Greenwich Palace – Women Vendors

Greenwich

  • Mistress Engans
    • Pay of Mar 1533: 6s 8d, for one load “of like timber.”
      • Source: Oxford, MS Rawlinson D 775, p.76
  • Agnes Busby, widow, “late the wife of Thomas Busby of Southwark, carpenter” (c.f. Anne Busby, Westminster)
    • Pay of Sep 1533: 44s 3d, for 10 loads and 41 feet of elm timber bought at 4s the load, “with carriage unto the said Greenwich.”
      • Source: Oxford, MS Rawlinson D 776, fol. 4v
  • My lady Pargitour “of London” (c.f. Tower of London, 1535; also the published London Bridge accounts for 1538) *
    • Pay of Jan 1535: £5 2s 6d, paid to her hand. “Two (weights) of lead of her bought for the king’s use to be employed at his said manor of Greenwich, containing [….], accounted at £5… to the said price.”
      • Source: Oxford, MS Rawlinson D 777 (not paginated)
    • Pay of Feb 1535: 4d, paid to her hand, for portage of the same.
      • Source: Oxford, MS Rawlinson D 777 (not paginated)
  • Reynold’s widow
    • Pay of Oct–Nov 1541: 18d, for for 6 loads of sand “employed in slaking of lime and making of mortar and in the king’s cellars” at 3d the load. Also 6d for carriage of 2 loads of talwood from Depford to Greenwich at 3d the load.
      • Source: Oxford, MS Rawlinson D 781, fols 3v, 4
    • Pay of Nov–Dec 1541: 20d, for 5 loads of sand employed in the said work at 4d the load. Also 21d for 3 loads of loam employed in the said work at 7d the load.
      • Source: Oxford, MS Rawlinson D 781, fol. 8
    • Pay of Jan–Feb 1542: 5s, for 15 loads of sand employed in the said work at 4d the load. Also 21d, for 3 loads of loam employed in the said work at 7d the load. Also 12d, for carriage of 2 loads of lime and tile from the store yard to the Tower in the park.
      • Source: Oxford, MS Rawlinson D 781, fol. 12v
    • Pay of Apr 1542: 12d, paid to the hand of the porter, for 4 loads of sand employed the king’s use at 3d the load. Also 12d, paid to the hand of the porter, for 4 additional loads of sand employed in like use at 3d the load.
      • Source: Oxford, MS Rawlinson D 781, fol. 22v
    • Pay of May 1542: 3s 10d, paid to her hand, for carriage of 22 loads of turf employed in making the archery shooting field (“the butts, pricks and raising of the ground above the pricks”) in the park and in the king’s majesty’s garden, and for carriage of 1 load of polls at 2d the load.
      • Source: Oxford, MS Rawlinson D 781, fol. 25v

* The London bridge accounts are partially published in Harding, Vanessa, and Laura Wright, eds., London Bridge Selected Accounts and Rentals, 1381–1538 (London: London Record Society, 1995).

 

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