f 441 (25 April)
...
| Box./ | It is Ordered that Edward Box of Bredstreete in London shall before the ffirst day of Iune next pyle boorde & fill vp fyve poles more or lesse of the bancke against the sewar by the Late Playhouse in Maidelane called the Rose vpon paine to forfeict for every pole then vndone | xx s./ |
...
°not done; relaxata apud
Curiam 27 die Octobris 1606./°
[Footnote: relaxta … 1606: 'remitted at court, 27 October 1606']
The 'Late Playhouse' may or may not have been demolished by this time although the archaeological evidence suggests that demolition likely happened by 1606; see further extensive detail provided by Bowsher and Miller, The Rose and the Globe, pp 66–70.
Record title: Surrey and Kent Commissioners for Sewers'
Court
Repository:
LMA
Shelfmark: SKCS/018
Repository location: London
Most of the pre-1642 records of the Surrey and Kent Commissioners for Sewers are now
deposited at the London Metropolitan Archives. The LMA collections catalogue succinctly describes this source as
follows: 'Early Commissioners of Sewers were solely concerned with land
drainage and the prevention of flooding, not with the removal of sewage
in the modern sense. In 1531 an Act of Sewers was passed which set out
in great detail the duties and powers of Commissioners and governed
their work until the 19th century. Gradually a permanent pattern emerged
in the London area of seven commissions, five north and two south of the
Thames, with, after the Great Fire, a separate commission for the City of London.... Letters Patent for the Surrey and Kent Commissioners of Sewers were
issued in 1554. Its minutes begin in 1570 and it was the earliest of the
London Commissions to be established on an organised basis. The area of
its jurisdiction ran from East Molesey in Surrey to the River
Ravensbourne, and included Lambeth, Southwark, Bermondsey, Newington,
Deptford, Rotherhithe, Clapham, Battersea, Camberwell, Vauxhall,
Wandsworth, Putney, Barnes, Kew, Lewisham, Walworth, Kennington, Nine
Elms, Peckham and New Cross. The area of jurisdiction remained the same
throughout the three centuries during which it functioned.' See further
Ida Darlington, 'The London Commissioners of Sewers and their Records,'
in Prisca Munimenta: Studies in Archival & Administrative
History presented to Dr A.E.J. Hollaender, Felicity Ranger
(ed) (London, 1973), 282–98.
John Norden's 1593 map shows the lines
of the Bankside
sewers (or drainage ditches). There
were three running along the Little Rose property: two to the south
along Maiden Lane and one on the west side
adjacent to the Bear Garden property.
For an
abstract of the document and details of its transcription history, see
the related EMLoT event records here and here.
3 January 1568/9–25 April 1606; English with some Latin; paper; i + 520 + i; 410mm x 280mm (text size variable); index foliated in pencil 1–24 relating to ff 1–210 of the text, ink foliation follows, 1–444, pencil foliation 445–70 (all blank), a second index numbered in pencil 1–21, 21b, 22, 22b, 23, 23b follows the text for ff 211–444; restored, conserved and rebound in beige vellum with corded bands on spine with leather ties. Now stored in a box; within the box also are the previous red leather boards and spine with 'SEWERS | SURREY & KENT | MINUTES | 1 | 1557–1606.'
© London Metropolitan Archives (City of London), SKCS/018