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A small number of documents have survived from various clerks of the vestry. Some of the documents are mere scraps, containing too little information to be meaningful. Others are simply lists of numbers, with no names or dates. A few are from the late seventeenth or early eighteenth century. Documents with useful content – including names of parishioners, tithings, costs for labor and materials, etc – are included here, except for the clerk's quarterly bills, which are listed separately.

  1594: Expenses of a lawsuit  
[P92/SAV/0627]  

Michaelmas Term

Imprimis the procurator's fee and the acts against Smith — 4s
Item the procurator's fee and the acts against Brown and Aynsworth — 4s.8d
Item the procurator's fee against Glascock and the acts — 4s.8d
Item the procurator's fee gainst Mosely and the acts — 4s
Item the excommunication against Mosely — 18d
Summa 18s.2d
Mr Boies ** the 5 of december 1594

  1594: Receipt for stone  
[P92/SAV/0628]  
1594
Received by me John Jeninges of Mr Hous one of the churchwardens of the parish of St Saviour for three score feet [fotes] of stone laid in Mr Ratlife's yard the sum of — 30s

  1594: Various receipts  
[P92/SAV/0647]  

Received the fourth of August 1594 of Mr Howse £7, viz £5 for Mr Dodson's will & 40s brought by the collectors
By me Thomas Emerson
  On the reverse:  
  Bennett — 2
Soap   Pyndelburie — 2
Russell   John Bond — 2
Bankside   John Inne — 2
Upper Ground   William Gerdler — 2
William   Garland

  1596: Schoolhouse repairs  
[P92/SAV/0629]  

Work done for the schoolhouse the 8 day of September 1596
Item delivered a pipe of lead weighing 42 pounds at 13s.4d the hundred — 5s
Item delivered in solder [soder] 5 pounds at 7d the pound is — 2s.11d
For work for 2 men half a day — 16d
Laid out for wood [wode] — 6d
More for an iron staple — 6d
Sum — 10s.3d
Received in old lead 14 pounds at a penny the pound is — 14d
Sum total is 9s.1d

  1601: Notes presumably about christenings  
[P92/SAV/0648]  

October 6   1601
Jeremiah s of Charles Vaughan a waterman
March 20th   1600
John s of John Browne a shoemaker

  1604: An Accounting of tithes for various years  
  [P92/SAV/0604]  
['C wages' = clerk's wages]

The Close on the west side entering at the west church door


Within the second gate


Tithes withheld since anno domini 1595


  1613 September: Expenses for roof repairs for two houses  
  [P92/SAV/0630]  


For one piece of timber for a rafter — 2s
For one day's work for my man — 1s.6d
3 rafters for Mr Ticknall's house — 3s.6d
4 single quarters — 1s.4d
4 yards of eaves boards — 1s
1 day's work for myself — 1s.8d
2 days' work for my man — 3s
Sum — 14s
  On the reverse:  
Paid to Sherlock the carpenter the 9th of September anno 1613 in full of this bill the sum of 14s
[Signature:] Edward Bromfeilde
Chandys paid for the repairing of ** Careall's house Mr Tuckner

  1613 September: Expenses for roof repairs for two houses  
  [P92/SAV/0650]  

September 30 1613
Received of Mr Mallard for rent — 0-10-0
& for Mrs House 3 quarters — 1-4-0
Received of Mr Mallard for tithes for 2 years — 0-5-4
Item received of Mrs House for 1 year's tithes — 0-10-0
[Sum:]   2-9-4
  On the reverse:  
Received for bread for the communion — 2d

  1613/14 February: Cash disbursements to various people  
  [P92/SAV/0641]  


Item delivered to the church the sum of 7s.2d unto the carpenter
Item delivered unto John Aalldreg — 15d
Item delivered unto Mr Loare — 5d
Paid to the smith Mr Foule lawyer the 15th of February anno 1613[/14] — 8s.10d

