PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE, LONDON
Material relating to property-holding in London is to be found in PRO in
the records concerning lands in the Crown's hands (Crown estate and
Duchy of Lancaster, lands of dissolved religious houses, and escheats and
forfeitures); in records, mostly judicial, relating to the properties of
private citizens (enrolled deeds, fines, recoveries, Chancery decrees,
eyres, inquisitions, and judicial proceedings); in records, such as
Chancery Rolls and State Papers, that cover both categories; and in some
of the records of taxation. All these are at present (1983) in Chancery
Lane. Not all the classes noted below as containing, or likely to contain,
relevant material could be fully searched, nor was it feasible to search
other classes that might possibly contain such material. This survey does
not supersede the PRO Guide to the contents of the Public Record Office,
vols. i–ii (1963), but it directs attention to the most important classes or
groups containing London material, and in some cases supplements
existing PRO indexes to these. The varied nature of PRO records, and in
particular the existence of the valuable but artificial Special Collections
classes, means that description by strict categories is not possible. PRO
records relating to the estates of dissolved religious houses are described
partly in this section (438, 441) and partly under the headings of
individual houses (70–274); occasional or stray records relating to other
archives or institutions are described under those headings. The classes
described here are explained in further detail in PRO Guide, and in most
cases are listed and/or indexed in search room class lists and List and
Index Society volumes: see HMSO Sectional List 24.
For wills and inventories now kept at PRO, see 529–30.
436. PRO: royal properties in London
At various times the king or queen and other members of the royal family
held properties in London for use as residences or wardrobes, but there
was no extensive long-term Crown holding within the city. The Tower
and its liberty lay outside: for these see History of the King's Works, ed.
H. M. Colvin, ii (1963), iv (1982), and 439 below.
A few accounts survive for specific properties; the entries in History of the
King's Works noted below refer to further building and repair accounts
not listed in detail here. It was not possible to search all likely records for
references to royal holdings. There are references in the main series of
Household and Wardrobe accounts (single accounts (E101), listed in
PRO Handbook 7, List of documents relating to the Household and
Wardrobe, John to Edward I (1964), and PRO Lists and Indexes XXXV,
List of Exchequer Accounts Various; enrolled accounts (E361), 1258–
1547, listed in PRO Lists and Indexes XI, List of foreign accounts enrolled
on the Great Rolls of the Exchequer), but these classes were not searched.
More distant members of the royal family also held London properties,
often granted by the Crown from forfeited lands, but accounts relating to
these do not usually survive in the public records; some may however be
included in 437. For Duchy of Lancaster properties, incl. the queens'
jointures in the 15C, see 440.
a. King's wardrobe. This was in Lombard Street in the early 14C: E101/
388/4, a/c of repairs 1338. In the 1360s a new wardrobe was built in 18:
History of the King's Works ii (1963), 980–1.
b. Prince's wardrobe, Old Jewry (95, 142; used by the Prince of Wales,
14C and 15C). See Register of Edward, the Black Prince (1930–3); SC6/
815/7, a/c of repairs, 1433–4; E101/474/2, a/c of repairs, 1469–70; History
of the King's Works ii (1963), 981–2. See also Social and Economic Study
of Medieval London, Gazetteer 95/8–12 (TS, available in IHR, Museum
of London, etc.).
c. Exchange, Lombard Street. The exchange was kept there in at least the
late 14C– early 15C: E101/292/29, E101/293/4, E101/300/14, 16, and
possibly other mint a/cs (listed in PRO Lists and Indexes XXXV).
d. Baynards Castle (38; held by the Crown from 1461). See E101/474/16,
E101/544/26, a/cs of works, 1547, 1549; History of the King's Works iv
(1982), 50–2.
e. Bridewell Palace (46 or extraparochial; built 1515–23). See History of
the King's Works iv (1982), 53–8; D. Gadd and T. Dyson, 'Bridewell
Palace: Excavations . . . 1978', Post-Medieval Archaeology 15 (1981).
Cf. 409.
f. Coldharbour (12; in the Crown's hands at intervals in the 15C, occupied
by Lady Margaret, countess of Richmond, 1485–1509). E101/474/3, a/c of
repairs, 1485; printed in C. L. Kingsford, 'Some London houses of the
early Tudor period', Archaeologia 71 (1921), 43–50. See also St. John's
College, Cambridge, MS D 91.22: a/c bk. of Lady Margaret's clerk of
works, 1505–7, incl. (ff. 201–10) repairs to Coldharbour.
g. Works for tournaments at (West) Smithfield. E101/473/16: a/c, 1408–9,
of works at Smithfield. E101/44/1: similar a/c, 1467–8.
437. PRO: escheats, forfeitures, etc., private estates
At various times the Crown acquired the city properties of private
individuals, as a result or escheat or forfeiture, temporary or permanent.
Properties were not usually kept for long, but were returned to the
original holder or his heirs or were granted to a third party. In addition,
inquisitions and returns were made concerning properties which might
have been liable to escheat or forfeiture but which did not in the event
pass to the Crown. Not all the records relating to these subjects were fully
searched, but those that were, and other areas of interest, are outlined
below. Rentals, surveys, and accounts relating to alien priories, religious
houses, and vacant sees are noted under those headings, 70–274.
a. Deeds. Title deeds retained in PRO relating to forfeited properties are
included in the index to PRO deeds, 441.
b. Inquisitions (post mortem, ad quod damnum, miscellaneous). These
relate both to feudal tenures and to forfeitures, and survive in Chancery
(C132–145) and Exchequer (E149–50) classes: see PRO Guide i, 27–8,
59–60, and class lists. A substantial part of these classes is calendared and
printed: see HMSO Sectional List 24 for details of HMSO etc. publications, also Abstracts of inquisitions post mortem relating to the city of
London 1485–1603, ed. G. S. Fry, S. J. Madge, and E. A. Fry (British
Record Soc. 15, 26, 36, 1896–1908).
Escheators' Files (E153; not searched) contain some similar inquisitions:
see PRO Guide i, 58. See also CLRO, Escheat Rolls (5).
c. Rentals and accounts. The earliest surviving accounts for escheats are
recorded by county in the Pipe Rolls (E372), from the mid 12C. Most of
the relevant rolls (to 1219) have been published by Record Commission
and Pipe Roll Society; see also The great roll of the pipe for the 26th year of
King Henry III, A.D. 1242, ed. H. L. Cannon (New Haven, Conn.,
1918). Some extracts relating to London debts, 1244–53, are printed in
London Eyre 1244, pp. xxvii–xxxii. From the mid 13C escheats were
accounted for separately by escheators (PRO Guide i, 77). The main
series of Escheators' Accounts (E136), mid 13C to 17C, is arranged by
county; London a/cs form a separate group from 1348. The bundles are
listed in PRO class list. The accounts contain information about estates
currently in the escheators' hands, and the London a/cs relate closely to
CLRO Escheat Rolls (5). The class as a whole was not searched, nor were
the escheators' enrolled a/cs (listed in PRO, Lists and Indexes XI: List of
foreign accounts enrolled on the Great Rolls of the Exchequer, 282–4), but
both contain valuable material.
In addition to these accounts a large number of individual rentals and a/cs
were made by receivers and others, for the estates of individuals (often of
nobles) temporarily held by the Crown. Rentals are in E142, E164, E315,
LR2/262, SC11 and SC12 (listed in PRO, Lists and Indexes XXV: List of
Rentals and Surveys); a/cs are in SC6 (listed in PRO, Lists and Indexes V,
VIII, XXXIV, and Supplementary II: Lists of Ministers' Accounts).
These classes were searched and the following index compiled: reference
to the appropriate List will identify the person in question and the
approximate date. Included in the index are a/cs for the estates of
unidentified persons or bodies, some of which may relate to religious
houses. Also included in the index are references to enrolled Ministers'
Accounts, Territorial, and Sheriffs' Seizures, taken from PRO, Lists and
Indexes XI: List of foreign accounts enrolled on the Great Rolls of the
Exchequer, 172–3, 247–9; the rolls were not searched.
Parishes
4: L&I XI, pp. 247–9
5: SC12/11/37; SC6/917/13(m. 1); L&I
XI, pp. 247–9
8: SC12/1/21
9: L&I XI, pp. 247–9
10: SC12/36/32
10 or 12: SC11/797
12: SC6/1123/8–9; SC6/Hen 8/6852–63;
L&I XI, pp. 247–9
13: SC12/40/62; L&I XI, pp. 172–3
18: SC6/Phil & Mary/277
19: SC11/1025; SC12/40/62
20: LR2/262, f. 20v; SC12/11/37; SC6/
Edw 6/292; L&I XI, pp. 247–9
21: SC12/1/21
22: L&I XI, pp. 247–9
26: L&I XI, pp. 247–9
30: SC11/797
32: E142/83/1; SC6/1123/7; SC6/Hen 8/
5972–5; L&I XI, pp. 247–9
36: E142/83/1
38: SC12/40/62; L&I XI, pp. 247–9
39: L&I XI, pp. 172–3, 247–9
41: SC12/40/62; L&I XI, pp. 247–9
42: SC6/1116/1; L&I XI, pp. 247–9
43: SC12/1/21; SC12/26/61; SC12/36/33
44: SC6/1276/7
45: SC11/797, 1025; SC12/1/21
46: SC12/11/37
47: SC12/40/62
51: SC6/917/2
52: SC6/917/2, 6
53: LR2/262, f. 20v; SC12/36/32; SC12/40/
62; SC6/917/13 (m. 4); SC6/1276/7;
L&I XI, pp. 247–9
54: SC12/11/37
59: SC12/40/62; cf. Lovell's Inn, below
62: SC12/40/62; SC6/917/20, 22; L&I XI,
pp. 172–3
64: SC12/36/33; SC6/1117/11
65: L&I XI, pp. 172–3, 247–9
66: SC6/1276/7
67: SC11/797
71: SC12/11/37; SC12/40/62; L&I XI, pp.
247–9
74: SC11/797
77: SC12/40/62; SC6/Hen 7/1242
78: SC12/26/61
79: SC6/917/6
80: E315/12/9; E315/13/296; SC12/11/37;
SC6/Hen 8/5841–76; SC6/Edw 6/292
81: SC12/1/21; SC6/1116/11; L&I XI, pp.
247–9
85: SC12/11/37; SC6/917/2; L&I XI, pp.
247–9
87: L&I XI, pp. 247–9
88: E142/83/1
89: SC12/11/37
90: L&I XI, pp. 247–9
92: SC12/11/37; SC12/40/62
93: SC12/40/62
94: SC12/11/37
96: SC12/11/37; SC6/1123/8–9
98: SC12/11/37
101: SC12/36/33
103: SC11/797; SC12/11/34
104: SC11/797; SC6/Hen 8/6146–7
106: L&I XI, pp. 247–9
111: SC12/1/21; L&I XI, pp. 247–9
112: SC12/40/62
113: LR2/262, f. 12v
116: SC11/797; SC12/40/62
117: SC6/917/13 (m. 2), 14, 17, 19; L&I XI,
pp. 172–3, 247–9
118: SC6/917/10; L&I XI, pp. 247–9
119: SC12/40/62
123: SC12/11/37
124: L&I XI, pp. 247–9
125: L&I XI, pp. 172–3
126: SC12/36/32
127: SC6/1123/7–9; L&I XI, pp. 247–9
128: SC6/917/3 (mm. 5–6)
131: SC12/11/37
135: SC12/11/37
135 or 136: SC6/917/13 (m. 2), 14
137: SC11/1025; SC12/1/21; SC12/11/37;
SC12/36/33; SC6/917/13 (m. 2), 14;
SC6/1148/14
138: L&I XI, pp. 247–9
144: SC12/11/37; SC6/1124/1
145: SC6/917/2; L&I XI, pp. 247–9
146: SC12/11/37
148: SC12/40/62; SC6/Hen 8/5971
149: SC12/40/62; L&I XI, pp. 247–9
150: SC12/40/62
151: SC11/797
152: E164/45; SC12/11/37, 49; SC12/40/62;
SC6/Hen 8/6882, 6892; L&I XI, pp.
