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NOTE: This site is a work in progress. The categories of information currently available are listed below. Clicking on any link below will take you to further information about what's available and what's in process.
Documents on this site are reproduced by kind permission of the Chapter of Southwark Cathedral, The London Archives (TLA), The National Archives (TNA), the Parliamentary Archives, the British Library (BL), and the Hampshire Record Office.
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• General Materials
• Key Documents • Other Documents |
We welcome assistance in transcribing the remaining documents relating to St Saviour parish. Please contact Dr. Héloïse Sénéchal. |
General Materials
Parish History:
Establishing the Parish:
- The Act of 1540
Owning the Parish:
- Extracts from the Vestry Minutes
Becoming Southwark:
- Edward VI's Charter of 1550
John Stow, A Survay of London, 1618:
- Segments related to Southwark
John Taylor, The Carriers' Cosmography, 1637:
- Segments related to Southwark
John Strype, A Survey of the Cities of London and Westminster, 1720:
- Segments related to Southwark
Glossary:
- A glossary of lay and clerical terms
Further Reading:
- A list of Useful References
Key Documents
Index of Names:
- Alphabetically by surname (except for Token Books), and probably incomplete
Token Books:
- Separately searchable
The Vestry:
- Minutes of the Vestry:
- The book for 1557-1581, transcribed; a name index; a topic index; and an attendance list
- The book for 1582-1628, transcribed; a name index; a topic index; and an attendance list
- Complaint against the Vestry:
- The 1606 text
- Vestry Clerk's Bills:
- Various, 1594-1651
The Parish Free School:
- The 1562 Charter: Latin original; English translation
- Governors' Account Book, 1571-1655
- Schoolmasters and Ushers: a list
- The 1585 Depositions: text
Ministers and Preachers:
- A biographical listing
Clerks:
- The Parish Clerk:
- Entries from the Vestry Minutes
- The Clerk of the Vestry:
- Entries from the Vestry Minutes
Sextons:
- Entries from the Vestry Minutes
- The Case of Lambert Daggett
Parish Vital Records (weddings, christenings, churchings, burials, etc):
- A Note on the parish registers
- John Boston's notebook of vital records, 1619-1625
- A list of the transcribed Monthly Bills, with shelfmarks for those not yet transcribed
- A list of fees chargeable for recording these services (a printed broadside)
- Marriage licenses, not yet transcribed; material for the Monthly Bills
- Bills for burial, scraps of paper abstracted into the Monthly Bills
Parish Surveys and Presentments:
- Of parishioners housing inmates, 1593-1596
- Of parishioners for various offenses, 1596, 1632-1640
- Of parishioners building new houses, 1635
The Poor of the Parish:
- Lists of names of parish poor
- Poor accounts for Clink Liberty
- Poor accounts for Paris Garden, 1608-1671
Petitions of Parishioners:
- Transcriptions, alphabetically by surname
Wills of Parishioners:
- Abstracts, alphabetically by surname, with various indexes
Lay Subsidies:
- Names of parishioners assessed for the subsidies, 1558-1642
Certificates of Residence:
- A list of parishioners and others, various dates
The Surrey and Kent Commissions of Sewers:
Southwark Manorial Courts:
- A description of procedures, 1561
Clink Liberty:
- Book of miscellaneous items
Paris Garden:
- Court Leet, Court Baron, 1595-1607
- Court Book of the Manor, 1536-1725
- Book of manorial records, 1461-1667
- Account Book of the Overseers, 1608-1671
Other Documents
Office Holders:
- Members of Parliament for Southwark
- Aldermen of the Ward of Bridge Without
- Lord Lieutenants of Surrey
- Lord Mayors of London
- Sheriffs of London and Middlesex
- Sheriffs of Surrey
Recusants in the Parish:
- By name, various dates
- Sequestrations of recusants, 1644
Actions at Law:
- Some transcribed, others listed
Musters:
- Various lists, 1569-1627
Trades and Vocations:
The Remainder:
- Various miscellaneous items