Folios 28v–35v contain documents concerning property in Gutter Lane.

This page had originally been left blank (apart from the standard ruling of all leaves) and has no red-ink heading. A later scribe has written in here a document of 1439 concerning the property in Gutter Lane; the main section for this property starts on the opposite recto and there is space left at the end of the section where it could have been fitted in – but it is here.

The section here below starting “Recuperacio” (Recovery) is written as a (very long) marginal heading in the left-hand margin alongside and below the text itself, which is a very abbreviated account.

A recovery as a result of a complaint of trespass against Henry Sewale by a lawsuit of the wardens of the mistery of goldsmiths of London, over the intrusion over a certain plot of land, i.e. over a certain coal-house with a certain privy there on the north side of the lane called Goderun Lane, in the time when John Wethyhale and his colleagues were wardens of the aforesaid mistery, as follows:

Goderyn Lane

In the Mayors’ rolls [1 March 1439]:

Pleas held before Stephen Broune, Mayor, and the aldermen in the Guildhall Chamber of the city of London on 1 March in the seventeenth year of the reign of King Henry VI [1439], between John Withihale, John Walsh, John Sutton, and Bartholomew Bremsham, wardens of the Goldsmiths’ Mistery, plaintiffs, and Henry Sewale, gentleman, defendant, in a plea of trespass. And the sworn men said that the said defendant was liable to damages against the said plaintiffs of 40s. And they assessed the costs at 26s. 8d. It was decided thus etc. and the said defendant was fined, etc.

Folios 29r–33r contain deeds relating to two properties on the east side of Goderunlane [Gutter Lane], and ff. 34r–35v contain deeds relating to property on the west side of Gutter Lane.

The red-ink heading for each verso on these folios is “Goderun” and for each recto is “lane”. The headings for the first page of each are different and given below here.

The red-ink heading at the top of the page translates as: “Goderunlane – on the east side, bought”.