247–9
155: SC6/Hen 8/5972–5
156: SC12/11/37
157: SC12/40/62; L&I XI, pp. 247–9
158: SC6/Hen 8/5972–5
159: SC12/11/37; SC6/917/13 (m. 2), 14
162: SC6/917/2
Other localities
London: E142/83/1; SC6/915/1; SC6/917/8,
9, 13; SC6/1116/11; SC6/1119/12; SC6/
1120/7; SC6/1148/1; SC6/1245/16, 17;
SC6/Hen 8/345 (m. 7), 2082–6, 6217;
SC6/Edw 6/295, 461; L&I XI, pp. 172–
3, 247–9
Abchurch Lane: SC12/40/62–3
Addle Street: SC12/36/33
Aldersgate: L&I XI, pp. 247–9
Aldersgate Street: SC12/36/33
Aldgate: L&I XI, pp. 247–9
Aldgate Street: SC12/11/31
Austin Friars: SC12/36/33
Bailey, the: L&I XI, pp. 247–9
Barbican: SC12/40/62
Bartholomew Lane: SC12/36/33
Basing Lane: SC12/36/33; SC6/Hen 8/6128;
L&I XI, pp. 247–9
Bassishaw: SC12/1/1 (m. 12); SC12/40/63
Baynards Castle: SC12/40/62; SC6/1148/14
Bearbinder Lane: SC12/1/21; SC12/36/33
Bevis Marks: SC12/36/33
Billingsgate: SC12/1/21; SC12/40/62; SC6/
1116/11; L&I XI, pp. 247–9
Billingsgate ward: SC6/1146/7
Billiter Lane: SC12/36/33; SC12/40/62
Bishopsgate Street: SC12/36/33; SC12/40/
62; L&I XI, pp. 247–9
Bishopsgate, within: SC12/1/21
Blanchappleton: SC6/1094/8–10; SC6/1117/
3–4; SC6/1121/12–17; SC6/1148/14
Bordhawe Lane: L&I XI, pp. 247–9
Botolph Lane: SC11/797
Bread Street: SC12/36/33; SC6/1116/11;
L&I XI, pp. 247–9
Bread Street ward: L&I XI, pp. 247–9
Bridge Street: SC11/1025; SC6/1148/14
Broad Street: SC12/36/33
Broad Street ward: E142/83/1
Broken Wharf: L&I XI, pp. 172–3
Budge Row: SC12/1/1 (m. 12)
Bush Lane: SC12/11/34; SC6/1123/6
Candlewick Street: SC11/1025; SC6/917/4,
7
Carter Lane: SC12/11/34; SC6/Hen 7/401;
SC6/Hen 8/1793, 2081–6, 6867
Castle Baynard ward: L&I XI, pp. 247–9
Chancery Lane: SC12/36/33
Charterhouse Lane: SC12/40/62;
SC6/Eliz/1554
Cheapside: SC12/36/33; SC12/40/62; SC6/
917/3–7
le Cheker, tenement called: SC6/1123/6;
SC6/Hen 8/6867
Chick Lane: SC12/36/33
Coleman Street: SC12/36/33
Cordwainer Street: SC12/1/1 (m. 12)
Cornhill: SC11/1025; SC12/1/21; SC12/11/
33; SC12/36/33
Cowcross: SC12/40/63
Creed Lane: SC12/36/33
Cripplegate, outside: SC12/1/1 (m. 12)
Crooked Lane: L&I XI, pp. 247–9
Crutched Friars: SC12/36/33
Dowgate ward: L&I XI, pp. 247–9
Duck Lane: SC12/36/33
Eastcheap: SC12/36/33; SC6/Hen 8/6128
Fenchurch Street: SC11/1025; SC12/36/33
Fetter Lane: SC12/36/33
Finch Lane: SC12/36/33
Fleet Alley: SC11/11
Fleet Street: SC12/1/21; SC12/36/33; SC12/
40/62; L&I XI, pp. 247–9
'Franchelane': SC12/1/21
Friday Street: SC12/1/21; SC12/36/33; L&I
XI, pp. 247–9
'Gofairlane': SC6/1148/14
Golden Lane: SC12/36/33
Goswell Street: SC12/36/33
Gracechurch Street: SC11/1025; SC12/36/
32–3
Grub Street: SC12/1/21
le Herber, tenement called: SC6/1123/6;
SC6/Hen 8/2082–6
Holborn: SC11/1025; SC12/11/23, 30; SC12/
36/33; SC12/40/64
Houndsditch: SC12/36/33
Huggin Lane: SC12/36/33
Ivy Lane: SC12/36/33
Lad Lane: SC12/36/33
Leadenhall Street: SC12/36/33
Lime Street: SC12/36/33
Lombard Street: SC11/1025; SC12/11/33;
SC12/36/33
London Bridge: SC12/11/33
London Wall: SC12/36/33
Long Lane: SC12/36/33
Lothbury: SC12/36/33; SC12/40/63
Lovell's Inn (in 59): SC6/Hen 8/5879–80;
SC6/Edw 6/740, 750–1
Ludgate: L&I XI, pp. 247–9
Ludgate Hill: SC12/36/33
Maiden Lane: SC12/36/33
Mark Lane: SC11/1025; SC12/1/21; SC12/
36/33; L&I XI, pp. 172–3, 247–9
Milk Street: SC12/36/33; SC12/40/62; SC6/
Hen 8/5972–5; SC6/Edw 6/292
Mincing Lane: SC12/36/33; L&I XI, pp.
247–9
Monkwell Street: SC12/36/33
'New Inn': L&I XI, pp. 172–3
Nicholas Lane: L&I XI, pp. 247–9
Noble Street: SC12/36/33
Old Bailey: SC12/36/33
Old Change: SC11/1025
Old Fish Street: SC11/11, 1025; SC12/
40/63
Old Jewry: SC12/40/62
Ormonds Inn: SC6/1094/5, 8–10
Oystergate: SC6/917/2
Paternoster Row: SC11/1025; SC12/36/33;
SC6/1148/14
Paul's wharf: L&I XI, pp. 247–9
Philpot Lane: SC12/40/62
Poor Jewry Lane: SC12/36/33
Poultry: SC12/1/21; SC12/36/33
Queenhithe: SC12/1/21; SC6/1094/13; SC6/
1095/1
Queenhithe ward: SC12/11/37
Red Cross Street: SC12/36/33
Rood Lane: SC12/36/33
'Rynged hall': SC12/40/62
St. John's Street: SC12/36/33
St. Lawrence Lane: SC11/1025; SC12/
1/21
St. Martin le Grand: SC12/36/33
St. Nicholas Lane: SC12/36/33
St. Peter's Hill: SC6/1246/19
St. Sithe's Lane: SC12/40/62
Seacoal Lane: SC12/1/21; L&I XI, pp.
247–9
Seething Lane: SC12/36/33
Sherborne Lane: SC12/36/33
Shoe Lane: SC12/36/33
Smithfield: SC12/1/21; SC6/917/13 (m. 3);
L&I XI, pp. 172–3, 247–9
Smithfield Bars: SC12/40/63
Soper Lane: SC12/36/33
Stocks, the: SC11/1025
Temple Bar: SC12/36/33
Thames Street: LR2/262, f. 20v; SC6/1117/
11; SC6/1148/14; SC6/Hen 8/5879–80;
SC6/Edw 6/740, 750–1
Threadneedle Street: SC12/36/33
Timberhithe: SC6/917/4, 7
Tower Street: SC11/1025; SC12/36/33
Tower ward: L&I XI, pp. 247–9
Tower Wharf: L&I XI, pp. 172–3
Turnmill Street: SC12/36/33
Vintry ward: SC6/1116/11; L&I XI, pp.
247–9
Walbrook: L&I XI, pp. 247–9
Wardrobe Lane: SC6/Hen 7/401; SC6/Hen
8/1793, 2081
Warwick Inn: SC12/11/49; SC6/Hen 8/6882
Warwick Lane: SC12/36/33; SC6/1148/14
Watling Street: SC11/11, 1025; L&I XI, pp.
172–3, 247–9
Whitechapel field: SC12/11/31
Whitecross Street: SC12/36/33
Whitefriars: SC12/36/33
Wood Street: SC12/36/33
438. PRO: former monastic and chantry properties
For a period in the mid 16C the Crown held a large number of properties
in London, the result of the dissolution of religious houses and chantry
foundations. The great majority of these properties had been sold by
1570, but income was still received from a few until the mid 17C. During
the Interregnum the remaining lands and rents were surveyed and sold.
They were resumed at the Restoration. Records of these estates include
title deeds, rentals and accounts for revenues, particulars for Crown
grants and leases, some deeds of grants and leases. There are parliamentary surveys of the mid 17C (439). The title deeds for these estates, and
from some other sources, are described and indexed under 441. Rentals
and accounts for the estates of dissolved religious houses up to 1547, and
leases granted by those houses (E303), are listed under individual houses,
70–274.
The properties and parishes covered in this section can be identified by
reference to the descriptions of the estates of religious houses (70–274)
and of chantry estates of London parish churches (275–381). The
accounts continued to be arranged under the headings of individual
houses or chantries; the particulars for and deeds of grants and leases are
arranged by grantee, but with reference to the former holder. The guides,
calendars, lists, and indexes referred to are PRO class lists, etc., available
in the search room, identifiable by reference to the class card-catalogue.
Several 16C and 17C MSS relating to surveys and sales of Crown lands
are now in CUL and Bodl: they are described in this section (below, f, g)
since some at least may be strays from official records in the 17C.
a. Grants and leases: particulars. London lands were often granted in
large parcels, comprising properties in many different parishes from the
estates of many religious houses or chantries. The particulars for each
grant provide valuable details (location, tenant, rent, term, net value
p.a., etc.) of the properties to be sold or leased. Most of the groups of
particulars are listed or indexed in some way.
E318: particulars for grants, Henry VIII to James I, arranged
alphabetically by grantee by reign; calendars and indexes (numerous
London refs.). E310: particulars for leases, arranged by county in 2
groups, Henry VIII to Philip and Mary and Elizabeth to James I; lists and
indexes (numerous London refs.). E315/67–8: books of particulars for
sale of college and chantry lands in London, 1548; list of contents, no
index. E147: particulars for grants and leases, 16C to 17C; bundles 2–4,
17C, calendared but not indexed (East Smithfield, Watling Street,
Westcheap); bundles 5–7, 16C and 17C, not calendared but see 5/1 (25,
152), 5/2 (20, 62), 5/9 (42), 6/4 (47, 51, 54, 90, 152). E320: particulars for
sale of lands, Commonwealth; calendar and index, under Middlesex
(refs. to 43, 112, 113, 125, 147 and nr. Tower). E308/3/20: particulars for
sale of fee farm rents in London, Interregnum; calendar and index
(numerous London refs.).
b. Grants. Crown grants were enrolled on the Patent Rolls (C66) and are
calendared and printed in Letters and Papers of Henry VIII and Calendar
of Patent Rolls from 1547; the surviving deeds noted here have a much
more limited coverage. See also 449a.
E305: deeds of purchase and exchange, c. 1536–53; indexed calendar
for temp. Henry VIII (refs. to 64, 78, 81, 95, 105, 142, 155, 156); indexed
calendar for temp. Edward VI (refs. to 13, 43, 54, 59, 62, 71, 92, 112, St.
Katharine's precinct, Whitefriars precinct). E307: deeds for sale of fee
farm rents, Interregnum, arranged alphabetically by grantee; calendar
and index (numerous London refs.).
c. Leases. In general, Crown leases are less fully listed than grants; where
the calendars or indexes to particulars for leases (E310 and E147,
described under a, above) indicate that property in a particular parish or
area was leased, it may be worth searching the unlisted classes for further
information. Leases granted by religious houses before the Dissolution
(E303) are noted under individual houses, 70–274.
