| Description | Petition of Thomas Pulford, that at the beginning of last year he became tenant to the City for a tenement in Sutton at £21 yearly rent, and being a stranger and suddenly forced to move there he could not foresee the ruins of the housing and the losses which the tenants sometimes suffered by flooding. Repairing the river banks cost nearly £4 above the charge of his own team, servants and hired workmen. The arable land is worn out and yields little and part of the pasture is intermingled with Thomas Woodcock's. He details his losses through flooding and the breaking down of the river banks. He has lost 20 marks this year besides the charge of building the barn and repairing the housing, which will amount to between £30 and £40, over and above maintaining the river banks, and asks for some repayment, and that he may not be charged rent for the meadows which cannot be used. Signed: Thom: Pulford. Note that £10 was to be allowed him out of the money that should be used for almsmen's gowns which are well provided for already. |