Surrey and Kent Commissioners for Sewers' Court

LMA: SKCS/018

f 422v (6 August)

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Hinslowe       It is Ordered that Phillip Hinslowe gentleman shall before Michelmas next well and sufficiently pyle and boorde three poles more or lesse of the bancke against his playhouse in Maydlane vpon paine to forfeict for every pole then vndone      xx s.
Hinslowe       It is Ordered that Phillipp Hinslowe gentleman shall before Michelmas next pullvpp & take cleane awaye out of the sewar his two postes which stande in the sewar vnder his Bridge against the said playe house vpon paine to forfeict      xl s./

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f 426v (4 October)

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Hinslowe/       It is Ordered that Phillip Hinslow gentleman shall before St Andrewes day next well and sufficiently pile and boorde iij poles more or lesse of the banck against his playhouse in Maidelane vpon paine to forfeict for euery pole then vndone      xl s.
Hinslowe/       It is Ordered that Phillip Hinslowe shall before St Andrewes day next pull vp & take cleane away his ij postes which stand in the sewar vnder his bridge against the said playhouse vpon paine to forfeict      iiij li.

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  • Marginalia
    • °not done
      sistebat et exoneratur°

      [Footnote: sistebat et exoneratur: 'he appeared (before the judge) and is exonerated']

    • °not done
      sistebat et exoneratur°

      [Footnote: sistebat et exoneratur: 'he appeared (before the judge) and is exonerated']

    • °not done of his handes°
    • °not done out of his handes°
  • Footnotes
    • It is: display script
    • sistebat et exoneratur: 'he appeared (before the judge) and is exonerated'
    • sistebat et exoneratur: 'he appeared (before the judge) and is exonerated'
  • Modernized Text

    f 422v (6 August)

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    Hinslowe       It is ordered that Philip Hinslowe, gentleman, shall before Michaelmas next well and sufficiently pile and board three poles, more or less, of the bank against his playhouse in Maiden Lane, upon pain to forfeit for every pole then undone 20s

    Hinslowe       It is ordered that Philip Hinslowe, gentleman, shall before Michaelmas next pull up and take clean away out of the sewer his two posts which stand in the sewer under his bridge against the said playhouse, upon pain to forfeit 40s
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    f 426v (4 October)

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    Henslowe/       It is ordered that Philip Henslowe, gentleman, shall before St Andrew’s day next well and sufficiently pile and board three poles, more or less, of the bank against his playhouse in Maiden Lane, upon pain to forfeit for every pole then undone 40s

    Henslowe/       It is ordered that Philip Henslowe shall before St Andrew’s day next pull up and take clean away his two posts which stand in the sewer under his bridge against the said playhouse, upon pain to forfeit 4l
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  • Glossed Terms
    • forfeict n inf to forfeit; forfect
  • Endnote

    By 29 September 1605 Henslowe's lease of the Little Rose estate had expired. For obvious reasons he was unwilling to pay for further maintenance costs and the next entry in the Sewer Commissioners' Minutes names Box, probably one of the feoffees of the Thomasyn Symonds Charity, St Mildred Bread Street, as the person responsible for related property costs.

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  • Document Description

    Record title: Surrey and Kent Commissioners for Sewers' Court
    Repository: LMA
    Shelfmark: SKCS/018
    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 collections catalogue succinctly describes this source 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.

    John Norden's 1593 map shows the lines of the Bankside sewers (or drainage ditches). There were three running along the Little Rose property: two to the south along Maiden Lane and one on the west side adjacent to the Bear Garden property.

    3 January 1568/9–25 April 1606; English with some Latin; paper; i + 520 + i; 410mm x 280mm (text size variable); index foliated in pencil 1–24 relating to ff 1–210 of the text, ink foliation follows, 1–444, pencil foliation 445–70 (all blank), a second index numbered in pencil 1–21, 21b, 22, 22b, 23, 23b follows the text for ff 211–444; restored, conserved and rebound in beige vellum with corded bands on spine with leather ties. Now stored in a box; within the box also are the previous red leather boards and spine with 'SEWERS | SURREY & KENT | MINUTES | 1 | 1557–1606.'

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    © London Metropolitan Archives (City of London), SKCS/018

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