mb 1d (12 May)
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| Allyn | The saide
Iury fynde that Edward Allyn
esquyer ought to boorde and fill vpp halfe a pole of the wharfe lying againste
the Bearegarden and againste the
Thames, and also to make and sett a grate of Iron there to keepe that noe soyle
runne into the sewar It is Ordered that the sayde Edward Allyn shall beefore the foresayde day make and sett a suffycient grate of Iron as aforesayde vpon payne to forfeicte |
vj s. viij d. °done° |
| And also shall boorde and fill vpp the sayd halfe pole of the wharfe vpon payne to forfeicte | xiij s. iiij d. °done° |
Record title: Surrey and Kent Commissioners for Sewers' Court Minutes and
Orders
Repository:
LMA
Shelfmark: SKCS/019
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.
12 May 1608; English with some Latin; parchment; 2 membranes; 250mm x 800mm: mb 1, 760mm; faded especially the top of mb 1, dirty, worn at edges, with some small holes; attached at the top with a later (19th-c.?) protective 3rd membrane and tied. Now stored in a box with other rolls, SKCS/019-029.
© London Metropolitan Archives (City of London), SKCS/019