E311: transcripts of Crown leases, Henry VIII to James I; no guide to
bundles 1–3, Henry VIII to Philip and Mary; bundles 4–51, Elizabeth and
James I, indexed (refs. to 4, 10, 14, 18, 38, 43, 47, 59, 62, 64, 67, 71, 74,
77, 80, 83, 87, 93, 94, 100, 111, 112, 114, 116, 118, 119, 123, 125, 126, 127,
128, 131, 132, 135, 145, 149, 151, 152, 155, 157, 159, Adling Street, Bow
Lane (126), Crutched Friars, Distaff Lane, Gutter Lane, Holborn,
Knightrider Street, Philip Lane, East Smithfield, Thames Street, Tower
Hill, Wood Street). E315/209–29: enrolments of Crown leases, Henry
VIII to James I; name index to all vols. in 49th Report of the Deputy
Keeper of the Public Records (1888); vols. 209–217 (1536–47) briefly
calendared in Letters and Papers of Henry VIII, x-xxi. E315/231:
repertory of Crown leases, 1566–8, 1582–98, arranged chronologically;
no guide. E309: enrolments of Crown leases, 1560–89; indexed under
London (2, 4, 10, 12, 43, 62, 74, 77, 80, 83, 93, 125, 127, 152, 155, 157,
Crutched Friars, Holborn, Knightrider Street, Old Change, Paternoster
Row, Tower Hill, Wood Street). E312: surrendered leases, Henry VIII to
Edward VI; no guide.
d. Accounts from 1547. In the reign of Edward VI the Crown received
rent from a large number of unsold monastic and chantry properties, and
also 'fee-farm rents' or rents reserved on properties already sold. The
number of rents diminished as further properties were sold, mostly
without any rents reserved; by the 17C the number of properties from
which any kind of rent was due was much smaller. The accounts are listed
in PRO Lists and Indexes Supplementary II; the relevant ones are SC6/
Edw 6/290–99; SC6/Phil & Mary/181–6, 489; SC6/Eliz/1370–1413; SC6/
Jas 1/622–43; SC6/Chas 1/596–610. Cf. SC12/38/57–9: a/cs of collectors of
chantry rents, c. 1550, arranged by parishes owning the rents; little
topographical detail. E351/1484–1520, declared accounts of fee farm
rents, temp. Charles II, may include London refs.; class not searched.
e. Rentals and Surveys after 1547. SP14/106: memorandum of former
chantry rents, 1619, arranged by parishes owning the rents; little information, often outdated. SC11/957: rental of quit-rents and reserved rents
due from former monastic and chantry properties, 1664, arranged by
former owner; some valuable detail, not always up to date.
f. MSS in CUL. Ee. 3. 6: rental or particular for grant, c. 1631 (56, Hart
Street, The Burse). Ee. 3. 14: part 1, particulars for grant, c. 1632 (53);
part 2, ff. 50–57v, rental of Crown revenues in London, 1638, arranged by
religious house or chantry (numerous refs. but pars, not named in every
case). Ee. 3. 28, 29: a/cs of receipts for Elector Palatine, 1645–7 (Tower
Hill). Ee. 3. 42: note of current leases of Crown lands, ?1649; f. 20v
(Tower ditch). Dd. 13. 20: tabular note of Crown lands sold 1650–55; nos.
13 (125), 416 (Tower ditch).
g. MSS in Bodl. MS Rawl. B 309: 17C vol. 'Entries of grants, transfers of
lands etc.', with brief notes of particulars, grants, leases, temp. Elizabeth
and James I; London refs. on ff. 89–92v, 202–205v. MS Rawl. B 253: 17C
vol. of particular of Crown lands sold 1609–11, 1618; London refs. on ff.
73v–74 (10, 112, Minories), ff. 58v–59 (51).
439. PRO: parliamentary surveys, Crown lands
These surveys, 1649–54, cover both original crown lands (147, Tower
liberty) and some former monastic or chantry properties still in Crown
hands. All are in E317/Middlesex file.
Nos. 1–2, 94 (43); 9, 77 (152); 14 (78); 15, 23 (54); 21 (112); 37 (20); 60
(125); 89 (Thames Street); 91–4 (147, Tower liberty).
440. PRO: Duchy of Lancaster
Several properties in the city were, at various times, in the possession of
the duchy, although the bulk of its London holdings lay in the Strand
outside the city. London properties were a minute part of the whole
estate, and references to them in the unindexed series of duchy records
are difficult to identify. In general, duchy records of the 13C and 14C
refer to properties in 20, 59, 88, 99, 137, New Temple; those of the 15C to
properties in 67, 141, Blanchappleton; those of the 16C to properties in
51; and those of the 17C to properties in 51, 141, Blanchappleton,
although by this time the duchy seems to have had property only in 51.
There are references throughout to the duchy house in St. Paul's
churchyard and to properties hired for the use of the duchy. In the
16C and 17C several pleas in the duchy court concern matters in the city
(see f).
From the 16C onwards numerous abstracts from, and guides to, the
records have been compiled, although most of them are partial or
selective in character; see the TS 'Guide to Lists etc. of Duchy of
Lancaster records' in PRO. The principal guide to the records is Lists and
Indexes XIV and Supplementary Lists and Indexes V, vol. 1. For some of
the London properties, including short-term interests in wardrobes, and
the honour court held in Walbrook, see R. Somerville, History of the
Duchy of Lancaster i, 1265–1603 (1953). Only records known or suspected to contain information on city properties are mentioned below.
a. For original deeds, see PRO Deeds Index (441). Royal charters
(DL10) are listed in Supplementary Lists and Indexes V, vol. 2. DL15/1–
50: counterparts of leases, 16C–17C; IND/18647 calendars DL15/50, but
incl. no London leases. DL14/1–96: draft leases and particulars, 16C–
17C; IND/17596 calendars 17C bundles, but incl. no London property
apart from the Strand.
b. Registers and enrolments: for a survey of this topic, see TS statement
on 'Duchy of Lancaster enrolments' in PRO. DL41/1/38 (cf. Davis, no.
1266): 14C roll incl. copies of 13C London deeds (59, 99, 137, New
Temple). DL42/11 (Davis, no. 1265; abs. in IND/17594): 14C register
incl. copies of 13C London deeds (as preceding). DL42/1 and 2 ('The
Great Cowcher'; Davis, nos. 1268–9; calendar in IND/17591; see EHR 51
(1936), 598–615): 15C register incl. copies of 13C–14C London deeds (88;
'Sholand', presumably in 20; Temple). DL42/18 (abs. in IND/17593):
15C register, incl. lease (Stewards Inn in 141). DL42/19: 15C register,
incl. grant on f. 2v (141, Blanchappleton). DL42/24: 17C register, incl.
grant (Blanchappleton, Stewards Inn, 'St. Olive': the latter two in 141).
IND/17599: 17C summary particulars of grants in fee farm (incl. one in
51: Liber A, f. 19); this summary seems to relate to warrants under the
duchy privy seal, of which the surviving bundles covering 16C–17C are
DL12/1–39; grants in fee are listed in the 18C 'Index to Grants in Fee'
(IND/17598, available in Round Room), which in addition refers to
grants in some of the registers in the DL42 series. DL37/1–62: 14C–15C
rolls of patents (principally concerning appointments), warrants, and
leases; rolls 1–7 contain no London leases, but there is no list of leases
entered on later rolls; a 20C transcript of the old calendar of decrees and
orders of the duchy known as 'Great Ayloffe' (available in Round Room)
refers to DL37/20 (allowance for repairs on the duchy house in St. Paul's
churchyard). Patents (principally concerning appointments) entered in
the 16C registers, DL42/22–3, and in the 16C–17C bundles of drafts and
particulars for patents, DL13/3–37, are indexed in the 'Duchy of Lancaster: Index to Patents Henry VIII to 1835' available in the Round Room
(DL13/1–3, of mid 16C date, are not covered); this index does not refer to
any properties in the city but does mention leases of holdings in the
Strand (in DL42/22), so that the unindexed patents may incl. some city
material. DL42/28–33, 35–37B: books of enrolments of leases, 15C–17C;
DL42/34 is a 16C name index; IND/17596 incl. calendars of DL42/30–3,
35–37B (London entries principally concern the Strand, but there are
leases for 51). DL42/73–89: 'South Auditors' Books for Leases' or entry
bks. for patents and leases, 16C–17C; DL41/36/2 is a 17C index to places
in DL42/82, 84–5, 87–8 (incl. 51). DL41/35/18: 'Mr. Tusser's Book of
Leases', a useful 16C summary of leases (incl. 51).
c. Accounts.
DL29: local receivers and auditors' a/cs in the duchy records. Those to
1485 are listed in Lists and Indexes V, Ministers Accounts: DL29/1/2, incl.
a/c for earl of Lincoln's establishment in 20, 1304–5; DL29/1/3, a/c for earl
of Lancaster's lands, 1313–14, incl. under heading 'Essex, Middlesex and
London' rents in the Strand, unspecified rents (perhaps London), and
rents of houses 'de Vienna' (perhaps 59); in the 15C receivers' and
auditors' a/cs receipts from duchy holdings in the city, which for much of
the time formed part of the queens' jointures, were generally entered in
the a/cs for 'Essex, Surrey, Kent, and London', 'Essex and Herts.' or
variants of these (specific refs. to Blanchappleton, Stewards Inn in 141,
Ormonds Inn in 67); a/cs concerning the Savoy do not incl. receipts from
the city. The London a/cs for the period 1485–1547 listed in Lists and
Indexes XXXIV, Ministers Accounts, do not cover duchy property in city,
receipts from which, if there were any, may appear in the receivers a/cs
for Essex etc. in DL29/bundles 60–3/1129–83. Later a/cs are listed only in
Appendix I of the 45th annual report of the Deputy Keeper of the Public
Records (1884): London receipts (possibly concerning only the estate
outside the city) are to be found in the a/cs with the headings 'Essex,
Herts., Middlesex, and Surrey', or variants, described on pp. 14–19 of the
Appendix (DL29, bundles 42–74); receipts from a London property
formerly belonging to the College of Newark, Leicester (see 176), appear
in the series of 16C–17C accounts under that heading (DL29, bundles
224–38); receipts from a property (in 51) of Knolles College, Pontefract
(203), may be entered in the 16C–17C a/cs for chantries and colleges in
Yorkshire in DL29, bundles 564–70; 16C a/cs under the heading 'South
Parts Chantries, Kent' (DL29, bundle 723) incl. refs. to the Lancaster
chantry in St. Paul's.
DL28, bundles 3–4: receiver general's a/cs, 14C–17C; London rents
appear as part of a single total with those from Essex and elsewhere;
expenses incl. payments for repairs and hire of houses in London.
DL28/78: box of late 17C–18C papers, incl. rent vouchers for 51, which
seems by then to have been the only duchy property in the city.
d. Administration of estate. DL42/95–100: bks. of commissions and
orders, 16C–18C, many concerning estate administration; DL42/95–6
and 98 are briefly calendared in a 17C MS available in the Round Room
which may help to identify London material.
e. Miscellaneous. DL41/3/4: extract from court roll, 16C (53).
f. Equity jurisdiction in lands held in right of the duchy. DL1: pleadings,
late 15C onwards; those to 1603 are calendared in Ducatus Lancastriae, 3
vols. (Rec. Com. 1823–34) and incl. cases concerning payment of toll in
London and tenements in the city (51, 152); for MS indexes of plaintiffs
after 1603, see IND/16918–20. DL3: depositions and examinations,
1485–1548; calendared in Ducatus Lancastriae vols. 1 and 2 (Rec. Com.
1823–7). DL4: depositions and examinations, 1558 onwards, listed in MS
calendar available in Round Room; DL4/39/53, 41/61, 43/83, 43/91, 89/44
concern properties in the city (20, 51, 141, 152, Blanchappleton). DL5,
entry bks. of decrees and orders, 15C onwards, and DL6, bundles of draft
decrees, 16C onwards: refs. to both these series are given in the transcript
of 'Great Ayloffe' (see above, b) and incl. orders concerning wharfage in
London and a property boundary (51); for MS indexes of plaintiffs in
DL5, see IND/16923–31. DL41/16/6: abs. of 17C depositions concerning
tolls at Billingsgate and elsewhere.
441. PRO: deeds
There are in PRO many thousands of medieval and early modern deeds,
in a large number of classes. The aim here is to provide a single index to
London deeds (to c. 1670) in the various classes. The index is based on the
lists and shelf guides (including some List and Index Society volumes) in
PRO, and on searches in a limited number of unlisted or partly listed
classes (a few classes which were extensive but unlisted could not be
searched). References taken from this index should be checked against
the lists, where they exist, for dates and any further details. The deeds fall
into three main groups, with some miscellanea:
Ancient deeds (11C/12C to 16C), including Chancery, Exchequer,
Pipe Office, and Duchy of Lancaster: C146–8, DL25–7, E40–3, E210–
13, E326–9, E354–5, and LR14–15. Mostly title deeds etc. from the
archives of dissolved religious houses, retained by the Crown after the
lands in question were disposed of. In few cases, if any, were original
deeds handed over to the purchaser or grantee. This class relates
closely to the records of individual religious houses described under
70–274, but since the original archive groups have mostly been broken
up through rearrangement it can only be described and indexed as a
whole. The divisions (by government departments, etc.) of the Ancient
Deeds are explained in PRO Guide i, 14, 57, 73, 82–3, 91, 111, 185.
