volume iii. of Owen Ruffhead’s ‘_Statutes at Large_,’ London, 1770,

4to., the 5th of William and Mary, 1694, chapter x., section 2. In which year also, during the Mayoralty of Sir William Ashurst, the Common Council passed an Act, on Wednesday the 15th of June, that as the ensuing Midsummer day, the time for delivering the Bridge-House accounts, would fall on a Sunday, for ever after, in such a case, they were to be delivered the next day following. An original copy of which Act is in the xxv.th volume of London Tracts in the British Museum, folio.

“I have already mentioned several particulars of the Bridge-House revenues, and the salaries of the Wardens at various periods; and I shall now shew you the ancient estimation of several other offices of the same establishment. In the xxviii.th volume of London Tracts last cited, is a folio sheet, entitled ‘_A List of the Rooms and Offices bought and sold in the City of London_;’ the total amount of which is £145,586; and there occur in it the following valuations of places belonging to the Bridge. ‘1 Clerk of the Bridge House, £1250.--2 Carpenters of the Bridge-House, £200 each.--1 Mason of the Bridge-House, £200.--1 Plasterer to the Bridge-House, £200.--1 Pavier to the Bridge House, £250.--1 Plummer to the Bridge-House, £250.--2 Porters of the Bridge-House, £100 each.--1 Purveyor of the Bridge House, £200.--1 Shotsman of the Bridge-House, £200.’ The whole of this list is also printed in Motley’s ‘_Seymour’s Survey of London_,’