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Item a Sewer beginninge at the house of the Lord
Admirall on the East side of Kyng Streete by the Orchard
Wall Southward unto the house of Henry Skipwith. Cont.
ix. roddes at vid the rodd vs iid
Sum tot: vii. xvii. vi.
Also One Sluice of the Q Maties beinge in the Thames
Wall neare the Orchard decaied and now new made, viz.,
for the Carpenr
v1i
for the Mason
• • •
xl8
for the laborers
XX vj"
viijd
Tot:
viij1i vjs
viijd
Tot:
xvij1i vs
iijd
No information is at hand as to whether the sewers to
which this account relates were constructed by the Commissioners.
That they were not may be interred from the
Commissioners applying to the Vestry for the drawing of a
plan of the sewerage service. The terms of the request
also suggest that the service covered a considerable area
and that the financial position of the Commissioners was by
no means flourishing:—
Md that whereas yt is thought very convenient by the Commissioners
of the Seawers for the Citty of Westm That a Plott
(plan) should be Drawen for the sayd Seawers & thereupon
agreed to pay the some of viij li for the drawinge therof wch
they requested myght be disbursed by the churchwardens and
the vestrie untyll yt myght be otherwjse levyed by order of the
sayd commissioners it is therfore this daye agreed by us whose
names are subscribed in the sayd vestrie that the sayd some of
viij li shalbe disbursed out of the churchwardens accordinge
to the Request of the sayd commissioners dated ix die Aprill
A° Rni Rie Elizabeth xl mo 1598.
Evidence is furnished by the Exchequer Rolls that the
Commissioners were responsible for the cleansing, if not for
the construction of the above-named sewers:—
For Cleansing the Common Sewer, 1617, Sept. 27.
By Order dated 6 Decr 1616. To Peter Hayward Treasurer
appointed by the Commrs of Sewers the sum of £24. 17. 3 for
so much by him disbursed for Cleansing the Common Sewer under
St. James Wall, Petty Callis gate from the Clowson in King Street
to the River of Thames under the Orchard Wall being his Maties
Charge for Cleansing driving and Scouring the Common Sewer,