f 436 (30 January)
...
| Box | It is Ordered that (blank) Box of Bredstreete in London shall before the xxth day of Aprill next pile boorde and fill vp fyve poles more or lesse of the bancke against the Sewar by thePlayhouse in Maidelane called the Roase vpon payne to forfeict for every pole then vndone | x s. |
...
°not done decreta
apud Curiam 17 die Octobris 1606./°
[Footnotes: 1606: underlined in MS; decreta … 1606: 'settled at court, 17 October 1606']
f 436 (30 January)
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| Box | It is ordered that (blank) Box of Bread Street in London shall before the 20th day of April next pile board and fill up five poles, more or less, of the bank against the sewer by the playhouse in Maiden Lane called the Rose, upon pain to forfeit for every pole then undone | 10s |
The playhouse must have been abandoned by this time but had not yet been pulled down.
Record title: Surrey and Kent Commissioners for Sewers' Court
Repository:
LMA
Shelfmark: SKCS/018
Repository location: London
Most of the pre-1642 records of the Surrey and Kent Commissioners for
Sewers are now deposited at the London Metropolitan Archives.
The LMA collections catalogue succinctly describes this source as
follows: 'Early Commissioners of Sewers were solely concerned with land
drainage and the prevention of flooding, not with the removal of sewage
in the modern sense. In 1531 an Act of Sewers was passed which set out
in great detail the duties and powers of Commissioners and governed
their work until the 19th century. Gradually a permanent pattern emerged
in the London area of seven commissions, five north and two south of the
Thames, with, after the Great Fire, a separate commission for the City
of London.... Letters Patent for the Surrey and Kent
Commissioners of Sewers were issued in 1554. Its minutes begin in 1570
and it was the earliest of the London Commissions to be established on
an organised basis. The area of its jurisdiction ran from East Molesey
in Surrey to the River Ravensbourne, and included Lambeth, Southwark,
Bermondsey, Newington, Deptford, Rotherhithe, Clapham, Battersea,
Camberwell, Vauxhall, Wandsworth, Putney, Barnes, Kew, Lewisham,
Walworth, Kennington, Nine Elms, Peckham and New Cross. The area of
jurisdiction remained the same throughout the three centuries during
which it functioned.' See further Ida Darlington, 'The London
Commissioners of Sewers and their Records,' in Prisca Munimenta:
Studies in Archival & Administrative History presented to Dr
A.E.J. Hollaender, Felicity Ranger (ed) (London, 1973), 282–98.
John Norden's 1593 map
shows the lines of the Bankside sewers (or drainage ditches). There were
three running along the Little Rose property: two to the south
along Maiden Lane and
one on the west side adjacent to the Bear Garden property.
3 January 1568/9–25 April 1606; English with some Latin; paper; i + 520 + i; 410mm x 280mm (text size variable); index foliated in pencil 1–24 relating to ff 1–210 of the text, ink foliation follows, 1–444, pencil foliation 445–70 (all blank), a second index numbered in pencil 1–21, 21b, 22, 22b, 23, 23b follows the text for ff 211–444; restored, conserved and rebound in beige vellum with corded bands on spine with leather ties. Now stored in a box; within the box also are the previous red leather boards and spine with 'SEWERS | SURREY & KENT | MINUTES | 1 | 1557–1606.'
© London Metropolitan Archives (City of London), SKCS/018