Payde more to hym for a blake byll ffor iiij. bowes ffor iiij. shottyng gloves ffor xiij. armyng swerds ffor xiij. gyrdells ffor iiij. bowe strynggs ffor xiij. daggars . ffor a peysse of reed kersse ffor xxvij. yards of whit cotten at vd ob. ffor makyng of xiiij. cotts, at viijd the cotte Payd (1544-6) for a lode of sande for the halle fflowre vjd The Acts passed in the 37th of Henry the Eighth and the 1st of Edward the Sixth, for the "dissolucion of colleges, ch'untries, and free chapels, at the King's Majesties pleasure," and the appointment of Commissioners to examine into all payments made by corporations and mysteries for the maintenance of priests, obits, and other superstitious observances, transferred a large portion of the revenues of the civic companies to the crown; nor was there any other way for them, as Strype observes, "but to purchase and buy off these rent charges, and get as good a pennyworth as they could of the King, and this they did (3 Edw. VI.), by selling other of their lands to enable them to make these purchases."* The following entries seem in part to refer to circumstances arising out of these enactments, and furnish us with some curious particulars: Strype, Book 5, p. 249, Ed. 1720. 1547. 1 Edw. VI. Payd to Master Attkyns for to Barby pursevaunte for his paynes at ij. tymes and gevyne to iij. of my lord cheffe barnes ffor my dyner and the bedylls, and for bote hyre to Ric. Deacon and James Ketell, for ther paynes Payde for a quarter of a yarde of puke cloth for jli xijs viijd jli xs iijs viija vjs ijs iiija iiijs iijs iiijd ffor James Kettell's livery gowne, and his hode to Ric. Deacon in redy monye for his gowne iju geven to Mr. Losse to haue his good will con- jli Anno secundo et tertio Edwardi sexti. An act 1549. was passed in this year against false forging of iron gads, instead of gads of steel. Where divers persons of late have deceitfully forged and made of certain iron called Bilbow iron like to the fashion and manner of gadds of steel, and have sold the same so forged to divers of the king's subjects for steel, whereby the greatest part of edged tools, weapons, and other necessary things having edges are of little or no value or goodness, to the great hurt of the king's loving subjects; for the reformation whereof, be it enacted by the king's highness, by the assent of the lords spiritual and temporal and of the commons in this present parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, that if any person after the first of May next coming do forge or make any such gads of iron, or do utter or put to sale any such gads of iron, he shall forfeit for every gad so forged, or uttered, or put to sale, four pence; the moiety of which forfeiture shall be to the king, and the other moiety to him or them that will sue for the same in any of the king's Courts of Record, by action, bill, plaint, or information, on the which action, bill, plaint, or information no wager of law, protection, or essoin shall be allowed or admitted. Another act of the same year, reciting and confirming a previous one made in the 33 Hen. VIII. prohibits the exportation of brass, copper, latten, bell metal, pan metal, gun metal, or shruff metal, whether it be clean or mired (tin and lead only excepted), into any part beyond the sea, upon pain to forfeit double the value thereof, and £10 for every thousand weight of the same so exported.* 1550. (4 Edw. VI.) In this year the king confirmed the chantry lands to the city and principal companies. The following is so much of the letters patent as relates to the Ironmongers' Company : The King, to all to whom, &c. health. Know ye, that we for the sum of eighteen thousand seven hundred and forty-four pounds, eleven shillings, and two pence, of lawful money of England, paid into the hands of the treasurer of our Court of Augmentations and Reversions of our crown for our use by our beloved Augustine Hinde and Richard Turke, citizens and aldermen of the city of London, and William Blackwell, gent. clerk of the said city, by which we confess ourselves fully satisfied and freed, and the said Augustine, Richard, and William, their heirs, executors, and administrators, acquitted and exonerated, of our special grace and certain knowledge and mere motion, also with advice of our council, have given and granted and by these presents give and grant to the said Augustine Hinde, Richard Turke, and William Blackwell, all that our annual receipts and sum of seven pounds, seven shillings, and eight pence, issuing out of a messuage of the * Statutes of the Realm, 2 and 3 Edw. VI. cap. xxvii. xxxvii. master, wardens, and community of the mistery of Ironmongers, London, situate and being in the Poultry, in the parish of St. Mildred, London, and out of two messuages or tennements called the Nonne Head of the said master, &c. situate and being in the parish of St. Leonard, London, and out of a tenement or croft with gardens adjoining of the said master, &c. situate and being in the parish of St. Giles without Cripplegate, London, which said annual sum, receipt, or annuity, the said master, &c. lately paid and were accustomed annually to pay to the support of a priest officiating in the church of Saint Olave, in the Old Jury, London, according to custom made by Thomas Michell. And all that our annual receipt, annuity, and annual sum of sixteen shillings and six pence per year, issuing out of the said messuages, tenements, croft, and gardens, which said annual sum, receipt, or annuity the said master, &c. lately paid and annually have been accustomed to pay for the anniversary of the said Thomas Michell to be observed in the said church of Saint Olave, in the Old Jury, London. And all that our receipt, annuity, and annual sum of thirty-seven shillings and ten pence a-year issuing out of four messuages or tenements of the said master, &c. situate and being in the parish of Saint Leonard in Eastcheap, of Saint Peter in Westcheap, of Saint Margaret Patten, and Saint Mary at Hill, within the city of London, which said annual sum, receipt, or annuity, the said master, &c. lately paid and annually were accustomed to pay for two anniversaries of Humphry Barnes observed in the church of Saint Mary at Hill and St. Leonard's in Eastcheap, London, aforesaid. And all that our receipt, annuity, and annual sum of four shillings and four pence which the said master, &c. lately paid and annually were accustomed to pay for the anniversary of Thomas Dorchester, celebrated in the church of Saint Faith under Saint Paul's, London. And all that our receipt, annuity, and annual sum of thirty-seven shillings and two pence per annum issuing out of messuages and tenements called Horse-head Alley of the said master, &c. situate and being in the parish of Saint Sepulchre without Newgate, London, which said annual sum, &c. the said wardens, &c. lately paid and annually were accustomed to pay for the anniversary of Richard Filde, observed in the church of Saint Benedict, Gracechurch, London: to have, hold, and enjoy all and singular the said annuities, &c. and all and singular the premises above mentioned and specified, with all and singular their appurtenants, to the said Augustine Hinde, Richard Turke, and Willm Blackwell, their heirs and assigns, for ever, to their own use and the use of the said Augustine, Richard, and William, their heirs and assigns, for ever, without any service, &c. to be paid, &c. to us or our heirs or successors, any laws, &c. to the contrary, &c. notwithstanding. In witness whereof, &c. at Leighes, the ... day of July, in the fourth year of the reign of King Edward the Sixth. The following entries occur between the years 1548 and 1554 Payd for vj. labourers for the town dyche for the Some items from the inventory of goods about this period: The corporaĉon granted by King Edward ye IIII. The seall of the corporacyon. The armes geven by the harrolds. A comyssyon from Kinge Edward the VI. consnyng chauntry lands and gyld lands wt the comyssions hondys. A dyde of ye chantre lands bought agay'e of Kinge Edward the Syxt. |