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		1557/8		1558/9		1559/60
	"Charge"	£	s	d	£	s	d	£	s	d
1	Cash from last account				5	5	4½ *[2]	14	0	4½ *
2	Cash from Renters	10	19	2	8	4	4	13	5	8
3	Licensing of copies	1	3	8	1	0	2		19	0
4	Presenting apprentices		3	6		8	6		13	6 *
5	Admitting freemen & brothers	2	3	4	1	12	0	2	9	2
6	Admission to Livery
7	Fines for breaking orders	3	12	10	3	17	8	1	14	4
8	Letting hall, etc.	1	0	4	1	0	4 *		11	0
9	Benevolences to hall		6	2		12	8		17	6
10	Sale of books, etc.
11	Repayment of loans
12	Rents	3	11	0	3	5	0	1	4	0
13	Gunpowder assessment	18	9	4	1	1	0 *
14	Corn assessment
15	Miscellaneous	2	16	8*[1]	4	19	4[3]	11	4	6[4]
16	Adjustments		10	2		-5	10½

	Total receipts	44	16	2 *	31	0	6	46	19	0½

	"Discharge"
1	Wages	2	0	0	2	0	0
2	Retaining fees		14	8		19	2	1	19	2
3	Property	2	4	7½	1	4	9	3	18	9
4	Dinners	8	15	5	8	6	6	14	10	10
5	Sermons								6	2
6	Exhibitions
7	Poor
8	Loans
9	Bequest money
10	Defence	11	10	5	2	12	8	5	1	0
11	Corn, etc.
12	Taxes								13	4
13	Legal action		14	0	1	12	8	7	10	4
14	Search dinners								4	8
15	Miscellaneous
16	Adjustments					4	4½	4	8	0½[5]
		-	-	-
	Total expenditure	25	19	1½ *	17	0	1½ *	38	12	3½
	Balance carried forward	18	17	0½ *	14	0	4½ *	8	6	9 *
		-
	Total receipts	44	16	2 *	31	0	6	46	19	0½

	1560/1	1561/2	1562/3	1563/4	1564/5
	£	s	d	£	s	d	£	s	d	£	s	d	£	s	d
1	8	6	9 *	17	14	1 *	36	14	5 *	45	0	0 *	46	17	6 *
2	7	9	5	14	9	9	12	7	8	10	8	6	16	9	0
3	1	16	0 *	2	5	10	3	17	0 *	1	6	2 *	2	9	9 *
4		15	6 *	1	13	6		12	6 *		10	0 *	1	6	6 *
5	2	16	8	2	19	2	2	10	0		16	8 *	2	15	0
6	4	10	0	1	10	0				1	10	0 *		15	0
7		16	0	3	19	2	3	15	3		11	4 *	13	17	4
8
9		6	0
10				1	0	0
11													3	0	0[10]
12	5	1	0	2	0	0	5	7	8	5	11	0
13							24	8	6
14	2	0	0
15				2	8	4 *[6]	1	10	0[8]
16							-4	14	0	-8	1	0			0½

	33	17	4 *	49	19	10	86	9	0	57	12	8	87	10	1½

1		10	0	2	0	0	2	0	0	2	0	0	2	0	0
2		15	10		17	6	1	15	8	1	19	4	1	15	8
3	8	5	3		15	0	6	19	7		12	4	15	18	3
4	5	0	0	5	0	0	5	0	0	5	0	0	5	0	0
5
6
7											6	6		18	8
8
9
10							23	7	9		17	0
11
12								8	4 *		5	0 *
13	1	12	2	2	12	0	1	17	8[9]				1	7	4
14													1	11	11½
15				1	8	0[7]							2	0	0 *[11]
16					12	11					-5	0

	16	3	3 *	13	5	5	41	9	0 *	10	15	2 *	30	11	10½
	17	14	1 *	36	14	5 *	45	0	0 *	46	17	6 *	56	18	3 *

	33	17	4 *	49	19	10	86	9	0	57	12	8	87	10	1½

	1565/6	1566/7	1567/8	1568/9	1569/70
	£	s	d	£	s	d	£	s	d	£	s	d	£	s	d
1	56	18	3 *	8	6	6 *	11	11	3 *	23	8	0 *	45	11	0 *
2	12	11	4	13	15	8	13	14	8	16	15	0	15	8	4
3	3	15	6 *	3	2	10 *	2	17	10	3	6	0 *	4	10	4
4	1	2	0 *		12	6 *		9	6		17	0 *		9	6
5	3	10	4	1	10	10 *	10	9	2[16]	1	13	4 *	2	6	8
6		15	0				1	10	0	1	10	0	5	0	0
7	3	4	2		6	8 *	9	5	2[17]	2	0	0		1	0
8								1	0
9	1	11	0					10	6				1	9	0
10							1	11	11				3	0	6[21]
11
12
13
14
15										4	0	0[8]
16		3	0				-13	6	9	4	6	8		-5	3½

