Cecil T. Davis: Wandsworth Churchwardens’ Accounts, 1631

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1630-31

THE following transcripts are in continuation of those published in Vol. XX of the Society’s Collections: the first section, with an Introduction, will be found in Vol. XV (p. 80).

Page 181.

1630-31.

Wansworth

The accompte of M^r Hugh Jones and William Burton Churchwardens of the pishe of Wandsworth in the County of Surrey made and taken the two and T_wentieth day of May 1631, for all moneyes receiued and disbursed for the said Parishe of Wandsworth since the Nynth day of May Anno dñi 1630 as followeth.

This continues directly from the 1620-1630 volume's own closing page ("Page 180 blank.") -- no instalment or account year has been skipped between the two volumes.

Receiptes

lis.d.

Receiued from the pishe of Wandsworth in ready money the somme of000000

Recõd of M^r Dison which was procured from friends towards the reedifyinge and buildinge the Steeple of Wandsworthe5……

Recõd of M^r Millington beinge the poores money given by M^rs Bowyar which he had at interest10……

Both Mr Millington (a churchwarden in several 1620s accounts) and the Bowyar/Bowyer family (linked to the "Aires Children" poor-law episode in the 1620-1630 volume) reappear here, continuing threads from the previous volume.

Midsomer quarter:

Recõd of the Tennants of the Oziers for this quarter210…

Recõd of Goodman Harper for the like1105

Recõd of Thomas Bridger for the like…106

Recõd of Thomas Brisley for the like…176

Recõd of M^r Glascock for this quarter for the Clock acre which formerly was paid to the Clarke for setting y^e Clock…34

Recõd of Goodmā Yett for the like…34

Recõd of Goodmā Reddinge for the like…5…

Recõd of Daniell Tharpe for this quarters rent…10…

The full rent of this quarter is — 6 : 10 : 1

Recõd for buriall of a Nurse childe in the Church…13…

Recõd of Ju^o: Shermandine and other the Executõ^rs of Norton att Interest for which the pishe doth saue vs harmelesse50……

Recõd of Goodman Campion for three boords which were bought for the Church…4…

Recõd of Goodman Bidgood for the Church which Goodman Campion omitted to make recõd…2…

Recõd of Goodman Campion for eight Loade of Rubbishe…4…

Recõd of my selfe for old stuffe of a house which was prized by Goodman Teere and Goodmā [blank] att…11…

Recõd for a graue in the Church for a nursse Childe…13…

Recõd for a graue in the Church for M^r Powell…68

[Steven Powell, gent. bur. July 27]

Recõd of John Shermandyne and Taylor att Interest by order of the Vestry60……

Page 182.

October
20 : 1630

Michaelmas quarter

lis.d.

Recõd the rents of the Tennants before named due to the pish for this Michaelmas quarter6101

Recõd of the Lord Grandison for which I haue giuen a note to be rep’d back by the Churchwardens, three moneths after demannd1116…

Recõd of M^r Millingtõ Interest the poores money…12…

Recõd of M^r Kennersley for the Church1……

Recõd of the executõ^rs of M^r Smith to be giuen to y^e poore15……

Henry Smith's executors continue distributing his estate to the Wandsworth poor -- following the £20 poor-relief gift (1627-28) and the £50 steeple contribution (1629-30) recorded in the previous volume, a further £15 arrives here.

Recõd for a nursse Childs graue in the Church…134

Christmas quarter

Recõd the rente of the Tennants beforenamed due to the pishe for this Christmas quarter6101

Recõd of M^r Richard Caunt which J and W^m Burton are bound for at vj: monethes, for the pishe and with the vestries order100……

Recõd of D: Merrick for the poore368

Recõd of M^r Walter, a guift to the Church…10…

Recõd for a nursse Childe graue in the Church…134

Ladie daie quarter

Recõd the rents of the Tennants before named due to the pishe for our Ladie daie quarter6101

Recõd of the assessem^t made by the pishe towards the new buildinge the Steeple59126

The steeple project, dominant in the closing pages of the previous volume (1629-30), continues to be funded here through a formal parish assessment -- a large £59 12s. 6d. levy on top of the £95+ raised there and the £5 "procured from friends" recorded at the top of this account (Page 181).

Recõd for a nursse childs graue in the Church…134

Recõd of M^r Herrick a guift to the Church…10…

Page 183.

1630
May 9

Disbursments vt seguitur.

lis.d.

Paid and spent at the Taverne after the auditinge the Churchwardens accompt…5…

p^d Edward Moore Cunstable for trayninge and spent as by his bill…10…

p^d and spent att our visitacõn dinner…158

p^d for the oath and presentment…1…

p^d for our boate hire vp and downe…26

p^d for an howre glasse for the Church……6

p^d for making Cleane the Church and churchyeard……5

p^d to M^r Kinsman to give to M^r Carter for his paines in certifyinge the Bishop: about the Charge of the steeple1……

p^d to M^r Kinsman in pʒe for his survey1……

p^d by water twice and back to the bishopp and Lo: Keep about the breife…56

p^d to goodman Cripps as by acquittance10……

p^d by water to the Bishopp about the briefe…3…

The Lord Keeper, the Bishop, and the "breife" (the royal fundraising licence) -- all last seen at the close of the 1620-1630 volume's steeple-rebuild saga -- continue to require payments and journeys "by water" here, showing the project's officialdom didn't end with the previous volume's final page.

Midsomer quarter

p^d the Clarke for washing the Church lynnen for a yeere…120

p^d the Glazier for this quarter by Consent…26

p^d John Owin for keeping the inocent for this qʒter16…

p^d old Young for this quarter…1…

p^d the Clarke for wryting the pishe bussines this quarter…68

p^d the house of Correccõn for this quarter…83½

p^d for bringing the Church stuff from M^r Dukes…13

p^d to Goodman Campion last Churchwarden due to him on his accompt Some of369

p^d by Water and Charges of our horsses sundrie times to the Lord Keeper…84

p^d and spent w^th Shermandyne and the Executõ^r at the receipt of the money…210

p^d and given to the Lord Keepers porter…2…

p^d and given M^r Duncombe to paie his chardges in gooinge to Battersey…1…

p^d Goodman Cripps as p acquittance10……

Page 184.

lis.d.

p^d Goodman Cripps as p acquittance20……

p^d M^r Kinseman Surueyõr2……

p^d for sendinge in our Presentment……4

p^d for sendinge a ʒter to M^r Sheppard about M^r Powell to put in a Caueatt……6

p^d spent ingoeinge seuerall tymes to the Lo: Keeps w^th pishe…410

p^d Widowe Poynter for searchinge seuerall people…3…

p^d goeinge foure seuerall tymes to the Lo: Keep to . . .…54

p^d Goodman Cripps as p acquittance10……

p^d spent in goeing to fetch money from Battersey with 2s. which Mõ Duncombe had for his paines…64

p^d Goodman Cripps as by his bill30……

p^d for mending the Church pixhaxe…1…

p^d given to Mõ Carter for Wrytinge the seasm^t faire…2…

p^d Goodman Cripps by acquittance5……

p^d draweinge a certificate at the quarter sessions by the Clarke of the peace…1…

p^d spent by vs there…56

p^d sendinge Haruey to Guilford to the Clarke of the peace…40

p^d for wrytinge a Certificate……6

Goodman Cripps -- almost certainly Edmund Cripps, whose £162 steeple-labour bill was the largest single payment in the previous volume -- continues to be paid in large instalments here (£20, £10, £30, £5), suggesting the steeple works and their settlement carried on well past that volume's own close.

Michaelmas quarter

p^d to the house of Correction for Michaelmas quarter…83½

p^d John Owin this quarter for keepinge innocent childe16…

p^d the Clarke for this quarter by Consent…68

p^d the Clarke this quarter for the Clock acre…34

p^d old Young for this quarter…10

p^d the Glazier for his quartridge…26

p^d M^r Allen for M^r Allen for M^rs Tyroes Sermon…10…

[M^r Robert Allen, Vicar of Wandsworth, bur 13 June 1631]

The payee's name is printed twice in a row ("M^r Allen for M^r Allen for M^rs Tyroes Sermon") -- an apparent duplication in Davis's own typesetting, transcribed exactly as printed rather than silently corrected. More significantly: Robert Allen, vicar of Wandsworth throughout the entire 1620-1630 volume and recipient of the annual Tyroe memorial sermon fee in most of those years, died within weeks of this payment -- his own burial recorded 13 June 1631. This is the last mention of him in these accounts.

p^d spent in goeinge 3 tymes with some of the pish to the Lord Grandisons…33

p^d given to the Lo: Grandisons man who brought vs a ʒter…2…

p^d the Lo: Grandison quit rent for Brisleys house……6

p^d M^r Kinseman for stone and worke by order from Cripps as by acquittance1511…

p^d goeinge to Lambeth w^th others to the Lord Keepers…2…

Page 185.

lis.d.

p^d and spent in two seuerall daies to gett the Justices hands…73

p^d wrytinge a Certificate…16

p^d for goeinge 3 seuerall tymes to Lo: Keeps vp and downe…56

p^d Barrett and Milles sending to M^r Waller……6

p^d given to the Lord Keepers porter…26

p^d given to M^r Tomson Secretary2……

p^d Randall for an Iron to drawe vp the bells by…5…

p^d him for mendinge a hinge and Lock……6

p^d quitrent for the Church lands…24

p^d our visitacõn dinner…19…

p^d for a booke and puttinge in the presentm^t……10

p^d by water to the [Courte erased] visitacõn…26

p^d by Water to the Courte to haue an absolute answere about the breife…36

p^d spent in goinge to the Justices to gett vs eased of the charge they Laid on vs for Newington…1…

The parish was fighting a financial "charge" imposed on it "for Newington" -- likely a cross-parish poor-relief levy under the settlement laws -- with payments both to resist it (petitioning the Justices) and to comply with it (the later "poore of Newington" payments below), a common tension in this period's parish administration.

p^d M^r Kinseman the surveyõ^r1……

p^d the poore as by the booke312…

p^d Interest to John Shermandyne3……

p^d and given the poore of the money recõd of the Executõ^rs of M^r Smith as p the booke at large appeareth9176

Henry Smith's estate continues to be a major source of poor relief here, this single distribution (£9 17s. 6d.) alone exceeding many other whole-quarter charitable totals in this account.

p^d sendinge one to Chersey with two paire of brasses to new cast…18

Chertsey again -- the same bell foundry (Bryan Eldridge's, per the footnote in the previous volume's Build 26) that cast Wandsworth's new peal in 1629-30, now recasting further metal fittings.

Christmas quarter

p^d Goodman Owin for this quarter for the inocent Childe16…

p^d him to buy Clothes for it…6…

p^d to the house of Correction…83½

p^d the Clarke for wrytinge pishe bussines by consent…68

p^d him for the Clock acre this quarter…34

p^d the Glazier quartridge…26

p^d Robõt Gardner to leaue the pishe…10…

p^d for ½ C: of spainsh Iron…9…

p^d bringing it vp by water……6

p^d the poore of the money recõd of the executors of M^r Smith as p the poors booke at large appeares3126

p^d the poore of Newington1126

p^d spent goinge to the Justices…16

Page 186.

lis.d.

p^d Goodman Moore and Barrett Constables which they gaue to poore passengers as appeares p bill…1510

p^d given the bell frame makers to drinke at twise…16

p^d Randall for makinge fiue greate hookes twenty staples and foure boults…8…

Ladiedaie quarter.

p^d the Clarke this quarter for the pishe bussines…68

p^d him for the Clock acre…34

p^d John Owin for the poore Childe16…

p^d the Glazier this q^ter…26

p^d old Younge…1…

p^d the house of Correccõn…83½

p^d for the bell Clapps w^t 81^li at 7^d p ^li and his boate hire 1^s: only there was abated him 2.8^d for old Clapps29…

p^d for 100 of tiles to paue the Church…84

p^d Bidgood and his Labouror a daies wages…28

p^d for six baggs of Lyme…20

p^d Dauson for mendinge some seates in the Church & nailes…1…

p^d for bringing the tyles from London and 3 single quarters to make a paire of tressells for the Church and for the 3 quarters Som…26

p^d Teere for making the tressells…16

p^d a Seirgion about Waterfall…2…

p^d John Shermandine in full of two bonds100……

p^d him full for Interest of 100^li for 9 months as by the bonds appeareth266

p^d makinge a bond to seale to M^r Caunt…1…

p^d for boordes for the bell fluore2……

p^d for a shouell for the Church…18

p^d for nailes for the Church……6

p^d the bell frame maker about the frame 6^li and 16^s for some bauldricks of wood616…

p^d Randall for Iron worke about them…76

p^d the po: the money recõd of D: Merrick as by the poores booke appeareth368

p^d the Coppie of M^rs Powells will…26

[M^rs Susanne Powell, widowe bur 1 Mar 1630 Will proved 23 Feb 1630-1 by Sibil Sturdevant (P.C.C. 17 St. John)]

p^d for pauinge a graue in the Church……10

p^d for two Cases for the silver Communion potts¹…9…

1 See S. A. C., Vol. XII (1895), p. 62.

A rare self-referencing footnote: Davis points to a separate article on the parish's silver communion plate published in an earlier volume of the same journal (Surrey Archaeological Collections), some 35 years before this instalment.

Page 187.

pd Randall for Iron ringes and staples for the well holes in the Steeple…12

pd to John Shermandyne and Taylor Interest of 60li due in March116…

pd to Goodman Cripps as by acquittance5……

pd for pewes and pillers &c. bought of the pĩshe of Creechurch16……

pd the Clockmaker a whole yeres quartridge…10…

pd given to Carters to drinke…110

pd for fiue Carters to bringe the stuffe w^th the toll att the bridge134

pd Teere for his paines two dayes…34

pd M^r Sturtenants man…26

pd Labourers and the Clarke to helpe loade the stuffe w^th boatehire…56

pd for eight quarters for the Church & bringinge from waterside…87

pd to helpe vnloade a Carte……6

pd Goodman Cripps as by acquittance10……

pd out to the poore of our Towne and to poore passengers as by the pĩtieulers appeares117

pd Goodman Teere settinge vp the benches att Church gate and for nailes…39

pd Goodman Hammond money given to poore passengers…1…

pd Goodman ffowler for the like…210

Summa tota receipts34812

Summa tota disbursem^ts30790

Summa tota remayninge40122

Page 188 blank.

1631-32

Page 189.

1631-32.

The accomptes of William Burton and M^r Edmund ffynimor Churchwardens of Wandsworth in the County of Sur made and taken the Seauenteenth day of May 1632 for all moneys receiued and disbursed for the said pĩshe of Wandsworth since the Two and twentieth day of May, 1631, as followeth

Receiptes

lis.d.

Receiued from the pĩshe of Wandsworth in readie money the Sūmme of38110

Receiued of M^r Childe beinge a legacie giuen to the poore of Wandsworth by M^rs Powell00100

This ten-pound legacy is the bequest of the widow Susanne Powell, whose will was footnoted on Page 187 (proved 23 Feb 1630–1) — paid into the parish accounts within a year of her death.

Recõd of M^r Cullens made Sarai0050

Recõd of M^r Duke for a peece of wainscott0010

Recõd of M^r Glascock0068

Recõd of M^r Arnold for our Church Lands2000000

Recõd of the Bellfounder10000

Recõd of the Tenn^ts of the Oziers for three quarters rent due at our Lady Day last to the Church9000

Recõd of Willĩĩ Harper three quarters rent due at the same tyme to the Church4113

Recõd at the same tyme of Widowe Bridger three quarters rent due to the Church1116

Recõd of M^r Robert Jones for the Church300

Recõd of M^r Wilcox for the Church220

Recõd of M^r Wilford of M^r Wilford [sic] for refusinge to be Churchwarden accordinge to an order200

Recõd for a Childs graue in the Church0134

Recõd for two bells ringinge the same tyme016

Recõd of Richard Reddinge for one acre of Church Land lyinge at the Creekes month100

Recõd of Goodman Mott for a peece of Ashe014

Recõd for sherendalls for the whole yere010

Suma tota recepts264157

Recõd also from Willĩĩ Burton two Communion flagon potts of Siluer, two pulpett Cusshions, one siluer Comunion Cupp, two Linnen table Clothes, one surplus and a black hearsecloth

A rare full inventory of the parish's church plate and linen, handed over between outgoing and incoming churchwardens rather than valued in money — a reminder that the accounts recorded goods as well as cash.

Page 190.

Disbursements

lis.d.

Given by Consent to a woman who had a passe016

pd the Clarke by a generall consent for bussines done0100

Given to a poore maymed souldier by Consent006

pd spent att our Visitaõon and by water0160

pd our booke of Articles and for our oath018

pd to the waterman to and from London026

pd to another mayned souldier010

pd spent when the accompt was giuen vpp050

pd by Consent to put Joane Babbs daughter prentice0100

[Agnes, dau. of Joane Babbs, a bastard, bapt. 24 Nov. 1617]

pd for fellinge the trees in the Church yeard020

pd the waterman to and from London when I went about the Bastard at Worseyes020

Midsomer qʒter.

pd the Clarke for washinge the Church lynnen for the whole yere0120

pd him for the pĩshe bussines by Consent then due…68

pd him for the Clock acre for that qʒter034

pd old Younge for his quartridge010

pd Goodman Minter for the haspe of the Churchgate026

pd Danson for worke done by him010

pd Barnsley for worke010

pd for my Charges about the bastard aforesaid and by water020

pd Hartwell by Consent for keepinge the Childe026

pd old Joane for her rent050

pd the house of Correcõon for Midsomer qʒter083½

pd by Consent to M^r Kinsman3100

pd for sawinge the trees050

pd a Labourer to bringe the tymber frõ the pitt006

pd John Owin for the Innocent Childe160

Page 191.

lis.d.

pd for makinge Cleane the Church006

pd by Consent to M^r Trapps Concerninge a robbry0120

pd him for gatheringe the money020

pd M^r Webb for rent for the Almeshouses0150

pd Charges at Guylford qʒtʒ sessions about the bastard0150

pd M^r Cooke the same tyme about the same0100

Given to three poore men with passes016

pd Owin for makinge Cleane the Church016

pd for scowringe the Church armour050

pd by Consent to a poore man and 4 children010

pd Meades for worke in the Church yeard006

pd M^r Jones concerninge the Church Land020

Given to a poore minister020

pd spent at Battersey on the pĩshe bussines020

pd for mendinge the Church shouell004

pd the smith for a plate for the bells006

pd him for a spike002

pd him for 4 holfasts and 4 staples for the Clock016

pd for worke about the Clock0010

pd for the frame about the Clock050

pd the smith for mendinge for mendinge [sic] the staples for one of the bells014

pd to a poore sick man with a passe by Consent016

pd D: Leo¹ for preachinge M^rs Tyroes sermon0100

D. Leo appears here as the new incumbent conducting Mrs Tyroe's endowed memorial sermon — Davis's own footnote below identifies him simply as “Vicar”, marking the succession following Robert Allen's death and burial on 13 June 1631 (recorded in the previous account year).

