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These documents are part of the collection of Paris Garden items in Lambeth Archives. Some of the documents in this bundle are loose leaves; others have been threaded in no discernible order with a ribbon. The bundle is tagged as follows: 'Manor of Paris Garden. Memoranda of admissions and surrenders, estreats, jury lists, lists of tenants, presentments, precepts, bonds, draft court rolls, etc. — 1565-1602. Class 6:223 (74ff).'   Not all the documents in this bundle have been transcribed. Many are simply undated lists of names without context. Others are little more than unidentifiable fragments. Most of them are in Latin. Some are numbered in pencil, others not. Text is modernised except for surnames. Items with dates are listed chronologically.



  1565 October 27: Decree in the case of Ralph Barton v Thomas Pynden.  
  [Lambeth Archives, Class 6:223, item 64]

[In left margin:] Ralph Barton plaintiff Thomas Pynden defendant
Sabbati xxvij° Octobris 1565
Dismissed, and it is ordered by assent of the parties that an account shall be brought by the plaintiff whereunto the defendant shall proceed in this without delay, and the issue to be either upon the nonage of one Thomas Johnson or else upon the surrender made by him, And that the issue to be tried in the lord's court by so many of the homage as be not occupiers tenants or farmers of the lands in question
[two indecipherable signatures]  
 




  1576 April 19: Thomas Woodcock bound to Thomas Richards in £30.  
  [Lambeth Archives, Class 6:223, unnumbered item]

Noverint universis per presentes me Thomam Woodcock civem et inholder londoni teneri et firmiter obligari Johanni Ricardes civi et armorer londoni in triginta libris legalis monete anglie solvendi eidem Johanni ac suo certis attornatis vel executoribus suis, Ad quam quidem solutionem bonum et fideliter faciendi obligo me heredi executori et administratori meos per presentes sigillo meo   Sigillat dato decimo nono die Aprilis anno domini 1576 annoque regni domino nostro Elizabethe dei gratia Anglie Francie et Hibernie regine fidei defensoris &c decimo octavo
 
Sigillatus et deliberatus in
presencia mei Thome Brend scrivener

  1585 May 1: Partial list of names of persons living in Paris Garden.  
  [Lambeth Archives, Class 6:223, item 45]

[In left margin:] Paris Garden
  Nomina tenenciorum ibidem
Randall Thyckyns
the lady North
Thomas Penden for Sir Leonard Beckwith knight
William Baseley
the heir of John Eston
Edmund Riche
Robert John Cogges
Richard Violet fishmonger
William Downes
William Hobson habbd
Thomas Skyner
William Terrold
Thomas Penden
Thomas Davies
John Hayward
Henry Baysing
Thomas Penden


  1585 July 3: William Hobson demises his Paris Garden holdings to his wife Elizabeth.  
  [Lambeth Archives, Class 6:223, item 7]

[In left margin:] The Manor of Paris Garden ('Pallicegardeyne')
Memorandum that the third day of July in the seven & twentieth year of the reign of our sovereign lady Elizabeth by the grace of God queen of England France & Ireland defender of the faith &c William Hobson citizen and haberdasher of London hath surrendered into the hands of the lords of the manor aforesaid, by the hands of Richard Frith and Thomas Davis, two of the customary tenants of the said manor witnessing the same, according to the custom of the same manor, all his messuages, houses, tenements, gardens, orchards, backsides, grounds, void grounds, lands, meadows, pastures, leasnes [sic] & hereditaments whatsoever with the appurtenances being customary or copyhold in whose tenures possessions or occupations soever they be situate lying and being within the manor aforesaid and holden of the said manor   To have & to hold the same immediately after the decease of the said William Hobson, to the use of Elizabeth now the wife of the said William Hobson, by and during her natural life, and after the decease of the same Elizabeth to the heirs of the said William Hobson forever according to the custom of the said manor.  In witness whereof hereunto I the said William Hobson have set my hand the day and year above written.
[signature]     By me William Hobson          
         
[signature]     By me Richard Frith          
         
[mark] signum dicte Thome Davis          
               




  1590 April 26: Ralph Barton surrenders his Paris Garden holdings to Thomas Boddam.  
  [Lambeth Archives, Class 6:223, item 10]

[In left margin:] Paris Garden
vicesimo sexto die Aprilis 1590
Memorandum that Ralph Barton goldsmith hath surrendered into the hands of the lords of the manor of Paris Garden unto John Ellis steward of the said manor one garden or garden plot with the appurtenances to the use of Thomas Boddam shipwright his heirs and assigns forever.
[signature]     By me Raffe Barton          
         