  1628: Account of parish income  
[P92/SAV/0694]  
Anno 1628
tithes
Mr Marshall his account

In the Borough [borrow] book — 66-08-9
On the Bankside & Clink liberties — 45-17-4½
[Sum:] 113-6-1½

For clerk's wages in the Borough book received — 13-16-7½
For clerk's wages in the Bankside & Clink — 05-14-6
[Sum:] 19-12-1½

In the 3 token books for the whole year — 4800 at 3d — 80-0-0

For rent of the parish lands — 80-1-12
For arrears of rent — 06-02-6
[Sum:] 86-12-1 [sic]

For weddings oblations and offerings for the whole year — 06-00-0
For ground in the church and churchyard — 31-1-2
For bells coffin & cloth for the whole year — 15-7-8
For arrerages of tithes and wages — 01-6-6

Item we find in the hands of Mr Robert Bromfild on his account — 10-0-3½
Item we find in the hands of Mr Stubbs on his account resting — 00-00-0
Rather 5s.11d due to him

  1636: Expenses relating to the Locke lawsuit  
  [P92/SAV/0620]  
['Arches' = Court of Arches, St Mary le Bow, London]

The expenses about Mr Locke as followeth

Paid Mr Monday about the examination and answering Mr Locke's articles — 16s.6d
For the transmission out of Surrey court to the Arches — 17s
4 February 1636:
For 6 witnesses sworn against Mr Lock and by water — 2s.2d
For to send to Moredon [Morden] in Surrey to enquire of John Tayler the promoter — 2s.6d
For serving 2 orders one Mr Locke to bring in Doctor Mason's instruments to the Arches — 3s
To Doctor Parrie to plead in the High Commission against Lock — £1
To Doctor Ducke for pleading in the Arches — 10s
25 February 1636:
Paid Mr Monday for the copy of the articles in the High Commission — 8s.8d
The 24 June 1636 [sic] paid Mr Hunt his bill for Mr Locke business — £2.14s.2d
The 24 February 1636 paid Mr Hunt another bill for Mr Locke business — £3.4d
Sum is — £9.14s.4d
Put to action of the parish

  1636: Expenses relating to a lawsuit  
  [P92/SAV/0613]  

The 24th June 1636

For the inhibition — 13s.4d
For drawing the appeal with schedules — 5s
For the fee and proxe* upon granting the inhibition — 4s.8d
For the fee in the common court — 3s.4d
[Sum:]   26s.4d
Paid Dr Hewett and Dr Ducke — 20s
To the Register for his pains & attendance — 3s.4d
[Sum:]   23s.4d
More paid unto Mr Sands' man for expedition   2s.6d
& going & coming by water 2 days   2s
Put to account

  1636: Costs of purchasing fabric  
  [P92/SAV/0649]  

Bought of Edward Nashe the 17 November 1635
Item 3 yards of red baize at 2s — 00-06-00
Item 3 yards ½ of red shag cotton — 00-06-05
The 6 of April 4 yards of scarlet baize 4s — 00-16-00
The 23 December 1636 6 yards of cinnamon kersey 4s — 01-04-00
¼ ⅛ of cinnamon coal baize — 00-00-09
The 4 January 1636[/37] for Mr Frey 3 yards ½ scarlet baize — 00-16-04
The 6 December 1636 9 yards of liver cloth at 5s — 02-11-00
[Sum:] 6-00-6
Received the 15th of February 1636[/37] in full payment hereof the sum of six pounds I say received — 6-0-0
Per me George Nashe


  1636: Receipt for Francis Grove  
  [P92/SAV/0655]  

Received the 13 day of June 1636 of Mr Francis Grove the sum of four pounds seventeen shillings & four pence in full of a bill for the parish for a d**e — £4.17s.4d
By me Nicholas Newton

  1637: Various transactions  
  [P92/SAV/0654]  

