COMPOTUS ROLL OF THE MANOR OF REDGRAVE 1344/45

Source: British Library # 63374, page 11

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BUILDING COSTS

In the stipend of one reed thatcher with his servant for 8 ½ days for the hall and the lord’s chamber from fitting the roof with reeds and from new ridging for the whole [length] 3s 6 ½ per day together 5d

In 160 sheaves of reeds bought for the same 3s3d price per 100 2s2d.

In one basket bought for carrying clay to ridge the same 1d

In the stipend of one man for 16 days for partitions of the lord’s chamber from daubing, mending and plastering and for a smoke vent in the hall and the lord’s chamber, plastering the buildings and for partitions of various other buildings from mending daubing for the arrival of the lord 2s per day 1 ½ d In one pair of hinges with fixing plates for a new door in the lord’s chamber 14d

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Item in one pair of hinges at one shutter of the lord’s chamber with mending one hinge at the chapel door 2d

In one pair of hinges with fixing plates at one shutter in the new dairy and 3 pairs of hinges with fixing plates for two doors and one shutter in the new poultry house 9d

In 260 nails bought for door and shutter of the said buildings 6 ¼ d

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In stipend of one man for repairing the kitchen and roofing in [ ? ] with lead 16d altogether.

In 300 nails bought for the same 7 ½ d price per 100 2 ½ d

Item in the stipend of one roofer with his servant for 17 ½ days for covering defects on the grange bakehouse, clerks’ chamber, larder building, guesthouse stable and defects on the wall within the inner gate of the manor in places 5s 10d per day together 4d

In the stipend of John Gange carpenter with his 3 men for 22 ½ days for the doors and shutters of the hall, the lord’s chamber, the clerk’s and arms bearer’s chamber and the dairy house from repairing and restoring carpentry for the arrival of the lord and for one new poultry house for carpentry and for making it with timber felled and shaped for the same sited near the workshop 15s 11 ¼ d per day together 8 ½ d.

Item in the stipend of 3 carpenters for 5 days for the said poultry house removing it and putting it at the head of the cow shed and for the same carpenter completing it 15d per day together 3d at the lord’s table in his residence.

In 400 lathe nails bought for the said house 4d.

In the stipend of 1 roofer with his servant for 7 days for the said poultry house from new roofing 2s4d per day together 4d

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In pargetting (partitioning) the same building from new daub and plaster with puddling clay flattening for the same 21d

In the stipend of 3 men for partitions of the said poultry house after it was being moved from new with partitioning of one building in the park called le Bury and le goosehouse in the kitchen for plasterwork 2s per day together 7s minus in all ½ d

In plates made for sills of the solar round the poultry house 4d

In one pair of hinges with plates for one door [host] of the door [port] of the dairy house over the head of the new poultry house 2d

In plates and hinges bought upon the door of the larder house 1 ½ d

In the stipend of one man for 4 days for partitioning the bailiff’s room, the clerk’s room and partitioning the building le Wayte for plastering and mending with one piece of wall behind the granary made from new 6d per day 1 ½ d

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In 2 locks with keys and two doors of the lord’s chamber of which 1 old lock bought of the same is placed in the door of the building called Bury, 1 lock with a key at one door of the bakehouse towards the park because there was nothing before, 1 lock with a key at the larder door and an old lock bought put over the door of the dresser, one lock with a key at the door of the chamber of Master Robert of Harlyng and an old lock removed 11 ¼ d

[In margin] There remain 2 old locks.

In one lock with a key for the door of the dovehouse building, 1 lock with a key for the door of the goose house and 2 locks with keys at two doors of the new poultry house 6d

In repairing 6 old locks for the doors of various other old buildings with 3 keys bought at the same 4 ½ d

In 7 staples for new locks on various doors and 5 hasps and small staples bought for various locks and doors 6 ½ d

In 300 nails per 100 3d with 460 nails price of 100 2d bought for various doors and shutter of buildings and chambers mended and for fitting locks on the door and for attaching and fixing boards and tables for the place 18d

In 1 plate and 1 hinge bought for the door next to the chamber towards the orchard for keeping the firewood in the yard there 2d

In partitioning the cart horse stable, new dairy building and mending other partitions for the arrival of the lord in the time of John Oky 8 ¼ d

In 2 staples of iron bought for locks of the door of the palfrey stable and the door of the hen house 1d

In 1 lock with a key at the door of the palfrey stable bought 1 ½ d

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In a building called le Tolhouse in Botelysdale for repairing carpentry works 5d

In partitioning the same from mending with daub 6d

In the stipend of 1 roofer with his servant for 9 days for the said building from new roofing and cresting it 3s per day together 4d

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In doors and shutters and steps of the great solar from ? repaired 1 ½ d

In 60 nails bought for the said work 1d

In 1 pair of hinges and plates bought for the door of the said solar 2 ½ d . In one lock with key bought for the same 1 ½ d. In wall of chamber of Master William de Cotton and mending with new shutter 2d

In 1 lock with a key at one door in the bakehouse for putting bread in 1 1/4d

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In partitioning the dairy house from mending with carpentry with one shutter ? over the chamber on west side 5d

In the stipend of one roofer for the gutter over the old chamber of the lord from mending the roof with reeds 15d

In nails bought for the door and fixing lathes in the said gutter 4d

In the stipend of 1 man for the passage between the lord’s chamber and the chapel and for taking the roof off and for reeds bought and from collecting, binding and stacking to save it. From the old chamber for 4 ½ days 9d per day 2d . In timber bought removing the passage and carrying it elsewhere 2d

(In the stipend of 2 men for taking the roof off the kitchen mending the same with tiles 22s6d)

(Because afterwards ) [crossed out]

Item for hiring a barn from Robert le Porter for the sheep pen of the lord at Aldwode [ ] in winter laying down 2s

Item in one other barn hired from Robert Bryghener at Redgrave for sheep pen of the lord there in winter [ ] 18d

In the stipend of 1 roofer with servant roofers upon the household’s building and upon the guest-house stable for 11 ½ days 3s 9d per day together 4d

In the stipend of 2 tilers for the roofing of the kitchen. All over from mending the roof with tiles for 4 weeks 10s taken by the week together 2s 6d.

Sum 73s 11 ¾ d 

© Redgrave History Group, 2004