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Prior's Account Roll, xvii.7.
1436/7 Et pro Carpentar' et aliis operariis
conductis circa facturam
nove librarie et
nove arterie1 (sic) hoc anno
xxiii li. iii s. iii d.
Box 62. No. 2.
An indenture of lease of 1446 fixes the position of the lodge or shed
wherein the staff of masons worked:—
Indenture of Lease, dated 27 September, 1446, from Robert Colbroke,
sacrist, to Henry Chesman of Canterbury, Mercer, includes Unum gardinum
cum pertinenciis jacent' infra Cimiterium ecclesie Christi Cantuar
(lately held by Thomas Smythe) inter tenementum dictorum Prioris et
conventus versus south et gardinum ac domum Cementariorum vocat' le
loygge versus North et east et tenementum pertinens officio sacristarie
predicte versus west (for 16 years by rent of 12d. at Christmas).
Prior's Account Roll, xvii.9.
1453/4 Et solut' Iohanni Pyle vitriario pro vitriacione fenestrarum in
aula Prioris xxiii s. iiii d. (Pyle occurs elsewhere glazing the scaccarium
of the Prior.)
Et sol' diversis lathamis et operariis operantibus
circa reparacionem
hostrie infra curiam
xxv s. xi d.
Et sol' Rogero Mayhew, Iohanni Coke et aliis laborariis operantibus
circa reparacionem aule borialis xiiii s. viii d.
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ob. (Roger Mayhew
'mason' occurs in Mr. Oswald's extracts from Tanner MS. 165 in livery
lists of the 'Valetti Prioris' for 1453, 1454, 1455 and 1456.)
Et sol' Iohanni Vowler carpentario pro diversis
reparacionibus per ipsum
factis in Officio
Capellanie viii s. iii d.
Novum Opus Et solut' diversis lathamis operantibus
circa novum
opus Ecclesie hoc anno ut patet
per librum domini Prioris2 xx
iiii. v
li v s.
Prior's Account Roll, xvii.10.
1455/6 Et in expensis factis circa novam librariam in Collegio Oxon' ut
patet per librum domini Prioris xxxvi s.
Et sol' Iohanni Mayhew et Roberto Harington pro
emendacione horologii in
Camera domini
Prioris
xv s. viii d.
Prior's Account Roll, xvii,11.
1467/8 Et sol' Willelmo Bonevyle de Corff' pro
Petra marmorea pro Tumba
Thome Goldstone
nuper Prioris. iiii
li. x (margin torn)
1 Presumably a wooden water-main, unless "asteria,"
a word of uncertain meaning (perhaps a fireplace), is intended. Cf. B.
S. Snell, "Some Ancient Building Terms," in R. I. B. A.
Journal, December 18th, 1926.
2 As appears by the lord Prior's book (of accounts). |