Parts of the principal classes are calendared and printed in Catalogue of
Ancient Deeds (6 vols., 1890–1915), covering C146/1–8060, E40/1–
13672, E210/1–1330, and E326/1–4232. The remaining deeds are listed
in shelf guides.
Modern Deeds (17C and later): E44, E214, E330, LR16. Apparently
from various sources, including forfeited lands; only E214 is
adequately listed. C149, a similar class (63 boxes, unlisted) was not
searched.
Exhibits from Court of Chancery, Six Clerks Office, Court of Wards and
Liveries (mostly 16C and later): C103–11, C113–15, C171, WARD 2.
Unclaimed deeds deposited as exhibits in court. The bundles are listed
in shelf guides: all with London refs. were then searched for details.
The index also covers: Cartae Antiquae and Miscellaneae, medieval
deeds now bound into volumes (DL36, E315/29–54); Chancery miscellanea, transcripts of deeds and evidences (C47/9); conventual leases
(E118). E303, a larger class of conventual leases, is not indexed here, as it
retained sufficient order to be described under the headings of individual
religious houses (70–274).
Parishes
1: E40/1515, 1530, 1870, 1983, 10412;
E42/353; E210/5349, 8059, 9074;
E326/2007–8, 2011
2: C146/44; E40/2450–9, 2484, 2486,
2490, 2501–2, 2506, 2705, 2707–9,
2717, 2719–21, 2728; E42/429; E210/
8714, 9839; E211/457; E315/38/235;
E326/1993–4, 4369, 11798; E329/447
4: C146/1295, 6990, 9287, 9301, 9320,
9323; C147/131, 133; C148/58; E40/
1613, 1628, 1640, 1648–50, 1653,
1844, 1847, 1858, 1889, 1925, 5521,
7155, 14311–13; E210/1056, 9869,
11117, 11120; E211/16, 313; E214/
928; E326/2020, 2074, 2076, 11324,
11512; E355/2/44, E355/3/118–19;
LR14/15, 92, 480, 486, 560, 574, 578,
1101; LR15/1/1
5: C106/167–8; C107/70–1; C111/31;
C146/6077, 10518; E40/1631, 1634,
1683, 1852, 1856, 1861, 2186, 2625;
E42/11; E210/1043, 6762; E326/1961–
91, 2305, 4366, 4371–6, 5735, 5737–8,
6666, 6701, 6871, 6890, 7020, 7233,
8219–20, 9928, 12209, 12222; E329/
59, 179; WARD 2/14/52/1
6: C146/6857; E40/1495, 1616, 1632,
1883–4, 1897, 1913, 1916, 1920, 1989,
1994, 2000, 2007, 2010, 2013, 2017,
2026–7, 2042, 2048, 2058, 2064, 2069,
2075, 2135, 2141–3, 2264–5, 2712,
7350, 11559; E42/445
7: E40/2122, 7288
8: E40/2172, 2178, 2184, 5262; E42/428;
E315/47/17; E326/10352
9: C146/1610; DL26/18–19; E40/2124.
2213, 2215–16, 2219, 2223, 2226,
2228; E210/4123, 4135, 11293; E211/
411; E212/1; E326/1995–2006, 2013–
19, 6660, 9927, 9929, 11208, 11919,
11922–3, 12178, 12643, 12650, 12655;
E327/343; LR15/4/117/9, 16(i), 40(i)
10: C146/6591, 8240, 9206; C147/103,
126, 144, 175; E40/1638, 1683,
1707, 1709, 1716, 1789–93, 1852, 1861,
2186, 2410, 2532, 2625, 2677, 2723,
12629; E41/98; E326/6493, 11209,
12210, 12220; E329/482; LR14/37, 537
11: E40/1985, 7302; E214/1101; LR14/
202, 1092; LR15/6/156
12: E210/1126–7, 10926; LR15/6/156
13: C147/214; E40/2172, 2406, 2569;
E210/415, 2211; E211/372; E326/
2012, 2030, 4368, 10681
14: E40/2013; E212/8
15: E40/1497, 1505, 1583, 1591, 1593,
1979, 2066, 2626, 2727, 7926–7,
11858–9; E213/293; E326/11798;
ER14/94, 110, 113, 120, 341, 343, 476,
487, 527, 1151
17: E40/1982, 7284
18: C111/46; E40/1592, 1899, 2063; E326/
5710; LR14/693
19: E40/1470, 1636, 1981, 7285;
E326/12947
20: C107/70–1; C110/184; C113/202/2,
C113/203/1–2; DL25/131–45, 148;
DL27/59; E210/4098, 8149, 9951,
9966, 9970; E214/446; E315/39/199;
E315/43/11; E326/2190–4, 2197, 2333,
2337, 2340, 2363–4, 2388, 2399–401,
5861, 6646, 10046, 10611–14, 11453,
11896, 11899, 12644, 12646, 12648;
E327/245; E329/8, 366, 482; LR15/4/
117/1
21: C103/157; C146/6563; E40/1696,
1723, 1970, 2117, 2119, 2303, 7256;
E210/2389; E326/4370, 10348; E355/
2/44
24: E214/1074
25: C105/32 (Part 2); C107/187 (25);
E214/1089
26: C146/47, 286, 319, 376, 406, 413, 466,
850, 1027, 1049, 1367, 1630, 1656,
1722, 2407, 2549, 2861, 3014, 3055,
3978, 5043, 5111, 6140, 6871, 8188,
9519, 9528, 9631; C147/138; E210/
2767, 4577, 9217, 9855; E326/2042,
2285, 10349; LR14/534
27: C106/155
28: C146/408, 2953; C148/33, 44; E40/
1510; LR14/592
29: E40/1974
30: C106/135–7; C146/35, 829, 992, 1722,
3055, 3426, 6175; E40/1605, 1966,
10953; LR14/9, 474, 502
31: C146/8528
32: E40/1625, 1678, 1905, 1914, 1985,
2513; E210/1710, 1712, 2252, 2322,
2581, 5498, 8412, 9573, 9388; E315/
31/176; E326/4277, 9969, 9971–2;
LR14/1075
33: C107/71, 184(12), 185 (15), 186 (18),
187 (25); C171/18; E210/10436; E211/
277; E214/4–7, 20, 23–4, 29–34, 36–7,
40, 55–7, 59–61, 68–73, 75–90, 92,
111–19, 141, 143–6, 148–51, 153, 194–
5, 199, 230–8, 240–1, 278, 284, 305,
321, 368–9, 381, 423–9, 431–3, 442,
553–70, 663, 746–64, 766–70, 773,
776–7, 780, 782–4, 787–8, 790–3, 797,
829, 905–12, 914–18, 920, 958–9, 961–
2, 969–70, 992, 1003, 1058, 1061,
1063–5, 1070, 1073, 1232
34: E211/166; E328/6
35: E40/2122, 2124, 2139, 7294
36: C103/194; E40/1922; E315/54/171;
LR14/379, 1075
37: C146/113, 2694, 5995; C147/121; E40/
1643, 2217, 2222, 2227, 7315; E210/
937, 1191; E315/36/200; E315/41/98;
E315/44/310; E315/45/59, 108, 315;
E315/46/91; E315/48/243; E315/51/98;
E326/2010, 9956–9, 11210–11, 11325,
11698; LR14/70, 136; LR15/4/117/22
38: C106/11–13; C107/82, 184 (13); DL36/
3/53; E40/1484–7, 1645, 1656, 1848,
2173; E41/224; E210/1973; E326/
2009, 2281, 4283, 6058, 9930, 11909,
LR14/539
39: E40/1621, 1639, 1657, 1660, 1890,
2571, 2574–5; E41/300; E42/444
41: C146/9126; E40/7352; E210/7894;
LR14/291
42: C106/40–1; C107/70, 184(12),
184(13), 187(25); E40/1493, 1574,
1879, 1886, 1953, 1959, 1962, 1967,
5775; E41/294; E42/134; E326/6330–
1, 6355, 12083; E328/114; LR15/6/
158
43: C103/46; C107/80; C109/82, 426, 431,
438; C110/114; C111/31; C113/64;
C114/134; C146/7224; C147/193; E40/
1471, 1491, 1498, 1504, 1512, 1517,
1573, 1585–6, 1595–1603, 1867–8,
1872–3, 1880, 1894, 1896, 1928–9,
1933, 1950, 1963, 1965, 1972, 2273,
2558–9, 2587, 2640, 2643–4, 5892,
7377–80, 7815, 7830–1, 12792, 14726;
E44/5–6, 9–10; E210/941, 1144, 8819,
9349, 10343, 10345–6; E214/1350;
E315/30/42; E315/44/250; E315/47/21;
E326/2307–12, 2314–19, 2322, 2324–
8, 4405–8, 9315, 9429–36, 9933–4,
10350; E329/114; E355/2/44; LR14/7,
26, 62, 162, 209, 219, 246, 298, 347,
464–5, 545, 558, 650, 694, 1061, 1071,
1083; LR16/13
44: C110/140; C146/25, 40, 152, 414,
1295, 1603–5, 1608–9, 1611, 1618,
1688, 2390, 2588, 2857, 3041, 3573,
5077; E40/1617, 1666, 1841, 1845–6,
1912, 2329, 7361, 7377, 9806; E210/
1086, 1759, 9095, 11322; E315/47/13;
E315/51/71; E326/2020–6, 2074, 2076,
5712, 8803, 9438; E327/326; E329/93;
E355/2/44; LR15/4/117/8
45: C103/97; C106/143; C107/43, 70,
184(12), 187(125); C108/73; C109/82;
C146/12, 69, 2126; E40/1587, 1623–4,
1626, 1663–4, 1680–1, 1854, 1862,
1906, 5746; E211/53; E213/431; E315/
34/104; E315/37/153; E326/2186–9,
2300–2, 4272–3, 4402, 9931–2, 9960–
2, 11208; E329/145; LR14/239
46: C104/134; C107/71, 134, 184(13),
186(16–18, 20), 187(22, 24–5); C110/
151 (Part 2); DL25/131–45; DL36/3/
16, 18, 224; E41/300; E44/3; E118/
125; E210/10504; E326/2184; E355/4/
184; LR15/6/156
47: C104/148(Part 1); C107/184(13), 186
(20); C110/114; E214/1037;
LR15/6/156
48: C47/9/8; C146/39, 430, 902, 3615; E40/
1682, 2020, 2029, 2285; E211/347;
E315/40/183; E315/51/265; E326/
2027–9, 2031, 2127–8, 4319, 6664,
9951, 9968–75, 11749, 12064; E327/
128, 481; E328/338; E329/33, 190,
388; LR15/4/117/30–1
49: C146/1707, 9625; E40/1850, 1892,
1937, 2014, 2044, 2138, 2271, 2690;
E210/559; E326/12947; E355/6/236;
LR15/8/186
50: E40/1614, 1675, 1679, 1900, 1993,
2082, 14783
51: C104/170; C146/6563; C147/158, 189,
254; E40/1659, 2181, 2344–5, 2710,
7363, 9673; E41/295; E42/386; E210/
415, 2211; E214/1126; E326/2030,
4368
52: E40/1786, 2503
53: C108/26; C113/147, 157, 175, 178;
C146/7420, 7877, 10225, 10392; C147/
214; E40/1696, 1708, 1710–15, 1717–
18, 1774–81, 1783, 1785, 1794–7,
1800, 1841, 2407, 2512, 2514–15,
2530, 2551, 2648, 9806, 11539; E42/
12, 39; E118/13; E210/6796, 9350;
E211/270; E315/35/157; E326/80, 100,
1997, 2014–16, 2018, 2072, 5599,
10351; E327/215; LR14/504, 585;
LR15/8/186; LR15/11/321
54: C47/9/8; C106/40–1; C107/186(20);
C108/129; C146/9293, 9333; C147/
294; E40/1784; E210/9966; E214/837;
E315/52/35; E326/5622, 6353, 7150;
E329/482; WARD 2/10/32/1
55: E40/1800, 1808, 2113, 6080
56: C146/5995; C147/121; E40/2225,
11606; E42/357, 454
57: E329/130
58: C106/143; E40/1620, 1842–3
59: C107/185(14); C109/82; C113/198–
200; C113/202/2; DL25/111–13, 123–
130, 3570; DL27/58; E40/1574, 2185,
7294, 7824; E41/212; E210/9609;
E315/30/33; E326/2077, 4315; E329/
155; WARD 2/23/82/1, 3
60: E326/12197; LR15/4/117/20, 29(i)
61: C146/414, 2390; E40/1686, 1723,
1744, 1806, 2089, 2103; E326/2020,
2074–6
62: C47/9/10; C105/13; C106/146–7; C107/
70, 186(21); C110/162(Part 2); C146/
9549, 9605; C147/138, 298; DL26/78;
DL36/3/52–3; E40/2119, 2263, 7930,
7932, 11854–7, 11860–6, 12276,
14797, 14808; E41/188; E42/92; E210/
9951; E211/171, 403, 418, 559, 643;
E315/38/37; E326/11600, 12222;
E329/59; LR14/40, 195–6, 343, 699;
