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York Bridgemasters’ Accounts69YCA/C80:8[This roll is written on both sides of one membrane, 27 cm wide and 76 cm long. Much of it is faded, but canbe read with an ultra-violet lamp. The names of the bridgemasters show that it relates to the year beginning2nd February 1454. A label attached to the left upper corner carries the date 1454 in a much later hand.]Account of William Rukshawe, spicer, and Robert Browne, wardens of Fosse Bridge in the timeof Thomas Neleson mayor of the city of York for all and singular receipts farms and rents of thesame city pertaining to the aforesaid bridge and all repairs and expenses of the same from the feastof the Purification of Saint Mary the Virgin for the thirty second year of the reign of Henry thesixth after the conquest of England until the same feast in the following year, that is for one wholeyear.Firstly, they respond for 12d. received from Agnes Kyng for the farm of a stall at the north end ofFosse Bridge for the Pentecost and Saint Martin in winter terms demised to her for these termsthis year.And for 13s. 4d. for the [c. one word faded] farm of the first tenement there in the tenure of WilliamPolyngton this year at the same terms.And for 13s. 4d. for the frank-ferme of the second tenement there in the tenure of Henry Stoktonat the same terms.And for 26s. 8d. for a tenement there in the tenure of Thomas Feryby at the same terms.And for 13s. 6d. for a tenement there in the tenure of Ralph Barton, namely for the feast ofPentecost (4s. 6d. interlined) and Saint Martin 9s.And for 16s. for the fifth tenement there in the tenure of Richard Walker at the same terms.And for 16s. for the sixth tenement there in the tenure of Margaret Sutham at the same terms.And for 14s. 6d. for the seventh tenement there in the tenure of Richard Outlawe 10s. 6d. for thePentecost term and 4s. for the following Pentecost term.And for 16s. for the eighth tenement there in the tenure of Thomas Henrison at the same terms.And for 16s. for the ninth tenement there in the tenure of John More at the same terms.And for 8s. for the tenth tenement there lately in the tenure of William Colstane (for the Martinmasterm and vacant for the Pentecost term interlined) now in the tenure of Robert [blank].And for 8s. for the eleventh tenement there in the tenure of Isabel Santon at the same terms.And for 10s. for the twelfth tenement there in the tenure of Thomas Raynald at the same terms.And for 10s. for the thirteenth tenement there in the tenure of John Layton at the same terms.And for 10s. for the fourteenth tenement there in the tenure of Robert Spenser at the same terms.And for 10s. for the fifteenth tenement there in the tenure of Isabel Edwyn at the same terms.And for 10s. for the sixteenth tenement there in the tenure of John Yonge at the same terms.And for 12d for the seventeenth tenement there lately in the tenure of Matilda Waitheman whichused to return 10s. per year (except for 12d. interlined). Nil because vacant for a year.