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LBE, 270; Letterbook E, fo. ccxxix(b)
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Account of Henry de Seccheford, the Chamberlain of the Guildhall,
rendered in the month of July, A.D. 1332, before Nicholas de
Farndone and Reginald de Conduit, Aldermen, and John de
Dallynge, junior, John Prior, junior, and Richard de Welleford,
commoners, auditors appointed by the Mayor and Commonalty
in the Hustingfor Common Pleas held on Monday after
the Feast of Conversion of St. Paul [25 Jan.~\, the year aforesaid,
to hear the account and make due allowance, riz., from
Friday the Feast of SS. Peter and Paul \2C} June], 4. Edward III.
[A.D. 1330], to the Feast of the Nativity of St. John Bapt.
[24 June], 6 Edward III. [A.D. 1332], that is to say,for two
years less five days.
The particulars comprise money received for enrolment and
discharge of apprentices, for admissions to the freedom, divers
rents, &c.
The following names are recorded, viz. : Thomas Erne,
William, son of John de Kelseye, David de Kyngestone, brewer,
John, son of Richard de Brayneford, Robert Saleman, " flouremongere,"
Walter de Athewyk, Thomas, son of Adam le Dorturer,
Richard Cake, Robert de Huntyngdon, butcher, William
de Langeford, clerk, Hugh Vicaries, John de Combe, Walter,
son of Henry de Place, Richard, son of John de Middeltone,
John de Wantenge, Margery, wife of Roger de Rokesle, Nicholas
Sprot,
"
batour," and Pressa the washerwoman (lotrice).
Sum total of receipts for the said two years 266 i is. 6d.
Fo. ccxxx. The expenses comprise payments of fees to Gregory de
Nortone, the Recorder, Hugh de Waltham, the Common Clerk,
John de "Ilford," Clerk of the Chamber, and William de "Iford,"
the Common Serjeant ; presents made to Sir Geoffrey Lescrop,
John de Eltham, the King's brother, when guardian of England,
Master Henry de Cliff, the Chancellor's deputy, and to
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the Bishop of Norwich ; expenses incurred at the Guildhall,
boat hire of the Chamberlain, the repair of the houses and
wharf of St. Botolph, and money paid to Simon de Swanlond
to meet expenses incurred at the coronation of Queen Philippa,
anno 3 Edward III.
Sum total of expenditure 258 8s. less one halfpenny. |