to a doctor at Bow Church – 20d.
Item paid for oil – 4d.
Item paid for 3 burdens of rushes – 6d.
Item paid for Sir Robert Salus's obit – 5s.
Item paid for carriage of the quarters that stand in the steeple – 2d.
Item paid for the irons over Saint Spirit and Saint Andrew – 4d.
Item paid for a pole – 1d.
Item paid to the clerk for his year's wages – 40s.
Item paid for mending 2 surplices – 4d.
Item paid for engrossing and writing this account – 8d.
Sum of this side – £4 5s. 9d.

Sum total paid – £6 10s. 8½d.
There rests to the church – £3 15s. 2½d, which was paid the 7th day October 1520 to Maryn Garet.

103. [f. 111] This is the account of Thomas Surbut and Robert Wilkyns, churchwardens and keepers of all the goods, ornaments with other necessaries belonging to the parish church of St Andrew Hubbard beside Eastcheap, London, that is to say from the feast of St Michael the Archangel 12 Henry VIII [1520] to the said feast of St Michael 13 Henry VIII [1521].

Money received by the wardens in the time of this account
First received of good man Serle – 3d.
Item received for the paschal money – 8s. 8d.
Item that was gathered at large on the 7th day of July – 2s.
Item received for the rent of the church house – £3 6s. 8d.
Item received in part payment of the bill that the parson gave of his tithes to building the church – 24s. 4d.
Item received for the clerk's wages as it appears by the pricking bill, sum – £4 17s. 4d.
Item money that was gathered in the parish by the weke [?week] bill – 24s. 9d.
Item received for a board – 16d.
Item received gathered at large the 20th day of November – 3s. 6d.
Item received of Sir Thomas for the Lombard – 8s.
Item received for a quarter's rent of the church house at Michaelmas – 16s. 8d.
Item gathered by the pricking bill for the clerk's wages for a quarter ending at Michaelmas anno 1521 – 15s. 10d.
Item received on St Andrew's day – 16s. 4d.

Sum received – £14 5s. 8d.

104. [f. 111v]
Money paid by the said wardens in the time of this account
First paid for setting the coping stone upon the churchyard wall – 22d.
Item paid to a labourer for the same – 12½d.
Item paid for carriage of the same stone – 10d.
Item paid to a mason and 2 lads for the wages – 7s. 10½d.
Item paid to 2 labourers – 5s.
Item paid to our clerk – 16d.
Item paid to the conduct for half a year's wages – 6s. 8d.
Item paid for stones that were set out of Robert Wylkyn's alley – [scored: 3s.]
Item paid for a cord for the mason – 1d.
Item paid to the raker for the year – 8d.
Item paid for boarding floors in the steeple – 9s. 8d.
Item paid for carriage of the gin – 4d.
Item paid for buckram and canvas – 14d.
Item paid for bread, ale and wine on the 9th day of May and on the dedication day – 10d.
Item paid for the carriage of rubbish out of the churchyard – 8s.
Item paid to an organ player – 17d.
Item paid to John Parkyng's wife for mending surplices and albs – 8d.
Item paid for setting parells on the albs – 4d.
Item paid for 2 burdens of rushes – 4d.
Item paid for garlands on Corpus Christi day – 7d.
Item paid for carriage of rubbish – 10d.
Item paid on Holy Thursday for garlands – 2d.
Item paid for a cord for the paschal – 5d.
Item paid for palm, yew and box and cakes – 5½d.
Item paid for coals, bread and ale for watching the sepulchre – 10d.
Item paid for scouring the church latten – 4d.
Item paid for the carriage of rubbish – 8s. 8d.
Item paid to Thomas our clerk for his year's wages – 35s.
Item paid to Burton's wife for making wax and for waste – 5s.
Item paid to a doctor for Alen – 6s. 8d.
Sum of this side – £5 6s. 11½d.

