RECORD OF WILLIAM POTTER RESIDING IN LONDON 1630

Churchwardens’ Accounts of St. Stephen’s Church, Coleman St.:The first pages of each year’s account, which runs from March to March, is a statement of tythes received, and although Coleman Street is not named the entries undoubtedly represent the houses in this street starting from the church. This was checked with the first directory of London later in the century. Entries on pages following these first pages for each year are headed ----Alley or----Yard, which must have been openings or passageways out of the main street in which the church stood. John Stowe, in his A Survey of London, 1603 says of Coleman St. (1:284), "This is a faire and large street, on both sides builded with diuerse faire houses, besides Allies with small tenements in great number." All the entries quoted below appear in the same position, i.e., in the seventh place on the first page for each year, and therefore presumably refer to what would now be called #7 Coleman St. The tythe in each case was 2/9. (4)
 

1622/3                 Walter Mason in the seventh place                 (the first appearance)

1623/4                                     "

1624/5                  Widow Mason                                            (the first appearance)

1625/6                                     "

1626/7                                     "

1627/8                 Robert Seley                                                (the first appearance)

1628/9                                     "

1629/30 " "

1630/31                 William Potter                                             (the first appearance)