	83	10	7	27	15	0	38	14	3	57	16	0	77	11	0½

1	2	0	0
2	1	15	8	2	1	4[14]	4	5	4[18]	3	13	4	3	13	4
3	2	16	6	1	12	11		1	0		3	4	52	12	0½
4	7	4	1[12]
5				5	2	0[15]	5	0	0			[20]	5	0	0
6
7	1	7	10	1	16	0	1	10	8		6	0	2	12	2
8							2	0	0	4	0	0	4	14	8
9
10										2	6	4
11
12					5	0 *		5	0 *
13				5	6	6		10	0	1	16	0		8	8
14								14	4
15							1	0	0 *[19]
16									-1

	15	4	1 *	16	3	9 *	15	6	3 *	12	5	0 *	69	0	10½ *
	68	6	6 *[13]	11	11	3 *	23	8	0 *	45	11	0 *	8	10	2 *

	83	10	7	27	15	0	38	14	3	57	16	0	77	11	0½

	1570/1	1571/2	1572/3	1573/4	1574/5
	£	s	d	£	s	d	£	s	d	£	s	d	£	s	d
1	8	10	2 *	14	19	4 *				21	15	0 *[32]
2	10	0	8	11	4	2	15	12	10	14	1	8[33]	9	13	8
3	2	3	7 *	2	3	8	4	1	8	3	6	7	3	12	4
4		13	0 *		13	6		18	6	1	4	0		16	6
5	2	19	6	2	7	4	3	10	0	4	13	0	3	16	8
6	3	0	0				3	10	0[25]	1	10	0[25]
7		17	2	1	5	4	10	7	6	2	12	8		11	0
8		1	0		16	8 *					10	0		10	0
9		14	0	22	4	6 *
10								4	0[26]				1	10	0
11				31	10	0	31	10	0				8	0	0
12	4	7	8
13				19	17	10
14
15
16	2	0	11

	35	7	8	107	2	4 *	69	14	6 *	49	12	11 *	28	10	2 *

1	1	0	0	3	0	0	4	0	0
2	4	1	4	3	6	8[22]	4	14	6[27]	1	13	4	2	5	0
3	7	18	4	88	0	9 *		18	8		12	6
4							6	0	0[28]	5	0	0	5	0	0
5	5	0	0	5	0	0
6				2	0	0
7	2	4	0											10	0
8										10	0	0
9
10				19	13	4[23]				2	8	2	1	4	0
11							10	0	0[29]	11	15	0
12
13		4	8	1	0	0	4	4	8[30]	3	9	2		3	4 *
14
15				3	4	6[24]	18	1	3[31]	17	0	0[34]
16					-1	8

	20	8	4	125	3	7 *	47	19	1 *	51	18	2 *	9	2	4 *
	14	19	4 *	-18	1	3 *	21	15	5 *	-2	5	3 *[35]	19	7	10 *

	35	7	8	107	2	4 *	69	14	6 *	49	12	11 *	28	10	2 *

	1575/6	1576/7	1577/8	1578/9	1579/80
	£	s	d	£	s	d	£	s	d	£	s	d	£	s	d
1	20	2	7 *[36]	43	8	4 *	42	12	10 *	56	13	10 *	78	13	0 *[45]
2	11	19	1	13	12	4	12	5	6	8	17	9	12	18	0
3	2	0	6	2	12	0	2	19	2	8	18	10	4	11	8
4	1	7	6	1	13	0	2	8	0	3	15	0	4	17	6
5	4	6	8	2	0	0	3	17	4	3	0	0	3	11	10
6				1	0	0	6	0	0
7		16	0	1	6	6		1	0	8	8	10[41]	2	3	10
8		11	8				1	5	0		6	8
9
10		15	0[37]
11	17	0	0				1	6	8	4	0	0	2	0	0
12
13							28	6	0				20	10	4
14
15										2	0	0[42]
16