[f. 112] Item paid for the carriage of rubbish – [scored: 10d.]
Item paid in earnest to the conduct – 1d.
Item paid in earnest to the clerk – 1d.
Item paid to an organ player – 14d.
Item paid for paving in the church lane – 2s.
Item paid for oil for the lamp – 20d.
Item paid for tallow candle 24 lb, at 1¼d the pound – 2s. 6d.
Item paid for holly and ivy – 2d.
Item paid for a pike given to the judge in the [law] suit for the [scored: church] house – 18d.
Item paid for 8 burdens of rushes at divers times – 14d.
Item paid for the carriage of rushes that were given – 2d.
Item paid to the judge's clerk – 4d.
Item paid to Doctor Reynes – 6s. 8d.
Item paid to another Doctor – 3s. 4d.
Item paid for the quit-rent of the church house – 8s.
Item paid for nails – 4d.
Item paid to Doctor Reynes another time – 6s. 8d.
Item paid to the masons and labourers for 3 weeks – 42s. 11d.
Item paid to Sir Thomas the parish priest – 10s. 2d.
Item paid for nails – 6d.
Item paid to Thomas Sherman for mending the church door and for making the steps about the font and for the pew – 2s. 10d.
Item paid to Christopher Tailor's wife and to Osborne's wife for mending surplices and [scored: albs] – 12d.
Item paid for Juliana Fairhead's obit – 11s.
Item paid for all the year's washing – 4s.
Item paid to Lawles, waxchandler, for wax for the church hallowing as appears by his bill – 2s. 6d.
Item paid to the clerk for his wages – 16s. 8d.
Sum of this side – £6 7s. 3d.

[f. 112v] Item paid for hay – 6d.
Item paid for making the pricking bill for the clerk's wages – 2d.
Item paid for writing this account – 10d.
Item paid for 2 boards for to underplate the upper roof of the steeple – 8d.
Item paid for iron work for the canopy to hang the sacrament in and for line – 2s. 3½d.
Item paid for 2 lb candles – 2d.
Item paid for forms – 2s.
Item paid to the lime man for 4 cwts lime – 20s.
Item paid for washing – 12d.
Item paid for a ?door for the torches and for the hanging – 12d.
Item paid for brick – 21s.
Item paid for 3 lb candles – 4d.
Sum – 49s. 10½d.

Sum total – £14 4s. 1d.
Sum received – £14 5s. 8d.
And so rests clear to the church of this account – 19d.

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105. [f. 113v] This is the account of William Childerly and Robert Wylkyns, churchwardens and keepers of all the goods, ornaments and other necessaries belonging to the church of St Andrew Hubbard next Eastcheap, that is to say from the feast of the Nativity of our lord Jesus Christ 13 Henry VIII [1521] to the said feast in 14 Henry VIII [1522].

Receipts received by the said wardens

Received by William Childerly as follows
First received of Lawrence Symond – 40s.
Item received of Mistress Gyver – 40s.
Item received of William Horner – 10s.
Item received of Oliver Manson's wife – 8s.
Item received of John Lawles for a pricking bill – 31s. 8d.
Item received of Maryn Garet – 6s. 8d.
Item received of William Johnson – 8s. 2d.
Item received by an old pricking bill – 9s. 7d.
Item received of Thomas Surbut – 2s.
Item received for the burial of Mistress Umfrey – 9s. 8d.
Item received more of Oliver Manson's wife – 3s. 4d.
Item received at offering on St Andrew's day – 3s.
Item received of Agnes Egerton – 3s. 4d.
Item received of a pardon – 4d.
Item gathered on Good Friday towards the sepulchre – 4s.
Item received for the burial of 2 Dutchmen and 2 children – 2s.
Item received of Maryn Garet of [money] that was in hand, gathered by the wives on Hock Monday and other times – 13s. 7d.
Sum received by William Childerley – £9 15s. 4d.

106. [f. 114] Receipts received by Robert Wylkyns
Received for the clerk's wages as appears by the pricking bill – £4 6s. 7d.
Item received for the paschal – 8s.
Item received on St Andrew's eve and on the day – 12s. 4d.
Item received of Jasper Arnold for rent – 16s. 8d.
Sum received by Robert Wylkyns – £6 3s. 7d.

107. Payments paid by William Childerley
Item paid to the clerk – 4s. 8d.

Money paid to the halpace of the steeple by William Childerley
Item paid to William Rogers, plumber, for timber – 7d.
Item paid more for 8 pieces of timber for the same halpace – 5s. 10d.
Item paid for boards for the same halpace – 5s. 4d.
Item paid to 2 carpenters for 9 days' work apiece – 12s.
Item paid for nails – 2s.