13 February 1636[/37]
Paid to Mr Hamman one of the governors for the schoolmaster & usher of the free school — 30-0-0
For Mr Brooker for the annuity — 05-0-0
For Mr Leake's annuity — 04-0-0
  [Sum:] 39-0-0
He paid me — 22-6-4
[Owed:] 16-13-8

And paid to Mr Harvard for Mr Broker's gift — £5
13 Feb paid Mr Crowder for a year's use — 03-00-00
& paid to the governors of the College — 02-00-00

      U N D A T E D   I T E M S      

  Undated, perhaps 1594: Expenses of a lawsuit  
  [P92/SAV/0624]  
  [See dated 1594 lawsuit items above]

Laid out by Mr Hayes Mr Thomas Emerson Mr Norton Mr Croxtone & Mr Humfrey Emerson attending four several days upon the doctors & proctor for boat hire & other charges about Mr Smythe cause —10s.6d

  Undated, perhaps 1594: Expenses of a lawsuit  
  [P92/SAV/0625]  
  [See dated 1594 lawsuit items above]

  • For the examination of six witnesses against Smith upon the libel and the allegation for the first witness 3s and for the rest 18d apiece — 10s.6d
  • For the examination of six witnesses against Browne and Aynsworth upon the libel for the first 18d and all the rest 9d apiece — 5s.3d
Likewise against Glascock — 5s.3d
Likewise against Moseley — 5s.3d
Total is – 26s.3d
More for copies of the same witnesses against Browen and likewise — 8s
For the clerk's pains for examining all the witnesses five times over — 3s.4d
For the clerk's pains for writing the said copies — 12d

  Undated, perhaps 1610-1614: An inventory of parish casements and glass  
  [P92/SAV/0631]  
  'quarell' - A small, diamond-shaped (or occasionally square) pane of glass (OED)

For Mr Tycnole [perhaps William Ticknor, minister 1610 to 1614]
  • Item in the hall & in the closet casements new leaded being 5 foot & a half comes to — 16d.ob
  • Item in the hall a pane of new glass a foot & a drawing pesse in it 2d ab — 7d
  • Item in these 2 places and in the casements set in 3 score quarells more repaired of old glass which was taken down & banded 25 foot comes to — 4s.2d
  • Item in the chamber above the hall set in 12 quarells — 9d
  • Item in the chamber over the kitchen made of new glass 7 foot 9 inches comes to — 3s.2d.ob
  • Item in the same chamber 4 foot new leaded comes to — 12d
  • In the same place 12 quarells — 9d
  • Item in the chamber next the kitchen chamber a great casement of 6 foot repaired & the pane cut to it — 12d
  • Item in that casement & the chamber set in 12 quarells — 9d
  • Item in the kitchen new glass made 4 foot 6 inches — 23d
  • Item new leaded in this place 2 foot & a half — 7d
  • More in this place old glass taken down and repaired 10 foot — 20d
  • Item sett** in this place 40 quarells — 2s.6d
  • Item in the cellar set in 16 quarells — 12d
  • Item in the entry set in 6 quarells — 4d.ob
  • Item in the study made new glass 6 foot & a quarter — 2s.7d
  • Item laid out for half a thousand of nails — 8d
Sum 28s.7d.ob
Sum of all this bill is £23.19s.3d
Received the 10th of January of Mr Edward Bromefild the whole sum of this bill
By me Paul Thornton

  Undated: A list of expenses for repairs and wages
  [P92/SAV/0632]  