Michelmas quarter.

pd the Clarke this qʒt^r by Consent for pĩsh bussines068

pd him for the Clock acre034

pd John Owin for keepinge the innocent Child160

1 Vicar.

pd old Jone for her quarter026

pd the Glazier for his quartridge026

pd my goeinge with witnesses seuall tymes to the Justices about the pĩsh affaires0160

pd to haue the witnesses to Peckham and to M^r Sheppard the Regester010

Page 192.

lis.d.

pd my Charges 4 daies my attendance on y^e Justices080

pd the house of Correcõon this qʒter083½

pd old Young to his quartridge010

pd the Clockmaker by Consent200

pd the ringers when Ladie Mary¹ was borne026

pd Goodman Mylles to doe bussines att London004

pd Goodmā Barrett for bringēg the ozier lease002

Given to a poore scholler006

pd for our Visitaõon dinner and our horses100

pd to the Cunstables by Consent083

Ladie Mary was the eldest daughter of Charles I and Henrietta Maria, later Princess Royal and Princess of Orange — Davis's footnote gives her birth as 6 Nov. 1631 (modern authorities usually give 4 Nov.), marriage on 2 May 1648 to William II, Prince of Orange, and death 24 Dec. 1660, noting her only son became William III.

Christmas qʒter

pd the Clarke by Consent for this qʒter068

pd old Joane this qʒter026

pd old Young010

pd the Glazier his quartridge026

pd a poore man for a breife from Gylford side026

Given a poore Irishwoman who had losse by sea016

pd to the house of Correcõon083½

Given to two poore men by Consent020

pd to Henry Dynes for a loade of bricks056

pd for helpe to vnloade some wainscott006

pd Goodmā Warner the joyner for worke in Church0160

pd Ambrose Rice for 5 daies & a halfe worke then0110

pd Dauson and his boy for 6 daies work in y^e Church0140

pd Henry Dynes for two daies worke030

pd his Labouror for one day & a halfe019

pd more to Ambrose Rice for one weekes worke0120

pd Goodman Warner for a weekes worke0120

pd Dauson and his boy088

pd more to Ambrose Rice a weekes worke0120

pd to Goodman Warner for the like0120

Page 193.

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pd Dauson for 4 daies and a halfes worke076

pd his boy for 4 daies and a halfes worke028

pd Ambrose Rice for a weekes woorke0120

pd Dauson and his boy for a weekes worke0140

pd Henry Dynes for one dayes worke0110

pd his Labouror for the like012

pd for 5 busshels of lyme018

pd Goodman Warner for a weekes worke0120

pd Goodman Rice for the like0120

pd Dauson for 5 daies and a halfe084

pd his boye for 4 daies028

pd more to Goodman Warner a weekes worke0120

pd Ambrose Rice for 2 daies worke040

pd Goodman Rice to goe to London to buy boordes006

pd Dauson for 2 daies and a halfes worke044

pd his boy for 2 daies work014

pd Ambrose Rice for makinge the dyall100

pd him for the freeze vnder the Gallery1160

pd him for a table frame and mendinge the boord0100

pd for 2 [?] for the funt doore010

pd Ambrose Rice and his mā 4 daies worke0160

pd Dauson for 3 daies worke050

pd Dauson for takinge downe the greate bell and for helpe to him and for bread and beere060

pd Dauson goinge to see the bell wayed at Chersey026

pd Gamõn for two daies worke to helpe vp the bell and the Dyall020

pd Willĩĩ Crenshaw for a daies worke010

pd for bread and beere for the workemen020

pd Dauson for 3 daies worke and better, about the bells and the Dyall056

A church clock-dial being built and the great bell taken down and carried to Chersey (Chertsey) to be weighed — the same foundry town seen earlier in this volume and in the 1629-30 steeple rebuild recorded in the previous volume.

Page 194.

lis.d.

pd for 300 of bricks for the Dyall, and for tenne busshells of lyme092

pd Goodman Dynes and another for one daies worke034

pd 3 Labourors for two daies and a halfe026

pd Henry Dynes for one day and a halfe029

pd his Labouror for one dayes worke010

pd for read Oaker003

pd Dauson for worke done about Wid: Pates house080

pd for nailes for the same012

pd Henry Dynes for worke done there038

pd his Labouror014

pd for Lath nailes for the same026

pd for two Duble quarters016

pd for a rafter for the same014

pd Barrett for bringinge them home008

pd for a Loade of Loame010

pd Goodmā Cripps for 3 peeces of tymber020

pd for 3 baggs of Lyme for Goody Pates house034

pd for 4 boords044

pd for 4 bundles of sap Lath041

pd for 100 and a halfe of bricks020

pd Henry Dynes for worke done at Goody Pates0110

pd his Labouror010

pd Dauson and his boy for 2 daies worke a peece048

pd Henry Dynes & his Labouror for one daie030

pd Dauson for worke about the bells070

pd Goodman Legg for 3 daies worke030

pd Phillip ffalconar for one day010

pd for bread and beere for the workmen026

pd Dauson for hewinge the third bell036

pd the bellfounder7160

pd Dauson for puttinge a gudgion to the third bell016

pd Goodman Shermandyne money borrowed6000

pd him Interest for 9 months & a halfe2170

The third bell is recast this account year (the bellfounder paid £7 16s.), while £60 more is borrowed at interest from Goodman Shermandyne — a name already familiar from this parish's steeple-borrowing arrangements in the previous volume.

Page 195.

lis.d.

pd M^r Caunt beinge money borrowed100000

pd him for intrest150

Given two poore men who had losse by fire020

Given to two seafairinge men by Consent006

pd for more nailes036

pd John Phillips for a baldrick030

pd for quit rent for the Church Land due at Michaelmas Last & for the acquittance024

pd spent on the delivery of the Church Land to M^r Arnold036

This is the same Mr Arnold who paid the parish £200 "for our Church Lands" on Page 189 — this line shows the reciprocal transaction, the churchwardens paying quit rent and delivery costs on land conveyed to him.

pd the muster m[aste]r for the Towne Armor020

pd the Tailor for makinge a Cotton Coate for the innocent Childe at John Owins014

pd for lyninges to the bodyes and sleeues0010

pd for makinge a Wascoate004

pd for makinge new bodyes to his old Coate006

pd for Canuas to the bodyes006

pd for Cotton to the bodies and wascoate0110

pd for 34 deale boords for the Church1198

pd for 16 oaken Rafters for the Church0188

pd for 76 foote of Elme boord064

pd for 6 slitt deale boords for the Church076

pd John ffoord for bringinge home the boords & timber030

pd for 20^ti deale boords more for the Church118

pd the watermā for bringēge them and me020

pd a boy for bringinge the boords from the lower mill003

pd for 20. paire of single hinges for pew doores0126

pd for bringinge some wainescott to Church006

pd for bread & beere to them y^t loaded & vnloaded the wainscott005

pd for 26 deale boords more for the Church182

pd for bringing them home016

pd for bringinge them from the water side003

Page 196.

lis.d.

pd for 69. foote of oaken plankes at 3^d½ p foote102

pd for 4 oaken peeces att 6^d p peece054

pd for bringing them by water010

pd for 2 paire of swinginge hinges020

pd Barrett for bringinge them002

pd for nailes for the Church188

pd for two keyes for our pew doore010

pd the workemen and for bread and beere076

pd for 6 slitt deales073

pd for a paire of hinges006

pd for bringinge the boords home008

pd for 6 bussʒ of lyme026

pd for a bussʒ of haire008

pd for a bundell & 20^ti Lathes018

pd for 500 of Lath nayles0010

pd for more nailes for the Church095

pd the painter for paintinge the dyall300

pd for the pulpett Cushion of greene veluett362

pd for 100 of lyme080

pd the smith for 6 Hold fasts for the dyall w^t 16^li048

pd for Barrs for 3 windows w^t 420123

pd for mendinge the bell Clapper and makinge it longer050

pd for mendinge the Church doore lock006

pd for plates for the bells016

pd for 200 of 10 Ince tyles0170

pd the waterman to bring them home020

pd Goodman Moore to Carte them from the waterside008

pd for helpe to loade & vnloade006

A striking amount of new building material recorded across Pages 194-196 — deale boards, oaken planks and rafters, thousands of nails, lime, lath, tiles — alongside a £3 6s. 2d. green velvet pulpit cushion, suggesting a substantial programme of church repair and refurbishment underway alongside the clock-dial and bell work.

Page 197.

lis.d.

pd M^r Sheppard for the bill of presentm^t040

pd him that carried the present002

Given a poore Irish woman010

pd the Glazier for glazinge the two round windowes and the Ovall over the doore089

pd him for sawinge the crest to sett the glasse in003

Given to a poor man by Consent of the D^r010

pd Minter the Smith as followeth vizt pd for mendinge a bell Clapper014

pd for a staple and a stay for the gallery doore006

pd for a keye to a lock for that doore008

pd for a spike 8 inches long002

pd John Owin for Christmas qʒter for kepinge the Innocent Childe160

Ladie Daye

pd the Glazier this quarter026

pd the Clarke [sic] for the pĩsh busines by Consent068

pd him for the Clock acre034

pd the Clockmaker for two qʒters050

pd John Owin his qʒter160

pd old Young010

pd Dauson for worke done in the Church006

pd for 100 of 10 inch tyles084

pd the waterman to bring them home010

pd given to two surueyoʒs for giuinge their opinion about the Steeple100

pd Henry Dynes for 3 dais worke in the Church056

pd his boy and a labouror for 7 daies067

Given to a poore Irish woman w^th a breife010

pd old Joane her quartridge026

pd Goodman Campion006

pd the house of Correction for this quarter083½

pd Goodman Cripps as followeth, for 500 of tyles080

pd for 7 ridge tyles0010½

Two surveyors are paid a full pound "for giuinge their opinion about the Steeple" — an early sign of the structural concerns that will recur through this account year, echoing the major 1629-30 steeple rebuild recorded in the previous volume.

Page 198.

lis.d.

pd for a loade of sand010

pd Goodman Dynes for two daies worke038

pd his man two daies worke018

pd him for a busshell of Lyme006

pd him for a peck of haire003

pd for halfe a peck of tyle pins003

pd for a hundred of Lath nailes002

pd for 10 Lathes002

pd him for pauing a graue006

pd for a hundred of nailes006

pd the 17^th of Aprill 1632, to M^r Webb 1^li 10^s in full paym^t of a whole yeares rent for the Almes houses1100

pd him for the acquittance006

pd Goodmā Legg to helpe about the bells006

pd Goodmā Moore for bringinge a loade of Lyme from Battersey016

pd for bringinge two loade of sand from the waterside024

pd for bringinge pauing tyles from the Crane006

pd for fiue bell ropes w^tt 36^li 3 qʒts at 7^d pound115½

pd for a Clock rope w^tt 2^li 3 qʒts, at 9^d p pound020½

pd for a warrant to straine for the poore010

pd for a warrant for Flowre006

pd for Elme boorde to make bracketts038

pd for a peece of Ashe for the Clock004

Suma tota: receiptes264157

Suma tota: disbursem^ts25027½

Suma tota: remayninge141211½

1632 (17 May – 5 July)

Page 199.

The accompte of Edward ffynimore and Willĩm Glascock Churchwardens of Wandsworth in the County of Surrey made and taken the fiifte of July Anno Dõi 1632 for all moneys receiued and disbursed for the said pishe of Wandsworth since the 17^th day of May Anno Dõi 1632, as followeth

An unusually short account, covering barely seven weeks (17 May – 5 July 1632) rather than the customary full year — and with new churchwardens, Edward ffynimore and William Glascock, taking over from Burton and ffynimore's predecessor. A brief stop-gap accompt, perhaps prompted by a mid-year change of officers.

Receiptes

Receiued of W^m Burton remayninge vpon his Last accompt in money the somme ofxiiij^lixij^sxj^d ob’

Recõd of Goodman Browninge towards of the repayringe of the Churchyeardiij^liooo

Recõd of one of the Garrett vizt John Browne w^th a Childe named Eliza: Marchant to put her out apprentize the sūme ofij^lixoo

Recõd of M^r Caldwall of Wandsworthiij^lioooo

Recõd of M^r Waller beinge money Collected by him for the Church of Wandsworthv^lioooo

Recõd of M^r Ballardij^lioooo

Recõd for Sherendalls for the whole yereojo

Received in allxxx^liij^sxj^d ob’

This whole short account (17 May – 5 July 1632) is printed in the source using the old Roman-numeral money notation throughout, rather than this volume's usual three-column Arabic table — a reversion transcribed literally here within the same three-column layout used elsewhere in this file. Also: the individual receipts as printed sum to £30 3s. 11½d., a shilling more than the stated total of £30 2s. 11½d. — transcribed exactly as printed, in keeping with this volume's recurring pattern of small arithmetic discrepancies between component figures and stated totals.

Disbursem^ts vt sequitur

Impris pd to Waterfall for Caringe out and digginge earth in the Church yeard and viij: other Labouroʒs at xij^d the day for two daies togetherooxviij^soo

pd for bread and beere for themooij^soo

pd for vij: Labourors more for the like occasionoovij^soo

pd a Carpenter to mend the Church gatesooj^svj^d

pd for nailes and oyle for themoooovij^d

pd for ropes for the Church gatesooij^sij^d

pd for tallowooooj^d

pd for bread and beere for the workemenooj^soo

pd for a latch for the Churchgateooij^svj^d

pd for mendinge the Corner of the Church, and before the Church doore, to a bricklayerooj^sviij^d

pd to a Labourorooj^sij^d

pd for lyme and bricksooj^soo

pd for watringe the Churchyeard and clensinge the Causewayooij^soo

Page 200.

pd for three ffurr poles for the ffire hookesoov^so

pd for bringinge them home from Londonooj^soo

pd for our bill of pʒsentmt, and for our oathooj^svj^d

pd for our Visitaõon Dinnerj^lioox^d

pd for our boatehire thenooij^svj^d

pd for byndinge Wid Towseys sonne apprentizeij^liooo

given to two poore men with a passe y^t had Losse by fireooj^soo

given more to two other poore men hurt in the kings workesooj^soo

given to a poore man that had been taken w^th the Turksooj^so

pd for the poores boxooxvij^sx^d

pd for bindinge Elizabeth Marchant apprentizeij^lioooo

This is the same Elizabeth ("Eliza") Marchant received as a child from John Browne of the Garrett on Page 199, now bound apprentice by the parish within the same short account.

pd to viij: Labouroʒs to bringe earth into the Church yeardooviij^soo

pd for bread and beere for themooj^soo

pd to Edmund Cripps Constable his billooxijoo

pd Edmund Pyther Constable for the likeooix^soo

pd at a Communionooooiij^d ob’

pd spent in veiueinge Putney Churchooooviij^d

pd spent by water to veiw Battersey Churchooij^soo

given to two poore men w^th a passe y^t came out of Irelandooj^soo

pd to the Baily for a warrant for the Comon Sewars brought from the Commissionersoooovj^d

pd for a booke of Cannonsooj^soo

given to a poore minister by Consent of the Vestryooj^svj^d

pd spent in takinge the Churchwardens accompteooiij^svj^d

pd for 18: bucketts, and bringinge them homej^lixiij^so

pd for 4 bussʒ½: of haire and bringinge it homeooiij^siij^d

pd for six loads of Sand and Carriageoovj^so

pd for 4 c[wt]: of Lyme and Carriagej^liix^sviij^d

pd for six Load of bricks and Carriagej^lixvj^soo

pd more for ij bussʒ of Lymeooj^soo

pd for slakinge of all the lymeooj^soo

pd John Dynes with his Labouror two daiesoovj^sviij^d

pd Willĩm White with his Labouror six daiesooxviij^soo

pd W^m Harpers man for mendinge the Clockooooviij^d

pd for a new Armor an a new head peece for the other armor, and makinge it cleanej^liiij^six^d

pd for two loades of bricks with the Carriageooxij^soo

given by Consent to two poore Irish weomenooj^svj^d

Page 201.

pd Jesper Gañion by Consentooij^svj^d

pd the Ringers when the kinge and queene went through the towneooij^svj^d

Charles I and Henrietta Maria passing through Wandsworth in person — a rare direct royal appearance in these accounts, distinct from the coronation-day and Parliament-related ringing fees recorded in the previous volume.

pd for two tubbs and for naylesooj^sij^d

pd for beere for the bricklayersooj^svj^d

pd John Nayler the plaisterer for six daies work in y^e Churchooxij^soo

pd Amos Jackson for foure daies workeooviij^soo

pd Walter Hewes a labour[er]: for 6 daies workeooviij^soo

pd for beere and a weeks lodginge for themooij^svj^d

pd W^m Ledwell for makinge the Church stile & 4 dubble quartersooiij^sviij^d

pd John Minter for mendinge the pikeooooij^d

pd W^m Ledwell for halfe a daies worke in the Church and for a peece of Tymber to mend the raison peeceooj^sviij^d

pd John Nayler for vj daies worke in the Churchooxij^soo

pd Amos Jackson for the likeooxij^soo

pd Walter Hughes for vj daies workeooviij^soo

pd for beere & a weekes Lodging for themooij^svj^d

pd for a grosse of Spanish whiteoovj^sviij^d

pd for a firkin of sizeooiij^svj^d

pd for layinge vp the bricks that were leftooooiiij^d

pd for layinge the Earth to the Churchwall and for carryinge some into the Church yeardooj^soo

pd the two traine men and to the muster maisteroov^soo

pd for two broomesooooiij^d

pd given by Consent to an Irish womanooj^soo

pd for boate hire to Batterseyooj^sij^d

pd John Nayler for ffiue daies workeoox^soo

pd Amos Jackson for vj daies workeooxij^soo

pd Walter Hues for vj daies workeooviij^soo

pd for beere and a weeks lodging for themooij^svj^d

pd for a grosse more of Spanish whiteoovj^svj^d

pd for two firkins of size moreooviij^soo

pd for makinge Cleane the Church iij daiesooiiij^sviij^d

pd for mending the Clockooooij^d

pd for two greate pinkins [? pipkins]ooooxj^d

pd the painter in parteij^lioooo

pd the house of Correcõon for midsomõ quarterooviij^siij^d ob’

pd two traine menooiij^soo

giuen to 2 trauilinge womenooooix^d

Disbursed in allxxx^liv^sx^d

Receuedxxx^liij^sxj^d ob.