Paid by William Childerley on this side – 30s. 5d.
[f. 114v] Yet payments by William Childerley
Item paid for the sepulchre – 8s. 4d.
Item paid for the bell frame – £5 6s. 8d.
Item paid for 300 English tacks – 3d.
Item paid for 100 2d. nails – 1d.
Item paid for 100 3d. nails and 100 5d. nails – 7d.
Item paid to the carpenter for board and workmanship in the steeple to stop the 2 wells [?walls] and for hanging of the Sanctus bell, as appears by his bill of the same – 2s. 11d.
Item paid to Ysotson the carpenter – 5s. 1d.
Item paid to Thomas Sherman – 16d.
Item paid for 7 steps – 22d.
Item paid to an organ player – 8d.
Item paid to another organ player for the feast of Christmas – 2s.
Item paid to the raker at divers times – 6d.
Item paid for nails to the choir door – 3d.
Sum – £6 15s. 6d.

Money paid by the said William Childerley to James Nedam, carpenter, for the rood loft
Item paid to James Nedam in part payment for workmanship in the rood loft – 10s. 8d.
Item paid more to the said James Nedam – 13s. 4d.
Item paid more to him another time – 6s.
Item paid to him another time – 2s.
Item paid to him on St Nicholas day – 3s. 4d.
Item paid more to him another time – 3s. 4d.
Item paid more to the said James Nedham – 15s. 8d.
Item paid for wainscot at divers times and for sawing – 12s. 11d.
Item paid to a carver – 8d.
Item paid more to Nedam's man for 9 days' work – 6s.
Sum paid for James Nedam by William Childerley – £3 13s. 11d.

Sum total paid by William Childerley – £11 19s. 10d.
And so rests due to William Childerley – 44s. 6d.

108. [f. 115] Money paid to the said James Nedam by Robert Wylkyns
Item paid to the said James Nedam to buy wainscot – 6s. 8d.
Item paid to his servants – 13s. 4d.
Item paid to his servants another time – 6s. 8d.
Item paid for the said James Nedam, to a carver – 3s. 4d.
Item paid for him, to a sawyer – 16d.
Item paid to one of Nedam's servants for a week's wages – 3s. 4d.
Item paid more for the wainscot – 3s.
Sum paid to Nedam by Robert Wylkyns – 37s. 8d.

Sum paid to James Nedam by William Childerley and Robert Wylkyns – £5 11s. 7d, over and beside the £3 that he received in earnest.
Money paid by the said Robert Wylkyns for necessaries in the church Item paid [for] line for the lamp, for the veil and for the sanctus bell – 6d.
Item paid for the carriage of rushes and rubbish from the church door at divers times – 7d.
Item paid for 3 quarts oil – 12d.
Item paid for 9 lb candle – 11¼d.
Item paid for cake and flowers on Palm Sunday – 6½d.
Item paid for washing for the year – 4s.
Item paid for rushes – 12d.
Item paid for scouring – 6d.
Item paid to Richard Basse, clerk – 28s. 8d.
Item paid for drink for those that watched the sepulchre – 2d.
Item paid to ?Lawles for the paschal and for the church wax at Easter – 4s. 8d.
Sum paid for the necessaries in the church written on this side – 42s. 6d.

[f. 115v] Yet payments by the said Robert Wylkyns
Item paid for bread, ale and wine on the 9th day of May for singers – 10d.
Item paid for garlands on the same day and on Corpus Christi day – 14½d.
Item paid for mending the surplices – 4d.
Item paid for bread and drink on the dedication day – 6d.
Item paid for finishing the stairs in the belfry – 16d.
Item paid for mending the baldric – 7d.
Item paid for Juliana Fairhead's obit – 11s. 3d.
Item paid to John Williamson, clerk, for half a year – 13s. 4d.
Item paid to Cator the conduct for 3 quarters' – 10s.
Item paid for nails for the pipe of the vestry – 1d.
Item paid to John William for 1 quarter's wages – 6s. 8d.
Item paid to Cator the conduct for 1 quarter – 3s. 4d.
Sum paid on this side by Robert Wylkyns – 49s. 5½d.

Sum total paid by Robert Wylkyns – £6 9s. 7½d.
And so rests due to the said Robert Wylkyns – 6s. ½d.

109. [f. 116v] This is the account of William Childerley and William Rogers, churchwardens and keepers of all the goods, ornaments and other necessaries belonging to the parish church of St Andrew Hubbard next Eastcheap, that is to say from the feast of the Nativity of Our Lord Jesus Christ 14 Henry VIII [1522] to the said feast of Our Lord in 15 Henry VIII [1523].

