Counter-roll of Hugh Herland, king's carpenter and controller for the expenditure of John Godmanstone, the king's clerk of works at the palace of Westminster, including for the construction of a bell-tower, and of a porch and steps to St Stephen's chapel, from the cloister, with a store account.

Physical description: A roll of six membranes, sewn end-to-end, with the store account on mm. 3d–6d; in good condition and wholly legible; endorsements on m. 1d in a modern hand, ‘18 & 19 Rich 2nd’, ‘Opera Palacij Westm’ and ‘extracts prov[ided from] this roll publish[ed] in Smith's St Stephen's chap[el]’. Not organized by date, but by category of material purchased, followed by the wages paid to each category of worker, and then task work; store account at end.

Provenance: Having strayed out of the crown records, the roll was acquired by the British Museum in 1882.1

Scope of transcription: Expenses relating to the bell-tower, a porch and steps to the chapel, and lodges, and extracts from the store account relating to the same steps.

[m. 1]

London’

Midd’

Contrarotulus Magistri Hugonis Herland unius carpentarij Regis de solucionibus vadiis et expensis per Johannem Godmaston’ clericum factis circa reparacionem magne aule Regis infra palacium Westm’ necnon per facturam campanilis ibidem ac facturam unius porticus et graduum capelle Regis sancti Stephani de novo inceptis [sic] aceciam circa reparacionem et emendacionem pontis regine extra palacium predictum ac diversorum aliorum domorum et edificiorum et murorum infra idem palacium a festo Pasche anno xviij usque idem festum proximum sequens […]

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Empciones petrarum […]

Et Laurencio Gerond pro ciiijxx xij pedibus petrarum vocatarum pas emptis pro gradibus capelle sancti Stephani inde faciendis infra idem tempus precij pedis vj d.: iiij li. xvj s. […]

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Empciones clavorum cum aliis diversis ferramentis […]

Et Magistro Willelmo fabro pro iiij longis barris ferreis emptis pro fenestris quarte partis claustri infra predictum palacium ponderantibus c xlij lb.,

xvj barris minoribus pro fenestris predictis ponderantibus xlij lb.,

vij crampons vij boltes pro pillers de marmore in dicto claustro firmandis ponderantibus iiij lb.,

iiij circulis pro modiis cuiusdam carre ligandis ad petras desuper cariandas ponderantibus viij lb.,