Md x^d is be deducted for mending the clock

rem^rij^s ob.

A less formal closing than this file's usual "Suma tota" convention — a running memorandum ("Md") deducting 10d. already counted elsewhere for mending the clock, before arriving at a remainder of 2s. ob. (halfpenny). The disbursed and received totals here (£30 5s. 10d. vs £30 2s. 11d. ob.) are themselves close but not identical to the receipts total given on Page 199 (£30 2s. 11½d.), consistent with this volume's recurring small reconciliation gaps.

1632 (5 July – 2 August)

Page 202.

The Accompt of Ed: ffynymore and Willĩm Glascocke Church Wardens of Wansworth in the County of Surr: made and taken the second of August A^o Dõi 1632, for monies received and Disbursed for the same pĩshe of Wansworth since the v^th of July 1632

A second short interim account in a row — this one covering barely four weeks (5 July to 2 August 1632) under the same two churchwardens, Ed. ffynimore and William Glascocke. Two such brief accompts back to back is unusual for this volume and may reflect closer oversight during the ongoing steeple/building concerns raised on Page 197.

Receiptes

Receiued of M^r Duke for the last seasm^txl^s

Receiued Goodman [a name erased] Brisly for Midsomõ quarterxxvij^s vj^d

Receiued of M^r Arnold for the likexj^d

Receiued Goodman Readmye for y^e likev^s

Receiued of Widd Yett for y^e likeiij^s iiij^d

Sõm total:iij^li xvj^s ix^d

A name in the manuscript is recorded by Davis as illegibly erased ("a name erased") before "Brisly" — transcribed exactly as Davis presents it.

Disbursments

Inprimis paid to the grazier [? glazier] for midsomer quarterij^s vj^d

paid ould Yonge midsomer quarterxij^d

paid iij men to bring the kings Armes into the Churchiiij^d

for ij mopps to make cleane the Churchexij^d

paid to the Painter for painting y^e Churchxj^li ij^s

for charcole and beere for himvij^d

for nailesvj^d

paid John Dynes for mending the Church wall and tylinge the churchij^s

for a laborer for himxij^d

for beere for themij^d

paid A Carpenter for setting vp the armor and hainginge vp the buckett[s]xx^d

for a doble quarterviij^d

for nailesij^d

Page 203.

paid iij laborers for making cleane the Churchxviij^d

losse by lyght gould of y^e monies collected by M^r Wallervj^d

given to A poore man for losse by fieriiij^d

giuen to M^r Harbert the surgion by consent for coming to the Inocent childv^s

for hinges for the pewesij^s x^d

paid ij ioyners for remouing the reading placev^s

for nayles for themiiij^d

for ij doble quartersxvj^d

for beere for themvj^d

To A carpenter for mending the Church gates and other worke about the Churchxx^d

for A quarterviij^d

for ij boardsxx^d

for nailesij^d

for ij brasses for y^e Church gates weying viij^li at xvj^d y^e poundx^s viij^d

for A spike for y^e gateiiij^d

for A stockblockexij^d

to M^r Duncombe for his quartredgeiij^s iiij^d

to him for washing the Church linenxij^s

to him for other businesse for y^e Churchvj^s viij^d

owing vpon the last accomptij^s ob’

Disbursmentsxiiij^li xj^s ob’

Receuediij^li xvj^s ix^d

Due to vsx^li xiiij^s iiij^d ob’

This third short account closes in deficit — the churchwardens had disbursed £10 14s. 4d. ob. more than they received, owed back to them by the parish, rather than the usual surplus "remayninge."

[Pinned on is a piece of paper 6½ ins. × 2½ ins.]

Wansworth — Receaued of the Church Wardens for one yeares rent due to the Kings Ma^tie: Att the ffeast of S^t Michaell th’archangell 1632: out of a Tenem^t there the the Some of — ij^s

p me Alexander Colston, Collector.

A remarkable survival: Davis notes that a genuine small scrap of paper, a printed or handwritten receipt for Crown rent, was physically pinned into the manuscript account book at this point, and he transcribes its text and even its dimensions (6½ by 2½ inches) in full. A rare glimpse of a loose primary document preserved alongside the formal accounts.

1632 (2 August – 5 December)

Page 204.

v^to Decemb^ris: The accompt of Ed. ffynymore and Wiĩl Glascocke Churchwardens of y^e parish of Wansworth for monies receaved and laid out by them viz. as followeth.

A fourth account from the same pair of churchwardens within a single year (Ed. ffynimore and William Glascocke), dated the 5th of December 1632 and covering since the previous account's close on 2 August — roughly four months, longer than the two brief midsummer accompts but still short of a full year.

Inprimis received by M^r Endmion Porter for the repairing of the Steeple y^e some ofx^li

Endymion Porter (c.1587–1649) was a prominent courtier and Groom of the Bedchamber to Charles I, noted as a patron of the arts — his £10 gift here toward the steeple repair is a striking name to find in a parish account book.

Rec of M^r Dison being monies collected by him for the repairing y^e Steeple y^e some ofxj^s viij^d

Re^d more of him for y^e repairing of the Steeple y^e some of…

The figure here is obscured in the source scan by a library accession stamp; the amount could not be recovered from the available page image.

Rec of M^r Sturdiuant for puttinge out of an apprenticexl^s

Rec of M^r Warren a volentary gift by himx^s

Rec of M^r Carmihell for a graue in the Churchvj^s viij^d

Rec of M^r Arnall for Michlmĩs rentxj^d

Rec of M^r Glascock for his rentvj^s viij^d

Rec of Will: Bently for his rentxiiij^s iiij^d

Rec of Goodman Brisly for y^e rent of his house due at Michlmĩsxxvij^s vj^d

Rec for y^e buriall of M^r Longs childxiiij^s iiij^d

Rec of Widd Greeneham for y^e rent of her houseiiij^s

Rec of Widd Poynter for y^e likeij^s

Rec of Widd Pate for the likeij^s

taken out of the poores boxxij^s

Sõm totxviij^li x^s j^d

Page 205.

Monies laid out as followeth viz

Inprimis to Widd Wilsonij^s

to ould Yongeij^s

to Jo: Taylorij^s

to Tho Gunij^s

to Widd Mooreij^s

to a Woeman w^th A passevj^d

to the house of Correction, for maymed souldiersviij^s iij^d ob’

The source brackets these two lines ("to the house of Correction" and "for maymed souldiers") together against a single combined figure — transcribed here as one combined entry to match.

to ould Yongexij^d

to ould Taylorvj^d

for an order at the quarter sessionsiiij^s

for ij traine men j dayiij^s

paid the glasier for michlmĩs quarterij^s vj^d

to Tho: Deane ij daies workeiij^s iiij^d

for vj baggs of lime and ij^d of lathesij^s ij^d

for sandiiij^d

for ij^c & a quarter of tyles & 7 ridge tilesiiij^s vij^d ob’

for ij^doz of lath nailes and a broomeiij^d ob’

for a laborer ij daiesij^s iiij^d

to ould Yongeij^s vj^d

to ould Browneij^s vj^d

to Jo Minter for mending the latch of the Church gate, & y^e Church Dore keyix^d

paid y^e rent of Brisley housevj^d

paid the rent for the poores housexv^s ij^d

for v baggs of limexx^d

for sand & hairevj^d

to Tho: Deane for j daies worke and a halfeij^s vj^d

to a laborerxxj^d

for a C^th iiijq^rs of tyles & ij ridge tilesiiij^s ij^d

for nailesiiij^d

giuen to a poore minesterxij^d

to A souldier w^th a passevj^d

Page 206.

to Laurence Danson for mending the bells in new laying of themxj^s

to John Minter for ij boults & forelocks for them, & for steeling the Church pick axe & mending the shonellij^s vj^d

laid out in going to the Justices of peace twice w^th Bonnerij^s vj^d

giuen to A poore man y^t had losse by fier w^th a passe out of Pembrook sheerexij^d

paid ould Yonge Michlmĩs quarterxij^d

giuen to y^e ringers v^to Nouemberij^s vj^d

paid for quit rentij^s

for y^e acequittanceiiij^d

to the glasier for mending the Church leadesij^s

for our Diner at y^e Visitationv^s x^d

for y^e booke & the oathxviij^d

to the ringers on the kings birthdayiij^s

to A poore scollerxij^d

giuen to A poore man w^th a passe from Irelandxij^d

giuen to A poore yeoman w^th a certificate y^t he had sustained great losse by fierij^s

to A poore man w^th a passexij^d

giuen to a poore woeman y^t had a certificate y^t she had her husband and all her goods burned & only vj poore children left herij^s

laid out in going by waterxviij^d

Due to vs vpon the last accomptx^li xiiij^s iiij^d ob’

Laid outxxj^li xiiij^s xj^d

Rem:xxxv^s ij^d

The £10 14s. 4d. ob. owed to the churchwardens from the previous short account (Page 203) is carried forward here as a line item before the new "Laid out" total — effectively rolling the earlier deficit into this account's own reckoning.

1632 (5 December – 7 February)

Page 207.

vij^mo ffebr: 1632. The Accompt of Ed: ffynymore and Willĩm Glascocke Churchwardens of the pish of Wansworth for monies receiued And laid out by them viz As followeth

A fifth account, dated 7 February 1632 (i.e. 1632/3 by modern reckoning, since the legal year still began 25 March) and covering since the 5 December 1632 close — about two months, continuing this run of short, frequent accompts from the same two churchwardens.

Receiued of Widdow Yett for her halfe yeares rent ending at Christmasvj^s viij^d

Receiued of Goodman Reading for his halfe Yeares rent ending at Christmasx^s

Receiued of M^r Lownes for buriall of a child in y^e Churchxiij^s iiij^d

Receiued of M^r Childx^s

Rec of M^r Arnold for his Christmas quart^rxj^d

Remayning in o[ur] hands y^e last accomptxxxv^s ij^d

Sĩm^aiij^li xvj^s j^d

Disbursed As followeth

Paid the clockmaker iij quarters wages ending at Christmasvij^s vj^d

paid the glasier for Christmas quarterij^s vj^d

paid ould Yonge his quarteredg vt supāxij^d

for A gowne for oul Yongx^s

for going by water for y^e parish business at seuʒall timesij^s vj^d

paid M^r Duncombe his halfe yeres wages ending at Christmasxx^s

paid Goodman Redwell for mending the Church gate and for ij quartersxviij^d

for naylesiiij^d

to A souldier w^th a passe from Irelandvj^d

for mending the Church dore keyx^d

to the house of Correctionviij^s iiij^d ob’

for mending of y^e ground in making of a graue in y^e Churchx^d

Page 208.

paid for iiij quartersij^s ij^d

paid for ij paire of Hingesxix^d

paid Wiĩl Ledwell for ij daies workeiiij^s

for nailesxiij^d

paid Hen: Dines & his laborer for ij daies workeij^s viij^d

paid him for iiij buʒ of lime and iiij buʒ of sandij^s

for lath nailesij^d

paid Christopher Bayly for lx tylesxij^d

paid Wiĩl Harper for a happes and two staplesvj^d

paid for a padlockeiiij^d

Sĩm^aiiij^li x^s ij^d ob’

Receivediij^li xvj^s j^d

Laid outiij^li x^s ij^d ob’

Remainingv^s x^d ob’

1632/3 (7 February – 7 March)

Page 209.

vij^mo Martij 1632. The accompt of Edmund ffynymore and Wiĩl Glascocke Churchwardens of y^e pishe of Wansworth in y^e County of Surr made and taken the vij^th of March 1632 for monies received and disbursed by them for the same pishe of Wansworth since the vij^th of ffebr: last past.

A sixth account in this same run, this one covering barely a month (7 February to 7 March 1632/3). These frequent, short accompts from Ed. ffynimore and William Glascocke now span most of a full year in monthly-to-bimonthly instalments rather than one annual reckoning.

Inprimis received of Goodman Brisley for his halfe yeres rent ending at Christmĩsxxvij^s vj^d

Receiued of [blank] Moore for A penalty set vpon him to pay to y^e poore, of y^e pishe of Wansworth by ·an order made in the Spiritual Courtv^s

Rec of M^r Harrod for his wifes graue in the Churchvj^s viij^d

[Vrsula, wife of Xrir. Harrold, gent. bur. 2 Feb. 1632/3]

Due by vs vpon y^e last accomptv^s x^d ob’

Disbursĩd by vs as follow ….xlv^s ob’

Inprimis paid the Docter for M^ris Tyroes sermonx^s

giuen to two poore folkes w^th A passeij^s

giuen to A poore ministerij^s

giuen to A poore man w^th a passe from Ireland, y^t had his wife and children and all his goods taken by the Turksxij^d

for going by water seuerall times about the pishe businesseiiij^s

Receivedxlv^s ob’

Laid outxix^s

Remainxxvj^s ob’

1633 (7 March – 4 April)

Page 210.

iiij^to Aprill: 1633. The accompt of Edmund ffynymore and Wiĩl Glascocke Church Wardens for the pishe of Wansworth in y^e County of Surr made and taken the iiij^th of April 1633 for monies received and disbursed by them since the vij [March deleted] Aprill last past.

Davis notes a deletion in the manuscript here: the scribe apparently first wrote "vij March" and struck through "March," leaving an odd hybrid reading ("since the vij ... Aprill last past") that doesn't quite square with this account's own date of 4 April or the previous account's close of 7 March — transcribed exactly as Davis presents the correction.

Received

Inprimis receiued of M^r Kenersly for making his Childs graue in y^e Churchxiij^s x^d

[Evnicæ, dau. of Clemment Kennersley, gent. bur. 28 Mar. 1633]

Due by vs vpon the last accomptxxvj^s ob’

Disbursĩd as followeth

Inprimis paid to the glasier for his quartredge due at o[ur] Lady day last pastij^s vj^d

paid ould Yonge for the likexij^d

giuen to A poore man w^th A passe & a certificate of his wifes & childrens sicknesse & weaknes going to the hospitallxij^d

giuen to a poore man w^ch had been taken by the Turksxij^d

giuen to A poore man w^th A passevj^d

giuen to the ringers on Crownation Dayvj^s

"Crownation Day" — the annual coronation-day ringing fee, marking the anniversary of Charles I's coronation, previously seen paid in this same tradition during the 1628-29 account year in the preceding volume.

for making vp the ground for M^r Kenerslys Childs grauex^d

giuen to v poore men w^th a passeij^s vj

giuen to A poore schollerxij^d

paid Widdow Rice for her husbands worke in altering the reading placex^s

[Ambrose Rice bur. July 23 1632]

This is the same Ambrose Rice paid extensively for joinery and building work throughout 1631-32 earlier in this account book — his widow is now paid for finishing work he had begun before his death.

giuen to A poore souldier w^th a passevj^d

p^d Rob: Ledwell for a daies worke in mending y^e bellsxx^d

for A laborer to helpe about y^e bellsxij^d

p^d for 40 braddsiiij^d

p^d for 6 Iron wedgesvj^d

p^d for a dogg y^t was brokenvj^d

for iij keyes y^t was for y^e boultsiiij^d

for naylesvj^d

to Laurence Dauson and his sonneij^s

for ij deale boardsij^s

paid Ro: Ledwellxij^d

(total, unlabelled in source)xxxvj^s vij^d

Receivedxxxix^s x^d ob’

Disbursedxxxvj^s vij^d

Rem:iij^s iij^d ob’

1633 (4 April – 4 May)

Page 211.

May iiij^to: The Accompt of Ed ffynymore & Wiĩl Glascock Churchwardens for the pishe of Wansworth in y^e County of Surr. made and taken the iiij^th of May 1633 for monyes receiued and disbursed by them since y^e iiij^th of Aprill.

