| Description | From: William Smythiot, citizen and cutler ('cutillarius') of London
To: John de Boktone, citizen and coffer-maker ('coffarius') of London
[Document damaged. Small area of text lost.] All that house he has separate from his other house in London in St Michael Cornhill parish, measuring 16 ells 2 inches long as specified between Cornhill to south and John's tenement to north, with a frontage 6¼ ells and 2 inches wide along the king's street ('vicum') [Cornhill?], with William's tenement to east and the tenement of Nicholas de Wynton' to west, and 6½ ells less 2 inches wide within the house. For annual payments of 1 mark to the prioress [and convent] of [H]aliwell [Priory, Shoreditch, Middlesex] and 1 clove ('clavus Gariophili') to William, both payable as specified. For this John has also paid 16 marks as a gersum fine.
Given at London.
Witnesses: 'Dominus' Ralph of Sandwich, warden ('custos') of London; Thomas Romeyn, sheriff of London; William de Leheyre, sheriff of London; Martin Box, alderman of Cornhill ward ('ipsius Warde'); Nicholas de Wynton'; Godwin the skinner ('feriparius' for 'feliparius'?); Ralph le leu; Richard de Lamech'; Robert the fishmonger ('pissenarius'); Ralph de Honilane; John de Elsingham; Richard de Clavering'; Stephen Actheholte; Edmund le Tayllur; John, serjeant of Cornhill ward ('serviens ipsius Warde') |