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Description: | William Parker and William Temper, chamberlains, John Robinson, alderman.
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Account of Reginald Duchefeld, bailiff and collector, of rents and farms, lands and tenements belonging to the Gild of Blessed Mary, Virgin, in Boston and other vills, from Thursday in the week of Pentecost 1518, to the same day, 1519.
f.1 Arrears
Rents of assize.
f.1v-4v Other rents.
f.1v-3 Boston.
Details of Boston topography and residents.
Properties in Flesshware Row, opposite the cemetery, chambers under the Chantry, tenements and lands in Ratonrowe, beyond Depulgote, against Claley house in Bargate, saynt John brige, Bargate, including farm of the great inn at Barbrige called le Lyon, Southende, market place, including farm of the great Crown inn situate within the market, west side of the water, Forthende, Fysshstath, Lincoln Rawe.
f.3 Wyberton.
ff.3v-4 Skirbeck, including Nodilhill on the east side of the water, Leverton grene, Horsecrofte.
f.4 Benington (Holland).
Leake.
f.4v Wigtoft.
Longfenne.
Toft by Boston, in Longelands.
Wrangle.
Lands lately acquired from John Wych.
f.5 Sale of wood.
Total of rents with arrears: £90 6s. 2 ½d.
ff.5-8v Charges and allowances.
f.5 Rents paid.
f.5v Bailiff's fee.
Allowance of rents of assize.
ff.5v-6 Allowances of rents and farms, properties as above, with further place names. Includes farm of one piece of land in Benington (Holland) late in the tenure of William Abraham, charged at 4s. 4d., now laid waste by "fluxum et refluxum maris".
f.6 Fallowing of arble lands: allowances for lands in Longfenne and Wyberton.
ff.6v-7 Repairs of houses, ditching of pastures, and "marinal'" [lands flooded by sea ?], with cost of "le Stathe". Includes for ditching 24 roods of pasture against Wasshyngton grene and 25 roods at Fendyke, ditching at Huldyke and in Leke 70 ½ roods and 5 feet, and enlarging the ditches of the pasture called Wykthoste; and for ditching "marinal'": as in the price of one old "le bote" bought for the Sedyke and for putting the same in the ground for the safe keeping of the salt water, together with money paid for 600 "le Withe Kyddes" at 6s. for a hundred, bought for the Sedyke of Blessed Mary, otherwise "le landyng" of the same Kyddes at 3d. the hundred, more on account of the expense of the "marinal'" at Wyberton. Payments for "le Stathe" include carpenters' work, purchase of timber, and other necessaries.
f.7 Allowance of wood.
Disbursements on the observation of anniversaries.
Payments to thirteen poor persons in the almshouse.
Payment of farm of clerks: 13s. 4d. each to Richard Hykkes and Nicholas Blewet, clerks of the gild, for so much allowed them on the payment of their farms.
f.7v Disbursements for one regard of the steward of the courts of the Abbey of Westminster.
Costs of Noah's ark: money paid to eight men carrying "naviculum Noie" on the days of the Holy Spirit, the Paraclete, and of Corpus Christi, and other costs for the same, including purchase of 1 lb. of gunpowder, and "le carteclowtes".
Sum of these allowances: £58 15s. ¼d., and he owes £32 4s. 11 ¾d.
Further allowances, therefore he ows only £31 2s. 3 ¾d.
f.8 Respites: £4 11s. 4d., therefore he owes only £26 10s. 11 ¾d., which is accounted for as follows:-
f.8-8v "Super": additional expenditure. Includes 74s. 8d. spent on sluice for farm late of William Fosse for the last four years.
Various sums charged to the account of William Hudson, late bailiff.
28s. in the hands of Master Watson, Master of the Grammar School, for the farm of one pasture in his tenure this year.
ff.9-10v Account of William Bennett, farmer of all the lands etc. and other possessions of the Gild of Blessed Mary of Boston in Holbeach and other vills which late were of William Calowe, esq., and of William Cutlard, esq., Agnes Thorneburgh, and John Randall, and of Francis Broune, with sale of salt and other things for one whole year ending at the feats of St Philip and St James, 1519.
Arrears
Lease of lands at fee-farm: £25 rent and farm of all the lands, tenements, meadows, pastures, saltmarshes, together with the farm of the saltworks and other possessions of this gild, leased to him in fee farm (casualties and sale of wood reserved).
Proceeds from sale of wood.
Total of rental with arrears: £42 9s. 5d.
Allowances: for making faggots. Money paid to the Alderman of the gild on the accountant's recognizance.
Sum of these allowances: £16 3s. 4d., and he owes £26 6s. 1d., which is accounted for as follows:-
ff.9v-10v Rents due from tenants for various properties. Include 53s. 4d. due from Thomas Scorer, late tenant here, for ancient arrears for which he was outlawed at the suit of the gild; 9s. 9d. from the abbot of Crowland for rent of assize from pasture called Willesaybrigge for nine years; other arrears of rent of assize. Place names include Badyll, Crakenrowe, pasture called Colmanrige, and land called Tyddes Drove and Rummeys.
ff.11-12v Account of George Howson, bailiff and collector of rents and farms late of Hugh Withom, kt., and Katherine his wife, lying in Kirton (Holland), Sutterton, Algarkirk, and Fosdyke, and put in mortmain to the use of the gild by John Robynson, then executor of the testament and last will of the said Katherine, and now Alderman of the said gild, for year ending at St Philip and St James, 1519
Arrears:
Rents from farm of lands and tenements described as follows: late of Hugh Withom, kt.; lately acquired from Leo Dymmok, kt.; lately acquired from Hugh Fissher; lately acquired from John Parlebene; in Algarkirk, lately acquired from Roger Hunnynge and Nicholas Hunnynge; lately acquired from Simon Robert; lately acquired from Thomas Stanes in le Scarres in Algarkirk; in Algarkirk and Holbeach lately acquired of Francis Browne.
Total of rental, with arrears: £88 16s. 1 ½d.
ff.11v-12v Allowances and disbursements:
Include payment of rents, bailiff's fee, fallowing of farms, making of ditches and hedges, including making "le landyke".
Sum of allowances: £36 ? | Temporal: | 1518-1519 | Source: | Lincolnshire County Council | Identifier: | http://www.lincstothepast.com/Records/Re... | Go to resource |
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