	58	19	0 *	65	12	2 *	101	1	6 *	96	0	11 *	129	6	2 *

1								10	0
2	3	2	4	4	6	8	4	6	8	4	6	8	4	0	0
3	3	10	10		6	0[38]		5	3				3	14	9 *
4	5	0	0	5	0	0	5	0	0	5	0	0	5	0	0
5
6													1	0	0
7		8	4								3	4 *		8	0
8	2	0	0	1	6	8		18	0
9
10							31	11	9	1	5	0	22	3	4
11				10	0	0[39]
12								5	0 *				1	0	0
13	1	9	2				1	11	0	2	0	0[43]
14										1	4	0
15				2	0	0[40]				4	0	0[44]
16

	15	10	8 *	22	19	4	44	7	8 *	17	19	0 *	37	6	1 *
	43	8	4 *	42	12	10 *	56	13	10 *	78	1	11 *	92	0	1 *

	58	19	0 *	65	12	2 *	101	1	6 *	96	0	11 *	129	6	2 *

	1580/1	1581/2	1582/3	1583/4	1584/5
	£	s	d	£	s	d	£	s	d	£	s	d	£	s	d
1	92	0	1 *	89	17	10 *	96	16	1 *	101	4	7 *	94	2	5 *
2	16	18	9	22	16	1	25	7	9	17	19	4	25	7	4
3	6	1	1	4	4	10	2	17	4	1	3	4	1	10	8
4	4	7	6	5	10	0	2	5	0	5	10	0	5	10	0
5	2	16	8	2	5	4	4	13	4	3	6	8	7	6	8
6				5	0	0							4	0	0
7		16	11		7	6	2	15	4	1	2	6		17	4
8	1	3	4		10	0		10	0	8	0	2	4	0
9
10										3	16	0
11	2	0	0	2	0	0	3	13	4				4	0	0
12
13		15	0										52	15	2
14
15
16

	126	19	4 *	132	11	7 *	138	18	2 *	134	10	5 *	197	13	7 *

1
2	5	0	0	4	6	8	4	6	8	4	3	4	4	10	0
3	1	18	3		5	6	1	6	10		15	6		15	4
4	5	0	0							6	5	6[50]	13	14	0[51]
5					6	8[47]		6	8		6	8		6	8
6	4	0	0	3	0	0	4	0	0 *	4	10	0	5	0	0
7		15	0				4	15	2	1	10	0		15	0
8				13	13	4	7	0	0	10	0	0
9	3	3	4	5	0	0	5	0	0	5	0	0	5	0	0
10	10	18	3	8	3	4							51	19	7
11							2	0	0[48]
12		1	4 *		9	8		6	8 *					2	0 *
13	6	5	4[46]		10	4	6	11	7	7	9	6	8	17	6
14											7	6		8	10
15							2	0	0[49]
16

	37	1	6 *	35	15	6 *	37	13	7 *	40	8	0 *	91	8	11 *
	89	17	10 *	96	16	1 *	101	4	7 *	94	2	5 *	106	4	8 *

	126	19	4 *	132	11	7 *	138	18	2 *	134	10	5 *	197	13	7 *

	1585/6	1586/7	1587/8	1588/9	1589/90
	£	s	d	£	s	d	£	s	d	£	s	d	£	s	d
1	106	4	8 *	90	17	7 *		14	2 *	29	3	6[60]	13	3	3½ *
2	21	13	4	18	1	8	13	15	4	9	0	6	26	0	10
3		18	8	4	14	6	2	18	4	2	15	0	4	5	2
4	3	10	0	3	10	0	2	15	0	4	0	0	6	17	6
5	4	10	0	4	10	0	3	3	4	5	14	4	3	0	0
6	2	0	0				2	0	0	1	0	0	2	0	0
7	1	0	0		1	10	2	12	0[57]	1	5	6	1	0	10
8		13	4							1	10	0		5	0
9
10							15	19	2[58]		12	4	6	1	8
11							8	1	5½
12										50	0	0[61]
13													19	18	6
14										13	13	8	8	19	0
15				10	0	0[54]	12	0	0[54]	9	0	0[62]
16

	140	10	0 *	131	15	7 *	63	18	9½ *	127	14	10 *	91	11	9½ *

1
2	4	6	8	4	13	4	4	9	2	4	9	2	4	12	2
3			6					5	8		2	6 *	6	3	7
4	10	10	8	6	10	0	6	12	0	6	12	8	6	18	4
5		13	4		6	8		6	8		6	8		6	8
6	10	0	0	10	0	0	13	0	0	10	0	0	7	0	0
7	3	6	8
8
9	5	0	0	5	0	0	5	0	0	5	0	0	5	0	0
10	5	2	2	12	13	10	4	17	10		15	0	20	15	7
11							6	16	0½	10	0	0	6	13	4
12		13	4 *		6	8 *		13	4 *					16	0
13	5	16	8[52]	73	0	11[55]	11	3	7	10	10	0	4	14	6
14	2	11	10				2	19	3	10	6	6	1	16	8
15	1	10	7[53]	18	10	0[56]	16	8	0[59]	56	9	0½[63]	2	7	9[64]
16								1	0

