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for work done by carpenters, daubers [i.e. plaMerers) & other workmen, and 

 for materials for their use. Carpenters received 5rf. a day, daubers A:d, 

 heliers {slaters) 5d. & masons 6d., in addition to their meat & drink. Clay cost 

 2d. the cartload, lime Sd. the carnock. Two "gemelys" (hinges) for the 

 lattice window cost 4.s. The lime was used " to wesch [vjliitewash) the 

 chamber," and two " wescheris " were employed for a day. The mason 

 & his man built the chimney in one day. Nails, lathes & slatepins were 

 purchased. Two new locks & keys cost lOd The only expenditure of a 

 different nature is that of 16(/. for wine for mass. 



The writer notes that he received from John Bennet 10s. as his wages for 

 the year. 



(Undated ; circa 1477.) 



13-i (132a). John fitzHenry, merchant, & Richard White, pewterer, 

 proctors of the church of St. John the Evangelist of " le Bowstret," Dublin, 

 Richard Herford, chaplain. Thomas Bennet & John Prikker, merchants, 

 & William Yong, yeoman, with the consent of the parishioners grant to 

 Thomas Archebold, clerk & citizen of Dublin, the messuage which he lately 

 lield in " Ostmanton," lying near the lane of St. Mary the Virgin, which leads 

 to the monastery of the monks of St. Mary the Virgin, near Dublin. 



The said messuage is bounded on the north by the said lane, on the south 

 by the land of the said proctors of St. John's Church, on the west by the land 

 of Robert Dovedall, knight, which Arnald Prendergast the carpenter lately 

 held, & on the south by the land of the said proctors which Thomas Hunt 

 the baker lately held. Term, 37 years, to begin at the feast of Easter or 

 Michaelmas next after the death of Katerine Blake, widow. Rent, four 

 shillings silver a year until the death of the said Katerine Blake, & seven 

 shillings a year afterwards. Covenants for distraint for arrears for rent, 

 repair, &c. 



5th May 1477 & 17 Ed. IV. 



135 (1326). [ ] of Oxmantown appoints [ ] his attorney to give 

 [ ] seisin of lands. 



30th Dec. 18 Ed. IV (1478). 



136 (133). Richard Bottillere of Dublin, yeoman, & Alicia Newberry his 

 wife grant to Richard Herford, chaplain, a messuage in the street of the 

 Skinners, grantee to pay the rent due to the chief lords of the fee. 



23rd June 1483. 



137 (134). John Stanton, chaplain, of Dublin, Thomas Kelly & Richard 

 Bottillere, yeoman, gi'ant to Richard Herforde, chaplain, an annual payment 

 of ten shillings out of the rent of a messuage in the street of the Skinners, 