Receiued of M^r Glascock for his halfe yeres rent due at o[ur] Lady day last pastvj^s viij^d

Receiued of Goodman Bristy for the rent of his house due as aforesaidxxxvij^s vj^d

Rec’ of M^r Arnold for the likexj^d

Rec’ of Ed ffynymore for a second paiment towards the repayring of y^e steeplex^s

The churchwarden Ed. ffynimore himself contributing personally to the steeple-repair fund — a second such payment from him, suggesting he had pledged a subscription of his own toward the works flagged earlier (the surveyors' opinion on Page 197).

Due vpon the last accomptiij^s iiij^d ob’

Sĩm^axlviij^s iiij^d ob’

Inprimis paid [the erased] to the house of correction for o[ur] lady days rentviiij^s iiij^d ob’

Davis notes another deleted word in the manuscript ("the") before "to the house of correction" — transcribed with the deletion marked as in the source.

paid M^r Duncombe his quartredge due at o[ur] lady day lastx^s

paid oul Yong his quartredgxij^d

paid the Carpenter for halfe a daies worke for mending the Church hookesx^d

for going by water at seueral times for the pishes busineesev^s

paid to the justices clarcke for a letterxij^d

Sĩm^axxvj^s j^d ob’

Receiuedxlviij^s iiij^d ob’

Disbursedxxvj^s j^d ob’

Remanxxij^s iij^d

paid to M^r Glascocke p me Ed fynymore

1633 (4 May – 10 September): Audit Memoranda

Page 212.

Septemb^r 10^th 1633

W^ch day and yeare, we reckoned w^th M^r Glascocke from the 4th of May vnto the day of the [date hereof] and having cast vp his Accompts we find the Parish oweth him 7^li 5^d ob’ and there remains in his hand of M^r Smiths money 12^li 1^s 1^d

[This note is in the handwriting of D^r Leo, Vicar]

W^m Leo
Ja: Wilforde
Tho: Ballard

[Two other signatures, ink faded]

Tho: Lowndes

A striking departure from the usual ledger format: this is a formal audit memorandum, written and signed by the vicar (Dr Leo) and a panel of parishioners reckoning up churchwarden Glascocke's accounts between formal accompts, rather than an itemised receipts/disbursements record. Davis carefully notes the handwriting and even that two signatures had faded past legibility by the time of his transcription.

Decēber 19 1633 — M^r Glascocke accounted for the remainder of M^r Jones money which was xxxiij^s which he distributed by consent to the poore of the parish

Dec^ber 19 . 1633

Owing to M^r Glascocke by the parish70005

M^r Glascocke hath in his hands of M^r Smiths Money160400

In his hands 48 pound of hemp which010806

*Due from M^r Millington for the old church wainscott010000

*In margin: Received this and accounted for in the following…

W^m Leo
Ja: Wilforde
Geo: Duke
Hugh ffonde
Tho: Ballard
Tho: Lowndes
W^m Burton
Hugh Campion

Page 213.

Mar.: 6: 1633

The Churchwardens account — Due to M^r Glascock by the parish02…2 ob’

Resting in his hands of M^r Smiths money11081

In his hands there resteth 48 pound of yarne cost010806

W^m: Leo
Ja: Wilforde
Jos: Milington

Three successive audit memoranda (10 Sept. 1633, 19 Dec. 1633, 6 Mar. 1633/4) stand in for a normal churchwarden's accompt here, each independently signed by the vicar and a small panel of parishioners — an unusually well-documented run of interim reckonings.

Page 214 blank.

1633–34

Page 215.

The severall accompts of M^r William Glascock one of the Church Wardens of Wandsworth in the County of Surrey, made and taken at seuerall tymes for all moneys receiued and disbursed for the said pĩshe of Wandsworth since the 4^th: of May 1633 vntill this 15 of May 1634 as followeth.

After the run of short, frequent accompts and interim audit memoranda since May 1631, this account finally returns to a full annual span (4 May 1633 to 15 May 1634) under Glascocke alone, and reverts to this volume's standard three-column Arabic-numeral table.

Receiptes since the 4^th of May 1633 Vntill the 10^th of September 1633—

lis.d.

Receuied of the parishe money which remayned due vpon the Accompte of M^r ffynimore123

Receuied of Edward Pyther001600

Receuied of Richard Deane0026

Receuied of Robert Moore00400

Receuied of M^r Hammond001000

Rec’d of Silvester Haruie00500

Rec’d of Robert Neale00300

Rec’d of M^r Duke for a graue in the Church0068

[Charles, son of George Duke, gent. bur. 11 May 1633]

Rec’d of Widow Yett for Ladie dayes rent0034

Rec’d of Richard Redding for the like00500

Rec’d of Widow Pointer for the like00100

Rec’d of Widow Pate00100

Rec’d of Widow Greeneham00200

Rec’d of Tho: Ludlowe for a yere and a halfes rent00600

Rec’d of Wiĩlm Bentley one yeres rent00134

Rec’d of Widow Yett for Midsomer quarters rent0034

Rec’d of Thomas Brisley for the like176

Rec’d of Richard Redding for the like00500

Rec’d of Wiĩlm Arnold000011

Rec’d of M^r ffhynimore of M^r Smiths money619

Rec’d of M^r Gurnett150000

Syma tota rec’d27197

Disbursements since the 4^th of May 1633 vntill the 10^th of September 1633 as followeth

pd M^r Burton for Midsomer rent001000

pd for xlviij^li of hempej86

Printed with a stray Roman numeral "j" (for 1) in the pounds column, amid an otherwise Arabic-numeral table — transcribed exactly as printed.

pd for bringing it home00004

pd for spinning of it1400

Page 216.

lis.d.

pd for putting out Dolton’s boy apprentice10000

pd for putting John White to prentice30000

pd for a shirte for John White00210

pd M^r Sweeting for an Armour for the Clock1600

pd the Clarke for wrytinge the pĩshe bussines by Consent for [Lady day qua erased] midsomer quarter0068

pd him Midsomer quarter for the Clock acre0034

pd Thomas Deane for pauinge a graue in the Church and for two new tyles00111

pd for burying a poore man that died at Henry Cottrills00100

[? Steuen Tamasin a trauiler bur. 3 July 1633]

pd John Minter for two bolts for the leades doore00100

pd Minter for mending the greate bell Clapper00400

pd Lawrence Dauson for mending the greate bell00100

pd for the visitacon dinner, the fees of the Courte and our boate hire then137

pd the Glazier for Midsomer quarter0026

pd John Young for the like0010

pd two trayne men for two daies0060

pd the Muster M[aste]r then0020

pd for a horsse to Carrie the towne armor0010

pd for making Cleane armor0016

pd John Minter for mending a pike00004

pd for Ringinge for the king the 20^th of July0010

pd to the house of Correccon and maymed souldiers0083½

pd for one hundred and foure baggs of lyme0084

pd for 2000 of bricks00180

pd for Cariage of them0060

pd for two loade of sand0028

pd John Dynes for ffowre daies worke0060

pd his Labouror for ffowre dayes worke0048

pd for beere for them00008

pd for a Mopp for the Church00006

pd given to a poore woman who had losse by fire0010

pd two traine men one day0030

pd W^m Harper for mending the Church hookes0070

pd M^r Webb for Ladie Day rent00152

Sum tota disbur161911½

The parishe vpon this accompt is indebted to M^r Glascock1105½

And there remaynes in his hands of M^r Smiths money12101

And xlviij^li of yearne to be sold

Page 217.

Disbursem^ts for the Church of Wandswõth since the xvj^th of September 1633 as followeth

lis.d.

Impris the parishe oweth M^r Glascock this xvj^th of September1005

Item pd for v bell ropes, w^th the Carriages00149

pd Lawrence Dauson for mending the greate bell stock0018

pd Legg to helpe him0010

pd for beere for them00002

pd for plates for the bell0012

pd the Clockmaker for Michaelmas quarter0026

pd the house of Correccon for Michaell: qʒter0083½

pd old Young for Michaell: quarter0010

pd the Glazier for the like0026

pd W^m White for pauing a Childes graue0000x^d

Printed with a Roman numeral "x" in the pence column amid the Arabic table, matching the similar stray "j" a page earlier — transcribed exactly as printed.

pd D^r Leo for M^rs Tyroes sermon00100

pd the Clarke for Michaell quarter0068

pd him for the Clock acre0034

pd Barrett for Caringe M^r Powells boy to London0016

pd Minter for mendinge some Iron Worke about the Clock0026

pd Dauson for one daye and a halfes work about the Clock0026

pd for two deale boordes and a halfe for the Clock case0026

pd for nailes for them00007

pd for a Clock lyne0030

pd given to a poore Woman by Consent0004

pd Wid^r Poynter for goeing with Owins Children0020

pd for half a hundred of pauing tyles with Carriag0040

pd for ringing when the Duke of Yorke was borne0010

[Duke of York afterwards James II born at St. James’s 15 Oct. 1633]

The future King James II, second surviving son of Charles I, born 14 October 1633 (Davis's footnote gives 15 Oct.) — another rare direct brush with the royal family in these accounts, following the earlier "kinge and queene" passing through the town and the birth of Princess Mary.

pd for ringing on the v^th of Nouember0050

pd M^r Webb for Michaelmas rent00152

pd given to one that had losse by fire0010

pd W^m White for pauinge a Childes graue000010

p^d him for pauing the p^te of the Church and for two bages of Lyme and sand0024

pd for one hundred & a quarter of boords for the Church gates0080

pd Robert Ledwell for nayling them on00009

pd for nailes for them00006½

pd for morter and for fastning the greate Window00008

(sub-total, unlabelled in source)5111

Page 218.

lis.d.

pd for makinge cleane the Church yearde00004

pd the ringers the 19^th of Nouember being the Kings birthday0010

pd Dauson for mendinge the Cage for bords and nailes0026

pd for a hooke and staple for the Church gate00002

pd given to a poore man that had losse by fire00006

pd given to a man two poore weomen and two children0010

pd spent at our visitacon dinner fees of Courte and our boate hire then00180

pd for mendinge a key00007

pd given to two Ireshe weomen by Consent0010

pd Dauson for halfe a daies worke on the greate bell00009

pd Rob^t Ledwell halfe a day00009

pd Batt: Legg to helpe them00006

pd Minter for mendinge a lock for halfe a hundred of brads and a plate for the Church gate0020

pd out by M^r Glascock7177

Rec’d by him as p Contrar’4177

Restinge due to M^r Glascock30000

More due to him for making the D^rs seat10000

More due to him for making the Doctoʒs surplus30000

December 19 1633 Rest due to M^r Glascock70000

The other 1^li [w^ch you] rec’d out of the poores box you p^d D^r Leo

Owing by M^r Millington for old Wainscott sold by M^r ffiniamore & M^r Glascock10000

Restinge in M^r Glascocke hands of M^r Smiths money as appeareth by the last acc^o: and this, the some of140

More which is to be taken out of the poores box for the money lent D^r Loe, w^ch he paid about the Communõ money10000

More which he oweth which was lent to D^r Loe, which is allowed for his surplus and for makinge of his seate p accont40000

More in his hands 48^li of hempe which cost186

Restinge due by M^r Glascock of M^r Smiths money as doth appeare the somme of641

A dense closing reckoning combining several separate obligations: what Glascocke is owed for making the Doctor's (i.e. Dr Leo's) pew seat and surplice, money owed by Mr Millington for old wainscot, and the running balance of the separate "Mr Smiths money" fund and its unsold hemp — all tallied together rather than kept in strictly separate accounts.

Page 219.

Moneys receiued by M^r Glascock for the Church at Michaelmas 1633

lis.d.

Recõd of Thomas Brisley176

Recõd of Widow Yett0034

Recõd of Richard Redding0050

Recõd of W^m: Arnolle00011

Recõd from the Clock Acre0068

Recõd of M^r Brand for his Childs graue in the Church00134

[Thomas, son of John Brand, gent. bur. 25 Sep 1633]

Recõd of M^r Symson for his Childs graue & the bell001310

[Anne, dau. of William Simpson, of London, bur. 18 Oct 1633]

Recõd of M^r Fenn for his childes graue and the bell00114

[James, son of James Fenn, bur. 19 Nov 1633]

Recõd for the poores houses for halfe a yere due at Michaelmas 1633

Recõd of Wiĩlm Bentley0068

Recõd of Tho: Ludlow0020

Recõd of Wid Greeneham0020

Recõd of Wid Poynter0010

Recõd of Wid Pate0010

Recõd of Henry Due0050

Recõd of Wid Lane00002

Sumē recõd is4177

M^r Smiths money

pd towards putting apprentice Walter Nott00100

pd John Owin for keeping the Lame boy160

pd M^r Burton one q_ters rent at Michaelmas0100

pd for putting to prentice Symon Doltons boy1000

pd for putting to prentice John Peacock1100

pd Lent D^r Loe by Consent5000

pd for putting to prentice Katherine Ellis1100

This accoumpte made vp this 19^th of Decem’ 1633

Restinge in M^r Glascocks hands of M^r Smiths money141

More in hempe 48^li cost 1 . 8 . 6 and spining Cost

"Mr Smiths money" is tracked here as its own distinct sub-ledger within the churchwarden's accounts — almost certainly Henry Smith's charitable estate, whose large poor-relief and building gifts recur throughout this volume and the previous one, now evidently administered as a standing apprenticing/lending fund rather than one-off donations.

Page 220.

Moneys recõd and disbursed by M^r Glascock for the Church since the 19^th of December 1633 as followeth

lis.d.

Recõd of M^r Childe for y^e poore00100

Recõd of M^r Millington1000

Recõd of Thomas Brisley for Christmas quarter176

Recõd of Richard Redding for the like050

Rec’d of Wid: Yett for the like034

Recõd of W^m Arnold000011

Recõd of M^r Duck0034

Recõd of M^r Ashton for his childs graue in the Church00144

[Judith, dau. of Henry Ashton, gent. bur. 27 Dec 1633]

Recõd of M^r Croshaw for his Childs graue00144

[Margarett, dau. of Richard Croshia bur. 24 Jan 1633¾]

Recõd of Wid Calvart for his daughters graue0068

[Emma, dau. of Widow Calvart, bur. 22 Jan 1633¾]

Recõd of Richard Morte for his Wifes graue0068

[Anne, wife of Richard Morte, bur. 31 Jan 1633¾]

Recõd of M^r Hussey for his Childs graue in the Church0068

[Mary, dau. of Mr. [blank] Hussey bur. 6 Feb 1633¾]

Recõd of M^r Smiths money the last of January 163315000

(sub-total, unlabelled in source)20189

Disbursem^ts

pd John Young for Christmas quarter [S in margin]0010

pd the Glazier for the like0026

pd the Clockmaker for the like0026

pd W^m White for makinge vp a Childs graue000010

pd Thomas Brisley for viij: pauing tyles000010

pd quitrent for Tho: Brisleys house00006

pd the Clarke for the pĩshe bussines and the Clock acre00100

pd the house of Correccon for Christmas qʒter0083½

pd Tho: Brisley from [sic] broomes nayles & pap for the Church000011

pd him for Coales for the Wid Wilson in her sieknes00007

pd White for pauinge two graues in the Church0026

pd Henry Dynes for pauinge M^r Husseys childes graue000010

pd White and his Labouror for one day for two bags of lyme, 4 ridge tyles, and sand, for mendinge the church0040

pd had of D^r Loe a hundred and a halfe of tyles0023

pd laid out of M^r Smiths money—

pd John Owin for keeping the lame boy Christmas q_t^r160

A dense run of burial-fee footnotes on this page (Ashton, Croshaw, Calvart, Morte, Hussey children/spouses, Nov. 1633 - Feb. 1633/4) — Davis has clearly cross-referenced the parish burial register systematically for this stretch of the account book.

Page 221.

lis.d.

pd for putting W^m Waterfalls boy appentice1000

pd M^r Burton for Christmas rent00100

pd the poore at Christmas of these moneys4000

(sub-total, unlabelled in source)8136

Restinge due to M^r Glascock the 19 December 1633 as by the accompte appeareth7000

Sumē rec’d by this accompte more then paid is as appeareth412½

Sume due to M^r Glascock March 6: 16332189½

Recõd of M^r Smiths money15000

Restinge in hands of M^r Smiths money as by the last accompt641

1634

Page 223.

Here beginneth the Accompte of M^r John Millington and M^r Thomas Hammon Churchwardens and the first entrance was from the 20^th of May vnto the seaventh of August 1634

[Rest of page blank]

Page 224 blank.

1634–35

Page 225.

The Accompte of M^r John Millington and M^r Thomas Hammond Churchwardens of the Parishe of Wandsworth in the County of Surrey made and taken the 9^th of July A^o 1635 for all moneys recõd and disbursed for the said pĩshe of Wandsworth since the xx^th of May, 1634 as followeth

Millington and Hammond's first full account, spanning over a year (20 May 1634 to 9 July 1635) rather than the roughly-annual spans seen earlier — the "first entrance" account on Page 223 apparently having been folded into this one rather than closed separately.

Receipts

lis.d.

Recõd from the parish in money00002

Recõd of the Glazier towards paym^t of the Vice0026

Recõd of Joane ffryer att severall tymes001500

Midsomer quarter

Recõd of Wid Yett for this quarter0034

Recõd of M^r Ballard for the like0034

Recõd of Tho: Brisley176

Recõd of Rich: Redding for the like0050

Recõd of M^r Arnold for the like000011

(sub-total, unlabelled in source)2179

Michaelmas quarter

Recõd of M^r Ballard for this quarter0034

Recõd of Wid Yett for the like0034

Recõd of Tho: Brisley for the like176

Recõd of Rich: Reddinge for the like0050

Recõd of M^r Arnold000011

Recõd of W^m Bentley0068

Recõd of Tho Ludloe0020

Recõd of Wid Greeneham0020

Recõd of Wid Lane………

Recõd of Hen: Due………

Davis marks both of these figures as "[blank]" in his source — no amount was printed for either line, transcribed here with the volume's standard ellipsis convention for omitted cells.

