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York Bridgemasters’ Accounts73YCA/C80:9[This roll is on both sides of one membrane measuring 26 cm by 78 cm. The roll is very faded, but most of it canbe read under ultraviolet light. The regnal year and the names of the bridgemasters and of the mayor allindicate that the roll belongs to 1457.]Account of Nicholas Grenebanke and William Lytwyn wardens of Fosse Bridge in the time ofRobert Colynson mayor of the city of York for all receipts, farms and rents of the same citypertaining to the same bridge, and of all repairs and expenses of the same, from the feast of thePurification of the Blessed Mary the Virgin in the thirty fifth year of the reign of Henry the sixthafter the conquest of England until the same feast in the following year, that is for one whole year.Firstly they respond for 12d. from Agnes Kynge for the farm of a stall at Fosse Bridge for thePentecost and Saint Martin terms to [c. two words faded] hence demised to her for the term of herlife.And for 13s. 4d. for the frank-ferme of the first tenement there in the tenure of William Polyngtonat 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 the third tenement there in the tenure of Thomas Fereby at the same terms.And for 18s. for the fourth tenement there in the tenure of Edward Guyour at the same terms.And for 8s. for the fifth tenement there lately in the tenure of Richard Walker at the Pentecostterm and vacant for the Martinmas term.And for 16s. for the sixth tenement there in the tenure of Margaret Southam at the same terms.And for 16s. for the seventh tenement there in the tenure of Robert Duffelde at the same termsthis year.And for 16s. for the [eighth] tenement there in the tenure of Thomas Henrison at the same termsthis year.And for 16s. for the ninth tenement there in the tenure of John Castelton at the same terms thisyear.And for the tenth tenement there lately in the tenure of John Stokton which used to return 16s.per year. Nil because in the hand of the communitas this year.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 Raynalde at the same terms.And for 10s. for the thirteenth tenement there in the tenure of Richard Fraunke at the sameterms.And for 10s. for the fourteenth tenement there in the tenure of Robert Spenser at the same terms.And for 5s. for the fifteenth tenement there in the tenure of George Blevet for the Martinmasterm now in the tenure of John Shathlok.