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York Bridgemasters’ Accounts77YCA/C80:10[This roll is written on both sides of one membrane and measures 27 cm by 62 cm. It is faded in parts but islegible with an ultraviolet lamp. The regnal year and the names of the two bridgemasters indicate that it relatesto the year beginning 2nd February 1459. A label bearing the date 1459 in a later hand is affixed to the topleft-hand corner of the manuscript.]Account of Henry Albyn, skinner, and Thomas Alan, baker, wardens of Fosse Bridge in the timeof Nicholas Holgate, mayor of the city of York, for all receipts and farms of the same city pertainingto the same bridge and for all repairs and expenses of the same from the feast of the Purificationof the Blessed Mary the Virgin in the thirty seventh year of the reign of Henry the sixth after theconquest of England until the same feast in the following year, that is for one whole year.Firstly they respond for 12d. from Agnes Kyng for the farm of a stall at the end of Fosse Bridgefor the Pentecost and Saint Martin terms.And for 13s. 4d. for the frank-ferme of a tenement there in the tenure of William Polyngton forthis year at the same terms.And for 13s. 4d. for the frank-ferme of the second tenement there in the tenure of HenryStokton.And for 23s. 4d. for the third tenement there in the tenure of Thomas Fereby at the same terms.(And for 6s. for the fourth tenement there for various easements there for the Pentecost termwhich tenement is demised to Henry Walles below interlined).And for 9s. for the fourth tenement there lately in the tenure of Henry Welles for the Martinmasterm.And for nil for the fifth tenement there which used to return 16s. per year. Nil this year but nowdemised to Thomas Depedale from the feast of Pentecost and will give in the Martinmas term12d.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 Richard Walker at the same terms.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 Castelton at the same terms.And for 16s. for the tenth tenement there in the tenure of John Stavelay at the same terms.And for 8s. for the eleventh tenement there in the tenure of Isabel Santon at the same terms.And for 6s. 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 Richard Fraunke at the sameterms.And for 10s. for the fourteenth tenement there in the tenure of William Fressell at the same terms.And for 10s. for the fifteenth tenement there in the tenure of John Shathelok at the same terms.And for 10s. for the sixteenth tenement there in the tenure of John Pacok at the same terms.And for 10s. for the seventeenth tenement there in the tenure of John Mawer at the same terms.