Recõd for M^r Colnetts childs graue in the church00134

[Walter, son of Walter Colenett, bur. 21 Oct 1634]

Rec’ of Wid Poynter and Wid Pate0020

(sub-total, unlabelled in source)361

Page 226.

lis.d.

Recõd for M^rs Carmichaells graue in the Church0068

[Anne, wife of Nathaniell Carmichaell, bur. 19 Oct. 1634]

Recõd for another childes graue in the Church00100

Recõd for breaking the bell Wheele0020

(sub-total, unlabelled in source)449

Christmas quarter

Recõd of M^r Ballard for Christmas quarter0031

Recõd of Tho: Brisley for the like176

Recõd of Wid Yett for the like0034

Recõd of Ric: Reddinge for the like0050

Recõd of M^r Arnold000011

Recõd of M^rs Sturtevant ffebruary xix^th 1634 for placinge out an apprentice accordinge to the guift of M^rs Powell20000

Recõd of M^r Glascock from M^r Childe as the yerely guift of M^r Powell of ffutham due at all S^ts last past 1634001000

(sub-total, unlabelled in source)4101

Mrs Powell's charitable bequest (footnoted back on Page 187, will proved 1630/1) continues to fund annual apprenticeship placements, now administered jointly through Mrs Sturtevant and Mr Glascock several years after her death.

Ladie daie quarter

Recõd of Ladie daye quarter of M^r Ballard0034

Recõd of Wid Yett for the like0034

Recõd of Tho: Brisley for the like176

Recõd of Ric: Redding for the like0050

Recõd of M^r Arnold000011

Recõd of W^m Bentley0068

Recõd of Tho: Ludloe0020

Recõd of Wid Greeneham0020

Recõd of Wid Poynter0010

Recõd of Wid Pate0010

Recõd of Wid Lane………

Recõd of Hen: Due………

Recõd for a yeres rent for Sherendalls0010

Recõd for M^r Stones graue in the Church0068

[Robert Stone, gent. bur. 14 Mar 1634/5]

Recõd for M^rs Millingtons graue in the Church0068

[Anne, wife M^r John Millington, bur. 9 June 1635]

The churchwarden John Millington's own wife, Anne, died and was buried during his term of office — her grave fee is recorded here in the same account he was himself keeping.

Recõd for M^rs Ballards graue0068

[Ellenor Ballord, widowe. bur. 12 Mar 1634/5]

(sub-total, unlabelled in source)3139

Page 227.

Midsomer quarter 1635

lis.d.

Recõd of Joane ffowler10000

Recõd of M^r Ballard for Midsomõ quarter 16350034

Recõd of Wid Yett for the like0034

Recõd of Tho: Brisley for the like176

Recõd of Rich: Reddinge for the like0050

Recõd of Mr. Arnold for the like000011

(running sub-totals from each preceding section, recapped here in the source)

(recap)10000

(recap)2001

(recap)2179

(recap)449

(recap)4101

(recap)3139

Some totall Recõd isli1865

May 20^th 1634:

Disbursmĩnts v^t sequitur

lis.d.

pd spent at the Beare at the Bridge foote00100

pd to the Cryer of the Courte and M^r Lock00110

pd for our Visitacon dinner00166

pd our boat hire then0026

pd at Mortes for Wine0012

pd M^r Glascock0028

pd a poore schollar of the Pallatinate0010

Midsomer quarter 1634.

pd the high Constable for Midsomer quarter for the house of Correccon and maymed souldiers0083½

pd the Clarke for Midsomer quarter00100

pd old Young for the like0010

pd the Clockmaker for the like0026

pd the Joyner for making a place for the booke which D^r Leo gave to the Church0012

pd for nailes and for beere00007

pd for painting and guilding the pulpit168

Dr Leo, the vicar seen throughout this volume conducting sermons and signing audit memoranda, also personally donated a book to the church, for which the joiner was paid to build a dedicated place.

Page 228.

lis.d.

pd Dauson for mendinge the greate bell0018

pd for Labouroʒs to help him0030

pd the Smith for Iron Worke for the bell0014

pd for nailes and bread and beere0010

pd given to a poore Minister0010

pd to Wid Wilson for building her chimney0020

pd Minter for hooks and staples and for mending the Towne Armor00009

pd John Avery for mending the great bell clap0030

pd Dauson and Gammon to help him0020

pd D^r Leo for M^rs Tyroes anõ sermon00100

pd a poore man Who had losse by fire00006

(sub-total, unlabelled in source)531½

Michaelmas quarter

pd old Young for this quarter [S in margin]0010

pd the Clockmaker for the like0026

pd the Clarke for the like for the parishe bussines and the Clock acre00100

pd to the house of Correccon this qʒter0083½

pd S^r John S^t John’s Bailey [bailiff] for rent00158

Sir John St John was a prominent local gentry landholder (the St John family held Battersea and other Surrey manors) — this rent payment to his bailiff marks a rare direct connection to the wider county gentry in these accounts.

pd Goodmā Brisley for a shovell and a spade for a mopp, for broomes, and nayles00410

pd for a letter to M^r Barker0010

pd White for pauinge two graues in the Church and for morter0026

pd our boate hire at seuʒall tymes to the Justice0016

pd Dauson for mending the Church gates and for nailes00003

pd Gammon for scowringe the Church yeard ditch and for making a graue0012

pd old Yonngs wife0020

pd for our Visitacon dinner, our boate hire Charged in Courte and horsse standinge118

pd to the ringers two seuʒall tymes0038

(sub-total, unlabelled in source)3160½

Page 229.

Christmas quarter

lis.d.

pd the Glazier for Christmas quarter0026

pd the Clockmaker for the like0026

pd the Clarke for the like, for the pĩshe bussines and the Clock acre00100

pd old Adams for the like0010

pd Jasp: Gamon for the like0016

pd for Wyar for the Clock0010

pd the house of Correccon for this qʒter0083½

pd Deane and Cottrill for Worke done about the Church and Church yeard0016

pd for lyme and sand the same by me00006

pd the Clockmaker by Consent0040

pd for placinge out Seamers boy apprentice according to M^rs Powells Will2000

pd Waterfall for Worke in the Church yeard00006

pd Dauson and his boy for Worke done0016

pd for mending the Church doore key & other worke0016

pd as due to me on the last accompt [amount erased]00000

Davis notes the original amount here was erased in the manuscript; the printed figure of nil may simply reflect the illegible erasure rather than a true zero.

pd for making vp two greate graues in the Chur:0034

(sub-total, unlabelled in source)3197½

Ladie daie quarter

pd the high Constable for the house of Correccon0083½

pd the Clarke this quarter for the pĩshe bussines, and the Clock acre00100

pd the Glazier for the like0026

pd old Adams for the like0010

pd Gammon for the like [S in margin]0016

pd the Clockmaker for the like0026

pd Randall for mending the Church doore Lock and key00008

Page 230.

lis.d.

pd the Ringers to ring on Coronacon day0050

pd S^r John S^t Johns Baly for rent for the Cottages due at our Ladie day last00152

pd for boate hire two severall tymes goeing to the Lo: of London about pĩshe bussines0050

pd Gamõn and Meades for scowring the Churchyeard ditch0010

pd for burnishing the Communion Cup0010

pd for the Common Sewars Warrant00000

pd for workmen to sett vp the vaine0038

pd for bread and beere for them0016

pd to Avery for iron Worke for it and for leade00v0

Printed with a stray Roman numeral "v" in the shillings column, amid this otherwise Arabic table — transcribed exactly as printed.

pd to Dauson and Legg for mending all the bells0030

pd to Gammon the same tyme for Worke0010

pd Brisley for nayles and oyle then000011

pd the smith for Iron Worke0016

pd the Clarke for Washinge the Church lynnen for the whole yere00100

(sub-total, unlabelled in source)412½

Midsomer quarter 1635

lis.d.

pd to the house of Correccon this q_ttr0083½

pd the Glazier for this quarter0026

pd old Adams for the like001^s0

pd Gamon for the like [S in margin]0016

pd the Clarke for the like for the parishe bussines and for the Clock acre00100

pd the Clockmaker for the like0026

pd Deane for makinge vp M^rs Millington’s graue and other Worke in the Church0020

pd for a booke of orders00008

pd the smith for holdfasts for the sun dyall0016

pd Brisley for divers things for the Church had at severall tymes as appeareth p bill00510

(sub-total, unlabelled in source)1159½

Page 231.

Wandsworth July 9^th: 1635

Of the accompt of M^r John Millington and M^r Thomas Hammond before mentioned the

Suma total receiued1765

Suma total disbursed1859½

Suma total remayninge194½

due to M^r Millington

The w^ch some of j^li 9^s 4^d ob’ was paid to the said M^r Millington Julij. 9. 1635 Vppon the passing of his Aecomptes

Page 232 blank.

1635–36

Page 233.

The Accompte of M^r Thomas Hammond and William Harper Churchwardens of the Parishe of Wandswo^th in the County of Surrey made and taken the 26 day of May, Anno Dõi 1636, for All moneys receiued and disbursed for the said Parishe of Wandsworth since the Nynth of July 1635, as followeth

A new pairing: Thomas Hammond continues from the previous account, joined now by William Harper in place of John Millington.

Receiptes

lis.d.

Receiued for a graue in the Church for S^r Geo: Kemps Childe, and for the greate bell0144

[George, son of Sr. George Kemp, Knt. bur. 26 July 1635]

Recõd for a graue in the Church for M^r Lawrence childe068

[Jane, dau. of M^r Lawrence, bur. 4 Sep. 1625]

The burial date Davis gives here (4 Sep. 1625) predates this account year by a full decade and doesn't fit the surrounding chronology — possibly a misprint for 1635 in Davis's own footnote, transcribed exactly as printed rather than silently corrected.

(sub-total, unlabelled in source)110

Michaelmas quarter

Recõd of Widow Yett for that quarter034

Recõd of M^r Ballard for the like034

Recõd of Thomas Brisley for the like1vij6

Another stray Roman numeral ("vij" for 7) amid this otherwise Arabic table, transcribed exactly as printed.

Recõd of Widowe Poynter for half a yeeres rent due at Michaelmas Last010

Recõd of Wiĩlm Bentley for halfe a yeers rent due at Michaelmas068

Recõd of M^r Arnold0011

Recõd for a graue in the Church for M^r Croshaws Childe0134

[Thomas, son of Edward Croshaw, gent., bur. 4 Dec 1635]

(sub-total, unlabelled in source)2161

Christmas quarter

Recõd of M^r Ballard for Christmas qʒter034

Recõd of Richard Morlis for the like034

Recõd of Tho: Brisley for the like176

Recõd of Wid Greeneham for halfe a yere020

Recõd of M^r Arnold for Christmas quarter0011

Recõd of M^r Childe for the vse of the poore0100

(sub-total, unlabelled in source)271

Ladie day quarter

Recõd of M^r Ballard for this quarter034

Page 234.

lis.d.

Recõd of Rich: Morlis for o[ur] Ladie day quarter034

Recõd of Thomas Brisley for the like176

Recõd of W^m Bentley for halfe a yere then due068

Recõd of Richard Reddinge for three quarters of a yeres rent then due0150

Recõd of Widow Poynter for halfe a yere010

Recõd of Wid Pate for [halfe erased] a yeres rent then due020

Recõd for a whole yere for Sherendales010

Recõd of M^r Arnold0011

Recõd of Tho: Ludloe for a whole yeres rent due at o[ur] Ladie daye040

(sub-total, unlabelled in source)349

[In another handwriting]

Sĩõ tota9811

Davis notes this grand-total line was written in a different hand from the rest of the account — likely added later by an auditor checking the churchwardens' figures.

Disbursemĩnts v^t sequitur

lis.d.

pd to M^r Millingtõ being due to him frõ the pishe194½

pd for o[ur] booke of Articles014

pd for a warrant for Rob^t Collings &c and my Charges the same tyme020

pd o[ur] visitacon dutyes and Court dutyes148

pd for pauinge a Childes graue0010

pd the D^r: for M^rs Tyroes annuall sermon0100

pd to the house of Correccon083½

pd the Clarke for [our ladie day erased] Michaelmas quarter for the parish bussines and the Clock acre0100

pd the Carpenter for mending the stile, a boorde, nayles fowre plates for the Church gate and a forelock068

pd for paveinge a Childes graue0010

pd at the Quarter Sessions for the pʒsentm^t and the charges of them that went040

(sub-total, unlabelled in source)4180

Page 235.

lis.d.

pd for 5 bell ropes w^t 31^li: at 7^d p ^li0184

pd S^r John S^t John for Michaelmas rent and quit rent0158

pd for A warrant for Martin & for my charges016

pd given to the ringers Novemb: 5^th020

pd for brads, nayles, oyle and mendinge of the stile028

pd given to the Ringers Novemb: 19^th010

pd for A booke of Articles & warninge the visitation012

pd for mendinge the Clapper of y^e greate bell & workmen about it090

pd for a warrant for M^r Roades his man & for Gamõn to goe to Martin w^th it020

pd for mendinge of an Iron for the Clock and for Wyre012

pd White for pauinge of a Childes graue0010

pd for o[ur] Visitacon dinner boate hire and other charges at the Courte100

pd to Meades and Skinner to goe to Martine for M^r Roades man024

A recurring errand "to Martin(e)" involving warrants and Mr Roades's man appears three times across this page — some kind of legal or disciplinary matter, though the accounts give no further detail of its nature.

pd to the Clockmaker050

pd to the Clarke for the pishe bussines and for the Clockacre for Christmas q_ter0100

pd the Glazier for halfe a yere at Ch^rs050

pd to the house of Correccon for Xmas q_ttr083½

pd for mendinge of Widow Pates house0113

pd for a key for the Church Chist010

pd at the Courte, boate hire and our dinners the 17: of Jannary070

pd for a rope for the Churchgate, and for scowring the Church ditch010

(sub-total, unlabelled in source)662ob’

Page 236.

lis.d.

pd for A bauldrick for the Third bell016

pd for quitrent for the Churchland060

pd for mendinge of the Churchgate latch, and for a key for the belfry doore016

pd to S^r John S^t John for Ladie dayes rent and for quitrent0158

pd to the house of Correccon for lady day q^tr083½

pd to the Clarke for o[ur] Ladie day quarter for the pish bussines & the Clock Acre0100

pd to the Glazier for this quarter026

pd to Shawe for makinge of a suite of Clothes for Burnetts boy026

pd for two paire of shooes for him026

pd for retorninge of M^r Casons Aunswere to D^r: Mason, Aprill: 11, our charges of boate hire, and our dinners034

pd for a paire of shooes for the childe at nursse008

pd to the Clockmaker for Lady day quarter026

pd to Meades for scowring the Church ditch010

pd for washinge of Burvetts children020

pd for a warrant for Palmer & boate hire two severall tymes and other charges020

pd for two other warrants & charges026

pd to Shaw for mendinge of the boyes suite and footinge two paire of Stockings020

pd for tyles, the Cariage of them, lyme and sand, and to Goodman Deane for layeinge of them May 23^th 16360100

pd Dauson for mending the Churchgate004

pd the Joyner for the frame400

pd for matt, nayles and settinge of it on and for bringinge of it033

pd for a kneeling bench006

pd for Burfords Children over and above the goode[s] sould080

[Last two entries in different handwriting]

(sub-total, unlabelled in source)886ob’

Sĩõ tota’ disbursed19129

Page 237.

lis.d.

Sĩme tota’ paid of the fore said Accompte is19129

Sĩme tota’ Recõd is9811

Sĩme owinge to M^r Smiths money is10310

This account year closes in deficit, and rather than being carried forward as a simple debt to the churchwardens, the shortfall is explicitly recorded as owed to "Mr Smiths money" — suggesting the parish drew on Henry Smith's charitable fund to cover its own operating shortfall this year.

1636–37

Page 238.

The Accompte of William Harper and M^r Thomas Ballard Churchwardens of the Parishe of Wandsworth in the County of Surrey made and taken the first day of June 1637 for all moneys receiued and disbursed for the said parishe of Wandsworth since the second day of June Anno Dõi 1636, as followeth

William Harper continues as churchwarden, now joined by Thomas Ballard — previously seen paying quarterly rents in earlier accounts, he now serves as churchwarden himself.

Receipts

lis.d.

Recõd from the parishe in money June 2^o: 163612129

Recõd for M^rs Bassetts graue in the Church068

[Syth, wife of Francis Bassett, bur. 26 Apr. 1636]

Recõd of M^r Wilford300

Recõd of Goodman Campion [In margin Midsomer q^ter 1636]0011

Recõd of Tho: Brisley176

Recõd of the Clarke for a graue in the Church0144

Recõd of M^r Ballard034

Recõd of Tho: Barnard beinge a guifte from Ben: Netlingham to the Church1100

[Beniamine Netlingham bur. 26 July 1635]

Recõd of M^r Ballard for Michaelmas quarter 1636 [In margin mic’ q^tr]034

Recõd for a graue in the Church and for the bell0144

Recõd of Thomas Brisley176

Recõd of Wiĩlm Bentley for halfe a yere068

Recõd of Tho: Ludloe for halfe a yere020

Recõd of Goodman Campion0011

Recõd of soiourners in the Towne146

Recõd of diuers more soiourners1116

"Soiourners" (sojourners) — temporary residents in the parish, assessed separately from the regular householders/tenants who fill most of these receipt lines.

Recõd of M^r Shawe040

Recõd of M^r Wilforde [In margin Christ: q^tr]300

Recõd of Phillip Skinner500

Recõd of Wid Poynter for halfe yeres rent010

Recõd of Tho: Brisley for one q_trs rent176

(sub-total, unlabelled in source)34189

Rec:

Page 239.

lis.d.

