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The Clerk of the Vestry's quarterly bills, along with some interim bills, survive mainly for only two years, 1616 and 1636. This page begins with an undated list of the fees due to, and services expected of, the Clerk of the Vestry.

  Undated: The fees and duties of the Clerk of the Vestry  
  [P92/SAV/0622]  

A note of the fees belonging to the Clerk of the Vestry & other instructions

For entering the Great Account — 12s
Fotr the two other accounts & making the books for the poor & the College — 6s.8d apiece for every book
The 3 token books finding paper — 13s.4d
The tithe books for books & all — 22s
For registering the minutes bills & copying them to the ordinary — 6s.8d
For the churchwardens' bonds — [blank] apiece
For other **rle bonds — 12d apiece
Item paid for writing the presentment at the archdeacon's visitation — 2s
For passes — 2s apiece

4 bonds to be made ready against the 2d of March for the 4 churchwardens to seal
    upon pain of the clerk to forfeit 12d
The clerk to enter first in every accounts book what was paid in by the former churchwardens
    upon the foot of their severall accounts
Item for the survey for the church lands — 2s memorandum, 100 had

[on the reverse:]
A note of some of the clerk of the vestry's fees & other instructions

[* Note:  2 March is the beginning of the parish's accounting year, when new churchwardens take over.]

  1594: Acknowledgment of receipt of wages  
[P92/SAV/0606]  

22 March 1593[/4]

Received of Mr Howse the day and year above written for my whole year's wages from hence ensuing till the 2 of March which shall be anno 1594 the sum of 53s.4d

[Signature:] Francis Yeoman

  1594: Expenses of a lawsuit  
[P92/SAV/0626]  

Hilary Term 1594

The procurator's fee and acts of the court against Smith — 4s.8d
The drawing of interrogatories against Smith's witnesses and copies of them — 4s
The drawing of your answers to Smith's matter — 2s.6d
The procurator's fee and acts of the court against Glascock Browne & Aynsworth — 4s.8d
The drawing of interrogatories against their witnesses and copies of them — 5s.6d
The drawing of your answers to Glascock's matter — 2s.6d
The procurator's fee and acts against Glascock — 4s.8d
For 2 copies of the answers to Smithe's matter and to the Clerk for his pains in bringing the book — 3s
£1.11s.6d

  1613 March: A bill submitted by the Clerk of the Vestry  
  [P92/SAV/0611]  

25th March 1613

For my quarter's fee — 13s.4d
For a quire of paper sent to church — 4d
Item for another quire of paper to make the token books — 4d
Item for ink for sundry times — 2d
Item laid out for a tithe book — 16d
Item for ruling & writing the tithe book — 6s.8d
Item for writing the Boroughside token book — 3s.4d
Item for writing the Bankside token book — 4s
Item for a bond agreed upon to be made 2 March — 1s
Item for 4 passports at 2d apiece — 8d
31s.2d

Received the said 31s.2d of Mr Bromfilde
per me Jacobum Reade

  1613 Midsummer: A bill submitted by the Clerk of the Vestry  
  [P92/SAV/0609]  

Midsummer quarter 1613

Imprimis for my quarter's fee — 13s.4d
Item for the book of weddings christenings & burials — 6s.8d
Item for writing the poor's account to the Justices — 1s
Item for writing the audit of the Great Account — 2s
Item for writing the audit of the Pollard account — 18d
Item for writing the audit of the school account — 18d
Item for a copy of an order in the Exchequer — 4d
Item laid out for boat hire in going to Mr Heathe's chamber to fetch the letter of attorney — 2d
Item for new writing of the letter of attorney and for wax for the Corporation seal — 2s
Item for a bond to my lady Clerke — 1d
Item for a counterbond under the Corporation seal — 1s.6d
Item for ink sent to church — 1d
Item for Mr Hopkins's bond — 12d
Item for 9 passports at 2d apiece — 18d
33s.7d

Received of Mr Bromfield the said sum of 33s.7d July 5th 1613
per me Jacobum Reade

