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| Also the said Iurie present the owners and tennantes of the beare garden on the banckside to repaire & amend the Thames bancke or | wharfe against their house being much decayed./ It is Ordered that the owner or tenant aforesaid shall before the Last daie of November next well and sufficientlie repaire and amend the Thames bancke or wharfe aforesaid vpon paine to forfeict | xx s./ °not done Candlemas° |
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Record title: Surrey and Kent Commissioners for Sewers' Court Minutes and
Orders
Repository:
LMA
Shelfmark: SKCS/025
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.
1624; English with some Latin; parchment; 7 membranes; 254mm x 725–790mm; unnumbered; written on both sides; dirty and worn at edges, mbs 3 and 4 fragmentary at bottom, mb 7 has small holes and fragmented along sides; 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/025