Receipts received by the said wardens in the said year
First by a pricking bill gathered by W. Childerley and W. Rogers – 18s. 4d.
Item received of Maryn Garet – 6s. 8d.
Item received of William Childerley – 3s. 4d.
Item received of William Rogers, plumber – 3s. 4d.
Item received of Robert Rogerson – 6s. 8d.
Item received of Richard Garet – 3s. 4d.
Item received of John Lawles the 20 day of February for old timber – 16d.
Item received of William Hope – 3s. 4d.
Item received of Thomas Surbut – 3s. 4d.
Item received on Passion Sunday for a pricking bill – 17s. 9d.
Item received of Oliver Manson's wife – 4d.
Item received of Thomas Surbut – 20d.
Item received of Gerard Chauncy – 3s. 4d.
Item received that was gathered on Good Friday – 17s.
Item received that was gathered at Easter for the paschal – 7s. 8d.
Item received the 19th day April that was gathered in the parish by a pricking bill – 16s. 2d.
Item received the same day of Maryn Garet – 6s. 8d.
Item received the 17th day of May of Thomas Hetell that was gathered in the parish by a pricking bill – 14s. 2d.

[f. 117] Receipts
Item received for the burial of Simon Tyler – 10s.
Item received that was gathered by a pricking bill by John Chow and
Thomas Cristyn – 11s. 9d.
Item received for the bequest of Mistress Denam – 40s.
Item received of Thomas Lawles – 4s. 8d.
Item received for the burial of Thomas Paper of Hull – 6s. 8d.
Item received of William Horner towards the pews – 3s. 4d.
Item received out of the brotherhood box the 9th day of August – 13s. 4d.
Item received for the burial of Jasper Savonell's child – 6d.
Item received at the altar for the offering on St Andrew's eve and on the day, the priest paid – 6s.
Item received of the rent of polle and for stones – 4s.
Item received of Oliver Manson's wife – 3s. 4d.
Item received that was gathered by a pricking bill for the clerk's wages – £6 13s. 3d.
Item received that was gathered of old debts for the clerk's wages – 6s. 4d.
Sum total received – £17 17s. 7d.

110. [f. 117v] Money paid by the said wardens in discharging their said receipts
Paid for Juliana Fairhead's obit – 10s. 10d.

Money paid to the clerk and conduct and organ players
Item paid to John Williamson, clerk, for the year – 33s. 4d.
Item paid to John Burbrig for conduct for the year – 13s. 4d.
Item paid to a priest for playing on the organs the 3rd day of October – 4d.
Item paid to Nicholas [blank] the organ player for his quarter's wages ending at Christmas – 5s.

Item paid to James Nedam, carpenter, for the rood loft
Item paid more to James Nedam's men – 12s.
Item paid more to the said James' men – 15s. 8d.
Item paid to Thomas Peterborow, joiner, to finish the rood loft after James Nedam left it – £5.
Item paid for nails for the same rood loft – 2s. 6d.
Item paid for making of 5 pews in the chapel – 31s. 6d.
Item paid to Wolston Wyn, carpenter, for making the parclose between the choir and the chapel – 23s. 4d.
Item paid to the carpenter that made the pews – £10.
Item given in reward to the same carpenter at the commandment of the parish – 2s. 8d.
Item paid for nails for the pews – 21d.
Item paid to Richard Garet for garnets in the choir door – 3s. 4d.

[f. 118] Necessaries and casual expenses for the church
Item paid for the carriage of a load of stone from Dowgate – 2d.
Item paid for half the making-safe of the church house – 20d.
Item paid for palm and brooms – 8d.
Item paid for the carriage of rubbish out of the churchyard – 8d.
Item paid for rushes – 4d.
Item paid for mending the organs – 12d.
Item paid the 9th day of May for rushes, garlands and for bread and drink for the singers – 6½d.
Item paid to the clerk for making Simon Tyler's pit and for ringing of his knell – 2s. 4d.
Item paid for a burden of rushes on Whitsun eve – 2d.
Item paid to Thomas Lawles, waxchandler, for the paschal and for tenebrae candle – 3s. 1½d.
Item paid for garlands and rushes on Corpus Christi day – 6d.
Item paid for birch at Midsummer – 2d.
Item paid for Thomas Lawles for dressing 6 torches – 2s.
Item paid 10th day of July for the carriage of rushes and rubbish from the church door – 2d.
Item paid to the raker for a year – 8d.
Item paid for 3 burdens of rushes against the dedication day kept the 3rd day of October – 5d.
Item paid for mending 2 bell clappers – 2s. 8d.
Item paid for rushes against All Hallows' day – 4½d.
Item paid for a new rope to the alms bell – 8d.
Item paid for rushes on St Andrew's eve – 3d.
Item paid for holly and ivy – 2d.
Item paid for rushes – 2d.
Item paid for washing the church gear for the year – 4s.
Item paid for oil and candles for the year as appears by the tally – 4s.
Item paid for making this account – 12d.