  1613 Michaelmas: A bill submitted by the Clerk of the Vestry  
  [P92/SAV/0610]  

Michaelmas quarter 1613

For a bond touching the *lapper — 8d
For a quire of paper — 4d
For drawing & engrossing the articles & cou**ts betwixt the churchwardens & the plasterer — 5s
Laid out for a little book to write the orders in — 1s
For ink at several times this quarter — 3d
For fair writing of certain articles touching the ministers' ** to the bishop of Winchester — 6d
Item for writing the same again enlarged — 8d
For writing of notes of default of reparations & for going to the parties' houses to deliver them
    being eleven in number & for copies of them — 3s.4d
Item for writing a letter to Abel Durkin that he should bring up his rent — 2d
Item for 11 passports at 2d apiece — 1s.10d
Item for my quarter's fee — 13s.4d
27s.1d

Received this sum of Mr Bromfield
per me Jacobum Reade

  1613 December: A bill submitted by the Clerk of the Vestry  
  [P92/SAV/0612]  

27 Decembris 1613

For a note of agreement between the smith & the churchwardens for making the columns that bear up the head of the pulpit — 4d
Item for a bond for widow Rogers touching her twice written — 8d
Item a certificate — 6d
Item for my going with Mr Maggott to gather tithes one day — [blank]
Item for 25 passports at 2d apiece — 4s.2d
Item my quarter's fee — 13s.4d
19s

Received the said sum of 19s of Mr Bromfield
per me Jacobum Reade

  1636 2nd quarter: A bill submitted by the Clerk of the Vestry  
  [P92/SAV/0614]  

Anno domini 1636 from Our Lady Day to Midsummer

For paper pens and ink for the auditors — 3d
For writing the book for thwe assessment to raise a stock in readiness for visited houses — 3s.4d
For taking the general survey of the parish houses being a whole day thereabout & for
    writing fair thereof — 5s
For 11 several tickets little & great left at the parish houses to give notice for reparations — 2s.6d
For engrossing the releases from the Corporation to Alderman Bromfild Mr Overman — 4s
And for a release of their right to Mr Drewe — 1s.6d
For a book to write the arrearages of tithes in and for writing the same — 6s.8d
For a book of orders touching the ordering of visited houses — 1s
For a bond for £50 lent by Mr Crowder — 1s
For writing the presentment at the visitation the last of May 1636 with answer to every article — 2s.6d
For boat hire when I went to Mr Coxhead about the warrant for outlandlords — 7d
For 5 dozen of passes delivered at 3 several times to Stanton — 10s
£1.18.4

Received this bill to Guy

  1636 3rd quarter: A bill submitted by the Clerk of the Vestry  
  [P92/SAV/0615]  

Between Midsummer 1636 & Michaelmas 1636

For 2 dozen of passes delivered to Stanton — 4s
For a writ against Asson of Redriff [Rotherhithe] — 5s.1d
For the sheriff's warrant — 4d
To him in beer that brought in from Croydon — 2d
9s.7d
X

  1636 4th quarter: A bill submitted by the Clerk of the Vestry  
  [P92/SAV/0616]  

Between Michaelmas & Christmas 1636 & su** to the 12th of January 1636[/7]

13 December delivered to Stanton for the new constables 6 dozen of passes — 12s
The charge of Michaelmas term left for the 2 suits for Grenaway & Legate against Tayler — 12s.8d
For 9 little paper books & writing instruments on every one of them — 2s.3d
X

  Undated, perhaps 1588: A clerk's account  
  [P92/SAV/0663]  

The church reckoning

For drawing Mr Cure's deed indented of his gift to the school — 3s.4d
For drawing a lease for him of a little house from the church to him — 12d
For copying his own deed of the city — 3s
For translating the church corporation out of Latin into English — 8s
For copying the church lease — 4s
For the clock obligation — 12d
For twice drawing a long release from old Mr Gardener — 3s.4d
For engrossing thereof — 4s
For the first draft of the schoolhouse corporation — 3s.4d
For the second time drawing the same — 4s
For engrossing the same — 4s
For Matthew Smythe's writing obligatory to make assurance of the schoolhouse — 12d
For Matthew Smythe's obligation — 12d
For the 2 tables of orders writing first in paper and after in parchment — 8s
For the parchment to the justices for concealed lands & goods — 2s
For Mr Sayers's devise of 20s yeearly to the schoolhouse — 12d
For translating the city corporation — 13s.4d
For the £** year lease drawing — 6s.8d
For engrossing the same — 20s
For the obligation thereupon — 8d
For copying the same great lease in a book covered with parchmnt — 8s
For translating the schoolhouse charter — 6s.8d
For the pews calendars in parchment making — 12d

[Mostly illegible scrawl at the bottom:] I tertius martii [third of March] do confess myself to be fully satisfied ... all of this ... bill