f 398v (1 August)
...
| Hensloe | It is Ordered that Phillipp Hensloe shall before Bartholomewtide next well and sufficiently pyle and boorde two poles more or lesse of the Seware in Rose alley vpon payne to forfect for eithere pole then vndone | v s. |
| Hensloe | It is Ordered that Phillipp Hensloe shall before Bartholomewtyd next Clense cast and scower the Gulley in Roase Alley vpon payne to forfect for not doeinge thereof | xl s. |
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f 406v (14 December)
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| Hensloe | Att this courte appeared Phillipp Hensloe and prayd that he might be dischardged of the Order ymposed vpon him the first day of August 1604 for that he hath not any lands against the sewar in Roase aley where he was Ordered to pyle and bord two poles more or lesse where vpon he is dischardged by this Courte of the sayd Order and of the penalty ymposed on hym.// |
not done
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