Sum total of the payments – £24 4s. 5d.

[f. 118v] Payments done by William Childerley
Item paid to James Nedam – 12s.
Item paid for mending of a gradual – 3s. 4d.
Item paid to an organ player – 3s. 4d.
Item moreover to James Nedam, 4 wainscots with cost – 10s.

Money received of William Childerley
Item received of Master Wheler for old timber – 2s. 4d.
Item received of the wardens of the carters for the clerk's wages – 16d.

[This is the last page of accounts in the volume of the St Andrew Hubbard churchwardens' books. Ff. 119–121 contain miscellaneous memoranda of a later date. The accounts continue in a second volume, GL MS 1279/2 (112.)]

111. [f. 119]
Smith
John Porter
[scored: William Percyson]
Thomas Waydye
Thomas White
[scored: John Wharde]
Thomas Styphyson
Stenson
Rychard Senne
Roland Candell

It is agreed by the consent of the whole parish the 6th day of September anno 1545 for all dead bodies that shall die within the parish shall be carried to Powlls [St Paul's] that the curate shall have of the same part that is the burier for his pains for all aygge [for whatever age] that the said corpse shall be – 4d.
And the ?burier will have mass and dirige to agree with the said curate And the clerk for a knell of an hour long and for his pains to Powlls – 8d., if he say any dirige or ring any peal to pay him as they can agree And it is also agreed of the remorse of charity for these parties above named that they shall pay all such costs as is ordinarily paid in the parish and the rest to be paid out of the church box by the hand of the churchwardens
That is to say the ordinary is for every bearer of the body – 2d.
and for every bearer of the torches – 2d.
and for every houseling body for the pit and knell – 14d.
and under age all to pay – 10d.
and all this to be fulfilled
that is so thought meet and determined by the said parishioners that this shall endure and continue for the space of ?one whole year from the day above said.
Their names that was consenting as follows

Mr Draper
Thomas Wylkyns
Mr Harysonn
Robert Wylkynns
Thomas Clarke
Henry Parkynns
Henry Chyldarley
Lawrence Brygys
Wm Huntt
Thomas Lawlis
Thomas Castell
Richard Bagett

[f. 119v Contains a barely legible list of uncertain date with the headings Friday, Saturday, Monday and (erased) Wednesday, apparently relating to receipt of metals (such as old metal and tin) and to metal objects (such as barrel censers and ?scissors).]

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112. [f. 120v] Memorandum it is agreed by the parish of St Andrew Hubbard and William Harbard that the said William shall pay the churchwardens of the same church the sum of 33s. 4d. at 2 payments, that is to say at Midsummer next coming 16s. 8d. and at Michaelmas then next ensuing 16s. 8d. in full payment of the said 33s. 4d. to the use of the said church. Written the 19th day of January anno 32 Henry VIII [1541].

Memorandum the 19th day January 32 Henry VIII it is agreed between the parish of St Andrew Hubbard and Cornelius Johnson, stranger, that the said Cornelius shall pay to the churchwardens of the said church to the use of the parish the sum of 40s. sterling that is to say at the feast of St Michael the Archangel next to come.

[f. 121] William Childerley – 8d.
William Rogers – 4d.
William Perkyn – 2d.
Robert Wylkyn – 2d.
William Hope – 2d.
John Parkyn – 1d.
Thomas Lawles – 2d.
Thomas Surbut – 2d.
Thomas Wady – 2d.
John Smith – 4d.
Robert Rawban – 1d.
Thomas Crystyn – 1d.
William Urtley – 1d.
William Horner – ?
William ?Ashe – 1d.
Robert Campion – 1d.
Richard Walker – 2d.
Thomas Hetell – 2d.

[f. 121v Contains very faded writing and a number of jottings yielding no coherent sense]

[GLMS 1279/2]

113. [f. 1] This is the account of Maryn Garyt and Thomas Surbot churchwardens and keepers of all the goods and ornaments with other necessaries and profits belonging to the parish church of St Andrew Hubbard in London by Eastcheap, that is to say from the Nativity of Our Lord 1524 to the said feast of Our Lord 1525, as follows.

