f 398v (1 August)
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Hensloe | It is Ordered that Phillipp Hensloe shall before Bartholomewtide next well and sufficiently pyle and boorde two poles more or lesse of the Seware in Rose alley vpon payne to forfect for eithere pole then vndone | v s. |
Hensloe | It is Ordered that Phillipp Hensloe shall before Bartholomewtyd next Clense cast and scower the Gulley in Roase Alley vpon payne to forfect for not doeinge thereof | xl s. |
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f 406v (14 December)
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Hensloe | Att this courte appeared Phillipp Hensloe and prayd that he might be dischardged of the Order ymposed vpon him the first day of August 1604 for that he hath not any lands against the sewar in Roase aley where he was Ordered to pyle and bord two poles more or lesse where vpon he is dischardged by this Courte of the sayd Order and of the penalty ymposed on hym.// |
f 398v (1 August)
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Henslowe | It is ordered that Philip Henslowe shall before Bartholomewtide next well and sufficiently pile and board two poles, more or less, of the sewer in Rose Alley, upon pain to forfeit for either pole then undone | 5s |
Henslowe | It is ordered that Philip Henslowe shall before Bartholomewtide next cleanse, case, and scour the gully in Rose Alley, upon pain to forfeit for not doing thereof | 11s |
f 406v (14 December)
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Henslowe | At this court appeared Philip Henslowe and prayed that he might be discharged of the order imposed upon him the first day of August 1604, for that he has not any lands against the sewer in Rose Alley where he was ordered to pile and board two poles, more or less, whereupon he is discharged by this court of the said order and of the penalty imposed upon him. |
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.'