Catalogue description Grant fr. feoffees (see DR429/214 except Will. Greene) to Rob. Smyth, of Kegworth, co....

Grant fr. feoffees (see DR429/214 except Will. Greene) to Rob. Smyth, of Kegworth, co. Leic., gent., of the fee simple of two closes called Burton's Closes in Coundon, in occupation of Geo. Kerby, for £33 towards the repairs of the church, subject to an annual rent charge of £2s.

Sign. and seal of Rob. Smith. Witn. (dorso), Joh. Smith, Fr. Pagett, Rob. Hill.

The deed No.DR429/218 is a lease of the Davenport house - now Mountford's, the drapers - at the corner of West Orchard and Cross Cheaping, and attached thereto is an interesting schedule of "standards" or fixtures, which includes, however, glass for the windows. I give it on account of the interest which attaches to the Davenport family, and as a good example of a list of the landlord's properties over and above the mere fabric of the house

In the Hall above now vsed as a Chamber.

The street Chamber wainscotted throughout all along glazed on the street side, with one other window Glased opening vpon the West Orchard side.

In the Hall belowe.

Two windowes glased on both sides, the roome wainscotted throughout, and a bench under the window at the staire foote, three other glasse windowes there, and under one of those windowes there is a Bench.

Yn the Yard.

A large new Cisterne of Leade with a new long pipe of leade reaching from the eaves of that house downe ... into that Cisterne. Note that the former Cisterne of leade there standing would contayne six quarters of Barley to be steeped, and since that the said Cisterne was so new cast, as now it is, and there was one sheet of lead formerly on the Pentice over the shopp, and a gutter of leade extending from the Eaves at the Kitchen Dore along unto the neither end of the yard, there was a Trunck of Leade extending from the Mault chamber unto the Kilne, which Trunck pipe and gutter and also the old Cistern are all since cast into the new Cisterne of leade, first above-mencioned, and into two new gutters of lead there now made and placed in that house, one on the north side and another on the west side of the yard.

In the Stable.

Plancks and Cratches.

Over against the Cross Cheeping Conduit.

One large tiled pentice the full length of the shoppe.

In the upper Chamber next the Cross Cheeping Conduit.

The Chamber throughout wainscotted and glased all along the street side, all belonging to the Church.

Another interesting name is that of Thomas Bewley, plummer (DR429/219), son, I suppose, of that Bartholomew Bewley, who in the ninth year of Charles I., agreed to keep the conduits and water pipes of the city in repair (Jeaffreson's Catalogue, C.227). The Bewleys lived at the old house called the "Waterhouse," Swanswell, of which there is a drawing in the "Troughton Sketches." Thomas, who was mayor in 1673, was extremely active in the affairs of the church, particularly is 1666, when, owing to the disastrous fall of the spire, more money was required than ever before for church repairs.