The receipts as shall appear
In primis we charge us received for latten and old brass, sum – 9s. 2d.
Received upon Good Friday at large – 4s. 7d.
Received of Master Parson for an old book – 2s. 8d.
Received of Thomas Surbot for his daughter's burial – 2s.
Received of Master Richard Richard [sic] – 2d.
Received of Mistress Penyfeather on St Andrew's day – 4d.
Received of Jasper Savoy's wife – 16d.
Received of Mistress Childerley for the bequest of her husband – 10s.
Received of Hekyll's wife for her husband's pit and knell – 10s.
Recieved of Thomas Mowyar for Master ?Thesar's pit and for lending 6 torches – 9s.
Received of Mistress Perkyns for her husband's knell – 3s. 4d.
Received in the box at the church door – 2s. 8d.
Received by the pricking bill, sum – £6 7s. 8d.

Sum total received as appears – £9 2s. 11d.

114. [f. 1v] Payments paid
In primis we discharge us paid as shall appear
Item paid to the clerk for a whole year's wages, sum – 53s. 4d.
Item paid the first quarter to the organ player – 6s. 8d.
Item paid the second quarter to the organ player – 3s. 4d.
Item paid the third quarter to the organ player – 4s.
Item paid the fourth quarter to the organ player – 4s.
Item paid to the conduct for a year's wages – 20s.
Item paid to the channel raker for a year – 8d.
Item paid to the tallowchandler for oil and candles for a year – 4s.
Item paid for washing the church cloths for a quarter – 12d.
Item paid for scouring the candlesticks and for ale – 6½d.
Item paid on Palm Sunday for palm, cakes and flowers – 6½d.
Item paid to James Walker for cleaning the churchyard against Palm Sunday – ?2d.
Item paid to John Wells for setting the rails together – 2d.
Item paid to John Williamson on Good Friday for bread and ale – 2d.
Item paid at Easter for the paschal – 2s. 4d.
Item paid for Judas candles – 8d.
Item paid for a taper for the font weighing 1 lb – 8d.
Item paid for a cross candle weighing a quarter – 2d.
Item paid for garnishing 6 torches – 2s.
Item paid for making the pews under the belfry – 4s. 4d.
Sum paid on this side – £5 8s. 8d.

[f. 2] Item paid for covering and mending 2 books – 6s.
Item paid to the paviour – 6d.
Item paid for 2 pew doors – 2s.
Item paid for mending the plat chest – 2s.
Item paid at Easter for a quarter of coals – 5d.
Item paid for mending a bell clapper – 12d.
Item paid for ringing 2 knells for William Perkyns and Hekyll – 8d.
Item paid for a ladder – 4d.
Item paid for mending the glass windows over the church door – 6d.
Item paid for paving Hekyll's grave – 4d.
Item paid for the 9th day of May for wine, ale and bread, and for garlands for the clerks – 7½d.
Item paid on Corpus Christi day for garlands – 7½d.
Item paid for mending the surplices – 10d.
Item paid for brooms – 1d.
Item paid for ½lb of candles for the rood loft – 4d.
Item paid for 13 loads of bricks for the battlement and for the crest, sum – 32s. 6d.
Item paid for 2 cwts of lime – 10s.
Item paid for 6 loads of sand – 3s.
Item paid for 15 days to the mason for hewing brick at the brick kyll – 10s.
Item paid to the mason for 3 weeks' work – 12s.
Item paid to the labourer for 3 weeks' work – 7s. 6d.
Item paid to the labourer for another day – 5d.
Item paid for writing this book to the writer – 8d.
Sum this side – £4 12s. 4d.

Sum total paid as appears this year – £10 12d.
So remains due to us as appears – 18s. 1d.

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115. [f. 3] This is the account of Thomas Surbut and John Smythe, churchwardens and keepers of all the goods and ornaments with other necessaries and profits belonging to the parish church of St Andrew Hubbard by Eastcheap, London, that is to say from the Nativity of Our Lord God 1525 to the said feast of Our Lord God 1526, as follows

The receipts as shall appear
In primis we charge us received upon Good Friday at large, sum – 8s. 4d.
Received at Easter for the paschal, sum – 14s. 3d.
Received of Margyt Atkynson on St Andrew's eve – 4d.
Received at another time of strangers – 5d.
Received of Crayford's wife at the burying of a child of Greenwich, sum – 12d.
Received by the pricking bill, sum – £6 6d.