	49	12	5 *	131	1	5 *	72	12	6½ *	114	11	6½ *	67	4	7 *
	90	17	7 *		14	2 *	—8	13	9 *	13	3	3½ *	24	7	2½ *

	140	10	0 *	131	15	7 *	63	18	9½ *	127	14	10 *	91	11	9½ *

	1590/1	1591/2	1592/3
	£	s	d	£	s	d	£	s	d
1	24	7	3 *[65]	25	1	1 *
2	21	10	2	14	8	10	16	4	8
3	5	14	6	3	18	0	3	7	8
4	3	5	0	3	12	6	4	5	0
5	2	10	0	1	10	0	3	0	0
6	2	0	0	5	0	0
7		12	6		2	0	1	16	0
8	1	6	8	1	0	0	1	0	0
9
10	3	7	8	2	9	4	9	9	4
11							5	0	0
12
13
14
15				4	0	0[67]
16

	64	13	9 *	61	1	9 *	44	2	8 *

1
2	4	10	2	2	9	8	2	8	2
3	4	11	4	18	13	1		16	9
4	6	17	6	7	8	0[68]	5	0	0
5		6	8		13	4		13	4
6	5	0	0	5	0	0	5	0	0
7		2	0		10	0
8							1	0	0
9	5	0	0	5	0	0	5	0	0
10					6	0		7	6
11	5	0	0	5	10	0	5	0	0
12		9	4		14	8		10	0
13	4	17	2	5	3	9	2	9	0
14	2	8	0	2	9	10	1	0	3
15		10	6[66]	14	0	0[69]	1	4	11[70]
16

	39	12	8	67	18	4 *	30	9	11 *
	25	1	1 *	-6	16	7 *	13	12	9 *

	64	13	9 *	61	1	9 *	44	2	8 *

	1593/4	1594/5	1595/6
	£	s	d	£	s	d	£	s	d
1	17	2	9 *[71]	39	11	2 *	38	19	4 *
2	21	2	5	15	1	2	16	16	2
3	4	8	10	4	11	0	3	16	6
4	4	12	6	7	12	6	5	5	0
5	1	6	8	2	6	8	2	10	0
6	4	0	0				2	0	0
7	6	19	0		1	6	1	6	8
8	1	0	0	1	0	0	1	0	0
9
10
11		10	0	5	5	0
12							10	0	0[74]
13
14
15	17	5	0[72]
16

	78	7	2 *	75	9	0 *	81	13	8 *

1
2	2	6	8	2	8	8	3	0	4
3	4	9	10	9	15	10	3	4	4
4	5	0	0	5	0	0	5	0	0
5		16	8		13	4		13	4
6
7		11	6		1	0	2	8	0
8	13	17	0[73]	2	0	0
9	5	0	0	5	0	0	5	0	0
10							1	0	0
11				5	0	0	5	0	0
12	1	4	0	1	5	4	1	0	0
13	2	12	10	1	11	10	8	4	4
14	2	17	6	3	13	8	2	14	8
15
16

	38	16	0 *	36	9	8 *	37	5	0 *
	39	11	2 *	38	19	4 *	44	8	8 *

	78	7	2 *	75	9	0 *	81	13	8 *

[2]

The balance of the previous year less £15 5s. owed to members of the Company, but plus £1 13s. 4d. given by Cawood and Cooke; (see p.86).

[1]

For a dinner.

[3]

A bequest of £2; the balance for a dinner.

[4]

£4 11s. 2d. for a dinner and £6 13s. 4d. "out of the cheste".

[5]

This represents an expenditure not recorded and may relate to money which Michael Lobley borrowed when he was Warden. See note 10 on "Repayment of loans" 1564/5.

[10]

By Michael Lobley, part of £7 "which he oweth to the howse sens he was Warden" (p. 245); the other £4 was forgiven him (p. 280).

[6]

"ganed by the stocke of the house and other wayse".

[8]

Bequests.

[9]

On the ordinances.

[7]

To Mrs May to quit her room in the hall.

[11]

To the Lord Mayor "by way of Rewarde".

