Enrolled summary of the account rendered at the Exchequer by William of Sleaford, the king's clerk of works at the palace of Westminster and Tower of London, for his receipts and expenditure on building works at Westminster and the Tower, together with a store account.

Physical description: The first membrane of a rotulet of two membranes, in a large roll of accounts, sewn together at the top; in good condition and wholly legible.

Scope of transcription: The total amount of receipts, and expenditure on building works in the palace of Westminster, including painters perhaps in St Stephen's chapel, with extracts from the store account relating to St Stephen’s.

[rot. 52 m. 1]

Compotus Willelmi de Sleford clerici et supervisoris operacionum Regis in Turri London’ et in palacio Westm’ per breve Regis patens datum xiiij die Octobris anno xxxv penes ipsum Willelmum remanens. De receptis misis et expensis per ipsum factis in operacionibus predictis a primo die Novembris anno xxxvij ante quem diem idem Willelmus de consimilibus expensis ibidem computavit rotulo precedenti rotulo compotorum usque xxix diem Septembris proximum sequentem anno xxxviij per visum et testimonium Ade de Chesterfeld contrarotulatoris operacionum Regis ibidem a quo quidem die idem Willelmus est inde computaturus

Recepte […]

Summa recepte: ml xj li. ix s. ob. De quibus […]

Palacium Westm’

Et in petris, maeremio, bordis, clavis, ferramentis, cerruris, plumbo, stanno, vitro et aliis diversis rebus et necessariis particulariter et ad diversa precia emptis et provisis et in diversis operacionibus infra dictum palacium Westm’ infra tempus predictum appositis et expenditis una cum x doliis petrarum de Stapulton’, cc pedibus petrarum vocatum asshelers, c scaffoldloggis, iij paribus de aundirnes et c vitri similiter emptis pro eisdem operacionibus et nondum expenditis necnon in frettagio batillagio et cariagio diversarum rerum predictarum de diversis locis ubi emebantur et providebantur una cum cariagio sabulonis et aliarum diversarum rerum operaciones predictas necessario concernencium tam per terram quam per aquam usque dictum palacium infra idem tempus per visum et testimonium predicti contrarotulatoris: ccccxlix li. xv s. x d. ob. sicut continentur ibidem.