CORPORATION OF LONDON RECORDS OFFICE MISC. MSS. BOX 91
(Envelope marked 'Viewers' Report bet. 22 Oct. 4 E VI and 6 May 7 E
VI found among Mayor's Court Original Bills, Box No. 209A')
Viewers' Report (22 Oct 4 Edw. VI - 6 May 7 Edw. VI), no. 416
416. [1550 × 1553] (fn. 1)
To the right honorable lorde Maire of the Cytie of London and to his
Worshipful Bretheren the Aldermen of the same Cytie. Shewen unto
your goode Lordship and discrete Wysdoms William Walker, John
Russell, Nicholas Ellys, & John Cowper, the iiii masters of Fremasons,
Carpenters and Tylers, viewers indifferent sworn to the said Citie, that
whereas they were late charged by your lordships comaundement to
viewe & oversee a variaunce in the parishe of Saint Botall without Algate
of London Betwene Jamys Adlington plaintif on the one partie, &
William Grene defendant on the other partie, Whiche variance we the
said viewers have viewed & seen And thereupon we say that the said
variance ys for the water course of the partie plaintif. And upon the
viewyng therof we say that the said water course ought to go through the
grounde or dyche of the partie defendant as yt dyd at the tyme when yt
belonged to the Menorys, unto a Comon Synke stonding there nowe in
the grounde of the partie defendant. Except there be any writing
evydence or specialtie to the contrary to be shewed.
Footnotes
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The names of the viewers indicate that the certificate dates from between 22 October
1550 and 16 May 1553. See also 275 above. |