Item laid out since the 12th day of September to the workman
Item paid to Haunce for 4 days' work — 3s.4d
Item paid to More for 4 days' work — 3s.4d
Item paid to Johnsonne for 4 days' work — 4s.8d
Item paid to the carpenter for the timber and the sawing of it for the privy — 9s
Item paid out for drink — 4d
Item paid out for planks for the privy — 13s.4d
Item paid out for the going over the water and for buying the planks — 6d
Item paid out for all their dinners when they rye**ed — 6s
Item paid to the carpenter the 19 day of September — £6 £3
Item paid to Johnsonne for 5 days and a half work — 6s.5d
Item paid out for Haunce for 6 days' work — 5s
Item paid to **con for 5 days and a half work — 4s.7d
Item paid to the brick man for 3 thousand of bricks — 34s
Item paid to the woman for fetching of water — 12d
Item paid to Skory for 4 days' work — 4s.8d
Item paid out the 26 day of September for a bushel of tyllperenes — 12d
Item paid out to a laborer for to hurl the earth [sic] out of the vestry — 10d
Item paid to Haunce for 5 days' work — 4s.2d
Item paid to More for 5 days' work — 4s.2d
Item paid to Johnsonne for 4 days and a half work — 5s.3d
Item paid to Skory for 4 days' work — 4s.8d
Item paid out the 4 day of October to Haunce for 5 days' work — 4s.2d
Item paid to More for 5 days' work — 4s.2d
Item paid to Johnsonne for 5 days' work — 5s.10d
Item paid to Skory for 5 days' work — 5s.10d
Item paid out for drink — 4d
Item paid out to the woman for fetching of water — 4d
Item paid for the carriage of the **ed from the plumber — [illeg]
Item paid out for a quarter of a thousand of billet — [illeg]
Item paid for a thousand and a half of bricks — 17s
Item paid him ** that he lacked in the other three thousand — 12d
Item paid to Mr Kybbyt for bricks — 10s
Item paid to Mr Borne for one thousand of 2 penny nails — 20d
Item paid to the plumber for him and his boy for 7 days and a half work for at 18d a day — 11s.3d
Item paid to Skaye for 2 days' work — 2s.4d
Item paid out for 4 bushels of hair — 2s
Item paid out for candle for to make the oven — 1d
Item paid to the carpenter for him and his man for 3 days and a half — 8s.2d
Item paid to Johnsonne for 6 days' work — 7s
Item paid out to More for 6 days' work — 5s
Item paid out for bread and drink — 8d.ob
Item paid to Haunce for 6 days' work — 5s

Item laid out the 4 day of October for wine and bread at the communion — 2s.9d
Sum total — £13.14s.6d.ob

And to the persons unpaid for 4 score pounds of fodder and for the casting of 10 hundred of lead — [blank]
Work made for the church the 12 of September frieze laid [illeg]
They range for the *uene for drink and candle — [illeg]
Item more for the washing of the communion cloths — 6d
Item more for the mending of Haunce's pickaxe and sealing it — 3s
Item more for the making of 20 tine-bars of iron for the windows weighing all 3 score pounds at 3d a pound — 15s
Item more for 4 pounds of spikes at 3d a pound — 12d
Item more for the l**unce that standeth on the top of the new house — 2s.6d
Item for the making of a stock lock for the door in the new churchyard — 8d
Item more for the making of two dogs of iron for the new house and 2 staples weighing 16 pounds at 2d.ob a pound — 3s.4d
Item more for the making of 3 pair of hinges and 3 pair of hooks and one pair of cross garnets weighing 21 pounds at 2d.ob a pound — 4s.4d.ob
Item more for the making of 2 bars of iron for the top of the oven and one pair of hinges and hooks weighing 13 pounds at 2d.ob a pound — 2s.8d
Item more for the sealing and tying of one hundred and a half of matter — 18d
Sof kt — 42s.11d
More on the other side as appeareth £13.13s.6d.ob
Sum total — £15.7s.5d.ob

Iron worth 30 - 6 - ½
  On the reverse:  
Mr Dalyson's bill for money lent out about the curate house in my absence as appeareth £15.7s.6d

  Undated: Prices of nails and other items  
  [P92/SAV/0643]  
  [Unusually, numbers are replaced here by words]  