[16]

Including £7 from Hill for his translation to the Vintners.

[17]

Including 20s. "Recevyd of master wallye for a dyxcionary"; but I do not know what this means.

[21]

Mostly waste paper.

[8]

Bequests.

[14]

Including 8s. to the Armourer.

[18]

Including £2 to a second counsel, Wylbrande.

[12]

17s. 11d. for a Quarter Day dinner and £1 6s. 2d. for a dinner to the Lord Mayor account for the increase.

[15]

The extra 2s. was for wine at a Quarter Day dinner.

[20]

£5 was reported as being in the hands of Tottle and Ireland, the Wardens for this year, but is crossed through (p. 392); it is there again at the end of the following year (p. 429).

[19]

For the lottery.

[13]

Including an obligation for £60.

[32]

5d. has dropped out.

[33]

£6 1s. 8d. in cash and £8 as Judson's obligation.

[25]

The fine for clothing was not yet standardized.

[25]

The fine for clothing was not yet standardized.

[26]

For a bin.

[22]

Including 6s. 8d. for Bland the Butler; but he may have been paid only 5s., which would account for the discrepancy.

[27]

Including £1 6s. 8d. for Flyck, the Lord Mayor's officer, for two years.

[28]

Including £1 for the Midsummer Quarter Day dinner.

[23]

For the Queen at Greenwich.

[29]

For Salt.

[30]

Fees incurred over Kevall's bequest.

[24]

Paving the east end of St Paul's.

[31]

Repayment to Toy of the previous year's deficit.

[34]

Repayment of Judson's obligation.

[35]

To be repaid by Mr Harrison.

[36]

14s. 9d. more was received after the previous accounts had been made up.

[45]

Including 11s. 1d. extra in the Wardens' hands.

[41]

Including £3 fine paid by Christopher Barker for not serving as Renter.

[37]

For type, presumably the "letters" in the 1557 inventory.

[42]

Paid by Richard Watkins in lieu of two silver spoons for twice being Warden.

[38]

The cost of Register B.

[39]

The loan for Yarmouth harbour.

[43]

Fees for house purchase. Who bought the house and with what? Barker said, in 1582, that the Company owned only their hall.

[40]

A bribe to Francis Godlif to give up his attempt to obtain a patent for binding books in vellum.

[44]

For the visit of Duke Cassimirus.

[50]

Including £1 5s. 6d. towards the Livery dinner.

[51]

Including £1 4s. for dinner when the Queen came to the City, £6 for the Lord Mayor's dinner and £1 10s. for the Livery dinner.

[47]

Paid out of the Lamb bequest, which also provided 2d. per week for each of twelve poor people of St Faith's.

[48]

Geneva aid.

[46]

Including £3 13s. 4d. for fees on the Kevall property.

[49]

Repayment to Richard Watkins when he made his gift of silver.

[60]

The balance of the Corn money, £37 17s. 3d. (transferred by order of the Court to the common stock 22 July 1588), less the deficit on this previous account.

[57]

Including a fine of 50s. for the Wardenship.

[58]

Repurchase, by their owners, of seized books.

[61]

Fines for leases of the Kevall property.

[54]

From the Patentees towards the expenses of the Star Chamber Decrees.

[54]

From the Patentees towards the expenses of the Star Chamber Decrees.

[62]

Towards the Queen's visit to the City.

[52]

Including £1 6s. 8d. for a new constitution.

[55]

See above p. 78 for a discussion of this.

[53]

For Cresset lights.

[56]

For the purchase of (?) Withal's Short Dictionary, see above p. 80.

[59]

To the Exchequer for books seized.

[63]

£30 12s. 3d. is repayment of Corn loans, the rest for the Queen's visit.

[64]

Further repayment of Corn loans.

[65]

Another halfpenny disappeared.

[67]

£2 for Mrs Judson's (?) funeral dinner, and £2 set aside for Grafton and not asked for!

[68]

Including £2 for the dinner to celebrate Mrs Kevall's bequest.

[66]

Fines for entering copies by John Wolf, remitted to him for his trouble.

[69]

£10 invested in Howard's expedition; £4 compensation to claimant to a lease.

[70]

Repayment to the previous Warden, George Allen.

[71]

Another £3 10s. should have been included in the previous year's account; it was received for confiscated books and credited by mistake in the 6d. in the £ account; (see p. 563).

[74]

Fine for renewal of lease.

[72]

Return on the £10 invested in Howard's and Ralegh's expedition; see above pp. 81-82.

[73]

Including £12 10s. to Roger Ward.