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York Bridgemasters’ Accounts49Foss Bridge AccountsYCA/C80:1[The first roll consists of two membranes with writing on one side only, and measuring 29 cm wide by 34 cm and23 cm long respectively. The first membrane is very faded, but much of it can be read with ultra-violet light.The regnal year shows that the roll relates to 1406.][c. four words faded] Robert Walker and William de Brereton wardens [c. ten words missing and fourwords very faded] mayor of the city of York, for all receipts, expenses of [the farms] [c. four wordsmissing] [from the feast of the Purification of the] Blessed Virgin Mary in the seventh year of the reignof Henry IV after the conquest of England until [c. five words missing].And for [c. six words faded] [William] Lyon holds there [c. six words faded].And for [c. four words faded] Rilly holds there [c. six words faded].And for [c. six words faded] John Hay lately held now in the tenure of [c. one word faded] de Mayfeld6s.And for [c. five words faded] which John de Mayfeld lately held [c. four words faded] because vacantfor the whole year.And for [c. five words faded] Geoffrey de Weste held there [c. five words faded] [Margaret] Skynnerfor 25s. Nil because vacant for the whole year.[And for] [c. six words faded] John de Melburn holds there 13s. 4d.[And for] [c. five words faded] which John Sporier holds there 10s.[And for] [c. eight words faded] William Catour held now in the tenure of William de Muston 10s.[And for] [c. five words faded] [John] [W]rangill holds there by a scriptum 10s.[And for] [c. five words faded] Wright holds there 8s.[And for] [c. five words faded] Muston holds there within his parcel of land 10s.[And for] [c. four words faded] de Kilburn held, now in the tenure of William Palmer 26s. 8d.[And for] [c. three words faded] de Leverton holds there 24s.[And for] a garret which Dominus Laurence holds there 4s.[And for five] small shops on the said bridge for 2s. 6d. each — 12s. 6d. received except for 10s.because one of them vacant.[And for] a tenement which Elias Skynner held there for 13s. 4d. Nil received because vacant.[And for] a tenement which Margaret lately wife of Robert Cotyngham holds there 8s.[And for] a tenement which Margaret de Sutton holds there 14s.[And for] a tenement which John Wetewode holds there by a scriptum 14s.[And for] a tenement which William Coke holds there, lately in the tenure of Alice Junour 14s. [c.six words faded] holds there [c. three words faded] 14s.