Unknown 1585 KYRTON London

• General Notes
  • 'The Chamberlain's Account 1585-6: Nos. 227-81', Chamber accounts of the sixteenth century: London Record Society, 20 (1984), pp. 88-104. URL:
    
    235. [f.134v] 1 April by warrant from my lord mayor to Richard Buckley, John Addys, William Harrison and Thomas Davys to every of them 6s.8d. for taking of flesh in Lent 26s.8d.; to John Grove servant to Mr Town Clerk for the charges in putting the certificates into the chancery for the eating of flesh in Lent 2s.; 21 April to Mr Kyrton common serjeant for the charges of a procedendo and allowing the same in a suit against Mark Norton for the portion of the orphans of Peter Burcher grocer deceased 12s.; . . . [to Robert Smithe for his pains?] (fn. 12) and for money by him laid out in the suit prosecuted in the chancery by Thomas
    Cartwright touching the orphans of Simon Smithe grocer deceased 22s.8d.; to him the same day for money laid out in a suit prosecuted against Thomas Damport and his wife for the orphanage of the orphan of Thomas Hartopp goldsmith deceased 4s.; by order of court to Richard May of Horsemonden, Kent, clothier for so much received 19 October last past for the city's part of one broad cloth being found by a jury to be foreign bought and sold and therefore forfeit 52s.11d.; summa [£6.0s.]3d. (fn. 12)