mb 4 (17 February)
| Also the said Iurie saie That Iohn Nurce did not before the xxvth daie of December last Cast out of the sewar against his house where the beares are the soile which is come into the said sewar out of the said house and cleere the same sewar and make and sett a grate of Iron in the sincke there to keepe the soile out of the said sewar wherefore hee hath forfeicted | xl s./ ordinatum/ |
| It is againe ordered That the said Nurce shall before the ffirst daie of Maie next cast all the said soile out of the said sewar and cleere the same sewar there sufficientlie and make and sett a sufficient grate of Iron in his sincke there as aforesaid vpon paine to forfeict | iiij li./ °the grate not done till Bartholomew./° |
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Nurce
Record title: Surrey and Kent Commissioners for Sewers' Court Minutes and
Orders
Repository:
LMA
Shelfmark: SKCS/029
Repository location: London
Most of the pre-1642 records of the Surrey and Kent commissioners for sewers are now deposited at the London Metropolitan archives. The LMA online catalogue succinctly describes the sewer records as follows: 'Early Commissioners of Sewers were solely concerned with land drainage and the prevention of flooding, not with the removal of sewage in the modern sense. In 1531 an Act of Sewers was passed which set out in great detail the duties and powers of Commissioners and governed their work until the 19th century. Gradually a permanent pattern emerged in the London area of seven commissions, five north and two south of the Thames, with, after the Great Fire, a separate commission for the City of London... Letters Patent for the Surrey and Kent Commissioners of Sewers were issued in 1554. Its minutes begin in 1570 and it was the earliest of the London Commissions to be established on an organised basis. The area of its jurisdiction ran from East Molesey in Surrey to the River Ravensbourne, and included Lambeth, Southwark, Bermondsey, Newington, Deptford, Rotherhithe, Clapham, Battersea, Camberwell, Vauxhall, Wandsworth, Putney, Barnes, Kew, Lewisham, Walworth, Kennington, Nine Elms, Peckham and New Cross. The area of jurisdiction remained the same throughout the three centuries during which it functioned.' See further Ida Darlington, 'The London Commissioners of Sewers and their Records,' in Prisca Munimenta: Studies in Archival & Administrative History presented to Dr A.E.J. Hollaender, Felicity Ranger (ed) (London, 1973), 282–98.
One further Sewer Commission Report for this period, 30 June 1630 (SKCS/030, mb 6), could not be examined for inclusion because it is now unfit for production.
17 February 1629/30; English with some Latin; parchment; 6 membranes; 255mm x 738–810mm; unnumbered; written on both sides; dirty and worn at lower edges, mbs 5 and 6 fragmentary at bottom; attached at the top with a string and tied. Now stored in a box with other rolls, SKCS/019–029.
© London Metropolitan Archives (City of London), SKCS/029