LR15/4/115; LR15/8/186
63: C103/197, 203(Part 2); C107/184(13),
187(22); C108/110; E40/14689; E211/
686; E214/692, 1167; E326/4283,
11909
64: E40/1488, 1642, 2649; E42/95; LR15/
8/186; WARD 2/28/94D/10
65: E40/2098
66: E40/1495, 1516–17, 1895, 1971, 2047,
6397, 14804
67: C146/189, 1052, 2734, 2780, 2795,
2890, 5022, 6372, 9589; C148/20, 46;
E40/2513, 2531
68: C107/80; C146/9323; E214/404
69: E40/2122
71: C107/71; E40/1644, 1852, 1861, 2125,
2625, 6457, 7824; E211/347;
LR15/8/186
74: C146/10, 47, 319, 406, 413, 586, 971,
1027, 1049, 1367, 1656, 2407, 2549,
8188, 9519, 9589, 9625; E40/2462,
2492, 2500, 7296
75: C108/110; E40/1570, 1998, 2037,
2061, 2136, 2218, 2224, 2240–1, 2485,
7818, 7834, 7843–6, 10798, 11681;
E355/4/184
76: E326/4314
77: C107/78; DL25/154–8; DL27/69; E40/
2239, 12313; E315/30/42; LR15/1/27
78: C106/169; C107/187(25); C108/305;
E40/1508, 1588, 1607–8, 1619, 1941,
2054, 2086–7, 2229, 2232, 2246–7,
2273, 5280, 5769, 6398–9, 12326,
12365, 12369–70, 12388, 12763,
12765, 13111, 13116, 13848; E41/12,
35; E210/2671, 6796, 8631, 9594;
E326/2072, 10681; LR15/8/186
79: E326/2071
80: C146/257, 2521, 2802, 3588, 4076,
9207; C148/14; DL25/3365; E40/
1609–10, 1618, 1629, 1633, 1898,
2018, 2050–3, 2068, 2076, 2286, 2364,
7360; E41/280; E210/805, 2543, 5888,
10097; E326/9928, 11649; E329/179;
LR14/1055; LR15/8/186; WARD 2/
23/ 81M/20
81: C106/120–1; C110/61; C146/2260,
3719, 4115, 5198, 7534, 7542, 9178,
9184, 10356; DL25/3318; DL36/3/53;
E40/1477, 1492, 1787–8, 1852, 1861,
1985, 2186, 2385, 2625, 14688; E41/
328; E42/50; E132/3/43; E210/11108;
E214/1613; E315/30/18; E326/12226;
LR14/484, 700, 1154, 1157, 1159,
1164–6, 1170; LR15/8/186; LR16/13
82: E40/6684
83: E40/1691, 1719, 1731–4, 1742–4,
1810, 2036, 2132, 2274, 2305, 2323,
7315, 7827, 7837, 11610; E42/450;
E315/31/87; E326/1997, 2014–16,
2018, 4313; E355/2/44
85: C107/71; C146/504, 508, 1295, 1690,
1813–15, 2178, 2202, 6990; C148/58;
E40/644, 2329, 2440, 7309, 7361,
12276; E41/188; E211/347; E326/
2063–8, 4312–13, 9939, 12213; LR14/
20, 500–1, 564, 705; LR15/8/186
86: C146/65
87: C146/262, 414, 1258, 1295, 2390,
2588, 2757, 3583, 6990; C148/50; E40/
1615, 1859, 1893, 1909, 2433, 2468;
E41/63, 367; E44/8; E210/733, 1096;
E213/43; E315/34/44; E315/46/153;
E315/52/69; E326/2034–5, 2037–51,
2064, 2074, 2076, 4290–1, 7992, 8004,
8106, 9940, 9943, 9979–82, 11596,
12227; E329/34, 41, 184; LR15/8/186
88: E40/1472–3, 1500, 1518, 1584, 1606,
2251–2, 2260–2, 2343, 2347, 2356,
2359–61, 2363, 7355, 7817, 7825,
9163, 10390–2, 12349, 12942; E42/6,
32; E210/3806, 8599; E214/512; E315/
41/226; E326/2053–9, 2061, 2211–12,
4281, 4286–7, 6749, 8511, 9373, 9748–
51, 9757, 9762–4, 9944–5, 11910,
12146, 12221; E328/68; LR14/797,
1075; WARD 2/29/96A/87
89: E40/2182–3; E210/5838, 6320, 7387,
7952, 9371, 10304; E212/55; E326/
2036, 2052, 2060, 4281, 4288–9
90: E40/2303; E41/293; E326/997, 2014–
16, 2018
92: E40/5280, 12793, 13520; E210/597,
6110; LR15/8/186
93: C107/116, 164; C146/1292–3, 2900,
6990, 9207, 9625; C148/58; E40/1898,
2002, 2025, 5280, 7294; E326/2036;
LR15/8/186
94: C103/194; E40/2002, 2258–9, 2393,
2394, 2649, 2658, 2665, 2667–8, 2680–
1, 2683, 2698; E44/3; E210/10437;
E326/4283, 11909
95: C146/596; DL25/146, 3345; DL36/
1/221
96: C107/71; C146/9169; E40/1476, 1647,
2330, 2341, 2487; E210/4603
97: E326/11322
98: C146/414, 2390, 2588; E40/1511,
1514, 1614, 1786, 1871, 1874, 1876,
1930–32, 1943–5, 1954–7, 1961, 1964,
1980, 2101, 2464–7, 2469–78, 2542,
7349; E42/396, 438; E210/7799; E326/
2096–105, 6560, 8005, 9983–93,
12165; E328/268; E329/74; LR14/
1174; LR15/6/156; LR15/8/186
99: C146/5198, 7534, 9178, 9184, 10356;
C147/201; E40/1477, 1489, 1490,
1492, 1644, 1881, 1882, 1885, 1904,
1975–6, 15044; E213/293; E315/52/
206; E326/4369; E329/155; LR14/94,
111, 113, 120, 124, 141–2, 146, 190,
341, 357, 471, 479, 487, 523–5, 527–9,
541, 551, 600, 1047, 1151, 1153, 1155,
1163, 1167
100: C146/21, 28, 123, 257, 2098, 2394,
2802, 3541, 3719, 7940, 10625, 10686;
C147/138; E40/1877; E210/11119;
E326/2095, 9255; LR14/16–17, 42, 89,
203, 292, 475, 484, 559, 563, 575, 604,
812; LR15/1/7–8
101: E40/1517, 1863, 1938, 1939, 2416,
2420, 2425–6, 2431–2, 2438–9, 2443,
2447, 2662–4, 7307, 7368
103: C103/186; C146/9625; E40/1786, 2629,
7351; E327/340
104: C103/39; C146/2134, 6121; E40/1474,
1513, 1614, 1644, 1667, 1942, 1960,
2024, 2156, 2415, 2509, 2542, 2604,
14778, 15625; E211/209; E326/9751,
9753–6, 9976–7; LR14/16–17, 93, 122,
139, 220, 230, 280, 285, 318, 326, 386,
481, 519, 549–50, 556, 567, 569, 605,
904, 1063, 1088, 1140, 1149–50; LR15/
8/186; WARD 2/29/96A/2, 4, 11, 13,
89, 91–3; WARD 2/29/96B/1–3, 14–
16, 19, 24–26
105: C146/529, 596, 3414, 8778, 9605;
DL25/1404; E40/1646, 1672–3, 1915,
1984, 1986, 1988, 1991, 1995–6, 2004–
5, 2007, 2019, 2022, 2041, 2049, 2057,
2065, 2067, 2072–4, 2077, 2116, 2236,
2495, 6869, 7356, 7373, 7593–5, 7819,
7833, 9761, 11938–47, 13126; E42/88;
E210/10705; LR14/125, 534
106: E40/1683, 1861, 2174–5, 2186; E326/
2111, 2113–22, 4321, 11598, 12231
108: E40/1604, 2303, 2412–14, 2418, 2421–
2, 2424, 2427–8, 2435–6, 2441–2,
2445–6, 7444, 11332, 13608; E42/294;
E210/2389, 8149, 9880; E326/4370,
10348, 12226
109: C146/1079; E326/4283
110: E40/2417, 6884
111: C103/203/2; C146/246, 410, 2387,
2762, 3538, 4139, 9641; C148/15, 21;
E40/2430, 2444, 2449, 15625;
E214/1362
112: C146/257, 582, 2802, 3588; C148/14;
DL36/3/53; E40/2173, 2507, 10355,
12793, 13520; E210/1086; E213/431;
E326/2021, 2085–94, 2106, 2181,
2245, 6383, 9941–2, 9946–7, 9964,
11909; E329/93
113: C103/157; C109/82; C110/61, 114;
C146/284, 373, 482, 549, 569, 892,
1099, 2842, 2869, 4610, 4713, 5089;
E40/1507, 2610; LR14/18, 489;
LR16/13
116: E40/1803, 2346, 2362, 2561–2, 2576,
2584, 2586, 2603, 2606, 2613, 2615,
2624, 2676, 2684, 7314, 10402, 11609;
E211/557; E314/44/32; E326/2083–4,
4316, 9955; E328/150; E329/1, 5, 22,
47, 57, 60; LR14/608; LR15/4/117/18
117: E326/2082
118: E40/1683, 1958, 2274, 2631, 13650;
E315/35/224; E315/45/333; E326/
2078, 2080–1, 2107, 2110, 2112, 2123–
31, 4317–19, 4324–5, 8129, 9949,
9951, 9969, 9972, 12223, 12226; E329/
31, 33; LR15/1/1; LR15/8/186
119: C47/9/6; C149/1092; E40/2248, 2461,
2491, 2661, 12276; E42/5; E210/7730;
E214/834; E326/2078, 2123, 2127,
4317, 8002, 9949, 12947; LR14/121,
213, 608
120: C146/5062; C148/97; E40/2179;
E329/482
121: E40/2448
122: E40/1476, 1946, 2434, 10791
123: C110/123; C146/1040, 1570, 2325,
3612, 10045; E40/1501–2, 1611, 1637,
1651–2, 1658, 1857, 1860, 1910, 1918–
19, 1921, 1923, 1926, 1951–2, 2012,
2060, 2081, 2084, 2507, 2726, 5758,
6684, 7822, 10369; E42/38, 440; E210/
4718; E328/125
124: C47/9/6; C108/412; C146/4115; E40/
1622, 1630, 1917, 1992, 1997, 2055,
2126, 2134, 2248, 2337, 2448, 2661;
E42/5, 354; E210/4447, 7730; E211/
499; E326/2108–9, 2127–8, 4323,
9951, 9969, 9972, 12341; E329/33
125: E40/2001, 2009, 2023, 2028, 2045,
2059, 2062, 2129, 5771, 6677, 12773,
12805, 13199, 13241; E210/6974,
7836, 8598, 9877; E315/30/42; E326/
2247–50, 9950; E327/202; E355/6/263;
LR14/206; LR15/8/186
126: E40/1572, 2250, 2387–8, 7823–4, 9048;
E211/347; E326/125; LR14/8, 35, 49,
58, 473, 496, 520–2, 538, 926, 1090;
LR15/8/186
127: C146/257, 1910, 2802, 3588, 3950;
C148/14; DL36/3/67; E40/1852, 1861,
2186, 2429, 2437, 2513, 2625, 2684,
6684; E42/468; E210/1108, 1192;
E213/431; E315/35/90; E315/44/78;
E315/48/275; E315/49/210, 227; E315/
50/244; E315/51/97; E326/6015, 6845,
7229, 8078, 11654, 12602; E329/161;
LR14/696, 840; LR15/4/117/6–7, 39
128: E40/13611, 14666; E210/6413, 8121;
E326/4322, 5599, 9277; LR14/142,
190, 600
129: E40/2124, 2460, 2718; E42/358; E315/
30/18; E326/2244–6, 6724, 12208,
12221
131: C110/114; C146/257, 2802; E40/1605,
1655
132: C146/2853; E44/11; LR14/369; LR15/
8/186; WARD 2/10/34
133: E40/1695, 1973, 2332, 2335, 2410,
2480–1, 2493–4, 2496, 2510, 2588,
2722, 2724–5, 7294, 7824
134: C146/9625; E315/30/42
135: C146/372, 435, 3542, 9589; C148/82;
E40/2288, 2488, 7326; E210/1044;
E315/48/96; E315/49/94; E326/2083–
4, 2238, 2240–3, 2279, 4284, 4316,
10003–5; E328/150; E329/22, 57, 60;
LR14/702; LR15/4/117/18
136: E40/2340, 2390, 2563–4, 2654, 2659,
2691–4, 5778, 7291, 7327, 7816, 7847–
9; E42/146
137: DL25/150–1; DL36/3/53; E40/2507;
E210/11125; E211/325, 347, 409;
E315/31/107; E315/39/36; E315/50/
213; E326/2215–37, 4278, 4282, 4285,
5857, 6997, 8798, 9994–10002, 12217,
12252; E327/336, 712; LR14/546, 714;
LR15/4/117/5, 16(i)
138: E40/2701; E210/9323; E326/2198–203
140: C146/410; E40/1612
141: C110/155; E40/1627, 2392, 2395,
2399–2405, 2497–9, 2651–3, 2655,
2666, 2669, 2673–5, 2679, 2682, 2686–
7, 2696, 2700, 7155, 7274, 7303, 7354,
7820, 7840, 12598; E210/4570; E326/
1997, 2014–16, 2018–19, 2196, 2205,
2210, 2213–14, 4275, 9952, 11895,
11913, 12394; E355/2/44
142: C107/187(22); E40/2343, 12349; E41/
292; E326/2053–4, 2059, 2061, 2211–
12, 4281, 4287, 6749, 8511, 9751,
12057, 12146; LR15/6/156.