Recõd of Goodman Campion for a quarter0011

Recõd for a Childe that was Carried from Heileys to London to be buried0144

Recõd for the greate bell when M^r Austin was buried010

[John Austin, gent. bur. 3 Feb. 1636/7]

Recõd from M^r Smiths Excento[rs]1500

Recõd of M^r Cason being M^rs Powells guifte200

Recõd of M^r Hammon050

Recõd of M^r Cholmeley026

Recõd of M^r Ballard for Christmas qʒter034

Recõd of M^r Ballard for Ladie day qʒter [Ladie day 1637 in margin]034

Recõd of W^m Bentley for halfe a yere068

Recõd of Tho: Brisley for ladie day qʒter176

Recõd of Goodman Campion for this quarter0011

Recõd of Wid Ludloe for halfe a yere now due020

Recõd for the whole yere for Sherendales010

Recõd of Ed: Cripps for halfe a yeres rent due at our Ladie last past068

Recõd in money beinge the guifte of M^r Powell0100

Recõd of Wid Pate towards her yeres rent020

Recõd of John Owin his yeres rent [21.19.2 in margin]020

Recõd of Barrett0100

Sumē tota Recõd561711

Henry Smith's executors continue their charitable pattern here (£15), alongside a separate £2 gift and 10s. from the Powell bequest — both charitable estates recurring throughout this volume remain active into the account's final years.

Disbursem^ts v^t sequitur

lis.d.

pd at the Visitacon &c150

pd the Aparito^r014

pd the Clarke of the Common Sewars006

pd for the Communion Cup Case046

pd the Glazier for Midsomer quarter [Midsom’ 1636 in margin]026

pd the Clockmaker for the like026

pd him for other worke done010

pd my man to helpe him & for Iron worke020

pd the house of Correccon this quarter083½

pd goinge to Croydon020

(sub-total, unlabelled in source)297½

Page 240.

lis.d.

pd old Adams for Midsomer quarter010

pd Porridge for a warrant006

pd M^r Ballard for money disbursed by him061

pd the Clarke his quartridge068

pd him his quartridge for the Clock acre034

pd for nailes &c031

pd for Iron worke for the bells034

pd for mendinge the vaine050

pd 4 workmens helpe about the bells050

pd for beere two mornings004

pd for slitt deales and two poles040

pd for tenne foote of elme boorde010

pd for mendinge the pewes and makinge the beare036

pd Justices Clarkes at Putney040

pd for lime sand and workemanship for the Church wale032

pd for pauinge a Childes graue0010

pd for pauinge tyles010

pd to the house of Correccon for Mic: quarter [Micha: 1636 in margin]083½

pd spent when the pʒsentm^t was made006

pd for a quire of paper004

pd M^r Burton for one q_tter due at Midsom’ last0100

pd Gamon this quarter [S in margin]016

pd old Adams the like010

pd the Glazier the like026

pd the D^r for M^rs Tyroes sermon0100

pd the Clarke for this quarter0100

pd S^r John S^t John for halfe a yere0150

pd for quit rent006

pd the Clockmaker his quartridge026

pd White for wardinge a fortnight0120

pd his wife for a months lookinge to Wid Wilson0100

pd for washinge Wid Wilsons Clothes0010

pd given to Rich: Cutts010

pd given to Gammon006

pd White for a weeks wardinge060

pd White’s wife goeinge to Goody Diues006

pd the Bearers to Carrie Barnsley to Church080

[Thomas Barnsley bur. 6 Aug 1636 died from Plague]¹

The "wardinge" (warding/watching) payments to White and his wife, Rich: Cutts, and others running through this page and the next are plague-containment measures — watchers set to guard infected households and search out cases — culminating in this entry for Thomas Barnsley's burial. Davis's own footnote below records that seven plague deaths occurred in the parish between 21 July and 27 September 1636, three of them Barnsley's own children.

(sub-total, unlabelled in source)7129½

Page 241.

[no heading]

pd given to a man at Church020

pd White for another weekes wardinge060

pd his Wife for a Weeke026

pd Cutts for wardinge a weeke050

pd guien to Wid Wilson016

pd Whites wife to search Knate [sic] Childe006

pd guien a boy with a passe006

pd guien Goody White for a weeke016

pd guien to a poore scoller010

pd given Widow Poynter to goe to Symonds006

pd given to Goody White for a weeke026

1 Seven cases of deaths from Plague occurred between July 21^st and Sept 27^th 1636, three of them being Thomas Barnsley’s children.

pd given to Widõo Wilson010

pd given Goody White for another weeke026

pd given Wid Wilson010

pd guien Goody White for another Weeke026

pd given Goody Wilson010

pd Goody White for a weeke026

pd given Goody Wilson016

pd Goody White another weeke026

pd giuen an Irishe man010

pd given Burnetts nursse010

pd Goody Wilson another weeke016

pd Goody White another weeke026

pd Wid Wilson a weeke016

pd Goody White0310

pd Joane Babbs030

pd Joane Babbs another weeke030

pd to Newington150

pd with Wid Rice her boy200

pd given to the poore of M^r Wilfords money300

pd with Beadles boye100

pd John White100

pd to Burnetts nursse200

pd for vj^li of flax and spininge of it0100

The plague-relief payments continue for many weeks on this page — repeated nursing wages to Goody White and Goody Wilson, and support for the Babbs and Burnett households — before the accounts shift into a long run of flax purchases and spinning wages, evidently a poor-relief work scheme.

Page 242.

lis.d.

pd for vj^li more and for spininge of it0100

pd for xij^li more of flax and spininge of it100

pd Goody Randall for vj^li and spinninge of it0100

pd for twelue pound of flax and spininge of it100

pd to Goody Randall for vj^li more & spininge it0100

pd for ij^li of flax and spininge of it034

pd for halfe a pound & spininge it0010

pd for two pound of flax & spininge it034

pd for ij^li more and spinninge of it034

pd for one pound and for spininge018

pd for halfe a pound more0010

pd for one pound more & spinninge it018

pd for two pound more & spininge of it034

pd for two pound more & spinninge of it034

pd for j^li more and spininge of it018

pd for one pound more & spininge of it018

pd for ij^li more of flax & spininge of it034

(sub-total, unlabelled in source)584

pd Goodman Kinge for a month for Burnets boy080

pd w^th Henry Littleford to his M^r168

pd to Burnetts nursse one months wages which ended the xj^th of ffebruary 1636068

pd Goodman Kinge for one weeke endinge xij^th febru:020

pd Burnetts nursse one month due March xj^th068

pd Kinge for 3 weekes due the 5: of March060

pd Kinge for 3 weekes more due 26^th of March 1637068

pd Kinge a month due 23^th of Aprill 1637080

pd Burnetts nursse one month due Aprill 8^th068

pd Burnetts nursse one month due May 6^th 1637068

pd Kinge two weeks for Burnetts boy040

pd Kinge 3 weeks due May 27^th 1637060

pd for a paire of shooes for Joane Philpot020

pd for lynnen & wollen, for hose & shooes for Burnetts Child, besides the x^s dd out of the box0140

pd the Ringers the fifth of Nouember030

pd the Apparito^r for the books for the fast020

(sub-total, unlabelled in source)10128

Burnett's orphaned child continues to be supported month by month through the winter and spring of 1636-37 (nursed by Kinge and by an unnamed nurse, clothed from the poor-box) — the long tail of the plague outbreak recorded a few pages earlier.

Page 243.

lis.d.

pd the Ringers on the kings byrthday020

pd for mendinge the pewes006

pd Gammon for Christmas quarter 1636 [S. Chrismas 1636 in margin]016

pd Deane for tylinge the Church, and for tyles lyme and sand for the same1106

pd Cottrill for his Labour then046

pd the Clarke for Christmas q_tter0100

pd M^r Burton0100

pd the Clockmaker this quarter026

pd Rob^t Adams this quarter010

pd giuen to the poore beinge M^r Wilfords money300

pd the house of Correccon this quarter083½

pd for more tyles for the Church at Brisleys028

pd for a shouell016

pd for a baskett for the workemen about the Church005

pd at seuerall tymes for oyle and nayles for the bells & three broomes for the workemen013

pd M^r Burton for a quarter y^t was behinde0100

pd for the bell ropes w^tt 26^li. ½ at 7^d p ^li0155

pd for the lynes for the clock060

pd expences for the D^r M^r Ashenden and my selfe in goeinge about M^r Smiths money for our dinners vj^s, when we landed j^s to the watermen ij^s, the acquittance iiij^d in all094

pd our visitacon dinner160

pd Charges in Courte020

pd the watermen026

pd for iron plates & nailes to mend y^e bel wheel0211

pd the workeman for his Labour014

pd the Coroner concerninge Longs wife0136

pd to Mary Isam at two seuerall tymes040

(sub-total, unlabelled in source)1197½

Page 244.

lis.d.

pd to widow Eversdon in her sicknes020

pd more to her in sicknes020

pd giuen to Goody Cutts in her sicknes010

pd to Newington080

pd to the Ringers the 27 of March 1637030

pd Gamon for Ladie day quarter 1637 [S in margin]016

pd too mendinge the Vaine, the Iron worke and Gammons helpe [Lady day 1637 in margin]046

pd M^r Burton for this quarter0100

pd the Clarke for this quarter076

pd for two books for the Church………

No sum is entered against this line in the source — a blank cell rather than a true "00", left as printed.

pd Gamon for scowringe the Church ditch010

pd for heluing the pickax004

pd for plates & mendinge the Church gates010

pd the glazier for two quarters050

pd for mendinge the bells010

pd for brads and plates for the bells016

pd guien to a poore man010

pd to two poore men who had losse by the Turks at Sea026

pd guien to two other poore men010

A rare glimpse of the parish's poor-relief reaching beyond its own bounds: alms given to men displaced by Barbary-corsair raiding ("the Turks at Sea"), a recognised hazard for English shipping and coastal communities through the 1630s.

pd for two locks for the Church026

pd for the warrant for the Comon sewars006

pd to S^r John S^t John for halfe a yeres rent0152

pd for beere for our perambulacon056

pd for bread then046

pd for Cheese then069

pd Goodman Wood for the tymber of the duckinge stoole, and his worke, & bringinge it by water100

pd Hammond to bring it from the waterside010

pd for the Iron worke of it032

The parish here has a new ducking stool built and ironed — a device for the public punishment of scolds and other petty offenders, distinct from the earlier "house of Correccon" payments recorded alongside it.

pd the house of Correccon for ladie day q^ter083½

pd the Clockmaker this quarter026

(sub-total, unlabelled in source)6138½

Page 245.

lis.d.

pd guien to a poore scholler020

pd guien to a poore man w^th a Certificate010

pd given to another poore man010

pd to John White0100

pd given to another poore man sent to me010

(sub-total, unlabelled in source)5368

Svmme of all Recõd is561711

Sume tota’ disbursed is5368

Svme tota’ Remayninge is3113

1637–38

Page 246.

The Accompte of M^r Thomas Bullard one of the Churchwardens of Wandsworth in the County of Surrey, M^r Wiĩlm Ashenden beinge then alsoe Churchwarden made and taken at seuõall tymes, for all moneys recõd and disbursed for the parishe of Wandsworth since the first day of June Anno Dñi 1637. Vnto the Tenth day of May Anno 1638 as followeth.

Thomas Bullard, previously seen paying rent as an ordinary parishioner in earlier accounts, now serves as churchwarden himself, alongside William Ashenden.

Receipts

lis.d.

Imprimis recõd of John Dobson for the Acre of meadowe at the Creekes mouth and a little peece in Sherendalls for a yere at Michaelmas 1637 the Svmme of134

Item recõd for the ringinge of the bells at the marriage of a stranger in June ¹………

Davis appends a footnote here: only four marriages were celebrated in June 1637 — June 4 Francis Scott–Rebecca Milles; June 6 Thomas Murrey–Elizabeth Hull; June 29 George Street–Mary Yett; June 29 Vargnis Sparke–Joane Caustine. As the families of F. Scott, G. Street, and V. Sparke occur in the registers, and no other entry of Thomas Murrey, it is most probable it is his wedding at which the bells were rung. No sum is entered against this line in the source.

Itemē recõd for a graue in the Church for M^r Nichols child0134

Item recõd for the bell then [Sara, dau. of Randall Nicoll bur. 15 June 1637]010

Recõd of Thomas Brisley for Midsomer quarters rent0100

Recõd for the Clock acre for the same quarter034

Recõd of M^r Arnold0011

Recõd for a graue in the Church for M^r Middletons Childe and for the bell the same tyme [Katherine, dau. of Henry Middlton of Westmin^r, gent. bur. 7 Oct 1637]0144

Itemē for a quarter of Tho Brisley at Michaelmas0100

Recõd for the Clock acre the same tyme for that quarter034

Recõd of M^r Arnold for the same quarter0011

Recõd of Wiĩlm Bentley for halfe a yeres rent due at Michaelmast last past068

Recõd of Edmund Cripps for the like068

Recõd of Wid: Ludloe for halfe a yeares rent020

Recõd of Wid Greeneham020

Recõd of Wid Pate010

Recõd of Wid Poynter010

Recõd of John Owin010

Itemē Recõd of M^r Duncombe for old stuffe that remayned of the Church porch030

Recõd of Tho: Brisley for a quarter at Christmas0100

Recõd for the Clock acre034

Recõd of M^r Arnold0011

Recõd for a graue in the Church for M^r Wilford068

[James Wilford, Esq. bur 30 Dec 1637. Will P.C.C. 22 Lee.]

Recõd of John Mott for fowre ashes at the end of John Owins yearde1100

Recõd for a graue in the Church for Jn^o Dauis068

[No entry in Burial register.]

Recõd of Thomas Brisley for a quarter at our Ladie day0100

Page 247.

(no heading)

Item recõd for the Clock acre034

Recõd of M^r Arnold0011

Recõd of Wiĩlm Bentley for halfe a yeres rent068

Recõd of Edmund Cripps068

Recõd of Wid Ludloe026

Recõd of Wid Greneham020

Recõd of Wid Pate010

Recõd of Wid Poynter010

Recõd of John Owin010

Recõd of John Dobson for halfe a yere0118

Item recõd of M^r Duncombe for a pewter filaggon030

Recõd for M^r Colenetts Childs graue in the Church and for the bell0144

[James, son of Walter Colenett bur 9 April 1638]

Recõd of John Mott for 5 Elme trees which stood on an Acre of land in Dunshill150

(sub-total, unlabelled in source)12120

Disbursem^ts for the parishe

Impris pd for our Visitacon dinner150

pd for our oathe and Charges in Courte018

pd for sendinge in our presentm^t002

pd for our boate hire then026

pd for tyme to make our presentm^t006

pd for pauing M^r Nicholds childs graue0010

pd to M^r Trapps for warninge in the jury for Longs childe080

pd to the house of Correccon for Midsom’ q_tter083

pd to M^r Duncombe for Midsomer quarter0100

pd the glazier for the like026

pd to Gammon for the like [S in margin]016

pd to Adams010

pd the Clockmaker the 8^th of July for makinge cleane and mendinge the clock068

Page 248.

lis.d.

pd to Tho: Brisley for the losse of potts and dishes at the perambulacon left vnpaid by Wiĩlm Harper016

pd M^r Duncombe for gettinge one of the Comõnion Cupps mended014

pd for pauinge M^r Middltons childs graue0010

pd the house of Correction for Mich: quarter083½

pd the Clarke for the same quarter0100

pd the Clockmaker for the like026

pd the Glazier for the like026

pd Gammon for the like [S in margin]016

pd Adams010

pd S^r John S^t John for the tennem^ts and for quit rent for halfe a yere at Michaelmas0158

It’ pd to 2 men that caried the Church armes in Nouember040

pd to the Musterm^r for 2 yeres p M^r Ashenden040

pd Gammon for making cleane the 2 cosletts010

A reminder that the churchwardens also administered the parish's militia obligations under the trained-bands system — maintaining corslets (light armour) and the parish arms, and paying dues to the muster master.

pd for our Visitacon dinner the 5^th of Decem’0184

pd for our oaths and Charge in Courte020

pd for our boate hire030

pd spent at our retorne home010

pd Gammon for fillinge vp a pew y^t was sunk003

pd for a Warrant for Richard Phillips and Neuill010

pd the same day beinge Warned by Richard Kestian before the Justices about his rate to the poore for our Dinners and boate hire052

Richard Kestian appears to have disputed his poor-rate assessment before the Justices; the churchwardens record their own dinner and boat-hire costs of attending as a parish expense.

pd for a quire of paper004

pd to the house of Correccon for Christ: q_tter083

pd the Clarke for the like0100

pd the Glazier for the like026

pd the Clockmaker026

pd Gammon [S in margin]016

pd Adams010

pd for pauinge M^r Wilfords graue018

pd to Tho: Deane for mendinge the Arch at the Church gate036

pd to the house of Correcon Ladie day q_tter083½

pd the Clarke for the like0100

Page 249.

lis.d.

pd to the Clockmaker for the like026

pd the Glazier for the like026

pd Gammon for the like [S in margin]016

pd to Adams010

pd to S^r John S^t John for the Tennem^ts and quit rent at our Ladie day0152

pd the Charges for 2. of the Vestry in goeinge to Darking q_tter sessions about Cottays [sic i.e. Cottages]062

pd Gammon for Clensing the Churchyard ditch [S in margin]010

pd for Charges about Cottages at the sessions at S^t Margaretts Hill061

pd John Avery for worke about the stocks and whippinge post0100

pd for pauinge M^r Colnetts childs graue0010

pd to Robt Ledwell for mending the stock of the greate bell0010

pd for a warrant and other charges to bring the Constables before the justices for vnequall ceasinge the parishe for the Kings hounds030

A parish grievance over an "vnequall ceasinge" (unequal assessment) for the upkeep of the King's hounds — a royal charge levied on local parishes, here disputed enough to require a warrant and a court appearance.

pd in defendinge the suite Comenced by Edm: Cripps against the parishe 3^li 12^s 7^d which is ouer and aboue 14^li layd downe by 7 of vs and already spent in the same suite, as may appeare by bill3127

Edmund Cripps, elsewhere a rent-paying parishioner, is here suing the parish; seven of the parishioners had already personally advanced £14 defending the action before this further £3 12s. 7d., evidencing a substantial and costly piece of parish litigation not otherwise explained by Davis.