  Undated: A letter about rent owed the company of Ironmongers. Torn in places.  
  [Lambeth Archives, Class 6:223, item 12]

Mr Randall I pray you call upon my lord mayor and the bench to send for the Ironmongers that is Mr Harve Mr Gamage and Mr Bryght that was at home at my house to give me mar..ge that I should pay the company of Ironmongers no more rent, but only to them, and that they would receive no rent of me until such time that I had compounded with them for my house. I do not know whether they came by the consent of the whole company of Ironmongers or not. My lease sayeth that I shall pay my rent to the Mr Wardens of the Ironmongers or to them whom they shall appoint. If this come not from the whole company I paying them rent should forfeit the lease. Wherefore I shall desire my lord mayor and my masters the aldermen to talk to them and to know what they will make of the lease of the house. It was made by the consent of the whole company and divers of their hands at it and the seal of their hall. And upon that Mr Chamberlain hath bestowed a great piece of his substance upon it, a thousand pounds and a half, and if they will call that back again his children shall have the more loss. Wherefore I pray you, Mr Randall, be [... ...] this matter for making plain the invitory.

[signature]     ??? ??? ???        
         



  Undated: a segment of a larger list of presentments.  
  [Lambeth Archives, Class 6:223, item 43]

Item we present Mr Downes for 7 rods of wharf in the great garden in the Upper Ground.
Item we present Mr Pindinn for half a rod of wharf.
Item we present Mr ?Coges for a rod and a half of wharf.
Item we present Mr Downes for 3 places of the wall where the water runs between the mulberry tree and the rail.
Item we present again Mr Downes for 18 rod of ditch not being filled.
Item we present Mr Downes for a rod of wharf on the foreside of the mill dam.
Item we present again Mr Downes for a rod on the north side of the house.
Item we present Mr Downes for a grate on the north side of the house to keep out karren [sic; carrion*] where people take up their water.
Item we present Richard Holdernes to avoid the liberty between this and Saint Thomas day for disquieting of the neighbors.
Item we present Thomas Bovman to avoid the liberty between this and Saint Thomas day for disquieting of his neighbors.
Item we present Christopher Margett Morforde to avoid the liberty between this and Saint Thomas day for a tale bearer.
Item we present every oar and scull that is taken lying abroad in the night by the constable.
Item we present all the inhabitants of Paris Garden that they shall make clean their doors against the Sabbath day.
Item we present Richard Vyolett for annoyance of his little house in the garden through the rain that drowns goodman Skinner's house.
Item we present Christopher Lee to be avoided out of the liberty for a slanderous person & a quarreler.
Item we present William Hoges for a night walker to avoid the liberty between this & our Lady day.
Item we present that nobody shall waste no bucks upon Paris Garden bridge & no person shall tent the cloths for breaking up the bridge.

*karren: see OED, s.v. carrion, for a wide range of spellings including this one.


  Undated: List of names.  
  [Lambeth Archives, Class 6:223, item 65]

    Nomina inhabitancium
[....] Merrick
William Hodges
John Warde
Richard Williams
John Wright
The good wife Thomson widow
Nicholas Ferris
John Peterson
Thomas Earlye
John Wythers
Humphrey Evens
Richard Style
James Kerkbye
William Dabye
John Spensar
Thomas Pallmer
William Morton
Roberrt Norrise
John Tyson
Christopher Lowe
George Wright
Thomas Davis
Richard Gardnar
Henry Vycars
George Jurdayne
John Haward
Christopher Woodward
Walter Burton
Oliver Gregorye
John Hodson
Thomas Angell
William Girdlar
Richard Haldernese
Thomas Bowman
Thomas Norton



  Undated: Walter Browne and his wife presented for having evil company.  
  [Lambeth Archives, Class 6:223, unnumbered item]

[In left margin:] Paris Garden
Item we present Walter Browne & his wife that if they do not amend from ill resort to[... ...] of evil company to deny the liberty between this & our Lady day sub poena 40s

[Names listed by the clerk to match the marks made on the document; see image.

John Stone constable
Thomas Warner headborough
George Wright headborough
John Tyson aleconner
John Hodson viewer
Nicholas Myllinde viewer
Thomas Bornard viewer
William Welberye vuewer