144: E40/1494, 2409, 5754, 6001, 7933;
E315/30/42; E326/2206–9, 2304, 4274,
4279–80, 4283, 11909, 11917; E329/
452; LR15/4/117/17
145: C111/31; E40/2448, 2697, 9656, 11640;
E214/140; E315/30/18; LR14/5,
381, 1084; LR15/6/156
147: E214/928, 1350
148: C107/71, 78(Part 2); E41/300; LR14/
85; LR15/11/321
149: C106/40–1; C146/9455, 9532; C147/29;
DL25/152; DL36/1/6; E40/1903, 1985,
7294
150: C107/78; C146/2728, 3171, 9488; E40/
1656, 2383–4, 2485, 2504, 7364,
13600; E210/1973, 2539; E326/4283,
6058, 9930, 11909; LR15/4/117/19
151: E40/1641, 1683, 1851–2, 1861, 2186,
2625, 2704, 12464; E326/10682;
LR14/1047
152: C103/170, 198; C106/146–7; C107/70–
2, 113, 181(2), 184(12, 13), 185(14),
186(16, 17, 20), 187(24–5); C110/123;
C146/3601, 9589; DL25/1565; DL26/
20; DL36/2/176; E40/1865, 1965,
2328, 2331, 2333, 2336, 2391, 2397,
2568, 2572, 2578, 2581, 2585, 2594,
2604–5, 2608, 2616–17, 2619, 2621,
2628, 2630, 2637, 2678, 2685, 2688–9,
2699, 5814, 7499, 7829, 7842, 12793,
13520; E42/259, 437, 475; E118/17;
E210/808, 1060, 1086, 4118, 5793,
5871, 5873, 5896, 9966; E213/431;
E214/847–60, 862–6, 918, 1100, 1107,
1185–93, 1195, 1197–9, 1201; E315/
40/97; E315/47/30; E315/49/27; E315/
50/206; E315/51/66, 111, 169; E326/
2021, 2132–64, 2170–83, 2185, 2204,
4267, 4271, 4302, 5628, 5700, 6721,
6750, 8004, 8550, 10610, 10698, 11756,
11903, 12059, 12166, 12209, 12589,
12642, 12905; E328/125; E329/2, 15,
93, 141; E355/7/unnumbered; LR14/17,
723, 844; LR15/1/36; LR15/4/117/10–
11, 28, 35, 43; LR15/6/154(i), 158
154: WARD 2/29/96A/87
155: C108/409; DL36/2/189; E40/1662,
1669, 1676, 1837–9, 1891, 1901–
2, 1987, 1990, 1999, 2043, 2070–1,
2078–80, 2083, 2090–1, 2343, 6684,
9808, 12349, 12774; E315/44/86, 268;
E326/6945, 12943; LR14/276; LR15/6/
156; LR15/8/186; LR15/9/228
156: C106/149–50; C146/87; E40/1683,
15351; E326/2181; LR14/36
157: C106/167–8; C146/9625; E40/1670,
2006, 2016, 2030, 2410, 2491, 2627,
2641, 2657; E326/6380, 11148; LR14/
496; LR15/8/186
158: E40/1936, 2279, 2295, 2511, 2518–19,
2521–2, 2526, 2539–40, 2546, 2550,
7824, 15625; E315/52/52; LR14/388;
LR15/1/11
159: C111/31; E40/1852; E212/97; E315/32/
69; E315/38/237; E315/53/84, 96;
E315/54/208; E326/2069, 2085, 2088–
9, 2092, 2094, 2106, 2181, 2245, 4320
162: E40/10402; E42/448
Other localities
London: C115/F19; C146/37–8, 43, 286,
376, 472, 918, 1059, ?1145, 1257,
1684, 1693, 1734–6, 1812, 1841, 1877,
2400, 2585, 2612, 2872, 3202, 3717,
4494, 10524; C148/48; DL25/1093,
1404–5, ?1407, 1476; DL36/1/34;
DL36/3/48–9, 51; E40/1475, 1589,
1654, 1949, ?2015, 2085, 2151, 2177,
?2214, 2389, 2642, ?2660, 2695, 2706,
6242, 6249–50, 6286, 6682, 6687,
6803, 6876, 6920, 6992, 7272, 7278–
80, 7286, 7289, 7292, 7297–9, 7301,
7305, 7308, 7311, 7320, 7322–3, 7353,
? 7365, 7367, 7369, 7372, 7374, 7376,
7500, 7578–9, 7821, 8458, 8891, 9697,
9747, 10849, 11634, 12236, 12446,
12647, 12856, 13646, 13852, 13974,
14745, 14793, 14798, 14806, 14824,
14835, 14852, 14897, 15564; E41/425,
452; E42/309, 317, 331, 348, 442, 527–
30; E44/1; E118/138; E210/97, 240,
1091, 1315, 6540, 8858, 9304, 9466,
10325, 11076; E214/1385; E315/29/32;
E315/31/171, 199; E315/32/10; E315/
33/1, 221; E315/38/82; E326/2181,
2280, 2284, 2287, 2290, 2293–4, 2296,
2306, 4256, 4261, 5567, 5596, 6981,
7087, 8552, 8558, 8802, 9752, 9931–2,
9978, 12204–5, 12221, 12224, 12438,
12441, 12627; E327/338, 776, 783;
E328/131(ii), 226–30, 232–7, 309(i);
E329/176, 409, 434; LR14/73, 106,
201, 267, 526, 557, 698, 1145, 1169, 1171
Abchurch Lane: E40/1887
Aldermanbury: C106/120–1; DL25/120–1;
E40/1501–2, 1951–2
Aldersgate (Street): C146/8495; E40/1590;
E42/323; E210/8360; E326/12159;
LR14/130; LR15/6/158
Aldgate (near, within, without): E40/1869,
1908, 1935, 1947, 1968, 1977–8, 2046,
7358, 13263, 14701; LR14/264, 284
Aldgate Street: LR14/359, 472, 1040, 1085,
1176; LR15/1/27
Atheling Street: E40/1499, 1934
Aubree's Watergate: E40/7283
Austin Friars: LR14/86–8, 708, 787
Barbican: E315/48/317
Barndehawe, garden called: E40/1668
Basing Lane: E40/1683
Bevis Marks: WARD 2/36/144/2
Billingsgate: E40/1590, 2419, 8235; E42/
323; E315/31/112; E315/52/107
Billiter Lane: E40/2135; E41/109
Bishopsgate: E315/48/16; LR15/1/19
Bishopsgate Ward: DL36/1/100
Blackfriars (precinct): C146/8312; E40/
13106, 15152; E326/12376
Blackfriars Bridge (sic), near: E210/10340
Blanchappleton: E40/1849, 7295, 13872,
14323, E210/415
Botolph Lane: E315/50/218
Bread Street: E210/8278, 10321, 11311;
E212/118; E214/1163, 1168; E315/35/
87; E315/48/169; E315/50/166
Bread Street ward: LR14/1075
Bridge: C106/85–6
Bridge Street: E40/7296; E210/4959; E315/
34/44
Brokenwharf: E40/1875
Bucklersbury: C146/905
Candlewick Street: E40/11939; E326/2282,
4258–60, 4400, 9936
Castle Baynard ward: LR14/1062
Cheapside: C146/1443, 2057, 8115, 8922,
9589; E40/2463, 2482–3, 10402,
13423; E315/34/76; E315/49/5; E326/
2298; E329/143; WARD 2/29/96A/53
'Cnihtengild', land of: E40/6690
Cock's Lane: E40/1661
Coldharbour: C106/155
Coleman Street: E40/2056, 2122, 2124,
2711; E315/49/140; E315/44/86
Coleman Street ward: E326/2195, 4265,
4276, 4296, 9753–6, 9758–61, 9764,
9976–7; E329/379
at Conduit: E210/309
Cordwainer Street: C146/9589; E40/5280,
10402; LR14/554
Cordwainer ward: E40/13415
Cornhill: E41/188; E42/19; E210/4103;
E315/31/171; E315/35/224; E315/38/6;
E315/49/182; E329/38; LR14/721
Cornhill ward: E326/6676
Cripplegate: E40/1853, 2011
Distaff Lane: E40/1590; E42/323
Dowgate ward: LR14/140
Eastcheap: E40/1687, 1736, 1807, 2099,
2122, 2124, 6884
Fenchurch Street: E315/38/5, 127; E329/26
Fetter Lane: E355/6/256
Finch Lane: E210/1992
Fish Street: E40/1590; E42/323
Fleet Street: C146/2906, 8542; E40/5751,
14666; E210/6288, 8200; E214/675;
E326/12037
Fresh Wharf: E326/12210
Friday Street: C148/74; E40/2176, 2180;
E210/6843, 8236; E326/4401; LR14/701
Gracechurch Street: C146/9550; C148/8;
E40/2220; E210/11121; E211/333;
E315/39/71; E315/50/243; E315/51/208;
E326/2286; LR14/243, 470, 494, 540,
542
Greyfriars (precinct): C146/1479; DL26/17;
E329/428
Grimescroft (? London): E210/3720
Gutter Lane: E210/10677
Holborn: DL27/62, 64–6; E315/33/200;
E315/38/7; E326/10608
Holborn Bridge, by: E210/2950
Holy Innocents, Savoy: DL25/2342, 2344
Holy Trinity Priory: E42/447
Holy Trinity Priory, soke of: E40/7279,
7353, 7358, 7367, 7369, 7374
Houndsditch: E315/42/42
Huggin Lane: E315/48/282
Ivy Lane: E315/32/10
Jewry, Saint — in: E40/1645
Katherine Wheel, Bridge ward: LR14/351
Knightrider Street: E210/9979: E329/431
Langbourn: E315/31/171; E315/35/224
Langbourn ward: E326/4318, 6676
Leadenhall: DL25/153; DL27/68;
DL36/1/179
Leadenhall Street: C107/70
Lime Street: E40/2249, 2355, 2358, 2590,
2977, 5934, 7035, 7370, 7826, 11559;
E42/28, 79
Lombard Street: C146/9550; E40/644; E41/
188; E42/19; LR14/555, 690, 695, 703
London Bridge, see Bridge
Lothbury: E315/35/26; E315/44/86;
E326/2283
Ludgate Hill: E214/706
Mark Lane: E315/33/90
Milk Street: C146/1028, 6137, 9855, 9859
Mincing Lane: C146/6161; E40/5929
Minories: E326/12096, 12131, 12133–4,
12776; E328/122, 399, 400;
E329/415–16
Monkwell Street: LR15/11/295
New Fish Street Hill: E40/12959
Newgate: LR14/842, 872
Newgate Market: C106/155
Old Change: C147/138; DL26/21; E210/
1585; E315/34/219; E326/2289, 9948,
9963, 9965; LR14/706
Old Dean's Lane: DL25/1566
Old Fish Street: E40/1677, 13179; E315/38/
74; E329/47
Oystergate: LR14/241
Paternoster Row: C110/65; E315/54/90;
WARD 2/3/14A/26
Pentecost Lane: E315/38/218; E315/48/78