13^li. 15^s. 3^d. to ac’s rest1673

Printed exactly as it stands in the source: a marginal figure (£13 15s. 3d., "to account's rest") stands beside the section's own sub-total of £16 7s. 3d., without further explanation of the relationship between the two sums.

Receipts for the poore

lis.d.

Recõd of M^r Wilford the 13^th of June beinge the guifte of M^rs Blackwell300

Recõd of Brisley for a yeres rent of Daryes house3100

Recõd of M^r Wilford the 13^th of December300

Recõd of M^r Michael Coale050

Recõd of M^r Childe for a legacie of one M^r Powell due for one yere at the feast of All S^ts0100

Recõd of M^r Harper the guifte of M^rs Powell for the puttinge forth an apprentice this yere200

Recõd of M^r Lock vpon one p^õsentm^t the 16: of June060

(sub-total, unlabelled in source)12110

Page 250.

Disbursm^ts for the poore

lis.d.

pd to D^r Loe the 21^th of September for the Añuall sermon of M^rs Elizabeth Tyroe0100

pd guien to the poore the 22^th of December as appeares by bill880

pd to James Cooper w^th Edward the sonne of Widowe Hansloe200

[In margin] 1 . 7 . 0 to y^o^r rest.

pd in charges in followinge the Justices to recover the xij^d for non Cominge to Church060

A prosecution to recover a twelve-penny fine for non-attendance at church — the recusancy penalty under the Elizabethan Act of Uniformity, still being enforced (and evidently contested) in Wandsworth in the late 1630s.

(sub-total, unlabelled in source)1140

Receipts for M^r Smiths money.
this yere.

lis.d.

Recõd of William Harrisse the 8^th of June3710

Recõd the remaynder of 30^s for Whites boye0100

Recõd for 25^li of fflaxen yearne sold by William Harper218

Recõd of M^r Jones for 40^li of yearne left vnsold by William Harper300

Recõd of M^r Gooddin June 19^th1500

Recõd of M^r Gooddin the 17^th of Novem’1500

Recõd for 47^li of yearne at 18^d p ^li3106

Recõd for 60^li4100

Recõd for 60^li more4100

Recõd for 20^li more1100

Recõd for 12^li more0180

Recõd for 30^li more at 16^d½.213

(sub-total, unlabelled in source)55193

This "Mr Smiths money" sub-ledger records the flax-purchase-and-spinning poor-relief scheme (seen earlier funding wages during the 1636 plague) now run at real commercial scale — tens of pounds' weight of yarn bought, spun, and sold on, funded from Henry Smith's charitable bequest.

Disbursm^ts for M^r Smiths money.

lis.d.

Jmp^ris pd given the 19^th of June when I recõd the 15^li to the Clarke010

pd given to Jone Babbs July 2^o: to apparell her boye0150

pd for six pound of fflax050

pd for spinninge of it050

pd to Isaack Joyce w^th Burnetts boy500

pd more to him for 2 weeks boorde0140

Page 251.

lis.d.

pd more towards apparalinge of him0160

pd to M^r Burton for a yeres rent for the Schoolehouse200

pd for j^li flax bought and spun by Randalls wife018

pd Wiĩlm Harper his Charges in goeinge to Croydon to giue his accompte of M^r Smiths money the last yere020

pd to Rich: Jeale w^th Tedders daughter100

pd given to M^r Goodins Clarke010

pd for 56^li of flax at x^d p ^li268

pd for spinninge of it268

pd for bringing it home006

pd for 5 gownes and bringing them home the 29^th of Nouember3100

pd to Rich: Nichols the 18^th of December w^th William White200

pd for 56^li of fflax268

pd for spinninge of it268

pd for bringinge it home006

pd for 56^li more of flax268

pd for spininge of it268

pd for bringing it home006

pd given to a poore woman that sold 47^li of yearne in the Towne006

pd for 56^li more of flax268

pd for spininge of it268

pd for bringing it home006

pd for 2 gownes more164

pd for 74 yeards of Cloth to Clothe 14. poore weomen. at xxij^d p yearde6170

pd for 5 yeards of bayes for borderinge & facinge070

pd for makinge of them, and findinge hooks eyes and byndinge to ffrancis Duncombe180

pd for portage and bringinge it home013

The scale of this "Mr Smiths money" scheme is now clear: dozens of pounds of flax bought, spun, and dispensed in successive batches, clothing at least fourteen poor women in matching cloth gowns trimmed with bays — an organised charitable clothing programme, not just ad-hoc relief.

Page 252.

lis.d.

pd M^r Burton for 83 Loaues of bread for the poore the 24^th of March as appeares by bill430

pd given to a poore woman that was imployed to sell the yearne006

rest49101

6^li. 9^s. 2^d. to sm:………

As on Page 249, a second marginal figure ("£6 9s. 2d. to sm[iths money]") is printed beneath the section's own "rest" total without further explanation of how the two reconcile; reproduced literally.

Unlike most of this volume's accounts, this one (Bullard and Ashenden, 1637-38) does not close with the usual formal "Summa tota" formula — it simply ends here with the "rest" and marginal figures above.

1638–39

Page 253.

The Accompte of M^r William Ashenden one of the Churchwardens of Wandsworth in the County of Surrey (M^r Walter Blagraue beinge then alsoe one of the Churchwardens) [taken erased] made & taken at seuõall tymes for all moneys receiued and disbursed for the parish of Wansworth since the Tenth day of May Anno Dñi 1638, Vntill the Third day of June 1639 as followeth

Davis notes a manuscript deletion here ("taken" struck through) in the account's own opening formula, reproduced literally.

Receipts

lis.d.

Inp^ris recõd of M^r Ballard for a quarters rent due at Natiuitye of S^t John Baptist last past for the Clock Acre1611

Recõd of Thomas Brisley for his house0100

Recõd of M^r Churchman for a graue in the Church and for the bell0144

[No entry in Register]

Recõd for the bell for M^r Jucksons child that was buried in the Chauncell010

[Susanna, dau. of John Juxon, Esq. bur 15 Aug 1638]

Recõd of M^r Ballard for Michaelmas quarter for the Clock Acre034

Recõd of Tho: Brisley0100

Recõd of Wiĩlm Bentley for halfe a yeres rent068

Recõd of Edmund Cripps for the like068

Recõd of John Dobson for the like0118

Recõd of M^r Ballard for a quarters rent due at Michaelmas last for the Clock Acre034

Recõd of Thomas Brisley0100

Recõd for M^r Hilliars graue068

[Mathew Hilliar, gent. bur 8 Nov. 1638]

Recõd for M^r Roades his graue068

[William Roades, gent. bur 18 Feb 1638/9]

Recõd for M^rs Colenetts graue and the Bell0144

[Sara, wife of Walter Colenett, gent. bur 9 Mar 1638/9]

Recõd of M^r Ballard for the Clock Acre for o^õ Ladie day last past034

Recõd of Thomas Brisley0100

Recõd of Wid: Greeneham for a yere040

Page 254.

lis.d.

Recõd of John Dobson for halfe a yere0118

Recõd of Edmund Cripps for halfe a yere068

Recõ of Wiĩlm Bentley for halfe a yere068

Recõd of Wid Pate for [halfe erased] a yere020

Recõd of Wid Lane for a yere002

Recõd for the oziers a yers rent038

Recõd for M^rs ffishers graue in the Church068

[M^rs Hester Fisher, widowe, bur 27 Mar. 1639]

[Recõd of M^r Lock for defaulters — line erased]100

Recõd for goodman Brisleys graue068

[Thomas Brisley, bur 21 May 1639. Will, 84 Harvey, P.C.C.]

Recõd in money137

Several whole lines on this page are printed by Davis inside square brackets and marked "erased" (or, further down, "lines erased") — the manuscript entries had been struck through, but Davis records their content anyway rather than omitting them, and this transcription follows suit.

Disbursm^ts

as followeth

lis.d.

pd when We went our pambulacon072

pd laid out in my absence p M^r Ballard for our Visitacõn Dinner [In margin, ink faded, this was paid and acc’ by M^r Ballard]137

pd for baies, fringe and nails for the Pulpit Deske043

pd for mendinge the Clapper of the greate bell010

pd for a warrant for some of the parishe to give a securitye046

pd for another warrant for Tho^s Paine & Ashes046

pd for a warrant for Jeff Royley & Hen: Morris046

[pd expences going downe by water at tymes — line erased]046

pd for warrants for all our Recusants016

pd for pauinge M^r Churchmans childs graue0010

pd to the house of Correccon for Midsomer quarter083½

pd the Clarke for wrytinge the parishe bussines by Consent068

pd him alsoe for the Clock acre for this quarter034

pd to Jasp Gamon for the like [S in margin]016

pd to old Adams for the like010

pd the Clockmaker for this quarter026

pd the Glazier for the like020

[pd for paper — line erased]006

[pd for Carrying põsentm^t to the Assizes — line erased]026

pd the Joyner for mendinge seates in the Church0110

pd for a warrant for Nic: Gregory006

[pd for divers of the vestry their Dinner & boate hire goeinge to oõ Justices about our Recusants — lines erased]0166

A cluster of payments here concerns the parish's Catholic recusants — warrants issued against them, and the wardens' own dinner and boat-hire expenses travelling to put the matter before the Justices — several of these lines struck through in the manuscript yet still recorded by Davis, suggesting the recusancy proceedings themselves may have been contentious or later reconsidered.

Page 255.

lis.d.

pd to the Clarke for wrytinge the parishe bussines by Consent for Mic: quarter068

pd him alsoe for the Clock acre this q_tter034

pd to S^r John S^t Johns for halfe a yeres [quit erased] rent0158

pd the house of Correccon for Mic: q_tter083½

pd to the glazier this quarter026

pd the Clockmaker for the like026

pd to Gamon for the like [S in margin]016

pd old Adams for the like010

[pd expences boate hire and dinner for divers of the Vestry goeinge to the Justices about parishe business — erased]0156

[pd expences at seuerall tymes goeinge to the Justices by Water — erased]070

pd for mending wid Whites house040

pd the Ringers the 5^th of Nouember010

pd the Aparator for our booke of Articles and for our Warninge020

[pd for oõ visitacon dinner and boatehire — erased]166

pd for a warrant for Sims & Cason016

[pd spent when we made our põsentm^t — erased]014

pd to [M^r Duncombe erased] the Clarke for the parishe bussines for Christmas q_tter by consent068

pd him alsoe for the Clock acre for this q_tter034

pd the house of Correccon this quarter083½

pd the glazier this quarter026

pd the Clockmaker the like026

pd Gammon for the like [S in margin]016

pd to old Adams010

pd Edw: Poole for wearing the towne armes020

pd W^m Richardson for a halfe peck & a q_tter measure010

pd for mendinge Wid: Pates house030

pd for two feathers for the towne Armes036

pd for a warrant for Jacksõ & old Belson——6

"The towne armes" recurs here — someone paid to wear the parish's ceremonial/militia armour on public occasions, with feathers bought for its display, alongside the more mundane weights-and-measures and house-repair items on the same page.

Page 256.

lis.d.

pd wid Brisley for nailes and Cordes036

pd Ed: Poole for wearinge the towne armes 2 dayes030

pd the Clarke of the Sewars for a note006

pd for wyer for the Clock016

pd for mendinge the Church box002

pd for pauinge M^rs Colenetts graue018

pd for mendinge wid Gamons house018

[pd to the ringers on the kings birthday (line erased)]016

pd the Clarke for wrytinge the parish busines by Consent for our Lady day quarter068

pd alsoe to him this quarter for the Clock acre034

pd the glazier this quarter026

pd the Clockmaker for the like026

pd Ja: Gammon for the like [S in margin]016

pd old Adams for the like010

pd to S^r John S^t Johns0132

pd the house of Correccon this quarter083½

Receipts for the poore

Recõd of the guifte of M^rs Blackwell600

Recõd of M^r Lock for defaulters2150

Recõd of M^r Ballard when I came in070

Recõd of Tho. Brisley for Midsomer quater0176

Recõd of Tho. Brisley for Mic: quarter0176

Recõd of M^r Sturton his wife and himselfe and seruants absence from Church0120

A fine levied on Mr Sturton and his household — wife, himself, and servants — for their collective absence from church, distinct from the ordinary recusancy warrants seen elsewhere in this account.

Recõd of Tho. Brisley for Christ: quarter0176

Recõd of Tho. Brisley for Lady day quarter0176

Recõd of M^rs Powells guift to put out apprentice200

Recõd more of M^r. Bullard (line erased — stet in margin)134

Davis notes this line was struck through in the manuscript but marked "stet" ("let it stand") in the margin — the deletion itself was overruled, so the receipt is counted in the total below.

Recõd of M^r Lock for defaulters106

(sub-total, unlabelled in source)1874

Davis inserts his own editorial note at this point: "A leaf seems to have disappeared between pp. 256, 267" — recording a physical gap in the manuscript's own pagination. The next surviving page is nonetheless headed "Page 257" in the source, transcribed exactly as printed.

Page 257.

Disbursem^ts for the poore

lis.d.

Impris pd to Rich: Jeale for nursinge of Burnetts Childe for 9 months endinge the 8^th of Aprill 1639 at 8^s per month3120

pd D^r Leo for preachinge M^rs Tyroes Anuall Sermon0100

pd giuen to 70^ti old poore people as by bill appeares which was recõd of M^r Lock2150

pd giuen a Minister and another010

pd given to the poore at Christmas as p bill150

pd given to put Semio^rs sonea pprentice to Ab: Host a weauer beinge M^rs Powells guifte200

The name here ("Semio^rs sonea") is not clearly resolved by Davis's own printing and is reproduced exactly as it appears — likely "Semior's sonne a[n] pprentice", i.e. a son being apprenticed, but the surname itself is uncertain.

pd given to certaine poore people the money recõd of M^r Sturton as p bill appeareth0120

10 15

Svmme tota recõd for the põsh and the poore is26166

Svmme totã disbur: for the parishe and the poore2536

mischarged [in margin] [Sṽm tot̃ remayninge is — erased]1130

A small uncrossed figure ("10 15") is printed just above the "Svmme tota" formula without explanation, and the closing remainder line is itself both marked "mischarged" in the margin and struck through in the manuscript — all reproduced literally as Davis presents them.

Receipts for M^r Smiths money

Recõd of M^r Ballard when I came in1100

Recõd of M^r Smiths executor^rs for a yere3000

Sṽm tota recõd31100

Disbursem^ts for the same.

as followeth

Impris pd for 18^li of fflax at xij^d p ^li0180

pd for Spinninge of it0180

Page 258.

lis.d.

pd for schoolinge of ffowre boyes a yere200

pd given to M^r Goodwyns man when the money was recõd008

[pd for our boate hire at seuõall times when we went to recõ the money and to fetch the yearne — erased]046

pd for 82 yeards of broade cloth at 1^s 6^d p yeard to cloth 15 poore people, namely Mansfeilds wife, wid White, Mary Isam, wid Denham, wid Lane, Joane Philpott, wid West, wid Taylor, Rob^t Adams wife, wid Greeneham, Lewis Tedder, old Deeringe, John Mansfeild, old Kinge and Richard Cutts636

A rare complete named roll of fifteen individual poor-relief recipients — several of them (Mary Isam, the Tedders, White, Greeneham) recurring figures elsewhere in this account as rent-payers or recipients of earlier charity, giving a small but genuine cross-section of Wandsworth's poorest households in 1639.

pd for makinge the poores Clothes1160

pd giuen poore people in Bread at Christmas as by bill appeares6124

[pd M^r Ballard expences and myne at Kingstone to meet M^r Goodwyne — erased]036

pd out w^th Babbs an apprentice2100

pd for tenne pound of [flax erased] hemp and spininge of it096

pd out w^th Henry Greenrod apprentice200

pd out w^th Taylor to Ja: Cooper200

now Loss but 10^s 2^d mischarged [in margin]

[pd Lost in spininge of 50^li pounde of yearne — erased]030

Sum̃a tota disbursed26162

Sum̃a tota recõd is31100

Sum̃a tota disbur (18^s added to this)21162

Sum̃a tota remayninge6110(?)

Even Davis's own type queries the final figure here with a bracketed question mark, and the arithmetic across these last four lines does not cleanly reconcile (the shift from £26 16s. 2d. disbursed to £21 16s. 2d. disbursed, with 18s. "added to this," is left unexplained) — reproduced exactly as printed.

Remayninge of fflaxen yearne 18^li
Remayninge of hempen yearne x^li

Page 259 blank.

Page 260 blank.

Davis inserts an editorial note at this point: "Pp. 259–266 have been inserted, and pp. 261–266 contain another copy of the Accounts on pp. 253–258."

Page 261.

The Accompte of M^r William Ashenden one of the churchwardens of Wandsworth in the County of Surr’ (M^r Walter [Walter erased] Blagraue beinge the other) made and taken at seuõall times for all moneys receiued and disbursed for the parishe of Wandsworth since the x^th of May Anno Dñhi 1638 Vntill the third of June 1639 . as followeth

Receipts

lis.d.

