| Description | The priory owned various properties in London and Southwark, yielding rents which had to be collected. The form of the accounts of the officials responsible for this varied throughout the later middle ages. Initially, drawn up by serjeant from 1274, these included considerable details of building repairs and entertainment for the visits of monks. These details become less prevalent and rents paid and received and yet to be collected dominate the accounts after rent collectors or 'rentars' appear in 1322. In the early fifteenth century, rents in London and Southwark are accounted for separately. From 1449, the account is in two sections, rents first, and then quit rents and pensions. |