Sum total received as appears – £7 4s. 10d.

116. [f. 3v] Payments paid
Item we discharge us as shall appear
Item paid to John, clerk, for a whole year's wages, sum – 53s. 4d.
Item paid for the beam light and for new wax – 15s.
Item paid to James, Master Maryn's servant, the organ player, for 3 quarters' rent – 12s.
Item paid for scouring the latten – 12d.
Item paid to the conducts for their wages, sum – 30s.
Item paid to the 3 conducts for earnest – 3d.
Item paid on Palm Sunday for palm, box and yew – 7d.
Item paid for coals and for watching the sepulchre at Easter – 8d.
Item paid for brooms for the whole year – 2½d.
Item paid to William, the grocer, for a whole year – 5s.
Item paid to a priest for Palm Sunday and for Good Friday – 8d.
Item paid for 6 baldrics for the bells – 4s. 6d.
Item paid the 9th of May for garlands, bread and wine – 10d.
Item paid for garlands at Corpus Christi-tide – 11d.
Item paid for 1½lb of tenebrae candles and for cross candles – 10d.
Item paid for the paschal – 2s. 4d.
Sum this side – £6 8s. 1½d.

[f. 4] Item more paid for garnishing 6 torches at Corpus Christi-tide – 2s.
Item paid on Corpus Christi day for bearing 6 torches – 6d.
Item paid for 2 half pound tapers at Easter and Midsummer – 8d.
Item paid for making the new pews – 10s.
Item paid for nails for the pews – 2d.
Item paid for 2 posts at the churchyard door and for setting them and mending 2 old pews – 2s. 7d.
Item paid to the raker for a whole year's wages – 8d.
Item paid for mending the glass windows at 2 times, sum – 3s. 4d.
Item paid to the new organ player for half a quarter's wages – 3s. 4d.
Item paid to the chandler for oil and candle for a whole year, sum – 4s. 2d.
Item paid for writing my account – 8d.
Sum this side – 28s. 1d.

Sum total paid this year as appears, sum – £7 16s. 2½d.
So rests due to us as appears, sum – 11s. 4d.

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117. [f. 5] This is the account of John Smythe and Bartholomew Watson, churchwardens and keepers of all the goods, ornaments with other necessaries and profits belonging to the parish church of St Andrew Hubbard by Eastcheap, London, that is to say from the Nativity of Our Lord God 1526 to the said feast of Our Lord God 1527, as follows

The receipts as shall appear
In primis we charge us received at the burying of William Smythe's wife the basket maker, sum – 6s.
Received of Master Plomer for a latten laver – 14d.
Received at the burying of Master Vyolett's son – 10s.
Received at the burying of William Smythe himself – 6s.
Received at the burying of Tomson's wife and for 2 torches – 4s. 8d.
Received at the burying of Mache's wife, pit and knell – 8s. 6d.
Received by the pricking bill – £5 18s.
Sum total received as appears, sum – £7 14s. 4d.

118. [f. 5v] Payments paid out as shall appear hereafter
In primis we discharge us paid to the organ player for a quarter's wages ended at Our Lady Day in Lent, sum – 6s.
Item paid the same time to the clerk for a quarter's wages, sum – 13s. 4d.
Item paid to the channel raker for a quarter's wages – 2d.
Item paid to William Woodford for a quarter's wages – 12d.
Item paid to Hugh the conduct for a quarter's wages – 4s.
Item paid to James, conduct, for a quarter's wages – 5s. 6d.
Item paid for washing the church clothes – 12d.
Item paid for a tyned stey for the pulpit weighing 5 lb at 2d. the pound, sum – 10d.
Item paid for writing a bill to my lady Quylter – 2d.
Item paid for a great key for the church door – 6d.
Item paid in earnest to a new organ player – 1d.
Item paid for ringing John Vyolett's knell – 4d.
Item paid for mending the surplices – 4d.
Item paid for mending of a trestle – 1d.
Item paid for mending the lock of the font with a key, 2d., and a hasp with 2 staples for the steeple door 2d., sum – 4d.
Item paid to Master Maryn for mending the church door, 6d., and for mending of Mistress Vyolett's pew, 2d., sum – 8d.
Item paid for 2 stones to set before the church wall – 2s. 4d.
Item paid for cleaning the churchyard – 1d.
Sum this side – 36s. 9d.

