B. RECEIPTS EXTRAORDINARY 1564–65
298. [f.136] Receipts Extraordinary
a. Of Mr Edward Gilbert goldsmith, late alderman, for a fine by him
appointed to be paid by the lord mayor and aldermen at a court held 16
Nov. 1564 [Rep.15, f.394] for his discharge of as well the room of an
alderman as of the room of shrievalty hereafter, to be executed by him in
full payment of £266.13s.4d., £66.13s.4d.
b. Of Dame Elizabeth Lion widow for so much bequeathed by Sir John
Lion late alderman towards the erecting of a house at Queenhithe, (fn. 1)
£100.0s.0d. (fn. 2)
c. Of Jane Poynter widow and executrix of the testament and last will of
Richard Poynter citizen and draper of London (fn. 3) of his bequest to be
employed within 2 years next after his decease by the advice of his
overseers towards the repairing of the water pipes for the better
conveyance of the water of the conduits in the city of London which were
then in decay, £20.0s.0d.
d. Of the wardens of the Greytawyers by order of court 16 March [recte
12 April] 1565 [Rep.15, f.437b] for that 30 of them, being the whole
company of the Greytawyers, that they with their apprentices should be
set over to the company of the Skinners and for their translation do pay,
£6.13s.4d. (fn. 4)
e. For certain great stones for bases and ashlar stone and elm timber
occupied about the foundation of the new house or market place erected
at Queenhithe being of the city's store, £16.13s.2d.
f. [f.136v] of William Besewick draper by order of court 10 July last
[Rep.15, f.443] to be discharged as well of the room of alderman as of all
other offices for ever, £500.0s.0d.
g. Of Nynion Coxton, John Flete and Thomas Worlege, alnagers and
searchers of woollen cloths, for the profits of the office this year to the use
of the queen £84.16s.5d., and for the fee farm of the office due also to the
queen for one whole year £60, and for the profits due to the city by the
same office £85.2s.0¼d., and with £13.6s.8d. due and wont to be paid to
John Aylewoth esquire for a pension out of the said office during his life
and now redeemed to the use of this city as by the account ended at
Michaelmas 5 Elizabeth [1563], £243.5s.1¼d. (fn. 5)
h. Of Mr Ambrose Nicholas salter, treasurer of St Bartholomew's
Hospital, for timber brick lime sand and other reparation stuff, wages of
workmen and labourers bestowed for repairing divers the storehouses in
Blackwell Hall and to this accountant allowed among other things in his
last account, £25.14s.6d.
i. Of Anthony Sylver deputy of Farringdon Without and Christopher . . .
ansted (fn. 6) for so much by them gathered of the inhabitants . . . in
Smithfield, £7.0s.0d.