Delivered for the use of the curr
Item for a hundred of double ten — twenty pence [twentipens]
Item for three hundred and a half of nails for the lead — four shillings [foreselin] and 8
Item for a hundred of sixpenny nails [syxpeninales] — sixpence
Item for half a hundred of synies ten — sevenpence
Item for a hundred of sixpenny nails — sixpence
Item for a hundred of sixpenny nails — sixpence
Item for a hundred of sixpenny nails — sixpence
Item for half a hundred of synies ten — sevenpence
Item for a hundred of twopenny nails — twopence
Item for a hundred of sixpenny nails — sixpence
Item for a hundred of sixpenny nails — sixpence
Item for a hundred of threepenny nails — threepence

  Undated: Repairs to the churchyard pump  
  [P92/SAV/0637]  

To the churchwardens of St Saviour for the pump in the churchyard

Item delivered in pipes 109 pounds — 17s.2d
Item delivered in solder 20 pounds — 11s.8d
Item for a brass succor — 5s.6d
Item for a leather bucket & a woolen bucket — 2s.6d
Item for workmanship for the plumbers 2 men for one day — 2s.6d
Sum — 39s.4d
Received in old lead delivered 121 pounds at 1d the pound — 6s.5d [sic]
So rest — 32s.11d

For the carpenter about the same
Item for 2 posts & boards to set about it — 5s.6d
Item for nails — 6d
Item for 2 carpenters works — 2s
Sum — 8s

For the smith
Item for iron work for the pump 39 pounds at 4d the pound — 13s
Item for 4 holdfasts to hold the posts to the house — 14d
Item for a pair of hinges for the door — 4d
Sum — 13s.6d
Item laid out for billets — 6d
** ** the paver — 12d
Sum total resting due — 56s.11d

  Undated: Bill for buying and mending of locks  
  [P92/SAV/0638]  

Item for two stock locks for the two storehouses — 3s
Item for a key — 6d
Item for mendiing a lock and a new staple and setting-on of that lock — 6d
Item for mending of the latch of the wicket — 4d

Paid to Lower the 17th of July for the bill the sum of — 4s.4d

  Undated: A clerk's account  
  [P92/SAV/0617]  
Guy

For writing the return of divided tenements for the Boroughside and certificate — 6s.8d
For copy of order — 4d
For a little presentment before the visitation — 4d
For the presentment at the visitation — 3s
For a bond about Haies****
For the Great Account
[Sum:]   10s.4d

  Undated: An account of days worked  
  [P92/SAV/0658]  

27 day of February I and my son half a day
2 day of March I and my son a whole day
3 day of March I and my wife and son a whole day
Philip Pooll


  Undated: A note about a carrier  
  [P92/SAV/0659]  

  • At the Bell in Aldersgate street, one Searle a carrier of Potton [in Bedfordshire], or Lawrence his porter upon Wednesday at noon
  • Or Waller at the Angel in Warwick lane poulterer

  Undated: A note about tokens and tithes  
  [P92/SAV/0660]  

Mr Butler's note
Laid out delivering of tokens — 0-3-4
& ga [gathering?] of tithes laid out — 0-11-0
Laid out going twice to Mddl [sic; Middlesex?] about Sir John Fenner's gift — 0-1-0
For boat hire — 0-0-4
[Sum:] 0-15-8


  Undated: Communion receipts  
  [P92/SAV/0664]  

Received at the communion table 22 May — 3-0-4

  Undated: A list of parish warrants  
  [P92/SAV/0618]  

A note of such warrants and other businesses made for the parish of St Saviour

Imprimis a warrant special for calling in of those which refused to watch & ward — 9s
Item a warrant for apprehending of a man which abused the beadle in executing his affairs — **
Item for swearing of a searcher & entering her oath — 1s
Item for a warrant to send away Daniel Starkye & his 2 children unto St Katherine's — 2s
Item for a warrant to call in those that refuse to pay their rates for visited houses — 1s
Paid this to Mr Toute     X