[f. 6] Payments
Item paid on Palm Sunday eve for flowers, palm and cakes – 7d.
Item paid for the hire of the angel on Palm Sunday – 8d.
Item paid for the hire of the clothes at the Tower on Palm Sunday – 6d.
Item paid for mending the organs – 20d.
Item paid for scouring the church latten – 20d.
Item paid for mending the great bell clapper – 4d.
Item paid for a padlock for the steeple door – 4d.
Item paid at Easter to a priest for his labour and for Palm Sunday – 8d.
Item paid at Easter for coals, bread, drink and for a man to watch the sepulchre – 9½d.
Item paid the 9th day of May for garlands – 6d.
Item paid at Corpus Christi-tide for garlands – 10d.
Item paid for 3 quarters of a pound waste of tenebrae candles, for a cross candle and for garnishing 6 torches – 2s. 10d.
Item paid at Midsummer to the raker for a quarter's wages – 2d.
Item paid to the clerk for a quarter's wages – 13s. 4d.
Item paid to the organ player for a quarter's wages – 4s.
Item paid to a conduct for a quarter's wages – 6s. 8d.
Item paid for washing the church clothes – 12d.
Item paid for mending the bell ropes – 1d.
Item paid for binding 4 processionals – 4s. 8d.
Item paid for 2 holy water sticks – 2d.
Item paid for a baldric for the great bell – 10d.
Item paid to Smith, conduct, for a quarter's wages at Lammas – 5s.
Sum this side – 46s. 1½d.

[f. 6v] Payments
Item paid for mending Foret's bell clapper – 8d.
Item paid for ringing Tomson's wife's knell – 4d.
Item paid to James, blacksmith, for a reward – 8d.
Item paid to William the organ player for a reward – 10d.
Item paid for ringing of Mache's wife's knell – 4d.
Item paid at Michaelmas to the raker for a quarter's wages – 2d.
Item paid for washing the church clothes – 12d.
Item paid for a new surplice for Master Parson – 5s. 4d.
Item paid for paving of Smith's grave and Jefar's – 7d.
Item to the clerk for a quarter's wages – 13s. 4d.
Item paid to Smith the conduct for 10 weeks' wages – 3s.
Item paid at All Hallowtide to the clerk for half a quarter's wages – 6s. 8d.
Item paid for mending the great bell clapper – 12d.
Item paid for mending the surplice – 4d.
Item paid at Christmas to the raker for a quarter's wages – 2d.
Item paid to the tallowchandler for oil and candle – 4s.
Item paid to Smith the clerk for half a quarter's wages – 6s. 8d.
Item paid for writing our account – 8d.
Item paid for washing the church clothes – 12d.
Sum this side – 46s. 9d.

Sum total paid this year as appears by our payments, sum – £6 9s. 7½d.

Rests due to the church in ready money, sum – 24s. 8½d.

Beside that there is unpaid to gather by the pricking bill, sum – 24s. 6d.

119. [f. 7] The churchwardens of Saint Andrew Hubbard by Eastcheap, London anno 1527

In primis Jerrat Chaunncye churchwardens Robert Wylkyns

for auditors and assessors for the clerk's wages
Item Maryn Garet
William Rogers
Thomas Clark
John Parkyns chosen by the whole parish
Thomas Surbut
John Lawles

It is agreed by these six auditors that the old churchwardens Bartholomew Watson and John Smythe shall pay towards the loss of the church goods – 2s.

Received by the hands of Robert Wylkyns of the old churchwardens for the rest of their account the 8th day of March – 24s. 8½d.

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120. [f. 8] The acts made by the assent of the churchwardens, auditors and assessors for the clerk's wages and also for the bells, made the 8th day of March 1527, as follows

In primis for the knell of them buried in the choir
Item to the churchwardens for the knell of the great bell – 6s. 8d.
Item for the knell of the 4th bell – 3s. 4d.

Item to the clerk for making the pit in the choir – 3s.
Item to the churchwardens for the knell of the great bell for them buried in the body of the church – 3s. 4d.
Item to them for breaking the ground – 6s. 8d.
Item to the clerk for making the grave within the body of the church – 2s.

To the clerk for the pit and the knell
Item the first bell is the alms bell free for poor people.
Item the second bell for pit and knell for a child – 8d.
Item for pit and knell of the same bell for a houseling body – 10d.
Item the third bell for pit and knell – 14d.
Item the fourth bell for pit and knell for an hour – 20d.
Item for 4 hours' knell from 8 o'clock to 12 o'clock besides the pit – 20d.
Item to the clerk for solemn peals – 16d.

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