mb 2 (8 April)
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| Also they present Iacob Meade of the Parrish of St Saviours in Southwark for causinge and sufferinge the soyle of his noysome pond to bee lett and to runne into the sewar in Maide Lane in the said parish of St Saviors to the greate annoyaunce thereof wherefore hee hath forfeicted | xl s./ |
| Also
they saie that the said Iacob Meade ought to repaire and make vp the bancke where the Cutt was
made into the sewar soe as the soyle issue not into the sewar in Maidelane out
of his noysome pond aforesaid./ It is Ordered that the said Iacob Meade
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xl s./ °done° |
| Also they saie that the said Iacob Meade ought to repaire the wharfe to the footewaie side in Maidelane aforesaid in two severall places the one anenst the Cutt made in the bancke & the other neere vnto the doore goeinge into the bearegarden out of Maide Lane./ It is Ordered that said Iacob Meade shall before the xxiiijth daie of Iune next well and sufficientlie repaire and amend the said wharfe in the two severall places afore said vpon paine to forfeict | x °done° |
Meade of the Bearegarden./
Meade./
Meade./
Record title: Surrey and Kent Commissioners for Sewers' Court Minutes and
Orders
Repository:
LMA
Shelfmark: SKCS/023
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.
8 April 1617; English with some Latin; parchment; 5 membranes; 245mm wide x 740–770mm; mbs 2–4 numbered in ink; written on both sides; dirty and worn at edges, mb 5 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/023