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Wednesday after the Feast of SS. Peter and Paul [29 June],
2,6 Edward I. [a.d. 1298], came Robert le Treyer and Stephen
Pykeman before H. le Galeys, Mayor, and the Aldermen, &c.,
and acknowledged they owed the Wardens of London Bridge
the sum of £60 4^. \od., jointly and severally, being arrears of
rent issuing from a house called "le Hales," which house was
in aid of the bridge aforesaid by gift and demise of Sir Henry le
Galeys, and was tenanted by the said Robert and Stephen under
the Commonalty of the City for the term of their lives at a
certain annual rent payable to the bridge ; the said sum to be
paid on Sunday after the Feast of St. Peter ad Vincula [ i Aug.],
the year aforesaid. In default, the house to be taken into the2l8 CALENDAR OF LETTER-BOOKS.
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hand of the City, and a ft. fa. to issue on their lands and tenements
for raising' the money to the use of the aforesaid bridge,
&c. And as touching the sum of 10 marks which the Wardens
of the bridge demanded, they say that they accounted for the
same before Thomas Cros and the sum was allowed them upon
their account, and they call compurgators, &c. Afterwards they
consent that if the money was not so allowed them it shall be
levied by 7?. fa. on their goods and chattels to the use of the said
bridge, &c.^ |