Philip Lane: LR14/30, 1152, 1161–2
Philpot Lane: C103/190
Portsoken: LR14/107, 152, 194
Poultry: C146/9323
Poultry Compter: E40/1683
Pudding Lane: E210/4959, 11025
Riole Street, la: LR14/379
Roper Street: E40/10402
St. Clement's Street: C146/9550
St. Katharine by the Tower: E40/2541,
11970
St. Katharine by the Tower (precinct):
C146/7584
St. Lawrence Lane: LR14/1156, 1160
St. Mark's Alley off St. Clement's Lane:
C146/1058
St. Martin's Lane: E40/13866
St. Mary Graces: DL25/1032(i);
E326/12493
St. Nicholas Lane: E315/48/78
St. Paul's churchyard: C115/E17, F9
St. Paul's, houses near: DL27/60
St. Paul's (precinct): E326/11906
St. Petronilla, parish of, in Fleet Street:
C146/2983
St. Swithin's Lane: E40/14670
Savoy, houses of or near: DL25/3600, 3604,
3611–12
Seacoal Lane: C146/3580
Shambles: E315/39/36; E315/41/226
Sherborne Lane: C146/9486; LR14/704
Shoe Lane: E40/2362
Silver Street: E40/2607
Smithfield: E40/15399; E211/125; E315/45/
282; LR15/4/117/28, 43
Smithfield, East: C114/134; C146/7630,
7685, 8660; E40/2212, 2639, 2703,
6683, 13348; E210/1661, 1692, 3437,
5731, 5843, 6778, 8920, 9089, E211/
160; E315/47/110; E326/2313–28,
4404, 6730, 11597, 11599; E328/255
Smithfield, West: C146/9641; E210/10167;
E315/41/226; E326/7985, 9954; LR15/
6/147
Soper Lane: C148/29; E40/1509, 2560,
2565, 2609
Staining Lane: E40/2124
Temple, New: DL25/2343; E40/1469
Thames Street: C108/110; C148/58; E40/
2547; E42/30, 62; E210/8264; E326/
7167–8
Thavie's Inn: E315/42/192
Tower Hill: E40/2536, 2645–7; E210/6811,
7824, 9368; E214/702; E326/2313–14,
7083, 8508, 9933–4, 11599
Tower Wharf: C107/80; E214/702;
E326/11212
Trinity Lane: E315/52/181
Vintry: E40/2133
Warwick Lane: C107/184(13), 185(15)
Watling Street: LR15/4/117/41
Whitechapel: E40/2559
Whitefriars: E328/274
Wood Street: E40/2122, 2549; E42/13, 43;
E315/34/249; E315/35/16; E326/2082
442. PRO: maps and plans
See Maps and Plans in the Public Record Office i, British Isles, c. 1410–
1860 (1967), nos. 126–8, 174–6, 267–70 (10, 20, Chancery Lane, Cornhill,
near St. Katharine's Hospital, St. Mary Graces, St. Paul's, Tower
Liberty).
443. PRO: Chancery rolls
There are several series of Chancery rolls, representing the main
administrative output of central government up to the 16C, and an
important part of it thereafter. These include contemporary enrolments
of charters and inspeximuses (Charter Rolls, C53), letters patent (C66)
and close (C54), and writs relating to expenditure (Liberate Rolls, C62),
all issued under the Great Seal; enrolments of earlier charters of varying
dates and authenticity (Cartae Antiquae Rolls, C52); and enrolled
records of payments for grants and privileges (Fine Rolls, C60). These
contain much valuable material for London property-holding. All are
published for most of the period of their existence or for most of the
period covered by this survey, in transcripts or calendars, with indexes.
From the 16C they are supplemented by the State Papers series (444). See
PRO Guide i, 14–26; HMSO Sectional List 24. For Cartae Antiquae see
also Regesta. For other kinds of enrolment on the Close Rolls see 449a.
444. PRO: State Papers
From the 16C much business formerly executed by the Chancellor came
to be handled by the King's Secretary or Secretary of State. The result of
this was the formation of the class of State Papers, of which the State
Papers, Domestic (SPI, SP10–18, 25–27, 29–30, etc.; published in
calendar form), contain a substantial amount of material relating to
London property-holding. See PRO Guide ii, 1–6; HMSO Sectional List
24.
445. PRO: eyres and crown pleas
The records of the principal London eyres do not survive in PRO, but are
described here as being of public origin.
a. Eyre of 1244. CLRO, Misc. Roll AA, printed as The London Eyre of
1244, ed. H. M. Chew and M. Weinbaum (LRS 6, 1970): copy of lost rolls
for crown pleas, 1244, and inquest into purprestures, 1246, with much
topographical information.
b. Eyre of 1276. BL, Add. Ch. 5153 (plea roll), and CLRO, Misc. Roll
BB (estreat) printed together as The London Eyre of 1276, ed. M.
Weinbaum (LRS 12, 1976): plea roll and list of fines and amercements
relating to it, with some topographical information.
c. Eyre of 1321. The Eyre of London, A.D. 1321, ed. H. M. Cam (Selden
Soc., Year Books of Edward II, vol. 26, 1968–9) is compiled principally
from law reports in 8 MSS (listed by Cam) with extracts from the plea
rolls, PRO, JUST 1/546–7. Limited topographical information, usually as
references to location of crimes.
d. Later pleas, etc. (see PRO, Lists and Indexes IV). PRO, JUST 1/548:
crown pleas, 1329; information as in preceding. PRO, JUST 1/549: pleas,
1341; incl. disseisins as well as felonies (disseisins in 10, 42, 45, 54, 85,
156). PRO, JUST 1/556: roll of extracts from Husting Rolls of lands
conveyed in mortmain, 1278–9 to 1364. PRO, JUST 1/557/1–10: collection of misc. pleas, 13C to 14C, incl. record of pleadings in Husting Court;
557/2 concerns building (St. Paul's churchyard); 557/3, disseisin (42,
123); 557/4, disseisin (81); 557/5, trespass (162); 557/6, plea of service
(90); 557/9, disseisin (137).
446. PRO: other judicial proceedings
Cases concerning London lands could be heard in, or transferred to, the
royal courts of Chancery, Exchequer, King's Bench and Common Pleas.
For the equity jurisdiction of the Duchy of Lancaster, see 440; for judicial
eyres and assizes, see 445. For private deeds enrolled on the rolls of these
courts, see 449.
a. Chancery. See PRO Guide i, 29–35. Chancery Proceedings (C1–3) are
calendared and in part indexed (London refs. otherwise identifiable by
scanning): PRO Guide i, 32–4. For Chancery Decrees (C78), see 447.
b. Exchequer. See PRO Guide i, 92–4. Plea Rolls (E13) not searched;
Jews' Plea Rolls (E9) contain useful information: Calendar of the Plea
Rolls of the Jewish Exchequer, 1218–1277 i-iv (Jewish Historical Soc.
1905–29, 1972).
c. King's Bench, Curia Regis Rolls (KB26) and Coram Rege Rolls
(KB27). Some London material; for calendars, transcripts, etc. see PRO
Guide i, 117–18.
d. Common Pleas. See PRO Guide i, 137. Plea rolls (CP40), Posteas
(CP41), etc., not searched; for fines and recoveries in Common Pleas see
448.
447. PRO: Chancery decree rolls
These rolls (C78) contain the enrolled decrees of the court, c. 1534 to
early 18C, settling cases (genuine or otherwise) concerning land and
other matters. SSRC project no. HG. 113/19/1 listed and indexed
contents of rolls 1–45, and listed samples from rolls 46–1250 (of 2257
rolls). The lists are available in PRO, IHR, ESRC office, and through BL
(Lending Division). The procedure, and some of the results, of the listing
are described by M. W. Beresford 'The Decree Rolls of Chancery as a
source for economic history, 1547–c. 1700', EconHR 32 (1979), pp. 1–10.
a. Rolls 1–14, London refs. from index: 15, 18, 19, 30, 33 or 34, 43, 46, 53,
60, 62, 71, 77, 81, 100, 108, 120, 123, 125, 126, 137, Billingsgate,
Bishopsgate Street, Grey Friars, St. Martin le Grand, St. Paul's churchyard, Westcheap, unspec.
b. Rolls 15–45, London refs. from index: 12, 21, 30, 36, 38, 43, 46, 47, 51,
56, 80, 87, 96, 108, 111, 118, 120, 123, 134, 141, 149, 152, 157, Bread
Street, Budge Row, Friday Street, Milk Street, St. Paul's churchyard,
Wood Street.
c. Rolls 46–1250. These were sampled and listed, but not indexed. The
following is an index to London refs. to 1685 identified from reading
through the lists.