Inpris recõd of M^r Ballard for one quarters rent due at the Natiuity of S^t Jo Baptist last past for the Clock Acre034

Recõd of Tho: Brisley for his house0100

Recõd for M^rs Churchmans childes graue in y^e church and bell0144

[No entry in Register]

Recõd for the bell for one buried in the Chancell010

Recõd for Mic: rent for the Clocke Acre034

Davis notes here that this is, by his own account, "another copy of the Accounts on pp. 253–258" — the second surviving version of the 1638-39 account in the manuscript. Its opening lines correspond word-for-word (allowing minor spelling variants) to those already transcribed above from Page 253 onward; since Davis's printed text of pp. 261-266 duplicates that already-transcribed material without material variation, it is not repeated here line-by-line. Having compared the two copies through to their end (Page 266), the genuine differences are summarised below rather than silently passed over.

[Pages 262-266: duplicate copy of the account above, collated below]

Collation of the duplicate (pp. 261-266) against the first copy (pp. 253-258) turns up several genuine differences, not mere copying variants: (1) the duplicate closes the main Disbursements with an explicit "Sume tota’ £10 4s. 9d." and "Rest to the accomptant £1 1s. 8d." that the first copy never states outright; (2) its "Receipts for the poore" totals only £17 4s. 0d., against £18 7s. 4d. in the first copy — the duplicate omits the "Recd more of Mr. Bullard" line entirely (the one marked "stet in margin" in the first copy) and records the Lock defaulters payment as £1 0s. 0d. rather than £1 0s. 6d.; (3) its "Disbursements for the poore" closes with an explicit "Sume tota’ £10 15s. 0d." and "Rest to the poore £6 9s. 0d.", again not stated in the first copy; (4) the broadcloth payment to clothe the fifteen poor people is given as £6 3s. 0d. here versus £6 3s. 6d. in the first copy; and (5) the duplicate identifies the second apprentice by name — "Jo: Taylar," apprenticed with James Cooper — where the first copy's phrasing ("pd out with Taylor to Ja: Cooper") left it ambiguous whether Taylor was the apprentice or someone else. Most usefully, the duplicate's closing "Mr Smiths money" total ("Svme tota’ £25 7s. 2d.", "Rest to M^r Smiths money £6 2s. 10d.") is clean and internally consistent, where the first copy's equivalent closing lines (Page 258-259) were themselves garbled and query-marked by Davis's own type. The second copy appears, on balance, to be the more carefully finished of the two.

1639–40

Page 267.

The Accompte of Richard Kestin one of the Churchwardens of Wandsworth (William Bentlie beinge the other) made and taken before divers of the Parishners beinge present the 17 day of May 1640, and is for the yeare last past beginninge the 4^th day of June 1639 as ffolloweth

Receipts for the Church

lis.d.

Receiued from M^r Ashenden last Churchwarden001000

Receiued from M^r Arnold for y^e last yeare past000308

Receiued from widd Brisley for y^e last yeare020000

Rec’ of Edmond Cripps for rent as abouesd001304

Rec’ of M^r Ballard 13^s 4^d for y^e Clock Acre w^ch was pd to Richard Duncombe Jmediat………

No figure is entered for this line — Davis's own text explains the rent was paid directly to Richard Duncombe rather than passing through the warden's accompt, hence nothing to record here.

Rec’ of John Dobson for 1 yeares Rent all endinge at oõ Ladie day last past010304

Rec’ for M^r Clarks graue (though buried at London)001404

Rec’ for a graue for M^r Ducks Child: it beinge paued000510

[Edmund, son of Edmund Duck bur 13 Sep 1639]

Re for a graue ffor a Child at widd Brisleys001404

Re for M^r Millingtons graue000608

[John Millington, gent. bur 6 Jan 1639-40]
Will (not reg^d) proved Jan 13, 1639-40 by son John]

John Millington — churchwarden of the 1633-34 account and husband of "Mrs Millingtons graue" recorded there — is himself buried here, six years later.

Rec’ for widd Brisleys graue000608

[Joane Brisley, widowe, bur 24 Feb 1639-40]

Re for a graue and knell though buried at London frõ Steven Chelsams, a Nurse Child000708

Rec’ ffor a knell frõ M^r Ashenden000100

[John Biddle, servant to M^r Ashenden, bur 10 Aug 1639]

Rec’ ffor 5 knells for Nursechildren000206

Rec’ ffor 1 knell0006

Rec’ ffor a graue for M^r Ashendens Child0068

Recõd in tot’07166

Recõd more pte of a Ceasem^t of 9^li for the Church6101

Page 268.

Disburstments for the Church

lis.d.

Imprimis ffor oõ Trianiall booke of Articles othes &c000204

ffor a ffurther day ffor M^r Ashenden & his bill000106

ffor oõ visitatiõ diner & bote hiar010208

ffor 6 paire of hinges for Pew dores000600

ffor 4 deale boards & a leaf of a slit deale000408

ffor 2 dayes worke and a halfe to the Joyner000500

p^d ffor bell ropes w^ch M^r Ashenden left vnpaid01800

p^d to the Clark ffor wrighting parish buisines…1304

p^d to Jasper Gamon for y^e yeare [S in margin]000600

p^d Rob^t Adames ffor the last yeare000300

p^d to the Glaziar for the last yeare001000

p^d John Minter for the Clock Mending & lookin too…1306

p^d ffor a New Clapp^r and New Shuttings anoth^r010201

p^d ffor a New balrig & mending an old one000106

p^d Jo: Bowman for New wheeles and trussing y^e bells030306

p^d ffor Searching for Jo: Warners will000200

p^d for pauing a Childs graue000010

p^d to the Ringers on the 5^th of November000500

p^d to the parator for sumons & booke of Articles000106

ffor oõ visitatiõ diner & Charges thither001700

ffor oõ othes & His Ma^tis Jnstructions000200

ffor washing the Church Linon this yeare001200

ffor a New Surplis & Mending an old one010100

p^d ffor Casualtie worke abo^ut the Church which was done by tempestuous wether011904

A storm ("tempestuous wether") caused damage to the church substantial enough to warrant its own accounting line — one of the few weather events this volume records directly rather than incidentally.

p^d at Goodj Brisleys for broooms Nailes & oyle00044

p^d for New parchment Regester & seruic bookes010903

p^d for Mending the bear000104

spent on oõ parambulatiõ day00126

p^d to M^r Ashenden for monye laid out by him000006

p^d for Coueringe a graue in the Church0010

Sum̃ tota disburs:1729

Sume tota Rec’d is1467

Sume tota’ disbursed1729

Sume tota’ due to the Accomptant is2162

Davis appends a further note here: "Loss by Collect of the Ceasem^t by the other side of this leafe menconõd the some of 2 . 9 . 10" — a further loss on the parish rate, recorded on the reverse of the same manuscript leaf, reproduced as printed.

Page 269.

Receipts ffor the poore

lis.d.

Rec’ ffor one yeares Rent of Widd Brisley031000

Rec’ of M^r James Wilford for y^e 100^li of M^rs Blackwells60000

Rec’ ffor liñen of Kathern Hawards000206

Rec’ frõ M^r Lock for defaulters000500

Rec’ frõ the Ladie Stonhouse beinge y^e guift of M^r Powell late of ffulham deceased001000

Rec’ of M^r Harp beinge y^e guift of M^rs Powell 2^li w^ch said 2^li was giuen w^th Henrie Feild to be apprentic’………

Rec’ of Richard Cutts for a yeares Rent000400

Rec’ of Henrie Bowkham for Widd Ludlies house000400

Rec’ of Henrie due for y^e like [hee p’mised 4^s in different ink]000400

Rec’ of Tho: Hicks for y^e like [hee p’mised 4^s in different ink]000400

Davis notes both promissory lines above were written "in different ink" — a scribal detail suggesting the 4s. promises were added to the manuscript after the fact, as the rents were pledged rather than yet collected.

Rec’ of Lewis Teder for half a yeares rent 2^s000200

Rec’ of Widd Lane000002

Rec’ of Widd Pate000000

Rec’ of M^rs Ann Stonhouse x^li beinge the guift of M^rs Elizabeth Stonhouse deceased100000

Rec’ out of the poores box at seuerall times besides that which was Imediatlie disburst011908

(sub-total, unlabelled in source)230504

Disburstments ffor y^e poore

To Jo: White in his sicknes & to y^e Hospitall000206

ffor 4 seuerall warents for Jackson, Hargroue, Sims, &c000300

To 11 poore saylors hauing rec’ shipwrack000100

p^d for 2 Lodes of Straw and thatchin y^t on poore folkes houses and other Labour & Materiales011501

p^d to Doctor Loe for M^rs Tiroes Annuall sermõ001000

p^d to y^e House of Corectiõ. & Maimed soldiars011210

p^d to S^r Jo: S^t Jones for one yeares Rent011008

p^d to Widd Weekes for keeping Widd Shelton000500

p^d old Kinge. for Rent for Ewins001200

p^d to Widd Coop’: for keeping Widd Eversdon000800

giuen to Barnsley in his sicknes000100

to Widd W^t at seuerall times & 7^d for a wheele000507

to an Irish woman great w^th Child000003

to Elizabeth Tharp000010

This page's poor-relief spending reaches well beyond Wandsworth's own residents: eleven shipwrecked sailors, maimed soldiers (alongside the house of correction), and a heavily pregnant Irish woman passing through all receive small sums — alongside "Barnsley," almost certainly kin of Thomas Barnsley, whose children died of plague three years earlier in this same account book.

In fetchin M^rs Stonhouses x^li Expended000103

to Widd Ball000200

to Henrie due for Repairing one of y^e almeshouses…0203

giuen to divers poore people: as appeared by bill011008

p^d to M^r Patiene. for Cure done to Widd Hayes020000

p^d to watchmen to attend hir000206

p^d giuen to Certaine poore people as by bill010106

p^d to the pishe Clarke for wrytinge the poores bussines0134

(sub-total, unlabelled in source)1313

In margin: Rest 10^li . 04^s . 01^d

Page 270.

Receipts ffor the Parish of Wandsworth

lis.d.

Rec’ as by a Ceasment Collected by Henrie Knight & Richard Morlis . to satisfie the former Constables & Headborowes the sume of031911

Re ffor Iron w^ch cam off the May poale000601

(sub-total, unlabelled in source)040603

The printed sub-total (£4 6s. 3d.) does not quite match the sum of the two lines above it (£3 19s. 11d. + 6s. 1d. = £4 6s. 0d. exactly) — a small 3d. discrepancy, reproduced as printed. Separately, iron salvaged from a dismantled maypole being sold for parish funds is a small but telling detail of changing religious sensibilities in this period.

Disburstments ffor the Parish

p^d to Richard Morlis Concerning the becon000608

p^d to James Coop’ & Jo: Blake Constables ffor moneys by y^m laide out: as by order frõ y^e justic030800

p^d to ffrancis Hayes Head burough000206

To Henrie Knight ffor 3 dayes training000600

To Edward Poole ffor 2 dayes trayning000300

To the Muster Master000208

To: Laborars to digg vp the Maypole000202

(sub-total, unlabelled in source)041100

This page records the physical removal of Wandsworth's maypole — iron fittings sold off, and labourers paid "to digg vp the Maypole" — alongside routine constable, beacon-watch, and militia-training payments; maypoles were a recurrent target of Puritan disapproval in this period and their removal here (1639-40) sits just a few years before they were banned outright under the Commonwealth.

The following items have been deleted—
Receipts of the Money rec’ for
Receipts of M^rs Smythes Monye:
Rec’ frõ M^r Ashenden last Churchwarden — £6 7s. 2d.
Rec’: as ffrom M^r Walter . Blagroue — £14 19s. 0d.
Rec’ at 2 seuerall times frõ M^r Goodwin — £30 0s. 0d.
Rec’ ffor 18^l of Flaxen yarne left in stocke — £1 7s. 6d.
Rec’ ffor 10^l of Flaxen yarne : w^ch was left in stock — £0 [blank]
Printed by Davis inside a bracketed box headed "The following items have been deleted," exactly as transcribed above. Note this is "M^rs Smythes Monye" — a distinct sum from the "M^r Smiths money" charity tracked elsewhere throughout this volume — and its receipts were struck from the manuscript account entirely, yet Davis preserves them here rather than silently dropping them.

Page 271.

The Accompte of Richard Kestin Churchwarden of the pishe of Wandsworth in the County of Surrey for the yere past for all moneye disbursed & receiued of Executo^rs of M^r Henry Smith deceased for the poore since the fowrth of June 1639 . Vntill this 17^th day of May 1640 as followeth :

This formal sub-account, kept separately by the same Richard Kestin, administers the bequest of Henry Smith (d. 1628) — "Dog Smith," the celebrated London philanthropist whose charitable trusts for the poor across Surrey parishes (including Wandsworth) still operate today as the Henry Smith Charity. Davis's own footnote below points readers to "Henry Smith's Epitaph, Vol. XX, p. 170," i.e. an earlier volume of this same journal series.

Receiptes

lis.d.

Receiued the iiij^th of June 1639 of M^r Ashenden the põcedent Churchwarden beinge the remaynder of M^r Smiths money in his hand06072

Recõd from M^r Blagraue by the apointm^t of M^r Glascock14190

Recõd from the Executo^rs of M^r Smith15000

Recõd for 18^li of flaxen yearne & 10^li of hempen yearne all w^ch were sold for the syme of01190

Recõd for Seacoles sold to the poore at 4^d the bus̃01108

Recõd from M^r Smiths Executo^rs15000

Recõd for one dozen of fflaxen yearne sold for00180

Recõd for Eleauen dozen of hempen yearne whereof one dozen one dozen [sic] was sold for 10^d p ^li: and 10 dozen at 1^s p ^li06170

Recõd for 17 ^li of hempen yearne vj ^li of Course flaxen yearne01011

Disbursem^ts, and ymployed as followeth

Paid for two dozen and a halfe of flax to sett the poore on worke,¹ the bringinge it home and the spinninge of it02076

p^d more for 12 dozen of vj^d hempe and one dozen of v^d hempe the Carriage, and the spinninge of it Co_st07150

p^d lost and w^t of spinninge and peice000511

p^d M^r Goodwyns seruant at the receeipte of M^r Smiths money00016

p^d for one gowne readie made x^s and for 50^ti: yeardes of Cloth which was bought of Roger Morley of Godleymã at 2^s 4^d the yearde for bayes and other necessaries to finish vp 14 . garments for 14 poore people whose names are hereynder written, and for makinge of them07172

Thomas Gunne — Goody Owin
David Tomas — Wid Gannon
Rob^t Adams — Wid Durrant
John Ewins — Wid Younge
Rich: Carter — Wid Adams
Bryan Cooper — Wid Denham
John White an Orphant — Wid Hamon

¹ See Henry Smith’s Epitaph, Vol. XX, p. 170.

p^d for foure Chaldron of seacoles with Cariage of them by land and by water & for house rent for them04110

p^d for education of 4 poore boyes to make them fitt for Apprentices02000

Page 272.

lis.d.

p^d given in bread and fleshe to neere 80^ti: poore people at Christide, 163906111

p^d giuen in mariage w^th ffrances Due a poore maide00100

[Edward Grymes & Frances Due; married Oct. 27 1639]

p^d fore releife of a poore orphant Bennett May 17^th 164005160

p^d w^th Wiĩlm Dauson appren’ w^th M^r ffossett a butcher01000

p^d w^th John Symmons appren’ w^th M^r Badger a —03000

p^d w^th John Gannon appren’ w^th M^r Hurd02000

p^d given in money to inferme & aged poore people as by bill appeares05070

(sub-total, unlabelled in source)481300

Sume tota rec’d631111

Sume tota disbursed481300

Svme tota remayninge141811

Svme remayninge of fflaxen yearne — 12^li

This and all other the before mencõned accompts of the said Richard Kestren was seene audited and approued of the 17^th of May 1640 by vs whose names are herevnder written

W^m Burton — W^m Leo D.D. Pasto^r there.
Edmond Cripps
Christopher Bayley — Hugh Campion
Edward Moore — Will : Bentley

This closing audit signature marks the natural end of Davis's published transcription (Surrey Archaeological Collections, Vol. XXIV, pp. 92-161). Among the signatories: William Leo, the vicar seen throughout this account book as "D. Leo"/"Dr Leo" since his first appearance in the 1631-32 account, here formally styled "W^m Leo D.D. Pastor there"; and William Bentley, Edmund Cripps, and William Burton, all recurring across many years of these accounts as rent-payers, churchwardens, or both — a fitting close to a volume that has traced the same small circle of Wandsworth families through marriage, death, office, and plague across nine years.

historyofwandsworthcommon.org → Cecil Tudor Davis → Davis, 1631–1639

Wandsworth Churchwardens’ Accounts
from 1631 to 1639

Cecil Tudor Davis

Contents

1630-31

1631-32

Receiptes

Disbursements

1632 (17 May – 5 July)

1632 (5 July – 2 August)

1632 (2 August – 5 December)

1632 (5 December – 7 February)

1632/3 (7 February – 7 March)

1633 (7 March – 4 April)

1633 (4 April – 4 May)

1633 (4 May – 10 September): Audit Memoranda

1633–34

1634

1634–35

1635–36

1636–37

1637–38

1638–39

1639–40

historyofwandsworthcommon.org → Cecil Tudor Davis → Davis, 1631–1639

Wandsworth Churchwardens’ Accountsfrom 1631 to 1639

Cecil Tudor Davis

Contents

1630-31

1631-32

Receiptes

Disbursements

1632 (17 May – 5 July)

1632 (5 July – 2 August)

1632 (2 August – 5 December)

1632 (5 December – 7 February)

1632/3 (7 February – 7 March)

1633 (7 March – 4 April)

1633 (4 April – 4 May)

1633 (4 May – 10 September): Audit Memoranda

1633–34

1634

1634–35

1635–36

1636–37

1637–38

1638–39

1639–40

Wandsworth Churchwardens’ Accounts
from 1631 to 1639