Parishes
2: C78/264/2, 4
4: C78/154/10; 285/4; 446/1; 555/14
10: C78/530/1
12: C78/295/9; 743/5
13: C78/105/5; 621/16
15: C78/203/8
18: C78/676/14
20: C78/110/13; 581/4, 12; 582/9; 583/13;
653/1; 1212/1
21: C78/201/15
25: C78/205/1; 228/4; 231/6; 502/1; 604/6;
644/20
26: C78/659/3
31: C78/528/12
33: C78/127/10
36: C78/1206/8
38: C78/371/8; 746/1
42: C78/175/15; 230/12; 291/7; 407/11;
485/10; 545/12, 548/18; 695/8
43: C78/151/9; 625/18; 695/5; 1212/8
44: C78/305/10; 390/2
45: C78/133/4; 163/12; 604/9; 664/5; 670/8
46: C78/568/2; 601/8; 700/9; 1223/7, 8
47: C78/444/11; 508/12; 739/18
48: C78/696/6
54: C78/195/8; 970/9
59: C78/90/6; 133/24; 422/8; 638/3
61: C78/95/7
62: C78/407/11; 417/17; 425/8; 548/18;
574/2; 607/13; 695/8
63: C78/524/6
64: C78/413/9; 1220/10
67: C78/422/8; 910/1
70: C78/575/3
71: C78/168/11; 276/5; 380/5; 659/3; 910/1
75: C78/149/3; 180/9
77: C78/260/4
80: C78/460/3
81: C78/60/3; 269/10; 488/25
83: C78/492/6
85: C78/242/4; 259/1
87: C78/727/3
91: C78/511/2
92: C78/129/14
93: C78/1206/13
96: C78/133/13
99: C78/479/14; 703/8; 875/3; 1212/10
100: C78/693/1
108: C78/390/2; 435/5
116: C78/726/2
118: C78/700/16
123: C78/149/10; 356/4
124: C78/630/14
127: C78/950/8
128: C78/583/9
132: C78/242/11
137: C78/399/40
138: C78/413/3; 503/12
138: (? Southwark): C78/700/20
144: C78/459/10; 1206/12
145: C78/271/5; 489/19; 694/6
148: C78/1206/8
149: C78/478/19
150: C78/371/8
151: C78/594/12
152: C78/144/12; 381/1; 430/1; 583/13;
1050/3
155: C78/402/10; 435/8; 490/28–9; 499/13;
671/17; 1206/11, 15
156: C78/151/3; 222/2
157: C78/413/3
158: C78/331/10; 422/8
Other localities
London: C78/100/7, 14; 144/5; 171/16; 264/
3; 315/8; 339/4; 455/11; 489/1; 533/12;
580/8; 582/9; 583/17; 657/11; 665/18;
726/16, 19; 727/13
Addle Street: C78/693/16
Aldermanbury: C78/536/1
Aldersgate: C78/286/8
Aldersgate Street, near: C78/256/5
Aldgate: C78/503/12
Billingsgate: C78/696/6
Bishopsgate: C78/579/4; 1212/1
Bishopsgate, near: C78/563/16
Bishopsgate Street: C78/604/2; 747/11
Blackhorse Alley: C78/258/10
Bow Lane: C78/145/16
Bread Street: C78/1010/8; 1206/7
Broad Street: C78/285/5; 720/22
Candlewick Street: C78/409/10
Carter Lane: C78/562/1
Chancery Lane: C78/144/9; 499/13
Cheapside: C78/145/16; 173/11; 207/5; 271/
5; 418/1; 721/2; 740/10; 1010/8
'Clampton Court': C78/630/19
Cordwainer Street: C78/700/2
Cornhill: C78/195/3; 545/5
Creed Lane: C78/413/5
Crooked Lane: C78/156/4
Eastcheap: C78/299/5; 541/1; 573/5
Fenchurch Street: C78/447/5; 547/14; 640/
10; 671/17
Fetter Lane: C78/299/6; 516/5; 583/10; 670/
6; 749/9
Finch Lane: C78/241/5
Fish Street Hill, see New Fish Street
Fleet Bridge: C78/381/2
Fleet Street: C78/174/17; 231/5; 258/10; 283/
9; 340/7, 17; 445/4; 489/16; 503/12;
705/12; 738/15; 1220/4
Fleet Street, near; C78/241/6; 648/3
Foster Lane: C78/207/5
Friday Street: C78/217/11; 242/1; 274/2
Golden Lane: C78/741/7
Gracechurch Street: C78/379/8; 409/11;
597/12
Greyfriars: C78/749/4
Holborn: C78/168/16; 267/2; 354/3; 524/3;
666/21; 725/17
Knightrider Street: C78/530/17
Leadenhall, near: C78/334/16
Leadenhall Street: C78/695/13; 721/7
Little Britain: C78/230/12
Lombard Street: C78/545/5; 561/8
Long Lane: C78/574/2
Ludgate, outside: C78/738/4
Milk Street: C78/281/11; 412/12, 13
Mill Street: C78/581/11
Mincing Lane: C78/275/3
New Fish Street, Fish Street Hill: C78/133/
16; 339/3
Newgate: C78/508/12
Newgate Market: C78/637/20; 666/21;
711/13
Old Change: C78/433/7; 475/1; 619/5;
675/16
Old Fish Street: C78/727/11; 732/12
Paternoster Row: C78/238/4; 606/12
Philip Lane: C78/391/9
Philpot Lane: C78/600/1
Pudding Lane: C78/880/1
St. Agnes' Lane: C78/276/8
St. Clement's Lane: C78/258/10
St. Katharine near the Tower: C78/217/6
St. Lawrence Lane: C78/659/4
St. Martin le Grand: C78/555/9; 607/7
St. Martin's Lane: C78/433/7; 638/1; 644/9
St. Paul's churchyard: C78/152/14; 203/6;
276/8; 485/9; 558/3; 741/14; 950/8
St. Paul's, near: C78/629/4
St. Peter's Hill: C78/270/7; 468/2
St. Swithin's Lane: C78/729/4
School Lane: C78/557/13
Shoe Lane: C78/354/3; 637/10
Silver Street: C78/367/3
Smithfield (West): C78/299/6; 389/14; 550/6
Temple Gate, by: C78/458/4
Thames Street: C78/171/16; 289/7; 352/4;
409/11; 605/1; 670/11
Thomas Street: C78/1220/8
Throgmorton Street: C78/950/8
Tower, lands near: C78/286/9
Tower Ditch, tenements on: C78/617/5
Tower Street: C78/482/21; 721/15; 1208/5
Tower Wharf: C78/431/12
Walbrook: C78/695/6
Watling Street: C78/583/8
Whitefriars: C78/503/12; 672/7
Wood Street, Little: C78/309/3
448. PRO: fines and recoveries
See PRO Guide i, 135–8
Property conveyance by means of a final concord in the Court of
Common Pleas was not a common practice for London holdings before
the 16C. For feet of fines (CP25), 1196–1569, see A calendar of feet of
fines for London and Middlesex, ed. W. J. Hardy and W. Page (1892–3).
For later feet of fines, see PRO class lists and calendars. The corresponding concords (CP24) and notes of fines (CP26) add little further
information.
The city had its own procedure for common recovery in the Court of
Husting (2c); recoveries in the royal Court of Common Pleas (enrolled in
CP40 to 1582; CP43 thereafter) are therefore not very frequent. These
classes were not searched; recoveries are indexed by term, by parties'
names with a note of property and county, from 1515, in IND/17180–9.
For enrolments of other deeds in CP40, 43, see 449f, g.
449. PRO: enrolled deeds
Enrolment of private deeds on the great rolls of Chancery, Exchequer,
King's Bench and Common Pleas began in the 13C (PRO Guide i, 16). It
may never have been very common for private London deeds up to the
16C, owing to the simplicity of land tenure in London and the popularity
of enrolment in the Court of Husting. During the early modern period,
and always for some kinds of deeds, such enrolment seems to have been
more popular. The availability of other means of securing title, however,
means that there is probably only a limited amount of London material in
the enrolments, some of which is accessible only with great difficulty.
Access to the information in the enrolments is through various guides,
lists, catalogues, and indexes, some nearly contemporary with the enrolments. Some of these guides etc. are available in the search rooms
(identification numbers not given because liable to change: see class cardcatalogue); others, all with IND-numbers, have to be called up (see TS
Catalogue of Index Volumes). These guides were not fully searched, nor
was any of the unlisted material; the following descriptions indicate the
means of access, where available, to the enrolled deeds in each class, and,
where possible, the kind or amount of information likely to be yielded.
a. Chancery, Close Rolls (C54). See PRO Guide i, 16–18. For royal
letters close, see 443. The dorse of the Close Rolls was probably the most
popular place, among those listed in this section, for enrolment of private
deeds: such enrolments are numerous, but identification of deeds relating
to specific places is difficult. In general they are listed or calendared, in
chronological groups, and not indexed: for guides etc. to these and other
enrolments (Crown grants, sales during the Interregnum, trust deeds,
etc.), see TS Catalogue of Index Volumes.
b. Exchequer, King's Remembrancer, Memoranda Rolls (E159). See
PRO Guide i, 61. Lists in repertory rolls and agenda books: IND/7031–
72. There is an index to enrolled deeds, 1272–1307 (5, ?10, 12, 43, 46, 75,
?96, 111, 129, 150, 151, unspec.).
c. Exchequer, Lord Treasurer's Remembrancer, Memoranda Rolls
(E368). See PRO Guide i, 75. Lists in repertory rolls, 1327–1653: IND/
6935. Index to charters and grants, to 1558: IND/17043.
d. Exchequer of Pleas, Plea Rolls (E13). See PRO Guide i, 94. 'Selective
calendar', arranged alphabetically by place, 1293–1820 (4, 9, 10, ?12, 14,
15, 18, 19, 20, 23, 25, 26, 30, 34, 35, 36, 39, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 51, 53, 54,
56, 59, 62, 63, 65, 71, 73, 78, 80, 81, 84, 85, 90, 92, 96, 100, 104, 108, 112,
117, 118, 119, 120, 126, 128, 129, 134, 135, 136, 137, 141, 145, 147, 148,
149, 150, 152, 155, 157, 158, Ebbgate, Gracechurch Street, Old Change,
St. Katharine's by the Tower, Warwick Lane).
e. King's Bench, Coram Rege Rolls (KB27). See PRO Guide i, 117.
Enrolled deeds, Edward I to Edward II, listed, indexed by place (20, 36,
105). Deeds enrolled 1390–1655, listed chronologically in docket rolls
and remembrance rolls: IND 1322–52, 1378–87, not searched. Deeds
enrolled 1652–1750 listed by party by term, county not always given
(some London unspec. refs. to 1666).
f. Common Pleas, Plea Rolls (CP40). See PRO Guide i, 137–8. Enrolled
deeds, mid 13C to 1344, calendared and indexed by place (several
London refs., particularly extramural parishes). Deeds enrolled 1539–47
calendared but not indexed: (refs., identifiable from marginal notes, to
53, 62, 93, 111, 126, 131, Crooked Lane, Tower Street). Deeds enrolled
1547–55 calendared but not indexed (refs., as above, to 20, 45, 54, 78, 96,
128, 132, 141). Deeds enrolled 1555–1629, calendared (IND/16943) and
indexed by place (several London refs.).
g. Common Pleas, Recovery Rolls (CP43). See PRO Guide i, 137–8.
Enrolled deeds 1555–69, 1630–1717, calendared but not indexed: IND/
16943–4, not searched. For recoveries, see 448.
450. PRO: private cartularies
This section covers private cartularies (apart from Duchy of Lancaster:
see 440) in PRO that appeared from Davis's descriptions (nos. 1186–
1344) to contain, or to be likely to contain, London material.
a. Beauchamp. E315/58 (Davis, no. 1191; Two Registers . . . of
Beauchamp of Hatch, ed. H. C. Maxwell Lyte, Somerset Rec. Soc. 35,
1920): 14C register, incl. ? early 13C deeds (42, nr. Fleet Bridge, Seacoal
Lane).
b. Bohun, Humphrey earl of, 1276–1322. DL41/10/12 (Davis, no. 1199):
14C inventory of charters (incl. Aldermanbury, Old Deans Lane).
c. Despenser. E101/332/27, E101/333/6 (Davis, no. 1234): memoranda of
deeds delivered, 1327, 1331 (20, 28, 152, 162, Lime Street).
451. PRO: private estates, liberty of St. Bartholomew, Smithfield
This estate, the site of the former priory, lay in 33, and included St.
Bartholomew's Fair.
a. Deeds: numerous 17C leases etc. of the site, then belonging to the earls
of Holland, are in PRO, E214/4–1073 (see PRO deeds index, 441,
above).
b. PRO: SC12/11/39, detailed rental 1616; SC12/1/22, particular of leases,
1622: SC12/11/48, rental of St. Bartholomew's Fair, 1624; SC12/40/65,
SC12/11/40, similar rentals 1627, 1629; SC12/40/66, rental of liberty,
1631; SC12/1/23, 24, surveys of liberty, 1641; SC12/40/67, rental of
liberty, 1671.
c. Bodl, MS Rawl. C 182: an 18C collection of copies of proceedings,
letters patent, etc. concerning the fair and the site of the priory,
principally 16C–17C, but some 14C. PRO, E192/13–18: papers of
Robert, Earl Holland, c. 1650– c. 1700, incl. papers rel. to property in
Smithfield.
452. PRO: taxation and other returns
E179 (subsidy rolls, etc.) includes returns for lay and clerical subsidies,
the poll tax (1377–81), and the hearth tax (1662–74), and subsidies and
censuses of aliens. The most valuable of these returns for this study are
those with a wide incidence and topographical arrangement; the hearth
tax of 1666 is particularly useful. For a list of printed texts see J. M. Sims,
London and Middlesex Published Records, a handlist (LRS 1970), 7–9;
also Two Tudor Lay Subsidies (1541, 1582), ed. R. G. Lang (LRS,
forthcoming). For the valuable tithe assessment of 1638, see 462c; for
other assessments, see 275–381, 416, and the GL handlist, London rate
assessments and inhabitants' lists in GL and CLRO (2nd edn. 1968).
453. PRO: Domesday Book
In 1086 several manors in Essex and Surrey included houses or rents in
London: VCH Essex i, 446b, 448, 513b; VCH Surrey i, 296b, 299b, 303,
312a-b, 314b, 316b, 325b. The locations are not usually identifiable, but
cf. 108, 133, 151.